Here’s a shot from the Al Stone Today Show performance a few days ago. Only four tires are pictured, but twenty four were used as set dressing, each sourced and painted by our tour manager, Ryan “Bear” Drozd, and transported into Manhattan via terrifying logistical gymnastics.

To the casual observer, it’s a neat prop, but several dozen man-hours went into bringing just one detail of the set to life.

Day of taping, I showed up, sound checked, ate donuts for six hours, then played for three minutes - 100% of the time, the people off camera (and often making the least money) have the most difficult and important jobs.