Don Jamieson (Comedian, That Metal Show)

Episode #57: Don Jamieson - Hilarious Comedian and former Co-Host of "That Metal Show." Don has a new comedy album out titled "Denim & Laughter" and also hosts his how show, "That Jamieson Show."

0:00:00 - Intro
0:01:19 - Jamieson, Scottland, Ireland & Thin Lizzy
0:04:45 - Playing in Bands
0:06:00 - Working at MTV
0:07:30 - Starting Stand Up Comedy
0:10:50 - Joke Writing for Lisa Lampanelli & Roasts
0:13:14 - Opening for Andrew Dice Clay
0:17:15 - Opening for Metal Bands
0:20:50 - Steel Panther
0:22:28 - That Metal Show
0:24:55 - Marilyn Manson Drunk
0:26:13 - Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley
0:28:20 - Van Halen
0:29:28 - Eddie, Jim & Don Today
0:31:58 - New Bands Don Likes
0:35:08 - Secret Shows
0:36:28 - Starstruck
0:37:00 - Inside The NFL
0:38:30 - Rockstar Lifestyle Vs Sobriety
0:42:28 - Eddie Trunk Letting Loose
0:44:24 - Beer Money (Sports TV Show)
0:46:28 - Terrorizing Telemarketers
0:47:45 - Comedy Albums & Artwork Spoofs
0:48:49 - Sebastian Bach
0:50:12 - Cancel Culture & PC Crowd
0:55:25 - Politics
0:58:40 - Ink Against Cancer
0:59:40 - Don's Current Stuff Out
1:02:04 - Wrap Up

Don Jamieson Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/donjamiesonofficial/

Ink Against Cancer:
https://www.inkagainstcancer.com

Chuck Shute Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/chuck_shute/

Transcript

Chuck Shute : 0:15

Welcome to the Chuck Shute podcast. I'm Chuck Shute, your host. Today my guest is Don Jamieson. So hard rock and metal fans should recognize him from the h1 classics that metal show, but he's actually done a lot of other stuff. He started working for MTV as a Booker for comedians and he did some joke writing and ease up getting into stand up himself and he opened up for Andrew Dice Clay for over 10 years. He worked on hbos inside the NFL, and he also wrote jokes for Lisa lampanelli for some of the roasts that she did. He's got four comedy albums out a book album of prank phone calls, plus his own solo show called that Jamison show where he interviews some of the biggest rock stars like Alice Cooper. So it's really cool to sit down and talk to Don about his amazing career, all the things he's done and plus I pick his brain about music, rock stars, the PC crowd politics, and so much more. I think he goes, Oh, enjoy this one. Check it out. Welcome to the show. Don James. Hey, man,

Don Jamieson : 1:21

excited to talk to you today.

Chuck Shute : 1:23

Yes, it's fun. So I'm gonna get real deep here. So Jamison, I always thought that was Irish, like Irish whiskey, but I did a little research. It turns out it's actually a Scottish surname, but then some people from Scotland moved on. So you Irish or Scottish?

Don Jamieson : 1:38

Yeah, it's why you you're you're starting to you're starting with a deep cut. Yeah, right. You're not coming out with Welcome to the Jungle. You're coming out with like coma?

Chuck Shute : 1:49

Well, I was always curious about that. I was just like, I don't know why I just thought I was like, Oh, that's cool. He's Irish, because my grandfather is 100% Irish drank every day lived until his 90s. And I was like, Oh, that's so We could talk about we're both Irish and I was like, wait, Jamison Scottish? I was like, oh man, that sucks. But then I was, it seems like there's some Irish some Scottish. So

Don Jamieson : 2:09

yeah, that the spelling of my last name is is Scottish. You're right. And but I've been to I've been to Dublin and Ireland so many times now that I, I feel like an honorary Irishman. You know, being the Thin Lizzy creek that I am. And then I've been making pilgrimages over to Dublin for many years now. And so I feel I feel real kinship with the Irish only been to Scotland once but yeah, like to go back and then the guys go and I've been up in Inverness, up in the highlands and stuff, but, you know, I want to check out Edinburgh and stuff and my grandfather was born in Dundee, so Wow, some places I got to get to when we're allowed to go play since again.

Chuck Shute : 2:55

Yeah. Well, that's cool. You've you've traveled definitely more than me. I've only been to Mexico. Going Canada so I got some work to do. I'd love to go to Ireland. No, it looks amazing so green and everything.

Don Jamieson : 3:05

Yeah, like I said I started going just because I'm a thick Thin Lizzy fan and that's right. You know, I know I know a lot of the people in that camp

Chuck Shute : 3:15

Yeah. What's the band you told me about? I heard on that metal show. It's the kind of like the offspring of Thin Lizzy that's kind of like three or four of the members I forget the name of an hour. But I like them.

Don Jamieson : 3:29

Yeah Blackstar rider. Yes.

Chuck Shute : 3:30

Boxer rider. So good.

Don Jamieson : 3:32

Yeah, Scott Gorham from Thin Lizzy and I toured with them and in Ireland and Scotland, which was cool. But before that I was going over and and I got introduced to Phil line. Its mother Philomena, who who now is also passed but you know, I used to go over there and spend time with her and we will go to Phil's grave together and and you know, hang out while I was in town and and then I would do all the Thin Lizzy stuff like you I have a bunch of friends over there now and you know my buddy Jimmy coupe would take me to like where they shot all scenes for different videos and wow things like that and visit this Phil statue of course so

Chuck Shute : 4:12

there's the statue to me that's awesome.

Don Jamieson : 4:14

statue and in Dublin Yeah.

Chuck Shute : 4:17

Oh wow you are diehard fan. That's awesome. Is there stuff on the grave too? Cuz like when you go to Cobain's old house, there's like a park bench. And there's all this like random like items like cigarettes and cans of tuna and just random notes and things.

Don Jamieson : 4:31

Yeah, see ya. Oh, well. People mainly leave flowers. And it feels great.

Chuck Shute : 4:36

Well, that's a no no,

Don Jamieson : 4:37

no, no cigarette butts. Okay,

Chuck Shute : 4:39

that's good. So yeah, your three passions, music, comedy and sports. Your first albums that really inspired you were George Carlin and kiss. And then you end up playing in some bands in high school. Right. But you You gave up on that because you didn't want to lug around equipment. Was that one of the reasons and also you just saw the odds and you're like, Ooh, it's gonna be tough to make it.

Don Jamieson : 4:59

Yeah. Well, I wanted to go to college. You know, I really actually liked school. So, you know, while the my friends in the bands I was with him in high school decided to pursue becoming a rock star. I said, You know, I got to put that off, I want to go to college, get it, you know, getting an education, I know what the odds are of making in a band. So let me do that. And then I can always get back into it. But you know, but by the time I went to college, and I kind of got away from playing in bands, I kind of lost interest in in just playing music in general. And, and then when I got out, I was sort of like, Alright, yeah, you know, I was into comedy, so I thought, you know, maybe I'll give that a shot. someday. But yeah, I always say it's like, I don't have to carry equipment. I don't have to split the money four or five ways right? You know, I just put my dirty jokes in my pocket and I go there you go. Yeah,

Chuck Shute : 5:54

well, and also I did like this I heard you say your favorite advice is just jump and the net will appear. Everything worked itself out. So you did kind of take a jump. So and somehow Tell me how you got this job. You were a comedy writer on MTV. And you booked comics and you wrote jokes for the shows, like, how did you get that job? That's got to be a very coveted job, especially when MTV was actually like playing music and stuff.

Don Jamieson : 6:17

Yeah, um, I, you know, I was I was coming out of college, and I had, like, I had hair literally down to my nipples. And I was like, Well, I don't own a suit. You know, I'm not a nine to five guy, obviously. I have hair, you know, way past, you know, the length, you know, and now, you know, we're talking, you know, 30 years ago, so I was like, Well, my options here are gonna be pretty limited. And I met this woman at MTV. At a at a radio convention because I was doing college radio and, and she liked me so she said, You know, when you graduate, you know, come on in and, and see if we can find you something and they gave me like a six week Like a freelance job and two days into it to my boss said go down to human resources and find out how you get hired full time. And I stayed I stayed at MTV for like a decade.

Chuck Shute : 7:12

Wow, that's a that's a really that's a long time to say MTV usually they get rid of people after like a lot of the vj is only last two or three years and they're too old. Right except boy, Kurt. What's this guy's name? Kurt. Kurt. What's his personal odor?

Don Jamieson : 7:24

curlers outlasted everybody? Yes, he's still

Chuck Shute : 7:30

on the air. But yeah, so then you decide you're booking all these comedians and writing jokes and you're like, Well, I think I want to do comedy. So that's when you started doing comedy yourself. That was that? Was that tough getting breaking into that? I mean, did you bomb a few times ever? It seems like every comedians got a few stories where they bombed. I still do.

Don Jamieson : 7:51

That's fine. You know, got Yeah, you got to have a big ego to do this. But comedy is there's always an audience waiting to knock you down a few pegs, right? But, you know, hopefully the longer you do it, the lesson happens but no, you know what it was was really important to me Chuck was was I had made so many connections working at MTV behind the scenes that I could have called in a million favors, Hey, can I come work your comedy club and I can I can work this club and give me good spots and all that but I knew that wasn't the right way to do it. I had to do it like everybody else did it from from scratch, like, pretending I had zero contacts. And when I finally left MTV, and this is where you know, jumping in that will appear so important. I in my head. I said how much money do I have to have to leave this job and just become a comedian. And I had this number in my head and that money was all gone within six months. Like I thought that I thought this much money will last me year. Career was gone. It was gone. So Quickly, but had I had I had I had any knowledge of what I really would have had to have saved, I probably would have never done it, I would have been like, there's no way I can't do it. I got to save $100,000 or whatever, before I could become a comedian. So thank God, I didn't know anything. It was just better to jump in, start doing it. And you know, at the end of the day, it all worked out. And, you know, I had to really bust my ass because like I said, the money ran out quick. And if I wanted to pay my rent, I had to take this shit. Seriously.

Chuck Shute : 9:31

Yeah. So how long did it take for you to get to be a paid comedian?

Don Jamieson : 9:36

I mean, to really start making a couple bucks at it was like took about four years. Did you have to

Chuck Shute : 9:42

do some other jobs in that in that during that time? Because you ran out of money in six months? So

Don Jamieson : 9:48

yeah, well, I'd say yeah. So I run out of that fund. I still had some other savings and then I was still doing some freelance stuff for TV. Okay, um, but you know, I I was out late every night doing doing comedy sets whenever I could. I mean, I used to go up at the comedy cellar at like 1:50am after seven the comedian before me,

Chuck Shute : 10:12

is a pretty him till that point. But is it pretty empty at that point? Usually or?

Don Jamieson : 10:18

Yeah, that, you know, it's just the last, you know, 10 people who are too, you know, stubborn to go home. And I would you know, and I and I actually, you know, I had some decent sets down there, you know, considering my you know, material was not that great. But, you know, when you start out you have this like this very youthful energy and that, that that's what kind of gets you going. But yeah, I would say to anybody, like, it's a good seven years before you can start to make a living doing it.

Chuck Shute : 10:48

Wow. And so you In the meantime, if this was before you made it in comedy, or after you were doing comedy, but you did you did some joke writing not just from TV, but did I hear jon stewart More and then Lisa lampanelli you wrote jokes for her.

Don Jamieson : 11:04

Yeah, I wrote a lot of jokes for Lisa. You know, she when she was the queen of the roasts? Yeah, she did a roast on and I knew Lisa, you know from the comedy scene we were friends, okay. And I knew she was doing a roast on the Howard Stern Show. I had done a couple. And then I started writing, anticipating I was going to do the next one. I wasn't I wasn't on that one. But she she got booked. So I just emailed and I said, Hey, here's the jokes I wrote, you know, that I was going to use if I was on this roast. I don't want any money for him. You can just have them. Wow. And she brought me back like, you know, half hour later and was like, not only am I paying you for these jokes, you know, you're now officially You know, one of my writers for the rose. So she loved Wow. And I did that for with her for about 10 years, you know, until she left and you know she's not even doing comedy anymore. She kind of retired. But great writing for her because she was brutal. And you know, you could just write whatever you wanted. Can you remember one of

Chuck Shute : 12:08

those jokes that like, was there any ones that stand out that you're like, Oh, I love this one. I'm glad I don't have to say it or

Don Jamieson : 12:15

I don't think I can say any of this. I'm gonna be illegal these days. Yeah. The, the roast that I had the most fun writing for? Was the Gene Simmons rows. Because, yeah, so I mean, you know, normally I'd write you know, about maybe like five pages of stuff for her, you know, and she and she, you know, I don't want to say it was all mine because she wrote the majority of the stuff but I contributed as well with Jean. I probably wrote about 25 pages because wow, you know, it was crazy. But yeah, I wrote stuff like you know, you know, kiss, you know, kiss sells, kiss sells everything. You know, they'll they'll sell you their toothbrush. Make your teeth wider than their fan base. Yeah.

Chuck Shute : 13:04

Yeah Craig Gass does a lot of good stuff on kiss as well. Like he does the impersonation Gene Simmons and and posti. Amazing. Yeah, it's great. So, so then you got to open up for Andrew Dice Clay, which is a kid in the 80s. Like, my parents would not let me listen to those. But you know, you go to your friend's house and they'd have the album, you're like, Oh, well, he said, you know, fuck and shit. Like, you know, it was so exciting. You're a little kid, but that must have been pretty cool to open up for him. I mean, he's a seasoned pro, and he's putting you in front of these big audiences every night and you said he was the most one of the most generous people you've ever met?

Don Jamieson : 13:37

Yeah, well, you know, that's, it's amazing. Like I said, Man, when you don't put too much, obviously, you gotta you have to think things through like you do on your podcast. You have to think through the process, and what you kind of want to do with it and everything but you never know where this stuff's gonna take you so again, for me like not thinking too much about this has led to the greatest stuff. In my life, you know, having gone on the Howard Stern radio show the greatest radio personality ever and sitting there and making Howard laughs You know, being asked to do the Orion says Metallica's Orion says perform comedy there and having James Hetfield shake my hand and say hey, you know now we know comedy works at our festival and then and then the ultimate is yeah man you know dice was my comedy idol and to finally one day meet him and get to know him and then eventually go out on the road of them and him become one of my closest friends. It's been incredible man and yeah, he he gave me the girl these great opportunities to go out in front of these crazy fans. And it was like, it's the best comedy education you could ever get. Because if you go win over dice crowd, you can win over any crowd.

Chuck Shute : 14:52

Yeah, is he still pretty dirty like he's told us I haven't seen him. Do stand up live lately. I've never seen him live. I'd love to see him live. Does he do some of the old material and stuff?

Don Jamieson : 15:02

He'll do like the poems at the end? Yeah.

Chuck Shute : 15:04

Okay,

Don Jamieson : 15:05

that's cool. But he always has tons of new stuff because, like he realized at one point, like, you know, I'm gonna put dice in the modern age because the modern age now is so absurd with all the political correctness. Yeah, you can't you can't say this, you can't do that. So he puts, you know, dice in those situations. And it's even funnier, because, you know, he had his feelings, he's still dice, he's dirty, he's still filthy, but it's almost like, he doesn't understand. Like, why everybody's in such an uproar, you know,

Chuck Shute : 15:39

but is that kind of a character that he's created? He'd like that, like, behind the scenes too. Or? Well,

Don Jamieson : 15:46

you know, I think it's, yeah, it's definitely a character okay. Within a character like even if you're an actor and you take a role that's totally not you. There's still some of you in it right? Right.

Chuck Shute : 15:57

Because you say your comedy is exaggerated version of yourself. I'm assuming that's most comedians like howard stern. That's an exaggerated version of, or he says, I actually Howard says, This is who I really am on the radio, and then I go home and I have to censor myself. So,

Don Jamieson : 16:11

yeah, kind of Yeah. So, yeah, the performers, that's usually an exaggerated version of what they are in their real life, you know, so, so yeah, but yeah, but but underneath, you know, the tough Brooklyn guy with the cigarette is a real, you know, giving guy wants to give young comedians a chance and opportunities and stuff like that. And he's done that for a lot of people. I mean, Sebastian Maniscalco open forum for a few years and now Sebastian, you know, goes and sells out arenas and places so

Chuck Shute : 16:43

he's great. Yeah, one dice just had that he had a role in that as a star is born. That was a big movie. Is he still doing is he doing acting too?

Don Jamieson : 16:51

Yeah, he's been doing a lot of it. You know, I was with him when when he got the role in the woody allen film Blue Jasmine and that kind of steamed From there he did you know season of entourage and then he did vinyl on HBO and Martin Scorsese star is born so yeah he's definitely been doing a lot more acting and he's good

Chuck Shute : 17:11

yeah no he definitely is. So um you know you talk about like comedy and metal being mixed. There's a few people that have done it like Sam Kinison and I obviously Andrew Dice Clay we just talked about open up for Guns and Roses Jim brewers doing stuff Brian hussin Craig Gass, do you find it stressful? Like when you actually have to open for a metal band doing stand up? Like does this ever not go over? Well, I would think that would be hard.

Don Jamieson : 17:35

Yeah, it's tough. But um, you know, I have a little you know, recognition with the rock crowd from doing that. So, it's not that weird to people when they see me because they know who I am. So it's like, Okay, and then I you know, I tailor all the material to the audience. You know, it's all material about bands and music and music. and stuff. So it's not like I'm just going up there. And I'm talking about, you know, my life. It's like I come out I'm talking about Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper Motorhead, Ozzy Twisted Sister all that, you know, and, you know, people I look at is like, you know, if I go on tour with the band for a month, and I have a couple of bad shows, that's just like any opening band would have. Yeah, you know, so, you know, I found the response actually, to be, you know, really good for the most part. And yes, it's scary. Yes, it's nerve wracking. But it's really been a lot of fun. I've got to do some killer tours. So

Chuck Shute : 18:37

do they set it up? Well see that's that's kind of what I've heard from comedians is that there's certain places that just aren't set up to do comedy like the lights will be on and people will be standing up and their backs are turned and is it ever that kind of thing because some of those music venues I assume there's like plate people standing and that's not really you're not really used to people standing for stand up comedy. Right. They're usually sitting at a table with a drink. And,

Don Jamieson : 19:01

yeah, well, I mean, I kind of have it down to a science man really, you know, I do a 25 minute, you know, direct support set right before the headliner. So it's just one of those things where, like, I come out all guns blazing, Bing, bang, boom, I hit him hard, you know. And by the time you know, they realize they're not into it, or that they love it. It's like, Okay, are you ready for you know? Boom, and it's like, next thing you know, it's over.

Chuck Shute : 19:30

That's awesome. Well, I have to definitely see I know you open up for faster pussycat a couple years ago. You don't remember a few bands?

Don Jamieson : 19:37

Yeah, yeah, faster. I've done a few times. And I did a great tour the band Papi evil. Zach Sabbath, Nashville, pussy. So it's been fun. And they're, you know, they're all cool people. It's great. I love traveling on the bus with the band. You get that brotherhood of being in a band, but you don't have any of the drama of actually being in the band right now. It's perfect. It's just me. I'm like, Hey, I'm out of this. Yeah, I don't know who had a bit of a bad note last night I, you know,

Chuck Shute : 20:06

you hear a lot of that drama on the tour bus?

Don Jamieson : 20:10

There's, you know, when there's, you know, when there's a, you know, a dozen people on a bus, you know, for a month straight, it tends to sometimes be a little friction, but now for the most part, it's, it's just, you know, it's pranks, it's jokes. It's, you know, watching TV listening to music, you know, it's a good time. But yeah, look, all bands have drama. You know, even if fans all love each other, there's still going to be that friction of like, wow, this song should go this way. You didn't do this at this point in the shit you know? You know, that's again, that's why stand ups great for me. It's, you know, if I bomb It's on me. Yeah, great. It's me.

Chuck Shute : 20:49

True. Yeah, well, speaking of comedy and music. You had the guys from Steel Panther on your show, which is really cool. I have seen that band more times than I can count like my girlfriend...every time like we go to Vegas like we got to see still Panther ...she's like, really? Again? But every time I see him it's like a different show. I don't know, I'm sure you've seen them live.... Are you a big fan of theirs? Because I think they put on an amazing show.....I like their music. I like their covers and I love the in between comedy shit they do.

Don Jamieson : 21:18

Yeah, they're hysterical. I've been seeing them for probably 25 years back when they were Metal School. So yeah, so I got a long history of being a fan of theirs. And then obviously getting to know them over the years when we used to film That Metal Show and in LA, they played every Monday night at the House of Blues on Sunset, and I went every Monday night when we were out there to see those guys and, and hang out with them and stuff and they just blew up into this huge thing. And I'm sure they're that there's enough of my lip prints on their ass, trying to kiss their ass to take me on tour with them...

Chuck Shute : 22:00

I was just gonna say I would that would be an amazing show is you and Steel Panther... That would be perfect. I feel like that's a perfect mix.

Don Jamieson : 22:07

Yeah, they're very well aware that I want to tour with them.

Chuck Shute : 22:11

Okay..

Don Jamieson : 22:11

We tried to make it work a couple times. And it just didn't go down for whatever reason, but hopefully, when we can all get back out and tour again.

Chuck Shute : 22:21

Yeah, maybe add Craig Gass to the three of us. That would be amazing show to definitely go see that. So yeah, let's talk about that metal show. Obviously, that's probably what you're most well known for. You did 14 seasons. Can you explain like how that thing came together? Like because there are so many metal podcasts and radio shows right now. I mean, there must have been a ton of competition to get that job. I can't picture anyone else doing it except you three. But were there other people in contention for that gig that you guys beat out?

Don Jamieson : 22:52

No, I mean, it was our idea. We pitched it to the network. So yeah, the thing that nobody sees is like, sort of how you got to where you are.

Chuck Shute : 23:05

Yeah..

Don Jamieson : 23:06

And especially with Jim and I, we had done so many TV pilots and taken so many meetings with different networks, and none of it went anywhere, I did, like 10 failed pilots before That Metal Show happened, but nobody knows that because it never aired on TV. It's like the industry's way of saying, we'll pay you to stay off television, basically. So when we when we got to the VH-1 meeting, Jim and I just acted like goofballs, like we wore camouflage shorts and concert shirts. We were busting Eddie's balls throughout the whole meeting making him all uncomfortable like, "Oh my god, these guys are gonna ruin it for me!" But we didn't care. We're like, let the VH1 buy us lunch. Nothing's gonna come of this just like everything else so who cares? But that ended up being what they liked about the three of us, which was.... they were like, "Hey listen, you guys are the experts with the Hard Rock and the metal. We don't know that world as much. We just love the chemistry between you guys. So let's shoot a pilot and see where it goes."So wait. Yeah, sometimes when you do everything wrong the right thing happens.

Chuck Shute : 24:16

That's hilarious. So how did you guys know Eddie trunk just from the radio station or from MTV or both? or?

Don Jamieson : 24:22

Yeah, just from the radio, we would Jim and I would drive home from stand up gigs and, and we listen to Eddie show and and then we met him backstage at an oz fest started, you know, becoming friends guesting on his radio show. And those worlds started to collide. And eventually Eddie was doing some hosting on the h1 Classic and he's like, he goes there looking for programming want, you know, let's come up with an idea and go in there.

Chuck Shute : 24:48

That's awesome. So some of your favorite moments. You had Lemmy from Motorhead four times Alice Cooper, Brian Johnson from AC DC. Tell me about Marilyn Manson, that he got kind of drunk on absent Like he did the same thing on Talking Dead which was like the the show that were you talking about the walking dead? I think he did the exact same thing but he was making like aids and rape jokes and you guys had to somehow edit that out of the show. Yeah.

Don Jamieson : 25:15

I wish I hope that that our editor, one like some kind of me or a job that he did on that show, because he actually made it arable. The funniest thing I remember from from that taping was so Manson had he I think he was drinking his own absence. He's got his own absence. Yeah, Manson. And he was just drinking it right out of the bottle. So at one point, I guess he decided that they told him you can't have the bottle like on the set while we're taping, so he asked like one of the ppas for Could you get me? Can you get me a cup for this? She comes back out with a styrofoam cup like from the water cooler. He pours the absinthe in and the whole glass Just disintegrates. Those styrofoam cup just

Chuck Shute : 26:06

looks like a nice experiment. Yeah, that's crazy. Wow. And then you wanted to have you guys didn't get Ozzy on and you didn't get Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. So what is this feud with Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons? Because Is it because Edie said that they shouldn't have had replacement people and kiss? Is that what that whole thing is about? Paul Stanley called you guys Wayne's World? What?

Don Jamieson : 26:29

Yeah. Well, that Well, listen, we we, we had a lot of fun with with especially Paul on the show.

Chuck Shute : 26:36

Like you made fun of him, even though he wasn't there.

Don Jamieson : 26:40

Well, we took some, we took some lighthearted jabs at him. And so when he when he called us Wayne's World back, you know, I thought that was funny. Yeah. Good line. I mean, we really are kind of, yeah, I mean, we wish we were Wayne's World. We made a lot more money, but But yeah, no, you know, Eddie, Eddie had a long career, obviously, before we did the TV show on the radio. And so, you know, over the years, you know, he's had some little skirmishes with with some different camps and unfortunately, because, you know, for a long time when I would get on Eddie's radio show, you know, Paul and Gene would talk to him all the time, and everything was good. So I don't know what the snag was. Same with Sharon and Ozzy. You know, I don't know what were the exact point was where they kind of went to war with one another, but yeah, unfortunately, we couldn't have a man but, you know, I know Florentine had seen Ozzy backstage. When Sabbath came back, and Ozzy was a huge fan of the show. I mean, he was like, really, he was telling Jim, I love doing you had geezer and this one on and he was, you know, he like he could talk about like, a lot of the shows that like he legitimately had seen them. So, you know, it sucks, but I'm glad. I'm happy that he watched.

Chuck Shute : 27:59

Yeah. And then you Guess I just saw that he talked about this the other day that you always almost had Jimmy Page on but he didn't want to do it because it said it was there was metal in the title of the show.

Don Jamieson : 28:09

Yeah, yeah, that was weird. But we got to meet Jimmy Page. So that was pretty cool.

Chuck Shute : 28:14

Is there anybody that you didn't get to meet that was on your list that you're like, oh, man, I really wanted to have this person on was that

Don Jamieson : 28:22

anybody from Van Halen? You know, that would have been great. Yeah.

Chuck Shute : 28:25

Why not? Van Halen.

Don Jamieson : 28:28

Did you know what man you know, Alex and Eddie really run that ship? very tightly. You know, they don't do tons of press, you know, like, most anytime, you know, they do press you'll see like Eddie Oh, you know, it'll be in a guitar player magazine or something like that. You know, they don't really do tons of stuff. And yeah, it just didn't work out. Timing wise. When we started doing the show. Obviously, Dave had just come back into the bands. So, um, you know, so Dave was sort of under the Van Halen umbrella. again. So again, everything's kind of very, you know, kept the end of the key things close to the vest. But Eddie, you know, Eddie had sent us some amplifiers and, and equipment for, you know, our platform where we used to have the guest musicians play so again, he was you know, he was a fan of the show, but as far as coming on it just never got there but but a lot of a lot of great players played through his his amps on our show, so that was cool.

Chuck Shute : 29:28

That's cool. Yeah, so like, when the three of you guys get together is it still kind of just like old times like you're doing the live dates now? I saw you got one coming up. Is it What's it like the three of you off carriers are pretty much just the same?

Don Jamieson : 29:42

Same exact thing. Yeah. It never ends. It's it's constant ballbusting. And talking about music, I mean, you know, we've been hanging out a lot, you know, since the weather broke here on the east coast and, and Eddie and I live down by the beach. Beach and Jim doesn't live too far. So he's been coming down. And we've just been sitting around and after a while I kind of go, I go guys young. And then we have like, you know, like Mark tornillo from except came over the other night and we were all hanging in and you know, PJ and Steve from trickster came over one night. And when I go, you realize we're still doing the show. Not getting paid and there's no this is literally still we're still doing the show.

Chuck Shute : 30:29

So why not just throw some cameras up there? Why not get like a Kickstarter thing or GoFundMe and have people you know, contribute to the budget and get some advertising? I'm sure you get some people to sponsor the show.

Don Jamieson : 30:42

Yeah, well, we have to. We did a we did a spontaneous that metal show. We had Eddie's 12 year old son filming. We put it up on Eddie's Facebook page. So we did that. And then like I said, Would you said we're doing the live show. in Lakewood, New Jersey. On On September 18, so you know, for people who want to come out, the stadium tour was canceled, but people could come to the blueclaws Stadium in New Jersey and see us so we were now the stadium tour.

Chuck Shute : 31:14

Okay, yeah, I bet I could get a pretty cheap flight to New York or New Jersey, right. I remember when the pandemic hit, I was looking at flight prices. I was like, Oh my god, like flights to New York were like round trip. I think less than $100 it was insane from Arizona. I'm in Arizona.

Don Jamieson : 31:29

Okay. Yeah,

Chuck Shute : 31:31

it's crazy, but it seems like things are maybe coming back now. A little bit.

Don Jamieson : 31:35

Yeah, things are things are loosening up, you know, which is good because we're about to go get back into the, the cooler weather here. So yeah, man, it's, uh, it. I'm starting to book some more stand up gigs, like outdoor gigs and stuff like that. So it's starting. It's starting to feel normal again. That's cool. One of the things a long way to go. Yeah,

Chuck Shute : 31:58

one of the things you did on that metal show I'd love to set the end you guys would always throw out names of stuff that you were listening to because it's so hard to find new music I mean there's new music coming out all the time but to try to like figure out what's good you have to sift through all the stuff and it was cool to hear your guys's that's I think that's how I heard Black Star riders and a bunch of other stuff. I heard you mentioned the band. Dorothy, I haven't checked them out. Is there other newer bands that you've been listening to that you want to throw out names of?

Don Jamieson : 32:26

Yeah, well, I mean, you know the the female the female aspect of hard rock has really been amazing in the last like 678 years. Dorothy Lizzy Hale Taylor Momsen and a pretty reckless orianthi. He's got a new album coming out. So there's been so much strong stuff coming that way. This there's a whole wave of bands that are new and young, with tons of energy. or doing like the 70s vibe like crowbar and greta van fleet and rival sons. And those bands are all great. And then you know and then I would throw I've gotten into death metal a lot over the last 10 years so I would you know, I would hold up six feet under an obituary and and bands like that on the show too. But you know, but the other guys aren't into that stuff but that was a good opportunity to kind of just show your personality yes um, and let people know like what you're into because I was never into death metal and and now it's like you know, they say you get more mellow with age but I I listen to more and more extreme stuff as I get older.

Chuck Shute : 33:40

That's crazy. You ever hear this band? The black moods are like our local beer but they're getting national attention now.

Don Jamieson : 33:45

Yeah, they're getting big too. And so and so and death metals got a really good scene. Now there's, you know, bands that are cotton, not necessarily crossing over into the mainstream but, but names that people know like mana Marth gait creeper is a band a lot of people know. So that's cool and then you know there's a whole slew of again I for lack of a better term maybe they'd be considered like all metal Oh, you know like fever 333 alien weaponry bands like that there's a whole threat young thrash scene coming up like Power Trip who unfortunately lost their lead singer. But But Derrick killer band so you know what comes around what goes around comes around in hard rock and metal all the time. That's why there's so many ebbs and flows. And 2020 really was gearing up to be such a great year for all those reasons, you know, that I just mentioned. But hopefully hopefully we can just take that and then also the reunions right Rage Against machine Motley Crue My Chemical Romance. Yeah, you know, all those bands. Hopefully we could just take all that Goodness and put it over into 2021.

Chuck Shute : 35:03

Yeah, well, I think a lot of those shows are getting rescheduled for 2021. Hopefully they do happen. You You do get to do a lot of those, like, secret show, like when I saw you talking about one of your favorite concert shirts, which is Charlotte Hornets, which is a pseudonym for Iron Maiden and I guess they would use that when they do these like small little secret shows to kind of warm up for their big arena tours. Do you get to go to a lot of those like little show little secret shows?

Don Jamieson : 35:28

Yeah, well, surely the harlots was you know, that I was. Yeah, I was in college, I think, you know, so that was just one I had to try to buy a ticket and and get there you know, you know, and that was just one of the greatest shows ever see to see Iron Maiden, you know, on the on the win number, the beast, you know, I really blown up and to see them in a club with like, 400 people was Yeah, it was pretty incredible. And yeah, I mean, I guess I've seen some, I've seen some warm up shows and you know, obviously They have been able to, you know, be backstage, a lot of shows and kind of see the inner workings of how things happen. The one thing I've but I've never lost though, over the years is that feeling that I had when I did go see like Iron Maiden play s'mores in that tiny club. It's like, I'm just still always fascinated and excited as a fan. And I and I hope I never lose that man.

Chuck Shute : 36:28

No, that's it. Yeah, I know. That's me. I sometimes feel like a kid talking to a lot of these bands. I'm like, Oh, this is so weird. Like, this is a band that I looked up to. And I was a kid now I'm talking to them one on one. It's very bizarre. Like you feel that way too. Sometimes when interviewing some of these guys.

Don Jamieson : 36:43

Yeah, I was. I was. I was never starstruck person. But, but yeah, I was always aware that holy crap, I'm sitting next to Bill Ward right now. You know, then Sam never escaped me.

Chuck Shute : 36:59

Yeah, so Besides doing the music stuff you also do like we talked about sports is another one of your passions. And you I didn't know this you were a writer for inside the NFL, which was a big show on HBO. I think that's probably why I never watched it cuz I can't afford HBO but you won an Emmy for that, right?

Don Jamieson : 37:16

I didn't have HBO at the time either. So don't feel bad. I can't afford it either

Unknown Speaker : 37:22

option for working there.

Don Jamieson : 37:25

No, I we had Jim and I used to go down to the studio on Mondays in New York and, and watch the taping. Because we didn't have HBO. So the floor Yeah, but we also want to see people's reactions to our comedy segments that we did. And yeah, it was really cool man. You know, Jim and I wrote and performed in all these comedy sketches and and, you know, sports themed kind of things, and people could find those on the internet and they're inside the NFL with our names, but that was really a lot of fun. And and work with like Dan Marino and Bob Costas was just so much fun. Those guys have such a great sense of humor and, and and we won an Emmy, which was, which was incredible. I, I should like I said I should I should probably give my Emmy to the guy who edited the Marilyn Manson.

Chuck Shute : 38:17

Oh, man, is there is there somewhere a copy of the unedited version of that?

Don Jamieson : 38:22

I would love I guess, yeah, probably exists somewhere.

Chuck Shute : 38:25

Yeah, that would be fun to watch. Then again, he's probably he probably does that all over the place now, right. I mean, that kind of he just goes in and does this on every show doesn't he

Don Jamieson : 38:36

is one of the last rock stars. You know, it's like, you know, he's, he's famous. And he's infamous. You know, he likes playing the villain. We don't have a lot of rock stars anymore. You know, I talk about all the time. I mean, we have fun with Phil Collen from Def Leppard on our show. We were like, "Man back in the old days when you guys used to have the stage with the room down in the middle of the stage and during the drum solo you guys would all go down there and like get blowjobs now you go now you still have that same room underneath the stage but now you have like juicers and like ellipticals and stuff down there. Yeah you know times are different now.

Chuck Shute : 39:18

Well, Phil Collen, man he What is his secret cuz he's like ripped and he's old? He's older than me but he looks like in way better shape. I mean, I guess the juicers working or something?

Don Jamieson : 39:28

Yeah, well, look I'm glad that a lot of these bands obviously have gotten over that part of their rock star existence because they're still here, and the only guy who's able to really live the rock star lifestyle and still live a pretty long life was Lemmy. I mean if Lemmy ever drank something from a juicer It would probably would have killed him.

Chuck Shute : 39:56

Yeah, what is your take on that because so many these guys I interview... they're sober now. It's almost like a cliche. Like, I'm like, okay, so yeah, then you partied too hard and then you had to clean up and now you're sober. You're still drinking I think, right? You're not sober. Do you have to kind of slow it down as you get older? Because you don't want to die too young. But I mean, there's got to be some sort of balance, right?

Don Jamieson : 40:23

Yeah, well, dude, the old phrase party like a rock star. I've never... maybe when I was in my early 20s, I pretended to party like a rock star. But, being on a bus with these guys, you see, like, how much downtime there is, and you can you really can see where the pitfalls happen. And you could see where people would wander off and, you get into town, you have nine or 10 hours to kill before the gig. Let's go get a few drinks and then that ends up... then you're drinking after the show and all until it's too late and but nowadays, it's not like that as much anymore because yeah you get older man you have to figure a way to you want to put on a great show.... I don't I very rarely overdo it anymore but when I do I'm gonna pay for this tomorrow... Tomorrow I'll be wiped out I won't be able to do anything. And so these guys are being sober now for all this time. I love it because look, I mean, you got guys like Alice Cooper sober 30 years still putting out great albums. I toured with Zakk Wylde last summer.... Zach's got 10 years under his belt. He's doing great man. He's playing better than he ever was Ace Frehely, sober over 10 years still making great music. Did I mention how for Rob Alford sober 30 years... Priest is putting out great music. So, at some point, you got to say, hey, do I want to die a cliche, or do I want to do this for a long, long time? The people who changed their life they're still going and luckily, I haven't had any addiction problems in my life. And but but like I said, now seeing how bands are when they tour where there's a lot of opportunity for trouble.... and luckily, I am old enough to be able to resist that.

Chuck Shute : 42:24

Okay. Wow. So do you guys ever does it you if you and Jim and Eddie ever get together? Do you guys ever get drunk together? I feel like that would be kind of funny to see. Eddie. Eddie seems always so calm and, and even keeled. I'd love to see him drunk. Does he ever get?

Don Jamieson : 42:38

Yeah, yeah, we Yeah, we've had some We've had a few nights together. Yeah. But we've been Yeah, we've been having some beers and stuff over the summer. Like I said, getting together and, and just, you know, popping, you know, throwing back some beers, you know, throwing some, some food on the grill and hanging out and yeah, once in a while we let loose. Yeah. I'll tell you Eddie, Eddie's role on the show was always the straight man. But yeah, he actually has a really great sense of humor. And when he does let loose people go on the Monsters of Rock cruise. Have seen Eddie because it's a tradition that he gets drunk with faster pussycat at the midnight show on the Monsters of Rock cruise, and he's the one that comes out with a bottle of jack and everybody chugs down the bottle of jack right that's usually when you can find find Eddie in a very happy mood

Chuck Shute : 43:31

Yeah, but the singer fesi faster pussycat sober now to a year I think he's got a year under his belt. He's got three years or three years was it Yeah, I just saw hidden so say like, I'm sober. I was like, Oh, wow. Cuz that was that was one of those guys who said like, I'm not down with the juicers and all that stuff. And so but then it must have caught up with them. So

Don Jamieson : 43:51

yeah, did you know he had a really bad health scare I toward a faster pussycat. Right Amy was drinking and doing drugs and then When he was sober, and it's a it was a totally different experience. I had a great time both time. Hmm. But he was he's just in such a good place, man. I'm really happy for the guy. And Dude, I mean singing better than ever. Yeah, he sounds like he sounds like the records from the 80s singing really

Chuck Shute : 44:19

good. That's awesome. I want to say I never thought some another band. I haven't seen live yet. I want to see them for sure. Did you tell me about this? I couldn't find any clips. You hosted a show called beer money. What was that? Was that like an online show? Or was it How would I how do people watch that?

Don Jamieson : 44:34

Oh, yeah, it was it's on the the sports channel here in New York. Okay. It was like sports trivia show. On the on the channel. The Mets have here called sny the New York Mets. Yeah, it was funny. I used to watch it. You know, you know, it's like, you know, I was like this The Alex Trebek of sports. You know, like I I asked trivia questions to these sports fans and you know had all the answers. So, like, No,

Chuck Shute : 45:04

of course not. Yeah.

Don Jamieson : 45:05

So easy when you have the answers.

Chuck Shute : 45:07

So are you a Mets fan or the Yankees?

Don Jamieson : 45:10

Yeah, I'm a Mets fan. So when they, when they called me in for the meeting, to see if I'd be interested in hosting it, I say I am but you know, like, I'm a comic. I like to bust balls. So if I make fun of the mat, is that gonna, you know, be okay. And they were like, do whatever you want. So they let me go out and go crazy and, and it was really a lot of fun. I did two seasons of that. And I had a good time. They treated me well, and they gave me a lot of free tickets to baseball games.

Chuck Shute : 45:42

Oh, that's cool. And what about football? Are you giants or jets? jets jets, okay? Because Eddie's giants, right? Yeah.

Don Jamieson : 45:51

Yes, he is. That's That's it. That's an experience everybody should have at one point in their life watching a giant game with that. He

Chuck Shute : 45:57

really is. He is a he diehard fan about music is he sports? Yes he is. That's awesome so he gets really emotional with it and that's got to be hard these last few they damn in good in a while.

Don Jamieson : 46:12

Yeah it's been it's been tough on my man But look, I'm a Jets fan so I have no sympathy for him.

Chuck Shute : 46:18

It's been tough for the jets to write

Don Jamieson : 46:21

oh yeah me forever

Chuck Shute : 46:22

Sam darnold and yeah, we'll see maybe this is the year maybe this is the year football starting. You also tell me about this the these I'm trying to remember which ones were you you guys you guys had this telemarketer prank thing that they had they played on howard stern. It's like and there was a there were CDs. teller terrorizing. telemarketers.

Don Jamieson : 46:43

Yeah, me and me and Jim Florentine. But we have six CDs of us torturing telemarketers and yeah, they're out there for sale on, you know Apple Music and all that stuff. iTunes and yeah, that was just something Jim and I were just like, we would just mess with telemarketers to tell the truth. Other funny stories when we went on the road together, and then the light bulb finally goes on. And we're like, Hey, we should start recording some of these. So those are a lot of fun because everybody hates telemarketers, where are you at? Like they're just they're just such a nuisance. And with everybody on the Do Not Call list, you know, we were like you were on the please call list. You know, we got an album to make.

Chuck Shute : 47:24

How do you get the rights? To record those? You have to ask the people afterwards or how does that work? I always wondered that.

Don Jamieson : 47:31

Yeah, you just give them time to cool off and then you know, you call them back and go out. We were just kidding around and you know, nine times out of 10 they're like all right, no problem.

Chuck Shute : 47:39

Do they get paid for that at all? They just have to give you an okay. Okay. That's funny. Well, yeah. And then you have your comedy albums. I love the titles of these like hell bent for laughter instead of hell bent for leather and denim and laughter, tribute to Saxons, denim and leather. And also you have this really cool who's doing the artwork spoofs that you have on your instance? gram, people should check these out because like you, they photoshopped you into like, all these famous album covers and stuff. That's awesome.

Don Jamieson : 48:07

Yeah, this guy Steve Torelli on Instagram does, he's a fan. And he just just started making them up and posting them on Instagram. And so I always, you know, you know, grab them and repost them and yeah, he does a great job with that. And then my buddy Lance Eric, who plays in bang Tango. He's done a few for me as well. So yeah, they're really they're really funny. Those those things. So I appreciate both those guys doing it because much like the telemarketers they're not getting any money either.

Chuck Shute : 48:44

Oh, shit. Well, they're getting their name out there. So that's cool. Awesome. Um, let's see what else so Oh, tell me the story. I heard you talking about you. One of the roasts Sebastian Bach threw a coffee at you. I couldn't tell if you're kidding or not.

Don Jamieson : 48:57

Yeah, that's on my album. dataman Laughter that's a whole story about it. Yeah.

Chuck Shute : 49:02

Okay. So listen, I want to listen to some of that. That's your newest one, right?

Don Jamieson : 49:06

Yeah, that's the newest one. Okay, so yeah, that that the whole Sebastian story is on there and yeah, we had we had a roast of Cory Taylor and he was on the day yes. And you know things got things got a little crazy as they will when you get a bunch of rockers in the room. So but yeah, it was it's a funny story, so people should check it.

Chuck Shute : 49:27

I was trying to listen to some of that this morning. And then there's a

Don Jamieson : 49:32

good arm and he he could have been a major league pitcher.

Chuck Shute : 49:35

Have you had a lot of run ins with him? I was I grew up when I was in high school at 14 that was actually the first album metal album though let's do a slave to the grind that got me into metal so I was a huge Sebastian Bach fan. We were Did you have a lot of run ins with him over the years? He never did that. I don't

Don Jamieson : 49:49

know. I don't know him that well. You know, I know snake and and Dave you know much better I see those guys a lot more but but yeah, I mean, obviously Sebastian did that metal show a couple of times and odd I went to see him this summer here in Jersey or last summer here in Jersey when he came through. Yeah, still, he still puts on a great show. Yeah.

Chuck Shute : 50:12

So when I was a kid, I don't know if you remember you must remember the 80s. Like there was like a lot of religious people trying to basically like cancel heavy metal for being too vulgar, satanic or whatever. It seems like now there's kind of like this. I don't know what you call like the wolf crowd trying to cancel people for being sexist, or, you know, racist or what? Like, do you have any fear of being canceled? Because some of your materials like you're kind of making fun of that, like, Are you worried about that at all? Because I talk to other comedians and like, I say, Are you worried about being canceled now? Like, yes.

Don Jamieson : 50:43

I'm, no, I'm not that worried about it. You know, is it my whole denim and laughter the whole theme of the album is, is political correctness woke ness and canceled culture. So that's the whole theme of the record. You know, and if you listen to the record from beginning to end, if you could If you can stand it, the ending makes, you know, the ending really drives home the point. So if you listen to it in its entirety, the ending will really make a lot more sense. And it kind of wraps everything up in a bow. But now, look, I got nothing to be canceled from so you know, what am I worried about? You know, right, you gotta you have to reach a certain height, you know, you mean you know, everybody wanted Louie ck to to be huge. And then the minute he was people wanted to take him down and that's, that's what happened. Sadly, you know, we're in such an attack mode. In this country. We're such tattletales on social media and stuff, but I think you know, what I try to do man is just make the jokes funny. And if you make the stuff not that I'm not that that Louie isn't funny. Louie Louie was more a product of just getting super huge, and the bigger you get, the more haters you get, but for someone at my level Which is much lower. To me. It's just like if the jokes are funny, it doesn't matter. You know what I mean? That right? That, that definitely he and if even if you don't appreciate the humor, you go well, okay. It's funny though. But, you know, it's not my style of humor, but it's funny. So that's the one thing people can't deny. If, if you're doing it in a room full of people, and nobody's getting offended, then, you know, it's, you know, if you have a certain sensitivity to something that's on you, that's not on me. I can't, I can't take a poll of everybody in the comedy club saying, What can I say? What can I say? Because I won't be able to say anything.

Chuck Shute : 52:40

Right. So you and I think part of it is just maybe knowing your brand, your brand is kind of more it's more vulgar. So people are gonna hopefully know what to expect. Especially if you open up for dice. I mean, that's that's kind of goes hand in hand. If you're going to a dice show expecting to be clean, I wouldn't think.

Don Jamieson : 52:56

Right? You really yeah, you really be that That would really be a shock to some people's systems. But yeah, I think my, you know, my crowd kind of knows what they're gonna get from me. And I think there's a way of writing and performing now where you can adapt to the times, but you can actually get another layer to your comedy where you can still going to get the laugh. And you're going to give the middle finger to the PC society at the same time. So, you know, you kind of kill two birds with one stone, which is nice.

Chuck Shute : 53:26

Yeah. Do you think the tides are changing with that some of that stuff because I felt like there was a while there was like, Well, you can't make fun of anything. And now I'm seeing more and more comedians make fun of this, like woke crowd and the PC culture like I don't know if you have you seen that guy, Ryan long. He's like a new comedian. He just I just heard out about heard about him, but he's from New York. And he had a couple videos go viral where it was kind of that thing where he's making fun of all the Have you heard of him?

Don Jamieson : 53:54

Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, you know, it is. Yeah. And that's, you know, I think the key is, like I said, Like, I don't want to be, you know, the old guy on Earth, you know, yell and get off my lawn, you know, you don't want to preach to an audience it has, you still have to present it in a humorous way. And, and it's good, it's good that there's pushback from people. You know, I just I don't want to be preached to if I'm in a comedy club, but you know, regardless of what my politics are, what my social stance is, if the comics funny, that's all it matters. I have a good friend of mine, who I performed with a ton of times, our politics are completely different 180 degrees, and that guy makes me laugh so freakin hard every time. He's just so good. And that's the point of it's like, doesn't matter if I feel the same way as you do. It's the same with dance. I love Rage Against the Machine. I don't even I don't care about what the lyrics say. I just love the songs. I love the energy. Yeah, that I love. And I do love that they're rebels I love you know, I love what they stand for. But I don't have to agree with the politics to enjoy the music and I'm not gonna let that get in the way just like Paul Stanley's saying, We're Wayne's World, because I'm not gonna go I'm not gonna listen to kiss, right?

Chuck Shute : 55:17

Yeah, no, I'm the same way unless somebody somebody does something like so over the top or I'm like, okay, I just killed like Bill Cosby like, I don't think I could ever see his stand up. I just can't separate those two things. I was like, too much. But yeah, the politics and stuff. I try to respect everyone's politics. Do you find it's harder to avoid politics now with comedy you say you kind of don't want to do politics because you're going to lose half the audience. But it seems like it's almost unavoidable right now with the election coming up. And it's just everywhere. Like it's almost....

Don Jamieson : 55:48

The difference is this. Well, first of all, I always do a small bit of political stuff on every album because you have to talk about the time that you're in Right, but I'm not bright enough to really take a side so I just whatever that five to eight minutes of political stuff, there's I just want it to be funny. Like I said, and I think that the difference that is this with politics being so divisive these days, is you don't want to preach to the audience and say, there's a big difference between saying, I'm gonna vote for Joe Biden. That's, I've made up my mind, I'm voting for Joe Biden and saying, anybody who votes for Donald Trump is a moron. You see, right one, one person is saying something, and and making their opinion known. Yeah. And and the other person is saying, half my audience is morons,

Chuck Shute : 56:43

right...,

Don Jamieson : 56:45

why would you do that?

Chuck Shute : 56:46

Yeah.

Don Jamieson : 56:47

Why would you ever divide your audience in half by insulting half of your crowd? It's fine. If you say, I like Trump, or I like Biden or whoever... But when you're insulting the people, and I see this going on with a lot of rockers these days, whose crowd is all over 40.... most of them conservatives and they're going off on Donald Trump. It's like, Who do you think your audience is? Your whole audience is voting for Trump,

Chuck Shute : 57:16

Right? Or vice versa? I mean, I yeah, I see it go both ways were, I think, was it Marq Torien from Bullet Boys. He was, liking or retweeting Trump on Twitter, and then people were going after him for liking Trump. I mean..... definitely especially with music... the only time I see it works is like if that's your thing, like if you're Mark Maron or one of those, guys who that's your political comedy if you're Jon Stewart, obviously, you're gonna make fun of conservatives.

Don Jamieson : 57:45

Oh, yeah, of course. And there's guys who are so great at it man. You know, Bill Maher as well. Yeah, he's good. And and it was funny. I did Dennis Miller's podcast, and which was amazing. But he, you know, he's like he's pushed away from all the politics and stuff. Because he's just like, he got He's like, I don't even want to get into it. It's just like, because it's so freakin divisive these days. And it's a shame because Dennis actually did it well, and that's what people expected of him. You know, the guys who do that? Well, you know, you want to hear their politics, right. Because their take Yeah, they're great at doing it like, you know, Louis black, same thing. And Dennis just was natural at it. But so when I did his podcast, we didn't talk politics at all. He's like, I only want to get into it.

Chuck Shute : 58:38

Huh, interesting. Well, thanks so much for doing the show. I always like to end with a charity. Do you Is there a charity that you work with or that you want to promote here?

Don Jamieson : 58:48

Sure, I'd love to promote ink against cancer. And they're there. They're a group of rock and rollers, who you know do great charity work for young cancer affected And, you know, they just, they just, they help a lot of these younger kids who have cancer who, unfortunately terminal sort of get like their last wishes. We just sent this young cancer warrior Maddy to the beach. She had never been to the beach in our life and we got her down to spend the day at the beach and a few weeks later she passed but you know, we were able to get that done. And so they do great work and they didn't know how to rock and roll so ink against cats.

Chuck Shute : 59:35

Okay, cool. Awesome. Well, you got a lot of stuff out there if people want to check it out on YouTube. I love the by the way. I love the video of you and Jim Florentine at the you're doing an interview for some local news show. And you basically prank the host. Was that a planned thing or did you make that up on the spot?

Don Jamieson : 59:53

Yeah, people should be we talked about it on the way over, you know, we've done like 10 interviews that day. Like we got to do something up. Doc Don Jamison, Jim Florentine prank. Yes. A KC news station

Chuck Shute : 1:00:11

Corrado. So we really escorted out afterwards were they pissed?

Don Jamieson : 1:00:16

Oh, yeah. The guy walked behind us and kept saying turn left here. Turn right here. There's the front door. Goodbye, Jesus.

Chuck Shute : 1:00:24

Wow, that's bad. Well, so there's that clip and there's some other stuff on YouTube. You've got a book called, you might be a metal head if that's kind of like Jeff Foxworthy thing. And you've got your, your show that Jamison show where you interview other rock stars and stuff I think he had Satriani on and the Steve brown from trickster and I think the latest one was the girl from Dixon. I think I saw a clip of that right?

Don Jamieson : 1:00:47

Yeah, I Jen Yeah, I've had I've had a ton of people on you know, Glenn Hughes, David Coverdale. Alice Cooper did the show. Dennis Miller came on. So yeah, it's sort of my little way of keeping that metal show alive. And in spirit and that's over at compound media.com. And I appreciate your time today. Good good angle yeah

Chuck Shute : 1:01:09

and your your stand up comedy albums so I was the one I was listening to this on, even on Spotify so people could check that out. Do you get them on Sirius so they play it your stuff on Sirius ever because I hear a lot of comedians make a lot of money off serious.

Don Jamieson : 1:01:21

Yeah, yeah. on Raw dog they play. You know they play a lot of my live stand up and then I forget there's another there's more of a family friendly channel that plays a lot of the terrorize. Yes telemarketers stuff. Oh come one of the comedy channels on there. But yeah, they all play this stuff. And so yeah, check it out and hope you dig it and most importantly, hope you laugh and yeah,

Chuck Shute : 1:01:46

okay, well, yeah, thanks. And they could check out your website for tour dates because you'll be hopefully touring again once everything opens back up.

Don Jamieson : 1:01:53

Starting to pick up jobs. Let's keep the curve down. Yes, let's get everybody back out on the road.

Chuck Shute : 1:02:00

All right, sounds good. Thank you so much, Don. I appreciate it. He will. Okay, bye. So that was such a great combo. You can see why they had him on that metal show. And that show lasted 14 seasons. Because the guy not only knows his music, but he's also hilarious. Oh really look forward to seen him in person do stand up once live shows are back, of course. But check out his website, followed on social media. He's on the platforms to keep up with what he's doing. And whatever you do, don't follow me on social media because, you know, you might be offended by some of the crazy show, I post that we wouldn't want that, would we? So, if you're bored, you can write a review of the show on iTunes and tell me how much I suck. Because I'm always excited to get that constructive criticism. But until next time, have a great day or night. Remember, shoot for the moon, or you know, it's kind of like Don said, if you jump, a net will appear. So it's good advice and work for him. Take care.