Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Byrne. It's time for the Thursday afternoon just before Friday,

Monday morning podcast and just checking in on you. Sorry, I'm losing my voices always as I continue my way through.

The first leg of the tour is over. I did Dublin, Belfast and Galway, Ireland and I could not have had a better time.

I caught a little bit of a cold, but you know, that's what happens when you go out, you know, you have a couple of pops or whatever.

And you didn't dress properly because you thought, you know, August in July over here was going to be fucking warm as shit like it is where I live.

It is a range a lot. It's kind of cold and I was run down so I got a little bit of a cold, but I'm all right. But I don't think I'd done Belfast.

By Monday, I don't think I did it. Maybe I was just going up there. I can't remember, but I got to tell you about Belfast.

Fucking amazing, right? I go up there and I was playing, I wasn't aware of it. The place I was playing was Ulster Hall, which is, that's the first place,

a Led Zeppelin played it and that's the first place they ever played, stairway to heaven live. So I was like, you got to be fucking kidding me.

So of course I googled that and then some bootleg audio of it. And the band actually said the song didn't go over that well.

Sounded like they liked it enough, although the person recording it was kind of talking during some of it.

And I found some pictures from when they did the gig there and there he is, John Bonham, sitting right on the fucking stage.

And then of course they had to look up AC DC and 1979. They played there with Bon Scott. And a lot of these places you play by the time, you know, I come around to him.

I mean, it's like 40, 30, 40 years after these people that I love played him. So they usually redid the place and it doesn't look the same.

Ulster Hall, they had not redone the stage. So I literally, when I walked up on the stage, got the fucking chills.

I couldn't believe it. So I don't know. The only way to describe the people in Belfast is you have to go there.

Even if you didn't even know any of the history, like the second you get there, you're there for about three to four seconds before you like, you know what?

I'm not fucking with anybody up here.

The guy I swear to God, the guy who was running Ulster Hall, one of them was like really nice, but this, you know, just regular, hey, I get doing really cool guy, but the other guy was also a cool guy, but I cannot describe his vibe other than to say if he was in a movie, he would instantly be like a legend.

I can't, I don't think I, it's been a long time since I met somebody. I can't explain the guys five, but I just knew that once again, the second I met him, I was like, this guy has seen a bunch of shit.

This guy's not to be fucked with. And it was, I don't know, it was just a really, really, you know, anytime you go to a new city, it's so cool just to see all this new stuff.

But when you go there and it's such a fucking unique vibe, I never felt like a vibe than that in my life. And then I get to play this legendary place.

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