Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
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Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
Ep. 160 - Classic Rock Face-Offs And 45 Poker
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Well, here we are, episode 160. Or 61, I don't know. On tonight's episode it's going to be a quick one One hour, one in, one out. That's it, the wrecking two. A lot of numbers today, so sit back, enjoy the show.
Speaker 2Five, four, three, two, one 0. All engines running Liftoff. We have a liftoff.
Speaker 3The KOFB Studio presents Milk Crates and Turntables a music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McClain.
Speaker 2Now let's talk music.
Speaker 1Enjoy the show. Yeah, baby, I don't know where that's coming from. Look at my screen. What the hell is that? Let's get rid of that. There I am, jesus. What's up everybody? Welcome to the podcast. Thank you, amanda, for that wonderful introduction. Young Amanda came down from FSU, florida State University, yesterday evening. Well, well, she got in last night, uh, because of that hurricane that's heading that way. So young amanda is back home for the weekend, a little extended weekend, and uh, let me, let me get my, uh, my music going here in the background, get some of that little, whatever it is here we go.
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. So welcome to the podcast. Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends. I'm so glad you could attend. Come inside, come inside. It's a weird night tonight for the show we're on Wednesday, it's 7 o'clock, not Thursday, so I don't think people are expecting this. So we'll see. Think people are expecting this, so we'll see who rolls in on the live stream and it's going to be a short episode. We're waiting for Lou, but Lou is busy. Lou's having technical difficulties, other than We'll just say other than so, let me see so. So with that, let's bring on little Marky Smith what what say, something, what what say?
Speaker 3something hi Scott, how you doing? I'm not done yet. Alright, finish what you started what's up, buddy? Where's that toothless wonder? Where is he?
Speaker 1oh, I didn't say it. I didn't say it, you said it, not me.
Speaker 3I'm a dangerous guy. I love to get the drummer mad yeah, yeah, he did.
Speaker 1Who had some? Uh had some, yes, cracks. He had a dental dam put in. Yeah, he had some dental crack teeth or something. Yeah, but he'll, he'll still be on the show. He said he, he's gonna, he's gonna try to make it on. He'll make it, he'll make. Um, yeah, like I said, we just uh jumped in and see there's patty right. She says hi guys, is it thursday already? No, it's. This is a special wednesday edition. Uh, only because tomorrow night I have a, uh, a veterans networking thing to attend and that is a priority. It's kind of tied with this podcast.
Speaker 1After 160 episodes. I really don't like missing these episodes. Like you said, mark, this is therapy, it is. We get to kind of just for tonight. We always say it's never the time frame we think it's going to be of, just for tonight's, and then we always say it out it's never the time frame we think it's going to be well.
Speaker 3It's going to be an hour from when lou gets on right, that's probably gonna come on.
Speaker 1We're like thanks for coming on, people, we'll see you next week. Lou makes his appearance. He keeps his hit streak intact, right, it's like cal ripken. Right toward the end, didn't he? Like he'd come out in like the sixth inning or something for his consecutive games played streak, yeah, like even if he was hurt he'd come out for like a couple innings and then you know he kept it going and uh, that that's what lou is gonna do. That's what lou is gonna do tonight, hey let me ask you something.
Speaker 3In the intro last week, when you started using that song, did you put the countdown in last week I just noticed that this week.
Speaker 1No, I changed it up this week. I like that.
Speaker 3It's back yeah.
Speaker 1I changed it up. Lou's song has been retired. Lou's intro song had it was on for almost a year, I think year. I think the royalties must have been killing you it's. Yeah, well, I, I can't pay him anymore, I can't do that shit. Yeah, lose. Uh, lou had the second half of the intro with his nice strumming and, you know, did that whole song, part of it. But now I'm like you know what I? I figured out that uh, youtube will not, they won't take the video down. I won't get a strike on my channel, but they'll say this video can be monetized by the owners of that music, which is like. I hope that it is because I'm not making any money on this fucking podcast.
Speaker 3Maybe they'll take your video and show it.
Speaker 1That's another thing, Like I hope somebody does go and download that music or they hear it and they're like what is that? What would you?
Speaker 3do. How crazy would your life be if you woke up one morning and 100,000 people watch this show. You're like what do I do now?
Speaker 1You're like what, that would be trippy man. I'll tell you what, uh, that would be trippy man. I'll tell you that that would be trippy. Um, yeah. So I decided to. Where is this? What am I looking here? It is um recently added. Let me see this is this really gets a little weird sometimes, like my laptop, my computer, anyway. Uh, yeah, so that's we don. This really gets a little weird sometimes. My laptop, my computer, anyway. Yeah. So we don't really have a show subject matter tonight. We kind of came into this with let's just do an episode, and well, we can always start off a 45 poker without Lou. I didn't want to wait for Lou.
Speaker 1Yeah because it's nice to see him lose. Okay, we can start off then with the uh, you make the calls. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's start off with you Make the call, all right, okay, I got a bunch of them. I got a bunch of them. This is. It's pretty interesting to the way this this came out. Let me turn that background music down. I'm just a little.
Speaker 3Yeah, I feel like I'm on a game show. Yeah, can I cash cab? I feel like I'm in.
Speaker 1That show had a little bit of a run, didn't it it?
Speaker 3did.
Speaker 1For a little while.
Speaker 3I watched the reruns yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, here we go. You make the call. No, it's not this one, it's the one below. Here we go, you make the call. No, it's not this one, it's the one below. Here we go. All right, you make the call. Mark Smith, okay, Whole Lotta Love or Cashmere. Oh jeez, why are you doing this to me? These are not easy ones tonight. These are not easy ones.
Speaker 3So you probably would know the Prague in me will say Kashmir, right, that's a classic. But I can't. I know what you're picking, yeah.
Speaker 1I had it about six months ago, seven, I had this rebirth of a whole lot of love, love and I, I, just I, I appreciated it more than I ever have because you know, it was overplayed in the 70s and 80s growing up and you kind of hear it all the time. But then when you don't hear it for years or there's we all have it that rare occasion where you're in your car and the song comes on and you fucking heard it a million times, like purple rain say yeah, and all of a sudden you're like you know what, all of a sudden, like your sixth sense pops up or something, the seventh sense, and you just pay a little extra attention to it. You're like it's a good fucking song, like it's good again to you, like everybody has that with the song I happened to me a few months ago with uh.
Speaker 3Can't get enough from bad company. I was so sick of it and it came on and now I'm loving it yeah, I'm like a whole lot of love.
Speaker 1I'm like, fuck, it's still a great song, so I gotta go. A whole lot of love, yeah, uh, all right, you make the call mark smith, freebird or simple man I'm gonna go with simple man because I actually like that song and I'm a simple man.
Speaker 3Free bird just was overplayed for me just, but it's a great song, but simple man's a very powerful song.
Speaker 1Simple, man's good, but there's very few live songs that are better. True than free bird. True than Freebird. True, you know the classic, play it pretty for Atlanta, like that totally ad-lib. But it became part of the song because everybody that hears that at that point, everyone that grew up with that song, they all say it in their head sing it pretty for Atlanta, right, yeah, it's just such a fun. It's one of those songs where the live version is better than the studio version. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just such a fun. It's one of those songs where the live version is better than the studio.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely, and it's got that long ending, whereas the studio version just fades out Plus it was the last song played in one of the greatest.
Speaker 1It's not a horror movie, but it's a horror movie thriller type thing. It's not a horror movie, but it's a horror movie thriller type thing. The what is it? The?
Speaker 3Hold on the Devil's Rejects, you know.
Speaker 1I never saw the Devil's Rejects. Oh dude, that's. That's a disturbing movie.
Speaker 3My, my daughter, who loves horror, laughs at everything, no matter how sick it is. That movie bothered her it's disturbing, man.
Speaker 1House of a Thousand Corpses is still the greatest horror movie ever made, if you ask me. But oh, there he is.
Speaker 2No, no get out of my spot. You put your teeth in Lou. You put your teeth in. Kiss my ass, mark. I told you, dude, get out of my spot. You put your teeth in Lou. You put your teeth in Kiss my ass, mark.
Speaker 1Oh, I told you, dude, kiss my rosy red ass. I told you, mark, started it. I go, I'm not jumping on that bandwagon.
Speaker 2I appreciate it. You know what? Because you're my friend.
Speaker 1That's right, that's right. Yeah, suck it, mark. Yeah, suck it Mark yeah, Penalty box. He put himself in the penalty box. He says hi Lou hey.
Speaker 3Anthony Lou's being an asshole on the show and I better unmute now.
Speaker 1Oh shit, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, how you doing, lou you just came in, justin, how you doing, by the way, you doing good Doing, all right. Luke gave me the call at like 6.40. He's like hey, and I'm like here we go.
Speaker 2A lot of things going on, A lot of things yeah. Are you getting any torrential rain down there?
Speaker 1You know, we got torrential rain last week.
Speaker 3I saw those videos of you.
Speaker 1Yeah, like the island thing I live on was flooded, the entrance was flooded. The lake rose up and went around. No, we're getting bands. We're getting weather bands coming through all day, but nothing crazy the roads here don't hold rain.
Speaker 2Well, yeah, it's the mountains. Everything should just run downhill, right, right, and God forbid, you live at the bottom of the hill.
Speaker 1Yeah, I have.
Speaker 2And I have.
Speaker 1I've been saying this for years. People are like oh, south Florida, you get hurricanes. It's mostly my idiot Boston friends right, they're just haters. A hurricane has not hit straight on in I don't know 15 years.
Speaker 3I think the west side of Florida has gotten worse.
Speaker 1It either gets turned up toward the Carolinas or it comes in underneath into the Gulf Back in the day. You'd see it come straight across.
Speaker 2So you don't get the hurricane, you just get the afterfall, yeah we just get the tropical storm which that's a regular fucking downpour in the summertime in Florida.
Speaker 1Yeah, we just get the tropical storm, which that's a regular fucking downpour in the summertime in Florida.
Speaker 2Yeah well, we're under a tropical storm here and after, like until Friday.
Speaker 1Yeah, but where you are that's like a big deal it is. It's weird Because they're not used to it.
Speaker 2No, also, like I said, the roads do not hold it.
Speaker 1I'm under a flash flood alert and I have to drive up there. You know it's funny, it's, it's the people at work. Right, there'll be people at work, and it still happened down here when I was working. It's, it's this, it's I. I can't believe they made us come into work. I have to like I have shit to do with my house. I can't believe they made us come into work, like yeah, because the fucking storm's not here yet like, if I prepare, you must be fun to work for the.
Speaker 2Uh. Well, you know, when I, when I was here, like the thing was ice and when whole foods bought us, you know they were all out of from out of the area, they were giving people shit. I mean, one time I couldn't get through, I went off the road yeah, the ice is a whole different, the whole different thing. Yeah, but they were still giving people shit for not coming until one of them went off the road. They're like no more people driving on ice, you know.
Speaker 1Yeah, but you know also the job that I'm in I was in like we're essential personnel. Yeah, that's right. What the fuck. You got a badge and a gun and a uniform for a reason.
Speaker 3What were you doing when you were still working and living in Florida? What point of your career were you in?
Speaker 1What were you doing at the?
Speaker 3time I, my whole career, was here. Oh, I thought you were all over the country. No, no, that was the air force, that was the air force okay, all right, yeah, so you.
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Speaker 2So once you were at the customs thing, you were in florida the whole time uh, hey, bill green, you got to check out his youtube channel.
Speaker 1His fucking dude is like he's, quietly one of the greatest editors, film editors on fucking youtube. It's, he's. He knows exactly. I respect him and we've had this conversation. The way he does his videos in the way it's so like you don't know that there's setup shots, but the way he does it, it's great and he's, he's, he's a cool dude and he just said 160 congratulations. I'm out of here though I listen to you lunatics during my driving time is it under his name?
Speaker 3his uh face his youtube page yeah, I'll send it to you.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's um, yeah, bill green, um, but they're really, they're done really well like he, he puts his, his, he puts in the work and I respect when people do that, instead of just taking a fucking cell phone and going look, there's an eagle, look there's an eagle, look at the eagle. And then they put it on YouTube and it's like I saw an eagle. Holy shit, there we go, this guy's back Nice to meet you, Bill. This guy's back, big head.
Speaker 3Todd the Wet Sprocket.
Speaker 1Hey, it's been a while didn't I tell him to go away last week, two weeks ago it's been a month, I think.
Speaker 3I told him to just go away. We have five listeners and we devote two hours of our lives a week to getting rid of one of them.
Speaker 1We have over 30,000 downloads. There's more than five listeners. I'll tell you that the drummer made me do it don't bring your music relish stats to Milk Crates and Turntables.
Speaker 3Well, we have half a percent that.
Speaker 2What is our demographic 60? Like 48 to 60 or something like that.
Speaker 3I mean, it makes sense. It makes sense, he just got coffee up his nose on that one.
Speaker 2Nice, spit take, spit take.
Speaker 1Alright, here we go. Let's get back to the show. Lou, you came in right on time. I did. I'll stop back with you. You make the call Lou, whole Lotta, love or Cashman, a whole lot of love. Lou was still on board.
Speaker 2That was tough, that was tough.
Speaker 1Mark said the same thing. All right, you make the call Lou Freebird or Simple man, simple man. Although I did argue the point that Freebird is one of the greatest live songs ever recorded. It's a great song, Scott. It's a great song. It's one of those, and it's the ending scene for Devil's Rejects. It's the ending scene for Devil's.
Speaker 2Rejects. It's the fucking song. They did it fucking great and it's live version. Watch it on YouTube.
Speaker 1Watch the movie. Just watch the movie. It's disturbing.
Speaker 2Devil's Rejects the.
Speaker 1Devil's Rejects. That's the sequel to House of a Thousand Corpses. Oh okay, I did see that.
Speaker 2Yeah, so if you saw House of a Thousand Corpses you, yeah. So if you saw, House of a Thousand Corpses. You got to watch Devil's Rejects, and then Three from Hell is the final one. Yeah, the live version is much better than the studio. Two different drummers too yeah.
Speaker 1Oh, there you go, see what Lou, immediately contributing. I'm here, man, immediately contributing to the show. Okay, here you go, mark, you make the call.
Speaker 3Comfortably numb or wish you were here. I prefer to play wish you were here on my acoustic. But comfortably numb is epic.
Speaker 2I'm going with comfortably numb.
Speaker 1Wish you were here for my favorite Pink Floyd album. Comfortably numb is just too good, that's that's uh that album.
Speaker 2That's uh gilmore at his that might be that's larry carlton playing isn't it? No, that's david gilmore. You can tell that first note yeah, yeah, that might be as great as guitar solo. It's a great one.
Speaker 1It does a smaller one, but then at the end it's a bigger.
Speaker 2I'm not big on that album. That's one of my favorites. I know, mark, I know it is.
Speaker 1I'm not that big on it. Either believe it or not.
Speaker 2That's a good solo.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's a great album, but I'm not.
Speaker 3I don't know how to listen to it. It's a heavy album, it weighs on you. It almost put me in the grave.
Speaker 1I actually might want to watch the movie again. I love the movie, you know Just on a rainy. Wednesday afternoon or something I've never seen it.
Speaker 3Alou, have you ever seen the animation?
Speaker 2I've seen some of the videos of it on the late TV shows back in the day. Yeah, I've been on the late TV shows back in the day.
Speaker 1Yeah, all right, mark, you make the call yeah.
Speaker 3Born to be wild or bad to the bone. I really don't like either one of them, but I really don't. I don't really like George Thorogood because he's a faker with his playing, Mark.
Speaker 1I'm sorry, but Lou said it. He said it, Mark.
Speaker 2I'm having a day. Thank you, scott, thank you.
Speaker 1When Lou says penalty box have I never, have I always, have I ever ignored it. No, you have not, you haven't I don't think so.
Speaker 2I don't abuse the privilege, though and it is a privilege, scott, I want you to know. I don't have the right to put people in the penalty box, on all right, here's this great riff, here's this great riff.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, that's just great there you go that, that, that, that, uh, I will go with born to be wild because it's an iconic song.
Speaker 2It really is, you know blue, one of the greatest rock and roll songs ever. I love that song. I love it. I don't get tired of hearing Steppenwolf.
Speaker 1Right, I don't get tired of him. Magic Carpet Ride. Maybe we should talk a little about that whole thing next week, a little about what happened with Steppenwolf and John Kay.
Speaker 3John Kay, yeah, I'd like to learn a little, because like what happened with steppenwolf. And yeah, john k and k yeah, I'd like to learn a little, because I don't know much about them well then, you know what you have a homework assignment and yeah, and I think.
Speaker 2I think it was a magic cardboard. The rhythm guitar net is so cool.
Speaker 3That's a great song. It's a great rhythm.
Speaker 1Yeah, what was that? The fuck was that? Oh, my text comes through Great. Not only was Born to be Wild, my senior year theme song, class of 81. Was it? It has the line heavy metal, thunder Dang. You got it. I mean those words together just have an effect.
Speaker 2Heavy metal thunder like it's powerful it is the lines before the grill. Like I like smoke and lightning yeah, yeah yeah, I don't think they wrote that.
Speaker 1I think I think that's a a cover oh, oh, look it, because we ignored big head todd, the wet sprocket.
Speaker 3He says okay, that is all I can stand I am, don't go todd, look at I like the one you hear he's sensitive todd.
Speaker 2No, he's so sensitive todd I like he's not big head todd anymore, he's sensitive todd.
Speaker 1And the 30 000 downloads, 29 30,000 downloads, 29,900 of me and I love you for that buddy. I love you for that. You redeemed yourself. Oh, I can stand.
Speaker 3He's a human bot.
Speaker 1He's a human bot, we've got two on the show Perry's the AI right, yeah, he is.
Speaker 2He had to do some serious AI on our last show. Uh-oh, oh, we got hacked Really. Yeah, there were some copyright delays, for sure. You know, something I mean it's worth it.
Speaker 1It's bound to happen.
Speaker 2It's worth it, you know.
Speaker 1Yeah, but it's bound to happen, and I impersonated a plumber on the last show too, unfortunately, remember. Oh, why can't patty see todd's comments? It's should be. I can see him. Yeah, I don't know why it must. Is he watching it? It?
Speaker 3might be, it's from where he's on facebook, like patty.
Speaker 1They're both coming from facebook, so yeah but one of them is the facebook page the milk crates and turndowns face turn tables facebook page. Why am I talking so fast? Uh, I don't know. Well, they'll figure it out.
Speaker 2But uh, his car. Is he not allowed to listen up in the house?
Speaker 1he's leaving work. Now he's in california oh, he's leaving work.
Speaker 2Yeah, I thought he had to get out of the house, go listen in the car.
Speaker 1Uh, okay, here you go. Uh, mark, you make the call more than a feeling boston, or carry on wayward, son I love them both to death.
Speaker 3Uh, I'm kansas or or it's religion to me, so I'm gonna. I'm gonna go with, carry on, wayward son. But uh, it's not carry on my wayward son's carry on. Carry on, wayward son, I'm gonna go with that. But that is tough. I love more than the feeling, especially in the last few years lou.
Speaker 2Carry on, wayward son. I was not the biggest boston fan I gotta go.
Speaker 1More than a feeling, I just think, yeah, I closed my eyes and she slipped away, right. Yeah, it's great. I mean, it's just the lyrics and that. It's just really. You know, carry on, wayward, son.
Speaker 2You know what that reminds me of? It's not as a big musical piece, not like Dust in the Wind or anything like that.
Speaker 1Carry on wayward son was in a Henry Winkler Vietnam veteran movie. Holy shit, heroes, heroes. Look at me, was it? That's been forever? That's been forever. Yeah, but that was a big song in that. See, I know things, I know stuff.
Speaker 2Not like Henry Winkler.
Speaker 1Not like you guys. I'm not an idiot, I'm smart.
Speaker 2I admit.
Speaker 3I'm an idiot. I mean, no problem, I'm smart. I admit I'm an idiot.
Speaker 1I mean no problem. Self-deprecating, come on, you're not an idiot, you're a fucking idiot. How's that? Don't short sell yourself, buddy.
Speaker 2Don't sell yourself short. I like Village Schmendrick, the proverbial village. Welcome back.
Speaker 3Connor In the stockade.
Speaker 1But I got to go with More Than a Feeling. It's a great song. It's my favorite Boston song.
Speaker 2I like the drums on Carrie Ann Weaver's song. It's a great drum part.
Speaker 3But the end of the Men who Stare at Goats. I think that was that movie. They used More Than a Feeling because it was about an army experiment and they were trying to run through walls. Yeah, ewan, an army experiment and we're trying to run through walls. Yeah, ewan mcgregor runs at the wall, boom yeah then the song comes in.
Speaker 1Yeah, uh, okay, mark, you make the call. Tush, this is easy. This is easy. Top tush or lagrange lagrange is swampy.
Speaker 3I always loved lagrange lag, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2I'll go with LaGrange and.
Speaker 3Zebra does a great cover of it.
Speaker 2So does Blue Easter Cult.
Speaker 3We got him in there. No, they don't. Steve Wilson might have done it too. We got him all in.
Speaker 2Blue Easter Cult did do Born to Be Wild Live. That was part of the staple of the act. They did a great of nice ghettos down there. I like LaGrange when Randy Jackson sings it.
Speaker 3He's got the New Orleans accent, so he doesn't really do it.
Speaker 2I'm just looking for some push, dusty Hill.
Speaker 3Oh, that's right, I keep forgetting 15 seconds.
Speaker 2I don't think a lot of people in modern days know he was a singer too.
Speaker 1Listen to the beginning of that Listen to that oh yeah, yeah, fucking tush.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Fucking tush. It's got it. Lagrange is a great, amazing song, but that rock Ka-ka-ka-ka-ka, ka-ka-ka-ka-ka, yeah, just like he fucking just belts it out. You know they're just in it. They're in the studio, fucking just in it. You feel the studio, we're fucking just in it.
Speaker 3You feel it right off the beginning of that song and when you see them live, it's not a, it's not one of those six times here and you love hearing that song live six times I saw them, that was great, that's a boogie beat, boogie shuffle beat yeah, it all is like.
Speaker 1Mark said it's swampy.
Speaker 2Yeah, right I gotta go with tush I love lagrange.
Speaker 1It's a classic riff. It's swampy. I gotta go with Tush. I love LaGrange. It's a classic riff. It's a great ringtone, by the way, Alright.
Speaker 2Mark, you make the call LaGrange.
Speaker 1LaGrange yeah.
Speaker 2LaGrange makes it good.
Speaker 1Alright, mark, you make the call Bubba O'Reilly or Won't Get Fooled Again. This is an old, tough one. This one's been around for a while. Like which one do you like better? Because those are their monster hits right.
Speaker 3Same album too, right. So I'm going back to when I first heard it and I had a big old boombox we had in the early 80s To hear Teenage Wasteland on a boombox with those keyboards and everything. Bob O'Reilly hit me harder the first time so I'm going to go with Bob O'Reilly. That's an impossible task to say, but Bob-a.
Speaker 2Bob.
Speaker 1O'Reilly, bob O'Reilly.
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Speaker 2He won't get fooled again. Sometimes he gets a little long on me. Yeah, buddy. Again the beginning.
Speaker 3It's a wimpy-ass guitar sound Bing.
Speaker 1And it reverbs right out. Yeah, it still lingers.
Speaker 3Now, that's one of those albums that I always hated the production. It sounds like Hotel California, very dull.
Speaker 1But they recently re-released it, and it sounds really really good. Yeah, yeah, I got to say it won't get fooled. All right, mark, you make the call. I've done this one before. I think I've used. No, I used another one.
Speaker 3uh, but go your own way, or riannon uh, I'll go with riannon because I like witches and I read all those books. So, yeah, I'm sick of going. You go your own way.
Speaker 2I really am great lyrics, but yeah, well, you can go your own way, mark, and I'll go mine. Go your own way, it's got a guitar solo. I love this intro.
Speaker 1I love how he comes in in an off beat, he kind of just jumps right in off beat, and so do the drums, the weird yeah, right, you think it's on the fours right, so do the drums.
Speaker 3They're weird.
Speaker 1Yeah, right, you think it's on the fours right? No, he just cuts right in at the beginning.
Speaker 2So they're going right in from the top.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, Did you ever hear them? Do it live. They draw out that intro. It's just Lindsay going dun-dun-dun-dun. It sounds like a heavy song and it gets you going.
Speaker 2It gets the crowd going, going, it gets right and then, all of a sudden, the keys.
Speaker 3Everyone knows what's coming, yeah, and the drums.
Speaker 2That's perfect. Classic, uh, mick fleetwood playing tom toms where someone else would play a cymbal like a hi-hat yeah yeah, right, right boom boom, boom, bop.
Speaker 1You know it's all right, this isn't my favorite he does get his respect though yeah, this is, this isn't my favorite choice mark. You make the call rock and roll all night by by Kiss, or Detroit Rock City by Kiss.
Speaker 3I'm going to go with Detroit Rock City. I liked that song when I was a kid more than Rock and Roll All Night Detroit.
Speaker 2Rock City. I'd go the same. I like that song. Actually. I do too Feel alright on a Saturday night. I think that's Gene Simmons' best bass playing.
Speaker 1Yeah, another great beginning.
Speaker 2Sorry, you think Gene Simmons played that, or was that Bob Ezrin?
Speaker 3It was probably like Jacob Historius they got all these big musicians in the studio.
Speaker 2Did you see that? I didn't know. Michael McDonald has a writing credit on I'll Wait from Van Halen. I didn't either. That was wild. They brought him in to write the chorus help with the chorus and the bridge and he never got credit. When you look it up now, he's actually on it. Wow yeah, he should have sung it. Oh wait.
Speaker 3Penalty box.
Speaker 1All right, here you go, mark, you make the call. Yeah, ramblin' man by the Allman Brothers, or Midnight Rider, ooh.
Speaker 3I like the chicken picking of Dickie Betts, I'm going to go with Ramblin' man, and you can't go wrong, really, with any of these choices.
Speaker 1Any of these songs, you can't really go wrong.
Speaker 3Greg Allman cut a great solo version of Midnight Rider with an orchestra. I don't know if you ever heard that. That was really good too.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Ramblin' Man's a great jam.
Speaker 2It's catchy. It's sung well, played well it's got a great you know, it's got all those ingredients you know?
Speaker 1yeah, I was born in the back seat of a greyhound bus. Yeah, 41.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's a great story, right, great story. That's almost like well, that was one of their hits, that was, yeah, that might be their biggest hit.
Speaker 1it was probably the hit for them. Like, as far as top 40 type hits, is that yours, luke? Yeah, I never get sick of this. Yeah, talk about a great story. Yeah, he puts you right in the song. Right, literally puts you right in the song. Right literally puts you right in the song two distinct sounds.
Speaker 2You know ramble man's almost like a pop hit it is then yeah two totally different sounds yeah, but I gotta run to keep from hiding, great lyric.
Speaker 1I mean right off the bat, I gotta run to keep from hiding. I know that feeling. Um, yeah, crazy, girlfriend, mark, you make the call I heard that story magic carpet ride or born to be wild.
Speaker 3We bring it up again I love magic carpet ride and I don't hate born to be wild, I just magic carpet ride. That's a good jam that cuts. You can hear a bad edit, right? Yeah, they're really jamming. Jelson just cuts into. Yeah, I'm going with magic carpet I'll go with that too.
Speaker 2Love them both, love them both. But magic. Every time I hear that I'm I'm impressed by the interplay, the rhythmic interplay, like that rhythm guitar that you know the way they the keyboard, the organs in there.
Speaker 1It's really clever man, right I still have to stick with. Born to be wild, I still gotta stick with that.
Speaker 3Uh, let's see scott driving through boca raton blasting. Born to be wild, yeah, yeah okay, here you go.
Speaker 1This is, uh, kink's version. This is kink's version. You really got me, or all day and all of the night mark you really got me.
Speaker 3That was the first. It was punk in the 60s. It's a rave up, it's everything it's.
Speaker 2I love it it stood the test of time and all day, all night is kind of good, but they have a lot of. There are other songs that kind of and that's a lot of. The songs sound the same for one thing, but all day, all night. That's almost like a almost like a compilation of their other rewrites in some way. But, um, I think you really got me. It's just, you know it's, that's a monumental song.
Speaker 3That's up there with louis louis you know, when they did all day and all the night I could see the record company was like come up with another. You really got me, yeah, yeah and I'm, and it came from their heart. They wrote a great song, but I could see what that, what they, the record company, was telling them to do their stuff.
Speaker 2I mean I can't fall, I can't fault the kinks for anything. Yeah, right, ever just raw, oh yeah, raw, yeah.
Speaker 1And he had that controversy for years. Talk about garage band sound.
Speaker 3Yeah, and he had two years.
Speaker 2How easy it was to get that sound. It wasn't complicated, it was an amplifier, but it's brilliant, it's brilliant, it's so easy that it's brilliant.
Speaker 1Yeah, like that echoey, reverb-y raw, you would think that the guitar is slightly out of tune, you know.
Speaker 2It could very well be. There was no, you know, digital technology. There was no strobe.
Speaker 1They had strobe tuners and classic, you know it has a little echo in there, like you, literally in a garage, you know you had that big controversy for years.
Speaker 3That was a Jimmy page. I played the solo and it wasn't. It wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't it wasn't.
Speaker 2But that's not Mick Avery on drums. They had a studio guy did all the hits. Oh okay, but the guy that played on those early hits he played on a lot of shit. Yeah, I still love that Tough to be a drummer back then.
Speaker 1Great, I'm telling you they were in a fucking room, that's all that was. They weren't even in a studio. It sounds like they weren't even in a studio. It sounds like there's no fucking soundproofing there. There's a little echo in there. It's just like being in my studio here. There's no fucking acoustic treatments on these walls, you know.
Speaker 3I don't know if you ever did a show on worst concerts you've ever been to, but unfortunately yeah Black and.
Speaker 1Blue. That's it, end of show End of show.
Speaker 2Ronnie James Dio and Blue Bush are cold.
Speaker 1Nothing good from Black Sabbath, godzilla, and Don't Feel the Reaper. Don't Feel the Reaper, don't Feel the Reaper. And I'm burning for you, but that's that.
Speaker 3You're a fair weather BOC.
Speaker 1You're fucking damn right I am. I was never a big fan. I like certain songs by them, but I never went out of my way that I am a new member of the cult, as I've said many times.
Speaker 2Oh, there are two earlier live albums like one like my big complaint was they played like six songs in a concert. It was just jam and godzilla. Godzilla went on forever. So I'm like, yeah, I could play more, but what the other live album has like 13 songs, which which is more of a concert you want to see. There's enough guitar. Yeah, and yeah, they play God's Prayer. All right, mark you make the call.
Speaker 1Yeah, american Woman, or these Eyes Guess who.
Speaker 3I love these Eyes. I'm going to go with that, and I am sick of American Woman because of what's his name covered? Lenny Kravitz. No, I like these eyes. That's a really classy, too Great. It's kind of like undone Reminds me of that.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1All right.
Speaker 2Lou these eyes. I was, I was in key, you were, yeah.
Speaker 1Talk about that little stereo on the left ear, right? Yeah, little guitar thing. It's the way they recorded it, right? So if you had the headphones on, that little comes out in the left ear.
Speaker 2Their records sound good, their records sound good I heard. Was it New Mother Nature? Yeah, I heard that on it. New Mother Nature? Yeah, I heard that on my rainy commute down today. Great song.
Speaker 1Yep, alright, let's see. Alright, mark, you make the call. The boys are back in town or jailbreak.
Speaker 3The hard rock side of me goes with jailbreak, but I love them both. Okay, jailbreak. The hard rock side of me goes with Jailbreak, but I love them both. Jailbreak's a great riff.
Speaker 2Boys are Back in Town. Like that waiter band, those waiters band that played in the Eddie Murphy movie. Yeah, yeah, was there a song called the Boys Are Back.
Speaker 3Yeah, what was the name of that?
Speaker 2band. Oh God, I don't know the Bus Boys.
Speaker 3That's it, no, no, I remember what you were talking about though.
Speaker 2Boys are back. The boys are back in town. Ah, oh, dude.
Speaker 3I got the drum roll. That's a tough Irish band. It's a tough Irish band. Those are tough guys.
Speaker 2There's no tough Irish bands.
Speaker 1I'm kidding. Yeah, I know, because there's so many fucking Italian bands.
Speaker 2There used to be. There aren't anymore. There aren't. Hey, Scott John Jovi was the end of.
Speaker 1Scott. How tough were they.
Speaker 3You'll never win a fight with Frankie Valley. He's a tough guy.
Speaker 2He's a killer. He's a fucking killer, that guy.
Speaker 1He's a killer. Alright, mark, you make the call Reeling in the years, steely Dan, or do it again.
Speaker 3Oof, steely Dan, or Do it Again. Oof, uh, do it Again. The opening is so infectious with the percussion yeah, I still love it. I'm a little burned out on Reel. In the years I've heard it too many times. But Do it Again is magic to me. Yeah, I'll go with that.
Speaker 2That's a tough one, man. I've heard it too many times, but do it again is magic to me.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I'll go with that. That's a tough one, man. Yeah, yeah, it's a tough one.
Speaker 3You can mistake it for a low rider.
Speaker 1Let's see Well.
Speaker 3I guess I got to go with this one.
Speaker 1Yeah, listen to that. It always reminds me of Santana for some reason. This one yeah, listen to that. It always reminds me of Santana for some reason. Sure, yeah, the beginning of that song.
Speaker 3I always think it's a.
Speaker 2Santana song 45 years later.
Speaker 1I still think it's a Santana song.
Speaker 2Was there a cowbell in that intro?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Let's see.
Speaker 1Let's see.
Speaker 3I don't hear it yeah.
Speaker 2What time? When is it? There's some hand drumming?
Speaker 1There's Latin percussion in there, a lot of percussion.
Speaker 3That's all percussion. Isn't Donald Fagan playing the Farfasa organ, or something?
Speaker 2Farfisa, farfisa.
Speaker 3Farfasa? I don't know. I thought it was a Greek dish.
Speaker 1That's a tough call.
Speaker 2That's from the first record, though, isn't it? Yes, yeah, so that was their drummer that they had in. That's not Jim Gordon or any of the studio guys.
Speaker 1Good stuff? Yeah, yep, let's see, mark, you make the call Night Moves or Turn the Page Oof.
Speaker 3Um, night Moves always wins it. For me, it's one of my all-time favorite songs. Woke up last night to the sound of thunder. We know the fucking lyrics. Oh yeah, lou can sing, but I can't. Alright, you want retro? I'm a professional singer, mark, fuck you, I'm out of here. Hello.
Speaker 1Is anyone there? It's my ringtone. Hello, I have my phone down. People start looking around like what the fuck? It's a great ringtone. It's from Gorillaz Lou. I suppose it's Night Moves.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't like the other song, I don't like Turn the Pages in Favor.
Speaker 1Mark, yeah, it's just the big sax at the beginning.
Speaker 3Well, I didn't like when Metallica had that kind of hit with it. Everyone loved the song.
Speaker 2I like Metallica's version better. How can you beat this?
Speaker 1You said it, Luke. How can you beat that? You really can't. It's not even a riff.
Speaker 2It's just a strumming, memorable strum.
Speaker 1Hey, dave Phillips King of the 45, back from the overrated Aruba trip that he was on His yearly 30-year anniversary of going to fucking the same beach every year.
Rock Song Debate
Speaker 1I love Dave Phillips, though. He's consistent. He's a very consistent man. Let's see. All right, okay, oh boy, this is a good one. I am not a huge fan at all, by any means, barely a fan only because there's like six songs that I like by them. These are two of them. Alright, mark, you make the call? Aqualung by Jeff Rotel, or Locomotive Breath. You know what? Locomotive Breath? Hmm.
Speaker 3You know what? Locomotive Breath is just a good driving rock song and I love Akelon, but I'm going to go with Locomotive Breath and I love the intro, the piano intro. Yeah, locomotive Breath.
Speaker 2Lou, he's got him, and by the balls. How?
Speaker 3can you?
Speaker 2beat that. The lyrics are really great. I'm good on locomotive breath, right. Yeah, that's a third version of a rock, more of a rock song. Actually, it says aqualung, but Gideon stole the Bible. That's right. That's a tough one, though. Are they in the rock and roll hall of fame? This is the beginning. Listen.
Speaker 3Oh are they in the rock and roll hall of fame. This is the beginning.
Speaker 1Listen oh, I love that taunting. This is what you never hear on the radio and listen to the guitar when it comes in yeah, this is definitely. Last week I had the last episode. I had I think 22 copyright, copyright infringements. Yeah, there you see how it goes from classical to a little funky jazzy, funky, little jazzy, a little raw.
Speaker 2Who's the keyboardazzy? Funky, a little jazzy, a little raw. Who was the keyboard player in Jethro Tull? Mark, who played keyboards in Jethro Tull?
Speaker 3And I have the box remix set by Steve Wilson God, who was in the band at the time.
Speaker 2Barrymore, Barlow, Martin Barr.
Speaker 3Ian Anderson, jeffrey Hammond. Oh, john Evanan played that intro. They had two keyboards john evan and jeffrey hammond. Yeah, all right, we're coming down to the home stretch. It was remixed by steven wills totally remixed. It's a good title locomotive breath.
Speaker 2It is.
Speaker 1Yeah, I know some people that have fucking locomotive breath sure at three in the morning after fucking, snorting an eight ball and smoking cigarettes all night fucking. That's locomotive breath right there and their fucking mouth is dry and there's no beer and it's like they get the white shit in the corner of their fucking mouths. And they won't stop fucking talking because they snorted a fucking or they helped snort an eight ball and smoke cigarettes all night. Fucking locomotive breath. That's what that is. One after another.
Speaker 1And then just no one's fucking listening. Everybody's waiting to talk. I'm listening to Lou. I'm not really listening to him. I'm doing a lot of nodding, but in my brain I'm waiting for him to stop talking, because I have a lot to say, because it's three in the morning and I have cigarettes and I have no beer and I don't drink fucking water. So I'm not going to do that and I'm just going to fucking breathe on you and I'm going to get right up in your face, because I helped you snort an eight ball tonight and we're just going to keep fucking talking. And I'm not listening to you, though. I'm just waiting for your mouth to stop fucking movie. I'm waiting for my first and I to stop fucking movie. I'm waiting for my first and I'm gonna jump in and it's my turn to talk, and when I start?
Speaker 1talking, I'm not gonna fucking stop, because remember that time back in elementary school, in third grade, we were out in the fucking park and judy also kicked somebody in the ball and the teacher came up.
Speaker 3Remember that. And then we were in high school.
Speaker 1Great man fucking great, that's locomotive breath you sound like mark maron on.
Speaker 2Like Robin Williams said, he goes redundant, redundant, redundant, redundant, and then he drove across the bridge to get more.
Speaker 3You sound like Mark Maron there.
Speaker 1That was my cocaine rant. Keep going. Oh, you know, I could.
Speaker 3You know I could.
Speaker 1I should clip that and just make it a. Tiktok video you should. I think, you'd beat me. This is me in 1984.
Speaker 31984, yeah, you know what you sound like. You sound like Lou on the phones on the old Music Roller Show.
Speaker 1Oh, the old hey, those things are going to be classics someday. I'm telling you, I love good with it, I'm good with it. Hey, those things are going to be classics someday.
Speaker 2I'm telling you, I like the K-Tel collection. I love them.
Speaker 3They sounded great. We all sounded like Koo Jays. Hey, remember that.
Speaker 1Yeah, all right, here we go. It was three left, we got three left. All right, Mark, you make the call. Sweet Home, alabama, turn it up, I'll go with.
Speaker 3Sweet Home Alabama. That's a great song. It's so good when I hear it. And Neil Young loved the mention of him in the song. He was like I love it. He loved it.
Speaker 1Yeah well, didn't, what's his name? Get buried with a Neil Young t-shirt on? Runny bands app yeah really I believe he had a. I believe he had a neil young t-shirt he was a fan of the band like, yeah, they, they had no beef with each other. You know they had a great they're a great rock band they, they were just speaking their mind. They're like you know, you ain't got nothing to say. You're a canadian man, I, I was a Canadian guy, yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, anyone who sings an anti-New Jersey song. You and I got to write a song, fucking.
Speaker 2A man, Robbie Robertson. He's had the respect to go down south and learn about the south and write songs for Levon Helm to sing. The other guys were Canookians. But yeah, he had the respect. That's right. He's just a dumb canook.
Speaker 1All right, Lou, what do you like? Sweet Home, Alabama or Ramblin' man? I love Skinner.
Speaker 2I'm worn out on that song. I mean Ramblin' man, ramblin' man.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I get too. I like Hear it.
Speaker 3My Car. I think the drum sound in Ramblin' man is real weird it very echoey, but gated, and it's very small.
Speaker 2It's very tight, yeah, it's a very tight recording.
Speaker 3But wait, I'm dj. He is what's that, some dj you are. You played the wrong song. No, I didn't. No, I didn't, oh, I thought you were gonna play, uh, the almond song. No, I didn't, oh, I thought you were going to play the Allman Brothers Ramblin' man. I was thinking of Bob Seger Ramblin' man, oh, ramblin' Gamblin' man. So you know what then?
Speaker 2Yeah, that's Ramblin' Gamblin' man you idiot.
Speaker 3Yeah, I am an idiot. That might be my second favorite Bob seger song, though yeah, so I'm going back.
Speaker 1I'm rambling man when you get, when you get rambling gambling man together with beautiful loser on that live album yeah that is the greatest. Yeah, crossover into another song in the history of live music. He plays them continuous and that goes right into beautiful loser that's the first live album that he put out fucking greatest if you haven't listened to that in a long time, it has been a while. Go listen to that. That that, uh, beautiful loser the rambling gambling man into beautiful loser and beautiful that's the song that doesn't get played enough.
Speaker 2On the radio you hear the same, like you know don't, don't play. Uh, was that with a rock and roll song? Can't stop old time rock and roll. Don't play that. Play beautiful loser instead yeah right, let me see something. Wasn't also the um, the sequel to joe dirt? It was joe dirt 2, beautiful loser, wasn't it?
Speaker 3oh, that movie was so bad. I liked the first one, but the second one. Go get some French cries. What's the lotion in the?
Speaker 2basket. That's pretty accurate.
Speaker 1No, let me see.
Speaker 3It wasn't Ramblin' man.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was Ramblin' man, right, is that? Ramblin' Gamblin' man? Yeah, it was Ramblin' man, right, is that? Ramblin' Gambling man? Yeah, ramblin' Gambling man. But I'm trying to find that With.
Speaker 2Glenn Frey singing on the chorus.
Speaker 1Live right Because he starts off and he says they start off with a new song, this is a new song. Let me see it's got to be from this.
Speaker 3Oh no, it's Traveling man. What's that? It's this, listen.
Speaker 1Yeah, I just had that, but I wanted the crossover.
Speaker 3And there's where he goes into it. Yeah, you just had that, but I wanted the crossover. And there's where he goes into it. Yeah, you just played it. Okay, sorry, live Bullet, his first live album Live Bullet.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's a great fucking combo song. That was a better live album. It's an amazing, amazing combo song.
Speaker 2His band. That was a bar band that just played concerts. You know what I mean the great musicians but it was just a club act. You know that caught on.
Speaker 1Detroit's best kept secret. Yeah, that's what they were called.
Speaker 3Oh really, Yep. And as big as he is, I still don't feel that he got all the appreciation he deserved. I think he did. I think he got what deserved. I don't think he did.
Speaker 1I think he got what he. I think he was you know he was a little above middle of the road, like he was always there.
Speaker 3He was never a superstar, he was just a good, consistent rock star yeah, I always, I always tell people about those old albums, the awesome energy, and they're like what they don't get it. They think of the bob ziegler from the 80s. Yeah, yeah, I'm like. No, he was man.
Speaker 2That song was him with the Memphis guys but you know the Silver Bullet Band played on other songs like that. Yeah, he did record with the Memphis guys a lot on Night Moves a lot.
Speaker 1All right, Mark, you make the call Tangled.
Speaker 3Up in Blue Bob Dylan, or like a Rolling Stone. Well, this is my answer today. With Bob Dylan, it's always changing, so today I'm going with Tangled Up in Blue, because I was listening to that the other day, but you're probably going to cut my head off for not picking like a Rolling Stone, but right now that's what I like Blue.
Speaker 2I know what Lou's picking. It's a double A side for sure. But right now I'm not going with, like a Rolling Stone, tango, love and Blue.
Speaker 3Yeah, really I thought you were going to pick Like a Rolling Stone.
Speaker 2Tango, love and Blue is one of my of the modern day. Yeah, that's one of my favorite songs, if not my favorite, same here.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I'd say Talk about a great story, yeah, he takes it all the way through Right.
Speaker 2That was a good lyric, I think, for like a non-Dill fan it does tell a story.
Speaker 1It's a great story. Yeah, it tells it's the whole thing, the relationship. They split up on a dark highway night and she went that way and I went the other way and next thing you know, they meet years later.
Speaker 2Like it was yeah, and he's working on an oil rig.
Speaker 1Yeah, he does all these jobs Like an oil rig. Yeah, he does all these jobs. He says let me say, papa's bank book wasn't big enough and something about the clothes Like Ma made. I forget the exact lyrics of it.
Speaker 3My mind's blowing. Right now, scott played a Bob Dylan song. He's talking about a Bob Dylan song. This is blowing my mind. Well, there are certain songs I like by him.
Speaker 1And I like Like a Rolling stone and I like hurricane and I like, uh, I there are, like jethro tell, there's probably five or six songs that I like by bob dylan, but I just won't go out of my way to listen to anything else because it just doesn't appeal to me. Yeah, you know, but those songs that those are standout songs to me, so like those are songs I put on my playlist, but I'm never going to listen to a Bob Dylan album that was me for years with Doobie Brothers.
Speaker 3I like certain songs, but all of a sudden something clicked with me with the Doobies.
Speaker 2Yeah, I found that too. I heard something like an album. I'm like, wow, I always heard those radio hits. Yeah.
Speaker 3I think that's Dylan. That's one of his best albums.
Speaker 1All right, gentlemen, we're ending on a tough one. Oh yep, this might be the toughest one of the night. Right here, mark you make the call light my fire or break on through, or Break On.
Speaker 2Through. That's a tough fucking choice.
Speaker 1That is a tough fucking choice.
Speaker 3Light my Fire. Never got sick of it. It's a great jam. I'm going with Light my Fire.
Speaker 2Yeah, me too, because it's one of my favorite songs of all time. I love Break On Through. That's the doors, that's what.
Speaker 1I'm saying that's why it's tough. There's no wrong answer. Tonight you're going with Light, my Fire, just like Do. It Again.
Speaker 2Light my Fire was one of my favorite songs. Break Out 3 is not one of my favorites, but it's one of my favorite Doors songs and it starts off with a great percussion like Do it Again.
Speaker 1It doesn't last that long. Do it Again lasts's, and so this is what I've always said. From probably episode 10 of this, 150 episodes ago, I probably started preaching this that is the greatest introduction to a debut album in the history of music. Yes, this talk about setting a tone that's not a bass it starts to build right away. It just builds all the way through the song. It just keeps building, sets the tone for the whole fucking album.
Speaker 2It's not a rock beat no.
Speaker 3Samba.
Speaker 2It's like a samba beat. Yeah, it's Latin, it's jazz, you know.
The Power of Music Memories
Speaker 3Yeah, so dig this. Adam Holtzman, keyboardist for Steve Wilson. His father was Jack Holtzman, Elektra Records. So when he was seven, he puts on Facebook. He puts little blogs about his experiences. He was seven years old. His dad came home with the first pressing like the test pressing Put it on. He said just hearing that at seven years old in 1966, was it it blew that opened his mind up to that, made him a musician. He was always going to be a musician, but just hearing it, Can you imagine a seven-year-old hearing that? And he got to meet the Doors because he got to go with his dad and hang out with them and everything.
Speaker 2Strange Days was released on this day. Ah, look at that. I saw that on the Facebook tonight, so that must be true.
Speaker 1So, mark, you know this is you just reminded me of something that I've said, this in the past a number of times also how I got introduced. Now I am officially, gentlemen, by the way, a professional storyteller. Okay, we do know that. So you know this. I am a professional storyteller. I'm a terrible storyteller.
Speaker 1And cocaine ranter and great cocaine ranter and a great cocaine ranter indeed I have a great memory for that shit, but it was 1969, I'll say 19, let me see. I think it was 1969. And I was on. It was the summertime and we had moved from the projects, the Mission Hill projects, in Roxbury in Boston. We were the last white family to move out of there, right? And well, let me see, when did MLK get assassinated? 67?, 68., 68. So, okay, so it was 68, right, 68, 69 and um, so we moved to this beach front town, right, winthrop.
Speaker 1It's a peninsula. It's not as beautiful as it used to be. It's overcrowded, just like everything else. Like asheville is becoming overcrowded, people find it, but it took. Like Asheville is becoming overcrowded, people find it, but it took a long time for them to find Winthrop. Right, but we were renting a house. My father got us out of the project because, again, we were the last white family there. And when MLK Jr got assassinated, the black people in the projects decided to take it out on us and started throwing rocks through our window and storming the hallway. They were taking it out on us because we were the white family and this is not any exaggeration.
Speaker 1I remember this. It was traumatic, to say say the least, for a little kid. So you figure I was five years old, six years old, yeah right, and I remember this and my mom was losing her mind, like what is she gonna do? So the the fucking, the dust settles and she tells my father, as though they she did not like him at the time, they had a divorce for the whole thing, and but she's like you gotta get us out of here.
Speaker 1So he finds this town went up, which is one of these towns where you just there's no reason to go there because it's a peninsula, it's not a drive-through town, it's not a pass-through town. There's only two ways in, which means there's only two ways out. So it was a great little town to grow in, but it was six miles from downtown boston, so you had the best of everything, right. So I remember this summer day and I went out on the front porch and we literally lived three houses from the beach. It was back in the seventh, it was back in the late 60s and that probably I don't know. The rent was whatever it was for this house and I had one of those little suitcase record players right and plugged it in and I just grabbed an album, literally just grab. I remember this.
Speaker 1I grabbed a record and I remember one of the records that we had was the 1967 red socks world series record, like it was literally an album and it had all the highlights from the radio calls which they lost to st louis right, st louis cardinals, but it was one of those albums, right, because they made fucking records out of everything back. Yeah, yeah. And so I remember this at this, imprinted in my brain to this day. This is how it all happened. This is how I got introduced to music and I never, ever forgot it. And every time so I took the needle, I turned it on the click, click, right, that click. You had to really jam it to get that thing moving. Yep, and I took that plastic arm with that shitty ass fucking needle and I dropped it and this came on and I was fucking hooked. That was my introduction to music. Yeah, that fucking introduction imprinted on my brain and I became a music fucking junkie as a kid. That's why I was listening to David Bowie when I was fucking 10.
Speaker 1Whose album was that, I don't know, maybe be my mother's, you know. I she that we had a few records. There was no big deal like. It certainly wasn't mine and my brothers weren't much older than me, so it just happened. Maybe it came with the house that we rented, I don't know. But I'll never forget that. I heard that in the fucking.
Speaker 3That's a magic, fucking intro to me so when I first met you and I said, oh, everyone always called me a bit of a freak because I was listening to brain cell surgery at five and six and you were like I was listening to bowie at that time yeah, yeah there we discovered me advanced, like I was a very advanced and it was music listening.
Speaker 1I was listening to opera this mother, you were going to porn movies this I know, lou was already 14 when we were fucking seven, so I was eight. I was eight but you know what you had. You had an experience more like mothballs, more mothballs.
Speaker 3Yeah, but you had a bad experience. I had some bad shit happen to me and that was like for me it was an escape, but it went in my mind and imprinted dna yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1I mean that that intro was of every song it could have been. That is fucking one of the greatest intros to a song ever.
Speaker 3It's so simple, it's just picking that, oh yeah, it's in simple yeah, it's so simple, it's brilliant, right, and it's effective I won't play it because scott will put me in the penalty booth. Play what that's? The rising sun. Oh, I don't care. Oh, no, no, no, no, what on your guitar?
Speaker 1I fuck it up and play, let's see how you fuck it up. Yeah, I want to put pressure on you. It better be fucking good because my finger is on the trigger right now.
Speaker 3Yeah, I fucked it up. Yeah, penalty box.
Speaker 1See how that goes Lou. See Lou before you your thumb even went down.
Speaker 2I, I didn't even have to do it.
Speaker 1I know it was a self-fulfilling prophecy he should have prefaced it with Let me warm up first, and then he would have got a break. But no, he gets cocky and thinks he can play it right off the bat.
Speaker 3That's because you put me up to it, fucker.
Speaker 1No, then you're susceptible. You're a weakness in this link.
Speaker 3As I get older, I find I have to warm up a lot longer. The show is only as fast as its weakest link.
Speaker 1Okay, it's only as strong as its weakest link.
Speaker 3I'm very right, it's cold up here tonight. It's actually very cold and humid.
Speaker 1You see, you did not preface anything, you just said, I can do it.
Speaker 3I would have given you a pass and said okay you're getting there sounds good. Yeah, okay, I still want to redo my solo on asheville skyline. Oh, what is that me? Lou and perry recorded an epic song together. Okay, it's our finishing. It's our outro theme for um music relish oh shit okay we'll bring'll bring the MP3 next week.
Speaker 1I just don't want to get kicked off of YouTube for those assholes fucking their copyrights that own that song. I heard they're going to fucking come after me. I heard Alright, let's do 45 Poker and get Lou out of here. How's that? Thanks, you got it Alright. Here we go 45 Poker for the people that don't know. Yeah, I listen to the episodes every once in a while and they're good, like we do put on a good fucking podcast yeah, I do believe that right, don't play too much to get a cut like I wanted to stand.
Speaker 1Come on, you know we do a good job yeah, we do, and um, oh, pat, all right, you know what you know what the gauntlet's been tossed.
Speaker 2Patty said try again.
Speaker 1What.
Speaker 2Patty wants, patty gets Go ahead.
Speaker 1Mark the show. Patty officially took over the show. Do not let the crowd down.
Speaker 3Do it. Anthony is much better than me. He's watching. I ain't doing it. No, your country is watching you.
Speaker 1Mark, you got to do it. Patty has been watching us from day one. Are you really gonna disappoint our number one? Fan, I don't even remember the chords. Shame him, that was. Right, there was better than what you did originally.
Speaker 3I'm reading Anthony's little thing. Thanks, Ant. Thanks for the crib notes.
Speaker 2There is in New Orleans.
Speaker 3I forgot it. The easiest song to play in the world. I forgot it. You're going to let Patty down. I just played it.
Speaker 1Do it again. Is it dust in the wind? Is he playing dust in the wind now? Yes, he is. What the fuck? Alright, let's get to 45 Pogues.
Speaker 2So I was listening to the episodes and I'm like let's play Enough, oh yeah, control this motherfucker.
Speaker 1Let's play Enough, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, control this motherfucker. He's out of control, he's out of control. So I was listening to the episode. I'm like 45 poker, but we get so used to doing it and we have, as I say, an amazing cult following that knows what we're doing. But somebody who was listening would be like I don't know what the fuck this is.
Speaker 3But that's kind of cool. Did you ever drop into a radio show or a podcast and like, what are they doing? You have to learn, I do explain it to a certain people.
Speaker 1People do get it. It's not hard to understand what we're doing. You have to watch the show.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1You, you know, listen enough to know. Okay, here we go. Mark, we're starting off with you. 45 poker is. I have a stack of old 45s Patty Yossi's old 45s that smell like incense and some smell like patchouli, because she used to smoke weed in her room when she was a kid and she thought that the incense would hide the weed smell but it affected all her 45s that she graciously sent me in this retro box that Mark all of a sudden had the same fucking 45 box with 3d green and dark green and like, yeah, it's the weirdest thing that you have that same box right and I want one, yeah, so I'm just dishing all patty's, all her dirt right now because I figured it out that's why I was in law enforcement for 32 years. I can figure these things out.
Speaker 3I grew up on incense because all my sisters smoked weed, so I grew up let's see.
Speaker 1Let's see what this one smells like the old devil's lettuce this is incense. This literally smells like incense, the, and not any particular the the odor of incense. You know that there's one incense that's like the standard Sandalwood or something. Yeah, it's the standard of incense. And then you go out of the box with, like, my wife has this mango mango incense. It's pretty interesting, but this is the industry standard incense smell on this one, especially in the 70s, there was one incense.
Speaker 2It's like that remember that violet chewing gum. Where there's violet gums, people used to have it it always smelled like a girl's pocketbook.
Speaker 1Hey, listen nothing was better it was violet candy the greatest gum ever and I saw a truck, saw a truck, literally a truck, recently, within the last four months, zebra chewing gum.
Speaker 2I remember yeah, yeah, it was yellow stripes, there was green stripes, there was red stripes, there was blue stripes.
Speaker 1Zebra chewing gum yeah, it was the worst.
Speaker 3But it was the cheapest which made it the best. The best and lou, your brother thought they were suppositories all, right, here you go, mark, here you go.
Speaker 1Uh guess, johnny taylor disco. Lady columbia records right disco.
Speaker 3I hear you hello. Oh Scott, tell Lou why I wanted to wait for him to come on for 45 bucks Because he enjoys watching.
Speaker 1you lose this game.
Speaker 2It's a pleasure to lose.
Speaker 1I was going to play it originally, I said should we play it? He goes no, no, watch the beginning of the show.
Speaker 3He'll say no, no, I like watching Lou lose. I'm sorry, I don't know what kind of industry standard incense.
Speaker 1Thank you, uh, avco records, which isn't good but it's a good song. Lou, you get the stylistics. You make me feel brand new all right, that's a great song stylistics there we go. The sound, avco Records, the sound of young America. Alright, here we go. Capricorn Records almonds, yeah something here no, this is a good one, gilbert or Sullivan. Nope, elvin bishop. Oh, capricorn records, right? No, even I'm not right. Elvin bishop fooled around and fell in love, right?
Speaker 1great tune jumped into the lead with that one. I think right, I think so. Freeing on my own, that's the way I used to be and who's saying that? The guy from mickey thomas, yeah all right, here you go, mark round two from rso records. I call it the pig cow, the pig cow records company looks like a pig cow I smell, and Andy Gibb. Yeah, you do.
Speaker 3I'm thinking Eric Clapton. No.
Speaker 1Andy Gibb. Andy Gibb is love is thick in the water. Love is thick in the water. Love is thick, that's.
Speaker 2Mox, that's Mox. So Patty liked the Teen Idols back in the day, she did yeah.
Speaker 1Look at Patty, says you're too funny. Yeah, because I'm right, patty was cool. Patty was a cool chick. Yeah, let's see Dave Phillips says I'm back, a fellow island boy called me Marco Renda. Dave Phillips is drinking again.
Speaker 2He's drinking again and commenting what does Parker Rendon mean?
Speaker 3Is that an insult in a?
Speaker 2room.
Speaker 1I don't know. He says I'm back, but he already had 27 comments earlier on. Then he finally announces that on 28th comment I'm back. Shouldn't he have started his comments off with that?
Speaker 3That's okay, because Lou's brother is not happy.
Speaker 1Is this out of chronological order? Is Dave Phillips going backwards. Alright, there you go, lou. Oh yeah. Well, you know this is going to be a good one. It's a great sleeve too, right yeah, or why can't we be friends?
Speaker 3oh and I said it last time, the last lethal weapon at the end, when they play that song and they in the credits and they show all the pictures it's got.
Speaker 2I like the word in the mafia you know, what this has two.
Speaker 3This has two.
Speaker 1This has two records in it, two war records, right 45s. Right here, here's one and here's the other. Right, so we have I get the pick. We have a first. No, this is the one I pulled out is the one you're gonna get. I didn't know which. I didn't know. I just see that's the other one. Tell us what the other one is. The one I pulled out is why can't we be friends?
Speaker 3No, you know what? Yeah, you announced that. I think you're changing the rules. I said there's two 45s in this sleeve this fucking thing is fixed. There's two 45s in this sleeve.
Speaker 1This fucking thing is fixed. I knew it. 245's in the sleeve and they're both war, right, they're both war records, 245's. I pulled this one out and I was like, what is this? Because I didn't know there was two in there. So what I pulled out is what Lou was going to get. It was random, right, but this is the one he gets this is the one he gets, I'm trying to break my record of 22 copyright infringements in one episode, so Lou gets this one.
Speaker 3Let's see, hang in there.
Speaker 1I think you're fucking Lou because he had a good pick, I would never fuck Lou. He's not my type, first of all, he's got his entrance man, thank you. Thank you All right, here you go, Lou. This is your song.
Speaker 2This is the song you get.
Speaker 1That's her biggest head.
Speaker 3You got fucked Lou.
Speaker 1He fucked you. That's a good fucking song. That's a good song.
Speaker 2Down the winner's circle.
Speaker 3Now why Can't we Be Friends was a much bigger hit.
Speaker 1Come on, let's see if that's even the other yeah that is the other one, yeah, dave.
Speaker 3I agree, dave, you're right.
Speaker 1I'm sorry, that's just what I pulled out. That's what he gets. The sleeve is not the record. Remember that.
Speaker 2You know something I'm hungry.
Speaker 1Lou's going to eat some chicken.
Speaker 2I have a chicken leg here.
Speaker 1Lou's eating some chicken.
Speaker 2All right, here's mine. We got to get this show over. I told you we can't do an hour. We've got to get this show over.
Speaker 1We've got to get Lou out here. I told you we can't do an hour. We can't.
Speaker 2It's impossible for us to do an hour.
Speaker 1I know All right, here we go. I got the baby that's back at you, Smokey Robinson, Smokey. Yeah, there you go. All right, Mark, give us three and we're going to call it a night.
Speaker 3All right, lou's going to do where I smell mine, because mine came from Westwood Diner jukebox so they smell horrible they're really bad it smells like oil, grease and cigarette. Actually, they do smell like cigarette smoke. Okay, who is first you, oh, london Records, the Rolling Stones, Get Off my Cloud Did he pull that one. Last week the last time we did this one. I don't know, I think he did Everything you're pulling.
Speaker 1You pulled last week. No, no, no, I take mine. I don't put them back in the box there, guy Can we have someone call somebody Guy, hey, guy, yes.
Speaker 2Shut the fuck up. I knew that.
Speaker 1Hey guy, yes, shut the fuck up.
Speaker 3Hey, guy, hey, listen to me, guy. Okay, I'm going to do a Shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2What did he say, that guy? I'm going to redo the rule hey guy no, no, no, Keep it.
Speaker 1Keep your fucking rigged. You're not going to win anyways. I know I'm not All right. Who's next?
Speaker 3Lou Okay.
Speaker 1Gamble. Records. What do you know, Lou? What do you know about Gamble? Records? I know nothing.
Speaker 3I know nothing.
Speaker 2Nothing, I know nothing.
Speaker 3They were based in 1650 Broadway, new York, new York. Okay, the Intruders. Do you know the Intruders?
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. The Intruders do. Aren't they the ones that do?
Speaker 2The rapper, the rapper.
Speaker 1No, no, no the Intruders do. I'll Always Love my.
Speaker 2Mama. I'll Always Love my Mama, yeah.
Speaker 3See, I know things.
Speaker 2You know things.
Speaker 3But that's not the song. So this is either Turn the Hands of Time or Cowboys to Girls.
Speaker 2I'd pick Cowboys to Girls because that was a bit of a hit for them, but it's a stupid song.
Speaker 1Cowboys to Girls.
Speaker 2Oh boy, Mark, I hope you're happy I hope both of you guys are happy with yourselves.
Speaker 1All right, just give me my winning 45 and we'll get this over with.
Speaker 2Mark, why don't you pick War? Why can't we be friends for Scott?
Speaker 1Oh I can't, we be friends for scott. Oh I can't, I picked that one last week.
Speaker 3Ah, you motherfucker. Yeah, it would.
Speaker 1You would seal the deal for you he just blatantly cheated right in front of us I picked it last week. Come on, doesn't matter putting this shit back in the box. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa you, whoa, whoa, whoa. You fucked the loo.
Speaker 3Oh boy, we're both fucked. There you go.
Speaker 1Goodbye, Mark.
Speaker 2I want his records.
Speaker 1Who's eating chicken? He's eating a chicken, a drumstick, and he's reaching over his mic chewing on the drumstick, giving the Caesars thumbs down. What do we got? Here, what is it? The Casablanca Records? Casablanca Records. Alright, it's either Kiss Donna Summer or Village People.
Speaker 3Village People, or Captain and Tennille, do that to me one more time.
Speaker 1Dude, that's what she said.
Speaker 2I got that one last time. Get out of my spot.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3That's what she said.
Speaker 1Do that to me one more time, all right.
Speaker 3So you want to read the results? Yeah, I will. Lou had stylistics war. He had. Why can't we be friends? He really did. And the intruders cowboys girls. I had Johnny Taylor Disco, lady Andy Gibb, love is Thicker Than Water and Rolling Stones Get Off my Cloud. Scott had Elvin Bishop Fooled Around, fell In Love, smokey Baby Back At Ya and Captain Insignia, I'll do that to me one more time. That's a winner, baby. I think Scott won, but Lou got screwed. Well some will say he's your buddy.
Speaker 1Some will say, oh, don't try to drive a wedge.
Speaker 3You guys got this little bond here. Don't try to drive a wedge. Wait, wait here I'm going to get Lou mad with this one.
Speaker 1No, you're not because you're in the penalty box trying to drive a wedge. Trying to drive a wedge between me and Lou. It's because I picked a record out of a 45 sleeve. The sleeve is not the record, it's just common sense.
Speaker 2A sleeve is not the record.
Speaker 1What if there's a sleeve that you look at and it says get off my cloud and then it's actually not even a Rolling Stones thing. Is the sleeve going to win? I like what Dave said.
Speaker 3Hearing you, mark saying cowboys to girls somehow caused me to chuckle.
Speaker 2You guys can talk amongst yourselves.
Speaker 1Well, listen we're going to wrap it up now. We're not going to do anything. We got to get Lou out of here.
Speaker 3One more thing, really quick.
Speaker 1You guys want some chicken.
Speaker 3I'm still playing the CD every day. Right, it's a good fucking CD man, and I stare at this picture while playing the CD.
Speaker 2That's weird, that's.
Speaker 1Nick Cave buddy. How old is he? He's got to be in his 60s, Really, yeah early.
Speaker 2Maybe late 50s.
Speaker 1Well, look it up. I don't know where my phone is. Let's see, I'll tell you. Right now we're gonna find out how old nick cave is. I'd say. I'd say 58, let's see. What do you say? 1958, wow no, he's, I'd say 63.
Speaker 3I'm saying oh, he's older than you think, he's 67 years old 67.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3Okay, yeah, he was born in 1957.
Speaker 1Wow, I thought he was born in the 60s.
Speaker 2He was in his 60s he had me second guessing myself. He's a baby boomer.
Speaker 3Yeah, he was like 20 years old when he had that first band. Wow, yeah.
Speaker 1Birthday cake or something it was called.
Speaker 3Don't start with the baby boomer shit.
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Speaker 1Don't start with the baby boomer, shit Don't start with that. Alright, well, listen everybody. Thanks for watching, thanks for listening. This is a quick show, Wednesday night show.
Speaker 2Before my internet, before my lights go out from the stove.
Speaker 1Yeah, exactly, if you liked it, share it.
Speaker 1If you didn't like it. Thanks for listening for an hour and 22 minutes. We appreciate you as always. Gentlemen, as I always say, thank you for your time, thank you for your knowledge, but, most of all, I truly thank you for your friendship. You have improved this show, you brought it to the next level and we are not done for a while and yes, it's been two years, as I always say doing the show for you, to quote my favorite artist, morrissey, the pleasure, the privilege is mine, and we should be back next Thursday night and maybe for the winter, the fall, maybe we'll see how the schedule works, maybe we'll move it to.
Speaker 2Wednesday.
Speaker 1Well, it's funny.
Speaker 2On November, almost every Thursday, I have rehearsals.
Speaker 1So, all right, you know what For November? We can. Well, I'm going on a cruise on the Icon of the Sea from November 2nd to the 9th, so that week is I don't know. My wife books these, dr vera books these. Okay, it's the, it's. We got this room with the. The pad of the. It's a balcony, but it's not like the sliding glass door balcony, it's the room extends out and you hit a button in the glass, so half top, half of the glass drops down. Wow, wow, yes, the icon is fucking insane. Go watch a video on that thing, I'm just low working class.
Speaker 3I've never been on a cruise and I never was.
Speaker 1Until I met my wife, I never was on a cruise. I had no desire to. Now, like you know, she's the cruise junkie and I just am happy to go along for the ride, enjoy it. Yeah yeah, yeah, they are fun. Just don't ever go on Carnival Cruise Really.
Speaker 2Yeah, you'll get Legionnaire's disease.
Speaker 1In the cruise world. The word is you know, when there's a Carnival Cruise ship in port, it's the ghetto of cruise ships.
Speaker 3That would probably be for me. You get what?
Speaker 1you pay for. It's like the crowd is the crowd.
Speaker 3As long as they got yellow, I'm happy it's affordable.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, they got yellow piss wine. That's what I heard on Carnival. Yeah, so yeah, Well, anyway, alright, everybody, we will see you next Thursday night.
