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E75 Billboard Hits of April 1975, the Pinball Wizard and Tommy
Looking back exactly 50 years, we explore the Billboard Hot 100 charts from April 26, 1975 – a time capsule that reveals a diverse musical landscape. From America's "Sister Golden Hair" to Queen's "Killer Queen," each song carries its own fascinating backstory that connects to broader cultural moments of the era.
We share personal memories of these songs, including childhood misinterpretations (like thinking Pure Prairie League's "Amie" was actually singing "Hey Me") that reveal how differently we experience music as young listeners.
Listen now, for more stories on songs that rocked the charts back then. We also discuss Elton John's contribution to The Who's 'Tommy' film soundtrack. We compare the soundtrack vs the original album. Ready to rediscover the sounds that defined spring 1975? Let the musical memories transport you.
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe. 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 75. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So, Jimmy, I thought it would be cool to go back and look at Billboard charts from a certain week, kind of look at some of the songs and just kind of talk about them. I just thought that I've been wanting to do that.
Speaker 2:All right, and I finally was like, let me just do it now. So I picked Billboard Hot 100 charts from April 26th 1975. And that's 50 years ago, and you know I looked at them. We can't talk about all 100, you know that wouldn't be fun. All right, so I decided to start at number 32.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's a good yeah.
Speaker 2:Just seemed like a good number and we're not going to talk about all 32. I jump around, I just picked out some songs, all right. So number 32 that week Sister Golden Hair by America. Oh Well, I keep on thinking about you, sister Golden Hair, surprise. And I just can't live without you. Can't you see it in my eyes? I can, I'm glad that you can. That song eventually made it to number one on June 14th 1975. Number 30, shaving Cream. This is a great story, jimmy.
Speaker 1:Really interesting. I don't know, shaving Cream.
Speaker 2:By Benny Bell and it's one of those novelty songs. You know how every once in a while a novelty song just hits and everybody likes the song. Yeah, it was actually recorded in 1946. All right, and when you listen to it it sounds like a song from 1946. You know that post-war type sound. And it was on Dr Demento. Did you ever listen to Dr Demento back in the day?
Speaker 1:No, but I've heard of it.
Speaker 2:So Dr Demento would play this song for a long time and then it got popular on a station WNBC in New York, 66 on your AM dial.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And the next thing you knew they released it as a single in 1975, after all these years, and it's just crazy that it peaks at number 30. And it's just really cool. What is the song like? It's funny that you say that because I know the words. I mean, it's one of those novelty songs as a kid you really like. And it starts off with I have a sad story to tell you. It may hurt your feelings a bit. Last night when I walked into my bathroom I stepped in a big pile of shaving cream and then it goes it's one of those songs.
Speaker 1:It was too racy for 1946. They were like that can't go on the air, but in 1975, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:People wanted to hear that. That was what people wanted to hear, and that's kind of how all the verses go. You know, it's just another hear and that's kind of how all the verses go. You know, it's just another thing.
Speaker 1:That's funny because I remember this movie. You remember those Disney movies that would have Don Knotts and Tim Conway and people like that in it. So there's one called Private Eyes and it was right around that time. It would have been probably 75 to 77 era time. It would have been probably 75 to 77 era and it, uh, it had one of those jokes in it where, okay, we know what the word at the end of this rhyme is supposed to be, but then they say something else oh, really, yeah, I don't think I've ever heard of that and I think that I know a lot of the disney movies yeah, they had uh apple dumpling gang I know that one Apple Dumpling Gang rides again, uh-huh yeah.
Speaker 1:And Private Eyes was kind of I don't know, it was just another one.
Speaker 2:When I hear Private Eyes, I think of Hall Oates. Remember that's it Private Eyes, they're watching you.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, they see your every move.
Speaker 2:There you go. And speaking of seeing every move, someone who saw all of our moves hit number 29, David Bowie with Young Americans. It peaked at number 28, May 10th 1975. I really like this song. Yeah, I think it's a really good song for David Bowie at the time really to kind of cross over from one generation to another generation. I think a lot of people really like this song. Still a good song 50 years later.
Speaker 1:Very timely where he says do you remember your President Nixon? Well, he had just resigned a year earlier.
Speaker 2:Correct, and you know. And what is it? Sweet Home Alabama where they talk about. You know, do you remember? You know the governor, and you know just all these different things in songs and here, all these years later, because I think Sweet Home Alabama was what? 74, 73,. You know?
Speaker 1:Watergate did not bother him. No, yeah.
Speaker 2:But does number 27, Pure Prairie League, Amy, bother you?
Speaker 1:Oh, Amy, yeah.
Speaker 2:Amy what you want to do. I have a story about Amy. I think I could stay with you for a while, maybe longer if I do, If that's not freaking fantastic, I'm not sure what is?
Speaker 1:So when I was a kid, so this would have been, I would have been almost six years old this top 32, you know, as the kids say, I thought the song was saying hey me, what you gonna do. It was an introspective, it was questioning himself.
Speaker 2:Wow, when did you realize it wasn't?
Speaker 1:I really don't know. I think I probably sang it that way and my brother probably told me I was wrong, you know.
Speaker 2:It's funny that you say that, because this is the pure prairie league. My youngest daughter, when she was young, whenever Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi came on, she thought it was living on a prairie. She singing like that, and when she was older and realized that that wasn't it, she was like almost arguing with us that we were wrong, that, you know, everything was wrong.
Speaker 1:It was always living on a prairie like it kind of changes the meaning of the song. Yeah, a lot. She think it's uh, we're halfway there-y.
Speaker 2:I don't know about that-y, but that's a good question-y. We'll have to find out-y. Amy, country rock. It was on the 72 album, bustin' Out, which was released as a single in 1973, and it didn't do well at all, but college radio just kept playing it. They loved it for some reason. And word has it that Lenny Kay of the Patti Smith group, who joined us in studio several episodes ago, he suggested to the RCA folks they might want to re-release it, and they did, and it went to number 27. Crazy. The band kind of had broken up. They had been released by RCA, rca got them back together and then the whole rest is history. Now there's no members in it now that were in it back in the day. It's one of those bands that they just keep changing out throughout time.
Speaker 1:It's one of those bands that they just keep changing out throughout time. Well, I wonder if the popularity of the Eagles had changed things.
Speaker 2:I would think so. The Eagles, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Graham Parsons, all of those people that were doing that country rock thing that really made it popular, because a lot of those bands were being played on college at the time. Yeah, Number 24, Ringo Starr no, no Song. And this is where Ringo sings about all of his vices and that he doesn't do them anymore. No, no, no, no. I don't drink it no more. I'm tired of waking up on the floor. Are you familiar with this song, Jermaine? Not at all. Yeah, this was a big song. It would be 14 more years before Ringo decided I don't drink it no more just for the real thing out there.
Speaker 2:So 8-track Johnny, remember 8-track Johnny, of course, 8-track Johnny actually had this 45 and lent it to me and I was listening to this Rented it to you or lent it to you. Lent, he lent it to me.
Speaker 2:Sorry, no, he did not rent it to me. He lent it to me, got it and I'm eight years old and I'm singing this. You know, no, no, no, no. You know I don't drink in no more time. You know, like and I look back at it now like I cannot believe I was eight singing it and they talk about other things besides drinking moonshine from Nashville, and it's just so funny that this song had peaked at number three on Billboard. It's just crazy.
Speaker 1:That is. You know, I can't even picture the song.
Speaker 2:It's just crazy, that is, I can't even picture the song Number 23,. Labelle, lady Marmalade. Oh, former number one song, patti LaBelle on vocals. How could you not like a song with the words yaya dada, gitchy, gitchy, yaya, here, mocha chocolata, yaya creole, lady marmalade, come on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it sounds great when you do it. You think so. Yeah, do do do, do, do.
Speaker 2:Anyway, be careful. Yes, I mean, it just was a really cool song and it was just different. I like songs that are different, you know, and they sound cool. Patti LaBelle, you know, lead vocals on it.
Speaker 1:She even speaks French in it.
Speaker 2:She does. I don't know how to say all those words so I'm not even going to try. Yeah, but again, we're talking about some of the songs from the Billboard Hot 100, april 26, 1975. Some of the songs from the Billboard Hot 100, april 26, 1975. Number 22, John Denver Thank God I'm a Country Boy. It reached number one on the charts on June 7, 1975. And I know several baseball teams play it as part of their seventh inning stretch. I know the Braves do at times, I can't think of who else, but I know other teams do it and you know they'll play God Bless America. And then they'll play this right after and it's a fun song and I think by teams doing that it brings it out to people now that would never hear the song, that would never know the song.
Speaker 1:Right, But's a fun song.
Speaker 2:It is a fun song A little, you know. Kick up your feet and you know do-do-do-do-do you know, Number 20, john Lennon's cover of the Benny King song Stand by Me. Really good version, really good version, really, really like his version. I like Benny King's as well. But when John Lennon did this man, it was good, it really was.
Speaker 1:I don't even think I know that.
Speaker 2:Give it a try, give it a listen. Good, good song Ace at number 19 with how Long? Lead singer Paul Carrick also sang lead on the 1981 squeeze song Tempted and the 1989 song by Mike and the Mechanics, the Living Years.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:That's three pretty cool songs for three different bands. You know to be singing. I mean, he's pretty talented. How long has this been going on? That's the main premise throughout the whole entire song. But it's a good song and I think it was Phil Collins that said he could sing the phone book and it'd be something that was melodic or it would sound fantastic. Like his voice is just one of those voices that he can pull off anything.
Speaker 1:I think you could just read the phone book.
Speaker 2:You think I could? Yeah, I might try that. That sounds like a good idea.
Speaker 1:We'll do an episode just based on the phone book.
Speaker 2:We have the title already the phone book Number 18, queen Killer, queen. Number 18, queen killer, queen. I think it starts off with snapping fingers. If I'm not mistaken and I've always loved these lines To avoid complications she never kept the same address In conversation. She spoke just like a baroness. I just love that. Even as a kid I was like I don't even know what a Baroness is, but it sounds really cool, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, it's fancy. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:And with a Killer Queen guitar solo. I mean it's just. The solo is perfect for the song. You know, it's not one of those things where they go over the top. They make it fit and it's great. I just absolutely love it really. Do Number it fit and it's great. I just absolutely love it. Really, do Number 16. I never heard this song before, but the title caught my attention so I listened to this song, just to listen to it, because I've never heard it.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, let me see if I've heard it, this is number 16. Okay, with the song, the.
Speaker 2:Birther, but Boogie.
Speaker 1:Okay, I do not know that.
Speaker 2:Never heard this song, but it made it to number 16 on the charts. The Birther but Boogie Okay.
Speaker 1:What kind of song is it?
Speaker 2:It's an R&B song, you know, kind of like Baby Got Back. You know songs Rump Shaker reminds me of like all of those songs, so I just never had heard of it. A song I did hear of number 14, ozark Mountain, daredevils, jackie Blue. I don't know any words other than something like ooh, ooh, jackie Blue.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:You know something like that. Number 11, earth, wind, Fire, shining Star. It reached number one May 24th 1975. You're a Shining Star, no matter who you are, and you are too Jimmy. You are too Jim, thank you. Number four, Minnie Riperton, loving you. Now, we talked about her once before and I don't even remember how she came up. But Loving you is easy because you're beautiful, and that's how the song begins. And then it just goes through this whole thing of love that she has. I'm assuming most of it's for her husband if you read the words. But it was a former number one song in early April of 75 and it was sung by the mother of the future. Saturday Night Live cast member, maya Rudolph.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, right.
Speaker 2:Minnie says Maya's name at the end of the song and it's kind of like Maya Maya. You know a lot more melodic than what I'm doing, but you know she says it three or four times. So I've always liked that song. I just think that it's kind of cool. You know, unfortunately she died of cancer in 1979. I think she was only like 31 years old or so. She had it for a long time. She lived longer than what they thought she was going to. But she kept recording until the end. She kept doing everything that she possibly could. And you know, my hat's off to her. Number two, elton John, philadelphia Freedom, another former number one song, a song not written about the US Bicentennial coming up in 1976, like I thought it was. I thought it was all about prepping for the bicentennial Because in 75, we were Everything seemed to be getting ready for it, talking about it, what was going to happen and everything. And you were buying stuff. I remember buying little license plates for my bicycle to put on. I had the bicentennial logo.
Speaker 1:I had like my bike all decked out. The spokes had red, white and blue things in them. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we were getting ready early. We wanted to be ready for when it happened. We knew it was July 4th 1976, but we still wanted to do everything we could to be prepared for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was really that whole year that it was very bicentennial and, like you said, even in 75, leading up to it Very bicentennial-ish.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I would say.
Speaker 1:It was like growing up in colonial America, you know.
Speaker 2:It's funny you say that they actually replaced the streetlights on my street not just my street but throughout the town that I grew up in and they put wooden posts with that old colonial lamp light looking thing at the top. Now they're all gone. They went back to the you know normal, you know metal overhang ones.
Speaker 1:But it was a trend. It was a trend and even in like clothing there were some people that would wear kind of like women would wear the colonial looking dresses and inspired by that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2:There you go. Everybody was bicentennial-ish, but the song was not, even though we all thought it was.
Speaker 1:What was?
Speaker 2:it. It was inspired by tennis player Billie Jean King and the tennis team she played on, the Philadelphia Freedoms. Billie Jean King, elton John were friends and he decided that he was going to write a song, a little bit of a tribute, yet they don't mention her. The only Philadelphia Freedom thing is when they say Philadelphia Freedom, but if you listen to the song to me, they say Philadelphia Freedom. But if you listen to the song to me, it's not about tennis, it's about the Bicentennial yeah Set match point. Because that takes us to the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for April 26, 1975. 1975, bj Thomas. Hey, won't you Play another somebody done somebody wrong song, which at the time was the longest title of any song to hit number one on the Billboard charts. Oh, I liked, I thought it was pretty good. So please play for me. A sad melody, so sad that it makes everybody cry. A real hurtin' song about a love that's gone wrong. That was pretty cool looking back 50 years ago on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
Speaker 1:That was cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I liked it. So, Jimmy, I mentioned Elton John at number two with Philadelphia Freedom. Well, he had another song all over the radio in 1975, Pinball Wizard. Oh yeah, From the Tommy movie soundtrack.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And it's a cover of the classic song by the who. He did a great job with it. I mean I liked it, I thought it was really good. Classic song by the who. He did a great job with it, I mean, I liked it, I thought it was really good. It was not released as a single in the US, it was only a radio promo that they would play. But you had to buy the album, the soundtrack album, if you wanted to get the song. So, as much as it was played, it didn't make the charts because you have to commercially release it in order for it to make the Billboard Hot 100. Oh, so he plays the part of the pinball wizard in the movie Tommy Mm-hmm and he wore four-and-a-half-foot boots that were really stilts and they look like giant Doc Martens and they were pretty crazy and he actually kind of got used to being able to walk in them. If you ever see the film like he does a good job. I mean they are literally four and a half feet tall that he's standing on.
Speaker 2:He's like a giant over everybody as he's singing this song, how does he play pinball? I guess his piano is raised, so it's a pinball machine with a keyboard on the front of it. So it's kind of cool. It really is.
Speaker 1:Now, he had a pinball machine called Captain Fantastic. Did that name come from the film?
Speaker 2:Well that you know Captain Fantastic. I think he was actually recording that album, because that album came out I'm going to say the album came out in like May of 1975.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And I'm going to go with June of 75,. Somebody Saved my Life Tonight, the big single off that. I think that came out in June of 1975, if my memory is correct. So him having that pinball machine makes sense because he stopped recording to do the Pinball Wizard and, I think, to do some of the filming for the film. Also stars the who singer Roger Daltrey as Tommy and Margaret Oliver Reed, who played Bill Sykes in the 1968 film Oliver. When you watch Tommy and if you've watched old movies, immediately like I know this guy from somewhere and you have to look it up to see and sure enough, it's because he was Bill Sykes in Oliver and it all of a sudden makes sense. If you watch old films, eric Clapton was in it, jack Nicholson was in it, tina Turner and the rest of the who. Have you seen the movie? I don't think I have. Well, you know what I'm going to tell you that you're not missing much.
Speaker 2:And I don't mean to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have a feeling.
Speaker 2:The who, tommy, that album I consider one of the best albums of all time and that they did all this touring and I really think that they created the who off of that. Yes, the who had a bunch of stuff out before that, but in 1969, their whole trajectory changed by releasing Tommy and just touring on it for a number of years and playing the whole entire thing. And to me it's a real serious thing. Like you listen to it and I've listened to the Woodstock songs for many, many you know ages and this is kind of campy. I don't want to say it's cheesy, but it's kind of campy. And that is so different. Now, when I was a kid and I saw it because it used to be on cable all the time when I was a kid because it didn't do great in the box office, so it hit cable quickly and I would see it all the time and I think as a kid it was like oh, that's funny. And you know it's not so funny anymore to me as I've grown older and you know I'm not saying to other people it's not, but to me it's just so different. Like I consider Tommy this really important piece of music in the world of rock and roll and then when they have these other people singing it and adding some songs, like Eric Clapton plays a song and you know it's like he doesn't even want to be there, you know it's just kind of rough. So Elton John's song is good and Tina Turner, she does Acid Queen. It's just kind of rough. So Elton John's song is good and Tina Turner, she does Acid Queen and it's her. Ronnie Wood of the Faces on guitar, who went on to join the Rolling Stones right about the same time in 1975. Kenny Jones of the Faces on drums, and he would go on to replace Keith Moon in the who after his death and I think he was with the who, I'm going to say like 1979, like Keith Moon died in September 78, and they asked him somewhere, you know, after he died and he was with them through the 82 Farewell Tour and then he joined them every once in a while. But you know, end of 82 was really the end for him.
Speaker 2:Nicky Hopkins on piano. Nicky Hopkins did a ton of stuff for the Rolling Stones, a ton of stuff for John Lennon. He is a great piano player. We need to talk about him one time and all the pieces of music that he has been a part of, because he is a fantastic piano player that I don't think a lot of people know about, kind of like how I feel about Klaus Vorman, the bassist. He's done so much that people have no idea who he is, right, you know.
Speaker 2:So again, the movie doesn't compare to the album. You know, in my thought, at all. You know, I really don't think it does. You know, I don't know. The who album to me is classic Tommy, the film soundtrack not so good, oh gotcha. Yet the soundtrack peaked at number two on Billboard 200 on May 31st 1975. Peaked at number two on Billboard 200 on May 31st 1975. The who's Tommy album peaked at number four September 19th 1970. All right, that's a year after Woodstock. It originally entered the charts June of 69, two months before Woodstock, and it took that long to grow and grow and grow and peak at number four.
Speaker 1:That's awesome.
Speaker 2:I think it is too Listening to you. I get the music Gazing at you, I get the heat. Following you, I climb the mountains. I get excitement at your feet.
Speaker 1:Thanks, Jim.
Speaker 2:You're welcome. Speaking of the who, they let go drummer Zach Starkey, who had been with the band since 1996. And according to several media outlets, it was due to his drumming during two shows in March.
Speaker 1:Isn't Ringo Starr's real name Starkey?
Speaker 2:Yes, it is Because, ironically, the original who drummer, keith Moon, gave Zack his first drum kit when he was a kid. Moon was also Zack's godfather. And all this because Keith Moon and Zack's dad, zach's dad, ringo star, were great friends. You're very good, jimmy. Thank you very good. Yes, ringo star, the drummer of the beatles. For those of you not connecting everything, zach also played with oasis from 2004 until 2008. And I read today you know he's definitely upset about the whole thing, he's surprised and saddened by the whole thing, and supposedly what they're saying is that he was overplaying, which is kind of ironic again, because no one overplayed the drums more than Keith Moon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when you think about it, and no one really underplayed him more than Ringo.
Speaker 2:There you go. I mean it's just crazy, just crazy. You know, we'll see where it goes. I know Oasis is going on tour this summer. I don't know if they've named a drummer yet. We shall see they coming to Atlanta. They're not, they're only playing in like five cities in North America in major stadiums. So they're doing, you know, new York, chicago, la, somewhere in Canada. It might be, that might be it, that might be it.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:So April 27th 1985, we're going to move ahead here At number 71, peaking at number 71 on the Billboard Hot 100, curtis Blow with the song Basketball. It's a rap song with the chorus they're playing basketball. We love that basketball.
Speaker 1:Do you know that song I do. My kids get a kick out of it.
Speaker 2:They think it's pretty funny and it because it mentioned some of the greats. I used to go to dinner and then take the girl to see tiny play against earl the pearl and will big o and jerry west to play basketball at its very best. And I just you know, if I remember correctly, friend of the show, chris cassidy. He was a year younger than me and when he was a senior I went to some of his basketball games at the high school that I went to and they had a boom box and they were playing that song and that's how I learned of the song through all that. It's not like today where you know the music's piped in through elaborate sound systems at sporting events at high schools. Back then if you wanted to have some music, somebody had to bring a boombox, a boombox that was it the optimal way to hear the song basketball, by the way you think so, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2:But uh, yeah, that was a pretty cool song. I think it still is, and it's funny because I kind of asked around and a bunch of people told me their kids know the song also.
Speaker 1:So here we are, 40 years later, and people still know it I wouldn't say they nailed it with the lyrics right out of the gate. Basketball is my favorite sport. I love the way they dribble up and down the court. There you go. Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:There you go. I know it's been redone. I don't know who redid it, but Curtis Blow with that one. That was a good one. Well, jimmy, according to my watch, 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.
Speaker 1:Jimmy Minute with Jimmy All right. In April 1990, fugazi released their second album, repeater, and also an EP called Three Songs. They kind of have them packaged together and I really liked their first album. Ian McKay was in Minor Threat, a hardcore punk band, and then Fugazi was sort of this amalgamation of different types of music. It had some elements of punk in it but it was a lot slower and it had more dynamics. So things would get really quiet or the guitar would just be kind of like real rhythmic kind of things going on and then it might get real loud and then quiet again. I love a lot of songs on this record. I'd say my favorite song is called Blueprint, but just about everything on it's great. And then song number one was one of the ones from the EP. The Violets used to cover that one back in 1990.
Speaker 1:I saw Fugazi on that tour at the 40 Watt Club, the small version of the 40-Watt Club. My friends and I loved the show so much that we drove to Chapel Hill, north Carolina, to go to the show the next night, which is about six hours away. There was no internet. We didn't know anybody in Chapel Hill. We just got in the car and drove to Chapel Hill and we got there and there's a line of people outside the place without tickets because it's been sold out. So it's a place called the Cat's Cradle.
Speaker 1:The other thing is that Fugazi and Ian McKay, on principle they will not allow fans to sell tickets for more than face value, and back then they would not play a show for more than five dollars. So it was five bucks for a ticket but you couldn't get one and people couldn't sell. You know, we were like we'll pay extra. They're like no, they, they won't even let us do that, like. So we went up to the door and we told the guy. We said look, there are four or five of us, whatever, and we drove all the way from Athens to go to this show. He's like you are lying. If you guys show me your driver's licenses right now and you're all from Athens, georgia, then I'll let you in. And we did, and he let us in.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:It was great.
Speaker 2:I bet it was. That's pretty cool. So the Cat's Cradle, I know, you know I don't know a whole lot about it, but I know it's one of those clubs that's been an important club for a number of years for a number of bands to play in. That's really cool to hear that. You drove all the way there and it's again. Back then, no internet. You just did things on a whim and just hoped that things would work out. Yeah, so it's funny.
Speaker 2:You bring up minor threat Fugazi. I don't know anything about Fugazi, I have nothing to add. But what I can tell you is that in the late 80s on USA Network they used to show on like Friday nights maybe it was at midnight, 11 o'clock at night. They would show these really cool documentaries or movies or something. And they showed one about social distortion and the I guess the premise of it is social distortion was going to go on tour. They had a van. You know this is before they were anybody. This is when they were still kind of really punk rock type and Mike Ness it seemed like every day would change his hair color to something else.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And if the van broke down the camera crew they couldn't do anything. They were on their own. And they show this and they show them going to Washington DC and they stay with Minor Threat. Some of the members of Minor Threat and that's how I got introduced to minor threat was hearing it on this thing and I remember saying to myself this guy you know Mike Ness, there's no way that this guy's going to stay alive. I mean, they showed, you know, drug addiction, you know it just was really, really bad. And to think that he was able to eventually clean himself up after going through a whole lot of trial and tribulations to be able to then come out. And I think it was in you know 19, you know early 1990s, that he started to release songs that were kind of autobiographical.
Speaker 1:You know about him and I love the story of my life, the story of my life.
Speaker 2:I mean just some really good songs. But whenever I think of social distortion I think of Minor Threat. I can't remember what the name of the movie was off the top of my head, but it was really cool. I remember taping it on on a VHS tape so I would just keep watching it. It had the commercials but I didn't care. I thought it was super cool.
Speaker 1:It's probably even cooler now if you could find it with the commercials you know, you see, like the 80s stuff.
Speaker 2:Yes, probably would be, and that was a very cool Minute with Jimmy. I liked that one Thanks Minute with that one thanks. Listen. If you want to contact us to talk about minute with jimmy or our top 100 billboard from april 26 1975, or talk about tommy, the film versus tommy, the who's tommy album music in my shoes at gmailcom is where you can go. Please like and follow the Music In my Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages. Please share with your friends. We always do appreciate it. That's it for episode 75 of Music In my Shoes. I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios located right 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. I'll lay you on your own.
