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E94 Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, You Shook Me All Night Long, and Silverchair
The Rolling Stones' "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" changed rock history as the ultimate live album experience, capturing the raw energy of their November 1969 performances with new guitarist Mick Taylor delivering an unforgettable sound.
• Released September 4, 1970, it features definitive versions of classics like "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Midnight Rambler," and "Sympathy for the Devil"
• Side one includes Chuck Berry's "Carol," while side two features "Little Queenie"
• 40th anniversary edition includes additional tracks plus performances from opening acts BB King and Ike & Tina Turner
• Jimmy reveals how Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" became the test song for creating the MP3 format
• Discusses AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" from 1980 and its universal appeal across generations
• Explores Silverchair's "Tomorrow" from 1995, recorded when band members were just 15 years old
• Features listener feedback through the Music in My Shoes mailbag segment
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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 94. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So back on September 4th 1970, the Rolling Stones released Get your Ya-Ya's Out live album they recorded in November of 1969. Most of it came from two shows, actually three shows at Madison Square Garden. It was on November 27th and 28th. 27th was one show, the 28th was two shows. Can you imagine that? Because a lot of the bands used to do that back in the late 60s and the early 70s they would play like a Like a matinee.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then do whatever and then come back and play the Late Show. It's funny because a lot of times the Late Show was either really really good or really really bad, because they had so much time on their hands in between Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, rock stars do what rock stars do.
Speaker 2:Yes, they do, and one of the songs was actually recorded in Baltimore November 26th, so it's all within a three-day period that the album happens. I first heard it on a radio station and I don't remember which one it was, but they would do this weekly thing where they would play one side of an album. I don't remember if it was always live or I just don't remember, but I remember they were going to play this and I wasn't really if it was always live or you just don't remember, but I remember they were going to play this and I wasn't really familiar with it. I knew a couple of the songs but I didn't know all of it. And I remember laying down on the living room floor and had the stereo system and you know, all ready to go and it came on and I was absolutely blown away by the first side of this album.
Speaker 2:Guitarist Mick Taylor had replaced Brian Jones early summer of 1969. We've talked about that before. You know, we talked about the tribute concert that they did in Hyde Park. I think it was July 3rd of 1969. So we moved forward to November 69 for this album that came out in September of 70. And Mick Taylor it was just unbelievable what he was able to do with the Rolling Stones and the direction that he helped them get to with Keith Richards, and I don't think it's possible that they could have done that with Brian Jones.
Speaker 2:And Side One kicks off with Jumba. Jack Flash goes into Carol, which is a Chuck Berry song that all of the early 60s British bands all had their own version of. Carol, like, seriously, you can go out there and whether it's the Kinks or the Beatles or the Rolling Stones or whoever, everybody seemed to do that song. Stray Cat Blues, love in Vain, which is the song that they recorded in Baltimore. And Side One ends with Midnight Rambler, which I knew this version because they would play that on the radio. Absolutely blown away by listening to this. So, carol, they did a rock version. Like most bands when they do it, it's kind of like that early 60s pop version of it. But by now I mean they just did a really good one. Stray Cat Blues, I mean they are just on fire. Love in Vain, what a great blues song. I mean it's just fantastic.
Speaker 2:I can't talk about it enough. I mean it really is one of those albums that is kind of you know, I don't want to say life-changing. I hate saying things like that Because, at the end of the day, music, you know, is don't want to say life-changing. I hate saying things like that because, at the end of the day, music, you know, is a great thing and it's something that's awesome to help us, you know, with life and get through life. But as far as changing my life and stuff, I don't know, maybe it got me, it ended up.
Speaker 2:I got this podcast years later.
Speaker 2:That's right, you know, but it is something that was really, you know, made an impact on me listening to it and hearing stuff, because you know, I knew all the Rolling Stones hit songs up until you know this point when I listened to it and I go and I listen to Psy 2, you know I end up picking up the album. Sympathy for the Devil. I knew this version also. Sympathy for the Devil. I Knew this Version Also.
Speaker 2:Live With Me, little Queenie, another Chuck Berry song that they just absolutely rock out on Honky Tonk Women and Street Fighting man. It is just unbelievable how good of an album this is, and I don't know if it's because they knew that they were recording it for an album. I mean some of the Rolling Stone live albums, some are good and some are awful, to be quite honest. So this one is absolutely fantastic. What they did for the 40th anniversary edition they included some songs that they played that weren't on the original album prodigal son, you gotta move under my thumb, I'm free and satisfaction. And they didn't want to put satisfaction on because they had satisfaction on like at least one live album before and kind of want to show a different direction for them. Under my Thumb is done just like a little differently, so it's actually kind of cool to listen to. But it also had songs from the opening bands, so BB King and Ike and Tina Turner they opened up these shows.
Speaker 1:Oh, and that was on like the anniversary edition On the anniversary edition.
Speaker 2:So some of the songs from BB and that was on like the anniversary edition On the anniversary edition. So some of the songs from BB King that are on there is Every Day. I have the Blues. He opens up with that. I mean it's just a fantastic song. Why I Sing the Blues and Ike and Tina Turner Gimme Some Lovin' Son of a Preacher man.
Speaker 2:Proud Mary, I've Been Loving you Too Long. Come Together. Proud Mary, I've been loving you too long. Come together, it's just fantastic. So I've been loving you too long is kind of cool because you have the Otis Redding version, sung from a man's point of view and he made famous at Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and and now you have Tina Turner's version from a woman's perspective and it's the same song, yet you feel these different things and they convey different things of their feelings and it's super cool. I just find that really cool that they're able to do that. You know, I've talked about Otis Redding making you feel like he's singing it, like it's actually happening to him. Tina Turner does the same exact thing but just from a whole different perspective, and I love things like that. That's, you know, one of the things I like about music, you know.
Speaker 1:For sure yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's my favorite live album of all time.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't realize this. Okay, it is Numero Uno.
Speaker 2:It's Numero Uno. You know, a few episodes ago we talked about the kinks one for the road, which is in my top five. This is number one and it's still number one. It's been number one since I heard it and it has never changed. I have always said this is my favorite live album, all right. So I decided to go check and see what people thought when it came out, and Lester Bangs of Rolling Stone Magazine said in an original review I have no doubt that it's the best rock concert ever put on record. Now this is when it first came out. There's been 50 years of live albums that have come out since then.
Speaker 2:In 2015, Rolling Stone named the album number 17 on its 50 greatest live albums of all time. Definitely has stood the test of time. Now, what's cool about this Rolling Stone list the 50 greatest albums? It's not rock albums, it's all genres, whether it's, you know, R&B, rock, jazz I mean the whole thing, the whole gamut. So to make number 17 on that list, that's pretty cool. You know what, Jimmy? It's been a while. I think it's music in my shoes mailbag time.
Speaker 1:All right Music in my shoes mailbag. All right Music in my shoes mailbag.
Speaker 2:So on episode 87, live Aid, july 13th 1985, from the Facebook page John in Iowa, queen stole the show and I saw them live in Kansas City during their heyday and it was the best concert I've ever seen. Randy in Gilmer Texas, I was in Philly. It was the best concert I've ever seen Randy in Gilmer Texas. I was in Philly. It was wonderful. I'm jealous of you, randy. I don't know why I didn't go. I've mentioned that before. I wish that I did, but, man, that must have been cool to have been there. Must have. Yeah. Wanda says Freddie Mercury is amazing and best of all time. Freddie Mercury is amazing and best of all time. Rogelio in El Paso, texas, comments if they want to generate more money, they should reissue concert shirts. I sure as heck would buy a couple of them.
Speaker 2:I love that idea because I would buy one too, I think that would be great, you know, to be able to buy some old things from a live aid or whatever it is.
Speaker 1:That's a great idea. Yeah, I love that idea. And for charity again, yeah.
Speaker 2:I would definitely do it. I'd pay a little bit more than what I paid for shirts back in the 80s. Now what I think is interesting is, as I was driving here I had my phone on shuffle, you know, just randomly playing songs, and from Live Aid, queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and Radio Gaga came on. And I just get a kick out of that, because so many times when we're recording whether it's right before or right after something that we've talked about or about to talk about plays, and that's pretty neat. It is Episode 88, july 1980, WPLJ, the Kinks and the Gopher Dance, patricia, wow, wplj was one of the radio stations I listened to when I decided to be a rocker Great memories. I fully understand what you're talking about, patricia. I agree with you on that one.
Speaker 1:And guess what? Music changed Patricia's life.
Speaker 2:Because she decided to become a rocker. Yes, there you go. There's a song. Patricia is a rocker.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, hey episode. We'll work on that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll work on that one. Episode 90, mtv top videos of 1990, you can't touch this Now. This comment is from me to Jimmy. So, jimmy, on that episode we talked about Suzanne Vega and Tom's Diner and being remixed by DNA and originally it was a acapella and DNA put the music to it and blah, blah, blah, blah. But the mother of the MP3, and I have been dying to ask you, you, and it's kind of slipped my mind, but this is a great opportunity.
Speaker 1:you said you were going to look into it yeah, so you know, when they created the mp3 they had to take all this information that's in a digitized audio file. You know it's. It's a really big file, especially by old computer standards, like a floppy disk back when we had those right right, that wouldn't even hold one song, really uncompressed format. Yeah, and a uh, you know, obviously a cd will, but we didn't have recordable cds until later and so, uh they, they wanted a format that was able to go across the internet, that has a file size that you know is is manageable on a 14-4 modem, if anybody remembers what those were, you know right, and so the idea was you have to throw away a whole lot of the information and somehow make the sound still good, and it took a lot of work and there was this guy named brandenburg that was working on it and it was easier to make like, like, say, you have a really loud rock song, like, uh, like a nirvana song or something it's like it's loud all the Um.
Speaker 1:it's a little easier to compress that because you can kind of throw away some of the quieter stuff and your brain doesn't notice it because it's so loud. Okay, but something like Suzanne Vegas Tom's diner is really dynamic, like her voice gets loud and quiet and there you can hear the room and you can hear the nuance in her voice and everything, and that's that gets a lot harder to for the algorithm to decide. Okay, wait a minute, what are we going to throw away to compress this file and still have it sound good. So Brandenburg was working and he worked at a university and he actually heard it down the hall Somebody was playing that song and he said, oh my gosh, I need to find out what that is, because that would be perfect.
Speaker 1:That would be like the ultimate challenge. If we can make that sound good compressed, then we've really got something that'll work on everything. So that's what he did and it took him hundreds and hundreds of tweaks on the algorithm to get it. Because he said at first it was just like awful sounding really, that, uh, that it would sound like, you know, computerized and crunchy and like a robot. And so now, whenever you hear an MP3, you're hearing that song as interpreted by his ears, listening to Suzanne Vega. That's what the whole thing is tuned to and it works on everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, that's a pretty cool story. I'm glad I waited this long because it probably took you a while to figure all that out. Yeah, yeah, you know, I think things like that. You know technology, while I don't necessarily understand all of it and how it all works, but it's just amazing. You know where you go from you know the 78 record to the 33 record, to the you know eight track, to the cassette, to the cd, to mp3. You know, like just all of these different things that have happened through time to try and give us the ability to be able to hear something better faster, you know yeah, sometimes it made it better and sometimes it, like you said, made it faster, easier, cheaper.
Speaker 1:Cassettes were a downgrade, really, from 8-tracks, but you could rewind on them, which you couldn't do on an 8-track Right, and they were cheaper than an 8-track. And then MP3s are a downgrade from CDs, but you can send them across the Internet on a slow connection.
Speaker 2:So yeah, Well, that was good. I like that, jimmy, thanks. And that person who had that comment man, that guy's a real good guy.
Speaker 1:Oh wait, that was me that was from Jim in Georgia, right that was Jim in Georgia.
Speaker 2:Hey, anyway, let's move on. Episode 91, the Beatles Help and live in Atlanta 1965, jennifer in Snellville, georgia, really loved the interview with Lucy. Can't imagine how weird to think of her at 13 going to the concert and years later seeing Paul McCartney with her kids. I wonder how many of those screaming girls have revisited with their children. I think that's a cool thought, you know? Yeah, it is. I could watch a documentary of some of those stories Great show. And then she says something. But it kind of reminded me of something. It's almost like she meant to put PS. You remember when you would always be like PS. You would say something and be like PS and then throw something in. So in my mind I feel like she wanted to say oh, great yeah, so me too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, your family's glad that you watched the Goonies. So PS again. She didn't put it in my mind. I'm saying what why did we do that? You can't just go at it, you know Right. So you put it at the bottom. You say PS. Oh yeah, you know, the Beatles had that song. Ps, I Love you Right.
Speaker 1:So I'm just thinking about this. So they wrote a whole letter to the girl and they're like wait a minute, I forgot to say I love you. Exactly that.
Speaker 2:Exactly what came to my head when you were saying that, like, wow, as I write this letter, send my love to you, but you didn't say I love you until after PS, I love you, wow, wow. But hey, I do agree with Jennifer here. You know, lucy was a fantastic guest. Really enjoyed having her on and talking about what it was like to see the Beatles at Atlanta Stadium here in Atlanta. It was like to see the Beatles at Atlanta Stadium here in Atlanta and it definitely must be cool to have been 13, like she said, see this band and then, you know, as she got older and her kids got older and could appreciate it, going to see Paul McCartney. I think she said she saw Ringo Starr also. I mean, that is just neat. You know I've seen Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr with my kids, but I didn't see the Beatles. So that's just super cool, really like it. Yeah, so also same episode.
Speaker 2:Daryl says, may the truth be told, the Isley brothers are the greatest family group of all time, and I'm thinking he's mentioning the Isleys from their connection with the Beatles of releasing their version of Twist and Shout in 1962. Beatles released theirs in UK in 1963, and then here in the US in 1964. So I'm kind of thinking that that's the connection that he's trying to make there. The Isley Brothers definitely are one of the greatest family groups of all time. I mean, they really had a ton of family members in the band, even as they had different versions of the group. They would bring in different family members.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:Twist and Shout is a great song. The Isley Brothers version is great. The version that is done by the Beatles is fantastic. But the parade scene in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off is just. That is epic, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's the Beatles version.
Speaker 2:That's the Beatles version. That's the Beatles version. But what's cool is that they throw in like the marching band. They throw the marching band into parts of the song, so while you're watching them in the scene, you can also hear them. So it's not like straight. Hey, let's just play the record, let's add this, and I really thought that was cool because it really made it seem a little bit more lifelike. Not that Matthew Broderick was doing the best job of I don't want to say he was lip syncing, Was he miming, or what would you say, jimmy?
Speaker 1:I would say he's lip syncing.
Speaker 2:Lip syncing yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Not that you know he was doing a bad job, but it was. You know it was okay. But I love that scene from the movie. I enjoyed having Lucy on. That was a great episode. Thank you, jennifer. Great, great feedback. Yes, Episode 92, I Want my $2, cheap Trick, squeeze Queen and the Cars. Jimmy spoke about Big Maybel and her version of Whole Lotta Shakin' going on from 1955. Scott in Georgia. A lot of Georgia people coming in on this episode here comments and to keep the big rock and roll inspiration there going, don't forget.
Speaker 1:Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog in 1953. Yes, classic, another one that's like slower in the old version, right.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is slower in the old version. So Big Mama Thornton was playing in a bar in San Francisco. All right, she didn't make a ton of money. She says she made about 500 bucks off of that song. That was it. Even after Elvis did it, she you know, back then you could get robbed blind on signing contracts.
Speaker 1:She only-. I think 500 bucks was a lot more than it is now, but still.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a one-time payment that you know. That's basically. She said what she got. So she's at a bar playing.
Speaker 2:Janis Joplin was in attendance at one of her shows at the San Francisco bar and here's the song Ball and Chain, and Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company they end up playing at a Monterey Pop Festival and it was unbelievable, just, you know did fantastic bluesy version and kept, you know, a lot of the feeling that Big Mama Thornton had in it.
Speaker 2:You know Janis Joplin did that Really really cool. And you know I get a kick out of when we have things and we talk about things and how things are connected, of when we have things and we talk about things and how things are connected and something as simple as Janice going into a bar and seeing Big Mama Thornton and then all of a sudden, ball and Chain is, you know, one of her big songs. So, yeah, awesome. I was reminded by podcast checker Sue Ann that the director of Better Off Dead, savage Steve Holland, was related to a teacher we had in high school, mr Gels, and Mr Gels' daughter was in the 1986 movie One Crazy Summer, also starring John Cusack and directed by Savage Steve Holland. Savage Steve Holland is a great name, it is.
Speaker 2:I love that name but a lot of people for some reason think that one crazy summer is like a sequel to better off dead. And it's not at all. It has no connection. But I do remember mr gals talking about his daughter who's a young, young kid, was going to be in this movie and like oh sure, yeah, whatever, but sure enough she was. Episode 93, isle of wight 1970, horde festival, 1995, blotto, and this beat goes on. I talked about casey, of casey and the sunshine band and that he did not think that they were a disco band and listener Barry says that makes two of us. Okay, he said he couldn't believe KC and the Sunshine Band was disco Like. When he first heard it he was like no, they're not. And kind of was taken aback that people would actually think that they were a disco band.
Speaker 2:All right all right, I respect Barry, but you know what Music's not a competition. Whether it's disco or R&B or funk or rock or pop or jazz or Hill Street Blues, it's still music. Hey, you can reach us at musicinmyshoes at gmailcom if you'd like to talk about anything that you've heard on the show or bring up a new topic. Please like and follow the Music in my Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages. We would appreciate it. Let's revisit some more Music in my Shoes.
Speaker 2:You Shook Me All Night Long enters Billboard Hot 100 September 6, 1980 and peaks at number 35 on November 8. I know you talked about the album from ACDC Back in Black a few episodes ago, jimmy. This album deserves to be talked about many times because it is fantastic from beginning to end. You shook me all night long. Guitar starts, but then when that drum kicks in, it's like we're ready to rock. You know, oh yeah, and you know she was a fast machine. She kept her motor clean. She was the best damn woman that I ever seen. I mean, you know that this song is going to places that you haven't seen in a while.
Speaker 1:And it was either the first or one of the first songs that Brian Johnson ever wrote.
Speaker 2:And he did a great job with it. And you know, with that, I think you know, there's some people like Bon Scott you know, who had died I think it was February 1980, that he had wrote it. And I really think, in my opinion not that my opinion counts for anything I think that Brian Johnson had some of the things you know notes from Bon Scott and Bon Scott would write down lines and have things and be like you know what, hey, that looks like a cool line, and so forth, and I just think the song is absolutely classic. It's got some of those you know comedic things that Bon Scott would be known for in some of the songs that he would do. But Brian Johnson really did a great job, you know, with the song, singing the song and really, you know, brought back a band that you thought was done.
Speaker 1:you know Now. I mean, maybe he had some notes from Bon Scott, but when I listened to a podcast with him recently, he didn't say anything about that. He said that they gave him the music, they gave him the title and he had to write the song.
Speaker 2:Isn't that cool. Like this is the title, write the song. And I know they do that for movies and different things like that, and you know that's just cool to be able to do something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, every band works differently and that's a way that I've never really heard of doing it. You know, they record the entire music track and come up with the title, and then they're like, all right, write the lyrics.
Speaker 2:You shook me all night long. I don't know, but I think almost everybody loves this song Because you can be at a wedding and a DJ is playing. And this song starts to play and there's like 70-year-old, 80-year-old people getting on the floor. They want to dance to this song. They're ready to go.
Speaker 1:Well, and there are young people that are, you know, excited about it too.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's everybody you know. But the 70 and 80 year old people that are just kind of hanging out on the side, all of a sudden they hear the beginning of that and it is like it's all over. You know, they're ready to come out on the floor, do some splits. I mean it's crazy, some splits. I mean it's crazy, speaking of crazy, tick, tick, tick. It's 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. So I noticed you know, jim, you talk about movies a lot and I've never really talked about movies as much. Right, I talked about Spinal Tap recently. Another movie from 1985, 40 years ago, was Fletch, the Chevy Chase comedy. I say that it's Chevy Chase at his absolute pinnacle as a comedic force. It was a perfect movie for him as a comedic force. It was a perfect movie for him. He got to play all these different characters because his character was always kind of undercover and pretending to be somebody else. He had crazy names, ranging from Harry S Truman to John Babar, you know, to Dr Rosen Rosen and everything in between. And it had so many lines in it that when I was in high school, when my buddies and I we would just always be quoting Fletch lines, you know, billet to the underhills, all these, you know, put some three-in-one oil and some gauze pads on it, that sort of stuff. And I haven't seen it in a long time, but I have great memories of Fletch.
Speaker 2:You know, jimmy, I have forgotten about that movie. I'm going to actually watch it because, you're right, it was funny. He did have all those lines and I think he had like Fletch and then wasn't there like Fletch Lives and there was like some sequels.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they weren't that good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, I think the original Fletch. My father worked at Newsday for a time up in New York and I think they filmed some of the scenes, some of the office scenes at Newsday for Fletch.
Speaker 1:Oh cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that, jimmy. Now I have a movie Now I've seen it, but I need to go revisit it.
Speaker 1:Me too.
Speaker 2:My name is Jimmy, so Jimmy, back in late 1994, someone gave me a promo cassette of a band I never heard of with just a few songs on it. One song stood out to me it's 12 o'clock and it's a wonderful day. I know you hate me, but I'll ask anyway. Won't you come with me to a place in a little town. The only way to get there is to go straight down the song Tomorrow by Silverchair, Three guys from Australia they were 15 at the time.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:And I wore that cassette out. I'm like I couldn't find it anywhere. There's nowhere to find it and I would just listen to that cassette over and over and over. So the band re-records it in 1995 for the Frog Stomp album, and one day on the radio I actually hear this song that I have had since, you know, 1994. At some point it peaked at number one on alternative airplay on September 2nd 1995, 30 years ago, and it was number one on mainstream rock airplay on september 23rd. I still think I listened to it a bunch the other day. It is a great song and when you start to think that they're 15 years old yeah it is unbelievable.
Speaker 2:The guitar work is fantastic, really good. Just it's grungy but it's not. It's got cool voice because they're Australian trying to do it's just a cool song. It really is All right. Yeah, there's no bathroom and there is no sink. The water out of the tap is very hard to drink. I'll tell you what else is hard to drink. That that's it for episode 94 of Music in my Shoes. I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios located here in Atlanta, georgia, and Vic Thrill for our podcast music. This is Jim Boge, and I hope you learned something new or remembered something old. We'll meet again on our next episode. Until then, live life and keep the music playing. Thank you.
