Name: Bill Burr - Bill Sat In With A Band
Uploaded: 2016-09-16T15:29:53.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Bill Sat In With A Band' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-09-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Bill Sat In With A Band' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-09-16. Transcript available.

but last night last night i sat in with the fucking band and uh it was funny
because i told
you when i when i went over to uh i was in italy i was just you know i was jet
lagged and i always
end up stumbling on some sort of fucking you know shit on youtube like the
first time i went over to
europe since i've been doing the podcast i somehow stumbled upon somebody who
had uploaded all four
of the pittsburgh steelers first four wins in the super bowl the games in their
entirety and uh i just
sat and watched and i i binged watching because i was afraid the nfl was going
to take them down
and um every time i go over there i find something fucking just i just end up
in some weird part of
the fucking internet where i find something cool and i ended up getting across
uh i don't know i was
just thinking about back in the day somebody asked a question about like me
taking drum lessons and who
who i who i studied with and uh and how i used i was used to be at this music
store that was in
downtown brockton i don't even know if it's there anymore that was yet another
victim of uh guitar
center but um that reminded me that one of the big drummers out of there was
that uh bobby shunard
i hope i'm saying his name right shunard however you say it and um and i was
like he used to play for
billy squire and i started watching billy squire and i was like this fucking
guy was great it's a
great front man he sort of straddled the line of fucking rock band pop band did
it great and even
the video that they said you know took him down if you close your eyes that was
a hit song in the 80s
total hit song they just had the wrong video and unfortunately they didn't have
another hit after
that so that's the last thing everybody remembers right your last season only
good is your last game
right so anyways long story short uh friend of mine hit me up and he mentioned
he was doing a show
uh frankie perez um who if you guys ever saw that time i got to sit in with dave
kushner and a couple of his
buddies wink wink and play highway to hell um he was the lead singer this guy's
just like a fucking amazing
singer so he mentioned that he was going to be down at there's a bowling alley
the fuck is it even i never know the
names of places it's right on like hollywood boulevard right right around the
corner from where they do the
oscars and uh so he said his band was playing i was like yeah i'd love to go
down and fucking see you
play or whatever yada yada yada and then he goes hey man you want to sit in on
a song and i told you
that's my fucking rule i don't force my hollywood my hollywood i don't my hollywood
i don't force my
hobby jesus christ there's a fucking freudian slip i don't force my ego i don't
force my hobby on you
but if you ask me i will i'm gonna say yes i don't give a shit how terrifying
the situation is
i'm gonna say yes so uh i go all right well we'll figure out this song i said
by the way man
this guy is way better than people remember and i sent him this billy squire
the lonely is the night
and then he wrote back he goes dude i fucking love that guy because you want to
do that song and that
just struck me as funny i was like yeah let's fucking do it everybody's always
playing acdc zeppelin and all
that shit i'm like fuck it let's do it um so then i was texting my other buddy
saying yeah man we're
gonna do lonely is the night by billy squire and they're all like uh that's an
interesting choice
but i knew frankie was gonna kill it so anyway so i go down there
and he just has this fucking monster band monster fucking band of players like
they're sitting there
tuning up to play and they were gonna do a cover of dazed and confused and the
other bands like you
know load in their shit and just a guitar player played the first sort of notes
of the song and i
don't mean like the baseline i just mean some of the licks and he had a telecaster
just like jimmy had
you know when he first came over here played at the whiskey and i was just like
oh fuck are they gonna
do dazed and confused and then he fucking he breaks out the bow and i swear to
god man it sounded like
the album then the whole band kicks in and uh the woman on drums valerie franco
right she had there's
like a house drum kit she says you know get that shit out of there puts in her
own fucking kit she's
got a vista like kit you know like what do they call it the candy striped um
vintage one they start
micing it up it sounds fucking unbelievable and i'm listening to her play and i'm
going like oh
shit i gotta go on after that like you know they're gonna pass off one song to
me after she plays right
this is just the sound check um i didn't realize that she was only going like
40 percent uh i'm actually
i tweeted a video of her playing a cover to uh mute math of all people um and i
heard that she's gonna
be doing something with darren king their drummer but dude i gotta tell you
when that fucking show
started the woman that i saw at soundcheck was was like it was it was not the
same person and i was
blown away by the soundcheck dude she fucking destroyed fucking destroyed see
the set began she just
hit the symbols like twice and i was like what the that sounded better than
anything i've played in
20 years absolutely was murdering on the drums and when it was coming time for
me to play
the song i was sitting in i was literally getting the same butterflies i used
to get way back in the
day when i first started doing stand-up and there was somebody killing on stage
and i was just
stand comedians know this where all of a sudden you feel like you're two inches
tall going like i can't
follow that so uh she gets off right they finished thing murders it for six
seven songs and then she
comes back hands me the sticks she's just like all right you're up and i'm like
yeah yeah yeah no
problem right so i sit down and we go to play it and um the whole fucking thing
went great except i
fucked up one major part right like the guitar riff there's a part where the
whole band drops out
and the guitar plays right and then on the snare and the floor tom you and the
bass player at the same
time go just like that right i forgot to do that part so the guitar player
total rockstar goes bad and
i missed my cue and then so it's just the bass player going boop boop boop don't
know boop boop
i felt like such a fucking asshole i think i literally said oops like if
anybody for whatever reason
you know was filming during that you know everybody's got the fucking iphones
if anybody
you might even see me say oops but i don't think anybody noticed because i
think most of the crowd
is like what fucking song is this um but it ended up i was i was nervous about
the first part because
the first time they drop out you know he does all the cymbal barks and a couple
of nods to bottom
there and those things went off without a hitch so then you start dude it's all
like i found a few
times i've ever sat in a band the second you lose your focus you just can't do
it all those years i
played you just play along with with like you know playing along with records
versus just being the only
person playing is an entirely different game and then if you sit in at a sound
check and the singer's
not singing then you really have to be paying attention and uh yeah i just once
i got past those
that little uh shit on the hi-hat and the little bottom lick i was like oh man
it's all fucking
downhill from here this is all pretty much straightforward shit and uh oh
fucking freckles
as always at some point whenever i'm no matter how well i'm playing i always
turn back into the pumpkin
which i think is apropos considering this the shape of my head um but anyways i
want to thank all
those guys for letting me sit in that they were fucking amazing this other guy
sal on on keys
i apologize to uh some of the other people i mean it was like five or six
people up there uh another
woman kayla singing her ass off it was it was fucking awesome man and uh i
swear to god in another life
in another life the same way i would have done comedy and continued to sleep on
a futon right until my
40s right up to my 40s like i basically did i would have done that to try to
make it as a drummer it's
It's just too much fucking fun.