Chapter 1: What are Bryan and Krissy's thoughts on Black Friday traditions?
on this episode of the Commercial Break.
I do feel... Like they had a rehearsal space that was cold. That sounds familiar to me. So I'm going to go with that one.
You're correct.
Yeah.
I think that... Although it seems like any of them could be true.
Any of them could be true. But, you know, you don't sleep in your car when you're on tour. You're in a van or you're on a bus or something. I mean, you could sleep in the van, but you don't sleep in your own car. It's not like you're following the guys around. I'll catch up with you. Hey, it's me, Eddie Vedder, in my station wagon. I mean... It just doesn't make much sense.
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We appreciate it. Here we are again, stream number two of the day. That's okay. I forgot the noise. That's okay. I know.
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Chapter 2: How does music play a role in Thanksgiving celebrations?
And he knew like Angie Apero, Francisco Vidal. He was big into like the Southeastern music circuit. When I was... you know, jamming. Yeah. When, when chopper Johnson and 33 penis were taking over the Southeastern music circuit by Southeastern, I mean, mainly our practice space, but we were good there.
And sounded great.
He decided he's going to install a bunch of cameras and really,
super professional audio equipment and was going to invite some of his favorite bands to come play in his fucking basement and I've seen pictures of like tour buses rolling up to this residential neighborhood it's affluent but it's a residential neighborhood and unloading their shit to go into the print shop quote unquote so you can now go to YouTube live at the print shop is the name of the channel it's the name of the Instagram is the name of everything give them some love because we're about to play some of their stuff and
But he invited, he saw Stephen Wilson Jr. in a bar in Nashville and Stephen Wilson Jr. was becoming big in Nashville in like 22 and 23 after he put out an album called Son of a Dad after his father passed. And then he went on tour. He was opening up for people and he started to gain some notoriety. Never heard a voice like this before. The way he plays guitar is haunting. It's a revelation.
He is uniquely original. I mean, I don't know if you can be uniquely original, but he's extraordinarily original in his songwriting, in his music, and it is beautiful. And I don't know anybody who I've listened to this that doesn't think so. I agree. He's incredible. He's an incredible singer-songwriter. And... He's in his late 40s and now just coming into his own. I love that. I love it too.
He's got a very unique aesthetic to his band, to his merch. He's unique in all ways. And I love it and I love him. And he recorded an album live at the print shop where he did a version of Stand By Me as a cover. And then he did a song that he had not done on an album before. And it's called I'm a song.
And that song to me, the song I'm a song is just so fucking incredible that anytime I listen to it gives me chills. And still 150 times in, it gives me chills. So I'm going to play it here on the show. I don't know if there's a lot. I don't care. Really, you know, whatever. What are they going to do? You know, what are you going to do? Take down the commercial break?
Stronger men than you have tried. So I want to play this live at the print shop. Oh, sorry. It just kind of started there. But let me go over the explanation because he's going to talk about his dad and how his dad thought this was his favorite song. So this is I'm a Song from Stephen Wilson Jr. live at the print shop. Go check this out on YouTube. Give them the views too. All right, here it is.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Stephen Wilson Jr. in today's music scene?
He's keeping time by snapping the guitar like that. He's using the nylon strings to give it that deep, rich sound. He's using a guitar that is old and rickety because it probably has some... It's probably comforting to him, but then there's only... That kind of guitar can make that kind of sound. And then... He's putting a voice on top of it that you mentioned Eddie Vedder.
It does have an Eddie Vedder-ish quality to it. He's singing through his nose and with a closed throat. But, you know, he grew up listening to the same music we listen to.
Yeah, yeah, the 90s, you know.
yeah alternative stuff along with some country I mean it's kind of got like a little Willie Nelson in there too Bruce Springsteen is one that comes to mind but then now he's covered Smashing Pumpkins he's covered I think he did an Alice in Chains song I think he did uh another one he's covering a lot of the songs that we grew up with that you can tell I think he does I think if you asked him to he could cover a Pearl Jam song pretty well
But he's not going to do that because he also knows that his voice resembles Eddie Vedder, and he doesn't want to come across as a parody. But mark my words, Stephen Wilson Jr. will do a Pearl Jam cover at some time in the near future, and we're all going to be blown the fuck away. Because also, the way that he's using his voice is unlike Eddie Vedder's.
He's just got a tone to it that, it's just different. It's different. Anyway, Stephen Wilson Jr. is a revelation to me. I haven't liked music this much in a long time. And it just hits me in the Google spot.
Seems like the rest of the world's catching on now.
The rest of the world's catching on. CMA's got him first. But, you know, it won't be long before he is everywhere. His tickets are hard to get. They are very expensive. He came to Athens, sold out the Georgia Theater. And I thought, okay, that's close enough. I don't think he's been to Atlanta as a main act. Mm-hmm.
Yet, because he says when he's playing The Prince Shop, and this came out in 24, he says, this is the first time I have played music in Atlanta. I've been here, but this is the first time I played music in Atlanta. So... When I looked for the Georgia Theater tickets, they were like $400. Really? For standing room. At the Georgia Theater, there are no seats. It's standing room.
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Chapter 4: How did Pearl Jam and Nirvana influence the 90s music landscape?
You feel like you're in a huge room listening to someone without a microphone. And this is someone at the top of their game. It does. The only thing that concerns me about Stephen Wilson Jr., is that we are seeing him at the very tippy-tippy top of his game, and I wonder how long he can keep it up with that voice screaming like that.
I hope he can do it, but we've seen other screamers in the past not keep up with that kind of vocal ideation. You know, we'll see. I hope. I love Stephen Wilson Jr. I've loved him since the moment I caught him and I turned Chrissy onto it. I was like, you gotta listen to this guy. I started sending it to everybody. I was kind of like a little obsessed, actually.
I was like, you gotta listen to this guy. You gotta listen to this guy. I sent it to my brother and everyone that I've sent it to is like, oh my God, that's crazy. And I'm like, yeah, I know, right? Where'd this guy come from? He's our age. He was a...
chemical engineer for like a cereal company or something like a food company he was a golden glove boxer he grew up poor his dad raised him his mom was like in a series of abusive relationships real sad story but he managed to like pull himself up and out and he became a very well-paid like chemical engineer food engineer whatever for a food company and then he was writing songs on the side for people in nashville until somebody one of the engineers in the studio said
you gotta be the voice of these songs yeah and he's like nah man look at me i'm 43 years old you think i'm gonna be a fucking rock star and he's like yes i do you need to do these songs why are you giving them to other people and he took a chance and wrote an album it did okay mildly in nashville and then the second one son of a dad i think that's when people really started taking notice do yourself a favor get into steven wilson jr those are like two of like 12 he's got like you know
30 songs out there now, but 24 of them are just beautiful. And Live at the Print Shop is probably the best live version of some of these songs that I've seen. So go watch that.
Yeah, it's about, what, an hour long? And just listen to it.
Six, eight songs, something like that.
He tells a lot about his life.
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Chapter 5: What controversies surrounded Pearl Jam's relationship with MTV?
We reached out to his people. We reached out to the guy from Live at Print Shop in typical commercial break fashion. No one responded to us. No, I think Stephen Wilson's people did get back to us. And they said, listen, thanks for asking. But right now he's got a lot on his plate. And right now he's letting the music speak for him. And that's OK. I haven't seen him do too many interviews.
I think he was on two like late night shows. I think he went on Jimmy Kimmel. I think he was on Fallon. And then I also believe he did like one podcast. But of course, it wasn't ours. But also, he's not the shits and giggles kind of guy. Maybe this is just not the place for him to come air his musical laundry. Though, Stephen, always an open door.
If you want to come stream in front of six people, we're here for you. We're here for you. If you need that kind of promotion, let us know. If you need a technically... Disastrous show to show up to. I would love to get Stephen Wilson here and have him be the first artist that plays for us.
We wanted to do that. We wanted to do it. Music series.
Yeah, I said, hey, reach out to Stephen Wilson's people. Tell them we have a studio in Atlanta that's pretty nice and they have actual engineers that can help him set up his shit. And he can come and he can talk and he can play us a few songs. But I can also understand that when you're on the rise like this, there's probably a lot that's pulling at you and your management isn't.
they're doing the right thing when they're saying no to the commercial breaks of the world. They're like, you don't need them. You need to focus, focus, focus. You're playing the CMAs, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel. You don't need the commercial break. But I say all that to say that I got mad respect, mad respect for what's going on with Stephen Wilson Jr.
Hey, Lauren, Lauren's on our stream right now at the commercial break on YouTube, youtube.com at the commercial break or slash the commercial break. And if you want to know when we're going live in the future follow us at the commercial break on Instagram and we'll let you know just a couple minutes ahead of time usually Tuesdays through Thursdays sometime between noon and 3 p.m.
Chrissy and I are going to make an effort to be here streaming the show and then of course you can always listen a couple days later on the RSS feed as you always have been so but get involved in the conversation last episode we recorded we had a lot of people commenting in the comment section
And also, we are working on, working on, I'm not going to promise when, but in the next couple of weeks, we'd like to be able to invite people on to like jump in with their cameras.
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Chapter 6: What unique experiences did Bryan and Krissy have during concert events?
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All right. You know that guy? The people who represent this country are a bunch of fucking shitheads. Because I just read a story. You know that Dan Crenshaw, the guy who wears the eye patch, the representative who wears the eye patch? He's no longer allowed in Mexico after an alcohol-related incident.
He can't go to fucking Mexico. He's a congressman. Unbelievable. What you have to do there to get kicked out. Wow. Yeah.
Yeah.
I've been kicked out of a few places in Mexico, but not the actual country. But I guess when you're a congressman, you do have a lot more eyeballs on you. All right, let's play a game. Chrissy's got a music-related Two Truths and a Lie.
I do, in the vein of, first of all, everything 90s is new again. Absolutely. And everybody loves the 90s. And in the vein of just listening to Steven and kind of the Eddie Vedder-ish, you know, a little voice like that. It reminds me that you are such a huge Pearl Jam fan.
I am.
You are. And we even went to the show.
We did. We went to the show together. That's right.
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Chapter 7: How did the alternative rock scene evolve in the 90s?
Okay. Okay, the first statement is, the name of this little round is 10 out of 10. Okay. Okay, A, the band wanted every album title to be a number at first. Okay, B, 10 was named after NBA player Mookie Blaylock's jersey. Mm-hmm. C, fans originally thought the album cover was a swimsuit ad.
It would be B. You're correct. Yes. Mookie Blaylock.
Yeah, tell us more about that.
So Pearl Jam was actually named the Mookie Blaylock Band. That was their original name. But because Mookie Blaylock did not know who the fuck Pearl Jam would become, he did not care for them using his name. And they got a copyright infringement. They got a cease and desist from the attorneys for Mookie Blaylock, who was a Hawks player, an Atlanta Hawks player. That's right. That's what I thought.
Yes. And so Jeff Ament, who's the bassist, was a huge NBA fan. And if you look anytime behind Pearl Jam, behind Jeff on his bass stack, the speakers behind him, you will see that he has these little bobbleheads, these NBA bobbleheads that he'll switch out. But Mookie is always there. So there's always a mad respect for Mookie Blaylock.
And if you are a true Pearl Jam like aficionado and collector, you can find a poster with the Mookie Blaylock band named on it from like the first six months of them in existence. But not much else because, of course, they got the cease and desist. So they don't put out merch like that anymore.
Did they become friends with Mookie?
I think they had to. I think they did, yes. I think they did, yeah. They had to. There you go. Well, good, there you go.
Okay, here's round three. Even Flow, Even Chaos. Oh. Okay, A, the band recorded Even Flow more than 50 times. B, they intended it to be a reggae song. Even Flow. Even Flow, amen. Thoughts arrive like butterflies, amen. Call your mama. I love it. Okay, see where the lyrics were written while Eddie was floating in a sensory tank. Huh.
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Chapter 8: What are some interesting facts about 90s pop culture and music?
They sent the tape to Eddie, who was living down in San Diego, surfing mainly. This is why I think the sensory tank made sense. And he was a gas station attendant. And he was a gas station attendant. That's what he was doing for a living. And he lived in a tiny room that he'd sublet with like six other surfer dudes. And he would write the lyrics on the walls.
He would write some of these lyrics in notebooks and on the walls. And so when somebody told... Mother Love Bone was essentially Pearl Jam. Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, they were all kind of traveling in the same circles. Mother Love Bone, the lead singer died and they were left with nothing to do. They got together. They started writing songs.
They were looking for a singer, someone who knew someone. I think it was someone having to do with Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sent the tape down to Eddie Vedder. They knew he was a singer and they said, hey, listen, you know, listen to this and let us know. And he recorded over it.
He dubbed it with the with the tape in the background, essentially played the tape, then dubbed his own voice, wrote a lot of those lyrics off the rip or read it off his wall or out of his notebook, sent it back to them. And so my understanding is that that that.
album was recorded in about a 10-day period totally with brendan o'brien just like boom but you know you could do it 50 times in 10 days i suppose or it just took 50 times to get it right i do have heard mike mccready say that uh the guitar solos and that which are now world famous you listen to even flow you listen to the guitar solos that they were uh it took a long time to get those down but i didn't know 50 times that's a lot that is yeah all right okay well you're doing well so far
Thank you. Here we go. We're doing a little history lesson.
I know, I enjoyed this. I knew this would be a good one for you. Okay, round four. Yes. Jeremy spoke, dot, dot, dot, then MTV panicked. Yes. Is the name of this. Okay. A, MTV banned the Jeremy video for showing Eddie eating raw fish. B, the video director later quit the music industry from the stress. Or C, the original ending was even darker than the final cut.
I think that this has got to be... C, though I think there is some truth to the rumor of B. With the video director quitting? Yes.
From the stress.
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