The Bob and Elvis Show – July 22, 2010

Wait, where did you see Rush?

Haha. Phew. I’m relieved now. My wife and I and two friends saw Rush at Mohegan Sun in CT on Monday, and we were drinking beer, spilling beer, and high-fiving each other. I was worried that we were the “row of douchebags”. BTW, standing at rock concerts is, in fact, mandatory. You wanna sit, go see the symphony.

Camden, NJ.If you read this blog, you can’t possibly be a douchebag. You’re safe, Toast.

If whatsisname’s balls were just a little bigger, he’d sound like me.

Jesus…Fuck me.DWARF humor?Look…I’m laughing….Little three-wheel WalMart Tom Cruise rollers?You are both fucking doomed.First class tickets on train with no stops.

I proved that toads hear through their legs.I put a toad on the table and shouted JUMP!The toad jumped.I cut the legs off the toad and put it back on the table.I shouted JUMP!The toad could not hear me.

There’s no kind way to say this.The Farm of Doom and Cat stories are fascinating…but a little more issue based content would be (not to put too fine a point on it) WHY I listen.There are important things happening.Intelligent left wing analysis is SO exceedingly rare, it pains me to hear the two of you talking about cat shit, Las Vegas, and even RUSH.No kind way…Gentlemen…you have a job to do. RUSH concert douchebags?If you’ve never seen more dope smoking at a concert, YOU HAVEN’T BEEN TO ENOUGH CONCERTS.

Points taken, Avi. But the show has never been all about politics. It’s our real lives — and politics. Today’s show was pretty evenly split 50/50.

Bob high-fived Limelight.BOB HIGH-FIVED LIMELIGHT!!!Bob wore jeans with “NEIL PEART” bedazzled onto the ass.”Speaking of douchebags”….Nice segue. RUSH to Shirley Sherod in a single breath.You fucking guys need a producer.

Bob…I only pick at the niggling details because I love.You feel me, boychick?Listen to the tone of voice coming outta Elvis. The MOMENT you mention Breitbart, he gets fucking PASSIONATE…and so do you…and that’s when you guys are at your absolute vicious best.

I enjoyed the show, as always, but do agree with Avi, the political analysis is you at your best.Just FYI….Dogs love cat poo because there is tons of protein in it….that’s why they eat it. Cats are very inefficient digesters…..hence the left over protein.The reason dogs roll in cat poo or anything dead and smelly harkens back to their wild days as wolves. Whenever dogs go out to hunt, if they smell like poo, they don’t smell like dogs and their prey can’t tell they’re coming. Although one would think the prey could smell a hundred pound bag of fur smelling like crap. Must be tons of crap laying around in the forest and jungle.

Hey Bob, have you read Sarah’s interview w/ Daily Caller? You & others like you-left wing media-are responsible for her ending her term as gov. BTW she was on a remote island. What happened to Sweet Teeth?

>>>>the political analysis is you at your best.Some episodes will be all politics, some episodes will have half-politics. Every episode will be spontaneous, unpredictable and from the heart — even if we offend middle-aged concert goers.

>>>Hey Bob, have you read Sarah’s interview w/ Daily Caller?Not yet. I’ll have to take a look.

Can I just say that it kills me that I have to wait to hear the show since it’s on while I’m at work? However, love the show and I LOVE the new sponsor. I can’t wait to put in my first order (and send soaps and things to the troops)!!!

Middle-aged concert goers?Dude…you live in America, ride a bike and follow the Tour de France. You’re in NO position to cast stones.AND you don’t see ME trading “high fives” with front row come-lately RUSH fans.Lame ass ganjaphobic.

Boy, I am having trouble with timelines–first, the Sherrod timeline and now the climbing of Sweet Teeth. Didn’t realize that she was supposedly on the face-cliff when US mag featured Bristol/Levi.

We’ll see who’s the RUSH fan around here!No goggling!Who is Peart’s favourite drummer?(Hint: It’s NOT Lance Armstong)

>>>Who is Peart’s favourite drummer?Gene Krupa. POW! No Googling, either.>>>>Dude…you live in America, ride a bike and follow the Tour de France. You’re in NO position to cast stones.Right, and I’m not shy underscoring my geek status. You know as well as anyone that ELDING and I rip on ourselves more than anything/anyone else. How many times did I call myself a nerd today? And I’ve proved that observation on the show numerous times (my dog’s name is SAMWISE, for crap sake).>>>Lame ass ganjaphobic.Ah-ha! I think we’ve gotten to the bottom of what set you off. Look, I’m not against pot. I just don’t smoke it. I’ve been to dozens of big concerts, and I’ve never seen more pot smoking than last night. It was like Lee Stranahan’s house during an HR Pufnstuf marathon.Adding… In many ways, the podcast is more of a real blog than this actual blog. It’s a journal of our lives, with political analysis mixed in. I think this makes our show unique and, hopefully, appealing.

Thanks, Pixie!Of course the only solution is to quit your job so you can listen to the show.

Also, Avi, maybe I wasn’t clear enough on the show. The shirtless douchebags in front of us were like clean-cut CEO types. Totally incongruous to the rest of the crowd.

Bobela…it’s APPEALING.I keep coming back, n’est pas?And you should have googled. Buddy Rich.I interviewed Neil in ’83 and that was the answer I got live and in person.And as far as pot goes (INHALE)…holding…….holding……….holding…..(EXHALE)I’m not even gonna list the concerts where no one high fived for fear of dropping the bong to lay to rest your up-tight, cyclist, “watch out for my fucking tomato plants!” notion that a 2010 RUSH concert on the EAST coast of America was anything even remotely close to over smoked…Are you out of your ever loving fuckin’ mind?Zappa. Little Feat.The Grateful Fucking Dead?Please, man. Stop before you hurt yourself.Taint soap notwithstanding, don’t mangle your credibility like that.

Altho…I TOTALLY sympathize (despite my graying chest hair) with the Audi driving douche quotient.If I had an Audi, I’d be far more pissed about it.Thankfully, I ride about on a piece of shit motorcycle that will probably get me killed one day./I’d damn well drive an Audi if I could afford one.//Motorcycles SUCK when it’s raining.

How did you manage to get a Peart interview? I’d love to read/hear it.

Used to work at a rock radio station in Halifax/Dartmouth – Q104.RUSH, of course, commonly kicked off and finished their world tours in Canada, but getting them out to Halifax (fishtown port of 300,000 souls) was never really in the cards.We ran a petition drive to guilt them into doing ALL of Canada and wound up dragging them out to Hali.Radio not all we have in common. My brother is also a drummer.And you’ll have gray fucking chest hair soon enough, coont.

As for reading / hearing…did I mention that was 1983?Lemme get my shoes off…25…26…good thing I got extra toes.

Wait. Might have been ’85.’84.Somewhere in there.85 I think.

Bob, you’re so right!!! Why wait to sync up the podcast and listen on my iPod when I can throw off the chains of corporate oppression and be free to really be in the front lines of imparted wisdom from Bob and Elvis???

My brother thinks he has a reel-to-reel somewhere with that interview on it. He’s gonna dig through some boxes and let me know. Will get back to you.Power Windows tour if memory serves.

First dibs on Pixie’s discarded chains of corporate oppression.

I loved the pic of Breitbart at the top of this post: It looked like Breitbart was copying the opening of last week’s show (Bob’s Mel-Gibson-like voicemail rant at Elvis). I LMAO’ed.

@ BobJoel (my brother) has managed to locate a box with a pile of old tapes from my radio days. Somewhere in there, hopefully, is the Peart interview. The best one – if any survive – is the chat with Johnny Winter.Joel said when he gets a chance he’ll dig out the tape machine and see what he can find. If it turns up, I’ll gladly send a copy along.Rush played Halifax in 1986. I get confused about the dates – commonly associate that gig with Pope JP II’s visit, which happened in ’84. The vagaries of time and age…and booze and drugs.