Monday, March 6th. Welcome to another episode. It'll let to be talked. Thank you for joining. Hope you had a great weekend.

It's finally not raining here for a couple hours. I feel like I live in Seattle.

Los Angeles has just been a fucking flood fast. You need a goddamn boat to get around.

But I'm not complaining. I'm alive and kicking.

Hope you guys are doing good. Here we are today. Another drummer and an old friend of mine.

Currently playing with Journey Dean Casternovo. And you might know him from all of his incredible work over the years.

Starting way back in 83. Shrapnel recording artist, Metal Band Wild Dogs.

And then Hardline, Bad English. We talk a lot of bad English. That was the kind of super group with Neil, Jonathan Kane, and John Weight.

Dean back there on the drums. Did some time with Aussie. Unbelievable. You guys live in the dream.

And then it's kind of a crash and fall there. Bounce his back. Gets his head together. All the ups and downs are discussed here.

Pure honest interview, unbelievable friend. And I am just so happy that he is back in Journey. Back there killing it.

Not only on the drums, but crushing the vocals. Just go watch some of the footage on YouTube of Journey Through Time or Journey.

If you don't know what Journey Through Time was, it was an incredible tour that Greg Raleigh, Neil Sean, and Dean did where they celebrated the first four records of Journey.

If you don't know the early three records, do yourself a favor and go dig into that. I had Greg Raleigh on last week and who is just a damn legend.

And we talked all about that stuff. Many times, Greg has been on. I interviewed Journey Through Time.

So if you're looking for some of that, it's also in the Lettuce Talk library. It was great to talk to Dean. He's up in Montreal right now on a day off.

And between the dates on this journey, 50th anniversary arena tour, which is just incredible. Journey, 50 years. I was seven years old when they started.

Just crazy. Just a Bay Area juggernaut. Look at that Bay Area. It's just produced some of the greatest bands, man. Metallica, Journey, Huey Lewis, Exodus.

I go all over the place. You know, grateful dead. I like it all, man. Just crazy. The track record, Night Ranger.

And a lot of them have been guests on the podcast. I have been very lucky. And I was lucky to grow up in the Bay Area and here and meet all these people at an early age, which was, you know, unbelievable to be face to face and watch these guys.

Sometimes do surprise gigs at New Georges or Uncle Charlie's or the Stone and be able to see just legends five feet away and learn the craft as they say in the biz.

But it is true. I definitely had an incredible upbringing in a wealth of unbelievable songwriting and musicianship.

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