It is Dan mains time today Welcome to the Dan
time podcast. I am your host Dan McArdle Dan
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the socials different dance every week on the
show Sometimes some non dance and as I've said
many times before That is okay. That is healthy,
but I love every new Dan talking to Dan episode
and I sure hope you do too. Been pretty excited
to bring this one to you. I had a chance to connect
with one of the founding members of the iconic
Maryland -based blues rock, groove metal band,
whatever you want to call them. Better yet, an
institution called Clutch. We spoke just before
Dan joined the guys in Clutch on stage for their
performance in Pensacola on May 12th. Dan Maines
has been described as the anchor of the clutch
sound. He and drummer Jean Paul Gaster, or JP,
have been playing together since Dan's formative
high school years when he had just switched from
guitar to bass. Amit Sharma of Music Radar wrote
about Dan and JP. They've got one of the most
telepathic connections in all the rhythm sections
across the world. Clutch consists of Neil Fallon
on vocals, Tim Salt on guitar, Dan Maynes on
bass, and John Paul Gaster on drums. Neil also
contributes rhythm guitar and occasional harmonica.
Dan has said before that his role in Clutch is
to provide a solid foundation. Trust me, whether
he's playing the Fender, the Gibson, or the Rick,
Dan is the backbone to every Clutch song. Whether
that's Bach and all, Spacegrass, Big News 1 and
2, The Yeti, Mr. Shiny Cadillac -ness, Land of
Pleasant Living. You can tell I'm rattling off
some of my favorite songs. Minotaur, Behold the
Colossus, Smoke Banshee, Mr. Freedom, Cyborg
Betty, Mountain of Bone. Let me ask you this.
How many four -piece bands playing professionally
still consist of the original four members who
met in high school? In 1989, 90, this is a brotherhood.
Clutch has released 13 studio albums, five live
albums, three compilation records, five EPs,
10 singles, and two video albums. I'm probably
still missing one. A lot of collectors releases.
And since 2009, Clutch has been releasing music
through their own label, Weathermaker Music.
2022's Sunrise on Slaughter Beach. reached number
three on the U .S. Top Hard Rock Albums Chart,
making that their fourth consecutive album to
land in the top three of that category. Rolling
Stone wrote in 2018, on record, Clutch are reliable.
On stage, buoyed by their fun -loving public,
they're unstoppable. I've seen this firsthand.
Clutch is one of the tightest units around. They
delight their fans with different songs every
night. All right, the New World Samurai Tour
wraps up tonight in Columbus, Ohio. Clutch has
been on the road through April and May promoting
the first ever vinyl release of their debut LP,
1993's Transnational Speedway League. Following
tonight's show, Clutch takes a quick break before
heading out on their first ever long anticipated
Latin American tour beginning in Sao Paulo on
July 18th. Getting back to Dan here, He lists
as his influences Darrell Jennifer, Bad Brains,
Rob Wright from No Means No, Billy Cox with Jimi
Hendrix's Band of Gypsies, Jack Bruce from Cream,
Geezer Butler, Black Sabbath. He is all about
tone and complimenting the song and providing
a warm, rich sound. And when you watch Clutch
perform live, you can see that he and the guys
are there to give you a show. to strive for excellence.
Yes, they do. All right. Let's get to the conversation
now. Can you dig it? This is Dan Maines from
Clutch. Folks, this is a well -oiled machine.
And I'm just so pleased today to welcome Dan
Maines, one of the founding members of Clutch
to the show. How are you doing today, Dan? I'm
doing good, Dan. Thank you. Proud to be part
of this elite club. Yeah. It's very nice to talk
to you. Well, it's good to talk to you as well.
I know you guys have played about 12 shows in
the past two weeks on the New World Samurai Tour,
the spring kind of April, May US tour here. First
of all, before we get into some dance stuff,
how's it going? Do you get used to the road?
Are you road weary after two weeks or is this
just a walk in the park? How's it going out there?
Well, to be honest, right at the moment, it's
a little rough. I just gave up coffee two days
ago. Oh no. And I'm really regretting that decision.
Not sure if it's going to stick. We tend to tour
quite a bit, not as long of a stretch at one
time as we used to back in our younger days.
We've done tours in the past that have been anywhere
between one to two months. One tour in particular
was actually three months long. that was back
in the early 90s. And yeah, we just can't maintain
that type of youthful stamina. Yeah, it seems
like around the, I guess maybe the Pure Rock
Fury Tour, some of those 150, 200 plus date treks
or years. Yeah, it's, you know, we've... We've
kind of found our comfort zone as far as how
much time works well for the four of us being
away from home. And then we try to space it out
in between tours so that we can just continue
to keep it rolling without it being such a grind,
as you could say. But I mean, we thoroughly enjoy
being on tour. We love playing shows You know,
it's never really Anything that we don't look
forward to as long as we can, you know, try to
Keep it within reason Yeah, I know one of my
favorite records earth rocker the title track
where Neil comes out and says If you're gonna
do it do it live on stage Or don't do it. Don't
do it at all. That's what I've always loved about
you guys and most of my favorite bands are live
bands and they get get a lot of energy from taking
the show out there to the masses because every
tour you guys probably have people that quantify
this for you but maybe some of the excitement
is hey we're gonna we're gonna pick up some extra
fans here somebody's gonna bring their buddy
to the show at this point a dad's gonna bring
his 18 19 or or maybe even 14 year old son on
some of the hall ages gigs and you get some of
that exposure. Is that pretty exciting with each
passing tour that you're grabbing some new fans?
Absolutely. Yeah, there's definitely a generational
thing going on at this point. You know, we've
been together since 1991. You know, so we have
fans that have been with us from the very beginning
or close to it, you know, and Either they've
gotten to the age where they're now bringing
out their children. And it's great to see that.
That's, you know, that's what's going to keep
this type of music alive is, you know, passing
it on. And we first started noticing that with
a tour we did with Motorhead for the first time
over a decade ago. But we were kind of surprised
at how wide range in age their audience was.
And it shouldn't have been a shock. But it was
that same thing where it was like, you could
have up to three generations of family members
coming out all enjoying the show equally. And
we're like, wow, that's something to really strive
for. And we're definitely seeing a lot of that
with our own shows. And it's a good feeling.
It's a good feeling. You know, it's like, you
know, you know that there's an element to your
music that translates to the younger generation.
And, you know, it's nice to know that the people
who have been, you know, fans of yours for a
while are sticking with it. And it's great to
see that. Yeah, that is so cool. I My children
are pretty young right now. So when I travel
with them, I don't try to blast their ears off
with the heaviest fastest stuff I can think of
you know, we kind of bounce around from Bluey
and blaze and the Monster Machine songs to let
me just sneak in Well, I don't know if I played
Cyborg Betty or I think I have played Slaughter
Beach from the latest record And I just tested
out, you know, and it's so much fun. You look
in the rear view mirror and my three year old
has, he's got long blonde hair and I'll see him
doing that slow head bang, you know, not the
real riveting pace, but I'm like, okay, there's
something, something I can work with here in
about 10 years. I think he's, he likes it. That's
awesome. That's awesome. Yeah. My, my kids, I
have four kids myself. And, you know, they were
obviously exposed to clutch music as far back
as being in the womb. And it's just, you know,
I think that, you know, some I think have latched
onto it more aggressively than others. And our
youngest one especially, he seems to be the hard
rocker of the bunch. He is eight years old and
he loves coming out to the shows whenever he
can make it and he looks to me like a future
drummer. He's got that innate rhythm and I'll
have to try to put a kit in front of him as soon
as possible because it'll be nice to get some
good practicing at home too. Maybe maybe John
Paul will give him a lesson or two Yeah That
would be a good start for him for sure Well,
I know as you guys get older not unlike a lot
of bands that have been out there doing it As
long as you have you get older, you know, the
girlfriends become wives the relationships spawn
children the band endures the records endure
but you have that element that maybe wasn't there
on the Elephant Riders tour or when you're recording
Jam Room or some of those earlier records. Is
it hard and maybe going back to the pandemic
interruption where you're now all of a sudden
everybody's home, everyone's sitting still and
you form the bonds and you're hanging out, you're
always around and all of a sudden we're back
to normal and we're out again. Is that difficult
to To kind of move back into what into the clutch
machine after something like that? Well after
the I mean the pandemic that you know was obviously
a very challenging time for Anybody as far as
being in a band during that it always especially
challenging because it cut off the ability to
do such a large part of your job, which is traveling
and getting in front of people and playing your
music. And it was, I think we were really fortunate
to have a good team in place that helped us figure
out what to do and how to do it. And we were
lucky enough to have a space. We have a warehouse
at home. That's where we get together and rehearse.
I use the word rehearse in a very loose term.
But we set it up with some, well, initially it
was just Neil's laptop set up in the corner of
the room. And we figured out how to stream what
was going into Neil's computer lens to the group
of people who were brave enough to buy a ticket
to this online show that we were trying to put
on. And that first show was a very bare bones
but it was very eye -opening as to what it was,
you know, eventually possible. We called that
the Doom Saloon, and that was our first live
stream. And by the time we decided to do it again,
we enlisted the help of some friends with a production
team. and brought in some actual cameras and
a couple of light cans and brought our road down
guy down to help set up a multi board mix. And
that, I mean, that really saved our asses. And
it gave us an opportunity to stay connected to
our fans. and, you know, kept us in a good headspace
to try to write, you know, new material also,
because, you know, that was kind of the reason,
or not the reasoning, but the thought process
was, well, you know, we have all this downtime,
what are we going to do? It's like, well, obviously
we should be writing music, but it was a really
challenging time to feel inspired to write. But
those doom saloon shows, you know, really kept
our spirits up. And eventually we, you know,
we did write the songs that eventually ended
up being the Slaughter Beach album. But yeah,
that was, yeah, that was, I mean, obviously,
you know, everybody has their own stories of
those times. But I think that considering the
circumstances, we weathered it. very well and
I'm very proud of both the Doom Saloon shows
that we put on and the Slaughter Beach album
that came afterwards. And Dan, just hearing you
talk about what was going on, the challenges
that you were facing, unlike other bands that
have been together, which are not many in your
peer group, 30 plus years, it's not like you
live in Chicago and John Paul lives in Albuquerque
and Neil's in st. Louis. It's like you you guys
are all still based in Maryland. Is that right?
Yeah for the most part Yeah, we all live within
an hour's drive of each other. So you can kind
of You can get to each other's houses And and
you all four met in high school I mean everybody
can think of I mean my older brother had a high
school band. It was a metal band They were all
quite talented but those years, you know, sometimes
people, you've got two of them that are all in
and two of them that are all in for that summer,
but not so much the next fall and their interests
change. How in the world do you guys keep the
unit, the bond and from that age to, you must
all feel like brothers, like blood brothers.
Absolutely. Absolutely. And you know, I don't,
I don't really have a good answer as to why,
you know, we've been able to stick together for
as long as we have. I mean, we just, you know,
not much has changed. And I guess that is the
secret to it. You know, we just, you know, I
think we all share the same mentalities. We all
kind of had similar interests musically when
we met. We didn't really have very lofty goals
for the band when it started. It was just something
fun to do. And we felt lucky to get the shows
that we were getting. And it just kept building
and growing. And we just continued feeling lucky.
And just really grateful to be doing it, you
know, at first for fun and then eventually for
a living. And, you know, that's something that
we really try to cherish and pay a lot of respect
to that. And, you know, the four of us, we just,
we enjoy getting together in a room and creating
music. And I think that is, you know, the crux
of it. We like to sit at home and write a riff
and get excited about showing it to the other
guys, seeing what they can do with it, and seeing
what we can build. And the process of writing
collect songs hasn't changed any bit since the
very beginning. And we always try to keep an
open mind about trying new ideas, trying if somebody
has an interest in trying. a different style
than you know it's not something we're like well
that's not what this band is about try not to
really have any kind of rules about that and
you know sometimes it works and sometimes it
doesn't but we are always you know writing for
each other more than anything else and just trying
to find something that all four of us can eventually
kind of you know really get excited about. And
when it happens, it's something special You know
another thing that I think keeps a unit together
is a sense of humor I don't know who's cracking
up who I guess the fans assume that Neal's got
all the jokes I mean the lyrics sometimes a lot
of the tongue -in -cheek stuff, you know and
I watch a video like hot -bottom feeder and it's
just spectacular and then what comes across in
that video not just the hilarity but You guys
look like you've been hanging out for a long
time and been traveling together. And I love
how he keeps serving the crab cakes to you. Yeah,
that was a fun one to make. We shot that video
and the video for how to shake hands on the same
day. And we shot how to shake hands first. And
that was kind of a long, exhausting process.
So when it came time to shoot the second video,
and the premise was that Neil was going to cook
us dinner, that was very exciting. We all thoroughly
enjoyed that. And Dan, do you think that something
like that, or some of the creative freedom that
you have, would it have been different had you
not started The Weathermaker? music label in
2008 if you're Yeah, maybe I mean honestly, I
think The fact that we did start weathermaker.
It was just an inevitability because as Exciting
and helpful as it was being on the major labels
for those first three albums that we put out
each time we put out one of those records, it
really wasn't something that the labels were
fully expecting or prepared to kind of figure
out what to do with. You know, I think when we
first signed to Atlantic back in 1990, or East
West it was in 92, 93 for transnational. That
was when if you were in a band, it seemed like
you were going to get signed or approached to
be signed. Because the success of bands like
Nirvana and Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, those
bands that really just kind of open up the doors
for this heavier type of music to be more mainstream.
It seemed like everybody was getting signed and
we were one of them. And when we made the records,
they're like, well, this isn't exactly what we
thought it was going to be. And, you know, we
went through that process a few times and it
was just, you know, obvious that we would have,
you know, one or two cheerleaders at the label,
but it wasn't enough. And our sales certainly
weren't enough to persuade anybody to spend the
extra effort to see what could be done. And in
the late 90s, after we made the Elephant Riders
album, we recorded an album on our own, self
-funded, and put it out. just available through
our website. This is 1999, I think. The album
was Jam Room. And we created this label. At the
time, we were living in a house along the Potomac
River. And so we called it River Road Records.
And it was just kind of like an experiment. What
would it be like to just put out something completely
on your own, which wasn't a foreign concept to
us at all. Growing up in the DC, Maryland, Virginia
area, when you have that whole punk scene of
the 80s with Minor Threat and then eventually
Fugazi. Fugazi is the epitome of DIY. We were
like, well, obviously it's possible. So let's
see what it's like. And it was a good experiment.
And we actually ended up kind of going halfway
between doing it indie and doing it major and
signing to an independent label for the next
three albums. That was Blast, Tyrant, Robot Hive,
Exodus, and Beale Street. And each one of those
releases, the label was slowly kind of degenerating
to the point where it just wasn't sustainable
anymore. So then we decided to go full tilt with
just doing it on our own. And that was 2007 or
eight, I believe, we decided to create weathermaker
music. And that's when we put out Strange Cousins
from the West. And, you know, I think that we
were definitely in a good spot just being having
so many releases already you know you have this
built -in fan base that you could hopefully rely
on figuring out how to to find your your independently
released album and you know we were already touring
steadily at that point too without the need for
tour support so you know, we were in a good position
to be able to start doing it on our own. And,
you know, it does free up, not, I mean, it doesn't
really, we never really adhere any type of standard
musically when it came to, you know, like Columbia
Records wants an album from us, you know, we're
going to have to deliver something, you know,
potentially mainstream, but that thought, for
whatever reason didn't cross our minds, which
is I guess why we'd never made a second record
on Columbia. But as far as the creativity, it
frees us up to create our own schedule. And you
don't have somebody else telling you, okay, well,
we're gonna need an album from you. at this time
and then you're gonna have to tour on it, you
know, for X amount of months and so on. It's
like, you know, those kinds of decisions are
now ours to make and that frees us up to do more
creative things on the album, on the songwriting
side of things. So it's a win -win for us and
I think for our fans because A Clutch fan, I
think, is a very unique music fan. And I think
they don't expect to hear the same thing from
us that they heard from us the previous album,
which is a very nice position to be in. And we
really appreciate that and try to take advantage
of that. Yeah, I would agree. I think that most
Clutch fans Probably have a diverse catalog themselves
of music like you said they're not Hanging on
the next record and you know, man if this thing's
not Doesn't sound like elephant riders. I'm out
if they don't get a little heavier I'm out if
they don't go back to the Beale Street sound
I'm gonna be so disappointed I mean, I'm sure
there's every band has some of that element that
you can't please everybody but I would say the
clutch is unique in that Especially with your
set lists and live performances You don't have
like the big five or the big eight songs that
all right Well, we we have to play we've got
to fill up half the set with these songs So and
we're promoting the new record. We'd like to
play three, but I guess we'll just play one and
so Exactly. Yeah like on this tour this tour
were we're trying to promote the rerelease the
very first album that we did for East West Transnational
Speedway League, we were able to make a licensing
deal with them to press up our own version of
the album on vinyl. It's part of the Clutch Collector
series. And that just came out earlier this month.
So we're trying to play a lot of songs from that
record. which is nice because those are songs
that we really haven't been playing much in the
past few years. And then also we change up our
set lists every night. We have a system where
a different band member is responsible for writing
the set for each night. And it just rotates.
How awesome is that? It's fun. It really is.
It keeps us On our toes and like tonight is JP's
list I think and He just said that we're gonna
try a song or a sound check that we haven't played
in a while so it's you know, it's nice to Like
you say, you know, we we don't have you know,
there's six or seven songs are just kind of like
our obvious hits that need to be in a set and
The fans really enjoy the idea of mixing things
up and it I mean what at this point I think in
large part because of that we get a lot of people
who come out to Two three or four shows at a
time Knowing that you know, there's not gonna
get the same show each time and that's cool to
watch too Yeah, there's some some great bands.
I know you guys just played welcome to Rockville
By the way, what was did you get a chance to
take in Primus's set or helmet or? Drain. Oh,
it was it was One frustrating thing about playing
festivals like that is that there's so much overlap
You know, it's like the same time that we were
playing Queens of the Stone Age was playing it's
like well It would have been nice to be able
to see them Yeah, I did I was able to catch a
couple of bands yesterday that I hadn't seen
before and some that I have and it's always fun
to play festivals. We played some interesting
venues on this run so far. We played a cave three
days ago in Pelham, Tennessee. There's a venue
called the Caverns and it's just this massive
cave that stretches like two or 300 yards deep.
Yeah, it was pretty amazing. I was a little anxious
going into it, but that was a fun experience.
I can only imagine what you've seen out there.
Am I in your hometown? Yes, Pensacola. I'll be
at the gig tonight. And I had an interesting
story about think it's been since 2017 that I've
seen you guys because with the kids it's I see
some shows I missed some shows but I was at the
the concert on December 7th 2017 I had to look
this up and confirm which was a great show it
was my oldest son who's six and a half his due
date was December 8th I think or it may have
been on the 7th And I was thinking oh man, I
just I can't make the show now and he came He
came three weeks early November 18th, so we get
home. He's fine I waited about a week a little
closer to the show when I asked my wife. Hey,
you know You mind if I go this clutch show now
since we're good. Everything's good. So I that
was very memorable for me that She said sure
you go ahead And I was just, I remember watching
you guys play that night. It's like watching
the Wolfman kindly request. And I'm thinking,
man, I was almost not going to be here, which
would have been great as well. But watching my
son being born, but he's already here. That's
great. Well, was that with, uh, uh, that was
on the psychic warfare, the psychic warfare.
Yeah. That's great. So now he is seven now. First
year of kindergarten, just about in the books.
Wow. Congratulations. It's no better experience
than watching the kids grow up. Yeah, it's good.
And like you said earlier in the call, if one
of them likes some of the music that I like and
we can go to a concert together, I kind of...
Daydream about that day that night and when I
go to shows and you can clearly see the dad and
his son I just kind of sit back and get a little
gleam in the eye. It's like all that's so cool
I don't know where we left off. But yeah the
Festival yesterday in the set list and some great
bands like I was saying kind of have to stick
to an exact set with JP presents his set to you
guys or you present yours. Does anybody take
a step back and say, Dan, really? We haven't
played that in 17 years. We're going to bring
it out tonight. No, not really. I mean, it's
amazing. The amount of muscle memory at this
point is pretty, it's very helpful. And you know,
honestly, if I listened to a song once or twice
on my headphones, I'll be able to plow myself.
through the song, you know, and there's three
other guys to cover up my mistakes. So it's not
a, you know, it's not anything that we're afraid
of. And, you know, it's just, it makes, it makes
it more exciting for everybody, you know, not
to be up on stage and like thinking about what
you had for lunch or thinking about, you know,
what you're going to do in the next day is that
that's going to make a terrible show. You know,
you need to be in the moment. You need to be,
you know, excited about what you're doing. And,
uh, this is, this is one of those ways that we
do it. We just try to keep it as fresh as possible.
How has it been speaking of the first record
and dusting off some of those songs when you.
You're on stage, you know, you're about to launch
into rats or heirloom and you're looking at the
front row. They don't know what's coming. And
what's it like when you see those, you know,
that hardcore. clutch group and they realize
the opening notes. It's a great feeling and you
know I just kind of like trans you know when
we play some of these songs that we haven't played
in a while it just kind of transports me back
to that time period also and you know I feel
like the energy that and excitement that that
I had when we first wrote those songs kind of
floods back and it's a good feeling and You know,
I think that uh, you know, I bless, you know
these older fans that have been with us long
enough to to hang in there and wait for the day
that we Dust off some of these older songs and
you know, they didn't give up on us And for that,
you know, we will gladly play, uh, binge and
purge for them again. I was going to ask you
what, you know, that was one of the songs that
came to mind when one of the record label execs
is, is listening to the demo and thinking, what
we didn't, we weren't expecting this. They just
looked the part of the bands that we were trying
to gobble up the numbers and what is this? Yeah.
Um, that, uh, Yep. That song got a sticker on
our album. Our first and only sticker, I believe.
But I mean, that song was just like, you know,
the mythology behind it was just so blown out
of proportion that we, you know, at some point
it felt like it was just going to be a big disappointment
when we did decide to play it again. But You
know, I think that there's enough respect for
the younger kids in our crowd nowadays for people
to not go absolutely nuts like they may used
to do back in the early 90s. And, you know, of
course our bodies don't all move in the same
directions as they used to also. So the danger
posed by playing that song doesn't seem to be
as. as strong as, uh, once thought. But, uh,
the tour is just wrapping up and I hate to say
it, but I just got to wrap up here as well because
I hear the other guys downstairs plucking their
instruments. So I got to hit the stage for a
sound check. Absolutely. Dan. Well, I did want
to say, I know you're about to start the South
American Trek. This is very exciting for you
guys. I think these days were planned for several
years and wish you all the best there and can't
wait to see you tonight. And folks listening
to this show, if you haven't heard clutch or
you haven't seen them in a long time, visit their
website. I'll post it in the show notes here.
Dan really appreciate you appearing on the Dan
Time podcast today. Well, thank you, Dan. Thanks
for having me. This fall, Clutch teams up with
rival Suns for a co -headlining North American
tour titled The Two -Headed Beast. This tour
kicks off on September 5th in Brooklyn, New York.
On this tour, expect Clutch to mostly focus on
the songs from 2004's Blast Tyrant. Okay, my
story with Clutch is a little unusual, but maybe
not unprecedented. In the summer of 96, I first
learned of Clutch when I saw a friend's copy
of the self -titled 1995 release in a case logic.
Just saw the artwork. But I never listened to
the CD. A year or two later, I bought that CD
for my brother Travis on his birthday. It didn't
connect with him. It was a bust. I think he'll
admit that he didn't give it enough time. Or
at 16, 17 years old, in 97, 98, that sound just
wasn't quite what the doctor ordered. But he
reconnected with Clutch for Pure Rock Fury and
Blast Tyrant and turned around and spread the
word back to me. He said, hey, remember that
band? Remember that CD that you got me that I
said, why did you waste your time guessing on
a gift for me when you could have just given
me a gift card? Well, I love the band and you
got to hear Blast Tyrant. So since then, for
nearly 20 years, My brother and I have each put
this band in our top tiers of favorite acts.
He loves them for certain songs and I love Clutch
for other songs and we unite in our admiration
for this band. Now let me tell you what Clutch
means to me. It's the unbreakable unit. It's
the power groove. It's regular guys sticking
to and honing their craft. It's the album covers,
the artwork. It's the irreverence, the metaphors,
Neil Fallon's rich and varied vocabulary and
subjects, song titles, lyrical themes you'll
never see anywhere else. I've carried Clutch's
music through so many stages of my life, through
my 20s, my 30s, and now my 40s, through multiple
vehicles and times of triumph. Uncertainty, Despair,
Transition, and Reemergence. Played Clutch on
Jukeboxes. One thing is you can let it all hang
out when you're singing along with Neil. You
can beat your chest a little bit. You can just
get lost in a riff, in a story. It's not for
everybody and that's okay. But Clutch is the
type of band that I think some of us feel was
assembled just for us. I want to hear from you.
Share with me your clutch story in the comments
of any Dan Time post for this episode.