Deep Dive Episode 33 ( Summer Songs Playlist )

Hey all you Deep Divers, we are trying a different format this week to see how it sounds.  We’re thinking about calling these Playlist Shows, where we take a topic, pair it with some music that’s important to us, and then discuss why the two are connected in our memory.  

But here’s the cool part.  If you are a member of our Facebook Group “ Deep Dive Podcast “ you can contribute your song in the comment section, and we’ll add it to our Shared Spotify Playlist.

So this week’s Playlist theme is “Summer Songs “ now you’re going to hear a bunch of Gen X summer songs in today’s show, but YOUR contributed song doesn’t have to be from the 70’s, 80’s, or 90’s,  we just want to hear what song reminds YOU of summer.

So without further adue, here is this week’s Playlist show “Summer Songs”………….

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:47

So without further ado, here's this week's playlist show Summer Song. Uh no, let's just talk a little bit about it. So go ahead and hit play.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Oh this is the pool.

SPEAKER_01 1:15

100% Jake Isles band.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Yeah. Centerfold. Great, great tone.

SPEAKER_01 1:19

Could you imagine like if your your girlfriend actually was a centerfold? That would be home.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Like, yeah. High school story seemed a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

Because he talks about homeroom.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

My homeroom angel. Well, I think later. Maybe it's he encounters her later. I don't know, but it's quite the Jay Giles had great song.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

And he those dudes were definitely. Yeah. They were Hellraisers. Iconic video moment with the drums and they like turning milk or whatever and splash it.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

Yeah. They were big, they were heavy early rotation MTV, for sure.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Very much so.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

And a little, like parents weren't the most fond of this song. They thought it had to be a little bit more than a lot of things. No, it was a little risque.

SPEAKER_00 2:03

I mean, compared to like which which is what's amazing is like you listen to some of the some of the things like when I was driving the volleyball girls to tournaments and stuff, and they but they listen to now. And you just you hear some of that song, you think that you think this is a risque song. I know it's like holy cow.

SPEAKER_01 2:22

This is 1981. 81.

SPEAKER_00 2:25

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

So I was 11. Hit the random machine.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

Cat. Now this is little cars. Yeah, cars definitely, man.

SPEAKER_01 2:37

Yes. Those dudes, this Rick O'Kasic ended up marrying some like smoke machine. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

Uh I think a Czech maybe woman. Yeah. Pulling a portacova or something. Right.

SPEAKER_02 2:49

Oh, yeah. Is that I think that she was a model in like the swimsuit issue sports illustrated like cover girl for several years in a row.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

He gave every dude that parted his hair down the middle a chance.

SPEAKER_02 3:01

He's like some amazing videos that they put out too in the MTV era. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

Oh yeah, they were innovators for sure.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

I guess in the day, good special effects, but if you watch them nowadays, it looks like stuff you did in art class.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

Yeah. Well, the one the other thing too is these guys were early like the synth pop stuff, the stuff that was going on over in Europe. Yeah. These guys were kind of right along with them. They were doing it at the same time they were. So which a lot of people that you know played instruments, bass, guitar, drums, piano, or organ. Like, well, this is terrible. You know, but in the end it kind of won with sound some early uh video.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

It made me think of uh Peter Gabriel. Oh, yeah. Sledgehammer. Yeah, Sledgehammer. And that song, that that that would be a very that was getting a lot of airplay, right? That would have been pool music. But also just I remember it being a really innovative video. Right. And I I remember someone had a Peter Gabriel album and was playing it when I was uh visiting my buddy Andy Peoples down in Kansas and a party got busted. And I just remember for some reason to take I remember that summer when I went to visit Andy and we were on this we all jumped out of a second, you know, jumped out of a back window to because the police were coming to ring the doorbell. They went into vacation. And we were, yeah, and Peter Gabriel was playing.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

Yeah. No, that dude was he was awesome, man. Salisbury Hill, there was a bunch of stuff. I mean, he did everything, and I think wasn't Peter Gabriel part of Genesis or something. He was at this point. Yeah, yeah. Kind of when they were moody.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

Well, we got an amazing lead-in. This song might have had one of the best lead-ins.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

And you talk about Kevin Burke talked about a little space and a little silence to create the moment. Like this lead-in kind of does a little bit of that. When you just start to get the tease of the room.

SPEAKER_00 4:56

Yeah, no, this is definitely.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

So what we're listening to, if you can't hear it in the background, is dire straits, money for nothing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:05

And it skipped the build-up.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

Right. Yeah. So Mark Knoffler was a genius guitar player, British. And allegedly, this song is all about him overhearing two people at a television sales place. Like they're selling televisions, and they're like, they're just kind of working class sales guys, and they're watching MTV over in England. They're like, look at this dude, man. He's a f he looks like a woman. He's like singing about getting women. Yeah. And you know, and Mark Knoffler's just almost word for word singing what these two salespeople said during this conversation. Yeah. So good. So yeah, he said the whole situation wrote itself. He just kind of like wrote it down what they were talking about. Get a guitar riff on it, and we're ready. Yeah, this was definitely man. This covered everything. This covered MTV. If you didn't see the pictures, you knew exactly what they're talking about. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

So all right. You ready for the random shuffle to see what random shuffle and see what you got?

SPEAKER_01 6:17

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_02 6:19

Oh, as we spoke about a minute ago.

SPEAKER_01 6:23

A little too tall, could have used a few pounds. Yeah. Man, this guy. So Bob Seeger during our childhood toured every year and he was everywhere. It seemed like he was in huge venues. He was at state fairs. He was everywhere. And I heard a story at one point, Bob, like his band, silver bullet band started peeling off. He's like, listen, I'm losing people. When can we stop touring? Yeah. And his manager goes, Bob, you could have stopped touring like five years ago. And Bob goes, We have enough money. He goes, Yeah, you have enough money.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

He just didn't, they just kept on.

SPEAKER_01 7:00

Right. He just like as long as he thought you'd be on the road. Yeah. You know, they would tell him to stop, and they didn't.

SPEAKER_02 7:08

Yeah. So Brad, what was your night move? Is it cannonball off the high dive? Yeah, we had that.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

Thinking about thinking about the the pool, there were some innovative part of the fun of especially as you got into like teenage years, was like just you had your favorite lifeguard, right? Right. And so we would try to do things to impress the lifeguard if you went off the the high dive, you'd do something where you might turn to one or something.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

And so there's just like all kinds of going back to the lake, and we had the lake in Center Phone. Yeah, he was impressed. He was definitely a speedo guy. Right. But we did. We would go out to the lake, and there'd be about 10 or 15 of us. And you you had to like kind of like creatively peel off. Like if you weren't a couple, if you weren't dating somebody, you had to figure out some way to get her to come over and look at something along the lake shore that was different than what you were looking right in front of. Oh, you've got to come over and look at these rocks, you know, if you wanted to make out or something. But I will tell you the boom box that would run off of like six or nine D cell batteries, that was absolutely important to the whole scene. That was standard issue of the bigger. Yeah, you had to have the boom box. If you just had a regular fire and the lake and the moonlight, that was fine. But if you had a boom box playing Bob Seeger, man, it was a perfect night. Absolutely. Alright, John, give us something else here. The abs that was a soundtrack. That was the soundtrack of the pool. I mean, yeah. So in between swim lessons and when we'd open the pool, we could play tapes. Like we didn't have the radio going on. And there was a summer that this was our soundtrack. This was the only tape that was played front side A, side B. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

I think if there was some old eight millimeter footage of like the reservoir in summer of 85 or something, that this would be like the soundtrack to that.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

So who who ran the sound system at the Res?

SPEAKER_02 9:23

Was there like a higher that was a bring your own boom box? Oh, okay. So it would be more like your 100%. Okay. Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

So this was 1975. So this would have been uh man, this would have been Toys in the Attic. This would have been the same time as Bad Company. Yeah. But but just because it was 75, this album held over that long. I mean, it was one of those things that you know Big Brothers would hand down to little brothers. It was in For sure. Yeah. It was something you you could there was never a time where you couldn't go into a Pomida or a Matco or a Target or Walmart or whatever and buy. Once they made that, it just kept printing for 20 years. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

Yeah, definitely. So all right.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

Spin the wheel. Yep, spin the wheel. Alright. So this is mine. Dave Matthews, stay. 2008. Now I know that we're we're out of school now, right? We're maybe even married, some of us. But for me, this was at a time in my life where festivals, music festivals. So I was I wasn't a teen kid anymore, right? I actually had a little bit of money to spend and I could drive somewhere. Yeah. And when this was going on, Dave Matthews, all of these albums were you just played them. I mean, actually, this was like on CD. Right. I'd have at one time like have six Dave Matthews CDs in a six-disc changer at once. But this was this was just like have your shirt off playing sand volleyball. I've got a sh bunch of money and no responsibilities in Dave Matthews. So I would have liked to have seen that era. The fun ring, the not so serious ring.

SPEAKER_02 11:13

Is that Val Kilmer or is that Ray Bennett playing sand volleyball? Alright. Well, here you go. Iceman. Yeah. Yeah. This I to me again, this was the car to the res, right? You got the coolers packed, and this is the kind of the set the stage anthem as you're driving out into the lake.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

Yeah. Little AC DC.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

Which later on would become the soundtrack of every Saturday at Iowa Games. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:47

Oh, yeah, 100%. Yeah. Yes, it will.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

Back in black.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

Yep, all right. See what the next classic is. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 11:58

Oh. You know, John Mellicamp. He's one of us, man. Yes. Seymour, Indiana. Yeah. He's he's one of us. Every experience that he had, it's a lot like Bob Seeger. Everything that he experienced, we experienced. Yeah. Yep. We had the awkwardness of being a teen. We had the you know the awkwardness of being in love for the first time.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

They were all resonated, right? Yeah, it was just us.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

Just us. It was it he he definitely had us. And he was out in the world telling people about us. And that was really cool to be seen or heard. I know it's kind of sounds odd to be a white kid from the Midwest, but yeah, people knew who we were for, you know, a couple decades.

SPEAKER_02 12:40

Well, Jack and Diane, Small Town. Oh god. Those are probably the most popular. Cherry Bomb was a popular one on our playlist back in the day. Yeah. Classic Mellencamp. Alright. Let's see what's next on the summer list.

SPEAKER_00 12:56

Oh yeah. Who's this? This is me. Yeah. The Hooters? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:04

So do you know what they're playing right here? You know the name of this instrument at the very beginning? No. It's called a melodica. Oh. So it's a it's a mouth-blown organ. Okay. The Hooters, yeah. So it's a melodica. Yeah. Nothing like the pan flute. It actually has keys like a banner. Had nothing to do with this. Okay. This was a great song, man. Yeah. Yeah, this is this whole genre of music was alternative music. Not like in a Pearl Jam way, but like in a Rainmaker's way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:40

Replacements and solid, yeah. Alright. I know who added this.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

You sorry? Oh, this is you, right?

SPEAKER_01 13:57

Yeah. Yeah, man. This is me. This was uh fun, fun, fun. My dad, like I said, my dad always had a neat nice system in all of our cars. We always had a nice home sound system. Both of my parents had equal access to um the stereo. I learned as much from my mom as I did from my dad. My dad was a huge influence musically on my life, but so was my mom. Uh my dad taught me how to rock and roll. My mom taught me how to uh get a girl to kiss me on when there's a couple candlelights on. So but yeah, this this really reminds me of summer, man. Yeah. Drag racing. Yeah. Back in a day, when you didn't put sunscreen on, you put you know oil on to get darker.

SPEAKER_02 14:46

So well, did you not listen to this and wish you were in that T bird before it got taken away? Oh yeah. Right. You just know that it was a blast.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

All right, dudes, I'm gonna show you a picture really quick of what I look like next to Lake Rathbin. This is me. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

Yeah. Look at that look. What? I know, dude. I love it. Yeah, kind of creppy vibe going on. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 15:13

When I looked at it and I thought, oh, 145 pounds is so fat. Look at all that hair, man. I know. Fantastic. It's glorious. I'll put that out there. I love it. Oh, this is also mine this whole summer, man. The outfield.

SPEAKER_02 15:32

Yeah. Absolutely. Your love. Yep. One of those one-note songs that you know the minute it starts.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

There's a kid in town uh named Bobby Beck, had a 76 Camaro, had a pioneer system in his car with an amp. He had six speakers. He didn't have the four speakers, he had six speakers. Yeah. And the dude, people, he we we had a city square, world's largest city square, um, is two blocks by two blocks by two blocks by two blocks. And Bobby would park his car on the square on a Friday or Saturday night, and people would just like be within listening distance to listen. It was like the band shell. Yeah, it was like a yeah. So and then somebody had to jump start his car at the end of the day. Right.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Yeah. Fantastic. No, stereos were a big deal. Right. And like you had to get, I remember everyone got a boost, like a power booster together. Right. You know, like click it in and then like and I had to have I wanted one of those so bad, and I had one in my 1981 Toyota Celica, but it wouldn't fit like in the because there was like a specific spot people would try to mount them, right? But my the way my car was set up, I couldn't, so they had to like cut it, like actually had to make a little bit of a hole in it to so that I could have my right.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

There was always that dude in town that like could like mount your stereo system and new electricity. Because there was a time, like right now, you can buy a pretty booming system, buy any car and it sounds all right, but at one time you had to have a system put in. Yeah, the difference between you and your buddies putting it in, or somebody knew what they're doing, was just if you and your buddies put it in, your car would catch on fire.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

Things would flicker just be on fire. Yes. All right, let's see what's next. Oh yeah. Yeah. Something about Jackson Brown. I put this one on.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

I do too, man. He who he ended up marrying uh Daryl Hanna. Oh, from Splash. Yeah. And this dude, I'll tell you, I don't know why, but this song always reminds me of the Deadwood. It's just kind of like this song and Steely Dan just kind of reminds me of Steely Dan. Like kind of cool jazz. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I could so relate with this man. Like, I wasn't like a I wasn't a smooth dude in high school. I didn't have dates or anything like that. So I totally related to this song. Was like, how do you approach something like that? And then you know, the really smoking hot girls would always be with the douchiest guys. Yeah. Like, I don't know how to be douchey. I don't know how to do that.

SPEAKER_00 18:10

Right. This tune was also in uh fast times. Yeah, fast times. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:18

Yeah. Damon. Yeah. Alright. Shall we move along?

SPEAKER_01 18:24

Yep. Oh, this is me. I love this song. Joe Walsh, 1978. Uh in the city. Man, and this song, this was, I think the only time that this showed up was on a tele or a movie soundtrack. Um it was a great time. It's a movie Kasky loves. The Warriors. The Warriors soundtrack. So what happens is so the so the Eagles are a bunch of studio musicians, really great studio musicians. Some had a little bit of breakout, and they started to dissolve. Like once they became the Eagles, then they then all of a sudden they went from doing studio work to doing their own solo stuff. So Joe Walsh was brought in to be a singer for the Eagles, and he had an album in the can, and the Eagles had lost a lot of their music writing punch. And basically, when Joe Walsh came in, that first album is like two-thirds Joe Walsh stuff. It was his album. The man Joe Walsh was he is he is the soundtrack of so many like Rocky Mountain Way and Life Goes On. Life's been good to me so far.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 19:59

All his stuff had to have been mixed for a you know, bitch in Camaro. Like the the whoever mixed his albums had to been sitting in the driver's seat of a Camaro. Absolutely. Alright. Alright, here's that Nick Drake song. It's you know, this has actually been used on a couple different commercials. Pink Moon is a full moon, it kind of starts low in the atmosphere that gives it this kind of pinkish color. Uh Nick Drake had a very short-lived uh career, cranked out like two really strong albums. This is the kind of uh or this is 1972, so this is like when James Taylor, Paul Simon, a lot of those singer-songwriter people were emerging, and um he ends up committing suicide. And after he commits suicide, like all this body of work is out there that is you know pretty amazing stuff that he never enjoyed that or appreciated being recognized for. So but I just I John, I made a playlist for you one time, Dark Sitting Music. And this is not one song that I think that you would um have chosen for yourself, but this is one song that you know when you're out by a pool when there's a fire or even a candle, you know, it's a great song.

SPEAKER_02 21:24

Next song.

SPEAKER_01 21:30

All right, what do we got? Oh, this is mine too. Billy Idol. Hot in the city. Yeah, there's just this tension, man, in this whole album. It's people setting on fire escapes, just not being able to get away from the asphalt and the concrete, and just not being able to stop sweating. You just can't stop sweating. You know, when this comes on the radio, it's hard to tell that this is Billy Idol.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

I was gonna say, I I'm just saying to myself, I guess I didn't even maybe realize this was uh this was awesome.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

I mean who do you think this I don't know who I thought it was. Man, this is such a great summer task. Yeah, it's a classic summer song. And it's nothing like it's not like anything Billy Ida really does. No. I mean, it's a kind of a stingy melody driven.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

Yeah. When you're used to Rebel Yell and stuff like that. It's very different.

SPEAKER_02 22:22

This is a great summer song.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

Alright. Hot in the city. And the next jam we have. This is one I threw on because Z Top was just anthem for Summerframes. That mid 80s time frame. Totally.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

Afterburner and this is my first out this is my first concert. Oh, was it? ZZ Top Afterburner. Oh, nice. With a girl named Jenny McCarty. Her family had a wedding up in Ames, and uh I latched onto them. I bought a ticket for her. She and I went to the concert, but the penalty for that was I had to sleep in their family's room. Okay. And I had to attend a wedding. Oh, wow. Oh boy. Yeah. I said uh Chuck McCarty in his underwear. Right. But Z Top was great. Little band from Texas.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

Yes. These dudes knew who they were. Yeah. Absolutely. But the videos again, talk about the MTV or the car, the girls. Yes, all the things. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 23:19

So when this album came out, so I say they knew who they were. They do knew who they were. But when this album came out, this incorporated synth and a whole bunch of rhythms. Because they were a strict blues band, strew rock blues, right? And Stevie Ray Von was still alive, and there were people that revolted. There are people like I'm off the Z Top bus. Now, you know, 34 years later, 35 years later, you say, Yeah, this is ZZ Top. But at the time, people were like, Alright, I'm done. I'm off. They're not my man anymore.

SPEAKER_02 23:51

Man, this is such a great summer song. Absolutely. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 23:59

Yeah. Yeah. Eddie Money. So what was Eddie Money's job before he was a singer?

SPEAKER_00 24:06

Hmm. I don't know. No, you know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

He didn't play for the Hamilton Tiger Cats.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

He was not a Hamilton Tiger Cat. John, you should know.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

I should. Eddie was a cop. Is he a civil servant of some of the cats? He's a civil servant.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

He's a police officer, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

In New York?

SPEAKER_01 24:23

Yep. All right. He was he was a long time dude. He was like a 20-year dude. Okay. He was like fresh out of high school, went to the academy. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_02 24:31

I probably had heard that at some time and had forgotten it.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

And it was a tough pull for him. I mean, he liked playing music on Friday and Saturday nights. I mean, he got to a point where he wasn't working that shift. Yeah. And it was a tough pull. And he was still like union like five months after he really left because he was still paid his dues because he's like, I'm not sure I can support my family with this singing thing. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Get on him. Yeah. Nice. He used to call into the radio station here in Iowa City at uh K was it? What's the radio station here?

SPEAKER_00 25:08

KR and A?

SPEAKER_01 25:09

No, no. It's a little AM station. K R U1. No, it'll come to me. Not K uh, it'll come to me.

SPEAKER_02 25:17

Alright. Alright, let's see what's after ID.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

Another one of those long opening.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

Got a little bit of a lead-in. Yeah. It'll be worth it. I remember. Do we know we're listening to yet, guys?

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Oh, I know exactly. This is one of my very favorite bands. There's so much tension in this band. Even if you watch the video clips today, like there was a video clip released last week of Stuart Copeland, the drummer for the police. The police, yeah. Stuart Copeland thought that he was the reason for the police. I mean, it wasn't Sting. It was people were there for his drumming. Yeah. And but no, these dudes wrapped around my finger. And I'll tell you, there was I think this was kind of a dudes band. I don't remember a bunch of by this time. Women were Prince, women were Michael Jackson, you know, the Sheena Easton. Yeah. They weren't police dudes, but yeah, you would never get in a girl's car and see a police cassette. It was all dudes, you know. Yeah. Yeah. But uh yeah, I had all the police albums. And I still listened to a lot of Sting. But Sting's still going strong, too. I have not bought a Stuart Copeland album ever. Right. Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

Alright. Absolutely. Legendary anthem of the 80s in general. Yeah. Let alone just summertime. But.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

Now here's a drummer. Right here. This dude, every time that Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

Yeah. Yeah. This is very summer, don't you think?

SPEAKER_02 27:02

Oh, very much so.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

What's the I can what's the lyric that they rhyme? Uh later on in this something, the Sahara and something they rhyme two things that don't rhyme.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

Oh yeah. Yeah, I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_02 27:19

Um, so the Africa Ripping will be long. Yeah. This one deserves a few extra seconds. For sure.

SPEAKER_01 27:39

I don't know anybody that ever went to one of these concerts. This was all this was all radio play. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if not that I can. This was kind of thotty music. Yeah, here. I think it might be coming. Oh no. Yeah, this drummers kind of Phil Collin-esque.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

Yeah, well, very much so. There it is. Alright. Let's see what's next on the wheel. This is definitely a summer jam.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

Oh, it's the um, you know, not this song, but oh, this is not what I thought it was, but this is a good one, yeah. Yeah. No, I tell you what, you could get girls on this. This was a crossover for both wives and girls. Oh, absolutely was.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

My cousin Lisa was a big Duran Duran fan. I just saw these guys at Waste Management Golf. They have a big party in the Phoenix area whenever we had the sales meeting that's out there like two or three years ago. My buddy lives out there. Yeah. And they are sorry, um, Duran Duran played. They were fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 28:59

At this point, you can kind of meet all your favorites. Like you can meet Colin Hay of Minut Work and you can meet Duran and Duran. You know, um, going back to this, this was the kind of this is the time of music where the lead-ins were like 30 or 35 seconds, 40 seconds. Yes. I remember a John Mellencamp story that where he sang um I need a lever that won't drive me crazy. Yes. Like the opening to that song is like a minute 20. And he talked to Bruce Springsteen, and Bruce, like, why do you go right into a song? And he goes, Because that's what you're supposed to do. That's what you know. He goes, You don't have to do that. And he goes, So how do you do it? And he goes, and Bruce Springsteen basically got out a napkin and showed him like the note. He goes, Yeah, you can have your band play and you can just like go backstage and do stuff. You don't have to and so then they wrote, I need a lever that won't drive me crazy. Like it hit it was a number one hit, right? And then Springsteen writes Mellencamp a note that says too long. But yeah, there was there was a lot of those openings where you had to kind of wait for it to come on.

SPEAKER_02 30:04

Yeah, yeah. Alright, Duran Duran.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

Another Mellencamp. So, you know, this, like I said, this this makes you feel like you were being seen and heard. Yeah. Small town. And I think John Mellencamp's still like that. I mean, his he's back in Seymour, Indiana. He has his he has his art. Um he does all his art there. And I think this summer is his last tour. So if you ever want to see John Mellencamp in tour, this is the summer to do it. He's done after this. I saw him, I've seen him probably about seven or eight times. I saw him a lot. I went to a lot of farm aids. Yeah. But one time um I saw him with Donovan. Like, I'm just mad about Saffron, you know. John Mellencamp is a student of music. He's just not a rock and roll dude. I mean, he knows the history of rock and roll, blues, yeah, rhythm and blues. Um and he's an interesting dude just to sit and listen talk to. You know, he's got he's kind of an arrogant. I wouldn't want to fight him, but but he's he's definitely just not a hilljack, he's a student. So this is definitely a classic anthem.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

Alright. Well, talk about him as soon as he gets home, but best video sizzler. Amazing video. Best videos. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:35

And this is a time, this is like way before, you know, with sexualization of people. Oh.

SPEAKER_02 31:42

So if you didn't know you liked red heels before the video, you knew you did after the video.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Right. And Z Z Top would be one of those bands, you know, nobody ever, nobody they were before, like, hey, don't objectify women. I mean, at that time, women wanted to be in a Z Top video. So it was, you know, I don't know, man, these guys are great.

SPEAKER_02 32:05

And I remember so many of them in the car. Yeah. They got so many women in that car.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

It's the uh the only guy in Z Z Top that didn't have a beard was Roy Beard. He died.

SPEAKER_02 32:19

Yeah. Make it a note that we have to ask Sir Mac about the ZZ.

SPEAKER_00 32:25

Which car was Z Z Top's car?

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 32:27

Note made. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:28

This is 1984. I was just looking to the what year. Best year, man. The best year for music.

SPEAKER_01 32:32

We've got to do a year. 1984 was a great year. Well. Another Joe Walsh song. Life's been good to me so far. My Maserati does 185. Yeah. Everybody knew what a Maserati did. Yeah. Lost his license. I will tell you. There was a story one time with um Joe Walsh. I'm trying to think of the other singer of the Eagles. And anyway, he had made reference to cocaine, and Joe Walsh acted like he had never heard of it before. Like cocaine. Now what is that? Tell me what there was. I don't think I think Joe Walsh has put 9-volt batteries in his system, man. There's not a drug the dude hasn't done. Now he's straight now, man. He's super sober now, but uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:22

Great. Wasn't he known? Wasn't he known for like trash in hotel rooms and just going just raising hell?

SPEAKER_01 33:30

Joe Walsh one time put Chuck Long on a four-foot balcony.

SPEAKER_02 33:34

Did he ever throw a handle through a window at the Omni, right? It's got nothing on the 85 box. Alright. But we'll cut this short since a 10-minute song. Yeah, they talk about a long lead. Oh, well, here's one with a long lead. I'm going to skip a little bit of the skip some of the lead.

SPEAKER_03 33:52

Well, uh, moving around town since you might be thinking about going.

SPEAKER_01 33:56

You got me. This is your summer song, Johnny? What is this?

SPEAKER_02 33:58

You don't know what song this is?

SPEAKER_01 34:00

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 34:01

What are you gonna do down there?

SPEAKER_02 34:03

Uh I don't know. I'm surprised you don't know it. This is not coming to either one of you too. No. This song was talked about a second ago, just for reference. Someone mentioned this song. Uh what's the sandbar? We're gonna have to lead talk about a leader, you're gonna have to give it a second so you know the song.

SPEAKER_00 34:26

Maybe this part got cut when I heard it. I'm not I'm not picking this up.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 34:41

Wow. Oh, well, we're gonna skip a little more. Here, bitch and Camaro, bitch and Camaro! Someone just said bitch and Camaro a minute ago.

SPEAKER_01 34:59

Oh, okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:02

Okay, that's okay. You've never heard the song? Who is this?

SPEAKER_01 35:05

Yeah, dead milkman, yeah. Yeah. Good call. You know, Fems, bitch and Camaro, Blooster in the Sun.

SPEAKER_02 35:11

Yeah, we had pilot Fems and a couple Dead Milkman's. This is the one that's worth playing, but the lead-in's extremely long. Alright. Alright, here we go. Well, this is probably still to this day a summer anthem for kids.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

For sure. Black and white video, if I remember right.

SPEAKER_01 35:31

There's a we've had two people talk about what they would play if they played Freebird. Yeah. Yeah. There's a kid named Ryan Adams. Yes. He kind of works in this East Nashville scene, and one time he was playing the Ryman Theater in Nashville, and someplace he wanted to always play. And somebody during in between songs yelled out Summer 69, meaning Brian Adams. Right. He called the kid up on stage, asked him how much he paid for the ticket. The kid said 30 bucks. Ryan Adams takes 30 bucks out of his wallet, gives it to the kid, and tells him get the fuck out of the Ryan. Uses the F-word, which is a huge no-no at the Ryman Theater. Yeah. Was never asked to play again. You know, this, you're right, man. Brian Adams, and at the time when we heard this, the dude was like 20 years older than us, but it seemed like he was singing to us. I mean, it seemed like. And he was this for being a Canadian, too, right? That's right. Well. He knew who we were. Yeah, great song.

SPEAKER_02 36:45

There we go. Background. Yep, I think we've made that. We got it. All right.

SPEAKER_01 36:53

There's our summer. Hey. Yeah, that was a that was it took me back, man. I hope this stays up on the internet. And if it does, what we want to do is we want to encourage you in the comment section to tell us what your summer songs are. We would love to add to that playlist. We'll keep it out there. We'll include the playlist. But everybody, let's get thinking summer, all right? Let's do it. Boys got it out of your system?

SPEAKER_02 37:16

Out of the system.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

All right, we'll talk to you later. Boy boy.