Moon Taxi

You know, when I think about bands that perfectly represent what Bonnarooo is,

the culture, the artistry, the history, the roots of it, Moon Taxi could be at the top of the list.

For me, that's why I wanted them to be a part of this.

Their story is pretty compelling for the whole history of it.

We'll get into that with Trevor, who was kind enough to call, but I mean, these are high school guys.

When it started in 2002, they were just up the road in Nashville.

So a natural sort of, they went.

They liked it.

Dreamt of one day playing there.

Took them a lot longer to do that than you might have thought a decade.

And now they did it on a small stage.

And then they were back at the second largest on the witch stage three years later.

Now three years later.

Don't break the news because Trevor breaks news today.

I'm going to say it.

That even InfoRoo doesn't have.

I'm just going to say they were back, that they're back.

And I think that's pretty cool.

Plus, they have a local connection.

We know them because they used to play small clubs here.

And Trevor spent a couple hours in Camp Nut Butter with us.

I can't wait to dive into all of it with Trevor from Moon Taxi today.

This is the What Podcast.

That's Barry Courter from the Chattanooga Times-Free Press.

I'm Brad Steiner from Hits 96, WDOD Radio in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

I know that this is not necessarily a Chattanooga-based podcast.

It's not even necessarily a Nashville-based podcast.

I mean, Barry, you noticed that it's now being heard in 20 different countries.

We're huge in Korea.

Yeah, well.

I just think that's so awesome.

I think it's eight downloads now in Korea.

When you see us, too, you immediately think Korea.

Japan, Sweden, Brazil.

We're international.

So, yes, we know that this is not a Tennessee-based podcast, even though it is about Bonnaroo.

But our conversation with Trevor today, very focused on Chattanooga.

And we are from Chattanooga.

Barry's been here his entire life.

I've been here 20-some-odd years.

The weirdness about this is that Moon Taxi is from Nashville.

But man, you could have called Chattanooga home.

They have been here so often.

They have been in and our streets, up and down our streets for years.

And I have not once seen them.

How is that possible?

I don't know.

And I was thinking about that driving over.

I think it's important.

They are sort of part of this part of the world, I guess, being Nashville, Chattanooga.

But I think they represent Bonnaroo, you know, joking about being huge in Korea.

I think anybody will like them.

I think their story is representative of bands in general.

Festival bands, specifically.

Bonnaroo bands, specifically.

So while we do dive into some of the Chattanooga-centric stuff, I don't think it matters.

I think anyone will understand it.

We had Bozzy last week from California by Michigan or Michigan by California.

Which is an interesting way to sort of frame it.

Bozzy never been to Bonnaroo, doesn't really know anything about Bonnaroo.

We like Bozzy.

He's a good kid.

But there's something special about Moon Taxi and the way that you want to root for them

because they feel like one of us.

They feel like just another Bonnaroo of you.

No question.

And we get into, and we've mentioned it before, there's just some songs that feel like a Bonnaroo song or a festival song.

They take you there mentally.

It was interesting to hear him say that without us sort of bringing it up.

That was cool.

He speaks the language.

He knows every step of the farm.

It was quite refreshing talking to him.

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Let's get into it with Trevor from Moon Taxi.

What do you say?

Let's do it.

I was just reminded by Barry that our camp that we have set up at Bonnaroo each and every year, it's called Camp Nut Butter.

And there's been about, there's 12 of us that camp and we've camped together for almost 10 years now.

And one special, we get a lot of special guests pop through the campsite on occasion.

One special guest, what, five years ago, happened to be Trevor.

Yeah.

Trevor sat down at our camp and hung out with us for an hour or so.

Was I stumbling through the camp or was this on purpose?

I don't, I don't really know why.

I think part of it, and I wanted to ask, I think you know Mike Dewar from here, right?

From Rhythm and Bruise?

Oh, yeah. Oh, man, I miss Mike.

I haven't thought about that gentleman for a long time.

It's good to remember him.

That means the invite is open to you again to crash Camp Nut Butter in 2018.

Let's do it.

I gotta imagine coming back to Bonnaroo is pretty sweet for you guys, huh?

We're ready, man. We are 100% ready to and excited to play some new material there and excited to get back to the, I think we're playing The Witch, right?

Yeah.

That would be my guess.

I think we're playing The Witch again, but we might play it under the cover of Night.

So that's going to be a little more interesting and exciting for us because, you know, we pride ourselves on our light show and we're just going to pull out all the stops.

That's got to be a much different show than when you popped in on a Thursday night at Bonnaroo however many years ago, huh?

That was 2012, I want to say.

2012.

Right?

Man.

This is a podcast that we started to sort of, because we've been going 26 years combined. We like the festival. It's just up the road for us. We're here in Chattanooga.

So I want to take you back. You guys are from Nashville, which is even closer. It's more like 25 minutes. We're about 55.

In my mind, in my mind, it's like equidistant from Chattanooga to, I don't know.

I don't know. Maybe that's just me. Maybe my GPS is my...

I actually agree with Trevor on this one.

He's probably right. Geography was never my thing.

I really do feel like it's more of a Chattanooga festival than it is a Nashville festival.

Ooh, those are strong words.

I promise we can get there quicker than somebody can the other side of Nashville.

All right. So let's go back. 2002, this crazy, no, no, 2002. This crazy, never heard of festival starts down the road or up the sideways for us.

You guys didn't start your band until 2006, but you obviously were, you knew of it.

So what I want to do is sort of talk about that progression of going from starting a band to having a band to when do we get to play this festival to then finally getting to play it in 2012.

And then, you know...

Band, that's a long story, but I'll try to go back to the very beginning.

And the beginning for me would be in high school when I started a band with Tommy, the bass player of Moon Taxi.

And we had aspirations to move to Nashville.

And we were moving to Nashville in the fall of 2002.

So during the summer of 2002, we heard about a festival, first time festival called Bonnarooo.

And we were like, what is this? Where is it? Bonawut? Bonahoo?

All we knew is that we were 18 years old and we wanted to go check out this festival.

So we went. It was the first year and it was beautiful chaos and the most fun I think I've ever had in my life.

And I got to experience it with my best friend and my bandmate.

We went to the first one and our eyes were opened.

The doors of perception were knocked down.

I was convinced that I wanted to go to every single Bonnarooo.

And at that time, I wanted to go just as a participant, as a fan.

I just wanted to be kind of wrapped up in that incredible chaos that is a music festival.

We went and we got to see, I think our first show in the afternoon was this was in 2002.

We saw the band's Llama. Do you remember them?

Wow. Yeah.

We saw Llama.

What an opening hand you got dealt.

It was great. It was fantastic.

And we were like, man, these guys can't be that much older than us.

And look, they're playing this great festival.

And we really looked up to them and got to meet a few of the guys in the band, you know, years later.

So that was our first show that we caught in the O2 Festival.

It was hot. It was dusty. It was messy, but it was awesome.

And that was my first kind of taste of Bonnarooo.

You know, fast forward, you know, a whole college education later

and five years later of playing bars around the Southeast, touring hard and writing records together.

We were offered actually fast forward 10 years because our first time there was 2012.

We were offered a slot on a Thursday night at this tent, I believe. No, sorry, it was that tent.

It was that tent.

Yeah, it was that tent on it. I think it was like a 730 p.m. slot.

So just as the sun was coming down, you know, we started playing, it was still light out.

But by the end, it was just completely rowdy and a mess.

And it was it was a huge, huge stepping stone in our career.

I feel like that really put us on the national radar as far as bands to to go check out that thrive in a festival setting.

I'm going away.

Should I meet you that way?

You just watch you out there say, should I go, should I stay?

I'm going away.

I'm going away.

I'm going to pray this may be the first time.

But until my dying day, I'm going to pray.

So long today.

Maybe the last time you see me in this capore, I'm going away.

Should I meet you that way?

You just watch you out there say, should I go, should I stay?

I'm going away.

After the first year, did you make it a point to go back to Bonnarooo again before you eventually played it?

Did you guys go every year to become like your.

Yeah, yeah. Sorry for skipping that that decade in there.

We went. I kind of fast forwarded really quickly.

We went. I went the next three years.

So I went oh two through oh five, I think.

And then at that point, I took on some summer jobs and I was like studying abroad.

So just really focused on my kind of academic career at that point.

Didn't even have a band.

Didn't even have a. Well, it wasn't Moon Taxi then anyway, was it?

It kind of was. I mean, we we say oh seven was when the band really formed because that's when our final member came on.

But the band formed and was more or less Moon Taxi over like the course of three or four years from like oh five to oh eight.

While we were kind of formulating our final crew and just writing music for our first record.

But yes, so I went to the first three Bonnarooo's, I guess, which would have been oh two through oh five.

And I think that's the same for Tom, the bass player, and Spencer went to the I don't know if he was at the first one.

He's our guitar player and producer.

He went to like one of the first ones. I want to say it was maybe oh four and oh five.

The rest of the band members, they're a little younger.

They're like three or four years younger.

So they weren't they were still in high school at the time and didn't get to experience those first few crazy years there.

But they've been, you know, subsequently.

What's so refreshing, especially in 2012 when you sat down at the campsite, the reason why you sat down on the campsite is because you were there for a few days.

It's refreshing that on the first time you decided to you guys got to play Bonnarooo, you stuck it out and you were there to watch the rest of the festival.

Not everybody does that.

And we talked about that maybe a couple of weeks ago on this podcast that if there's something that we were ever tell a young artist that was able to play Bonnarooo, we'd say stay, stay and absorb the entire experience.

I would say so.

I mean, especially if you haven't experienced the festival from a fan perspective, I feel like Tommy and I have a unique perspective on Bonnarooo because we went as fans for so many years.

And, you know, we went to the first once we saw what it was when it started and like the kind of ethos that it was born out of.

Yeah.

I don't know where I've been.

One more time before I go.

Brad and I have talked about this in previous podcasts and we have the other fans in mind.

What would be your camping tip?

You have a camping tip that you picked up.

Oh, man.

Those three years or in 2012?

Yeah.

Just the kind of basic survival skills.

You got to find a good bathroom.

Find an opportunity to like unplug too.

I mean, it's a lot of sensory overload.

So if you need a chance to like just go take a walk by yourself and find like an unoccupied corner of the festival, I think that's really important.

You know, especially if you're like an introvert, kind of like I am, like I'm an introverted extrovert.

Like in my sort of profession, I'm very extroverted, but I need those like moments of personal space and reflection, time for reflection.

I think that's important.

Oh, no.

Because it's easy living by heart when you're dying on your own.

Baby, you can run away.

But there's no road that takes you where you're going.

Baby, you go from 2012 and at Bonnarooo and I got to imagine that that show was a major look for you guys.

And we said it to Ashley Capps.

I really think that without Bonnarooo, I don't know if a band like you guys gets as big as you do, as quickly as you do.

Yeah.

No, it was an incredible opportunity and definitely a milestone.

We always tell people they're like, you know, several milestones in your career.

For us, it was Bonnarooo was our first one, you know, then like a late night TV show appearance was the second one.

But Bonnarooo is always, always mentioned in the top three things of things that have helped kind of propel the band to the next level.

And that's pretty impressive considering you guys have played every festival.

I mean, you guys not only play every festival, I think that you might have played every city in America.

I mean, you guys could be like the hardest working band in the world.

You're like the hardest working band on the planet.

How many live shows are you doing a year?

I mean, not more than a hundred and ten to a hundred and fifty, I would say.

You guys work.

You know, we found a good kind of happy medium of time at home because now, you know, lots of us are married and have children.

And it's hard to balance those things and still get out there and play as often as you need to.

We just took our first European tour.

We played throughout Germany and Sweden and Norway and it was amazing.

And I can't wait to get back over there.

That's a whole new world for us.

Is there a place that you haven't played yet that is still like your white night?

Is this somewhere you really want to get to that you haven't gotten to yet?

Oh, I mean, like that taste of playing abroad in Europe was really awesome.

I'd like to go play in Spain and some festivals in Spain.

Barcelona's got a good one. That's for sure.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking of. Primavera in Barcelona.

I would love to go there. I went to Barcelona on my honeymoon and it is beautiful.

It's the most beautiful city ever.

You guys, because you're a Nashville based band, you're two and a half hours or so from Chattanooga.

You played clubs here in Chattanooga.

The people that saw you back then and then maybe saw you at Bonnarooo, a little bit different evolution with the band.

I've heard people say you become more of a festival type band or even an arena larger crowd.

Was that something conscious? Are you guys even aware of it? Is that a fair comment, I guess?

I think it's a fair comment.

And people that saw us play at JJ Bohemia and then people that see us play at the Witch stage,

for some reason they want to say it's a different band, but really it's not. It's the same exact lineup.

We're not necessarily playing the same songs, but I think at the core of it our songwriting process changed.

We wanted to write more and some kind of style songs that appeal to the broadest range of people.

We wanted to have songs that thousands of people could sing along to.

I think that's the one thing maybe that's changed fundamentally, but it's just two guitars, bass, drums and keys at the core.

It's still the same guys.

For people who don't know, JJ's is about 150 if everybody stands shoulder to shoulder.

Oh my God.

That would be barcode violation.

I don't know if I can get my family's Thanksgiving dinner in JJ's.

It's a nice place, but just to let people know.

It's great. We played a show there with...

Who's the guy? He's the kind of chief of Chattanooga. He's got a red fro. I think his name is TJ.

TJ Griever.

He had the best hair in rock.

Best hair in rock and roll. He's amazing and great energy.

What was the name of his band? I'm trying to think.

Up With The Joneses.

Up With The Joneses, yes. We played some shows with them. Traded back in the day.

Look bro, I just love your band bro. You guys are doing great work bro.

TJ's still around. He's doing great.

He's doing great. Runs the best pizza joint in the city, that's for sure.

Yeah, still singing and doing great. Got a family.

Tell us about, and this is one of those easy softball kind of questions, but it's what we're here for.

What was it like, that stage performance and then getting to do the witch stage in 2015?

The witch stage was a lot hotter.

It was a 3 o'clock.

In the middle of the afternoon.

3 o'clock I think.

Oh my gosh. Yeah, 3 o'clock with the sun at just that perfect angle where it's like no matter what you do,

it's going to hit you right in the eye socket and just really mess up your sense of balance.

It was hot, I would say. You know, you feel more of a connection with people in the smaller tent as opposed to like a big open field.

But you know, it's hard to ever go back to that tent feel once you jump on the big stage

and once you feel the energy of that sound system pushing sound outwards. It's just an incredible feeling.

That was one of the shows that we had the kind of infinity crowd where you can't really see the end of it.

It's like an infinity pool. You're like, oh my God, does it ever end? To me it never did.

That's an amazing story to hear an artist talk about the festival that they've been dying to play,

maybe their entire professional life and then see the crowd show up and have that type of reaction.

That's what the whole stupid experiment is about. That's what the whole festival is about.

That's how I imagine it. If I were a musician.

Right. That's exactly how I would be putting it together. That's right. That's the puzzle I'd want.

You can see video of some of that on YouTube and you can see the smile on Trevor's face that just looks.

I love when an artist really, really enjoys the experience.

There are some artists that I've seen at Bonnarooo, I don't really like it all that much.

I remember Wanda Jackson showing up and it's 200 degrees and she looks around and she goes, whoo, it's hot.

She was not happy that day.

I remember getting there early for the St. Paul and the Broken Bone show and they came out to do an early sound check,

probably 10 minutes and it felt like they were getting ready to play.

That's right. I remember that.

He just sort of walked out at one point and just stood and stared and smiled.

That's right. It's an amazing feeling I've got to imagine.

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I was thinking about this when Trevor was talking about the very first show that he saw at Bonnarooo,

when he walked in 2002 and the first show he saw was Llama.

Llama.

I want to hear the very first show that you saw at Bonnarooo.

The very first one that you saw, drop it in the comments section at thewhatpodcast.com.

Just click comments, fill out the form and give us your very first ever Bonnarooo show.

I don't necessarily remember mine from 2004. I have a feeling I know what it was and I don't really want to say because it's kind of ridiculous.

But I remember the wife's first one because I had already gone to Bonnarooo without her.

I guess it was the next year or the year after that she finally decided to come along with me.

We walked in from the backstage area and we turned around, looked at the witch stage and it was the yeah, yeah, yes.

And I remember her seriously just looking at the stage, looking at me and she said, where are we?

She was absolutely out of her mind confused. It's what we just walked into.

Yeah, well that's a good one. My wife's first and really only happened to be Springsteen. That's her.

That's a pretty good, that's an opening salvo.

That's a pretty good one, right. One and done. It's a huge place.

People can't, I don't think can wrap their head around it.

That's every year that you know you and I go, I have to walk through the gate there and I'm always overwhelmed at how big the place is.

It's on a 700 acre farm. It takes you a minute to reorient, you know, which is where is everything? Where am I?

It's amazing that you've probably spent a month of your life on that farm and you still have to calibrate.

You still have to remind yourself, wait, where am I again?

Where am I? And they've changed things. That's part of it. But yeah, I don't remember my first show either.

I remember the first moments. The yeah, yeah, yeah's. My morning jacket.

Obviously I mentioned that many times in the rain. Walking out into the what stage area, that field.

When you see it empty, it's one thing. It's still huge.

Wait, wait, you see it empty on a Saturday morning or are you seeing it empty on a Friday morning?

Because it's a very different experience.

It's a very different and that's another thing that I always I mean, I get up early.

So getting up at seven when some shows are ending.

Yeah. And I'm getting up to go get coffee and they're crawling off to bed and you see that field full of stuff.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if you know this, but I don't think that with a general admission pass that you can walk into the gates and see the what stage field.

So if we can give you a little bit of behind the scenes of eyes and ears, it is a garbage heap.

And what is the company that actually does the the ground keeping the people that pick up the trash?

Well, there's the trash or the it's the recycling group.

And I can never remember the name of green.

Well, they do an absolute amazing job.

And if you see them around, pat them on the back, because those guys work their asses off.

You cannot imagine the amount of trash come seven o'clock in the morning that is covering the what field.

It is unbelievable. They get that in shape by the time the gates.

Yeah. And then it's gone by mid morning. Really. They go through.

We'll get into some of that later. I'm glad you brought that up.

There are a lot of programs involved with this festival.

There's almost too many of them.

Yeah, the I had I had a meeting just this week with the guy that is picking up the extra food from some of the catering and trucks.

I take it to the Grundy County Food Bank. Basically, they feed the homeless with it.

That's only about a five or six year old program.

Right. Gear up, I think, or is they they go people.

A lot of people who buy brand new tents and sleeping bags and pack their trucks.

And then on Sunday or Monday, when it's time to drive back to Michigan or California, they just leave it.

Yeah, you can have that. And I'm done with it. I'm not packing it up.

Half of my gear has happened because of our campmates. That's right.

But they figured out how to recycle that. They resell it and they use that money.

So I think it'd be fun as we get closer to the festival to jump in and do a couple of podcasts, maybe 15 minute quick hits during the week, maybe fill in on some of those programs.

Absolutely. You want to do that? Yeah, that's part of why I wanted to talk to David.

He and his wife is actually his mom and stepfather started this program.

That's awesome. Some years ago. It's cool.

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I remember I brought my brother one year to Bonnarooo, the very first show that he walked into.

We wheeled him behind the what stage and we dropped him right in the pit of Kanye West.

What? I mean, talk about a spoiled rotten kid. Mind blown.

Spoiled kid. That jerk is.

All right. I was going through some of the comments here in a second, but I wanted to give away our future prize pack from last week.

I've got vinyl. I've got a future hat, some some future goodies.

I'm going to give that to Sarah Spencer at Sarah Spencer on Twitter.

She is our future prize pack winner.

There are some really great comments. If you want to drop us a line, you can at the what podcast dot com.

This from Drew. I cannot express how much I love this podcast.

I'll be coming from Pittsburgh for my sixth year.

I have friends who have within the last two years have moved down to Nashville, sort of out of the love for Tennessee, which was found at this amazing festival.

Our group covers over almost 10 states between everyone who makes the trip every year.

And we keep finding more people down with the cause and who tag along to make their new yearly plan.

Your podcast takes me back, especially the Dust Bowl. Oh, my God.

It's a vacation for your soul, as my friend puts it. I'll stop coming to Bonnarooo when I'm dead.

There you go. That's good. That is you know what?

We might even be there when we're dead. The thing that has sort of well, several things have impressed me with it.

The logistics of it are mind boggling how they how they make it work.

That idea of it becoming a rite of passage is something I don't think I really thought of.

At first, we talked with Ashley Capps a couple of weeks ago about that very thing.

But can you imagine graduating from high school and this being your sort of summer, you know, your reward for summer?

I mean, I can barely handle it. Thirty six. I know how I do it at 19. What a great thing.

What a what a cool we didn't have anything like that.

I guess we had champagne jam down in Atlanta was about as close.

Well, that's exactly how Trevor got into Bonnarooo.

We're talking to Trevor from Moon Taxi today on the What Podcast back into our conversation.

Trevor, I mean, you guys not only you tour, it feels like forever, but you put out a lot of product.

I was pretty shocked that you guys have already put down what five albums now with with the fifth is the fifth one coming.

It's unbelievable how quickly all this happened.

Yeah, the fifth one came out in in early January this year when you got to figure out what the album is going to sound like and what the perspective is going to be.

Do you oftentimes think about the festivals?

Do you think about the live shows bringing them into the recording process?

I would say that I would say I mean, even before then into the writing process, I think that that that's always in the back of our minds.

Like it's just going to crush in a giant crowd like like at Bonnarooo, for example.

I mean, that's that's definitely been mentioned.

Like when you when you pitch an idea to the rest of the guys, you know, you're always aware of how they're going to react.

And and as a tool for selling your idea, you're like, man, can't you just see that like crushing at Bonnarooo like that has been used in several of our writing sessions before.

Is there a song in particular that you guys have written that you've said to yourself?

You know what? This may not be the perfect song for a record, but it's going to be great live.

We just we put those ones on the record.

We don't really pursue those ones that aren't going to make it in a live setting.

You know, it's like the live show and the studio album, they're so intimately tied.

We know that we're going to go play a million shows on this record.

So let's just make both of those components satisfied.

It's great to hear you say that because we've mentioned it several times in previous podcasts.

You can just hear the first notes of a song and picture yourself in your case on the stage,

but in our case, standing out in that crowd in the field or in the one of those tents.

There's just a different sound to those types of songs, isn't there?

Yeah, I mean, that's if that's a tool that you need to use to finish a song

or to even like come up with that creative spark.

I think that's that's wonderful and you should like pursue it.

Are you saying all weekend?

Are you going to try and see a lot of shows if so, who you got you got on your list?

Absolutely. I'm staying all weekend and my parents are coming.

Oh, no. My parents first, Bondrew. Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah. So they're going to see what I've been doing this whole time.

Oh, good. I don't know. Who's mom and dad excited about?

Who do they have on their list? Probably Eminem.

They're going to get down with Eminem.

I don't really know. I'm going to have to ask them like they know about some bands that I'm not even aware of.

So it's going to be great. No, it's going to be fun.

And I need to make it over to camp. It's not butter.

Not butter. Oh, man, I was about to say just ask. You'll follow the lights.

Everybody sees the giant cartoon heads in our campsite.

You'll find is pretty easy to find. I'll come see you guys.

We'd love to reconnect at Bondrew. And thank you so much. Thank you, Trevor.

Honestly, congratulations on the massive success.

It is it's really a thrill to talk to somebody when they when they begin their career

and then watch it unfold literally in front of our eyes on the farm.

It's a testament to not only what we love at Bondrew, but you guys as well.

So congratulations. It feels great to be a part of it. Thank you for the support.

And thanks for sticking with us this whole time. Thanks, Brad. Thanks, Barry. Thanks, man.

Trevor from Moon Taxi on The What Podcast, a Bondrew podcast for Bondrewvians by Bondrewvians.

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I think it's cool. All the comments. I want to thank everybody.

And just to let some folks know, I think one of the things we want to do is maybe call some people.

Yeah, sure. And have them on the podcast. Have them on.

And so if you guys are out there and you suddenly see a phone call from four to three, I'm not selling vacuum cleaner.

So I hope you'll answer. Are you going to be FaceTiming? I wonder.

I don't know. I hadn't figured that out yet. OK. That's possible.

You don't know how to FaceTime, Barry? I do know how. OK, just make sure.

It's the recording, the audio that I'm working on. We'll just do it from here.

That'd be fun. Live on the podcast. You can do that.

Yeah, well, maybe that's an idea.

We'll reach out to him ahead of time and say, hey, be ready or whatever.

Be ready. A call from the what podcast. We're going to phone a friend.

Could happen. Hey, next week. Go ahead and plug next week.

I think that next week may be personally the most excited that I could be.

Yeah, it's another one of those a similar story to Trevor.

We want to call Paul Janoway from St. Paul and the Broken Bones.

Paul has such a great Bonnarooo Connections story. He actually worked.

I don't remember if it was the first year, but it was early.

He did one of the volunteer was one of the volunteers and fell in love with it

and basically had the dream of one day becoming a performer.

He has such a great story about singing in church and the pastor who basically

kept telling him you're a backup singer, not a lead singer.

We hope we're not speaking too soon, but we're going to talk to Paul this week.

And I couldn't be more excited because I love St. Paul and the Broken Bones.

I spent a year following them around the country. I probably saw them 15 times in a year.

I love these guys. And from what I have heard, and I hope that I'm not saying something

that I shouldn't, they should have a new album this year.

So what you're going to hear hopefully from Paul this upcoming podcast next week

is something about the new material and if he'll be performing at Bonnarooo.

And by the way, the tent jump. I'm wondering if he's going to,

a lot like Moon Taxi, jump from tent to main stage this year.

I think so. I think so. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see.

The lineup is not out there releasing. For you guys that already have your tickets

or are interested, they have been releasing, it seems like about once or twice a week,

some of the tent lineups instead of doing it all at once.

I know they released the other stage lineup, the electronic, the EMD,

and they released some of the schedule out in the camping area.

They've got some night, some special guests out there.

So you can go and check that out. It's all on the Bonnarooo.com website.

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