Jon Bon Jovi Invited Triumph The Insult Comic Dog On Tour | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I want to say I was immediately. immediately upset when I saw you in the. green. room I need a phone book to I know what. is it we're both sinking into these. seats both like like Mr. Burns. acent yes no I uh I know that we are a. similar vintage I think we were probably. born around the same time and all I ever. do is I walk in the room this is like. the best looking man I've ever seen at. any age group and I every day I look at.

my face in the mirror and it's a pumpkin. rotting in the sun I don't know what. you're doing you're drinking the the. blood of the living but whatever you're. doing absolutely incredible thank you. very much I'm older than dirt I've. earned this gray hair at least you still. this is a I. just I just scrap this on it's just. velcro and it goes on on the back yeah. that's me uh no thank you so much for. doing this you've been uh you've been. very nice to me over the years uh you. came on late night show I think seven.

times which I don't you guys were. incredibly supportive of the band thank. you yeah yeah and you were even crazy. enough to invite Triumph along yes it's. one of the fans favorite remotes is. triumph giving you guys endless amounts. of um and I I remembered when. Robert Smigel told me yeah they they've. invited Triumph and I said why would. anyone invite him in he's he was on the. podcast and he spent 15 minutes uh. absolutely ripping me apart and when he. was done I was laugh as Triumph he had.

the puppet there ripping me apart and. then uh when he was done I was really. laughing hard but when I went home there. was blood in my. urine he attacks and you think you're. having a really good time and then you. get home in real life oh my God he. destroyed me he absolutely destroyed me. Triumph classic metti Stadium I mean he. didn't like come you know to a little. Club somewhere we took him to the. stadium oh I know yeah I remembered.

seeing it you guys uh were very good. sports and fools I think to have them we. loved them but um I was tell talking to. you backstage that I got to see this. documentary about you the band how it. all got started and the first thing it. struck me which I could relate to is how. much uh things change you get a little. older and how much harder you have to. work just to stay at the same level and. at the you talk like your work ethic is.

absolutely insane and very admirable. because people think being in a rock and. roll band and being a massive star would. just be fun of course it is of course. it's fun yeah I got that from the. documentary you didn't have to work at. all you totally phoned it in yeah um but. it's it's impressive like how much work. you have to do well you know look every. kid thinks he's a singer because he's in. the shower doing it you know and then. you can do it in a bar and then you can. even make a record you make a record now. you've set the bar and now you have to.

beat that record every time you. watch the swearing a little bit this is. a podcast for. children really five it's a kids show. five and six years old yeah no but um. but it is uh and and it starts out with. you doing all these vocal exercises and. you're just talking about like yep 60. the band's been around 40 years and I. you you do all this work and I don't.

even think fans they're not supposed to. know how much work you put into it right. supposed to look easy but the harder. your work the look you you get and you. know on the other hand I had an old. adage nobody loved the fat Elvis you. know it's like I don't want to go out. like that if I'm going to if I'm going. to die it's going to be you know out. there doing it the right way or don't do. it right you know I mean just if if. you're not going to do it don't be the. fat Elvis yeah yeah.

so I I disagree. uh I I am I plan I plan to really fall. apart and hang around and I'm just. hanging around and I we're constantly. doing research that shows no one wants. me anymore and I'm I'm like I don't care. I'm going to eat these pork chops and. get out there it's my micophone just. embarrass myself yeah um no it is uh it. is a Real Testament and also it is a. great story I think people should watch. this because.

like anything else when you see. everything that went into it what I took. away from it is you're this kid and no. one's you have music teachers in school. telling you n you're not a singer you. people tell everyone's telling you. you're not a singer and you just like. uhhuh yeah no I am you'll see you just. keep going in the face of a lot of. adversity you know give a kid a dream. it's dangerous so it it was as simple as. that and at the time.

growing up in New Jersey was very. different than being in Los Angeles or. Manhattan or somewhere that that had a. big Spotlight on you we were in the. shadow of the greatest city in the world. with New York City we were close enough. to Greatness but we could craft our our. we could develop our chops we could. learn our craft we could we could play. other people's music and emulate them. until the time when we got to that place. where you felt that the hell with it I'm. going to jump off the diving board and. and see if I can swim and so that was. really important the time the late 70s.

was a a Melting Pot of great music that. was happening it was at a time when a DJ. could influence an audience they had a a. endless playlist and a microphone and. they could talk to the audience and say. check this out and a band could break. out of a city it didn't have to be a. national thing with a big you know push. behind it so all of those things came. together at a time for me that but even. by the time I was 18 I just I can't play. other people's music anymore and you.

were a cover band you were in a cover. band and you're only playing other. people's songs and then you decide I'm. 18 yeah 18 years old that's enough and. you decide I'm going to start writing my. own stuff yeah and I don't even I I I. have a decent imagination and I've made. my living off of what goes on in my. brain the one thing is a complete. mystery to me and I've said this to a. lot of my musical guests is songwriting. I it's completely magical and you.

clearly have this great gift for it but. when you first start how do you even. know what you're doing you don't but. I've heard others say that and. it's it sort of mystifies me because I. think oh it's really not that hard but I. could never write comedy or I could. never write a script you know how I. think how difficult that would be to. write a script and all of that Dialogue. on every you know intention of each of. the characters but writing a song for me. it starts out very stupid and simple and. you're stealing from everybody and then. you're ulating Your Heroes and then.

you're rhyming moon June and Spoon and. with time hey I like that. song that was a hit for me by the way. 1987 went to the top of the charts yeah. you know until eventually you you. develop a voice and then you you you. know you're writing chapters in your own. book yeah but that's that's that's kind. of what it is when you're looking at. those old tapes ' 85. 86 and what is it that hits you right. away way is it what you're wearing the.

look you know look my baby pictures were. public your audiences were not you know. so I have to live with that the poster. boy of the 80s um but no I I I can. chuckle at all of that now and really. you know enjoy the the laugh uh as much. as anyone else can but I think that what. I enjoyed the most is that we made the. impossible possible by just saying we. can go why not yeah it wasn't why it was.

why not we can do this if you work hard. we can do this and so it's like I look. at at it and and the film really was. great for me because I I got to look. back at this 40 years in a in a time. capsule you know the four parts are well. as you've seen and I hope your audience. has seen um really telling because it's. all the warts you know it's it's the UPS. the Downs it's the hurting it's the. healing it's amazing because any. successful band is.

to be really good they have to have an. element where they're almost tearing. each other apart in times I don't know. what that thing is but clearly it just. is part of the stew of any great band. and uh another great music documentary. was about the Eagles and it's just about. them you watch it they're all trying to. kill each other at different times I. mean it's like you're watching Survivor. and uh and uh but that's the element. that seems to be kind of important I I. think it absolutely is it it's a sexless.

marriage in most rock bands You know I. mean you're you mean it's a. [Laughter]. marriage right anyway no you're you're. with these guys. 247 I'm laughing and crying at the same. time you know so you you you're you're. together to the point of of frustration. and and then there's there's all the in. fting and and success is.

uh it's intoxicating and then it it. depends on what you do with it yeah you. know how many comedians have we seen or. actors or or singers that that get a. taste of that and then they up or. or or you realize what you're doing and. you go on I remember telling a story. with that about the Beatles that they. were the archetype that you wish that. John had lived because could they would. they have gotten back together or could. they would they have had a healing.

because they had seen someone else. somewhere get fixed yep because the. Eagles were a great example right it's. 15 years of not being together and then. they get back together and they're still. touring yeah you know every great band. if you think about it technically the. East Street Band was not working. together the Eagles weren't working. together Guns and Roses. weren't perod where they came apart down. a list you know but um in a weird way. you know you're the gravitational pull. gets every every body back together one.

more time and you know and if it can it. does.