Episode 53: Grant Showbiz (Part 2)

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

Society & Culture, Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Personal Journals

5 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Grant talks about meeting Billy Bragg, The Frank Chickens, Billy Bragg opening for the Smiths, early road stories with Billy, Weddings Parties Australia, “going nude” at a party with Billy Bragg, producing Mermaid Avenue, Wilco stories, tensions during the Mermaid… Continue Reading →

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0:00.0	I was sitting on a plane waiting to take off to fly over to England to begin the tour,
0:16.0	and there's a guy that came and sat down next to me he looked like he was a little bit shaking i
0:21.3	assumed that he was afraid of flying but he sat down and looked all frazzled and i said hey buddy
0:26.6	how you doing he says man i think i'm going crazy i said why's that he says i was just in memphis
0:33.6	and i pulled up to a stoplight in my car i looked over to the right and i saw jerry lawler pulled up to a stoplight in my car. I looked over to the right and I saw Jerry Lawler pull up next to me driving the Batmobile.
0:44.3	And I said, really? He said, yeah, and there's no way anybody's ever going to believe me.
0:49.3	I said, well, buddy, I don't know if I believe it or not, but I want to believe it.
0:54.8	And I want you to know that Jerry the King Lawler riding around in a Batmobile might be the greatest sentence I've ever heard.
1:31.6	Yeah. Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.
1:37.8	I'm sitting here in a hotel in Manchester, England, and I'm jet lagged beyond belief, but I'm happy to be here and I can't wait to start this tour.
1:41.0	This is a personal journal.
1:42.7	This is a bit of an experiment.
1:45.9	I like to say right up front that I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing, but I decided to do it anyway. And this show was founded
1:50.9	with the idea that there are only two people in art that matter. There's the creative individual
1:55.1	and the person experiencing it. And everything else is an artificial filter. And this is a way for me
2:00.2	to share things with you guys without any filters whatsoever.
2:03.6	My guess this week is Grant's showbiz.
2:06.6	We had such a huge response last week with Part 1.
2:09.6	Got a whole bunch of emails, just a lot of great feedback.
2:12.6	People enjoyed it, but I'm really looking forward to sharing part 2 with you guys this week. I met Grant quite a few years ago while I was touring with Billy Bragg and got to travel around in a bus with him and
2:23.3	just always upbeat and fun to be around and has great stories, great road stories.
2:29.3	I was looking forward to sharing some of these with you guys.
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