Name: Bill Burr - Comedian And Friend Jim Florentine
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Bill Burr - Comedian And Friend Jim Florentine

iTunes, Amazon. Amazon. And then they're going to do something with a promo
code. If you put
promo code Burr in, you get it for five bucks on my website. Do I have that?
You want me to
just say it? What is that thing? The whole fucking thing? Just a little bit.
Okay. Jesus Christ.
All right. We're ready to go. All right. Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burr.
It's time for
the Thursday afternoon, just before Friday, Monday morning podcast. And I'm
just checking in on you.
Just checking in on you. You're probably thinking, well, Jesus, Bill, you went
a little fast on that
one. You usually fucking stretch it out a little bit longer. What do you have?
A special guest in
the studio or something? Why? Yes. Yes, I do. I have the great Jim Florentine
in studio here who has a
new standup special coming out that will be available on iTunes and Amazon
called A Simple
Man. Ladies and gentlemen, New Jersey's own Jim Florentine. And filmed in New
Jersey, of course.
And filmed in New Jersey. So how does the royalty of New Jersey, it's got to go
Bruce Springsteen,
Jon Bon Jovi, Jim Florentine. Maybe Artie Lange? No, Rich Voss. Rich Voss.
How did I forget Rich, the Duke of fucking Trenton, whatever the hell he lives.
South
Lanefield. I heard he put out a CD. I heard it was fucking great. Yeah. The guy's
pumping
him out like a maniac. I think that's a great thing. And I love that you're
putting it on
Amazon. I think more specials in more areas so nobody gets too much power, if
you know
what I mean there. Yeah, absolutely. That's good for us. And if you don't get a
good deal
somewhere, I'm just like, fuck you. You're not owning it. You know, and all
that stuff.
I like the new model that's coming out. And basically to own your stuff, you
know, that's
what I'm hearing through the music industry. Like if you own Spotify and all
those other
streaming sites, I'm basically going to have to pay some big royalties coming
soon in like
two, three years. Just like satellite radio. Before, they weren't paying shit.
They were
playing all the comedy bits, weren't going to get a dime. Then all of a sudden,
when they
merged, the government said, well, you have to start paying royalties. They
passed along
to the consumer. And now you get nice checks from sound exchange through,
because of the
satellite radio and internet radio. Now the streaming sites, the Spotify's, all
of those
are going to have to start paying in about two years. So if you own your shit.
That's about
fucking time. I know. So if you own your master, if you own the master and then
you also, you
know, you're a performer, you get double checks. Well, I saw a thing one time.
There was, what
was that documentary on that heavy metal band that just, they came to LA like
the week before
Nirvana's album came out. Nevermind. That just, you know, as the legend goes,
that was the album that destroyed the whole thing, rather than 50,000 bands all
singing
the same fucking song. So that failed. And then they moved back to like Indiana
or wherever
the fuck they were from. And hair metal still survived another three years.
Then they tried
to get into grunge and all this shit. And then they were just old and they
never really made
it. And they made this documentary. And at one point towards the end, the
biggest lesson
in all of it, one of the members said, he goes, what I've learned, he goes, you're
better to have
100% ownership and just sell 20,000 copies. Then you are to have no ownership
and sell like
20 million copies. You'll actually make more money if you own it. That's how
bad they, they
fucking rip you off. They just, they, they rip, you know, they've, you know,
all of that
shit, all the way back to the blues guys and all that, you know, every fucking
artist, they
just, they, uh, that's what, that's what happened. So it's, and then also, yeah.
And also like
those eighties videos with the, you know, the goofy, with the hot chick in it
and they
were, you know, dancing around on stage, doing whatever. Those videos were like
a half million
to a million dollars, the budgets on those. So that came right off the top of
any money
they sold. Oh yeah. You know, the record company put that money up. So just to
make a, a good,
and it was the same video as the guys performing on stage and it was a hot
chick and he was chasing
out black and white and when the rest of the band kicks in, all of a sudden it
was in color.
Yup. Or if it was the ballad, they look tired, you know, it was Bon Jovi on the
bus. He looked
tired because he was looking out the window and driving. Now, who was the first
Bon Jovi?
Uh, cause you do also do that metal show. So that was about 86 when that album
came out.
Uh, video was maybe 87 somewhere around that. I think New Jersey was his big
record came out
like 84, 85. Bon Jovi, I thought Slippery When Wet. How old are we right now?
Well, Slippery When Wet
was probably, I think 84. No, that was like 85, 86. Okay. Yeah. Somewhere
around there. And then
New Jersey came out after that. But Slippery When Wet is You Give Love a Bad
Name. Yes.
Wanted Dead or Alive. All of that shit. But I'm saying, did they start the I'm
Tired on the Tour bus?
No, Journey did. Remember Journey with, uh, Steve Perry had that bad mustache
in Faithfully?
Oh yeah. Yeah. Remember he had the mustache? Yeah. That, so that was,
that started the original Tire. I'm tired. I'm on tour and I'm exhausted.
What about when he was at that San Francisco Giant game, they started playing
the Journey song
and all he had to do was smile and wave. And then he acted like somebody, he
acted like someone
who was just a fan of the band rather than the guy singing it. And he just, he
just went over the
fucking top with it. And it was, I just felt like it was a moment that I don't
know if he's not
selling tickets or whatever. It's like, he should have just played that cool.
And he tried to be too
regular. And then everybody just eviscerated him on the fucking internet. Did
you ever see that?
Yeah. Yeah. Cause I've seen him at giant, I'm a big giant fan. So I'll go out
there and I've seen
him at games. He goes to like every game with his kids. He can't hit those
notes anymore. So he
knows I'm just laying low. Let the Asian guy take over and do it. You know, he's
just collecting
the royalties off. Oh, there you go. Yeah. So he doesn't need to do any of that
stuff. He doesn't
care. Yeah. He's, he could have been back in Journey 10 years ago. He's just
like, I'm not going to
embarrass myself. That's a smart move. So I'll just do it once at a baseball
game. Yeah. Like,
yeah. Like Robert Plant, Robert Plant knows he ain't, he hasn't, he knows he's
not going to hit
those notes. You know what they tuned down? He sounded great in 2007. I know he
sounded amazing.
You know what he, they got offered $14 million for two, two hour shows for that,
uh, thing in the
desert. What was the thing? A few, like a couple months ago, they got 14
million for two, two hour
shows. And, and Robert Plant heard it to everybody else in Zeppelin's like, of
course. And he said,
yeah, I think he, he bought a bunch of apartment buildings is what he did. So
he's making all this
fucking money. That's what I heard. Yeah. I heard he's a really good
businessman, but why can't he
just come out and go, look, this isn't going to be like 1976. I'm not going to
be able to hit all
the notes, but I'm going to go hang on my friends. We're going to jam, have a
good time and don't
expect much. If you've thrown out, I have to be honest with you. I think he's
protecting the legacy of
the band by not doing it. I mean, I think they did that last one. I don't think,
I don't think they
could do it better than they did it in 07. And he's always said, if you just,
you know, if this
is just a money grab, been there, done that, what does he say? I'm just an old
hippie, blah, blah,
blah. Like he just doesn't see the reason to do it. Now what I would do if I
was the rest of them,
I'd get, I'd get, uh, uh, Jason Bonham on drums, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page.
And I would do what
Journey did. And who gives a fuck? Well, they tried to do that after two, you
know, first of all,
Page and Plant don't get along at all. Like when they were rehearsing for that
2007 show,
Jason Bonham told the show, told the story on that metal show when he was on,
they were at each
other's throats, Page and Plant. They just don't like each other. It's, I think
it's more a plant,
you know? So after that, they were hoping they were going to do a reunion and
Plant said, once again,
nope, I'm not doing it. So they actually auditioned Steven Tyler, Sammy Hagar.
Oh, that's right.
And Miles Kennedy had the gig. Miles is from Alta Bridge and Slash, a solo
singer. He had the gig
and they were ready to do it. And then they just said, you know what? We can't,
we let's just put it to the
side. We can't do that. We're not going to sell this as Led Zeppelin. Oh my God.
So it was called,
but Miles Kennedy out of nowhere got that gig. But did Steven Tyler, am I
hearing something in
my headphones? Yeah, it's the alarm over there. Oh, it's the alarm. Should we
be concerned about
the alarm? Is it a fire? How do you know what it is? Oh, one of these times it's
going to be an
actual fire. It's like when you're in a, when you're in a club and you're
hitting on a hot chick
and you hear the alarm go, you're like, I don't give a shit. I ain't leaving.
If I leave it as nine
guys ready, I'm ready to take my spot. So I don't, if there's a fire, you know,
one of those nine just
pulled it too. Absolutely. To get me away from her. So I, I understand plants
thing where he doesn't
want to do it. He's like, I'm not, I don't want to do it for the guy's probably
worth 300 million.
So he doesn't need to do it at this point. You just wish as a fan, maybe just a
few shows.
Yeah. Cause you know what I like when, when, when Jason played in 2007, I
thought he was finally
himself where he was like, he didn't feel like he had to do what his dad did,
but he, he, he was
throwing in, he threw in so much shit. A lot of it was some stuff that his dad
did live, but like
his personality was on it. I thought he really fucking owned it on that one. So
I was kind of
psyched to see them go around. It's probably better. It's probably better that
they don't do it. Cause
you know, it, it didn't work well. I remember that live aid when they had the
two fucking drummers
and shit. And that was only five years after they had played, but I heard page
was so fucking upset
that he didn't play guitar for a while after Bonham died. Like to the point he
had to try to like
remember how to fucking play. Um, that's right. Cause then the story was, um,
Paul Rogers came over
one day and was just hanging like three, four years later and said, Hey dude,
you can pick up the
guitar. Let's see if we can write some songs. And they started the firm after
that.
Yeah. So why doesn't he just fucking, why don't they just come up with a new
name and just still
do Zeppelin shit, play some firm stuff. The fucking Jimmy Page project with
John Paul Jones and
fucking, I know what Jason will remember when, remember when, uh, page was so
pissed off at,
uh, at Robert Plant that he got David Coverdell and did the Coverdell page.
They did one album
cause covered it. Chris Robinson. They went out with him. Yeah. Robert Plant
hated David Coverdell. Cause he
thought he was a Led Zeppelin, you know, just a Robert Plant clone. He looked
like him, sounded like
him. And then page goes, I'm going to get your arch enemy and we're going to
start our own band.
What do you think of that? Well, yeah, that, I think that'll do a lot of damage.
Yeah. It definitely
didn't help the guy 10 years younger. They can still hit the fucking notes.
Well, Van Halen pulled
it off. Cause remember Sammy and Dave did that tour to Sammy Hagar, David Lee
Roth tour together.
They hated each other cause the Van Halens weren't talking to either. And then
right after that tour,
they got back with Sammy. 