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E51 Like a Good Neighbor, We Can Be There
What does it take to write a jingle that stands the test of time? Join us as we explore the captivating world of advertising music, contrasting the unforgettable jingles of Barry Manilow with Justin Timberlake's catchy modern contributions.
As we shift gears, let's celebrate the evolution of rock music with a spotlight on Led Zeppelin’s groundbreaking second album. Imagine experiencing the innovative stereo sound of "Whole Lotta Love" through your headphones for the first time. We'll highlight the seamless transitions in tracks like "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid," and delve into the story behind Rolling Stones' "It's Only Rock 'n Roll." Whether you’re a devoted rock aficionado or new to the genre, you'll appreciate the interconnectedness and timeless appeal of rock.
Finally, we’ll reflect on the creative evolution of The Replacements and their transition to a more mature sound with "Let It Be," while offering our support to the beloved Matthew Sweet as he faces medical challenges. This episode is a testament to the power of community in the music industry, reminding us all of the importance of standing together during difficult times. Tune in for an episode rich with music history, personal stories, and moments that will resonate long after the music fades.
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He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2:He's got the feeling and it's out there growing. Hey everybody, this is Jim Boge, and you're listening to Music In my Shoes. That was Vic Thrill kicking off episode 51. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So, jimmy, I'm driving down the road the other day and I see a sign at a business and it says State Farm Insurance. Now I don't have insurance with that company. I just want to make that clear.
Speaker 1:Oh, I thought you were going to say you don't have insurance. No, no, no, you live on the edge.
Speaker 2:Jim, no, no, I do have insurance, I just don't have it with that company. All right, okay, but I start singing in my head like a good neighbor State Farm, is there Right? You know that jingle.
Speaker 1:Did the guy appear?
Speaker 2:No, okay, I don't have insurance with him.
Speaker 1:That only happens if you have insurance with them Only happens if you have insurance.
Speaker 2:But I started to think you know that jingle is really successful Because, even though I don't have insurance with them, I start to sing in my head when I see this business Right. Did you know? Barry Manilow wrote that.
Speaker 1:Oh, I heard that yeah.
Speaker 2:So he wrote it. Manolo wrote that oh, I heard that. Yeah, so he wrote it. And now this is the same guy who wrote this One's For you Daybreak and Copacabana at the Copa. Yeah, you remember that one.
Speaker 1:His name was Rico. There you go. He wore a diamond.
Speaker 2:Yes, you know. He wrote all these pop radio hits in the 70s. He sang a lot of songs that he.
Speaker 1:He wrote the songs that made the whole world sing.
Speaker 2:He didn't actually write that song. Oh, I think that's weird, then it is you know who I think wrote that song? Who? I'm not 100% sure, but I think Bruce Johnston, who played with the Beach Boys, wrote that song. I'm not 100% positive, but that's what I'm thinking right at this moment okay, we'll find out did you know? He also wrote I'm stuck on band-aid because band-aid's stuck on me you remember that? One, yeah, yeah, of course and he also sang in one of the commercials. You deserve a break today at McDonald's he wrote that I don't know.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of mystery behind it. I tried to do some research on it and it doesn't ever come out and say that he wrote it. But in multiple, multiple things it says that it was the granddaddy of them all for him singing it. But it doesn't. I don't know why they're so vague with it, but he sang in one of them and that is what kind of started to make his career go. And speaking of McDonald's, Justin Timberlake wrote their I'm Loving it ad. You know that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's an apostrophe, though I'm loving it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's it Right, you're correct. That's not the first time you've corrected me on that. Well, I mean— With the Gs and the Ns and the apostrophes You're good with that.
Speaker 1:It's their trademarked thing, you know.
Speaker 2:It is, it's trademarked and we're talking about it, mm-hmm. So Barry Manilow made $500 for the Like a Good Neighbor, so they pay him 500 bucks. You don't get any residuals, it's just here's your money and go. Justin Timberlake made $6 million. Yeah, he's loving it.
Speaker 1:He's loving it.
Speaker 2:I've talked about John Mayer before, mostly in his role as lead guitarist and sharing vocals with Bob Weir in Dead Company. He's also obviously got a solo career. That that's what most people know him from. He recently posts on his Instagram page a tribute to Francisco Lindor of the New York Mets and the New York Mets team. I found this really interesting and I'm going to just mention some of it, snippets of it. You know I wrote down just some of it. I couldn't write the whole thing down. It was long. It really was, but it's a pretty cool tribute. Thank you, francisco Lindor, thank you, new York Mets.
Speaker 2:You never know when you're going to find a new source for inspiration, and Francisco became that inspiration for me this year. He goes on to talk about Dead Company's three-month weekend residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas. We talked about that, I believe, on show one, if I'm not mistaken. Did we really? Yes, and he says my Sphere concerts this summer became games in my mind. Wins were when the music was cooking, when the notes matched the intention, when the zone could be found. Every weekend was a series and every show was a home game.
Speaker 2:The Mets talent makes them aspirational, but the humanity makes them relational. It means that it's never out of the question. What's being done on that field could be done by you and I in our pursuits too. Their monumental run was enough to unify a city, bring together families, friends, and remind all of us that, above all else, nothing is more powerful, more powerful a force in achieving success than effort A boring word effort, but it's the only chance of good becoming great and that greatness taking hold for the long run. Wow, I just think that's so cool. I really find that inspirational, and it's not just because I'm a New York Mets fan.
Speaker 1:Not just because you're wearing an October ready t-shirt right now.
Speaker 2:That is correct, even though they're out of the playoffs. But you don't have to be a Mets fan, you don't have to be a baseball fan, you don't even have to like sports If you just like music. Just hearing what John Mayer said, I think that's really cool. You know, bringing back that humanity and just some cool things and being able to relate. I think we all can take something from that.
Speaker 1:It's almost, though, like he's saying that music is a competition.
Speaker 2:It's not, though it is not a competition.
Speaker 1:We should write an open letter to John Mayer.
Speaker 2:Maybe we should. Yeah, and we'll see what he says. When I saw Den and Company at Citi Field in June of 2023, mayer did wear a blue Mets Lindor jersey. So most of the time he just wears, you know, regular shirts, nothing spectacular, but he did have on a blue Lindor. And, speaking of Lindor, his walk-up song when he comes to bat is my Girl by the Temptations, and when the song is done and he's up at bat, the crowd continues to sing the song.
Speaker 2:So, the whole crowd. You got 40,000 people that are continuing to sing it. They actually brought the temptations for one of the National League Championship games and they sang before the game began and it was just kind of cool. You know, just to have something like that Got me to start thinking. You know, when they go to commercial during sporting events, you know it doesn't matter what event it is, it seems like the who Eminence Front is like the most played song when they go to commercial. And I've been paying attention over the last few weeks. I've even made notes, I've been writing all these notes down just to see if I was right or not. But the two most pop, no, no, no. Three, three most popular songs.
Speaker 1:Let me see if I can get one Is one of them, tom Petty.
Speaker 2:One of them is Tom Petty yeah.
Speaker 1:Running Down a Dream. Running Down a Dream.
Speaker 2:Yes, so Running Down a Dream by Tom Petty, grateful Dead's Shakedown Street. Oh, wow, the who Eminence Front. And then there were some fish songs. I don't remember off the top of my head what they were. One night the moon was super cool at Citi Field and they showed a close-up and they started playing Walking on the Moon by the Police. We talked about that recently. They played Can I Kick it, which is a song and an episode that we talked about not that long ago. Tribe Called Quest, who actually just got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame it's a little messy on what is rock and roll and what's not, and who's in it and who's not. So that's a whole. Another episode on a whole nother day. Van Halen why can't this be love? It was funny because, like when they were in LA and I'm speaking specifically about the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers you know they would play like Van Halen Los Angeles bands. You know different things like that.
Speaker 1:Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Speaker 2:Red Hot Chili Peppers. They played, yes, when they were in New York. You would hear New York Groove by Ace Frehley.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Who was in Kiss. And it's just funny because you hear Kiss, I don't know a lot about them. I've said that many times before. I always point to you and let you talk about it before I always point to you and let you talk about it. But I did not know New York Groove was a cover that Ace Frehley did, because it's just so different. Like you don't expect that to be a guy from Kiss singing the song.
Speaker 1:Who covered it, I mean who wrote it.
Speaker 2:I don't remember, but I know it's a cover. I just don't remember off the top of my head. Just kind of crazy, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a good song.
Speaker 2:It is a good song, but it just doesn't fit as a Kiss song, which it's not. It's Ace Frehley. Yeah, they did their solo albums.
Speaker 1:For a reason His was the best of the four solo albums. By the way. It had a couple of songs that I don't know if they charted, but they were popular. Can you name some? There was another one called Snowblind that I know well. I think KISS fans probably liked it. But the other albums you can't name any songs from.
Speaker 2:No, I can't.
Speaker 1:So for listeners out there that don't know, KISS decided to put out four solo albums simultaneously for each member of the band.
Speaker 2:And they came out the same day, right.
Speaker 1:Same day. Yeah, and they, you know, in general it was just like almost like a gimmick, like a chance for them to do something different than Kiss. So that's what I think New York Groove is a song that they probably wouldn't have done.
Speaker 2:Another Grateful Dead song that is played a lot and this I remember just throughout the season Estimated Profit by Grateful Dead. So if you see the San Francisco 49ers football game, they're going to play that at one commercial. Or if you see something in California, they're going to play, you know, in that song it's California you know, and then they go on, so that's definitely played.
Speaker 2:And then Crazy Train by Ozzy is another one that you hear a lot, so I just thought it was kind of cool. Last thing I'll mention about sports is yesterday I was looking up the dates of the college football playoffs and bowl games just trying to get an idea when they are. They all seem to have sponsors now. Okay, it used to be, back in the day it was the Holiday Bowl, or the Beach Bowl, right Right Auto Zone, liberty Bowl, directv Holiday Bowl. But how about these names? The Wasabi Fenway Bowl, bad Boy Mowers, pinstripe Bowl, pop Tarts Bowl. And then the winner for me for the best name in my opinion I know, snoop Dogg, arizona Bowl, presented by gin and juice by Dre and Snoop.
Speaker 1:Okay, that does beat what I was going to say. I was going to say the Duke's Mayo Bowl.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, this beats it. This is insane. Okay, this is the first bowl that's being sponsored by alcohol, right, and it's again Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl, presented by Gin and Juice, by Dre and Snoop. I don't care who's in that game. It's on at 4.30, december 28th. I'm watching it. Yeah, I'm watching it. I'm already in. I think the viewership is going to be there. People are going to want to see that game.
Speaker 1:What are they going to pour on? Are they going to be there? People are going to want to see that game. What are they?
Speaker 2:going to pour on? Are they going to pour gin and juice on the winning coach? I don't know, but I want to see it. That's what I'm going to tune in for. It's an already made drink now, so you can just buy it and just you know.
Speaker 1:Pour it into a glass. Think of all the hours we're saving not having to mix gin with juice anymore, you know.
Speaker 2:And you know it's been something that he's talked about for a very long time.
Speaker 1:You know he's ahead of the curve.
Speaker 2:He is ahead of the curve. You know, snoop is everywhere this year the Olympics, the Voice commercials with Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, and now sponsoring a college football game Ba-da-ba-ba-ba, I'm loving it. So, jimmy, let's take a look back at some good old past album releases from back in the day. All right, I'm going to start off with Led Zeppelin II from. Led Zeppelin Came out October 22, 1969, nine months after the release of their debut album.
Speaker 2:Yes, some songs were lifted directly from blues songs. Yes, they were sued for plagiarism. Yes, they didn't like some of the songs and never played them in concert, but it's still a really, really good album. I mean I love it, love listening to led zeppelin too. You know, there's definitely a sense of maturity from the first album. I think they're they're more comfortable in their skin playing and I think they understand the studio.
Speaker 2:You know jimmy page was doing the producing and understanding more I, I love it and, and the first time I heard it I heard it through 8-track Johnny, through the 8-track Perfect, and I had the headphones on. And when you listen to Whole Lotta Love and it's, you know, going back and forth, it's insane. Like you don't know what it's like until you put the headphones on. It's just such a different experience. I mean, it was just so cool. And you know, when I first heard it it was like this is unbelievable because you don't hear that when you listen to it, like you know your dad's stereo at the home, you know it's not the same whatsoever. So to me the tracks were also in perfect order, starting with Whole Lotta Love. Like I just mentioned, only single from the album released in the US peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 31st 1970. And I almost say to myself like 1970's still kind of early to be having music like that peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100.
Speaker 1:Right, when you look at what else was on the Hot 100 in January 1970, there wasn't anything else like Led Zeppelin. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2:No, I think that's a tremendous feat to do that their only top 10 Billboard hit they ever had In 2021,. It was named number 128 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and it was the last song they performed live with John Bonham in July of 1980 before his death in September of 1980. What Is and what Should Never Be, and the Lemon Song follow up after that and then Thank you, which Robert Plant wrote with Jimmy Page, and it's a very un-Led Zeppelin-like song, but it's a great song. He wrote it for his wife and it's kind of cool to see this side of the band. I know people that have used it as their wedding song. That's the kind of song that it is. It's really cool. And again, when you listen to the rest of the album or listen to the first album, it just is out of place. But he did it, you know, for his wife.
Speaker 2:Second side of the album starts off with Heartbreaker, but I always remember when it was played on the radio they would go from Heartbreaker right into Living Loving Maid she's Just a Woman where, when I first heard it, I thought it was one song you know, not realizing until 8-track. Johnny lent me the Emerson 8-track player that we've talked about and the 8-track and it was just a fantastic back-to-back combo. Back-to-back combo, yeah, I've heard it on, you know, on satellite radio, where now sometimes they just play Heartbreaker and I'm like, hey, where's the rest? Because I just expect it to have everything.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Living, loving Made was the B-side to a whole lot of love single with a purple umbrella and a 50-cent hat Guitars, vocals, man, this is a good song. Ramble on Moby Dick. Bring it on home, you know. Finish off the album, moby Dick being instrumental, featuring John Bonham's extended solo on the drums just so cool, like watching the videos of him playing. That was just, you know, then jimmy page would just come up with the guitar. You know, it was just cool. I mean, I, I love things that I loved when I was a kid and I got a certain emotion from it. And then now, as a, an adult, that I still I say adult and my voice is cracking that it still gives me that same emotion. How cool it is. That's how cool the music is that you know when someone can do that and through the different parts of your life and what's going on, you can still say that's a great song, that's a great album.
Speaker 2:So 50 years ago, on October 18th 1974, rolling Stones released it's Only Rock and Roll, the single. It's Only Rock and Roll, but I Like. It came out in July of 1974. It's not one of my favorite songs, I got to be honest with you, okay, but what is cool is that the song came out of a jam session with Mick Jagger and then the faces Ron Wood and Kenny Jones. Ron Wood on guitar, kenny Jones the drummer, and David Bowie with background vocals and Willie Weeks on bass. And Willie Weeks has played with like everybody. He's played with the Rolling Stones. He did probably six albums with George Harrison. I mean, he's been with so many people I can't even name everyone he's played with. But if you want to check out like a really good bass player, check out Willie Weeks. He has done everything. So reach number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. Not too shabby. But again, ron Wood, who we now know has been in the Rolling Stones since you know 75, 76, at this time wasn't in the Rolling Stones and Kenny Jones was not in the who. Kenny Jones replaced Keith Moon when Keith Moon died in 1978 and it's just kind of cool to see how the bands you know kind of morphed into different things.
Speaker 2:The only other single was a cover of the Temptations Ain't Too Proud to Beg, released in October of 1974, peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100, and I think it's a really great cover of the song. When I first heard it I didn't know that the Temptations had done the original. I actually had to go back to listen to hear their version of it. Then I knew some people who were bands that would play it and they would have it written down but they would either have Temptation's version or Rolling Stone's version. I guess it's how they decided how they were going to play it and you know how they were going to do it.
Speaker 2:The B-side was Dance Little Sister, and I think it's a great guitar song. It's danceable, it's just like an old school rock song and that's another one of those songs that you listen to and you're like man, I think I can play some rock and roll music. I can write some songs. That's one of those songs that really makes me think about that, as well as the first song that opens the album If you Can't Rock Me Good song, but on this album I think it's kind of like overproduced. It's kind of too slick for me. But if you hear it live it sounds much better than what is on here.
Speaker 2:Album reached number one on the Billboard 200, november 23rd 1974. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn the Torpedoes, october 19th 1979. What a great rock and roll record Peaked at number two on Billboard 200 albums in February 1980. Don't Do Me Like. That was the first single that peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1980 as well.
Speaker 2:I was talking with a friend of mine, said a woman had heard his pride, told him that she loved him so and turned around let him go. We can all relate, we've all had that happen to us and that's what makes me relate to so many songs when I can say, wow, man, that happened to me too, tom, it happened to you, it happened to me as well. I just didn't write a song about it. So Refugee, the second single, peaked at number 15, march of 80. Just a cool sounding song, one of my favorites by the band. Last single, here Comes my Girl, peaked at number 59 in May of 1980.
Speaker 2:And then some other songs from the album that I like Louisiana, rain and Even the Losers so Even the Losers. It has a really cool beginning that you almost think could be the inspiration for the beginning of the 1982 Elvis Costello song, man Out of Time. And then it's guitarist Mike Campbell's wife who says it's just the normal noises in here, and I laugh when I say that because he was doing demos for the album and he kept thinking that he heard a washing machine and he's saying to her and she responds with it's just the normal noises in here. He liked it so much he actually put it on that song. Normal noises in here. He liked it so much, he actually put it on that song. And speaking of Mike Campbell and his wife, they met at a Halloween party 50 years ago in 1974. So Marcy and Mike started talking about dogs. She had a dog and he asked about it and they just kept talking and they have been together ever since. So you know, the spooky season is coming up, jimmy.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:And I have some Halloween songs that I have on a playlist on my phone. You know, when I'm sitting outside on the porch and kids' trick-or-treaters are coming up, I just play these songs that just keep going over and over. So I thought I'd share some of them. This is Halloween the Nightmare Before Christmas. Danny Elfman wrote it from Oingo Boingo. Monster Mash by Bobby Boris Pickett. Somebody's Watching Me. Maxwell, thriller, michael Jackson, ghostbusters, ray Parker Jr. The theme from the Munsters Every Day is Like Halloween, by Ministry and Bela Lugosi's Dead, bauhaus, and we talked about Bela Lugosi's Dead recently. We've talked about Thriller, somebody's Watching Me, but Every Day is Like Halloween. You're familiar with that song at all, jimmy?
Speaker 1:I'm not.
Speaker 2:So Ministry, before they were this heavy-duty synth metal band, they were a pop band and they used to release a lot of singles. They had an album out I think it was With Sympathy. It came out in 82, 83. And then they released this single Every Day is Like Halloween and it's just your typical, you know. You think it's almost Depeche Mode-y, but like a harder edge on it. But what's super cool is that in the middle the solo, they bring in a guy to actually scratch. So it's, you know, like a DJ scratching the records and it just goes so cool with the song. It's a really fun song. So Every Day is Like Halloween definitely is a song that you want to play at Halloween time, jimmy, any Halloween songs that you like.
Speaker 1:The Ghostbusters song. Right, you know, I ain't afraid of no ghost.
Speaker 2:You don't look like you would be.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not. What else is there? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Wow, that was pretty exciting. Thank you for that. You know what? How about we go to something that you do like Jimmy? Are you ready for Minute with Jimmy? It's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1:Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute with Jimmy, minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy Talking today about the 40th anniversary of the Replacements album. Let it Be, we talked a little bit about it when you were talking about, I Will Dare, great songs Leads the album off.
Speaker 1:But one thing I really like about this album is it sort of was a turning point for the replacements where they they had a couple of their punk songs like their. Their first three albums had a lot of those on them and there were a couple of those on this record, like tommy gets his tonsils out, but they didn't really thrash again after that. They kind of they put it to bed on this record and then they also showed you what they were going to become. And they have the, the songs like the kind of really mellow songs like uh, androgynous and 16 blue, and then also hints of just what the new replacements are as far as a rock and roll band, like favorite thing and I will dare and uh, yeah, it's just a fantastic record and Tim to me is like an extension of that that came out the next year.
Speaker 2:I agree, jimmy, definitely agree with you, and it's kind of cool to watch a band do that be able to come out of the schoolboy antic type of music and then start to grow. And you know, I Will Dare, I believe that right at the end of Hootenanny that they had that ready but it was too late to get it on the album. And then they got it on this album and you're right, I mean they definitely matured and they became a band that a lot of people started to like because they, you know, I think they just could relate with all the different things that they talked about yeah, and I think they realized that if they took their music a little more seriously that they could do better stuff.
Speaker 1:You know that, like hootenanny had some good songs on it, color me impressed on hootenanny almost belongs on a later album. That was a little bit of a uh, that showed what they were going to become, I think. But a lot of the stuff on hootenanny was just them goofing off. You know I still loved it, but they they started to take things more seriously on let it be and then even more seriously I think like okay, this is our sound, we're doing something, we're not just this uh bar band and they did well with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that was a minute plus with Jimmy. My name is Jimmy. On October 12th 2024 in Toronto, matthew Sweet unfortunately suffered a really bad stroke and a GoFundMe account has been set up for him because he does not have insurance. Been set up for him because he does not have insurance. If you're not familiar with Matthew Sweet, he has a bunch of you know, I call it power pop from the 90s. He had Altered Beast album, the Girlfriend album, 100% Fun, blue Sky on Mars. You know those are just a few of the albums that were kind of from like 1990 to 97 or so and I've always enjoyed them. I saw him play in May of 95 here in Atlanta at Music Midtown and I love Power Pop. We've talked about Power Pop many times. It's just fun and you know it's an exciting thing. Unfortunately, his stroke is so bad and, being in Toronto, you know there's no free health care if you're an American and you're in Canada and he's, you know, having to be flown from Toronto, you know, to a place, a facility here in the US and he's going to have to have round-the-clock care in order to be able to, you know, get well, to be, you know, be better than what he is. You know, fortunately the doctors were able to act quickly to save his life and I know that you know we don't really talk about things like this a lot. The show is really supposed to be entertaining and the show is about taking you away from whatever is going on in your life. But I just thought that I would mention that there is a GoFundMe account and I'll put more information with it. You know, on the show notes that you'll be able to find with the podcast on whatever streaming service you listen to, as well as on the Facebook and the Instagram pages. But I wanted to say that I just looked right before we did the show.
Speaker 2:Mike Mills, peter Buck of REM, both donating money. Okay, back in the day you had Matthew Sweet. He was a teenager and I think he was living in Nebraska and he loved REM and he'd write letters to the band and he'd write letters to Mitch Easter and you know, hey, I want to be a musician and I want to do this. And he ends up moving to Athens, georgia, and goes to UGA for a while until he gets a record contract and it was probably about 20. He goes up to New York City, Bertis Downs from REM Management putting some money up for him. York City, bertus Downs from, you know, rem Management, putting some money up for him. Great, jim Parsons from the Big Bang Theory.
Speaker 2:And again, like when I read this, this goes back to what we talked about earlier the humanity and how sometimes things you know, good things can happen from bad things, and it's just really cool to see people out there. Uh, john Mayer, who we talked about, has donated money. John Cryer, two and a half men, pretty in pink. You know he donated and on his, his ex account, formerly Twitter, is like hey, I just donated money and I did, and I'm paraphrasing I did because I enjoyed his music. If you're able to and you enjoyed his music, you know think about maybe sending some money.
Speaker 2:So I think people think that all musicians have a ton of money and that's not the truth whatsoever. You know Matthew Sweet was touring. He was on tour with Hanson and he was doing that. That's how he lives, that's his money, that's how he gets a paycheck and now he has nothing, you know, no money coming in from touring because he can't tour. He's got these astronomical bills already and they're just going to keep getting higher and higher when you have no insurance, and I think that you know. If you do like Matthew Sweet, you know, think about it. I know we all have our own things and, again, it's not something I necessarily like to talk about, but you know, you don't know unless you ask.
Speaker 1:So you know, I had no idea that happened, so thanks for letting me know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's. You know it's just kind of a sad thing. I mean, he's trying to do what he can do and you know, friend of the show, robert Klaus, he saw Matthew Sweet at the end of August in Athens said it was a real good show, you know, really enjoyed it. He actually sent me some video clips of it. So I just thought that I would put that out there and even if you have five bucks or $10, think about maybe giving him a hand for all the enjoyment that he gave you. Well, that's it for episode 51 of Music in my Shoes. I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios located here in Atlanta, georgia, and Big Thrill for our podcast music. This is Jim Boge and I hope you learned something new or remembered something old. We'll meet again on our next episode. Until then, live life and keep the music playing. I'll be waiting for you.
