Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
Milk Crates and Turntables is a Music Discussion Podcast. Each week Scott chooses a different music topic and discuss and debate the good, the bad and the ugly side of that particular topic. Maybe you'll agree or maybe you'll disagree. Listen in and find out.
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
Ep. 183 - Music News, Steve Miller Cancels Tour, Some of Rocks BIGGEST Album Failures
We jump into the absurdity of Steve Miller Band canceling all upcoming tour dates, supposedly due to "extreme weather events," while exposing this as a likely cover for poor ticket sales.
• Steve Miller's weather excuse includes potential hurricanes, tornadoes, and forest fires for venues that are mostly indoors
• Unpacking why Steve Miller's music might not be connecting with audiences today
• Exploring 15 terrible albums by otherwise legendary classic rock bands
• Questioning the inclusion of Led Zeppelin's "Presence" on the worst albums list
• Discussing what happens when iconic singers are replaced (Queen with Paul Rogers, Genesis post-Phil Collins)
• Examining the cringeworthy Duran Duran covers album that Q Magazine called "the worst of all time"
• Breaking news about the revival of Joe Perry Project with an all-star lineup featuring Chris Robinson and members of Stone Temple Pilots
• Quick spotlight on rediscovered gems like Grace Jones' "Slave to the Rhythm"
Visit our social media pages for updates on upcoming shows, and join us next Thursday night for another deep dive into music history.
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Scott McLean:I just jumped in on this like I just got home from dinner with Dr Vera, and well, here I am. The buzz in the background is better, but you are still talking. I don't want a buzz in the background. That's the problem. Unless Big Head Todd the Red Sprocket is fucking with me, that was before you find out. Good, see, I don't listen to it. I don't know why.
Scott McLean:I believe anything Big Head Tarthowitz Rocket says, and I'm not here to entertain him. You know, I'm here to entertain you and Mark Smith and Patty, and because Mark Smith is also, he's driving from the Bronx to fucking. I don't know all the way back to Coney, wherever he is in New Jersey, coney Island's in New Jersey, right. I don't know All the way back to Coney, wherever he is in New Jersey, coney Island's in New Jersey, right. I don't give a fuck. Tell you the truth. I know it's not, but it really doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is I'm doing this show, let me, uh, get all my adjustments. And again, this is what happens when you just jump in on these things. So I got some music news tonight. Let's see if I can pull something. I want to jump right into this. Motherfucker. I'm gonna jump right into this. Let me pull this up, let's see. All right, let me go over here. This fucking guy like screen there. We go there. We are right there. So this motherfucker Steve Miller band, let me pull the chat up so I can see what's going on. Let me see. Let me pull the chat up so I can see what's going on. Let me see, you got to run two computers on this when you do it like this, because you got to be able to see what the other screen is doing. Steve Miller Band cancels all upcoming tour dates due to extreme weather. Fuck this guy. Due to extreme weather, fuck this guy. Fuck this overrated, fucking bubblegum. Rock pop music fucking guy. Fuck this guy.
Scott McLean:Steve Miller cancels all upcoming tour dates due to extreme lack of fucking ticket sales. That's what's up with that motherfucker. Fuck him and his old ass. You know, I saw him once and you know what I say. Steve Miller is like the fucking Hoover Dam. You only have to see it once, you don't have to. The guy is not exciting. It's like listening to the radio at a concert. He doesn't do anything. There's nothing fucking spectacular about him. He's fucking boring, right. He just sings his fucking songs, plays his guitar Like I could see that at a fucking local bar here in Boca if I wanted to see that. Fuck Steve Miller, 81-year-old, trying to get that fucking money. Fuck you Steve Miller band. And it's not the Steve Miller band, it's Steve Miller that's doing this.
Scott McLean:So let's read the article, steve and again, I don't read these prior, so my reaction is my reaction. These are first reaction articles. Let's see Steve Miller is flying like an eagle away from his 2025 tour dates. Like an eagle away from his 2025 tour dates. Yeah, he's flying like a fucking pigeon. It's more like it Fly like a pigeon, fucker, the 81-year-old musician. It's not because he's doing it, it's his fucking reason for doing it.
Scott McLean:The 81-year-old musician's Steve Miller band said in a statement on Wednesday, july 16th that all of his upcoming tour dates have been canceled due to various extreme weather events. What the how the fuck does he know what the weather's going to be like in Hollywood, florida, at the fucking Hard Rock in September? Like how the fuck does he know that, this motherfucker? He says the combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires. This is fucking real. I'm going to repeat this is a quote. This is a quote. The combination of extreme heat Well, listen, fucking dildo head, it's fucking summertime, okay. Combination of extreme heat Well, listen, fucking dildo head, it's fucking summertime. Okay, it's fucking summer. That's why it's hot, you pussy.
Scott McLean:Unpredictable flooding what happened in Texas was horrible, was fucking horrible. I'm not even going to make any joke. Nothing that was horrible, but it horrible. I'm not even going to make any joke. Nothing that was horrible, but it was a flash flood that they knew was coming. That's all I'm going to say about that. But this unpredictable flooding Tornadoes when the fuck is this guy?
Scott McLean:Tornadoes can happen. If you go through Oklahoma and Middle America and these flyover states, yeah, there's like tornadoes can happen. Like, if you go through oklahoma and middle america and these flyover states, yeah, there's fucking tornadoes. Like you can't say I don't want to do a concert because there might be a tornado. There might be a tornado, you know, yeah, I, I don't want to play the lottery because I might win. Right, this fucking guy, yeah, yeah.
Scott McLean:Like Scott Detron says, does the air conditioning not work at the Hard Rock in Hollywood? Right, exactly, plan your events indoors at the fucking summertime, okay? And, by the way, people know what they're getting into. So this is a whole other thing. This motherfucker like, like we're stupid, like we're stupid. This motherfucker like I, I don't. I don't want to have a concert because it's the extreme heat and you people might show up and not know what you're getting into, what the I don't want to have a concert at an amphitheater nowhere near a river or an ocean or a lake, nowhere near it, because there might be a flood. I don't want to do a concert anywhere because there might be a tornado.
Scott McLean:Oh and God forbid, there's a hurricane. Hey, listen, fuckface Hurricanes. You see them coming, fucking two weeks away, fucking two weeks away. You see them coming. There's a thing called radar, right. There's another thing called Doppler radar, right. And there's another thing called the internet and TV and all these communications and informations and all the nations that let you know that a hurricane's coming, right. So maybe you can cancel that show and say tickets will be honored in fucking December and this one massive forest fires, massive forest fires. All of this makes these risks for you, our audience, the band and crew unacceptable. So you can blame it on the weather. The tour is canceled.
Scott McLean:If there was ever number one, the guy shouldn't be in the fucking Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He should not be in the fucking Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Number two. His fucking Rock and Roll Hall of Fame card needs to be revoked Just because of this. Are you fucking kidding me? Like what? Yeah, like this is his fucking. This is.
Scott McLean:Usa Today has reached out to Steve Miller man for additional information, don't know where, don't know when. We hope to see you again. The message, which was signed by miller, the band and its crew also read okay again. In other words, this motherfucker wasn't selling tickets because no one wants to see a fucking 81 year old steve miller fucking stand there on the stage and sing Big ol' Jet, don't carry me too far away. Nobody wants to see that because you know what? He has no fucking audience anyways, steve Miller was, at best, a fucking pop star. At best, he has, like you know I don't know what five good songs living in the usa. Big old jet airliner joker. Uh, what are the other ones? Like I don't know, he's got a.
Scott McLean:Oh yeah, don't forget, don't forget that fucking 80s classic, that legendary 80s song abracadabra. I want to reach out and grab you. Yeah, yeah, isn't that a me too song? Shouldn't they ban this and that song be canceled. By the way, I wish if there was anything. I don't like the cancel culture. Never did, never will. But if there was anything that needed to be cancelled, it's that fucking song. That fucking song needs to be cancelled. That's all there is to it.
Scott McLean:Abra, abracadabra, I'm gonna reach out and grab ya. Yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh. Let me see something. Let me try to do something. Let me see if this uh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Let me see something. Let me try to do something. Let me see if this no, that might be a little, I don't know. Can you see it on the screen? And when I scroll it, do I go back to this? I'll go back to this. What I want to do is Let me see if I blow the screen up, what happens. I'm just messing with my screen now. No, that doesn't do anything.
Scott McLean:How do I get that back? Dave Phillips, king of the 45s, he's back. Uh-oh, I did something here and I can't. I just fucked up my screen. Steve Miller, it's the weather's fault. It's all about the weather.
Scott McLean:How do I get my screen back? Where the fuck did that go? Oh boy, see, I fucked around and I found out. Let me do this. Oh boy, oh boy, I don't like this. Well, oh boy, oh boy, I don't like this. Well, I don't know how that looks on your screen. I don't think it makes a big difference. I think what I'm seeing is something totally different Sharing, yeah, okay, sorry about this delay, but I don't know what the fuck I just did to my screen, but it it got. It got very big all of a sudden and I'm trying to get it back and I don't know how to do that. Uh, oh boy, let's see, maybe I can do it this way. Let's see, maybe I can do it this way. Let's see Slave to the rhythm Captions. No, I don't know what's going on, I'm just going to keep doing this. I'm just going to keep doing this.
Scott McLean:Anyway, back to this motherfucker. Oh, I really fucked up. I can't get back to this motherfucker. Oh, I really fucked up. I can't get back to my screen. There we go yeah, okay, yeah. So again, fuck, steve Miller, fly like a fucking pigeon, blame it on the weather. Like this motherfucker had the balls to say that. Like, I'm not going to get political, I'm not going to make an issue of what he probably. Anyway, that's not what this show is for.
Scott McLean:But this guy's a fucking asshole. He's an idiot, he's an asshole. You know how much he's an asshole, like that motherfucker that got caught at the Coldplay concert cheating on his wife on the kiss cam and has the balls to go on X and say I apologize to my wife, I apologize to my family, I apologize to my company, I apologize to the people I've let down, I apologize to everybody and everything. But you know, if Coldplay didn't do that which they shouldn't do, that Coldplay should not be putting people's pictures up on a screen because it's private. We were in a private moment. Yeah, you're in a private moment fucking cheating on your wife. Asshole, that's the private moment. You're in Fucking dick. Yeah, he goes and blames fucking Coldplay for him getting caught cheating on his wife. Yeah, him and steve miller assholes of the week. But I gotta give steve miller the biggest asshole of them all. This is. I've never in my life in my life I've heard of concerts getting canceled for many reasons illness, death, fucking, all you fucking. You know his band just came out and said listen, our ticket sales aren't cutting it, we're cutting it short. I mean his band's, just this fucking guy. Let me see. Let's read some comments. It says in the comments of the band's this should be good.
Scott McLean:In the comments of the band's tour cancellation announcement on Instagram, fans expressed confusion over the decision. Quote this seems like an odd reason to cancel a tour. One user wrote, while another comment read is this real Must be a joke. If this is a serious statement, it's the craziest press release I've ever seen for a tour. What did I just say? And again, these are all reaction articles. I don't read them prior. Exactly. This is going down in music history. This motherfucker, what a joke. If this is a real reason why you're the only band touring act to cancel the tour right now, why are you the only band and touring act? Yeah, another comment read.
Scott McLean:But other fans defend the move. Steve has been doing this for decades and has earned the right to play by his own rules. One follower wrote have some class people. Or you, or or I will have a kerfuffle with you. That must have been the motherfucker from Styx that wrote that. That's who that was that mother. Have some class people. How about you? Shut the fuck up. How about that? If I was commenting on that, which I could I probably will have some class. How about you shut the fuck up? Okay, fuck steve miller, fuck his excuses, fuck his tour, fuck his ticket sales, fuck him right. That's what I'm saying. See, this is articles got me fired up right off the bat.
Scott McLean:Everything else after this, I'm sorry to tell you, and in this picture. So I'm looking at a picture. Look at this picture. I don't know if you can see it on your phones. This motherfucker looks like Jerry Springer. He looks like Jerry Springer playing a guitar. I can't fucking make this shit up. I would go back to my screen, but my screen's fucked up on one computer and it's good on the other, so I don't know. I would try to blow that picture up, but I can't anyway.
Scott McLean:Okay, all right, let me take a break here. Let me again drink some more. Yeah, this is all I need. All I need is another fucking, another blast of this ultra turbo iced coffee. Hold on, I'm gonna read some of the comments. Let's see Where's that fucking mouse. Okay, here we go. Let me see what I got here.
Scott McLean:Mark Smith, hey, great to see that. All right, let's get up to this one. Does it not have AC in Hollywood? I get a dollar for every time you drop an F-bomb, I'm $150 ahead. Yeah, well, todd, you're going to be a millionaire by the end of the show. Dave Phillips, king of the 45, says hello, todd Zogman, big Head. Todd says the video of you got smaller. Great improvement to the show. Fuck, see, what are you doing on a Friday night? Well, because I wasn't here last night, mark Smith read the back of any concert ticket. It says you agree to have your likeness used and your picture taken. Dave Phillips, king of the 45s, calls Steve Miller a cork soaker. He's a cork soaker for sure.
Scott McLean:I have to do this. I have to get my fucking screen back. There it is. I got it back. Okay, I don't want to fuck around anymore. I want this. Ah, that's big.
Scott McLean:Let's go over here. No, like this, no, like this. No, like this. No, how about if I get rid of the background? Let's see about this. Let's go with maybe no background, let's see. I don't know. If I get rid of the background, let's see about this. Let's go with, maybe no background, let's see. I don't know if I can do that. Yeah, I don't think I can do that. I don't know. I don't know what's going on here. What if I blow this up. That's me. I don't want to do that. All right, go back to this. There we go, anyway, okay, let's get on to the next article. This is back over here Fucking Steve Miller Fucking pussy. I guess I can't get out of that. So let me get out of this, all right. Next article let's go with this one.
Scott McLean:15 Terrible Albums by Classic Bands. This ought to be interesting 15 Terrible. And let me pull it up on my screen. There we go and away. We go and away, we go.
Scott McLean:Rock and roll musicians have a habit of thinking of themselves like secular gods, but the truth is they're not infallible. No matter how successful a band may or may not have been in the past, there's never any guarantee that their next record will live up to the heights they've previously scaled. Sometimes, everything that once went right just goes all wrong. There are often extenuating circumstances, of course. Band members may leave due to death, drugs or all the other good old-fashioned musical differences or an ambitious new direction may turn out to be more like a swerve into oncoming traffic. Whatever the cause, the fact remains that just because an album has the name of a classic band slapped across its cover, it doesn't necessarily follow. The album itself will be a classic. So, featuring the likes of the doorsors, the Clash, duran Duran.
Scott McLean:Here are the 15 worst albums ever made by otherwise great bands. Number 15, guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy 2008. I might agree with that. I think I do. Recorded at 15 different studios over 10 year period at a cost exceeding 13 million, chinese democracy is one of the most expensive rock albums ever made, which just goes to show that the money can't buy you quality. Early guns and roses guitarist tracy. Guns called axl rose's labor of love over Overindulgent, sterile, not that exciting. That seemed to be the overwhelming opinion on that album. Number 14, queen with Paul Rogers, the Cosmos Rocks 2008. Again, I agree, I don't even think. I fucking I think.
Scott McLean:I just heard that this came out, wouldn't even go near it because I knew what was going on. I was never a big Queen fan. Anyways, I liked Queen in the 70s when everybody liked Queen in the 70s. I liked a few of their songs after that, but I was never a big Queen fan. It's Freddie Mercury Okay, great front man, one of the great front mans, put on a great show. I wouldn't go to see them. I just their music is just. It's okay to me it's okay. I think their hype was bigger than their music. I would dare the average listener to give me eight songs by Queen. Right, and we already know in the first four.
Scott McLean:So but like it says, uh, more than a decade after the death of frontman freddie mercury in 1991, queen announced they would be reuniting for a four, for a tour, with former bad company singer paul rogers. Collaboration eventually led to a new record, but the clunky and forgettable the cosmos rocks failed to come anywhere near the heights of their classic period because paul rogers isn't fucking freddie mercury, you just can't fucking it's, it's you. It's like putting a round peg in a square hole. It just doesn't fucking work. That way just does not work. Let's see, I just okay. Steve Miller I mean Dave Phillips, king of the 45s, going back to these comments says Steve Miller is no good. He, let me see boyhood friends. Boss gags wrote most of his hits. See, there you go, dave Phillips, king of the 45s. Queen didn't do it for me, as he says.
Scott McLean:Alright, number 13. I might argue this, I might have an argument for this. The number 13 song, worst song, worst album all the time from a classic rock band, aerosmith, draw the line 1977 this is their first album, I believe, without Joe Perry Aerosmith were catapulted no, that's not it. But Aerosmith were catapulted no, that's not it. But Aerosmith were catapulted to rock superstardom by 1975's Toys in the Attic and 1976's Rocks. It was fucking unbelievable their first four albums. I think if you put their first four albums featuring Dream On, which is their first album, that's what it's regularly referred to as featuring Dream On Get your Wings Toys album, that's what it's regularly referred to as, uh, featuring dream on get your wings toys in the attic and rocks I, I think you would be hard pressed to find a band to match those four albums. I really really do. I. I challenge anybody out there listening or watching the live stream to comment in with a band that has four albums, their first four albums better than those four, or comparable. Okay, in 1976,.
Scott McLean:But the next year the band had run off the rails. Frontman Steven Tyler was alternating between huge lines of cocaine and fistfuls of sedatives. Guitarist Joe Perry later told band biographer Stephen Davis that during the recording of the incohesive Draw the Line, we were drug addicts dabbling in music rather than musicians dabbling in drugs. The song Draw the Line is a good fucking song. That doesn't make the album. I I didn't have any problem with the album. But then again, in 77, if you were from boston, fucking arrowsmith could take a shit in the middle of the road and throw it at an old lady and everyone would go arrowsmith. That's the truth, and so I I was probably biased on that one. Let's get down to number 12.
Scott McLean:The Doors Other Voices, 1971. Now you know what this? I don't know. If you're a Doors fan, you know what this garbage is. This is garbage. This was pure. We need to keep making money. Garbage, garbage. The 1971 album Other Voices.
Scott McLean:When their iconic frontman, jim Morrison, died in Paris in July 1971, the remaining three members of the Doors were faced with a difficult decision of whether they should carry on without him. Just three months later, they released the album the trio had been working on in his absence. The lackluster Other Voices Quote. We probably shouldn't have put it out that quick after jim's passing, admitted guitarist robbie krieger in an interview. Well, you did, you did, and it didn't work. That would be. That was like credence clearwater revival trying to put out an album well, you know the rest without the lead singer.
Scott McLean:Okay, let's get into this one. At number 11 we have. Uh well, dave dave egan said how do I join? How do you join? Um, I don't know, dave egan, you commented in so you've joined. You're officially joined the live stream Van Halen. This is number 11, van Halen 3 from 1998. Let's see, van Halen only ever released one album with extreme singer Gary Cherone, and you only have to listen to it to find out why. Because it was extremely shitty. That's why it was so bad. They didn't release another record for 14 years. Oh damn, they're right, though.
Scott McLean:The most withering review came from the band's original singer, david Lee Roth, who opined that Eddie Van Halen sung. How Many Say I, at the. Eddie Van Halen sung, how Many Say I sounded like hot water being poured on a cat. Well, david Lee Roth, right, of course he's going to say that, but I can't say he's lying either. All right, at number 10 we have motley crew, generation swine 1997. Generation swine was much hyped before its release because it saw the return of vince nail to motley crew. After, after a five-year absence and about 70 pounds later. Okay, I'm just saying Vince Nail's before and after is kind of weird looking, but, okay, like young Vince Nail to. Okay, he didn't age, gracefully, let's put it that way. Their original singer may have been back in the fold, but their early magic failed to reappear In 2008,.
Scott McLean:Speaking to Cleveland newspaper, the Plain Dealer, neil, said it was a terrible record because there was so much experimenting. Well then, fucking don't experiment. Fucking go. What are you experimenting for? Who is the producer? That's on the producer for letting them do that? That's what I say. There's still a shitty fucking album.
Scott McLean:It's getting into number nine the who it's Hard, 1982. This is yeah, yeah, this had, I don't know, I think, one one hit on it maybe. Uh, the who, uh, the who are one of britain's greatest rock bands, but you know, 1982 they were running out of steam fast. Iconic drummer keith moon had died four years earlier and the remaining members were unsure whether they even still wanted to be making albums After releasing the largely insipid it's Hard. They wouldn't make another record for 24 years Plus. Pete Townshend was hitting his stride in the early 80s too, as a solo artist, and he was making it. Roger Daltrey wasn't and Pete Entwistle was doing coke, so he didn't give a fuck. It actually ended up taking his life. All right.
Scott McLean:Number eight on the list of 15 worst classic rock albums by a classic rock band, of course, a Black Sabbath Forbidden from 1995. When summoned at Sabbath's record label suggested the guitarist, tony Iommi, that the band collaborate with rapper Ice-T oh boy. Iommi's response was who the hell is he? Not only did Ice-T end up performing on Forbidden, but his body count bandmate Ernie C, was brought in to produce the record. Yikes, his style never suited the band and Iommi has since called the album they made together really crap.
Scott McLean:Number six kiss, carnival of souls, the final sessions kiss fans, if you. Anyway, this is from 1997. In the mid-90s, kiss decided that if they couldn't beat the grunge sound of Nirvana Sound God and Alice Janes, they may as well join them. Because they are that fucking arrogant to think that they could do this, they ludicrously tried to reinvent themselves as flannel-wearing alternative rockers I believe in their 40s at that point In their 40s but initially ditched the idea before releasing an album. Then, after bootleg started to circulate, they came out. They put out Carnival of Souls, the final sessions. Anyway, it would have been okay if they hadn't. That's right. Now this one I fucking strongly disagree with. I don't know who would put this on the list. This is insane to me, because this is actually probably my favorite album.
Scott McLean:My favorite song by Led Zeppelin is achilles last stand and it's on presence from 1976, at the end of 19, and that's number six on the list led zeppelin presence from 1976. The end of 1975 was a tough line for led zeppelin singer. Uh, for led zeppelin singer rob plant was still recovering after being seriously injured in a car accident, so their tour was canceled and the studio time booked Instead. Presence was put together in just a few weeks, with guitarist and producer Jimmy Page working 20-hour days to finish it and Plant singing through the pain. In hindsight, bed rest may have been the better option.
Scott McLean:I don't understand that. I don't understand that one bit option. I. I don't understand that. I I don't understand that one bit. If you listen to again achilles last stand, I think it's like 12 minutes long and you have layers. Jimmy page was fucking spectacular at layering his guitars and achilles last, and this is why he was putting in 20 hours a day, because achilles last Stand has like four layers of guitars, I believe, and it was fuck.
Scott McLean:I don't see anything wrong with that album, nothing. I guess this person just thought they would jump in because it does have Presence, does have like a might be like a different type of Led Zeppelin sound, maybe there's something, I don't know, but it's a fucking still a good album. I know the tour was cursed, but to call this one of the worst classic albums, I mean there's so many others out there. You pick this one, jesus Idiot. Okay, moving on, let me see's.
Scott McLean:On replying to talk, it changes by the minute 328 dollars now because I say fuck too much in this episode. Well, that motherfucker steve miller fucking got me all fucking fired up. So fuck him. It's his fucking fault that I'm saying dropping all these F-bombs. That's the reason. Fucking Steve Miller. I will never forgive Steve Miller for this, never. Because he cares what Milk Crates and Turntable says. Well, they all do. Because we're big people, we're fucking big. Don't forget that. Okay, here we go. Genesis at number five, calling all stations from 1997.
Scott McLean:By the time drummer and singer Phil Collins quit Genesis in 96, they were down to two original members keyboardist Tony Banks and guitarist Mike Rutherford. The pair brought in Scottish singer Ray Wilson to replace Collins. That's Everybody. I think the longtime listeners of Milk Crates and Turntables knows my relationship with Phil Collins. It's not the best right. I respect him in a lot of ways and there's other ways I don't but he is one of those singers that you can't replace. I think you would agree with me on that. It's like when he took over from the overrated Peter Gabriel, the band totally took on a whole new thing. He was like to Phil Collins, to Genesis, was Stevie Nicks to Fleetwood Mac that's how I look at it Absolutely catapulted after that and they never looked back until you bring in someone to try to replace that voice.
Scott McLean:See, why would I get a? When are you going on? I just got a text. When are you going on? I'm on now. Asshole People texting me. When are you coming on? Well, fucking go. Look, I shouldn't talk to my audience like that. I love my audience, except for big head Todd the Wits Frog Pain in my ass. Mark, love my audience, except for big head Todd the Witsfrog Pain in my ass. Mark Smith is becoming quickly the number two man on that list of busting my balls. Okay, so here we go, but they shouldn't have bothered.
Scott McLean:The album was widely panned, with the Chicago Tribune calling it a formless blob of synth sounds. And I like synth, as Jack calls me. I'm Synthy Lauper Getting all congested here. I'm almost done with this, how far into we are on this. Oh, we're already 40 minutes into this thing. The Clash cut the crap, 1985. Yep, they should have cut that crap.
Scott McLean:The final album by punk heroes, the Clash, and now largely forgotten. The final album by punk heroes, the Clash, is now largely forgotten, excluded from box sets and compilations, and rightfully so. After sacking drummer Topper Hedden and guitarist Mick Jones, joe Strummer and Paul Simon decided to press on with the uninspired record. The band split for good shortly after its release and Strummer later disowned it, perhaps wishing he had taken his own titular advice. Yep, now here's another one, I don't know. Okay, I am not the biggest Metallica fan in the world.
Scott McLean:This is number three Metallica, saint Anger from 2003. Now the song Saint Anger. I fucking dig that jam. That is a jam, heavy jam. Right, I leave this up to metalheads to make this decision. Perry Lightfingers, dedevich the AI.
Scott McLean:Any Genesis album could be on that list. Thanks, I think you're right. No, no, I like Genesis. What am I listening to? The ai for? Listen, light fingers. Don't start swaying my opinions. Sorry for the podcast listeners. These live streams can irritate me. Sometimes they're distracting me. I'm like a fucking a child that sees a shiny object. Oh, look at that, it's my attention span. Okay, sometimes a band tinkering with the formula that made their name is just what they need to scale new heights. Like you too, you two always tinkered with their sound.
Scott McLean:No two albums really sounded the same. Uh, up until two of my favorite albums by them which is All you Can Take With you and how To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb that should have been a two record set, because they're both great albums and they have great songs on them. That was the last of the greatness of U2, and I say that and everybody knows my relationship with U2. If you've listened to this, I loved you too Huge fan Listening to him from the beginning, head of the curve, and after those two albums they just were never the same. They just can't get it back. So, you know, they turn into an oldies In a really weird way.
Scott McLean:They're like an oldies band. They go out and they play the new songs and really no one wants to hear them. If there's a crowd of 60,000, 50,000 of those people don't want to hear their new music. So that's what you get, you know. But this St Anger complete lack of guitar solos, which was a whole thing. That was a big thing for Kirk Hammett, yep. And, most damningly of all, a succession of vapid, overlong songs. Now the song St Angle, like I said, is a good song and the video is pretty fucking cool too, but I don't know. I can't speak on the rest of the album, so I will refrain from that.
Scott McLean:At number two on the list, chris Cornell Sc, the late great chris cornell scream from 2009. On the cover of chris cornell's third solo album shows the former front man of grunge titans soundgarden symbolically smashing a guitar. On the record itself he ditches his guitar lead rocks on his guitar led rock sound in favor of electronic pop beats. Executive produced by Timbaland. Oh boy, yeah Well, timbaland was a big hip-hop producer.
Scott McLean:Still is. Made a boatload of money. Had a solo career. Timbaland's okay, tim's okay with me. Never ran his mouth, never got got in trouble, just always a cool producer. You know he put he was a producer and songwriter. A rap writer is. If you're writing a rap, is that really writing a song, right? I don't know. Well, steven Tyler wrote his songs like rap, all rhyming schemes. Timbaland did a lot for Missy Elliott. He blew her up. But if you're not a hip-hop fan, you don't know what I'm talking about, so I'll move on. So it was produced by Timbaland, who's a hip-hop producer, and aided by Justin Timberlake. Whoa, chris, chris, chris.
Scott McLean:The result was certainly a scream, but not in a fun way. Ah, that's not a good combination for the likes of Chris Cornell. No, no, no. Let me see Dave Phillips, king of the 45, says U2 is done. Now they pretty much are. You know, bono's like a few years older than me, but he looks like he's fucking 12, 15 years older than me. That dude is not aging well at all at fucking all. He looks horrible. His face just looks all fucking old.
Scott McLean:All right, let's get down here to number one, the number one worst album by a classic rock band. And this isn't really, I'd say, music, classic music, because Duran Duran isn't rock, it's pop. But they're Duran Duran. You can never take that away from them. I personally like Duran Duran.
Scott McLean:Again, listening to them from the beginning, everyone thinks Hungry Like the Wolf was their first big hit. It wasn't. This Is Planet Earth was their first hit hit. It wasn't. This is planet earth was their first hit. Uh, it got re-released after hungry like a wolf and it took off. Um, always a duran duran fan, but thank you from 1995. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time A massively successful band paying tribute to their favorite artists and songs. Never a good idea. Never a good idea. That's a novelty album. That's all that is. When a band does that, it's a fucking novelty album.
Scott McLean:Let's see Big Head Toddler with Sprockets says no rap, mark, king of Google, flynn, nutsack on your neck. At least I have a neck. This motherfucker got more rolls on his neck. I could finish that, but I won't. He's got this big thing in the back of his neck. It's big, fucking, just like. It looks like a neck brace. That goes mark flynn, king of google. It looks like one of those football player puts around their helmet like that old school round neck brace so your head doesn't get jolted back when you hit somebody. He's got one of those, except it's made of skin From behind. You're like what's he wearing the football neck brace for? Oh, that's his neck. Okay, no, no, no.
Scott McLean:Mark from the King of Google says it's actually a pack of hot dogs on the back. No, no, it's a big skin neck brace. Like he can play football, doesn't even like need a helmet really, and his head won't because it can't. It's too big, it's too fat. There's too much fat there on the back of his neck and it gets a little sweaty sometimes in the folds and if you're standing too close behind him you can maybe smell it. Just, I love him like a brother, but I'm just putting it out there. It's that sweat smell, like old sweat smell. He's the guy.
Scott McLean:Mark Flynn, king of Google, is the guy since you want to fuck with me. He's the guy. Mark Flynn, king of Google, is the guy Since you want to fuck with me. He's the guy that you see at the gym that comes in sweating like a fucking prostitute outside of Glory Hole and his shirt's soaked and he takes it off and then he wipes his face and he wipes his head. If you go to the gym, you've been to the gym, I've been to the gym, believe it or not. I know Big Head Todd the Wet Sprocket lives in a gym. He'll say you don't go to the gym, fuck him too. But Mark Flynn is the dude that takes the sweaty t-shirt and then wipes his face in the back of his big skin neck. Brace Doesn't reach all the folds Just saying All right, I'm getting carried away here. Let's get back to this, all right.
Scott McLean:So a band playing tribute to their favorite artists and songs. The result was an album named the Worst of All Time by Q Magazine in 2006. The Bob Dylan and Sly and the family stone covers were bad enough, but the ghastly nadir was simon lebon wrapping his way through public enemies. Urgent protest anthem 9-1-1 is a joke. Wait a minute. No, okay, stand by people. The stand by. I have. I don't think I have a copy of my fucking video.
Scott McLean:Last week got slammed, like like youtube went in and edited out the whole song. So if you watch the lives, like the replay of the live stream, I'm there with the headphones on because I'm doing a podcast and I'm playing the music that the live people heard live. But, uh, on, on the YouTube video it's, there's no music, it's just me going. Yep, uh-huh. They took the music out, motherfuckers. All right, let's see, let's see, uh, let's.
Scott McLean:Let's hear this song Duran, duran, 9-1-1. Here we go, oh boy, oh boy, here we go. The fuck is that? What the fuck is this? Oh boy, I just want to get to him. What, what? This is? Simon Le Bon, what, ha Ha? Oh, my God, how have I never heard this? How the fuck? Well, I probably know why I never heard this, because it never fucking made it anywhere. Oh my god, what the fuck? I better not get a copyright for this, because these motherfuckers better be happy. I just played this fucking garbage. I'm done with that. Right for this, because these motherfuckers better be happy. I just played this fucking garbage. I don't even I'm done with that. Like they, they, they probably like no, no, no, no, no, don't, don't copyright that YouTube, don't copyright it. Let, let, let it go, let it go. We're good with that, we're good. Oh, that's bad, that's fucking bad. Yeah, well, let's see. I don't know if I have time for one more. I don't know. Let's see what we got. Let's get rid of that. Let's go over here, let's see. Let me see if I could.
Scott McLean:Classic rock albums, follow-ups, the 25 best. No, that's too many. Uh, you know what I'm gonna. I'm gonna pull this one up because I actually am interested in this, and I'll tell you why as soon as I pull it up. There we go, all right.
Scott McLean:So, while one legendary act is saying farewell, an offshoot from another will reintroduce themselves on tour. I kind of had a little pre-knowledge of this, but I'll read it to you anyways. Um, an all-star version of the joe perry project. Now, if if you've never heard of the Joe Perry Project, I'm not surprised. When Aerosmith broke up, when he left Aerosmith, he started the Joe Perry Project and he had a couple of hits. He was big around the New England area, of course, because he's Joe Perry, and he had a little kind of success. I think they had an MTV video that was was somewhat successful and they had, like, let the music do the talking. I think I don't know if that was their song, but they had a one little hit, maybe two, but then that just really didn't go anywhere. So that's the joe perry project. In a nutshell, it's one of the opening acts for the who's. The song is Tour Fucking. Are you kidding me? Are they like they, those guys? They just anyway. The who announced their the Song Is Over Farewell Tour back in May, but what might have slipped by some fans is the list of opening acts on the tour, one that's particularly noteworthy. The revived version of the Joe Perry Project, led by Aerosmith's guitarist, is set to open two shows on the who Tour August 26th at Boston's Fenway Park, of course, and September 17th at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Scott McLean:Perry's side project is only performed sporadically through the years and he has mostly devoted his time to Aerosmith. But with his main band retired from touring due to singer Steven Tyler's vocal cord injury, perry has assembled a new all-star version of his side project. The latest version of the joe perry project includes chris robinson from the black crows thumbs up on vocal, perry's arrowsmith bad bandmate brad whitford on guitar thumbs up in a rhythm section featuring robert delio and eric kretz from stone temple pilots thumbs, thumbs up. The all-star band also has its own headlining dates of smaller venues, running from August 13th in Tampa to August 23rd in Port Chester, new York, and I just happened to grab a couple tickets to that show at the Hard Rock Hotel, rock hotel and casino in hollywood, florida, and hot rock live, because I, like everybody on, I'm not a big fan of those kind of I don't know if you call it a super group, but you know the mix Fans, but I, like everybody on that stage, big Stone Temple Pilots fan, always a big Aerosmith fan, like the Black Crows, never not liked them. Let me get rid of that commercial. It popped up on my screen and so that's what you get, like fuck. So I'm like I'll grab a couple tickets. So I get a couple tickets. So I get a couple tickets. And August 15th, on a Thursday night, good night to go to a show. So, yeah, joe Perry Project is back. Good for Joe. He's always been a good dude, never ran his mouth, never got in trouble, never, you know, fucking went off the deep end. Well, he did, but when he was younger. But he wasn't trouble, just seemed like a layback dude. And uh, yeah, so I'm, I bought a couple tickets. I I think that's gonna be a good show. That's, that's a good lineup right there. So, uh, uh, oh uh.
Scott McLean:Perry light fingers, detevich the ai says sounds like cory feldman. Oh, oh no, don't say that to me. Who sounds like? Who sounds like cory feldman? Chris robinson from the black crows? Perry detevich AI. Are you saying that Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes Sounds like Corey Feldman?
Scott McLean:I don't know about that. You ever watch those Corey Feldman videos Of him on stage? It's bizarre. It's almost like he does it on purpose To get views. He's probably making money on YouTube, fucking videos, but it's fucking weird. Like he's just all like Michael Jackson. Everything he does is Michael Jackson and then it's like what the fuck? Okay, all right, but he's terrible, he's bad. I don't know. They just get paid. They're like, yeah, yeah, I'm good, I'm good. I don't know how they play that music every night. That's some dedicated motherfuckers and then some desperate motherfuckers for the money. So that's it. That's it. That's my Friday night show.
Scott McLean:I thought I'd get it on. I thought I'd get it on for Friday night and get this out for the next podcast. What did I just do? I had a little technical difficulty with the beginning, but I always get through it. That's what happens when you do a live stream Shit happens, right, shit happens. So, yeah, I'm going to wrap this up.
Scott McLean:I want to thank you all for watching. Thank you for listening. If you like it, share it. If you're on YouTube and you're watching this, hit the subscribe button. I'm live every. I don't know, it's usually Wednesday nights, but yeah, I should be back next Wednesday, or is it Thursday? It's Thursdays, I don't even know what fucking night. I do it now. Jesus, that's not good. Oh, perry Dinovich, light Fingers, ai Duran Duran I get it now. Okay, yeah, that did sound like Corey Feldman, simon LeBron rapping yeah, and before I go, this song has been like fucking on repeat on my Spotify playlist.
Scott McLean:Every once in a while you come across these songs that you forgot about right, everybody does and you're like, oh fuck, you know, I forgot it. That was a great song. Well, how come I haven't listened to it or anything like that? This I don't know how this song popped up into my life again, but I went in and this I fucking love this song and it's kind of a. It's Grace Jones, right. So she, she had her little run and God bless Grace Jones. I mean, look at, nobody was like Grace Jones. That I mean, look it, nobody was like Grace Jones. That's all there is to it. She was like mega talented before all the rest of them. But this song right here, this song Now, at the beginning, at the beginning, I believe it's is it on this version?
Scott McLean:Let me pull up the other version. Hold on one second, because at the beginning of the song you hear somebody talking and let me see, you've heard this. You know who this guy is. You might not know who he's an is. You might not know who he's an actor, you might not know his name. And I think it's on this version. There we go.
Scott McLean:I have a grandfather on my father's side. He's 95 years old. His great-grandfather came from Nigeria, from the Igbo tribe. I don't look like my mother and I don't look like my father. I look exactly like my grandfather. I act like him. Do you act all the time? Not all the time, no, so this is kind of the intro to the song.
Scott McLean:Let's see, I don't think that's it. What's going on here? Hold on. No, that's not it. Come on, don't do this to me now. I just had this. Fuck. Okay, I'll just do this version. I don't know, I don't know if he's in this one. Now I want to fucking play this version. No, let me see if it's on this version. My grandfather on my father's side. He's nine to five years old. His great-grandfather came from Nigeria. Why am I not getting this? No, what the fuck? I've had this thing playing all day. Now I can't find it. Try this one.
Scott McLean:Ladies and gentlemen, here we go. You know who the voice is. That's Ian McShane. If you watch Deadwood, he plays the brothel owner. If you saw John Wick, he's the hotel guy. He's the short hotel guy. He's been in a lot of stuff, ian McShane. That's a little thing, but this song. I'm going to get this done here, because this song, this will probably get Pulled down, but I don't care.
Scott McLean:It's the end of the video, so it's the end of the live stream, but I fucking love this song. It's like you rediscover these songs and you're like, damn, this is like I don't know, it's probably the 80s, it's not everybody's cup of tea. You're like, damn, this is like I don't know, probably it's the 80s, it's not everybody's cup of tea, but, come on, it's Grace Jones. Nobody was like Grace Jones, like she had it all and she was a James Bond movie too. Slaves to the rhythm. It's just a great song To the river. I can't play the whole song because I don't want to.
Scott McLean:This is a heavily copyrighted, protected song, but go download it. I love this break right here, right here. Yeah, fucking love this song Grace Jones, slaves of the Earth. I don't own that song. Go download it. It's on Spotify, it's on Apple Music. It's a great song. I give Grace my money. Love Grace Jones.
Scott McLean:Anyway, like I said, thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. If you like it, share it. If you didn't like it, well. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. If you like it, share it. If you didn't like it, well. Thanks for watching and listening for an hour and five minutes.
Scott McLean:I'll be back next Thursday night, god willing. And as I always say Mark Flynn, he says I enjoyed listening to you. I was actually at the gym wiping my face in the rolls in the back of my neck, face in rolls in the back of my neck, face in rolls in the back of my neck with my t-shirt, as I enjoyed your show. Thank you, oh, and then I put it back on. Patty Austin says thanks, great show. Three exclamation points. All right, see you next week. I'm glad you liked it. And again, you guys are the engine that makes this machine run. So, as I say, doing this show for you, to quote my favorite artist, morrissey, the pleasure, the privilege is mine and I'll be back next Thursday night Again, god willing, but I'll be here. I'm too fucking bad to go anywhere. Slave to the rhythm, baby, get it good. Wait, wait, wait, hold on. That's good, that's good. Slave to the rhythm, baby, wait, wait, wait, hold on. That's good. Yeah, alright, I'm going out with this. See you later, everybody.
