PAS Single: Pinball & Piano

Steve and Wyndham delve into the legacy of iconic rock pianists, debating which legends deserve a place on the Mount Rushmore of keyboard players who shaped rock history.

• Tribute to recently departed Rick Derringer, known for "Hang On Sloopy," "Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo," Hulk Hogan's entrance music, and his work with Weird Al Yankovic
• Discussion of a recent classic rock countdown that surprisingly placed Metallica's "Enter Sandman" at #1 over traditional classics
• Billy Joel and Elton John considered piano rock royalty with both hosts ultimately choosing Billy Joel for Mount Rushmore status
• Little Richard unanimously selected as a foundational figure who "started it all" for rock piano
• Heated debate between Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder for the final spot on the piano Mount Rushmore
• Brief consideration of other influential pianists including Chuck Lavelle, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Freddie Mercury
• Announcement of next week's episode focusing on iconic opening bass riffs titled "All the Way to the Base"

Join us next week for "All the Way to the Base" - an exploration of the most iconic opening bass riffs in rock history!

One idea.  Six songs.  Infinite possibilities...

Transcript

Welcome to Perfect Album Side

Speaker 1 0:00

I'm honestly , I'm afraid to speak , I'm afraid to say anything , for I be prey to your shame and mockery welcome to the perfect album side .

Speaker 2 0:12

one idea , six songs , infinite possibilities . This is the Perfect Album Side Podcast . My name is Steve , his name is Wyndham . We are here , let us begin now . I'm going to start adding that to the intro . We begin here . Let us begin now . I'm going to start adding that to the intro . We begin now .

Speaker 1 0:51

Wyndham hello , as a bassist , that's you , and I'm trying to keep up with the drummer and your foot , so to speak , yeah , yeah , my right foot , and that's why I'm waiting for you to get us started before I jump in .

Speaker 2 1:05

Well , here we are . My name is Steve , his name is Wyndham . Welcome to the podcast , wyndham . How are you , sir ?

Speaker 1 1:10

I'm doing really great . What's new ? What's new ? Oh gosh , what's new . Life is just going , going and going . Kids are getting older . Life is happening . Don't blink , Stone Cold , I know your kids are younger than mine .

Speaker 2 1:25

Don't blink , I'm telling you that's a I know . I know I'm going to be 95 years old before I know it , so I'll be dead soon .

Speaker 1 1:30

Is this happening Are ?

Speaker 2 1:31

we recording this , we are , we'll continue , we're not perfect .

Speaker 1 1:34

We're just really good . The album sides are , but we're not Far from it , Boy . That's good content .

Speaker 2 1:41

What did we talk about on our last episode ? Let me bring this back whole . First of all , this is a perfect album side single . We got a side A from Mr Wyndham , we got a side B from me . But on our last full episode , which was like a week ago or two weeks ago , I don't remember what did we even talk about ? Vocals only ? Oh , yes , a lot of boy bands .

Speaker 1 2:07

A lot of boy bands , a lot of Motown , some Destiny's Child , yes , and I think we could do an entire episode on just vocals , only Motown vocals , only 90s .

Speaker 2 2:14

There's a lot of different ways that could have gone but that was the most in-depth we've gone with boy bands and I think that's probably as far as we're going to go with that . But I can do a whole Motown thing .

Speaker 1 2:22

I think the best part about it , it was just unintentional . The episode wasn't boy bands , no , we had Destiny's Child . We could have had TLC in there . We've talked a lot about TLC a lot lately . We had a lot of Motown . The Supremes , give me a break . They started it all . Man 12 number one hits .

Speaker 2 2:39

All right , that was last week . Today , you've brought side A , I've brought side B . I don't know what side A is , you don't know what side B is , so we're off the cuff here as they say Now real quick , before we jump into this we had a little pregame going on .

Speaker 1 2:53

just a minute ago , we talked about a musical death .

Speaker 2 3:00

That's true , we did . We lost a gentleman by the name of Rick Derringer . Rick Derringer famous for multiple things , probably the most famous for being in a band called the McCoys . In the 60s they had a huge song called Hang On Sloopy , which I'm sure all of our listeners are familiar with . But if not , go listen to Hang On Sloopy . But also equally as important as his work with the McCoys

Remembering Rick Derringer

Speaker 2 3:20

was his work with Weird Al Yankovic , who , friend of the podcast . Weird Al lost his longtime guitarist and that was sad .

Speaker 1 3:31

So yes , sad about Rick Derringer . Now there's two other connections I want to bring up real quick about Rick Derringer . He also was famous for the song which I think to me is a little more famous and well-known than Hang On Sloopy , which is Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo .

Speaker 2 3:47

Rock and Roll hoochie .

Speaker 1 3:48

Coo , rock and roll hoochie coo , yes , I forgot how he is . He wrote that , so he did . I forgot that too . Now the pinnacle of his career came it wasn't rock and roll , hoochie coo oh , hang on , sloopy , or it was , it was when my weird owl , all those would make the mere mortal very famous yeah not in this case .

Speaker 2 4:07

He also is responsible for the song real american , which is best known as hulk hogan's ring entrance song I did not know that and my mind is blown and now I feel like the world really has lost a musical icon . I , uh , you know , I didn't know rick derringer personally and I only knew him kind of , you know , just out there on the side . But that brings it all home right there . I'm a real American the . Hulk Hogan the yeah .

Speaker 1 4:32

When you think about , when you think about what you know , what you tell your grandkids . We talk about legacy and significance . Well , imagine being able to say yeah , I was responsible for Hang .

Speaker 2 4:44

On Sloopy .

Speaker 1 4:46

Rock and Roll , Hoochie Coo . I was the guitarist and the producer for Weird Al Yankovic's debut record and other songs . Oh , and I also wrote the song that Hulk Hogan , the most famous wrestler in history , entered the ring to . That's not a bad career , Stone Cold . That's Hall of Fame worthy if you ask me .

Speaker 2 5:06

Yeah , I was kind of thinking this was just a side note , but rick derringer , my goodness , I mean a musical icon . Uh , I mean , if you write the theme music for thunder lips , you've had a good career , thunder being the rocky , rocky three hulk cogan character . Yes , let us get to today's episode , otherwise we're going to do a whole episode on rick derringer , and what a fine episode it would be .

Speaker 2 5:28

And our average listeners per episode , numbers will plummet well , the derringer family would listen , I'm sure of it . They're nice people , not being said sorry for you have brought side a , which I am unfamiliar with . Uh , I have brought side b , which you are unfamiliar with . Uh , drop that needle , mr man man , on Side A , please . What do we got , yeah ?

Speaker 1 5:49

we're going to have some fun with this today .

Speaker 2 5:51

We'll see .

Speaker 1 5:52

We don't know . We like to do lists , oh boy . And we count down . Sure , countdown is big in 2025 . But , as most , most rock and roll stations talk about classic rock now . But as most rock and roll stations

Classic Rock Countdown Surprises

Speaker 1 6:03

talk about classic rock now , as most classic rock stations around America will do on the All-American holidays , memorial Day , labor Day , july 4th a lot of them will have a top X number of rock and roll songs in history .

Speaker 2 6:17

Z93 , the top 500 songs of all time .

Speaker 1 6:20

That type of thing . Exactly , you got the call sign wrong , but everything else in that is perfect .

Speaker 2 6:26

KJ-103 , Oklahoma City's own , the top 1,000 songs of rock history .

Speaker 1 6:32

Something like that , culminating next August , yeah , right .

Speaker 2 6:35

Okay , I follow , I'm with you .

Speaker 1 6:37

Yeah . So I just wanted to kind of have some fun with this . It was a little bit of a different number one and these are so arbitrary , right , like they can mask it by saying oh yeah , our voters vote Our listeners rather voted on this . We kind of get some out of a pickle if there's a weird selection , like at some point I heard more than a feeling was at number 116 and Orange Crush by REM was number 115 . How is that possible ?

Speaker 2 7:04

It's not Makes no sense , makes no sense , makes no sense .

Speaker 1 7:06

Here's what I wanted to ask you . Give me we're going right off the cuff here give me side A top five classic rock songs in history and I'm going to tell you if they made this particular Atlanta classic rock stations top five .

Speaker 2 7:23

You want me to give you the five biggest rock songs of all time . Is that what you're saying ?

Speaker 1 7:28

basically , uh , biggest okay , biggest best , yeah , somewhere in there . Wow , that that's all . These lists end the same . I mean , there's only a group of songs that are going to end up being in everyone's top five , except this particular list had a surprise .

Speaker 2 7:46

Well if I just look at Perfect Album Side nominees and songs that have won the Perfect Album Side Award multiple times . I would think hey Jude by the Beatles is up there . That's one of my guesses . Okay , I would then look to the Rolling Stones and I would think probably Satisfaction gets up there . I would think the who , baba O'Reilly , is in the top 10 or so I would think 16 . Okay , van Halen , jump by Van Halen or Panama by Van Halen Probably up there .

Speaker 1 8:28

Panama number 22 .

Speaker 2 8:30

Panama . Okay , I'm at least in the top 25 .

Speaker 1 8:32

You're doing great . Rolling Stones , satisfaction 29 . Just to address that one .

Speaker 2 8:37

Pink Floyd . The Wall has got to be up there .

Speaker 1 8:41

Okay , another brick in the wall , or is that ? That's what I meant ?

Speaker 2 8:45

yeah , 26 what did I say the wall ? I mean another brick that's okay , same album . You got it uh who , uh , jeez louise , I'm just , I mean , there's some big ones that you haven't named , but yeah , I'm sure there are , but but what do you ? What I could go , I'll give you days .

Speaker 1 9:02

I know , I know , and it's hard for something like this because there's so many songs to choose from Back in black ACDC . Number eight . That's your highest rated one so far . So so far , so good . I'll give you the top six .

Speaker 2 9:15

Well , hold on , before you give me the top six , have I named any bands or artists that are in the top 10 so far ? You've said , oh , no , wow , what ? Okay ? I mean , are we going as far back as you know the 50s ?

Speaker 1 9:30

and and elvis and or does this elvis ? Elvis wouldn't be considered on this list , no okay , okay , uh led zeppelin stairway to heaven .

Speaker 2 9:37

Uh , that's probably in the top one , that's number two number two , okay , number one is a little bit of .

Speaker 1 9:44

I wasn't prepared for number one uh , imagine by john lennon uh , on here somewhere I I'm scrolling and I don't see it , so it's not in the top 50 , but okay , hang on sloopy by the mccoys and rock and roll hoochie coo by rick derringer three and four . I knew it I knew . He's not the best in the business for nothing , folks .

Speaker 2 10:06

Yeah , okay , I'm doing , okay . I'm sure I'm leaving out some huge bands and songs that I'm just not thinking of . Yeah .

Speaker 1 10:16

No , you're doing great . And here's I'll go ahead and kind of break the suspense . I know everybody's pulled over on the side of the road so they don't aren't distracted while they're driving . Yeah , but here it is stone cold . A couple of these songs came out while you and I were in high school okay smells like teen spirit by nirvana uh , heart-shaped box by nirvana was number 14 .

Speaker 1 10:39

okay , um , I'm sure nirvana smells like teen spirit is number 53 . There it is , right behind bad company , bad company and right in front of cars Just what I needed .

Speaker 2 10:51

Okay , Um does Pearl Jam get in the top 25 ?

Speaker 1 10:56

I haven't . Pearl Jam is not in the top 25 . I've not seen them listed at all .

Speaker 2 11:02

So we still haven't named the number one song which I mean . I assume that it's my morning song by the black crows , but I don't know I , I would say descending , but you're , you're close , yes , all right , uh guns and freaking roses uh , welcome to the jungle is in the top 10 it is not in the top 10 . Sweet child of mine is number 11 , okay , um .

Speaker 1 11:22

So I mean we there's 500 songs on here , we could literally take all day talking about this not on the list at all .

Speaker 2 11:31

Stop , please no , okay , uh , knock it on heaven's door . Bob dylan and guns and roses not on the list at all blast not in the top 100 .

Speaker 1 11:41

This list not in the top 100 . This , this list is nonsensical uh , pearl , jam number 80 with jeremy . Okay , all right . So uh , black betty by ram , jam number 69 uh , what I ?

Speaker 2 11:54

what am I forgetting number one ? How am I ?

Speaker 1 11:57

all right , help me out . Okay , I'm gonna start . I'm gonna give you the top 10 , um , and number 10 will probably tell you another top five song . Wake me up before you go go , I want to sex you up , number 10 . I told you Sweet Child of Mine was number 11 . Number 10 , lynyrd Skynyrd , sweet Home Alabama , sweet Home Alabama , top 10 . Wow , okay , number nine Bob Seger Night Moves Turn the page no Night Moves is much better .

Speaker 1 12:25

But alright , continue . This is a weird list . Number 8 ACDC , back in Black . You got that . One Journey number comes in at number 7 don't stop believing you nailed it .

Speaker 2 12:32

Here's one give me the artist , I'll tell you the song Def Leppard pour some sugar on me .

Speaker 1 12:37

You got it okay . Now we're in the top 5 . If I gave you the artist seriously , hotel california , hotel california stupid no , I was just waiting for you to say I'm totally joking , it's hotel california . Hotel california , correct , number four leonard skinner . Sweet home alabama . We just did that right . Nope , what song is it you want to hear tonight ?

Speaker 2 13:04

oh , free bird yep .

Speaker 1 13:06

Number three queen , we will rock you . Nope , bohemian rhapsody , you got it . Number two led zeppelin stair . You got that one . Now here's number one . This song came out when I was a junior in high school and now it's on classic rock countdowns , that is , metallica .

Speaker 2 13:25

Enter Sandman . Of course that's right , Wow . That's the number one , that's weird .

Speaker 2 13:35

I mean it . That's weird is . I mean , it's a great song . It is a great song occasionally and there was just a video they just played . I think it was , uh , I want to say south america . They just played a show , uh , within the last month down in south america , I think it fuck , it could have been connecticut for all I know , doesn't matter they just played a show , uh , in a big stadium and there was there was a great youtube video of them playing inner sandman and the whole crowd , I mean , you know , 60 000 people bouncing in unison um , it's a really , really good song .

Speaker 1 14:00

It is a good song and they're playing in atlanta , uh , next next tuesday night , I believe on the third of june . Wow , uh , stone cold . That is just some highlights of the memorial day Top 500 Classic Rock Countdown . Do you want to flip this record ?

Speaker 2 14:17

I got it . I got side B , which I don't think is terribly far from side A . I wanted to talk to you today . You know I like to build Mount Rushmores . Yep , today's no different . I want to build a Mount Rushmore . This is going to be hard . This is going to make you want to pull your hair out . Clearly , you can see I have no hair . I've already been working on this .

Speaker 1 14:35

Well , I'm I'm getting really vulnerable in this perimeter here .

Speaker 2 14:38

Yeah for those of you that cannot see at home , if you're not watching on on youtube . And why ? Why would you ? Because we don't put this on youtube . But if you were , you would see that he is pointing to a male pattern , barb baldness , the , the george costanza pattern that is really developing on boy left side of the temple Boy .

Speaker 1 14:51

No one has really put it so harshly Male pattern bar . I was just going to say I've had the same receding hairline since I was 15 .

Speaker 2 14:58

But no , now we found out it's a bigger problem . Typical horseshoe pattern You've got . You know , I'd say three to six months Live damn it . Live Okay . Side B is all about the Mount Rushmore of the most iconic and influential rock and roll pianists .

Mount Rushmore of Rock Pianists

Speaker 1 15:21

Oh gosh . Rock and roll pianists Okay , but you're not talking . Iconic and influential Okay . You are not talking about artists that play piano . You're talking . Are you talking about instrumentalists that play in a band and play piano ?

Speaker 2 15:39

I am talking about the most iconic rock and roll piano players of all time they could have been . You know , they probably , in most cases , are singers too . Okay , but not always Okay . I mean , there are a few out there that I think deserve to be talked about that maybe are not singers , but most of them , if they're iconic and influential rock piano players , uh , they are probably front men , in my opinion . Uh , give me the top one or two that come to your mind .

Speaker 1 16:11

oh , I , I mean easily Elton John and Billy Joel .

Speaker 2 16:14

The Piano man and the Piano Lady . Captain Fantastic , sorry , that was inappropriate . You know I love Elton John , captain Fantastic . Captain Fantastic , you know here's something interesting . I just played Captain Fantastic's pinball game from 1974 or 5 , like over the weekend . I played Captain Fantastic pinball like a dozen times .

Speaker 1 16:36

Can you tell me how many pinball machines you have in your house at current ?

Speaker 2 16:45

Currently I have zero . I have had multiple in the past . I don't have any pinball machines in my house currently , but I used to have several as I .

Speaker 1 16:49

I really liked that . That's criminal .

Speaker 2 16:50

You were one of the all-time great pinball connoisseurs I recently , uh and by that I mean over the weekend , which is where I played captain , fantastic pinball uh attended a pinball museum , attended , visited a pinball museum which was just like a hundred pinball machines line , where it was awesome , in asheville north carolina oh , fantastic I've been there and there's a bunch of arcade games .

Speaker 1 17:13

Yeah , yeah .

Speaker 2 17:14

I played all of them .

Speaker 1 17:16

Defenders .

Speaker 2 17:16

Zaxxon Joust . It was great , so that's going to be . As soon as we're done with this podcast , I'm going to dedicate my life to opening up a new pinball slash arcade here in South Carolina .

Speaker 2 17:27

I have dropped a lot of coin in that place and and I'll tell you this I was a little upset because a lot of the ones I wanted to play weren't working . But you know we've gotten too far off the Mount Rushmore side . We are not talking about the Mount Rushmore of video games and pinball machines , which would be a fine side B in the future . Right now we're talking about the most influential and iconic rock and roll piano players of all time . You have thrown out two very good answers in William Joel and Elton John . Reginald Dwight Reginald Dwight , yes , as he was better known . Can I give you one ?

Speaker 1 18:00

that I was thinking of . Yeah , hit me with it .

Speaker 2 18:03

The first one , Little Richard .

Speaker 1 18:06

Oh gosh , that's a great one . Yeah , that's a great one . He started it all .

Speaker 2 18:13

He started everything I mean . Rock and roll doesn't exist without Little Richard .

Speaker 1 18:18

You saw . I think I think you finished it by now , but you said you only watched the first half . You still would have seen this part Becoming . Led Zeppelin has a feature on Little Richard and it's absolutely phenomenal to watch . It really shows off his talent . I'm not old enough to remember thankfully old enough to remember him at his prime . I remembered him when he was probably past his prime . But that segment of that movie was what it's about and where they got their influence and how big a deal it was . That is incredible . That's a great pull .

Speaker 2 18:53

Obviously , we talked about Billy Joel , elton John , little Richard . Then there's a whole bunch of other could-bes , and I'm not so sure that I'm married to any of them at this point . There are two guys that come to mind , both blind , oh Ray . Charles , that we should be thinking of and Stevie Wonder and Mickey Gilley no , not Mickey be thinking of and stevie wonder , mickey gilly no not , not mickey gilly stevie wonder and ray charles , I don't think was mickey gilly blind , I don't know .

Speaker 1 19:19

Okay , you know what ? Let's stick with your choices . Um , I both of them are amazing . Uh , stevie wonder , one of the greatest musicians , I think , of all times um .

Speaker 2 19:29

He played like every instrument on half of his albums .

Speaker 1 19:32

I think he did , uh , so I think that's incredible , that both of those are really really good . Um , now you got me thinking up and down . All right , let me go back .

Speaker 2 19:46

Okay , there's another one .

Speaker 1 19:48

Goodness gracious , great balls of fire yeah , jerry lee lewis , and I immediately thought of , immediately thought of Jerry Lee Lewis . When you said Little Richard , yeah , I don't think you , I think he's in the conversation , to me , to me , I don't think Jerry Lee Lewis outshines , I mean , great balls of fire was amazing . I don't think he outshines Little Richard , certainly not Ray Charles , certainly not Stevie and not Elton or Billy Joel . If you just my opinion .

Speaker 2 20:19

All right , how about Chuck Lavelle ? Not a front man ?

Speaker 1 20:26

but yes , uh , I will say this I don't think Chuck Lavelle got nearly the credit , nearly the credit he deserved .

Speaker 2 20:36

Let me go back to Little Richard for a second . You mentioned the Making Led Zeppelin documentary and yes , that is what that's . What gave me . The idea for this topic was watching that and talking about Little Richard . So that's number one . Chuck Lavelle , I mean , he shaped the Allman Brothers band , he shaped the Rolling Stones . He's played on a billion rock records . I don't think he makes the Mount Rushmore of rock pianists , but he's certainly in the discussion .

Speaker 1 21:06

Yeah , I think he could be for sure in the discussion . His body of work warrants it . Rolling Stones , allman Brothers that's another great documentary on Chuck Lavelle .

Speaker 2 21:16

Do we consider a Freddie Mercury ?

Speaker 1 21:22

I don't . He's responsible for two and maybe more , at least two amazing piano riffs , but I don't think , since that was not his natural instrument and he didn't play it on every song yeah , I would agree with you . I just you don't have a ray charles song without him playing piano . You don't have billy joel , and maybe there is one .

Speaker 2 21:44

I can't think of it , but well , so we've we've narrowed it down to six or seven and cutting it down to four . I mean we're gonna put these guys on stone , in stone , on the side of a mountain .

Speaker 1 21:53

Well , what if we went down a different path as well ? On this , talk to me Like a David Bryan .

Speaker 2 22:01

Piano keyboard of Bon .

Speaker 1 22:03

Jovi . I mean longevity hits . I mean the opening to you Give Love a Bad Name . The opening to Living on a Prayer . Those are him , now it's keyboard . I a Prayer . Those are him , now it's keyboard .

Speaker 2 22:16

I don't know if that counts . Does it have black and white keys ? Yes , it counts . I mean Stevie Wonder . I mean he kind of introduced a lot of the synthesizers to rock and roll , but I still think he counts . You know , we didn't really talk about Ray Charles . We mentioned his name . But Ray Charles , I mean it's hard to rule these guys out . Um , let me ask you this If you could only pick one between Billy Joel and Elton John , because there's so many similarities between those two guys it came up in the same time , they're both piano virtuosos . You know similar pop rock hits if you could only pick one to sit on that ?

Speaker 1 23:01

mount rushmore , I mean these guys toured together yeah , uh , billy joel , with some recent health news , of course yeah , but he's not . He's going to keep going , which is awesome . Same with me . I also decided today not to retire . I make that decision every morning and it's a deliberation . Let me tell you , I go , billy Joel , I do too .

Speaker 1 23:29

And you know what Heart versus head . We talk about this all the time . Don't choose something because you like something better . I'm probably doing a little bit of that , but I do think body of work , billy Joel , it's up and down right . He's got his softer side . You'll always be a woman to me , just the way you are , but he's also got you may be right all the uptown girl a little bit harder stuff .

Speaker 2 23:51

I mean he's the piano man . I mean that's his name and then pianoiano man he's going to . I mean he wrote a song called Piano man . He is the Piano man he makes it . I think you know Billy Joel . I think we can agree he's on the mountain . Do we agree on Little Richard ?

Speaker 1 24:08

Have to have to . There is no argument against Little Richard being on that Mount .

Speaker 2 24:15

Rushmore . So is it Jerry Lee Lewis , stevie Wonder , ray Charles , elton John In our next spot , or Chuck Lavelle or David Bryan .

Speaker 1 24:32

I don't know if Chuck Lavelle is going to pass the mustard , and I'll say it again for emphasis he should be .

Speaker 2 24:37

Did you say pass the mustard ?

Speaker 1 24:40

Yeah , you never heard that .

Speaker 2 24:41

Well , I've heard the phrase pass muster , which is an actual phrase , as opposed to pass the mustard , which is a nonsensical phrase .

Speaker 1 24:49

You keep saying nonsensical . Is that the word of the day ?

Speaker 2 24:52

I think you should stop what you're doing right now . Maybe we should pause recording and look that up . Pass muster , not pass the mustard . You realize that there are people all over the country and all over the world right now that are laughing in our general direction because of pass the mustard .

Speaker 1 25:13

And those infidels would be wrong .

Speaker 2 25:17

Pass you kidding me , pass the mustard .

Speaker 1 25:18

Come up to expectations , reach the required standard . I didn't pass the mustard as a hockey player , that wasn't me saying it . That was the example they gave . Okay , miriam Webster , muster or mustered , which gets a pass . Do you say something that passes muster or that it passes mustard ? And if that something is up to snuff , would you say , cuts the mustard ? Good news is that the appropriate choice of words to precede muster and mustard is very clear . One passes muster , okay . Cuts the mustard , okay . You know what it is more common to say pass the mustard .

Speaker 2 25:54

I've never heard anybody say that in my whole life . Take it up with Merriam-Webster .

Speaker 1 25:58

I mean , I think they've got the credibility here .

Speaker 2 26:00

Well , the people of the Oxford Dictionary would say pass muster .

Speaker 1 26:04

Oh , you would be an Oxford guy .

Speaker 2 26:06

For those of you that are listening at home and want to weigh in on this discussion , I suggest that you find at Wyndham , pridgen or at Perfect Album

Choosing the Final Spot

Speaker 2 26:14

Sid and let us know past muster or past the mustard . It's the same debate that we've had in the past about of all time or of all times . You and I come from different backgrounds . We speak differently , clearly .

Speaker 1 26:28

We grew up five minutes from each other .

Speaker 2 26:31

Well , okay , what are we doing ?

Speaker 1 26:35

Little Richard , billy Joel , going on too long ? What are we doing ? What day is it ?

Speaker 2 26:38

Little Richard , Billy Joel are on the mountain . Who else ?

Speaker 1 26:42

Give me one . Go Honestly , I'm afraid to speak , I'm afraid to say anything , for I be prey to your shame and mockery . I think whoever you put up there will pass muster . Okay , I've got to get my mind around this again . Yeah , I mean , billy powell would be another one . I know we're not taking new names leonard skinner , the aforementioned free bird , um , and it's not just one song , it's a body of work .

Speaker 2 27:09

Right , that's what we have to go off of yeah , otherwise the guy that plays piano for just because I said we , you know , billy joel versus elton john doesn't mean they both can't be on there . I think Elton John is on there , okay . So Elton John , billy Joel , little Richard , we got room for one more . It's going to be Stevie , it's going to be Ray who else am I ? Forgetting . That's not fair .

Speaker 1 27:32

Jerry Lee Lewis . Nope , not him . It's between Ray or Stevie , and can you give me the first three ? We said Billy Joel , elton John , little Richard .

Speaker 2 27:42

Yeah , and now I think we got an error down from Ray Charles .

Speaker 1 27:49

Stevie Wonder . Is there enough granite up there to just this once , just one time ?

Speaker 2 27:58

we get a pass on five . Well , we did it with female chicks that rock as opposed to male chicks that rock .

Speaker 1 28:04

We did it with chicks that rock . One of them was with the same group .

Speaker 2 28:07

Yeah , with sisters Okay , we could do five . I mean , it's our show , it's our mountain .

Speaker 1 28:15

I don't think you can choose between Ray Charles , especially being a Georgia guy .

Speaker 2 28:19

Georgia on my mind First of all , I can choose between Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder . I have that ability . I've already chosen in my mind . Okay , who is it ? It's Ray Charles .

Speaker 1 28:33

I don't think it's as easy as you say it is . I say we go both of them . If I had to choose , I would say Stevie Wonder .

Speaker 2 28:40

Okay , well then we'll have to agree to disagree . Maybe we'll put a poll out on the Twitter Stevie versus Ray Charles for the last spot on the Perfect Album side . Mount Rushmore of pianists but we got Little Richard on there , we got the Piano man , we got Eltonton john , and then we're gonna arm wrestle or fight over , uh , ray charles versus stevie wonder for the final spot on the perfect album . So we'll put a poll out there and see what happens . What do you think of that idea ?

Speaker 1 29:05

I'm all for a poll always there's a joke in there .

Speaker 2 29:10

Somewhere there's a joke in there somewhere he's always for .

Speaker 1 29:13

I've taken enough abuse today . Take it easy .

Speaker 2 29:15

The next perfect Side podcast , one week from today , I think . I think we are going to create the Perfect Album Side . Well , wyndham , this is right up your alley . This is all you , man . This is your episode , the one you've been waiting for For almost 90 episodes .

Speaker 1 29:34

Finally I've been waiting this long , so patiently , letting other people have their time in the sun Tell us what it's about .

Speaker 2 29:39

Tell us what it's about .

Speaker 1 29:40

Go ahead , it's titled All the Way to the Base . All the Way to the Base , and this is iconic opening bass riffs .

Speaker 2 29:49

Iconic opening bass riffs . I can't wait .

Speaker 1 29:54

Oh , this is going to be great

Next Episode: Iconic Bass Riffs

Speaker 1 29:55

, and I'm looking at my basses as we speak just thinking how great this is going to be and I have got . When this topic first came up , I came I had a a full page of songs that I could make a legit case for , but I've only got room for six stone cold they say , yeah , uh , it's gonna be a good episode .

Speaker 2 30:17

Iconic bass intro riffs next week on the perfect album side . Uh , I'm sorry , we went through that whole past the mustard , past mustard thing . I hope . I hope your feelings aren't too hurt no , I'll be back when it counts .

Speaker 1 30:29

When the bell rings , you know , I'll be ready to answer and cut the mustard all the way to the base all the way to the base . There's a great story there . I don't know if we can say that story on air , but it's really funny and if you know , you know . But I think this is going to be our best episode . I think this is going to be our most prominent moment and it's all because of the instrument good , perfect doms .

Speaker 2 30:55

Have a man . Good singles later , dude see ya this has been the perfect album side . See you next time .