October 23, 2006, 1:54 pm : Story Behind “Angry Chad”

So here is a little story about the song Angry Chad. 

Chad Is a buddy of mine, one Nashville morning I get a call 10:00 or so,  from Chad,  He is in Jail in Kentucky, needing bail.  I think it is something like $7,000 or something, I guess he has quite a few unpaid speeding tickets. 

So he needs me to raise the money then drive 4 hours to go get him out.  This is what friends do.  But we are waiters, $7000 is not easily accessable to say the least. So we are calling all friends, all family.  I have one guy who can give $500 here but he gets out of school on the east side at 3:00,  then there is this girl that we have to catch before she starts work on the West side at 3:30 and so on and so on.

The last person that is getting us the final moola in the form of a bank card at 8:00 right before his night class. So I get the $7,000 dollars and another friend wants to go with me so I pick him up and we start off.  We get 30 min into the trip and Chad calls cussing us out that it took so long. Saying  “don’t bother now, you left me here to rot,  I have to be in court tomorrow at 6:00 am.”  

So when he gets back to Nashville the next day he sends word that he is pissed. Pissed at us, the ones spending all day tracking down money, the ones organizing the rescue and the ones in the car going to pick him up. 

Well time heals all wounds and a few weeks later it is all worked out.  So he comes to my house with a bottle of wine and says tonight we are hitting the town, we hop in his car and head downtown, about 6 -7miles from my place. 

So the night moves on and somehow I lose Chad, the Bar Closes and everyone is shuffling out, I wait at the front looking for Chad.  Hmmm no Chad.  I wait a bit longer.  No Chad.  So I think crazy me he is waiting at his car, I go to were his car used to be and no Chad, no car. Hmmmmm this sucks.   

I call to say “things happen just call and let me know what so that I am not pissed.”  No Call.   Thanks for “not calling”.   So there is the beginning line in the song. ”You can pick me up I will be right were you left me, By the car if there’s no car I’ll just assume you were arrested.”  

So weeks go by and no call form Chad. Then out of the blue he asks me to play a writers night in Nashvegas.  This is his first call since the “stand up”  he makes no mention of the incident.  So I play the writers night,  I spend a few hours before hand writing this song to tell him how I feel. “I’m Fine I’m well but you can go to hell for not calling,” Stating incident after incident so that he has to know I am talking about him.  Long story short I play the song we laugh it is now his favorite and we are good friends.

Listen to Angry Chad

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