Craig Recalls Waking Up in Cleveland on the Los Lobos Tour Bus

Craig Carton (0:01)

You know, the first three beats of this song, I would have sworn it was you two. Can you stop it, start it again real quick? It sounds like, is it rattle and hum? Just play the very start of that again.

You got it or no? Here it is, here it is, here it is, here it is.

Chris McMonigle (0:17)

Here it is.

Craig Carton (0:22)

Teeny bit?

Chris McMonigle (0:23)

Little bit?

SPEAKER_3 (0:23)

No?

Chris McMonigle (0:24)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_3 (0:24)

Little stretch, little bit of a stretch right there.

Chris McMonigle (0:26)

I don't know every song.

Craig Carton (0:28)

You know rattle and hum though.

Chris McMonigle (0:29)

The album or the song? Both.

Craig Carton (0:31)

You probably know most of the songs on rattle and hum. I guess, yeah.

Chris McMonigle (0:34)

Right?

Craig Carton (0:35)

Was it Desire on rattle and hum?

Chris McMonigle (0:36)

No, that's the album.

Craig Carton (0:37)

Is that the Desire album?

Chris McMonigle (0:38)

Yes.

Craig Carton (0:39)

All right. All good.

Chris McMonigle (0:40)

See? Already.

Craig Carton (0:41)

There you go. My bad.

Chris McMonigle (0:42)

I think Angel of Harlem.

Craig Carton (0:44)

Love that song. That's a great song. Yes.

Chris McMonigle (0:46)

Is on the rattle and hum. The song with BB King. What's the song of BB King?

Craig Carton (0:51)

Yes. Yes. Oh.

Chris McMonigle (0:54)

Before Love Came to Town. That was the day before love came to town.

Craig Carton (1:00)

Helter Skelter's on that.

Chris McMonigle (1:01)

I didn't know that. So you told me that.

Craig Carton (1:04)

Desire is on that.

Chris McMonigle (1:05)

Oh, is Desire on that?

Craig Carton (1:06)

I got that one right. Desire is on that album. Oh, you're wrong. All along the watchtower is on that.

Pride's in that.

Chris McMonigle (1:12)

In the name.

Craig Carton (1:12)

No.

Chris McMonigle (1:14)

Yeah. Pride is on rattle and hum?

Craig Carton (1:16)

Uh-huh.

Chris McMonigle (1:17)

Are you sure?

Craig Carton (1:18)

I'm sure. Try GPT. 17 tracks on rattle and hum.

Desire, Angel of Harlem.

Chris McMonigle (1:25)

But it's a live album.

Craig Carton (1:26)

When Love Comes to Town.

Chris McMonigle (1:27)

Yeah, but I think it's a live album.

Craig Carton (1:29)

Well, it starts off. Helter Skelter live, Van Diemen's Land live. Then Desire, Hawkmoon 269 not live. Watchtower live. I still haven't found I'm looking for a live. Freedom for My People.

Silver and Gold live. Pride in the name of love live. Yeah.

There you go.

Chris McMonigle (1:47)

How about that?

SPEAKER_3 (1:48)

Great album to consider it.

Craig Carton (1:50)

Yeah. Great album.

Chris McMonigle (1:52)

Yeah.

Craig Carton (1:52)

You're a U2 guy?

SPEAKER_3 (1:52)

Tremendous album.

Chris McMonigle (1:54)

A little bit. I mean, I like U2 songs. Obviously, I don't know them back, like the back of my head.

Craig Carton (1:58)

One of the drunkest I ever was in my life, I was a freshman at Syracuse. U2 came to play there. Really? And there's a band that opened for them. You may have heard of them. Los Lobos.

Remember Los Lobos?

Chris McMonigle (2:08)

Yeah.

Craig Carton (2:09)

So I'm three sheets to it, and I walk out of the Carrier Dome wasted, and I happen to see what I didn't know was a tour bus on the street. I knew a bunch of pretty girls that were going on the bus, so I just followed them. And I got on the bus with these Syracuse girls, right?

Turns out I got on Los Lobos' tour bus.

Chris McMonigle (2:29)

Really?

Craig Carton (2:29)

Now, at that point in my life, I was very inexperienced with the ganja, and they were very gracious to everybody that got on the bus, and they were passing it around. So, I was wasted, and then I started getting high.

Chris McMonigle (2:44)

Okay.

Craig Carton (2:45)

When I woke up, I was in Cleveland, Ohio. True story.

Chris McMonigle (2:52)

You're kidding.

Craig Carton (2:53)

I'm not kidding.

Chris McMonigle (2:54)

You passed out on the tour bus?

Craig Carton (2:55)

Yeah.

Chris McMonigle (2:56)

In Syracuse?

Craig Carton (2:56)

Yes.

Chris McMonigle (2:57)

And woke up in Cleveland?

Craig Carton (2:59)

Yeah.

Chris McMonigle (3:01)

And you were just sleeping? They let you sleep?

Craig Carton (3:05)

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_3 (3:07)

What'd you do?

Chris McMonigle (3:09)

Did you just go on tour with Los Lobos?

SPEAKER_3 (3:11)

No.

Craig Carton (3:12)

I had to figure out how to get from Cleveland back to Syracuse. I had classes I had to go to. A couple of days later, it was like a weekend, Friday night or whatever, Saturday. I forget the actual day of the week. But I was on Los Lobos' tour bus with like, oh my God, hot girls. Right. And the only thing I do remember from it, because it's a long time ago, plus I was wasted. Sure. I remember them passing around some kind of contraption I had never seen before. Turned out to be a community bong of some kind that was like rigged up to one of those five-gallon water jugs. Okay. So I do remember that. And I remember them going at one point, who are you, buddy?