Hey, welcome to another episode of Let The Be Talk. I got a great guest today. Introduce yourself.

Derek Sirenian here. Dean, it's been a long time. I know, right?

You go back a long way. So I was thinking about something funny. Your band was playing.

I think at FM Station and you had a tour bus for some reason. I don't know why you had a tour bus.

Yeah, but it was awesome. And you were driving up to I hitched a ride with you to Northern California.

I think Dick's mother's was there also and we all run up. But I remember that was a very fun ride.

So thanks for the lip, bro. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's funny as we had a manager at the time.

And he was one of those guys that was like, yes, we wanted to just be next to everything.

And he spent whatever last night. Well, you read books. And the books would be like,

if you look large, people will think you're big and no, come.

You know, so he's like, let's book a tour and get a tour bus. And you're all fucking out.

Yeah, that's a nice thing. You know, we got a pre-boss. We're touring around California and a bus, you know,

and we're just fucking partying it. What's wrong with that? Nothing. And you know,

that's why I say like these weed stores, they're not good in a reason of like back then drug dealers

funded artists. Right. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah, that was their wash. Yeah, it was all,

well, not only their wash, but they had so much money and they wanted to hang with rockers.

Yeah. They'd be like, get a bus and let's make a record. Yeah. You don't get that with these

weed stores. They're greedy. I know. All different. Everything is all corporate now.

Now, I really only remember you a little bit from Dick's mother's. He was playing in my band.

And if anybody doesn't know, Dick's mother's junior who was son of Dick's mother's from the

smothers brothers. That's right. He played bass in my band. He also had a band, Comic-Cosy.

That's right. And they did very well like in Northern California. Yeah. There he is. They're really,

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