#1435 - Suzanne Santo & Gary Clark Jr.

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Hello, everybody.

Suzanne Santo (0:05)

That was so natural.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

That's how we do it here on monday afternoon.

What the fuck has happened? Thank you guys for being here. I'm very excited. I was looking forward to this one.

Oh man, this is an intense one. I'm very excited. Giant fans of both of you, and I'm glad we could do this.

Gary Clark Jr. (0:21)

Same.

Suzanne Santo (0:22)

Likewise.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

So, you guys want to start with a song? Yeah. Let's start with a song.

Suzanne Santo (0:29)

We'll start with a song.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

Bad Beast?

Suzanne Santo (0:31)

Bad Beast. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

I love this song.

Suzanne Santo (0:32)

All right. This is the first time we've done this together.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Holy shit.

Suzanne Santo (0:37)

Yeah. Look out, folks.

SPEAKER_4 (0:40)

I'm so scared.

Suzanne Santo (0:42)

Are we good?

Joe Rogan (5:14)

Oh, how many times you guys performed together?

Suzanne Santo (5:16)

Not many, maybe once, at the Jamison thing.

Joe Rogan (5:20)

That was the first time?

SPEAKER_5 (5:21)

This is the second time, yeah.

Joe Rogan (5:22)

That was it.

Suzanne Santo (5:24)

I just run into Gary at parties and festivals.

Joe Rogan (5:26)

That's so crazy, you guys never fucked around together, nothing before that, one moment?

Suzanne Santo (5:31)

No, I mean, we played a show, the first time we met was over 10 years ago, and we were just babies.

Joe Rogan (5:40)

That show was so dope.

Suzanne Santo (5:41)

It was really fun.

Joe Rogan (5:42)

That show that you guys did, that Jamison thing, was so dope.

Suzanne Santo (5:44)

Well, you remember, well, you were there, and then Jamison was like, why is this video going viral? Because you tweeted, or you posted it on your Instagram, and then they were all asking us about PR and stuff.

Joe Rogan (6:00)

Midnight Rider is one of my all-time favorite songs. So when you guys went into that, randomly, I'm like, oh my God. When I used to get up in the morning, whenever I used to have to do morning radio, morning radio is like, you gotta be funny at 6:30 a.m.

And you gotta shake the cobwebs off. You might have just went to bed four hours ago.

Move around a little. So I would hit a joint and listen to Midnight Rider. You would? Always. That was my morning song. Midnight Rider was my morning song. Because when you're high, first thing in the morning, on your way to the radio, there's a feeling you get when you listen to that song, like these guys were just out there.

Suzanne Santo (6:38)

Yeah, it's a cruiser.

Joe Rogan (6:40)

But they were free.

Suzanne Santo (6:42)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (6:43)

You know? The music then was so free.

Suzanne Santo (6:46)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (6:46)

There was something special about like that era of music and that song. And then to see you guys doing it together and to give it that Gary Clark Jr sound.

Suzanne Santo (6:56)

Yeah, it's a thing, you got a sound.

Joe Rogan (6:58)

You got a sound, man.

It's amazing with all the fucking people playing guitar. I hear your sound. Like you have a sound that's special.

Suzanne Santo (7:06)

It's very different.

Joe Rogan (7:08)

I don't know what the fuck you're doing, man. I don't know shit about guitars.

Suzanne Santo (7:10)

I keep trying to steal his tricks, I don't know.

Gary Clark Jr. (7:12)

You know what?

I have no idea what I'm doing. It's ignorance and a lot of fuzz and some reverb.

Joe Rogan (7:20)

Keep it up. And good vibes. Whatever the fuck it is.

Gary Clark Jr. (7:24)

I'm having fun getting to do it, you know what I mean?

Joe Rogan (7:25)

Dude, you guys together with Ben, it was Ben and there was someone else, right?

Suzanne Santo (7:32)

Our drummer, Connor, I believe.

Joe Rogan (7:33)

That's right. That's right. And you guys together, God damn, that was fun. It was fun.

Suzanne Santo (7:41)

You know, I don't know when Honey Honey's gonna play again, but we had a lot of fun.

Joe Rogan (7:47)

You guys made some awesome songs.

Suzanne Santo (7:49)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (7:50)

Thank you. Shout out to Ben.

Suzanne Santo (7:51)

Where are you, Ben?

Joe Rogan (7:52)

E hug to you, fella.

Suzanne Santo (7:58)

He feels that, yeah.

Joe Rogan (7:59)

I can give it, it's real, it's a real one. It's a nice one.

Suzanne Santo (8:04)

Oh man.

Joe Rogan (8:05)

So that's crazy that you guys had never done that before that one night.