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E78 Music Midtown 1995 and Driving Songs
Music transports us through time as we explore musical milestones and memories that feel both distant and immediate, creating a fascinating perception of different decades.
• Reminiscing about Atlanta's Music Midtown Festival from 1995 and the unique urban setting that transformed into a cultural gathering space
• Why we struggle with 90s nostalgia being "30 years ago" while easily accepting the 80s as 40 years past
• Eddie Van Halen sitting in with Paul Schaefer on Late Night with David Letterman 40 years ago
• Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" reaching #39 on Billboard Hot 100 in 1965, becoming his first Top 40 hit
• Minute with Jimmy segment exploring New Order's "Love Vigilantes"
• The Black Crowes' "Jealous Again"
• Great driving songs from The Cure, Talking Heads, Fleetwood Mac, and Don Henley
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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 Big Thrill kicking off episode 78. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So, Jimmy, 30 years ago I went to Music Midtown Festival here in Atlanta. Right, and I have to think about it because I always would say the Midtown Music Festival.
Speaker 2:Right, a lot of people do as much as I tried not to, I would do that all the time and I thought it was pretty cool. It was the second year that they had it. I didn't go the first year, I went to the second year. It was May 12th through the 14th 1995. And one I can't believe it's 30 years ago. Like I struggle a little. I have no problem with the 80s being 40 years ago. I have no problem with the 80s being 40 years ago. I have no problem with the 70s being 50 years ago, but I struggle with the 90s when we talk and we say 30 years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's just wrong. We need to check the math on that.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'll wait.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll get to it later. Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, I gotcha, so it's the second year. It was a fun time and, more than that, it was inexpensive, which makes it a lot more fun in anything that you do.
Speaker 1:So have you been to Music Midtown? Oh, yeah, see, when Music Midtown started in 94, I had just moved in Cher, and I had moved in on 8th Street like right by the park in Cher and I had moved in on 8th Street like right by the park.
Speaker 2:Oh, because it was between 10th and 11th and Peachtree and West Peachtree.
Speaker 1:Right yeah, where the Federal Reserve Building is now.
Speaker 2:Correct my favorite spot. Not to cut you off, that was my favorite spot. I don't know if it's been at three or four different locations now, but I absolutely love that spot. I just felt it was the coolest thing because you didn't feel like you were in a city in that spot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a really big piece of land.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the city was around you, but it was like that was not the city. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it was kind of hilly so you could go up. I remember when Jonathan Richman played, which may have been 95.
Speaker 2:It was 95.
Speaker 1:He played sort of like you had to go up a hill and then there's this little stage over on the other side of the hill, so there wasn't quite as much feeling like you're just right next to the other stage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what was kind of cool was it was a big piece of land, I guess it was undeveloped, but yet parts were. It looked like there had been foundations for I don't know if it was homes or buildings, and those buildings weren't there anymore, but there still was the concrete and then other spots. The concrete was broken up and you would kind of walk the streets, like these old streets, to get to the different places.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, well, you know, it's interesting too. My parents my mom in the 1950s, lived on 11th Street in Peachtree and the house that she lived in which was back when, like women, would live in a boarding house for women rather than just you wouldn't just get an apartment with some other 20 something girls they didn't do that back then and so she lived in this boarding house with a woman that ran it like the mom of the house and everything. And that's when my parents met. They met on the trolley car running down Peachtree when she got on the trolley at 11th street, but anyway, that was one of those houses that had been done away with by that point, so we might have actually walked across that too, where she'd lived.
Speaker 2:Wow. So was it kind of like a boarding house from it's a Wonderful Life that if Mrs Bailey, if George hadn't been born, then Mrs Bailey would have run this boarding house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and she'd be mean too. And she'd be mean Mrs Peoples, by the way, was the name of the lady that ran it and they would continue to have a party with all the people that had lived in Mrs Peoples' house. They called it the People's Party. They did that up through the 1980s. They stayed together and everybody would get together once a year and have the people's party really yeah, wow, that's absolutely really cool because you said she was there in the 50s yeah, early 50s, wow right, she graduated college in like uh 1950 and moved straight to atlanta.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, that's really cool okay, back Back to Museum Week.
Speaker 2:Well, I cut you off. You and your wife share.
Speaker 1:You said that you would move to 8th Street 8th Street and so boom right out of, you know, as soon as we get there. We'd lived in New York before that and there's this cool festival right down the street, so it was awesome.
Speaker 2:Were you there in 95?.
Speaker 1:There in 94, 5, and 6, yeah.
Speaker 2:Nice. Like I said, I did not go to 94. 95 was my first time. Some of the bands I saw which may be some different than you, I saw God Street Wine, magna Pop I was really into Magna Pop back in like 95. Oh yeah, okay. Cake we've talked about Cake. Back in like 95. Oh yeah, okay, uh, cake We've talked about cake.
Speaker 2:Cake was um recommendation from Jimmy Barron from 99 X. I had run into him and he had said hey, you need to see cake, they're really good band. And I had only heard one song really and I didn't really like it and he was. You know, we talked about it when we had him on the show last year and he convinced me to go see it. He said I just go see it and I absolutely loved it. I thought the show was great and you know I've seen him multiple times and that was the beginning of our you know, running into each other for 30 years, as I call it Right, our Lady Peace. Todd Snyder. I wasn't a big Todd Snyder fan but he played in the middle of bands I wanted to see and I wanted to keep my place. Oh yeah, adamant, collective Soul. We talked about Collective Soul a couple of episodes ago. That's the show that the people were behind me saying they were related to the Rollins, saying they were the cousins and they really weren't oh that they were the cousins, and they really weren't.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was at this, the 95 Music Midtown. It was at 95 Music Midtown.
Speaker 2:Yes, stone Roses, which was their first American show. Yeah, bodine's and I wasn't a huge Bodine's fan, but they played right before Matthew Sweet. So I wanted to get that sweet spot, no pun intended. Wanted to get that sweet spot, no pun intended, to be as close as I could possibly be. But some of the bands that I didn't see which I wish that I did, but I didn't Village People, I'm going to be honest. The Village People played Tito Puente, government Mule, little Richard oh my gosh. Jonathan Richman, as you said, yeah, what were some of the bands? Do you remember that you saw?
Speaker 1:maybe you know, of all those that you named, I really remember seeing Jonathan Richman as the one that really sticks out, I mean, and there weren't that many people that went, because, again, you had to kind of go over a hill to this little stage that not that many people were at and so I kind of felt bad for Jonathan Richman, that, oh well, this is big festival and you don't have a huge crowd, but he was great, he's always great.
Speaker 2:And, as we've talked about before, jonathan Richman is where the Violets did the Record Store Day song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we did the tribute compilation album that just came out and I think did we put a link out to that. We can probably put a link in the show notes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do that. Yeah, we'll do that. I think some people would be interested in that. I think that's kind of cool. You know, jonathan Richman, I always think immediately, I'm always like roadrunner, roadrunner, you know, like that's the first thing that comes to mind.
Speaker 1:Well, that's the song the Violets did the first time we did the tribute.
Speaker 2:Right, right, I do remember you saying that. So I mentioned it was inexpensive. A three-day ticket was $25. That's how inexpensive this was. I think a single day might've been $17. I don't remember, but I know it was $25 for a three-day ticket. So I have the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the newspaper here in Atlanta, the advertisement the first day of Music Midtown. They had like a full page spread and who was playing you know what days and kind of a little map of the area and I framed it and I have it hanging up in my basement because it was the first Music Midtown of many that I ended up going to and it's just really cool. I knew I was going to talk about this. You know I go down in the basement, I pull it off the wall, I bring it upstairs, I'm just looking at it again. I can't believe. 30 years has gone by. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I don't know how old your girls are, but for me, you know my daughter's 26 and it was before she was born. You know it was a long time ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my oldest was a toddler, Okay, so you know, the other two were not born just a long time ago, Right? So something that's not a long time ago. And maybe you saw this, Jimmy. This past week, during a traffic stop, a woman in Ohio got arrested. She was pulled over I think she might've been driving erratically or whatever and she was arrested for an outstanding warrant and you know, they handcuff her and they, you know, put her to wherever they go back to the car to look in the car and her pet raccoon, named Chewy Chewy Chewy that's the name of the raccoon Perfect Is sitting in the front seat and I'm not making this up with a meth pipe in its mouth, front seat, and I'm not making this up with a meth pipe in its mouth.
Speaker 1:All right, this is in Florida, right In Ohio.
Speaker 2:Ohio this is in Ohio, sorry. And when the officer takes the pipe he's got gloves on and he goes to get the pipe away. Chewy is able to grab a second pipe and put it up to its mouth. It wants to play with the crack. Excuse me, the meth pipe. Oh wow, it was the video. You know they have body cam footage. It is unbelievable. I kept watching that thing over and over and over, like you cannot believe it.
Speaker 1:And so do we think that the raccoon was actually getting intoxicated.
Speaker 2:No, no, they cleared the raccoon. The raccoon was not arrested. They made sure, and I read multiple articles on this and all of them said that the raccoon was not arrested.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And I started to say to myself you know, I think somebody put that originally as a joke. But then other people just copied it all and were like hey, we want to make sure everybody knows the raccoon was not arrested for having the meth pipe or the second meth pipe. Hey, you know, it's so funny, the officer is cracking up saying he's trying to smoke it and you know, finally I got to get serious or whatever, but it is unbelievable. I just can't believe it. All right. So think about this Not many people at all would know this lady was arrested if it wasn't for her pet raccoon having a meth pipe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's no such thing as bad publicity, I think is what they say.
Speaker 2:This might be bad publicity.
Speaker 1:Jimmy, it might yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh my Lord, you know, hey, listen, those meddling raccoons. So Chewy's okay. In case anyone's wondering, he was not hurt during the traffic stop and again, he was not arrested.
Speaker 1:I'm so relieved.
Speaker 2:A raccoon with a meth pipe. May 16th, 1985. Eddie Van Halen sits in with Paul Schaefer and the world's most dangerous band on Late Night with David Letterman in Los Angeles and playing music. You know in and out of commercials and you know how TV shows if they're based in New York they'll go over to LA. They're in LA and then they come to New York for a week and try and get the ratings up and invite people that are kind of local to the area and generate some excitement. So it's 40 years ago that Eddie Van Halen does this Again. 40 years ago, 85. I'm fine with that. 30 years, 95, it just whoa, doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:So we are—.
Speaker 1:How do you feel on 2005, 20 years?
Speaker 2:I don't talk about it enough to even think about it. Yeah, you know, honestly, I don't 2020, five years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that seems like longer than five years ago, yeah.
Speaker 2:There you go, there you go. So some of the songs they played Pretty Woman, jump. They played Jump and they had Eddie on keyboards. It was really cool. I saw it when it happened 40 years ago. I've seen it multiple times since you Really Got Me. They did Sunshine of your Love, which is Cream.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:A great rendition of it. And then the guest on that episode okay, it's David Letterman out in Los Angeles 1985. The guests on the show were Johnny Carson, lee Marvin. He used to do like the you know the tough guy movies, didn't he used to do those type of things, I think.
Speaker 1:The name sounds familiar. I can't picture Lee Marvin.
Speaker 2:Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. I mean, this is how long ago it is.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:So at one point David Letterman asked Eddie, does David get on your nerves? Referring to David Lee Roth, the singer of Van Halen at the time. And Eddie's reaction is priceless. If you don't want to watch any other part of this video, just watch him asking that question, because Eddie is just laughing and you know he kind of brings his guitar up to hide his face so that you don't see him laughing as hard as he is. And as we know, that year, you know, somewhere around that time David Lee Roth left the band.
Speaker 2:The following month, in June of 1985, eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli, who was his wife at the time, were on Late Night with David Letterman in New York. So a month later now they come over to New York and Eddie and the band do a full, non-commercial intro of Panama, which was really cool. It sounded great, it was a lot of fun and you know Eddie Van Halen, as Paul Schaefer would say, was a real cool cat on the guitar. Absolutely. You know what, jimmy? Let's revisit more great music, because I'm just having a blast talking about all this music from the past Me too. May 15th 1965, bob Dylan's subterranean homesick blues peaks at number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Speaker 1:It's his first top 40 hit and if you think about how— Wow, and so you say that 60 years ago. Like we're fine with that. Bob Dylan's first hit 60 years ago, right yes? Hey that's good, the 90s thing not so good.
Speaker 2:No, I don't know why. I don't know the answer to that, I don't know, but you're right. So that was actually his first top 40 hit. If you think about all the stuff Bob Dylan had done. It wasn't until 1965 that he finally has something top 40, when, if you know Bob Dylan, you know so many songs that happened before this time. So it's just a quick four-verse song, but it has one of the coolest earliest videos that was ever done and it's Bob Dylan holding cue cards and it's got words from the song and some of them are misspelled on purpose and as the song's going, he's just picking the cue cards and dropping them and the next one comes up and the next one, and it's really simple, but it's brilliant because it really made you watch and it really made you want to watch a video of a person that wasn't there sitting and singing like you were accustomed to at the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it was a really cool outside the box video, especially for the time.
Speaker 2:Oh, without a doubt, you know, without a doubt In excess. They gave a nod when they did Mediate, which was off the 87 album Kick. I don't know if Mediate came out, the song came out in 87 or 88, the video I don't remember exactly when it was but they did the same, you know, basic thing as what Bob Dylan had done, and you know it was just a cool thing. I like nods like that. You know, we've talked about that several times. I like when people give a nod to someone, they don't come right out and say it, you just have to do it.
Speaker 1:I'm just thinking about that. Okay, well, that might come back around.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:The nod.
Speaker 2:I like that. I like come back around. Oh the nod. I like that, I like that. So let's go to may 23rd 1980. The english beat. I just can't stop it. Their debut album, really good album. Okay, it makes a ska, reggae, pop and new wave. And you know, at that time when I'm starting to learn, you know New Wave and New Wave's my thing, at that time this album is just perfect because it gives you all these different blends and some of the songs Mirror in the Bathroom, hands Off, she's Mine, twist and Crawl Can't Get Used to Losing you, which was an Andy Williams song. Andy Williams did it in 1963. I believe it was a number two song on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963. I don't remember what month.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:But I love that song. I just think the English beat do better at it than Andy Williams does. I like Andy Williams for Christmas songs, but this English beat version is so much better. My favorite song on the album is Best Friend, and Dave Wakelin kind of sings it from a standpoint of looking in the mirror and, you know, kind of found out the name of my best friend in Jew, meaning himself Like he's the one that he can count on, he's the one that is going to make it happen and you know he's the one that he can trust and so forth. Right, but it's, it's a great album. It really is. And if you want to listen to something new, I think a lot of people would enjoy this album, even though they might not know the English beat or know this album. I got to see them in 82. They opened up this was the bill in 82. The bill was REM, the English beat and then Squeeze. So that was a pretty cool show. That's great. Yeah, definitely a cool show.
Speaker 1:Now in England, weren't they just known as the beat?
Speaker 2:Yes, in Australia they were known as the British beat. The English beat I think was only in America and Canada and I think everywhere else was the Beat except Australia. They called it the British Beat.
Speaker 1:They had to be different right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not sure why, but they were Dave Wakeling, ranking Roger. Ranking Roger. You know he died not that long ago. I mean two years, within two years or so. So definitely a good band, speaking of something that's super cool. 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 Jimmy minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1:It's time for minute with Jimmy, minute with Jimmy, minute with Jimmy. Okay, going back to 1985. In May 85, New Order released the song Love Vigilantes, and it's a really interesting song because Bernard Sumner, the lyricist, said he wanted to write a redneck song. So what he meant by that was that he wanted something that was a story, you know, rather than just this sort of new wave concept of emotional lyrics. He wanted something that told a story. So it tells a story of a man that's off at war and he wants to see his family and comes back home but only to find his wife on the floor with a telegram saying that he's dead. And so you get this idea, okay, well, so that was his ghost that came back. But no, Sumner says it could be taken both ways. It could be taken that he's dead or that he came back and she had gotten the wrong telegram and took her own life out of despondency.
Speaker 2:I've never heard that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, so there's more. You want to hear more?
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's hear some more.
Speaker 1:So the idea for the song? Reportedly, if you listen to a song by Jimmy Cliff from 1969 called Vietnam, it says there's a man in Vietnam and he's sending letters home and he wants to see his wife and he wants to see his friends sending letters home and he wants to see his wife and he wants to see his friends. And then, instead of him coming home, a telegram comes to his mom saying that he's dead. And so you're wondering oh well, didn't new order really know about that jimmy cliff song? Well, new order covered that Jimmy Cliff song in 2003 on an album of war songs. So whether they knew about it when they wrote it or if they just kind of got lumped in with it because of Love Vigilantes, they ended up covering the Jimmy Cliff song with a very similar story to their song.
Speaker 2:Now, I love the song because it is so different for New Order than what they had been doing. I love the guitar in it. You know the song the way that it starts with the drum, it's kind of like, and then it goes into everything.
Speaker 1:I love the guitar on it too, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's just fantastic, Very different, and I've always wondered I guess not wondered. I always thought it was that she got a letter, that and it was wrong, you know.
Speaker 1:Oh, you always thought it was wrong. I was going to ask you which one you thought? I always thought it was his ghost and he said no, you could take it either way.
Speaker 2:Really yeah. So that actually was the screamer of the week on WLIR the third week of June in 1985.
Speaker 1:You're amazing.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not, I'm not. They did the song, they wrote it, they played it. I'm just telling you what it was. Yeah, I really do like that song and it's one of those songs that stands the test of time. I still listen to it a lot. You know, a 40-year-old song or 50 or 60, 30s, that's a whole other different thing, but it's a really good song, just so different. You know, I like the end of the song, the guitar, the way they do it. I like their stuff, I like how they're a dance band, I like all the stuff that they do. But I really like how this song is just like a jam at the end with the guitar, and it's just cool. I just like it because it's different and it just sounds cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely, and they gave that nod to Jimmy Cliff.
Speaker 2:There you go. I like that Woo. Hey, listen, that was a good minute with Jimmy, minute with Jimmy. So, jimmy, I want to finish off with the Black Crowes' first single off Shake your Money Maker, which came out in February of 90. First single was Jealous Again and it entered the Billboard Hot 100 in May of 1990.
Speaker 2:And I was living in New York. Still, I hadn't moved and it was the first Black Crow song I had heard and I loved the opening guitar, then the drums and the piano, then the drums and the piano Cheat. The odds that made you brave to try to gamble at times. Well, I feel like dirty laundry sending sickness on down the line. I had no idea what those words were when he's singing in Chris Robinson and the Black Crows. I couldn't understand it at all, but it just sounded super cool, like I could pick out like little words here and there. And when the song came out I was wondering about the piano because, again, I never heard of the black crows before. But the piano playing was just fantastic and in my head I'm saying how do they have such a great piano player just right off the cuff, like how does that happen? Because that's not a normal, was it?
Speaker 2:a studio guy. It was Chuck Lavelle of the Allman Brothers band and the Rolling Stones and it makes sense. What you know and I didn't know. They took me a number of years before I found it out. But if you to the song, it is Chuck Lavelle to a T more, probably more towards the Allman Brothers way that he would play the piano. And you know, for those of you that don't know, chuck Lavelle was with the Allman Brothers. They did that instrumental, jessica, and a fantastic song. I think it was one of the first songs he did with the band. And you've got Dickie Betts. You know he's on guitar, chuck's on piano. They're kind of going back and forth and oh my God, I just love that song. It's one of my favorite instrumentals.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's classic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, really really good, but that's another story for another day. We'll get to that. So I had this 83 mustang convertible back in 1990 and I would just jam out when that song would come on. I just loved it. It just was like this perfect song to be driving in this convertible and driving down the road again. It's one of those songs as it ends, you know, it goes, you know, with this guitar jam and it's just cool you know what color was the the mustang?
Speaker 1:it was blue with a white top all right, light blue, dark blue, dark blue.
Speaker 2:Oh, very cool well thank you, thank you I can picture it now there you go it, there you go. It was a great car. It was a great car song. It was a great convertible driving car song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's like a summertime driving song too, right? Yes, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in New York in May it's now you're getting some days where it's starting to be warm, the weather's a little bit different and it was fantastic. You know the one thing about when you have it in the summertime and the sun is shining bright on you, you're just sweating. Okay yeah, it is unbearable heat that I never could have imagined. It's a great drive at night or driving early before the sun rises. You know that type of thing, but when the sun is beating down on you, it's unbelievable. I remember going to work. I would wear clothes to work and then I would change because I was soaking wet when I got to work and put new clothes on and then have to put different clothes on to drive home. But man, seriously, that was a great driving song. So can you think of any driving songs?
Speaker 2:Did you ever have a convertible?
Speaker 1:I did. Yeah, I had both a 67 and then a 68 Pontiac Bonneville convertible. We did talk about that Big old boat and yeah, it gets really hot in the sun and you also can get a sunburn pretty easily driving around. Yeah, you got to be careful pretty easily driving around. Yeah, you got to be careful.
Speaker 1:Um, but you know, speaking of new order, age of consent, it's, it starts out practically like it's an instrumental, you know it's got this kind of undulating guitar, um riff in it that almost feels like it's like a clean guitar, almost feels like an acoustic, but um right, just this real repetitive thing. And and then the new order drum, not the, uh, not the electronic drums, but sort of like really moving it along kind of drums. You know they're pulsating and churning and I think it's a great driving song there you go.
Speaker 2:I like that. I'm I going to have to listen to that now as I'm driving I you know I was thinking, and there's some like instantaneous ones that I think most people would say probably Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf. I mean like it's tough to drive and not to hit the gas a little extra.
Speaker 1:I was about to say that's a speeding ticket song. Yeah, sweet Home Alabama. I was going to say that's a speeding ticket song.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sweet Home Alabama. That's another song that you know I love driving One of my favorites, la Woman by the Doors. I think that is the perfect driving song, like it's got all these different parts. It's long. I like longer songs as I'm driving than if I'm at home, type of thing. Everybody Wants to Rule the World, you know. That's one of those songs that a bunch of people if they're in the car they'll sing along with. And then probably the song that people have sung along with more than any other song that I've been with is hey there, delilah by the Plain White Tees.
Speaker 1:I didn't see that one coming.
Speaker 2:It is a great song. You don't know how many people know that song until it comes on and one person starts singing with it. The next thing you know like everybody's singing it. It's just really cool. I remember being up in Chicago. We were on our way to a Chicago Cubs day baseball game. It was a work-related thing and we were going and I I'm driving and the song comes on and I'm just kind of singing in and again there was like five of us and before you knew, it, everybody's singing.
Speaker 1:It was really cool.
Speaker 2:It sounds like Mr Brightside. Mr Brightside is another great song, I think, for driving. That's a good one. I like that. What's that song? Possum Kingdom by the Toadies oh my gosh, that is just. That's another driving song Like, wow, this is fantastic, you know.
Speaker 1:I'll throw out. How about A Forest?
Speaker 2:By the Cure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh. I like that I know that's driving at night. Oh, okay, yeah, you know you're on like a long road Driving through Texas or something you know. Barely any light out the moon and that song's just churning in the background.
Speaker 2:Why'd you pick Texas?
Speaker 1:Well, it's like a you know.
Speaker 2:The flatlands.
Speaker 1:Flatlands.
Speaker 2:I gotcha. I've driven through Texas at night From Dallas to Houston and it is pitch black for sure you don't see anything.
Speaker 1:Right, that's what I remember from the one time that I drove through Texas and it's a little bit like the Georgia equivalent is I-16 between like Statesboro and the coast. It was like there's not much.
Speaker 2:Right, you want to get gas and be ready and have a snack.
Speaker 1:Because there's not a lot. It's flat and not a lot of exits.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I just think it's awesome talking about it. I like when you know you start talking about one thing and then it just kind of morphs into something else. That's I love that on the show. I love talking about something and then you bring something up and it kind of just you know you bounce off and you know car driving songs. It starts because the black crow's jealous again.
Speaker 1:How do you feel about Once in a Lifetime as a driving song?
Speaker 2:I don't know about that. For me that's another one.
Speaker 1:I think that's a good driving song.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I just like it in general, so I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1:How about? Okay, I'm just going to throw out the rest of the ones here, don't Stop.
Speaker 2:Fleetwood Mac oh, you know, that's one to just kind of hit the accelerator. I'm digesting it. There you go.
Speaker 1:And the last one I'll throw out to you. It's another more mainstream song Boys of Summer.
Speaker 2:That's funny, so you like that song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do like that song.
Speaker 2:I can see that being a driving song and they talk about the deadhead sticker on the Cadillac.
Speaker 2:Things changed. You know Things changed. Yeah, I guess I can see that I did not like it when it came out, uh, originally, and a buddy of mine, paul, was really into it and he didn't care, he just play it anyway, you know, and I got to hear it more and more and more and I think, because it said the deadhead sticker on a Cadillac, that made me start listening to it a little bit more so, cadillac, that made me start listening to it a little bit more so. But yeah, that's cool. You know there's some good driving songs. It's kind of cool to reminisce about the 83 Mustang convertible. I had two. I had a 68 GTO convertible before that. That was in really bad shape. I bought it for $300. That kind of tells you what kind of shape it was in, but it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:And that's the kind of car though, now, no matter what shape it was in, right, but it was a lot of fun. That's the kind of car though, now, no matter what shape it's in.
Speaker 2:That car would be worth $10,000 or more, yeah, and I sold it for $300. Yeah, you know. And then that 83 Mustang seriously, it was fun to drive when it wasn't sunbeating on you, but I sweat like anything. Maybe that's what I need to do so that I can stay in shape. Let the sun beat it out of me. Hey, whatever it takes, you know why I'm jealous. Jealous again, thought at time, I let you in Jealous, jealous again. Got no time, baby, and we got no time.
Speaker 2:Because that's it for Episode 78 of Music in my Shoes. You can contact us at musicinmyshoes at gmailcom if you want to tell us about a car song or a convertible or anything else that we talked about. Please like and follow the Music in my Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages, share the podcast with your friends and thank you to everyone that has up to this point. 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.
