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Well, look who is back. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to go anywhere. Promise. It's the Pats Peeps podcast. How are you today? On this fine Monday, eighth day of December 2025. Hope you're doing well. Looking out my studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California where the sun is setting right now. I'm lucky to be able to see the sunset out my studio windows. Boy, it's really nice right now. Maybe you're seeing it too, but I I don't know where you're listening, but if you're listening in the valley, you're not seeing this. But here, uh, it is I'm so lucky to be right where I'm at, elevation-wise. I'm looking out these windows and it's gorgeous. The neighbor crossed the forest over here. He's got a burn pile going. I see the smoke billowing up by the into the sunset. Just to kind of set the scene for you. Wherever you are, thank you so much for listening. I've been away for a few days. I didn't mean to be. There's a couple of things going on. Number one, I've had we've had technical issues here at the uh at the home studio where I do my podcast. And we tried to resolve them. And every time we tried to resolve them, why then there would be another little thing that popped up, and then of course, then we'd resolve them. And I don't want to bore you with uh with that, but I of course I feel like it certainly like I owe you an explanation because I do try to do my podcast every day, or as often as I can. And last week, that was the only week that I can remember where I didn't really uh get to do them most of the time. But I so I'm very glad to be back. Uh back on the radio tonight. Now, there's another reason that I have not been able to get to the podcast. One of the reasons is that I am starting to be, well, I've been a little bit under the weather, quite frankly. And I know this is going around right now. I got this cough. Hopefully, it will subside. It comes and goes for now, but I know a lot of people have this, it's just going around. And I wake up and it just startles me. It's just out of nowhere. So that's been going on. So there's just a couple of things. So it's hard to talk when you're coughing all the time. I don't know if I'm getting better or worse at this point. I'm really not sure. But I hope you're doing well. So there you go. That's why you have not heard my podcast for a couple of days. You know, and I just love doing it. So maybe I'll, I don't know. Who knows? Maybe I'll make up for it some way. All right. Okay. God, look at that sun going down. Uh, my name is Pat Walsh, and I'm the see, my voice is going. Hear that? Excuse me, one moment. Having these little coughing fits. Oh, this is Pat's Peeps. 370. 370, the coughing episode. No, no. Now I know that uh yeah, I don't want it to be called the coughing episode. But it's 370. We got a new, we got one, two, three new businesses. Four new businesses. Four new businesses on the Pat's peeps. Come on, guys, please get a hold of us. We want to represent your business. This is gonna be big in the new year. I'm telling you now. I'm telling you now. Hey. I forgot to talk about something the other day on my show. I should on December 4th. Dog got it. I should talk about it. I'll probably talk about that on my radio show tonight. You know, December 4th. And we got carried away. We were doing something fun because, oh, that's what I was gonna say. My name is Pat Walsh. I'm not before I started choking. Pat Walsh, uh, the host of the Pat Walsh show on KFBK Radio in Sacramento, 93.1 FM, 15.30 a.m., streaming live everywhere on your free iHeart app. Support your local business, please. Pat'speeps.com. It's all right there. Merchandise and all of that stuff. What was I talking about? On the 4th, on my radio show. I'm 7 to 10 p.m. Kiss I didn't. Monday through Friday, kiss. I didn't mention that. 93.1 FM, 1530 a.m. I just want you to remember that. So, anyhow, on the fourth, we get carried away with some fun because I'm trying to keep it light. I usually try to keep it light. We talk music, we talk a lot of just fun stuff. We try to not get into the political arguments on the show. And we were doing a lot of fun topics. So you get carried. So on the fourth, my point is I forgot to mention a couple of things. And that are very near and dear to my heart. One is that it was the anniversary of the concert in which if you know the song, and it's a classic, it's the song that most people know. Like it's one of the first songs people play. If they learn to play, it used to be anyhow. I don't know about it nowadays, but when I was growing up, if you were gonna learn to play the guitar, you'd either start with Stairway to Heaven, because you had that real slow start, but mainly you would start with this classic song right here, Pat's Peeps, 370. From Machine Head, in my opinion, one of the great rock albums of of all time. So tell us a story by Deep Purple inspired by Real Fire, the mantra Cassino in Switzerland, December of 71, where the band was standing and witnessed smoke rising over Lake Geneva during a Frank Zappa concert. And if you're listening and if you listen to my show, or if you've listened to my podcast, of course, you'll know that Frank Zappa is I mean, is right at the top as my favorite. There's others that are right up there with him, but I just love I'm a huge Frank Zappa fan. And so the band was, they they witnessed the smoke rising over Lake Geneva, the Zappa concerts going on, which led to this iconic lyric, the iconic lyrics in the song about the event. They were using the Rolling Stones mobile studio at the Grand Hotel, as they sang, to record their album. As I said, Machine Ed. The fire became a legendary rock and roll origin story. Breaks out at the Mantro Casino, the mothers of invention, deep Purple, the members watched from across the lake as smoke billowed. And the the opening lines, we all came out the Mantro on the Lake Geneva shoreline directly referenced the event. And the fire and the song are central to Mantro's music history. With a band even performing the song on a stage built over the lake in the later years, which I really think that's just really cool that they did that. It would have been a legendary concert, of course, to be at. Deep Purple released their uh album, Machine Head, by the way, 1972. Rolling Stone magazine, when I used to respect it. A magaz I should say a magazine I used to respect. Play Smoke on the Water, number 434, and it's a list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. I think that's rubbish. I think it belongs much higher on the list. Again, you would you go to play guitar back in the day. I mean, you weren't playing um, I don't know. You you were playing Smoke on the Water. Although they did rank the song's riff number four on its greatest guitar riffs ever listed. You know what? That's interesting to me. I try not to shed too much light on what Rolling Stone thinks, but that might be a cool topic for my show. The greatest guitar riffs ever list. Hmm. People like when I talk music. I like when I talk music. People always have great suggestions. Came in at number 12 on its list of the 100 greatest guitar tracks. I wonder what they do consider to be. Let me see. Let me just see if I could check this. So this would be Rolling Stones, Greatest Guitar Riffs Ever. Let's just check it out. Uh Rolling Stone magazine, not Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone. Alright, Stone. Featuring songs like I guess I'm not sure if this is in the order. Whole lot of love, Led Zeppelin. Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze, ACDC, Back in Black, The Kinks, You Really Got Me. Oh, that's for sure. That's pretty good. Ranked those very high in their 100 greatest guitar songs lists. With the Rolling Stones, Brown Sugar, I Can't Get No Satisfaction, appearing as um iconic examples of memorable riffs. Uh other common inclusions, Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin. See? Of course. Smells like Teen Spirit, Nirvana, Johnny Be Good, Chuck Berry. You know, when they say in this on their 100 greatest guitar songs lists, I'm not looking for the greatest guitar songs, just the greatest riffs. Here we go. So let's go like this. We'll go, I can't stand this final one here. I shouldn't say I can't stand it. I just don't think it's that good. I think it's way overrated, sorry. And I'm tired of hearing it. That would be I don't know how many do we have here? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. Okay, fifteen. At number fifteen, according to Rolling Stone. Seven Nation Army, the white stripes. Fourteen. I don't know. Seven Nation Army. You hear it at the sporting events now. I don't know. I'm tired of it. Back in Black precedes that by ACDC. At 13, stairway to heaven. Then I'll just go down the final 12. Led Zeppelin, whole lot of love. Guns and Roses, sweet child of mine. Johnny B Good, Chuck Berry. Jimi Hendrix in there with purple haze. Yeah, the aforementioned smoke on a water deep purple. Smells like Teen Spirit, Nirvana. You really got me. The kinks. Gimme Shelter, the Rolling Stones. Can't you hear me knocking? The Rolling Stones. Jumping Jack Flash. The Rolling Stones. Brown Sugar. Guess who? The Rolling Stones. And the number one. Key riffs from Rolling Stones, greatest riffs ever. Can't get no satisfactions by, yes, the Rolling Stones. It's pretty good. And they rule. Anyhow, so I went on a tangent there. I was talking about mantros, smoke on the water, and all that. Which uh happened on December 4th of 1971. The other thing that happened on December the 4th is that my hero musical heroes I just mentioned. Frank Zappa died on that day, December 4th, 1993. Man was only 52 years old. 52 years old. Misdiagnosed with prostate cancer. Frank Zappa. You know, some Frank is one of those artists that you either understand and like, you get it, or maybe you don't get it. I've heard people say, oh, what is this cartoon music? Then I hear other people go, dude, you're listening to Zappa? Awesome, man. And he had such an eclectic taste in music. And here's the thing about Frank. He spoke his mind. He did zero drugs. No one in his band was allowed to do drugs, or you'd be out. You'd never be in the band. You would have to be a top-notch, top flight musician to play with Frank Zappa. He smoked cigarettes and he drank coffee. He did do that. But he was all about free speech. He fought against Tipper Gorn, the PMRC. Anyone remember that? He was fantastic. He was a free thinker. There's so many things that I can tell you about Frank. What I will tell you about him is when I first heard him, our introduction into Frank was from an A-track, apostrophe. And my friend Keith Welch, I love you, Keith. He put in that A-track, and he played the song that became the gateway. If you did become a Zappa fan, it became a gateway song for you. If you didn't get into Frank, you'd hear the song maybe and you might chuckle at it. Uh song called Don't Eat the Yellow Snow. You watch out where the huskies go, and you don't you and don't you eat that yellow snow. My brothers and I, my brother Steve, my brother Jim, and I, this is no joke, we communicate in Zappa phrasing. We talk to each other many, many times using Zappa phrases right from his songs. So this is the gateway for most Zappa fans.

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Dreamed I was an Eskimo. Under my boots and around my toe. Was a hundred degrees below zero.

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And my mama cried. And my mama cried.

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I'm gonna interrupt real quick now. Even if you're listening going, I just don't get it, bad. I don't get it. Again, it's not for everyone, but those who get it, get it. I don't know what to say about it. There is a sarcasm within the for instance, he does doo-wop. He does classical music, he won a Grammy for his jazz album. He's listen to Cletus Alrightus, and you want to hear some great jazz. He's got such great jazz music. But he has this tinge of sarcasm. Instead of going dump bum ba da da bum bum ba da da da da bump bump, it's going, yeah. He does an exaggerated voice. The backup singers are doing a sarcastic, exaggerated voice for effect that I love.

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Don't be an audio. Save your money, don't go to the show.

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So for instance, I I'll stop interrupting. Instead of bump bum ba da da bum bum ba-da-da-da bump bump, it's dou bad. You know, it's like uh you know.

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Well I turned around and I said, Oh, ho Willa Said, oh, ho Well I turn around, and I sit ho ho And then all the light commenced to glow And listen to the musicianship with a tear in her eye Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow?

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Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow?

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This is about the time we'd all start giggling right about that time as teenagers a fruit trapper Who was strictly strictly commercial.

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Then he breaks into this Strictly Commercial Had the unmeticated capacity to jump up from behind my igloo And he started in the whipping on my favorite baby seal with a lead-filled snowshoe I said with a lead A lead-filled snowshoe He said peekaboo with a leg

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Don't own the rights to this. Just trying to expose the music.

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Hit him on the nose and he hit him on the fin and he listen to the guitar.

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That's the other thing about Frank.

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That got me just about as evil as an Eskimo boy can be. So I bent down and I reached down and I stooped down and I gathered up. He is all of the deadly.

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Yellow snow.

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He is one of my deadly yellow snow from right there where the huskies go.

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Favorite guitarists.

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Whereupon I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area. But destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology. Here it goes now, the circular motion, rub it. And then a bit of anger.

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See it goes on. This is the whole suite to see. But it is like I say, it's the one that has teenagers. He got us in the frame. And he didn't care. He did not care what the record executive thought. So he started his own record company. He didn't care what they thought. He was like, if you don't like it, so that's the thing about it. He's not mainstream. Frank was not out to have radio hits. He just wasn't. He wanted to do his own thing. And those legions of us who loved him for that would listen. Here is some jazz. This is the gumbo variations from Hot Rats, Pat Speech three seventy. He's a very he's a big fan of old school doo-wop fifty style music. I love this one.

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Oh my heart can suck me. You and I be my life, my love, my dear. I can deep. This yearning deepen my heart to have on a yo.

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So you can even add yo. He doesn't have uh this kind of sarcastic thing right there, but he's very serious about the doo-wop. And I find that that is a beautiful song from Frank. How about uh I wanna play you one more? And so one day I hear this song. This is right in the middle of the discount and I'm listening to Earth Radio 102 in my bedroom. And it'll grow. And in the middle of like a 10-song set, they play this song. I despise the disco. I make fun of disco boys. And suddenly I hear this song, and again, not for everyone, but I said, Who is this? Just released this album, 1977, Disco Boy. When I heard this, I called the radio station. I said, What that was Frank Zappa? And I bought this for my stepbrother Ray for Christmas 1977, stole it back from him and listened to it constantly, and I was on my way to love and Frank Zappa. Now you may not get it. Run to the toilet and comb your hair. I know every lyric, I won't freak you out and sing it all, but check out the lyrics. Leave his hair alone, but you can kiss his comb. I heard that I was sold on Frank's app. Anyhow, you get it. Oh. As a guitarist, he is just he's an amazing guitarist, he's a creative mind. Like take him or leave him.

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You never go duty, that's what you think.

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You never go duty.

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You never go duty, that's what you think. Talking about a disco boy, you never go duty, that's what you think. Who else is gonna think of that?

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You never go, duty.

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Anyhow, ha ha ha ha. Before I get carried away, uh rest in peace, my man Frank Zappa. I got into this album in 1979. Rat to um um chic your booty. This is rat to mago. I mean, sheik your booty. He was just poke at disco. Shake your booty, chic your booty. I want to pay attention to this guitar solo here at the end. This is Frank to me at one of his all-time bests on a guitar. Literally just freewheeling it on stage, by the way. He just makes it up on stage as he goes. Rat to mag on Pat's Peeps 370. I'm blessed that you listen. Thank you so much for that. Merry Christmas time to you. Listen to the best of tonight, best of the sound bites. See you on the radio.