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E56 Altamont Chaos, The Who Concert Tragedy, and U2 at Radio City
Join me as I unravel the tangled history of the infamous Altamont concert, where a lineup featuring Santana, Jefferson Airplane, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and the Rolling Stones played against a backdrop of pandemonium. We relive the shocking moment when Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin was knocked out, and the surprising calm provided by the Flying Burrito Brothers amid the chaos. These moments beg for reflection on how such events shaped music history and offer lessons in event planning gone awry.
We look back at The Who Concert Tragedy in December 1979, when 11 people lost their lives trying to enter an arena.
We'll also reminisce about an electrifying U2 concert in 1984, where Bono's memorable intervention during a security scuffle added to the night's unforgettable magic. As we celebrate the 35th anniversary of Lou Reed's "New York," there's much to reflect on. This episode is a rich tapestry of music history and cultural shifts, inviting you to keep the rhythms of the past alive in today's world.
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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 56. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. On December 6th 1969, the Altamont Free Concert took place at the Auto Racetrack in Tracy, california. Scheduled to appear included Santana, jefferson Airplane, the Flying Burrito Brothers, crosby, stills, nash, young, the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones.
Speaker 1:Pretty good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sounds like a pretty good lineup, like the Woodstock Festival. Just about four months earlier the site for the concert venue was changed several times. We know that didn't work out well for Woodstock because they ended up running out of food, not enough bathrooms.
Speaker 1:But hey, we're still talking about it 50-something years later.
Speaker 2:Yes, we are. An agreement with Altamont was made Thursday, December 4th for the Saturday show. So on a Thursday night they make an agreement. We're holding this concert on Saturday and these are all the bands that are going to be there. Can you imagine not knowing, as a fan? There's this show, you don't know where it's at.
Speaker 1:Had they sold the tickets yet.
Speaker 2:They had sold tickets where it's at. Had they sold the tickets? Yet they had sold tickets. They had, um, I'm trying to think, I can't remember off the top of my head where they had. You know, thought that they were going to play. They had built a stage. The stage was already being built and the stage that was being built was only about three and a half feet tall because of the way that the terrain was where it was going to be. That was fine. That was not good for Altamont. All right. At Altamont, with a three and a half foot tall stage, that meant people could just walk up to it, sit on it, walk onto it whatever they wanted, sit on it, walk onto it whatever they wanted.
Speaker 2:So security and safety were not like they are today. It's a whole different thing. You know you go to a concert today and you know security has all different things. If you go on the general admission floor at a venue, they have all those gates and they kind of separate people, people even with seats on the floor. They'll do a bunch of gates and keep things seated Um, excuse me, keep things separated so that you just can't become like a mob. You know, back then none of that was put into the thought process whatsoever. Mm-hmm, the thought process whatsoever. So the best thing that they could come up with security was to hire the hell's angels, you know, the motorcycle club, an outlaw motorcycle club, not just any motorcycle club. Now there's differences in stories on whether they were supposed to be security or just make sure nobody got up on the stage. Nobody's really sure, because everybody seems to have a different account of that.
Speaker 1:They're paid in $500 worth of beer, all right, that sounds like a lot of beer in 1969.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a few thousand dollars. Obviously, you know, in today's money it was a lot of beer. What's clear is that this was not a good combination of. We're going to pay the Hells Angels $500 worth of beer. So the Hells Angels and I think it was set up with the Oakland chapter they start, you know, contacting everybody. We're getting $500 worth of beer and the next thing, you know, there's Hells Angels chapters from all over coming.
Speaker 2:Santana opened up and their set included Evil Ways and Soul Sacrifice. They played at Woodstock a few months earlier. Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock fantastic, great job with that Jefferson Airplane. They come on stage, a Hells Angels motorcycle parked right by the stage gets knocked down by the crowd. A couple of songs into their set. Co-lead singer Marty Balin jumps off the stage to try and defuse the situation and that didn't work out well as he gets punched in the head and knocked out unconscious by an angel. Jefferson Air playing guitarist, paul Kantner sarcastically thanks the Hells Angels for knocking out their singer and then another Hells Angel jumps on stage and grabs a microphone and they start arguing about it. You know that this is not going to end well. This is just not going well. They managed to play a short list and included Somebody to Love. Three-fifths of a Mile in Ten Seconds and White Rabbit. The calmest part of the day was when the Flying Burrito Brothers—.
Speaker 1:Wait, can we back up though?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So did he come back to consciousness and continue playing, or did they just play it without him?
Speaker 2:No, he finally came back to some consciousness. You know it's crazy, but I think you know you get back and you're like all right, yeah, let me go up. You know some of those songs like White Rabbit I mean that was the other lead singer.
Speaker 1:Oh right Grace.
Speaker 2:Slick, that would be doing.
Speaker 1:It added a whole another level of like psychedelia to his performance. I'm sure being like hit in the head.
Speaker 2:Yeah, being unconscious and then coming and trying to sing. So the Flying Burrito Brothers, a country rock band, and a lot of people credit them really for being the I don't want to say in-invaders, but making country rock kind of what it is. They were the band that got people into it and you know the Eagles and a lot of bands like that will say, oh, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and they're an offshoot of the Byrds. They played, you know a few songs. I guess the country rock kind of got everyone mellow and they sing this song, lazy Days.
Speaker 2:I absolutely love that song. It's a great song. If you get a chance you should check it out. They also have a version that they released on the Bird 68 album, sweetheart of the Rodeo, but it's on the deluxe edition. But it's a really, really good song. I love listening to that. So, even though it was calm because I said it was wasn't like what had happened, you know, during Jefferson Airplane. But someone from the crowd throws an empty beer bottle and it strikes a woman in the head, fractures her skull. So that's the calmest part of the day a woman getting her skull fractured, wow, okay, okay. So now the Angels have sought off pool cues motorcycle chains to keep the people off the stage. Make sure that their motorcycles aren't getting knocked down. Crosby, stills, nash and Young during their set. Stephen Stills is stabbed in the leg with a sharpened either motorcycle or bicycle spoke and it stabbed multiple times. Wow, can you imagine by a Hell's Angel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right. They managed to play five songs, including Long Time Gone Down by the River, and the last song they played was Sea of Madness and a Sea of Madness. It was for sure. I don't think there could have been a better choice of a song for played was Sea of Madness and a sea of madness. It was for sure. I don't think there could have been a better choice of a song for what was going on. Grateful Dead were scheduled to play next, but with the vibe deteriorating they didn't play and they left. They're like this is not going well Now.
Speaker 2:It's kind of strange because the Grateful Dead had a great relationship with the Hells Angels. The Hells Angels were some of their first fans. You know, after the psychedelic part, you know the acid test and everything After that, the Hells Angels really got into them and they really supported them. So it's kind of strange that the Grateful Dead who suggested having the Hells Angels left when the Hells Angels got a little bit out of control Right, if you look at March 1972, grateful Dead plays I think it's about eight shows at the Academy of Music in Manhattan and one show is a benefit, and it was a benefit for the Hells Angels because so many members have been arrested and their bail was so high, they end up doing this show to help raise money for the Hells Angels.
Speaker 2:To help raise money for the Hells Angels, bo Diddley opens up the show and the Grateful Dead back Bo Diddley. It's on CD. You can stream it. It's really cool listening to Bo Diddley with the Grateful Dead and then, after Bo Diddley's done, then the Grateful Dead goes out and they play some songs on their own.
Speaker 1:Wow, you mentioned the acid test. I read that book, the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Did you ever read that book?
Speaker 2:I've not read the book, no.
Speaker 1:Ken Kesey the guy that went on to write One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the subject of the book. He didn't write uh electric kool-aid acid test, but he's the main character because it's the true story of him being in a mental hospital and they're giving him lsd and he's the one that stole it from the hospital and introduced it to the hippies in southern california or in california, and they had these parties, and the band that got together to play at these psychedelic parties where they would have Kool-Aid laced with LSD was the Grateful Dead.
Speaker 2:The Grateful Dead? Yes.
Speaker 1:And then Kesey goes on to have this school bus that's painted all kinds of crazy colors and it says further on it that's spelled wrong and they're called the merry pranksters and they just go around just doing crazy stuff and they run across the hell's angels and they become great friends with them. So it's like it was all tied together.
Speaker 2:It's funny that you say that when the Grateful Dead broke up after Jerry Garcia's death in 1995, they came back and they put together a tour in 1996. And Bob Weir played with Rat Dog with his offshoot band and Bill the drummer played with his. You know Los Lobos was there, hot Tuna, which is some guys from Jefferson Airplane Off the top of my head. I can't remember who else was there. Oh, bruce Hornsby was there. He had played with the Grateful Dead in the later years but it was called the Further Festival.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Which was connected to that and the bus and you know it's all kind of cool. But yeah, they would have these acid tests and the grateful dead would play four, five, six hours right of all kinds of crazy music. That's not really the grateful dead that most people listen to or know about. You know they kind of change and became more folky and youana almost in 69 into 70 and so forth. But that's really cool that you know about Ken and all that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and it was a great book. I remember I was backpacking around Europe like a post-college kind of thing and I traded a book with somebody for that one, and I'm really glad I did, because it was a cool book.
Speaker 2:And this is coming from a guy that was in a band, the Violets, that had a song. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was. I Hate the Grateful Dead.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's the exact title of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh my God, that is so funny. That really is funny. Yeah, but that's kind of cool even though that was not your music or your scene or whatever for you to actually read the book and learn a bit about them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we didn't really have anything against the band themselves. It was more against the people that were kind of poser fans, that wore the tie-dyes but they didn't know anything about the music, that wore the tie-dyes but they didn't know anything about the music. And it was kind of overwhelming in like that 1989 era when A Touch of Grey had come out on the radio and all of a sudden all these people were Dead fans and we were like I hate the Grateful Dead.
Speaker 2:The Grateful Dead fans called them touch heads. All the people who got into them because of Touch of Grey. Yeah, but you know they went from playing arenas to stadiums just off of that song and off of that album. It's incredible that they made so much more money because of it. People just wanted to go nonstop.
Speaker 1:I wonder what the people that only knew that song really thought about the whole experience of the show, if they were kind of just waiting around for them to play touch of gray or if they got more into the other music I think some of them had their own acid test and I think that they were okay right.
Speaker 2:That's my thought yeah so I know a bunch of people.
Speaker 2:They hopped on the bus they did did hop on the bus. I know a bunch of people that played lacrosse at colleges across the country and they all loved when they would go and do a West Coast game and play out there if the Grateful Dead was there and then they could go not necessarily as the whole team, but a ton of the team would go see the Grateful Dead out there, and I know a bunch of people that did that a bunch of different times and loved it. So you know. So the Rolling Stones, believe it or not, they take the stage, but it's a few hours since Crosby Stills, nash and Young had performed Probably not a good idea.
Speaker 2:Okay, crosby Stills, nash and Young had performed. Probably not a good idea. Okay, you probably should have taken the stage sooner, because now people have a few hours. They're drinking more, they're getting upset more, you know, within the audience at the Hells Angels at the fact that there's no music. So they open up with Jumpin' Jack Flash and by the third song, sympathy for the Devil, they stop playing because there's so many fights going on around the stage at one time. Again, this stage is three and a half feet tall. All right, you can just come right up if someone's not stopping you.
Speaker 1:It's just crazy.
Speaker 2:They start playing the song over, but then four songs later, during Under my Thumb, 18-year-old Meredith Hunter tries making his way up on the stage, he gets grabbed by a hell's angel and hit in the face. Several angels start to beat him and he retreats into the crowd. Then he pulls out a gun and an angel pulls out a knife and Meredith is stabbed to death. All of this within 20 feet of the stage. Rolling Stones are on stage. They're playing within 20 feet. Band plays eight more songs for fear if they stop there'd be a full riot. They ended with Street Fightin' man, which many people thought they were. Most of the day. Most of the crowd, most of the angels thought that they were street fightin' men. And again, that's the song that they ended up with. The song Gimme Shelter was released as a single the day before Altamont.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Okay, december 5th 1969 comes out as a single. It was performed during the show and it's a song about the brutal realities of war. That's what the song really is about. A film title Gimme Shelter was released on the one-year anniversary of Altamont and it included Altamont footage and when the murder took place, that was there.
Speaker 1:Now it's not close up.
Speaker 2:It's 1969 film coverage. You know, kind of from afar, but you can see what looks like a gun, what looks like someone stabbing someone. In my opinion, the film portrays the brutal reality of a festival without security, or actually believing there was security to keep the audience and the band safe. That you know. You have this song that talks about the you know realities of war and then they name this film. It's the realities of not doing what you need to do to keep people safe. People are hurt. You know this guy is stabbed to death. It just is crazy, absolutely crazy. Yeah, a Hells Angel was arrested for the murder and his trial was in the summer of 1971. The jury views the concert footage and that in the end helped him get acquitted because he was acting in self-defense.
Speaker 2:So you know we talked about Woodstock over the summer and we talked about there was a lot of things going against it, similar, they had to change venues and we talked about they ran out of food because so many more people came than what they expected. They didn't have enough bathrooms, you know just a whole lot of stuff. But the town of Bethel, where they were, the people came together and we talked about it making sandwiches and getting water or getting whatever they could, whatever supplies you know to them to help out doing everything they could and we talked about. You know how good that was and that really is as much a part of Woodstock as the music is. Is the people that were there to help them Altamont? You just have these people at this racetrack that there's no supervision. You know the Rolling Stones hired Hells Angels. They had hired the Hells Angels in England when they did that tribute show in July of 69 that we've talked about before, after Brian Jones had died and they did the big memorial. But the Hells Angels England is not the Hells Angels from California, a whole different group of people.
Speaker 2:And I think that you know, is this what is the end of the 60s? You know? Is that it? You know, that day, december 6th 1969,? Do the 60s end there? And I've been asking people over the last couple of months, you know, when do you think that the 60s ended? And a bunch of the people are people that were alive. You know living, you know a life, you know I was a young kid. So I'm asking people that are older and so many people have told me they think the 60s ended in either 73 or 74.
Speaker 2:And it was surprising how many people said that, like they didn't even have to think that they automatically came out with that.
Speaker 1:Is it like Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War?
Speaker 2:Yes, and you know that was Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War. Yes, and you know that was. That had a lot to do with it, you know. But you know to me, that day in Altamont that ended the flower power hippie dream that the counterculture believed was our future. So I really think that you know, there was all this hope and a lot of good that happened in August of 69 in New York and then by December it was gone. It was just a whole different world. You know, a few weeks later, 1970 starts the 70s and you know oil crisis and you know all the different things that happened in the 70s Watergate. You know just so many different things.
Speaker 1:Just a different, different, different time. I heard a quote one time said in the 60s if somebody did LSD they had this religious experience, this amazing connection to the universe, and in the 70s if somebody did LSD they were just messed up. I believe it. You know that Altamont might be kind of when that changed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do believe it, I really do, and it's a shame it really is. It could have been a good show. Most bands didn't play as much as they wanted to. You know this is released. I talked about Gimme Shelter. You can go and rent it and watch it and see all these things that I spoke about. I've seen Gimme Shelter many, many times and they actually show a scene where the Rolling Stones are watching it and the looks on their faces as they see what's actually happening. That it's just absolutely insane. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:What kind of security was at Woodstock you?
Speaker 2:know, at Woodstock I don't think that they had a whole lot of security either. It was a whole different vibe about what was happening.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean hiring the Hells Angels and giving them $500 worth of beer, which sounds like a lifetime supply back then, was probably the key.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and saying keep people off the stage. Well, all right, that's what I was told Keep people off the stage. And I'm not going to quote, I don't know exactly, but I remember you know some of them saying you know, we're not the police, we're not security, we're not this, but we're going to keep you off the stage, we're going to keep you from getting to the bands. And that was, you know, whatever means was necessary to do that Right, to do that. Ten years later, on December 3rd 1979, the who was to play Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, ohio, to over 18,000 fans, of which almost 15,000 were general admission tickets. It was the first tour since drummer Keith Moon had died in 1978.
Speaker 2:Fans had lined up outside the venue hours before the show was to begin. People heard what they thought was the who playing, and it's not. You know, people aren't sure. Was it the who playing or were they playing? They had like a little quadrophenia movie that they were showing before they came on stage. Were they trying to get everything set up? Well, people think that the who are on and they start pushing up towards the doors. It's only a sound check or, like I said, it's only this movie? They don't know. But what ends up happening is pandemonium. Two doors are open and the crowd of thousands of people try and enter the doors. Just two doors. People start getting trampled and, after falling to the ground, literally are getting walked on. And, after falling to the ground, literally are getting walked on.
Speaker 2:Eleven concertgoers died by asphyxiation, ten of them aged 15 to 22, and one was 27 years old. 26 people suffered injuries. Fire officials spoke to the who manager who wanted to cancel the show and he said there'll be more of a panic if they did. And the fire officials say okay, let's go on with it. Concert goes on. The manager doesn't tell the who until after the show is over.
Speaker 2:Wow, and the who admit they shouldn't have played that night. But they didn't know, they had no idea about it. And the people in the show really didn't know. A lot of them knew that they trampled over people. A lot of them knew, you know, their shirts were kind of torn. A lot of them saw that they had blood on them, but they didn't think anything about it. The who says they should have stayed in Cincinnati instead of leaving for the next night show in Buffalo, and they don't shy away from it. It's the one thing they kind of own that they probably didn't do everything that they should have, and I think that their managers started it and they just kind of followed the manager's lead, but to this day, they've always talked about it. They have not, you know, shied away whatsoever and they have said these different things.
Speaker 2:On May 15th 2022, the who plays in Cincinnati for the first time since the tragedy on December 3rd 1979. One of the opening bands that they had was a local group of people that went to one of the high schools where a bunch of these kids had died and they let them open up and they made it like a almost like a memorial thing and really acknowledging and making it something that was important. They invited the families of the 11 people that had died. They invited them. I think nine of the families actually went and they tried to make good. They really did.
Speaker 2:Yes, back in you know, the early 80s, they did settle. You know there were lawsuits and the who settled with, you know, the families, not just those that were killed but those that were injured also. But I think in 2022, for them, it was as important to them to go and play and not stay away from there as they had for 40 something years. They actually tried to play there a few years earlier but the pandemic had stopped it and you know they had to reschedule. So you know they did. They did a good job, I think, um trying to make something better or at least keep people's memories alive for, you know, a senseless tragedy that happened so many years ago. Five years to the day after the who concert tragedy, I saw U2 for the first time at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. My brother and I took the LIRR, which is the Long Island Railroad.
Speaker 1:For those of you wondering what the LIRR is, we take it to Penn Not to be confused with WLIR.
Speaker 2:No, not to be confused with WLIR radio, no. So we take it to Penn Station in Manhattan and we walk over to the Rockefeller Center area so that we can see the Christmas tree. You know, we want to see the Christmas tree and the first thing we had gone when we were much younger. But now that we're a little bit older I mean not much, I think I'm 18. My brother's 16. So it's not like we're old, brother's 16, so it's not like we're old. But noticing that the tree is much smaller when you're there in person than it is on TV, the TV just makes it look huge. It's not as big as you think.
Speaker 1:It's a big tree, but it's a tree. It's not like, yeah, it's not the Empire State Building or something.
Speaker 2:No, no, it's not, and I'm glad that you noticed that. That makes me feel better that you notice things, jimmy. So on our way to Radio City I bumped into two guys I knew from Nassau Community College and they were in the city for a night of drinking. They're just like super stoked that, hey, man, we're here, we're going to have some fun, we're going to do all this and I'm like I'm going to see you too, like you can't have more fun than me, there's no way. So the show sold out. We didn't have tickets. We paid a scalper $75 each for tickets that were originally $16.50 each. But we wanted to go, we just wanted to be there. That was a ton of money back then and ticket scalping was a whole different thing than it is today. With resale tickets on assorted apps and you know it's not illegal, you can just go on and buy stuff. Back then, police are walking around and if they catch you buying tickets over face value, you can be arrested.
Speaker 1:Right yeah, buying tickets over face value.
Speaker 2:You can be arrested. You know everything was cash and you risked the idea that you could give money to someone and they give you a ticket. That's not really even a ticket. You didn't know. So before we go in, we see friend of the show, chris Cassidy, and this guy Rudy. Chris is probably 17 at the time. That's how long ago. This is okay. So you know we're talking about how great the show is going to be and we're super excited and we can't wait. We head in.
Speaker 2:They come out to the instrumental Fourth of July from the current album at the time, the Unforgettable Fire, and they start off with 11 o'clock TikTok. Then I Will Follow. And, seconds, what a way to start a show. I'm like this is worth $75. Just right here. Okay, right for sure, I will say that all of the new songs sounded so much better live that all of the new songs sounded so much better live. Unforgettable Fire, a Sort of Homecoming Bad, and Pride in the Name of Love, much, much better. You know they just came to life as you two played them to an audience as compared to listening to it on the record.
Speaker 1:I thought the same thing on that tour.
Speaker 2:You saw them in 85, right.
Speaker 1:Oh, right, yeah.
Speaker 2:In Atlanta.
Speaker 1:In Atlanta Okay.
Speaker 2:I saw them in 85 at Madison Square Garden. But being at Radio City and being at Madison Square Garden, we were all the way in the back, like all the way in the top, whereas we were real close. I mean, there's no bad seats at Radio City. You know, I think Radio City holds, I'm going to say, 7,000, I'm going to say about there. So throughout the night they played Sunday, bloody Sunday, the Electric Co, new Year's Day. They ended the show with Party Girl Gloria and 40. Just absolute classics. I do remember. I want to say it was either I Will Follow or Gloria.
Speaker 2:They're playing the song and security is like manhandling a person and Bono stops and he starts saying to the security, let him go, let him go. And finally, you know, crowds going crazy and they finally let the person go and, you know, get back to their seat and then they just start writing to the song and I was like this is just so cool. It was a lot of fun. I mean really, really a lot of fun, and U2 was really a good band back in 84, being able to hear their older songs as well as the new songs that were out at that time. So we walked back to Penn Station and we run into the same guys who we had seen earlier. They were out for a fun night of drinking. Well, they were drunk as hell, bloodied, with torn shirts, because they managed to get into a fight outside one of the famous Blarney Stone bars. There's like a thousand of them in New York stone bars. There's like a thousand of them in New York. And while they were out having a fun night, my night was spent seeing one of the best bands around in 1984. This is still one of my favorite concerts of all time and I'm still singing.
Speaker 2:How Long to Sing this Song. You know what? Speaking of still singing a song, do you know what time it is? It's time for a minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. It's time for a minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1:Minute with Jimmy minute with Jimmy. All right, I want to talk about the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Lou Reed album, new York.
Speaker 2:Very fitting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very fitting, exactly, it's and it is. It's an album, it's a, it's an ode to New York city itself. It's. You know, he's a New York guy and so all the songs kind of touch on different aspects of New York. Of course, Dirty Boulevard was probably the biggest hit off of it, but Romeo and Juliet was another great song and I know that I've said this about a lot of albums, but it's one of those that you put it on every song. There's nothing to skip over on this album. I mean it has Halloween Parade as the second song. It's got songs like Busload of Faith, sick of you. Hold On is a great song. Strawman was always one of my favorites and it ends with Dime Store Mystery. But yeah, I love this Lou Reed record. It's back to him just kind of playing guitar, rather than the albums like Transformer. They had some other instrumentation, great album.
Speaker 2:I agree with you, jimmy, and it's funny because I just read on Facebook sometime this week someone put a post on said the most underrated album of the 1980s, in their opinion, was Lou Reed, new York. Oh yeah, and it got me thinking about it. I do remember it was one of the first CDs that I ever bought.
Speaker 1:Interesting.
Speaker 2:Yes, it was one of the first, and on the radio at the time it was WDRE. It wasn't WLIR anymore, it became WDRE 92.7. And they played the heck out of Dirty Boulevard, but they played Busload of Faith a lot as well, and it got me to buy the CD and listen to it. And it's a good CD. It really, really is a good one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my old friend David Phillips is the one that introduced me to Lou Reed. I mean, I'd listened to a little bit of Velvet Underground on a new walk on the Wild Side, but he made me tapes. You know, back when somebody would tape their albums for you. He made me tapes of every Velvet Underground album and every Lou Reed album. But his favorite Lou Reed record was New York. Like to him, it was just magnum opus.
Speaker 2:He was honest on it. Yeah, he definitely was honest. My name is Jimmy and speaking of being honest, that's it for episode 56 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 Vic 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, thank you.
