Welcome to the last part of this interview. I think this is my favorite part. We started talking about their craziest experience on the road and it turned out to be quite a story.
Y!M! – Ummm, what else…OH! What is the craziest thing that has ever happened to you on the road?
Patrick – Crazy Cliff. Do you know that story?
Y!M! – I don’t know that one
Patrick – Really? We haven’t told you that one? Well our van broke in S.C, but we were able to drive it to a shop. We had to drive like, 20 miles an hour. We got to this place and it’s the middle of nowhere small town.
Y!M! – Creepy, like chainsaw massacre?
Patrick – Pretty much. I don’t wanna say inbred, but..
Y!M! – But, inbred? I’ll say it haha
Patrick – Haha, kinda racist, ya know, pretty bad. So we pull in and they’re like, “Ahh yeaaaah, we can fix it” and we had a Johnny Cash sticker and Willie Nelson sticker so that was kinda like, points for us. They were like “Yeah man, we can fix it. You guys are in a band!”
Robb- They started blasting our record out of one of their pickup trucks
Patrick – They had it on repeat. They fixed our van, whatever. A year later we’re back in S.C playing a bigger city, Charleston.
Robb – And it was with a bigger band so it was advertised on the radio.
Patrick – We never talked to that mechanic, but he made it out to the show. The reason we found out he was there was because Jon Cheese (tour manager) saw this lady in the back with a big camera, like huge, one of those with the VHS tapes, taping us with a flood light and he had to go ask her to turn it off cuz the light was so obnoxious to everybody around her. That mechanic was with her. Later he shows up at our merch booth, just wasted spilling beer on everything and tipping stuff over. We go back there and we’re like “Hey Crazy Cliff!” well, we didn’t call him Crazy Cliff, but that’s how we have him in our phone. He’s like “Hey guys!! I brought my girlfriend, I left the wife at home! This is Shanda, yeeah! This is my son” then some girl walked by him and he was like, “Heeeey, hottest ass in Charleston!” while he was taking a photo with his phone. Girls would come up to our merch booth and he would be like, “Hey what do you want to get? I know these guys!” and pulled out a wad of cash. At the end of the shows he says, “I just wanna get a picture before I go” we’re like, cool. So we go outside and while we’re posing for a picture with him he’s trying to sell us Xanax and Vicodin. We’re like nooo that’s ok, we’re cool. Then he’s like “Hey guess what!?!” and we’re like “What?” and he said, “I won the lottery for 16 million dollars. I just bought this new convertible Mustang. I parked in handicap spot so no one would fuck with my car! But hey, I have this camper at my shop and I want you guys to have it. I have the pink slips and I want to sign it over to you guys.” We’re like…crazy. But we couldn’t go to his house because we had to go to Florida then Atlanta and then head out west so we couldn’t make it. One day we were really trying and we called him and he was like “Ah, I’m busy buying houses”
Jon – Then he changed all of his numbers cuz he was like “Man, everyone is coming out of the woodwork now. My mom and my sister keep asking for money.”
Y!M! – Haha, his mom is coming out of the woodwork?
Jon – Exactly
Patrick – Another good part, we were sitting around while we were waiting for the van to get fixed and he was like, “Hey, you guys wanna come over and like, eat dinner and jam? I got 20 acres of land you can play as loud as you want.”
Justin – “My wife can cook steaks for all you”
Patrick –He calls his wife and says “Hey baby, fix up 8 steaks” We were like, noooo it’s cool we don’t wanna come over.
Justin – He was like, “I grow my own weed, it’s cool”
Robb – I’ve got 20 acres you guys can jam as loud as you want, haha.
Patrick – It was just crazy enough that he fixed our van, but then he shows up and he like…
Justin – “Hey I’m crazy and I won the lottery”
Y!M! – There with his girlfriend, leaving the wife at home.
Patrick – Dude won 16 million dollars and he’s still like, hocking Xanax.
Justin – He brought his son there, who was like, 15. Poor guy.
Y!M! – That’s a good story, definitely a keeper.
Justin – It sounds unbelievable, but it happened.
Jon – And that was the fourth day that I was in the band.
Justin – Oh yeah!
Y!M! – Haha, good introduction. Welcome to Limbeck!
Patrick – Which sucked cuz we’ve had our van for so long and there’s so many miles on it then Jon joins the band, and we were pumped, we were on tour with Lucero. We’d never broken down before that and then and it was just like, aw man, the start of troubles. Welcome to our band. The good thing was, I just remembered this, that night in the hotel Easy Rider was on and then we got fireworks and lit them off in the parking lot of the hotel. It was an awesome night.
Jon- We lit them off behind Waffle House.
Patrick – Yeah! Good night.
Justin – Good night.
Robb – It was a lot of fun.
Patrick – That was one of the first time we cancelled a show too.
Y!M! – Cuz you were lighting off fireworks?
Patrick – Haha, no cuz of the van.
Robb – It was an instore.
Patrick – But we were super bummed, cuz it was N.C
Robb – Then we broke down in Brooklyn right after that and not much later we broke down in Fort Collins and had to get a new engine.
Patrick – That was cool too. Our van broke down as we pulled into the show. We thought it was totally, totally gone. After the show, we just had to get to Jon’s friend’s house to stay the night. Then something happened where everybody was running and jumping onto the hood, and it started! So we started driving it down the street and then it totally died for good.
Robb – I dunno if that had anything to with it, but I think it kinda did
Patrick – It wasn’t starting and then when people started pounding on the hood, all of a sudden it worked. I don’t think that fixed anything
Robb – Definitely not. I think it got worse after that. The oil was filling into the gas tank
Patrick – Crazy smoke
Y!M! – That’s a good entrance though, your van emerging from a cloud of smoke.
Patrick – It was actually when we were leaving, it was more like, that’s sad. They’re a sad story.
Jon – I can’t believe we pulled up, to the show and it died in the parking lot.
Robb – It almost died again in the middle of nowhere Wyoming at the rest stop. That would have made us miss the show for sure, and we would have been stuck in nowhere Wyoming.
Patrick – Some credit to us, for our strength in a band, we did not miss a show. We got a rental van and we also borrowed Drag the River’s stuff for a couple shows –
Justin – For a week.
Robb – They drove us from one show to the next.
Patrick – Then we got a rental van and we drove that around for a whole leg of the tour, came back and picked up our van that was fixed and continued on.
Y!M! - Dang, you guys are troopers.
Robb – And that’s one time when our label really came through us. They gave us money right away to fix the van.
Y!M! – Was that Doghouse?
Robb – Yeah. Well not give us money, but loaned us money.
Y!M! – But that’s still a big deal.
Robb – It was very cool.
Y!M! – well is there anything else you’d like to end this with? One last line?
Justin - HEYO!
Fin
So, I hope you had as much fun reading this interview as I had doing it. Seriously though, if you ever get a chance to see Limbeck, you better take advantage of that opportunity! This is a band that I can see over and over again and I’ll never get sick of them. And if you do take my very wise advice to see them, be sure to stop by their merch booth and say hi (and buy something, they had some rad stuff, including a very sweet vinyl released on Suburban Home Records) so you can see, first hand, how cool and friendly they really are. Rock on.
