Buckle up for a rollicking ride through 1968 with your trusty guides, Scott McLean, Luke Calicho, & Mark Smith, from the Music Relish Show. We'll take you back to the year that shook the music industry to its core. We've got everything: The Beatles, Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison recording, The Bee Gees American debut, and even the notorious national anthem performance by Jose Feliciano at the World Series! Peering into the cultural and political vortex of 1968, we'll discuss riot aftermaths, draft anxieties, and the seismic shifts in the media landscape. You're about to feel the pulse of history's most tumultuous year through its most compelling medium - music.
Ever wondered about the bands that shook the world in 1968? We've got that covered, too. From the psychedelic rock of The Archies to the soulful sounds of Earth, Wind & Fire, we'll give you the lowdown on every band that made waves that year. And, of course, we won't shy away from the juicier stuff, like the infamous breakup of the McLean Family Band over a basketball game. Moving on, we'll channel our inner film buffs and take a deep dive into the cinematic marvels of the time. You're in for a treat as we reminisce about classics like Planet of the Apes, The Producers, and Night of the Living Dead.
To top everything off, we'll honor the late Shane MacGowan, the unforgettable musician who left an indelible mark on Irish and English music. We'll explore his legacy and contributions to the world of music. This episode is not just a step back in time - it's a nostalgic journey through the sounds, sights, and stories that shaped a year of change, challenge, and creativity. So get comfortable, turn up the volume, and let's travel back to 1968!
Buckle up for a rollicking ride through 1968 with your trusty guides, Scott McLean, Luke Calicho, & Mark Smith, from the Music Relish Show. We'll take you back to the year that shook the music industry to its core. We've got everything: The Beatles, Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison recording, The Bee Gees American debut, and even the notorious national anthem performance by Jose Feliciano at the World Series! Peering into the cultural and political vortex of 1968, we'll discuss riot aftermaths, draft anxieties, and the seismic shifts in the media landscape. You're about to feel the pulse of history's most tumultuous year through its most compelling medium - music.
Ever wondered about the bands that shook the world in 1968? We've got that covered, too. From the psychedelic rock of The Archies to the soulful sounds of Earth, Wind & Fire, we'll give you the lowdown on every band that made waves that year. And, of course, we won't shy away from the juicier stuff, like the infamous breakup of the McLean Family Band over a basketball game. Moving on, we'll channel our inner film buffs and take a deep dive into the cinematic marvels of the time. You're in for a treat as we reminisce about classics like Planet of the Apes, The Producers, and Night of the Living Dead.
To top everything off, we'll honor the late Shane MacGowan, the unforgettable musician who left an indelible mark on Irish and English music. We'll explore his legacy and contributions to the world of music. This episode is not just a step back in time - it's a nostalgic journey through the sounds, sights, and stories that shaped a year of change, challenge, and creativity. So get comfortable, turn up the volume, and let's travel back to 1968!
Well, here we are, episode 126. Hope everybody had a nice Thanksgiving. I know I did, and on this episode, myself in the wrecking to Luke Calico and Mark Smith on the music relish show on the. You find them on the YouTube channel. We're going to be talking about the amazing year in music of 1968. Holy shit, that was a good year. I was only five, but I was five years away from my first drink. Anyway, sit back, enjoy the show.
Mark Smith:1968 can be a good one. The KofB studio presents milk rates and turntables on music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McLean. Now let's talk music. Enjoy the show.
Scott McLean:Thank you, amanda, for that wonderful introduction, as usual. Young Amanda finishing up her she just went back after Thanksgiving and back to college and she's going to finish up all her, whatever she has to do testing and then she'll be back for Christmas, so can't wait for that. Welcome to the podcast. You know the name, I'm not going to say it. As I always say, welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends.
Scott McLean:We're streaming live over right now over YouTube, facebook, twitter, twitch, D live and yada, yada, yada, yada. Twitter. I keep saying Twitter it's X, x, I got to get that, get that right. X. Elon Musk, who recently told Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, to go fuck himself. It's a beautiful thing, fucking beautiful. Got to love Elon Musk. Elon for president. That's what I say, anyway.
Scott McLean:Yeah, so tonight we're talking about 1968. It's going to be a good show. We got a lot of stuff to cover, so let's get right into it. Yeah, I'm hesitating because as soon as I said those two are like Pavlov's dog. They're sitting in the green room right now. They have me say let's get to it, and then they expect me to say look, look, you know I'm not doing that tonight. You know why? Because they were acting up before the show. They were acting up. Yeah, I got some sort of fucking plan going. These two, you know they were calling each other. I don't know what they're going to do, so it could be, you know. So you know what I'm going to start right off the bat is Luke I'll kill you from the music relish show, and he's going right in the penalty box. And Mark Smith on the music relish show, he's going right back in the penalty box as he gave me the fingers. He's going in. I'm not fucking around tonight, guys. Well, I think I am. And they are music relish guys.
Scott McLean:Hello, when you were ship on a star, Look, wait, wait, look, look, you actually got, you actually bought light bulbs. I have had light bulbs. No, you haven't, you haven't.
Lou Collichio:I have what do you think you're lighting up the room you?
Scott McLean:like sitting in the fucking bat cave sometimes in that thing with a red bulb. He says a red bulb in the ceiling.
Lou Collichio:Two red bulbs.
Scott McLean:I had two red bulbs earlier.
Lou Collichio:It was too dark, it was kind of light it's, you know, it's, it's nice, this one's good, this one's green. So I'm trying to get festive. I got green, red and like an alternate, because the gray walls don't reflect green looks blue, though Green looks like you're married right now. Are you married? I think I'm right. I can read absinthe above my head. Okay, good.
Scott McLean:You learned you learned. Yeah, what's up, mark, how you doing.
Mark Smith:I'm good. Anyway, low back to you.
Lou Collichio:Low back to you.
Scott McLean:There is no plot, Scott there is no, there is no plot. Hey Lou, is that an amplifier that you, you're, you're, uh, no, I moved my studio stuff around.
Lou Collichio:This is my bank of um recording components. I got like compressors, power amps, effects like that.
Scott McLean:Okay, Lou, I'm recording again. That's motherfucking around.
Mark Smith:When you're bringing the lead singer in.
Scott McLean:That's what I want to know. Well, check this out.
Lou Collichio:I'm not a peri-texi goes um um rage against the cafe is dead. It's not happening. I said what's going on? I said we need a format.
Mark Smith:He doesn't say it's dead.
Lou Collichio:We all say it's dead, it's not dead, it's not dead, it doesn't know, it doesn't have to be, it just has to be done a certain way.
Scott McLean:Yes.
Lou Collichio:If we're to record, we just can't send each other things through the phone.
Scott McLean:No, All right Now has we done this a Pacific way?
Lou Collichio:Exactly. Yeah, I think we're going to do this. Any who right.
Scott McLean:First of all, patty, patty, ozzy says good evening gentlemen. Hey Patty, hey Patty. So what's up? Mark? Look at you. You're getting good with the background shit. I moved my desk this weekend. Yeah, I see that you got a fucking stupid soccer jersey behind you. Oh, here we go.
Mark Smith:Oh, just stop, you know what I'll put the Elon stuff I can get, but you pick on Liverpool. If you pick on Liverpool, is it Liverpool United I'm going to put.
Scott McLean:Oh, just ask it.
Lou Collichio:Is it?
Scott McLean:Liverpool central, or are you yeah?
Mark Smith:well in the penalty box. Oh God, I can't take the shit he's my mic, oh, mike's live.
Lou Collichio:hot Mike, hot Mike are the two surviving Beatles, Liverpool fans.
Mark Smith:Are the two surviving Liverpool's.
Lou Collichio:Beatles, beatles.
Mark Smith:We're going, paul. No, I believe all is a fan of another team now Liverpool, oh Everton. Everton are like the Mets and Liverpool like the Yankees.
Lou Collichio:That's how it works in.
Mark Smith:Liverpool and he's an Everton fan.
Scott McLean:All right, all right. Well, let's get right into this, because we have a lot to cover in 1968. Right here, big year. How old were you, lou? I?
Lou Collichio:turn. Fuck. No, I turned seven that summer. I don't know a little kid man. I was a little kid. Mark was just a world.
Mark Smith:We know we're not going to my father's eyes, oh, he was a grunt and his father's throat.
Scott McLean:I was born in June.
Mark Smith:I was born in June in 1969. I remember 68.
Lou Collichio:I remember that year.
Mark Smith:I was just so you guys say you remember, when I was born I was like what's going on?
Lou Collichio:Yeah.
Scott McLean:I delivered you. You know there's a reference to my birthday and a favorite song Really yeah, what's that? Oh, what a night Late December, back in 63. Yeah.
Mark Smith:That's me, baby, I'm kind of mid December, but I'm going late 60.
Scott McLean:Three yeah.
Mark Smith:How old?
Scott McLean:were you as Scott, I was four, going on five. Well, if it was, if it was December, yeah, I was going to be five. Yeah, five years old. Like I said, five years away from my first drink I was in the hospital for a week.
Mark Smith:Starting, young, you were in the hospital for a week. Yeah, wow.
Lou Collichio:Dave.
Scott McLean:Phillips, king of the 45, just rolled into the live stream.
Lou Collichio:Hello Dave.
Scott McLean:Hello, I wonder if he's raking leaves tonight. He always seems to be raking leaves lately in the dark In the dark.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, we do the same thing.
Scott McLean:So January 4th kicks off 1968 music, with Jimi Hendrix being jailed by the Stockholm police after trashing a hotel room during a drunken fistfight with bassist Noel Redding. I can't think that that was anything like aggressive.
Mark Smith:I don't like you, I don't like you.
Scott McLean:There was some slapping going on A lot of wrestling like guys that don't like. You get two guys that don't. It's always a lot of wrestling.
Lou Collichio:It's drunk and wrestling. I think it's called tussling when you do that.
Mark Smith:It's a tough.
Scott McLean:Not even wrestling.
Lou Collichio:There's no moves being done, they're tussling.
Scott McLean:Tussle was a word in 68,. Right, Lou, you were 18.
Lou Collichio:You know yeah, I was 18. Actually, I was really. I was really without Gora and Ryan O'Neill. Oh, there you go.
Scott McLean:Then, on January 13th 1968, johnny Cash. Oh wait, dave Phillips says no leaves tonight. Had Mo's surgery on Monday, oh well, what's?
Lou Collichio:Mo's surgery. That's a barbecue joint.
Mark Smith:No, he had Mo's comma surgery on Monday.
Scott McLean:Do you want, doyle? Do you want to go to the bus? I love you, joanne. I love Joanne. She's a wonderful person. Let's pick this up again, january 13th.
Lou Collichio:Oh wait, mark, Mark she noticed your haircut.
Mark Smith:My daughter. My daughter cut it.
Scott McLean:Wow, patty, noticed your haircut.
Mark Smith:Look at you, when there's one guy with it, there's one guy with it.
Lou Collichio:It doesn't matter what show I'm on Milk crates or self-divorating is over.
Scott McLean:It stands out and let me get through this. January 13th 1968, johnny Cash records at Folsom Prison. Live at the Folsom as state prison in California. Wow, yeah, on January 20th 1968, the who and the small faces start with a tour of Australia and New Zealand. On February, 1st February, because that's how it's spelled. February, I argue. February Jack's listening, which he never listens. Jack never listened to you when he was on the podcast. February Universal Studios offers the doors $500,000 to star in a feature film which is never made. What?
Lou Collichio:were they thinking they just gave him money?
Scott McLean:They offered them $500,000.
Lou Collichio:Okay, offer, okay, offer so $500,000 back in 1968.
Scott McLean:How many millions was that worth?
Mark Smith:That's a boatload of money right there. Is it the script that kiss later use for the Phantom of the Opera or Phantom?
Lou Collichio:of the Park. Phantom of the Park. Did they kiss in a movie Theatrical?
Scott McLean:Let's put it this way Phantom of the Park was still better than the Marvels. Oh, here we go.
Lou Collichio:I heard it's pretty bad. Yeah yeah, february 4th, here we go. The bad movies are good.
Scott McLean:The old movies are good. 1968. The Bee Gees make their American television debut on Guess what show? 68. Popular, popular show.
Lou Collichio:American bands, then Nope Shindig. No, it's not a music, it's not a music.
Mark Smith:It's a variety show.
Scott McLean:Tonight show Comedy show the Smothers Brothers.
Lou Collichio:Hey.
Scott McLean:Quick a few tries. I can load the professor.
Lou Collichio:Yep.
Scott McLean:American television debut on the Smothers Brothers comedy.
Lou Collichio:I was in grad school, in the Smothers Brothers room.
Scott McLean:Congested tonight. That's going to be a problem.
Lou Collichio:Uh-oh, it's going to be a problem Fuck.
Scott McLean:February 4th 1968. The Bee Gees. Well, I just read that because I'm congested. That's not excuse.
Mark Smith:Hey, it is for me. Fire your writer. He wrote it twice February 12th 1968.
Scott McLean:Jimmy Hendricks is given an honorary high school diploma from Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington. Hendricks is also given the key to the city, and then he had to show up for court because he got arrested.
Mark Smith:Stock on the week earlier. Busy guy.
Scott McLean:Rockstar yeah, a month earlier. A month earlier, let's see February 16th 1968.
Mark Smith:The Beatles Mike.
Scott McLean:Love.
Lou Collichio:Asshole. Yes, we agree on that.
Scott McLean:I know. I know Donovan and others traveled to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Rishi, rishikesh, rishikesh, rishikesh. Who cares about that?
Lou Collichio:That's CSNY Rishikesh Express, right? That's a stupid thing, even put that in there.
Scott McLean:Anyway, February 18th 1968, David Gilmore joins.
Mark Smith:Pink Floyd. The rest is history, the rest is big history.
Scott McLean:Yeah, replacing founder Sid Barrett, who has checked himself into a psychiatric hospital. February 24, 21st 1968, mcgraw Hill Inc.
Lou Collichio:Right who, you remember McGraw Hill?
Mark Smith:I wonder if there, he is still around. There was a book publisher right and all our school books seem to be McGraw Hill. I saw that, yeah.
Scott McLean:Dave Phillips has brought the whole show down, just fucking wrecked the whole show. He comments in Malanoma on my neck Results of growing up and with a seat date. See now that's the show, folks. Oh, I get it on early tonight, okay.
Lou Collichio:Yeah it's, it's over.
Scott McLean:Yeah, I had to. Just fucking. There you go, dave. Thanks, buddy, we were we.
Mark Smith:Good luck Dave.
Scott McLean:I told you something was gonna happen, mark. I told you, yeah, I'll push through, I hope. I hope you're at bed, I hope everything's okay, dave. Yeah, dave's a great guy, funny bastard likes to say he's. He's one of two people that I know on facebook that use the term after they see a post that I post, they, they comment one word Jesus.
Mark Smith:Oh, put the comments live. All right, so I.
Scott McLean:So I'm moving the comments over here. Now I gotta do.
Mark Smith:The most unprepared show host history.
Scott McLean:Now the live comments will stop popping up, so if you comment, it'll pop up. It's wondering why Lou's head was so big this week. Jesus, jesus, as Dave Phillips would say. Uh, let's see. Uh, february 21st, the McGraw hill ink outbids eight other publishers and pays 150,000 for the us Rights to hunter davies. Authorized biography of the Beatles, aj gilliger owner of.
Scott McLean:AJ's on the main in grapevine, texas, my boy stationed together in the Philippines. That's uh that he got one of them zz top bairds going. He's a good button, makes it great. I gotta post a picture I haven't done in a while. No, no, great barbecue. With this they make a fucking crazy bloody Mary Like a meal really dessert and say it's everything.
Lou Collichio:I have a whole book, a whole starkest celery type of thing. All right, here we go.
Scott McLean:Dave Phillips, I'm fine, margins are clear. Well, thank you for that, not for that. He only gets so much attention for that. Dave Phillips, don't be dragging this through all night. He's that guy. He's that guy. Hey guys, did I tell you about the mallet two hours into the show? Hey, did I mention the surgery? I had him. No, don't do it.
Mark Smith:The loyal listener you have.
Lou Collichio:You're calling the buzzkill.
Scott McLean:That fucking comment. I'm a fucking melanoma. What is that supposed to be exciting? I don't know.
Lou Collichio:I never heard the book. I had that book. It was pretty well known. I think that was the Beatles bio at that time. Okay, that was the one. Still have it.
Scott McLean:February 22nd 1968, florence Ballad of the Supremes is released from her contract with Motown. That was the beginning of Diana going on her own. Uh, february 7th, 27th, do ops sing a? Frankie Lyman is found dead at his grandmother's house in Harlem, new York, of the heroin overdose. Do op that stuff? I a? J just commented and just checking in before the Cowboys start. Have a great show. See y'all next time. All right, my brother, my brother.
Mark Smith:No, I'm not an American football fan, but I will watch the Cowboys. Uh, I'm just gonna watch for a while.
Lou Collichio:Oh, sorry, fuck, I put him in a penalty box.
Scott McLean:Well, Lou called it, You're in buddy penalty box. Good call Lou Good call.
Lou Collichio:I enjoyed that. Yes, well, you, you, you, certain certain power film.
Scott McLean:It was the right call.
Lou Collichio:I think it was the right call.
Scott McLean:It was the right call tonight that was flashing this light up. All right, these are always interesting. February 29th 1968. The 10th annual Grammy Awards are held in Chicago, los Angeles, nashville and New York, hosted by Stan Freeberg, the Beatles, sgt Pepper's holy huh.
Lou Collichio:We call Stan Freeberg. I don't know.
Scott McLean:The Beatles, sgt Pepper's. The only arts club band, of course, wins the album of the year. Uh, the first rock LP to receive the award? Oh, that's a good trivia question, yeah, yeah.
Lou Collichio:Did you know that, lou, we did that on music relish. I well, I did that by music fuckers.
Scott McLean:Thunder. What haven't you done in music relish?
Lou Collichio:boys. We're trying to come up with different ideas.
Mark Smith:Uh yes, the competition's starting Good friendly competitors friendly competitors.
Scott McLean:Uh, this is a great. I remember this song from when I was a kid Um the fifth dimensions, up, up and away in your beauty favorite song balloon. Yep, yeah, uh, wins both record of the year and song of the year. And that, bobby Gentry, just a hot bitch that that whoa. I'm telling every time her name comes up. I just see If you don't know who Bobby Gentry is, if you're too young, you gotta google this girl. She was an absolute Smokeshow different, yeah, different.
Lou Collichio:She wasn't Tammy. Why she wasn't one of those kind of glamory, that glamory girls, you know?
Scott McLean:she was hot, she was earthy and she was very uh, talented. Yeah, again, as we've spoke of many times on this podcast, uh, she had carte blanche to do whatever she wanted with the record label Produce her own songs, write her own songs, play her own music, which, in 68, was quite an accomplishment. So, and to have them, the body and the looks, jesus, she wins best. New artist.
Lou Collichio:I showed a picture of her to a young lady I worked with and she looked at her and she goes wow, yeah, I said she goes, I love her hair.
Scott McLean:Smoke show man.
Lou Collichio:She had this real big thing of black hair yeah yeah. Yeah, smoke, she's hotter than the girl from the um. Uh, who did I? She's got it my baby.
Scott McLean:Oh, yeah, yeah, from uh, shocking blue, shocking blue, yeah yeah, it seems that's a pretty girl too, but none of them have have have the mouth of carly simon. So you know.
Mark Smith:Here we go again.
Lou Collichio:The music is a different story, though.
Mark Smith:Yeah, musically.
Scott McLean:They got carly beat. Our march for us. 1968. Johnny Cash and june cotta, a married in franklin, kentucky, with merrill kill. Gore is the best man. March 8th 1968, bill Graham opens Fillmore East in an abandoned movie theater in New York City. Oh, little did he know. Or maybe he did know.
Scott McLean:One of the greatest live albums ever recorded Ombrose Yep, arguably, arguably, it's so top. So if you think I was saying this today to somebody, we were talking about intros and I something came up about Led Zeppelin. Over Thanksgiving my buddy that came to his family came to my house and he just he just kind of blurted out what's your favorite Led Zeppelin song? And I said the killies last stand. And he goes, dang, he goes. That's mine too, right, we never knew that. He said what's your second favorite? I said I thought about it because there's so many right. But actually I came to the conclusion that I think that my second favorite song by Led Zeppelin is actually Whole Lotta Love.
Scott McLean:I said it's one of those songs that we've spoken about, that it was popular, loved it. Then you heard it too much and then you kind of blew it off and then years later you rediscover it. Everybody goes through that. That loves music. They find that song. They're like fuck, I forgot how great this song is, how it was produced and how it's in Whole Lotta Love. And I said I guess my point to this was intros, right, intros of songs, and we've done shows on that, we've talked about it, the death of the riff, right, right. So I said, I always say top 10. But if you say top 25, of all the fucking songs ever created, the top 25 is a very, very. It's a half of a half of a half a percent of all the music, rock music that's ever been made Right, so actually I would put that in the top 25 greatest intros ever.
Lou Collichio:And has it has a case for it. Yeah, sure, I like how the intro to Whole Lotta Love sneaks in and left speaker.
Mark Smith:You hear it go, Denny.
Scott McLean:Yeah, it's in the left, wow yeah.
Mark Smith:Stereopan Page is sneaking into the room.
Lou Collichio:And the whole breakdown.
Mark Smith:Wow, the middle part.
Lou Collichio:Listen to what bottom's doing, and to me it's just a high-hattin' cymbals.
Scott McLean:Yeah, and they jump it from headphone from left to right, left to right. Yep, yeah, hold on. You guys take the show for 15 seconds.
Lou Collichio:Sure Okay, are you a big Zeppelin fan, mark?
Mark Smith:Yes, I am, and, like Scott was saying, you know how you lose track of like. So for years I didn't listen to Led Zeppelin. I got tired of them. I just recently went back to Led Zeppelin too. It's the whole album's a monster.
Lou Collichio:I'm so guilty of not listening to any Zeppelin albums except for the last one. I know most of the songs, but I don't know the succession of songs and albums.
Mark Smith:You know I always have a hard time with Be so fair. Do a deep dive sometime, Go on Spotify and just play an album, but the last one. Those are the names of the Led Zeppelin songs.
Scott McLean:I always have a. For some reason, I always have trouble with names of Led Zeppelin songs.
Lou Collichio:I don't know why. I don't know why there's the battle of Everclear.
Mark Smith:Oh lord.
Scott McLean:Bob Doucet, he just commented.
Mark Smith:I made my parents hate that song when I was a kid used to crank it.
Scott McLean:So Bob Doucet good dude, good dude. Music fan Stereo fucking lunatic, though Cool Fucking stereo lunatic. Big speakers, holy fuck. Yeah, I don't know what you got here Clips, jubilees, fucking horns, whatever. They're like five feet tall and like four feet wide. And then you get then he's got his life-sized Joker standing in front of it. It's gonna fucking knock him over.
Lou Collichio:It's like he's a Ledger Joker.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. Yeah, it's like there's no way he could crank that up. I mean, it would just absolutely rattle the fucking foundation of his house. It's fucking amazing, though I kinda I don't want to say it live, but I fucking kind of envy the dude. I fucking wish I had those speakers. I like my clips, but these things are just another level of fucking insanity. Another level of insanity.
Mark Smith:I'm in the Subwoofer generation but I want to get back to having a nice big speaker.
Scott McLean:I'm on the look for some clips he hit 119 decibels last night in his fucking house. Yeah, who level? I'm telling you, the fucking things are insane. They're like concert speakers. It's insane.
Lou Collichio:Were you sitting in front of them, Bob.
Scott McLean:I have Tinnitus. I would have hearing Just from all the music I've listened to loud headphones, loud stereo, loud car stereos, you know whatever. I think those Walkmans in the 80, the original Walkmans with the no volume control started the whole, thing, yeah. But yeah, insane. Anyway, back to the show. Well, he said 12 feet away, even still.
Lou Collichio:God bless you, buddy.
Scott McLean:Now we need to know what we are playing. Don't say fucking sticks either, Don't waste sticks on those speakers.
Mark Smith:Don't waste any of that trash on those speakers. Bob is a good speaker. Alamann, I need those songs on a piece of Renegade Renegade.
Scott McLean:Don't get the no, fucking fuck sticks. Oh, stop it.
Lou Collichio:Alice in Chains. All right, good, good, good good.
Scott McLean:Yeah, let me see. March 1st, march 8th, march 25th 1968, the 58th and final new episode of the Monkees aired on NBC. Yeah, march 30th 1968, the Yardbirds record their live album, live Yardbirds, at the Anderson Theater. April 5th 1968, james Brown appears on national television in an attempt to calm feelings of anger in the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King. Gentlemen, I've been saying this and we're not going to get political, but I've been saying this for the last five years. We are living in the mid to late 60s, early 70s, all over again on steroids, who? You remember? All this shit? This is the. It's cycled all the way around.
Lou Collichio:I remember the aftermath of the Newark riots. Dude, what about?
Scott McLean:Detroit, fucking Detroit burned to the ground pretty much. I mean there was riots, they were. I mean it was the same thing back then, except it didn't have social media to blow everything up. Well, you had the evening news, they had the morning news, so you had three stations, three news broadcasts that were on for a half an hour and they had limited time to talk about each story and they weren't in it for the ratings.
Mark Smith:They were doing a public service of providing.
Scott McLean:They were doing exactly Right.
Lou Collichio:And the reporting was probably a little more accurate. Yeah, and the thing is, I was telling young kids today I'm like you're worried about this, you're worried about that. I said there's always been a worry. You live in ancient Rome, you live to be 12, if you're lucky, you know you had kids, or England now, or England now or anywhere. I said I had older siblings, my older brother's. Like I'm going to Vietnam, anxiety, you know what I?
Mark Smith:never lived through a drift and I can. I got to think of all that music I liked that era that we're talking now. Everyone that was of age at that time was eligible for a drift. I can't even imagine that.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, I was at high anxiety. My boss is 70, 71. He goes. I was just waiting to be called, you know, and just thinking, you know, you know, and sometimes the drive to the induction center, you know you're shitting your pants, you know. Well, scott, I mean you've joined the military, yeah.
Scott McLean:I've volunteered. You were conscripted, you know yeah. But, I went in during the Cold War, so you know that was a whole different vibe.
Lou Collichio:I thought I was going to Iran. I didn't register.
Scott McLean:I'm like shit, ah let's see April 6, 1968. Pink Floyd announces that Sid Barrett, who was replaced two months earlier amid deteriorating mental health, has officially left the group. Also, the 13th Eurovision Song Contest that nobody fucking cares about. You know, it's Every week with this Radio Free Europe.
Lou Collichio:Fuck the.
Scott McLean:Eurovision.
Mark Smith:Song Contest Fuck them.
Scott McLean:Who won that year? I don't know. I'm not even going to read it. He's never read it. Also, on April 6th oh listen. I'd rather talk about this than the fucking Eurovision thing. Fucking. The open Pee Brock competition of the Scottish Piping Society of London is held at the London Scottish headquarters at Buckingham Gate.
Mark Smith:I'd rather talk about that than the fucking Eurovision Song Contest. That would be amazing to see. Hell yeah, Sure yeah.
Scott McLean:Hell yeah, April 7, 1968. Singaporeanist songwriter Nina Simone's performance at Westbury Music Fair is dedicated to late Dr Martin Luther King. The song why the King of Love is Dead by Gene Taylor is performed for the first time. The show is partially released on the Emmy-nominated album Nuff said 1968.
Lou Collichio:She's from near my neck of a woods here.
Mark Smith:Ah okay.
Lou Collichio:Triad, north Carolina, yep.
Scott McLean:Bob Kirkman. Robert Kirkman, aka Dr Pork Chop, just joined the live stream. Dr, Dr Pork Chop Yep, Dr Pork Chop is the yeah he does. He's a proctologist. Yeah yeah, proctologist With really long fingers. Yeah, yeah, love's given a second and third opinion yeah, gotta be sure, maybe one of these days, I'll tell you guys how I was violated by a doctor.
Lou Collichio:Did you do the Ricky Dervais thing too, like on home? What show is that? I can't take it in.
Scott McLean:I didn't even know it to like a year or two late. I was like did that guy? Did that fucking guy?
Lou Collichio:Have to do that Was.
Scott McLean:I too young to get a fucking prostate exam. I was only 40. What Did he, Todd? Did he fucking?
Mark Smith:Did he know about the Luther? I don't know.
Scott McLean:Fucking like 40. I'm there with the guys like, hey, have you had a proctology, have you had your prostate checked? I go no, oh, you didn't even get to think you need to. I'm like really, I was like, yeah, how old are you? I said only 40.
Mark Smith:Oh yeah. Yeah, it's time Did he knock you out for it. Oh no.
Lou Collichio:No, he didn't. His hands weren't on your shoulders. You're okay.
Scott McLean:Yeah, that's the old joke, but no, it's only one hand on his shoulder. Look, I'm just gonna say every the prostate was okay, but it was a fucking rough exam.
Lou Collichio:They don't do that.
Scott McLean:I think something happened there. It wasn't supposed to. And I listen. I don't care, my life's an open book. I think I was violated. I do, I think.
Lou Collichio:I was Did he have probable cause or was there anything?
Scott McLean:Well, he made me think so. Everyone believes the doctor right. Who thinks the doctor's gonna lie? And now it's 45.
Lou Collichio:You're just ahead of the curve.
Scott McLean:And looking back I noticed he was kind of really friendly to me too leading up to that. He was really friendly, yeah, and I was like, okay, yeah, I guess I need it. I don't know.
Mark Smith:Like what the fuck, Putting his hand on your upper arm when he was talking to you?
Scott McLean:Dude was like put your elbows on the table. I'm like elbows For sure.
Mark Smith:What the fuck For sure I'm like elbows Boy, this show has won all three rounds.
Scott McLean:You did not, I might as well, finish the story Like fucking elbows All right, elbows on the table and he just goes, okay. Then it's like oh the fuck, dude, where's my prostate in my stomach?
Lou Collichio:The fuck, dude, that's not my ring, it's my watch. That's not Holy shit.
Scott McLean:I didn't. He says, okay, all good, all good, and he leaves the room and I'm like my elbows are still on the fucking table.
Lou Collichio:I'm like what the fuck?
Scott McLean:Just now like okay, do I gotta clean up here? Like what the fuck you?
Mark Smith:know I'm going to talk to Dave Phillips.
Lou Collichio:Where you charged for it Blue cross, blue shield. That's what he did.
Scott McLean:Fucking. Maybe that's what he was doing. He's getting the fucking milk in the bill.
Lou Collichio:He wasn't just milk in the bill though, jesus. The old digital exam, oh man.
Mark Smith:Anyway, back to the show Did you have a cigarette when you were done.
Scott McLean:No no.
Mark Smith:No, no, I went out my head down the walker's shame.
Scott McLean:I kind of thought something was wrong. I don't know about this one. Then I just blocked it out, like I just Like you supposed to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm good at compartmentalizing things. I just stuck that in a drawer, but the fucking drawer broke a couple of years later. That popped out of him and went wait a minute. That motherfucker did he fuck Was I? Did he fucking sexually assault me? What the fuck he can need to go to Scientology and deprogram ourselves.
Mark Smith:The fact that that's only Traumatized by that.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, it's weird, that's very specific. That was very kind of Very. Was that a little too much information?
Scott McLean:Yeah, a little bit, I share Certainly not afraid to bear it all. We can share.
Mark Smith:I'm not, I don't care. That's an interesting point though. You're 40 years old, though that's not.
Lou Collichio:So that was what 40 years ago? Oh, you know, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. Oh, you know, I'm not 80. Come on, you could have done better Matt.
Mark Smith:One point for Lou.
Scott McLean:Let me see you trying to beat me at my own joke and you're lost. You know you get. Yeah, you also get the penalty box Fucking, trying to beat me with my own joke.
Mark Smith:That's fucking. Come on Ash.
Scott McLean:Yeah, penalty box is cold Penalty box is cold tonight.
Mark Smith:It's like in the Superman with Christopher Reeve, that mirror flying through space with all the people Remember that?
Scott McLean:Yeah, that's it, that's it. Poor Lou, bring it back Lou's back.
Lou Collichio:All right. Where were we? Where were we 1968.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, let's see. April 29th, the Rock musical Hair opens up on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre, day 4th 1968. Mary Hopkins performs on the British TV show.
Lou Collichio:I don't care, I hate that song. Those were the days.
Scott McLean:Oh well, actually you know, let me finish this. Mary Hopkins performs the British TV show opportunity. Hopkins catches the attention of model Twiggy, who recommends her to Paul McCartney, who will soon sign Hopkins to Apple Records. So good, yeah, Good for her. Maybe she was big in England. She was a big old man. On May 5th 1968, Buffalo Springfield performs together for the last time in Long Beach, California.
Lou Collichio:That was a good band, right Yep Lot of talent, lot of talent. Yeah, they all want to huge things. Yeah, Name them Lou. Well, there's Steven Stills. Want to see us on why? Richie Faray and Jim Asina form Poco with drummer George Grantham. The bass player of who was, I don't know the bass player was knew it. Well, Neil Young was in there for a spell.
Mark Smith:He was.
Lou Collichio:I don't know who the bass player was.
Scott McLean:What.
Lou Collichio:You know I could use the bass player. Nobody cares about the bass player who wants to play bass anywhere.
Scott McLean:Let's see Also May 7th. Let me see May 7th 1968. Aretha Franklin records her live LP Aretha in Paris at the Olympia Theater. May 14th 1968, at a press conference, john Lennon and Paul McCartney introduced the Beatles new business concept Apple cores, apple core, apple core limited. Say that three times and then to tame the company that included a recording studio, a record label and clothing store. Wow, I can find and close that one that will have Apple on them.
Lou Collichio:Read about the Apple boutique is what it was. And then they just gave everything.
Scott McLean:They gave everything away, Fucking close and they're like we're done. And they fucking gave shit away out on the street.
Lou Collichio:Wow, I just you know, and there was this. Well, the book about that's called the longest cocktail party. Oh yeah, it's a good book. It's just, you know, the Hell's Angels were you know them bringing elements of the Hell's Angels over from America? George did that. I think it was just a weird scene, they were in Bezos man.
Mark Smith:Oh, by the way, fact check, they had three different bass players Buffalo.
Scott McLean:That's why I knew they didn't know. All right, so.
Mark Smith:Jim Messina played bass. He's listed as the bassist, but they also had Ken Coblam, ken for us for C, and Bruce Palmer. Yeah, never heard of him, never heard of him.
Scott McLean:Messina went on to form also logins, and Messina.
Lou Collichio:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yep, mother can't dance and your daddy don't rock and roll.
Lou Collichio:They did like seven albums together.
Mark Smith:Yeah, yeah, I liked that song until poison covered it. They did do that, just like fucking Motley Crude did smoking. Spoken in the boys from yeah.
Scott McLean:Oh God, mark dude, do you know who sang the original?
Mark Smith:version. I can't remember the name of the band Savoy Brown.
Scott McLean:No, no, jesus, they weren't even around then. No, who was?
Lou Collichio:it Texas Boys Lou Brownsville Station.
Scott McLean:Oh yeah, yeah, yep, brownsville, didn't know that's a border town right there buddy, is that border Mexico? Yeah, yeah.
Lou Collichio:Okay, that's a shithole. It sounds like a shithole. It's a shithole, brown.
Scott McLean:Hall Station is more like it Really it just sounds hot and dusty.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, shit hole. What was it? What was the metal band that covered signs? Tesla, tesla, tesla covered signs.
Scott McLean:They're not metal. See, that's the thing we had this discussion.
Mark Smith:There's 70s style hard rock. Yeah, that's the only good hard rock they just got caught up in that hair metal because they had long hair like hippies, but they weren't anything like Good band.
Scott McLean:They were a good band. They're playing actually down the street here.
Mark Smith:I don't know if I want to see them, though I heard the singer still got it. That's what I heard. Yeah, did they do.
Lou Collichio:I'm a cowboy of a man.
Mark Smith:Yeah, that's a great song. That was a good song, okay.
Scott McLean:Yeah, that's cool.
Lou Collichio:I don't like either versions of that song or songs. I hate that song yeah.
Scott McLean:No Way Out is probably their best song.
Lou Collichio:That's a jam, that is a fucking jam right there.
Scott McLean:Tesla, no Way Out, in case somebody wants. And, by the way, we're doing 1968 because my brother, colin McLean, associate producer of Executive producer Fucking.
Mark Smith:Get the motive.
Scott McLean:Don't make me do it again.
Mark Smith:Wow, I triggered something. Yeah, wow, no Glad I'm not in the room with you. Fucking, tax me 1968.
Scott McLean:1968. 1960. All right, motherfucker, we'll do it Jesus.
Lou Collichio:He's not on.
Scott McLean:No, he'll watch it tomorrow when he walks his dog Anyway.
Mark Smith:It was a long walk.
Scott McLean:That's a long dog walk, man, that's a long walk. Yeah, may 26, 1968, blues artist Little Willie John dies in prison after being convicted of manslaughter. That's kind of a it's got. That's a story. He's Well, he's kind of the name Little Willie John In prison. In prison, isn't that kind of a penis references that three, three references in one name.
Lou Collichio:Little Willie. Willie won't go home, Won't grow up.
Scott McLean:May 30th.
Lou Collichio:Well, we know he's rolling prison, then yeah, he died in prison.
Scott McLean:He was convicted of manslaughter. Hey, may 30th 1968, the Beatles began recording the white album, officially titled simply the Beatles.
Mark Smith:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Sessions would span over four months, ending on October 14th, June 20th 1968. What's that?
Lou Collichio:And we're in the Beatles. We're in. Your favorite Beatles album is the white album.
Scott McLean:Hmm, it could probably be around Five. Okay, yeah, somewhere around five, june 20th 1968. David Ruffin is fired from the temptations due to his ego and because he began inquiring into the temptation's financial records demanding and accounting of the group's money.
Mark Smith:Oh, we can't do that. That's what got Donald Fagan kicked out of the Eagles. Yeah, don Felder.
Scott McLean:Sorry, don Felder, I was going to say that's a new fact, that we didn't know, did you know? Yeah, yeah. Also on June 20th 1968, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas make their debut at the Copacabana in New York City, winning a rave review in the New York Times. The engagement was recorded, but remains in the Motown vaults.
Mark Smith:Wow, wow. Well, they missed the CD error. They could have put it out there in the CD error. That must be.
Scott McLean:That must have something to do with rights to something. Why would they bury that thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's got to be something going on with that, or it doesn't sound good.
Mark Smith:Maybe Interesting, no, maybe.
Scott McLean:Oh, you can fucking. In today's world they can digitize that. Yeah, now they can, yeah, yeah. Wow, that's interesting On this day in July. It just says July. That doesn't matter, it takes place in Brazil.
Lou Collichio:Oh what's his name.
Scott McLean:I guess they don't have days of the week in July.
Mark Smith:Hey Lou, he just can't read the names. That's why he's not reading it, yeah.
Scott McLean:Gilberto Gil, caetano Veloso and Rogirio.
Mark Smith:Dupra, these are all part of that scene. You like, yeah, but Gilberto Gil, yeah. Anyway, it's a good album. Tropicola of Paris.
Scott McLean:And it augurates the Tropicola movement in music yeah, yeah, yeah, here you go, mark. Good for you. On this day, on July 7th. On this day, july 7th, the Yardbirds perform for the last time before disbanding. On July 9th through the 14th, the International Ice to Ford takes place in Langolin, north Wales. Whatever the fuck that is.
Mark Smith:It's a music festival which takes place every year during the second week of July.
Scott McLean:It's a music festival, because I know everything on Mark Smith.
Mark Smith:No, I'm just reading the same website you're reading.
Scott McLean:I'm not reading a website. This is all off the top of my head, fuck. Sorry, boss, yeah well On August 1st 1968, the Jeff Beck group releases their album Truth, yes, A seminal work of heavy metal and incorporated blues and hard rock and introduced the talents of Rod Stewart and Ronnie.
Mark Smith:Wood. He had the Led Zeppelin sound before Led Zeppelin. They even did that blues song. They did the same song I forget which song, but it's one that led Zeppelin down the first and Beck was pissed. That Page did it.
Scott McLean:So do you think that has anything to do with them playing together and maybe a little competition?
Mark Smith:Oh yeah, friendly rivalry. They probably hated each other for a while, egos, and then they got over it. Beck never really took off the same way Zeppelin did.
Lou Collichio:Was Ronnie Wood playing bass?
Scott McLean:Yeah, I believe so, August 4th 1968,. Yes, performs for the first time at a summer camp. Holy shit, Gotta start somewhere.
Mark Smith:Hello, mutta Hello father Now sing it like John Anderson. Hello mother, Hello father, In.
Lou Collichio:England. England had those, but they were called butlins camps. There was a chain of summer camps.
Scott McLean:The butlinks there were. There's a proctologist at every camp, I'm sure the Beatles. You have to be 40 years old.
Lou Collichio:I think you have to have a good good. Sturdy elbows Was his name on Giorni, or elbow pads, Fucking violated.
Mark Smith:Good album violator.
Lou Collichio:I'm gonna talk to somebody now I get over it.
Scott McLean:I mean, what can you do?
Lou Collichio:Go find out, go find the doctor.
Scott McLean:Yeah, Let me see Dave Phillips King of the 45 says yes was great live in the early 70s. Yes, as opposed to now, dave Phillips, as opposed to the 80s, as opposed to why don't you just say Dave Phillips, I saw them in the 70s? It's trying to be passive, aggressive, it's not working Dave Phillips 70s.
Mark Smith:They were almost like jazz that that yes songs album. They recorded a bunch of concerts for that album. They've since released a box set of all the concerts in their entirety. They jammed they actually. Every night was a little different. There were very special bands, yeah.
Scott McLean:Oh, August 23rd 1968. Simon and Garfunkel give a live concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California. A recording is later released on CD in 1994 by Australian company Vigaton Records. As voices of intelligent descent, I call it?
Lou Collichio:Why call it that? It's all, simon, I'm a voice of intelligent descent yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah, turkey's suit. September 7th 1968. Led Zeppelin performs for the first time, build as the new yard birds.
Mark Smith:Yeah, you go, do you? Know, what other name they took when they were Dave, for briefly, were the knobs the knobs when they got sued by the Zeppelin family estate?
Scott McLean:Ah, okay, the odd birds had disbanded two months earlier and guitar shimmy page had subsequently formed this new group. Also in this day, the banana splits adventure hour premieres on NBC. That's more fucking important than that? Yes, it is. It's really important. Led Zeppelin's the banana splits adventure out you kidding me.
Lou Collichio:Four banana, three Danger Island.
Scott McLean:Yeah, johnny Quest, johnny Quest. I think that was a standalone show. I thought it was the show that on the splits.
Lou Collichio:No, I think it was a standalone show.
Scott McLean:Maybe I'll have to check into that.
Lou Collichio:Remember the girls on the sour grapes, the sour grapes that were called on the banana splits.
Scott McLean:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lou Collichio:They were like kind of go, go dances.
Scott McLean:They're go. Everything was go, go, dances.
Lou Collichio:Well, yeah, but they make the old ago, the banana splits all get goofy when they saw them. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, boing, get this one.
Mark Smith:You know, when you start to type something, google, google. So I typed did Johnny Quest, and the first result is did Johnny Quest have two dads?
Scott McLean:Oh wow, oh, we had one, it was race.
Lou Collichio:Who is his little friend?
Scott McLean:Haji Haji yeah, what was his dog's name? Fido fuck you don't know anything.
Lou Collichio:I don't know, and it, and it means a little bulldog with the fucking the look like you had a mask on yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott McLean:Now you know well, that's a good memory man don't well, don't fuck with me and pop culture don't know the cartoon.
Lou Collichio:I spoke a lot of pot when I was seven, okay okay, moving on.
Scott McLean:September 14th 1968, two sons of singer Roy Orbison oh boy, you know what's coming. Yeah, two sons of singer Roy Orbson, 10 year old Roy DeWayne Orbson and six year old Anthony King Orbson, dying a house fire in Anderson, tennessee, or since, youngest son, wesley, is miraculously saved by Roy's parents. Boy, yeah, he had a tough life, man. We all know it right. September 15th 1968. Song of summer Kurt Russell's noted TV documentary about Frederick DeLuce is shown for the first time and gives a fuck about that hurt.
Scott McLean:Russell did this yeah, also on September 15th, pocket discs are released in several test markets in the United States. Which is what a pocket disc?
Mark Smith:yeah, I'm assuming this was a type of flexi disc you know I'm on cereal boxes like a.
Lou Collichio:Frisbee type.
Scott McLean:Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, september 19th 1968 the who begin recording Tommy, a rock opera that tells a story about a deaf, dumb and blind boy. Can't say that today, oh, stop it. Can't say that today. Nope, nope, nope. I'm surprised that song hasn't been canceled. That deaf, dumb and blind there's an overdose, plays me.
Lou Collichio:Huh, is that deaf, mute and blind?
Scott McLean:kid Dave Phillips, king of the 45. Yeah, deaf, mute and blind. Dave Phillips, king of the 45, thinks he just enlightened us with hey. Did you know that Roy Orbson went on to be a Wilbury? Did you know that?
Lou Collichio:I hear you traveled a lot with a wow, I can, dave.
Mark Smith:There's a rumor that one of the Wilburys gave him coke. Oh, oh, oh. You ever hear that rumor? No yeah, oh yeah, I try boy watch rival Tom's below, just commented in. Might as well call him retarded look how nice he looks in his picture. He looks like Freddy Krueger hey.
Scott McLean:So, tom, you have to tell us someday what concert did Mark screw you on a ticket by committing and they're not committing and then leaving somebody with an extra ticket? I want to know that story. I want to know that story. Can't remember. Yeah, he should have used that story on his going postal fucking yeah, it was a good going cuz. It sounded like he went fucking postal we both one postal many times. What was it that you had on your front?
Mark Smith:porch I used to put the air conditioner. Two ton air conditioner was in the living room you put it on your front well, we put in a. You know we had a apartment with you know, when you share the back balcony with the apartment next door, wasn't yeah?
Lou Collichio:yeah, so.
Mark Smith:I put in a contractor bag and put it on the porch. You know, it's like I'm not gonna put in the basement cuz someone would steal it. Get that fucking air conditioner off your porch. Well, I used to come out in the porch on a Sunday at four o'clock and you just be sitting there having a beer and they go. What are you doing here? I need somewhere to go.
Lou Collichio:I get a beer and join them and within a half hour we'd be fighting Tom's.
Scott McLean:Belone the original. The original, yeah. The second, the. Actually the second co-host, yeah, of milk crates and turntables, the. Yes, he has a little status on this show he better get that studio set up again yeah, he's moved on. He says I remember that was Pat Matheny. You stiffed them on a ticket, pat Matheny, you asshole.
Mark Smith:That could be when I broke my arm. Oh, here we go, yeah and I couldn't go anyway.
Scott McLean:I think he would have known that by now. Let's Tom. Tom broke my arm. October 7th 1968, jose Feliciano at Tiger Stadium for the 1968 World Series in Detroit, saying a personal and controversial soul version of the stock spag abandoned. This was the first time the national anthem and it is the first time the national anthem was played in a different style that's why, well did you see?
Lou Collichio:him sing with the melody. He did like my fire a bit, did you?
Scott McLean:see him. See, I think we saw the video of him singing. Was it every breath you take? It, was it? Was it was a sting or a police fucking like sting was there watching.
Mark Smith:It was one of those, ken. It might have been a Kennedy Center on.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah yeah, he sang like and it was fucking horrible, like unlistenable he's. He's hit and miss. Oh, he's old to October 8th 1968. He's great. In Fargo, the soundtrack for the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet is released. Can the soundtrack so big in the 60s? Oh yeah, they were charred actually they were dominate sometimes yeah, november 8th 1968, john and Cynthia Lennon a divorced. Took that long. November 11th 1968, three days after his divorce, the beta male John Lennon in Yoko Ono's experimental album unfinished music, number one.
Mark Smith:I just hovered over, the title on the cover popped up oh, I need to see that one wait, wait, yeah, there are two versions.
Lou Collichio:You mean, oh, the furry cover unfinished music number one the other two virgins.
Scott McLean:What?
Lou Collichio:are you?
Scott McLean:kidding me?
Mark Smith:she is uglier than a bag of assholes, oh she just bought ass ugly, yoko Ono there's nothing yeah, shawn Lennon's gonna call you up and just curse you out, just like the go-go drummer yes, she did tell me to fuck myself. Something like that fuck you said no, the proctologist did it for. Yeah, he did it for me, oh the fucker.
Scott McLean:That's released in the United States, noted for its cover photographs of the couple naked, it ends up being a flop. Dave, folks came to 45s comments Yoko Ono, that's all right. Now you're back on track, dave quit while you're ahead.
Lou Collichio:Now the head of EMI, I think, was like Sir Lou Grady when he saw that he goes. It was, he was a Paul, he was no guy. He goes. Well, couldn't have used Paul. He's so much better looking November 17th 1968.
Scott McLean:Diana Ross and the Supremes we put replace the Beatles hugely successful. A Jude number one in the US with love child. This would be the last of five turnovers at number one between the two most successful music acts in America during the 60s. Wow right, november 22nd 1968, the Beatles once again, also known as the white album by the Beatles, is released. Also released, the kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society very English album. Yeah, the Kings were a very English band very they started and actually sang with an accent they did.
Lou Collichio:They sounded British, yes and that's rare.
Scott McLean:I mean, if you think about some reason everybody sounds American when they sing, for the most part, unless you Japanese, then that just ain't fucking happening and class minor.
Mark Smith:Japanese Elvis impersonators are just beyond hysterical yeah, yeah they're the best though yeah, yeah, and class minor, so German when he sings right, yeah, yeah, oh, let's see where we.
Scott McLean:At November 26th 1968, cream plays their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. It will be the last time Eric Clapton, jack Bruce and Ginger Baker played together until then. 1993 induction into the Rockin Hall of Fame. At December 2nd 1968, jimmy Hendrix's manager, chaz Chandler, quits over differences with Hendrix during the recording of electrically he didn't want long songs, he wanted short songs yeah, yeah, what band was Chaz Chandler in the animals? You're correct you're not correct. So what instrument did he play?
Lou Collichio:in bass bass okay and bass. That's why I became a manager. Bass players taking a beat no drummer drummers get to play it. Do bass player jokes because we're the butt of every joke in the band. You're the butt of the band pretty much.
Mark Smith:Yeah, you're the back end, you know that's right on.
Scott McLean:December 2nd. All right, enough of the fucking inch.
Mark Smith:You fucking musicians and your fucking humor oh you don't like it, do you know?
Scott McLean:sorry, no no, I don't like it, I don't. December 2nd also on December 2nd 1968, janice Joplin and the big brother and big brother in the holding company performed the last concert together before Janice goes solo. That dude did okay on his own. That dude did good on his own. I didn't like him too much, but he did good on his own. He was good. He was good he was. Yeah, I've never been a big fan of Janice now he's kind of overrated, if you ask me, he's overrated how long is this gonna go?
Mark Smith:10 minutes right my stream buddy.
Lou Collichio:There's no fucking time limit on this thing we know what was the Grammy category for Janice Joplin 1968 best male vocalist best Ozzie performance, best male vocalist she did kind of look like Ozzie.
Mark Smith:We need she couldn't you see her with black Sabbath?
Scott McLean:couldn't yeah, he looked much better, was here in his face, not Ozzie Janice, look much better fucking face could scare a buzzer off a shit wagon, scare a snake in a dark room. Yeah, december 3rd 1968. The 50 minute television special Elvis, sponsored by sewing machine manufacturer the singer company, taped in June with the live audience in Burbank California, airs on NBC in the United States mocking the comeback of Elvis Presley after seven years during which the legendary rock and roll musicians career has centered on the movie industry.
Scott McLean:Concluding, he made like fucking 60 movies or something yeah concluding with the premiere of if I can dream, it's not only the highest rated television show of the week of broadcast, but the highest rated television show special of the year. That's a fucking. That's the best looking Elvis. Yep, that fucking leather suit. Yeah, damn, that was a good-looking motherfucker right, we talked about this before, oh man, I even I listen now. I'm his man, I'm a man's man, but that motherfucker was good-looking yeah, he knew it got him a man like damn Elvis.
Lou Collichio:He went on stage knowing this was happening hell yeah, fucking respect the game.
Scott McLean:December 6 1968 oh shit, the Rolling Stones release rock and roll circus no no, I was gonna say that biggest banquet ah, one of my favorite stones out, which contains the classic song sympathy for the devil my favorite version is always the best.
Mark Smith:My favorite stone song sympathy for the devil is it really?
Lou Collichio:yeah, yeah what's yours, lou? I don't know, I really don't know.
Scott McLean:Come on man, I'm not gonna make something.
Lou Collichio:Name a song I'm not gonna lie to you wait, I don't know what.
Scott McLean:My favorite Rolling Stones.
Lou Collichio:I can't, I can't make that, I can't just are you giving us your top three. Jesus, you can always get what you want okay. I always loved a little TNA.
Scott McLean:I'm sorry she's my little rockin'. Okay, alright, I'll talk right back. What songs it's hysterical.
Lou Collichio:Oh god, I can't, I can't do it, I can't do it oh, boy, can't do it sway.
Scott McLean:Sway is my favorite yeah, it's a great tune.
Mark Smith:It's a fucking great tune blast that one, one, two, three four last set on a hot summer day, oh my god the Taylor.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, rock and roll Valhalla with that motherfucker yeah that's give me shelter, give me shelter, great song what were they called that?
Scott McLean:that's my favorite yeah, yeah, oh, what would? You say do do do, do, do, do, heartbreaker heartbreaker, yeah what was it called that goat's head soup yeah what is this dude dude?
Lou Collichio:yeah, but not to be confused with Louise. Do, do, do, do do, do, do do do, do, do that's baseline in music history. I'm being sarcastic, even when she was giving head.
Scott McLean:She said alright, let's move on to 7 9th 1968, political confrontation at the plant them. And who gives a fuck? It's Hamburg, germany. Ah, let me see. Also on December 9th 1968, tcb airs on NBC starring Diana Ross and the Supreme's in the Temptations. What's TCB?
Mark Smith:I got it if you put your little mouse over at Scott and just hold it there.
Scott McLean:I'm look, I know this stuff off the top of my head. You kidding me. What do you mean? Oh, it was a television special produced by Motown Productions and George Slater. Of course I know that.
Mark Smith:I did too.
Scott McLean:We all know it yeah we just forgot head friendly productions and laugh in fame. The special is a musical review starring Motown's two most popular groups at the time. I know this shit, hello the interots and the. Supreme's in the Temptations. Yeah, see, I know it was. It was not for hello that's right, I'm the host, I know all this shit. I don't know. Ah, let's see. Also, on December 9th, shinjuku music festival is broadcast for the first time by Nepo and cultural broadcasting bunzai.
Mark Smith:I just had John Belutin come into my head, john Belutin.
Scott McLean:Samurai Night Fever. Great skit, great skit, one of the classics of all time Samurai Night Fever. Uh, when he hits them in the hair, he points at his bun. He points at his samurai bun and everyone else is speaking English fucking great.
Scott McLean:No, no, because everyone's too fucking sensitive. Uh, december 11th 1968, rolling stones, rock and roll circus is filmed. So you were right, mark. You were right, yeah, just uh, a couple days off, really. Yeah, you know, five days off. That's the story of my life, five days late. The acts include the rolling stones, the rolling stones, the who, taj Mahal, jethro tell, eh eh the weird Jethro to a Tony Yami on guitar yeah, tony, yeah, yeah, but he never
Scott McLean:heard him because he's lip-synced uh, the dirty Mac and Mary Ann faithful. What are we fighting for? It's a good song actually. Uh, this is the last appearance of Brian Jones as a member of the rolling stones.
Mark Smith:That must have been a fucking hell of an after party it was a party during the filming yeah, right took a long time, it was an all-day filming.
Lou Collichio:Yeah well, they're all the interludes who was the drummer that played with the dirty Mac, who played drums with John.
Scott McLean:I don't know. Mitch Mitchell ah, from Jimmy Hendrix.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, they played your your blues band of gypsies right? Yeah, no, he's the experience experience.
Scott McLean:Yeah uh, december 20th 1968, peter talk announces he's leaving the monkeys music was never the same.
Lou Collichio:Never the same. That was the end of my childhood, right there. That was the end of the innocence so it ruined your Christmas it.
Scott McLean:December 22nd the animals reunite in 1968. So they had like a nice little run and then they just broke up so they reunited in 68 yeah, they, the animals, reunite for one benefit concert at Newcastle City Hall while Eric Bird and the animals are disbanding. So does that mean the okay? Well, it says, while Eric bird and the animals are disbanding. So this means the animals were there without Eric bird, it's just the animals, asked me the old group.
Mark Smith:Maybe he wasn't there, who knows hello on finally.
Lou Collichio:Well, who would sing, if I mean enough Eric?
Scott McLean:Bird, I know you can't replace that voice. No, uh. Finally, on New Year's Eve, december 31st 1968, small faces break up when Steve Marriott storms off the stage.
Mark Smith:All four feet of him he was a small dude, he was like Malcolm, young big voice, yeah, yeah that, let's that less Paul was huge on him, did they get their?
Lou Collichio:name. Did they get their name from? Eight miles high? Something miles high, did they say?
Mark Smith:small, faces small faces it's gotta be a drug reference, a weed reference or something right eight miles.
Lou Collichio:How is about flying into limits by being an airplane?
Mark Smith:yeah, it sounds trippy, but it's.
Lou Collichio:It's just not really not yeah, raingate, rain, gray town known for its sound.
Scott McLean:That's London yeah, so that was it.
Mark Smith:Those are the music events of 1968 we hit the hour mark, I'll be right back, guys.
Scott McLean:It's cool stuff, man finally mox decided that he he can go take a leak. I'm listening, oh whoops. What's he peeing in a fucking Gatorade bottle.
Lou Collichio:Well, we do have a line of swag, as the music roller show. Piss bottle, oh my god, with a pocket, with a pocket catheter.
Scott McLean:Okay all right, so let's let's get into.
Lou Collichio:Uh, let me see wait, did you see the rock every? Did you see the rock and roll circus?
Scott McLean:I pride. I'm sure I did. I mean it's good?
Lou Collichio:I don't. I was that great about it. I mean, taj Mahal was great, the dirty Mac was great, you know, and still the stones, but it was a good show, like Jeffery Talward, just it was like song, for Jeffrey was very different. Yeah, what wasn't, wasn't? It? Wasn't that just a total you came to love so.
Scott McLean:So let's look at bands that formed in 1968. We have the Archies right it's kind of weird, I know, but they, they had a, they have that. One of the greatest one hit wonders of all time and the best bubblegum song, I think, ever yeah, could be, argent. Hold your head up, hold your head right, argent was from what band?
Lou Collichio:Oh, also, put it on that 68. I Don't wish big the zombies, the zombies, keepers in the zombies.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was a big keyboard band, yeah.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, yeah.
Scott McLean:Who else was for the Bellamy brothers? Right, they formed. Let's see, get the text Uh black Sabbath black Sabbath form, but they formed his earth, I believe in 60.
Mark Smith:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Bread Fucking bread.
Lou Collichio:Are they the? Are they the first soft rock band? Oh my god. You like, you like this guitar, my guitar, man.
Scott McLean:That's that's. That's an okay song, but the rest is give me a fucking raise a blade.
Lou Collichio:Remember the Hardy Boys TV show.
Scott McLean:Yeah.
Lou Collichio:Hardy Boys, nancy Drew. Yeah he was on one time and he had it where he was kicking ass and some guys one time I think he'd be David Gates beat up two guys. That's like this bitch. It was terrible.
Scott McLean:The buddy Miles Express was from the 1968. Let's see who else Commodores on the 1968. Cross, we yeah we're still National Young in 68, deep purple in 1968, the dirty Mac, but they weren't too. They didn't last too long. Purple, you're one off, they're one off. Yep, dr Hook in the medicine show, yeah, from New Jersey.
Mark Smith:That blows my mind a different.
Scott McLean:Southern ban See I'm getting a text on the cover of the Rolling Stone.
Mark Smith:Stone. This is a great show. He takes text during the show and he's do you? Imagine Johnny Carson did that I'll die, I'll do whatever he wants.
Scott McLean:Anyway, earth, wind, and Fire was formed in 1968.
Mark Smith:Big time Wow. Commodore same year.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, that's, that's so. What is that I? They were two of the biggest bands in the 70s, yeah.
Lou Collichio:Yeah but it took. Took a while the flying burrito brothers.
Scott McLean:Yes, yeah, big big.
Lou Collichio:Woodstock band right? No, they didn't play with it.
Scott McLean:They were they.
Lou Collichio:They were the one of the most influential country rock bands there you go.
Mark Smith:They're like the beginning of that.
Scott McLean:Yeah, I thought they played Woodstock they should have.
Lou Collichio:They should have. Yeah, and he did.
Mark Smith:Lower you guys on my mixer here.
Lou Collichio:I was rich against the cafe was jamming man.
Mark Smith:I'm necessary musical interlude there, that's right.
Scott McLean:Hey, this was a good one. Free free was formed in 68, the beginning of Domination of your career.
Mark Smith:Yeah, they were only around for like three years.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah.
Mark Smith:Wow.
Scott McLean:Funkadelic formed in 1968.
Lou Collichio:Right yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah, Grand Funk railroad started in 68. Let's see. Are they underrated? Yeah, I think so. You know, what two of their hits were where remakes.
Mark Smith:Look at motion locomotion as little Eva.
Scott McLean:Yeah, it was little Eva, and there was. They did another, another remake, another cover of a song. You see who else was formed in 1968? The Kentucky headhunters. They were around until the 80s?
Mark Smith:Wait a second. I bought one of their CDs in the 90s, yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah, so the Kentucky headhunters is one of those bands that. It's fucking a mix and match, like you know. There's no one that stands out, so they can continue like that, you know? Uh, king Crimson was formed in 1968. Put him in a rockin' roll, whole fame. Who King Crimson? No, I know. Well, look at, look, look at the fucking people there on the.
Mark Smith:We go again yeah.
Scott McLean:The band LTD. Ltd you never heard of them but no, I. Had, I had, I had one of their albums is an R&B funk band. Okay, yeah, that's why I had it. I remember I thought I was always at the funk when I was a kid Ohio players like I listen, I loved all that shit. Uh, and then that's what my friends used to say was Was the mailman, right, like I mean, why you like this shit?
Scott McLean:Where'd you come from? That's right. Where'd you come from? They can say that back then and no one got offended. Let's apple inform the 1968 well as what? The New York, new York, new York.
Mark Smith:Here's a little, here's a little bit of trivia for you. Okay, when Kentucky head gunters were actually called the itchy brothers, they were almost signed to swan song records. Ah, that's kind of neat, yeah, wow.
Lou Collichio:No, that was that one's label right.
Mark Smith:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah, this one's interesting the mclean family band. Yeah they were formed in 1968 until until the oldest brother beat the fuck out of everyone else in the band and it fucking broke up.
Mark Smith:They were worse than oasis, those motherfuckers.
Scott McLean:It was all over a basketball game, yeah it was always the older, the older in the middle one. They were the ones that always fucking brawl. The younger one just kind of stayed away but always got punched for some reason, because you were younger, yeah. Yeah, nazareth was formed in 1968. Good band yeah, right, uh, let me see who else was formed in 1968. Uh, poco Poco was formed in 1968.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, Poco came out of what band?
Mark Smith:we just talked about them Buffalo Springfield, the Buffalo Springfield.
Scott McLean:Yeah, rare earth, rare earth. They were 60 70s band right.
Mark Smith:Yeah yeah, Motown Records yeah.
Scott McLean:Benny. You know Benny in the Jets well. His Jewish cousin, ruben in the Jets, was formed that's right in 1968. Hello there, ruben in the Jets. I like that Benny's Jewish cousin on his mother's side?
Mark Smith:Why am I thinking of mori from uh good fellows right now? I don't know.
Scott McLean:I don't know, I got a band.
Mark Smith:Ruben in the.
Scott McLean:Jets. Who else was formed in the 19? I also sell two pays the stylistics were formed in 1968. Ah, great band the sweet the sweet.
Mark Smith:Oh, another good band.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, good, a good 70s band. They ended up being a good 70s band a tragedy band. What happened.
Lou Collichio:A lead singer. Just he drank himself to death at such a young age.
Scott McLean:Ah, okay, terrible tower of power was formed in 1968.
Lou Collichio:Hot soul. Do you have any other albums? What's that? Do you have any other albums?
Scott McLean:I don't now, but I think I did growing up they're great. They're great, Uh UFO. Ufo was formed.
Mark Smith:Oh yeah, in 1968.
Scott McLean:Yeah, and uh, just because they're the last on the list, the Wallace collection band. Okay, hey, were you.
Mark Smith:I like you're aware of UFO in the 70s, like I was, they weren't like. They were the perennial opening.
Scott McLean:They never headlined right right, yeah, that may. Yeah, that that's. That's exactly right.
Lou Collichio:I'll see that makes them second tier.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, uh. Bands that broke up in 1968, a couple, not a lot. A Buffalo Springfield broke up in 68, cream broke up in 68, freddie and the dreamers broke up in 68, but they were left over from the 50s, weren't they?
Lou Collichio:That was a British invasion, was it? Yeah, they had. I sent you guys with they had um great friends you the fray Goofy, they were goofy man.
Scott McLean:Uh, the righteous brothers broke up in 1968, in 68, yeah.
Lou Collichio:They didn't.
Scott McLean:Well, they were the seekers the seekers broke up in 68. Uh, the Shangri-La's, the Yadbirds.
Lou Collichio:What's that my favorite?
Scott McLean:the Shangri-La's.
Lou Collichio:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Uh, the Yadbirds broke up, and then reformed in 92. And the zombies broke up, but reformed in 91. Uh, mark, give me an album from 1968.
Mark Smith:Uh, let's see, we're gonna hit you with a deep one. The thoughts of emeralds Dav jack by the nice, which was Keith emerson's band before elp. That was their debut album.
Scott McLean:Ah, okay, all right Lou.
Lou Collichio:The notorious bird brothers. Yes that was the birds. Uh, that was her country rock album.
Scott McLean:You fucking guys are the kings of obscure.
Mark Smith:But that's what I got more weight. I got more for you.
Scott McLean:I'm sure you do, and then I'm gonna go with the straight up, fucking Steppenwolf Album. Steppenwolf came out in 68.
Lou Collichio:Every, every band in the 70s, every little young starting band played. Born to be wild.
Mark Smith:Rice oh yeah and then you really got me.
Lou Collichio:Yeah.
Mark Smith:Mark journey to the center of the mind by Ted Nugent and the amboy dukes. It was.
Lou Collichio:Oh, run along if you can. And he had his guitar up on like right under his chin, yeah, when I was a kid I always thought they were from my area because, uh, two towns away were two towns perth amboy and south amboy. Yeah, so I'm like yeah, they're like from around here, you know weeks of jersey amboy yeah. Yeah, michigan, uh Lou the graduate.
Scott McLean:Soundtrack Uh oh, my john Coltrane came off.
Mark Smith:Ha, ha, yeah, an album, yeah, um shades of deep purple, their debut with hush and they also did a great cover of help by the Beatles on it.
Lou Collichio:Ah, All right, lou. Mass in f minor by the electric prunes. Okay, the other big hit was what I had too much to dream last night. Ah, this album, what they did? They took a mass and they sang it in english and latin and performed this whole weird suite of songs, jesus. And they said the guys said they did a performance, their only performance was like a disaster. He said everything went wrong amps blew, the music sheets fell off the. It was just a total train wreck. But I thought there was psychedelic band. I'd rather much more than that.
Scott McLean:Uh, doc of the bay, oh, what is ready?
Mark Smith:It was a compilation, but about then Um, a band and sneer and dear to me, fairport convention. Their debut came out in that year.
Lou Collichio:Lou horizontal, the bg's, ah, massachusetts, oh yeah, yeah, he sings, master, he goes massachusetts. He doesn't pronounce the t in it. Oh, he's british.
Mark Smith:Yeah no, australian, australian.
Scott McLean:Um. Fleetwood max david album. Fleetwood mac fucking horrible, fucking horrible.
Mark Smith:You know like 12 bar blues. It was horrible.
Lou Collichio:It was no rumors, was it Um?
Mark Smith:no, I've never heard this album, but I just love the title I can't stand myself when you touch me by james brown. I love that title.
Lou Collichio:I can't stand. You need to check my prostate. Here we go again, here we go the child is father to the man bloods the first blood and sweat tears. Album with alcooper.
Mark Smith:Not David queen's son. Do you know what the hit song was from?
Lou Collichio:it. It had a hit. Yes, I can't quit her.
Scott McLean:Yes, Uh, let's see. Diana ross and the spremes came out with reflections Lettions of.
Mark Smith:I've used to be yeah yeah, mark sauce or follow secrets. The second album by pink Floyd Damn yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah.
Lou Collichio:Hey Lou, gris, gris, dr John, ah, new Orleans, the monkeys, the birds, the bees and the monkeys. It was probably a number one album too, was it? Yeah, right, right, it's sold records as guys Mark monkeys waiting for the sun by the doors. Ah there you go Lou, let's see the inter mystique by the chocolate watch band with your cover of the king. I like. I like psychedelic garage 60s. You are digging deep. This is great I love. Well, they did a cover. You probably heard of the king song. I'm not like everybody.
Scott McLean:I don't think. I don't think anyone's heard of it. No, no, yes, they have to have and I'm gonna tell you a little trivia fact they happen, lou my first time getting played on the radio in New Jersey at a college station.
Lou Collichio:That song was on the set list at one of my songs. That's how I know.
Mark Smith:Oh, wow, yeah, okay Uh.
Scott McLean:To the music Dance, to the music Slide, the family stone Yep.
Mark Smith:Mark uh. Astral weeks from van Morrison, Ah okay, great, oh yeah, all right.
Lou Collichio:Lou in a gato de vita iron butterfly.
Mark Smith:Or when I was a kid and I had a beach problem, I used to go in a vada gadi daba.
Lou Collichio:You ever seen the movie manhunter? That's plays an important part.
Scott McLean:Yes, yes, the beat of the brass Herb albert. Albert. See, you want a brass.
Mark Smith:Yeah uh, ccr's debut came out that year.
Lou Collichio:Ah, okay, what a revival. Lou Uh Simon says the 1910 fruit gum company, the 1910 fruit gum company I thought of you when I saw that I was researching.
Mark Smith:It's good to say that one.
Scott McLean:Ah, the mom is in the poppers debut album came out in 68. Oh yeah all right, let's do three more that we're gonna get into movies. Okay.
Mark Smith:I'm afraid Lou won't mention, so I got to mention it music from the big pink by the band. Ah, okay, I was holding off, lou, I was waiting for you to say it, I didn't even think of it but I can't wait for the remixes.
Lou Collichio:I cannot wait for the music, lou. We're only in it for the money. The mothers of Convention good album.
Scott McLean:Ah, okay, uh, Marvin Gaye heard it through the grapevine.
Mark Smith:California grapes. Uh nefertiti by um miles davis with um sissily tyson on a cover, his wife at the time.
Lou Collichio:Lou friends, the beach boys. It's a great album. Ah it is a great. It's a great pop album. It's got darlin on it, Okay yeah but it was. It was not surf music.
Scott McLean:Prockel harem.
Mark Smith:Shine on brightly, you know, keeping it one of the bigger albums, but keeping it British odyssey in the oracle by the zombies ah.
Scott McLean:Lou once upon a dream, the rascals ah, and let me see, let me finish it off with uh Traffic traffic's debut album. Oh yeah, there's so much, we can do a whole five hour.
Mark Smith:just on the albums, I had 15 more. Yeah, oh, we gotta move on gotta move on.
Scott McLean:Uh, we're getting into this. Let's take a little break for the music, as we usually do. Let's get into some movies of 1968. There were some good ones, yeah, yeah, all right, let me. Uh, let's see.
Lou Collichio:You start this time, okay, um, I think it's probably the greatest movie of all time. It is the original planet of the apes. Yes, oh, yeah, one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time.
Mark Smith:Absolutely yeah, yeah.
Lou Collichio:We're talking about the sequels or yep, yeah, good comedy.
Scott McLean:the producers came out. Yeah, man, yeah.
Mark Smith:Dear shmami, one of two big steve mcqueen movies a year bullet came out yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah, great fucking movie. What widely considered the greatest car chase? Yes, yeah, the history of music and the history of movies.
Mark Smith:I was surprised to see it came out that long ago. I thought it was in the 70s.
Lou Collichio:The dude that played steve mcqueen and once upon a time in america, Look yes.
Scott McLean:What was?
Lou Collichio:that guy, I don't know. He looked just like him, though it was fucking eerie man.
Mark Smith:I started watching that Lou, it was perry.
Scott McLean:Once upon a time in in hollywood, wasn't it?
Lou Collichio:Yeah, I said one time in america tonight.
Mark Smith:Yeah, yeah, that's a denier movie, another great movie.
Lou Collichio:Uh, lou, give me a movie. Uh, neil simons, the odd couple, yeah, yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah, so plenty of the apes came out on april 3rd 1968. This movie came out the same day, 2001,. A space Odyssey.
Lou Collichio:Wow, wow.
Scott McLean:Wow.
Lou Collichio:I've never seen that all the way through I have many guns. Lou.
Mark Smith:Why haven't you?
Lou Collichio:seen it, lou, because it's slow paced and boring Dr Bowman Lou go into that room, you'll be Lou. It's so slow. It's so slow paced.
Scott McLean:That being a right friend. Is it yours, Mark?
Mark Smith:Yeah. I'm going to go with Night of the Living Dead.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, there you go. I still think that's one of the scariest movies of all time, so absolutely.
Mark Smith:Yeah, absolutely.
Lou Collichio:I saw that when I was too young to see that movie.
Mark Smith:You were damaged goods?
Lou Collichio:dude, I am totally damaged. I didn't sleep until I was 15.
Mark Smith:And then you had Chinese food, oh, oh, and you ruined your walkman. I'm sorry.
Lou Collichio:Lou, the Boston Strangler, Tony Curtis.
Mark Smith:Tony Curtis, I've never seen that. It's good.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, I can see it, tony Curtis, the.
Scott McLean:Supa sent me, the Supa sent me. Yeah, that's what he used to say. It's how he gets into the bottom of the Supa sent me oh man Right and they didn't show too much.
Lou Collichio:Well, it was this 68. Yeah, he murdered, allegedly murdered, 13 people.
Mark Smith:They didn't really start showing real blood going to the 70s, yeah, but there were some movies in the 60s that showed a lot that that brought about the rating system. There are some movies from like 67, 68 that are pretty wild.
Scott McLean:Well, quentin Tarantino had a great, had a great theory on movies. So if you see the movies in the, in the, the, the talkies, right, the silent films, they're all night and then all of a sudden you get into like the gangster movies and it starts getting violent. Then it starts getting a little. You know, they get some crazy ass movies right into the in then the 50s. It all goes back to the beginning. Everything's wholesome, everything's all American.
Mark Smith:Just like rock and roll in the 50s got wholesome.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah. And then you get into the 60s and there's kind of a you see something opening up there, right, there's a little. The directors and them and the production companies get a little more. And then the 70s was fucking chaos and movies, right yeah. And then you get your grind. I was at its best, right yeah. And then you get into the 80s and everything went wholesome again, you know, pretty in pink and pretty much war movies and stuff, but there was kind of. And then the 90s started getting a little crazy, it's. He said, this is always a cycle.
Lou Collichio:It's a 30 year cycle. It seems politically conservative in the 50s. You know Eisenhower was the president about the 50s. Yeah, More conservative, on the surface dynamic. But in the 50s there were some pretty under the lot of underground movies like the man with the golden arm.
Scott McLean:There's always going to be. Yeah, of course, you're always going to have these renegade directives.
Lou Collichio:But they were considered renegade. Actually, absolutely, yeah, so.
Scott McLean:I've been saying this for a couple of years. So since like 20, 18, 2017, maybe it started 2016, you started to see this whole little thing in movies about the canceled people and cancel that movie. Oh, they can't make a movie about this, so characters have to be diverse and we can't insult these people. So you start seeing that right, and now I had been saying this. There are these. There's a generation of kids growing up that are going to be the fucking craziest directors that Hollywood's ever seen.
Scott McLean:It's like they're just going to go total, because now you got the Academy. Awards you can't, you can't win an Academy Award unless you have you meet all the checkmarks. And I'm not being political, I'm just. This is the way it is now.
Mark Smith:Well, that's what happened. Checkmarks, that's what happened in the 50s. And then the directors went yeah, exactly the Academy.
Scott McLean:Awards committed to this, so it's never going to change. They'll never go back on that because it has to check off disabled. It has to check off this. I think it's good.
Mark Smith:Everything is cyclical, Like when when you go nuts about the movies. Now it's all going to change. It's going to go the other way.
Scott McLean:Yeah, these movies will be buried, but it's still the fact that I got.
Mark Smith:I got in the 80s, when they got really strict about things. I was like, oh and Simon or someone tell me it's like it's all going to go back. You know, just give it time. Yeah, Music too, you know music. Oh, I hate music. Well, it'll go back, you know.
Scott McLean:June 12th 1968, rosemary's Baby King.
Mark Smith:Oh yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, do you know the apartment building with the living Famous apartment building, the Dakota, the Dakota building it was. I just guess it was the Dakota, yeah.
Mark Smith:And the beauty of that movie was it could it might not have been a horror, like we never know for sure what happened.
Scott McLean:Oh, they show that fucking baby that's, it's definitely right at the end.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, there's some happened there.
Scott McLean:Yeah.
Mark Smith:Yeah, mark, destroy all monsters.
Scott McLean:Yeah, buddy, now you're fucking talking.
Lou Collichio:Lou Chitty chitty bang bang yeah still a great fucking movie.
Scott McLean:Yeah, I mean so glad that Disney hasn't tried to fucking they remade it.
Lou Collichio:Make that, they did remake it with Lindsay Lohan.
Mark Smith:Lindsay Lohan.
Lou Collichio:They don't really no it was pretty popular.
Scott McLean:It wasn't. No, it wasn't.
Mark Smith:It was popular because the young kid just wanted funny. It was funny, you know, but nothing beats the original. Didn't hear of it.
Scott McLean:I didn't hear about it.
Mark Smith:Shit out of me, well, well, only only Mark's people, sorry yeah, maybe sometime you want to talk to me and my people. Scott, you know, big motherfucker.
Scott McLean:Mark's like six or something, isn't he?
Lou Collichio:Seven, six, six, six, six. You know what he's doing six to six.
Mark Smith:Hey, I don't know, my name is Andre. You know, you know it's seen in in in a shitty, shitty, but no, it's at the one where Dick Dick van Dyke's head comes down upside down into a window looking for somebody. I think it was that movie and it scared the shit out of me, like it's a funny scene, but I was like four years old.
Scott McLean:Oh, was that where the baby, the kid hunter, was just?
Mark Smith:me yeah, just remember the kiddies, kiddies, yeah the head comes down. I was like holy God.
Lou Collichio:Kind of like in Joe's, when the head comes out of a port hole. Yeah, that was a jump scare. Yeah, that was a big jump scare. That's August 3rd 1968.
Scott McLean:Hangam High came out yeah.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, directed by Ted Post. Yeah, directed most of the Plano, the eight sequels.
Scott McLean:He did the play in the eight eight sequels.
Lou Collichio:He did a lot of me, I think, ted First.
Scott McLean:All right, Mark anymore.
Mark Smith:Yeah, where he goes there, One of my favorites.
Scott McLean:Yeah, that's a good one.
Mark Smith:Yeah, that's a good one.
Lou Collichio:Isn't.
Mark Smith:James Mason in that, james Mason, yeah.
Lou Collichio:I think so. Yeah, lou Barbarella, oh yeah, oh, she was hot.
Scott McLean:And that movie she did, I, she was just fucking hot. That's all there was to it. Yep, she's not Bobby Gentry hot, but she was hot September 26th. This came out in the UK first, but Oliver. Ah yeah, yeah, yep, with Oliver Reed. He played a fucking bad guy. He was a bad dude. That evil.
Lou Collichio:I think he could drink most people under the table. Yeah, he could those guys I think that's how he died. He was on. He was in a pub arm wrestling or something. Yeah, drunk or anything like a heart attack later. Is this something like that? But yeah, yeah.
Mark Smith:Mark, I'm going to go with a movie that I don't think many people liked. I like it Once upon a time in the West. It doesn't seem to get the same attention as the other Sergio Leone movies. I liked it.
Lou Collichio:Henry Fonda played an evil man. He was good. He is great as an evil character. I've seen a couple of movies.
Mark Smith:He's a good bad guy, yeah, yeah.
Scott McLean:Let's do a couple more.
Lou Collichio:Lou Dracula has risen from the grave.
Scott McLean:One of the bad, one of the better hammer films.
Lou Collichio:We were talking about that. I watched that recently. It was good. I enjoyed it.
Scott McLean:Hammer films are the best, hardest women Hardest fucking women in the movies back then.
Lou Collichio:A friend of mine made a comment because I was talking about this movie. He goes the interiors, he goes. It could be any period in time. Looks like you're like 1870. Modern day yeah.
Scott McLean:I mean, the hammer is just brilliant at making those movies. Yes, a yellow submarine came out. Yes, 68. I was doing two more each Mark.
Mark Smith:Okay, another Clint Eastwood.
Scott McLean:That's kind of under the radar Cougins, bluff, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Lou Collichio:Lou yours, mine and ours With a refund. Again. Lucille Ball they played the. They were to both divorces of families. They married, became a total blended family. He was like any air force in the military, but it's like a really great family movie.
Scott McLean:All right.
Lou Collichio:It's a charming movie, one of the best kid movies ever they did. They did a remake of that not too long ago and I think it was a bomb. Yeah, they always.
Scott McLean:You can't make these classics. This one's one of the best kid movies ever made. Ever. It was Disney at its prime. The love bug yeah.
Mark Smith:Yeah, oh, I'm sorry, that's the Lindsay Lohan.
Scott McLean:Yeah, I was going to say that. I know you don't fucking try to fight with me and pop culture, did I just say that?
Mark Smith:He just got a slightly slanted view of pop culture, but it's okay.
Scott McLean:I know pop culture, both sides of it.
Mark Smith:You know your pop culture.
Scott McLean:Yes.
Mark Smith:You know your pop culture like Lou knows bubblegum pop yeah.
Lou Collichio:It's yummy, yummy and my tummy.
Mark Smith:All right, let's do one more each. Okay, I'm going to go with this other big Steve McQueen movie that year, thomas Crown affair.
Lou Collichio:Yes.
Mark Smith:Ah, and I did like to remake with Pierce Brosnan.
Lou Collichio:I actually did like it. All right, lou, the Green Berets, oh, john Wayne.
Scott McLean:Oh yeah, David Jansen.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, I tell you a pilgrim.
Scott McLean:A Gamera movie came out in 68.
Mark Smith:Gamera verse.
Scott McLean:Fuck it, forget the name of it.
Mark Smith:That's a golden age of that type of movie, because the late 60s they got nice color, vibrant color, but they that's the effects were still cheap, which made them great.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, I'm going to end it with the third installment of the Pink Panther movie series Inspector Clouseau.
Mark Smith:I can't mix stuff between all of them. I know right, I got to be in the mood. If I, if I'm in the right mood, I laugh my ass off, and other times I'm like you know, but when it's on I love it. Yep, and the Steve Martin remake was horrible.
Scott McLean:Oh, again.
Mark Smith:I felt sorry for Steve Martin.
Scott McLean:Well, he signed the fucking contract.
Mark Smith:Yeah, he produced it Exactly. It produced it too.
Scott McLean:All right, let's get into top 10 this week in 1968. All right, number 10 this week in 1968, white Room by Cream. They went out and went out on the top with the top 10 hit. Right, yeah, I number nine this week in 1968. Hold me tight. By Johnny Nash, who went on to do what song?
Lou Collichio:I can see cock. Does he clear? It I can see clearly and we share a birthday.
Scott McLean:Okay, I number eight this week in 1968 and absolutely, and I've said this before milk crates and turntables, we're going into our third year, I think, yeah, yeah, this song right here is, I could say, arguably the greatest song ever written. The greatest song ever written, this song, it was number eight this week in 1968, wichita alignment by.
Mark Smith:Gleb Campbell, yeah, yeah.
Scott McLean:It's a fucking, absolute masterpiece. Perfect fucking song. There's nothing wrong with it. There is zero wrong with it. It's a fucking masterpiece.
Mark Smith:I love Midwest Vista, Midwest images and when you hear that you just think of the Midwest, it's just so.
Scott McLean:I mean, it's just the production of it, the music, the whole fucking, everything the right.
Mark Smith:And I liked what you'll come to remake. I liked what you'll come to remake just once.
Scott McLean:Did you listen to Johnny Cash's remake? Yet no Of which to alignment. I did it with Rick Rubin. I was an American.
Mark Smith:Oh, okay, oh, acoustic yeah, just acoustic yeah. Oh, I got to hear that you got to fucking hear it, dude.
Scott McLean:It's so fucking good. Goosebumps Fucking goosebumps. When he sang it Alignment, for he was an older guy at that point, yeah.
Mark Smith:So I still say his cover of Hurt to me is goosebumps. Great, yeah, great. That video with Rick Rubin is a fucking brilliant.
Scott McLean:Did you ever hear him do fucking personal Jesus? Yeah, yes, I just want to know why he's a genius, because he can. I want to know when he made the video. It actually is.
Mark Smith:I just want to know, when they made the video, how did they get you and Carter to cry? Like, what did they like? Did she act, or did they see? How did that? The videos as good as the song.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, number seven this week in 1968, for once in my life, by Stevie Wonder, great song.
Mark Smith:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah.
Mark Smith:These are all good fucking songs.
Scott McLean:Number eight, number six this week. I'm sorry, who's making love? Johnny Taylor, they always throw that one in there.
Lou Collichio:That was a big hit. Yeah, but it's always.
Scott McLean:there's always one in there that's kind of like you know, one hit wonder guy popular that year.
Mark Smith:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott McLean:I didn't know worthy the rest of these songs you're going to hear. It's pretty fucking number five this week in 1968, Abraham Martin and John by Dion, which was a weird kind of twist for him.
Lou Collichio:And he went folk yeah, and that's after you cleaned up from heroin.
Scott McLean:Yeah yeah, Number four this week. She was mentioned earlier in the show. Those were the days by Mary Hopkins signed with Apple records.
Mark Smith:Twiggy Discover.
Lou Collichio:Oh, McCartney signed her.
Scott McLean:Those were the days, my friend.
Mark Smith:Are we at a German beer hall? Let's get it. I know right, but that motherfucker was a party song for them motherfuckers, back then, buddy. You know every time that came on at a party.
Scott McLean:Everybody was singing it. Yeah, it's like Danny Boy and I are great song she was really is that is a sign of a great song, if everybody starts singing it and you're at a party and they just break out in the chorus.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, it was a family get together.
Scott McLean:You lost that loving feeling. Everybody that's like one of those like military guys in the other guys I was with in the Philippines that was a big deal and they would all get together and start singing that you know. Number three this week in 1968 from their debut album, Steppenwolf's debut album, Magic Cop it ride. It's a great song, Yep, Yep. Number two this week in 1968, the Beatles with hey Jude. We mentioned this earlier. They flip flop with the number one song this week in 1968, a Diana Russ and the Supreme's with Love Child. They were bumping each other off.
Scott McLean:So yeah, that was, that was this week. We're moving along this show guys.
Mark Smith:Bob Kirkman beat you to hey Jude. He put it up about 10 minutes ago. Fuck, dr.
Scott McLean:Pork Chop. Hey hey, I can say that you can. He's on the payroll.
Mark Smith:He's on the payroll. Wait, wait, me and Lou aren't on a payroll. What's going?
Scott McLean:on here. Oh, he's on the payroll the king of Facebook show that's. I just want hot sauce. I have no association with hot sauce anymore. Let's see, let's get into. We already did albums, right.
Mark Smith:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Let's go this, dude. We might make it under two hours tonight. Oh, I can go to work on time.
Lou Collichio:I think so.
Scott McLean:Yeah, because we're getting into this day of music.
Lou Collichio:Wow.
Scott McLean:Yeah, but. But I did move this along for a reason because I wanted to spend a little bit of time and I want to do it at the beginning of the show, because I wanted to get it and get the ball rolling. But today we lost a true, true poet, one of the great storytellers of his time. Just an absolute, rare rare talent yeah.
Scott McLean:As unique as a, as unique an individual and unique a voice and a unique of talent that a man in the music has ever possessed. It's it's hard to find somebody. You could compare him to Shane McGowan from the from the Pogues or the Pogue Mahones passed away today. Yeah, that dude, I mean put it all together right, I do, it's just not a good looking guy. Got the fucked up grill right but never change it. I'm not making fun of him because he stayed true to himself. He had all the money in the world to go and get everything fixed or whatever, but he stayed true to himself. He was a true fucking rock star in his own right, a fucking legend in Ireland and in England, right, but I'd say more of Ireland.
Scott McLean:Right, it was Pogue Mahones, the Mahones. The Pogues were more of an Irish band, but they were made up of Celts and Scottish and Irish and English, but they represent. You know, when you think of them, you think of Ireland right.
Scott McLean:Yeah, the Irish music, the storytellers, but this dude was just a fucking rare bird. Really was a rare bird. Played the piano, played. He was just in that voice. So we talk about voices, right, like if without music behind him. If you heard the guy singing at first on the surface, you would think what the fuck is that? Right? But, then if you listen to it, the raspiness of his voice, right the influx, his tonal inflections, the way he sang, it was just fucking right from the heart.
Scott McLean:Like this guy was not. There was not a fake bone in this dude's body, you know, passed away today from Encephalitis, which is where that's a motherfucker. Yeah, encephalitis is that's the inflammation of the brain.
Mark Smith:Is that the same as what they call West Nile? On Encephalitis Is that the same? Well, Encephalitis is Encephalitis.
Scott McLean:Maybe West Nile has a different effect.
Mark Smith:That was what? The mosquito? Yeah, you know, wow.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, Greatest, greatest, arguably the greatest. My favorite, Jack's favorite Christmas song of all time.
Mark Smith:You're the guy that's introduced me to it. I never heard it before. Fairytale of New York yeah, great song.
Scott McLean:It's a love story. It's a tragedy, you know, a story of tragedy, of heartbreak, of failure, but there's hope. It always has hope all the way to the last Like. As much as the story goes on. And if I don't know if you've listened to it, lou Fairytale of New York, it's right to the end. He always hangs on to the hope. So I'm not going to get into what the story is. But Christy McCullough, who tragically died she's the female lead in that song. She was married to what's his name from Brian Eno. She was married to Brian Eno. She died in a boating accident, saved her child. Child fell over a boat. She jumped in the water and a boat was coming their way. She kind of got him out of the way and the fucking boat ran her over. Oh yeah, yeah. And that was. She was a true talent that had the whole world in front of her and she was cut short. But those two together make my favorite and one of the greatest Christmas songs ever.
Scott McLean:And if you've never listened to a Fairytale of New York, you don't know what you've been missing for all these years because it's a true, fucking Christmas classic. Yes, absolutely. So go listen to it, lou, tonight. Put it in your playlist. I'm guaranteeing you're going to think it's a homerun. It's a home. It's a fucking grand slam. So I'm just a grand slam. I don't know anybody that doesn't like it. And so what has happened is, in this world that we live in today of of political correctness and everybody's feelings being hurt and the cancel culture they, a couple of years ago, they started, they the Twitter mob who can give two shits about music. They just like complaining because there's a lyric in the song where she says the word faggot, she calls him a faggot and it's in the context of an argument, right, right and it's it's. It's like they're being very harsh to each other, so it's not like it's in a in a singular way, it's just a boom right in your face.
Lou Collichio:I'm going to get this whole thing yeah.
Scott McLean:I'm going to get as deep on you as I can cause I'm going to hurt you, right? So this is. This is kind of in the middle of the song and they fucking all of a sudden gets discovered that that word is said and oh, we got to cancel that song. And and you know, we can't read and anybody that read did the song we make. Some always alters the words, just like baby, it's cold outside. They all get offended by that song too. But listen to a fairy tale of New York and the uncensored version and get the full context of how that played out in the song. These people just singled out one word and said that's offensive.
Lou Collichio:It hasn't been covered that much. And what do they? Yeah, it's, it's been covered a few times it varies Like maggot up to the artist.
Scott McLean:Yeah, they call him a bomb or whatever she wants to call him bag. Yeah, so rest in peace. Shane McGowan yeah, 65. 65 years old. Yeah, yeah, they released seven studio albums. You know he had. He also had a lot of problems with drugs and alcohol. You know who one of his best friends is was Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp is when it was one of his best friends, they hung out quite a bit.
Mark Smith:Depp had depth hung out with great musicians. He certainly did they.
Scott McLean:they had, you know he had their respect with them, because fucking Johnny Depp is just cool and he doesn't give a fuck.
Mark Smith:He does what he wants.
Scott McLean:Just fucking cool, you know. All right. Moving on, let's see. On this day in 2021, adele was number one on the UK chart with their fourth studio album, 30. That's, that's a talent and woman right there. Let me see it's lead single easy on me top the charts in 27 territories, while 30 was the world's best selling album of 2021. Fuck, selling a total of 5.5 million copies in less than two months of its release. That girl that she's. On this day in 2015, sinead O'Connor was receiving medical treatment after a message about her taking an overdose. It was posted on her Facebook page. I remember this Well. I have taken an overdose. There was no other way to get respect opposed red.
Mark Smith:Now there was a victim of cancel culture of the other side. Yeah, you know, when I saw her get blue, I saw her get booed at Madison Square Garden at a Bob Dylan tribute. I'm like what are you people doing? You're at a box, dylan. What are you doing you?
Scott McLean:know Well, she was way ahead of her time and she predicted it. She then then the shit hit the fan. Catholic Church yeah, all right, already hit the fans.
Mark Smith:She was just fucking putting the final Icing on the cake and she was in an orphanage, so she knew, yeah, first hand. You know she. Yeah, I wish she had been able to write an autobiography.
Scott McLean:Yeah, well, on this day in 2015, for the new order basis, peter Hook was suing his ex-bandmates for three and a half million dollars. Hook accused Bernard Sumner and and Stephen and Gillian Morris of pillaging the pop groups assets after the three of the band members set up a company Without him to handle the, without him to handle the band's income in 2011 pillaging the pop cute.
Scott McLean:Yeah, let's see. On this day in 2012, glenn Campbell played the very last live performance of his lifetime, when he appeared at the Uptown Theatre in Napa, california. Campbell revealed his Alzheimer's diagnosis for the public in 2011 and then set out on his goodbye tour. As a way to say farewell to his fans, his daughter went with him.
Mark Smith:Did you see that documentary? I did. You know when he has, he gets mad, he can't remember stuff and and that dude's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Scott McLean:Just from being in the fucking wrecking crew and all the fucking music. These assholes will not put him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and that's a fucking tragedy.
Lou Collichio:Here is his pops thing of alone. Yeah, I think you'll get in it's just when Put.
Scott McLean:LL cool J in before Glenn Campbell fucking kidding me. Even if it was some honor, he got an honor. You do. I mean it's a, it's a there, a bunch of fucking clowns.
Mark Smith:And Glenn Campbell can't go in with one of those special awards. It's got to be in it, it's gotta be a full blown.
Scott McLean:That's it, yeah.
Mark Smith:Let's see it'll happen when Oasis reunite and RM Reunite.
Scott McLean:On this day in 2007,. Yeah, I heard that I Got your text ignore me yeah.
Scott McLean:During a Christie's Rock and Roll auction held at Rock and Fella Plaza in New York City, a collection of 276 ticket stubs. I've read this before. I've done this day in somewhere in the last three years. I think I've covered every almost in three years. I don't know, we've covered a lot of days. I seem to get some repeats because a collection of 276 ticket stubs compiled by a rock journalist who covered many rock concerts At New York City venues, sold for two thousand dollars. The tickets included concerts by Jimmy Hendrix, the who, rolling Stones, frank's up and the Beach Boys, pink Floyd, the Almond Brothers Band, led Zeppelin, neil Young, fleetwood Mac, grateful Dead and Bruce Springsteen. From what I understand, jack had a fucking collection of ticket stubs, or he has a collection of ticket stubs. I know his constant t-shirts. He had, I don't know, 70 shirts, yeah.
Mark Smith:I've thrown away by mistake my ticket collection got thrown away.
Scott McLean:I didn't mind it to my comic van Halen, my van Halen ticket stub, that I ripped off a piece of the joint that David Lee Roth handed me from the stage. Oh wow, was in that fucking in my brother.
Mark Smith:Subpend. Yeah, you know what I lost? My sister brought me when she saw Aerosmith on the Rock in a Hard Place tour at the Madeline's arena. She gave me a shirt. I don't know what happened to it, because that's a lost tour. Nobody you know, that's a. That's a collector's item.
Scott McLean:Yeah, let's see. On this day in 2003, a block of East Second Street, new York, was officially renamed Joey Ramone Place is the block where Joey was lived with the band made DD Ramon Joe and is near the music club CBGB when the Ramones played their first gigs in 2010?. It was reported that Joey Ramone Place was New York City's most stolen sign. That's pretty cool. As of September 2007, the sign has been removed to 20 feet above ground level.
Mark Smith:You gotta make a look effort to get that thing. You know what, though? It takes balls. I'm actually in New York City to steal a street sign. Yeah, I mean, you're being watched by at least a hundred people when you're doing it.
Scott McLean:Yeah, they don't care. Yeah, I don't want to get involved. I don't want to get involved.
Mark Smith:Anything, he's a Ramones fan. Leave him alone.
Scott McLean:Yeah on this day in 2002, high court probate records show that George Harrison left his fortune of About a hundred million hundred and one point one Hundred and all right ninety nine million pounds, which is over a hundred million dollars, in a trust to his wife, olivia and his son Donnie, depriving the tax man of 40 billion pounds. His English mansion near Henley on the Thames was said to be worth 15 million dollars. Very smart man and, as I said earlier this week, the coolest beetle. Yes, yes, yeah. This day in 2001, the first top of the pops UK awards were held in Manchester, with categories voted and nobody cares. I understand. 2000. Smith, scott Smith, basis for the Canadian rock band lover boy, died at age 45. He was sailing his boat with two friends off the coast of San Francisco near Golden Gate Bridge when a large wave swept him overboard.
Mark Smith:That was it? Yeah, it's second boat accent of the night on the show. Yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah, I Andy Murrow, my buddy from Australia. It's doing it. He's gonna say something. He's always busting my balls. This guy, this bloke, this mate, it's broken. I call him a broken Means, he called me a broken one time. That's nice. Call him a broken. It's a dress shoe. He calls me something else. It calls me a wanker or something like that. Yeah, australian shit.
Mark Smith:Australia has a great scene for people that collect CDs. I follow a guy. He has a label called melodic rock comm and you can get anything. They're like what England used to be back in the 80s. You get anything from England. It's like a lot of stuff from Australia, Okay.
Scott McLean:I met Andy during the during the lockdowns. Yeah, you had a worse in Australia than we had it here. I'll tell you that, yeah, I met him on a Smith's man. I met him a big Smith's fans on one of these Smith's page. Total smart ass started shit with me. I posted something. He starts trying to dog me. We go back and forth. Next thing you know we're friends.
Mark Smith:I'm so surprised.
Scott McLean:We've faced time a couple times. He's a good dude. He's a guy like Andy he's. He can be a little rough sometimes. He got one of them said so humans buddy.
Mark Smith:Listen. I got family in in Australia and distant relatives and I hear they're Drough to take to an Australian thing.
Scott McLean:It's beautiful, yeah, at first I was like what the fuck's? That's what they're like. Oh, he's Australian. Okay, I get it. Now I get it. Ah, let's see who's this guy. All right, on this day in 19? Oh no, let me jump up here in this day in 1999, elton John was blasted by the Boy Scouts Association after he appeared on stage in London's Albin Hall and Performing it's a sin with six male dancers dressed as Boy Scouts. Ha ha, ha, ha ha ha ha ha. Pilled their uniforms during the performance.
Mark Smith:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Dave Phillips came the 40 times. Thanks for watching buddy. Good night, I do. Thanks for watching, uh yeah. And then the Boy Scouts got ruined by the girls. Because the girls wanted to, the Boy Scouts went back around. So there you go. They got rid of the boy. They wanted to kill the patriarchy. The fucking liberals killed the Boy Scouts?
Mark Smith:Yeah, but the Boy Scouts also got ruined by the troop leaders, if you know what I mean, hey, wait a minute, yeah, so anyway. Hey 1999.
Scott McLean:Also, don sugar cane Harris Was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment at the age of 61. The american uh guitarist of violinist was part of the 50s duo uh dawn and dewy. He also worked with little richard john mail, frank zappa, john lee hooker and johnny odis.
Mark Smith:Hey, lou, you know that's how he just drops liberal in there every so often. What I didn't say, that what.
Scott McLean:Me get out of here. You stop making accusations.
Mark Smith:I'm gonna start doing this. Throw the red flag go.
Scott McLean:Every time I say he's gonna click the button.
Scott McLean:Oh Jesus, I got no sound effects here On this day in 1996, ice cube obtained a restraining order to keep an obsessed fan away from him and his family. Cynthia Renee Collins was told to stop harassing 26 year old rapper and stay at least 100 feet from him Because he didn't want to get sued because he probably would have beat her up. On this day in 1996, it's a sad day. It's a sad day on the stay in 1996 for baby boomers. American singer and ukulele player tiny tim Uh, whose real name was hermit kuh uh kuhari, died from a heart attack on stage while playing his hit tippy told through the tulips.
Mark Smith:I didn't know. He died on stage.
Scott McLean:Yep at a club in minneapolis and the one song that he's ever known, for he dies. Wow, so good for him.
Lou Collichio:Listen he went out.
Scott McLean:He went out fucking doing what he loved me.
Lou Collichio:Yeah.
Scott McLean:You know, Where's? The was was never in the best of shape. I don't think I knew what a gym looked like. Nope, sounds like me probably couldn't Do.
Mark Smith:I got this for should we stock all of them tiny, mark, tiny schmitty, tiny schmitty, uh, let's see.
Scott McLean:Uh, on september, december 17, 1969. He married victoria may buttinger on the tonight show starting. I remember that, yeah, uh, the publicity stunt that attracted over 40 million viewers. He was a very good guest, by the way. Very, he was very clever he was. He was funny, uh, he, he knew how to play up the audience. Uh, he was a unique character that dude, he was a true entertainer.
Lou Collichio:I mean it's a novelty and stuff, but he had a hit with that, but he was all over the place. Yeah, he was a miss vicky, he was his wife miss vicky.
Scott McLean:Yeah, uh, he performed At the 1970 isle of white festival in front of 600,000 people, wow.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, who was like a white suit, I think we're just that was hit some shtick for, so did ukulele.
Scott McLean:I mean, yeah, on this day in 1994, two parks, of course, shot five times during a robbery outside new york city recording studio. Oh, that was the beginning of the? Uh. They thought puff, puff, daddy p did. He did it. On this day in 1991, michael jackson scored his fourth uk number one album with his eighth studio album. Dangerous Sold over 32 million copies worldwide. On this day, uh, uh. In 1991, millie vanilly singer rob pelatus attempted suicide while staying in the los angeles Uh, the los angeles mundurian hotel.
Scott McLean:He eventually succeeded Uh on this day in 1989 one of my manchester bands, the happy mondays, and fellow manchunians, the stone roses, both made their debut appearance on uk tv music show top of the pops. The mondays performed hallelujah and the stone roses performed Outstanding song fools gold. Great song, great drummer. The band the stone roses drummer was like they said, he was like the jimmy hendrix of drummers. The dude is exactly uh this day in 1985. Where we're number one in the us, chat on the us Singles charts with I'm your man. Do his third uk number one, number three, hit in the us. Uh, big, big, big day. Big day on this day in 1982, michael jackson's thriller album was released. It's spent 190 weeks on the uk album charts, became the biggest selling pop album of all time, with sales over 66 million copies. Seven singles were released from the album, including beat it, which featured eddie van halen. Uh in steve lucatha on Luke.
Mark Smith:Luke, he's one of my favorites sees the guitar sirtoto yeah.
Scott McLean:Uh, in van halen, he didn't get a credit for that. Nothing, we didn't get paid for it.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, he just did it.
Scott McLean:Uh, on this day in 1971, dr Porkchop says number one in park bathroom.
Mark Smith:I think that was the wamsong. Yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah, I'm your man, all right, and like I said before, nobody was nobody Fucking bounced back better than George Michael.
Mark Smith:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Yeah, he had self deprecating humor, so he threw himself on the sword, called himself an idiot. And you still love them, like you? Still like this? All right, he's still. He's all right. You know, he didn't really know. He's all right, all right, george Michaels All right, you know he's not trying to deny anything.
Lou Collichio:Right, I think, yeah, I think you feel like a, like a lackable enough character. If you just present yourself like that, hey, you move on and that's what he did.
Scott McLean:That's why he kept, you know, bouncing back.
Lou Collichio:But he didn't deny it. There was no press Machinations going back and forth. So you know, twisting, he actually made a video about the police in the in the uh.
Scott McLean:Yeah, in the, in the, in the, uh, the bathroom, in the park, the whole thing. Yeah, he had police Dancers. It did so. Uh, this day in 1971. Sliding the family stone with number one in the us Singles charts with. It's a family affair. It's a family affair. Uh, remember what they say in the song Mud is thicker than blood, blood is thicker than mud. It's a family affair. Yeah, uh, their fourth and final number one. Rolling stone magazine, let me see later. Oh, fourth and final number one. Rolling stone magazine later ranked the song number 138 on their list of 500 greatest songs of all time. Sure is Mm-hmm. On the stay in 1969, the monkeys made what would be their last live performance for 15 years when they played the oakland coliseum. On the stay in 1969, the rolling stones played the final night of a 17 date North american tour at the international raceway festival in west pome beach, florida, right up the roof, also pairing the moody blues. 10 years after, king crimson, janice joeplin, that do it again.
Mark Smith:The band steppenwolf and iron butterfly all of them on the same bill. Yeah, that's wild. Yeah, crimson Wow.
Scott McLean:On the stay. In 1968 glenn camble started the five week Run it on the number one us album charts with richard tall lineman jimmy webs. Inspiration for the lyrics came all. Driving through washington county in northern oklahoma, webb was driving through an endless litany of telephone poles each looking exactly the same as the last. Then in the distance he noticed the silhouette of a solitary lineman atop a pole. Webb then quote, put himself atop that pole and put the phone in his hand as he considered what the lineman was saying into the receiver Brilliance at its best, brilliant.
Scott McLean:Yep, on this day in 1963, the beatle second album with the Beatles Became the first million selling album by the group in the uk. Okay, that's it for that born on this day. Let's see.
Mark Smith:Can I add one thing that happened today.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, yeah.
Mark Smith:Yeah, on this date, 1979, the wall was released in england. Came out much later in the us, like three weeks later. It's one of my favorite albums of all time. Oh, okay.
Scott McLean:Uh, who was born on this day? Blah, blah, blah, blah blah. John ashen, guitars for the english rock band the psychedelics furs um, billy idle happy birthday, billy idle. Born on this day in 1955. Uh, june pointer from the point of assistance, let's see who else. Roger Glover, aces with D purple. Yeah right, uh, let me see anybody else of any significance Dick clock, pretty significant, pretty significant guy born on this day in 1929 and, as usual, the last one on the list. Give him some credit. Born on this day in 1915. American folk music and blues singer and guitarist brownie magie Is best known for his collaborations with the monica player sonny terry. Magie died of stomach cancer on february 16th 1996.
Mark Smith:Lived a good life for the age of 84, sonny terry and brownie Magie. I have a couple of their albums.
Scott McLean:There you go, buddy. And that's that's the show, gentlemen I. Two hours and four minutes, that's a record. Lately, holy shit, we cut 30, 40 minutes off the show have to move it along and we didn't have the bot on tonight. But we had. We had in the parents bite tom spalon, so yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean uh goodbye, tom.
Mark Smith:Yeah, it's good to hear from tom. Oh, trust me, he's been picking on me the whole show on my phone.
Scott McLean:I it's good to see time we're friends on facebook now, so he comes up with some of the funniest shit he said before thanksgiving. And I forgot how funny he is. He has he has a very witty sense of humor. He said uh, I said cranberry sauce, and I said I've never. I've posted, I've never eaten. Uh, I've never had a homemade cranberry sauce. That was any good. Right, nothing's better than ocean spray. And he says it's a fucking brilliant comment. He says Cranberry sauce, it's like applesauce. Why make it when they make it for you? That was fucking brilliant. It makes all the sense in the world. Why make cranberry sauce? Fucking already there.
Lou Collichio:I've got the best applesauce recipe in the world.
Scott McLean:Wow.
Lou Collichio:But I mean, how often do you make it?
Mark Smith:Yeah, I mean you want to get tom going. Just say to him, if you ever talk to him, say I went out to dinner last night. I had the best dinner. I ate it. Um, olive garden. Just say that he will go off. He, he wants to destroy every olive garden in the country.
Scott McLean:Oh, my buddy Fucking king of facebook, show big baba that motherfucker. He olive garden is like his go-to.
Mark Smith:It's not real.
Scott McLean:Fredrick's.
Lou Collichio:Maryland Frederick.
Scott McLean:Maryland, so my isville Maryland so.
Scott McLean:Not exactly the food mecca of the united states either. So Well, all right, gentlemen, let's wrap this up. As I always say, I always, always, always Appreciate your time. I appreciate your knowledge and, most of all, I appreciate our friendship. Uh, I'm always grateful for you guys coming on the show. Uh, bob Kirkman says big baba murders breadsticks. He does, he does. Yeah, and I want to thank everybody for watching, everybody for listening. If you like it, share it. If you didn't, well, thanks for listening for the last two hours and seven minutes, or watching, and as I always say, to quote my favorite artist, marci, doing the show for you, the pleasure, the privilege is mine. We'll be back next, next thursday, maybe it's up to luke.
Lou Collichio:Uh, the next three thursdays I have rehearsals. So wednesday, wednesday, is a possibility. I gotta say I got.
Scott McLean:I'll let you know All right, maybe we might break a friday show here in there. Friday might be easier.
Lou Collichio:Yeah, don't, don't make you know.
Scott McLean:You know what it is, luke. It's like it's like the sign for the episode when, uh, when jerry's not in the group and, like george and lane, have to go kind of hang out and they don't really have much to.
Lou Collichio:Let's be in scott's scott doesn't know what to say to me. He needs you. It's not a show without you, luke scott's very uncomfortable.
Scott McLean:He's like so mark, just don't tell me to put my elbows on the table. Two show friday hey, we would have made it under two hours if I didn't tell that 10 minute show about me being sexually assaulted by a doctor.
Lou Collichio:I think, I think every show.
Mark Smith:Yeah really you gotta give me fucking flashbacks. You know pink floyd had like this. You, he better believe it every time.
Scott McLean:All right, gentlemen, I'm sure we'll be texting tomorrow and the next day and the next day and everybody again. We'll see you, maybe next wednesday night and maybe, if we can't, it'll be being mocked on thursday. Maybe we'll try to bring somebody in a nice friday I'm on, friday, we can make through a friday, who knows?
Mark Smith:I'm not the professor, lu knows everything, yeah.
Scott McLean:Absolutely All right, gentlemen, all right everybody. Thanks for listening. Good night, good night.