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E97 John Bonham, Top Drummers, Almost Famous, The Odd Couple, Plus APB and Camper Van Beethoven Live
Music shapes our memories and creates connections across generations, from legendary drummers who defined rock to the venues that launched careers and the songs that withstand time.
• John Bonham of Led Zeppelin died September 25, 1980, at age 32
• Exploration of the greatest drummers of all time across various lists
• Hal Blaine, session drummer extraordinaire, played on over 35,000 songs including hits by The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, and Frank Sinatra
• Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" premiered September 22, 2000, drawing from his teenage experiences writing for Rolling Stone
• The film features Stillwater, a fictional band incorporating elements from various bands Crowe encountered
• "The Odd Couple" premiered on television September 24, 1970, with the "Password" episode remaining a fan favorite
• APB live at My Father's Place in Roslyn, New York, a venue crucial in launching careers of bands like Billy Joel and The Police
• Camper Van Beethoven's 40th anniversary performance of 'Telephone Free Landslide Victory' at 40 Watt, Athens, GA
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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 97. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old.
Speaker 2:On September 25th 1980, after drinking heavily from the previous day, led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham died at age 32 after vomiting in his sleep and choking on it. After vomiting in his sleep and choking on it. A truly great drummer that meant so much to the band that they announced in December 1980 that they would not continue as they were effectively ending the band Led Zeppelin. And I remember the day I've talked about it on the show before I was at my friend Robin's house in Levittown, new York, and there was a few of us there and honestly I don't even remember. I know Robin was there because it was her house, but there was some other people and we're on the front yard talking. It was after school, I think we went there after class, something like that, and someone found out that John Bonham died. And you know, we're just like sitting there and we're talking and like we couldn't believe it, like John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, you know.
Speaker 1:And you didn't find out on the Internet back then it's like you had to, somebody had to call you or somebody had to see it on the TV news and you know people would like call each other's landline to tell them that stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it was. Actually. They announced it on the radio and then the landline phone chain was beginning. Like you said, I was 13 at the time and it was a big deal. You know, it was a big deal, like man, like led zeppelin, you know, in through the outdoor had come out in 1979 and so that's, you know, roughly about a year earlier from this time and the song fool in the rain it reached number 21 on billboard, I believe it was, and that was like probably seven months before, so say, that's like February of 1980. So you're talking about there's still a band, you're still hearing them. Their album In Through the Outdoor was still on the top 200 charts of Billboard, you know, probably until June or so. So it was something that was there and they were getting ready to do a North American tour. Yeah, and it was.
Speaker 2:You know, the day before were the first rehearsals for the 1980 North American tour and he drank, like I've read different things, but one thing that seems to be in common thing that seems to be in common something like 40 shots of vodka and it just, it's just unbelievable. That is, you know, and to think that you go to sleep effectively probably passed out. You know we say go to sleep, but you know, passed out and some people put him into a bed. Some people put him into a bed and unfortunately, you know, he choked on his vomit and and lost his life. So rolling stone listed their hundred greatest drummers of all time.
Speaker 2:We talked a couple episodes ago. You know jimmy hendrix and you know the greatest guitarist, so I thought I would look up. You know who people thought the greatest drummers were. All right, okay. So one thing I don't think I mentioned when we talked about Jimi Hendrix, I didn't realize so many people would have him at number one. I looked at a ton of different lists. I didn't talk about all of them, but I looked at a ton and he was number one on so many 50 years later after his death, I think that's pretty cool. It is so Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Drummers.
Speaker 2:Number five Hal Blaine, part of the Wrecking Crew. Oh, yeah, okay, probably the drummer that you don't have any idea who he is but has played on more songs than you would imagine Over 35,000 songs he's played on. Oh wow, 150 top 10 hits and 40 songs to top the charts at number one. So I'm just going to read off because I had to make a list. I didn't want to forget. I wrote down a bunch of these songs that he's on, and this is not all of them.
Speaker 1:I'm not about to go through 35,000 songs. Don't go through it, don't. Yeah, I'm not going to do that, Not even like half of them.
Speaker 2:No, no, Okay. So Surf City by Jan and Dean. Surf City is one of my favorite songs of all time. Love this song. And you know they had a little bit of a rivalry with the Beach Boys, but at the same time they didn't, because Dean Torrance would sing on some of the Beach Boys songs or they would come out with a song and then the other band would just basically take the same music and change the words and you know they got along. They really did. I Get Around by the Beach Boys. Hal Blaine was the drummer. Everybody Loves Somebody. By Dean Martin. Hmm, Mr Tambourine, man the Birds, I Got you. Babe, Sonny and Cher. Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire. I love that song. That song is so different than so many songs and listening to it today, still it's excellent, Excellent song. Monday, Monday, the Mamas and the Papas. Okay, we're talking about songs.
Speaker 1:Hal Blaine was the drummer on it, and all these are kind of packed though within that late 60s, early 70s window, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, strangers in the Night. Frank Sinatra, good Vibrations. The Beach Boys, mrs Robinson, simon and Garfunkel. Close to you. The Carpenters, I Think I Love you.
Speaker 2:The Partridge Family Song, sung Blue, neil Diamond, another great song right there, we could talk about that one all day. Thank God I'm a Country Boy. By John Denver and I'll leave it off with Love Will Keep Us Together. By Captain and Tennille yeah, love that one. I mean just some great songs. So Rolling Stones. Number four drummer Neil Peart from Rush. Number three Ginger Baker from Cream. So Cream was Ginger Baker, eric Clapton, jack Bruce, and they did the songs Strange Brew, sunshine of your Love, white Room, crossroads, badge We've talked about Badge. Eric Clapton wrote that with George Harrison and George Harrison was trying to read the paper upside down and it said Bridge and all of a sudden he's like what's Badge? And Eric Clapton loved it so much he ended up calling the song Badge, even though the word has nothing to do with the song at all. Number two Keith Moon of the who. The who who also died, you know, um, from choking you know, yeah, so it's a common thing number one, john bonham.
Speaker 1:If we move over to consequence, and you know spinal tap, that's one of their drummers died choking on vomit and the thing they say is they're not exactly sure whose vomit it was, because you can't really dust for vomit. They say there you go.
Speaker 2:You can do DNA now, of course. There you go. So consequence number five Dave Weckl. He did solo work and with the Chick Corea Electric Band kind of a jazz guy. Number four Gene Krupa, jazz drummer. He was kind of like the first drum star where he wasn't the guy in the back. They moved him up towards the front so that they could highlight him and you know, people just kind of enjoyed that. Number three, neil from Rush, again. Number two, buddy Rich, another jazz drummer, and number one, john Bonham.
Speaker 1:I'm going to throw somebody out there. See what you think about this one, sammy Davis Jr. Have you ever seen him play drums?
Speaker 2:I think I've only seen him do that on the Jerry Lewis telethon. To be honest with you, I probably saw something similar.
Speaker 1:He would do it in his regular act, but yeah, he was a good drummer.
Speaker 2:He actually was a pretty good drummer. But I think it's one thing to be able to do a little skit of drumming and do that as compared to being like a drummer that drums along with you know, yeah, a band through multiple songs and everything. Like you know they say fake it until you make it like. I think we can all fake it through one thing I don't know.
Speaker 1:You think you could play drums like sammy davis jr for one song air drums maybe maybe you know what I'm getting a little older.
Speaker 2:Even the air drums are are getting a little little uh slow these days. But you know, I, you know, I, I see what you mean, but I think that maybe not everybody can do everything. That's a good point, but I think that but anyway, I'm just throwing kudos to sammy yeah, no, no. I agree with you 100% that he was able to do something instead of, you know, just singing Candyman.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:There you go, so Wickamundi 10 best drummers of all time. I wanted to go with this one last, number 10, ringo Starr of the Beatles, number 9, I didn't see this one coming at all and this is part of why I did the top 10 from this particular thing. Danny Carey of Tool.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:All right. Number eight Art Blakey, another jazz guy. Number seven Ginger Baker of Cream.
Speaker 1:By the way, there's a good documentary about Ginger Baker. It's like call me Mr Baker or something like that. Really good documentary. He was a nut.
Speaker 2:I'll have to check it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I definitely will check that out. Number six, stuart Copeland of the Police, number five, gene Krupa, number four, keith Moon, number three, buddy Rich, number two, neil Peart Peart and number one John Bonham. But I think you know for the most part, when you look at these lists, people are pretty much in line with who the best drummers are. Yeah, you know, whether they were rock or jazz or whatever they may be. I think that's pretty cool to have that. I like it, me too. Almost Famous. The movie premiered September 22nd 2000.
Speaker 2:A Cameron Crowe film. The movie's similar to his teenage years. You know he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine. He was like 16 years old and I think he went out with the Allman Brothers band. Might have been his first you know gig like go on the road with them for three weeks and tell us everything about them. And he's like 16 years old, you know.
Speaker 2:So this movie, while it's not, you know, like an autobiography, there's some autobiographical things and one of the things Cameron Crowe has said is that the band Stillwater in the movie there's bits and pieces from all of the bands that he spent time with. That he spent time with, oh, you know. So this singer is represented by this person and this thing that happened is you know just different things that he brings into it. And you know it's really about Stillwater. It's about their ups and their downs. It's about this kid going around and watching them to do this Rolling Stone magazine. It's about betrayal in multiple ways throughout the movie. You know betrayal to the kid from the band, betrayal to Penny Lane, the Band-Aid you know just different things.
Speaker 2:You know the film takes place in the 70s. You know 70s rock and roll was definitely a crazy place, a crazy time to be um billy crewed up as russell hammond. You know one of the main characters, jason lee, is jeff and you know the dynamics of the two of them working together is a big part of the film. And k Kate Hudson was Penny Lane and I thought she just did a fantastic job. You know I'm a huge Goldie Hawn fan, that you know. That was her mom and it still is her mom actually. But you know, you know I'm trying to say, but I think that Kate Hudson does a really good job. I enjoyed watching her in the film. And Patrick Fugit is the guy that plays William Miller, who's based on Cameron Crowe, and I think he does a great job of that innocence of you. Know what it's like to be on the road.
Speaker 1:I wonder how old he actually was when he played that part yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:Seems like one of those guys that probably looked a little younger than he really was, but you know he was supposed to be what 16?.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think 16 in the film. So I don't know if you knew this, but on all the Stillwater songs, so when they're playing in the film, all of the lead guitar work was done by Mike McCready of Pearl Jam.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that. No, that's something new that I learned. And I want to say Nancy Wilson of Heart and Cameron Crowe wrote like two or three of the songs because they were married. They were married for a long time. I know they're not anymore.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And they wrote some. But then Peter Frampton wrote like two songs also. So these Stillwater songs, you have these. You know this band that's made up of Led Zeppelin and yes, and you know all these different bands that the Allman Brothers, that Cameron Crowe saw, but then you have the songs written by Nancy Wilson from Heart and Cameron Crowe and Peter Frampton. I mean it's just super cool how they do all that. I think it's a good movie. Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 1:I did yeah.
Speaker 2:I think it's a movie I can watch, you know, multiple times and I have, and every single time enjoy it as much as I did before.
Speaker 1:I don't think I've seen it, since it was in the theaters as much as I did before.
Speaker 2:I don't think I've seen it, since it was in the theaters. So I will say one of the cool things you know we just talked about John Bonham from Led Zeppelin is Cameron Crowe took that movie and he went over to England and he sat down with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page and said I want to use some Led Zeppelin songs in the movie. And they're like you know, we don't give our songs out. We've only done it once before and that was when we did Fast Times at Bridgemont High, which happened to be a Cameron Crowe movie.
Speaker 2:So he sat them down and he explained to them what he wanted to do and I think it was like four songs they gave the rights to, but they refused to give the rights to Stairway to Heaven the rights to, but they refused to give the rights to Stairway to Heaven. And if you watch like you know how you can get the DVD bonus editions and everything. When they were going to play Stairway to Heaven they're like start Stairway to Heaven now. So you would know that's where it was supposed to play, you know. But anyway, it's a good movie and it, you know, it's cool to see. Hey, this is what the 70s were like. It's cool to see, just a cool rock and roll film.
Speaker 1:Now do you know what Led Zeppelin song was used in Fast Times Cashmere? Yes, and it was not supposed to be, according to the rules that Mike Damone had given to Mark Ratner. That is correct, he said, whenever possible, play side one of Led Zeppelin IV.
Speaker 2:I think that's what he said.
Speaker 1:And instead he played physical graffiti.
Speaker 2:Yes, and when I heard you know, because I've seen Fast Times a billion times when it first came out that was the dollar theater that I would just go to all the time. And the first time I saw it and I heard that, I'm like what are they talking about? That's not on that album.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it was like an inside joke. You had to know Led Zeppelin's catalog to get the joke.
Speaker 2:Right, and I think when they started, aren't they like driving in a car?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're in the car. Isn't that the scene? They're in the car. It's really. You could cut the tension with a knife type of thing.
Speaker 2:Yes, when you look at it, there is lots of tension for sure, yeah, hey. So if you're not seeing that film, that really is a good rock and roll film, Almost famous. The Odd Couple premiered on television September 24th 1970, starred Tony Randall as Felix Unger, Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison, and they were both divorced, living in Oscar's New York City apartment, and they couldn't be any more different. They were like the extreme polar opposites. Jimmy, do you remember the show?
Speaker 1:Yes, of course, great show.
Speaker 2:Do you remember how it would start off with? On November 13th, felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence.
Speaker 1:And then it goes through you know all this stuff, and then that was back when the the opening credits to a show would explain the entire premise of the show to you. Correct yeah?
Speaker 2:And then it would be done, done, done, you know, and like you would be like man. That theme song is a classic. It is fantastic. I just love it. So my favorite episode, unfortunately, is an episode that's the favorite of many people. Usually, my favorite is usually not what everybody else's favorite is yeah. But it happens to be, and it happened to be the Password episode. There was a game called Password, Jimmy. You know about games. Is there a game still out there called Password?
Speaker 1:There might be, I don't know. There have been a lot of iterations of it over the years.
Speaker 2:So this is the one that had Alan Ludden as the host. He was famous in his own right that Alan Ludden as the host, he was famous in his own right and Betty White was one of the contestants that Felix and Oscar were going against. It was Betty White and she had a partner and Betty White is playing Betty White as a famous person.
Speaker 1:Right, okay, you know Alan Ludden was married to Betty White. I did not know that.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So Felix gets the word bird and you know he's going to give the clue. He gives Oscar this clue and he says Aristophanes. And Oscar looks puzzled and says Greek. And that's the wrong answer. I said it was Bird. It moves over to Betty White and her partner. Her partner says Canary and Betty White responds Bird. They get the points. You know. The show goes to a commercial and they all look at Felix and they all say at the same time, including Alan and Betty and everybody, aristophanes. And he says everybody knows that he wrote a play called the Birds and that was his thinking of why everyone should know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so Oscar says a bunch of stuff, but basically he's kind of like give me good clues a bunch of stuff. But basically he's kind of like give me good clues, no more Greek clues. Aristophanes is ridiculous. And they come out of the commercial. And Oscar gets the next clue and the word is ridiculous and he says to Felix with like a mad face and his hands you know the way a New Yorker would talk Aristophanes and Felix goes ridiculous. And it's just so funny when you watch it. Last clue of the game the word is pencil. So Oscar decides to go with lead, okay, and Felix answers graphite. And Betty's team wins when they say writing and she says pencil and the game's over and Felix refuses to go. He's like that's the right answer. You know you're all wrong and stuff. It was. It's a funny episode, it's a good time. It really is. The show was good. The show ended with Felix actually remarrying his wife. That had kicked him out. Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:His wife, gloria. Yes, very interesting. Another thing that's interesting I got to see APB, friend of the show they played in New York. I was there a week ago and they played at my father's place in Roslyn, new York. And first let me say my father's place even though it's not in the same place it was in the 70s is that this place is where all the bands would play when they were nobody or just starting to become someone the Police, ramones, talking Heads, good Rats, patti Smith Group, tom Petty they all graced the stage at one point or another.
Speaker 2:Like that was the place on Long Island that you would go. You know there was a few clubs in the city but if you wanted to go and be seen and heard, people would go to my father's place because they knew whoever was playing was going to be good. He didn't really allow cover bands and when I say he, I mean Epi, and Epi was the guy that started my father's place. That continues it now and I got to meet him and speak with him a little bit. Great guy, really enjoyed talking to him, he was fun and he's just right at the door so as you're going in immediately, you know you can just say hello to him and it just a real good guy. How old do you think?
Speaker 2:Eppie is 70 something.
Speaker 1:I mean, if all those bands were playing there. He must have been pretty young then, in the 70s, when he was yeah, I mean mid-70s I'd say.
Speaker 2:But man, it was fun. It was a good conversation. He really was. You know, he didn't need to talk with me. He actually got up and we kind of stepped away so that we could kind of just talk and it was fun. It was really cool getting to meet Eppie, someone that you've heard about forever. Hi, I'm Eppie, from my Father's Place at the Roslyn Hotel and you're listening to Music in my Shoes. So, jimmy, I know I talked just a ton there about Eppie, but I did in fact see APB at my Father's Place the other night and it was a great show. You know Ian Slater on vocals and bass, john Russell on drums, stuart Brown on guitar and another guy, john, on keyboards and percussion. So they normally have been a three-person band. Recently they used to be a four-person band.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And they have gone back to the fourth person and it's the percussion and keyboards and it made a world of difference.
Speaker 1:Oh great.
Speaker 2:They could play some songs that they weren't able to play before. So it was fun. It was a really good time. Now, john the drummer is not the same as george. George was on the show. George was the original drummer okay, he is retired, but john I had seen him 2022, he was not able to make it. And this guy, john, who was the fourth guy, actually played drums for the band during that show.
Speaker 2:You know that string of shows for them. It was fun, had a great time at the show. Went with a friend of the show, chris Cassidy, along with some other guys that I went to high school with, and the place was sold out. They sounded great, played great songs. It was excellent. Hung out with the band for a few hours after the show, had just lots of laughs. Good times. It was well worth it. Cool, very cool.
Speaker 2:So one of the cool things that my Father's Place did with WLIR and this is even before WLIR was, you know, alternative new wave, when they were just kind of like a rock crazy song radio station. They would broadcast the show live once a week from my Father's place. So it could be the Police, it could be the Ramones, it could be China Crisis it could be. You know all these bands and I would tape all these shows and it was just it was really cool and they ran that forever. So they really promoted music, a lot of new music by a lot of new bands, and it was just cool to be able to hear them from their beginnings. Very cool. And speaking of beginnings, I went and saw Camper Van Beethoven last night, which is David Lowery. Before he was in Cracker he was in Camper Van Beethoven and they played the 40th anniversary of Telephone Free Landslide Victory, their debut album, and it was really cool. All original members and they sounded excellent. They sounded like they just recorded it yesterday.
Speaker 1:That's cool because he normally does a camper show just with the same people from his cracker band.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he got all the originals all the originals yeah, all the originals were in it and it was just just super cool, um, just hearing them play the songs the way the songs were intended to be played, and you know the that Lassie went to the moon. Where the hell is, bill?
Speaker 1:I forgot about that song. Maybe he went to you know something. Yeah, it's a great yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's a great song when you look at it and a ton of the songs are instrumentals but they're well thought out, well played instrumentals. You know. They're not just a lot of the instrumentals kind of reminded me of they might be giants you know they have a guy that plays uh accordion.
Speaker 1:Both bands and you know some of it reminded me of they might be giants yeah, it's a little bit comedic and kind of you can tell they're, they're, but they're being dumb, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, definitely. And of course, take the skinheads bowling, which has got them on the map. A song that none of the words have anything to do with the previous words, they're just, you know, a song about nothing and it still is something that you know. I've seen david lowry, solo cracker, camper van beethoven, and when he plays that song, like everybody knows the words to it and everybody joins in. You know the chorus and it's just a great. It's a great sing-along song, you know, especially a song that means nothing, that it still holds, holds its wealth.
Speaker 1:All these years later my band the Violence, used to cover that back in the day.
Speaker 2:Oh, really, yeah, oh, very nice. So yeah, 40 Watt in Athens, you know, went last night, got to see some of the members of Cracker, got to see Brian Howard.
Speaker 1:Awesome.
Speaker 2:So it was pretty cool and had a real good time. I think I liked it so much because they sounded so good. A lot of times when people do the 40th anniversary or something, it's slower. Your voice isn't like that anymore. Your voice isn't like that anymore. This was really good. Really enjoyed it. Good to hear. Let's revisit some more music in my shoes, and you know what. Let's get started with Tick, tick, tick. It's Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1:Minute with Jimmy Talking today about the Black Sabbath album Paranoid. It's time for Minute with Jimmy, minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy Talking today about the Black Sabbath album, paranoid. Now, we did just talk about Black Sabbath a few months ago because this album came out seven months after their first album. Black Sabbath and Paranoid was like such a growth moment for them, like this is when they really defined what heavy metal was and what heavy metal was going to be for the next, like two decades really. When you look at songs like Paranoid and War Pigs and what's another one I'm forgetting Iron man, you know. I mean those songs were absolutely classics that fit in in the 80s as well as they did I mean better than they did in 1970 when it came out. So, yeah, this album came out 55 years ago. Is that right? Yeah, and uh, just a really really cool way ahead of its time album, as we've discussed before.
Speaker 2:I agree, Jimmy.
Speaker 1:See how well I time it these days.
Speaker 2:I agree, Jimmy Isn't like Electric Funeral on that album also it is yeah.
Speaker 2:It's a great album and it's another one of those albums that I think that people wanted to learn the songs. Musicians Not that I hung out with a lot. I did take a music class in high school, a guitar class, and it seemed like everybody wanted to learn how to play Paranoid. I'm thinking that I can play it on one string, the cheap, quick way, but everybody wanted to be able to do that and, like you want to impress someone, you just start busting that out and people are like whoa, you know, wow, you know.
Speaker 1:It is. It's a really instantly recognizable thing that impresses people.
Speaker 2:Hey, you know what I like that minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 2:Thank you, you're welcome. Minute with Jimmy Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark Enola Gay. The single was released on September 26, 1980. The plane Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing somewhere between like 100,000 and 150,000 people, and that kind of made the war come to an end pretty quickly. After that, a synthesizer-rich song, it was played often during the early days of WLIR radio when it had switched to new wave alternative, and it was a song that I would hear often. And the music, if you just listen to it, it's just really great musically. And even if they just sang about something totally different, it would still be a great song because music-wise it's just fantastic. So the pilot named the plane after his mother. His mother's name was Enola Gay Tibbetts.
Speaker 1:Oh, I never knew that, yeah.
Speaker 2:So that was September 26th 1980. The next day, curtis Blow, the Breaks, peaked on September 27th 1980 at number 87 on Billboard Hot 100. Clap your hands, everybody, if you've got what it takes, because I'm Curtis Blow and I want you to know that these are the breaks First certified gold rap song. Oh, so I call it an Eddie Marone song and I talked about that, you know, probably 50 episodes ago of a guy, eddie Mar Marone, who was a DJ and he would do parties and have parties at his house and there were these certain songs that he would play. This was one of those songs that he would play and so it's an Eddie Marone song in in my heart and in my head. So if you have any questions about any of the things we talked about today we talked about, you know, the top drummers. You know we talked recently about the top guitarists. We talked about Almost Famous. You want to reach out and chime in? Feel free at musicinmyshoes at gmailcom. Please like and follow the Music In my Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages. That's it for Episode 97 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.
Speaker 2:Oh, you know what that reminds me? We'll meet again. I took that. There's a song called We'll Meet Again and there's a bunch of different versions of that. I love the Turtles version and Mark Vollman. He died on September 5th 2025. He had been part of the Turtles and he was part of Flo and Eddie. But when I say we'll meet again, that was something that I took right from them. So, mark, rest in peace. We'll meet again. Until then, live life and keep the music playing. And these are the breaks Break it up. These are the breaks. Break it up, break it up. Break it up, break down yo.
