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It doesn't matter what I say So long as I sing with inflection That makes you feel that I'll convey Some inner truth of vast reflection But I've said nothing so far And I can keep it up for as long as it takes And it don't matter who you are If I'm doing my job then it's your resolve that breaks Because the hook brings you back I ain't tellin' you no lie The hook brings you back On that you can rely There is something amiss I am being insincere In fact I don't mean any of this Still my confession draws you near To confuse the issue I refer To familiar heroes from long ago No matter how much Peter loved her What made the Pan refuse to grow Was that the hook brings you back I ain't tellin' you no lie The hook brings you back On that you can rely Suck it in suck it in suck it in If you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn Make a desperate move or else you'll win And then begin To see What you're doing to me this MTV is not for free It's so PC it's killing me So desperately I sing to thee Of love Sure but also rage and hate and pain and fear of self And I can't keep these feelings on the shelf I've tried well no in fact I lied Could be financial suicide but I've got too much pride inside To hide or slide I'll do as I'll decide and let it ride until I've died And only then shall I abide this tide Of catchy little tunes Of hip three minute ditties I wanna bust all your balloons I wanna burn all of your cities To the ground I've found I will not mess around Unless I play then hey I will go on all day hear what I say I have a prayer to pray That's really all this was And when I'm feeling stuck and need a buck I don't rely on luck because... The hook brings you back I ain't tellin' you no lie The hook... On that you can rely
@@EShelby2127 - Yup... basically showing us how you can spew a big pile of verbal garbage, and not mean a word of it. As long as it's done convincingly and there's a catchy hook, people will groove to it. And as long as it fits the industry approved time frame and format, they'll play it on the radio.
The way he does that harmonica solo and IMMEDIATELY goes into the fastest lines of the song will never cease to amaze me. His breath control is out of this world.
Back in the early 90's when they were touring, a friend convinced me to drive up with him and a few friends to San Francisco. I asked him if we would be able to buy tickets at the venue and he said yes. So we headed up North from Los Angeles to get to the show that night. Basically about 7 to 8 hour drive. When we got there we were told that the tickets were sold out. Immediately a couple of us were bummed and the others had tickets to get in. So I thought I did this drive just to sit in a parking lot. Then my friend mentioned the tour bus was just around the back and we should knock on the bus door and see if we could get in to the show. I didn't want to bother anyone but I figured it was worth a try. So I went over to the bus and knocked on the glass. Guess who comes to the door...Popper! He was the only one on the bus. I told him I didn't mean to bother him and explained that I drove with some friends from Los Angeles thinking I could buy a ticket but is now sold out. I asked if he had 2 tickets that my friend and I could buy to see the show? He said "come with me." My friend and I followed him through the back stage door. He showed us to a room with a couch that looked like it was outside the green room. He said wait here. We waited for about 30 mins then someone came out and told us we could enter the theatre. We entered and met up with our friends inside. They started about 10 minutes later. What a fantastic show! I continued to go see them live at different venues through the 90's. Down to earth and talented!
He's a great person! I also had a nice encounter with him. Absolutely no ego at all, very much just a regular dude. Polo didn't seem to notice, but that vest he wears has harmonicas in little pockets all the way down both sides. During shows, he plays a little bit on each one and then tosses them out into the crowd.
One of the strongest bands of the 90s. A real crime they didn't become even bigger, but musical tastes changed.... Still love these guys! Popper is a legend!
"Runaround", "Hook", and "But Anyway" were their big hits. John is a phenom. He is such a unique harmonica player that his vocals were often overlooked. Incredible breath control especially for someon that size.
I think it was the summer of '88 (maybe '89, early college years) back home in NYC, my highschool buddy told us we had to check out this new band playing at Brownies, a dive bar/music club in the East Village. It was Blues Traveler, we were 5 feet from them (no stage if I recall) and good lord they blew our minds! An amazing live band, no nonsense, just talent and hard work on full display. Good times!! Great reaction as always!!
What a great band to react to they are great. John Popper is remarkable. That vest he wears has pockets for about 20 different harmonicas. It’s awesome.
So much to state with this remarkable band. Their talent is out of this world. John Popper is a sheer genius. Their live performances are just fantastic. They also do fundraising concerts for people/children with disabilities...which is also pretty amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this. Your reaction was pretty perfect! =)
They opened for the Allman Brothers at an outdoor amphitheater near me back in the early 90's. This was just a couple of months before they blew up, so we didn't know who they were. By damn, we knew when we left. 😂 Great night, great show. It was my birthday, too. ❤️🔥🤘
The hit song with a great hook that makes fun of us for loving hit songs with great hooks. I saw them on the side stage at a music fest around 1994 in Indy. I, um, don't remember much about it.
My wife and I saw them in 1994 at the State Theater in Minneapolis, MN. Sheryl Crow opened for them. We saw them again this past April -- almost 30 years to the day -- at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, TX. It's the oldest honky-tonk in Texas. They sounded better than ever, and John Popper is still the greatest harmonica player I've ever heard. They added a keyboardist to the band about fifteen years ago, which rounded out their sound. Check 'em out live if you can. My favorite song from them is "Price to Pay," the 8th track from their 6× Platinum album Four from 1994.
Blues Traveler is one of my favorite all-time bands. They are supremely talented. Not only is John Popper a great singer and harmonica player, but also a great lyricist. Plus the guitar, bass, and drums are all fantastic, too. You could put on a blindfold and throw a dart at a list of all their songs and still be guaranteed to get a great song. Thanks for checking them out.
Dude plays the harp like nobody's business, great voice, too. BTW there's a big crossover between the two - you need excellent breath control for both.
He's got really good vocal technique too, watch when he projects his voice how he sticks his tongue out past his bottom teeth, A great technique to open up your throat.
I only saw one comment that gets it. This song is hilarious. The song is about absolutely nothing, accept he was under contract to write hit songs, that say nothing. So he wrote this song that says nothing to make fun of song writing that says nothing. Please look at the lyrics.
This album called four is incredible its the only one I know from the band. The song 'the mountains win again ' always brings me to tears. Top notch band here. The 90s were amazing
I got to see Blues Traveler as my first act I saw at WOODSTOCK 94. John Popper was doing his version of the Star Spangled Banner, Hendrix style, on the harmonica with tons of distortion. It was a great moment....
Yo, crazy opportunity! No one on youtube has any reactions from a band called the Nixons! Awesome 90s rock, wire, sister, december, dont cry, the passion.. all amazing tracks!
Saw this band for the first time ( unfortunately only time) at a summer music festival up in Saskatchewan about 1995. Fantastic live! Made me an instant fan. Couldn’t take my eyes off John because of his stage presence and musicianship 👍👍
You need to read and study the lyrics. They are literally about NOTHING!! It’s a song proving that you can write a nonsense song and it becomes a hit. I LOVE THIS SONG!!
The song Loser by Beck is the same way. He wrote it because he was told he'd never make it with lyrics that don't make sense so he wrote the most nonsensical thing he could think of and it became a huge hit!
Howard Stern has a treasure trove of great live music performances. My favourite is Adam Levine covering Purple Rain. It was at Howard’s 60th birthday party.
The best place to start is at the beginning. The first song on their first album, logically titled "Blues Traveler" is "But Anyway", and off you go. Saw them live back in 1990, in Philly, and they were amazing, before this song even came out.
Saw them at a local outdoor concert festival in my small Idaho town this past summer. Always fun, but John was off. At times he wasn't even on stage. A little bummed out at that, but the show was still fun. Seen them several times over the years. If you wanna keep going with Blues Traveler, there are many popular tracks that hit it big for them. If you wanna dig just a little deeper, I will recommend my all time favorite, Alone/Sweet talkin' hippie off their first album. You won't disappointed.
"Live From The Fall" is a live album that covers some great tracks Alone is amazing. You will enjoy Blues Traveler. They were great. John Popper and Little Walter are my favorite harp players. But I will see your Blues Traveler and raise you Rival Sons; Pair of Aces Pt 1 & 2. A great gig covering their oldest material from Catalina Island during the pandemic. No audience, but a brilliant show. Only been out a few weeks now. Be sure to watch the Pair Of Aces (Official Performance Video) of Soul. Soul is just a perfect live performance. Amazing vocals. Peace in 2025, Happy New Year.
POLO- you’ve gotta listen to our greatest purveyor of blue eyed soul today- Allen Stone. Everything he does is phenomenal! “Unaware” “ Brown Eyed Liver” “ Is This Love”- live at Bonnaroo.
saw them in the early 90s not long after John Popper had been in a bad motorcycle accident and he had to do a bunch of tour dates in a wheelchair but didnt affect the performance at all. Still put on a great show.
For something different from them "Regarding Stephen" is my fav. It's a true story about a friend of John's who had met with some tragedy early in life that left him traumatized and vulnerable and they got addicted to drugs but John got sober because his music gave him something to live for but he left Stephen behind so this song is about him asking the devil if Stephen still lives with him or did he make it out and it's heartbreaking.
The movie you are thinking of was Kingpin. They played the Amish band. Huge fan of this band since the 90s but the song Mountains Win gets to me every time
It's said to be the most meta song ever written. It's supposed to be very formulaic, chord progression and meters, and meaningless lyrics with an ultra catchy hook. A formula for a "hit song". Ironically, it's their hugest hit. Of course, they're just amazingly talented too and the song is undeniably great.
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Now listen again and pay attention to the lyrics. It is the biggest F You to the industry. Absolutely brilliant!
Yes! The lyrics are just as good as the sound of this song.
I know. I am always amused but he's right, it's a great road trip song!
It doesn't matter what I say
So long as I sing with inflection
That makes you feel that I'll convey
Some inner truth of vast reflection
But I've said nothing so far
And I can keep it up for as long as it takes
And it don't matter who you are
If I'm doing my job then it's your resolve that breaks
Because the hook brings you back
I ain't tellin' you no lie
The hook brings you back
On that you can rely
There is something amiss
I am being insincere
In fact I don't mean any of this
Still my confession draws you near
To confuse the issue I refer
To familiar heroes from long ago
No matter how much Peter loved her
What made the Pan refuse to grow
Was that the hook brings you back
I ain't tellin' you no lie
The hook brings you back
On that you can rely
Suck it in suck it in suck it in
If you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn
Make a desperate move or else you'll win
And then begin
To see
What you're doing to me this MTV is not for free
It's so PC it's killing me
So desperately I sing to thee
Of love
Sure but also rage and hate and pain and fear of self
And I can't keep these feelings on the shelf
I've tried well no in fact I lied
Could be financial suicide but I've got too much pride inside
To hide or slide
I'll do as I'll decide and let it ride until I've died
And only then shall I abide this tide
Of catchy little tunes
Of hip three minute ditties
I wanna bust all your balloons
I wanna burn all of your cities
To the ground I've found
I will not mess around
Unless I play then hey
I will go on all day hear what I say
I have a prayer to pray
That's really all this was
And when I'm feeling stuck and need a buck
I don't rely on luck because...
The hook brings you back
I ain't tellin' you no lie
The hook...
On that you can rely
@@EShelby2127thanks dude!
@@EShelby2127 - Yup... basically showing us how you can spew a big pile of verbal garbage, and not mean a word of it. As long as it's done convincingly and there's a catchy hook, people will groove to it. And as long as it fits the industry approved time frame and format, they'll play it on the radio.
The way he does that harmonica solo and IMMEDIATELY goes into the fastest lines of the song will never cease to amaze me. His breath control is out of this world.
I think that's the reason I never tried this in Karaoke. I could never sing that fast when drinking, lol.
Big guys have great breathing control because they must use extra muscles to breathe. Love him.
GOAT stuff on da harp!!!
He's breathing in through the harp
Back in the early 90's when they were touring, a friend convinced me to drive up with him and a few friends to San Francisco. I asked him if we would be able to buy tickets at the venue and he said yes. So we headed up North from Los Angeles to get to the show that night. Basically about 7 to 8 hour drive. When we got there we were told that the tickets were sold out. Immediately a couple of us were bummed and the others had tickets to get in. So I thought I did this drive just to sit in a parking lot. Then my friend mentioned the tour bus was just around the back and we should knock on the bus door and see if we could get in to the show. I didn't want to bother anyone but I figured it was worth a try. So I went over to the bus and knocked on the glass. Guess who comes to the door...Popper! He was the only one on the bus. I told him I didn't mean to bother him and explained that I drove with some friends from Los Angeles thinking I could buy a ticket but is now sold out. I asked if he had 2 tickets that my friend and I could buy to see the show? He said "come with me." My friend and I followed him through the back stage door. He showed us to a room with a couch that looked like it was outside the green room. He said wait here. We waited for about 30 mins then someone came out and told us we could enter the theatre. We entered and met up with our friends inside. They started about 10 minutes later. What a fantastic show! I continued to go see them live at different venues through the 90's. Down to earth and talented!
Love when that shit happens!
He's a great person! I also had a nice encounter with him. Absolutely no ego at all, very much just a regular dude. Polo didn't seem to notice, but that vest he wears has harmonicas in little pockets all the way down both sides. During shows, he plays a little bit on each one and then tosses them out into the crowd.
That is f*cking amazing. !!!!!! DAMN!!! memory of a lifetime. 🎉
Wow! So great!
It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sing with inflection..... One of the greatest lines ever
You probably heard “Runaround”. It’s a great song
Yes, that's their most commercially successful song.
"The Mountains Win Again" is another good one by BT.
Yes, Polo you really need to hear this song!
Always makes me cry. My favorite track
One of the strongest bands of the 90s. A real crime they didn't become even bigger, but musical tastes changed.... Still love these guys! Popper is a legend!
"Runaround", "Hook", and "But Anyway" were their big hits. John is a phenom. He is such a unique harmonica player that his vocals were often overlooked. Incredible breath control especially for someon that size.
They’re insanely good live.
The Mountain Wins Again....for the WIN...RIP Bobby....
Absolutely!
Greatest Harmonica player EVER! John Popper.
That's an understatement
John Popper is an absolute BEAST! I only got to see him perform live once when I saw him play with Jason Mraz way back in the day. It was phenomenal.
This cd was amazing! I saw them live with Dave Mathew’s and Lenny Kravitz. My favorite concert ever!
Same! Hoard Festival 1995 in Portland, OR. I've never been to a concert since that compared to that!
@@garthmiller6191 Me too! At the Gorge in George, WA.
I love that last line ‘when I’m feeling stuck and need a buck I don’t rely on luck’ so good
My teenage self would have kicked my own ass for listening to something like this. The sheer talent on display in this song is otherworldly.
Amazingly on perfect pitch, LIVE Such command of his instrument 🤯
I believe their song "But Anyway" was on the Kingpin soundtrack.
They are an incredible live band. Saw them perform about 4 times back in the 90s.
You got me with the Peter Griffin comment. I spit spaghetti. Now I'm cleaning.
This is one of my favorite songs ever. I once saw them on New Year's Eve at Madison Square Garden. They are SO great live.
Blues Traveler is fantastic!
I was lucky enough to catch them just before their Prime... touring college campuses. Such a great band...
It was from the movie kingpin. They played at the end on in an Amish community
I think it was the summer of '88 (maybe '89, early college years) back home in NYC, my highschool buddy told us we had to check out this new band playing at Brownies, a dive bar/music club in the East Village. It was Blues Traveler, we were 5 feet from them (no stage if I recall) and good lord they blew our minds! An amazing live band, no nonsense, just talent and hard work on full display. Good times!! Great reaction as always!!
What a great band to react to they are great. John Popper is remarkable. That vest he wears has pockets for about 20 different harmonicas. It’s awesome.
He is a true virtuoso with those lovely little harmonicas. The talent of the entire band is incredible. And, thank you for sharing this. =)
So much to state with this remarkable band. Their talent is out of this world. John Popper is a sheer genius. Their live performances are just fantastic. They also do fundraising concerts for people/children with disabilities...which is also pretty amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this. Your reaction was pretty perfect! =)
They opened for the Allman Brothers at an outdoor amphitheater near me back in the early 90's. This was just a couple of months before they blew up, so we didn't know who they were. By damn, we knew when we left. 😂
Great night, great show. It was my birthday, too. ❤️🔥🤘
The hit song with a great hook that makes fun of us for loving hit songs with great hooks.
I saw them on the side stage at a music fest around 1994 in Indy. I, um, don't remember much about it.
😂
“I didn’t exhale.”
-Blotter
Do your Thang, John Popper! 🤘🤌🫶
When this came out, I took it for granted & was even tired of it, because the radio played it into the ground. #GenX
The 90s was amazing for different kinds of music. Genres were all over the place, and there was something for everyone.
I felt the same way when I discovered The Blues Travelers.
I did a deep dove into all of their music.
That vest that the lead singer (John Popper) is wearing is full of harmonica, each of them in a different key.
My wife and I saw them in 1994 at the State Theater in Minneapolis, MN. Sheryl Crow opened for them. We saw them again this past April -- almost 30 years to the day -- at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, TX. It's the oldest honky-tonk in Texas. They sounded better than ever, and John Popper is still the greatest harmonica player I've ever heard. They added a keyboardist to the band about fifteen years ago, which rounded out their sound. Check 'em out live if you can. My favorite song from them is "Price to Pay," the 8th track from their 6× Platinum album Four from 1994.
The Mountains Win Again is an absolute must. John laid down a fucking sermon in those lyrics that everyone needs to hear.
The lyrics in this song are some of the finest ever penned. Literally perfect
Blues Traveler is one of my favorite all-time bands. They are supremely talented. Not only is John Popper a great singer and harmonica player, but also a great lyricist. Plus the guitar, bass, and drums are all fantastic, too. You could put on a blindfold and throw a dart at a list of all their songs and still be guaranteed to get a great song. Thanks for checking them out.
Dude plays the harp like nobody's business, great voice, too. BTW there's a big crossover between the two - you need excellent breath control for both.
Harp?
@@coreyrees840 Harmonicas are also called "harps." At least that's what we call 'em in Texas.
@@coreyrees840blues harp, i assume.
He's got really good vocal technique too, watch when he projects his voice how he sticks his tongue out past his bottom teeth, A great technique to open up your throat.
@@theshadowfax239. So sad that he contracted long COVID! Some of the high notes are gone but still better than most!!!
I only saw one comment that gets it. This song is hilarious. The song is about absolutely nothing, accept he was under contract to write hit songs, that say nothing. So he wrote this song that says nothing to make fun of song writing that says nothing. Please look at the lyrics.
And the the chord progression is Pachelbel's Canon. The original repetitive one-hit-wonder.
It’s actually a deep song, masquerading as an empty song, criticizing meaningless songs. There is a great mini-documentary about it on RUclips.
It's about Peter Pan
I'm wrong it's about a hook in a song, a rlff
Big fan of this band!!!
Many great albums!!!
They are totally amazing live!!!❤👌👍✌️
This album called four is incredible its the only one I know from the band. The song 'the mountains win again ' always brings me to tears. Top notch band here. The 90s were amazing
The Mountains Win Again is a beautiful song by them. Great reaction Polo. Love them!
This one song is basically the instruction for a good song. It's The HOOK that brings you back so have a hook and you're golden.
One of the best to blow a harp ever
Mountain Cry - Live From the Fall
Mullin it Over - Live from the Fall.
The whole live album, Live from the Fall is great.
My favorite song by BT. Incredible talent. 90's is my wheelhouse and they are a spoke.
Well spoken my friend.
1st two albums are Awesome 💯
His name is John Popper. Harmonica & vocal legend.
I got to see Blues Traveler as my first act I saw at WOODSTOCK 94. John Popper was doing his version of the Star Spangled Banner, Hendrix style, on the harmonica with tons of distortion. It was a great moment....
But Anyway, Mountains Win Again, Runaround.
They used to play house parties that I attended in the early 1980s in Princeton New Jersey. Amazing house parties.
Love this song. This whole album is full of bangers.
Big fan of Blues Traveler. I play bass along to this song at least a few times a week when I practice. Gets the fingers moving and the blood flowing.
The bassline in this particular song is sneaky tough if you don't have legit chops.
@@gregpickett8816Correct.
You gotta love the harmonica vest!
My wife is a big fan of this band. They didn’t really click for me until we went to see them perform live. Such a great live show. I’m a fan now.
Had the pleasure of catching them live a few times - amazing musicianship.
Love ya, Polo! Always enjoy your reactions. Now take a step back and dissect the lyrics…talent from every possible angle with these guys
total breath control badass! Amazing talent at lead vocals.
Anything from their FOUR album is amazing.
GREAT BAND.
Yo, crazy opportunity! No one on youtube has any reactions from a band called the Nixons! Awesome 90s rock, wire, sister, december, dont cry, the passion.. all amazing tracks!
That vest is holding all harmonicas. Popper stayed ready!!
Oh, MAN!!! Can't WAIT to see THIS REACTION!!! HUGS from TEXAS, POLO - and, ENJOY!!
Saw this band for the first time ( unfortunately only time) at a summer music festival up in Saskatchewan about 1995. Fantastic live! Made me an instant fan. Couldn’t take my eyes off John because of his stage presence and musicianship 👍👍
You need to read and study the lyrics. They are literally about NOTHING!! It’s a song proving that you can write a nonsense song and it becomes a hit. I LOVE THIS SONG!!
The song Loser by Beck is the same way. He wrote it because he was told he'd never make it with lyrics that don't make sense so he wrote the most nonsensical thing he could think of and it became a huge hit!
I have seen them over a dozen times they play Red Rocks every 4th of July been probably 10 years or more.
He bends the reeds on his harmonica which is a very difficult thing to master
awesome song... i love watching re actors figure it out... But Anyway...
Mountains win again is the one to listen to next, live if you can find it.
He is singing exactly about your reaction to the song 😂 he had you because of the inflection of his voice and hook, didn’t care about the lyrics 😂
Howard Stern has a treasure trove of great live music performances. My favourite is Adam Levine covering Purple Rain. It was at Howard’s 60th birthday party.
The movie they were in was Kingpin, with Woody Harrelson and Randy Quaid (a Farrelly Brothers film.)
The best place to start is at the beginning. The first song on their first album, logically titled "Blues Traveler" is "But Anyway", and off you go. Saw them live back in 1990, in Philly, and they were amazing, before this song even came out.
They performed during the closing credits of the movie 'Kingpin'
The movie King Pin had them play at the end, that's probably where you heard them. Awesome musicians
Peter Griffin....hahahahahaha Now that's funny. Blues Traveler tho....chills. So good!
He sings like a harmonica, and plays harmonica like a guitar
He can do the same with a guitar!
Saw them at a local outdoor concert festival in my small Idaho town this past summer. Always fun, but John was off. At times he wasn't even on stage. A little bummed out at that, but the show was still fun. Seen them several times over the years.
If you wanna keep going with Blues Traveler, there are many popular tracks that hit it big for them. If you wanna dig just a little deeper, I will recommend my all time favorite, Alone/Sweet talkin' hippie off their first album. You won't disappointed.
"Live From The Fall" is a live album that covers some great tracks Alone is amazing. You will enjoy Blues Traveler. They were great. John Popper and Little Walter are my favorite harp players.
But I will see your Blues Traveler and raise you Rival Sons; Pair of Aces Pt 1 & 2. A great gig covering their oldest material from Catalina Island during the pandemic. No audience, but a brilliant show. Only been out a few weeks now. Be sure to watch the Pair Of Aces (Official Performance Video) of Soul. Soul is just a perfect live performance. Amazing vocals.
Peace in 2025, Happy New Year.
“Price to Pay” from the same album is sick. I love it.
i had the CD back in thde day he is the best the harmonica solo he plays on metalica tuesdays gone is crazy
Polo Music...... Blues Traveler were featured on THE BLUES BROTHERS 2000 movie & at the end of KINGPIN. Both tracks are 🔥
Good one POLO, thanx.
I love Blues Traveler! I've seen them live twice, and I actually prefer their live tracts to studio recordings. John Popper is amazing.
Blues Traveler 4. Every song is great and I've never been able to pick a favorite.
Seen these guys at St Bonaventure. Olean ny 1993. Alone is the title to my favorite son from them .
Popper is straight FIRE!
Dude, listen to their album “travelers and thieves” specifically the song sweet pain… it’s amazing. They are wild underrated
Love that album!
@ same! 🙌🏼
Crash Burn, But Anyway, Gina, Runaround, 100 Years…many good songs by Blues Traveler!
POLO- you’ve gotta listen to our greatest purveyor of blue eyed soul today- Allen Stone.
Everything he does is phenomenal!
“Unaware” “ Brown Eyed Liver”
“ Is This Love”- live at Bonnaroo.
saw them in the early 90s not long after John Popper had been in a bad motorcycle accident and he had to do a bunch of tour dates in a wheelchair but didnt affect the performance at all. Still put on a great show.
Always loved Blues Traveler. You should check out "But Anyway".
Two great albums, really fun group.
But Anyway!!!!! First album, pa-lease and a hearty thank you. First album. Great stuff.
For something different from them "Regarding Stephen" is my fav. It's a true story about a friend of John's who had met with some tragedy early in life that left him traumatized and vulnerable and they got addicted to drugs but John got sober because his music gave him something to live for but he left Stephen behind so this song is about him asking the devil if Stephen still lives with him or did he make it out and it's heartbreaking.
You’re the Hook that brings us back Polo😊
The movie you are thinking of was Kingpin. They played the Amish band. Huge fan of this band since the 90s but the song Mountains Win gets to me every time
They made an appearance and performed a song at the end of the movie "Kingpin" that starred Woody Harrelson, Bill Murray & Randy Quaid.
Excellent slapstick comedy movie; highly underrated. So damn funny.
It's said to be the most meta song ever written. It's supposed to be very formulaic, chord progression and meters, and meaningless lyrics with an ultra catchy hook. A formula for a "hit song". Ironically, it's their hugest hit. Of course, they're just amazingly talented too and the song is undeniably great.
I have heard this, & I love it.❤
Doing a deep dive on the 40+ years of Stern Show musical performances would fill a channel for years. Might be worth a dip in that pool for you.
Peter Griffin is absolutely the most multi talented character ever
Loved your comment 😂