Episode 1484 - Lou Adler

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck tuplets? What the fuckadelics? What's happening? I'm Marc Maron, this is my podcast, WTF, welcome to it.
Still making my way through my birthday cake. We bought a large cake. It's the most amazing vegan cake I've ever eaten in my life.
And I am not my mother's son in certain ways. I will not throw away food unless it's just tapped. I will not throw away food. I don't like not eating food, all of it. At a restaurant, I don't even, I get a little sad thinking about what happens to leftover buffet food. I have a food thing. Think we've established that. But goddamn, this cake has lasted. I froze it and I just defrost it. And then I'll just eat it and I'll just almost cry with chocolate joy. Cry with chocolate joy. Also, I guess what I'm doing is this will be me charting my pre-diabetes. But Dr. Bronner's, and they don't pay for ads. They've always been supportive of this show. And years ago, feels like years, they sent me a couple boxes of the soap, the big bottles. And I've been using that for a couple of years. Nothing but Bronner's. But anyway, they were making chocolate for a while. Then I went vegan and then out of nowhere, gift pack, vegan chocolate bars from Bronner's. And they're so rich and fucking good. And between that and the cake and the box of dates I bought, I'm fucking jammed with sugar. Jammed up, but happy birthday to me ongoing. So Lou Adler's on the show today.
This guy is one of the fucking Hollywood rock guys. He's a record producer, a film producer, co-owner of the Roxy Theater in Hollywood. He produced albums with the mamas and papas, Jan and Dean, Carole King, including Tapestry. Oh my God, his grandkids are still eating cake on that one. He produced several movies, including the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and he directed Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke.
Come on man, Dave's not here. Come on dude. The Roxy just celebrated its 50th anniversary, so we had him in and he doesn't do this stuff. He's written no books and he knows a lot of stuff, but he's a guy that keeps to himself, lives his life, enjoys it, but he's been there through the whole arc of that era of music, late 60s, mid 60s, early 70s. He was here, man. He was in it. Pals with Jack and Warren and that crew, but goes way back in the music business. This is a great, great episode. The presale for my 2024 tour is going on right now. All the links are at wtfpod.com/tour, and you can use the presale code ALLIN. That's one word, A-L-L-I-N. I'll be performing in San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Maine, Boston, Providence, Rhode Island, Tarrytown, New York, Atlanta, Madison, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis, Montclair, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington, DC., Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Charleston, South Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, Durham, North Carolina, oh, I gotta go see the Tigers. The Tigers at the Tiger Rescue, Vancouver and Seattle. The presale continues today until 10 p.m. local time for each venue. Again, the password is all in one word. The general on sale date is tomorrow, Friday, November 3rd at 10 a.m. local time. All the venues and links are at wtfpod.com/tour. This Saturday, I'll be in Boston doing the Comics Come Home. It's gonna be me and Robert Kelly and Burr and Pete Davidson and Tammy Pescatelli and Lenny Clark, Alex Edelman, Rachel Feinstein and more. And more, and more, Boston.
But I've talked about this before, man. Going back to Boston, that area, that to be in the same airness of New England is both, it's heavy, man. It's a, especially in fall, you know, you get that crisp air and leaves changing and it's beautiful, it's poetic. But for me, it's also a bit, it's a bit of returning to the scene where the trauma took place, where I put myself through it, both college and comedy.
I mean, I left home and I went first to Milton, Massachusetts for my freshman year out there at Curry College and then to Boston and so all those changes were there. What song is that? Helpless, All My Changes Were There, that's for sure. I mean, I think, I think Neil's talking about Winnipeg and he was probably younger, but when you make the shift to college, if you're fortunate enough or you can, like, you know, you're kind of on your own, but not really. And you're just, if you're me, you know, my sense of self was a little amorphous anyways. And it's just, you kind of put the pieces together. You try to do all the things that you always wanted to do. Like for me, you know, I did some acting. I did some writing. I did some poetry-ing, wrote for the newspaper, studied film, studied English, studied art. You know, I did all the stuff, wrote some stuff, you know, to try to find myself. But that's like, that's not a great time. I don't know what kind of people have a great time figuring themselves out. I mean, I don't regret it, but Jesus Christ, that was hard and sad and weird and embarrassing.