Hey, what's going on it's Bill Burr and it is the Monday morning podcast. I don't know when I think this is going to be a special episode or maybe it's from Monday, what would that be the 19th?

I don't know what I'm little lot of sorts because I got to do a bunch of traveling this week, fly to New York, come back and then all that bullshit.

So anyways, we have a special guest every once in a while. I take a break from rambling to myself in my underwear there at my house and drive my wife not so this week we actually have legendary drum or musician human being from Stevie Ray Vaughn at Double Trouble. Please welcome Mr. Chris Layton. What's going on man?

Hey Bill, just hanging out in LA out here doing a project and being awesome right. I don't know if you're going to be able to chew gum right up on the mic that gets you to drive people drive them nuts. See right there. I'm already making you uncomfortable.

No, no, I'm good. I'm going to tell that more than several times. All right. Well, first of all, what brings you right now we are in Los Angeles. What brings you out here? What are you working on?

I'm doing a project called the rides and that's a band that we put together. We did a project did the same project about a year and a half ago. The rides is myself, the bass player Kevin McCormick, please see us in Jackson Brown and Barry Goldberg plays keys.

He boards. He was in the original electric flag. I didn't even know that Mike Bloomfield way back in the 60s. And then there's Kenny Wayne Shepherd plays guitar and sings. I saw you guys at the Greek. You did that summer. Yeah, that's absolutely ripped. Yeah, he's ripping awesome.

What's it like to. Oh, and Steven stills is. He's in that too. He's the other. Yeah, he's the last but not least. And that's the band. And we're making a record.

And this is your second one or the first one. This is the second one. Yeah. Second one that you guys have done is called the rides. R.I.D.E.S. Right.

Okay. Now what type of music are we looking at here? It's guitar driven. It's blues. It's, you know, within its original songs for the most part. How do you know Steven stills?

Well, I know him through Kenny because I work with Kenny a lot and we go back many, many years. Personally, I know Steven is because of this. I was asked. They talked about it and asked me to join the whole idea.

What's that like? Just as I don't know if I if you know I played drums as a hobby and I'm horrific. So I always wondered like I've always had unbelievable admiration for true musicians.

What is it? Do you get that feeling like when you're sitting in the studio you're counting off a song and you're looking over at the side of Steven stills had you ever just think how the hell did I get here? Well, yeah, I think that way about a lot of things because growing up I was a huge Steven stills fan crossbeens stills nation young and you know Dallas Taylor who was the drummer in the band way back when I mean these things were places I got my licks and I listen to guitar sounds and songs and songwriting. I was like, you know, awesome. Right. It's like legendary talk about legendary.

You know, and then you're and then I'm sitting there and I'm looking over there and he's counting off a song or having me count off the song going, wait a minute. How did I get here? How do you stay calm in that moment because I would sit there and I would have like a resting face that you wouldn't know that I was freaking out but inside of you like, oh, I got this.

I breathe deeply and slowly. He played what's done. I shouldn't be here.

No, it's all good. You know, I've had a long career. So I've worked long and hard to get here. So I go, you know, I deserve this. I deserve it as well as much as I wouldn't deserve it, but I'm grateful that I've got it.

That's awesome. You can feel that because I've never felt I deserve this. I unless it's something bad. Like something comes back to bite me in the ass. I'm like, I you know what? Well, you know what I deserve that. I'm an asshole.

But like, I don't think I've I've I had a buddy of mine recently wanted to go out and go buy himself a nice car and I gave him a half time speech to go out and do it because I'm trying to get myself.

I got to take that Catholic guilt thing where I can buy my wife anything but of but you know, if I was going to go by myself, by the way, you pulled up and yeah, a heavy.

A Chrysler, heavy station wagon. Yeah, which I've been trying to defend the station wagon to my listeners. Most of them 90% of them are not having it. There's a sports car bill. It's a sports car. It is. No, but I like it's a sleeper. No, it is my my wife calls it the thug car. She goes, you going out in your thug car to dance like, you know.

Did you get the station wagon so you can throw your drums in the back and all of that stuff. Yeah, you know what? Every car that I get somehow is motivated by that idea because you know, I do all kinds of work.

You know, but it all comes down to the very first work I do is can I get my drums in the car right and you get them easily at a station wagon.

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