Chris Robinson
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That shit's long gone for a lot of younger people, you know, as time moves on.
I know that the king of yoga or whatever the fuck he's selling.
Whatever his โ but under that beard, that guy โ and it's funny because good for Rick Rubin, whatever.
He can do whatever he wants.
He has very little โ but he did say that.
And by the way, it was unimaginably offensive.
Unimaginably offensive.
Why would you say that to us?
Because I think, well, we were called Mr. Crow's Garden.
It's like a children's book from like the 20s called Mr. Crow's Garden.
With an E, so it's a name, you know, he was Mr. Crow.
And we were kind of, you know, into like psychedelic, you know, like it was our, I don't know, whatever, that was the name of our band.
So when we made Shake Your Moneymaker, a few years had gone by since we first were Mr. Crow's Garden, and now we don't sound like that.
And George Triculius, our producer and our A&R guy and our lifeline to the music business, to the world,
uh who signed us and stuff he was like we need you know new we got to change the name so there was a little bit of time where before we said we'll be the black crows
And that's when Rick interjected that that's what he โ because we're Southern.
Aren't all Southern people fear-driven, ignorant bigots?
Isn't every one of them?