# 6.) "Buying gear is like a drug. There is no rehab for it."

Savanting The Idiot

Sence & Doug Welcome their first guest to the show. Guitarist/Artist Gery Klappert. Gery goes way back with Alex Blue on drums/vocals with Azur while pondering the idea of starting a group from the ground up as ultimately preferable to joining someone else's band. Ensembles without bassists are debated as well and Gery's guitar centric mindset mined mainly through the power of Jimi Hendrix realized. Age differences and generations dealt with. Spoiler alert. Gery K. born in 1988, Soundsational in 1974 and Death Metal in 1968 making him the resident old fart of the crew. We find out Gen X has four years pre Death and four years post Sound. "Groovy" as they say. DMD unwittingly showboats a friendship with Brent Hinds of Mastadon. Fishing for ratings he exploits any situation thrown his way so watch out, snookums! The spiel moves toward Toxic Masculinity rearing its beautiful head once again in an obscure name choice by SNS "The Phallic Principle" and the process of picking a moniker that is imaginative enough to avoid another prissy, pissy pants group and their pesky attorneys composing the letter nasty. And speaking of nasty Alex gets off performing near strip club Scarlet's with neighbors and happy endings. One could wager he's in tha dog house as he gets home. Addiction and genuine sickness are acknowledged. "The worst drug. Musicians buying gear is like a drug! There is no rehab for it." Gery describes a Motorhead covers w/ Mudknuckles (feat. Ray of Load on lead vocals) at Churchills and having 3 days to learn the set. All this with his wife in the hospital! Talk about pressure. Sence describes a "he who shall not be named" circumstance as subject matter devolves into naked haircuts and what not. (P.S. This is the show Gery described https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAly8PpzV6U)