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Ep. 129 Today's Peep Reminisces an Epic Night with Sammy Hagar's Supergroup, Shares San Francisco's 10cc Magic, Baseball Legends Ted Williams & Joe DiMaggio Discuss Each Other's Game, Uncovers ACDC's Bon Scott Tales, and Features a Classic Drifters' 45 Re
Ever wondered what makes a live concert truly unforgettable? Picture this: a cool evening breeze, electric atmosphere, and the legendary Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony, and Jason Bonham rocking the Toyota Amphitheater. That's how I spent my fantastic Friday off, and I can't wait to share the magic of that night with you. Join me as I give heartfelt shout-outs to those who make this journey special, including Darlyne "with a Y" for her thoughtful breakfast delivery and a warm welcome to my brother Timothy, tuning in for the first time. We'll also savor the soothing sounds of passing trains, adding another layer to our vibrant tapestry of memories.
Our musical adventure doesn't end there. Travel with me to San Francisco, where friends and I were dazzled by 10cc's live performance, reliving their genius despite their long hiatus since 1978. We'll also take a detour into the golden era of baseball, reminiscing about legends like Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio. To top it all off, listen to an amusing tale from Angus Young of ACDC about Bon Scott's escapades and discover a rare gem from my record collection: "At the Club" by The Drifters. Ready to immerse yourself in a blend of music, memories, and sports nostalgia? Tune in, and let's make some new memories together!
we are back with the past. Peeps podcasts, number 129. That's right, buddy, buddy, welcome. Thank you for tuning in, appreciate you. Appreciate you very much, timothy, if you're listening, thank you. Thank you, brother. Thank you, that's peach number. What is this? 129, I do believe 129, 19th day of August 2024.
Speaker 1:Listen to the train in the background. Can you hear the train in the background? Can you hear the train, train, screeching by outside? My beautiful new French doors Well, I guess I can still say new if they're like four or five months old right, my new French doors.
Speaker 1:I love the sound of the train. The train it's off in the distance, but it's not that far, so you. But it's not too close, it's like perfect range, because I love the sound of the train. So when it goes by it's not like it disturbs anything, it's not like overwhelming and loud, but it's also where you can hear it. It's very soothing to me. Maybe some of you enjoy the train, the sound of a train. I love it at night Ever since I was a little kid. You could hear the train off in the distance when I lived, born and raised in Elk Grove and you hear the train way off in the distance and like the sound of cows and things. Now it's just crickets and frogs and all that Anyhow, as I look out to the foothills through my studio windows.
Speaker 1:On this day it's been slightly cooler the last few days, certainly cooler than it was. I don't know what the temperatures are today. I'm sure it's in the 90s, which seemingly is cooler. This is a Monday. I took Friday off. I'll tell you why. Which seemingly is cooler. This is a Monday. I took Friday off. I'll tell you why. It was fun, fun weekend of music. Let's see. I want to say you know, I was really excited.
Speaker 1:Well, first of all, let me say thank you to Darlene with a Y. She's like the president of my little fan club on social media and today, darlene, she's always so sweet. I've mentioned her before. I'm going to have to do a podcast with you, darlene. I know you're listening to me right now. I know you are. I know you are, darlene. Are you having your cup of coffee right now? Listening in the morning? You listen in the evening or when I post, and then she listens in the morning. Right, I may have to do a conversation with her, just so you kind of get to know her. Anyhow, she's very kind and today she brought me over some breakfast and with it a spiffy cinnamon roll. So thank you so much. That's the kind of friends we all need, right there, blessed, to have in our lives. This is a blessing.
Speaker 1:My brother, timothy, yesterday, my youngest brother, who lives in Fountain Hills, arizona, just out of Scottsdale. I get this message from him in the morning and he goes hey, pat, I'm having my coffee and I'm listening for the first time to your Pat's Peeps. He says I've listened to three in a row and I'm going to listen to some more. I'll tell you that made me so excited that now my brother is listening. And man, thank you Tim. So really wanted to start off with those two things. Also, a big shout out to Cecilia, another listener. We're thinking about you, praying for you and all of that. I hope you had a great weekend.
Speaker 1:I mentioned I took Friday off. I took Friday out because I wanted to go to a concert I wanted to go see. For lack of a better name for the band, everyone says Sammy Hagar, but it was really the tour name I'm going to have to go with Best of All Worlds, because it was not only content-wise in terms of the choices of the music, but in the choice of the band members, because you had Sammy front in the band singing played a lot of good guitar, very energetic, the dude's 76. I mentioned that the other day. The guy's a teenager. They played for a long time, I think 22-plus songs, but it's Sammy. Joe Satriani, as I probably mentioned the other day on a previous podcast. Michael Anthony from Van Halen on bass, chicken Foot, of course, circle, and then on the drums Jason Bonham, the son of John Bonham, who I've seen numerous times with various bands and he's always a good drummer.
Speaker 1:I love this table. I'm going to lower my little new, my computer table. I got a new computer table for my studio. Oh, my goodness, we're coming out and I think we're supposed to have tomorrow. Just on another note, we're supposed to put in a new studio starting tomorrow, so we'll see, keeping my fingers crossed. So the band was really good.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you there's nothing that I like better. I am in my favorite space. I don't want that to sound corny. I'm in my favorite. It's one of my just all-time favorite things to do is to go to a concert, particularly outdoors, particularly at twilight. You have a band that comes out just before dark and then you have a band that comes out right after dark, especially when there's a breeze blowing all of a sudden. Maybe it was a hot day or something, but now the breeze is kicking in. People are just loose and having a good time. I am so in my element right then, and that's how it felt going out to the Toyota Amphitheater on Friday night. Breeze kicked in. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1:This is one of the first times that I've been in a concert in recent memory with my seats. They were okay, but they weren't the greatest, but they were good enough. It didn't matter. I had good seats. As far as I was concerned, I was in such a great mood. You know. Then the sun goes down and man it just kind of everyone's ready, the lights go out. I love that moment. You know the lights go down. You've been anticipating. The crowd's just grooving, they're ready to go. Everyone's anticipating the show Love it. Now the opening band that night.
Speaker 1:I saw two bands this weekend One that I've seen more than any other artist, as I mentioned previously, and two that I thought I would never see. Sammy Hagar, as I mentioned, fronting this band I mentioned the other day. It was 14 times now I've seen Sammy. He even mentioned one of the times, which was great. He said something on the stage. He says, yeah, this is Wheatland man, northern California, this is where we reunited as Montrose for one day. Now Sammy, he's out and about, he does a TV show, he's interviewing all these other musicians and artists. He interviews Roger Daltrey, I mean you name it and he's getting interviewed and he's traveling everywhere, and yet he remembered that, in of all places, wheatland, california, wheatland and Sammy does have some familiarity with Northern California, but Wheatland, california, wheatland, and Sammy does have some familiarity with Northern California, but Wheatland. He remembered that day where they reunited with Ronnie Montrose, and I was there that day, so that really hit home for me. So, yeah, 14 times I've seen Sammy, as I mentioned, though, and he was as good as ever. They were really good. So, the best of all worlds.
Speaker 1:I'll get back to that momentarily. I'll tell you who opened up the band that I never, one of the bands I never thought I'd see would be Loverboy. You know, back in the early 80s, late 70s, early 80s particularly, you'd hear all the songs on the radio all the time, and it just was a little too synthy kind of for me poppy synthy. I loved harder rock. I love stuff that was crunchy and hard and you know just, or I don't know just, it was a little too commercial for my taste. I'll just put it that way, you know. So I never really sought them out, but they had a bunch of hits and now here they are, opening for the best of all worlds.
Speaker 1:I want to say a couple of things. Number one they sounded good. You know, I mean, listen, I forgot about a lot of the hits that they had. I mean Loverboy, they had a lot of hits. I always think of Turn Me Loose. I always think of turn me loose. Why don't you turn me loose? You know, but they had all the everybody's working for the weekend. See, that was so commercialized, that keyboard in there. To me it was just. It wasn't Black Sabbath, you know, it wasn't Priest, it wasn't purple, it wasn't Pink Floyd, it was commercial Anyhow. So I forgot that they had all these hits. They had a lot of hits. And second of all, you know what? They sounded pretty good doing their hits, and this was a time when the crowd begins to filter in, you know, not everyone's in, everyone's kind of partying, getting quote, tuned up for the big show, so it's not filled up just yet. They have the lawn seats, they have the chair seats, pardon me. So, loverboy, they're out there playing and again I'm reminded of all their hits.
Speaker 1:Another thought of mine, and I say this with all due respect you know, mike Reno leads that band, he fronts that band, he sings. He's the front guy. I remember back in the day when they were popular, remember he had the red leather pants and the. He'd always wear a headband. That's another thing why I didn't really get into lover boy. I just thought the headband was passe, if you might, if that might be the correct word to use here. But the red leather pants, yeah, no, thank you, wasn't my cup OT, as they say, but but the. Again, I mean this with all reason.
Speaker 1:The guy's got a giant belly. It's humongous, combined huge and mungus. Humongous, it's huge, mungus. I'm sorry, I mean, listen, man, if I'm like, okay, we're going back on the road, I don't know, you can say, well, maybe he's got some, I don't know, I don't know, I'm not trying to be mean, I would be self-conscious, but again, he sounded good, humongous, gosh. I'm sorry, I'm just being honest. You know you're up there listening, but you're staring at his gut. It's like Phil Collins. Does anyone know what I'm talking about with Trailer Park Boy? Stop looking at my gut. I'm not looking at your gut, stop looking at it. You're looking at my gut, I'm not looking at your gut, you're looking at it. If anyone gets that reference, not Phil Collins, not that Phil Collins, it's another Phil Collins Trailer Park boys.
Speaker 1:As I digress, that's my kind of. That's the only show I can binge watch these days. That's it. I can watch like four or five episodes straight and I've seen it through time after time. But you got to really appreciate trailer park humor, man, trailer trash humor. But I love it Canadian. It's like the Canadian Showtime. So I digress.
Speaker 1:Based off of Mike Reno's gutnoid Bless, the man Put on a good show. I'd recommend him. If you're a Loverboy fan, go check him out. His voice is doing great. Stop staring at his gut, though. Right, okay, hey, Then the best of all worlds.
Speaker 1:Sammy and the guys come out. And it's the best of all worlds, like I said, because it's those guys who are playing in the band itself. And then it's the best of all worlds in that the music that they've chosen. If you look at the music that they've been involved in together. You've got, of course, sammy, who did his solo stuff, great solo stuff. I saw his first ever concert, like I said, before his first ever tour. You know, satriani had his solo stuff. I saw his first ever concert, like I said, before his first ever tour. You know, satriani had his solo work. Of course you had Michael Anthony, a huge part of Van Halen.
Speaker 1:Van Halen would not be Van Halen, in my opinion, without the great bass work and the background vocals, in particular from Michael Anthony. And then then, like I mentioned before, then you have Jason Bonham, who I've seen with the Led Zeppelin experience. They opened up for a variety of people that I've seen. I could go down the list. So you're talking about a band that's not only a great band that way, but so they have a lot of material to choose from in terms of music. They could draw off Van Halen. Sammy was in Montrose. They could draw off Montrose. They could do perhaps some Zeppelin. They did the Thank you song. They could play Satriani. I'm going to play a little bit of the concert from that.
Speaker 3:Well, I ain't no way I'm sitting home tonight. I'll be out until the morning light and around is a long old parade.
Speaker 1:I'll be you one thing. I'm just not the kind of guy that can sit there. I can't just sit there. Look, I'm an old guy now I'll sit here. Oh, I tap my foot. Oh golly, I remember I used to move around. Nah, the hell with that man, I'm up jamming. I got the air guitar going. I don't give a rip, I'm having fun. So anyhow, yeah, they were good, good, good, good, good, enjoyed it very much. Way to go. Fellas 14 times. I'm pretty darn sure I'm going to see Sammy for a 15th time and some other. You know he'll be out there. He'll be out there touring again. Sammy will be in his 80s. These guys are amazing. And then.
Speaker 1:So, like I said, I never thought I would see Loverboy and then Sunday, but let me say this also all right, but let me say this also I want to say thank you to rip. Rip, it was a blast, it was great to hang out with you. Rip is a listener of the show and rip is a listener of the podcasts and I sure thank you had some really nice things to say about the podcast last week and I had a good time hanging out with you, buddy, much appreciated. Same thing with you, Michael, happy birthday. And, denise, it couldn't have been any more fun than it was. Thank you for going. Getting your mind off of things, all right, just a blast.
Speaker 1:Then Sunday went to San Francisco to see more music no, that was Saturday, excuse me Saturday and I went with Robin and her husband Kurt and their son Ted. Thank you to Robin and Kurt for another great time went down there and saw a band that I, honest to goodness, I never even knew that they've ever toured, even in their heyday. I thought you know they never tour and that's 10cc. Steely Dan never really used to tour way back when, and 10cc, who had a couple of big hits on American radio, had other big hits around the world. But I was really into 10cc and their innovation and the album Deceptive Bends and even beyond that with so many songs.
Speaker 1:And, as it turns out, as they told the audience, you know who told us that was Robin Zander's son. Who was it? Robin Taylor Zander? I hope I didn't get that wrong. I apologize, but Robin Zander of Cheap Trick, his son, opened up the show and he had mentioned that 10CC hadn't toured in since 1978. Now, I don't even remember them touring in 1978, but according to them. Yep, that's the last time they toured, so this was a rare opportunity and it turned out to be the final show on. This tour Could be the only tour they ever do under the 1978. And you know what they were good. They were really good. 10cc, like I said, a couple of huge hits. I was in more into the deep stuff but I thought I'd play a little bit of the 10cc. I know you'll remember the music for sure. Let's see, see if we can get it up and pull it up here for you, let's see.
Speaker 1:Well, all right, I'll make it happen. But you remember 1976, they had an album called Deceptive Bends and on that particular album there was, you know, things we Do For Love, which was a huge hit. Here you go. This one is I'm Not In Love. 1975, baby Jen CC right here on the Pants Peeps podcast. He doesn't have rights to this, but hey, he's just educating the audience.
Speaker 3:I'm not alone. So don't forget about me. It's just the same thing. You call me, just the kind you call me all the time. You don't know. Feel the love of me. I'm not alone. It's real. I'm glad to see you.
Speaker 1:Thank you. Well, I apologize for that. I don't know, I must have accidentally hit something in the butt, hey. But that's okay, because I wanted to mention a really cool part of this song. If you know this song, there's a part in this song. If you know this song, there's a part in this song where you hear a woman going be quiet, big boys don't cry. Be quiet, big boys don't cry. Right, they have these wispy vocals, big boys don't cry. And you know I'm not in love, so don't forget, it's just a silly phase I'm going through, right? So this is a product of 10CC, which is really a super group Eric Stewart of the Mindbenders, graham Goldman of the Mindbenders, kevin Godley and Cream, you know. But this is a great band.
Speaker 1:Some regard the original makeup of the band as being comprised of two separate two-person groups that each had their own style, which contributed greatly to the variety of this music, and that's really true. That is. It just makes it so cool. I love that. So there's a part in the song. Like I said, big Boys Don't Cry.
Speaker 1:The origin of the phrase is something random that Godly said into a microphone. He was creating some solo parts to this song, some passages and the band liked this weird kind of an odd way he was going with it, but like who's going to say, big boys, don't cry. They got the answer. It came to them when their assistant, kathy Redfern, interrupted one of their sessions and quietly told them that there was a call holding for them. Her whispered interruption that's all they needed to hear, and recruited her in the recording in this now famous line. So when their label UK Records, came to hear the track, they were so impressed that they immediately offered 10CC, whatever they wanted to lock them into a contract. They got a five-year deal included significant funding of five albums, all based on this one unique, this one very mesmerizing and very innovative song. So I want to play that for you, or be listening for that, I should say, within the song. So don't forget it.
Speaker 3:It's just the same thing. You call me, just like I Call you all the time, and everyone will be feeling fine with me. I'm not alone. I know you feel the love in me. I know you feel the love in me. It's me. I'm glad to see you.
Speaker 1:I'm glad to see you. I don't know. It's giving me a little. All right, give me a little, give me the business there. I'm going to try it a different way. I am bound and determined to play this for you, and you know what we're going to find it, because I want you to hear us sing, and I'm probably you probably already know what I'm talking about anyhow. But just for those who don't, I'm going to play it for you. Watch, I am bound and so, bound and determined, all right here we go there we go, you know.
Speaker 1:And, by the way, the other innovative part that that sound, that floating airy sound, that's that I've said this before that is a result of such innovation of multi-layering their vocals over and over. See if we can find this for you now. All right, here we go. All right, here we go, right in here.
Speaker 3:I know you, I know you. Be quiet, big boys don't cry. Big boys don't cry. Big boys don't cry. Big boys don't cry. Big boys don't cry. Big boys don't cry. Big boys don't cry. Big boys don't cry.
Speaker 1:Five albums funded based off of that sort of hypnotizing song. Anyhow, got to see him, glad I see him. That's going to be one of those bands I'm going to look back on and go. You know what? I'm glad that, like the Ramones in their prime or some of these other bands Lynyrd, skynyrd, the original where I'm glad that I saw these bands. So yeah, great weekend of music, more music ahead. Ireland is ahead.
Speaker 1:I'm leaving on the 5th of September and hopefully I'll be well, no, hopefully I will be doing my Pats Peeps podcast from Ireland, beginning on September 5th or probably when I get over the jet lag. Like September 6th or 7th, you know what, unless I'm mistaken, I think that the opening day maybe somebody can tell me if I'm wrong I think opening day is September the 5th and that kind of. I'm talking about opening day in the NFL. If that's September 5th, doesn't that figure that I would be getting on an airplane. Well, okay, so it's a Thursday night game. It's September the 5th, so it'll be the 7th, 8th, 7th or 8th, whatever, but I'll be overseas. So now I'm trying to figure out how I can get my technology. I'm trying to figure out how to make sure that I get you know Wi-Fi internet connection on my phone on the plane, which I've never had. I've never had that. So because I'm too confused, I'm all freaked out. Going to the airport, coming to the check-in, now I'm freaked out. Now I don't know what to do. So I'm trying to be calm this time. I'm trying to figure out how to get on the internet so that I can get to my service that provides the the games, so that, like every, it's almost two or three games of service that provides the games. So that, like every, I'll miss two or three games of the NFL season this time, but I am going to Ireland. I'm excited about that.
Speaker 1:Speaking of the NFL, one of the weirdest things yesterday watching preseason is now you have the NFL sort of copying tennis. They have this partnership with Sony and now they're going to use technology to change the game in certain ways. Anyone see the virtual measurements yesterday. So you have the NFL and Sony embarking on this very wide-ranging technology partnership that's going to prioritize officiating in the game communications now and possibly expand to a wider range on this very wide-ranging technology partnership that's going to prioritize officiating in the game communications now and possibly expand to a wider range of this fan engagement activations over a period of time. So what they've been doing? Sony's been working in and around the NFL for years through broadcasts and photography products etc.
Speaker 1:Hawk Eye Smart Video Replay System and photography products, et cetera. Hawkeye smart video replay system Includes new 12-camera boundary line monitoring. That's what they have set up this season. Did anyone see this yesterday? Beyond Sports real-time visualization also one of the first members of the new NFL Innovation Hub coming out last year. So, beginning this preseason, the NFL they're testing this Hawkeye virtual measurement technology in every stadium that will expedite line-to-gain measurements for the first downs with hopes of then deploying this thing next season, 2025. Then they're also working on some headsets for coaches, in-game communication stuff.
Speaker 1:They're expected to be ready this year by November, but it was just so weird. So now they don't have the chain gangs on the sideline while they're doing this. So now they go. Well, that's going to move the chains. No, it isn't. No, they're not moving the chains. The chains, as I understand it, they still have the marker there, but there's no carrying the chains out to where the football is, because they're going to now measure it, like in tennis. You know, in tennis, you see this virtual measurement, this computer measurement, whether or not the ball was in or out of bounds, it's the same thing.
Speaker 1:They're expanding the use of this Hawkeye for player and ball tracking data that could augment the next-gen stats already collected from things like Zebra RFD sensors affixed to the player's shoulder pads in the ball. That technology, which is called Skeletrack, has an ability to capture data on a player's full body and limb movement that's going to be available in four NFL venues. I don't even know what that means. I don't know what they're talking about on that part of it. Nfl Deputy CIO Aaron Amendola I wonder if he's in any relation to Danny Amendola, anyhow said the partnership quote felt organic because not only was Hawkeye the best performing technology in virtual measurement testing, but also its parent company. Hey, it's only a matter of time before baseball's going to start to implement this. Behind the plate for balls and strikes, I mean, obviously it would be a matter of time before baseball is going to start to implement this. You know, behind the plate for balls and strikes. I mean obviously it would be a Hawkeye system.
Speaker 1:I don't like the fact that they are removing the human element from the game. I'll miss the chain gang, remember? I remember one time they'd have to pull the chains out there. It could be half an inch and the official would have to show half an inch. It could be half an inch and the official would have to show fourth down and a half an inch or a half an inch short, right, you'd have to do that. I remember one time one of them came out with like a card or something and slipped it in between the ball and the down marker to see if it was a first down. Every NFL stadium will have at least 18 Sony cameras powering the Hawkeye products this season, six 8K cameras required for the virtual measurement protocol that's going to be tested this fall. So we will see the product of this work in the exhibition games as the league fine-tunes sort of how it works. Fine-tunes the communication, the graphical presentation, both in the venue and on the broadcast.
Speaker 1:Here's another thing the kickoffs look weird. Now I get it. They don't want the injuries and I get that. It just looks weird. I'm not sure I dislike it, but here's my thing. So, as I understand it, you can drop one to two guys back. I'm curious if any team if I were a special teams coordinator, I might try this why not? Maybe it's an abysmal failure. Maybe it's like well, look at this, this is pretty good and other teams might copy it. But if you've got two guys back and the teams can't move, the other players on the field other than the kicker can't move until the player, until it either hits the ground or the player catches the ball. Why not have the two players play side by side, come together briefly and then break apart? You don't know which way, who has the ball, I don't know. Maybe that's unrealistic, I don't know, man, I kind of like it. We'll see if anyone tries any trickery. I'll talk a little bit about that on my show tonight.
Speaker 1:By the way, I am the host of the Pat Walsh Show, as heard on KFBK locally in Sacramento, on your iHeartRadio app locally and everywhere, everywhere on the iHeart app, nationally and internationally. Also, if you're listening. A huge thank you, because I just can't forget it. Sometimes someone will send you a message and you're so thankful and grateful and blessed. Lori Wolf-Harner, thank you for your incredibly sweet, kind message coming back from your trip to Alaska. I want you to know again how much that meant to me. I have the nicest listeners Speaking of sports. I found this, wanted to play it. Then we'll get to a record spin of the day, my rare record collection, which will be a classic. So let me do a couple of things here. Here is two of the greatest hitters of all time in my estimation and in real fact. This is Jolton Joe DiMaggio talking with the splendid splinter Ted Williams Again two of the greatest hitters in the history of Major League Baseball. Do you think, joe?
Speaker 4:that Ted's 406 will ever be broken. I don't think so myself personally, but they'll be close. They have gotten close, but I don't believe today they will.
Speaker 2:I doubt that his record will ever be beaten. I think you not only have to be a super player, a super hitter, a type of hitter that Joe was. He had all the circumstances plus the greatness that he had. I don't think his record will ever be broken.
Speaker 4:This streak is beautiful 56 games but I count it as a bonus. The name of the game was to win and to play for the fans. They were out there watching you, yankee fans. We were that kind of a team, you know. We wanted to play to the fans and I think that all players should give that a lot of thought, that the fan is out there to see them play, and they should do everything that's possible to keep the game going that way. Hustle is the most important. 1941 was not only your 406th year and your 56th in a row, but it was a 41 All-Star game, one of the biggest moments in your baseball career, ted.
Speaker 2:Well, it certainly was, and you know, I hit the home run with two men on two men out and we were two runs behind. But Joe had hit a ball that might have been the third out, because it was a hard hit ball to second base, I recall, and he just beat the play at first base. Claude Passeau was the pitcher and you hit it a long way in Detroit.
Speaker 4:Did Claude Passeau give you any kind of a pitch that was foreign, for instance like a ball that might have had a little sliver on it?
Speaker 2:No, he might have thrown it to you, but he felt that his high fastball or his fastball coming in and he had a little cut to it, little cutting fastball, which was really oh yeah. But you're just like a slider, really not a heartbreaking fighter, just moved in on you a little bit. Do you go to many games? I see as many as I can. I see guys hit today that I know that's the way to pitch to them and they're so dumb they'll do something otherwise and let them beat you.
Speaker 1:Ted Williams. I know that was a little rough audio, but it's worth it when you can hear the voices of Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio talking about one another Obviously two of the greatest, like I say, sluggers in the history of Major League Baseball. Hey, before we get back to music, how about transitioning into music with a story, or a musical story? Because I'm going to play my rare record 45, coming up here on Pat's Peeps 129, pat's Peeps podcast. I'm a big fan of ACDC and here is a, and of course we've had two great singers Brian Johnson of ACDC and, prior to that, bon Scott. And then one of the constants has always been Angus Young, the great lead guitar player of ACDC, who here tells us, shares with us, a great story about Bon Scott.
Speaker 5:I mean a week was like a lifetime of anyone else in certain ways, because he could certainly, I mean a week could be an adventure. I mean his mother put him on a plane once he went to see his folks in Australia, put him on a plane. His mother put him on a plane once he went to see his folks in Australia, put him on a plane and you know, in London, you know the guy who was doing our tour manager went to collect him. You know he was going to meet him at the airport and he got to the airport and he called us up and said no, bob, you know. So for like a week later he gets a call from the airport and Bond said I'm here, can you come pick me up?
Speaker 5:And the guy got there and he's standing there. He's only got a pair of pants on, he's got no shirt. It's like the middle of winter, you know, freezing. He's just got no shirt, no socks, and he's going where you been, everyone's been worried. And he says I don't know, but yet his mother had put him on the plane, you know she had seen him getting on the airplane and he says he thinks he followed some girl off. She got off the plane in Bangkok or something, but he didn't know where he had been or what. He got up there angus young.
Speaker 1:I'm barnes scott awesome how many of my records been. That's right, going for the rare 45. Pull this one off the shelf today. You can see I don't know how much there's a tiny there's on some of these records because they're in these sleeves. You get a little dust on the very tip that has been exposed to air for decades. Let me pull this one out of here. This one is in well. It's in decent shape. It's not great shape but decent shape. Atlantic label, black and white. It's got a couple of stickers on it with numbers on it from the radio station. This has been around. This has been in this sleeve for a long, long time. I'll tell you that much. Tell you, let's find out a little bit about this before I spin it. Tell you, let's see, let's find out a little bit about this before I spin it.
Speaker 1:Uh, so this record here, the song written by carol king and jerry goffin, performed by this band in 1965. This track went to number 10 on the us r&b chart, went to number 35 on the uk singles chart, went to number 43 on the UK singles chart, went to number 43 on the US pop chart. So very successful song Featured on the 1965 album I'll Take you when the Music is Playing January, excuse me, january 1965. And again, this record is 2 minutes 53 seconds long. Isn't there someone Fitty, santa, someone that does At the Club? This is At the Club.
Speaker 3:This is the Drifters. Well, friday night has finally come around and me and my baby gonna head for spot. We found we're gonna forget our cares and dance on into the night Down at the club. Down at the club, oh, everything is out of sight. Down at the club, they're gonna say that it's all right For two bits and a dollar. They've got a swinging show for you. Oh, yes, they do. And the band won't quit Till everybody tell them to. And when they play that slow dance you can pull your baby tight Down at the club. Oh, everything is out of sight Down at the club.
Speaker 1:They're gonna say that it's all right. Is that a little cowbell in there? I need more cowbell. That is the Drifters. That is at the club. All right, let's flip this thing over. Okay, the other side of this is called Answer the Phone. Answer the Phone. It's a pretty rare song here. You know even that Drifters song the A side. I'm not really that familiar with that. But all right, here's the flip side. Answer the phone.
Speaker 3:When the light's gone All over the city, yeah, and everybody's gone out To have their fun. Ain't it a shame, yeah, oh, ain't it a pity Someone as fine as you Is the lonely one. Come on and answer your phone.
Speaker 1:Answer your phone. I like that little guitar.
Speaker 3:Pick up the receiver. I know that you're at home. Answer your phone. Answer your phone. You can spend the rest of your life all alone.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening Bad Speeds 129. Tomorrow, 130. Thank you for listening Bats Beeps 129. Tomorrow, 130. Thank you so much. Hey, I hope to see you on the radio tonight, back on the Bats Beeps podcast. Have a beautiful day.
Speaker 3:Bye. I can't stand your desperation. Come on, give me an answer. My telephone calls.
