Here is Part Two of our conversation with Doug Stanhope. In this segment, Doug spends much of his time essentially interviewing us, which again shows you what a genuine person he is. Can’t wait to have him on the show again.
Topic list:
- Congratulations to our friends Kelly & Debbie Howe on their 30th anniversary
- Doug asks about our mutual friends in Houston-based band RAT RANCH
- Doug’s history at Chilkoot Charlie’s in Anchorage, Alaska
- The challenges of having too many people in a band
- Paddy: being a comedian is the hardest job in the world
- How old-school casette audiobooks changed Doug’s life on the road in the early days
- The joy of exploring backroads locations while on tour (how Doug found Bisbee, AZ)
- Doug and Paddy compare their (very close) ages
- Doug asks how long Blaggards have been together
- Eric’s frustration with joining the band right before the pandemic kicked in
- Why our former drummer Mike McAloon left the band
- Doug asks what ‘Blaggards’ means
- ‘Plausible deniabilty’ for band names before the internet
- Doug asks what “Behind the Music” dirt Blaggards might have
- Doug asks if any of us are sober or single
- Is music a young man’s sport?
- Doug asks what cover songs we love doing in our own style
- How Blaggards side-step Irish rock clichés
- Doug’s love of Irish Rock (despite his disinterest in music in general)
- What Irish rock band does Paddy dislike the most
- Overplayed bar-band songs
- How cover songs are often better than the originals
- The complicated issue of comedy theft
- How Australian comedian Jim Jeffries blatantly stole a routine from Doug
- Comics have no recourse to copyright infringement
- How joke theives are effectively drummed out of the business
- Doug asks if anyone has ever stolen from Blaggards
- How we came up with our version of “Drunken Sailor”
- How young comics often try impress Doug with similar material
- How language barriers can create conflicts in comedy material