00:14I'm gonna get my phone fixed. Can you just wait here at the guitar store where you can't fuck anything
00:18up?
00:21Oh, I'll show you. They'll be doing a fucking documentary about what I get up to in here.
00:30Swan Boy? Now we're really talking. Jesus was already taken, so I suppose he had to settle for rock and
00:36roll, you know?
00:37Music was, you have to admit, pretty boring. And then Swan Boy shows up. And then it was just like,
00:44wham!
00:45I mean, he was awful. This is a joke, right? Who's funding this? It can't be Swan Boy.
00:49But I guess to tell the whole story, you have to start on that fateful day at the Giuliani Gardens
00:55Mall.
00:56Swan Boy, you ain't here. I don't trust you, and I have no vision.
01:00And the rest, as they say, was history.
01:03Do you guys have any, um, uh, guitars?
01:07The thing you have to understand is that at that time, everybody knew how to play.
01:12So to come in and have no idea turned the whole scene on its head.
01:16Okay, wait, shit. Fuck. Shit, I know this. Okay, hold on. I think...
01:22He basically drew a line in the sand. People who get it on one side, and everybody else on the
01:28other.
01:28I mean, it was brother against brother.
01:31But it wasn't all about shock value, thumbing his nose, the establishment, punk rock thing, you know?
01:37Under all that, there was heart. Not afraid to be vulnerable.
01:42Ow! Fuck! Ow! I mean, that guy suffered for his heart.
01:46The lad had this lyrical edge, you know, which obviously took the songs to a different level.
01:51This bloke was on another planet, you know?
01:54Sort of this free association, Jack Kerouac thing. But really, all his own.
01:58Quiet girl, a wedding man. I'm great.
02:03Made a catering.
02:05People were speechless. But hey, they were speechless when Dylan sang.
02:09It's marvelous, with a unicorn fist, making custard, and the boy kings, lots of carousel.
02:15So, you know, sometimes it's just the price of being a trailblazer.
02:18The first tour was just this amazing opportunity for him to spread his wings and say,
02:23Hey, world, this is me. I've got wings, and they're spread.
02:29He broke numerous sitars, and he blamed it on a strong guy.
02:34I think at this point, the touring was really starting to take a toll.
02:38You know, you listen to 2.41 p.m. Swan Boy, and then you listen to 2.53 p.m.
02:43Swan Boy,
02:44and it's just hardly even the same guy.
02:47Okay, I have it this time. It's... Wait, hold on. Wait. Just wait. Wait.
02:51Just be patient. Wait.
02:54Shit, wait.
02:55So Swan Boy was at a crossroads. Would he work on his music, or would he work on himself?
03:03People were frightened of Swan Lad. Again, he'd done the impossible with that feedback noise.
03:09Nobody knew what it was.
03:11But not everybody was celebrating Swan Boy's return to relevance.
03:14He had some nasty guys around him.
03:16You know, when the grass is cut, the snakes will show. Every time.
03:36You know, I've taken a lot of heat for that text over the years.
03:40A lot of heat.
03:41But I didn't know what he was up to in there.
03:44And I still don't.
03:54God, I wonder where he is now.
03:56Oh, he's banned from all Guitarmageddons in the Tri-County area.
03:59I don't know what he's doing, but I'm sure it's changing the world.
04:03So, uh, what was wrong with your phone?
04:05They said there was gum inside. Did you do that?
04:07I don't remember. Probably.
04:29I don't remember. Probably.
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