Brewed Awakening
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Brewed Awakening
Southern Hospitality Meets Long-Haired Guitarists at Midnight
Have you ever found yourself unexpectedly caught in a moment of magic while traveling? That's exactly what happened during our weekend getaway to Robinsonville, Mississippi, where what started as a casual night out transformed into an unforgettable musical experience and connection with a talented young guitarist.
Phil Vought and his band delivered a phenomenal performance that kept us out until 12:30 AM—practically unheard of for two people who normally rise at 3 AM! But the real highlight came during the band's first break when we struck up a conversation with Will Conway, a 33-year-old guitarist sporting a 1970s rock star aesthetic complete with a bushy mustache and sequined bell-bottom jeans. Initially hesitant, Will eventually opened up, revealing his musical journey and the cultural shock of transitioning from Northeast brevity to Southern hospitality in social interactions.
The music itself transcended expectations. Phil Vought's spectacular vocals left us wondering why he hasn't achieved mainstream fame, while Will's extraordinary guitar skills were so impressive that Phil himself stood back during the second set, smiling in admiration as his bandmate took center stage. There's something profound about watching true talent being celebrated by fellow musicians without ego or competition—just pure appreciation for the art.
This experience naturally sparked our question of the day: Who is the greatest guitarist of all time? While Jimi Hendrix claimed our top spot without hesitation, we also acknowledged legends like Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, and other virtuosos who've shaped musical history. We'd love to hear your thoughts! And if you're curious to see Will's impressive guitar skills yourself, check out the short video we posted on Twitter/X @thegentoncalls.
Wake up, it's time for the podcast! Happy Sunday!
Good morning one and all. I guess I'm the one who gets to start the podcast this morning because Carol stayed up way too late last night. I had to reel her in and bring her home. Then I had to wake her up at almost 8 o'clock in the morning. Now that doesn't sound abnormal for a lot of people. It's a weekend, slept till 8 o'clock, but we're normally up at 3 o'clock in the morning and even on vacation we're up at 5.30, 5, 5.30. So 8 o'clock was just getting pushing the limit. So I had to get her up. But the hard part was getting her in from last night because we were out enjoying nightlife in Robinsonville, mississippi, and we come over primarily for just a getaway. But last night was a special occasion because there's an artist called. His name is Phil Vought. We came over specifically to listen to them play last night. And play they did, and they were phenomenal. What do you think, sweetheart?
Speaker 2:Well, hello, hello, good morning. Welcome to brood awakening in tunica, mississippi. Oh yeah, brood awakening. After staying out till what? After midnight we came, finally came in about 12 30 one o'clock.
Speaker 1:Wow, that is super late for us carol was so tired that, uh, she actually was wanting to stay up and watch Men in Black 3, which she despises me watching when we're at home. If there are any Men in Black movies, she rolls her head and tucks and runs or gets mad at me, but she's sitting up there talking about asking questions. What?
Speaker 2:about this.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, she's watching the movie. It was like she was kind of loopy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a little loopy, but it was so much fun I enjoyed it. I knew this morning I would regret it, though, Even though we don't drink or smoke or anything like that. We're totally sober people, but we're old.
Speaker 1:Yes, sober people, but we're old, yes, you know, and uh, so we're our minds may not be sober, but our bodies are.
Speaker 2:But so what's this band that, uh, the gent was talking about called phil vought is the name, just the guy's name. But he has, you know, some band members in there and one of the guys he looks straight out of 1970s, you know led zeppelin or something like that mustache, long hair, you know, bushed out the hair.
Speaker 1:He had sequins on his, on his jeans, down at the bottom, bell-bottom sequined jeans.
Speaker 2:He was making a mustache great again.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:So anyway, during the first break I told, well, while they were playing we were talking about the guitars and I said, you know, when they go on break, because you know the band will come down and mix around and go in the audience and stuff down here they do anyway. And I said, you know, know, when they go on break I'm pulling him over to us, because I never do that. Usually I shy away when they come down, I just shy away, I don't want to talk to him, you know, because I don't know what to say and I just feel stupid. And here he comes walking down on their first break and I'd go immediately to him and say hey, I said come here she sucked him right in, that's for sure I just wanted to tell him how great he looked and what a great guitarist he was.
Speaker 2:He was just a young kid. I felt like a mom, you know.
Speaker 1:What did he say? 33? Mm-hmm, yeah, he was 33 years old and it was funny, you know. He looked apprehensive talking to us at first and then he said can I sit down with y'all? And it wasn't like hey, I'm going to join y'all, you know, anything like that, but very timidly he sat down and we talked to him for their entire break and came to find out.
Speaker 1:You know where he was from. He's basically from the Northeast and you know, one of the things that the crowds in the Northeast were different is that in talking to somebody it would be a hello, thank you, goodbye, and in the South it's hello, come, sit down, let's talk, and you talk with people, and you could tell he was kind of apprehensive when he sat down that that wasn't his thing to just sit there and talk with people but talk he did and we found out all about him, all about his family.
Speaker 2:Of course, we asked a lot of questions if you want to go look him up his now. If you have kids in the room, yes, it's time to cover cover their ears. He, when he was telling us his handles, he almost he was like telling us in regret that he named it this. His name is Will Conway, but the handle on Instagram is Will fucking Conway, so go look him up, he's fantastic.
Speaker 1:And one of the bands he's in is Jet fucking Black, so he's in both those and if you look him up on Instagram, he's there.
Speaker 2:Now he said he's only been with Phil Vought since November. Yeah, and I think I remember him when he first did it, when we came and saw him, I think back in November. I think I remember seeing him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't remember. I really can't remember him, but the man could play the guitar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, In fact you had a recording of him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did. I may post that on Twitter for all of those who want to follow my Twitter. I don't even know what my Twitter handle is. It's called X. Yeah, my X handle is you can find the gent onol's, because all of y'all know carol's and I'll post a short video of him playing the guitar last night. Um, it was so he. He was good to the point where the head guy, phil, who can just flat ass sing I don't know why phil vaught is not famous.
Speaker 2:His voice is spectacular.
Speaker 1:Wood stood back and sat there and watched him play the guitar. When they were the second set was dominated by him playing the guitar and Phil would sit back and just sit there and watch him play and you could see him just smile and laugh. It was like damn, this guy's good. The star of the band sitting back and giving him the show and saying, yeah, damn, he's good.
Speaker 2:It was fun. It was a good time. We stayed out too late. I got lots of stuff to do today. I got wig reviews to do. I got blogs to write. I need to get up and get busy yeah, I'm late.
Speaker 1:I'm already late for something I don't know what, but yes, it was. It was good time had by all, absolutely. What else is in the news?
Speaker 2:uh, well, I tried to find something about the big tesla takedown yesterday. New york post has nothing on it that I saw skimming through over the headlines, uh. But we did see it on fox and friends this morning, and then didn't you see something on it too. They, at 12 o'clock pm, quitting time. They shut everything they dropped their signs and left.
Speaker 1:Got out there at 11 o'clock in the morning and it was almost as if the call had been put in to their secret protest phones or whatever. At 12 o'clock they all left.
Speaker 2:Put their signs down and walked off.
Speaker 1:They all left.
Speaker 2:Maybe it was lunchtime, I was like what Some of the of the videos you posted, though some of them were doing the macarena or yeah, and then there's another one where it was no electric slide, excuse me, that's right, electric slide.
Speaker 1:And then there was another one of a guy going down, showing them all and they were primarily 60 years and older, with signs saying you know, Elon's a Nazi, but 60 years old and older. It's almost like they're still smoking dope and protesting something.
Speaker 2:Trying to get back in the game, babe, I know.
Speaker 1:And then the only other video I saw was a guy pull up in a big Tesla truck with red, white and blue doughnuts and go up and down the line trying to give these people doughnuts and you know, none of would show their faces and none of would take the doughnuts. And you know, but that's all they did. It's like no, you know, even if I'm protesting, I'll take a donut. Sure, but then they went in and took the donuts and gave them to the Tesla people.
Speaker 2:What I noticed about these people was they were all what's the word? Disheveled-looking pink, yellow hair, blue hair, odd piercings.
Speaker 1:You know they looked like they were street homeless people well, and but a lot of them to me and you know I'm sorry if I offend anybody, but I get the picture of the white northeastern liberal who's 60 years old, who is protesting because this is what they've been brainwashed to protest.
Speaker 2:From CNN.
Speaker 1:From their liberal brainwashed upbringing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the interviewer, yes, the interviewer asked well, have you gone to Doge's website to see what they've cut?
Speaker 1:No. So you don't really know what the hell's going on. I just know that I don't like it. Well, why? You know, because CNN told me not to like it. But the thing that got me, though, is that it kind of set out to me was that whoever the powers behind all of these things are has said don't go out there and be violent about it. Right now we have to calm down the violence of all this and make it look like we are just a civil protesting let's, you know, because it's really got out of hand with the scratching and they're actually getting smarter than we are by being able to tape all of the things we're doing and all. So let's calm that down and just actually have a decent protest. Maybe that'll bring people into us say, well, they are tame protesters, maybe we should join them yeah you know, let's reverse psychology or or go back to being normal people.
Speaker 1:You know? Something like that. That's the, that's the impression I got, but they're a bunch of idiots.
Speaker 2:Well luckily it all went off without a hitch. Nobody was hurt. Teslas weren't destructed, destructed.
Speaker 1:Destructed Weren't damaged they weren't damaged, they weren't destructed.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, All right, we got to go. We got to get moving and get going.
Speaker 1:Movers and shakers.
Speaker 2:I do have a question. I have a great question of the day. I haven't been consulted, but I trust her. Yeah, so here it is. Well, you'll get the hint once I start talking, since we started off with music and guitarists and I don't have an answer to this one because I don't really. I didn't really follow musicians when I was growing up as a kid or whatever. I mean, you know, I listened to music but I didn't know what the hell I was listening to. Who do you think is the greatest guitarist of all time?
Speaker 1:There's only one, jimi Hendrix, okay.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the question of the day.
Speaker 1:Now you know, if I started having to go back and you know name a few more, I would go with. You know Eddie Van Halen, jimmy Page and what's his name from ACDC.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And then you know, you get a lot of the Yngwie Molfson and all these guys that were really, really, really good, but the ones I listed probably would be the ones that I think are the top.
Speaker 2:Awesome.
Speaker 1:Jimi.
Speaker 2:Hendrix number one. Jimi Hendrix number one, jimi Hendrix. All right, there you go. Thanks for listening go dogs.