About I'm Leaving Right After This Drink... Rock N Roll, Whiskey, and Other Stories
Stories from my career in the entertainment business. We will talk Rock n Roll, Whiskey, and other craziness from my life. This might be from last night or it could be from 20 years ago. Subscribe and give a listen.
Episode 52 - Thank God We Grew Up Before Cell Phones!
Thank God We Grew Up Before Cell Phones!
Remember when you could do something incredibly stupid and there wasn't a cell phone, Ring camera, or social media post to prove it happened?
Those were the days!
On this episode of I'm Leaving Right After This Drink, Bryan Shaw looks back at growing up before everything was recorded. From teenage parties and neighborhood pranks to wild stories from his radio days involving Jackyl and Aerosmith, some memories are probably better off without photographic evidence.
Plus, Bryan talks about how cell phones have changed the concert experience, why everybody seems to be recording everything, and why he's thankful some stories from his past will remain locked in the vault forever.
Were we the last generation that could truly get away with being young and stupid?
Grab a drink, settle in, and let's talk about the good old days when there were no cameras, no proof, and plenty of bad decisions.
6 Oct 2026
Episode 51 - Who The Hell Am I To Write a Book?
Who the hell am I to write a book? Fair question.
Bryan talks about why he decided to finally finish a book he first started back in 2018—and why it has nothing to do with becoming famous or selling a million copies.
The first volume of I’m Leaving Right After This Drink: A Life in Stories, One Round at a Time is called Don’t Tell Mom, filled with stories about growing up, radio, concerts, friends, road trips and plenty of things his mother probably shouldn't know about.
But this episode is really about something bigger: that thing you've been saying you're going to do someday.
Write the book. Learn guitar. Take the trip. Start the podcast.
At some point, you've just gotta get off your ass and do it.
1 Oct 2026
Episode 50 - Every Concert Ticket Has a Story
Remember when concert tickets were actually tickets?
Bryan recently found an envelope filled with old concert ticket stubs, and every one of them unlocked a memory — Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, Van Halen, The Allman Brothers, George Thorogood, Anthrax, Pride & Glory and more.
This week, it’s stories about standing in line to buy tickets, ridiculously cheap concert prices, legendary venues, and why those little pieces of cardboard became souvenirs without us even realizing it.
Oh, and there’s a Van Halen story involving traffic, an emergency cup and a very unfortunate open car window.
Grab a drink. Every ticket has a story.
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