Guys, here at The Tonight Show we like to spotlight musicians that we think have something special but might not be getting the attention that they deserve.
It's time for Tomorrow Stars Today.
Our guest tonight is a singer-songwriter promoting his new album on an independent label called Hometown Crowd.
Please welcome Johnny Miles Biter.
Hey, man.
Hey.
Hi.
How you doing, bud?
Nice to see you, bud.
Doing pretty good, Jimmy.
I really want to thank you for making a space and holding the light the way you do.
Wow.
Of course.
Nobody holds the light the way you do.
Thanks for being here.
You know, I got to say, I love new talent and I want to talk about your songs.
Man, that's great.
Did you build this desk?
A man should be able to build his own desk.
Look, when I write songs, the way I look at it is this.
It's like you know, they're not as much like songs, but they're like, they're vibrations that come in from the universe and they just go in me.
Yeah.
That sounds mysterious.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, all right.
Well, that's cool.
I mean, my songs are just happenings, right?
They're happenings that happen to me, and if they happen to rhyme, well, that's good.
Well, that's great.
Would you like to share one of your songs for all of us, maybe?
Hey, not at all.
No, I mean it in the way of, like, yeah, definitely.
No, I'm really happy to do that, okay?
Thank you, Jimmy.
There you go, bud.
If it's... Oh.
John Mice.
Fight it.
Okay.
Wow.
Well, this one is called Late Night Ride, okay?
Caught a hitchhiking ride with a woman one day.
She turned on the radio and the radio played a song.
This song She's a super freak, super freak, She's over freaking.
Y'all Hold on.
What's going on, man?
What's wrong?
What are you doing?
What's the problem, Jimmy?
I don't understand.
That's Super Freak.
That's Super Freak by Rick James.
We can't even clear that.
No, no, it's not, man.
That is what happened.
That's a song that came on in her car, and I just wrote about it, man.
Come on.
What are you doing?
You can't just take a hit song and squeeze it into your song.
How am I supposed to control the will of the airwaves, dude?
I don't know.
Yeah, you don't know, because I can't, man.
Well, look.
What?
How about you try another song, maybe?
I'll give you another shot.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I blew up there.
I'm sorry.
I got a little upset as well.
I told you you were a ray of light, man.
Now, this next song...
All right.
All right.
Here we go.
This one's newer, okay?
And it's called, Backyard with Mom.
-♪.
Last time I ever saw my mama, We threw her a party in the backyard Lights on the fence.
Oh, that whole year was so hard.
Mama sang her favorite song that night and it went she's a super freak, super freak, she's a super freak, yeah.
Stop!
Stop!
Stop!
Stop it!
Stop!
Ruth, don't encourage him.
What are you doing, man?
That's the same song!
No!
What do you want?
You gonna go after my mama's favorite song now, man?!
I'm not gonna do it.
Come on, dude!
What the frick is wrong with you, man?
These songs, you're just describing ways that you've heard the song Super Freak.
No, I'm not, dude.
No, I'm not.
It's my life, okay?
You can't just come in here and tell a guy what he can write inside a song, even though that thing happened to him and then he had a guitar nearby.
I didn't come in here.
What?
You came in here.
I was already here.
You came in here.
You weren't born here, man.
You had to have entered here at some point, just like I did.
But I work here.
This is my show.
I host the show.
So I'm here every night.
And I'm here to give you a chance, some new talent.
And I think you're abusing the privilege a little bit.
Because you're just singing.
I entered this world from my mama.
And I don't mean to abuse privileges, and you're right, okay?
Hey, buddy.
Hey, buddy.
Hey.
Hey, palsy.
Hey.
Can we just bury the hatchet on this?
I'm sorry.
Yeah, I apologize.
I'm sorry.
Hey.
Hey.
No, you don't have to come over.
No, no, no.
That's all right.
All right, man.
Yeah.
Thank you very much.
Hey, is there any way you could do one?
Like, maybe one of the original songs that you submitted that got you on tomorrow's stars today.
That's the one we liked.
We only heard a snippet of it, but, right?
We would like to hear maybe one song.
That's a great idea, man.
Okay, perfect.
Okay, this song is called Summer Day.
I remember that summer day when we dropped a coin in the wishing well and felt swell and free.
And when that coin hit the water, it sounded like a song we knew.
No, no, no, no, no.
Please stop.
Don't do it.
Just don't.
Just don't.
Don't.
Don't.
Don't.
I'm gonna freak out.
-♪ And that song that we heard through Mama's screen door... -♪ Yeah, that's close.
-♪ The song that we'd all heard many, many times before...
And the name of that song was She's a super freak, super freak, She's super freaky.
Oh, Tomorrow starts today.
No, I'm the host.
That's what I say.
Stick around.
We'll be back next week.
Tomorrow starts today.
Cameron Diaz will be coming.
