I live in the city. Local people’s dogs poop on my lawn all the time. Recently I witnessed it and asked the lady if she could please pick it up. She just left the poop there and said “it won’t happen again.” Then she walked away. I guess there’s just some shit you have to take.
However, there is other shit I won’t take. For example hecklers. Miles Nielsen (son if Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen) and I did a podcast and talked about shutting down hecklers, pub fights, and deflecting unhealthy news. Hear it below.
I attended a show like this last weekend and it was unbelievable. People were so amped to be back in the electricity of a live setting. A 70-year-old bearded man passed me a large blunt and told said "smoke this now."
Much respect and safety,
Newski
Here’s a snippit from the episode:
Brett: Do you have any good Euro tour disaster stories?
Well, I got profiled in Germany. We were in a red sprinter, with Swiss plates, and our manager says, “Yup, I knew it, we’re getting pulled over.” I heard that, and I was half dozed off, and I’m like, what?
Miles: And I had to go to the bathroom.
Brett: Well you didn’t have any smokey-treats, did you?
Miles: Well...who would have come from Spain with anything like that? But yeah, our first stop on the tour was in Spain, because we have a friend over there, Martin.
Brett: That’s a good, safe, drug dealer name. Martin. Sounds like someone you can trust.
Miles: And we do! And he did give us three different strains of cannabis. And the German police officers come in, roll down the window, and say, “It smells like cannabis.” Now, I don’t know that it smelled like cannabis, because I don’t really think it smelled like that.
Brett: Were you wearing that hat you’ve got on right now that says “blunt” on it?
Miles: No, I had a hat that said, “Trash.” Or “American Trash.” So that was good. But we were all asked to get out of the car. Now I don’t have anything! I’m the guy who takes two hits and I’m good, so I don’t really carry the weed.
So I’m looking at everybody, and Dan is like, “Oh no.” He had grabbed everything he had and put it in his pocket.
Brett: Who’s the designated “eat the weed” guy. Because that’s what you need a role for.
Miles: I don’t know! I was not aware of how much we had, or who was planning to eat the weed. But the weed turned out to be the least of our concerns.
Brett: Well, Germany is no joke. You don’t want to mess with the law there.
Miles: Seriously. Well, at this point, I have to go to the bathroom. My stomach’s rumbling, I gotta go. I’m a regular guy. I gotta go. And they’re searching, going through our bags, and finally I look at the cop and as, “Can I go to the bathroom?” And we’re at this sketchy Germany rest stop, but the officer says, “You may go to the bathroom.” And all our guys’ eyes lit up. “Yes. We can ditch ALL the drugs.”
So I go to the bathroom, I come back. Dan’s like, “I need to go to the bathroom.” All of a sudden Adam needs to go to the bathroom. And Jeff’s the only one who doesn’t go to the bathroom, and he’s got a canister on him. He opens it up, the officers say, “This smells like cannabis. Do you have cannabis?”
And they’re searching all the luggage now. They open up the back. The back’s filled with gear, drums, keyboards, everything, it’s packed.
Brett: Right.
Miles: It’s been 45 minutes now. And they look through my luggage, nothing’s there. And then they get to Jeff’s bag.
Brett: Who looks like The Dude from The Big Lebowski, by the way.
Miles: Yeah, he looks like The Dude for sure. Now we’re about an hour in, and I hear the cops say, “I know what this is?” And I’m like, oh no, what do we have that even I don’t know about? And the cop says, “This is LSD.” Mmm-hmm. So we got popped.
Brett: Was it LSD? No kidding!
Miles: Yup, so we had LSD.
Brett: Did you get kicked out of Europe?
Miles: No. The best part is, they go by the book...but if you offer them cash…
Brett: No!
Miles: And you offer them a substantial amount of cash...they’ll take it.
Brett: No way, in Germany! Seriously? How do you present the cash?
Miles: “How about I give you a hundred Euro”
Brett: You just say it openly?
Miles: “Can I give you a hundred Euro right now?” “You give me a hundred Euro, you can go on your way.”
Brett: I never would have thought that Germany would have the corruption.
Miles: So 100 Euro, and we’re back on the road.
Brett: So did you get to keep the LSD?
Miles: Oh, no. The cop kept it.
Hear this and more by clicking on the pod cast links above.
