Mike Miller is the songwriter and leader of Endless Mike & The Beagle Club. He’s a social worker, husband & father of 2 boys. We discuss his outlook on American politics at this pivotal time in history. Mike explains how he doesn’t see his music as activism(even though Rob kinda does) and he laments the increased political polarization in America. Mike & Rob also deconstruct Rob’s song “The Johnstown Kids” 15 years after the fact and Mike fondly remember the heyday of the Johnstown, PA D.I.Y. music scene of the early 2000s.

“The Johnstown scene was just kids man. There were no grown ups … at all. We didn’t play at bars. We just rented out fire-halls and community buildings. And we’d rent one until, y’know, a couple times in a row somebody kicking holes in the wall or breaking the sink in the bathroom or whatever. We’d get kicked out or they would up the price. ‘Cause like 300-400 kids would come to these shows. It was so awesome. So it was like “Ok, alright, it’s just money.” The promoters never kept money. They never pocketed the money, ever … a penny of it. And if you found out that they were, you’d never go to one of their shows again. They’d get dragged for it man. ‘Cause it was just like militantly ethics when it came to that D.I.Y. punk rock thing. There weren’t that many straight down the middle punk rock bands. All the bands sounded a little different. But there was like a feel and a sound that everybody kinda sounded like, or at least the same kinda feeling and all the bands were like best friends and knew the words to all of each other’s songs.”

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 MIKE MILLER A.K.A. ENDLESS MIKE
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