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Someone Done Stole Your Batt’ry

August 9, 2017 / / 1 Comment

Are you wearing a tee-shirt with your own picture on it while autographing your own car?

“Looks like it.”

That’s a healthy level of self-regard even for a Rock Star.

“Well, you know how I’ve been looking for my bliss?”

You’ve mentioned it once or twice.

“Sure. Well, uh, I found my bliss. Turns out it’s me. I’m my own bliss.”

Awesome.

“The commute’s great.”

Sure. Why are you signing your car?

“Giving it away.”

Can I have it?

“Not that kind of giving it away. Auction.”

Figures. Finally decided to get rid of the old girl?

“She’s acting up. The, uh, performance issues have intensified.”

How so?

“I don’t know how it got a hold of my credit cards, but it ordered itself new rims.”

Spinners?

“Spinners. And, you know: I’m not really a show-offy kind of guy.”

You’re wearing a tee-shirt with your own face on it.

“Maybe I’m just not a spinner guy.”

That’s understandable.

“That was bad, but the phone calls are unacceptable.”

Phone calls?

“The car has learned to imitate my voice.”

Like the T1000?

“Exactly. And it, uh, crank calls my friends and family. Little bastard fired New Brent the other day.”

That’s kinda funny.

“Funny to you. Because you didn’t have to spend an hour on the phone with a crying keyboardist.”

True. Thinking about what your new ride’s gonna be?

“Oh, yeah. Been looking at a 1985 Buick Grand National.”

What?

“Maybe importing a Skyline from Japan.”

Excuse me?

“I could dig the Vette out of the garage. Needs a little paint, tune-up. She’ll run good again. Or, you know, I could just get another Tesla so my sister-in-law–”

Lillian Monster.

“–doesn’t stab me in the face with a locally-sourced machete.”

Good point.

“I want the one with the fancy doors.”

Good choice. What’s Billy doing there?

“He wanted to get one last tugger in the backseat.”

Has he been getting tuggers in the backseat of your bar, Bobby?

“If you asked me that yesterday, I would’ve said ‘no.’ But things have come to light today.”

Billy told you?

“Yup.”

Did he tell you while he was getting a tugger in the backseat of your car?

“You bet.”

You should leave that off the auction website.

“Probably.”

Dyer, Wolf

August 8, 2017 / / 0 Comments

You love that hat.

“It’s growing on me. Maybe I’ve been a hat guy all my life and not known it.”

I don’t think so.

“So many lost years.”

I really don’t think so.

“Um, so, tell me something.”

Sure.

“Josh always been blond?”

Only his hairdresser knows for sure.

“Ah.”

I think he’s having a mid-life crisis.

“Could be. I notice he’s been driving around in sports cars and sleeping with women half his age.”

He’s always done that.

“I used to.”

Sure.

“One more thing.”

Yeah?

“Why are there reindeer backstage?”

Reindeer?

“Putin is Santa now.”

What the hell have you done with Santa?

“Santa make problem. Now is no Santa, so is no problem.”

You’re a monster.

“Keep talking and you vill get polonium in your stocking.”

Why is there a lake backstage at Red Rocks?

“Do nyet vorry about it.”

Okay. Listen, Putin: get out of there. No one wants you at the Jerry Tribute.

“Vant to hear Bird Song. This is my jam.”

Stop it.

“Leave Putin alone. Am on vacation. Putin chilling like villain.”

You are the villain.

“Da. Now I steal Bobby Grateful’s hat.”

I’m cool with that.

Turnout’s A Bit Light, But It’s Early

August 6, 2017 / / 3 Comments

“You’re just gonna have to crouch down a bit, Josh.”

“I can’t keep having this conversation, Bobby.”

“Listen: I’m, uh, the tall guy in the band. I’m the good-looking one, and I’m the tall one. Those are the rules.”

“You were never the tall one. Phil was.”

“Only in inches. In spirit, I was the tall one.”

“Not gonna crouch down, Bobby.”

“Maybe I should get some lifts put in my sandals.”

“How would that even work?”

“No idea. Have to ask my sandal tech. Y’know, Josh, I gotta tell ya: I’m very impressed.”

“With what?’

“13 nights with no repeats? You’re just killing it.”

“Uh-huh. Bobby, that was your famous fill-in guitarist from two summers ago. I’m the new ringer.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah.”

“Ah. Well, you know, I guess I’m proud of you, too.”

“Thanks.”

Playing In The Pick-Up Band

August 4, 2017 / / 9 Comments

“Why does Bobby keep calling you Oteil?”

“No fucking clue, man.”

OR

Every third asshole on the street looks like this now; no one had a beard in the 80’s except Brent and Kenny Rogers.

OR

Is this a bar’s back porch? Why is Bobby playing a Les Paul? Who would buy Merit cigarettes? Anyone got any clue what this is?

OR

Once there were two keyboardists who were so very poor, but in love. They white one had a beard that was his glory, and the black one had a hat. O, they were so very poor, but in love.

Please don’t do O. Henry.

Everyone loves that story. My version’s different.

Brent sells his beard to buy Merl hat cream, but Merl has sold his hat to buy Brent beard conditioner. We can all see where that’s going.

No, they were gonna rob a bank.

Equally as ignorable.

You’re just mean for no reason.

There’s a reason.

What?

You deserve it.

Aw.

Bobby, Mountain, High

August 3, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Oy.

“You know that I was a cowboy for a while.”

One summer, Bobby. It was like you went to a really shitty sleepaway camp.

“That was where I picked up the love of horsery that I still carry with me today.”

Horsery is not a word.

“Equine magic.”

Dammit, you stop portmanteauing, Weir.

“I, uh, learned to rope. Ride. Which way the saddle goes. Why you don’t want to startle a horse.”

They can be dicks.

“The stablemaster at the ranch was named Farley. He used to say they got chompy chompers and stompy stompers. He’d been kicked several times in the temple. In fact, that thing about the chomping and stomping was all he said. He was more of a mascot than a stablemaster.”

Uh-huh. So you liked riding the horses?

“The riding was uncomfortable, honestly. I mostly enjoyed being photographed in the saddle.”

Sure.

“I lucked out.”

How so?

“90% of Rock Star’s daughters are horse girls. Dodged a bullet on that one.”

You could’ve hung out with Springsteen.

“Like I said: dodged a bullet on that one.”

Take Your Hands And Everything Else Out Of Your Pockets

August 2, 2017 / / 1 Comment

You love your new hat.

“It’s nifty, as far as hats go. Let’s not go directly to ‘love.’ I’m wearing it at the moment.”

The Dead was not a hat-friendly band.

“No, we were head-friendly.”

I see what you did there.

“I get one in now and then.”

How much stuff is in your jacket pocket? Sucker’s about to rip free.

“Huh. Yeah, kinda packed in there. Let’s see. Fob for the Tesla.”

How’s it going with that thing?

“Car keeps texting me death threats.”

You need to take it in to get serviced, Bobby.

“Probably. I got more stuff. Vape pen. Backup vape pen. Eddie Rabbitt’s foot.”

What?

“Long story. Uh, there’s my house keys. Two grand in hundreds. Garcia’s stash.”

You’re still carrying that around?

“Never know. Billy’s stash.”

What’s Billy’s stash?

“Copy of Swank from June ’91 and a hotel-sized shampoo bottle full of GHB.”

Sounds right.

“Here’s a fan letter from a kid named Pickle. Dunno how that got in there.”

Mystery.

“Pocket Constitution.”

I approve.

“33,000 e-mails.”

So that’s where Hillary put them!

“And a tupperware container half-full of cole slaw. High-end stuff. Chutney in it.”

What happened to your fanny pack?

“Oh, it’s in my jacket pocket, too.”

Have a good show, Bobby.

“You bet.”

Block, Head

August 2, 2017 / / 2 Comments

“Now, uh, tell me what you’re showing me here.”

“It’s a hat, Bobby.”

“Uh-huh. Smart hat?”

“For one sense of the word ‘smart.’ But for others, no.”

“I’m asking about Bluetooth.”

“No.”

“So how does it connect to my watch?”

“It doesn’t.”

“Interesting. How vegan is this hat?”

“None.”

“Not at all?”

“Literally everything on this garment comes from a dead animal.”

“Well, you know: I admire consistency. If my sister-in-law–”

“Lillian Monster.”

“–asks, tell her it’s made from tofu or something.”

“Gotcha.”

OMINOUS HONKING NOISE

“Bobby, is your Tesla staring in the window threateningly?”

“Uh, yeah. It’s gone full chaotic evil. I gotta take it in to the shop.”

Bobby Weir Plays The Big Rooms, You Hear Me?

July 31, 2017 / / 2 Comments

Not quite Wrigley Field.

“I think I saw some ivy out in the parking lot.”

Where are you?

“Inside.”

Can you give me any more details than that?

“Nope. Wait: I am slightly elevated.”

Okay, hold on, lemme see if I can figure this out.

…

Ohh, I see. This is a charity event organized by a guy named Kimball Musk.

“That’s the after-shave my wife, Lilian Monster, buys me every Christmas.”

No, it’s Elon Musk’s brother.

“Ah. Well, yeah. Everything makes sense now.”

What?

“I got in the Tesla this afternoon to go run some errands and, uh, the car drove me here by itself. Tried getting out at a red light, but the doors wouldn’t unlock.”

Wow.

“And when I got here, I was wearing this hat.”

It’s a nice hat.

“Goes with the sandals.”

That’s what we’re all thinking, yeah.

I’m Right, You’re Left, He’s Ross

July 26, 2017 / / 0 Comments

The confusion over Phil’s handedness continues. Does he bat lefty? Does he skateboard goofy-footed? Which hand–

Don’t say it.

–does he play with his seastones with?

You said it.

I’m asking the important questions.

OR

Not Pictured: Billy, just out of frame, dipping his cock-and-balls into ink and smacking the whole mess onto the posters.

“There ya go! Like a royal seal!”

OR

The woman in the background stared at the metal barricade for two hours.

OR

Ross James is a wonderful guitarist, but he’s an odd choice for a security guard.

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