Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
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Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
Ep.126 -1968: A Historical Year in Music - Trends, Tragedies, and Triumphs
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Buckle up for a rollicking ride through 1968 with your trusty guides, Scott McLean, Luke Calicho, & Mark Smith, from the Music Relish Show. We'll take you back to the year that shook the music industry to its core. We've got everything: The Beatles, Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison recording, The Bee Gees American debut, and even the notorious national anthem performance by Jose Feliciano at the World Series! Peering into the cultural and political vortex of 1968, we'll discuss riot aftermaths, draft anxieties, and the seismic shifts in the media landscape. You're about to feel the pulse of history's most tumultuous year through its most compelling medium - music.
Ever wondered about the bands that shook the world in 1968? We've got that covered, too. From the psychedelic rock of The Archies to the soulful sounds of Earth, Wind & Fire, we'll give you the lowdown on every band that made waves that year. And, of course, we won't shy away from the juicier stuff, like the infamous breakup of the McLean Family Band over a basketball game. Moving on, we'll channel our inner film buffs and take a deep dive into the cinematic marvels of the time. You're in for a treat as we reminisce about classics like Planet of the Apes, The Producers, and Night of the Living Dead.
To top everything off, we'll honor the late Shane MacGowan, the unforgettable musician who left an indelible mark on Irish and English music. We'll explore his legacy and contributions to the world of music. This episode is not just a step back in time - it's a nostalgic journey through the sounds, sights, and stories that shaped a year of change, challenge, and creativity. So get comfortable, turn up the volume, and let's travel back to 1968!
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1968
Scott McLeanWell , here we are , episode 126 . Hope everybody had a nice Thanksgiving . I know I did , and on this episode , myself in the wrecking to Luke Calico and Mark Smith on the music relish show on the . You find them on the YouTube channel . We're going to be talking about the amazing year in music of 1968 . Holy shit , that was a good year . I was only five , but I was five years away from my first drink . Anyway , sit back , enjoy the show .
Mark Smith1968 can be a good one . The KofB studio presents milk rates and turntables on music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McLean . Now let's talk music . Enjoy the show .
Scott McLeanThank you , amanda , for that wonderful introduction , as usual . Young Amanda finishing up her she just went back after Thanksgiving and back to college and she's going to finish up all her , whatever she has to do testing and then she'll be back for Christmas , so can't wait for that . Welcome to the podcast . You know the name , I'm not going to say it . As I always say , welcome back , my friends , to the show that never ends .
Scott McLeanWe're streaming live over right now over YouTube , facebook , twitter , twitch , D live and yada , yada , yada , yada . Twitter . I keep saying Twitter it's X , x , I got to get that , get that right . X . Elon Musk , who recently told Bob Iger , the CEO of Disney , to go fuck himself . It's a beautiful thing , fucking beautiful . Got to love Elon Musk . Elon for president . That's what I say , anyway .
Scott McLeanYeah , so tonight we're talking about 1968 . It's going to be a good show . We got a lot of stuff to cover , so let's get right into it . Yeah , I'm hesitating because as soon as I said those two are like Pavlov's dog . They're sitting in the green room right now . They have me say let's get to it , and then they expect me to say look , look , you know I'm not doing that tonight . You know why ? Because they were acting up before the show . They were acting up . Yeah , I got some sort of fucking plan going . These two , you know they were calling each other . I don't know what they're going to do , so it could be , you know . So you know what I'm going to start right off the bat is Luke I'll kill you from the music relish show , and he's going right in the penalty box . And Mark Smith on the music relish show , he's going right back in the penalty box as he gave me the fingers . He's going in . I'm not fucking around tonight , guys . Well , I think I am . And they are music relish guys .
Scott McLeanHello , when you were ship on a star , Look , wait , wait , look , look , you actually got , you actually bought light bulbs . I have had light bulbs . No , you haven't , you haven't .
Lou CollichioI have what do you think you're lighting up the room you ?
Scott McLeanlike sitting in the fucking bat cave sometimes in that thing with a red bulb . He says a red bulb in the ceiling .
Lou CollichioTwo red bulbs .
Scott McLeanI had two red bulbs earlier .
Lou CollichioIt was too dark , it was kind of light it's , you know , it's , it's nice , this one's good , this one's green . So I'm trying to get festive . I got green , red and like an alternate , because the gray walls don't reflect green looks blue , though Green looks like you're married right now . Are you married ? I think I'm right . I can read absinthe above my head . Okay , good .
Scott McLeanYou learned you learned . Yeah , what's up , mark , how you doing .
Mark SmithI'm good . Anyway , low back to you .
Lou CollichioLow back to you .
Scott McLeanThere is no plot , Scott there is no , there is no plot . Hey Lou , is that an amplifier that you , you're , you're , uh , no , I moved my studio stuff around .
Lou CollichioThis is my bank of um recording components . I got like compressors , power amps , effects like that .
Scott McLeanOkay , Lou , I'm recording again . That's motherfucking around .
Mark SmithWhen you're bringing the lead singer in .
Scott McLeanThat's what I want to know . Well , check this out .
Lou CollichioI'm not a peri-texi goes um um rage against the cafe is dead . It's not happening . I said what's going on ? I said we need a format .
Mark SmithHe doesn't say it's dead .
Lou CollichioWe all say it's dead , it's not dead , it's not dead , it doesn't know , it doesn't have to be , it just has to be done a certain way .
Scott McLeanYes .
Lou CollichioIf we're to record , we just can't send each other things through the phone .
Scott McLeanNo , All right Now has we done this a Pacific way ?
Lou CollichioExactly . Yeah , I think we're going to do this . Any who right .
Scott McLeanFirst of all , patty , patty , ozzy says good evening gentlemen . Hey Patty , hey Patty . So what's up ? Mark ? Look at you . You're getting good with the background shit . I moved my desk this weekend . Yeah , I see that you got a fucking stupid soccer jersey behind you . Oh , here we go .
Mark SmithOh , just stop , you know what I'll put the Elon stuff I can get , but you pick on Liverpool . If you pick on Liverpool , is it Liverpool United I'm going to put .
Scott McLeanOh , just ask it .
Lou CollichioIs it ?
Scott McLeanLiverpool central , or are you yeah ?
Mark Smithwell in the penalty box . Oh God , I can't take the shit he's my mic , oh , mike's live .
Lou Collichiohot Mike , hot Mike are the two surviving Beatles , Liverpool fans .
Mark SmithAre the two surviving Liverpool's .
Lou CollichioBeatles , beatles .
Mark SmithWe're going , paul . No , I believe all is a fan of another team now Liverpool , oh Everton . Everton are like the Mets and Liverpool like the Yankees .
Lou CollichioThat's how it works in .
Mark SmithLiverpool and he's an Everton fan .
Scott McLeanAll right , all right . Well , let's get right into this , because we have a lot to cover in 1968 . Right here , big year . How old were you , lou ? I ?
Lou Collichioturn . Fuck . No , I turned seven that summer . I don't know a little kid man . I was a little kid . Mark was just a world .
Mark SmithWe know we're not going to my father's eyes , oh , he was a grunt and his father's throat .
Scott McLeanI was born in June .
Mark SmithI was born in June in 1969 . I remember 68 .
Lou CollichioI remember that year .
Mark SmithI was just so you guys say you remember , when I was born I was like what's going on ?
Lou CollichioYeah .
Scott McLeanI delivered you . You know there's a reference to my birthday and a favorite song Really yeah , what's that ? Oh , what a night Late December , back in 63 . Yeah .
Mark SmithThat's me , baby , I'm kind of mid December , but I'm going late 60 .
Scott McLeanThree yeah .
Mark SmithHow old ?
Scott McLeanwere you as Scott , I was four , going on five . Well , if it was , if it was December , yeah , I was going to be five . Yeah , five years old . Like I said , five years away from my first drink I was in the hospital for a week .
Mark SmithStarting , young , you were in the hospital for a week . Yeah , wow .
Lou CollichioDave .
Scott McLeanPhillips , king of the 45 , just rolled into the live stream .
Lou CollichioHello Dave .
Scott McLeanHello , I wonder if he's raking leaves tonight . He always seems to be raking leaves lately in the dark In the dark .
Lou CollichioYeah , we do the same thing .
Scott McLeanSo January 4th kicks off 1968 music , with Jimi Hendrix being jailed by the Stockholm police after trashing a hotel room during a drunken fistfight with bassist Noel Redding . I can't think that that was anything like aggressive .
Mark SmithI don't like you , I don't like you .
Scott McLeanThere was some slapping going on A lot of wrestling like guys that don't like . You get two guys that don't . It's always a lot of wrestling .
Lou CollichioIt's drunk and wrestling . I think it's called tussling when you do that .
Mark SmithIt's a tough .
Scott McLeanNot even wrestling .
Lou CollichioThere's no moves being done , they're tussling .
Scott McLeanTussle was a word in 68, . Right , Lou , you were 18 .
Lou CollichioYou know yeah , I was 18 . Actually , I was really . I was really without Gora and Ryan O'Neill . Oh , there you go .
Scott McLeanThen , on January 13th 1968 , johnny Cash . Oh wait , dave Phillips says no leaves tonight . Had Mo's surgery on Monday , oh well , what's ?
Lou CollichioMo's surgery . That's a barbecue joint .
Mark SmithNo , he had Mo's comma surgery on Monday .
Scott McLeanDo you want , doyle ? Do you want to go to the bus ? I love you , joanne . I love Joanne . She's a wonderful person . Let's pick this up again , january 13th .
Lou CollichioOh wait , mark , Mark she noticed your haircut .
Mark SmithMy daughter . My daughter cut it .
Scott McLeanWow , patty , noticed your haircut .
Mark SmithLook at you , when there's one guy with it , there's one guy with it .
Lou CollichioIt doesn't matter what show I'm on Milk crates or self-divorating is over .
Scott McLeanIt stands out and let me get through this
1968
Scott McLean. January 13th 1968 , johnny Cash records at Folsom Prison . Live at the Folsom as state prison in California . Wow , yeah , on January 20th 1968 , the who and the small faces start with a tour of Australia and New Zealand . On February , 1st February , because that's how it's spelled . February , I argue . February Jack's listening , which he never listens . Jack never listened to you when he was on the podcast . February Universal Studios offers the doors $500,000 to star in a feature film which is never made . What ?
Lou Collichiowere they thinking they just gave him money ?
Scott McLeanThey offered them $500,000 .
Lou CollichioOkay , offer , okay , offer so $500,000 back in 1968 .
Scott McLeanHow many millions was that worth ?
Mark SmithThat's a boatload of money right there . Is it the script that kiss later use for the Phantom of the Opera or Phantom ?
Lou Collichioof the Park . Phantom of the Park . Did they kiss in a movie Theatrical ?
Scott McLeanLet's put it this way Phantom of the Park was still better than the Marvels . Oh , here we go .
Lou CollichioI heard it's pretty bad . Yeah yeah , february 4th , here we go . The bad movies are good .
Scott McLeanThe old movies are good . 1968 . The Bee Gees make their American television debut on Guess what show ? 68 . Popular , popular show .
Lou CollichioAmerican bands , then Nope Shindig . No , it's not a music , it's not a music .
Mark SmithIt's a variety show .
Scott McLeanTonight show Comedy show the Smothers Brothers .
Lou CollichioHey .
Scott McLeanQuick a few tries . I can load the professor .
Lou CollichioYep .
Scott McLeanAmerican television debut on the Smothers Brothers comedy .
Lou CollichioI was in grad school , in the Smothers Brothers room .
Scott McLeanCongested tonight . That's going to be a problem .
Lou CollichioUh-oh , it's going to be a problem Fuck .
Scott McLeanFebruary 4th 1968 . The Bee Gees . Well , I just read that because I'm congested . That's not excuse .
Mark SmithHey , it is for me . Fire your writer . He wrote it twice February 12th 1968 .
Scott McLeanJimmy Hendricks is given an honorary high school diploma from Garfield High School in Seattle , Washington . Hendricks is also given the key to the city , and then he had to show up for court because he got arrested .
Mark SmithStock on the week earlier . Busy guy .
Scott McLeanRockstar yeah , a month earlier . A month earlier , let's see February 16th 1968 .
Mark SmithThe Beatles Mike .
Scott McLeanLove .
Lou CollichioAsshole . Yes , we agree on that .
Scott McLeanI know . I know Donovan and others traveled to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Rishi , rishikesh , rishikesh , rishikesh . Who cares about that ?
Lou CollichioThat's CSNY Rishikesh Express , right ? That's a stupid thing , even put that in there .
Scott McLeanAnyway , February 18th 1968 , David Gilmore joins .
Mark SmithPink Floyd . The rest is history , the rest is big history .
Scott McLeanYeah , replacing founder Sid Barrett , who has checked himself into a psychiatric hospital . February 24 , 21st 1968 , mcgraw Hill Inc .
Lou CollichioRight who , you remember McGraw Hill ?
Mark SmithI wonder if there , he is still around . There was a book publisher right and all our school books seem to be McGraw Hill . I saw that , yeah .
Scott McLeanDave Phillips has brought the whole show down , just fucking wrecked the whole show . He comments in Malanoma on my neck Results of growing up and with a seat date . See now that's the show , folks . Oh , I get it on early tonight , okay .
Lou CollichioYeah it's , it's over .
Scott McLeanYeah , I had to . Just fucking . There you go , dave . Thanks , buddy , we were we .
Mark SmithGood luck Dave .
Scott McLeanI told you something was gonna happen , mark . I told you , yeah , I'll push through , I hope . I hope you're at bed , I hope everything's okay , dave . Yeah , dave's a great guy , funny bastard likes to say he's . He's one of two people that I know on facebook that use the term after they see a post that I post , they , they comment one word Jesus .
Mark SmithOh , put the comments live . All right , so I .
Scott McLeanSo I'm moving the comments over here . Now I gotta do .
Mark SmithThe most unprepared show host history .
Scott McLeanNow the live comments will stop popping up , so if you comment , it'll pop up . It's wondering why Lou's head was so big this week . Jesus , jesus , as Dave Phillips would say . Uh , let's see . Uh , february 21st , the McGraw hill ink outbids eight other publishers and pays 150,000 for the us Rights to hunter davies . Authorized biography of the Beatles , aj gilliger owner of .
Scott McLeanAJ's on the main in grapevine , texas , my boy stationed together in the Philippines . That's uh that he got one of them zz top bairds going . He's a good button , makes it great . I gotta post a picture I haven't done in a while . No , no , great barbecue . With this they make a fucking crazy bloody Mary Like a meal really dessert and say it's everything .
Lou CollichioI have a whole book , a whole starkest celery type of thing . All right , here we go .
Scott McLeanDave Phillips , I'm fine , margins are clear . Well , thank you for that , not for that . He only gets so much attention for that . Dave Phillips , don't be dragging this through all night . He's that guy . He's that guy . Hey guys , did I tell you about the mallet two hours into the show ? Hey , did I mention the surgery ? I had him . No , don't do it .
Mark SmithThe loyal listener you have .
Lou CollichioYou're calling the buzzkill .
Scott McLeanThat fucking comment . I'm a fucking melanoma . What is that supposed to be exciting ? I don't know .
Lou CollichioI never heard the book . I had that book . It was pretty well known . I think that was the Beatles bio at that time . Okay , that was the one . Still have it .
Scott McLeanFebruary 22nd 1968 , florence Ballad of the Supremes is released from her contract with Motown . That was the beginning of Diana going on her own . Uh , february 7th , 27th , do ops sing a ? Frankie Lyman is found dead at his grandmother's house in Harlem , new York , of the heroin overdose . Do op that stuff ? I a ? J just commented and just checking in before the Cowboys start . Have a great show . See y'all next time . All right , my brother , my brother .
Mark SmithNo , I'm not an American football fan , but I will watch the Cowboys . Uh , I'm just gonna watch for a while .
Lou CollichioOh , sorry , fuck , I put him in a penalty box .
Scott McLeanWell , Lou called it , You're in buddy penalty box . Good call Lou Good call .
Lou CollichioI enjoyed that . Yes , well , you , you , you , certain certain power film .
Scott McLeanIt was the right call .
Lou CollichioI think it was the right call .
Scott McLeanIt was the right call tonight that was flashing this light up . All right , these are always interesting . February 29th 1968 . The 10th annual Grammy Awards are held in Chicago , los Angeles , nashville and New York , hosted by Stan Freeberg , the Beatles , sgt Pepper's holy huh .
Lou CollichioWe call Stan Freeberg . I don't know .
Scott McLeanThe Beatles , sgt Pepper's . The only arts club band , of course , wins the album of the year . Uh , the first rock LP to receive the award ? Oh , that's a good trivia question , yeah , yeah .
Lou CollichioDid you know that , lou , we did that on music relish . I well , I did that by music fuckers .
Scott McLeanThunder . What haven't you done in music relish ?
Lou Collichioboys . We're trying to come up with different ideas .
Mark SmithUh yes , the competition's starting Good friendly competitors friendly competitors .
Scott McLeanUh , this is a great . I remember this song from when I was a kid Um the fifth dimensions , up , up and away in your beauty favorite song balloon . Yep , yeah , uh , wins both record of the year and song of the year . And that , bobby Gentry , just a hot bitch that that whoa . I'm telling every time her name comes up . I just see If you don't know who Bobby Gentry is , if you're too young , you gotta google this girl . She was an absolute Smokeshow different , yeah , different .
Lou CollichioShe wasn't Tammy . Why she wasn't one of those kind of glamory , that glamory girls , you know ?
Scott McLeanshe was hot , she was earthy and she was very uh , talented . Yeah , again , as we've spoke of many times on this podcast , uh , she had carte blanche to do whatever she wanted with the record label Produce her own songs , write her own songs , play her own music , which , in 68 , was quite an accomplishment . So , and to have them , the body and the looks , jesus , she wins best . New artist .
Lou CollichioI showed a picture of her to a young lady I worked with and she looked at her and she goes wow , yeah , I said she goes , I love her hair .
Scott McLeanSmoke show man .
Lou CollichioShe had this real big thing of black hair yeah yeah . Yeah , smoke , she's hotter than the girl from the um . Uh , who did I ? She's got it my baby .
Scott McLeanOh , yeah , yeah , from uh , shocking blue , shocking blue , yeah yeah , it seems that's a pretty girl too , but none of them have have have the mouth of carly simon . So you know .
Mark SmithHere we go again .
Lou CollichioThe music is a different story , though .
Mark SmithYeah , musically .
Scott McLeanThey got carly beat . Our march for us . 1968 . Johnny Cash and june cotta , a married in franklin , kentucky , with merrill kill . Gore is the best man . March 8th 1968 , bill Graham opens Fillmore East in an abandoned movie theater in New York City . Oh , little did he know . Or maybe he did know .
Scott McLeanOne of the greatest live albums ever recorded Ombrose Yep , arguably , arguably , it's so top . So if you think I was saying this today to somebody , we were talking about intros and I something came up about Led Zeppelin . Over Thanksgiving my buddy that came to his family came to my house and he just he just kind of blurted out what's your favorite Led Zeppelin song ? And I said the killies last stand . And he goes , dang , he goes . That's mine too , right , we never knew that . He said what's your second favorite ? I said I thought about it because there's so many right . But actually I came to the conclusion that I think that my second favorite song by Led Zeppelin is actually Whole Lotta Love .
Scott McLeanI said it's one of those songs that we've spoken about , that it was popular , loved it . Then you heard it too much and then you kind of blew it off and then years later you rediscover it . Everybody goes through that . That loves music . They find that song . They're like fuck , I forgot how great this song is , how it was produced and how it's in Whole Lotta Love . And I said I guess my point to this was intros , right , intros of songs , and we've done shows on that , we've talked about it , the death of the riff , right , right . So I said , I always say top 10 . But if you say top 25 , of all the fucking songs ever created , the top 25 is a very , very . It's a half of a half of a half a percent of all the music , rock music that's ever been made Right , so actually I would put that in the top 25 greatest intros ever .
Lou CollichioAnd has it has a case for it . Yeah , sure , I like how the intro to Whole Lotta Love sneaks in and left speaker .
Mark SmithYou hear it go , Denny .
Scott McLeanYeah , it's in the left , wow yeah .
Mark SmithStereopan Page is sneaking into the room .
Lou CollichioAnd the whole breakdown .
Mark SmithWow , the middle part .
Lou CollichioListen to what bottom's doing , and to me it's just a high-hattin' cymbals .
Scott McLeanYeah , and they jump it from headphone from left to right , left to right . Yep , yeah , hold on . You guys take the show for 15 seconds .
Lou CollichioSure Okay , are you a big Zeppelin fan , mark ?
Mark SmithYes , I am , and , like Scott was saying , you know how you lose track of like . So for years I didn't listen to Led Zeppelin . I got tired of them . I just recently went back to Led Zeppelin too . It's the whole album's a monster .
Lou CollichioI'm so guilty of not listening to any Zeppelin albums except for the last one . I know most of the songs , but I don't know the succession of songs and albums .
Mark SmithYou know I always have a hard time with Be so fair . Do a deep dive sometime , Go on Spotify and just play an album , but the last one . Those are the names of the Led Zeppelin songs .
Scott McLeanI always have a . For some reason , I always have trouble with names of Led Zeppelin songs .
Lou CollichioI don't know why . I don't know why there's the battle of Everclear .
Mark SmithOh lord .
Scott McLeanBob Doucet , he just commented .
Mark SmithI made my parents hate that song when I was a kid used to crank it .
Scott McLeanSo Bob Doucet good dude , good dude . Music fan Stereo fucking lunatic , though Cool Fucking stereo lunatic . Big speakers , holy fuck . Yeah , I don't know what you got here Clips , jubilees , fucking horns , whatever . They're like five feet tall and like four feet wide . And then you get then he's got his life-sized Joker standing in front of it . It's gonna fucking knock him over .
Lou CollichioIt's like he's a Ledger Joker .
Scott McLeanYeah , yeah , it's pretty cool . It's pretty cool . Yeah , it's like there's no way he could crank that up . I mean , it would just absolutely rattle the fucking foundation of his house . It's fucking amazing , though I kinda I don't want to say it live , but I fucking kind of envy the dude . I fucking wish I had those speakers . I like my clips , but these things are just another level of fucking insanity . Another level of insanity .
Mark SmithI'm in the Subwoofer generation but I want to get back to having a nice big speaker .
Scott McLeanI'm on the look for some clips he hit 119 decibels last night in his fucking house . Yeah , who level ? I'm telling you , the fucking things are insane . They're like concert speakers . It's insane .
Lou CollichioWere you sitting in front of them , Bob .
Scott McLeanI have Tinnitus . I would have hearing Just from all the music I've listened to loud headphones , loud stereo , loud car stereos , you know whatever . I think those Walkmans in the 80 , the original Walkmans with the no volume control started the whole , thing , yeah . But yeah , insane . Anyway , back to the show . Well , he said 12 feet away , even still .
Lou CollichioGod bless you , buddy .
Scott McLeanNow we need to know what we are playing . Don't say fucking sticks either , Don't waste sticks on those speakers .
Mark SmithDon't waste any of that trash on those speakers . Bob is a good speaker . Alamann , I need those songs on a piece of Renegade Renegade .
Scott McLeanDon't get the no , fucking fuck sticks . Oh , stop it .
Lou CollichioAlice in Chains . All right , good , good , good good .
Scott McLeanYeah , let me see . March 1st , march 8th , march 25th 1968 , the 58th and final new episode of the Monkees aired on NBC . Yeah , march 30th 1968 , the Yardbirds record their live album , live Yardbirds , at the Anderson Theater . April 5th 1968 , james Brown appears on national television in an attempt to calm feelings of anger in the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King . Gentlemen , I've been saying this and we're not going to get political , but I've been saying this for the last five years . We are living in the mid to late 60s , early 70s , all over again on steroids , who ? You remember ? All this shit ? This is the . It's cycled all the way around
Memories of the Past
Scott McLean.
Lou CollichioI remember the aftermath of the Newark riots . Dude , what about ?
Scott McLeanDetroit , fucking Detroit burned to the ground pretty much . I mean there was riots , they were . I mean it was the same thing back then , except it didn't have social media to blow everything up . Well , you had the evening news , they had the morning news , so you had three stations , three news broadcasts that were on for a half an hour and they had limited time to talk about each story and they weren't in it for the ratings .
Mark SmithThey were doing a public service of providing .
Scott McLeanThey were doing exactly Right .
Lou CollichioAnd the reporting was probably a little more accurate . Yeah , and the thing is , I was telling young kids today I'm like you're worried about this , you're worried about that . I said there's always been a worry . You live in ancient Rome , you live to be 12 , if you're lucky , you know you had kids , or England now , or England now or anywhere . I said I had older siblings , my older brother's . Like I'm going to Vietnam , anxiety , you know what I ?
Mark Smithnever lived through a drift and I can . I got to think of all that music I liked that era that we're talking now . Everyone that was of age at that time was eligible for a drift . I can't even imagine that .
Lou CollichioYeah , I was at high anxiety . My boss is 70 , 71 . He goes . I was just waiting to be called , you know , and just thinking , you know , you know , and sometimes the drive to the induction center , you know you're shitting your pants , you know . Well , scott , I mean you've joined the military , yeah .
Scott McLeanI've volunteered . You were conscripted , you know yeah . But , I went in during the Cold War , so you know that was a whole different vibe .
Lou CollichioI thought I was going to Iran . I didn't register .
Scott McLeanI'm like shit , ah let's see April 6 , 1968 . Pink Floyd announces that Sid Barrett , who was replaced two months earlier amid deteriorating mental health , has officially left the group . Also , the 13th Eurovision Song Contest that nobody fucking cares about . You know , it's Every week with this Radio Free Europe .
Lou CollichioFuck the .
Scott McLeanEurovision .
Mark SmithSong Contest Fuck them .
Scott McLeanWho won that year ? I don't know . I'm not even going to read it . He's never read it . Also , on April 6th oh listen . I'd rather talk about this than the fucking Eurovision thing . Fucking . The open Pee Brock competition of the Scottish Piping Society of London is held at the London Scottish headquarters at Buckingham Gate .
Mark SmithI'd rather talk about that than the fucking Eurovision Song Contest . That would be amazing to see . Hell yeah , Sure yeah .
Scott McLeanHell yeah , April 7 , 1968 . Singaporeanist songwriter Nina Simone's performance at Westbury Music Fair is dedicated to late Dr Martin Luther King . The song why the King of Love is Dead by Gene Taylor is performed for the first time . The show is partially released on the Emmy-nominated album Nuff said 1968 .
Lou CollichioShe's from near my neck of a woods here .
Mark SmithAh okay .
Lou CollichioTriad , north Carolina , yep .
Scott McLeanBob Kirkman . Robert Kirkman , aka Dr Pork Chop , just joined the live stream . Dr , Dr Pork Chop Yep , Dr Pork Chop is the yeah he does . He's a proctologist . Yeah yeah , proctologist With really long fingers . Yeah , yeah , love's given a second and third opinion yeah , gotta be sure , maybe one of these days , I'll tell you guys how I was violated by a doctor .
Lou CollichioDid you do the Ricky Dervais thing too , like on home ? What show is that ? I can't take it in .
Scott McLeanI didn't even know it to like a year or two late . I was like did that guy ? Did that fucking guy ?
Lou CollichioHave to do that Was .
Scott McLeanI too young to get a fucking prostate exam . I was only 40 . What Did he , Todd ? Did he fucking ?
Mark SmithDid he know about the Luther ? I don't know .
Scott McLeanFucking like 40 . I'm there with the guys like , hey , have you had a proctology , have you had your prostate checked ? I go no , oh , you didn't even get to think you need to . I'm like really , I was like , yeah , how old are you ? I said only 40 .
Mark SmithOh yeah . Yeah , it's time Did he knock you out for it . Oh no .
Lou CollichioNo , he didn't . His hands weren't on your shoulders . You're okay .
Scott McLeanYeah , that's the old joke , but no , it's only one hand on his shoulder . Look , I'm just gonna say every the prostate was okay , but it was a fucking rough exam .
Lou CollichioThey don't do that .
Scott McLeanI think something happened there . It wasn't supposed to . And I listen . I don't care , my life's an open book . I think I was violated . I do , I think .
Lou CollichioI was Did he have probable cause or was there anything ?
Scott McLeanWell , he made me think so . Everyone believes the doctor right . Who thinks the doctor's gonna lie ? And now it's 45 .
Lou CollichioYou're just ahead of the curve .
Scott McLeanAnd looking back I noticed he was kind of really friendly to me too leading up to that . He was really friendly , yeah , and I was like , okay , yeah , I guess I need it . I don't know .
Mark SmithLike what the fuck , Putting his hand on your upper arm when he was talking to you ?
Scott McLeanDude was like put your elbows on the table . I'm like elbows For sure .
Mark SmithWhat the fuck For sure I'm like elbows Boy , this show has won all three rounds .
Scott McLeanYou did not , I might as well , finish the story Like fucking elbows All right , elbows on the table and he just goes , okay . Then it's like oh the fuck , dude , where's my prostate in my stomach ?
Lou CollichioThe fuck , dude , that's not my ring , it's my watch . That's not Holy shit .
Scott McLeanI didn't . He says , okay , all good , all good , and he leaves the room and I'm like my elbows are still on the fucking table .
Lou CollichioI'm like what the fuck ?
Scott McLeanJust now like okay , do I gotta clean up here ? Like what the fuck you ?
Mark Smithknow I'm going to talk to Dave Phillips .
Lou CollichioWhere you charged for it Blue cross , blue shield . That's what he did .
Scott McLeanFucking . Maybe that's what he was doing . He's getting the fucking milk in the bill .
Lou CollichioHe wasn't just milk in the bill though , jesus . The old digital exam , oh man .
Mark SmithAnyway , back to the show Did you have a cigarette when you were done .
Scott McLeanNo no .
Mark SmithNo , no , I went out my head down the walker's shame .
Scott McLeanI kind of thought something was wrong . I don't know about this one . Then I just blocked it out , like I just Like you supposed to . Yeah , yeah , yeah , I'm good at compartmentalizing things . I just stuck that in a drawer , but the fucking drawer broke a couple of years later . That popped out of him and went wait a minute . That motherfucker did he fuck Was I ? Did he fucking sexually assault me ? What the fuck he can need to go to Scientology and deprogram ourselves .
Mark SmithThe fact that that's only Traumatized by that .
Lou CollichioYeah , it's weird , that's very specific . That was very kind of Very . Was that a little too much information ?
Scott McLeanYeah , a little bit , I share Certainly not afraid to bear it all . We can share .
Mark SmithI'm not , I don't care . That's an interesting point though . You're 40 years old , though that's not .
Lou CollichioSo that was what 40 years ago ? Oh , you know , I'm not , I'm not , I'm not . Oh , you know , I'm not 80 . Come on , you could have done better Matt .
Mark SmithOne point for Lou .
Scott McLeanLet me see you trying to beat me at my own joke and you're lost . You know you get . Yeah , you also get the penalty box Fucking , trying to beat me with my own joke .
Mark SmithThat's fucking . Come on Ash .
Scott McLeanYeah , penalty box is cold Penalty box is cold tonight .
Mark SmithIt's like in the Superman with Christopher Reeve , that mirror flying through space with all the people Remember that ?
Scott McLeanYeah , that's it , that's it . Poor Lou , bring it back Lou's back .
Lou CollichioAll right . Where were we ? Where were we 1968 .
Scott McLeanYeah , yeah , let's see . April 29th , the Rock musical Hair opens up on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre , day 4th 1968 . Mary Hopkins performs on the British TV show .
Lou CollichioI don't care , I hate that song . Those were the days .
Scott McLeanOh well , actually you know , let me finish this . Mary Hopkins performs the British TV show opportunity . Hopkins catches the attention of model Twiggy , who recommends her to Paul McCartney , who will soon sign Hopkins to Apple Records . So good , yeah , Good for her . Maybe she was big in England . She was a big old man .
1968 Music and Band Highlights
Scott McLeanOn May 5th 1968 , Buffalo Springfield performs together for the last time in Long Beach , California .
Lou CollichioThat was a good band , right Yep Lot of talent , lot of talent . Yeah , they all want to huge things . Yeah , Name them Lou . Well , there's Steven Stills . Want to see us on why ? Richie Faray and Jim Asina form Poco with drummer George Grantham . The bass player of who was , I don't know the bass player was knew it . Well , Neil Young was in there for a spell .
Mark SmithHe was .
Lou CollichioI don't know who the bass player was .
Scott McLeanWhat .
Lou CollichioYou know I could use the bass player . Nobody cares about the bass player who wants to play bass anywhere .
Scott McLeanLet's see Also May 7th . Let me see May 7th 1968 . Aretha Franklin records her live LP Aretha in Paris at the Olympia Theater . May 14th 1968 , at a press conference , john Lennon and Paul McCartney introduced the Beatles new business concept Apple cores , apple core , apple core limited . Say that three times and then to tame the company that included a recording studio , a record label and clothing store . Wow , I can find and close that one that will have Apple on them .
Lou CollichioRead about the Apple boutique is what it was . And then they just gave everything .
Scott McLeanThey gave everything away , Fucking close and they're like we're done . And they fucking gave shit away out on the street .
Lou CollichioWow , I just you know , and there was this . Well , the book about that's called the longest cocktail party . Oh yeah , it's a good book . It's just , you know , the Hell's Angels were you know them bringing elements of the Hell's Angels over from America ? George did that . I think it was just a weird scene , they were in Bezos man .
Mark SmithOh , by the way , fact check , they had three different bass players Buffalo .
Scott McLeanThat's why I knew they didn't know . All right , so .
Mark SmithJim Messina played bass . He's listed as the bassist , but they also had Ken Coblam , ken for us for C , and Bruce Palmer . Yeah , never heard of him , never heard of him .
Scott McLeanMessina went on to form also logins , and Messina .
Lou CollichioYeah .
Scott McLeanYeah , yep , mother can't dance and your daddy don't rock and roll .
Lou CollichioThey did like seven albums together .
Mark SmithYeah , yeah , I liked that song until poison covered it . They did do that , just like fucking Motley Crude did smoking . Spoken in the boys from yeah .
Scott McLeanOh God , mark dude , do you know who sang the original ?
Mark Smithversion . I can't remember the name of the band Savoy Brown .
Scott McLeanNo , no , jesus , they weren't even around then . No , who was ?
Lou Collichioit Texas Boys Lou Brownsville Station .
Scott McLeanOh yeah , yeah , yep , brownsville , didn't know that's a border town right there buddy , is that border Mexico ? Yeah , yeah .
Lou CollichioOkay , that's a shithole . It sounds like a shithole . It's a shithole , brown .
Scott McLeanHall Station is more like it Really it just sounds hot and dusty .
Lou CollichioYeah , shit hole . What was it ? What was the metal band that covered signs ? Tesla , tesla , tesla covered signs .
Scott McLeanThey're not metal . See , that's the thing we had this discussion .
Mark SmithThere's 70s style hard rock . Yeah , that's the only good hard rock they just got caught up in that hair metal because they had long hair like hippies , but they weren't anything like Good band .
Scott McLeanThey were a good band . They're playing actually down the street here .
Mark SmithI don't know if I want to see them , though I heard the singer still got it . That's what I heard . Yeah , did they do .
Lou CollichioI'm a cowboy of a man .
Mark SmithYeah , that's a great song . That was a good song , okay .
Scott McLeanYeah , that's cool .
Lou CollichioI don't like either versions of that song or songs . I hate that song yeah .
Scott McLeanNo Way Out is probably their best song .
Lou CollichioThat's a jam , that is a fucking jam right there .
Scott McLeanTesla , no Way Out , in case somebody wants . And , by the way , we're doing 1968 because my brother , colin McLean , associate producer of Executive producer Fucking .
Mark SmithGet the motive .
Scott McLeanDon't make me do it again .
Mark SmithWow , I triggered something . Yeah , wow , no Glad I'm not in the room with you . Fucking , tax me 1968 .
Scott McLean1968 . 1960 . All right , motherfucker , we'll do it Jesus .
Lou CollichioHe's not on .
Scott McLeanNo , he'll watch it tomorrow when he walks his dog Anyway .
Mark SmithIt was a long walk .
Scott McLeanThat's a long dog walk , man , that's a long walk . Yeah , may 26 , 1968 , blues artist Little Willie John dies in prison after being convicted of manslaughter . That's kind of a it's got . That's a story . He's Well , he's kind of the name Little Willie John In prison . In prison , isn't that kind of a penis references that three , three references in one name .
Lou CollichioLittle Willie . Willie won't go home , Won't grow up .
Scott McLeanMay 30th .
Lou CollichioWell , we know he's rolling prison , then yeah , he died in prison .
Scott McLeanHe was convicted of manslaughter . Hey , may 30th 1968 , the Beatles began recording the white album , officially titled simply the Beatles .
Mark SmithYeah .
Scott McLeanSessions would span over four months , ending on October 14th , June 20th 1968 . What's that ?
Lou CollichioAnd we're in the Beatles . We're in . Your favorite Beatles album is the white album .
Scott McLeanHmm , it could probably be around Five . Okay , yeah , somewhere around five , june 20th 1968 . David Ruffin is fired from the temptations due to his ego and because he began inquiring into the temptation's financial records demanding and accounting of the group's money .
Mark SmithOh , we can't do that . That's what got Donald Fagan kicked out of the Eagles . Yeah , don Felder .
Scott McLeanSorry , don Felder , I was going to say that's a new fact , that we didn't know , did you know ? Yeah , yeah . Also on June 20th 1968 , Martha Reeves and the Vandellas make their debut at the Copacabana in New York City , winning a rave review in the New York Times . The engagement was recorded , but remains in the Motown vaults .
Mark SmithWow , wow . Well , they missed the CD error . They could have put it out there in the CD error . That must be .
Scott McLeanThat must have something to do with rights to something . Why would they bury that thing ? Yeah , yeah , yeah . There's got to be something going on with that , or it doesn't sound good .
Mark SmithMaybe Interesting , no , maybe .
Scott McLeanOh , you can fucking . In today's world they can digitize that . Yeah , now they can , yeah , yeah . Wow , that's interesting On this day in July . It just says July . That doesn't matter , it takes place in Brazil .
Lou CollichioOh what's his name .
Scott McLeanI guess they don't have days of the week in July .
Mark SmithHey Lou , he just can't read the names . That's why he's not reading it , yeah .
Scott McLeanGilberto Gil , caetano Veloso and Rogirio .
Mark SmithDupra , these are all part of that scene . You like , yeah , but Gilberto Gil , yeah . Anyway , it's a good album . Tropicola of Paris .
Scott McLeanAnd it augurates the Tropicola movement in music yeah , yeah , yeah , here you go , mark . Good for you . On this day , on July 7th . On this day , july 7th , the Yardbirds perform for the last time before disbanding . On July 9th through the 14th , the International Ice to Ford takes place in Langolin , north Wales . Whatever the fuck that is .
Mark SmithIt's a music festival which takes place every year during the second week of July .
Scott McLeanIt's a music festival , because I know everything on Mark Smith .
Mark SmithNo , I'm just reading the same website you're reading .
Scott McLeanI'm not reading a website . This is all off the top of my head , fuck . Sorry , boss , yeah well On August 1st 1968 , the Jeff Beck group releases their album Truth , yes , A seminal work of heavy metal and incorporated blues and hard rock and introduced the talents of Rod Stewart and Ronnie .
Mark SmithWood . He had the Led Zeppelin sound before Led Zeppelin . They even did that blues song . They did the same song I forget which song , but it's one that led Zeppelin down the first and Beck was pissed . That Page did it .
Scott McLeanSo do you think that has anything to do with them playing together and maybe a little competition ?
Mark SmithOh yeah , friendly rivalry . They probably hated each other for a while , egos , and then they got over it . Beck never really took off the same way Zeppelin did .
Lou CollichioWas Ronnie Wood playing bass ?
Scott McLeanYeah , I believe so , August 4th 1968, . Yes , performs for the first time at a summer camp . Holy shit , Gotta start somewhere .
Mark SmithHello , mutta Hello father Now sing it like John Anderson . Hello mother , Hello father , In .
Lou CollichioEngland . England had those , but they were called butlins camps . There was a chain of summer camps .
Scott McLeanThe butlinks there were . There's a proctologist at every camp , I'm sure the Beatles . You have to be 40 years old .
Lou CollichioI think you have to have a good good . Sturdy elbows Was his name on Giorni , or elbow pads , Fucking violated .
Mark SmithGood album violator .
Lou CollichioI'm gonna talk to somebody now I get over it .
Scott McLeanI mean , what can you do ?
Lou CollichioGo find out , go find the doctor .
Scott McLeanYeah , Let me see Dave Phillips King of the 45 says yes was great live in the early 70s . Yes , as opposed to now , dave Phillips , as opposed to the 80s , as opposed to why don't you just say Dave Phillips , I saw them in the 70s ? It's trying to be passive , aggressive , it's not working Dave Phillips 70s .
Mark SmithThey were almost like jazz that that yes songs album . They recorded a bunch of concerts for that album . They've since released a box set of all the concerts in their entirety . They jammed they actually . Every night was a little different . There were very special bands , yeah .
Scott McLeanOh , August 23rd 1968 . Simon and Garfunkel give a live concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood , California . A recording is later released on CD in 1994 by Australian company Vigaton Records . As voices of intelligent descent , I call it ?
Lou CollichioWhy call it that ? It's all , simon , I'm a voice of intelligent descent yeah .
Scott McLeanYeah , turkey's suit . September 7th 1968 . Led Zeppelin performs for the first time , build as the new yard birds .
Mark SmithYeah , you go , do you ? Know , what other name they took when they were Dave , for briefly , were the knobs the knobs when they got sued by the Zeppelin family estate ?
Scott McLeanAh , okay , the odd birds had disbanded two months earlier and guitar shimmy page had subsequently formed this new group . Also in this day , the banana splits adventure hour premieres on NBC . That's more fucking important than that ? Yes , it is . It's really important . Led Zeppelin's the banana splits adventure out you kidding me .
Lou CollichioFour banana , three Danger Island .
Scott McLeanYeah , johnny Quest , johnny Quest . I think that was a standalone show . I thought it was the show that on the splits .
Lou CollichioNo , I think it was a standalone show .
Scott McLeanMaybe I'll have to check into that .
Lou CollichioRemember the girls on the sour grapes , the sour grapes that were called on the banana splits .
Scott McLeanOh , yeah , yeah , yeah .
Lou CollichioThey were like kind of go , go dances .
Scott McLeanThey're go . Everything was go , go , dances .
Lou CollichioWell , yeah , but they make the old ago , the banana splits all get goofy when they saw them . Yeah , yeah , oh yeah , oh yeah , boing , get this one .
Mark SmithYou know , when you start to type something , google , google . So I typed did Johnny Quest , and the first result is did Johnny Quest have two dads ?
Scott McLeanOh wow , oh , we had one , it was race .
Lou CollichioWho is his little friend ?
Scott McLeanHaji Haji yeah , what was his dog's name ? Fido fuck you don't know anything .
Lou CollichioI don't know , and it , and it means a little bulldog with the fucking the look like you had a mask on yeah , okay , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah .
Scott McLeanNow you know well , that's a good memory man don't well , don't fuck with me and pop culture don't know the cartoon .
Lou CollichioI spoke a lot of pot when I was seven , okay okay , moving on .
Scott McLeanSeptember 14th 1968 , two sons of singer Roy Orbison oh boy , you know what's coming . Yeah , two sons of singer Roy Orbson , 10 year old Roy DeWayne Orbson and six year old Anthony King Orbson , dying a house fire in Anderson , tennessee , or since , youngest son , wesley , is miraculously saved by Roy's parents . Boy , yeah , he had a tough life , man . We all know it right . September 15th 1968 . Song of summer Kurt Russell's noted TV documentary about Frederick DeLuce is shown for the first time and gives a fuck
Music Events of 1968
Scott McLeanabout that hurt .
Scott McLeanRussell did this yeah , also on September 15th , pocket discs are released in several test markets in the United States . Which is what a pocket disc ?
Mark Smithyeah , I'm assuming this was a type of flexi disc you know I'm on cereal boxes like a .
Lou CollichioFrisbee type .
Scott McLeanOkay , okay , yeah , yeah , september 19th 1968 the who begin recording Tommy , a rock opera that tells a story about a deaf , dumb and blind boy . Can't say that today , oh , stop it . Can't say that today . Nope , nope , nope . I'm surprised that song hasn't been canceled . That deaf , dumb and blind there's an overdose , plays me .
Lou CollichioHuh , is that deaf , mute and blind ?
Scott McLeankid Dave Phillips , king of the 45 . Yeah , deaf , mute and blind . Dave Phillips , king of the 45 , thinks he just enlightened us with hey . Did you know that Roy Orbson went on to be a Wilbury ? Did you know that ?
Lou CollichioI hear you traveled a lot with a wow , I can , dave .
Mark SmithThere's a rumor that one of the Wilburys gave him coke . Oh , oh , oh . You ever hear that rumor ? No yeah , oh yeah , I try boy watch rival Tom's below , just commented in . Might as well call him retarded look how nice he looks in his picture . He looks like Freddy Krueger hey .
Scott McLeanSo , tom , you have to tell us someday what concert did Mark screw you on a ticket by committing and they're not committing and then leaving somebody with an extra ticket ? I want to know that story . I want to know that story . Can't remember . Yeah , he should have used that story on his going postal fucking yeah , it was a good going cuz . It sounded like he went fucking postal we both one postal many times . What was it that you had on your front ?
Mark Smithporch I used to put the air conditioner . Two ton air conditioner was in the living room you put it on your front well , we put in a . You know we had a apartment with you know , when you share the back balcony with the apartment next door , wasn't yeah ?
Lou Collichioyeah , so .
Mark SmithI put in a contractor bag and put it on the porch . You know , it's like I'm not gonna put in the basement cuz someone would steal it . Get that fucking air conditioner off your porch . Well , I used to come out in the porch on a Sunday at four o'clock and you just be sitting there having a beer and they go . What are you doing here ? I need somewhere to go .
Lou CollichioI get a beer and join them and within a half hour we'd be fighting Tom's .
Scott McLeanBelone the original . The original , yeah . The second , the . Actually the second co-host , yeah , of milk crates and turntables , the . Yes , he has a little status on this show he better get that studio set up again yeah , he's moved on . He says I remember that was Pat Matheny . You stiffed them on a ticket , pat Matheny , you asshole .
Mark SmithThat could be when I broke my arm . Oh , here we go , yeah and I couldn't go anyway .
Scott McLeanI think he would have known that by now . Let's Tom . Tom broke my arm . October 7th 1968 , jose Feliciano at Tiger Stadium for the 1968 World Series in Detroit , saying a personal and controversial soul version of the stock spag abandoned . This was the first time the national anthem and it is the first time the national anthem was played in a different style that's why , well did you see ?
Lou Collichiohim sing with the melody . He did like my fire a bit , did you ?
Scott McLeansee him . See , I think we saw the video of him singing . Was it every breath you take ? It , was it ? Was it was a sting or a police fucking like sting was there watching .
Mark SmithIt was one of those , ken . It might have been a Kennedy Center on .
Scott McLeanYeah , yeah yeah , he sang like and it was fucking horrible , like unlistenable he's . He's hit and miss . Oh , he's old to October 8th 1968 . He's great . In Fargo , the soundtrack for the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet is released . Can the soundtrack so big in the 60s ? Oh yeah , they were charred actually they were dominate sometimes yeah , november 8th 1968 , john and Cynthia Lennon a divorced . Took that long . November 11th 1968 , three days after his divorce , the beta male John Lennon in Yoko Ono's experimental album unfinished music , number one .
Mark SmithI just hovered over , the title on the cover popped up oh , I need to see that one wait , wait , yeah , there are two versions .
Lou CollichioYou mean , oh , the furry cover unfinished music number one the other two virgins .
Scott McLeanWhat ?
Lou Collichioare you ?
Scott McLeankidding me ?
Mark Smithshe is uglier than a bag of assholes , oh she just bought ass ugly , yoko Ono there's nothing yeah , shawn Lennon's gonna call you up and just curse you out , just like the go-go drummer yes , she did tell me to fuck myself . Something like that fuck you said no , the proctologist did it for . Yeah , he did it for me , oh the fucker .
Scott McLeanThat's released in the United States , noted for its cover photographs of the couple naked , it ends up being a flop . Dave , folks came to 45s comments Yoko Ono , that's all right . Now you're back on track , dave quit while you're ahead .
Lou CollichioNow the head of EMI , I think , was like Sir Lou Grady when he saw that he goes . It was , he was a Paul , he was no guy . He goes . Well , couldn't have used Paul . He's so much better looking November 17th 1968 .
Scott McLeanDiana Ross and the Supremes we put replace the Beatles hugely successful . A Jude number one in the US with love child . This would be the last of five turnovers at number one between the two most successful music acts in America during the 60s . Wow right , november 22nd 1968 , the Beatles once again , also known as the white album by the Beatles , is released . Also released , the kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society very English album . Yeah , the Kings were a very English band very they started and actually sang with an accent they did .
Lou CollichioThey sounded British , yes and that's rare .
Scott McLeanI mean , if you think about some reason everybody sounds American when they sing , for the most part , unless you Japanese , then that just ain't fucking happening and class minor .
Mark SmithJapanese Elvis impersonators are just beyond hysterical yeah , yeah they're the best though yeah , yeah , and class minor , so German when he sings right , yeah , yeah , oh , let's see where we .
Scott McLeanAt November 26th 1968 , cream plays their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London . It will be the last time Eric Clapton , jack Bruce and Ginger Baker played together until then . 1993 induction into the Rockin Hall of Fame . At December 2nd 1968 , jimmy Hendrix's manager , chaz Chandler , quits over differences with Hendrix during the recording of electrically he didn't want long songs , he wanted short songs yeah , yeah , what band was Chaz Chandler in the animals ? You're correct you're not correct . So what instrument did he play ?
Lou Collichioin bass bass okay and bass . That's why I became a manager . Bass players taking a beat no drummer drummers get to play it . Do bass player jokes because we're the butt of every joke in the band . You're the butt of the band pretty much .
Mark SmithYeah , you're the back end , you know that's right on .
Scott McLeanDecember 2nd . All right , enough of the fucking inch .
Mark SmithYou fucking musicians and your fucking humor oh you don't like it , do you know ?
Scott McLeansorry , no no , I don't like it , I don't . December 2nd also on December 2nd 1968 , janice Joplin and the big brother and big brother in the holding company performed the last concert together before Janice goes solo . That dude did okay on his own . That dude did good on his own . I didn't like him too much , but he did good on his own . He was good . He was good he was . Yeah , I've never been a big fan of Janice now he's kind of overrated , if you ask me , he's overrated how long is this gonna go ?
Mark Smith10 minutes right my stream buddy .
Lou CollichioThere's no fucking time limit on this thing we know what was the Grammy category for Janice Joplin 1968 best male vocalist best Ozzie performance , best male vocalist she did kind of look like Ozzie .
Mark SmithWe need she couldn't you see her with black Sabbath ?
Scott McLeancouldn't yeah , he looked much better , was here in his face , not Ozzie Janice , look much better fucking face could scare a buzzer off a shit wagon , scare a snake in a dark room . Yeah , december 3rd 1968 . The 50 minute television special Elvis , sponsored by sewing machine manufacturer the singer company , taped in June with the live audience in Burbank California , airs on NBC in the United States mocking the comeback of Elvis Presley after seven years during which the legendary rock and roll musicians career has centered on the movie industry .
Scott McLeanConcluding , he made like fucking 60 movies or something yeah concluding with the premiere of if I can dream , it's not only the highest rated television show of the week of broadcast , but the highest rated television show special of the year . That's a fucking . That's the best looking Elvis . Yep , that fucking leather suit . Yeah , damn , that was a good-looking motherfucker right , we talked about this before , oh man , I even I listen now . I'm his man , I'm a man's man , but that motherfucker was good-looking yeah , he knew it got him a man like damn Elvis .
Lou CollichioHe went on stage knowing this was happening hell yeah , fucking respect the game .
Scott McLeanDecember 6 1968 oh shit , the Rolling Stones release rock and roll circus no no , I was gonna say that biggest banquet ah , one of my favorite stones out , which contains the classic song sympathy for the devil my favorite version is always the best .
Mark SmithMy favorite stone song sympathy for the devil is it really ?
Lou Collichioyeah , yeah what's yours , lou ? I don't know , I really don't know .
Scott McLeanCome on man , I'm not gonna make something .
Lou CollichioName a song I'm not gonna lie to you wait ,
1968 Music Events
Lou CollichioI don't know what .
Scott McLeanMy favorite Rolling Stones .
Lou CollichioI can't , I can't make that , I can't just are you giving us your top three . Jesus , you can always get what you want okay . I always loved a little TNA .
Scott McLeanI'm sorry she's my little rockin' . Okay , alright , I'll talk right back . What songs it's hysterical .
Lou CollichioOh god , I can't , I can't do it , I can't do it oh , boy , can't do it sway .
Scott McLeanSway is my favorite yeah , it's a great tune .
Mark SmithIt's a fucking great tune blast that one , one , two , three four last set on a hot summer day , oh my god the Taylor .
Lou CollichioYeah , rock and roll Valhalla with that motherfucker yeah that's give me shelter , give me shelter , great song what were they called that ?
Scott McLeanthat's my favorite yeah , yeah , oh , what would ? You say do do do , do , do , do , heartbreaker heartbreaker , yeah what was it called that goat's head soup yeah what is this dude dude ?
Lou Collichioyeah , but not to be confused with Louise . Do , do , do , do do , do , do do do , do , do that's baseline in music history . I'm being sarcastic , even when she was giving head .
Scott McLeanShe said alright , let's move on to 7 9th 1968 , political confrontation at the plant them . And who gives a fuck ? It's Hamburg , germany . Ah , let me see . Also on December 9th 1968 , tcb airs on NBC starring Diana Ross and the Supreme's in the Temptations . What's TCB ?
Mark SmithI got it if you put your little mouse over at Scott and just hold it there .
Scott McLeanI'm look , I know this stuff off the top of my head . You kidding me . What do you mean ? Oh , it was a television special produced by Motown Productions and George Slater . Of course I know that .
Mark SmithI did too .
Scott McLeanWe all know it yeah we just forgot head friendly productions and laugh in fame . The special is a musical review starring Motown's two most popular groups at the time . I know this shit , hello the interots and the . Supreme's in the Temptations . Yeah , see , I know it was . It was not for hello that's right , I'm the host , I know all this shit . I don't know . Ah , let's see . Also , on December 9th , shinjuku music festival is broadcast for the first time by Nepo and cultural broadcasting bunzai .
Mark SmithI just had John Belutin come into my head , john Belutin .
Scott McLeanSamurai Night Fever . Great skit , great skit , one of the classics of all time Samurai Night Fever . Uh , when he hits them in the hair , he points at his bun . He points at his samurai bun and everyone else is speaking English fucking great .
Scott McLeanNo , no , because everyone's too fucking sensitive . Uh , december 11th 1968 , rolling stones , rock and roll circus is filmed . So you were right , mark . You were right , yeah , just uh , a couple days off , really . Yeah , you know , five days off . That's the story of my life , five days late . The acts include the rolling stones , the rolling stones , the who , taj Mahal , jethro tell , eh eh the weird Jethro to a Tony Yami on guitar yeah , tony , yeah , yeah , but he never
Scott McLeanheard him because he's lip-synced uh , the dirty Mac and Mary Ann faithful . What are we fighting for ? It's a good song actually . Uh , this is the last appearance of Brian Jones as a member of the rolling stones .
Mark SmithThat must have been a fucking hell of an after party it was a party during the filming yeah , right took a long time , it was an all-day filming .
Lou CollichioYeah well , they're all the interludes who was the drummer that played with the dirty Mac , who played drums with John .
Scott McLeanI don't know . Mitch Mitchell ah , from Jimmy Hendrix .
Lou CollichioYeah , they played your your blues band of gypsies right ? Yeah , no , he's the experience experience .
Scott McLeanYeah uh , december 20th 1968 , peter talk announces he's leaving the monkeys music was never the same .
Lou CollichioNever the same . That was the end of my childhood , right there . That was the end of the innocence so it ruined your Christmas it .
Scott McLeanDecember 22nd the animals reunite in 1968 . So they had like a nice little run and then they just broke up so they reunited in 68 yeah , they , the animals , reunite for one benefit concert at Newcastle City Hall while Eric Bird and the animals are disbanding . So does that mean the okay ? Well , it says , while Eric bird and the animals are disbanding . So this means the animals were there without Eric bird , it's just the animals , asked me the old group .
Mark SmithMaybe he wasn't there , who knows hello on finally .
Lou CollichioWell , who would sing , if I mean enough Eric ?
Scott McLeanBird , I know you can't replace that voice . No , uh . Finally , on New Year's Eve , december 31st 1968 , small faces break up when Steve Marriott storms off the stage .
Mark SmithAll four feet of him he was a small dude , he was like Malcolm , young big voice , yeah , yeah that , let's that less Paul was huge on him , did they get their ?
Lou Collichioname . Did they get their name from ? Eight miles high ? Something miles high , did they say ?
Mark Smithsmall , faces small faces it's gotta be a drug reference , a weed reference or something right eight miles .
Lou CollichioHow is about flying into limits by being an airplane ?
Mark Smithyeah , it sounds trippy , but it's .
Lou CollichioIt's just not really not yeah , raingate , rain , gray town known for its sound .
Scott McLeanThat's London yeah , so that was it .
Mark SmithThose are the music events of 1968 we hit the hour mark , I'll be right back , guys .
Scott McLeanIt's cool stuff , man finally mox decided that he he can go take a leak . I'm listening , oh whoops . What's he peeing in a fucking Gatorade bottle .
Lou CollichioWell , we do have a line of swag , as the music roller show . Piss bottle , oh my god , with a pocket , with a pocket catheter .
Scott McLeanOkay all right , so let's let's get into .
Lou CollichioUh , let me see wait , did you see the rock every ? Did you see the rock and roll circus ?
Scott McLeanI pride . I'm sure I did . I mean it's good ?
Lou CollichioI don't . I was that great about it . I mean , taj Mahal was great , the dirty Mac was great , you know , and still the stones , but it was a good show , like Jeffery Talward , just it was like song , for Jeffrey was very different . Yeah , what wasn't , wasn't ? It ? Wasn't that just a total you came to love so .
Bands Formed in 1968
Scott McLeanSo let's look at bands that formed in 1968 . We have the Archies right it's kind of weird , I know , but they , they had a , they have that . One of the greatest one hit wonders of all time and the best bubblegum song , I think , ever yeah , could be , argent . Hold your head up , hold your head right , argent was from what band ?
Lou CollichioOh , also , put it on that 68 . I Don't wish big the zombies , the zombies , keepers in the zombies .
Scott McLeanYeah , yeah , yeah , I was a big keyboard band , yeah .
Lou CollichioYeah , yeah .
Scott McLeanWho else was for the Bellamy brothers ? Right , they formed . Let's see , get the text Uh black Sabbath black Sabbath form , but they formed his earth , I believe in 60 .
Mark SmithYeah .
Scott McLeanBread Fucking bread .
Lou CollichioAre they the ? Are they the first soft rock band ? Oh my god . You like , you like this guitar , my guitar , man .
Scott McLeanThat's that's . That's an okay song , but the rest is give me a fucking raise a blade .
Lou CollichioRemember the Hardy Boys TV show .
Scott McLeanYeah .
Lou CollichioHardy Boys , nancy Drew . Yeah he was on one time and he had it where he was kicking ass and some guys one time I think he'd be David Gates beat up two guys . That's like this bitch . It was terrible .
Scott McLeanThe buddy Miles Express was from the 1968 . Let's see who else Commodores on the 1968 . Cross , we yeah we're still National Young in 68 , deep purple in 1968 , the dirty Mac , but they weren't too . They didn't last too long . Purple , you're one off , they're one off . Yep , dr Hook in the medicine show , yeah , from New Jersey .
Mark SmithThat blows my mind a different .
Scott McLeanSouthern ban See I'm getting a text on the cover of the Rolling Stone .
Mark SmithStone . This is a great show . He takes text during the show and he's do you ? Imagine Johnny Carson did that I'll die , I'll do whatever he wants .
Scott McLeanAnyway , earth , wind , and Fire was formed in 1968 .
Mark SmithBig time Wow . Commodore same year .
Scott McLeanYeah , yeah , yeah , right , that's , that's so . What is that I ? They were two of the biggest bands in the 70s , yeah .
Lou CollichioYeah but it took . Took a while the flying burrito brothers .
Scott McLeanYes , yeah , big big .
Lou CollichioWoodstock band right ? No , they didn't play with it .
Scott McLeanThey were they .
Lou CollichioThey were the one of the most influential country rock bands there you go .
Mark SmithThey're like the beginning of that .
Scott McLeanYeah , I thought they played Woodstock they should have .
Lou CollichioThey should have . Yeah , and he did .
Mark SmithLower you guys on my mixer here .
Lou CollichioI was rich against the cafe was jamming man .
Mark SmithI'm necessary musical interlude there , that's right .
Scott McLeanHey , this was a good one . Free free was formed in 68 , the beginning of Domination of your career .
Mark SmithYeah , they were only around for like three years .
Scott McLeanYeah , yeah .
Mark SmithWow .
Scott McLeanFunkadelic formed in 1968 .
Lou CollichioRight yeah .
Scott McLeanYeah , Grand Funk railroad started in 68 . Let's see . Are they underrated ? Yeah , I think so . You know , what two of their hits were where remakes .
Mark SmithLook at motion locomotion as little Eva .
Scott McLeanYeah , it was little Eva , and there was . They did another , another remake , another cover of a song . You see who else was formed in 1968 ? The Kentucky headhunters . They were around until the 80s ?
Mark SmithWait a second . I bought one of their CDs in the 90s , yeah .
Scott McLeanYeah , so the Kentucky headhunters is one of those bands that . It's fucking a mix and match , like you know . There's no one that stands out , so they can continue like that , you know ? Uh , king Crimson was formed in 1968 . Put him in a rockin' roll , whole fame . Who King Crimson ? No , I know . Well , look at , look , look at the fucking people there on the .
Mark SmithWe go again yeah .
Scott McLeanThe band LTD . Ltd you never heard of them but no , I . Had , I had , I had one of their albums is an R&B funk band . Okay , yeah , that's why I had it . I remember I thought I was always at the funk when I was a kid Ohio players like I listen , I loved all that shit . Uh , and then that's what my friends used to say was Was the mailman , right , like I mean , why you like this shit ?
Scott McLeanWhere'd you come from ? That's right . Where'd you come from ? They can say that back then and no one got offended . Let's apple inform the 1968 well as what ? The New York , new York , new York .
Mark SmithHere's a little , here's a little bit of trivia for you . Okay , when Kentucky head gunters were actually called the itchy brothers , they were almost signed to swan song records . Ah , that's kind of neat , yeah , wow .
Lou CollichioNo , that was that one's label right .
Mark SmithYeah .
Scott McLeanYeah , this one's interesting the mclean family band . Yeah they were formed in 1968 until until the oldest brother beat the fuck out of everyone else in the band and it fucking broke up .
Mark SmithThey were worse than oasis , those motherfuckers .
Scott McLeanIt was all over a basketball game , yeah it was always the older , the older in the middle one . They were the ones that always fucking brawl . The younger one just kind of stayed away but always got punched for some reason , because you were younger , yeah . Yeah , nazareth was formed in 1968 . Good band yeah , right , uh , let me see who else was formed in 1968 . Uh , poco Poco was formed in 1968 .
Lou CollichioYeah , Poco came out of what band ?
Mark Smithwe just talked about them Buffalo Springfield , the Buffalo Springfield .
Scott McLeanYeah , rare earth , rare earth . They were 60 70s band right .
Mark SmithYeah yeah , Motown Records yeah .
Scott McLeanBenny . You know Benny in the Jets well . His Jewish cousin , ruben in the Jets , was formed that's right in 1968 . Hello there , ruben in the Jets . I like that Benny's Jewish cousin on his mother's side ?
Mark SmithWhy am I thinking of mori from uh good fellows right now ? I don't know .
Scott McLeanI don't know , I got a band .
Mark SmithRuben in the .
Scott McLeanJets . Who else was formed in the 19 ? I also sell two pays the stylistics were formed in 1968 . Ah , great band the sweet the sweet .
Mark SmithOh , another good band .
Scott McLeanYeah , yeah , yeah yeah , good , a good 70s band . They ended up being a good 70s band a tragedy band . What happened .
Lou CollichioA lead singer . Just he drank himself to death at such a young age .
Scott McLeanAh , okay , terrible tower of power was formed in 1968 .
Lou CollichioHot soul . Do you have any other albums ? What's that ? Do you have any other albums ?
Scott McLeanI don't now , but I think I did growing up they're great . They're great , Uh UFO . Ufo was formed .
Mark SmithOh yeah , in 1968 .
Scott McLeanYeah , and uh , just because they're the last on the list , the Wallace collection band . Okay , hey , were you .
Mark SmithI like you're aware of UFO in the 70s , like I was , they weren't like . They were the perennial opening .
Scott McLeanThey never headlined right right , yeah , that may . Yeah , that that's . That's exactly right .
Lou CollichioI'll see that makes them second tier .
Scott McLeanYeah , yeah , uh . Bands that broke up in 1968 , a couple , not a lot . A Buffalo Springfield broke up in 68 , cream broke up in 68 , freddie and the dreamers broke up in 68 , but they were left over from the 50s , weren't they ?
Lou CollichioThat was a British invasion , was it ? Yeah , they had . I sent you guys with they had um great friends you the fray Goofy , they were goofy man .
Scott McLeanUh , the righteous brothers broke up in 1968 , in 68 , yeah .
Lou CollichioThey didn't .
Scott McLeanWell , they were the seekers the seekers broke up in 68 . Uh , the Shangri-La's , the Yadbirds .
Lou CollichioWhat's that my favorite ?
Scott McLeanthe Shangri-La's .
Lou CollichioYeah .
Scott McLeanUh , the Yadbirds broke up , and then reformed in 92 . And the zombies broke up , but reformed in 91 . Uh , mark , give me an album from 1968 .
Mark SmithUh , let's see , we're gonna hit you with a deep one . The thoughts of emeralds Dav jack by the nice , which was Keith emerson's band before elp . That was their debut album .
Scott McLeanAh , okay , all right Lou .
Lou CollichioThe notorious bird brothers . Yes that was the birds . Uh , that was her country rock album .
Scott McLeanYou fucking guys are the kings of obscure .
Mark SmithBut that's what I got more weight . I got more for you .
Scott McLeanI'm sure you do , and then I'm gonna go with the straight up , fucking Steppenwolf Album . Steppenwolf came out in 68 .
Lou CollichioEvery , every band in the 70s , every little young starting band played . Born to be wild .
Mark SmithRice oh yeah and then you really got me .
Lou CollichioYeah .
Mark SmithMark journey to the center of the mind by Ted Nugent and the amboy dukes . It was .
Lou CollichioOh , run along if you can . And he had his guitar up on like right under his chin , yeah , when I was a kid I always thought they were from my area because , uh , two towns away were two towns perth amboy and south amboy . Yeah , so I'm like yeah , they're like from around here , you know weeks of jersey amboy yeah . Yeah , michigan , uh Lou the graduate .
Scott McLeanSoundtrack Uh oh , my john Coltrane came off .
Mark SmithHa , ha , yeah , an album , yeah , um shades of deep purple , their debut with hush and they also did a great cover of help by the Beatles on it .
Lou CollichioAh , All right , lou . Mass in f minor by the electric prunes . Okay , the other big hit was what I had too much to dream last night . Ah , this album , what they did ? They took a mass and they sang it in english and latin and performed this whole weird suite of songs , jesus . And they said the guys said they did a performance , their only performance was like a disaster . He said everything went wrong amps blew , the music sheets fell off the . It was just a total train wreck . But I thought there was psychedelic band . I'd rather much more than that .
Scott McLeanUh , doc of the bay , oh , what is ready ?
Mark SmithIt was a compilation , but about then Um , a band and sneer and dear to me , fairport convention . Their debut came out in that year .
Lou CollichioLou horizontal , the bg's , ah , massachusetts , oh yeah , yeah , he sings , master , he goes massachusetts . He doesn't pronounce the t in it . Oh , he's british .
Mark SmithYeah no , australian , australian .
Scott McLeanUm . Fleetwood max david album . Fleetwood mac fucking horrible , fucking horrible .
Mark SmithYou know like 12 bar blues . It was horrible .
Lou CollichioIt was no rumors , was it Um ?
Mark Smithno , I've never heard this album , but I just love the title I can't stand myself when you touch me by james brown . I love that title .
Lou CollichioI can't stand . You need to check my prostate . Here we go again , here we go the child is father to the man bloods the first blood and sweat tears . Album with alcooper .
Mark SmithNot David queen's son . Do you know what the hit song was from ?
Lou Collichioit . It had a hit . Yes , I can't quit her .
Scott McLeanYes , Uh , let's see . Diana ross and the spremes came out with reflections Lettions of .
Mark SmithI've used to be yeah yeah , mark sauce or follow secrets . The second album by pink Floyd Damn yeah .
Scott McLeanYeah .
Lou CollichioHey Lou , gris , gris , dr John , ah , new Orleans , the monkeys , the birds , the bees and the monkeys . It was probably a number one album too , was it ? Yeah , right , right , it's sold records as guys Mark monkeys waiting for the sun by the doors . Ah there you go Lou , let's see the inter mystique by the chocolate watch band with your cover of the king . I like . I like psychedelic garage 60s . You are digging deep . This is great I love . Well , they did a cover . You probably heard of the king song . I'm not like everybody .
Scott McLeanI don't think . I don't think anyone's heard of it . No , no , yes , they have to have and I'm gonna tell you a little trivia fact they happen , lou my first time getting played on the radio in New Jersey at a college station .
Lou CollichioThat song was on the set list at one of my songs . That's how I know .
Mark SmithOh , wow , yeah , okay Uh .
Scott McLeanTo the music Dance , to the music Slide , the family stone Yep .
Mark SmithMark uh . Astral weeks from van Morrison , Ah okay , great , oh yeah , all right .
Lou CollichioLou in a gato de vita iron butterfly .
Mark SmithOr when I was a kid and I had a beach problem , I used to go in a vada gadi daba .
Lou CollichioYou ever seen the movie manhunter ? That's plays an important part .
Scott McLeanYes , yes , the beat of the brass Herb albert . Albert . See , you want a brass .
Mark SmithYeah uh , ccr's debut came out that year .
Lou CollichioAh , okay , what a revival . Lou Uh Simon says the 1910 fruit gum company , the 1910 fruit gum company I thought of you when I saw that I was researching .
Mark SmithIt's good to say that one .
Scott McLeanAh , the mom is in the poppers debut album came out in 68 . Oh yeah all right , let's do three more that we're gonna get into movies . Okay .
Mark SmithI'm afraid Lou won't mention , so I got to mention it music from the big pink by the band . Ah , okay , I was holding off , lou , I was waiting for you to say it , I didn't even think of it but I can't wait for the remixes .
Lou CollichioI cannot wait for the music , lou . We're only in it for the money . The mothers of Convention good album .
Scott McLeanAh , okay , uh , Marvin Gaye heard it through the grapevine .
Mark SmithCalifornia grapes . Uh nefertiti by um miles davis with um sissily tyson on a cover , his wife at the time .
Lou CollichioLou friends , the beach boys . It's a great album . Ah it is a great . It's a great pop album . It's got darlin on it , Okay yeah but it was . It was not surf music .
Scott McLeanProckel harem .
Mark SmithShine on brightly , you know , keeping it one of the bigger albums , but keeping it British odyssey in the oracle by the zombies ah .
Scott McLeanLou once upon a dream , the rascals ah , and let me see , let me finish it off with uh Traffic traffic's debut album . Oh yeah , there's so much , we can do a whole five hour .
Mark Smithjust on the albums , I had 15 more . Yeah , oh , we gotta move on gotta move on .
Scott McLeanUh , we're getting into this . Let's take a little break for the music , as we usually
Movies of 1968 and Film Evolution
Scott McLeando . Let's get into some movies of 1968 . There were some good ones , yeah , yeah , all right , let me . Uh , let's see .
Lou CollichioYou start this time , okay , um , I think it's probably the greatest movie of all time . It is the original planet of the apes . Yes , oh , yeah , one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time .
Mark SmithAbsolutely yeah , yeah .
Lou CollichioWe're talking about the sequels or yep , yeah , good comedy .
Scott McLeanthe producers came out . Yeah , man , yeah .
Mark SmithDear shmami , one of two big steve mcqueen movies a year bullet came out yeah .
Scott McLeanYeah , great fucking movie . What widely considered the greatest car chase ? Yes , yeah , the history of music and the history of movies .
Mark SmithI was surprised to see it came out that long ago . I thought it was in the 70s .
Lou CollichioThe dude that played steve mcqueen and once upon a time in america , Look yes .
Scott McLeanWhat was ?
Lou Collichiothat guy , I don't know . He looked just like him , though it was fucking eerie man .
Mark SmithI started watching that Lou , it was perry .
Scott McLeanOnce upon a time in in hollywood , wasn't it ?
Lou CollichioYeah , I said one time in america tonight .
Mark SmithYeah , yeah , that's a denier movie , another great movie .
Lou CollichioUh , lou , give me a movie . Uh , neil simons , the odd couple , yeah , yeah .
Scott McLeanYeah , so plenty of the apes came out on april 3rd 1968 . This movie came out the same day , 2001, . A space Odyssey .
Lou CollichioWow , wow .
Scott McLeanWow .
Lou CollichioI've never seen that all the way through I have many guns . Lou .
Mark SmithWhy haven't you ?
Lou Collichioseen it , lou , because it's slow paced and boring Dr Bowman Lou go into that room , you'll be Lou . It's so slow . It's so slow paced .
Scott McLeanThat being a right friend . Is it yours , Mark ?
Mark SmithYeah . I'm going to go with Night of the Living Dead .
Lou CollichioYeah , there you go . I still think that's one of the scariest movies of all time , so absolutely .
Mark SmithYeah , absolutely .
Lou CollichioI saw that when I was too young to see that movie .
Mark SmithYou were damaged goods ?
Lou Collichiodude , I am totally damaged . I didn't sleep until I was 15 .
Mark SmithAnd then you had Chinese food , oh , oh , and you ruined your walkman . I'm sorry .
Lou CollichioLou , the Boston Strangler , Tony Curtis .
Mark SmithTony Curtis , I've never seen that . It's good .
Lou CollichioYeah , I can see it , tony Curtis , the .
Scott McLeanSupa sent me , the Supa sent me . Yeah , that's what he used to say . It's how he gets into the bottom of the Supa sent me oh man Right and they didn't show too much .
Lou CollichioWell , it was this 68 . Yeah , he murdered , allegedly murdered , 13 people .
Mark SmithThey didn't really start showing real blood going to the 70s , yeah , but there were some movies in the 60s that showed a lot that that brought about the rating system . There are some movies from like 67 , 68 that are pretty wild .
Scott McLeanWell , quentin Tarantino had a great , had a great theory on movies . So if you see the movies in the , in the , the , the talkies , right , the silent films , they're all night and then all of a sudden you get into like the gangster movies and it starts getting violent . Then it starts getting a little . You know , they get some crazy ass movies right into the in then the 50s . It all goes back to the beginning . Everything's wholesome , everything's all American .
Mark SmithJust like rock and roll in the 50s got wholesome .
Scott McLeanYeah , yeah . And then you get into the 60s and there's kind of a you see something opening up there , right , there's a little . The directors and them and the production companies get a little more . And then the 70s was fucking chaos and movies , right yeah . And then you get your grind . I was at its best , right yeah . And then you get into the 80s and everything went wholesome again , you know , pretty in pink and pretty much war movies and stuff , but there was kind of . And then the 90s started getting a little crazy , it's . He said , this is always a cycle .
Lou CollichioIt's a 30 year cycle . It seems politically conservative in the 50s . You know Eisenhower was the president about the 50s . Yeah , More conservative , on the surface dynamic . But in the 50s there were some pretty under the lot of underground movies like the man with the golden arm .
Scott McLeanThere's always going to be . Yeah , of course , you're always going to have these renegade directives .
Lou CollichioBut they were considered renegade . Actually , absolutely , yeah , so .
Scott McLeanI've been saying this for a couple of years . So since like 20 , 18 , 2017 , maybe it started 2016 , you started to see this whole little thing in movies about the canceled people and cancel that movie . Oh , they can't make a movie about this , so characters have to be diverse and we can't insult these people . So you start seeing that right , and now I had been saying this . There are these . There's a generation of kids growing up that are going to be the fucking craziest directors that Hollywood's ever seen .
Scott McLeanIt's like they're just going to go total , because now you got the Academy . Awards you can't , you can't win an Academy Award unless you have you meet all the checkmarks . And I'm not being political , I'm just . This is the way it is now .
Mark SmithWell , that's what happened . Checkmarks , that's what happened in the 50s . And then the directors went yeah , exactly the Academy .
Scott McLeanAwards committed to this , so it's never going to change . They'll never go back on that because it has to check off disabled . It has to check off this . I think it's good .
Mark SmithEverything is cyclical , Like when when you go nuts about the movies . Now it's all going to change . It's going to go the other way .
Scott McLeanYeah , these movies will be buried , but it's still the fact that I got .
Mark SmithI got in the 80s , when they got really strict about things . I was like , oh and Simon or someone tell me it's like it's all going to go back . You know , just give it time . Yeah , Music too , you know music . Oh , I hate music . Well , it'll go back , you know .
Scott McLeanJune 12th 1968 , rosemary's Baby King .
Mark SmithOh yeah .
Scott McLeanYeah .
Lou CollichioYeah , do you know the apartment building with the living Famous apartment building , the Dakota , the Dakota building it was . I just guess it was the Dakota , yeah .
Mark SmithAnd the beauty of that movie was it could it might not have been a horror , like we never know for sure what happened .
Scott McLeanOh , they show that fucking baby that's , it's definitely right at the end .
Lou CollichioYeah , there's some happened there .
Scott McLeanYeah .
Mark SmithYeah , mark , destroy all monsters .
Scott McLeanYeah , buddy , now you're fucking talking .
Lou CollichioLou Chitty chitty bang bang yeah still a great fucking movie .
Scott McLeanYeah , I mean so glad that Disney hasn't tried to fucking they remade it .
Lou CollichioMake that , they did remake it with Lindsay Lohan .
Mark SmithLindsay Lohan .
Lou CollichioThey don't really no it was pretty popular .
Scott McLeanIt wasn't . No , it wasn't .
Mark SmithIt was popular because the young kid just wanted funny . It was funny , you know , but nothing beats the original . Didn't hear of it .
Scott McLeanI didn't hear about it .
Mark SmithShit out of me , well , well , only only Mark's people , sorry yeah , maybe sometime you want to talk to me and my people . Scott , you know , big motherfucker .
Scott McLeanMark's like six or something , isn't he ?
Lou CollichioSeven , six , six , six , six . You know what he's doing six to six .
Mark SmithHey , I don't know , my name is Andre .
Movie and Music Talk in 1968
Mark SmithYou know , you know it's seen in in in a shitty , shitty , but no , it's at the one where Dick Dick van Dyke's head comes down upside down into a window looking for somebody . I think it was that movie and it scared the shit out of me , like it's a funny scene , but I was like four years old .
Scott McLeanOh , was that where the baby , the kid hunter , was just ?
Mark Smithme yeah , just remember the kiddies , kiddies , yeah the head comes down . I was like holy God .
Lou CollichioKind of like in Joe's , when the head comes out of a port hole . Yeah , that was a jump scare . Yeah , that was a big jump scare . That's August 3rd 1968 .
Scott McLeanHangam High came out yeah .
Lou CollichioYeah , directed by Ted Post . Yeah , directed most of the Plano , the eight sequels .
Scott McLeanHe did the play in the eight eight sequels .
Lou CollichioHe did a lot of me , I think , ted First .
Scott McLeanAll right , Mark anymore .
Mark SmithYeah , where he goes there , One of my favorites .
Scott McLeanYeah , that's a good one .
Mark SmithYeah , that's a good one .
Lou CollichioIsn't .
Mark SmithJames Mason in that , james Mason , yeah .
Lou CollichioI think so . Yeah , lou Barbarella , oh yeah , oh , she was hot .
Scott McLeanAnd that movie she did , I , she was just fucking hot . That's all there was to it . Yep , she's not Bobby Gentry hot , but she was hot September 26th . This came out in the UK first , but Oliver . Ah yeah , yeah , yep , with Oliver Reed . He played a fucking bad guy . He was a bad dude . That evil .
Lou CollichioI think he could drink most people under the table . Yeah , he could those guys I think that's how he died . He was on . He was in a pub arm wrestling or something . Yeah , drunk or anything like a heart attack later . Is this something like that ? But yeah , yeah .
Mark SmithMark , I'm going to go with a movie that I don't think many people liked . I like it Once upon a time in the West . It doesn't seem to get the same attention as the other Sergio Leone movies . I liked it .
Lou CollichioHenry Fonda played an evil man . He was good . He is great as an evil character . I've seen a couple of movies .
Mark SmithHe's a good bad guy , yeah , yeah .
Scott McLeanLet's do a couple more .
Lou CollichioLou Dracula has risen from the grave .
Scott McLeanOne of the bad , one of the better hammer films .
Lou CollichioWe were talking about that . I watched that recently . It was good . I enjoyed it .
Scott McLeanHammer films are the best , hardest women Hardest fucking women in the movies back then .
Lou CollichioA friend of mine made a comment because I was talking about this movie . He goes the interiors , he goes . It could be any period in time . Looks like you're like 1870 . Modern day yeah .
Scott McLeanI mean , the hammer is just brilliant at making those movies . Yes , a yellow submarine came out . Yes , 68 . I was doing two more each Mark .
Mark SmithOkay , another Clint Eastwood .
Scott McLeanThat's kind of under the radar Cougins , bluff , yep , yep , yep , yep .
Lou CollichioLou yours , mine and ours With a refund . Again . Lucille Ball they played the . They were to both divorces of families . They married , became a total blended family . He was like any air force in the military , but it's like a really great family movie .
Scott McLeanAll right .
Lou CollichioIt's a charming movie , one of the best kid movies ever they did . They did a remake of that not too long ago and I think it was a bomb . Yeah , they always .
Scott McLeanYou can't make these classics . This one's one of the best kid movies ever made . Ever . It was Disney at its prime . The love bug yeah .
Mark SmithYeah , oh , I'm sorry , that's the Lindsay Lohan .
Scott McLeanYeah , I was going to say that . I know you don't fucking try to fight with me and pop culture , did I just say that ?
Mark SmithHe just got a slightly slanted view of pop culture , but it's okay .
Scott McLeanI know pop culture , both sides of it .
Mark SmithYou know your pop culture .
Scott McLeanYes .
Mark SmithYou know your pop culture like Lou knows bubblegum pop yeah .
Lou CollichioIt's yummy , yummy and my tummy .
Mark SmithAll right , let's do one more each . Okay , I'm going to go with this other big Steve McQueen movie that year , thomas Crown affair .
Lou CollichioYes .
Mark SmithAh , and I did like to remake with Pierce Brosnan .
Lou CollichioI actually did like it . All right , lou , the Green Berets , oh , john Wayne .
Scott McLeanOh yeah , David Jansen .
Lou CollichioYeah , I tell you a pilgrim .
Scott McLeanA Gamera movie came out in 68 .
Mark SmithGamera verse .
Scott McLeanFuck it , forget the name of it .
Mark SmithThat's a golden age of that type of movie , because the late 60s they got nice color , vibrant color , but they that's the effects were still cheap , which made them great .
Scott McLeanYeah , yeah , I'm going to end it with the third installment of the Pink Panther movie series Inspector Clouseau .
Mark SmithI can't mix stuff between all of them . I know right , I got to be in the mood . If I , if I'm in the right mood , I laugh my ass off , and other times I'm like you know , but when it's on I love it . Yep , and the Steve Martin remake was horrible .
Scott McLeanOh , again .
Mark SmithI felt sorry for Steve Martin .
Scott McLeanWell , he signed the fucking contract .
Mark SmithYeah , he produced it Exactly . It produced it too .
Scott McLeanAll right , let's get into top 10 this week in 1968 . All right , number 10 this week in 1968 , white Room by Cream . They went out and went out on the top with the top 10 hit . Right , yeah , I number nine this week in 1968 . Hold me tight . By Johnny Nash , who went on to do what song ?
Lou CollichioI can see cock . Does he clear ? It I can see clearly and we share a birthday .
Remembering a Legendary Musician and Song
Scott McLeanOkay , I number eight this week in 1968 and absolutely , and I've said this before milk crates and turntables , we're going into our third year , I think , yeah , yeah , this song right here is , I could say , arguably the greatest song ever written . The greatest song ever written , this song , it was number eight this week in 1968 , wichita alignment by .
Mark SmithGleb Campbell , yeah , yeah .
Scott McLeanIt's a fucking , absolute masterpiece . Perfect fucking song . There's nothing wrong with it . There is zero wrong with it . It's a fucking masterpiece .
Mark SmithI love Midwest Vista , Midwest images and when you hear that you just think of the Midwest , it's just so .
Scott McLeanI mean , it's just the production of it , the music , the whole fucking , everything the right .
Mark SmithAnd I liked what you'll come to remake . I liked what you'll come to remake just once .
Scott McLeanDid you listen to Johnny Cash's remake ? Yet no Of which to alignment . I did it with Rick Rubin . I was an American .
Mark SmithOh , okay , oh , acoustic yeah , just acoustic yeah . Oh , I got to hear that you got to fucking hear it , dude .
Scott McLeanIt's so fucking good . Goosebumps Fucking goosebumps . When he sang it Alignment , for he was an older guy at that point , yeah .
Mark SmithSo I still say his cover of Hurt to me is goosebumps . Great , yeah , great . That video with Rick Rubin is a fucking brilliant .
Scott McLeanDid you ever hear him do fucking personal Jesus ? Yeah , yes , I just want to know why he's a genius , because he can . I want to know when he made the video . It actually is .
Mark SmithI just want to know , when they made the video , how did they get you and Carter to cry ? Like , what did they like ? Did she act , or did they see ? How did that ? The videos as good as the song .
Scott McLeanYeah , yeah , number seven this week in 1968 , for once in my life , by Stevie Wonder , great song .
Mark SmithYeah .
Scott McLeanYeah .
Mark SmithThese are all good fucking songs .
Scott McLeanNumber eight , number six this week . I'm sorry , who's making love ? Johnny Taylor , they always throw that one in there .
Lou CollichioThat was a big hit . Yeah , but it's always .
Scott McLeanthere's always one in there that's kind of like you know , one hit wonder guy popular that year .
Mark SmithYeah , yeah , yeah .
Scott McLeanI didn't know worthy the rest of these songs you're going to hear . It's pretty fucking number five this week in 1968 , Abraham Martin and John by Dion , which was a weird kind of twist for him .
Lou CollichioAnd he went folk yeah , and that's after you cleaned up from heroin .
Scott McLeanYeah yeah , Number four this week . She was mentioned earlier in the show . Those were the days by Mary Hopkins signed with Apple records .
Mark SmithTwiggy Discover .
Lou CollichioOh , McCartney signed her .
Scott McLeanThose were the days , my friend .
Mark SmithAre we at a German beer hall ? Let's get it . I know right , but that motherfucker was a party song for them motherfuckers , back then , buddy . You know every time that came on at a party .
Scott McLeanEverybody was singing it . Yeah , it's like Danny Boy and I are great song she was really is that is a sign of a great song , if everybody starts singing it and you're at a party and they just break out in the chorus .
Lou CollichioYeah , it was a family get together .
Scott McLeanYou lost that loving feeling . Everybody that's like one of those like military guys in the other guys I was with in the Philippines that was a big deal and they would all get together and start singing that you know . Number three this week in 1968 from their debut album , Steppenwolf's debut album , Magic Cop it ride . It's a great song , Yep , Yep . Number two this week in 1968 , the Beatles with hey Jude . We mentioned this earlier . They flip flop with the number one song this week in 1968 , a Diana Russ and the Supreme's with Love Child . They were bumping each other off .
Scott McLeanSo yeah , that was , that was this week . We're moving along this show guys .
Mark SmithBob Kirkman beat you to hey Jude . He put it up about 10 minutes ago . Fuck , dr .
Scott McLeanPork Chop . Hey hey , I can say that you can . He's on the payroll .
Mark SmithHe's on the payroll . Wait , wait , me and Lou aren't on a payroll . What's going ?
Scott McLeanon here . Oh , he's on the payroll the king of Facebook show that's . I just want hot sauce . I have no association with hot sauce anymore . Let's see , let's get into . We already did albums , right .
Mark SmithYeah .
Scott McLeanLet's go this , dude . We might make it under two hours tonight . Oh , I can go to work on time .
Lou CollichioI think so .
Scott McLeanYeah , because we're getting into this day of music .
Lou CollichioWow .
Scott McLeanYeah , but . But I did move this along for a reason because I wanted to spend a little bit of time and I want to do it at the beginning of the show , because I wanted to get it and get the ball rolling . But today we lost a true , true poet , one of the great storytellers of his time . Just an absolute , rare rare talent yeah .
Scott McLeanAs unique as a , as unique an individual and unique a voice and a unique of talent that a man in the music has ever possessed . It's it's hard to find somebody . You could compare him to Shane McGowan from the from the Pogues or the Pogue Mahones passed away today . Yeah , that dude , I mean put it all together right , I do , it's just not a good looking guy . Got the fucked up grill right but never change it . I'm not making fun of him because he stayed true to himself . He had all the money in the world to go and get everything fixed or whatever , but he stayed true to himself . He was a true fucking rock star in his own right , a fucking legend in Ireland and in England , right , but I'd say more of Ireland .
Scott McLeanRight , it was Pogue Mahones , the Mahones . The Pogues were more of an Irish band , but they were made up of Celts and Scottish and Irish and English , but they represent . You know , when you think of them , you think of Ireland right .
Scott McLeanYeah , the Irish music , the storytellers , but this dude was just a fucking rare bird . Really was a rare bird . Played the piano , played . He was just in that voice . So we talk about voices , right , like if without music behind him . If you heard the guy singing at first on the surface , you would think what the fuck is that ? Right ? But , then if you listen to it , the raspiness of his voice , right the influx , his tonal inflections , the way he sang , it was just fucking right from the heart .
Scott McLeanLike this guy was not . There was not a fake bone in this dude's body , you know , passed away today from Encephalitis , which is where that's a motherfucker . Yeah , encephalitis is that's the inflammation of the brain .
Mark SmithIs that the same as what they call West Nile ? On Encephalitis Is that the same ? Well , Encephalitis is Encephalitis .
Scott McLeanMaybe West Nile has a different effect .
Mark SmithThat was what ? The mosquito ? Yeah , you know , wow .
Scott McLeanYeah , yeah , Greatest , greatest , arguably the greatest . My favorite , Jack's favorite Christmas song of all time .
Mark SmithYou're the guy that's introduced me to it . I never heard it before . Fairytale of New York yeah , great song .
Scott McLeanIt's a love story . It's a tragedy , you know , a story of tragedy , of heartbreak , of failure , but there's hope . It always has hope all the way to the last Like . As much as the story goes on . And if I don't know if you've listened to it , lou Fairytale of New York , it's right to the end . He always hangs on to the hope . So I'm not going to get into what the story is . But Christy McCullough , who tragically died she's the female lead in that song . She was married to what's his name from Brian Eno . She was married to Brian Eno . She died in a boating accident , saved her child . Child fell over a boat . She jumped in the water and a boat was coming their way . She kind of got him out of the way and the fucking boat ran her over . Oh yeah , yeah . And that was . She was a true talent that had the whole world in front of her and she was cut short . But those two together make my favorite and one of the greatest Christmas songs ever .
Scott McLeanAnd if you've never listened to a Fairytale of New York , you don't know what you've been missing for all these years because it's a true , fucking Christmas classic . Yes , absolutely . So go listen to it , lou , tonight . Put it in your playlist . I'm guaranteeing you're going to think it's a homerun . It's a home . It's a fucking grand slam . So I'm just a grand slam . I don't know anybody that doesn't like it . And so what has happened is , in this world that we live in today of of political correctness and everybody's feelings being hurt and the cancel culture they , a couple of years ago , they started , they the Twitter mob who can give two shits about music . They just like complaining because there's a lyric in the song where she says the word faggot , she calls him a faggot and it's in the context of an argument , right , right and it's it's . It's like they're being very harsh to each other , so it's not like it's in a in a singular way , it's just a boom right in your face .
Lou CollichioI'm going to get this whole thing yeah .
Scott McLeanI'm going to get as deep on you as I can cause I'm going to hurt you , right ? So this is . This is kind of in the middle of the song and they fucking all of a sudden gets discovered that that word is said and oh , we got to cancel that song . And and you know , we can't read and anybody that read did the song we make . Some always alters the words , just like baby , it's cold outside . They all get offended by that song too . But listen to a fairy tale of New York and the uncensored version and get the full context of how that played out in the song . These people just singled out one word and said that's offensive .
Lou CollichioIt hasn't been covered that much . And what do they ? Yeah , it's , it's been covered a few times it varies Like maggot up to the artist .
Scott McLeanYeah , they call him a bomb or whatever she wants to call him bag . Yeah , so rest in peace . Shane McGowan yeah , 65 . 65 years old . Yeah , yeah , they released seven studio albums . You know he had . He also had a lot of problems with drugs and alcohol . You know who one of his best friends is was Johnny Depp . Johnny Depp is when it was one of his best friends , they hung out quite a bit .
Mark SmithDepp had depth hung out with great musicians . He certainly did they .
Scott McLeanthey had , you know he had their respect with them , because fucking Johnny Depp is just cool and he doesn't give a fuck .
Mark SmithHe does what he wants .
Scott McLeanJust fucking cool , you know . All right . Moving on , let's see . On this day in 2021 , adele was number one on the UK chart with their fourth studio album , 30 . That's , that's a talent and woman right there . Let me see it's lead single easy on me top the charts in 27 territories , while 30 was the world's best selling album of 2021 . Fuck , selling a total of 5.5 million copies in less than two months of its release . That girl that she's . On this day in 2015 , sinead O'Connor was receiving medical treatment after a message about her taking an overdose . It was posted on her Facebook page . I remember this Well . I have taken an overdose . There was no other way to get respect opposed red .
Mark SmithNow there was a victim of cancel culture of the other side . Yeah , you know , when I saw her get blue , I saw her get booed at Madison Square Garden at a Bob Dylan tribute . I'm like what are you people doing ? You're at a box , dylan . What are you doing you ?
Scott McLeanknow Well , she was way ahead of her time and she predicted it . She then then the shit hit the fan . Catholic Church yeah , all right , already hit the fans .
Mark SmithShe was just fucking putting the final Icing on the cake and she was in an orphanage , so she knew , yeah , first hand . You know she . Yeah , I wish she had been able to write an autobiography .
Scott McLeanYeah , well , on this day in 2015 , for the new order basis , peter Hook was suing his ex-bandmates for three and a half million dollars . Hook accused Bernard Sumner and and Stephen and Gillian Morris of pillaging the pop groups assets after the three of the band members set up a company Without him to handle the , without him to handle the band's income in 2011 pillaging the pop cute .
Scott McLeanYeah , let's see . On this day in 2012 , glenn Campbell played the very last live performance of his lifetime , when he appeared at the Uptown Theatre in Napa , california . Campbell revealed his Alzheimer's diagnosis for the public in 2011 and then set out on his goodbye tour . As a way to say farewell to his fans , his daughter went with him .
Mark SmithDid you see that documentary ? I did . You know when he has , he gets mad , he can't remember stuff and and that dude's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .
Scott McLeanJust from being in the fucking wrecking crew and all the fucking music . These assholes will not put him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and that's a fucking tragedy .
Lou CollichioHere is his pops thing of alone . Yeah , I think you'll get in it's just when Put .
Scott McLeanLL cool J in before Glenn Campbell fucking kidding me . Even if it was some honor , he got an honor . You do . I mean it's a , it's a there , a bunch of fucking clowns .
Mark SmithAnd Glenn Campbell can't go in with one of those special awards . It's got to be in it , it's gotta be a full blown .
Scott McLeanThat's it , yeah .
Mark SmithLet's see it'll happen when Oasis reunite and RM Reunite .
Scott McLeanOn this day in 2007, . Yeah , I heard that I Got your text ignore me yeah .
Ticket Stubs, Street Signs, Legends
Scott McLeanDuring a Christie's Rock and Roll auction held at Rock and Fella Plaza in New York City , a collection of 276 ticket stubs . I've read this before . I've done this day in somewhere in the last three years . I think I've covered every almost in three years . I don't know , we've covered a lot of days . I seem to get some repeats because a collection of 276 ticket stubs compiled by a rock journalist who covered many rock concerts At New York City venues , sold for two thousand dollars . The tickets included concerts by Jimmy Hendrix , the who , rolling Stones , frank's up and the Beach Boys , pink Floyd , the Almond Brothers Band , led Zeppelin , neil Young , fleetwood Mac , grateful Dead and Bruce Springsteen . From what I understand , jack had a fucking collection of ticket stubs , or he has a collection of ticket stubs . I know his constant t-shirts . He had , I don't know , 70 shirts , yeah .
Mark SmithI've thrown away by mistake my ticket collection got thrown away .
Scott McLeanI didn't mind it to my comic van Halen , my van Halen ticket stub , that I ripped off a piece of the joint that David Lee Roth handed me from the stage . Oh wow , was in that fucking in my brother .
Mark SmithSubpend . Yeah , you know what I lost ? My sister brought me when she saw Aerosmith on the Rock in a Hard Place tour at the Madeline's arena . She gave me a shirt . I don't know what happened to it , because that's a lost tour . Nobody you know , that's a . That's a collector's item .
Scott McLeanYeah , let's see . On this day in 2003 , a block of East Second Street , new York , was officially renamed Joey Ramone Place is the block where Joey was lived with the band made DD Ramon Joe and is near the music club CBGB when the Ramones played their first gigs in 2010? . It was reported that Joey Ramone Place was New York City's most stolen sign . That's pretty cool . As of September 2007 , the sign has been removed to 20 feet above ground level .
Mark SmithYou gotta make a look effort to get that thing . You know what , though ? It takes balls . I'm actually in New York City to steal a street sign . Yeah , I mean , you're being watched by at least a hundred people when you're doing it .
Scott McLeanYeah , they don't care . Yeah , I don't want to get involved . I don't want to get involved .
Mark SmithAnything , he's a Ramones fan . Leave him alone .
Scott McLeanYeah on this day in 2002 , high court probate records show that George Harrison left his fortune of About a hundred million hundred and one point one Hundred and all right ninety nine million pounds , which is over a hundred million dollars , in a trust to his wife , olivia and his son Donnie , depriving the tax man of 40 billion pounds . His English mansion near Henley on the Thames was said to be worth 15 million dollars . Very smart man and , as I said earlier this week , the coolest beetle . Yes , yes , yeah . This day in 2001 , the first top of the pops UK awards were held in Manchester , with categories voted and nobody cares . I understand . 2000 . Smith , scott Smith , basis for the Canadian rock band lover boy , died at age 45 . He was sailing his boat with two friends off the coast of San Francisco near Golden Gate Bridge when a large wave swept him overboard .
Mark SmithThat was it ? Yeah , it's second boat accent of the night on the show . Yeah .
Scott McLeanYeah , I Andy Murrow , my buddy from Australia . It's doing it . He's gonna say something . He's always busting my balls . This guy , this bloke , this mate , it's broken . I call him a broken Means , he called me a broken one time . That's nice . Call him a broken . It's a dress shoe . He calls me something else . It calls me a wanker or something like that . Yeah , australian shit .
Mark SmithAustralia has a great scene for people that collect CDs . I follow a guy . He has a label called melodic rock comm and you can get anything . They're like what England used to be back in the 80s . You get anything from England . It's like a lot of stuff from Australia , Okay .
Scott McLeanI met Andy during the during the lockdowns . Yeah , you had a worse in Australia than we had it here . I'll tell you that , yeah , I met him on a Smith's man . I met him a big Smith's fans on one of these Smith's page . Total smart ass started shit with me . I posted something . He starts trying to dog me . We go back and forth . Next thing you know we're friends .
Mark SmithI'm so surprised .
Scott McLeanWe've faced time a couple times . He's a good dude . He's a guy like Andy he's . He can be a little rough sometimes . He got one of them said so humans buddy .
Mark SmithListen . I got family in in Australia and distant relatives and I hear they're Drough to take to an Australian thing .
Scott McLeanIt's beautiful , yeah , at first I was like what the fuck's ? That's what they're like . Oh , he's Australian . Okay , I get it . Now I get it . Ah , let's see who's this guy . All right , on this day in 19 ? Oh no , let me jump up here in this day in 1999 , elton John was blasted by the Boy Scouts Association after he appeared on stage in London's Albin Hall and Performing it's a sin with six male dancers dressed as Boy Scouts . Ha ha , ha , ha ha ha ha ha . Pilled their uniforms during the performance .
Mark SmithYeah .
Scott McLeanDave Phillips came the 40 times . Thanks for watching buddy . Good night , I do . Thanks for watching , uh yeah . And then the Boy Scouts got ruined by the girls . Because the girls wanted to , the Boy Scouts went back around . So there you go . They got rid of the boy . They wanted to kill the patriarchy . The fucking liberals killed the Boy Scouts ?
Mark SmithYeah , but the Boy Scouts also got ruined by the troop leaders , if you know what I mean , hey , wait a minute , yeah , so anyway . Hey 1999 .
Scott McLeanAlso , don sugar cane Harris Was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment at the age of 61 .
Musical Legends, Events, and Birthdays
Scott McLeanThe american uh guitarist of violinist was part of the 50s duo uh dawn and dewy . He also worked with little richard john mail , frank zappa , john lee hooker and johnny odis .
Mark SmithHey , lou , you know that's how he just drops liberal in there every so often . What I didn't say , that what .
Scott McLeanMe get out of here . You stop making accusations .
Mark SmithI'm gonna start doing this . Throw the red flag go .
Scott McLeanEvery time I say he's gonna click the button .
Scott McLeanOh Jesus , I got no sound effects here On this day in 1996 , ice cube obtained a restraining order to keep an obsessed fan away from him and his family . Cynthia Renee Collins was told to stop harassing 26 year old rapper and stay at least 100 feet from him Because he didn't want to get sued because he probably would have beat her up . On this day in 1996 , it's a sad day . It's a sad day on the stay in 1996 for baby boomers . American singer and ukulele player tiny tim Uh , whose real name was hermit kuh uh kuhari , died from a heart attack on stage while playing his hit tippy told through the tulips .
Mark SmithI didn't know . He died on stage .
Scott McLeanYep at a club in minneapolis and the one song that he's ever known , for he dies . Wow , so good for him .
Lou CollichioListen he went out .
Scott McLeanHe went out fucking doing what he loved me .
Lou CollichioYeah .
Scott McLeanYou know , Where's ? The was was never in the best of shape . I don't think I knew what a gym looked like . Nope , sounds like me probably couldn't Do .
Mark SmithI got this for should we stock all of them tiny , mark , tiny schmitty , tiny schmitty , uh , let's see .
Scott McLeanUh , on september , december 17 , 1969 . He married victoria may buttinger on the tonight show starting . I remember that , yeah , uh , the publicity stunt that attracted over 40 million viewers . He was a very good guest , by the way . Very , he was very clever he was . He was funny , uh , he , he knew how to play up the audience . Uh , he was a unique character that dude , he was a true entertainer .
Lou CollichioI mean it's a novelty and stuff , but he had a hit with that , but he was all over the place . Yeah , he was a miss vicky , he was his wife miss vicky .
Scott McLeanYeah , uh , he performed At the 1970 isle of white festival in front of 600,000 people , wow .
Lou CollichioYeah , I didn't know that . Yeah , who was like a white suit , I think we're just that was hit some shtick for , so did ukulele .
Scott McLeanI mean , yeah , on this day in 1994 , two parks , of course , shot five times during a robbery outside new york city recording studio . Oh , that was the beginning of the ? Uh . They thought puff , puff , daddy p did . He did it . On this day in 1991 , michael jackson scored his fourth uk number one album with his eighth studio album . Dangerous Sold over 32 million copies worldwide . On this day , uh , uh . In 1991 , millie vanilly singer rob pelatus attempted suicide while staying in the los angeles Uh , the los angeles mundurian hotel .
Scott McLeanHe eventually succeeded Uh on this day in 1989 one of my manchester bands , the happy mondays , and fellow manchunians , the stone roses , both made their debut appearance on uk tv music show top of the pops . The mondays performed hallelujah and the stone roses performed Outstanding song fools gold . Great song , great drummer . The band the stone roses drummer was like they said , he was like the jimmy hendrix of drummers . The dude is exactly uh this day in 1985 . Where we're number one in the us , chat on the us Singles charts with I'm your man . Do his third uk number one , number three , hit in the us . Uh , big , big , big day . Big day on this day in 1982 , michael jackson's thriller album was released . It's spent 190 weeks on the uk album charts , became the biggest selling pop album of all time , with sales over 66 million copies . Seven singles were released from the album , including beat it , which featured eddie van halen . Uh in steve lucatha on Luke .
Mark SmithLuke , he's one of my favorites sees the guitar sirtoto yeah .
Scott McLeanUh , in van halen , he didn't get a credit for that . Nothing , we didn't get paid for it .
Lou CollichioYeah , he just did it .
Scott McLeanUh , on this day in 1971 , dr Porkchop says number one in park bathroom .
Mark SmithI think that was the wamsong . Yeah .
Scott McLeanYeah , I'm your man , all right , and like I said before , nobody was nobody Fucking bounced back better than George Michael .
Mark SmithYeah .
Scott McLeanYeah , he had self deprecating humor , so he threw himself on the sword , called himself an idiot . And you still love them , like you ? Still like this ? All right , he's still . He's all right . You know , he didn't really know . He's all right , all right , george Michaels All right , you know he's not trying to deny anything .
Lou CollichioRight , I think , yeah , I think you feel like a , like a lackable enough character . If you just present yourself like that , hey , you move on and that's what he did .
Scott McLeanThat's why he kept , you know , bouncing back .
Lou CollichioBut he didn't deny it . There was no press Machinations going back and forth . So you know , twisting , he actually made a video about the police in the in the uh .
Scott McLeanYeah , in the , in the , in the , uh , the bathroom , in the park , the whole thing . Yeah , he had police Dancers . It did so . Uh , this day in 1971 . Sliding the family stone with number one in the us Singles charts with . It's a family affair . It's a family affair . Uh , remember what they say in the song Mud is thicker than blood , blood is thicker than mud . It's a family affair . Yeah , uh , their fourth and final number one . Rolling stone magazine , let me see later . Oh , fourth and final number one . Rolling stone magazine later ranked the song number 138 on their list of 500 greatest songs of all time . Sure is Mm-hmm . On the stay in 1969 , the monkeys made what would be their last live performance for 15 years when they played the oakland coliseum . On the stay in 1969 , the rolling stones played the final night of a 17 date North american tour at the international raceway festival in west pome beach , florida , right up the roof , also pairing the moody blues . 10 years after , king crimson , janice joeplin , that do it again .
Mark SmithThe band steppenwolf and iron butterfly all of them on the same bill . Yeah , that's wild . Yeah , crimson Wow .
Scott McLeanOn the stay . In 1968 glenn camble started the five week Run it on the number one us album charts with richard tall lineman jimmy webs . Inspiration for the lyrics came all . Driving through washington county in northern oklahoma , webb was driving through an endless litany of telephone poles each looking exactly the same as the last . Then in the distance he noticed the silhouette of a solitary lineman atop a pole . Webb then quote , put himself atop that pole and put the phone in his hand as he considered what the lineman was saying into the receiver Brilliance at its best , brilliant .
Scott McLeanYep , on this day in 1963 , the beatle second album with the Beatles Became the first million selling album by the group in the uk . Okay , that's it for that born on this day . Let's see .
Mark SmithCan I add one thing that happened today .
Lou CollichioYeah , yeah .
Mark SmithYeah , on this date , 1979 , the wall was released in england . Came out much later in the us , like three weeks later . It's one of my favorite albums of all time . Oh , okay .
Scott McLeanUh , who was born on this day ? Blah , blah , blah , blah blah . John ashen , guitars for the english rock band the psychedelics furs um , billy idle happy birthday , billy idle . Born on this day in 1955 . Uh , june pointer from the point of assistance , let's see who else . Roger Glover , aces with D purple . Yeah right , uh , let me see anybody else of any significance Dick clock , pretty significant , pretty significant guy born on this day in 1929 and , as usual , the last one on the list . Give him some credit . Born on this day in 1915 . American folk music and blues singer and guitarist brownie magie Is best known for his collaborations with the monica player sonny terry . Magie died of stomach cancer on february 16th 1996 .
Mark SmithLived a good life for the age of 84 , sonny terry and brownie Magie . I have a couple of their albums .
Scott McLeanThere you go , buddy . And that's that's the show , gentlemen I . Two hours and four minutes , that's a record . Lately , holy shit , we cut 30 , 40 minutes off the show have to move it along and we didn't have the bot on tonight . But we had . We had in the parents bite tom spalon , so yeah yeah , yeah , yeah , I mean uh goodbye , tom .
Mark SmithYeah , it's good to hear from tom . Oh , trust me , he's been picking on me the whole show on my phone .
Scott McLeanI it's good to see time we're friends on facebook now , so he comes up with some of the funniest shit he said before thanksgiving . And I forgot how funny he is . He has he has a very witty sense of humor . He said uh , I said cranberry sauce , and I said I've never . I've posted , I've never eaten . Uh , I've never had a homemade cranberry sauce . That was any good . Right , nothing's better than ocean spray . And he says it's a fucking brilliant comment . He says Cranberry sauce , it's like applesauce . Why make it when they make it for you ? That was fucking brilliant . It makes all the sense in the world . Why make cranberry sauce ? Fucking already there .
Lou CollichioI've got the best applesauce recipe in the world .
Scott McLeanWow .
Lou CollichioBut I mean , how often do you make it ?
Mark SmithYeah , I mean you want to get tom going . Just say to him , if you ever talk to him , say I went out to dinner last night . I had the best dinner . I ate it . Um , olive garden . Just say that he will go off . He , he wants to destroy every olive garden in the country .
Scott McLeanOh , my buddy Fucking king of facebook , show big baba that motherfucker . He olive garden is like his go-to .
Mark SmithIt's not real .
Scott McLeanFredrick's .
Lou CollichioMaryland Frederick .
Scott McLeanMaryland , so my isville Maryland so .
Scott McLeanNot exactly the food mecca of the united states either . So Well , all right , gentlemen , let's wrap this up . As I always say , I always , always , always Appreciate your time . I appreciate your knowledge and , most of all , I appreciate our friendship . Uh , I'm always grateful for you guys coming on the show . Uh , bob Kirkman says big baba murders breadsticks . He does , he does . Yeah , and I want to thank everybody for watching , everybody for listening . If you like it , share it . If you didn't , well , thanks for listening for the last two hours and seven minutes , or watching , and as I always say , to quote my favorite artist , marci , doing the show for you , the pleasure , the privilege is mine . We'll be back next , next thursday , maybe it's up to luke .
Lou CollichioUh , the next three thursdays I have rehearsals . So wednesday , wednesday , is a possibility . I gotta say I got .
Scott McLeanI'll let you know All right , maybe we might break a friday show here in there . Friday might be easier .
Lou CollichioYeah , don't , don't make you know .
Scott McLeanYou know what it is , luke . It's like it's like the sign for the episode when , uh , when jerry's not in the group and , like george and lane , have to go kind of hang out and they don't really have much to .
Lou CollichioLet's be in scott's scott doesn't know what to say to me . He needs you . It's not a show without you , luke scott's very uncomfortable .
Scott McLeanHe's like so mark , just don't tell me to put my elbows on the table . Two show friday hey , we would have made it under two hours if I didn't tell that 10 minute show about me being sexually assaulted by a doctor .
Lou CollichioI think , I think every show .
Mark SmithYeah really you gotta give me fucking flashbacks . You know pink floyd had like this . You , he better believe it every time .
Scott McLeanAll right , gentlemen , I'm sure we'll be texting tomorrow and the next day and the next day and everybody again . We'll see you , maybe next wednesday night and maybe , if we can't , it'll be being mocked on thursday . Maybe we'll try to bring somebody in a nice friday I'm on , friday , we can make through a friday , who knows ?
Mark SmithI'm not the professor , lu knows everything , yeah .
Scott McLeanAbsolutely All right , gentlemen , all right everybody . Thanks for listening . Good night , good night .