BotC28: Bubba Sits In

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Intro: Back on the Train - Phish 09/13/25 Birmingham, AL
Alternate HD Video 04-18-24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cySKvPB62k

Backing Track: Phish 12-14-95 Binghamton, NY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgo-5c-ilMc&list=OLAK5uy_laR1sPXicMnL3jjNOtO695syA_H_bg_l4
https://open.spotify.com/album/5WYqHtFImqwNmg3f4LvfON?si=TDzbdWUMQauVK24hB4ctXA

Outro: Let it Go - Fastball https://open.spotify.com/track/7IsEXPk6qqt30FfQv4SZMa?si=849cb52aa07f4630

In this rollercoaster of an episode, I open by lamenting a string of tech issues that nearly derailed our planned conversation with guest Bubba—only for him to heroically pop in and out throughout the show, creating a delightfully jammy, “segue-all-night” vibe. We pivot from disappointment to celebration, marking December’s wave of music anniversaries—especially the 30-year mark of December 1995 Phish shows—before freewheeling into a wide-ranging music talk: Live Phish history, Zappa influence vs. bluegrass roots, danceability as a Phish first principle, and what made 90s live releases special. Along the way, we compare Dead vs. Phish scenes, regional fan cultures, and the oddities of pop-cultural bias—then Bubba arrives and lights it up with raw, hilarious, and unvarnished stories from the trenches: late-80s Nashville door-to-door publisher auditions, near-misses with Millennium Records and The Romantics, life as a “rock ’n’ roll hairdresser,” and the bloom-and-bust realities of bar-band economics, vans, and vanishing drive shafts.

Bubba’s first three concerts—Elvis, Neil Diamond, KISS—set a throughline for showmanship and songcraft, as we trade our own first-show memories (Metallica, Rush, The Who) and revisit why some bands stick forever. We dive into Van Halen’s swing, STP’s jazzy guitar DNA, Def Leppard’s high-and-dry tone, Lou Reed’s slow-burn gravitas, and the power of albums that never leave rotation. Bubba shares surreal small-room legends (Dylan, Lou Reed, John Prine popping into a 300-cap bar), the lost communal magic of the pre-social age, and a case for rock’s return in a perfection-obsessed, soulless pop/AI era. We close on simple life wisdom—keep it minimal, keep moving forward, never give up—and a few must-hear album and artist recs to dig into next.