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E66 Do You Believe in Wayne's World and SB Halftime Miracles? Excellent.
Ever tried to choose which two 80's Pop albums/cassettes you'd be willing to part with? That’s the musical dilemma we tackled in this week's episode of "Music in My Shoes." Our journey starts with a random list of 28 cassettes, that Jimmy and I dive headfirst into, looking for the first 2 out and the first 2 in. Music is subjective and deeply personal, and our lively debate underscores just that as we reflect on the albums we just can't let go. Play along with us, with the list below.
And that's not all—we also take you through our top five Super Bowl halftime shows, a list packed with electrifying memories from Michael Jackson's game-changing performance to U2's heartfelt tribute to 9/11. Each show left a lasting impact, with Prince’s rain-soaked guitar solos and Paul McCartney's crowd-rousing "Hey Jude" sing-along standing out. As we meander through these iconic moments, we also pause to recall the timeless resonance of certain albums and even share a detour into the world of sports with the 1980 "Miracle on Ice." We look back at Aerosmith guesting in the 'Wayne's World' sketch on Saturday Night Live in 1990. Join us for a rich blend of music, memories, and moments that have shaped our lives.
28 Cassette Stay or Go Challenge
Culture Club - Colour by Numbers / Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth
Huey Lewis & the News - Sports / Stray Cats - Built for Speed
Duran Duran - Arena / Blondie - The Best of Blondie
The Cars - Shake it Up / Bananarama - True Confessions
Roxette - Look Sharp! / Olivia Newton-John - Physical
Thompson Twins - Here's to Future Days / Richard Marx - Repeat Offender
Wham! - Make it Big / INXS - Kick
Billy Idol / Rebel Yell / Bangles - Different Light
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta / Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward / Madonna - True Blue
Michael Jackson - Thriller / Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven on Earth / Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat
Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl / Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes / Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
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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 66. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. Episode 66, get your kicks on Route 66. Yeah, oh, you sound real thrilled with that. I like that.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I've ever been on Route 66.
Speaker 2:I don't think I have. I'd like to go on Route 66.
Speaker 1:It winds from Chicago to LA, I believe.
Speaker 2:Now, it sounds've ever been on Route 66.
Speaker 1:I don't think I have. I'd like to go on Route 66.
Speaker 2:It winds from Chicago to LA, I believe. Now it sounds like you're singing a song Nearly 3,000 miles along the way, something like that. Yeah, and I know that they kind of have. I mean, I don't know, only from what I've read and what I've seen. I've read some magazine articles that are pretty. You know high up on it that you should do it just to kind of see like what America once was old America, if I could say.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess that's what it would mean Rather than the interstate. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Well, thank you for that little kick on Route 66 here on episode 66. So, Jimmy, on social media I belong to a group and it's called. Grew Up Listening to WLIR DRE Again, that's the radio station I listened to when I was a much younger lad, in my teenage years and into my early 20s, and someone posted a picture and it had 28 cassettes that were kind of stacked up so you could read the band name and you could read the album name, and then it says you can only remove two. So, jimmy, I put a piece of paper.
Speaker 1:Oh, this is the paper, okay.
Speaker 2:Yes, so if you flip over that piece of paper it's got a list. And for those of you at home, if you want to pause, these will all be listed on the show notes so you can kind of take a look, take a screenshot of it and then be able to kind of play along with us.
Speaker 1:This is funny.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to give you a minute to do that right now.
Speaker 1:Now I'm removing two because I don't want to listen to them.
Speaker 2:Yes, Okay, Because of whatever the reason may be. Okay, so before you get a chance, we're going to just read them out loud. I'll read the first side and then you read the second side and we'll do it kind of quickly. Again, for those of you at home, this is on the show notes. You can screenshot it and then you can kind of play along so that you kind of see what we have. So I'll go with Culture Club, Color by Numbers, Huey Lewis and the News Sports, Duran Duran Arena, the Cars Shake it Up, Rock Set, Look Sharp. Thompson Twins. Here's to Future Days. Wham Make it Big, Billy Idol, Rebel Yell the Police, Zenyatta, Mandatta, Depeche Mode, Some Great Reward. I always have trouble with certain words. Reward is one of those words. Also always have trouble with certain words. Reward is one of those words also. Anyway. Michael jackson thriller. Belinda carlisle, heaven on earth. Paula abdul, forever your girl. Daryl hall.
Speaker 1:John oats, private eyes, jimmy oh, I'm reading the other side. Yes, please debbie gibson, electric youth stray cats built for speed. Blondie, the best of blondie. Bananarama. True confessions, olivia newton, john physical, richard marx, repeat offender, nxs, kick bangles, different light, prince in the revolution. Music from motion picture purple rain, madonna, true blue, millie vanillie girl. You know it's true, true Blue. Milli Vanilli Girl. You Know it's True. Go-go's Beauty and the Beat, pet Shop Boys, actually, and Cyndi Lauper, she's so unusual.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can only pick two that you wouldn't have, and I could pick a bunch more than two, to be honest with you, but this person on the social media website not website, social media, whatever says immediately that they would pick Debbie Gibson and Olivia Newton-John.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Like immediately, like you know, with a question mark, like I mean that's it, like that's the only answer, when we know that's not the only answer and we know that I like Debbie Gibson, that I don't make any bones about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's no Anne Hathaway.
Speaker 2:She's no Anne Hathaway, but you know Electric Youth, that's a pretty good album.
Speaker 1:I have to say, oh is it. You're familiar with the album.
Speaker 2:I have the CD. I do. I kid you not, I do have that.
Speaker 1:My brother-in-law, Gary. Actually he likes I can't remember if he likes Debbie Gibson or Tiffany, but he made the case that they were like really good pop songs, really good artists, and, like Gary, Gary loves the Grateful Dead, he loves, you know, all kinds of rock and roll. So I trust Gary on that one.
Speaker 2:So Tiffany did that song I Think we're Alone Now which was Tommy James and the Shondells originally.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And I believe Tiffany would go around to malls all across America and these kids would show up. I think the videos that they showed on MTV were actually mall footage, yeah it's a really smart thing to do.
Speaker 1:If your target audience can't get into a club, then go to the mall.
Speaker 2:It worked. It definitely did. So, Jimmy, looking at this, what two immediately do you say that you're going to take off this list?
Speaker 1:I'm going to take off Milli Vanilli Girl. You Know it's True, because that's not really them.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that they had their dancing and their cornrows and all that look and everything, but they weren't the actual people singing. So I think the album Girl, you Know it's True. I've heard this. So I think the album Girl, you Know it's True. I've heard this. I can't say that it's been verified, but I think it was originally going to be called. You Know, the Singing Isn't True.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Girl, you Know it Isn't True. And the other one I take off is Michael Jackson Thriller. Whoa Anyone? Whoa yeah.
Speaker 2:I didn't see that coming, but for me, my first two is not Debbie Gibson, of course not, unlike the first person that I took this from, but I would go with Richard Marks. Repeat Offender. Don't really like anything that's on there. And Paula Abdul, forever your Girl.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:There's not a whole lot you know she's not a good singer.
Speaker 1:She was a dancer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, didn't she do like the LA Lakers, like the choreography or something like that back in the day?
Speaker 1:That sounds right. Yeah, she was a big choreographer and dancer.
Speaker 2:And she was on what show? Was that American Idol? Yeah, she was on American Idol for a few years.
Speaker 1:And her musical opinions were never very good. You know, she was nice to everybody. That was one thing.
Speaker 2:Sometimes I'm not sure if she knows she was there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So, Jimmy, let's look at what would be your next two that you think that you might get rid of.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, okay, I would probably okay if we're not doubling up on each other. Then I would probably get rid of Culture Club and Belinda Carlisle.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:Nice. Yeah, well, Nice yeah well, I just oh, and now I just saw another one. That is definitely above those, but I already said the two.
Speaker 2:Well, that's great, I like that. So for me, you know now, I mean I like a lot of these. I'm not going to lie, there's a lot of these that I do like Straycats Built for Speed. I still have the cassette that I originally bought when the album came out. I absolutely love that, Blondie.
Speaker 1:What songs are on that one?
Speaker 2:Built for Speed is going to be Rock this Town. Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Rumbling Brighton. Cat strut.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, there you go, all right right there, big one, yes, built for speed. I'd probably go bananarama true confessions pick and then after that, oh man, I, I don't know. I I mean, I kind of like all the rest. Wow, I really do. So let's look at it a different way. The first two that you would keep all right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the first two I would keep would be billy idol, rebel yell and I'll go purple rain oh, nice choices.
Speaker 2:I like that. I would probably go both from around 1984, if I yeah, yeah, I would go, because I don't want to say the same ones as you. I would go, the police and Yana Mandata and I would probably do the Stray Cats built for speed that I said. I think that would be my first two that I would keep in.
Speaker 1:Do you have any guilty pleasures like okay, I would keep this one, but I wouldn't brag about it. Debbie Gibson, Electric Youth. Yeah, okay, Mine might be Huey Lewis and the News.
Speaker 2:That's a great album.
Speaker 1:I saw him at Shaky Knees. It's probably been eight years ago or something. Sadly now I think he's lost his his voice. He's had some sort of a problem with his vocal cords or his hearing. Okay, yeah, yeah and uh, but they were great, you know they uh, they had really good pop songs and they have a pretty good guitar player in that band too yeah, they, um, are a.
Speaker 2:You know he's a funny guy. He was on Back to the Future. He did some stuff that was funny. They did some music for the movie. They had a bunch of albums in a row that were good. I like sports. You know, looking at this, I probably would have went with. I love Duran Duran but I probably would have got rid of Arena. I wasn't big on Arena and probably after that, even though you said it, it would have to be Milli Vanilli Girl. You know it's true.
Speaker 1:And my other one would be Wham Make it Big. I just don't want any Wham albums.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would probably go with you on that one. I do like when George Michael at Live Aid played with Elton John, they did Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me. I like that. I thought it was pretty cool and then I know George Michael released it as his own single after that. I thought he did a pretty good job, not a big. Wake me up before you go. Yeah, I'm heading somewhere. No, no, I'm not sure what of what the word is.
Speaker 1:You're not planning on going solo.
Speaker 2:Oh, I think that's what it is. I think that's what it is. Well, Jimmy, I appreciate you playing along and I hope and you know you listeners at home, I hope that you were able to do a screenshot of all these and take a look at them and, you know, pick out what you think. These and take a look at them and, you know, pick out what you think. Feel free to contact us at musicinmyshoes at gmailcom, or you can always like our Facebook page or our Instagram page. So, Jimmy, yes, there's been 59 Super Bowls and 59 halftime shows, and I started to think about my favorites and this is what I came up with my top five Super Bowl halftime performances. All right, Maybe some of mine are some of yours, or maybe not. Let's see. Let's do it.
Speaker 2:Number five Super Bowl XVII, 27, january 1993, michael Jackson. It included Billie Jean, black or white. He had this children's choir that was singing we Are the World and I kind of feel like it started at all, I know like the one before the super bowl, before the two super bowls before. I think new kids on the block were on one of them and maybe gloria estefan was on one of them. I'm not a hundred percent sure. But then they got michael jackson who at the time was, you know, the biggest thing around, and it just kind of changed the way that the whole Super Bowl was. I mean, for heck, the first half of them it was just marching bands from different colleges that would come out and they might throw out a celebrity here and there and you know, wasn't really anything exciting. So that's why I go at number five with Michael Jackson. Number four Super Bowl XLII, 42.
Speaker 1:You're so Roman.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you. Went in Rome. There you go, february 2008,. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. American girl, I won't back down, free falling, running down a dream. They were not the first choice. The Eagles turned them down. Somebody else turned them down also, but they were great. They sounded great, they played great.
Speaker 1:I mean, I wonder how the Heartbreakers felt about that set list though, because almost none of those are Heartbreaker songs.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, they were Running.
Speaker 1:Down a Dream, Free Fallin', and I Won't Back Down.
Speaker 2:But they were playing them live anyway, yeah, yeah, I think it was just, you know, part of the whole thing that they had to do to be part of Tom Petty and the crew, yeah, so, but it was good, I mean, it really was good. He sounded good. You know, I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:I saw Tom Petty live back around that time at what was then Phillips Arena, and he did not. He did a straight 1970s style show no video screens, no big like catwalk or any big crowd interaction, just some flashing colored lights and them playing their songs, which was cool, but it was a bit of a throwback even in 2008 or whatever. And they did kind of the same thing at the halftime show. They didn't do a whole lot of glitz, it was more just like yeah, we're playing our songs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, that's Tom.
Speaker 2:That's Tom Petty for you Coming in at number three on my top five favorite Super Bowl halftime performances. Super Bowl XLI, 41, february 2007,. Prince, which included let's Go Crazy, baby, I'm a Star, did a cover of Proud Mary 1999, and then Purple Rain. And as he's playing Purple Rain, it's like a downpour of rain all of a sudden starts coming down. Like he was able to control that.
Speaker 1:I know cool thing about that show and about seeing Prince live in general is that like his records are very curated and produced and, you know, sound a certain way so the song might be poppier sounding or more dance or but when Prince played live he was a guitar shredder, you know, so that that performance on that halftime show showed people he was a rock and roll guitarist yeah, he was fantastic.
Speaker 2:He really was again. You know, I say this all the time I'm not a huge prince fan. I don't dislike him. You know, I like some songs but I'm not, like you know, a prince head or whatever. But definitely a good performance made my top three of all time Super Bowl halftime performances.
Speaker 1:I might put it right at the top.
Speaker 2:Most people do. Most people do, yeah, but we're going to find out what my number one is, because next up at number two, super Bowl XXXIX39, february 2005,. Paul McCartney, drive my car, get back live and let die. And hey Jude, with the whole stadium singing, yeah that's incredible. That was really cool. That definitely was super cool.
Speaker 1:But I also saw Paul McCartney right around that same time at Piedmont Park.
Speaker 2:Was he playing Tom Petty songs?
Speaker 1:Unbelievable yeah, he actually had his current band playing Beatles songs. Can you believe it?
Speaker 2:Yes, I saw him in 2009, right around that same time. I saw him at Citi Field in New York City. It was fantastic. I mean, he was fantastic. People loved that he was playing there. They definitely were excited. You know, sometimes some of the Super Bowl shows, you see there's a bunch of people they could care less, yeah, but this one they were all into it, without a doubt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would put that as my number two as well.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 1:I just have to say I feel like Karnak the Magnificent or whatever on Johnny Carson.
Speaker 2:Johnny Carson Because.
Speaker 1:I have a feeling I know what's in the envelope.
Speaker 2:At number one, super Bowl XXXVI, 36, february 2002, u2, beautiful Day, mlk, where the Streets have no Name, a tribute to those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and it was just an amazing show. 2001 attacks and it was just an amazing show. Behind them, they had the screen that put the list, you know, of the names of everyone that was lost, whether it was, you know, in new york or washington, and their names were huge. You could read them. There was no question. You know and it listed. You know where they were. You know whether the south tower, the north tower, they, you know and it listed. You know where they were. You know whether they're in the South Tower, the North Tower, you know, were they on this plane or Washington? And it was just like goosebumps that you kind of had as you watched it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cause I mean it was really just three months or something after 9-11. Right, four months yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just like kind of right after, and it was still kind of tough as a country trying to get back to normalcy, you know, and I think U2 was a perfect fit. And then, you know, at one point, I think it was towards the end, I don't remember exactly, but I just remember him opening up his jacket, and it was the jacket that had, like, the American flag on the inside and it was just really cool. It definitely was super cool. So what did you think of that?
Speaker 1:as number one, uh, I I think that's in my top three as well. I mean, I'd have a tough time organizing the top three. I went back and I watched prince's performance recently, but I I haven't had a chance to go back and watch that youtube performance, so if I did they, they might leap to the top, or paul mccartney there you Now. I'm kind of surprised you didn't mention the Rolling Stones.
Speaker 2:So that's funny because I think a lot of people would say the Rolling Stones. I was not impressed with the Rolling Stones performance at all. I remember them playing three songs. You know they ended with Satisfaction. I forget, you know was the satisfaction, um, I I forget, you know was the other one maybe rock in a hard place or something you know, off one of the newer albums, and it didn't do anything for me. I almost felt like they just showed up, they played, you know they did their thing, but three songs do my thing. I'm out of here. Where's my check? And that's my, my opinion of really how that performance was. Yeah, but what I do have is I have two honorable mentions. Okay, super bowl li, 51 february 2017. Lady gaga I'm not a big Lady Gaga fan by any means, but I thought that performance was really good. It was great yeah.
Speaker 2:I really enjoyed it. I thought it was super cool. Xxxviii, 38, february 2004,. Janet Jackson with Justin Timberlake on Rock your Body, and that's the song that put the XXX in Super Bowl. Xxxviii.
Speaker 1:It brought wardrobe malfunction into the lexicon.
Speaker 2:And that's what changed who the performers were after that. That's when they brought all the old rock guys the who, the Rolling Stones, paul McCartney, tom Petty, bruce Springsteen, yeah, all of them because they didn't think there would be any wardrobe malfunctions.
Speaker 1:And if there was, you know, if you saw Roger Daltrey's chest. Nobody wants to see that, but it wouldn't be the end of the world.
Speaker 2:No, even at his age. Yeah, according to my watch, jimmy it's 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. I wanted to talk about the 30th anniversary of February 1995 of the release of the Matthew Sweet record 100% Fun. It of course starts out with the classic track Sick of Myself. I mean, that's the guitar riff in the classic track Sick of Myself. I mean that's the guitar riff in that it's such a simple song that he went back and just made this kind of simple masterpiece out of and I think that song holds up to this day. This album also has we're. The Same is another good song on there Lost my Mind, a lot of good tunes on it and it's hard to believe it's been 30 years. The cover of the record has Matthew as looks like he's about 11 years old or something, with a pair of big 1970s headphones on, sitting in front of a brown sofa, like I'm sure we both had, you know.
Speaker 2:We did have one.
Speaker 1:Tweed kind of thing, and it probably pulls out. Oh, there's the clock.
Speaker 2:And I did have those big headphones too. When I looked at the album cover I know it wasn't me, but when I looked at it I saw myself yeah, and I think that's one of the things that they probably wanted to do. Yeah, hey, it's, it's not you, but when you look at it you think it's you. Like you can remember.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's relatable.
Speaker 2:Extremely very, very relatable Sick of myself. I love how it ends but doesn't end. You're not sure it's over A really really good song. I love that song.
Speaker 1:And you know.
Speaker 2:I think you're right. You know, 30 years later, it is still something that you can just put on and it sounds good. It's a good album. It really is 100% fun. It is. You know what it's 100% fun it is? Yes, it is. My name is Jimmy. Last episode, I mentioned seeing a band man Bites Dog and I couldn't remember what band they were covering with the song Hurricane. A few people reached out asking did I mean Neil Young, like a hurricane, or Bob Dylan, hurricane? I did not, which. Both of those are really good songs. They're both on my phone. I listen to them, but it was actually the Band of Heathens and they did the song in 2011. Now I looked this up. I didn't know. You know all of this, but it turns out it's actually a cover of a country song that was done in 1981 by leon everett. That actually made, like you know, the charts the country single charts okay which is kind of cool, not knowing anything about it.
Speaker 2:I only know this song from a guy at work that does karaoke, runs his own karaoke business and he sings this song and he had said to me hey, you ever hear this song and blah, blah, blah, blah. I went to see him one time. I heard him sing it and then checked it out and you know, like I said, I saw this band do it and I was like wow, I've never heard of this song before. You know, a year ago, and now I've heard it a bunch of times when did it come out?
Speaker 2:2011. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, so it's pretty cool. So it was Band of Heathens, so I know the show is called Music in my Shoes and that's what we talk about.
Speaker 1:No more music than shoes.
Speaker 2:but yeah, yeah true, you're right, and sometimes I talk about other topics, but there's usually a tie-in to music at some point. But I'm going to say there's no tie-in to music on this little segment here. All right, okay.
Speaker 1:But sometimes there are tie-ins to Levittown, New York.
Speaker 2:Sometimes there are Sometimes that's enough, but what's the tie-in?
Speaker 1:No tie-in to either one.
Speaker 2:We're going to find out All right.
Speaker 2:February 22, 1980, team USA defeated the Soviet Union in hockey at the Olympics. So that's 45 years ago that that happened Again. Nothing to do with music, but still a vivid memory that you know. I had just turned 13 when this game happened. You know the miracle on ice, something that we still talk about all these years later. The 1980 Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid, new York, which is about a five-hour drive north of Levittown, new York, where I grew up All right, and it's about two hours away from Burlington, vermont. And Lake Placid also hosted the 1932 Winter Olympics. So it was the second time that they had them, the Soviet team, because we called it the Soviet Union back then. It wasn't Russia, they were Russians, but the country was the Soviet Union. The Soviet team was made up of what was essentially pro players Back then. Their players couldn't play in the NHL. They couldn't come to America and play and the Soviet Union didn't permit it. That's why they couldn't come. It wasn't us, it was the Soviet Union. Wouldn't let them leave the Soviet.
Speaker 2:Union, because they would defect Because they would defect. So they didn't do it. But they did become professionals on the international circuit where they were. They would have these jobs that basically they had the job to pay them so that they could play. You know, on the soviet team I think the big one was the red army team. That was the big hockey team.
Speaker 2:The us team was amateurs. It was led by Coach Herb Brooks and this guy he just picked who he thought could work out and do what needed to be done. He didn't look at who can do the fastest 50-yard dash not that they do that in ice hockey but he looked at who can play well. And the first thing he did is he gave them a 300 question psychological exam and if you didn't want to take it, you didn't make the team. That was the first thing. But he wanted to see who could deal with pressure. Oh yeah, how did they deal with pressure? And that was his first requirement. And he put together.
Speaker 2:This team had, if I'm not mistaken, I think there was only about four guys that even played in minor league hockey. I mean, these were really dudes that just graduated college, or maybe they were still in college. They were truly amateurs. The Soviets hadn't lost an Olympic game since 1968. Wow, yeah, us team comes away with a 4-3 win. The game was played at 5 pm but tape delayed until 8 pm for primetime coverage. So many people thought it was live, even though they said before the game that it's not live. It's tape delayed.
Speaker 1:But the media held on the the media held.
Speaker 2:They didn't say a word. It's not like today with the internet, where you can look up something instantaneously. I had no idea, no idea who won the game, until I watched the game, and you couldn't do anything like that today, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was unbelievable.
Speaker 2:With five seconds left, al Michaels, who was calling the game on television, said his famous line do you believe in miracles? Yes, so many people thought it was the gold medal game, but it wasn't. Oh yeah, it was just you beat Russia. You're probably thought it was the gold medal game, but it wasn't.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah. It was just you beat Russia, you're probably going to win the gold medal.
Speaker 2:So the US had to beat Finland and they did 4-2. That secured the gold medal for them. But some people still swear the Soviet game was the gold medal game and that it was broadcast live. Neither one of them happened. It's a miracle that just lives still today.
Speaker 1:I mean, there's been movies, uh, you know, it's just something that's just super cool because they made that arcade hockey game about basically that game that the usa versus russia. You'd walk into a place that had pinball machines and video games and stuff and they had a bubble over it and you played hockey with the handles. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Okay, You've never seen a hockey game that you can play like foosball almost.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:But they made the players USA versus Russia and they only did it after the USA beat Russia and it was like all right yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean times were definitely different back then. It was, you know, the Cold War Around. That time there was rumors that Jimmy Carter was going to not let the US team go to Moscow for the summer Olympics 1980 summer Olympics because they had invaded Afghanistan in 1979. So there were all these different things happening and you know, as a kid you always you thought it was the Soviet Union that were going to come and attack us. And all these different things, I mean that's really what my thoughts were as a kid. Yeah, very different than the way that we live today. But again, the miracle on ice 45 years ago. February 17th 1990, aerosmith guest on Wayne's World on Saturday Night Live. Pretty cool episode Wayne and Garth hanging out in Wayne's basement where they did their public access show. Remember they would do that. I think it was Aurora.
Speaker 1:Aurora Illinois.
Speaker 2:Yes, and they were played by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey. Garth's cousin, barry, was a roadie for Aerosmith and said he would get Aerosmith on the show as long as he could be a guest also. And Barry was played by Tom Hanks and he just cracks me up in this episode. It is just so funny. Just watching him is as good as any other part of what's going on. And he's asked what he does as a roadie and out of nowhere he just grabs two microphone stands and he places them you know so many feet apart. And then he gets a scarf for Steven Tyler and he's like, yeah, and I wrap it around here. And then he does the mic check and it's just funny, it really is.
Speaker 2:Aerosmith comes down to the basement. They're asked a couple of questions and the last question is with the recent developments in Eastern Europe, do you think that communism is on the decline or is this just a temporary setback? And you're just laughing when Mike Myers, who plays Waynene, says it. And then stephen tyler and the bass player I think it's tom hamilton, I'm not not 100 sure, but I think it's tom hamilton. They give these like intelligent answers that surprise everybody and just have everybody laughing and cracking up. Yeah, you know, and Jimmy, you have to remember it's a different time. We just talked about 1980 with the Soviet Union, 1990, it's only a few months since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. So 10 years. What a difference. How things are Very, very different. But you know, very cool.
Speaker 2:So while this is all happening, barry again Tom Hanks, you know, is playing him. He's squatting or kneeling, I don't remember, in the back corner and he's got like flashlights. You know, like when a band is going to come on stage and they have the guy with the flashlights. Yeah, it just cracks me up. He's playing it to a T like he knew what he was doing. Aerosmith joined Wayne and Garth. They play the Wayne's World theme song. They added words to it, they wrote some words so they could actually make it a song. And at this point Barry's kind of behind them and he's got towels. So when they come, you know, through this, when they're done with the song, he can give them towels, they can wipe the sweat off and I believe this version made the cd maxi single for arrowsmiths.
Speaker 2:The other side oh that they actually recorded it and they put it out and I need to look it up, I need to see if I can find it because I would like to listen to it. You know you can see it on YouTube, but I'd like to listen to it where it's actually recorded and it sounds good, you know. So the band turns down the offer to appear in Wayne's World. But they did appear in Wayne's World 2. I definitely think this was the best Wayne's World on Saturday Night Live. Any skit of Wayne's World, this was definitely the best one.
Speaker 1:Now I will tell you. I don't know why, but I remember waiting in line in the rain in New York City, when I lived there, on opening night to see Wayne's World 2. And I dragged my now wife along with me. So I must have been a really big Wayne's World fan.
Speaker 2:It's funny because they say the first mistake Aerosmith made was not going in Wayne's World. The second mistake they made was going in Wayne's World 2. On that note, party on Jimmy.
Speaker 1:Party on Jim.
Speaker 2:Excellent. That's it for Episode 66 of Music in my Shoes. I've been your excellent host, Jim Boge. With me, as always, was Jimmy show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios, located right here in Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to Vic Thrill for our podcast music. 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. Swing, I'm not worthy you.
