All right welcome aboard. It's another Monday April 5th. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here for the ride. The sounds, the ear holes are tickling with some interview chat talk.

Wrapping whatever you want to call it. We are here. Let there be talk. Long run. Keep going. Never stop. Ha. Good day today. Good day. I was feeling a little down.

Out there trying to get funny working on this new material. It's hard to get a rhythm going on stage doing comedy because you know you get on a couple times and then you don't get on for four or five days.

Then you get on again and it's hard. It's hard that way. You got to do a lot of homework. You got to do your research on your recordings.

So it's having a kind of a kind of a little downer moment which I get into once in a while and I was standing in front of a coffee shop.

And some guy just walked up and he was like, oh man, Dindal Ray, I love your podcast. Big, big fan of the podcast. And immediately I was like, oh, I needed that.

And you know, I mean, it wasn't that he was like a fan of the podcast. It was just some kind words which is needed here and there. People need that. So, you know, if you have a friend or somebody you don't know, just be positive to them once in a while. Just some random kindness.

And it really, it really can make a difference. You don't know that guy might have been ready to jump off a cliff and then you said, hey, nice shoes or pants or whatever. I don't know.

You don't want to say nice pants. People might be like, what?

Oh, man, I got the cool guest today. I have got a great guest today. My guest today is Jonathan Tapplin. He is an author of a brand new book called The Magic Years.

He's a rock and roll. And I cannot tell you how much I love this book and I love talking to this man. He is like the cool uncle. Everybody wishes they had the guy that you see at Easter Sunday like yesterday.

Tell me about that time, Dylan went electric and he's like, get over here. We were smoking a little reefer and out of nowhere, you decided to plug in and we were losing our minds. You're like, no way.

This guy has all of the stories. I have coined him the forest gump of rock. Some people have said that I was the forest gump of rock and I have been in some cool places at some cool times.

But not like this guy. He was at Woodstock. He was at Monterey Pop. He was at the Fillmore when the doors played. He was at the Isle of White.

He produced Mean Streets and the Last Waltz. He was the tour manager on the festival Express Tour. It goes on and on and on.

And you can read all about it in his new book that is out on heyday publications in a few weeks here. You can pre-order and I highly recommend you do it. They got an ebook available also.

Follow Jonathan Tapplin on all the platforms and enjoy his photos. This man has great, great photos.

Before we get into it, I want to just say thank you to the brand new Patreon fans out there, Roberto, Irrizari, crypto talk and will all three of you.

Thank you for joining my Patreon Patreon.com slash Dean Del Rey, 103 bonus episodes and a Zoom Fest every week.

You can join me for a private Zoom. We get a bunch of freaks on there. We talk about books and movies, music and records and anything you want to talk about comedy, life, Patreon.com slash Dean Del Rey.

Also brand new website DeanDel Rey.com and that was put together from my good friend out there in Des Moines, Iowa, AJ Simmons. Boom. New website. It's got the tour dates. It's got the podcast on there.

There are tons of photos, all kinds of stuff. No sleep DSM is Instagram and I highly recommend that you hit them up and get a website. This guy is cool.

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