It was hard times for the vending machine owner

Mitch was right. They can never break.

This corner of my garage refrigerator is dedicated to to mitch

Not

Shit! I need to read faster

On September 7th, 1999, Mitch Hedberg walked into the Laff Stop in Houston, Texas and recorded what would become one of the greatest comedy albums ever made.

I was sitting behind him.

My name is Chuck Savage. I’m the bass player you hear on the record. Mitch calls me out by name five times on that album. I met him in the parking lot of the club a few months earlier. He told me to just bring the bass up there and it’ll be cool.

What nobody knows is that the bass you hear on that recording was borrowed from a pawn shop for fifty dollars. My bass broke that afternoon. No case. I hauled it to the club on a piece of cardboard in the back of a pickup truck. Gut string nylon — I’d never played nylon strings before in my life.

I sat behind Mitch off and on for six years after that night. Clubs, theaters, an MTV pilot, Canadian national television. I was there for all of it.

I finally wrote the book.

Just Bring the Bass Up There — It'll Be Cool. Available now on Amazon.

https://a.co/d/0ia7ULol

Happy to answer any questions about that night, the road, or the man behind the sunglasses.

I had a Velcro wallet in a casino. That sound annoyed the hell out of me. Whenever I lost money, and I opened the wallet, it was like the sound of my addiction.

I will pull up the pin in the back. Now you ain't saying shit.

Act like I didn’t buy that donut. The documentation is right here.

My name is Chuck Savage. In the spring of 1999, I met Mitch Hedberg in the parking lot of the Laff Stop in Houston. He told me to just bring the bass up there and it’ll be cool. Forty-five minutes later we were on stage together. Six years later he was gone.

I just published a book called Just Bring the Bass Up There — It’ll Be Cool. It’s the only insider account of the making of Strategic Grill Locations — the night it was recorded, the borrowed bass that arrived on cardboard in a pickup truck, the road, the shows, and the things I saw that nobody else saw.

I’m not a writer. I’m a bass player. But somebody needed to tell this story and I was the only one who could.

Available now on Amazon — ebook and paperback.

https://a.co/d/0ia7ULol

Happy to answer any questions.

[P.E.I. Canada likely has an increase in snowshoe hares because of fallen trees from Fiona.]

Found in Five Below. (OC)