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from San Francisco, California. This is the Rock and Roll Geek Show. This is the
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story of my Rock and Roll butler. Welcome to the Rock and Roll Geek Show. My name's
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Michael Butler. Thanks a lot for joining me. I really appreciate it. Today is
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Tuesday March 31st, 2026. It's 1119 AM when I'm recording this. This is a
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final update on the Handsome Dick Manitoba Midwest tour. We played on Sunday
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night at a place in Newport, Kentucky, which is right on the border of
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Cincinnati and or of Ohio and Kentucky. Across the bridge is Cincinnati. If you
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listen to the last update, you know, you already know that. We were crossing the
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bridge from Newport to Cincinnati. For some reason we had to go into Cincinnati
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then back into Newport to get to the hotel. Anyway, I'm back in an undisclosed
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location in upstate New York right now. I spent yesterday traveling and
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drinking at the lounge and on the plane and got back to this undisclosed
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location around 730 and had some beers and popcorn and relax. And now I'm back.
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Here in the in the undisclosed location, rambling and not knowing what I'm
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going to say. The last gig at Southgate Revival House was well attended. It was
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melt. I'm going to guess there may be about a hundred people there. Friend of the
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show Joey Booth showed up. I got an email from from Dave Holt. Let me see if I can
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find that thing here. Anyway, the gig went well. I thought we played
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pretty good. The place is kind of big and it's kind of echoey. But I thought it
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went it went over pretty well. The audience seemed to like it. And after the gig,
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the sale man comes up to me. There was this one thing I did in in the song Master
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Race Rock. There's the middle part goes, let's go. And I sometimes I get out of
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hand and I took the microphone out of the mic stand and you know let the and put
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it out in the audience and held it out for for the audience to sing. Let's go. Let's
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go. And then the last part, I just kind of let go of the microphone and let the audience
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take it. And then I then I can because I got to go on the bass. And I did that. And there
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was also a part and next big thing where you can look at this on the Instagram and then
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in the Facebook or I just a fool walking down. And during the day, I would bang the
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bass onto the mic stand. And this time the microphone like slid down and then I took the
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then the second part of the, the chaos part. I kind of slid the microphone onto the bass,
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you know, trying just trying to be entertaining and look a little bit whatever punk rock
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posters, whatever. And then I just took the microphone and it dropped it out of my hand and
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I guess it fell on the stage. And then after the set, the sale man comes, hey asshole,
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next time bring your own microphone if you're going to destroy my shit. And I said man,
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I'm sorry about that. I really didn't mean to hurt anything. I don't think I'd damage the mic.
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But how much how much how much are you here? Let me give you a hundred dollars for the microphone.
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And he's like, just be in ability. He just went on and I said, no, I insist. Please take
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them, take the hundred dollars. So he took the hundred dollars. And then I told
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um, fabulous merch girl Brigitte about the situation. She went through the roof. She went
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to the sale man and he goes, hey, we paid for that microphone. I want that microphone. And he,
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I hope this doesn't affect the, I was getting back into the Southgate revival house.
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The nice people, it was good venue. The sale man just pissed off at me. So she tells him, hey,
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we want the microphone back. And we want, we want the microphone. Since we paid you a hundred
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dollars, we want that microphone. And he, he just, and he took, he said, no, no, no. And then he
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finally, he took the hundred dollar bill and threw it at Brigitte and said, fuck you.
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And believe me, you do not want to say fuck you to merch girl Brigitte because she will get on your
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ass. So they had words. And then she had words with somebody on the, on the, in our
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entourage and they had words. And it became a big fucking ordeal, which if I didn't know,
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it was going to be a big ordeal like that. I wouldn't have, I would just stood there like a
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dumbass on stage and implore, or I would just done my normal thing. But sometimes I get,
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sometimes I get a little bit carried away trying to go the extra mile to entertain the people in
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their standing in the front. So that, so that was a little bit of drama. Other than that,
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the entire tour was just so much fun. The guys in the strains were just fucking great people.
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And they're a great band too. If the strain, they're, they're going to Europe with Frank Meyer
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and at the end of April, those guys are going to kill it. If they come to your town, go see him.
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They're really good band and really great people. Everybody in the band. So the tour ended up being
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a success other than my stupid drama that I created. And I want to apologize to everybody in the,
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in the whole touring group for me being, for me causing that drama was unnecessary. And you know,
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it's a SNS in 58. Those things, those things are built to be indestructible. And I,
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I should have brought my own microphone. I actually forgot it. I usually use my own microphone.
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I would have done the same thing if it was my microphone. I mean, look at my bass. I mean,
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things get broken. That's, that's, that's danger in rock and roll is, you know, fun.
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But I offered to pay the guy and he didn't, and I apologize and he didn't accept my apology.
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And if you don't accept my apology, I don't know what to say. All right. But other than that,
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it was a fun tour. Richard made it through okay. He was eating and a good time was had by all.
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And we made it back all to our respective places of residents safely.
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Yeah. And by the way, speaking of undisclosed locations, I'm, I guess I'll say this on the
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face on the show now. I am looking, you know, I play with, I play with Chad and Chad Bush
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another country guy in California and, you know, on the west coast. And that keeps me pretty busy.
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But when I'm out here in an undisclosed location, I really need to find an, I need to find a
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rock and roll band to get my jollies out, an outlet for my rock and roll
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side of it, an outlet for rock, for what, how do I put an outlet for being a goofball on stage,
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okay. So if anybody knows any, any decent rock bands in, in, on the east coast, you know,
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somewhere around the New York area, let me know friends because I'm looking for another gig.
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I want to stay playing with Chad, but, you know, Richard Manitoba plays, the gigs are few
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and far between the Butler's Hardly Play and ACDC cover band Hardly Play. And the plunk
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it's Hardly Play. So I need some, I need to keep busy. So if you have any leads, let me know friends.
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All right. All right. That's going to do it for the update. I'm going to do another show later
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this week on this weekend, Friday. I'm going to Niagara Falls to see cheap trick at a casino.
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Hopefully that'll be fun. What's going to be fun for sure. Hopefully to be a good show.
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So I'll try to give you a show review of that as well. New Susie Quattro came out. New
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Black Cros came out in Stephen La Perry A from, from French, Canadian, wants me to do a track by
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track of that. So if, so Stephen, please don't, please don't send me that out because that would
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just be wrong. But if you don't, then I'll, then I'll do a track by track on that. I'll probably do
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a track by track of the new Susie Quattro as well. Lots of new albums coming out and that's more
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content there. I'm also going to be doing a one song. So I used to do these
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shorter episodes. I would, I would like break down one song and analyze every part of it.
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Thinking of doing that with one, what I think is the greatest lyrics ever written in a rock
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and roll song by Rod Stewart called every picture tells a story. I think
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maybe Ron Wood saying that. Give me some fun facts about every picture tells a story for when I do
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that as well, friends. All right, I think that that's going to do it for me. Thank you for listening to
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these updates on the handsome Dick Manitoba Midwest tour. We're planning on going to do in California,
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like I don't know later on in the year. Like I said, I need to keep busy playing rock and roll as
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well as country up here. I also like to play in a country band up here. You know, there's a good
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country scene. I'm not really looking. The money's not important to me as you know, all the money
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helps because I'm broke. Please keep those donations coming. It's, but again, the money's not
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important. I like, I just like to play. So if it's a good band, it plays gigs.
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Let me know, friends. All right, I will talk to you soon. Here is the song in question that caused
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the drama on the last gig, rock and roll geek.com, rock and roll geek at gmo.com is how you
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don't ask Twitter, on our geek. You know, the drill. Thank you, friends. I'll talk to you soon.
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If it is all squares with one hand, they don't let it go. I don't wear country rock. It's all the way.
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I don't want music. I want pain. The gigators can't swing. We'll make you dance and sing.
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God's no oil to spill. Do not know what, but you will. We're the members of the master race.
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We got no style and we got no days. Sleep all night. Sleep all day. Nothing good or deep in any way.
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Got to insert it. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
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We reach the higher. Spirits will play and it's so hard. I can't explain. We don't know to make it up.
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We play sports so don't get fat. We dance with instinct. I tell you, we can eat and drink.
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We don't do what we're told. And we're scared of throwing up. We're the members of the master race.
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We got no style and we got no days. Sleep all night. Sleep all day. Nothing good or deep in any way.
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Got to insert it. We'll stop us now.
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My favorite part of throwing up is one of second throwing up. It's the duty of God to pay for eating burgers every day.
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I take my bottom and seat because I know what's good for me. Life can take its toll when you're living what kind of world.
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We're the members of the master race. We got no style and we got no days. First up with your sleepers on. We're going outside to have some fun.
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Don't forget to mop your van. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
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Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let
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