Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
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Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
Ep. 153 - The Unforgettable Music and Moments of 1976
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What if we told you that 1976 was more than just a year, but a defining era in music and pop culture? Join us on this nostalgic trip back to a time when The Eagles' "Greatest Hits" was the first album certified platinum, and Paul Simon and Captain and Tennille ruled the Grammy Awards. We welcome our good friends Lou Colicchio and Mark Smith from the Music Relish Show, whose playful banter and inside jokes add an extra layer of fun to our walk down memory lane. Together, we respond to live audience comments and share fascinating stories about the year's most unforgettable moments.
From Bill Sargent's $30 million offer to reunite The Beatles to Bette Midler's entourage's legal troubles, we cover the highs and lows that made 1976 unforgettable. Expect tales of Kiss's meteoric rise, Bruce Springsteen's Graceland adventure, and Keith Moon's infamous stage collapse. We also touch on the cultural impact of the Second Annual Rock Music Awards and the 100 Club Punk Festival, not to mention the quirky adoption of ABBA's now-iconic logo. With humor and historical anecdotes, we ensure you'll be both entertained and enlightened.
Wrapping up, we mix personal anecdotes, humorous reflections, and spirited debates over classic vinyl records. Ever wonder about the origins behind “Muskrat Love” or the story of John Lennon and Paul McCartney nearly reuniting on SNL? We’ve got you covered. We also reflect on our ice hockey days, sharing intense moments and highlighting the camaraderie that music and sports bring. Tune in as we reminisce about the music scene of 1976, celebrating both its triumphs and its trials, all the while showcasing our shared passion for the vibrant culture of that unforgettable year.
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Well, here we are, episode 153. And on this episode we're all back, me and the wrecking two, Lou Colicchio and Mark Smith from the Music Relish Show. Find them on YouTube. I usually put Mark first, but I want to give Lou some special treatment. I've upset him a few times this week and I want to let him know that he's loved, so I put his name first this episode. Anyway, he's going to kill me for that. Where are we? I don't know. The three of us are going to be talking about the year 1976 in music and movies, the bicentennial for us boomers. Big year, big year. Lots of good stuff going on there. So sit back, relax and enjoy a drive back to 1976. I think Mark was one.
Speaker 3The KOFB studio presents milk crates and turntables. A music discussion podcast hosted byott mcclain. Now let's talk music enjoy the show.
Speaker 2Thank you, amanda, for that wonderful introduction. The abrupt ending to that, it's a whole thing reason. Well, welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. I'm so glad you could attend. Come inside, come inside. It's been a while, it seems like it. We're streaming live right now over, you know them, facebook, youtube, twitch, bex, twitter, whatever it is, and a number of other live streams. And yeah, yeah, we were away last week. So it seems like, well, I was away. Those guys chastised me because they love their airtime. You know, they seem humble, they're nice guys, but you take their air time away from them and they, they turn all diva. Yeah, the wrecking to the wrecking divas. I, I started calling, they were harassing me while I was in saint augustine, fourth of july, and so I I had to hurry back and get them on the air and so they could feed their, their, their humble egos. Does that make it that's, it's the only way I could describe them humble egos. So, uh, you know, with all that, let me jump back over here.
Speaker 4Alice and lundy, welcome to the show, and let's bring on at this point what's up buddy all I've got to say is that I will be communicating with you through mark tonight. Anything I have to say to you, I will ask Mark to ask you, and then he can reply to me. That's pretty much where we stand right now, my friend. All right, hey, buddy, what's up? Hey?
Speaker 1buddy, what's up?
Speaker 2the dead silence that was the funniest thing the dramatic pause like you had to regroup, you had to get your shit together before you absolutely spoke to me.
Speaker 4I'm a little emotional.
Speaker 1I've got my crystal too.
Speaker 4I have my crystal, and I'm still emotional.
Speaker 2That was good Now let's bring the room down Excellent. Hi what's up, buddy?
Speaker 4How are?
Speaker 2you.
Speaker 4Mark, would you tell Scott?
Speaker 3I said said, hello you scared the shit out of me when you said that like I gotta spend this show the whole show doing this, so it's on you now scott, scott you said it's all on me now
Speaker 2well, let's say, let's say, let's say hi to allison, allison lennie how are you the? Beautiful tiffany van hill hi tiffany yeah, my buddy.
Speaker 2And uh, of course, the one and only patty yassi. Oh, and see, I get these beautiful women. And then big head todd, the west rocket, could not wait to jump in and just absolutely talk about bringing a room down. Mark, you are a pride parade compared to Big Head Todd the Wet Sprocket. Oh, and then to bring the room down even more, dr Porkchop, robert Kirkman, we went from top shelf women to what the hell? This is going to be a rollercoaster. Hey, dave phillips, king of the 45s, has jumped in. What's up, buddy?
Speaker 2tiffany says hey y'all, she knows, I don't talk like that, but you know it's cute when she says it, but I'll never say that I can't.
Speaker 4I can't do it either, I just it doesn. It doesn't sound authentic when I do it.
Speaker 2Hey y'all, hey yous. Does that sound like something? I would say hey y'all.
Speaker 4Yes, it would.
Speaker 2But, tiffany, you say it.
Speaker 4It's beautiful when you say it though Mark tell Scott.
Speaker 3I said yes, it would Scott what.
Speaker 2Well, dave Phillips says hello men. I think that's very uh, that's, that's very why. How do you know? How do you know, dave phillips?
Speaker 1how do you know you?
Speaker 2don't know that everybody on this, on this panel is, men maybe they go by something else, you know you're offending my man, but you're offending me, scott, you're you really?
Speaker 3you know, I said I'm out of here.
Speaker 2Bye, uh big, big head Todd says I like the. Stein collection in the background. Lou, Thank you. It means he fucking zooms in on you. That's creepy in itself. Tiffany says it's funny when I say it, when me says y'all, all y'all, is a fun one to say All of y'all.
Speaker 3Say it with a Boston accent, what's up? No, y'all Say it with a Boston accent, what's up?
Speaker 2No, y'all, no, that's me say what's up, and then it just turns into sup Sup.
Speaker 3Sup, that's what I say, sup.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's more. Manly Men shouldn't say hey y'all Men should not say that no.
Speaker 3The guy from Train says it.
Speaker 4When men aren't unwell, we vomit.
Speaker 2We're missing my background music. Let's see, that's right. Yeah, everybody just sit back, relax, get a little groove on.
Speaker 3This takes away the edge from your comedy, though. That's the problem with it. Well then, I'll lower it.
Speaker 4Our comedy is so sharp.
Speaker 1It's so sharp and witty.
Speaker 4Mark, would you tell Scott, this can't dull our comedy.
Speaker 3Scott Lou says this cannot dull our comedy. Do you have a response to Lou?
Speaker 2Dave Phillips, king of the 45, says Do you prefer Hello Boys? See, boys is a term of endowment. What's up, boys? What's up?
Speaker 3boys.
Speaker 2I like it. Yeah, it's a sports term. Hockey players love that term.
Speaker 4I'm a man.
Speaker 2Thanks for clearing that up Blue, Just in case anyone thought I was serious.
Speaker 4I just want to say, right here and now I identify as a man.
Speaker 2I'm a man, damn it.
Speaker 3My psycho science teacher in elementary school, who he is used to come into the classroom and say, hello boys, and he destroyed me for life, not in a way bad way, show us on the doll, psychologically, psychologically.
Speaker 2And he destroyed me for life, Not in a way bad way. Show us on the doll where we touched you, Mark Psychologically. Show us on the doll where the bad man touched you, Mark.
Speaker 1Oh God, he said. He ruined me, oh I have my little doll.
Speaker 3I have my little Star Wars doll. Can I go get it?
Speaker 2Do you ever watch? Always Sunny in Philadelphia, isn't that funny.
Speaker 4I was thinking about that last night, that show.
Speaker 2The episode with Charlie Got Molested.
Speaker 3It's called.
Speaker 2Charlie Got Molested.
Speaker 3Charlie Got Molested.
Speaker 2Oh, dude, it's one of the funniest episodes you'll ever see. It's so demented. All right, enough of that. Where are we at 76. Robert Kirkman says good evening, gentlemen. Okay, matter of conjecture. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Are we gentlemen? I don't know.
Speaker 2Wow, look at this this is a record, are we? Gentile men. We've gone two minutes and Big Head Todd the Wet Sprocket hasn't commented. I think he's bored. Let's get him going, let's talk music he wants to hear it's uh, how's everything on music relish. By the way, I heard you guys had a caller in this past weekend our first caller in.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah yeah, I was. I was hoping it would come across because it was on my phone and it did.
Speaker 2You're there oh did it ever it did it ever.
Speaker 4We've been having fun. The last last reshare, all right, good, good, we have a groove going, let's not wreck it, yeah.
Speaker 2He cast a comment. I have no comment. We know who. That is All right. January 5th 1976. Former Beatles road manager, Mal Evans. You know the story, Lou, yeah.
Speaker 4Let's hear it he got shot dead. Was it the la police? Yeah, uh, was this. Was this some kind of domestic squabble?
Speaker 2no, no, he, he, he refused to drop what police later determined as an air rifle.
Speaker 4Okay, he was home though right yeah yeah, you know what happened to his ashes? Ah, I do, but I can't remember. It's a Lennon line. They got lost. So Lennon's joke was they ended up in the dead letter office. Pretty douchey for your road manager, you know.
Speaker 2So Dave Phillips King of the 45s, welcome to reality. He says I just started watching Peaky Blinders on Netflix.
Speaker 3Oh, it's a great show. I love it.
Speaker 2How could he just now? Hey, listen, watch away, binge it, binge, all six seasons or whatever there is. I'm glad you're watching it, but where the fuck have you been for the last three or four years?
Speaker 3I never watched the I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2I only watched the first season.
Speaker 4You haven't watched it either, Lou. Actually, you haven't watched it either, lou, actually, I think I started watching the first episode a while back, but then I didn't finish Really.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'll get around to it.
Speaker 4Are you a TV watcher, Lou? I'm spotty with it. I watch movies and stuff.
Speaker 2You're not a regular TV watcher.
Speaker 4No.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 4No no.
Speaker 2What about you, Mark?
Speaker 3I collect weird things. I am dying to. Get Like Steins, I'm dying to get into Big Head.
Speaker 2Todd doesn't know that what's in there is Steins. That's the thing.
Speaker 3Go ahead, mark. I'm sorry. I love a good show, like I love to get into a good series, like I just remember the Golden Years, sopranos Every Sunday, right but then I've had a few shows that I start to watch and then I lose track and then they go like I'm doing Breaking Bad now Because I watched Better. Call Saul and not Breaking Bad.
Speaker 4And I have to catch up. You can't do that. I've been watching Better Call Saul.
Speaker 2There's a few series. Did you watch Breaking Bad though? Oh yeah, Okay, so you did watch that.
Speaker 4I took a break from it. You know why.
Speaker 1It's intense.
Speaker 4It got really dark. Some of the news even picky blenders. I'm interested in it, but something about me is pulling away from some of the more violent stuff, oddly enough, I like that stuff. I like the shooting, I like all that stuff.
Speaker 2Yeah well, I mean, that's the thing about Breaking Bad.
Speaker 5It's a slow burn man, it's a slow burn, and it's a slow burn, and it's a real build up and uh, yeah, yeah, and it does get dark at times.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah the kid in the bicycle. That's what I bailed out for my bed oh yeah and I got caught up with the rest of season five after that. It was just there was too much at that point.
Speaker 2Heavy, it was heavy though yeah, yeah, and that's the probably. Some say that better console might be better than breaking bad it's a little lighter right.
Speaker 3It's more positive. He's trying to build his career, it's just.
Speaker 2It's dark, though, like he's you can't in his, in his girlfriend, in that uh, I forget her name. Um, you know, you can't figure her out, right?
Speaker 3well, they're lawyers it's kind of scary like they start giving a little.
Speaker 2They give a little background on her. Kim kim wexley yeah, yeah, but um, that you just can't like. She is a really great actress. I mean, she pulled that off masterfully and they did not show her.
Speaker 3But they showed soul's background, but they never showed her. They showed a little bit of hers but not like a big part.
Speaker 2But you kind of can't figure out why. She's almost like sociopathic. And she loves dysfunction Absolutely loves dysfunction.
Speaker 4The Karen character from Daredevil. Once you got into her backstory it was dark which character in Daredevil. Karen, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the girl, yeah, the best Marvel.
Speaker 2TV show ever. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely it's the best If you want to watch a great series. It's not on Netflix anymore, though.
Speaker 3No, it's on Disney+. Disney+. I got that.
Speaker 2I'll check it out, my son loves it Three seasons Great, Best fight scenes in any Marvel in any TV show I've ever seen.
Speaker 4Yeah, I think some of those fight scenes like there were one, takes the way they yeah Incredible. I mean you get exhausted watching it.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was done really well, it was done really well. January 6th 1976, peter Frampton releases his album Frampton Comes Alive. That only has four fucking good songs on it. Here we go. But they are huge songs.
Speaker 4They were huge yeah.
Speaker 2I'm not taking anything away from them. I think it's like it was the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack syndrome where it's just well. I think Frampton Come Alive came first right. There's just a few really really good songs, but those songs were monsters which carried the whole album.
Speaker 4A band with four hit singles on an album. That can take any album pretty far. But this had more of a phenomenon thing attached to it. It was more of a phenomenon, yeah.
Speaker 2Because it was live and he had the look and they got behind it once they realized they had something meaning the record company. Then they wrecked him. Yeah absolutely, but he's still making money.
Speaker 3He's touring again. He's going to tour again.
Speaker 2And I'll go to see his four songs and I'll leave once they're done.
Speaker 5I won't even go see him. Four songs, that's it, and I'll leave once they're done.
Speaker 2I won't even go see them the next day. January 7th 1976, kenneth Moss, a former record company executive, is sentenced to 120 days in Los Angeles County Jail and four years probation for involuntary manslaughter in the 1974 drug-induced death of average white band drummer robbie mcintosh. Oh yeah, fucking drummers. And nobody missed them like lawyers yeah, there's the other.
Speaker 4Robbie mcintosh is um, there's a guitar player and the contenders and paul mccartney two guys are the same name but um, so he administered the uh, the fatal, yeah evidently, wow, yeah, evidently.
Speaker 2Uh, let's see, january 13th 1976, a trial begins for seven brunswick records and dakar records employees. The record company employees are charged with stealing more than 184 000 royalties from artists, and that's in 1976. Wow, it's got to be the equivalent of a half a million. At least that old music business it's shady yeah, yeah, it still is they.
Rock and Roll Conversations
Speaker 3Just they figure out, ways I was never so happy when I left it uh.
Speaker 2January 19th 1976, concert promoter bill sargent makes an offer of 30 million dollars to the beatles if they will reunite for a concert, one concert, concert. And they turned it down. That's a lot of money back then what the fuck is so bad that you can't get on stage with somebody for 90 minutes? One of them wouldn't do it, I bet you.
Speaker 3Yeah and just rehearse.
Speaker 2Probably McCartney didn't really need it at that time. He was having the biggest success.
Speaker 4You know something? He loved the Beatles. I think Paul of all of them loved the beatles. You think it was john then.
Speaker 2Uh, probably everything, yeah, especially back then too he was because probably yoko couldn't get on stage with him and try to steal all the spotlight.
Speaker 4I'm sure that was it I think we did in some magazine do. It's a cartoon. It's this big yoko and she's walking john as a cockroach. It's a roach with, like Lennon's head on it. I don't know who did it, it's an old one. That's great Wow.
Speaker 2Makes sense, Makes sense. Let me see Big Head Todd the Wet Sprocket still talking about TV. Tv peaked after Marlins Perkins' Wild.
Speaker 4Kingdom ended Like 65, I think right.
Speaker 3No, I watched it. It was on every Sunday night.
Speaker 2Then the Wonderful World of Disney.
Speaker 3When Disney was a family-friendly network.
Speaker 2God, I forgot about Sunday nights.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Family-friendly network.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Sunday night Company. Let's see. January, no. February 15th, bette Midler bails seven members of her entourage out of jail after they are arrested on charges of cocaine and marijuana possession oh my god, well, in 76 cocaine was a big deal. It was like.
Speaker 4It was like oh, yeah, yeah it was like coffee Come the 80s.
Speaker 2Don't tell me about the 80s or cocaine, is this?
Speaker 3a little confession here.
Speaker 2Just saying Well, I had to stop in 87 because I went in the Air Force. Thank God for that February 19th 1976. Former Tower of power. Lead singer. Do you know I?
Speaker 4I don't know his name, I know, I know the story, I know the story is arrested.
Speaker 2What is going on in? 76 is arrested and charged with drug. With the drug-related murders of three men in San Jose, california, I want to know that story. Yeah, yeah, we're going to have to Google that one?
Speaker 4Well, when you do? I know a guy that was from that area. Yeah, he goes. One of those might have been a case where he had to defend himself, but he got charged with three people I don't know if it was three at the same time, I think it was two and then he got another guy after that, I think.
Speaker 2Something tells me this story is going to come up later in the year. I think we're going to get an update during this rundown of 1976.
Speaker 4They had some pretty cool hits. He was a good singer, yeah, yeah, I think he was a singer of their best-known stuff. I think what is hip?
Speaker 2What is hip. February 20th 1976. Kiss have their footprints added to the sidewalk outside Hollywood's Grumman's Chinese.
Speaker 3Theater, and that's when they got too popular. That's when they went big time?
Speaker 2Yeah, but they rolled with it.
Speaker 4They wanted that money.
Speaker 2They got it buddy.
Speaker 4That's pretty fast in their career, though, isn't it?
Speaker 2Yeah, didn't they come out in?
Speaker 474 or 73?.
Speaker 2Yeah, they were the kings, though at that time they couldn't do anything wrong, even the shittiest movie people watched it.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 4God, when did the comic book come out?
Speaker 2I think that came out in the 80s, didn't it?
Speaker 3Yeah, I remember when it came out.
Speaker 2I thought it was the 80s that they did the comic book.
Speaker 3They supposedly put their blood in it, some shit like that, yeah, I believed it.
Speaker 2I'm like, oh, I gotta get it in the ink or something, yeah, which they? All they have to do is do a little prick and put it in a little bit in a vat of ink, and they technically aren't lying.
Speaker 4Yeah, my copy's got their blood in it.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, okay imagine opening a copy and there's like it's just a big bloody handprint in there. How? Great would that have been if you went in and you just kind of did that to your hand and you went to every in a comic book store when the guy's not looking, you just smeared your fingerprints in there with blood like on a random page.
Speaker 2Right, that'd be great. Let's see. February 24th, released one week before the eagles their greatest hits 71 and 75 compilation becomes the first let's see, released one week before. One week before the eagles greatest hits compilation becomes the first album certified platinum by the riaa. The new platinum certification represents sales of at least 1 million copies for albums, 2 million copies for singles. Globally, it will become probably the second best selling album of all time, behind, I assume, thriller, behind I assume.
Speaker 1Thriller.
Speaker 3Right, yeah, I'm just thinking. 76.
Speaker 4Thriller still has that record. What's that Thriller still has that record, that distinction.
Speaker 2I don't know it's worth looking up, but this is the second best-selling album of all time, but Thriller wasn't out at that point. So are they meaning at that point or overall? Even by today's standards, I out at that point.
Speaker 3So are they meaning at that point or overall, like even by today's standards? I think at that point because definitely stuff has beat it since then.
Speaker 2Last day of the month, february 28th 1976, the 18th annual Grammy Awards are presented in Los Angeles, hosted by Andy Williams, paul Simon Huh, andy, paul Simon still crazy after all these years. Wins album of the year. Captain and Tennille's Love Will Keep Us Together wins record of the year and Judy Collins' version of Sending the Clowns wins song of the year. Natalie Cole wins best new artist. All right, I'm going to stop right here. I came up with an observation that I've never heard anybody come up with this before. So the other day I'm listening and I was gonna take a screenshot and send it to you guys. I on the radios I'm driving back from, uh, from vacation from northern florida down to south florida, the song time passages.
Speaker 2buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight right so I'm listening to the song and I said you know what this motherfucker was brilliant. Al stewart was brilliant in a way of that. You're not. You don't see this coming, though. If you listen to time passengers and then you listen to year of the cat, it's the same fucking format yeah yeah, it's the same format.
Speaker 2It tells a story, it has a break, it goes into another bridge and then, the saxophone solo, but this one is like a time passengers has like a clarinet solo or something and it's like I go this motherfucker and he pulled it off because they were both his biggest hits.
Speaker 4They're both their biggest hits, yeah, but they're not all that musically similar but arrangement-wise and things like that Arrangement-wise.
Speaker 2But exactly the way they do the horn and the breakdown and the way he tells the story. It's arranged exactly the same as Year of the Cat.
Speaker 4When he made that record. That was the idea they said was. You know they wanted to recreate a hit single for him. So I don't think I think that was something. You know, he's probably was not the hottest on the idea of it, but you know it's a good song it's a good song yeah, you know, as long as you buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight.
Speaker 2Time sausages Time sausages.
Speaker 3Hey Lou Lou, I just realized. You know why Scott's playing music. What you can't sing, michael McDonald, you just sung before and it didn't come out good over the music. He's trying to shut you down. I can sing.
Speaker 4Michael McDonald no.
Speaker 2No, you won't though I haven't put anybody in.
Speaker 4Have you noticed that it's been a kinder me?
Speaker 2I've not put anybody in the penalty box in a while. It's a kinder gentler me. My psychologist may tell me I can't be that aggressive anymore.
Speaker 3I have to give people a break. See, the show's been on for 25 minutes.
Speaker 2I haven't put anybody in the penalty box. I'm trying to have tolerance. I'm trying to tolerate your stupid jokes, your fucking stupid jokes and your fucking stupid comments. That fucking make me irritated. And I'm trying to fucking do a show here and you two come up with fucking stupid jokes and stupid comments and it makes me fucking really irritated.
Speaker 3I go eat shit Will you, I feel better.
Speaker 2Yeah, I should just do that, instead of putting you just yell at you. Yeah, we love it.
Speaker 3I had the psycho, I mean. I had a psycho science teacher. He yelled at me and spit in my face when he yelled at me and he ruined you.
Speaker 2And show us on the doll where the bad man touched you. Mike Twice, now Look at this. Jesus, Mike, this is confession night tonight. I guess.
Speaker 3Oh, I was mentioning him with Lou and Perry today. We're kind of reminiscing.
Speaker 4I didn't go to that school myself. Your brother did yeah, my brother did.
Speaker 2March 4th 1976. Abba arrive at Sydney Airport for a promotional tour of Australia. That's the news of the day. That was it. That was the flight, that was the flight. That was the food, yeah exactly what did they fly in on? March 6th Swedish airline March 6th 1976. Emi Records reissues all 22 previously released British Beatles singles plus a new single of the classic Yesterday. All 23 singles hit the UK charts at the same time Wow.
Speaker 3So when you say a new version of Yesterday or it was just, it's probably their version of Dig digitized, or maybe a little reverb or something? Yeah, maybe they polished it up. They were doing that back in the 70s.
Speaker 2We really just add nauseam, get people to buy it yeah, god, he gets into my life march 7th 1976, a wax likeness of elton john is put on display at madame tussauds wax museum. Oh, I bet it dripped because he's flaming hot wax on fire some hot wax right there hey, uh, march 9th 1970s I've gone to a wax museum.
Speaker 4Yeah, they're weird, they're weird, they're really weird.
Speaker 2Some look good, some are like, so I went to a wax museum in salem, massachusetts one time with my family right there you go and uh, it's, it was.
Musical Anecdotes and Recollections
Speaker 2It was actually a really fucking good one, right at all. But it said no pictures. No pictures, don't take any pictures. Of course that's a challenge, yeah. So I'm walking around and I'm just kind of looking and there's a fucking great version of bella lugosi right, that's right. And uh, everything was lit. Right, this was a really well done, uh, wax museum. But I kind of take the picture and literally this fucking guy comes out of nowhere, like from through the wall, right, I'm like what, where the fuck, like it's? And he's just looking. I said and I just kind of all right, and I just kind of walk away looking at him like where the did you just fucking appear like evidently they have these like little back this place yeah, yeah, yeah back walkways where they see you and they have the camera and they're like he's getting ready to take a picture.
Speaker 2He's getting ready to picture over there, get him. Oh, he's over by dracula go get him, they kick you out no no, because they can't say let me see your phone, but the guy let me know he was there and that he can appear at any time. Then he's gone. Then I turn around and he's literally gone.
Speaker 2Like okay, okay, dude Ninjas, you got me on that one. Let's see March 9th 1976. The who's Keith Boone collapses on stage 10 minutes into a performance at the boston garden with the infamous. Does anybody know how to play the drums?
Speaker 3yeah right, I can't.
Speaker 2I'd love to hear like track him down right place at the right time he might have got in and played with the who right and sat in keith moon's seat and used keith moon's drumsticks on Keith Moon's fucking drums. And you know he's up there with three rock legends, but he didn't have Bono's balls on the back of his neck, right right. So I don't care what you say.
Speaker 3He's an amateur, okay, yeah. Once you got sweaty balls on your neck. Here you're in Irish sweaty balls.
Speaker 4Let's see. Is there any film footage of him?
Speaker 3yes, there is, there is, I've seen it. They don't. You can't hear it, but you see him oh really he looks relatively comfortable. It was on one of those um vh1 classic shows lou.
Speaker 2If you got up there and you'd play the drums, just like you play the drums, oh yeah, you would get up there and just I wouldn't bet.
Speaker 4I wouldn't bet an eye. I mean I'd be nervous.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean Mark you and I know it's easy Right Mark Playing the drums.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's just one, two, three, four. One, two, three, it's simple.
Speaker 2No, it walk without tripping over your own feet. You two can play the drums. March 15th 1976 members of the plastic people of the universe are arrested in communist czechoslovakia I missed czechoslovakia. They were sentenced to eight, from eight to eighteen months in jail. Whoever the plastic people of the universe are, is that that a band? I don't know, probably it's a terrorist organization. March 20th 1976. Alice Cooper marries Cheryl Goddard. Nobody cares. March 25th 1976. Jackson Brown's wife Phyllis commits suicide. Oh yeah, yep.
Speaker 1That's a bummer.
Speaker 2That's a bummer, I should probably read these things before I come on.
Speaker 3Yeah, that caught me off guard, I told you get your writing team to prepare this feedback.
Speaker 1I was about to say nobody cares are your writers down the hall from you just shout down the hall.
Speaker 3What the fuck?
Speaker 2March 26th in France. In Paris, france Wings guitarist Jimmy McCullough breaks one of his fingers when he slips in his hotel bathroom following the final performance of the band's European tour. Was he a little drunk?
Speaker 4He broke a finger.
Speaker 2He ended up delaying the band's United States tour for three weeks. Yeah, april 3rd 1976, british pop group Brotherhood of man win the 19th. The 21st year of it, nobody cares um. April 14th 1976 stevie wonder announces that he has signed a 13 million plus dollar contract with motown records. Big money back. Big money, big money today.
Speaker 2He was riding too, then yeah yeah, april 23rd 1976, the Ramones released their debut studio album Ramones. April 24th 1976, saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels makes a semi-serious on-air offer We've talked about this before Yep To pay the Beatles $ three thousand dollars to reunite live on the show. In a 1980 interview john lennon stated that him and mccartney happened to be watching the show together at lennon's apartment and considered walking down to the studio for a gag.
Speaker 2But we're too tired on may 22nd michaels raises his offer from $3,000 to $3,200. That's funny in itself. Yeah, big Head Todd DeWitt Sprocket finally came up with something intelligent. He says the Ramones suck. I tend to agree with him.
Speaker 5April 28th 1976.
Speaker 2The Rolling Stones open their European tour in Frankfurt, Germany, April 29th. When his tour stops in Memphis, Tennessee, Bruce Springsteen jumps the wall at Elvis' mansion in Graceland in an attempt to see his idol. Security guards stop Springsteen and escort him off the grounds and one of my best friends, Ashes, are at Elvis' yeah, he told me that that's a great story.
Speaker 3That's a great story.
Speaker 2That's a great story, man. I'm sure he's not alone. I'm sure he's not the only one that got away with that, my buddy, let's see. May 1st 1976, the Alan Parsons Project released their debut studio album Tales of Mystery and Imagination Ooh good album. Debut studio album Tales of Mystery and Imagination oh good album. May 3rd 1976, paul McCartney and Wings start their Wings Over America tour in Fort Worth, texas. This is the first time McCartney has performed in the US since the Beatles' last concert in 66. Wow, ten years at Candlestick Park. Also on May 3rd 76, paul Simon puts together a benefit show at Madison Square Garden to raise money for New York Public Library. May 19th 1976, rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards is involved in a car accident in London. Do you think it was cocaine? I didn't see the tree.
Speaker 2Jack Daniels it was cocaine. I didn't see the tree jack daniels. Uh, then there was the rumor spread that uh by the german press that abba was killed in a plane crash on that same day.
Speaker 4Oh really, yeah, yeah, nobody cared nobody cared.
Speaker 2Yeah, you don't hear about it, right? It only stayed in germany, evidently it was only.
Speaker 3It's like the eurovision song.
Speaker 2Yeah uh. May 25th 1976, bob dylan's rolling thunder review tour ends. Yeah uh, let me see. On june 6th, keith richards and anita palenberg suffer tragedy when their 10-week-old son, tara, dies in respiratory failure. June 10th 1976, alice cooper collapses in a rushed in his rush to ucla hospital in los angeles. Uh, for having too much budweiser yeah, right, uh ends up canceling his, uh goes to hell tour. June 17th 1976 the first Macroom Mountain Dew Festival is held, first ever rock festival to take place in Ireland.
Speaker 2Hmm it's Mountain Dew, not a whiskey yeah, june 18th ABBA back from the dead, evidently. Pet Sematary Performed Dancing Queen for the first time on Swedish television in Stockholm. Let me see June 25th 1976. Uriah Heep performs its last show with David Byron as lead singer in Bilbao, spain. You know who replaced him.
Speaker 3Byron is sacked shortly afterwards. Ian Gillan no Well, John Whetton later of Asia. Oh really, Okay, yeah, he was in the band briefly.
Speaker 2July. Let's see July 2nd 1976, brian Wilson performs on stage with the Beach Boys for the first time in three years in Oakland. California's Day on the Green concert, july 4th, the Bicentennial. Many outdoor festivals and shows are held all over the United States as the country celebrates its Bicentennial. Elton John, I remember this. This was a big deal. This was a big deal. Elton John performs for 62,000 people at Schaefer Stadium in Foxborough, massachusetts, while the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac play for 36,000 at Tampa Stadium. Leonard Skinner and ZZ Top draw 35,000 at Memphis Memorial Stadium and Elvis Presley performs for 11,974 at the Mabee Center in Tulsa, oklahoma. $11,000 for Elvis, for Elvis wow.
Speaker 1Was.
Speaker 2Elvis overrated, I don't know.
Speaker 4This is 76. What month was that July? It was July 4th. It's a year before he died.
Speaker 2Yeah, so he was probably Wasn't in the best shape. Let's see July he died. Yeah, so he was probably Wasn't in the best shape. Let's see July 7th 1976, 50,000 fans braved the rain in New York to attend a free Jefferson Starship concert in Central Park. How cool is that?
Speaker 4Yeah, july 27th, that was a good show, I bet.
Speaker 2I'm sure it was Usually outdoor. Concerts like that are fun, even if you're not near the stage. They used to have concerts on the Common, the Boston Common. It was just a fun environment.
Speaker 3And you know what If the weather's bad?
Speaker 2sometimes you have a better time.
Speaker 3I've had great times in the rain at a show.
Speaker 2July 27th 1976. Tina Turner files for divorce from Ike. August 5th 1976, eric Clapton provokes an uproar over comments he makes on stage in Birmingham concert, voicing his opposition to immigration using multiple racial slurs, while exhorting the audience to support Enoch Powell and keep Britain white.
Speaker 1Yeah, oops.
Speaker 4Alcohol against racism movement.
Speaker 2Right August 11th 1976, keith Moon is rushed to the hospital for the second time in five months oh Mooney. After collapsing after trashing his Miami hotel room. Collapsing after trashing the Miami hotel room.
Speaker 3Think about it he's only in his 30s and he's already collapsed.
Speaker 2August 13th 1976, the official ABBA logo with the reverse B is adopted.
Speaker 4Wow, that wasn't right out of the sheet.
Speaker 2Yeah, august 16th 1976, cliff Richard becomes one of the first Western artists ever to perform in the Soviet Union. When he gives a concert in Leningrad August 21st, an estimated 120,000 fans pack Nebworth house to see the Rolling Stones, todd Rundgren, leonard Skinner and 10cc one of those don't belong one of those don't belong. Who would you say?
Speaker 1Todd.
Speaker 2Rundgren, lynyrd Skynyrd, the Rolling Stones and 10 CC 1976.
Speaker 1I could see.
Speaker 4Todd Rundgren.
Speaker 2You know it's between Todd Rundgren and 10 CC.
Speaker 1Who was?
Speaker 2bigger in 76? 10 CC.
Speaker 4That was a big album. They were all big. Yeah, I think 10CC was the odd one out there.
Speaker 3You think? Too ethereal, okay, all right, and to be honest Skinner supposedly blew the Stones off the stage and I've seen there's video of their opening.
Speaker 2Skinner, oh, I'm sure you know what. I am not surprised at all, I can see that.
Speaker 1Yeah, you can get that on DVD.
Speaker 2I mean the Stones are dynamic and you know they put on, mick puts on the show and they play. But Leonard Skinner, like just seeing all of them up on stage.
Speaker 5You know, and Ronnie.
Speaker 2Van Zandt just controlling the whole thing.
Speaker 3Yep and they had more energy.
Speaker 2Yeah, honestly, the whole thing and they had more energy. Honestly, Well, they were better musicians Technically, I think Better musicians and they were bringing a form of
Speaker 4music at England.
Speaker 3Well, they were bringing Southern rock, which English people were like. It was new, so they reacted to it. They loved it for England.
Speaker 2Let me see. August 25th 1976, boston released their eponymous debut studio album Boston.
Speaker 3I have made peace with that album. I listened to it the other day. Yeah, I mean again, it took me 20 years.
Speaker 2So you're right. You're absolutely right. It is one of those and I was thinking that as I was reading this, that it is a couple of times it's come around. Now I don that it is a couple of times it's come around. I've no, I don't know the last time I've listened to the whole album, but you hear enough of the cuts to make the album right yeah yeah and yeah it's.
Speaker 2It's one of those songs I want. You know, those albums with the songs, um, so you have what's, what's the lineup on that, peace of mind um, it starts with more than a feeling.
Speaker 3Peace of mind, foreplay long time Trucking's on side two. Let me take you home tonight, smoke. I said smoking, I mean it's loaded.
Speaker 2It's loaded right. Yeah, More than a feeling. I heard it, loved it, then did not like it for a long time, and then I just again. I just heard it one day randomly and I was like, can we do it with a whole bunch of other songs? I said that's a good fucking song it is.
Speaker 4I liked it for two weeks and I just got tired of it, you know, back in the day. But listen, it's a really well-arranged song.
Speaker 2Well-arranged, good lyrics. Yeah, good lyrics. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4Great vocal performance.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, summer song.
Speaker 3It just reminds me of summer, yeah.
Speaker 2August 31st 1976, a US District Court decision rules that George Harrison had subconsciously copied the chiffon's hit Ah, he's so fine, he's so fine, hold on, hold on one second.
Speaker 4Du Lang, Du Lang, Du Lang.
Speaker 2I'm breaking off, I'm hungry. I'm breaking off a piece of that Kit Kat bar.
Speaker 4Oh boy.
Speaker 3I should get my Guinness potato chips. Go ahead. I'm just going to be reading what's going on, alright, down some milk, a candy bar or a cookie it's the best combination of both, my favorite.
Speaker 4It took Dave 20 years to appreciate Boston. I kind of did the same thing.
Speaker 2He was just jealous that Boston was better than Jay Giles.
Speaker 4Ooh, there you go.
Speaker 5That's my fact.
Speaker 4Are Boston in the Hall of Fame? Boston?
Speaker 2isn't in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4no, they're not Nope, and neither is Jay Giles, nope. Who'll get in first? Who'll Hall of Fame? No, they're not Nope, and neither is Jay Giles, nope. Who'll get in first? Who'll get in first? Yeah, I'm sure Jay Giles has been nominated, haven't they? Nope, I'm sure they all have been. Well, they might have been on the list, yeah on the list.
Speaker 3They should be in. I know you've talked to Sad Noisium. They should be, in. They were big to me.
Speaker 5They were big to me, dave.
Speaker 2Phillips, King of the 45s. No fucking way in capital letters. Hey, go back and watch Peaky Blinders, asshole. You hear what he's saying there, I'm almost done.
Speaker 4A big glass of milk Scott's drinking.
Speaker 2Ice coffee to get me through your hell.
Speaker 3I know I'm a downer, All right let's see September 1st 1976, odie Records.
Speaker 2Ode Records.
Speaker 4Odie, odie. I think it's Ode, president Lou.
Speaker 2Adler is kidnapped at his Malibu home and released eight hours later after 25,000 ransom is paid. Two suspects are soon arrested. Wow, Now his son isn't he the drummer?
Speaker 4He's a giant? I don't think so. Lenny Warnker's son, joey, is the drummer. Lenny Warnker from Warner Brothers, no Lou Adler.
Speaker 2His son. I don't think of the drummer for Guns N' Roses. Is he related to?
Speaker 4him Stephen Adler? I don't think so. I might be wrong, but I don't think so.
Speaker 2Alright, September 3rd 1976. Rory Gallagher.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Alright Joins a short list of Western popular musicians to perform behind the Iron Curtain with a show in Warsaw Commies.
Speaker 4Them and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. They're spies. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band were spies.
Speaker 2Kevin Corkum. Welcome to the show. Kevin Corkum's a quiet watcher. Yep. He said Jake Isles was nominated the year before Jay passed.
Speaker 3They should be in.
Speaker 2Well, you know, I only do that to.
Speaker 4Bonnet Day. Stick it in your ear.
Speaker 2My introduction to high power funk was 12. Stick it in your ear sit on it and rotate he's right.
Speaker 3Did you ever see jay giles live? When I was young, I heard some live stuff from them.
Speaker 2I'm like no, my brother mark, god rest his soul. He loved him, he, he fucking loved them yeah.
Speaker 4A lot of people love them. They've been called one of the best party bands too.
Speaker 2Yep. They're like a house rocker. Oh, I listen to them, don't get me wrong. I listen to them and I've been at many parties where they put on Wham-A-Jammer or whatever. They start playing and it's good party music.
Speaker 3No doubt the Jam, whammy, jammer or whatever they start playing and it's good party music, no doubt the jam in Muscat, the jam in Muscat got lost in one of the best jams ever. At the end Sublime Love it.
Speaker 2Let's see September 8th 1976. In a candid interview appearing in the October 7th edition of Rolling Stone when it used to be good published today, elton John publicly discloses his bisexuality for the first time. Nah, nah, that was a gateway there was no bias there, that was a gateway into just because back then it wasn't that easy to just say you were gay, Unfortunately. But Elton John is saying I'm bisexual, Absolute gateway.
Speaker 4I like girls too. I like girls too.
Speaker 2Then he tried to get married right, wasn't that?
Speaker 4Someone Saved my Life? Tonight Sugar Bear. That song was about him getting married.
Speaker 1Yeah, he was not happy yeah.
Speaker 2No, let's see, let me get that one. September 14th 1976, the one-hour Bob Dylan concert special, hard Rain, airs on NBC, coinciding with the release of the live album of the same name.
Speaker 3I remember that and this is what turned me on to Dylan. He had the face paint on and I went this guy's cool, there's something about the way he had the cowboy hat and the face paint.
Speaker 1I didn't really understand what I was hearing.
Music Memories and Conversations
Speaker 3I was like seven years old, but I loved it.
Speaker 2September 18th 1976. Whatever happened to this show? The second annual Rock Music Awards.
Speaker 3Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Right Airs on CBS. Peter Frampton wins Rock Personality of the Year, while Fleetwood Mac wins Best Group and Best Album. Why is it?
Speaker 4Rock Personality.
Speaker 2See, this is why. What does that mean? What it was? It was just another award that they wanted to separate themselves from the other award shows. Yeah, and then they create some stupid award and then just give it to somebody it only ran from 75 to 78, didn't last too long uh, let's see. September 20th and 21st 1976, 100 Club Punk Festival. The first international punk festival is held in London. Suzy and the Banshees play their first concert. I never was into it. I like a couple of their songs and that's it.
Speaker 1I like the 80s stuff. Suzy Sue, she's a legend.
Speaker 2She's an icon in the punk world. She was there at the beginning with all of them just like Chrissy Hyde. There's not a picture in a punk club in London that she wasn't in. There wasn't a band that she wasn't around. She is a legend in that world, but I just never. I like City and Dust. It's a great fucking song, but then everything is just second after that like I, like the latest.
Speaker 4She's not in a rock and roll hall of fame issue. No, no, no I don't think she'll reckon it well, where's that, where's that category for the people who are truly influential people, you know, like yeah, you know there isn't late. Yeah, yeah, people, I had their you know, their boots on the ground, really all that stuff, and always had to in order to keep playing music.
Speaker 2Yep, that's why I mean they dug it out all of them. Like Chrissy Hine, the same thing she fucking jumped ship and went to England.
Speaker 5She lived there Straight cats too, To do this.
Speaker 2I mean that's a bigger sacrifice than growing up there, you know, and she masterfully worked herself into that whole scene, you know. I mean you gotta think that she literally went there, maybe knew one or two people and you can't get more of a different culture.
Speaker 3You go from the midwest, yeah, to england, yeah, but then she's hanging out with fucking she's.
Speaker 2She's dating fucking mick jones I from the Clash and hanging out with all these other bands. She was cool.
Speaker 4She was cool enough to get into the scene.
Speaker 2She was cool.
Speaker 4When it came to music, obviously she had what it takes.
Speaker 1Attractive nice voice. Great songs.
Speaker 4And she rocked. She was edgy, yeah, edgy, and she could wear the clothes well.
Speaker 2She has that statuesque, yeah, kind of uh body where she could just wear the clothes well and everything worked for her and she had the talent to back it up, which is the thing, really, whereas in today's world.
Speaker 4You can make something out of nothing yeah, and they do.
Speaker 1Oh, they all certainly do, I mean in today's world, you could sit in the kitchen with a polo shirt and a full beard and be a successful podcaster.
Speaker 4This is true.
Speaker 3It's amazing.
Speaker 4I look like Michael Stipe. Now you do.
Speaker 3What's the frequency?
Speaker 2I'm not that kind of guy. But, Lou, you're much handsomer than Michael.
Speaker 4Stipe. Thank you, Scott. Michael Stipe is not a good looking guy right now. I wasn't flattering myself either.
Speaker 3Yeah, he's kind of gone.
Speaker 2He does not age. Well, that rock life.
Speaker 4He looks not that old.
Speaker 3Yeah, he's not that old.
Speaker 4No, he's like a year older than me?
Speaker 2Yeah, he doesn't. He aged Well. You see them all Like Bono. Bono's not aging well, it's the drink, I tell you.
Speaker 4Could be. It's that glaucoma he has. That's why he wears those glasses. He's got something, but even his face though, is starting to age.
Speaker 2His eyes are getting squintier, and as people get older, some of their features become more accentuated.
Speaker 1I think he's a smoker. Our ears get bigger.
Speaker 2How can all of our ears get bigger?
Speaker 4It's a crime, it's a shame, it's a damn shame.
Speaker 2September 25th, speaking of Bono. Bono the Edge, adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr form a band called Feedback in London. The band would later be called, renamed U2. And on a fateful night in 1984, Bono would have his balls on the back of a future podcaster's neck.
Speaker 4With pants on.
Speaker 2With pants on. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3Bono. If you ever stumble across the show, please call Scott. That would be funny. He's easy to reach, Trust me.
Speaker 2October yeah one of my 17 podcasts that I have out there right now you can find me anywhere, scott I want my balls back come by the way, gentlemen, there's more podcasts to come. How many can one man do? I love it, I fucking love doing this man. It's and you know what it's it's actually. It is, um, therapeutic, yes, yes, it's therapeutic. Doing this it's therapeutic, you know, talking through it, but also, again, talking music is like, to me, that's one of the best therapies.
Speaker 2If you're a music person yeah, because you don't really so if you think about it in everyday life, you don't really come across a lot of people that you can really talk music to. If you're one of those people that knows a lot about music, just because you're a fan of it and you love it and you just live it pretty much, you don't come across a lot of people that can go oh yeah, I saw that concert. Or I can talk about blue east to cult with you, or you know, I can tell you, just don't really come across those that type no, not many people.
Speaker 3Yeah, that are there's levels of music fans, right, yeah although I gotta tell you, tom spalone and perry both said we can't talk about bluestercult anymore, so we're not allowed to well, you can talk about all you want on this show. My friend tom tom said there's a broken nose coming if we mention him again.
Speaker 2So I am scared. He's gotta to go. He's got to go through me then yeah, okay, I'll tell him that that's you can tell him that that's no joke, right? The?
Speaker 3problem is with that which drives the two of them crazy is lou made me a big convert to boc. I never have been into him as much as I'll lose fault into him constantly, now constantly uh, let me see.
Speaker 2Dave phillips, king of the 45, says I like the music and peaky blinders. Yeah, that's uh, yeah yeah yeah, that's um. See I'm. This happens to me sometimes. I draw these blanks. Um nick cave, that's nick cave, and the bad Red Right Hand, that's the theme song. Then he says Chrissy Hynde is great. Ray Davies was with her, they had two children and she was also with the lead singer from Simple Minds, there you go.
Speaker 3I heard when she was married to Ray Davies that they would have blowouts on Fifth Avenue because they were living in the city For everyone to see.
Speaker 1they were fighting all the time.
Speaker 4He was her idol.
Music Scene Highlights and Anecdotes
Speaker 2Yeah, never meet your idols. October 2nd 1976, joe Cocker performs a duet of Feeling Alright with himself as portrayed by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live. Yeah, that was hilarious. August 8th 1976, english punk rock group Sex Pistols sign a contract with the MI Records and we know how that's going to end up. Contract with the MI Records and we know how that's going to end up. October 11th 1976. Irish singer Joe Dolan is banned for life by Aer Lingus after air rage incident and wrote to Corfu from Dublin. Jesus for life. That must have been a good one. October 20th 1976. The Led Zeppelin concert film the Song Remains the Same premieres at Cinema One in New York. I love that movie. October 22nd the Damned, the first punk rock band to come to the United States Fuck it. They never get any credit. Releases their debut single, new Rose, considered to be the first release from a British punk group, but they will not get any credit. But they will not get any credit. They will not get any credit why is?
Speaker 2that I, I don't know, I just don't know what label were they on that's?
Speaker 3were they hitless?
Speaker 2um, so maybe, maybe they just didn't have any hits. But I mean, if you look at influence and you look at longevity and you look at what they meant to the music scene, to punk, I mean, let me see, what does Dave Phillips say? Bono could be a descendant from the people of blind disease. No, you haven't watched enough. He's definitely not a descendant of them Fucking gypsies. I didn't mean that derogatorily. Is that a word, derogatorily? Did I just make up a word derogatorily.
Speaker 3Beta male here. Beta male here.
Speaker 2Okay, October 31st, Halloween 1976, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic begin the P-Funk Rubber Band Earth Tour in Houston, A national live series highlighting one of the biggest and revolutionary stage shows in the history of music industry.
Speaker 3I've heard that.
Speaker 2Rock Group Kiss would be the other group to do a similar act, right.
Speaker 3I've heard nothing. Nobody had a stage show like that.
Speaker 2Yeah, thank. George Clinton Relying on elaborate costumes, special lighting and effects and extremely large props, including the mothership that comes down, which would arrive and land on stage all of what this band is generally known for. The live set would vary in length, on average of three to five hours. Wow, at a very high volume. Good jamming, yeah yeah, great musicians.
Speaker 4ZZ top came close with their stage show. Was it for fandango?
Speaker 2yeah, well, they had the fucking live animals on this live on really wasn't good.
Speaker 4Yeah, you know that had livestock on so they had a whole ranch thing yeah, didn't.
Speaker 3Didn't like they kind of like get nervous with the loud music.
Speaker 2Something happened with one of the bulls, though I think something I don't know they had a bull on stage. Yeah, it was holy. Yeah, it was, it was it was like a fucking barnyard a lot of poop, uh, november 18th. Former tower power lead singer, rick stevens I knew we were coming around on this, uh and another person I found guilty on two counts of murder yeah, two counts on november 23rd 1976.
Speaker 2Then lizzie are forced to cancel the us tour when guitarist brian robertson injures his right hand in a bar fight. Fucking irish jerry lee lewis on that same day, november 23rd, is arrested after showing up drunk outside graceland waving a pistol, demanding C Elvis.
Speaker 3Bruce should have done that.
Speaker 2November 25th 1976. The band gives its last public performance. We all know that one. November 26th 1976. Sex Pistols' debut single Anarchy in the UK is released on EMI Soon after. December 1st. Sex Pistols will appear on the Tames television show today as a last minute replacement for Queen. We know how that worked out. December 2nd the Bee Gees. I think we did 1976 once before it sounds very familiar. Yeah, anyway, who cares?
Speaker 2after 153 shows you're bound to repeat one or two right. 153 shows you're bound to repeat one or two right five I'm just telling 153 shows man my idea of the worst albums bands released.
Speaker 3You gotta do it one week.
Speaker 2I, I, I was I, we're gonna do that next week. How's that? All right, we'll, we'll, we'll come up with something.
Speaker 3yeah, it's just fun to just dump on your favorite band, sure.
Speaker 2Sure, let's see. December 2nd 1976, the Bee Gees perform at Madison Square Garden and donate the proceeds to Police Athletic League. December 3rd 1976, a Pink Floyd album cover shoot in London goes awry when a large inflatable pink balloon. We did do this before this year, before shoots breaks free at its mooring and drifts out of sight. Oops, attempted assassination of Bob Marley happened on that same day, december 3rd. Oh, he was lucky to escape that. Yeah, in a shooting at his home.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2December 8th 1976, the Carpenters air their very first television special. I wonder if it was a Christmas special, Eagles release Hotel California, very first television special. I wonder if it was a Christmas special, eagles released Hotel California. Globally it would become the third best-selling album of all time. I never heard that album. Behind the same band's February released Greatest Hits. That was a big year for them.
Speaker 2They start the year off with their Greatest Hits. And then they end the year with Hotel California and they get Joe Walsh in the band. December 12, 1976, ace Frehley is shocked on stage during a Kiss concert in Lakeland, florida. Let's see, the incident inspires the song Shock Me. And New Year's Eve, 1976. The end of the year, the fifth annual New Year's Rockin' Eve special airs on ABC with performances by Donna Summer, bachman, turner Overdrive, the Four Seasons and Casey and the Sunshine Band. Not a bad show right there. 76, casey and the Sunshine Band were hot. Yeah, the Four Seasons were still young enough. Bto, was that rock band right?
Speaker 1Yeah, had some hits out on the radio. I'm sure they played Taking Care of.
Speaker 2Business yeah.
Speaker 1And Donna Summer.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, hey. You know what we didn't do? We didn't play 45 Poker.
Speaker 3I just thought of that.
Speaker 2True, see, we missed a week, so we're going to do it real quick.
Speaker 4I will not miss a week of this.
Speaker 2I had it sequenced, so here we go, I got.
Speaker 1Maya right behind me. This is where you know I'm not cheating.
Speaker 2So I'm going to reach in Again, as usual. We'll start with Lou Eating and cheating baby. There we go. 45 poker where you get the best three 45 records combination Wins the game. Uh, warnery prize, warnery prize, lou. You get uh, seals and croft. Darling, if you want me to be closer, to you closer to you. It's actually called get closer get closer.
Speaker 4yes, yeah, that's like it was almost like their disco hit. It was slightly disco-y, yeah, but it was a hit.
Speaker 2Ah, from Warner Reprise oh boy, oh boy. Oh baby, I don't think I'm winning this one. I better come up with two big ones Maureen McGovern, different Worlds or Carolina Moon.
Speaker 3I'm just writing shit, maureen McGovern.
Speaker 4Didn't she do the? There's got to be the Maureen. The morning after yeah.
Speaker 2And evidently that's all she did.
Speaker 3Oh, she died on the Titanic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, she was the chick on the Titanic.
Speaker 4No she wasn't All right, here you go. Here you go, Mark Susan Blakely.
Speaker 2RCA Records nice, look at that nice.
Speaker 4Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2See Gay Pride was alive and kicking in 76.
Speaker 4Yeah, it was. Look at that rainbow.
Speaker 2Rainbow City man. Look at that. Hey, listen, I might offend some people. I've been known to do that in the past but I still think the rainbow just like the rainbow flag better. That's just my opinion as a heterosexual man. I just the rainbow flag was the rainbow flag. That's.
Speaker 3That's what our generation came up with as a fan of richie blackmore's rainbow, oh all right, here you go.
Speaker 2Okay, mark, you have John Denver RCA record. John Denver, it's up to you, or back home again, oof.
Speaker 4When Lou is winning with Get.
Speaker 2Closer from Seals and Croft.
Speaker 4This is a rough fucking round Back home again was a hit. Ain't it good to be back home again.
Speaker 5Oh, yeah, yeah, Okay, ain't it good to be back home again.
Speaker 4Oh, yeah, yeah okay, like a long lost friend, here we go.
Cheesy 70s Songs and Memories
Speaker 2Lou, there you go. Here's your second pick from uh. Sussex records suck it records british, british, yep yep sounds british oh, we got a big one I don't even have to look, bill Withers, lean on me. That might have just won it right there, lou just won it.
Speaker 3We've said this before.
Speaker 2I'm going to pull a big one. That's what she said. There we go. I can see it coming through the camera. I can see it coming this way it's from.
Speaker 3Areola.
Speaker 2Records.
Speaker 3I really lost, I really lost.
Speaker 2I really lost this week. Let's see Billy Ocean.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, man.
Speaker 2Love really hurts without you, or it couldn't have been Caribbean Queen, could it? You're running out of fools.
Speaker 3Womp, womp, womp I ran out of reckons.
Speaker 2So far, lou. This is Mark. This is the only thing that's going to keep you in this game. Is this pick right here. Let's see Exciting yeah, what do we got here. What do we got? What do we got?
Speaker 1Looks old From the.
Speaker 2Sound got here. What do we got? What do we got what's old? From the sound of philadelphia? This is I'm I'm better off with, with fucking maureen mcgovern the jones girls do I even have to say the name of the songs, I'll just write absolute shit. The jones girls all right, mark, I mean this this is a big.
Speaker 4Was that the name of the song or no?
Speaker 2no, the name of the song was you gonna make me love somebody else, or who can I run to? Okay, you gonna spelled y-o-u-g-o-n-n-a. I'm gonna make you gonna, you're gonna, uh. So mark you, pull out, you know. Okay, lose home run. This is. This is for lou. This is lose week with not a great but yeah that's right.
Speaker 3Columbia records oh yeah, ah, just pack it up. Chicago, one side is make me smile, the other side is color my world I'd go and make me smile.
Speaker 2There you go. That's, I mean, that's, that's the deal, right there, yeah but let's, let's do you gotta finish it out because you gotta, you gotta get them out of the deck.
Speaker 3You to get the cards out of the deck. All right, this is for you, scott.
Speaker 4Ooh, got a good one.
Speaker 3Epic Records Michael Jackson, Billie Jean. Wow, oh shit.
Speaker 2But I think that's the biggest hit. But I think Lou had the best hand.
Speaker 3But you know what's cool, scott? The B-side is a non-album song Can't Get Out of the Rain. I got to play this, unless it's from another album, that's kind of cool I don't know All right and me All right, and me, kenny Rogers Islands in the stream backed with. I Will Always Love you. I feel like having a roaster.
Speaker 4Here's the deal Both you guys had two shit hands, but two hit songs.
Speaker 2I had the biggest hit song. It's the biggest hit, but that's like having you know an ace with a four and a seven in my hand. All right, it's time for you Make the Call, nice. All right, mark, we'll start with you Now. This is cheesy, shitty 70s songs. Okay, I'd say more cheesy 70s songs my childhood. There you go. Okay, mark, you make the call. Yeah, olivia Newton-John. Have you never been mellow, right? Yeah, oh, mark, talent just pumped in. Fuck Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2Whoa whoa, whoa easy there, killer, he did. How was it? Hey, Dave Phillips would make me smile. Olivia Newton-John, have you Never Been Mellow? Or Mary McGregor, torn Between Two Lovers Feeling Like a.
Speaker 3Fool. I'll go with uh olivia newton john, because I really do kind of like that song it's memories I remember guilty pleasure song. I had a I had a coca-cola can am radio and I used to play it and I used to listen.
Speaker 2You wish you still had that thing like if we had foresight, right yeah and I love that.
Speaker 3It gave me comfort. It was a good song yeah, lou yeah I'll take a living newton john.
Speaker 4I can't stand that, I'm. It's too cheesy, it's it's been.
Speaker 2It's used in a tv commercial now for like, it's like a swiffer, one of those things yeah, yeah, you're torn between two household cleaners, you know well, you're mock, mock talent dude, bro, um season in the sun and then he writes the lyrics goodbye to you, my trusted friend, break out the razor blades stay or stay away from razor blades with that song oh lord, I'll have to go with olivia newton too, just because it's Olivia Newton-John.
Speaker 4It's a nice song.
Speaker 2Yeah, okay, mark Debbie Boone oh God, don't say it. Light up my life. You bring me joy, right or precious, and few are the way that I go to you by Climax.
Speaker 3Oh, I'm going with Climax Precious and few.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, yeah, precious, and few, okay, lou, oh yeah.
Speaker 3Lou just Climaxed as soon as.
Speaker 2I said Precious, and we went Climax.
Speaker 3His back got all erect. You see that he made that tune in one and a half words.
Speaker 4I always thought that was the Partridge family.
Speaker 5Oh really.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 2I thought that was the Partridge family. When I was a kid I'd have to go with Precious and feel myself.
Speaker 4Oh, look at Kevin Corkin. What's with your friends today, man?
Speaker 2Kevin Corkin. Fuck Olivia Newton friends today, man kevin corgan fuck olivia newton. John, what come on man, someone come on this olivia newton john, so she must have really did something to him. She scorned him because he's like I said he's usually a nice guy, like he's always nice comments and happy fuck.
Speaker 3Olivia newton, john lee he's triggered, he got triggered there a little whiskey going on tonight. Maybe, I don't know, that's what whiskey does to people uh, I'd have to go with.
Speaker 4Uh, climax also so so far we're two for two in the same, all right number three no, how many times times did Debbie Boone sing that song in that year? On every variety show, every award show.
Speaker 2She made her money. Well, she didn't need to, because she had her father's money anyways.
Speaker 3But you know, it's like when you're a little kid you hear these sappy songs and you like them because you have the innocence of youth. I never liked that song, yeah.
Speaker 4I think Mark's going go back to greece here, isn't sandy? Messed him up, sandy. That's. That's greece, isn't it yeah?
Speaker 2let's see. Okay, uh, mark, you make the call Gallery. Oh, it's so nice to be with you. I love all the things you say and do or or me and you and a dog named Boo by Lobo.
Speaker 3I can't. It's just disturbing that me and a girl and a dog, so I'm going to go with the first one.
Speaker 2Oh, it's so nice to be with you. Yeah, I know, these are 70s cheese.
Speaker 4They both suck, but I'll go with the first one, lou, I would let that dog, boo, drink water out of my mouth.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 4But I like the gallery song better.
Speaker 2Mark Talent. Bro Dude says are you guys on mushrooms?
Speaker 3yeah, let's, let's do the mushroom dance, right? Luke just said I am I wish.
Speaker 2Uh, I wouldn't be microdosing those things either you would let the dog named boo drink water out of your mouth while laying down on my kitchen floor let's do a sound effect.
Speaker 3Can I get my fingers in the water?
Speaker 2oh my god okay, um, I'd have to go with, uh oh gee, that's pretty much that's the sound of lou having water drink out of his mouth. No, that's another sound that's a completely different sound.
Speaker 1Right there, really, that is not so a drinking water sound.
Speaker 3I didn't make that sound. I think the filthy pig I didn't make that sound Called you a filthy pig, Louie motherfucker.
Speaker 2Okay, I'd have to go with. I fucking hate both of these songs, but I'd have to go with, just because Lou and the dog drinking out of his mouth. I have to go with. Just because lou and the dog drinking out his mouth. I gotta go. Oh, it's so nice to be with you well, that goes for shannon.
Speaker 4That song too, I would. I would let shannon drink out of my mouth yeah, ocean water.
Speaker 3When alan rickman drives the show off the rails, it's bad, that's like rickman, let's see something here.
Speaker 4Dave Phillips. Both songs suck.
Speaker 2Yeah, so here we go, Dave.
Speaker 4This is what it's supposed to be the gallery, wasn't so?
Speaker 2bad, I got the notion. Okay, Mark, you make the call. You make the call, helen Reddy, you and me Against the World. My mom used to say that to me. It's about me and you. I know what you're picking. How's her baby, how's her baby boy? Or this song, this song.
Speaker 4Is that Barry manilow?
Speaker 3oh, gilbert o'sullivan yeah you and me against the world or claire gilbert o'sullivan, gilbert o'sullivan, for me, all right, I like that song I go with claire.
Speaker 4I think it's one of his better songs actually and that Helen Reddy song. I know that was your mom's song.
Speaker 2I got it. That's me and my mom. I respect that.
Speaker 3Lou, you're out.
Speaker 2No, I'm good. I'm good, don't worry.
Speaker 4Don't worry about me, boys. Me and my dad's favorite song is yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2No Lou and his father's favorite song is Brown, chicka Brown Cow.
Speaker 4Brown, chicka Brown Cow Stop that.
Speaker 3Hey Louie, did you hear that in the theater when you were with your dad? I don't remember Jesus.
Speaker 4I don't remember. No, I don't remember.
Speaker 2No, I'm not going to go there.
Speaker 3Did your dad wipe down your hair All right next, next, next, next, next.
Speaker 2Your hair, the back of your hair. There you go, mark, you make the call. Tie a yellow ribbon, tie a yellow ribbon. Let's see, are you guys on dope?
Speaker 4Who says uh, let's see, are you guys on dope?
Speaker 3who says that just chardonnay, yeah, and, and colin's not here, but it's only my second exactly tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree, or or don't give up on Saul.
Speaker 2We've seen the days before. I make those words up, by the way, I just not, you're completely off the mark on that one.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, I'll make it up.
Speaker 2You're worth one, tony Orlando, don't tie a yellow ribbon or David Saul, don't give up on me, baby.
Speaker 3I'll go with Tony Orlando only because the message behind the song is actually a pretty good message Like why were people tying the yellow ribbons? Why was he in jail? Good point.
Speaker 2What did he do? Mark got it confused with today's yellow ribbon thing. It's people, veterans, coming back from the war.
Speaker 3No, no, no, no, I don't got to look it up.
Speaker 4Got to look it up.
Speaker 2It was jail, wasn't it?
Speaker 4I don't know, go look it up, it was jail, wasn't it?
Speaker 2I don't know, I think it's still the military. Maybe he killed her sister or something.
Speaker 4You know lou lou what do you got that, tony? What was the other song besides tony o'lantern?
Cheesy 70s Songs and Memories Chat
Speaker 2don't give up on us, I'll take hutch any day over that yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm with you. I gotta go. Don't give up on us, baby. Yeah, yeah, uh, let's see um oh, you know what it was.
Speaker 3It was based on a story and he read about a soldier headed home from the civil war who wrote his beloved that if he was still welcome she would tie a handkerchief around a certain tree I just thought it was a cool background.
Speaker 2If there's no handkerchief there, just keep walking, motherfucking yeah, because there's some other man in there.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah no, that's kind of weird because that's a pop song, but I don't ever remember any mention about that being related to the Civil War. It sounded like the guy was in Stir.
Speaker 1Well, I think they used it.
Speaker 3That's what the yellow ribbon thing was, and there was a banjo in the song. Yeah, you got to listen to the story.
Speaker 2So okay, Mark, you make the call. Sean Cassidy.
Speaker 4Wait, wait, wait. Hold on a second. Now the whole damn bus is cheering and I can't. There was no buses back in the Civil War.
Speaker 2It wasn't about the Civil. War All right, Mr Professor, you're thinking too much. The yellow ribbon around the tree that's the meaning. Is that a universal symbol for it? I don't know. Can we fucking move on? If you want to come in and have wild sex.
Speaker 3I tie a yellow ribbon.
Speaker 2Alright, anyway.
Speaker 3It's like sock on the door Looking at the comments on the side.
Speaker 2Sean Cassidy the do-run-run, the do-run-run-run.
Speaker 3The do-run-run, oh my god.
Speaker 2Or this classic, let's kind of.
Speaker 4What the hell is this.
Speaker 3Listen, don't go too long, you'll get blocked. It's going to get blocked anyways.
Speaker 2Letter In by John Travolta.
Speaker 3You know what, got a letter in. I don't know the song, but hearing it I actually like it. So I'm going with John Travolta. That's a good song like it. So I'm going with John Travolta, that's a good song Lou.
Speaker 4Yeah, I'll go with John Travolta. Anything over the.
Speaker 2Duran, duran, because that is just a marvelous song.
Speaker 4That's terrible.
Speaker 2Okay, this one has to do with. This is still cheesy 70s songs Mark Captain and Tenille Muskrat Love or Jim Stafford, spiders and Snakes.
Speaker 3I don't even know that.
Speaker 4I don't like spiders and snakes.
Speaker 2That's what it takes to love me. I'm going to go with Muskrat Love because I know the song.
Speaker 3I just hate the lyrics of muskrat love look at toy mark.
Speaker 2Talent says I'm gonna blow my brains out.
Speaker 3Okay, I agree uh kevin cork of uh.
Speaker 2He messaged in David Soul song from Cheers no, did he sing the. He didn't sing the.
Speaker 4Cheers theme. No no, he was Hutch on Starsky and.
Speaker 2Hutch. Yeah, yeah, Dave Phillips. Tony Orlando's last show I saw on YouTube Looked like he swallowed Don and then he goes and picks Jim Stafford, Spiders and Snakes Mock talent, bro, dude.
Speaker 1Great tune when you're whipped out of your mind.
Speaker 3Lively audience tonight. Gary Portnoy sang the song. The theme to Cheers, by the way.
Speaker 2Lou, did we get a pick from you, muskrat?
Speaker 4Love.
Speaker 2Spiders and Snakes.
Speaker 4This is weird. I heard America's Muskrat Love yesterday on the radio. You've done this a million times, scott. These weird songs that you pick out. I hear them the day before. Because I like that, yeah, man. But I heard America's version and it was really good. Have you ever heard the original? No, who did it? Willis Allen Ramsey.
Speaker 4This guy did one album I've heard of him and that's on it America, one album and that's on it america covered it. From that he's like a cult figure. He did, but he did. He's done other stuff but that was his. I think he resurfaced but that's some obscure album by some dude, but the america version was nice. I, I, I. When I was a kid, I hated it. I said this is this is like yeah, yeah, but I like this. I'm gonna go with muskrat love. I can't believe I'm saying that I gotta go with that too I can't, jim can't.
Speaker 2Jim Stafford.
Speaker 4That's a novelty too, it was novelty.
Speaker 2That's all he was was novelty.
Speaker 4Yeah, like Bobby Goldsboro, my Girl Bill, that was his other song.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was one of the choices. I actually that song's so bad I didn't even put it on this list All right Mark here. Sometimes, when we touch the honesty's too much, I like that Right by Dan Hill, or We'll Never have to Say Goodbye by England, Dan and John Ford Coley.
Speaker 3Both pukey, but I'm going to go with England. I'm going to go with the second Because sometimes when we touch it's disturbing. It just reminds me of psycho science teachers, but yeah there we go, wait, wait, that would be for Mark.
Speaker 4Sometimes when we touch. So, Scott, do you have the doll?
Speaker 2No, I don't.
Speaker 3You know what's funny? Dan Hill became a Christian singer.
Speaker 2Really yeah.
Speaker 4So he sang a song. Sometimes we'll never have to say goodbye, just england dan and john fort coley they are. So am gold like yeah music. You know what I mean, yeah, and when dan hill hits that high note at the end of that song, it's just one of them, it's crazy uh, there he is harry denovich, the ai real american cheese.
Speaker 2That's right, buddy, and that's what this is real american heroes and cheese. Yes, uh, okay, mark, you make the call. I just wanna stop and tell you what I think about you. Baby With Gino Vannelli, right, gino Vannelli? Yeah, or all by myself. Don't want to be all by myself anymore, so I just want to stop all by myself.
Speaker 3I actually like both of those songs, but all by myself is kind of like my theme song and it goes into a classical piece in the middle right. So it's a sad sap song that goes in the classical. I can't resist that, so I'm going with all by myself lou, I'll take dino denelli or whatever his name is.
Speaker 5I'll take Dino Dinelli or whatever his name is.
Speaker 2Dino Dinelli. Ah, here we go.
Speaker 4I kind of like that one that's kind of my Tallerock, it's kind of like loungy. Almost like the Benny Mordonez song. Oh jeez.
Speaker 2We thought we were going to get away with this, but we got my brother Colin McLean. Hey guys, so glad to have you back. Buttermilk and barflies. Buttermilk and barflies. Mock talent, bro. Dude. Eric Carman is God.
Speaker 3Great singer he really is, Was was.
Speaker 2Oh, Scotty, pay the fines and stop singing. Mock talent, bro, dude. Great choice, bro Patty Ozzie. All by myself, LOL, LOL. These are her 45s, by the way. I think we all know that by now.
Speaker 3They smell like patchouli Old box.
Speaker 2I open that box. It's like it's better than Febreze. The whole studio smells like shut the fuck up bro you're aggressive tonight yeah right, dave phillips, I never owned any 45s being mentioned in this segment. That's why you're the motherfucking king oh, he's that's why you're the motherfucking. Eric carmen was god. Yeah, I gotta tell you, dave phillips facebook page is great. Oh he's, that's right, you're the motherfucker. Look at that. Eric Carman was God, he was.
Speaker 3God yeah. I got to tell you, dave Phillips' Facebook page is great, fucking great, the stuff he plays on it.
Speaker 5It's great he does have yeah, let me see.
Speaker 2Colin, did you review Hotel California? We haven't even got to albums yet. It's an hour and a half in. We got. Yeah, movies are out tonight we might be picking this up next week and then Mark, we can throw a segment of what you wanted to do the album.
Speaker 3Shitty-ass albums.
Speaker 2Shitty-ass albums. Yeah, Sorry guys, the gummies are kicking in Good for you. Bro dude, good for you, gummies are kicking in, let's see. No, we haven't done Hotel California yet. Okay, here you go, you make the call.
Speaker 3Wait, by the way, can I just say something really quick?
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3This four-day weekend, the 4th of July weekend, I had a four-day weekend Thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, but everyone else worked. So Friday I literally dropped my son off at work, came home, I got to date him myself, poured the coffee I did home. I got today to myself, poured the coffee I did put on all by myself sat in this room and I loved it.
Speaker 2I loved it.
Speaker 3It was like I'm all by myself and raise a blade song, dude, no, I love no.
Speaker 4Raise a blade song making love was always for fun.
Speaker 3It wasn't just for that's why steve wilson's my favorite songwriter, because he writes pull up the lyrics to that fucking song when I was young, I never needed anyone and making love was just for fun. I didn't need anybody, because I went to school where nobody liked me. Those days are gone.
Speaker 4Those days are gone yeah no shit.
Speaker 1Sherlock.
Music Memories and Hockey Stories
Speaker 2You have to fucking grow up sometime, let's see. And the last one, last one you make the call. You make the call, you make the call. Wiz sparred the wet sprocket. He's been in and out all show Big head. Sparred the wet socket, harry Denner says gay lyrics.
Speaker 3He's been on that kick lately. Just watch the last couple shows.
Speaker 2The audience is on fire tonight. They, they, could. They've been building this up for two weeks like we should we should do a show every other week and it's this active. Yeah, we should do it every other week. Yeah right, summer, uh, let me say, bro, dude says, crank it up, pour yourself tall one and sniff up a horse line With four hearts after it, like that's extra energy right there, that's extra love for the horse line. Yeah, really.
Speaker 1All right, Mark, there you go. You make the call Last one.
Speaker 2Last one, alan O'Day, undercover angel Right I don't know the rest of the lyrics.
Speaker 3Midnight Fantasy.
Speaker 2Let me see. I don't know what did he say. Dave Phillips, king of the 45s. I have the red socks on in the background Up 5-0. Duke Kevin Uke is wearing a Peaky Blinders hat in the booth.
Speaker 3Oh, wow, who are they playing? A cover angel, or I don't know who they're playing. It's not the Yankees. They played them last weekend, yeah, or?
Speaker 2knock three times on the ceiling if you want me.
Speaker 3I gotta go with that Lesser of two evils.
Speaker 4I'm going knock three times. Tony Orlando and Don Knock three times.
Speaker 2Knock three times.
Speaker 4He's knocking three times on the pipe in his prison cell. Isn't he Waiting for it to come home to the yellow ribbon?
Speaker 3Yeah, yep. Oh good, I'm glad the Sox are to the yellow ribbon. Yeah, oh good, I'm glad the Sox are beating the A's. I hate the fucking A's.
Speaker 2Let me see something. Hold on one second. Oh bear with me one second.
Speaker 1There we go.
Speaker 3I saw a good opera yesterday. Which one was it? La Trattoria dei Tattori. It was very good, it was about.
Speaker 4It's the restaurant of Troia.
Speaker 3It was about biscuits. Yeah, it was good, it was about biscotti, not biscuits.
Speaker 4Biscuits down here, mark, we do biscuits here.
Speaker 3The castratos had great tights on. It was just awesome.
Speaker 4I considered becoming a castrato when I was a teenager. Really.
Speaker 3It's a lot of surgery.
Speaker 5How do you do this, kid? I don't know, just talk. Is that, mark? You're live. Come on, I guess I am Hi guys.
Speaker 4Hey Mark, this is Mark.
Speaker 2Mark, tell it, bro, don't.
Speaker 4Hello Mark.
Speaker 5I mean your music knowledge all you guys blows my fucking mind so well. Just wanted to say that there.
Speaker 2There is a hierarchy here. Even I have to say that and lou is at the top of that oh, yeah, yeah, oh stop.
Speaker 5So, as you all know by now, when I met these well, I've known scott for long time, but like when you guys have Jack on he was the first kid when we were young, young in our early 20, but we just had such a blast we could, scott will tell you, I was like a kid in a candy store in that house. He turned me on to like albums. Scott's been doing that since I was fucking 10. Turned me on to the U2s. I was lucky I had older brothers and sisters, so I was into vanilla fudge and all that good stuff. I was lucky I had older brothers and sisters so I was into vanilla fudge and all that good stuff, so I was lucky.
Speaker 5But I love your guys' knowledge dude. It blows me away. That's why I always have my wisecrack of lines.
Speaker 4Hey, tell us.
Speaker 2Kevin Corkum just messaged in Gretzky.
Speaker 5Yeah, well, it's funny, scott, that came up the other night. Someone asked me how that came about, that nickname, I go. That was years after my college years. I go it was when I got out of school, in 83, 84. And in the next four to seven years the Edmonton Oilers took off right. They won four of our six cups or something. And then you know what, who gave me that nickname? Scott was Bobby Barker, buffer, buffer, and yeah, we were just playing like nighttime hockey and you know I was already what? Mid-20s by then and it just was a name that stuck. Never mind the Uncle Mark's. My favorite, scott will tell you that's my favorite nickname of all.
Speaker 2I'll tell you right now though Tal was an exceptional hockey player. In my eyes, he was an exceptional hockey player. I'm humbled by that, because I was lucky to play with a lot of great guys, but you never played on a team better than the Vipers.
Speaker 5Well, Scott was an owner he was the owner.
Speaker 2I owned the team in the town. Oh wow, Is this ice?
Speaker 4hockey, or is it street hockey? This is ice hockey, yeah.
Speaker 2And I put together this fucking team of like. It was like Slapshot right. And I just remember Tal would be first line and I'd try to do a line change and he wouldn't come off the ice.
Speaker 5He did it, to it a number of times.
Speaker 1He's like nah bro.
Speaker 2I'm still playing, bro.
Speaker 1I'm like fuck you fuck off the ice.
Speaker 5He'll tell you a story when a great friend of ours, Donny Kass 5'0, Took on this guy In a fight because it was stupid. Once again, you're like in a men's adult hockey league Never mind the testosterone, and there's guys from their 20s to 30s in it that some can't even really play anymore. Donnie, he'll tell you the story where he ended up doing it. He was a lefty when he fought. He fought as a lefty at Southpaw. He dropped a guy like Muhammad Ali, Like unreal.
Speaker 5In a men's pickup game, which meant absolutely fucking nothing. But, it was the most important thing, but I love that. You guys, what you do, he'll tell you now that he's reached out and doing the podcast with the veteran staff.
Speaker 3It's a great podcast.
Speaker 5So did you have like, with all the stuff that you guys in your background, have you ever been in like the DJ business or the like radio business?
Speaker 2No, before the podcast, not radio business, but they were.
Speaker 3Mark was Mark. I was in music production, so I produced cassettes and cds. I was an audio mastering engineer, but I used to dream of being a dj. I always wanted to play records. That was a dream. I used to sit in my bedroom and play records and act like I was doing a radio show. I wish I could have done I, I do that now.
Musical Roots and Influences
Speaker 5Uh, yeah, like so. For example, I skate on Tuesday nights and Friday nights in the summer and it's early, so by the time we get out it's the sun's not down yet, so we skate like 630 to 730. By 8 o'clock we're drinking cold beers. And who's running the tunes? I am?
Speaker 1I am.
Speaker 5You know, and you'll love this Scott, because I'll always put on just crazy shit. And and you'll love this Scott, because I'll always put on just crazy shit, and I'll wait, and I'll wait. And then I'll look at Richie Clue and I'll go who's that? And he'll go. That sounds like that sounds like boys to go tell, and I'll go, yeah, and it won't even be Seasons of the Wither, it might be.
Speaker 5Godzilla, it might be something that you know, I kind of fuck him, I try to like he's like my lifeline call and that's how we all grew up. We all grew up loving music. Where are you all from? Obviously, I know Scott's out of Florida but he's a Boston boy. But where are your two hometowns?
Speaker 3I grew up in.
Speaker 5Hillsdale, which is about 30 miles outside of New York City in northern New Jersey.
Speaker 1Okay so you were definitely in the hub of music for sure.
Speaker 5Oh yeah, yeah. How about yourself?
Speaker 4Lou, I'm from New Jersey, same area as Mark. I live in a bunch of different towns. We're from northern New Jersey.
Speaker 5Think about how grateful we are. I can only tell you that, and Scott can attest this. When I was out in L four years, the grunge scene was taken off um early 90s. Yeah, I saw a couple of great bands, I mean I I was like what the fuck is lala palooza? And then there I am, I'm at one right, and that was. That whole thing started on the west coast and so that was the only time I actually experienced music coming west to east.
Speaker 2So we were lucky. Tell we were lucky. We grew up in boston and we had wbcn right, which was a very everything came west to east, right everything came west. Well, well, it came from overseas to bcn. That's okay, from england, but when you and I were in southern california at that time, k-rock was, yes, like the west coast of WBCN. They were way ahead of their time. And then the grunge stuff, because we didn't know about Sound.
Speaker 5God, I mean. I still remember I was in LA when Guns N' Roses released November Rain. I'll never forget that. That was like a fucking. I was in Sacramento, that was an epic I mean think about that. That was like the last two we heard by. That was an epic. I mean think about that. That was like the last two we heard by. That was like Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, that was just off the top.
Speaker 5That was their dream, on stairway to heaven, you know but yeah, like rock anthems, yeah, rock anthems and and that's why I'm grateful for that, because once again, like we were just saying, between you, we're all tri-state New England guys and we were lucky because the bands came to the US first and they landed on the Jersey Shore, the New York Shore and the Boston Shore. They just did and different record companies took them and, as Jack will tell you and you've seen his back collection with his fucking stubs, like Jack's put every stub to every rock concert.
Speaker 1Yeah, he collects concerts.
Speaker 5Oh, I mean hundreds and hundreds. I mean I saw you two. I've seen you two guys with this bloke probably 20 times on our own, and I was there when he had Bono on his shoulders, so I was there. There you go, Mushrooms.
Speaker 2Witness on mushrooms. Hey listen, we, we gotta get this show going, tal, you know, I love you brother, I love you brother thank you guys, lou and mark, thank you, I appreciate you give me five minutes of your time nice to meet you when I can make you guys laugh I love it and by the way. By the way, before you go, I just want to introduce the world to the greatest air guitarist that ever walked the earth right here. I was a guitar hero.
Speaker 5I invented that Before guitar hero.
Speaker 2Before guitar hero. He was so ahead of his time he had a wooden fake guitar that was not even like it was carved out. It was the last ball. It was the last ball. It was more less than Paul.
Speaker 5It was a strap.
Speaker 2Alright, brother, I'll talk to you soon. Love you guys. It was more, less than.
Speaker 4Paul but it was, it was a strap All right, brother, I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 5Love you guys, great stuff. See you, mark, bye, mark Bye, all right, there you go.
Speaker 4That was cool.
Speaker 2Yeah, um, let's see, where were we? We just finished up with what we're going to go to. Where were we? We just finished up with what we're gonna go to. Uh, albums, yeah, is it albums. Yeah, you know what I I'm gonna. I'm just gonna do something different here. Yeah, you guys, album, album. Then I'm gonna come up with um, I have a list of billboards, number one albums of 1976. Yeah, it came up. So let's talk about some albums.
Speaker 3Mark, I'm going to go with. You Can't Argue With a Sick Mind. It was a live Joe Walsh album. The recordings came from when he did Don Kirshner's rock concert and he knew he was already joining the Eagles. So a couple Eagles appear on a few songs and I never knew that and I always wondered why it was a single album. But it's got a funky version of Walk Away. I love it. It's a great album. If you've never heard it, check it out, but I'm sure you've heard it. And he does help me through the night which is with Glenn Frey, don Felder and Don Henley.
Speaker 4Sing on Good one Lou Blue Oy, blue oyster cult agents of fortune, yeah what is the?
Speaker 3what is there a hit off that album?
Speaker 1uh, don't fear the reaper. This was, that was the breakthrough album.
Speaker 4Yeah, oh is there a hit? Yeah, it's that hit. It's a classic, but there's a handful of it's. It's not their best album I don't think there's, but there's a handful of great albums. It's a really good album it's a really good album.
Speaker 3It's a really good album. Eti's on it right. Extraterrestrial yes, that's on it. That's a great riff.
Speaker 4This Ain't the Summer of Love.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 4Good, really good album, Not their best album. I'm going to go with Fucking Cowell Mark.
Speaker 2You know I had to do it. My favorite Zeppelin album. My favorite Zeppelin album came out in 1976. Presence Achilles' Last Stand is my favorite.
Speaker 3My favorite Zeppelin song song and he sang it from a wheelchair with a with a leg cast yeah, it has Royal Orleans on it.
Speaker 2T for one for your life, right? Nobody's fault but mine. Yeah, I mean great fucking album, disastrous tour, yeah, but great fucking album. I mean six, uh, what is it? Let me see seven songs on the whole album.
Speaker 3Yeah, but it takes up a lot of space very, very basic in a lot of ways, like just guitar. No, no fashion, there was nothing like houses of holy.
Speaker 2It was yeah, yeah yeah, achilles, last 10 minutes 24 seconds. I'll go in like time water t for one nine minutes 23 seconds, and then there's a for your life six minutes 24. Nobody's fault 616. Uh, hearts on nowhere. Uh, hearts on for nowhere. 424. Candy store rock 411. Royal orleans 259. Like that's the only normal time that could be a.
Speaker 345, that could be a 45 for them.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, so yeah, presence definitely um by far my favorite zeppelin album yeah lou uh, where'd it go?
Speaker 4oh, is it mark? It was at Mark. It was at Mark Wait.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, I'm up.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 3Who had his pick. He picked BOC. Damn it. That's right. That's right. I'm going to go with an album that some people just kill me when I say it, but I think it's one of the perfect albums Leftovers, sure from Kansas. It's got Gary on my wayward son, but that album anytime front to back it flows and it's probably their best. It's definitely their best album. Something was up with them when they wrote that album, they were in danger of losing a contract and it's just one of those perfect albums.
Speaker 4All right, lou do with michael mcdonald yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's a good album.
Speaker 4He's got a book out michael mcdonald yeah, he's doing the talk show circuit well, his uh interview.
Speaker 2What more is it? It's say, michael mcdonald like what is I?
Speaker 4I don't his early life and his, I'm sure, did you um scott did you?
Speaker 3see his interview no oh it's good he had an interesting I like michael mcdonald.
Speaker 2I'm not dogging him, I'm just saying you know you're writing a book about your life. What hasn't like already been said?
Speaker 4I'm sure there's plenty of information out there, but you know, there's a chapter on the making of jean-mobil there okay, all right, another album that came out 1976, the rolling stones, 13th album, black and blue lost album in the catalog.
Speaker 3I like it. It's got, it's kind of it's their first album after mctaylor right.
Speaker 2What were you? What were you?
Speaker 4I'm hearing.
Speaker 2I'm hearing things, hearing things okay uh, it's got some interesting uh songs it's it's a different kind of stones album, so it starts off with hot stuff. Yeah right, kind of funky Hot.
Speaker 5Stuff.
Speaker 2Yep and Hand of Fate. I love that song. Oh, that's a great song. Yeah, cherry-o-baby, then Memory Motel.
Speaker 1Great song.
Speaker 2Yeah, great song. Then it goes to hey Negreta, Inspiration by Ron Wood. It says Melody. Inspiration by Billy Preston. So it says Inspiration by billy preston. So it says inspiration by right. Yeah, it's not a writing credit.
Speaker 3No right, they didn't want to give money.
Speaker 2That's what it's not a writing credit, and they might get some money for it, but not a full credit, a full writing credit, but inspiration, by which I find interesting. And then, uh, another great fucking song, fool to Cry.
Speaker 3Yes, so this was kind of a lower key album for them, so they didn't have a single solo guitar player. They were auditioning guitar, so Wayne Perkins plays on a track. They had all different guitars. So, yeah, it's not as cohesive but it's a sleeper in their catalog.
Speaker 2It's a great album, yeah, yeah. So, all right mark. What do you got?
Speaker 3um, I'm just gonna get subversive on you for a second. A young guitar player that nobody heard of that was teaching guitar at the berkeley college of music in boston at 17 years old, pat metheny. He had just come out of the gary burton band and he recorded his first solo album with the great Jaco Pastorius on bass and it was a monster in jazz music because they introduced country Americana flavors to jazz. It was definitely coming out of left field. Great album, bright Size Life it's called. It wasn't the Pat Metheny group, it was just Pat Metheny, but he was under 20 when he recorded it. This is amazing yeah.
Speaker 4Yep Lou Genesis Trick of the Tail, the first album with Phil Collins as lead singer. Great album.
Speaker 2What does it got on it?
Speaker 4It's got the song Trick of the Tail. They got Squawk on it.
Speaker 3Yes, it's got Squawk Dancing, vol squawk uh yeah, and it's got my favorite song at the first and it's also got ripples. Remember ripples? That's a great song.
Speaker 4I always thought it was nipples.
Speaker 3Of course you did. Fuck you. It's about school girls.
Speaker 4actually, it's about school girls.
Speaker 3Oh, off the rails.
Speaker 4I didn't write it. But it is a good album. It is a good album, but it is a good album, it is a good album.
Speaker 3It's a very good album.
Speaker 2Let me see what year did Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac come out Was that 76 or 75?
Speaker 3I thought it was 75.
Speaker 2Great album? Yeah, because I'm looking at this list, like I said, of number one albums and that one bounced back onto the list in 76. Can someone tell Perry, like, just read what Perry said I'm looking at this list, like I said, of number one albums and that one bounced back onto the list in 76.
Speaker 3Can someone tell Perry, like, just read what Perry said. I'm not going to read it.
Speaker 2All that prog shit is not heterosexual.
Speaker 4Jesus.
Speaker 3Christ. Thank you, Perry. My wine went up in my nose. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2Oh lordy, rough, rough crowd tonight. Let me see, uh, let me just pull something up here, mark, skip me, I'm gonna. Uh, you want me to go?
Speaker 3yeah, go yeah, okay, I'm gonna go with. Well, I can't take that one from lou.
Speaker 5I know he's gonna read it okay, I'll go with the other genesis. Go for it, I'll go with the other.
Speaker 3Genesis album. Go for it. I'll go with the other Genesis album from that year, Wind and Wuthering, which I actually prefer.
Speaker 4Yeah, oh you do the Trick of the Tail. It's very haunting.
Speaker 3You prefer Wind and.
Speaker 4Wuthering to Trick of the Tail.
Speaker 3I like it's weird Trick of the Tail has my favorite haunting. There's no big hits off it, nothing right, right. But it's very, very pastoral and that cover is great. I have a big poster of it at work in my print shop of that tree. It's just totally english. I've reappreciated steve hackett as a guitar player. He's awesome he's awesome.
Speaker 4His solo stuff yeah about you know understated, but you know he's had a majestic way of playing and it's just, yeah, absolutely really good player.
Speaker 3First and fifth, that guitar solo is I still I can't figure it out I tried you know, I got an album.
Speaker 4Bring it up. Bett midler songs for the new depression right, I wouldn't. I didn't know what about, but when I read about it it's interesting, because she does a duet with bob dylan on this record. Really, yeah, it's a song called buckets of rain. That was on Blood on the Track. So it's a Dylan song that he recorded with just bass guitar and acoustic guitar and vocal, but he did a song with the Divine Ms M. Is that what she was called? Divine Ms M yeah, Right back in the day.
Speaker 3I'm going to check that album out.
Speaker 2All right, I'm going to go with. Uh, let's see david bowie's 10th studio album, great album, station the station. Yes, I mean it's four. I mean four great songs on it. There's only six songs on the whole album. It's like for him that comes alive yeah, only six songs on the whole album. It's like Frampton comes alive. Yeah, only six songs. You got Station to Station, you got Golden Years right.
Speaker 4Great, that's one of my favorite I might be my favorite Bowie song.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's a good one, I think mine. There's a couple more, I think, on this album that I like better Word on Wing. And then side two, tvc15. Love that song. Oh, my tvc one five tvc, one five, and then uh stay, yes, yes great album.
Speaker 3I consider it prog in in in a weird way. Well, I had um, robert fripp was on it, I believe. Right, yeah, so uh, but it's just, it's very, as a prog guy, I loved it. Uh was so warsaw wasn't on that album. I'm trying to think, no, okay, that's, that's a sad, that's a depressed, that's a dark.
Speaker 2So I'm gonna I'm gonna go off off screen for one second.
Speaker 3You're up, mark okay, I'm gonna go with a new world record by electric light orchestra. It was their probably their first big hit album. It got them popular Tightrope Rockaria Telephone Line, which is a great R&B song. Living Thing. Do Ya remake of the old Moose song. That's a lot of hits, man. Very good album. Yeah, and that started the run of album after album. Jeff Lynne was on fire.
Speaker 4So a pair of dead artists. Chandon barry manilow was bett midler's musical director. Not gonna say it, I'll say you're gonna say barry manilow's gay perry, aren't you?
Speaker 3not to just say anything wrong with that yeah no so I had so says the beta male. Are you okay? Did you have to hock up a lung?
Speaker 2or something. Here he comes, come on, come on. Oh, come on, come on.
Speaker 4Is that?
Speaker 2Morrison, come on, yeah, come on.
Speaker 3Wow, two special guests on the show, yeah.
Speaker 2Come on, here's my boy, aw, and he brought me his bunny.
Speaker 3As long as it's not a mouse.
Speaker 2This is his blankie.
Speaker 3This is his security blanket.
Speaker 2He brings it to you. He brings it every night. And he meows when he brings it.
Speaker 1A buddy.
Speaker 2Morrissey on the show he's going to rub his ass on the microphone.
Speaker 3Just like Morrissey would do. That's funny. Do you have air conditioning, or else he's not going to do the show.
Speaker 2He's backing up up. What are you doing, cat?
Speaker 3I'm rocking into you, stupid human. All right, what else do we got? I did um, I did the uh the elo album uh uhke brand x oh, great band brand x prog fusion instrumental band with phil collins.
Speaker 4Yeah, it showed how incredible a drummer phil collins at his peak, yeah, playing jazz fusion, complicated music. I mean, this guy had chops yeah, it's like what he does. Yeah, you know sometimes during the 80s or even like before he became really disabled, he was saying he goes, I can't play like that anymore, even before he, you know, had all the nerve damage and all yeah but yeah, I heard one album. There isn't that this that's a debut album. Actually, you know, I was like wow, well, yep, well, 1976, rush's fourth studio album.
Speaker 2That this, I think would you say this, was their launching pad 2112.
Speaker 3I think so, because they were going to lose their record contract because Caress of Steel did so bad. And what did they respond? They did another album with a long song.
Speaker 4They expected this thing to just go down in flames. Yeah, and what did they respond? They did another album with a long song. They expected this thing to just go down in flames, yeah.
Speaker 2But they said we're going to go out making the album we want to make, and it was a big one, it caught it was a win.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, it was a big one, Absolutely. 2112,. I mean, that's the first time I've seen Russell Rush on the rock shows. A lot, a lot of concert films of them.
Speaker 2But it was that era, that that time it peaked at night at number 61 on the album charts like yeah not bad.
Speaker 4Have you ever seen them, last guy?
Speaker 2no, I didn't have the pleasure. I was never a poet. I always liked rush.
Speaker 5I never had a great, never had a problem with them?
Speaker 2never, but I just never got to whatever.
Speaker 3It was my son Anthony's first concert Took him to see them and I saw it. My first time seeing him was Power Windows Tour. I was a freshman in high school and I was and Merillion opened and from then on I saw him Merillion Kaylee.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm so sad to see you lonely.
Speaker 1But I don't know what I'm going through. Kay, I'm so sad to see you lonely, but I don't know what I'm going through.
Speaker 2Kaylee.
Speaker 3I'm so sad to see you lonely. I've seen him probably 20 times.
Speaker 1People thought that song was jazz.
Speaker 2No, Rush Do you remember yeah, great song November in the rain.
Speaker 4Do you remember To break your heart?
Speaker 2I didn't mean to break out, but you broke mine. I always thought he said he just said bitch right in there, right I didn't mean to break out, but you broke mine, bitch kaylee, look at.
Speaker 3Come on, marcy, stop showing your ass just like marcy, you should get big marsey sign behind you, like he does on stage.
Speaker 2What are you camera shy Like? All of a sudden he won't face the camera.
Speaker 1He's like I don't want to see it.
Speaker 3He realized his ass was on camera.
Speaker 2That's what happened, let me see. Come here, see what you got, say hello.
Speaker 3This is great for the audio listeners right now. There he is.
Speaker 2I now I said, say hello say hello.
Speaker 4How old is morrissey morrissey?
Speaker 2now is probably, I think he's gonna be three.
Speaker 3Okay, young boy yeah, yeah, my buddy love his eyes you know audio listeners now think you have the singer morrissey on your lap. That's right.
Speaker 2Well, I wouldn't mind that actually I'm a fan you're a fan I had bono's balls in the back of my neck. Why?
Speaker 3not morrissey sitting on my lap, I mean all the angles.
Speaker 2This page of mail says two snaps uh let's see, uh, mark, no europe, I'm up, yeah I just said 21, 12, oh, okay so I'm up. Yeah, let's do one more round.
Speaker 3We're coming up on two hours, yeah, and we'll pick up next week okay, I'm gonna go with my old favorite band, jews priests, their second album, sad wings of destiny. It was the album where they became heavy metal and had songs like Victim of Changes, ripper. It's a really good album and for 76 to have an album that heavy, they were ahead of their time.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 4Lou, the debut album by Johnny Cougar, chestnut Street Incident, with a lot of covers on it. The album cover is historical. Who produced it? It just looked like a goofball, I don't know. I didn't recognize any familiar names there.
Speaker 3I thought a big guy produced it.
Speaker 4Well, his manager was Tony DeVries. I think it was Bowie's manager. He gave him the moniker. It's pretty funny. I looked at it. He does an Elvis cover. I thought he had that. What was that one big hit? What was his first hit? His first hit was a cover of I Need a Lover. Was that on that album? Wait, he didn't write that, did he? No he didn't, but Pat Benatar did it as well, maybe he did write it, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3That's a good question well, I'll tell you right now, the producer of the album was yeah, tony, don't tony defries, and he was. He managed to. Okay, yeah, you're right, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, it was the next album that he got a big time, uh, producer.
Speaker 2Yeah, okay, sorry before he became little bastard yeah, perry denovich, the ai says those guys in rush are oh, and it's canadian how do you um pronounce the drummer's name?
Speaker 3kenny aronoff? No of rush, neil peart, you and it's Wawa Z.
Speaker 4Okay.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 2Are we?
Speaker 3It's nerdy prog humor.
Speaker 4John Mellencamp wrote I Need a Lover. He wrote that I.
Speaker 3Need a.
Speaker 4Lover. I Need a Lover yeah. All right, I'm going to go with.
Speaker 2I'm going to end this segment with a really good Boston band I'm looking at. The Modern Lovers debut album came out. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers right Modern. Lovers they were from Boston. The tracks were recorded in like 71 and 72. And then they finally got it released in 76. Wow, what a sex person. And the producer I keep seeing something on my mic. It's like fucking bugging me, it's cat hair?
Speaker 3Yeah, I think it is. He backed his ass into the mic, it's cat ass hair.
Speaker 2Cat ass hair.
Speaker 3Morris backed his ass into your mic.
Speaker 2The album was produced by John Cale from Wow, golden Underground, golden Underground, yeah, and it has one of the greatest rock songs ever written. If I had a top 100, this would be in it. That's probably in a few of those lists it would be in it. And I'll end it with let's see. Let me see.
Speaker 5Here we go.
Speaker 2One, two, three, four, five, six, road runner, road runner, driving faster miles an hour. Is this not one of the greatest driving songs? Yes, it is, and so you got the 7172 sound.
Speaker 4They still have that keyboard.
Speaker 2You know it has a lot of cheesy garage rock keyboard yeah, man, just and just such a fucking great song from start to finish.
Speaker 4Is that future car? David Robinson on drums.
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 4I don't know.
Speaker 2Well, let's see, let's look it up right here.
Speaker 4Maybe it's before his time, I don't know.
Speaker 2So we have Jonathan Richman right, singer, songwriter, guitar. He was a teenager, by the the way, when he did this, when he formed it in 71. Jerry Harrison on keyboards.
Speaker 5Bernie Brooks on bass.
Speaker 4David Robinson on drums. Oh shit, and Jerry Harrison of the heads.
Speaker 3Wow.
Speaker 2Didn't know that Super group Modern Lovers. They were good man, they just didn't uh, they just couldn't get it together.
Speaker 4Evidently yeah, you know, keep it together. I think that's the way he liked it. What movie was he in?
Speaker 2who jonathan richmond. Yeah, he's got a guy. I know what you're talking about I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4Yeah, I'm not gonna guess it now yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Well, we got plenty of time to pick this up next week. No more squeezing it all in, and you know we're gonna stretch it out. Next week we're gonna finish some albums from 76. We're gonna talk about some movies. We got a lot of great movies to talk about from 76, a lot of great movies, and mark's uh segment will be shitty albums from groups we like.
Speaker 3so I want everybody to think of your favorite bands and albums that they shouldn't have put out, or what were they thinking when they put out?
Speaker 1Just think of it, it'll be interesting.
Speaker 3And also say do you like it? Because sometimes you like it, and were they justified doing it? Or were they fucking their fans over? That's my thing. Some bands will put out an album and they they fucking their fans over. That that's my thing. Like some man's will put on an album, they just disregard their fans, you know so uh.
Speaker 2So let's see, uh, let's do this day of music on july 11th 2023. A michigan jury has ruled that a 2014 document found in aretha franklin's couch after her death was a valid will to her multi-million dollar estate. The verdict ends a nearly five-year legal squabble within the family. When Franklin died from pancreatic cancer in August 2018, it was widely believed she had not prepared a will to her roughly $6 million estate will to roughly her roughly six million dollar estate. It's. It includes cash, gold, records and furs uh, and her music copyrights. At the heart of the dispute was the sole superstars for children. At the heart of the dispute was what the sole superstars for children would inherit.
Speaker 2I don't know the rest of the story, but that'll be interesting on this day in 2019 toy maker mattel announced a new collectible david bowie doll inspired by his signature ziggy stardust fashion. Oh wow, dubbed bobby as bowie. The doll is dressed as the late singer's glam rock alter ego, complete with a pair of red platform boots and topped with his fiery red mullet I've never heard of one, now I would have one.
Speaker 3Can you imagine that?
Speaker 2wow, I mean, I'm sure they're out there. I'd be curious to see what they're going for what. What year did it come out? 2019, wow, yeah, uh, let me see. On this day in 2014, producer and drummer tommy ramone tommy urtley, uh, from the influence from the ramones died at age 65 following unsuccessful treatment for bile duct cancer for them.
Speaker 4He lived old yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Are there any? Is there anyone left from the ramones?
Speaker 2I don't think so isn't't Dee, dee still doing?
Speaker 4something. No, he died a long time ago.
Speaker 2Let me see, I think, marky still does a radio show on Sirius.
Speaker 4Marky.
Speaker 2Ramone. Yeah, early was also an assistant engineer for the production of the Jimi Hendrix album Band of Gypsies. On this day in 2013, pearl jam released their 10th studio album, lightning bolt, which went to number one in the us album charts. On this day in 2011, rob grill, lead singer and bassist for the 60s rock band the grassroots, whose hits included midnight confessions, temptation eyes and uh, let's live for today, died after suffering a head injury from a fall caused by a stroke. He was only 67. I don't care about the black eyed peas. On the day of 2004, the darkness replaced David Bowie at this year's tea in the park Scottish Festival following his heart operation. The darkness isn't that the guy I can't? That was a flash in the pan.
Speaker 3They're still playing and I don't get them. They a metal band. They were making fun of metal.
Speaker 1They were like yeah.
Speaker 4Was that like loudness?
Speaker 3No loudness, we're a metal band.
Speaker 4We're a Japanese metal band, weren't we?
Speaker 3Yeah, we come to rock you.
Speaker 2On this day in 2002, the funeral of the who's bass player, john Entwistle, took place at a church in the Cotswolds Fucking English names.
Speaker 3Cotswolds on.
Speaker 2Thames, cotswolds, more than 200 mourners filed into the 12th century church of St Edward. Ed Drussel was found dead in his Las Vegas hotel room June 27th, and that's what happens when you do cocaine.
Speaker 3Cocaine is a hell of a drug. When you do it into your 50s and 60s. It's not good people.
Speaker 4He had a fucking heart condition, really yeah. And Bob Pete Townsend said something. He goes, really yeah. And what pete townsend said, something goes. I know when john was all my life I never knew until after he was dead he was a freemason ah, kept to the secret, but he looks like a freemason.
Speaker 2Think about it on this day in 1996, jonathan melvoin, keyboard player with the Smashing Pumpkins, died from a drug overdose.
Speaker 3Wendy Melvoin's brother and he bought the drugs from the drummer, I believe, or something, because they fired the drummer over that.
Speaker 2Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain, who was with. Melvoin tried to, and failed to, revive him. Wow Was allegedly advised by 911 operators to put Melvin's head in the shower. Several songs were inspired by his death. Okay, this day in 1992, a range of eight ties designed by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead went on sale. The US President, bill Clinton, bought a set. The collection grossed millions in the US by the end of the year. I have one.
Speaker 3Do you really I have a tie. Yeah, okay, I never wear ties. I don't know how to tie a tie I have to use a clip-on. You know what wins or not, I don't know. Balloon knot, whatever you want, there's YouTube videos. There's YouTube videos.
Speaker 2I know this day. In 1982, Phil Collin, former guitarist with the glam rock band Girl, replaced Pete Willis and Def Leppard, who was fired due to excessive alcohol consumption on the job.
Speaker 3It's funny he was fired Drinking on the job. What he was fired, but Steve Clark died years later of alcoholism so why'd they fire?
Speaker 2Yeah, on this day in 1981, the specials had this second and final UK number one singer with this town. It's kind of like a ghost town. Yeah, too much fighting on the dance floor. I love that. I was just listening to that song yesterday. So there you go. It came on yesterday at work.
Speaker 1Yeah, this town is.
Speaker 4Who is that? I said this is special this special is great, great fucking song. Let's see that's a haunting sounding song.
Speaker 2Well, they do that, the whole keyboard at the beginning that kind of old kind of horror
Speaker 3movie keyboard. You know what it reminds me of? The Sun is Shining. That's kind of an eerie reggae song too.
Speaker 2But then right in the middle of it it goes Everybody knows, bring it down into the ghost town. Like all of a sudden it lights up.
Speaker 4You got to lift it up, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, let's see. On this day in 1975, fleetwood mac released their 10th studio album, often referred to as the white album, the first fleetwood mac album to feature lindsey bungham on guitar nicks. In other words, this is where their career started the first nine albums with junk. I don't care what anybody says, no really fucking no, nobody listens to old food it doesn't get played on the radio.
Speaker 3Don't, don't, don't discount the bad little bit no, bob waltz shoes are good and the one album you don't get anything from them. The original band was the band played on and then play on. That's a good album that really so.
Speaker 2Out of nine albums, they play one song that might be good out of nine fucking albums. Come on, gentlemen no, they don't.
Speaker 4They don't play a lot, but play some stuff. Yeah, they hear weird album cuts.
Speaker 2No no, the Bob Walsh albums were good, those first nine albums are like Joe Biden to the Democrats right now, it's nothing. They have to go those nine albums need to be erased from their catalog because nobody knows anything before that first album. This is a music show scott come on I'm gonna echo jack, it's a music show squeeze it in 1971, that I think that full circle.
Speaker 2There you go beta males love full circles you know oh man uh on this day in 1971, the bruce springsteen band opened for humble pie at the sunshine inn in asbury park. Read perry's comment please. Uh, flew with mac was gay before buckingham. Thank you, perry, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. The AI knows all the.
Speaker 5AI knows all.
Speaker 2So do not argue with the AI.
Speaker 5That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3Why am I, as a beta male, getting mad at this?
Speaker 2I don't know. But don't argue with the AI, that's all I'm saying. He's the glue. I heard that's what the guest said on the Music Relish show, that Perry is the glue.
Speaker 4But who's your favorite?
Speaker 2The AI on the music relish, that perry is the glue. But who's your favorite? The ai, who's your favorite? But lewis is the caller's favorite, though, and mark is from new york. He thinks he's better than everybody I am.
Speaker 3I can't help it. I'm from new york. What do you want? All right, let's get through this.
Speaker 2Let's get through this um, on this day in 1973, dog night starts a two-week run at number one in the us with their version of the randy newman song. Mama told me not to come. Then that baby came nine months later anyway, did you? Did you know that the song was first covered by eric burden on his first solo album in 66? Yeah, wow, and gave tom jones and stereophonics a number four hit on the uk single shots in 2000? Look at randy newman raking in that money. Yeah, on this day in 1969, space oddity by david bowie was released. I, I, that was his. I think Space Oddity might be his Joshua Tree. Maybe Space Oddity put him on the like, really got it. Got him a lot of attention and that's his signature song when you hear that acoustic intro.
Speaker 3That's Bowie and Starman, that's forley.
Speaker 4Everyone knows him and Starman that's for sure.
Speaker 2I don't care about the Beatles. Wow, I mean, the Beatles appeared on this day in 1964, live on the ABC television program Lucky Stars. Oh yeah, performing Hard Day's Night. Okay, let me see. And on this day in 1955, alma Cogan was at number one in the UK single shots with Dreamboat. Okay, cogan went on to score over 20 UK top 40 singles, nicknamed the girl with the laugh in her voice. She was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.
Speaker 4Can we name another one of her 20 years?
Speaker 2Yeah right, born on this day. Let me see Lil' Kim, lil' Kim. Born on this day in 1975. Let me see.
Speaker 3Wow, she's only six years younger than me.
Speaker 2Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah. Richie Sambora, born on this day in 1959. Susanna. Vega born in this day in 1959.
Speaker 3Wow, Richie Sambora's up there.
Speaker 2Susanna Vega. Yeah, Susanna Vega.
Speaker 4My name is Lucas Susanna Vega.
Speaker 2No, it's the other one.
Speaker 1Susanna Hoffs.
Speaker 2No the one that says, you say Lisa Loeb.
Speaker 4Lisa.
Speaker 2Loeb.
Speaker 4Lisa.
Speaker 2Loeb still fucking looks good.
Speaker 3You saw her in that Geico ad where she's singing yeah, what.
Speaker 4She's an original sexy nerd, isn't she? Yeah, one of them, yeah.
Speaker 2Like she still looks good. I'm like holy shit, lisa.
Speaker 4Good for you, girl. How about Susanna?
Speaker 1Hoffs.
Speaker 2Susanna Hoffs. So I watched some of her Instagram videos or whatever fucking thing I saw. That girl's crazier than a sprayed roach. She's fucking out there, she's flighty and she's pretty. She's a beautiful girl? Nice, she's not. But I don't know. I don't know if I could. I don't care, you're Susanna Hoffs and you're famous and you're beautiful, but I have to have a fucking conversation with a girl.
Speaker 4Like I don't know, she's spacey, flighty.
Speaker 2She's spacey flighty yeah.
Speaker 4Her mother was a Hollywood writer. She was raised in Hollywood her whole life.
Speaker 2Yeah, god bless, she's a nice, nice woman, like no issues issues with it. I don't know how long I I need some sometimes a little crazy good.
Speaker 3Yeah, I need some something, some density in the head so, scott, when you, when you started to say, like talking about suzanna hoffs, what go ahead and you said suzanna hoffs. I thought you were going to say you saw her in boston and you had her on your shoulder on the back of my neck that's, I was waiting for that yeah, I wish that that would be.
Speaker 2that'd be better than bono, that's for sure smells better too. Uh, let's see, born on this day in 1957, uh, peter murphy from bow house, from Bauhaus they did a great version of Z Stardust. I don't think I've heard it. Yeah, you never heard Bauhaus? I've heard him, but I've never heard him do.
Speaker 3No.
Speaker 2I'm going to Well.
Speaker 3I'm going to.
Speaker 2There we go Right here.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, you can see there's a video of it too, nice.
Speaker 3Yeah, oh yeah, nice production.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Wow.
Speaker 2That's a great version, man.
Speaker 3That's nice.
Speaker 2Great version of that song. Yeah, go listen to it, man. Let me see Also Benny DeFranco from the DeFranco family, was born on this day in 1954. Bonnie Pointer from the Pointer Sisters, born on this day in 1951. Let me see Jeff Hanna from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, born on this day in 1949.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, Spies for the US government.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's right, that's right. Great story, right. Ah. And born on this day, last but not least in 1931, tab Hunter, american actor, singer, film producer. Tab Hunter he starred in more than 40 films, founder of Tab Soda Was well-known Hollywood star in the 50s 60s. His 57 hit, young love, was number one in the billboard hot shot hot 100 the gentleman. That's it. That's it two hours 15 minutes. I I we supposed to wind this up 15 minutes ago, but that never happened, that's okay.
Speaker 3I think everybody fell asleep yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2This is a lively show tonight, so I want to thank everyone that was watching. Everyone is listening, but the watchers they were very active on the message board tonight, which is always makes for a better show. It always makes for a better show. Um, gentlemen, as I always say, thanks, patty, thank you for your time, thank you for your knowledge, but, most of all, absolutely 100 thank you for your friendship. I truly, truly appreciate it. We're not friends anymore, scott.
Speaker 1You're supposed to tell Mark to tell me, not for God.
Speaker 2I know you're friends.
Speaker 3Hey Lou, this means that Scott's going to call me now instead of you. That's good. I get to hear from Scott. That's the thing.
Speaker 2I seem to talk to Mark more than.
Speaker 5I talk to Lou on the phone because Lou's a busy guy.
Speaker 3Lou more than I talked to lou on the phone because there's a busy guy. The other night, the other night, I was coming home from work. I had to go shopping I sat in the car car and I talked to scott for a half hour I set my time aside for scott.
Speaker 2There you go, see that, lou see, okay, see, I've been he finds time and then, and then to get out of the conversation, he's like hey, I just pulled into the parking lot, but he was already there, yeah right he was already there he was already, uh, every everybody that's uh, watching.
Speaker 2Thank you for watching, thank you for listening. If you like it, share it. If you didn't like it, well, thanks for watching and listening for two hours and 18 minutes. Uh, I love doing this, guys. For you, you are the engine that runs this machine and, to quote my favorite, otis Morrissey, doing the show for you. The pleasure, the privilege is mine, and we will be back next Thursday with another great show, with picking up where we left off from 1976. And that's it.
Speaker 3Say goodnight, boys, goodnight boys Men Say goodnight, men, Goodnight.
