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Alright, here we are. Happy New Year, everybody. It is a great day. It's a great day.

Alright, here we are. Happy New Year, everybody. It is 2016. And once again, I did not learn Spanish or Quit Candy. So, try it again. Right? Just every year. Gonna quit Candy and learn Spanish. Those are my only two things I want to do. And boom, didn't do either of them. Fuck it. Who cares?

People put so much weight into starting over. New things. Last year was great. I loved it. Fuck yeah, I got ran over on my motorcycle. Who cares? Great year. Did over 448 shows last year. I didn't end with 500. I usually get into the 500s, but I didn't make it this time. 448, which is fucking insane anyway. That's why I'm tired all the time. Why am I tired? Oh, because I did 448.

448 shows this last year. I hope everybody's doing good. Everybody's, we lost Lemmy. We lost fucking Lemmy last week. Such a bummer, man. Such a bummer. But if you are in the LA area or even if you're not, and you want to come celebrate Lemmy on the 9th of January at the Rainbow Barn Grill 2pm.

The celebration of Lemmy. It's gonna be incredible. I'll be there. What a huge loss, but we got his music and we got his spirit. And the guy was a pure fucking outlaw. 70 years he lived.

You know, if I knew I could live that long and party, I probably would have kept partying. Somebody said, oh, you get to live to be 70 and you keep partying. But that probably wouldn't be the case. Lemmy was a straight up just iron machine.

The guy walked, talked and breathed, rock and roll. And he will be definitely missed. But play his music daily and you'll have him in your soul right there.

Lemmy, we miss you buddy. Rest in peace, Lemmy. Great, great guest today. Speaking of rock and roll and metal. We've got a survivor on today. Chuck Billy, lead singer of Testament, a friend of mine for almost 30 years.

Unbelievable. Somebody sent a photo to me a couple days ago, a friend of mine, Julie sent a photo of Chuck Billy and I in like 1988. And he just, I just stared at the photo.

It was just that the Omni were in the downstairs bar with drinking Budwizers having the time of our fucking life. I stared at that photo for hours and realized that

I never say those were the good days because two days ago I had a fucking incredible day. But I do love to look at photos from the past. They just, they make me laugh and they make me feel good.

And think about just when you had no cares in the world, except just playing rock and roll.

Didn't care where you woke up, didn't care what you were doing, didn't need money in your pocket. All you needed was your bandmates and a rehearsal studio and you plug in and just rock and then go play a gig.

Chuck Billy was one of the first people when I was playing music that gave me kind of a break. He loved our demo tape. He had us open for Testament when they were just absolutely exploding.

A sold out Omni show. He wore one of our band shirts, which was very high profile, which helped us. And he became an incredible friend over the over the last 25 years.

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