Handsome Dick Manitoba Midwest Tour Day 1 Grand Rapids, MI

From San Francisco, California, this is the Rock n' Roll Geek Show.

This is the story of my Rock n' Roll Butler.

Welcome to the Rock n' Roll Geek Show.

My name is Michael Butler.

Thanks a lot for joining me.

I really appreciate it.

Today's Wednesday, March 25th, 2026, and I am coming from a place called the Tip Top

Deluxe in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

This is day one of the Hanson Dick Manitoba Strane's tour.

We arrived in Detroit last, yesterday last, last, no, on Monday night, Craig and I flew

in from San Francisco, and we stayed at a hotel near the airport, and we practiced at

the Strane's rehearsal studios in Detroit.

I pulled out my bass, and fuck, the headstock was broken.

Yay!

Thank you, United Airlines.

I pulled it out of the case, and sure enough, broken headstock.

So fortunately, Paul from the Strane's, great guy, he was letting me practice at his

house and got a basement full of vintage quality gear.

He had a p-base, he let me borrow, and he glued my headstock back together and brought

it to the hotel today, so I practiced last night with the p-base, and if I like the

haggström, it just seems more natural for me in any way.

So I strung it up today at the hotel, and Grand Rapids, so far, so good.

We're getting ready to do a sound check, we're loading in now, I snuck off to do this

podcast.

By the way, thank you for listening.

I'm going to be doing these every day, like I'm going to try every day for this tour.

We're doing five shows.

Today, tomorrow, I'm not sure where tomorrow is, maybe Milwaukee, I think.

Hopefully see you at Paul Lack, and some other people.

I hope to see you.

If you want to come, friends, send me an email, rockandrollgeekageemail.com, and with

the subject line, put me on the guest list, asshole, or whatever.

Just let me know.

Or send me a message on Facebook or something, and I'll do my best to get you in for free,

friends.

And I would love to have a beer with you.

So we're getting ready to sound check, I have no idea what the precells are.

We rehearsed with Richard, yes, with Manitoba yesterday, he seems to be in a lot better

form.

He's been eating, and hopefully this tour will be okay.

See why you can, because as you know, Ross the Boss has Lou Gehrig's Zees, and I'm

sure you heard the wonderful, wonderful shit-fucking news about Jins or Waldhart.

And it's just fucking devastating, man.

Well, if you don't know, he was diagnosed with an rare and aggressive form of lymphoma,

cancer, or something like that.

Let's all pray for Jinger, and I just found out my brother has stage three pain-creatic

cancer, which is supposedly the deadliest form of cancer there is.

So let's say a prayer for everybody with cancer, friends.

They can put a man on the moon, et cetera, et cetera.

All right.

So here we are, Grand Rapids and Michigan, looking forward to tonight's show, hopefully it's

going to be good.

The strains are great guys, and women, Greta is one of the guitar players, she's a cool

girl too.

And her son, her son, Callum, plays bass, and he's letting me use his gear.

I plugged the camper into it, and hopefully everything's going to be great.

Hopefully it's going to be a good crowd tonight.

It's a small place, we'll dive bar, which I love dive bars.

Got myself a red cooler, there's a Walmart down the street from the hotel in Detroit, and

I had it delivered.

So I got a red cooler for the tour, so everything's going to be fucking great.

And I got a 12 pack of Medellos ready to go.

Let's rock, and hopefully my bass is going to stick together.

All right, friends.

Thank you for listening.

I'll check back in tomorrow.

I'll try to get the same post it after a sound check.

Thanks again to the strains for booking this tour and letting us use their gear and van.

And we got John, the judge, who's a manager, Richard's manager with us, Mark Capitan,

his brother on guitar, of course Craig, bear horse who I couldn't play without, and Scotty

slam on drums.

And Greta's merch girl in the world, Brigitte, come see her, buy a T-shirt.

If you come, if I put you on the list, do us a favor and buy a shirt.

Papers you to visit, she'll treat you right.

All right, friends.

I'll talk to you tomorrow.

In honor of Ginger, I'm going to probably play Wild Hearts and Ginger Tunes for this

entire tour.

I'm going to play something from Valor, Dakota's on.

The man who cheated, well, did I bring that song in yet?

The man who cheated death.

I got to pause this and bring it in.

I'll talk to you later, friends.

I'm going to play something from Valor, Dakota's on.

I'll talk to you later, friends.

I'm going to play something from Valor, Dakota's on.

I'll talk to you later, friends, that's wrong.

I'm going to play something from Valor, Dakota's on.

You tell me, when there was not a single inch on the road

When the demons they sent me were guaranteed upon me down

What an echo no hell is ever gonna kill me now

I don't see much more than I ever could need to see

What a force it comes easily, stands to reason I'm in a lost again

But not for me, I take my lessons seriously

I mean, I can't make a mistake

Forever there's no hope in any way

Even my father now, how you get yourself above the ground

How you get yourself above the ground

Oh, when the devil had tried to tell me

When there was not a single inch on the road

When the demons they sent me were guaranteed upon me down

What an echo no hell is ever gonna kill me now

Oh, when the devil had tried to tell me

There was not a single inch on the road

When the demons they sent me were guaranteed upon me down

What an echo no hell is ever gonna kill me now

When the devil had tried to tell me

When there was not a single inch on the road

When the devil had tried to tell me

When the devil had tried to tell me

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