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E99 CBGB Festival, The Minus 5 and The Baseball Project Live, and My Friends
We trace a loud, joyful route from under a bridge in Brooklyn to an Atlanta club, catching legends who still hit hard and a tight-knit indie circle that turns baseball into song. Small moments—an unexpected wave, a signed drumhead, a kind word—become the glue of a scene that endures.
• CBGB Festival under the K Bridge with Melvins, Lunachicks, Johnny Marr, The Damned, Jack White, and Iggy Pop
• the Damned’s stamina and goth-tinged White Rabbit standout
• Johnny Marr leading Smiths and Electronic songs with strong vocals
• Jack White spanning The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and solo cuts
• Iggy Pop at 78 delivering Stooges and solo classics
• festival logistics, pricing for young fans, and crowd culture observations
• Terminal West doubleheader: The Minus 5 and The Baseball Project lineup crossover
• Featuring Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon
• merch win: signed one of a kind drumhead
• music history notes on the Beatles, the Clash, and Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Hey everybody, this is Jim Boge, and you're listening to Music in My Shoes. That was Vic Thrill kicking off episode 99. I've got 99 Problems, being rich ain't one. As always, I'm all right. Starting it off with a gag. I like it. Welcome to episode 99. I was going to do something with Get Smart, Agent 99.
SPEAKER_03:99, yeah. What else we got? 99 bottles of beer on the wall?
SPEAKER_01:99 Luft.
SPEAKER_03:We're literally going to sing the whole song, yeah. Both of those songs.
SPEAKER_01:That might help us get through this episode.
SPEAKER_03:Well, unfortunately, the podcast gods don't let us sing songs. So Jim's gonna do a spoken word version of 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
SPEAKER_01:Nobody wants to hear that. I know that. But anyway, listen, in all honesty, I've got 99 problems, and being rich ain't one of them. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So I went to the CBGB festival. Yeah. It was on September 27, 2025, in Brooklyn, New York. And it was under the K Bridge. It's a park, and it's kind of cool how they set it up. You literally have a bridge of road over your head. Like I wore a hat because I thought the sun would get on me. There's no sun. The bridge just covers up everything. It's no sun.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, they it was as advertised. It was called Under the K Bridge Park.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it was fantastic. It really was. Get there, you know, it's kind of a little bit of a walk from where the subway goes. I mean, it wasn't meant to travel there from the subway. But I get there and, you know, they're IDing you, and he's looking, you know, I have a Georgia license, I'm in Brooklyn, and he's looking, and he's looking at me. And my license looks just like me, because it actually is so old, I didn't have a beard on. And he's looking and everything, and finally I say, You can't possibly think I'm under 21. That's like he spent so much time. He goes, You would be surprised. Earlier, we had two kids trying to sneak in, one on top of the shoulders, and they wore a big trench coat trying to sneak in. That there's no way. Yes. That's what he told me. And I was like, this is crazy. He's pulling your leg. No, he was pretty serious about it. He really was pretty serious about it.
SPEAKER_03:Was it the little rascals?
SPEAKER_01:Uh you know, I don't know. It could have been because there are a lot of young folks, a lot of medium folks, and a lot of older folks, you know, at this festival. Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_03:They actually gave better pricing to uh young people for this. Did you see that?
SPEAKER_01:I did see that. I saw that they had um the young punks or something it was.
SPEAKER_03:Young punks.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and I think that's pretty cool to do that because obviously, you know, you don't have as much money when you're younger and to be able to spend it, but I th I thought that was a pretty cool thing that they that they did. Yeah. So there was like 20 bands or so. I stayed at one stage with my friend Chris Cassidy, friend of the show Chris Cassidy, and kind of just watched everything that was on that stage instead of trying it was difficult to kind of move between the the stages just because there were just so many people. And I was at the main stage, starts off with Melvin's, the Melvins, you know, uh it the guy with the big hair, you know, that's the first thing anyone who knows anything about the Melvins that you think about. But it was um, you know, it was good to see them. I had never seen them before. And, you know, they're definitely, you know, one of those bands that were, you know, important. They didn't make it as big as a lot of the other bands.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, they were influential. Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they real influential, you know, and you know, I just was like, I definitely want to kind of see them, and it was great. Great job. Really uh enjoyed it. Lunatics came out, a New York uh city female punk band, and they hadn't played together in three years. They actually broke up. Don't hold me to this, but I want to say like the very early, early 90s, and then they've done some reunion shows here and there. You would have thought that they've been playing nonstop. That's how well it sounded as they played. You know, they didn't have any mess ups. It was like, there's no way they haven't played in three years. Sounded good, really good. I had never heard anything by them until that day. I went on um a streaming service and just listened to a few songs just to get an idea and just definitely enjoyed it. It was definitely worth seeing the Lunatics.
SPEAKER_03:Did you download them to your phone, though?
SPEAKER_01:Uh one of them I did.
SPEAKER_03:One of them you did.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. Made the cut. One made the cut, yes. That was followed up by Johnny Maher, the guitarist formerly of The Smiths, and he was absolutely fantastic. I bet. I could not believe how good he was. And he only had about 45 minutes. Again, it's a festival, you don't get your full amount of time you would do a show. And it's still daylight when he's playing. You know, I'm sure he's not used to, you know, playing a lot in the daylight because he plays clubs, and you know, it's darker, it's nighttime. But he did solo stuff, he did Smith songs. And does he sing lead on everything? He sings lead on everything. Everything. And he sounds pretty good. You know, he really does. So it just was like a surprise at how well he sang. And I don't mean that derogatory. Like you never heard him sing with the Smiths, you know what I'm saying? Right. Like it's not what you're expecting. But he did Smith songs like Panic, This Charming Man, Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want. And it was kind of cool when he did that. He changed it up, he made it a little bit longer, because it's a relatively short song, and he made it longer, and it was cool the way that he did it. And I definitely enjoyed it. The big crowd pleaser, of course, was How Soon Is Now?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:He did the electronic song. So Electronic, he was in Electronic. Bernard Sumner of New Order was in electronic, and as well as Neil Tennant, I think, of the Pet Shop Boys. And it was funny because as he's singing it, you know, me and Chris were kind of like, oh, this is Neil's part and this is Bernard's part. And, you know, we could hear it in our heads, even though they weren't there. And uh he did the song Getting Away with It, which is a pretty good song from the early 90s. Ended it with There is a Light That Never Goes Out, and it was just fantastic. I mean, really, really would go see him again in a heartbeat. Like it was more than I could have ever thought it was going to be.
SPEAKER_03:I saw somebody at Shaky Knees with one of the shirts on from his tour. It's a very interesting shirt. You know the one I'm talking about?
SPEAKER_01:I do not.
SPEAKER_03:It has Johnny Blank Marr. And if his parents gave him that middle name, wow, they're pretty racy.
SPEAKER_01:You know, actually, I did see a bunch of people with those t-shirts now that you say it. Yeah. Yeah. I did see people with that. I guess it's something that you can buy, you know, at the souvenir stand or whatever. So after Johnny Moore, we decided, you know, we hadn't s you know sat down. We'd been standing the whole time and we're like, hey, let's see if we can get a minute, you know. Chris is like, let me sit down. And there really wasn't anywhere, you know, uh uh everything was covered, the tables, the anything you could sit on. So we went to the side, like the left side of the stage, just to sit down. There was like two security guards there. We weren't trying to storm the stage or anything. We just kind of sit down. And I I guess, like, you know, all of a sudden Chris is standing up, and Chris says something. I look to my right, and there's a guy on stage, and he's like just looking at us. So I take my drink and I just, you know, kind of put it over my head to him, and he waves. All right. And then Chris starts waving, and the guy's walking closer, and he kind of comes as close as he can, which is not that far, and blah, blah, blah, bum. Captain sensible of the damned. It was awesome. It really was.
SPEAKER_03:And you said captain, and he said what?
SPEAKER_01:I gotta be honest with you, I almost didn't think I almost did, but I didn't. I couldn't get my phone out of my pocket to take a picture of him until he had turned around, was walking backwards. Totally took me by surprise. Like, uh, you know, I like to think that I'm ready. You know, you get this feeling something's gonna At no time did I think Captain Sensible in his red and white striped shirt and his beret was gonna be walking like towards us. Now, don't get me wrong, he didn't come right up to us. You know, he was up on the stage. He came as far on the stage as he could possibly come. And I think he was excited that he could tell we knew who he was, and lo and behold, we quickly got back into the crowd because the damn performed, and you would not believe that these guys are in their 70s.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, they're so good live.
SPEAKER_01:They're just amazing. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03:They're all in really good shape, like you're you're alluding to there, that you know, they they all have all the energy they need, and Dave Vanian's voice sounds amazing still.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, it's just great. I mean, you know, the drummer Rat Scabies is just drumming away, like they didn't slow down anything. They're just still playing, and it's just fantastic. It really is. And, you know, obviously, neat, neat, neat, new rows, you know, those are just classic punk songs from back in the day. But their cover of Jefferson Airplanes White Rabbit was absolutely insane. It was so good. And and Dave's voice along with the the band playing, and to think that this is some punk band, but they're playing it was unbelievable.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, well, they were punk and they were goth and they were, you know, Brit pop, and they had a lot of different stages. And and that, you know, white rabbit version is very much kind of their goth sound. It was great. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You know, Dave still dresses kind of like he's goth. He looks like he's a vampire while he's up there. He wore gloves the whole time. Like he never took the gloves off. He took like his, you know, it looked like almost like a suit, not but then like an overcoat, but he like, you know, little by little he would take some of the stuff off. The gloves never came off.
SPEAKER_03:Gloves never came off.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Um yeah, I think a lot of young kids like him, you know, for that that stuff. You know, a lot of goth kids and stuff are into the dam still.
SPEAKER_01:Aaron Ross Powell You know, it's amazing that they have been around, I I think 1976, if I'm correct, off the top of my head, you know.
SPEAKER_03:That was when they put out, I think, the new Rose single. I think it came out in 76 or very early 77.
SPEAKER_01:And and to see in 2025, they really kicked butt up there. There's no doubt about that. None whatsoever. And and you know, one thing about White Rabbit, White Rabbit is another one of those songs that I think is very difficult to cover. We've talked about Sweet Chain before. White Rabbit, you know, Grace Slick had the perfect voice to do that song with Jefferson Airplane, and I've heard other people do it, and it just doesn't. It sounds like it's me singing it. And that's not really what people want to hear. But man, did they really do a fantastic version of it? Loved it. So Jack White of the White Stripes fame, he follows up. He did solo songs, he did rock and tours songs, he did white stripes songs, and it was just fantastic that, you know, all these years later, he can still play the guitar and he can still sing with the voice that he's always sang with. Like he hasn't had to change. Nothing, you know, has affected him at all. And what he can do with the guitar, oh man, it is just great. It really is. He's awesome. Ball and biscuit, it's rough on rats, if you're asking. That's off of, I believe, his latest solo album. Little Bird, Icky Thumps, Seven Nation Army. I mean, it's just so much fun watching. And it is just, he's he got a real tight band, and they just sounded fantastic. Great. And last but not least, Iggy Pop. He was the headliner on this stage.
SPEAKER_03:And it was all on one stage, huh?
SPEAKER_01:All on one stage, yeah. And uh it started about 3 30, maybe, I think it was, the Melvins came on. And, you know, they had maybe 15 minutes between the the first few bands and then like a half hour for the last few bands, because they had a lot more equipment and and so forth to get going.
SPEAKER_03:But very punk rock to only have 15 minutes change over time.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, of course. You know? So Iggy pop, I think Iggy's 78 years old. And he's up there, and yeah, he's not the same guy. It looks like he has like maybe a hip issue or something.
SPEAKER_03:It's when you were motioning to your hip, I thought you were gonna say he has like one of those bags or maybe some sort of a device that he has connected to him. But okay.
SPEAKER_01:Not that I know of. Okay. But you can see as he's going across the stage, you know, it's a a little bit difficult, but he makes it seem like it's not difficult. Good. Still no shirt, probably should put a shirt on at 78, you know. But his hair is absolutely fantastic. All right. Coming from the bald guy. I just think his hair, I at one point I said to Chris, I think he uses Panteen or something. I mean, it looks it'll look terrific. I mean, that's one of the things that I'm like, man, why can't I be that guy?
SPEAKER_03:You know? I don't know. I mean, I've seen the billboards for hair implants. I don't know if you consider it. Be like probably a hundred thousand dollars.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. When you have no hair at all, it's a whole lot of money, isn't it? I've got 99 problems. Being rich ain't one. Yes. So he did the passenger, which I love, and most people think of the passenger by Susie and the Banshees. He actually did the original, and his is just like a tad bit slower, but it's it's really cool. I I really enjoy his version. So I was excited to hear that. Um, Lust for Life. I mean, everybody knows Lust for Life. Even if you don't know you know Lust for Life, you know Lust for Life as soon as you hear it. Uh, he did Stooges songs, you know, he was uh Iggy in the Stooges back in the day. I Wanna Be Your Dog, Search and Destroy, you know, I mean, just a ton of stuff. And it was just really cool to see him and my hats off to him to be 78 and to be able to go out on a stage where there's thousands of people and just rock your butt off. I mean, that's living, you know? That is. That is really living.
SPEAKER_03:So the crowd, how did the size of the crowd compare to other festivals you've been at?
SPEAKER_01:It was, you know, it was probably smaller, like smaller than like a shaky knees as far as the main stage. There wasn't that a ton of room the way that shaky knees, some of those main stages are. That's what I I really think. But it was kind of cool because you could still move around. You only had problems when you were trying to get from like stage to stage, or if you were trying to go to the food court area, you know, they had a bunch of trucks for food. But uh it it was definitely fun. It was uh a a good time. You talked about last episode, I think you talked about that the Sex Pistols were supposed to play, and Steve Jones broke his wrist, so they weren't able to. But that really would have made this thing, you know, unbelievable.
SPEAKER_03:I wonder if they were gonna be on that same stage.
SPEAKER_01:I believe they were definitely gonna be on the same stage if I remember the way things were lining up for that.
SPEAKER_03:So it sounds to me like the only one that I would have liked to have seen that wasn't on that stage was Marky Ramon.
SPEAKER_01:Aaron Ross Powell That is correct. He was not on the main stage. He was on a different one, and it was just it was tough because as soon as one band ended, the next one started on another stage. Sometimes it would start a few minutes earlier on another stage, and you couldn't it was tough to try and get back and forth, especially once you're in the crowd to try and come back and get a good spot in the crowd, if that makes sense. So but yeah, it was definitely a good time. If they have another one, I would definitely consider going. It was definitely on the pricey side. There's no no doubt about that. But it was a fun day.
SPEAKER_03:But it was just a one-day thing, so you didn't have to buy a three-day ticket or something.
SPEAKER_01:Right. And it you didn't have to uh you know, uh for me and for most of the people, you didn't have to buy uh lodging or anything like that. You know, it was mostly local people. I did get a kick out of it while we were watching Johnny Maher, there were these two younger guys kind of in front of us to the left, and I saw one guy, he had a Dio uh jacket on. And I was like, you know, Ronnie James Dio, you know, he was in Black Sabbath for a while. Obviously, he was in Dio, you know, did a bunch of stuff. But, you know, not putting that together as what I would see as far as people wearing, and then I look, and next to him, his buddies got the same Dio jacket on. And you know, the Dio club. They were the the Dio club. And it was interesting, there was a ton of punk rockers that had the spiked hair. There was like everything that you could think that you would see at a CBGB festival, you did. Not only did you see that, but they had the original bar from there so that you could see that. They had toilets from the original bathroom and one of the walls, and they had the Yeah, the bathroom there was kind of legendary.
SPEAKER_03:It had so much graffiti on it. It was crazy. Like, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they took out so much and it was cool because you got to see that, you know, like it just had a piece of history that you could, you know, do. What was funny is the bathroom is when you went to the porta potties after you wash your hands, then you would see the bathroom scene from CBGB's.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah. You know, the bathrooms, I have to say, I went to sh uh shaky knees, as we talked about last episode on the Sunday, which usually the third day of a three-day festival, you go in the porta-potties and it's not good. And I'm like, what in the world? This is like the cleanest porta potty I've ever been in. I don't know if they cleaned them throughout, but hats off to the shaky knees staff for keeping the bathrooms clean. Just a little PSA.
SPEAKER_01:I I like it, Jimmy. I like it. So that was on the 27th of September. On the 30th of September, here in Atlanta, Georgia, I went to see the minus five opening up for the baseball project at Terminal West. I've never been to Terminal West before. It was my first time there. Liked it a small place. You could, you know, I was literally up at the stage, and my drink I was putting on the stage. Like I was right there at the front. And it was a cool show. So you had the minus five that were opening, which I was more familiar with the minus five, than the baseball project.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:The minus five is made up of Scott McCoy on guitar. He's kind of set the band up. He's like the leader of the band, so he's on vocals also. Steve Wynne, who was in the Dream Syndicate, right? And he did vocals and guitar. And he was lead guitar for the minus five. Peter Buck of R.E.M. played bass. Oh, bass. Mike Mills of REM keyboards and Linda Pittman on drums. Linda is Steve's wife. And they were such a tight band. It was so good. They sounded fantastic. I loved it. And like I said, I was more familiar with them. I knew some of the songs. So it was great. Had a great time and everything was great. And then they finish, and the baseball project is gonna come out. Well, for those of you that don't know, the baseball project is the same people.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So you got Scott on vocals and guitar, Steve on vocals and guitar, Peter plays guitar, Mike is on bass. As it normally is, and Linda plays drums. And you know, Peter played, you know, you could hear REM sounding chords, you know, different things that that Peter was doing at times. It was it was fantastic. So the minus five has it's been around for a long time, and it kind of has rotating members. Peter Buck has always kind of been one of the members, but it's you know, different projects, different things go on, they just kind of have different people that will join the group. Uh the Go-Go's drummer, what's her name? Gina something. She was part of the minus five at one time. Oh. And it it's just kind of cool. Scott is really the main person that's always part of it. And they just keep going on. And it was a great tour, great um album, you know, that they were torn for. And then, you know, as the baseball project, they are doing songs that are related to baseball. Like they've written these indie rock, you know, songs about baseball. So for the minus five, they did the song Cassie Lee, Blowin' My Bag, Words and Birds. Really like that. I actually had not heard Cassie Lee before. It was my first time. They opened up with it. Really enjoyed it. But then the baseball project did 1976, They Don't Know Henry, which is about Hank Aaron, Disco Demolition, which is something we talked about on the podcast in Chicago in 1979 when they had Disco Demolition Night. From Nails to Thumbtacks, and they sing a little bit about Nails, who was uh Lenny Dijkstra for the New York Mets, and to the Veterans Committee, which is a song that Mike Mills sang about Dale Murphy, that he belongs in the Hall of Fame.
SPEAKER_03:So Greg Wheat was there last night. I'm surprised you didn't run into him.
SPEAKER_01:I did run into it. Oh, you did run into him. Great.
SPEAKER_03:So Greg Wheat, we know him from episode seven. Uh I met his wife. The cover of London Calling.
SPEAKER_01:Lovely person.
SPEAKER_03:And yeah, Tina is great. And the Greg took a little video of the Dale Murphy song. You know, it says, uh, I want to see Dale Murphy in the Hall of Fame, something like that. And he put it on Instagram and he tagged Dale Murphy because he follows Dale Murphy. Now, Dale Murphy, for those that don't know, uh was the greatest 1980s Bra. You know, he was when the Braves absolutely were always in last place. Dale Murphy was the one shining star that was like hitting home runs and playing really well. And uh they got rid of, they traded Dale Murphy right before the Braves got good. And, you know, the 91 worst of first season and everything was just after they had traded Dale Murphy. So he never really got to be on the Braves when they were winning. But he, you know, a lot of people want to see him in the Hall of Fame. So Greg puts it on there, he tags Dale Murphy. Dale Murphy reposts Greg's story, says, thanks everybody. And so it was really cool.
SPEAKER_01:That is very cool. Uh Mike Mills talked before the song, after the song, you know, about, you know, writing to the Veterans Committee about how important it was. And he said something, don't quote me, but it was like number three on his back, but number one in our hearts. Something like that. I don't remember exactly what he said because Dale Murphy was number three. When I moved here in 1990, I actually got to see Dale Murphy as I was going to a lot of baseball games back then, especially when the New York Mets came to town. And, you know, he's definitely someone I'm glad that I got to see play because he is someone that is a a great baseball player.
SPEAKER_03:For sure.
SPEAKER_01:So before the show starts, I can't believe I didn't mention this. They have a little merchandise thing. And I'm looking, they have some shirts, and they have some, you know, a poster. And I'm like, you know what? I don't know, maybe I'll buy it, maybe I won't. And the guy says they're gonna sign stuff after the show. They're gonna set up a table right here, and if you buy the poster, they'll sign it. So I said, you know, I'm gonna take my chance, I'm gonna buy the poster after the show. And I'm starting to walk away, and all of a sudden something catches my eye, and I look down and it's a drum skin, and on the drum skin, it says Terminal West, Atlanta, last show of the tour, doubleheader, the minus five, the baseball project. It's signed by all the band members, and I'm looking, and the guy goes, We only do one per show. I said, sold. And I actually said, I really wanted the poster. He gave me the poster next to nothing. It was just kind of awesome. It's so cool looking. It really is super cool looking. So there was no re-entry, you know, you couldn't go out, but they saw that I bought that, and they were like, Oh, you want to put it in your car? And they were like, just go right out, go right ahead, don't worry about it, and come back. So after the show, like I said, they're signing, and you know, go up. And I said, Hey, I bought the drum skin, because I didn't want them to think that I'm up there and I'm not supporting them. I said, I bought the drum skin and a poster and they're in my car. Can you just sign my music and my shoes shirt? So Mike Mills has, you know, and it just goes on from person to person. And Peter Buck is looking and he says, You lost your beard. And I said, I had some skin cancer, so I needed to shave. And he's like, I apologize for bringing something like that up. I said, No, no, you didn't know. It's no big deal. Everything was fine, got it taken out, stitched up. And the next thing, he's looking at my face at what great work the plastic surgeon did and just enjoying. He's like, wow, that's really good. And the next thing you know, Steve Wynne, who I told you was vocals and and lead guitar, he's looking, and they're both like, yeah, man, look how good that looks. And it was just it was just funny to be there. And I'm not making light of it. Um, you know, again, I had the the the least of any type of skin cancer as far as you know what can be bad for you. It still needed to be removed. And people have asked me because of the fact that, you know, the music in my shoes logo has the beard, and all of a sudden I have no beard, and even Peter Buck is asking what's going on. I ran into Kevin Kinney of driving and crying and his wife Anna, and Kevin almost didn't even realize he looked at my shirt before he's like, nope, knew it was me, because he's never seen me without a beard.
SPEAKER_03:Most people haven't.
SPEAKER_01:And he was just smiling, like, man, you wow, you you you look good, and you know, it was it was fun. You know, it was a it was a fun night. Definitely had a fun night. Started, you know, back on the the 27th with Captain Sensible, and then it just carried on over to the 30th, seeing all these other people. And it it was a great time and uh definitely a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_03:Nice little run there.
SPEAKER_01:Let's revisit some more music in my shoes. The Beatles yesterday peaked at number one on Billboard Hot 100 October 9th, 1965. I believe that's 60 years ago. Hard to believe the song's that old. It's just Paul McCartney's vocals and guitar, no other Beatle on it. It was the first time that any of them had done a song with not the rest of them. While it's credited to Paul McCartney and John Lennon, you know, Lennon and McCartney, it really is just a Paul McCartney solo thing. No input from Lennon at all. And just so people understand, their agreement was always Lennon and McCartney, regardless of who did what, that was how they set it up. And you know, if you take a look, it still says that. Except if you get Paul McCartney live albums, he will put McCartney Lennon as the credits on. Oh, really? Yeah, he will do that. So most lists have Yesterday as the most covered song of all time. And I went through, I looked up a ton of lists by all different, you know, uh magazines and just different things. And almost everybody has Yesterday as the most covered song. And it's like over 2,000 different versions of the song.
SPEAKER_03:Wow, I would never have guessed that. I don't know that I've heard that many covers of it.
SPEAKER_01:Really?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Who who can you think of that's like a big cover of it?
SPEAKER_01:William Shatner. All right. So the original title.
SPEAKER_03:I've got a great story about William Shatner. Do you really? Yeah. So I just found this out yesterday. Whoa! Yeah. It all ties in yesterday. You know, Michael Myers.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Not Mike Myers from Austin Powers, but the Halloween. Halloween, Michael Myers. He had that mask. Right. Right? It was like a white mask with kind of hair sticking up. That was a William Shatner as Captain Kirk mask that you could buy at the store. They bought it at the store, they spray painted it white, and they stuck the hair up.
SPEAKER_01:No, they did not.
SPEAKER_03:And you can look it up, and there's side-by-side pictures on the internet of the original mask and the Michael Myers mask, and they look exactly the same.
SPEAKER_01:That is great. I've never heard that. That is funny. And that fact that you found it out yesterday when we're talking about the song yesterday.
SPEAKER_03:No, it is it's very apropos.
SPEAKER_01:Wow.
SPEAKER_03:And and it's uh October now, so it's got a Halloween tie-in.
SPEAKER_01:Spooky season is here among us. So the original title of the song yesterday was Scrambled Eggs. Yeah. And it's hard to believe. Scrambled eggs, oh my baby, how I love your legs, not as much as I love scrambled eggs. So back in December 2010, Paul and Jimmy Fallon performed a version of Scrambled Eggs on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. That was uh obviously 15 years ago, a long time ago, but I remember watching and they did a good version of it.
SPEAKER_03:I I wonder if people have covered that.
SPEAKER_01:The scrambled eggs song? Yeah. Hey, I just did. I just did spoken word scrambled eggs. Whoa. Speaking of scrambled eggs, tick, tick, tick. It's Minute with Jimmy.
SPEAKER_02:It's time for a minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy. It's time for a minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy.
SPEAKER_03:All right, in uh 1980, Elvis Costello put out his album, Get Happy. And it's uh it's a pretty good record. You know, it has a bunch of uh hits on it, you know, I think among Elvis Costello fans. It's got I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, High Fidelity, uh New Amsterdam, good song, and uh and clown time is over. So a couple of those made it onto Elvis Costello's greatest hits. But uh yeah, 45 years ago, he put out what I think. Do you like this record?
SPEAKER_01:I do like it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. So um, you know, it's probably not my favorite Elvis Costello album, but he he was really solid at always putting out records year after year that had a few songs that you were really gonna like on it. So when another one of those artists that back in the day of the BMG Music Club, I bought every single Elvis Costello album. I was at eight for a penny or whatever it was, 13 for a penny, or I think you ended up getting uh eight CDs for the price of a half a CD, but then you had to pay shipping and some things, but yeah, it was a pretty good deal.
SPEAKER_01:So there was this guy at school, and I think his name was Warren. I'm not a hundred percent. He didn't run around the same crowd that I did. I think his name was Warren, and he would have all these different Elvis Costello shirts, and you know, would have the album covers on, and he really was one of the people where I was like, he's got all these shirts, I need to check this guy out, you know, because he's always wearing it. He really likes him, you know. I he you'd hear him, you know, humming or you know, singing low the songs. And whenever I think of early Elvis Costello, I always think of back in the early days and of this guy. I think like I said, I think his name is Warren.
SPEAKER_03:All right, Warren. Hello from Music in My Shoes to Warren.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I don't know what happened to him, but uh hopefully he's listening today.
SPEAKER_03:I hope he still has one of those shirts.
SPEAKER_01:He's probably bigger now. We all are.
SPEAKER_03:Hey, don't wish that on Warren. I got Warren's back here.
SPEAKER_01:My name is Jim G. I can't stand up for falling down, but what I can do is talk about the clash. This is England, WLIR Screamer of the Week, first week of October 1985. Last single by the Clash, no Mick Jones at this point, three new people in the group. It was a shell of the band, you know, that we really knew was the clash. The album that it was on that came out not not long after the single was Cut the Crap. But it's still good to hear Joe Strummer's voice. Like, I can still listen to this song. I cannot listen to the rest of the album. It is just beyond what I like.
SPEAKER_03:Have we talked about what happened with that album? It they didn't finish it, and then Bernie Rhodes, who was the manager, went into the studio and he added all these like synthesizers and whatever was needed to put it together, drum machines and things to add to Joe's vocal tracks to to get it out and make some money on it, and it was a it was a pretty bad album, but the songs were good.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I really like this song. You know, it was definitely when it came out at first I was like, what the heck is this? But it's kind of stayed with me. I do enjoy listening to this.
SPEAKER_03:I like a few songs on that album, and uh, and that's one of them. Yeah, and Dirty Punk, I would that was the one song that I thought had decent enough production that I would actually put it on mixtapes and stuff back then.
SPEAKER_01:Gotcha. Yeah. So Red Hot Chili Peppers, My Friends, the single was released October 9th, 1995. It was on Billboard's mainstream rock airplay from early October until it peaked at number one on December 9th, 1995. It seemed like my friends was on the radio, especially rock radio, uh 96 Rock, like it was being played all of the time. I really like it. You know, it was off of the album One Hot Minute, very different for them because John Freshante had left the band in 1992 and then Dave Navarro joined. He didn't want to, but they kind of talked him into it, and he's a whole different type of guitarist, a whole different vibe. And for those of you that don't know, Dave Navarro was in Jane's addiction, and that's why I'm talking about, you know, it was a different vibe, a whole different thing than what the red hot chili peppers were doing. But if you get a chance, or if you haven't listened to it in a long time, it's definitely a good song. I listened the heck out of that song 30 years ago. You can reach us at musicinmyshoes at gmail.com. Please like and follow the Music in My Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages. That's it for episode 99 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 Boj, 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.
