1 00:00:21,689 --> 00:00:24,626 Bear in mind, this is just a dream. 2 00:00:25,292 --> 00:00:28,395 But again, it could be reality. 3 00:00:35,068 --> 00:00:36,470 Reality... 4 00:00:37,906 --> 00:00:39,541 That's a slippery subject. 5 00:00:41,074 --> 00:00:44,378 "The only difference between reality and fiction 6 00:00:44,512 --> 00:00:46,581 is that fiction needs to be credible." 7 00:00:47,314 --> 00:00:48,516 -Mark Twain. 8 00:00:49,984 --> 00:00:50,885 But a dream... 9 00:00:51,953 --> 00:00:53,922 no one can take that away from you 10 00:00:54,321 --> 00:00:56,423 no matter how incredible it might be. 11 00:00:59,293 --> 00:01:01,295 Dream your ass to Los Angeles... 12 00:01:02,429 --> 00:01:04,566 land of four million dreamers. 13 00:01:07,569 --> 00:01:09,236 What are those dreams? 14 00:01:10,004 --> 00:01:13,808 Fame? Glory? Success? 15 00:01:14,876 --> 00:01:17,579 A fleet of unnecessary automobiles? 16 00:01:20,180 --> 00:01:21,516 For a lucky few, 17 00:01:21,649 --> 00:01:23,350 the dream is something they can hold, 18 00:01:23,483 --> 00:01:26,420 and shape with little resistance. 19 00:01:28,121 --> 00:01:32,359 For everyone else, well, dream all you want. 20 00:01:34,963 --> 00:01:37,230 Reality's a motherfucker. 21 00:01:41,736 --> 00:01:43,203 And to survive it, 22 00:01:43,470 --> 00:01:45,607 you might need to become something else entirely. 23 00:01:46,406 --> 00:01:48,776 An unruly, ill-mannered mutt 24 00:01:48,910 --> 00:01:51,211 that just crawled up out the swamp. 25 00:01:52,346 --> 00:01:54,247 Only one way to find out. 26 00:01:55,349 --> 00:01:59,887 ♪ Lately, I can't breathe ♪ 27 00:02:01,756 --> 00:02:06,828 ♪ These walls are closing in On me ♪ 28 00:02:09,229 --> 00:02:11,699 ♪ This lump in my throat... ♪ 29 00:02:16,136 --> 00:02:18,138 ♪ I'm choking to death... ♪ 30 00:03:06,186 --> 00:03:07,254 Jesse! 31 00:03:09,456 --> 00:03:10,792 How many gallons of paint, man, 32 00:03:10,925 --> 00:03:12,794 do you think it's going to take to do this? 33 00:03:14,162 --> 00:03:16,196 Uh, I have no idea. 34 00:03:17,031 --> 00:03:19,299 - No idea? - Nope. 35 00:03:21,869 --> 00:03:24,304 Is that good news or bad news? 36 00:03:39,687 --> 00:03:43,891 ♪ That's got to be right, Lord ♪ 37 00:03:44,158 --> 00:03:45,960 ♪ If I die tomorrow ♪ 38 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:48,563 ♪ I've lived tonight ♪ 39 00:03:48,696 --> 00:03:49,864 Hey, Dogg! 40 00:03:51,733 --> 00:03:52,667 Yeah? 41 00:03:53,167 --> 00:03:54,367 Uh, you want something to drink? 42 00:03:54,502 --> 00:03:56,303 - Yeah, man. - What you want? 43 00:03:56,436 --> 00:03:59,941 Uh, bring me some acidophilus milk. 44 00:04:01,075 --> 00:04:01,976 Shit... 45 00:04:03,177 --> 00:04:04,411 Uh... 46 00:04:09,083 --> 00:04:11,886 Cheers. You don't even know what's in it 47 00:04:12,220 --> 00:04:13,154 Well... 48 00:04:16,356 --> 00:04:17,658 ...I'll see. 49 00:04:30,505 --> 00:04:32,774 Why's it so fucking quiet out here? 50 00:04:35,877 --> 00:04:37,745 ♪ I still like it ♪ 51 00:04:39,113 --> 00:04:40,548 ♪ It's still good ♪ 52 00:04:41,649 --> 00:04:43,450 ♪ I still like it ♪ 53 00:04:45,253 --> 00:04:51,025 ♪ I return to find you waiting After I've been gone so long ♪ 54 00:04:51,391 --> 00:04:52,760 Is that Shorty over there? 55 00:04:56,731 --> 00:04:57,799 Whoo! 56 00:05:42,310 --> 00:05:43,744 I was born blue 57 00:05:45,179 --> 00:05:47,480 Another day has come and gone 58 00:05:48,448 --> 00:05:50,685 In a world Where I don't belong 59 00:05:52,019 --> 00:05:55,455 Another day has passed me by 60 00:05:55,990 --> 00:05:58,358 And it's not because I didn't try 61 00:05:59,527 --> 00:06:02,163 Why wasn't I born With orange skin 62 00:06:02,296 --> 00:06:03,496 And green hair 63 00:06:04,232 --> 00:06:07,535 Like the rest of the people In the world? 64 00:06:08,069 --> 00:06:09,337 I was born blue 65 00:06:14,141 --> 00:06:16,744 Ladies and Gentlemen, without any further ado, 66 00:06:16,878 --> 00:06:19,213 I'm proud to present to you, 67 00:06:19,347 --> 00:06:22,917 none other than Swamp Dogg! 68 00:06:32,994 --> 00:06:33,928 Um... 69 00:06:34,095 --> 00:06:36,163 I started putting out records in uh... 70 00:06:37,164 --> 00:06:40,635 1960... 71 00:06:43,537 --> 00:06:46,874 ...1954! 72 00:06:48,276 --> 00:06:49,877 Yeah, I put out one record. 73 00:06:50,111 --> 00:06:51,279 ♪ Hey baby... ♪ 74 00:06:51,913 --> 00:06:53,480 I got it on the radio. 75 00:06:54,215 --> 00:06:55,583 I was popular in school. 76 00:06:56,017 --> 00:06:58,586 But I was only opening up at one place. 77 00:06:59,086 --> 00:07:01,789 A place called Sunset Lake Park, 78 00:07:01,989 --> 00:07:02,924 which was 79 00:07:03,591 --> 00:07:05,359 the Black beach. 80 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,730 We weren't allowed to go in your water. 81 00:07:13,234 --> 00:07:17,171 I was touring around when I was 14, 15. 82 00:07:17,305 --> 00:07:18,873 For some reason at that time 83 00:07:19,006 --> 00:07:20,975 I know you can't look at me and tell it now, 84 00:07:21,108 --> 00:07:22,076 but I was cute. 85 00:07:24,345 --> 00:07:26,847 So I was opening up for a lot of people 86 00:07:26,981 --> 00:07:30,651 from Norfolk and Portsmouth, Newport News, Virginia. 87 00:07:30,785 --> 00:07:34,121 There was an old boy down there named Leroy Little. 88 00:07:34,355 --> 00:07:37,425 You know, he'd fool people. He would put a show together... 89 00:07:38,059 --> 00:07:40,761 on the placard, instead of saying "B.B. King," 90 00:07:40,895 --> 00:07:42,730 it would say "B. King." 91 00:07:42,863 --> 00:07:44,999 People would be demanding their money back. 92 00:07:45,132 --> 00:07:46,701 Leroy'd say, "I'm gonna give you your money," 93 00:07:47,134 --> 00:07:49,603 and start beating the shit out of ya. 94 00:07:49,737 --> 00:07:50,705 You know? 95 00:07:50,838 --> 00:07:52,239 Leroy booked us on a show. 96 00:07:52,373 --> 00:07:55,109 He had this nigga dressed in a gorilla costume. 97 00:07:55,343 --> 00:07:56,277 Oh, lord. 98 00:07:56,577 --> 00:07:59,013 This gorilla comes out, right? 99 00:07:59,380 --> 00:08:02,049 Man, one nigga jumped up and stabbed that gorilla. 100 00:08:06,454 --> 00:08:07,722 He didn't kill him though. 101 00:08:10,458 --> 00:08:11,926 In 1964, 102 00:08:12,059 --> 00:08:14,462 Little Jerry Williams had his first taste of success 103 00:08:14,595 --> 00:08:16,230 with "I'm the Lover Man." 104 00:08:16,897 --> 00:08:18,799 Black people didn't like it and I could understand it, 105 00:08:18,933 --> 00:08:21,369 'cause I wrote it for Frankie Valli. 106 00:08:21,502 --> 00:08:23,037 But, in the meantime... 107 00:08:23,170 --> 00:08:26,407 ...the record just takes off. 108 00:08:26,540 --> 00:08:29,076 ♪ Let me introduce myself ♪ 109 00:08:31,479 --> 00:08:32,947 ♪ I'm the Loverman... ♪ 110 00:08:33,247 --> 00:08:35,916 That was my first hit record. 111 00:08:36,050 --> 00:08:39,120 It was only played on White stations. 112 00:08:39,253 --> 00:08:44,658 I was like, number one in Vermont or some... 113 00:08:44,792 --> 00:08:46,861 I mean, somewhere it was cold as hell, 114 00:08:46,994 --> 00:08:48,229 and wasn't no Blacks. 115 00:08:48,362 --> 00:08:51,065 Some guy booked me up there, right? 116 00:08:51,365 --> 00:08:53,000 I was supposed to do two shows. 117 00:08:53,134 --> 00:08:56,437 When I finished singing, the promoter called me over, 118 00:08:56,570 --> 00:08:59,173 he said, "Look here man, I thought you was White?" 119 00:08:59,306 --> 00:09:01,075 You know, I took the money and left. 120 00:09:01,208 --> 00:09:03,611 I mean, wasn't... wasn't nothing to say. 121 00:09:03,744 --> 00:09:05,679 I mean, how do you argue that? 122 00:09:06,047 --> 00:09:10,217 He thought I was White. I thought I was Black. 123 00:09:32,807 --> 00:09:34,675 Here's where we have all our parties 124 00:09:34,809 --> 00:09:35,876 and so forth. 125 00:09:36,577 --> 00:09:39,647 Getting rid of all this shit. I don't know who did this. 126 00:09:40,114 --> 00:09:42,950 Guitar Shorty did this. Put a bumper up there. 127 00:09:43,084 --> 00:09:45,052 I don't know what the hell he think. 128 00:09:52,226 --> 00:09:54,695 My buddy, Norman Whitfield, 129 00:09:55,096 --> 00:09:58,365 he put that up for me, bless his heart. 130 00:09:58,999 --> 00:10:01,602 Now, the motherfucker look like it's going fall down 131 00:10:01,735 --> 00:10:03,505 and decapitate everybody. 132 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:10,277 This is basically our work room, our laboratory, 133 00:10:10,411 --> 00:10:12,313 our... our everything. 134 00:10:12,446 --> 00:10:13,948 This is where we do it all. 135 00:10:14,081 --> 00:10:15,716 My partner, Moogstar, 136 00:10:16,117 --> 00:10:20,821 I can say, "Man, I wanna do such and such... 137 00:10:21,722 --> 00:10:23,124 uh, but I can't do it 138 00:10:23,257 --> 00:10:25,092 unless the piano's on top of the house." 139 00:10:25,359 --> 00:10:27,628 He'll put the piano on top of the house, 140 00:10:27,761 --> 00:10:29,598 you know, if it's necessary. 141 00:10:30,164 --> 00:10:32,800 When I had my kitchen remodeled, 142 00:10:32,933 --> 00:10:35,069 a lot of this stuff fell off the truck. 143 00:10:35,369 --> 00:10:38,372 They're more economical that way. 144 00:10:38,739 --> 00:10:40,241 I love TV, 145 00:10:40,374 --> 00:10:42,710 so I got three televisions here in the kitchen. 146 00:10:43,043 --> 00:10:46,680 Up in the corners, up in the corners. 147 00:10:47,381 --> 00:10:49,717 All of 'em tuned to the same station. 148 00:10:49,850 --> 00:10:52,419 Swamp's not joking, he loves television. 149 00:10:52,554 --> 00:10:54,121 Look at that, look at that. 150 00:10:54,355 --> 00:10:56,423 You might have seen him on Politically Incorrect... 151 00:10:57,458 --> 00:10:59,860 Mike Judge's Tales from the Tour Bus... 152 00:10:59,994 --> 00:11:01,328 Excuse me. 153 00:11:01,563 --> 00:11:03,731 The TV version of High Fidelity... 154 00:11:04,064 --> 00:11:05,666 I will now sell five copies of Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune by Swamp Dogg. 155 00:11:06,467 --> 00:11:07,902 Maybe you saw him on The People's Court. 156 00:11:09,571 --> 00:11:11,939 This is the defendant, Jerry Williams. 157 00:11:12,072 --> 00:11:15,876 He's accused of going silent. 158 00:11:19,113 --> 00:11:20,414 He was guilty. 159 00:11:20,814 --> 00:11:22,249 So I find that he is owed the money. 160 00:11:22,383 --> 00:11:24,151 And I am gonna order you to pay him 161 00:11:24,285 --> 00:11:26,153 what I think is a very reasonable amount. 162 00:11:26,287 --> 00:11:27,488 Good luck, folks. 163 00:11:27,622 --> 00:11:28,923 So Swamp's well known. 164 00:11:29,056 --> 00:11:30,491 Even Doug Llewellyn was familiar. 165 00:11:30,625 --> 00:11:32,627 You're Swamp Dogg? Is that your professional name? 166 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:34,195 - Yes. Yes. - Is that right? 167 00:11:34,495 --> 00:11:35,696 I'm not... If you'll turn around a little bit, there. 168 00:11:35,829 --> 00:11:36,964 I'm... I'm not familiar... 169 00:11:37,431 --> 00:11:39,733 What... what do you do... on the... on... on the tracks? 170 00:11:43,672 --> 00:11:47,441 ♪ I just hafta Always stay plastered ♪ 171 00:11:47,576 --> 00:11:51,445 ♪ On Sal-A-Faster From Al-A-Massa ♪ 172 00:11:51,580 --> 00:11:55,149 ♪ They grow it under A yum-yum tree ♪ 173 00:11:55,482 --> 00:11:59,286 ♪ When I'm plastered On Sal-A-Faster ♪ 174 00:11:59,420 --> 00:12:02,489 ♪ I watch the people All around me ♪ 175 00:12:02,624 --> 00:12:06,393 ♪ You know I mix it With my tea ♪ 176 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:10,064 ♪ Chamomile, Swamp Dogg style ♪ 177 00:12:11,131 --> 00:12:14,569 ♪ I just have to always be plastered ♪ 178 00:12:14,703 --> 00:12:18,005 ♪ On Sal-A-Faster From Al-A-Massa... ♪ 179 00:12:18,138 --> 00:12:22,176 In 1970, I became Swamp Dogg. 180 00:12:22,510 --> 00:12:25,779 I needed an alter ego. 181 00:12:27,481 --> 00:12:29,618 A dog could get away with almost anything. 182 00:12:29,750 --> 00:12:33,354 You know, he can try to jump in your lap while you're eating, 183 00:12:33,487 --> 00:12:37,525 and chew up your shoes, and hump your leg. 184 00:12:37,958 --> 00:12:39,393 I mean I was just doing 185 00:12:39,527 --> 00:12:42,296 what they considered "wild shit." 186 00:12:42,697 --> 00:12:43,698 - So, Swamp? - Yeah? 187 00:12:43,831 --> 00:12:45,165 So, you're the real Dogg, right? 188 00:12:45,299 --> 00:12:46,333 Yep! 189 00:12:46,967 --> 00:12:49,738 Nobody wanted to be named "Dogg." 190 00:12:49,870 --> 00:12:51,405 - Come on? - Nobody. 191 00:12:51,539 --> 00:12:53,440 Matter of fact they wanna fight if you call them a dog. 192 00:12:53,575 --> 00:12:54,643 Yeah! 193 00:12:54,875 --> 00:12:57,579 "Jerry Williams" just seemed too soft. 194 00:12:58,445 --> 00:13:00,214 Ladies and gentlemen, here he is... 195 00:13:00,649 --> 00:13:02,751 " ...Jerry Williams." 196 00:13:02,883 --> 00:13:05,286 And it's... It's a soft name. 197 00:13:08,422 --> 00:13:10,257 I needed a protector. 198 00:13:10,391 --> 00:13:12,259 You know how the little guy hang out with the big guy 199 00:13:12,393 --> 00:13:14,328 and the big guy kicks ass for him? 200 00:13:14,461 --> 00:13:17,699 Well, that's what Swamp Dogg was. 201 00:13:18,065 --> 00:13:19,900 He was my ass kicker. 202 00:13:20,134 --> 00:13:22,637 What Swamp Dogg truly was about 203 00:13:22,836 --> 00:13:27,642 being somebody else while I look for Jerry Williams. 204 00:13:28,275 --> 00:13:29,511 While you looked for Jerry Williams? 205 00:13:29,877 --> 00:13:32,781 Uh-huh, 'cause I had lost him somewhere along the line. 206 00:13:39,887 --> 00:13:41,723 Oops, am I getting the microphone messed up here? 207 00:13:41,855 --> 00:13:43,525 The mic? Does it sound okay in the control room? 208 00:13:43,658 --> 00:13:45,694 'Cause I hear mostly keyboards out here. 209 00:13:45,826 --> 00:13:46,960 Fine. 210 00:13:47,261 --> 00:13:48,530 - That's all I hear too. - Thank you. 211 00:13:48,663 --> 00:13:50,164 Hi, I'm Art Fein. 212 00:13:50,632 --> 00:13:52,900 This is Lil Art's Poker Party coming to you from Santa Monica, 213 00:13:53,167 --> 00:13:56,236 with, uh... stars bigger than Hollywood has. 214 00:13:56,370 --> 00:13:58,972 Because this is my favorite guy in the world. 215 00:13:59,741 --> 00:14:03,344 Uh, this is Swamp Dogg. Swamp, welcome to the show. 216 00:14:03,745 --> 00:14:04,679 Thank you, Art! 217 00:14:04,813 --> 00:14:05,680 Glad to see you, man. 218 00:14:05,814 --> 00:14:06,947 Oh, I'm glad to see you. 219 00:14:07,081 --> 00:14:08,449 It's good to be here on the show. 220 00:14:08,583 --> 00:14:10,484 This is the brand new Swamp Dogg album. 221 00:14:10,618 --> 00:14:11,753 Yeah. 222 00:14:12,086 --> 00:14:13,020 Of course, you changed your name to Swamp Dogg 223 00:14:13,454 --> 00:14:15,022 - somewhere along the way. - Yeah, 1970. 224 00:14:15,255 --> 00:14:16,791 - You were Little Jerry. - This is the story of my life. 225 00:14:16,924 --> 00:14:18,025 Let me go through these albums for a sec. 226 00:14:18,158 --> 00:14:19,460 They all seem to have stickers 227 00:14:19,594 --> 00:14:21,362 that say things like 38 cents on them. 228 00:14:21,495 --> 00:14:22,963 - Yeah. - But it don't matter 229 00:14:23,230 --> 00:14:24,231 'cause the best music is often the least expensive. 230 00:14:24,365 --> 00:14:24,566 Oh, most definitely. 231 00:14:49,624 --> 00:14:53,060 These are just gold and platinum... 232 00:14:53,862 --> 00:14:54,895 accomplishments. 233 00:14:55,229 --> 00:14:56,463 You want this light on? 234 00:14:58,633 --> 00:15:00,502 - Yeah, that's fine. - Okay. 235 00:15:00,702 --> 00:15:02,069 In here... 236 00:15:02,302 --> 00:15:05,372 ...is my manager's bedroom. 237 00:15:06,106 --> 00:15:08,041 I got five daughters, but... 238 00:15:08,743 --> 00:15:10,210 this is the main one. 239 00:15:12,881 --> 00:15:14,014 Do a little dance, Jeri. 240 00:15:14,281 --> 00:15:16,083 - Do a little dance? - Yeah. 241 00:15:17,418 --> 00:15:18,952 That's Jeri. She's going to be a doctor 242 00:15:19,086 --> 00:15:20,588 She's 17. 243 00:15:20,988 --> 00:15:22,289 I'm very fortunate today 244 00:15:22,423 --> 00:15:25,426 to have the actual brain of Swamp Dogg, 245 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:26,493 aka my father. 246 00:15:28,095 --> 00:15:29,597 ♪ Jeri, Jeri ♪ 247 00:15:29,798 --> 00:15:31,900 Aside from the small vessel ischemic changes 248 00:15:32,032 --> 00:15:33,635 like here and so forth, 249 00:15:33,768 --> 00:15:36,170 uh, it's actually a pretty good looking brain for his age. 250 00:15:39,406 --> 00:15:43,845 My father had me when he was in his thirties. 251 00:15:44,311 --> 00:15:47,181 Growing up with him as a father has always been amazing. 252 00:15:47,314 --> 00:15:49,684 Super hardworking, dedicated, 253 00:15:49,818 --> 00:15:51,318 he may have gigs or whatever, 254 00:15:51,452 --> 00:15:54,021 but they were there for me when I played my sports, 255 00:15:54,288 --> 00:15:55,989 there for me when I won my awards. 256 00:15:56,190 --> 00:15:57,792 He was never an absentee dad. 257 00:15:57,991 --> 00:16:00,728 He was able to, sort of, consolidate all of those things. 258 00:16:00,862 --> 00:16:02,963 And I still think to this day, you know, 259 00:16:03,096 --> 00:16:04,766 I know he took off time to raise me. 260 00:16:04,899 --> 00:16:07,167 Sometimes I feel bad, 'cause I think, well, 261 00:16:07,301 --> 00:16:08,636 he was just, 262 00:16:08,870 --> 00:16:10,638 you know, in his heyday and doing so well in the '70s, 263 00:16:10,772 --> 00:16:12,239 like he could have just kept on going, 264 00:16:12,372 --> 00:16:13,675 and touring, and touring. 265 00:16:13,808 --> 00:16:15,309 And he just put that... 266 00:16:16,076 --> 00:16:17,277 sort of, to the side. 267 00:16:17,612 --> 00:16:19,012 Remain seated please. 268 00:16:41,569 --> 00:16:42,670 Boy, oh, boy. 269 00:16:42,971 --> 00:16:45,072 You got a lot of people in this house with you, man. 270 00:16:45,205 --> 00:16:46,508 Yeah, I know it. 271 00:16:46,808 --> 00:16:47,842 I thought you was a bachelor. I thought you just... 272 00:16:47,976 --> 00:16:48,710 I did too! 273 00:16:51,813 --> 00:16:54,348 - What happened, man? - Guitar Shorty... 274 00:16:55,048 --> 00:16:59,119 He, uh... he... he was in Texas, 275 00:16:59,253 --> 00:17:01,421 and him and his old lady broke up. 276 00:17:01,689 --> 00:17:03,390 He called me and said, 277 00:17:03,525 --> 00:17:05,793 "Look here man, you got a lot of room there, 278 00:17:06,159 --> 00:17:10,297 can I stay at your place for a few weeks?" 279 00:17:10,430 --> 00:17:12,534 I said, "Yeah, man, shit, yeah." 280 00:17:12,667 --> 00:17:14,434 'Cause I mean, I know how it feel 281 00:17:14,569 --> 00:17:17,237 not to have a place to live and all that. 282 00:17:17,437 --> 00:17:22,075 He's been here over 18 years. 283 00:17:22,309 --> 00:17:24,177 Merry Christmas to Guitar Shorty. 284 00:17:24,311 --> 00:17:26,179 Merry Christmas, Swamp Dogg! 285 00:17:26,380 --> 00:17:27,916 And I don't charge no rent. 286 00:17:28,382 --> 00:17:30,885 - What? - I don't charge no rent. 287 00:17:31,019 --> 00:17:32,352 Oh, so you got any free rooms? 288 00:17:32,754 --> 00:17:33,721 Yeah, I got one. 289 00:17:33,855 --> 00:17:35,188 You need another roommate? 290 00:17:35,422 --> 00:17:36,691 Hell, no. 291 00:17:36,824 --> 00:17:38,458 All right. Well, how about... All right. 292 00:17:38,726 --> 00:17:40,427 How about you kick Shorty out and I'll get Shorty's room? 293 00:17:40,562 --> 00:17:43,831 I couldn't do it 'cause he's got a heart 294 00:17:44,164 --> 00:17:45,432 as big as that pool. 295 00:18:01,749 --> 00:18:03,718 So now, I got the trailer hooked up and now I'm... 296 00:18:04,719 --> 00:18:05,520 I'm happy. 297 00:18:20,367 --> 00:18:21,636 He's kind of a secret guy. 298 00:18:21,970 --> 00:18:25,506 It's like living with someone who works for the CIA. 299 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:27,909 They've got secrets they can't tell you. 300 00:18:28,042 --> 00:18:31,813 Shorty also is the resident, uh, mechanic. 301 00:18:31,946 --> 00:18:33,246 The man can do, you know, 302 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,283 fix a Mercedes, a Cadillac, a Nissan, whatever. 303 00:18:36,416 --> 00:18:37,652 It's... it's amazing. 304 00:18:37,852 --> 00:18:39,954 Just gets right under the car, goes from there, 305 00:18:40,454 --> 00:18:41,889 then goes to his gigs. 306 00:18:47,028 --> 00:18:48,997 We understand the circumstances. 307 00:18:49,129 --> 00:18:52,734 One get in a jam and need help, we all get in there together. 308 00:18:53,868 --> 00:18:55,402 That's the only way you gonna do it. 309 00:18:55,536 --> 00:18:56,871 We all work together. 310 00:19:05,647 --> 00:19:07,649 - Guitar Shorty. - Yeah. 311 00:19:08,348 --> 00:19:10,551 - How you doing? - Man... 312 00:19:11,953 --> 00:19:13,220 We're very close. 313 00:19:14,022 --> 00:19:15,188 Yeah. 314 00:19:18,492 --> 00:19:19,827 ♪ Roommates ♪ 315 00:19:20,460 --> 00:19:23,965 ♪ Roommates, ooh Roommates, ooh ♪ 316 00:19:24,098 --> 00:19:26,734 ♪ Roommates, ooh, ooh Roommates... ♪ 317 00:19:27,167 --> 00:19:29,637 Well, the house is... it's kind of interesting. 318 00:19:29,771 --> 00:19:32,406 I like to call it "the bachelor pad for musicians." 319 00:19:32,540 --> 00:19:33,875 Um, aging musicians. 320 00:19:34,142 --> 00:19:35,977 Ha ha ha ha. 321 00:19:36,309 --> 00:19:39,547 I like it because it keeps my father company. 322 00:19:39,681 --> 00:19:41,516 He's still doing his music. 323 00:19:41,649 --> 00:19:43,350 He, you know, many times, 324 00:19:43,483 --> 00:19:45,520 they'll go in the studio and jam together, 325 00:19:45,987 --> 00:19:47,855 they're producing all sorts of folks, 326 00:19:47,989 --> 00:19:50,958 and, uh, it's just a great vibe. 327 00:19:51,092 --> 00:19:53,761 Go, Shorty! Uh-oh! Look out now! 328 00:19:54,194 --> 00:19:56,764 So you've just got a bunch of creative people together, 329 00:19:56,998 --> 00:19:59,534 just living together, and keeping each other going. 330 00:19:59,667 --> 00:20:01,334 So it's... it's quite nice. 331 00:20:01,602 --> 00:20:02,904 ♪ Roommates ♪ 332 00:20:06,074 --> 00:20:08,341 Oh shit. 333 00:20:08,475 --> 00:20:09,744 ♪ Paint the pool ♪ 334 00:20:10,611 --> 00:20:11,813 ♪ Paint the pool ♪ 335 00:20:13,313 --> 00:20:14,481 ♪ One hour ♪ 336 00:20:15,215 --> 00:20:16,784 ♪ Two hours ♪ 337 00:20:17,151 --> 00:20:18,753 ♪ Gon' paint the pool ♪ 338 00:20:19,654 --> 00:20:20,988 ♪ Paint the pool ♪ 339 00:20:21,488 --> 00:20:23,725 So, what part of the industry you haven't done? 340 00:20:23,858 --> 00:20:26,794 You've been... you've been a writer, 341 00:20:27,095 --> 00:20:31,199 man, you... you're an artist, you publishing. 342 00:20:31,398 --> 00:20:32,633 I just like it. 343 00:20:32,767 --> 00:20:34,468 It's like a nigga who likes to cook... 344 00:20:34,602 --> 00:20:36,303 You know, you go in there and cook a pie. 345 00:20:36,436 --> 00:20:37,939 You can make a cake. 346 00:20:38,072 --> 00:20:39,807 You cook a ham, you know. 347 00:20:40,208 --> 00:20:41,642 But he's enjoying it all. 348 00:20:41,776 --> 00:20:43,243 - Yeah. - You know? 349 00:20:43,477 --> 00:20:47,915 Plus it... it gives you more angles to work from. 350 00:20:48,049 --> 00:20:49,217 And I like to work! 351 00:20:55,255 --> 00:20:57,191 ♪ I'm tired of working... ♪ 352 00:20:57,925 --> 00:21:00,962 Swamp has written, arranged, produced, 353 00:21:01,095 --> 00:21:03,965 and performed an estimated 2000 songs. 354 00:21:04,665 --> 00:21:06,167 He's worked with hundreds of artists 355 00:21:06,299 --> 00:21:07,902 on nearly 500 albums. 356 00:21:08,636 --> 00:21:11,304 He's released 26 as Swamp Dogg. 357 00:21:13,508 --> 00:21:16,644 ♪ I've done everything ♪ 358 00:21:18,345 --> 00:21:22,349 ♪ Now there's nothing else ♪ 359 00:21:23,151 --> 00:21:26,587 ♪ You are the dog ♪ 360 00:21:27,522 --> 00:21:31,592 ♪ But I got to do the barking All by myself... ♪ 361 00:21:31,726 --> 00:21:34,262 His career really took off in 1967. 362 00:21:34,562 --> 00:21:36,097 When he wrote his first top 20 hit. 363 00:21:36,230 --> 00:21:38,199 You wrote and produced a Gene Pitney song. 364 00:21:38,398 --> 00:21:39,700 - Right! - Can you do that? 365 00:21:40,234 --> 00:21:41,368 ♪ I got another heartbreaker ♪ 366 00:21:41,502 --> 00:21:42,804 I think so. 367 00:21:44,739 --> 00:21:47,074 ♪ I got another heartbreaker ♪ 368 00:21:47,708 --> 00:21:49,677 ♪ On my hands ♪ 369 00:21:51,779 --> 00:21:57,417 ♪ Girl, I can't stand up to you And be a normal man ♪ 370 00:22:01,255 --> 00:22:02,757 I had no money. 371 00:22:06,127 --> 00:22:10,898 Any money I made went towards my wife, 372 00:22:11,032 --> 00:22:12,365 my kids, my aunt, 373 00:22:12,499 --> 00:22:14,235 once every two weeks or something. 374 00:22:14,467 --> 00:22:16,537 I could send like 50 dollars home. 375 00:22:17,004 --> 00:22:20,007 I was staying at the Henry Hudson Hotel, 376 00:22:20,141 --> 00:22:22,743 which was nothing but entertainers. 377 00:22:22,877 --> 00:22:25,780 It was like 20-something dollars a week. 378 00:22:26,147 --> 00:22:31,986 - And I got behind on that. - You know. God damn! 379 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,655 ♪ Just count the days I'm gone ♪ 380 00:22:34,789 --> 00:22:37,357 ♪ 1-2-3-4-5-6-7... ♪ 381 00:22:37,658 --> 00:22:42,897 I had the star musicians in New York loving me. 382 00:22:43,030 --> 00:22:47,001 Chuck Rainey on bass, Herbie Lovelle on drums. 383 00:22:47,134 --> 00:22:48,102 Eric Gale... 384 00:23:07,355 --> 00:23:08,455 Hello? 385 00:23:11,959 --> 00:23:13,393 Yeah? 386 00:23:14,528 --> 00:23:18,266 I'm in the middle of an interview. 387 00:23:18,498 --> 00:23:19,634 Call me later. 388 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:21,302 Bye. 389 00:23:22,770 --> 00:23:26,307 ...Eric Gale on guitar, me on piano. 390 00:23:26,439 --> 00:23:28,342 And that was my rhythm section. 391 00:23:28,643 --> 00:23:31,579 And we was badder than anything out there. 392 00:23:31,712 --> 00:23:34,782 ♪ Count the days 1-2-3-4-5-6-7... ♪ 393 00:23:34,916 --> 00:23:36,684 I went over to Atlantic Records. 394 00:23:36,817 --> 00:23:38,485 They were the only company around 395 00:23:38,619 --> 00:23:40,788 that didn't have a Black AandR man. 396 00:23:40,922 --> 00:23:43,090 We had a lot of Black producers, but no one on staff. 397 00:23:43,224 --> 00:23:47,128 And the NAACP and everybody was coming down on them for this. 398 00:23:47,261 --> 00:23:48,930 And I didn't know I was part of 399 00:23:49,063 --> 00:23:50,798 a political thing that they were doing. 400 00:23:50,932 --> 00:23:52,667 So they just gave me a lot of acts, they gave me a list, 401 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,003 and so I said, "Yeah, okay. I'll cut Patti LaBelle. 402 00:23:56,137 --> 00:23:57,972 "I'd love to cut Patti LaBelle. I'll cut the Commodores." 403 00:23:58,105 --> 00:23:59,540 I didn't think nothing of the Commodores. 404 00:23:59,674 --> 00:24:01,075 They said, hey, here's a bunch of acts 405 00:24:01,208 --> 00:24:02,376 we're getting ready to kick out into the street, 406 00:24:02,510 --> 00:24:03,744 if you wanna cut some of 'em. 407 00:24:03,978 --> 00:24:05,046 Have a ball! 408 00:24:05,445 --> 00:24:08,783 They gave me 500 dollars a week. 409 00:24:09,350 --> 00:24:10,918 Shit. 410 00:24:16,489 --> 00:24:19,327 Gary U.S. Bonds and I went to Miami. 411 00:24:19,459 --> 00:24:20,861 First thing we did, 412 00:24:21,095 --> 00:24:24,532 we moved in the Four Seasons, was a two bedroom suite. 413 00:24:25,132 --> 00:24:28,069 I had a convertible Lincoln Continental. 414 00:24:28,202 --> 00:24:30,871 And Gary had a convertible Cadillac, right? 415 00:24:31,005 --> 00:24:32,673 We didn't cut no music yet. 416 00:24:32,807 --> 00:24:36,010 We were smoking grass and drinking liquor. 417 00:24:36,143 --> 00:24:38,913 All the bills going back to Atlantic. 418 00:24:39,981 --> 00:24:43,217 So I eventually got fired from Atlantic. 419 00:24:44,418 --> 00:24:45,353 Deliberately. 420 00:24:46,354 --> 00:24:49,890 By this time people are coming to me for production. 421 00:24:50,191 --> 00:24:52,126 A lot of them wanted me to play piano. 422 00:24:52,259 --> 00:24:55,997 I was who automatically could give you that groove. 423 00:24:56,130 --> 00:24:58,299 Whatever I played, that was the groove! 424 00:25:00,568 --> 00:25:03,671 ♪ No need in crying ♪ 425 00:25:05,239 --> 00:25:08,709 ♪ 'Cause you see me talking ♪ 426 00:25:10,745 --> 00:25:14,148 ♪ No need denying no, no ♪ 427 00:25:14,281 --> 00:25:15,816 You know the great thing about Swamp Dogg, 428 00:25:16,083 --> 00:25:18,552 he is great at writing from a woman's point of view. 429 00:25:18,686 --> 00:25:19,887 How do you even... how can you get 430 00:25:20,254 --> 00:25:21,922 into the woman's psyche? How is that possible? 431 00:25:22,056 --> 00:25:24,225 I can think more like a woman than I can like a man. 432 00:25:24,358 --> 00:25:25,459 I really can. 433 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,229 My mother and my father were musicians. 434 00:25:28,362 --> 00:25:31,565 And they were always on the road. 435 00:25:31,932 --> 00:25:37,405 So my aunts basically raised me in a house 436 00:25:37,671 --> 00:25:40,408 that had a bunch of strong women, 437 00:25:40,975 --> 00:25:44,545 and they loved me, but they'd kick a man's ass. 438 00:25:44,745 --> 00:25:46,180 All that Doris Duke stuff 439 00:25:46,313 --> 00:25:47,882 "To the Other Woman, I'm the Other Woman." 440 00:25:49,550 --> 00:25:51,218 ♪ Everybody calls me stupid... ♪ 441 00:25:51,619 --> 00:25:53,421 A record like Doris Duke 442 00:25:53,587 --> 00:25:56,924 sold well over a million. 443 00:25:57,058 --> 00:25:59,827 Oh, I was just a terrific motherfucker, 444 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:01,362 you know. 445 00:26:01,829 --> 00:26:03,497 But a whole lot of shit I did, 446 00:26:03,631 --> 00:26:05,534 I didn't know I was supposed to get paid, 447 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:06,700 so I didn't. 448 00:26:06,834 --> 00:26:07,835 That's funny. 449 00:26:08,235 --> 00:26:10,905 I went to college. The whole nine yards. 450 00:26:11,272 --> 00:26:12,273 But... 451 00:26:12,973 --> 00:26:14,975 I said, "This don't mean nothing." 452 00:26:15,576 --> 00:26:18,879 My mind was on making records. 453 00:26:19,580 --> 00:26:22,283 And I had promised myself and God, 454 00:26:23,017 --> 00:26:25,419 I wasn't going to do nothing else in life. 455 00:26:26,253 --> 00:26:28,523 But make records. 456 00:26:28,656 --> 00:26:31,092 Records. 457 00:26:32,993 --> 00:26:35,296 ♪ I just have to... ♪ 458 00:26:36,464 --> 00:26:38,099 - Hello! - Hi! 459 00:26:38,232 --> 00:26:40,668 Aw, shit. We gotta rent a hotel room. 460 00:26:41,268 --> 00:26:44,638 I went into the studio down in Macon, Georgia. 461 00:26:44,872 --> 00:26:47,141 Capricorn, Otis Redding, 462 00:26:47,274 --> 00:26:50,177 The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, 463 00:26:50,478 --> 00:26:51,879 I knew all these guys. 464 00:26:52,246 --> 00:26:53,881 Oh, he'd do an album in just a few days. 465 00:26:54,181 --> 00:26:56,083 I mean, he was... he was in, and he was out. 466 00:26:56,217 --> 00:26:59,720 He could get a lot of music for a small amount of bucks. 467 00:26:59,854 --> 00:27:02,223 They were the fastest recorded records 468 00:27:02,356 --> 00:27:03,624 we ever did here. 469 00:27:03,924 --> 00:27:05,292 That was that Macon, Georgia scene. 470 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,628 ♪ Swamp Dogg style ♪ 471 00:27:10,731 --> 00:27:12,299 At the same time, 472 00:27:12,601 --> 00:27:14,902 Swamp found even greater success in the musical hotbed 473 00:27:15,035 --> 00:27:16,538 of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. 474 00:27:16,670 --> 00:27:18,540 I'd never heard of Muscle Shoals. 475 00:27:19,039 --> 00:27:22,511 But Muscle Shoals was bringing something that I liked, 476 00:27:22,877 --> 00:27:25,813 which was like Country and Blues together. 477 00:27:25,946 --> 00:27:27,181 That's the shit. 478 00:27:28,816 --> 00:27:31,852 ♪ Whoa... ♪ 479 00:27:32,186 --> 00:27:34,255 I became a millionaire down there. 480 00:27:34,655 --> 00:27:37,124 Everything was wide open for me. 481 00:27:37,958 --> 00:27:39,894 I had a houseboat. 482 00:27:40,895 --> 00:27:42,229 Had a plane. 483 00:27:43,164 --> 00:27:45,366 Everything was first class. 484 00:27:51,672 --> 00:27:54,041 But I didn't play it right. 485 00:27:58,613 --> 00:28:03,184 I started doing things without analyzing them. 486 00:28:06,687 --> 00:28:11,192 I was taking Zoloft like you eat MandMs. 487 00:28:16,030 --> 00:28:17,965 I thought motherfuckers were trying to trick me 488 00:28:18,098 --> 00:28:19,800 and kill me, you know. 489 00:28:26,307 --> 00:28:27,908 ♪ Lord, Lord, Lord ♪ 490 00:28:28,042 --> 00:28:29,210 I didn't know 491 00:28:29,410 --> 00:28:31,212 what success was supposed to feel like. 492 00:28:31,345 --> 00:28:34,949 I just thought the world would become mine. 493 00:28:35,449 --> 00:28:38,085 I just went all the way. I bought a Rolls-Royce. 494 00:28:38,219 --> 00:28:40,921 Man, I had nine fucking cars. 495 00:28:41,455 --> 00:28:43,558 Now, who needs nine cars? 496 00:28:44,225 --> 00:28:47,261 I wanted to be grand, but... 497 00:28:49,531 --> 00:28:51,098 that's not what it's about. 498 00:28:54,335 --> 00:28:55,336 Very profound. 499 00:28:58,205 --> 00:28:59,807 This is, uh, Lil Art's Poker Party 500 00:28:59,940 --> 00:29:02,276 coming to you from Hollywood with some pretty groovy guests. 501 00:29:02,510 --> 00:29:04,646 Third or fourth time in, Jerry Williams. 502 00:29:04,778 --> 00:29:05,913 I already introduced you though. 503 00:29:06,046 --> 00:29:07,214 I'm doing this all out of order. 504 00:29:07,348 --> 00:29:08,315 Well, it's good to see you, Jerry. 505 00:29:08,683 --> 00:29:10,251 It's great to see you, Art. 506 00:29:10,451 --> 00:29:11,352 Yeah, man. 507 00:29:11,819 --> 00:29:13,887 And, uh, let me introduce your beautiful wife, Yvonne. 508 00:29:14,288 --> 00:29:15,990 - Hi. - Yvonne, welcome to the show. 509 00:29:16,123 --> 00:29:17,525 It's nice to see you here, too. 510 00:29:22,162 --> 00:29:26,967 I met Yvonne, we got married in '63. 511 00:29:27,501 --> 00:29:28,769 She learned, um, 512 00:29:28,902 --> 00:29:30,605 the music business along with me. 513 00:29:30,804 --> 00:29:32,973 We both learned together. 514 00:29:33,508 --> 00:29:38,112 Most of all the amazing things I did. 515 00:29:38,245 --> 00:29:42,182 She mapped them out, made phone calls, 516 00:29:42,651 --> 00:29:45,085 sent out telexes, and shit. 517 00:29:45,286 --> 00:29:47,656 Basically, he did all of the creative, 518 00:29:47,821 --> 00:29:49,189 wonderful things that he does. 519 00:29:49,423 --> 00:29:52,459 And she was behind the scenes making sure it happened, 520 00:29:52,594 --> 00:29:54,128 and making sure it was lucrative, 521 00:29:54,428 --> 00:29:57,498 sifting through the best deals, looking out for the shysters. 522 00:29:57,699 --> 00:29:59,567 She was the muscle, okay? 523 00:29:59,701 --> 00:30:01,969 She was a gangster. She didn't play, okay? 524 00:30:02,169 --> 00:30:04,673 She'd kick ass, talk shit, and back it up. 525 00:30:04,938 --> 00:30:06,874 Would you stop seeing someone 526 00:30:07,007 --> 00:30:08,710 if they had a pet that you couldn't stand? 527 00:30:08,842 --> 00:30:10,010 Stand up. 528 00:30:10,512 --> 00:30:11,979 They're saying that the pet is more important than I am. 529 00:30:12,112 --> 00:30:14,381 - Has that ever happened to you? - No, it hasn't. 530 00:30:14,516 --> 00:30:15,983 But if it did, he could just hit the road. 531 00:30:16,116 --> 00:30:17,318 Okay. 532 00:30:17,451 --> 00:30:18,819 She's a little taller than him. 533 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:20,321 There was that Barney Rubble, Betty Rubble thing, okay? 534 00:30:20,487 --> 00:30:21,589 She was the big one. 535 00:30:21,723 --> 00:30:23,257 When she barked, everybody shut up. 536 00:30:23,591 --> 00:30:24,925 Including him. 537 00:30:25,059 --> 00:30:26,528 Her role in my father's career 538 00:30:26,661 --> 00:30:28,162 was beyond instrumental. 539 00:30:28,295 --> 00:30:31,633 She basically was his manager, his financial guru, 540 00:30:31,766 --> 00:30:33,834 you name it. She was brilliant. 541 00:30:35,035 --> 00:30:37,639 She definitely broadened his horizons 542 00:30:37,772 --> 00:30:39,473 and came up with a lot of great ideas 543 00:30:39,607 --> 00:30:43,877 as far as making the company bigger and better. 544 00:30:44,244 --> 00:30:45,780 I consider myself 545 00:30:45,913 --> 00:30:48,115 one of the luckiest motherfuckers in the world. 546 00:30:56,957 --> 00:30:58,959 Sitting on a cornflake 547 00:30:59,860 --> 00:31:01,929 Riding on a roller skate 548 00:31:03,330 --> 00:31:07,434 Too late to hesitate Or even meditate 549 00:31:08,402 --> 00:31:11,539 Always looking up what's down 550 00:31:12,607 --> 00:31:15,242 They come to get me From the lost and found 551 00:31:16,678 --> 00:31:19,647 But believe me I'm doing fine 552 00:31:20,548 --> 00:31:23,618 And to the world I'll toast some wine 553 00:31:24,786 --> 00:31:26,019 And then I'll do... 554 00:31:27,087 --> 00:31:28,556 Total destruction... 555 00:31:29,791 --> 00:31:30,991 To your mind 556 00:31:32,893 --> 00:31:35,062 Trials, and tribulations... 557 00:31:35,963 --> 00:31:37,599 Misuse, and... 558 00:31:39,133 --> 00:31:40,367 Aggravation 559 00:31:42,269 --> 00:31:44,972 It was me Who you stepped upon 560 00:31:46,039 --> 00:31:48,442 Me who you look down on 561 00:31:49,811 --> 00:31:52,547 I was there to watch you Playing game 562 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,551 Now, I've learned To do the same 563 00:31:58,419 --> 00:32:00,722 Now, I'm on your case 564 00:32:01,288 --> 00:32:03,558 Looking you square In the face 565 00:32:03,758 --> 00:32:07,729 And just as sure As the sun is going shine 566 00:32:07,862 --> 00:32:11,498 Shine, shine, shine, shine 567 00:32:12,232 --> 00:32:14,702 I'm going to do Total destruction... 568 00:32:15,870 --> 00:32:17,371 Total destruction... 569 00:32:19,072 --> 00:32:21,275 Total destruction to your mind 570 00:32:51,506 --> 00:32:53,106 Don't get too close to the edge, Shorty. 571 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:54,975 Don't get too close to the edge. 572 00:32:55,476 --> 00:32:57,277 You can swim, can't you? 573 00:32:58,145 --> 00:33:00,380 Not in them shoes. 574 00:33:00,815 --> 00:33:01,850 He can swim a little bit. 575 00:33:02,149 --> 00:33:03,317 With them shoes 576 00:33:03,685 --> 00:33:04,652 gonna drag him down to the bottom of the water. 577 00:33:11,860 --> 00:33:12,927 This is Northridge, 578 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,262 the porn capital of the fuckin' world. 579 00:33:15,395 --> 00:33:18,098 Damn, near every house out here, they shooting porn. 580 00:33:18,232 --> 00:33:19,500 - Yeah! - Ain't no furniture 581 00:33:19,634 --> 00:33:22,002 in these houses. 582 00:33:26,473 --> 00:33:28,710 I used to wanna be, uh, a... a grip 583 00:33:28,943 --> 00:33:30,945 until I found out how much they had to lift. 584 00:33:31,078 --> 00:33:32,012 I thought that would be cool. 585 00:33:32,145 --> 00:33:33,548 "What do you do?" "I'm a grip." 586 00:33:33,681 --> 00:33:35,517 It's better to be a gripper than a fluffer. 587 00:33:35,650 --> 00:33:37,552 - What's a fluffer? - What is a fluffer? 588 00:33:37,685 --> 00:33:39,286 Porn man! When you in porn, 589 00:33:39,687 --> 00:33:41,488 the person that come to get you ready... 590 00:33:41,623 --> 00:33:43,090 - Oh! - ...before you do the thing. 591 00:33:43,323 --> 00:33:44,893 - They jack your dick? - Yeah. 592 00:33:45,025 --> 00:33:46,126 Uh... 593 00:33:46,493 --> 00:33:47,829 How long y'all been in show business? 594 00:33:47,962 --> 00:33:49,764 I haven't been in that show business. 595 00:33:49,898 --> 00:33:51,298 You know, you gotta be prepped 596 00:33:51,533 --> 00:33:52,499 before you go in. 597 00:33:59,974 --> 00:34:00,909 You get it? 598 00:34:01,174 --> 00:34:02,376 I didn't understand 599 00:34:02,510 --> 00:34:05,145 a goddamn thing. 600 00:34:05,279 --> 00:34:06,681 Shorty had his eyes closed 601 00:34:06,814 --> 00:34:08,950 a second ago, but I didn't want to interrupt 602 00:34:09,082 --> 00:34:10,183 what you was saying. 603 00:34:10,317 --> 00:34:11,653 Oh, he's meditating. 604 00:34:14,288 --> 00:34:16,558 You got on some socks says "Suck my dick?" 605 00:34:19,493 --> 00:34:21,395 I like that! Where'd you get those, man? 606 00:34:21,596 --> 00:34:23,898 - Why, you want a pair? - Yeah, I want a pair! 607 00:34:24,032 --> 00:34:25,132 All right, I'll get you a pair. 608 00:34:25,265 --> 00:34:26,500 Oh, man! 609 00:34:26,734 --> 00:34:29,904 You don't see no messages on socks! 610 00:34:31,438 --> 00:34:32,807 We gonna open that... 611 00:34:40,147 --> 00:34:41,549 That's my friend. 612 00:34:41,849 --> 00:34:45,620 Make sure you get his feet. See? He got White folks feet. 613 00:34:49,189 --> 00:34:51,425 This is Guitar Shorty's room. 614 00:34:52,660 --> 00:34:56,631 You go in there, uh, at your own risk. 615 00:34:56,764 --> 00:34:58,098 Uh, 616 00:34:58,231 --> 00:35:00,200 this is my living room. 617 00:35:00,935 --> 00:35:02,269 Used to be bigger... 618 00:35:03,136 --> 00:35:05,238 until Moogstar... 619 00:35:06,106 --> 00:35:08,543 took it over with his green screen... 620 00:35:09,376 --> 00:35:11,879 but we get good use out of it, so... 621 00:35:12,479 --> 00:35:14,181 I'm not complaining. 622 00:35:14,949 --> 00:35:16,350 That's my man. 623 00:35:17,250 --> 00:35:21,889 Well, Moogstar has so much talent. 624 00:35:22,322 --> 00:35:23,992 He's the only person I know 625 00:35:24,124 --> 00:35:26,293 who can play any instrument well! 626 00:35:28,195 --> 00:35:31,532 Not just can play it, but play it well. 627 00:35:32,132 --> 00:35:33,433 It's just crazy. 628 00:35:33,568 --> 00:35:35,135 Like, anything he sets his mind to do, 629 00:35:35,268 --> 00:35:36,738 he can do it. 630 00:35:36,871 --> 00:35:39,306 ♪ Hangin out with the owls All night ♪ 631 00:35:39,574 --> 00:35:41,843 ♪ Ooh... ♪ 632 00:35:43,511 --> 00:35:49,182 Moogstar... M-O-O-G S-T-A-R. 633 00:35:49,784 --> 00:35:51,719 I am like a satellite. 634 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,287 Not from this planet... 635 00:35:55,222 --> 00:35:56,490 but I am here... 636 00:35:56,624 --> 00:35:58,059 ...amongst you all. 637 00:35:58,191 --> 00:36:00,394 I'm gonna have to funk you all down! 638 00:36:00,528 --> 00:36:01,929 Are we recording? 639 00:36:02,063 --> 00:36:03,531 Yeah, it's recording. 640 00:36:04,565 --> 00:36:06,400 Let you in on a lil' of this. 641 00:36:11,873 --> 00:36:12,974 Let me do that over again. 642 00:36:13,107 --> 00:36:14,274 Okay. 643 00:36:19,312 --> 00:36:20,480 Don't copyright that. 644 00:36:28,156 --> 00:36:29,557 Okay, you want me... 645 00:36:52,046 --> 00:36:53,915 First door and to the left... 646 00:36:55,449 --> 00:36:58,052 Star Village. 647 00:36:58,385 --> 00:37:00,822 Welcome to my "lablomatory." 648 00:37:01,656 --> 00:37:04,759 This is where I hang out. Sleep right there. 649 00:37:05,593 --> 00:37:09,296 Me, and my animals, and my mask, and, uh... 650 00:37:10,363 --> 00:37:12,265 all the animals are my friends. 651 00:37:12,967 --> 00:37:15,002 You know, we get to go way back in time. 652 00:37:18,371 --> 00:37:19,807 See, look at all that. 653 00:37:20,742 --> 00:37:23,177 This was the baby, man, I... I'll never forget. 654 00:37:23,544 --> 00:37:25,479 I played it all over the place, man. 655 00:37:25,613 --> 00:37:27,882 And I took it to church, and I never s... 656 00:37:28,015 --> 00:37:29,884 seeing how the people was acting crazy, 657 00:37:30,017 --> 00:37:31,485 and they was doin' the funky worm, 658 00:37:31,619 --> 00:37:33,154 and they started doing all kinds of shit. 659 00:37:33,286 --> 00:37:34,522 And I was doing all... 660 00:37:34,689 --> 00:37:36,090 I was just getting the feel of it then. 661 00:37:36,323 --> 00:37:38,826 But I feel the spirit and I just go into these runs. 662 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,095 'Cause, you know, the church got Christ, they rolling. 663 00:37:41,229 --> 00:37:43,631 And they be dancing like in a... in a... in a club, 664 00:37:43,765 --> 00:37:45,666 and, you know, in a house club, 665 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:48,401 you know, I mean they be gone! Fast! You know... 666 00:37:54,942 --> 00:37:55,843 The funky worm! 667 00:37:56,409 --> 00:37:58,378 And now I start doing this crazy funky shit and all that. 668 00:37:58,513 --> 00:38:00,515 And they were like, "Whoa!" 669 00:38:00,648 --> 00:38:04,152 I was able to listen to secular music by sneaking, 670 00:38:04,652 --> 00:38:06,788 by listening to it on the side, 671 00:38:06,921 --> 00:38:09,690 and, oh, with a little transistor radio, 672 00:38:10,057 --> 00:38:12,927 you know, and go outside, 673 00:38:13,060 --> 00:38:16,030 or go somewhere where I feel I'm protected 674 00:38:16,164 --> 00:38:17,532 without my dad being around. 675 00:38:17,932 --> 00:38:19,967 'Cause, boy, he believed in whooping you. Oh! 676 00:38:20,201 --> 00:38:21,434 He'd whoop our ass. 677 00:38:21,569 --> 00:38:23,805 I wasn't able to really, like, get into it, 678 00:38:23,938 --> 00:38:26,674 like go to a concert or... or anything, like, 679 00:38:26,808 --> 00:38:29,243 you know, have my own CDs, and records, 680 00:38:29,376 --> 00:38:30,812 and, you know, all of that. 681 00:38:30,945 --> 00:38:33,748 So I could study it and... and really get into it. 682 00:38:34,447 --> 00:38:35,683 I didn't get that. 683 00:38:36,483 --> 00:38:38,653 But I felt the music. I felt it. 684 00:38:38,786 --> 00:38:41,689 I knew the music... I can relate to any music. 685 00:38:41,989 --> 00:38:45,193 Don't matter what it is. I love music. It's in me. 686 00:38:58,405 --> 00:39:00,274 My grandfather taught me 687 00:39:00,407 --> 00:39:01,676 how to stand on my head, 688 00:39:01,809 --> 00:39:04,679 but I was always scared after I did it. 689 00:39:05,179 --> 00:39:06,446 Hey, Swamp! How are you doing? 690 00:39:06,581 --> 00:39:07,748 I don't know who it is. 691 00:39:08,015 --> 00:39:09,050 Good to see you, neighbor. 692 00:39:09,349 --> 00:39:10,852 What's happening? Man! 693 00:39:11,586 --> 00:39:13,187 That's some crazy stuff up there. 694 00:39:15,122 --> 00:39:16,624 It's always strange things happening here, 695 00:39:16,757 --> 00:39:19,627 you know that. 696 00:39:20,194 --> 00:39:22,029 You keep up with the news? 697 00:39:24,165 --> 00:39:25,099 The FBI? 698 00:39:25,766 --> 00:39:27,635 Suddenly, they're the good guys. 699 00:39:29,604 --> 00:39:30,972 They were looking at you at one point. 700 00:39:31,105 --> 00:39:33,274 Uh-huh. - Oh yeah. But that was... 701 00:39:33,406 --> 00:39:34,575 That was around the time 702 00:39:34,842 --> 00:39:36,644 that Lennon and people like Groucho Marx, 703 00:39:36,777 --> 00:39:38,112 you know, they were on a... 704 00:39:38,246 --> 00:39:39,479 - List. - ...list. 705 00:39:39,947 --> 00:39:43,050 Yeah, they're all on the list. They were just, uh, subversives, 706 00:39:43,184 --> 00:39:44,185 - you know. - Yeah. 707 00:39:44,318 --> 00:39:45,452 I want to hear about that. 708 00:39:45,653 --> 00:39:48,789 - Yeah. - That was 1970... 71. 709 00:39:48,923 --> 00:39:50,925 Seemed like I did all my crazy shit 710 00:39:51,058 --> 00:39:51,993 right around then. 711 00:39:52,492 --> 00:39:53,527 Uh, 712 00:39:53,794 --> 00:39:58,099 I was, you know, singing songs about... 713 00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:01,702 the president that weren't... 714 00:40:02,737 --> 00:40:05,773 complimentary. I joined up with Jane Fonda. 715 00:40:05,973 --> 00:40:07,808 - Hmm. - And they hated her. 716 00:40:07,942 --> 00:40:08,843 Right. 717 00:40:09,310 --> 00:40:14,282 The FBI came, and asked me a whole bunch of questions, 718 00:40:14,414 --> 00:40:16,584 and the only thing they could get 719 00:40:16,717 --> 00:40:19,720 was something about me stealing a car. 720 00:40:19,854 --> 00:40:22,489 At that time, I had nine automobiles. 721 00:40:22,623 --> 00:40:25,092 The hell I'm gonna steal a car for? 722 00:40:27,094 --> 00:40:30,831 And I'm forgetting what I'm saying. 723 00:40:32,099 --> 00:40:36,504 Mr. Wiggles was, uh, a little gangster. 724 00:40:37,371 --> 00:40:38,639 He was a real gangster, I guess, 725 00:40:38,773 --> 00:40:40,574 'cause he shot a couple of people. 726 00:40:41,108 --> 00:40:42,243 Mr. Wiggles? 727 00:40:44,879 --> 00:40:46,147 Tom was hoping 728 00:40:46,380 --> 00:40:47,715 that Swamp would have kept telling him 729 00:40:48,082 --> 00:40:49,350 the story about touring around with Jane Fonda. 730 00:40:50,084 --> 00:40:51,451 Here's what we would've learned. 731 00:40:52,153 --> 00:40:56,190 In 1971, the Vietnam War was still ongoing. 732 00:40:56,424 --> 00:40:57,892 What is it that... that... 733 00:40:58,192 --> 00:41:00,460 Jane Fonda and other anti-war activists 734 00:41:00,661 --> 00:41:02,296 decided to form an entertainment group 735 00:41:02,430 --> 00:41:04,398 that would fly in the face of Bob Hope and his revues. 736 00:41:06,867 --> 00:41:09,070 The traveling show was called FTA, 737 00:41:09,370 --> 00:41:10,470 or Free The Army. 738 00:41:10,604 --> 00:41:12,640 The soldiers know what FTA means, 739 00:41:12,773 --> 00:41:14,375 um, it means one particular thing to them, 740 00:41:14,508 --> 00:41:16,043 we say it means Free The Army, 741 00:41:16,476 --> 00:41:17,511 and, um... 742 00:41:19,547 --> 00:41:20,781 It meant Fuck The Army. 743 00:41:21,449 --> 00:41:22,917 They visited military bases 744 00:41:23,050 --> 00:41:25,086 around the United States and the Pacific Rim. 745 00:41:25,219 --> 00:41:27,722 Other members of the group included Donald Sutherland, 746 00:41:27,989 --> 00:41:30,891 Dick Gregory, and for a while, Swamp Dogg. 747 00:41:31,025 --> 00:41:33,694 We put on our show, there was a group called Swamp Dogg, 748 00:41:33,828 --> 00:41:35,863 a marvelous rock group. 749 00:41:35,997 --> 00:41:38,899 They sang songs like "God Bless America for What." 750 00:41:40,968 --> 00:41:42,269 His radical political views 751 00:41:42,403 --> 00:41:44,739 got him placed on the FBI's watch list, 752 00:41:45,006 --> 00:41:46,507 and dropped from Elektra Records. 753 00:41:48,009 --> 00:41:49,944 ♪ God bless America ♪ 754 00:41:51,645 --> 00:41:53,714 ♪ Since Martin died ♪ 755 00:41:54,415 --> 00:41:56,951 ♪ Nothing has changed ♪ 756 00:41:58,586 --> 00:42:00,021 ♪ In a country like this ♪ 757 00:42:00,154 --> 00:42:03,024 ♪ People living in the street A damn shame ♪ 758 00:42:04,725 --> 00:42:07,595 ♪ There's not a paragraph Supposed to help them ♪ 759 00:42:07,728 --> 00:42:09,964 ♪ In the constitution ♪ 760 00:42:10,664 --> 00:42:12,733 ♪ We need a revolution ♪ 761 00:42:15,736 --> 00:42:16,937 These are the type of songs 762 00:42:17,071 --> 00:42:18,639 that kept me from being too popular. 763 00:42:18,773 --> 00:42:20,074 Yeah. 764 00:42:20,207 --> 00:42:21,575 You wanna know what happened to my career? 765 00:42:22,209 --> 00:42:24,678 Songs like "Eat the Goose." 766 00:42:25,846 --> 00:42:28,149 "I've Never Been To Africa." 767 00:42:29,250 --> 00:42:30,284 "Call Me Nigger." 768 00:42:32,486 --> 00:42:33,988 "Mighty Mighty Dollar Bill." 769 00:42:34,455 --> 00:42:36,824 Yeah! I keep singing them. 770 00:42:39,627 --> 00:42:40,928 Yeah! 771 00:42:41,429 --> 00:42:43,464 Could you turn up the applause meter right there? 772 00:42:43,597 --> 00:42:45,199 God, that's great, Jerry. 773 00:42:45,399 --> 00:42:46,434 That's great, Swamp. 774 00:42:47,101 --> 00:42:49,804 Your career has kind of been, uh... up and down. 775 00:42:49,937 --> 00:42:51,205 Yes, it has. Lots of down. 776 00:42:51,338 --> 00:42:52,940 - Lots of down? - Lots of downs. 777 00:42:53,074 --> 00:42:54,909 But yet you're loved throughout the world. 778 00:42:55,042 --> 00:42:56,310 Yes, it's... it's, well... 779 00:42:56,444 --> 00:42:58,079 It's a very interesting phenomenon. 780 00:42:58,279 --> 00:42:59,914 I've noticed you're never on the same label twice. 781 00:43:00,047 --> 00:43:01,115 No, no. 782 00:43:01,582 --> 00:43:04,652 Uh, they... they get their fill of me after one time around. 783 00:43:15,262 --> 00:43:20,000 I was signed to Virgin Records in '96? 784 00:43:20,201 --> 00:43:21,335 Yeah. 785 00:43:21,536 --> 00:43:22,937 This is the new album. 786 00:43:23,137 --> 00:43:25,439 It's going to live up to all that we were expecting. 787 00:43:25,574 --> 00:43:28,309 - I certainly hope so. - It fucking better! 788 00:43:28,809 --> 00:43:32,446 I had lunch made for everybody at Virgin, 789 00:43:32,813 --> 00:43:34,348 and we had like, you know, 790 00:43:34,482 --> 00:43:36,884 ribs, sausage, potato salad, that type of thing. 791 00:43:38,587 --> 00:43:39,521 That was... 792 00:43:40,121 --> 00:43:43,791 the same week that I had circumcision. 793 00:43:44,125 --> 00:43:47,928 Boy, you talk about some hurt! 794 00:43:48,062 --> 00:43:50,664 You got circumcised? In '96? 795 00:43:50,798 --> 00:43:51,966 Yeah. 796 00:43:52,633 --> 00:43:53,535 Why so late? 797 00:43:54,468 --> 00:43:57,838 I didn't feel that I needed it, my wife did. 798 00:43:58,172 --> 00:43:59,874 And she wasn't never wrong. 799 00:44:16,525 --> 00:44:17,925 This is my... 800 00:44:18,726 --> 00:44:20,661 garage, but... 801 00:44:21,630 --> 00:44:23,264 I turned it into... 802 00:44:24,732 --> 00:44:28,769 my SDEG Records warehouse. 803 00:44:29,270 --> 00:44:31,272 Swamp Dog Entertainment Group. 804 00:44:31,405 --> 00:44:33,007 That's SDEG. 805 00:44:33,407 --> 00:44:37,579 That's how we're listed with the IRS 806 00:44:37,711 --> 00:44:38,979 on their list of people 807 00:44:39,113 --> 00:44:40,981 that they getting ready to put in jail. 808 00:44:41,115 --> 00:44:43,417 Call 800-777-DOGG. 809 00:44:43,552 --> 00:44:46,555 That's 800-777-D-O-G-G. 810 00:44:46,820 --> 00:44:50,291 I put out all kinds of records. 811 00:44:50,525 --> 00:44:54,028 Soul compilations, um, Country, 812 00:44:54,161 --> 00:44:56,230 Jackson 5 and Johnny. 813 00:44:56,631 --> 00:45:00,301 And everybody always asks uh, "Who the hell is Johnny?" 814 00:45:01,001 --> 00:45:02,369 One of the most exciting ones 815 00:45:02,504 --> 00:45:05,540 was a thing called Beatle Barkers, 816 00:45:05,674 --> 00:45:07,241 and it was Beatles songs 817 00:45:07,509 --> 00:45:10,477 being sung by dogs, cats, and cattle. 818 00:45:10,612 --> 00:45:12,479 "Beatle Barkers"! 819 00:45:16,951 --> 00:45:18,118 Enjoy again 820 00:45:18,252 --> 00:45:19,820 all your Beatles favorites, 821 00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,256 sung... did I say sung?... as only they could be. 822 00:45:23,724 --> 00:45:24,626 By chickens, cattle, 823 00:45:24,758 --> 00:45:25,759 dogs, and sheep! 824 00:45:25,893 --> 00:45:27,361 Record did good. 825 00:45:27,562 --> 00:45:32,933 I sold 30,000 cassettes to a pet supplier in Spain. 826 00:45:35,769 --> 00:45:37,539 You know, Yvonne's your collaborator, 827 00:45:37,805 --> 00:45:39,106 - your wife. - Yeah. 828 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:40,642 She helps write songs, produces, 829 00:45:40,774 --> 00:45:41,942 - I mean everything, right? - Right. 830 00:45:42,076 --> 00:45:42,943 You got a rap record out too? 831 00:45:43,310 --> 00:45:44,745 Sure, we have two out. 832 00:45:44,945 --> 00:45:46,981 Oh yeah, Daddy D! We got a guy named Daddy D. 833 00:45:47,114 --> 00:45:50,284 Then I got another album on, uh... What is it? 834 00:45:50,417 --> 00:45:52,621 - Hustle, Z and M.C. Cool P. - Hustle, Z and M.C. Cool P! 835 00:45:52,753 --> 00:45:55,724 Oh yeah. We signed this rap group out of South Carolina. 836 00:45:56,056 --> 00:45:58,292 I didn't know it was finalized yet, so I didn't wanna say anything. 837 00:45:58,425 --> 00:46:00,662 Well, we don't quite have it on paper yet. 838 00:46:02,229 --> 00:46:03,831 ♪ Don't stop now ♪ 839 00:46:05,165 --> 00:46:07,234 ♪ Don't stop now... ♪ 840 00:46:08,202 --> 00:46:09,803 Yvonne brought the rappers in. 841 00:46:09,937 --> 00:46:13,742 She's the one who started a rap section of our company. 842 00:46:13,874 --> 00:46:16,176 ♪ Well now the music is pumping So get out your seat... ♪ 843 00:46:16,310 --> 00:46:22,349 And she started managing some DJs and rappers. 844 00:46:22,483 --> 00:46:24,251 And I thought she was wasting her time, 845 00:46:24,385 --> 00:46:27,555 but we had a little money, so go with it. 846 00:46:27,689 --> 00:46:30,124 ♪ To the beat, y'all ♪ 847 00:46:30,257 --> 00:46:31,626 In 1991, 848 00:46:31,825 --> 00:46:33,561 Swamp and Yvonne released a hip hop classic, 849 00:46:33,695 --> 00:46:35,764 M.C. Breed's "Ain't No Future in Yo Frontin." 850 00:46:35,896 --> 00:46:37,197 Check it out! 851 00:46:39,300 --> 00:46:40,968 We took him from nothin' to somebody. 852 00:46:41,101 --> 00:46:42,903 We sold a million on him. 853 00:46:43,037 --> 00:46:44,471 ♪ Sound good to me ♪ 854 00:46:45,406 --> 00:46:46,708 ♪ This sound hard... ♪ 855 00:46:48,375 --> 00:46:50,779 I had artists that sell 100, 856 00:46:51,145 --> 00:46:55,949 200 thousand 12-inches, and never appear on the charts. 857 00:46:56,216 --> 00:46:58,653 They'd just skip over rap artists. 858 00:47:05,059 --> 00:47:06,293 In the '80s, 859 00:47:06,594 --> 00:47:10,464 I started managing the World Class Wreckin' Cru, 860 00:47:10,699 --> 00:47:16,337 which at that time had Dr. Dre, Yella, Lonzo Williams. 861 00:47:17,605 --> 00:47:20,040 Swamp was my professor, my mentor. 862 00:47:20,174 --> 00:47:21,475 Now, Dre, and Yella, 863 00:47:21,609 --> 00:47:24,011 and all these guys are right next to me, 864 00:47:24,144 --> 00:47:26,313 and none of us knew anything about anything 865 00:47:26,447 --> 00:47:28,015 when it came to the record business. 866 00:47:28,215 --> 00:47:30,451 He taught me how to sustain in bad times. 867 00:47:30,585 --> 00:47:33,153 He was an artist that owned his own label. 868 00:47:34,054 --> 00:47:35,089 They told me, I couldn't do that. 869 00:47:35,222 --> 00:47:36,490 Swamp Dogg told me, I could. 870 00:47:36,957 --> 00:47:39,059 Swamp's been known around the West Coast. 871 00:47:39,293 --> 00:47:40,327 Even Calvin was familiar. 872 00:47:40,662 --> 00:47:43,097 Yeah, I know who Swamp Dogg is. OG. 873 00:47:43,330 --> 00:47:45,734 Oh, no, he didn't. Look at the swamper. 874 00:47:46,100 --> 00:47:48,803 He pulled up with a rat on a chain, man! 875 00:47:48,936 --> 00:47:50,471 He's a fool, man. 876 00:47:51,071 --> 00:47:53,273 He's a fool killer. 877 00:47:54,975 --> 00:47:57,144 I've been affiliated with rats 878 00:47:57,277 --> 00:48:00,347 ever since I did an album called Rat On! 879 00:48:00,749 --> 00:48:05,919 I've had more publicity to this album 880 00:48:06,086 --> 00:48:07,454 than I have... 881 00:48:09,356 --> 00:48:11,826 any other album I've had. 882 00:48:11,959 --> 00:48:13,060 And the reason 883 00:48:13,460 --> 00:48:17,231 is because instead of just being a... 884 00:48:18,966 --> 00:48:21,135 ratty rat... 885 00:48:22,369 --> 00:48:24,238 he's smiling. 886 00:48:24,371 --> 00:48:25,707 Swamp Dogg ridin' the rat? 887 00:48:25,939 --> 00:48:28,710 Well, you know what? That picture how dumb I was. 888 00:48:29,042 --> 00:48:30,310 I say, "Swamp Dogg, 889 00:48:30,444 --> 00:48:31,912 where you find a rat that big to get on?" 890 00:48:32,045 --> 00:48:33,180 He told me, "Oh, man, 891 00:48:33,447 --> 00:48:35,048 they got... they get 'em down there at the zoo." 892 00:48:35,282 --> 00:48:36,618 "Gotta go to the special spot, they got the big rats." 893 00:48:36,751 --> 00:48:38,318 I'm... I'm thinking it was real shit, okay? 894 00:48:38,653 --> 00:48:40,287 I didn't know it was photo magic! 895 00:48:40,522 --> 00:48:42,824 Then he had another one. Him in a hot dog. 896 00:48:43,190 --> 00:48:45,225 I just want to be inside... 897 00:48:46,260 --> 00:48:47,595 of a hot dog. 898 00:48:47,729 --> 00:48:49,997 That's my favorite food. 899 00:48:52,166 --> 00:48:54,401 This was done in '82. 900 00:48:54,536 --> 00:49:00,040 They put this cover on, with this dog eating my butt. 901 00:49:02,577 --> 00:49:05,479 And I was going to sue 'em and my wife said, 902 00:49:05,613 --> 00:49:09,483 "You know, you're going to look like a fool in court." 903 00:49:10,284 --> 00:49:11,418 I said, "Why?" 904 00:49:11,952 --> 00:49:15,690 She said, "All them crazy albums that you have done yourself..." 905 00:49:17,926 --> 00:49:19,861 ♪ Salt salty dog ♪ 906 00:49:19,993 --> 00:49:23,565 ♪ C'mon now! Salt salty dog ♪ 907 00:49:24,097 --> 00:49:25,365 ♪ Salty dog ♪ 908 00:49:25,633 --> 00:49:27,669 ♪ C'mon, everybody Sing with me ♪ 909 00:49:27,869 --> 00:49:29,069 ♪ One more time ♪ 910 00:49:29,336 --> 00:49:30,638 "...You can't win with this," 911 00:49:30,772 --> 00:49:32,740 she said, "It ain't really that bad." 912 00:49:33,974 --> 00:49:35,042 Hanging around Swamp Dogg, 913 00:49:35,275 --> 00:49:37,946 I see what being original is like. 914 00:49:38,445 --> 00:49:40,715 He don't give a fuck about none of that shit, okay? 915 00:49:40,849 --> 00:49:42,349 He do Swamp Dogg all the time. 916 00:49:42,483 --> 00:49:44,251 Don't be afraid to step outside the box. 917 00:49:44,384 --> 00:49:45,920 - Try something different, man! - Right. 918 00:49:46,053 --> 00:49:47,087 You know, try something different. 919 00:49:47,221 --> 00:49:48,790 Put a... put a banjo on your shit. 920 00:49:48,923 --> 00:49:50,057 That's right. 921 00:49:50,190 --> 00:49:51,559 Okay, try a banjo on some hip-hop. 922 00:49:51,693 --> 00:49:53,661 That's that creativity that they don't teach you. 923 00:49:53,795 --> 00:49:56,664 - You have to just do it. - Yeah, you got to do it. 924 00:50:05,740 --> 00:50:08,676 "If You Can Kill It I Can Cook It." 925 00:50:09,276 --> 00:50:12,647 Featuring Moogstar and The Ingredients. 926 00:50:13,948 --> 00:50:16,283 Swamp Dogg, Dizzy Fae. 927 00:50:16,751 --> 00:50:18,318 "If You Can Kill It I Can Cook It," 928 00:50:18,686 --> 00:50:20,522 the new cookbook written for you by Swamp Dogg, 929 00:50:20,922 --> 00:50:25,058 legendary musician, entertainer, and now, chef! 930 00:50:26,728 --> 00:50:29,329 Hey, y'all! It's your girl, Dizzy Fae. 931 00:50:29,463 --> 00:50:31,365 Welcome to If You Can Kill It... 932 00:50:31,599 --> 00:50:33,668 - ...I Can Cook It! - Absolutely. 933 00:50:33,801 --> 00:50:36,403 Let me introduce you to our chef, Swamp Dogg. 934 00:50:36,538 --> 00:50:38,105 Thank you. 935 00:50:38,238 --> 00:50:39,774 Makes me feel so good. 936 00:50:43,277 --> 00:50:45,078 So, Swamp, what are we making today? 937 00:50:45,279 --> 00:50:48,181 - We're makin' cheesecake. - Ooh! 938 00:50:48,415 --> 00:50:51,519 Moogstar does not eat cheese. 939 00:50:53,922 --> 00:50:57,224 - Swamp, this looks amazing. - It looks great. 940 00:50:57,424 --> 00:50:58,760 Give it up for our lucky audience member. 941 00:50:58,893 --> 00:51:00,795 Jesse! Where did he come from? 942 00:51:01,029 --> 00:51:02,597 Is he gonna eat the whole cake? 943 00:51:02,931 --> 00:51:04,398 - "If You Can Kill It - I Can Cook It," 944 00:51:04,532 --> 00:51:06,300 the cookbook 50 years in the making! 945 00:51:06,601 --> 00:51:08,836 Swamp Dogg turned to writing this cookbook for family and friends 946 00:51:09,037 --> 00:51:10,572 to get him through the turbulent times of life, and you can too. 947 00:51:10,905 --> 00:51:13,273 Call 1-866-DOGG-FUD. That's 1-866-D-O-G-G-F-U-D. 948 00:51:13,407 --> 00:51:14,642 Call now. 949 00:51:15,043 --> 00:51:16,911 That video grabbed my attention right from the beginning. 950 00:51:17,045 --> 00:51:20,515 I not only felt that this video had the most original concept 951 00:51:20,648 --> 00:51:23,651 I have ever seen. I give it five Jeris! 952 00:51:27,722 --> 00:51:29,891 You got a lot of hair. That... that's... 953 00:51:30,490 --> 00:51:31,626 That's really my hair. 954 00:51:31,759 --> 00:51:33,360 Wow. That's really something, man. 955 00:51:33,493 --> 00:51:35,663 This show has taken another dimension. 956 00:51:37,799 --> 00:51:40,167 So, uh, where do... where do you base yourself now? 957 00:51:40,300 --> 00:51:41,603 You're based in Los Angeles? 958 00:51:41,736 --> 00:51:43,705 No, I'm out in The Valley, Woodland Hills. 959 00:51:43,838 --> 00:51:45,673 L.A., I mean, you're out here in California. 960 00:51:45,873 --> 00:51:47,441 You were working with Ray Charles, right? 961 00:51:47,575 --> 00:51:48,943 You were playing guitar with his band? 962 00:51:49,109 --> 00:51:50,612 Yeah. I didn't get a chance to record with him. 963 00:51:50,745 --> 00:51:52,981 I think if I stayed with him I would have. 964 00:51:53,113 --> 00:51:54,214 Mm-hmm. 965 00:51:54,682 --> 00:51:56,684 I didn't stay. I left Ray after we got to New Orleans, 966 00:51:57,117 --> 00:51:59,654 and I got cold feet and I missed my grandmother, 967 00:51:59,787 --> 00:52:02,422 and I wanted to go back home, so I just got nervous. 968 00:52:03,992 --> 00:52:06,761 ♪ This is a hard life, baby ♪ 969 00:52:06,894 --> 00:52:09,631 ♪ You can't live it By yourself ♪ 970 00:52:09,764 --> 00:52:11,431 You're working 300 days a year 971 00:52:11,599 --> 00:52:12,834 or something like that, traveling all over the world. 972 00:52:12,967 --> 00:52:14,201 Was it always that way for you? 973 00:52:14,334 --> 00:52:15,937 Been on the road most of your life? 974 00:52:16,070 --> 00:52:18,006 Music has played a big part in my life. 975 00:52:18,138 --> 00:52:20,307 That's... that's what I always wanted to be. 976 00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:21,876 And there's been some tough times for me. 977 00:52:22,010 --> 00:52:25,345 I did mechanic work, and do music at night. 978 00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,049 So I finally took a look at myself and I said, 979 00:52:28,181 --> 00:52:31,019 "Boy, I might as well just go all the way with the music." 980 00:52:32,954 --> 00:52:34,722 Let's welcome now a singing truck driver 981 00:52:35,089 --> 00:52:36,223 from Houston, Texas 982 00:52:36,356 --> 00:52:37,925 truckin' his way into our hearts. 983 00:52:38,059 --> 00:52:42,496 It's Guitar Shorty! Yeah! 984 00:52:49,137 --> 00:52:51,773 ♪ The thrill is gone ♪ 985 00:52:54,207 --> 00:52:56,376 ♪ The thrill is gone away ♪ 986 00:52:58,980 --> 00:53:02,315 ♪ Oh, you know You done me wrong, baby ♪ 987 00:53:03,151 --> 00:53:06,186 ♪ But you'll be sorry someday ♪ 988 00:53:31,311 --> 00:53:33,147 Our winner is with 30 points, 989 00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,751 Guitar Shorty! Yahoo! 990 00:53:36,884 --> 00:53:40,088 Guitar Shorty! 991 00:53:40,555 --> 00:53:43,323 Moogstar begs for someone to slap him 992 00:53:43,457 --> 00:53:44,992 so he can find out 993 00:53:45,126 --> 00:53:47,628 if it's a dream or reality. 994 00:53:48,162 --> 00:53:49,664 Sorry, Moog! 995 00:53:50,965 --> 00:53:53,300 It could have been just another case of the... 996 00:53:53,433 --> 00:53:55,335 ♪ Snooze Blues ♪ 997 00:53:55,469 --> 00:53:57,605 ♪ Snooze Blues ♪ 998 00:54:08,216 --> 00:54:10,718 We go to Montana to do a gig. 999 00:54:13,621 --> 00:54:14,789 Right after it was over, 1000 00:54:14,922 --> 00:54:16,423 I was approached by these people. 1001 00:54:16,557 --> 00:54:18,025 This lady walked up to me and said, 1002 00:54:18,159 --> 00:54:20,995 "We're going to the, uh, Evel Knievel's graveyard." 1003 00:54:21,129 --> 00:54:22,597 "Could you go with us?" 1004 00:54:22,730 --> 00:54:25,233 I asked the other band members, nobody wanted to go. 1005 00:54:25,465 --> 00:54:26,834 "We ain't going." 1006 00:54:27,068 --> 00:54:28,401 "We don't want to go. We don't want to go." 1007 00:54:28,536 --> 00:54:29,804 I just said, "Fuck it, let's go." 1008 00:54:30,037 --> 00:54:32,039 Then we got into these cars and we going down, 1009 00:54:32,173 --> 00:54:35,475 ridin' like Scooby Doo, you know what I mean? 1010 00:54:37,444 --> 00:54:39,013 Going to the cemetery, 1011 00:54:39,147 --> 00:54:42,617 you know, with the lights on, they shinin' on the graves. 1012 00:54:44,451 --> 00:54:45,853 We pulled up to it, you know, 1013 00:54:45,987 --> 00:54:47,221 and there was this beautiful grave there. 1014 00:54:49,557 --> 00:54:50,758 Started taking pictures. 1015 00:54:51,225 --> 00:54:52,794 We was all taking pictures. 1016 00:54:52,994 --> 00:54:54,529 "Moogstar, why don't you put the suit on?" 1017 00:54:54,662 --> 00:54:56,898 I was like, "What? Put the suit on?" 1018 00:54:57,031 --> 00:55:00,300 So I put it on! 1019 00:55:04,705 --> 00:55:07,942 And I was like, "Man, what if I was like that guy?" 1020 00:55:08,475 --> 00:55:10,310 Because I had a fear... 1021 00:55:11,012 --> 00:55:11,979 Fear. 1022 00:55:12,547 --> 00:55:15,448 As an artist, always been there. 1023 00:55:17,018 --> 00:55:18,619 I mean, this cat he'd get on a lawnmower, man, 1024 00:55:18,753 --> 00:55:21,055 and ride and go jump 50 cars. 1025 00:55:21,255 --> 00:55:23,691 You know, ain't scared to jump a canyon, 1026 00:55:23,825 --> 00:55:26,527 break all his bones and do all kinds of shit. 1027 00:55:28,763 --> 00:55:30,598 Now, I don't want to break no bones. Get me right. 1028 00:55:31,464 --> 00:55:34,836 But I want that "not to be afraid" shit. 1029 00:55:36,604 --> 00:55:39,841 So, anyway we had a professional opera singer, 1030 00:55:39,974 --> 00:55:41,374 she was there and she starts singing 1031 00:55:41,509 --> 00:55:43,010 and she was like, "Whoa!" 1032 00:55:43,144 --> 00:55:45,213 "I want the spirits to come through 1033 00:55:45,345 --> 00:55:49,116 and give Moogstar the mantle to keep going." 1034 00:55:50,284 --> 00:55:52,820 ♪ Will be channeled ♪ 1035 00:55:53,353 --> 00:56:00,294 ♪ Through Moogstar! ♪ 1036 00:56:00,895 --> 00:56:02,429 ♪ I can feel it ♪ 1037 00:56:02,563 --> 00:56:03,931 I was like, 1038 00:56:04,332 --> 00:56:05,766 "What the fuck is they doing?" Anyway, I'm just going with it. 1039 00:56:05,900 --> 00:56:07,835 I'm rolling, just having fun. 1040 00:56:07,969 --> 00:56:11,539 And I went by the grave to bend down. 1041 00:56:11,672 --> 00:56:12,940 I just wanted to thank the spirits 1042 00:56:13,074 --> 00:56:14,942 because I want this man's spirit, 1043 00:56:15,076 --> 00:56:16,811 I want his guts. 1044 00:56:17,044 --> 00:56:18,946 And, when I did that... 1045 00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:20,715 ...they said, "Did you see that?" 1046 00:56:22,350 --> 00:56:26,320 And then here come this owl, this big white owl. 1047 00:56:28,656 --> 00:56:31,592 That was really strange. 1048 00:56:34,896 --> 00:56:37,131 So, I tried to tell people about what happened 1049 00:56:37,265 --> 00:56:38,366 when we left, you know, 1050 00:56:38,566 --> 00:56:40,034 because it went on, they were filming, 1051 00:56:40,167 --> 00:56:42,036 doing some other stuff that night, some crazy stuff. 1052 00:56:42,402 --> 00:56:46,707 I mean, naked lady at McDonald's in a waterfall. 1053 00:56:47,008 --> 00:56:49,076 I mean, we were just doing all kinds of crazy stuff 1054 00:56:49,210 --> 00:56:50,144 that night. 1055 00:56:50,477 --> 00:56:52,079 So... so... 1056 00:56:52,647 --> 00:56:53,881 ...I come back home. 1057 00:56:54,015 --> 00:56:55,650 When we got here... 1058 00:56:56,651 --> 00:56:57,852 that night... 1059 00:56:59,253 --> 00:57:02,323 that owl showed up. 1060 00:57:02,455 --> 00:57:03,624 That same white... 1061 00:57:04,025 --> 00:57:06,794 We don't have no owls in this neighborhood, okay? 1062 00:57:08,596 --> 00:57:10,164 That sucker showed up. 1063 00:57:10,965 --> 00:57:13,567 Everybody ran out the room cause they heard this owl 1064 00:57:13,701 --> 00:57:14,669 goin'... 1065 00:57:14,802 --> 00:57:16,003 And I looked up there 1066 00:57:16,203 --> 00:57:17,538 and there's this big white owl again 1067 00:57:17,672 --> 00:57:19,439 sitting in the tree up there. 1068 00:57:19,774 --> 00:57:22,243 I was like, "What the hell is going on here?" 1069 00:57:22,843 --> 00:57:24,345 We didn't understand what was happening, 1070 00:57:24,477 --> 00:57:25,413 but I feel it! 1071 00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,282 I believe, and I don't know who it is, 1072 00:57:28,716 --> 00:57:31,218 but that owl is here to protect us 1073 00:57:31,352 --> 00:57:33,154 and it's also here to guide us. 1074 00:57:33,486 --> 00:57:35,289 It's the light that we need. 1075 00:57:35,589 --> 00:57:37,358 You put on Evel Knievel's suit 1076 00:57:37,525 --> 00:57:39,593 and a naked woman come out of it, 1077 00:57:39,727 --> 00:57:43,130 and... and... and... an owl followed you home? 1078 00:57:44,999 --> 00:57:46,968 I ain't the only one seen the owl. 1079 00:57:47,101 --> 00:57:49,370 When Mike Judge came here, that same owl appeared. 1080 00:57:49,502 --> 00:57:51,872 Yeah, it was up... It was like up, uh... - Yeah. 1081 00:57:52,006 --> 00:57:54,375 - ...in one of these palm trees. - Yeah, yeah. There. 1082 00:57:54,942 --> 00:57:56,644 I couldn't see very well, but it was... 1083 00:57:56,777 --> 00:57:58,079 - You could hear it. - Yeah. 1084 00:57:58,212 --> 00:58:00,514 - Yeah. - He's big. 1085 00:58:09,991 --> 00:58:11,425 You getting into Nashville, 1086 00:58:11,625 --> 00:58:13,094 songwriting stuff, was that in the '70s or... 1087 00:58:13,227 --> 00:58:16,163 Yeah, I would have a lot of songs with me, 1088 00:58:16,297 --> 00:58:18,332 and lotta producers would want to know, 1089 00:58:18,599 --> 00:58:19,567 "Hey, man, what'd you bring down?" 1090 00:58:19,700 --> 00:58:20,935 "What you got?" 1091 00:58:26,374 --> 00:58:30,277 At that time, we weren't looking at my stuff 1092 00:58:30,411 --> 00:58:31,345 as country stuff. 1093 00:58:31,479 --> 00:58:33,147 - Right. - It was just... 1094 00:58:33,781 --> 00:58:35,383 Swamp's doing some stuff. 1095 00:58:35,583 --> 00:58:37,084 "Don't Take Her, She's All I Got." 1096 00:58:37,218 --> 00:58:39,153 That was such a huge hit for Paycheck. 1097 00:58:40,688 --> 00:58:42,023 ♪ Well, I said, friend ♪ 1098 00:58:42,857 --> 00:58:45,793 ♪ Don't take her She's all I've got ♪ 1099 00:58:47,528 --> 00:58:51,665 ♪ Please don't take Her love away from me ♪ 1100 00:58:51,799 --> 00:58:52,800 A bunch of different versions 1101 00:58:52,933 --> 00:58:54,235 - made it into... - Oh, man. 1102 00:58:54,368 --> 00:58:55,736 Conway Twitty. 1103 00:58:55,870 --> 00:58:56,837 ♪ Friend ♪ 1104 00:58:57,571 --> 00:58:59,774 ♪ Don't take her She's all I've got ♪ 1105 00:58:59,907 --> 00:59:01,742 - Tanya Tucker? Yeah. - Tanya Tucker. 1106 00:59:01,876 --> 00:59:03,210 She did the shit out of it. 1107 00:59:03,344 --> 00:59:05,646 ♪ Don't take him He's all I got ♪ 1108 00:59:05,780 --> 00:59:07,681 The United States Navy Band. 1109 00:59:07,815 --> 00:59:10,351 ♪ Friend, don't... ♪ 1110 00:59:10,651 --> 00:59:12,286 It was a hit in the '90s. 1111 00:59:19,126 --> 00:59:23,664 It enabled me to go somewhere... 1112 00:59:23,931 --> 00:59:25,800 that I'd always wanted to go. 1113 00:59:25,933 --> 00:59:27,902 Even though I was only allowed to visit. 1114 00:59:28,035 --> 00:59:29,937 I wasn't allowed to live there. 1115 00:59:30,071 --> 00:59:31,939 And I got the number one country record. 1116 00:59:32,073 --> 00:59:33,641 At that time, it was still kind of 1117 00:59:33,774 --> 00:59:35,910 weird down there, in 1972. 1118 00:59:36,043 --> 00:59:39,847 And when I went down, and they found out I was Black. 1119 00:59:39,980 --> 00:59:42,716 And first of all, when I got to the awards, 1120 00:59:42,917 --> 00:59:45,653 I was ushered through the kitchen because... 1121 00:59:46,253 --> 00:59:48,989 they thought I was a waiter, although I had ju... 1122 00:59:49,123 --> 00:59:50,891 I stepped out of a fucking limousine. 1123 00:59:51,092 --> 00:59:53,194 Then again, maybe the waiters ride in limousines down there. 1124 00:59:53,327 --> 00:59:54,261 I don't know. 1125 01:00:00,334 --> 01:00:01,902 One, two, three, four... 1126 01:00:16,984 --> 01:00:18,285 Good morning, gentlemen. 1127 01:00:18,419 --> 01:00:21,088 - Good morning, Swamp. - That was horrible. 1128 01:00:23,057 --> 01:00:24,358 Well, that's 'cause you weren't here 1129 01:00:24,492 --> 01:00:27,094 - to help us out. - That's why I rushed over. 1130 01:00:27,228 --> 01:00:28,395 We need your presence. 1131 01:00:37,506 --> 01:00:41,610 ♪ If you don't Believe I'm leavin' ♪ 1132 01:00:41,742 --> 01:00:44,178 ♪ Just count the days I'm gone ♪ 1133 01:00:44,311 --> 01:00:45,746 You gotta have a little 1134 01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:48,382 argument thing goin' on in your voice. 1135 01:00:48,517 --> 01:00:50,718 ♪ There'll be a blue Monday... ♪ 1136 01:00:50,851 --> 01:00:52,820 Just kind of... kind of blues it up. 1137 01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:57,057 ♪ And if you don't Believe I'm leavin' ♪ 1138 01:00:57,191 --> 01:01:00,427 ♪ Just count the days I'm gone ♪ 1139 01:01:00,728 --> 01:01:01,929 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1140 01:01:02,229 --> 01:01:03,598 Yeah, that's nice. It's got heart. 1141 01:01:03,898 --> 01:01:05,766 ♪ A woman needs care ♪ 1142 01:01:06,033 --> 01:01:08,969 - ♪ Love and protection ♪ - ♪ Love and protection ♪ 1143 01:01:09,270 --> 01:01:12,373 ♪ I could never find you When I needed affection ♪ 1144 01:01:12,507 --> 01:01:14,074 ♪ Needed affection ♪ 1145 01:01:14,208 --> 01:01:16,110 - ♪ If you don't ♪ - ♪ Count the days ♪ 1146 01:01:16,243 --> 01:01:17,678 - ♪ Believe I'm leavin' ♪ - ♪ Count the days ♪ 1147 01:01:17,811 --> 01:01:19,346 ♪ Just count the days I'm gone ♪ 1148 01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:23,184 ♪ One, two, three, four Five, six, seven ♪ 1149 01:01:23,484 --> 01:01:27,855 ♪ Oh, you won't Have the chance ♪ 1150 01:01:27,988 --> 01:01:31,560 ♪ Again to treat me wrong ♪ 1151 01:01:32,561 --> 01:01:36,631 ♪ It's been a long time coming ♪ 1152 01:01:37,164 --> 01:01:40,467 ♪ And it'll be a long Long time gone ♪ 1153 01:01:42,537 --> 01:01:46,440 Bluegrass to me is like the blues. 1154 01:01:46,575 --> 01:01:48,409 Everybody owns it. 1155 01:01:48,909 --> 01:01:52,413 It's not one set of people that own it. 1156 01:01:52,813 --> 01:01:54,782 And every time you say "bluegrass," 1157 01:01:54,915 --> 01:01:57,151 some son of a bitch say, "Yahoo!" Ya know? 1158 01:01:57,284 --> 01:01:59,386 And uh, you know, fuck that. 1159 01:02:00,054 --> 01:02:01,388 If I'm lucky... 1160 01:02:03,057 --> 01:02:05,259 I got 20 more years here. 1161 01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:08,963 But who gets lucky? You know? 1162 01:02:10,030 --> 01:02:12,466 So, I've got some stuff... 1163 01:02:13,734 --> 01:02:15,236 I want to leave... 1164 01:02:16,638 --> 01:02:20,741 for people to hear and know what I was... 1165 01:02:21,509 --> 01:02:22,476 about. 1166 01:02:39,594 --> 01:02:41,095 Yeah, I'd like to see ya. 1167 01:02:41,228 --> 01:02:42,830 I ain't seen ya in so long. 1168 01:02:45,099 --> 01:02:48,168 Oh, boy. 1169 01:03:33,414 --> 01:03:36,150 What is Swamp Dogg's philosophy on life? 1170 01:03:39,019 --> 01:03:40,487 Overall... 1171 01:03:42,524 --> 01:03:43,924 just be cool. 1172 01:03:44,491 --> 01:03:45,492 You know? 1173 01:03:48,797 --> 01:03:51,131 And it's all so fun... 1174 01:03:52,734 --> 01:03:54,401 being yourself. 1175 01:03:55,804 --> 01:03:58,105 That's fun like a motherfucker. 1176 01:03:59,006 --> 01:04:02,376 But you got to find yourself. 1177 01:04:05,780 --> 01:04:07,615 - Oh, Jesse? - Yeah? 1178 01:04:08,650 --> 01:04:09,850 That was that. 1179 01:04:15,724 --> 01:04:17,024 Wow. 1180 01:04:17,991 --> 01:04:19,761 That looks great, Swamp Dogg! 1181 01:04:19,893 --> 01:04:21,862 - You like that? - That's amazing. 1182 01:04:22,162 --> 01:04:23,397 How long you been working on that? 1183 01:04:23,531 --> 01:04:24,465 Um... 1184 01:04:24,865 --> 01:04:26,166 Swamp Dogg wants to know 1185 01:04:26,300 --> 01:04:27,702 when the fuck you're gonna have it wrapped up? 1186 01:04:29,771 --> 01:04:32,439 So, did any of your record companies 1187 01:04:32,574 --> 01:04:35,242 you were with, or the labels you were with over the years, 1188 01:04:35,376 --> 01:04:38,278 when you came up with a concept, did anyone fight you back on it? 1189 01:04:38,412 --> 01:04:40,047 Or they just let you do what... 1190 01:04:40,180 --> 01:04:41,949 Hell yeah! 1191 01:04:42,249 --> 01:04:43,450 Did you usually win out? 1192 01:04:43,585 --> 01:04:45,419 Well, gettin' kicked off Elektra, 1193 01:04:45,553 --> 01:04:48,556 would that be a win? 1194 01:04:49,123 --> 01:04:53,460 I did a small portion of LSD 1195 01:04:53,595 --> 01:04:54,696 for a while. 1196 01:04:54,962 --> 01:04:58,098 And the first time I had LSD it was slipped on me. 1197 01:04:58,499 --> 01:04:59,466 I wake up... 1198 01:05:00,134 --> 01:05:01,301 at night... 1199 01:05:02,970 --> 01:05:04,171 screaming. 1200 01:05:04,539 --> 01:05:06,974 And I'd wrap myself around my wife. 1201 01:05:07,107 --> 01:05:10,043 She said I was squeezing, squeezing, squeezing. 1202 01:05:10,177 --> 01:05:15,683 And my anxiety became worse and worse. 1203 01:05:15,817 --> 01:05:18,318 And doctors and psychiatrists, 1204 01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:21,890 they hadn't gotten into depression 1205 01:05:22,022 --> 01:05:24,391 and anxiety attacks and shit. 1206 01:05:24,526 --> 01:05:26,661 That's how you lived for a while, right? 1207 01:05:26,795 --> 01:05:29,329 For a few years. It got bad. 1208 01:05:29,731 --> 01:05:32,199 Mine got real bad. 1209 01:05:32,332 --> 01:05:34,401 I guess you'd had episodes before that, 1210 01:05:34,536 --> 01:05:36,069 that you would get really worked up 1211 01:05:36,203 --> 01:05:37,705 and start spinning a little? 1212 01:05:38,105 --> 01:05:39,574 I used to have like... 1213 01:05:41,241 --> 01:05:43,477 at least five im... 1214 01:05:44,445 --> 01:05:48,081 - imaginary heart attacks a day. - Oh, wow. 1215 01:05:48,716 --> 01:05:52,986 What I did is built a little world around me. 1216 01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:54,421 I had this big, 1217 01:05:54,556 --> 01:05:57,625 8,000 square foot home in Long Island. 1218 01:05:57,759 --> 01:05:59,426 Nine automobiles. 1219 01:05:59,561 --> 01:06:03,297 Everything I bought was supposed to make me feel better. 1220 01:06:03,430 --> 01:06:04,164 Right. 1221 01:06:04,866 --> 01:06:07,769 I did not feel any better. 1222 01:06:08,101 --> 01:06:10,404 Was music, uh, a safe place for you? 1223 01:06:10,538 --> 01:06:13,307 Could you... If you ever got in that situation, 1224 01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:16,009 could you listen to music and you would calm down or... 1225 01:06:16,143 --> 01:06:19,246 No. 1226 01:06:24,384 --> 01:06:25,587 Ladies and gentlemen, 1227 01:06:25,820 --> 01:06:29,289 Swamp Dogg! 1228 01:06:40,735 --> 01:06:43,136 A man named Swamp Dogg is here. 1229 01:06:43,270 --> 01:06:44,639 Welcome to the show, first of all. 1230 01:06:44,772 --> 01:06:45,874 Good to see you. 1231 01:06:46,206 --> 01:06:47,341 It's nice to have you here and, uh... 1232 01:06:47,642 --> 01:06:49,544 It's nice to be had. 1233 01:06:49,677 --> 01:06:53,113 ♪ Darlin' There's nothin' sweeter ♪ 1234 01:06:53,815 --> 01:06:56,316 ♪ You make me scream You make me bawl ♪ 1235 01:06:56,450 --> 01:06:58,887 ♪ You make me feel Like I'm ten foot tall ♪ 1236 01:06:59,286 --> 01:07:00,989 ♪ Sugar bum, sugar bum bum ♪ 1237 01:07:01,121 --> 01:07:03,090 I had really become antiquated 1238 01:07:03,223 --> 01:07:05,793 when it came to the music. 1239 01:07:16,069 --> 01:07:17,371 ♪ What's happenin'? ♪ 1240 01:07:19,072 --> 01:07:21,308 ♪ My body's startin' to shake ♪ 1241 01:07:21,609 --> 01:07:24,746 ♪ That building Looks like it's falling on me! ♪ 1242 01:07:25,513 --> 01:07:26,881 ♪ Earthquake! ♪ 1243 01:07:27,147 --> 01:07:30,384 ♪ It happens all the time We ignore it ♪ 1244 01:07:30,618 --> 01:07:32,687 ♪ In less than a minute It's gone ♪ 1245 01:07:32,921 --> 01:07:33,988 ♪ You come to L.A. ♪ 1246 01:07:34,121 --> 01:07:36,390 We're chatting with Swamp Dogg. 1247 01:07:36,524 --> 01:07:38,325 I don't know why I'm having so much difficulty 1248 01:07:38,458 --> 01:07:40,160 pronouncing that properly. 1249 01:07:40,327 --> 01:07:41,996 For many years, for some reason, 1250 01:07:42,129 --> 01:07:43,598 my father made me believe that you were dead. 1251 01:07:43,731 --> 01:07:45,800 So when I opened my eyes and I saw you... 1252 01:07:45,934 --> 01:07:48,068 ...I can't believe that you are here! 1253 01:07:48,201 --> 01:07:49,469 I thank you so much. 1254 01:07:49,771 --> 01:07:53,007 And I'm glad that the rumors of my death are false. 1255 01:07:53,206 --> 01:07:55,543 My god. 1256 01:07:55,977 --> 01:07:58,278 I'm always hearing that I'm dead. 1257 01:07:58,412 --> 01:07:59,379 Yeah, well, that would be 1258 01:07:59,514 --> 01:08:00,748 very inconvenient for us. 1259 01:08:00,982 --> 01:08:02,951 Yes, me too! Especially me! 1260 01:08:09,456 --> 01:08:12,459 Oh, we going to get sun today? 1261 01:08:12,594 --> 01:08:14,862 Oh yeah! 1262 01:08:14,996 --> 01:08:17,932 Oh, I like... I like the sun. 1263 01:08:19,199 --> 01:08:23,571 I come out here every day. I sit for hours. It's healing. 1264 01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:28,275 Well, you know, 1265 01:08:28,509 --> 01:08:32,080 I was married seven and a half, eight years. 1266 01:08:32,212 --> 01:08:33,514 I had kids. 1267 01:08:33,982 --> 01:08:35,115 You know... 1268 01:08:36,416 --> 01:08:37,885 My wife left. 1269 01:08:38,318 --> 01:08:39,887 I was devastated. 1270 01:08:40,655 --> 01:08:43,390 It was a bad situation, sad situation. 1271 01:08:44,458 --> 01:08:48,896 And a friend called me up, said, uh, he wanted to go downtown. 1272 01:08:49,564 --> 01:08:51,131 Next thing you know, I'm... 1273 01:08:51,532 --> 01:08:53,166 gonna be on this television show. 1274 01:08:53,300 --> 01:08:54,368 I didn't realize... 1275 01:08:54,636 --> 01:08:56,537 From Oakland, California! 1276 01:08:56,671 --> 01:08:59,373 Doing his second HBO Special, 1277 01:08:59,507 --> 01:09:05,445 Hanging with Mr. Cooper himself, Mr. Mark Curry! 1278 01:09:07,048 --> 01:09:09,149 They gave us tickets to go way in the front. 1279 01:09:09,851 --> 01:09:11,753 And we sat there and the show started. 1280 01:09:12,219 --> 01:09:15,188 Mark Curry, he came in, he went on the stage. 1281 01:09:15,322 --> 01:09:17,792 And then, all of a sudden... 1282 01:09:18,626 --> 01:09:22,563 he said, "Look at this..." 1283 01:09:22,697 --> 01:09:23,998 This motherfucker right here! 1284 01:09:25,332 --> 01:09:26,567 Oh, shit! 1285 01:09:29,570 --> 01:09:30,905 Then motherfucking cameras 1286 01:09:31,039 --> 01:09:32,272 came from everywhere. 1287 01:09:32,707 --> 01:09:34,542 You can feel the lights and everything just hit me. 1288 01:09:34,676 --> 01:09:35,943 I didn't know what was happening. 1289 01:09:36,077 --> 01:09:38,345 So, he went to touch my hair, right? 1290 01:09:38,478 --> 01:09:40,480 He went to touch it and I threw my hand up 1291 01:09:40,615 --> 01:09:42,150 like one of them Michael Jackson's fans. 1292 01:09:42,282 --> 01:09:43,250 You know what I mean? 1293 01:09:44,852 --> 01:09:47,989 This nigga! What the fuck is this? 1294 01:09:49,389 --> 01:09:51,358 Nigga, we got an alien in here! 1295 01:09:53,961 --> 01:09:56,263 This... ...this motherfucker like... 1296 01:09:56,396 --> 01:09:58,398 Look at him, he be like MC Hammer on crack! 1297 01:10:03,871 --> 01:10:05,640 So, I didn't know what was happening. 1298 01:10:05,773 --> 01:10:06,941 So I got up. 1299 01:10:07,207 --> 01:10:08,576 Mookie? What you do, Mookie? 1300 01:10:08,710 --> 01:10:10,410 - I sing and dance. - You sing... you sing? 1301 01:10:10,545 --> 01:10:11,713 I know you must dance! 1302 01:10:12,046 --> 01:10:14,182 What kind of dance you do? Let me see a quick move. 1303 01:10:14,716 --> 01:10:17,484 We don't need no music, nigga! That's you. Use your hands. 1304 01:10:26,027 --> 01:10:27,795 I said fuck this shit! 1305 01:10:27,929 --> 01:10:30,297 My kids are going to see me on national TV. 1306 01:10:30,430 --> 01:10:31,866 All this shit going through my mind. 1307 01:10:31,999 --> 01:10:34,035 You know what? Fuck this! I ain't gonna be humiliated! 1308 01:10:34,168 --> 01:10:35,536 I'm gonna do something... 1309 01:10:36,503 --> 01:10:39,306 I said fuck it. I just went to the hills, man. 1310 01:10:41,209 --> 01:10:45,378 You go up this hill where the nuclear reactor is... 1311 01:10:46,246 --> 01:10:48,049 then go way up the hill. 1312 01:10:48,182 --> 01:10:49,684 So I went far! 1313 01:10:50,518 --> 01:10:52,086 So nobody can find me. 1314 01:10:53,054 --> 01:10:55,857 I had a weapon. Yeah, I got a gun. 1315 01:10:56,289 --> 01:10:59,127 I had the barrel to my head. I'll never forget that shit. 1316 01:10:59,627 --> 01:11:01,929 I said I got all this talent. 1317 01:11:02,295 --> 01:11:04,999 Fuckin' do everything, for... for what? 1318 01:11:05,933 --> 01:11:06,968 For what? 1319 01:11:08,202 --> 01:11:10,437 So I just didn't want to be here no more, man. 1320 01:11:10,738 --> 01:11:12,106 Said, "Fuck it, man." 1321 01:11:14,942 --> 01:11:16,476 I had the adrenaline 1322 01:11:16,911 --> 01:11:18,679 and everything was happening and just a voice came in, 1323 01:11:18,813 --> 01:11:20,882 "Who are you to kill yourself when you don't even own it?" 1324 01:11:24,218 --> 01:11:25,452 "Uh, uh!" 1325 01:11:25,586 --> 01:11:27,387 "I got something else for you to do." 1326 01:11:28,556 --> 01:11:30,591 It's like I was called to do something, 1327 01:11:30,725 --> 01:11:31,893 you know what I mean? 1328 01:11:59,352 --> 01:12:00,621 It's so weird. I can't... 1329 01:12:00,855 --> 01:12:02,489 You know, when I'm looking at it this close, Swamp, 1330 01:12:02,623 --> 01:12:06,359 I can't... I can't see a form at all. 1331 01:12:07,795 --> 01:12:10,330 It just looks like abstract shapes. 1332 01:12:10,565 --> 01:12:11,766 - No shit? - Yeah. 1333 01:12:12,533 --> 01:12:13,701 And it just doesn't feel like 1334 01:12:13,835 --> 01:12:15,536 it's ever going to make any sense. 1335 01:12:18,873 --> 01:12:20,975 That would drive me fucking crazy. 1336 01:12:32,086 --> 01:12:33,087 There we go. 1337 01:12:35,656 --> 01:12:36,791 Hi, this is Jeri, 1338 01:12:36,924 --> 01:12:38,159 and I'm kicking back with my friends, 1339 01:12:38,425 --> 01:12:40,061 and it's spring break at my house. 1340 01:12:40,194 --> 01:12:42,462 Welcome to Jeri Williams's New Music Revue! 1341 01:12:43,731 --> 01:12:45,398 ♪ The thrill is gone ♪ 1342 01:12:48,069 --> 01:12:50,470 ♪ The thrill is gone away ♪ 1343 01:12:51,672 --> 01:12:52,807 Tell 'em, Shorty! 1344 01:12:52,940 --> 01:12:55,375 ♪ The thrill is gone away ♪ 1345 01:13:12,593 --> 01:13:15,329 See I told ya, I like little toy animals. 1346 01:13:15,462 --> 01:13:16,864 I got James Brown. 1347 01:13:17,397 --> 01:13:19,399 I got all kinds of shit. 1348 01:13:20,268 --> 01:13:21,269 Can I play you a cut? 1349 01:13:22,904 --> 01:13:24,205 Do a little dance for me, Yvonne. 1350 01:13:24,338 --> 01:13:25,606 "Do a little dance." 1351 01:13:25,740 --> 01:13:27,341 Damn! 1352 01:13:30,278 --> 01:13:32,380 Spielberg, eat your fuckin' heart out. 1353 01:13:37,285 --> 01:13:38,286 ♪ I love you ♪ 1354 01:13:38,653 --> 01:13:41,355 ♪ I love you ♪ 1355 01:13:41,488 --> 01:13:43,456 ♪ I love you ♪ 1356 01:13:43,858 --> 01:13:44,892 ♪ I love... ♪ 1357 01:13:45,092 --> 01:13:48,129 ♪ I love you, yes I do... ♪ 1358 01:13:48,262 --> 01:13:50,264 Why am I doing this? 1359 01:13:50,865 --> 01:13:54,035 I used to do it to see her smile. 1360 01:13:54,467 --> 01:13:56,103 Give me a... give me a smile. 1361 01:13:58,072 --> 01:14:02,276 She was the most magnificent woman in the world. 1362 01:14:02,643 --> 01:14:07,882 And I will never get over her. This is the love of my life. 1363 01:14:08,916 --> 01:14:10,051 Yvonne. 1364 01:14:11,118 --> 01:14:12,987 Motherfucker. 1365 01:14:14,922 --> 01:14:18,125 Well, when we lost Mommy, a lotta changes... 1366 01:14:18,491 --> 01:14:20,361 - Yeah. - A lot of changes. 1367 01:14:20,561 --> 01:14:21,929 Yeah. 1368 01:14:24,565 --> 01:14:26,466 ♪ I'll pretend ♪ 1369 01:14:27,601 --> 01:14:29,170 ♪ That you're gone ♪ 1370 01:14:30,470 --> 01:14:32,640 ♪ On vacation ♪ 1371 01:14:36,077 --> 01:14:38,412 ♪ And you'll be back ♪ 1372 01:14:38,813 --> 01:14:42,116 Yvonne was my wife, my life, 1373 01:14:42,416 --> 01:14:45,953 my everything, and I could never get over her. 1374 01:14:46,554 --> 01:14:48,456 She was somebody you believed in. 1375 01:14:48,589 --> 01:14:51,225 I... I believed in her. 1376 01:14:53,493 --> 01:14:55,029 I believed in her. 1377 01:14:56,630 --> 01:14:59,266 ♪ To tell me you miss me ♪ 1378 01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:02,136 ♪ And you're coming home soon ♪ 1379 01:15:07,541 --> 01:15:09,243 ♪ And I'll pretend ♪ 1380 01:15:11,612 --> 01:15:14,015 ♪ Your perfume fills the air ♪ 1381 01:15:14,148 --> 01:15:15,383 She was a good woman. 1382 01:15:15,516 --> 01:15:16,484 Very good woman. 1383 01:15:16,617 --> 01:15:18,152 She said, um... 1384 01:15:19,487 --> 01:15:20,688 "The doctor told me 1385 01:15:20,821 --> 01:15:21,989 I ain't gonna have long to be here." 1386 01:15:22,556 --> 01:15:23,824 I said, "I... 1387 01:15:24,625 --> 01:15:27,294 I don't want you to go." She said, "Well... 1388 01:15:28,863 --> 01:15:31,298 The doctor said that's it." 1389 01:15:31,432 --> 01:15:33,934 "Ain't nothing you or nobody else can do." 1390 01:15:36,404 --> 01:15:38,205 ♪ I'll pretend ♪ 1391 01:15:40,408 --> 01:15:44,211 ♪ When I visit our old friends ♪ 1392 01:15:45,514 --> 01:15:47,516 The last thing that we talked about, 1393 01:15:47,648 --> 01:15:50,651 she wanted me to stay here and look over him. 1394 01:15:51,385 --> 01:15:53,954 If he want anything, make sure you take care of him. 1395 01:15:55,356 --> 01:15:56,624 I've been here ever since. 1396 01:15:57,224 --> 01:15:59,894 In fact, her name's on that concrete over there. 1397 01:16:00,027 --> 01:16:02,263 ♪ I can't live like this ♪ 1398 01:16:04,799 --> 01:16:06,500 ♪ Please come back ♪ 1399 01:16:07,168 --> 01:16:09,303 ♪ I can't live like this ♪ 1400 01:16:39,534 --> 01:16:42,069 People had counted me out 1401 01:16:42,870 --> 01:16:46,307 because they hadn't seen or heard anything. 1402 01:16:48,109 --> 01:16:51,412 This generation is more hip to my stuff 1403 01:16:51,612 --> 01:16:54,215 than my generation were. 1404 01:16:54,949 --> 01:16:58,786 It was almost like coming back from the dead. 1405 01:17:01,422 --> 01:17:04,291 We're going to bring out our good friend Swamp Dogg. 1406 01:17:08,262 --> 01:17:10,264 - Come on out here, Swamp. - Here he comes. 1407 01:17:12,967 --> 01:17:14,702 Back in 1972, 1408 01:17:15,002 --> 01:17:17,037 Swamp scored one of his biggest hits 1409 01:17:17,271 --> 01:17:20,307 with a cover of John Prine's "Sam Stone." 1410 01:17:20,708 --> 01:17:24,145 ♪ Sam Stone, welcome home ♪ 1411 01:17:24,613 --> 01:17:26,714 ♪ Didn't last too long ♪ 1412 01:17:28,415 --> 01:17:33,220 ♪ He went to work After he spent his last dime ♪ 1413 01:17:37,858 --> 01:17:39,093 Forty years later, 1414 01:17:39,561 --> 01:17:42,296 they decided it's finally time to hit the studio together. 1415 01:17:43,931 --> 01:17:44,765 What the fuck was that? 1416 01:17:44,899 --> 01:17:46,367 ♪ Memories... ♪ 1417 01:17:47,168 --> 01:17:50,337 ♪ Don't leave like people do ♪ 1418 01:17:53,007 --> 01:17:56,143 ♪ And that's why anytime Anywhere ♪ 1419 01:17:58,746 --> 01:18:01,849 I want to thank you for that "Sam Stone," man. 1420 01:18:02,049 --> 01:18:04,385 You got it around to a lot of people, Swamp. 1421 01:18:04,752 --> 01:18:08,222 You know, I... I never paid any attention to the "mmm's." 1422 01:18:08,355 --> 01:18:09,890 - I know you didn't. - Yeah. 1423 01:18:10,024 --> 01:18:12,259 I don't do it on my record. Right. 1424 01:18:12,459 --> 01:18:14,629 This is your chance now to make up for it. 1425 01:18:16,297 --> 01:18:19,166 - Damn. Okay. - Okay. 1426 01:18:32,681 --> 01:18:35,550 ♪ Sam Stone came home ♪ 1427 01:18:35,883 --> 01:18:38,219 ♪ To his wife and family ♪ 1428 01:18:38,786 --> 01:18:43,257 ♪ After serving In the conflict overseas ♪ 1429 01:18:44,992 --> 01:18:47,728 ♪ And the time that he served ♪ 1430 01:18:48,195 --> 01:18:51,031 ♪ Had shattered all his nerves ♪ 1431 01:18:51,398 --> 01:18:55,836 ♪ And left a little shrapnel In his knee ♪ 1432 01:18:57,438 --> 01:19:00,107 ♪ But the morphine Eased the pain ♪ 1433 01:19:00,642 --> 01:19:03,244 ♪ The grass grew Round his brain ♪ 1434 01:19:03,777 --> 01:19:08,015 ♪ And gave him All the confidence he lacked ♪ 1435 01:19:09,618 --> 01:19:12,587 - ♪ There's a hole - In daddy's arm ♪ 1436 01:19:12,820 --> 01:19:15,022 ♪ Where all the money goes ♪ 1437 01:19:16,757 --> 01:19:18,092 ♪ And Jesus Christ ♪ 1438 01:19:18,225 --> 01:19:21,462 ♪ Died for nothin' I suppose ♪ 1439 01:19:22,296 --> 01:19:25,132 ♪ Little pitchers Have big ears ♪ 1440 01:19:25,366 --> 01:19:27,868 ♪ Don't stop To count the years ♪ 1441 01:19:28,703 --> 01:19:31,673 ♪ Sweet songs Never last too long ♪ 1442 01:19:31,805 --> 01:19:34,375 ♪ On broken radios ♪ 1443 01:19:34,509 --> 01:19:36,076 ♪ Mmmm... ♪ 1444 01:19:36,210 --> 01:19:37,679 You did it again, John! 1445 01:19:40,314 --> 01:19:42,883 - Just keep doing it. - Yeah. 1446 01:19:43,017 --> 01:19:45,819 ♪ Sam Stone's welcome home ♪ 1447 01:19:46,253 --> 01:19:48,289 ♪ Didn't last too long ♪ 1448 01:20:11,845 --> 01:20:14,181 - You want your hat? - Huh? 1449 01:20:14,448 --> 01:20:16,685 - Want your hat? - The cap? 1450 01:20:17,017 --> 01:20:18,620 - Yep. - No, I got a hat on. 1451 01:20:18,753 --> 01:20:19,920 I got one in the van. 1452 01:20:20,187 --> 01:20:22,222 Oh, okay, so want me to put this in your room? 1453 01:20:22,356 --> 01:20:24,091 - Yeah. - All right, all right. 1454 01:20:24,224 --> 01:20:26,795 - Yeah, yeah. - Okay. 1455 01:20:44,978 --> 01:20:47,414 ♪ I'd sure like ♪ 1456 01:20:48,282 --> 01:20:50,117 ♪ Like to come back ♪ 1457 01:20:52,687 --> 01:20:54,288 ♪ That's a date ♪ 1458 01:20:55,889 --> 01:20:58,025 ♪ I don't wanna miss ♪ 1459 01:21:00,027 --> 01:21:02,229 ♪ Next time ♪ 1460 01:21:03,230 --> 01:21:05,899 ♪ Can't be better than this ♪ 1461 01:21:07,368 --> 01:21:09,903 ♪ Next time ♪ 1462 01:21:15,042 --> 01:21:18,245 Well, you know, as you know, Guitar Shorty... 1463 01:21:19,246 --> 01:21:23,317 He passed away, um... 4/20. 1464 01:21:24,686 --> 01:21:27,321 Time was five o'clock p.m. 1465 01:21:28,889 --> 01:21:30,424 Exactly in this bed right here. 1466 01:21:30,558 --> 01:21:34,128 He's gone, he's in Heaven and rejoicing... 1467 01:21:35,396 --> 01:21:37,699 with the angels and the universe. 1468 01:21:38,465 --> 01:21:41,536 We grew up in this house for like 15 years. 1469 01:21:41,870 --> 01:21:44,371 Three people, we're like Three Stooges up in this house. 1470 01:21:44,873 --> 01:21:47,809 For years and years and years of going through the same thing, 1471 01:21:47,941 --> 01:21:50,444 same thing, not knowing who or what, 1472 01:21:50,578 --> 01:21:52,279 but learning and hoping and praying 1473 01:21:52,413 --> 01:21:55,850 and just keep creating and making greatness for people 1474 01:21:55,983 --> 01:21:57,552 so you can help people all the time 1475 01:21:57,685 --> 01:21:58,986 'cause that's what we do. 1476 01:21:59,654 --> 01:22:01,288 You know, through music, 1477 01:22:01,823 --> 01:22:03,558 you know, 'cause we're healers, 1478 01:22:04,124 --> 01:22:05,926 you know, manifestors. 1479 01:22:06,059 --> 01:22:08,061 We make things happen out of nothing. 1480 01:22:08,295 --> 01:22:10,899 We just... Musically. 1481 01:22:11,432 --> 01:22:14,468 Because we're being guided by the spirits. 1482 01:22:15,202 --> 01:22:16,671 Which is a wonderful thing. 1483 01:22:16,905 --> 01:22:19,674 Because his spirit is still here and it's never going to leave. 1484 01:22:20,742 --> 01:22:23,645 And it's making visitations all over the place. 1485 01:22:24,879 --> 01:22:28,148 It's going to continue to do that and grow. 1486 01:22:29,249 --> 01:22:30,885 And everything gon' be great. 1487 01:23:01,448 --> 01:23:03,450 Are you enjoying being a legend? 1488 01:23:03,585 --> 01:23:05,219 What else can I do? 1489 01:23:05,486 --> 01:23:08,590 No, man, I just can't figure how to get out of this thing. 1490 01:23:23,203 --> 01:23:25,172 It's my birthday. 1491 01:23:28,610 --> 01:23:29,644 "Dad, 1492 01:23:30,244 --> 01:23:34,983 sometimes kids don't get it." 1493 01:23:35,115 --> 01:23:39,419 "We don't notice the little things 1494 01:23:40,254 --> 01:23:45,425 that come straight from a dad's heart." 1495 01:23:47,494 --> 01:23:50,632 "I may not be a kid anymore, Dad... 1496 01:23:51,699 --> 01:23:54,101 but I still love the things you do." 1497 01:23:54,736 --> 01:23:58,138 "And I realize how important it is 1498 01:23:58,272 --> 01:24:00,274 I tell you how much... 1499 01:24:01,308 --> 01:24:02,610 I love you." 1500 01:24:03,377 --> 01:24:04,679 "Happy birthday." 1501 01:24:05,580 --> 01:24:07,749 Then she writes, "I love you 1502 01:24:08,081 --> 01:24:10,818 and hope we will be able to... 1503 01:24:11,051 --> 01:24:13,387 spend many more birthdays... 1504 01:24:14,822 --> 01:24:16,056 together." 1505 01:24:16,724 --> 01:24:18,125 "Love, Jeri." 1506 01:24:23,397 --> 01:24:25,767 She's so sincere. 1507 01:24:28,135 --> 01:24:30,538 She's so sweet, so good. 1508 01:24:32,874 --> 01:24:35,643 Telling me how much she loves me, and... 1509 01:24:36,511 --> 01:24:37,612 so forth. 1510 01:24:40,882 --> 01:24:43,585 Sometimes you need that kind of stuff. 1511 01:24:44,652 --> 01:24:46,621 Yeah. 1512 01:25:09,476 --> 01:25:11,579 ♪ Lately ♪ 1513 01:25:12,145 --> 01:25:14,281 ♪ I can't breathe ♪ 1514 01:25:15,950 --> 01:25:20,822 ♪ These walls are closing In on me ♪ 1515 01:25:23,190 --> 01:25:25,459 ♪ This lump in my throat ♪ 1516 01:25:25,693 --> 01:25:28,663 ♪ Gettin' bigger all the time ♪ 1517 01:25:30,598 --> 01:25:32,900 ♪ I'm choking to death ♪ 1518 01:25:33,166 --> 01:25:36,037 ♪ From the ties that bind ♪ 1519 01:25:36,236 --> 01:25:37,672 ♪ Yes I am now... ♪ 1520 01:25:51,619 --> 01:25:53,186 - Hey, Jeri! - Yes? 1521 01:25:53,320 --> 01:25:54,354 Come here a minute. 1522 01:25:54,822 --> 01:25:56,223 Want me help you with your shoes? 1523 01:25:56,356 --> 01:25:58,158 - Yes. - Sure, no problem. 1524 01:25:58,660 --> 01:26:00,662 - You're a doctor. - Yeah. 1525 01:26:00,795 --> 01:26:02,997 Watch a neurologist put some shoes on. 1526 01:26:03,665 --> 01:26:06,668 These are cool! 1527 01:26:06,968 --> 01:26:08,468 When did you get these? 1528 01:26:10,370 --> 01:26:11,906 Dun dun dun! Whoa! 1529 01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:13,941 Look at the glass slippers! 1530 01:26:14,142 --> 01:26:15,543 Tha slippa da dippa! Oh... 1531 01:26:15,677 --> 01:26:17,912 Oh, wait... But wait, where does it stick? 1532 01:26:18,046 --> 01:26:19,080 It don't stick. 1533 01:26:19,379 --> 01:26:21,115 Yeah it does, there's Velcro. 1534 01:26:21,248 --> 01:26:22,182 Yeah, the Velcro. 1535 01:26:22,315 --> 01:26:23,483 So what am I doing wrong? 1536 01:26:23,651 --> 01:26:24,886 No, no, it goes around like that. 1537 01:26:26,587 --> 01:26:28,422 So we just need to give him his shirt, right? 1538 01:26:28,556 --> 01:26:30,892 - Yeah. - Well, I've got the shirt. 1539 01:26:32,093 --> 01:26:33,493 I don't need y'all no more. 1540 01:26:33,628 --> 01:26:35,930 Excuse me! Looked like you needed us. 1541 01:26:38,331 --> 01:26:40,802 ♪ Big Party ♪ 1542 01:26:41,468 --> 01:26:43,805 ♪ Big Party ♪ 1543 01:26:44,605 --> 01:26:47,075 ♪ Big Party ♪ 1544 01:26:51,179 --> 01:26:53,114 ♪ She invited me... ♪ 1545 01:26:53,313 --> 01:26:54,682 Is that Art Fein? 1546 01:26:54,916 --> 01:26:57,085 ♪ 'Cause she knew You would bring me ♪ 1547 01:26:57,284 --> 01:26:59,721 Eighty fucking years old. 1548 01:26:59,954 --> 01:27:02,123 You don't look... you don't look a day over 57. 1549 01:27:02,255 --> 01:27:04,926 Oh, shit. 1550 01:27:05,059 --> 01:27:06,226 Thank you. 1551 01:27:08,495 --> 01:27:10,330 Alonzo! My man! 1552 01:27:10,464 --> 01:27:11,666 Over here holdin' court? 1553 01:27:11,966 --> 01:27:14,234 I told you I'm coming out with a bluegrass album? 1554 01:27:14,367 --> 01:27:15,536 No. 1555 01:27:15,703 --> 01:27:17,672 Yeah, it's full of banjos and shit. 1556 01:27:17,805 --> 01:27:20,041 That's what my problem is. 1557 01:27:20,174 --> 01:27:23,544 Whatever it is I wanna do, I'm gonna do it, 1558 01:27:23,678 --> 01:27:25,847 whether you like it or not. 1559 01:27:26,180 --> 01:27:28,315 - How ya doing, Moogie? - Awesome. 1560 01:27:28,448 --> 01:27:30,383 - How's your monkey doing? - He's happy now! 1561 01:27:32,452 --> 01:27:34,689 - Happy birthday! - Thank you! 1562 01:27:34,889 --> 01:27:36,023 God damn! 1563 01:27:37,091 --> 01:27:38,258 Vernon! 1564 01:27:38,793 --> 01:27:40,194 How long we gonna be doing this? 1565 01:27:40,327 --> 01:27:42,262 I don't know. How long you wanna do it? 1566 01:27:44,031 --> 01:27:45,398 If this was me, 1567 01:27:45,600 --> 01:27:48,502 I would have been excited to do it for about 3 hours, 1568 01:27:48,636 --> 01:27:50,872 and then I woulda just wanted to hide. 1569 01:27:51,005 --> 01:27:52,039 No. 1570 01:27:52,874 --> 01:27:55,676 - I don't wanna die. - Oh. 1571 01:27:56,144 --> 01:27:58,713 - Wait, not die! I said "hide." - I know. 1572 01:27:58,846 --> 01:27:59,814 Hide. 1573 01:27:59,981 --> 01:28:01,616 You're going crazy on your 80th, man. 1574 01:28:01,749 --> 01:28:03,618 People not doing it like this, with the shoes, too. 1575 01:28:05,653 --> 01:28:07,387 Eightieth birthday. 1576 01:28:07,522 --> 01:28:09,824 It kinda sticks in your throat a little bit. 1577 01:28:09,957 --> 01:28:14,962 Swamp Dogg is the official Great Grandfather 1578 01:28:15,096 --> 01:28:16,463 of West Coast hip-hop. 1579 01:28:16,597 --> 01:28:17,899 I'm gonna show you the man's pool right quick. 1580 01:28:18,132 --> 01:28:19,934 I don't wanna drop my phone in the goddamn pool. 1581 01:28:20,168 --> 01:28:21,401 Okay, where's the owl? 1582 01:28:21,536 --> 01:28:23,104 He's got to be flying around here. 1583 01:28:23,303 --> 01:28:24,939 All right, everybody! 1584 01:28:25,405 --> 01:28:27,675 Let's get together and sing. 1585 01:28:27,809 --> 01:28:30,578 Happy birthday to Swamp Dogg! 1586 01:28:30,711 --> 01:28:32,113 All right? 1587 01:28:32,246 --> 01:28:37,685 ♪ Happy birthday dear Swamp Dogg ♪ 1588 01:28:37,819 --> 01:28:43,257 ♪ Happy birthday to you! ♪ 1589 01:28:52,033 --> 01:28:53,534 Oh yeah, right. Uh... 1590 01:28:55,036 --> 01:28:57,337 I forgot what I was supposed to do. 1591 01:28:59,140 --> 01:29:00,274 Speech! 1592 01:29:00,575 --> 01:29:05,213 No, um, I appreciate everybody who's out here. 1593 01:29:05,445 --> 01:29:06,681 And I love you. 1594 01:29:07,181 --> 01:29:08,316 I'm here for you. 1595 01:29:09,083 --> 01:29:12,019 And thank you for being here for me. 1596 01:29:12,385 --> 01:29:13,554 Enjoy! 1597 01:29:13,688 --> 01:29:16,858 ♪ Buildings blaze in a mist ♪ 1598 01:29:21,461 --> 01:29:24,065 ♪ Draw them each day ♪ 1599 01:29:27,635 --> 01:29:31,973 ♪ Crying sky All bathed in dust ♪ 1600 01:29:34,008 --> 01:29:35,375 I'm seeing your skeleton right now. 1601 01:29:35,509 --> 01:29:36,476 Is that what should be happening? 1602 01:29:36,611 --> 01:29:39,947 ♪ It just gleamed ♪ 1603 01:29:42,382 --> 01:29:44,785 ♪ Saturn's face sparkling ♪ 1604 01:29:45,853 --> 01:29:48,055 ♪ Silver shadow velvet blue ♪ 1605 01:29:49,489 --> 01:29:52,459 ♪ All of this reminding ♪ 1606 01:29:53,426 --> 01:29:54,996 ♪ Me of you ♪ 1607 01:29:56,964 --> 01:30:01,736 ♪ All of this Reminding me of you ♪ 1608 01:30:27,261 --> 01:30:28,562 What do you think, Swamp? 1609 01:30:29,163 --> 01:30:30,164 You like it? 1610 01:30:30,298 --> 01:30:31,866 I'm crazy about it! 1611 01:30:32,133 --> 01:30:33,466 I'm crazy anyway now. 1612 01:30:33,601 --> 01:30:34,902 - Say what? - Huh? 1613 01:30:35,670 --> 01:30:37,405 Wow! I love it! 1614 01:30:39,307 --> 01:30:41,042 Is, uh, anybody going to be able to see this 1615 01:30:41,175 --> 01:30:43,077 - from the sky? - I believe so. 1616 01:30:44,045 --> 01:30:45,046 Uh... 1617 01:30:45,279 --> 01:30:47,848 Well, we've had a lot of those, uh... 1618 01:30:49,250 --> 01:30:51,986 Robot planes. What do you call them? 1619 01:30:52,119 --> 01:30:54,288 - Those drones? - Yeah, those drones. 1620 01:30:54,689 --> 01:30:55,790 Cannonball. 1621 01:30:55,990 --> 01:30:58,192 Oh! 1622 01:30:58,326 --> 01:31:03,331 Damn! Jesse made a messy! Ah! 1623 01:31:03,463 --> 01:31:04,665 Jesse! 1624 01:31:05,465 --> 01:31:07,601 Can't you read that sign? 1625 01:31:23,217 --> 01:31:25,987 I didn't get to eat none of the cheesecake. 1626 01:31:26,354 --> 01:31:28,322 Weren't supposed to eat no cheesecake. 1627 01:31:28,456 --> 01:31:29,724 I could at least tasted it. 1628 01:31:29,857 --> 01:31:31,425 Well, how come you didn't go to the table 1629 01:31:31,559 --> 01:31:32,727 and cut you a piece? 1630 01:31:32,860 --> 01:31:34,195 'Cause you told 'em on the loud... 1631 01:31:34,829 --> 01:31:38,032 everybody, that I couldn't have any... 1632 01:31:45,806 --> 01:31:47,008 Hey, you 1633 01:31:48,709 --> 01:31:50,578 I'm up from the bayou 1634 01:31:51,912 --> 01:31:54,248 Where wildlife runs free 1635 01:31:55,649 --> 01:31:57,918 You might say that I'm country 1636 01:31:58,919 --> 01:32:00,988 But let me tell you what I see 1637 01:32:02,757 --> 01:32:04,625 Your world is plastic 1638 01:32:05,292 --> 01:32:08,262 And I can see through To the other side 1639 01:32:09,030 --> 01:32:10,931 Your cities are made of wood 1640 01:32:11,065 --> 01:32:13,934 Antiques are what You've got inside 1641 01:32:14,702 --> 01:32:16,003 Houses are paper 1642 01:32:16,137 --> 01:32:18,973 But folks don't hear A word you say 1643 01:32:20,074 --> 01:32:22,009 Friendship's like acid 1644 01:32:22,676 --> 01:32:24,311 It just burns... 1645 01:32:25,279 --> 01:32:26,981 As it slides away 1646 01:32:28,382 --> 01:32:29,683 So, you see 1647 01:32:31,018 --> 01:32:33,354 My patience is growin' thin 1648 01:32:34,255 --> 01:32:38,759 With this synthetic world We're livin' in 1649 01:32:40,428 --> 01:32:43,831 Strange drugs to keep me blind 1650 01:32:45,733 --> 01:32:47,668 Heavy metal music... 1651 01:32:48,669 --> 01:32:50,604 To blow my mind 1652 01:32:53,007 --> 01:32:57,546 Now I find I'm out of place If I only have one face 1653 01:32:58,145 --> 01:33:00,981 All my friends has more than two 1654 01:33:01,115 --> 01:33:04,051 And no longer must you be you 1655 01:33:05,352 --> 01:33:08,222 They found out how to transplant 1656 01:33:08,656 --> 01:33:12,293 "Maybe" has replaced "can't" 1657 01:33:13,360 --> 01:33:14,628 So, you see 1658 01:33:15,496 --> 01:33:17,566 My patience is growin' thin 1659 01:33:18,432 --> 01:33:23,704 With this synthetic world That we're living in 1660 01:33:25,372 --> 01:33:26,674 Think about that. 1661 01:33:27,975 --> 01:33:30,611 Um... I mean... 1662 01:33:31,011 --> 01:33:33,414 I ain't trying to be Mark Twain... 1663 01:33:34,248 --> 01:33:37,051 but I think I'm just as good as Mark Twain. 1664 01:33:37,918 --> 01:33:41,388 Doing my shit when he doin' his shit. 1665 01:33:42,923 --> 01:33:45,092 I'll leave Mark Twain alone. 1666 01:33:46,193 --> 01:33:47,261 Good night, Mark. 1667 01:33:54,101 --> 01:33:56,170 ♪ Sittin' on a cornflake ♪ 1668 01:33:57,204 --> 01:33:59,807 ♪ Ridin' on a roller skate ♪ 1669 01:34:00,941 --> 01:34:03,310 ♪ Too late to hesitate ♪ 1670 01:34:04,579 --> 01:34:06,480 ♪ Or even meditate ♪ 1671 01:34:07,648 --> 01:34:10,484 ♪ Always lookin' up What's down ♪ 1672 01:34:10,619 --> 01:34:13,921 ♪ They've come to get me From the lost and found ♪ 1673 01:34:14,421 --> 01:34:17,626 ♪ But believe me I'm feelin' fine ♪ 1674 01:34:18,025 --> 01:34:20,595 ♪ To the world I'll throw some wine ♪ 1675 01:34:20,728 --> 01:34:22,897 ♪ And then I'll do Total destruction ♪ 1676 01:34:23,030 --> 01:34:25,166 ♪ To your mind, mind Mind, mind ♪ 1677 01:34:25,299 --> 01:34:27,668 ♪ Total destruction To your mind ♪ 1678 01:34:27,801 --> 01:34:28,802 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1679 01:34:28,936 --> 01:34:30,271 ♪ Total destruction ♪ 1680 01:34:30,471 --> 01:34:32,206 ♪ To your mind, mind Mind, mind ♪ 1681 01:34:32,339 --> 01:34:34,509 ♪ Total destruction To your mind ♪ 1682 01:34:34,643 --> 01:34:36,210 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1683 01:34:40,881 --> 01:34:43,250 ♪ Trials and tribulations ♪ 1684 01:34:44,051 --> 01:34:46,588 ♪ Misuse and aggravation ♪ 1685 01:34:47,388 --> 01:34:50,224 ♪ It was me Who you stepped upon ♪ 1686 01:34:51,025 --> 01:34:53,562 ♪ Me who you looked down on ♪ 1687 01:34:54,563 --> 01:34:57,666 ♪ Stand and watched you Playin' games ♪ 1688 01:34:58,132 --> 01:35:01,368 ♪ But now I've learned to do the same ♪ 1689 01:35:01,769 --> 01:35:04,639 ♪ Now, I am on your case ♪ 1690 01:35:05,105 --> 01:35:07,975 ♪ Lookin' you square In the face ♪ 1691 01:35:08,108 --> 01:35:10,077 ♪ And as sure as the sun ♪ 1692 01:35:10,211 --> 01:35:13,881 ♪ Will shine, shine Shine, shine, shine ♪ 1693 01:35:14,448 --> 01:35:19,119 ♪ I'm gonna do total destruction To your mind, mind, mind, mind ♪ 1694 01:35:19,253 --> 01:35:21,690 ♪ Total destruction To your mind ♪ 1695 01:35:21,822 --> 01:35:23,157 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1696 01:35:23,357 --> 01:35:24,825 ♪ Total destruction To your mind ♪ 1697 01:35:24,959 --> 01:35:26,360 ♪ Mind, mind, mind ♪ 1698 01:35:26,493 --> 01:35:28,530 ♪ Total destruction To your mind ♪ 1699 01:35:28,663 --> 01:35:30,931 ♪ Yeah, mind, yeah, mind ♪ 1700 01:35:36,237 --> 01:35:37,438 ♪ Roommates ♪ 1701 01:35:37,905 --> 01:35:38,839 ♪ Roommates ♪ 1702 01:35:38,973 --> 01:35:40,808 ♪ Oh, roommates ♪ 1703 01:35:40,941 --> 01:35:42,409 ♪ Oh, roommates ♪ 1704 01:35:42,544 --> 01:35:46,548 ♪ Oh, oh, roommates Oh, oh, roommates ♪ 1705 01:35:46,681 --> 01:35:47,915 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1706 01:35:48,148 --> 01:35:49,551 ♪ Understanding Is what it takes ♪ 1707 01:35:49,684 --> 01:35:51,519 ♪ To live in the world Without faith ♪ 1708 01:35:51,653 --> 01:35:55,022 ♪ Poverty that's what it be In today's society ♪ 1709 01:35:55,155 --> 01:35:59,293 ♪ From day in to day out Respect is what it's all about ♪ 1710 01:35:59,426 --> 01:36:02,296 ♪ Caring, sharing, forgiving, Healing, hurting ♪ 1711 01:36:02,429 --> 01:36:06,534 ♪ Pain, happiness, all together Under the same roof ♪ 1712 01:36:06,668 --> 01:36:08,035 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1713 01:36:08,168 --> 01:36:09,671 ♪ Could be me, it could be you ♪ 1714 01:36:09,803 --> 01:36:13,140 ♪ Helping save humanity ♪ From insanity ♪ 1715 01:36:13,274 --> 01:36:15,175 ♪ That's what real Roommates do ♪ 1716 01:36:15,309 --> 01:36:18,078 - ♪ That's what roommates do ♪ - ♪ Roommate ♪ 1717 01:36:58,553 --> 01:37:01,255 Hi. 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