Somewhere in the heavens your great Grammy Gertrude is crying because her little Bebo
is listening to this felt.
We're off to the races.
Okay.
Let me switch notebooks here.
Alright.
So, um, can you beatbox any or not?
I can.
Okay, alright.
I can beatbox very badly.
Yes, good.
And I can do the music creeps intro very badly, so let's go ahead.
We are the music creeps.
Yes, yes, we are the music creeps.
As a nice addition.
As a very nice addition.
I have to remember that for the next time.
We are, we are, are the music creeps.
Alright, there we go.
Okay.
That was sufficiently unpleasant for everybody.
You know, I mean, if I wasn't such a dick, we'd just record it sometime.
Or I'd separate it, but.
If we really cared, we'd make something that actually sounded good.
Yeah, but we don't.
So, yeah.
I've got a little story here I'd like to start off with if you don't care.
Sure.
Okay.
Billy Corgan, you know, Smashing Pumpkins.
Pretty talented guy.
Smart guy, obviously.
He once asked his hero, Tony Iommi, why Black Sabbath Volume 4 sounded so weird.
And I do agree with him.
It didn't really fit into the other ones with the sound.
I mean, it still had that sound, but there was something different about it.
It was odd.
It was kind of a peculiar album.
It did, it did okay, but.
Yeah.
So, and apparently and perhaps unsurprisingly, the Metal Pioneer believed it was,
came all down to the liberal availability of when he was recording the Sabbath 1972 album, was Drugs.
Oh, okay.
I thought it was going to be some like equipment change or the way it was mixed, but.
No.
This makes more sense.
Yeah, yeah, it does, but he said that the speaker boxes were filled with cocaine.
And they were delivered to the studio.
Yeah.
And he said that the drug guy would show up once a day when they got rid of the,
when they snorted up all the stuff in the speaker boxes.
And the guy would come by every day like clockwork and give them the rest of their cocaine.
And their management was the one arranging all of this.
And he said that they were, that their availability of drugs on that particular album was insane.
Oh, gosh.
Kind of like the Fleetwood Mac when they were recording Rumors.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
And he said that that is probably why volume four sounds so weird, if you will.
Yeah, yeah, people tend to think of cocaine as an 80s drug.
But I remember, what was it, Hard Day's Night by the Beatles?
What was that, 64, 65?
Something like that, yeah.
There's one little bit that slipped past the sensors.
John Lennon has a bottle of Coca-Cola.
And in one scene, he tips the bottle up to his nose, plugs one nostril and gives a sniff.
Oh, wow, I didn't know that.
So John Lennon was making a cocaine joke in 65.
That's a good point.
And that was during the hallucinogenics and all that stuff, yeah.
Yeah, that was a little before acid.
Yeah.
But, you know.
Well, it stands to reason.
They've been using cocaine to help people have surgeries.
I mean, oral surgeries have always been with cocaine generally.
I mean, so that would make sense that people would know that this drug makes you feel pretty damn good
and would probably take advantage of it.
Yeah, yeah.
And all sides in World War II supplied their soldiers with amphetamines.
They had to.
Yeah.
Yeah, because it would make them faster, stronger, and also not know that they're dead.
Yeah.
So it was, let's see, the Americans were using like morphine sulfate.
Yeah.
No, not morphine sulfate.
It was a different kind of amphetamine.
But the Germans invented methamphetamines.
And that's what the German soldiers had.
Yeah, I forgot.
What the hell was it that they had?
Yeah, it was a different type of amphetamine.
It was a little bit safer for you.
And it was a little bit of a painkiller more to.
Yeah, appetite suppressants.
Yeah, all that.
Yeah.
The Japanese had their own concoction that they gave to the guys that got in the mini-subs
and then had to live in this mini-sub for like three days.
And it killed a number of them, and the rest of them, it drove insane.
Wow.
Because they couldn't sleep for three days.
It just kept them awake.
So they were never able to sleep, never able to dream.
So they lapsed into a psychosis from that.
And the whole Japanese miniature submarine idea was just a bust because of the amphetamines
they were giving the personnel.
Yeah, anyhow, sorry, I got to write it out.
Go ahead and keep going.
But yeah, when the American soldiers were overrunning positions formerly held by the
German soldiers, they kept finding these little tiny pill bottles all over the place.
And they're like, what the hell are these?
But that was what the amphetamines were distributed in, was little tiny round bottles.
And I've seen some examples of them in the museum.
Okay, cool.
It's interesting that we had the whole just say no to drugs.
I know.
And then we had a government that was drugging us so we'd be better killers.
And that's not even the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the government and drugs.
There are so many different subjects on this and I think a lot of people know.
A lot of people don't know.
So anyhow.
All right.
It's fascinating though.
We had the top 10 rock songs.
We did the metal songs and I think we pulled it off pretty good.
Yeah, top 10 rock solos.
Yeah, rock solos, not songs, sorry.
Anyhow, you want to go ahead with yours?
Sure.
I've got some that might overlap into metal.
I do too, but I considered it a rock song.
Yeah.
Okay.
So this one was misunderstood by Dream Theater.
It's on six degrees of inner turbulence.
Trying to locate that song in my head.
Yeah.
It starts out really slow and soft and gentle.
But the solo at the end, it stands out to me.
John Petrucci is the guitar player.
And he composed a solo.
And then he reversed it.
So it was playing backwards.
And then he learned to play along with the backwards version of his original solo.
So on the album you get his original solo in reverse and then him playing along with it.
That's insane.
Yeah.
And it's crazy, but it really kind of works.
It really does.
And it ends where he goes through the solo and when it's time to resolve back into the bridge leading of the chorus,
it works really well.
He just slides right in.
It's like, oh, okay, this all makes sense now.
Wow.
So I really like that.
That's the song I used to listen to over and over and over for the solo.
I'm going to have to listen to that.
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
So.
Number two, Watermelon in Easter Hay by Frank Zappa.
It's on one of the Joe's Garage albums.
That's going back way.
Yeah.
This is like 1980.
The whole song is an instrumental guitar solo played by Frank Zappa.
And he's playing, I think, on a Telecaster.
I think in the video I saw him play.
Is he the Telecaster or Strat because it's got the single coil sound, but it is the most gorgeous, beautiful guitar playing.
And the song itself is beautiful.
Okay.
And it's such a contrast to some of the other things Zappa does because Zappa isn't afraid to get really ugly and nasty in a lot of his songs.
But Watermelon in Easter Hay, I have no idea what the title means, but just beautiful.
It's Frank Zappa.
Who knows?
Yeah.
It was probably something he dreamed up.
Probably.
Let's see.
Next up I have the solo in Comfortably Numb.
That is a good one.
On Pink Floyd's The Wall.
That was David Gilmour.
We overlapped on that one.
Yeah.
I figured there'd be some overlap.
That one was a no-brainer, really.
Yeah.
And it just fits the song perfectly.
It fit the time perfectly.
It was just everything came together to make that such a classic solo.
Yeah.
That solo is just amazing.
Another one is The Wall.
Yeah.
The solo in that is so good, but I prefer Comfortably Numb like you.
Yeah.
All right.
Number four, Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits.
Oh my God.
That's a good one.
Mark Knopfler guitar.
Yeah.
Very underrated guitar.
Just goes on and on and on and on.
And it's such a sweet, clear tone.
There's no overdrive.
There's no distortion.
There's very limited effect on it.
It's just the guitar sound.
So underrated.
Yeah.
So underrated.
Yeah.
He is so smooth and just... His fingers just is like effortless to him.
It's amazing.
Wow.
Very cool.
On a side note, that their song Money for Nothing where he has that real raspy guitar
sound in the beginning.
Oh, I love it.
Yeah.
He has yet to be able to reproduce that sound.
He said, I was able to get that sound in the studio on that day and I've never been able
to reproduce it.
That sound is so unique, clear.
Yeah.
The tone on that is just... So when they do it live, they usually just have the recording
of the studio because he can't figure out how to reproduce that tone.
On that song, I would suggest that.
On a lot of songs, I'd say no, go live.
But know that one right there?
I would suggest it.
Yeah.
That's great.
All right.
Number five, Purple Rain from the song.
Oh my God.
From Prince and Prince Rogers Nelson on guitar.
I can't believe I never even thought about it.
Yeah.
Insane.
Insane guitar solo.
It was for a lot of people, that was when they realized that, oh my God, this guy is
such a talented musician.
There was a solo on... I can't remember.
There was another song that had a guitar solo in it, but this one, Purple Rain, when the
rock stations got it, they're like, oh my God, we got to play this.
They had to leave it in.
Because it's a rock song, a rock solo, but they're like, we can't play Prince because
we're a rock and roll station.
They did.
And then the R&B stations are like, we're going to leave that solo in because that's
awesome.
They didn't care.
Well, you see, that's something else that went on too is they used to convince songs
down and take out most of the solo.
That one they had to leave because the solo was so good.
Yeah.
There are a lot of songs where you'd be surprised at how the guitar solo sounds.
Here I Go Again.
Yeah.
That one, that solo there has been butchered so many times.
Sometimes they put in a really quick orchestra sounding, and then sometimes they put in like
a third of the solo.
And they change it.
It's really disgusting to me.
Yeah.
A lot of times they'll delete the solo and put in a few more choruses.
Yeah.
And it's just like that.
And people who know the difference are like me and going, fuck you guys.
Number six, Highway Star, Deep Purple.
That's a great one.
Richie Blackmore on guitar.
See, I got, well, now I'm going to.
Okay.
Highway Star was my second.
I got one that I think is even a little bit better than that.
Okay.
I mean.
I've heard a local band who is really talented play Highway Star live.
And he did a really, really good job on that solo.
But there's something about the way Richie plays it that's just not, you can't imitate
it.
It's just got to be him.
Yeah.
He was so good at not only the rhythm and the structure of the song, but also the solos.
Yeah.
He was just like one of the rare people that could do both of them so well.
And I think a lot of times he didn't have to plan it out.
It was just, you know, stream of consciousness, consciousness kind of playing.
Yeah.
That's the best way to do it.
I agree.
All right.
Next up, number seven, I had Voodoo Child, Slight Return by Jimi Hendrix.
Jimi Hendrix, of course, the guitar player on that.
I think we went over on that one too.
Yeah, we did.
Yep.
But that's kind of a classic.
That you just kind of got to include.
That whole thing is a solo almost.
Pretty much, yeah.
Just like, yeah.
Yeah.
He gets to a mountain and chop it down with the edge of my hand.
Yeah.
I know that What's His Name wrote and Bob Dylan.
Yeah.
But that's one of those songs that nobody cares.
It's just kind of like Hurt, you know, when Johnny Cash did it.
It's like, we know there's another version, but this is the one.
Yeah.
All along the watchtower is also Dylan, but Hendrix version.
And then Manfred Mann's Earth Band did a couple of remakes of Bruce Dreenstein songs.
And they did it well.
Spirits in the Night and, oh gosh, Spirits in the Night was the second one.
What was the other one?
I can't remember what the other one was, but Spirits in the Night gathered the most steam.
Wrapped Up Like a Douche, Another Runner in the Night, Blinded by the Light.
Blinded by the Light, yep.
That was the other one, yeah.
And they had another song called I Came for You, but I think they wrote that one.
Everybody thinks it says douche.
Yeah.
The original is Cut Loose Like a Douche.
Yeah.
And when Manfred Mann redid it, they just slurred the word douche.
Yeah.
So, anyway.
Yeah, and they did it very well.
I mean, I like it much better than Springsteen, but I'm not really that much of a Springsteen
fan, admittedly.
Yeah, not really.
No.
The one time it went to the Rock Hall of Fame, the second floor is a changing exhibit.
It's like every year they put a different...
Oh yeah.
That year it was Bruce Springsteen.
It's like, meh.
Oh well.
Yeah.
It was mildly interesting, but I'm just not a real fan of his music.
I wouldn't have went through it at all.
I've been like, that's okay.
I'll be better off going to the Burger Joint across the road.
Yeah.
Okay, number eight.
Train Kept A-Rollin', Aerosmith.
Oh, that's a good one, yeah.
Steve Hunter playing the guitar.
Everyone thinks it was Joe Perry who played it.
No.
It was Steve Hunter.
Steve Hunter, yeah.
He just happened to be in the studio recording something else, and the producer came and
said, hey, you want to come play on an Aerosmith track?
So he just went in and knocked out Train Kept A-Rollin' just off the top of his head.
And also Mick Mars is on Aerosmith albums, inadvertently.
Marilyn Manson played guitar on a Nine Inch Nails album.
Wow, I didn't know that.
Mick Mars would not turn down his music.
He was in there rehearsing at the same studios, and they kept asking him to turn it down.
He wouldn't turn it down, and they looked at each other and said, we'll just leave it
in.
Yeah.
So I'll have to look up his songs.
I'm going to do a report on it on the next music creation.
I thought that was cooler than hell.
They're just like, we like the way you played.
Let's just leave it in there.
The song Sweet Home Alabama, right when it starts, you hear somebody say, turn it up.
That was the, I think the singer was telling the engineer to turn up the volume in his
headphones.
Oh, and it just fits so well.
Yeah, so they left it in.
Yeah, people are going, yeah, listen to this song.
Turn it up.
So now that you know he was just selling, hey, I need more headphones.
It's funny to hear, it was like, turn it up.
And actually it's kind of said like that, although you don't think of it like that.
You think like he's like, turn it up.
It's because he said it in time with the music.
Yeah.
Instinctively as a singer, he said turn it up in time with the music, so it sounded like
it was just part of the song.
That's a good point.
Yeah.
Okay.
That was pretty cool.
All right, number nine, Limelight by Rush.
Oh.
Alex Lifes and so on.
What an underrated guitarist.
Very much so.
Oh.
An interesting thing about Alex Lifeson is he could only afford one good quality professional
grade guitar when they're starting out.
So he bought a Gibson semi-hollow body ES335.
And that's what he played through 2112.
You think that's a Les Paul, it's not.
It's a hollow body guitar.
And the solo on Tom Sawyer, he plays on a hollow body.
In fact, most of the rhythm parts on Tom Sawyer are on a hollow body.
Wow.
And he has since made the transition to solid body Les Paul style of guitars.
In fact, he has a signature model out now.
Excellent.
But a lot of the rush you heard was what was basically designed as a jazz guitar.
Wow.
Yeah.
You wouldn't have guessed it.
No.
But he could only afford that one good guitar.
But there are times on tour where he'd rent one.
Yeah, he'd go get a Gibson.
But in the studio, he recorded almost everything on that one ES335.
Wow.
Yeah.
All right.
So that's my Alex Lifeson moment.
Okay.
I like it.
Yeah.
Great information.
It is.
All right.
Number 10 on my list.
Europa Santana.
Carlos Santana.
Oh yeah.
Carlos Santana.
If you've never heard Europa, go look it up and listen to it.
Chances are you've heard it before.
You've heard it.
You know it.
Yeah.
It is so beautiful, so expressive.
It's a slow kind of meandering song.
It's classic Santana with all the feeling and the different directions and the...it's
beautiful.
Yeah.
I mean, picture yourself sitting on a nice warm beach watching the relaxing waves come
in.
You've got the beverage of your choice and everything else.
That's it right there.
Yeah.
And listening to Europa, that would just make it so perfect.
It's that kind of song.
I would agree.
And that really helped put Santana in the consciousness of a lot of people who had dismissed
him as, you know, oh well it's just kind of ethnic music because he's got all those bongos
and congos in it.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
But that really is like, oh hell, this guy is an excellent guitar player and he can write
hits, which he really can.
So that was my number 10.
Oh, good one.
Okay.
My number one...oh well, you know what?
Yeah, I'll do number one to number 10.
But my mind weren't really in order.
There was just...
Yeah, me neither.
I could have took a bunch of these around.
Okay, my number one or whatever, the first one I have on my list is Jimi Hendrix all
along the Watchtower.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, some of those notes that he hits, I guess, with the different ways of doing
his distortion and the tapping that he did and the picking.
A lot of times he didn't play with a lot of gain.
It was more tone and a lot of the effects he was using were brand new, just being invented
and he was getting the advanced versions of them like fuzz and the delays.
It's like he was using them first, the wah pedal.
It's like, what the hell was that?
They'd listen to the Jimi Hendrix album and go, whoa, there's new guitar effects out.
And he was already the master of them.
Yeah.
The wah pedal was actually featured on all along the Watchtower, but it was done differently
than what most people use it as.
Not like Kirk Hammett.
No, no.
Metallica.
Kirk Hammett.
He can't play a solo without the wah pedal.
No, I know, and it sucks.
He is one of my most hated soloists.
He's horrible.
Yeah, I would really like to hear him learn to play without that wah.
I would too.
The thing is, he's really good at classical, actually.
I mean, you listen to those earlier albums like Ride the Lightning and Anjustice, he really
picks really well.
I mean, it's with electric, but no, it's picking.
He does that very well, but the solos, he doesn't have a clue.
Horrible.
So, my next one would be November Rain by G&R, Guzz or Roses.
That thing with the bridge is just like really very emotional.
You can tell that Axl Rose had a lot going on in his life, the divorce, all this stuff,
his sadness, his tragedies, his triumphs.
All of this is featured in that solo.
Yeah, I would put, emotionally, I would put that up on the same level as the real tear
jerker songs that will always hit you hard.
Just the emotion that's in it, all the instruments, all the vocals is just all completely on point.
Even the title.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, the title is like, just like, I mean, it was, it's a wet blanket, it's horrible.
It's like November Rain, ugh.
All the trees are bare, it's raining, it's cold, and all you can do is sit out here,
look out your window and wish for better days.
Yeah.
That's the way that this song is arranged, composed, and done.
It is such a brilliant song.
I would put it up there with one of the most brilliant songs ever written.
Yeah.
I mean, I know any one of these other people that are like this, supposed to be experts
and be scoffing at it, that song is a masterpiece.
Yeah, I agree.
It's really good writing.
Yeah.
And then, watch the video.
The video tells so much about the song that I almost say, if you're going to listen to
the song, watch the video with it.
Yeah, it really is like the soundtrack to the movie.
Yeah, yeah, the Axl Rose movie up to that date, that was the soundtrack.
So, alright, next one, I'm going completely different.
This is Anger, Bulls on Parade.
Oh yeah.
By Rage against the Machine.
Tom Morello.
Tom Morello is so angry on that solo.
Yeah.
I mean, he's making Zac D'Aloroche look like Neil Diamond.
Mr. Rogers.
Yeah, Mr. Rogers.
Yeah, that's-
Tom Morello fucking goes off on that thing.
And because of that, that solo fit and described the song, that's what a solo's about.
Yeah.
It's a song that describes a song inside the song.
Yeah, that's, I know it's kind of overplayed, but that's got to be my favorite Rage against
the Machine song, Bulls on Parade.
Oh, it's fucking awesome.
Yeah, I mean, and just the riff.
It's got like three hooks in it.
Yeah.
It's amazing.
It is.
That riff makes you want to punch someone in the face for no reason.
It's like, ugh!
It's fucking awesome.
Bulls on Parade, yeah.
Excellent solo.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's great stuff.
My next one would be Deep Purple, my Deep Purple song.
My one star is just as good.
I chose Lazy.
Oh, yeah.
That is just such a, I don't know, a finger snapper.
Yeah.
And the song's in a straight eight shuffle.
Yeah.
So that lends itself to kind of a swingy, moving kind of-
Boogie-woogie type of a deal.
But actually, it isn't.
It isn't boogie-woogie, but it kind of, yeah.
No, it's kind of got that flavor.
It's more swagger than boogie-woogie.
Yeah, it's swag, and it's like, nothing to see here.
Just hanging out at the bench.
Tom Catten.
Lazy Tom Catten.
Rawr, Tom Catten.
Yeah, it's-
I was thinking about the solo from Burn, but I couldn't remember it right off the bat.
Burn is a great solo.
Burn is another good solo.
That could have went in there too, yeah.
That's another one I've heard a local band do live, and they did an excellent, excellent
version of Burn.
Boy, that's one of those songs, if you do live, you're going to get everybody's attention.
Yeah.
Everyone's going to drop their beer and go, what the fuck?
Hang on.
This was a band called The Only Look Dead, and that was one of the songs that was requested
over and over.
It was Burn and Whipping Post.
Yeah.
Burn was particularly an interesting song.
Whipping Post would be great too.
Because all the members that left Deep Purple, they're like, there's no way they can replace
Ian Gillan.
That was like a factory of excellent musicians.
Yeah.
They're going to have a way they're going to... Rainbow the same.
Yeah.
That was Richie Blackmore and his excellence, his perfectionist, the man with perfectionist.
Although he is a huge Ozzy fan.
Interesting.
It is interesting.
But okay.
They called him dead.
No way you're replacing Roger Glover.
No way you're replacing Ian Gillan.
And he did.
Yeah.
And that song hit so big, it tore up everything.
Yeah.
And even the stuff, I can even go a step further, Stormbringer that had a... What's his name
on it?
The guy that's dead.
He died.
Mark Bowling?
No, Tommy Bowling.
Oh, okay.
Mark Bowling, his brother.
Yeah.
Tommy Bowling, still catchy as hell and good.
But it didn't do so well.
Richie Blackmore went to form Rainbow.
Yeah.
Then later on they got back in 1984 and did the Perfect Strangers.
Oh, I like that one.
Which burned up the airwaves like nothing.
So all right.
My next one would be Cream, Sunshine of Your Love.
Yeah.
That exemplifies Eric Clapton and his wah-wah.
He does wah-wah.
Yeah, and kind of a hooting fuzz too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He does that.
That far away sound.
That again is a song inside a song.
It's just fucking amazing.
Yeah.
I mean, that is a guitar player's dream right there.
An average person listening to it would just be like, oh, okay.
But someone that actually kind of knows music would be like, fuck.
It exemplified Clapton at that era.
Yeah.
Because later on he went on and he did other stuff.
I mean, anything from Tears in Heaven to the one he wrote about, not Layla, but the other
one he wrote about, George Harrison's wife who became his wife.
Oh, Wonderful Tonight.
Wonderful Tonight, yeah.
He went into stuff like that and sang so beautifully.
Yeah.
I think back in the Layla and White Room and Badge kind of days.
White Room is a good one.
And Badge is one of my underrated songs of all time.
Back then he was doing a lot more drugs with a lot more abandon.
Yeah.
So he was just, he was being pretty raw and wild.
He was on a psychedelic trip.
Yeah.
It was just like.
And the music biz was such at the time that that was good.
That was it.
Yeah.
And then do what Eric Clapton does.
And then in the 70s they went more for perfection and uniformity.
In the 80s it got to be, you know, here's the sound.
I like the way he admitted that he wanted the Yard Roots to fail after he left.
He admitted it.
He goes, yeah, he goes, I wanted to fail so bad, but they said they went on and did great
things and you know, Led Zeppelin was birthed out of it.
He's like, fuck, what do I do?
You know, he was actually laughing about it.
He thought it was funny because his mindset at the time was like, fuck those guys.
And then he's like, okay, they did not go away.
So all right, next one, Rod Stewart, Jeff Beck, of course.
Hot Legs.
Oh yeah.
That has so many subdued little sounds and little stuff in it.
What would you call that type of a?
It's like everything he's playing is feel.
Feel.
It's like his personal style and feel.
It's like when Brian May did the intro to Fat Bottom Girls.
Yeah.
You heard the long intro.
That's what should have come on in your entry.
Yeah.
But everything he's playing is just, you know, straight from his brain that nobody else can
really replicate.
Yeah.
I mean, from the riff to the bridge to the solo, I mean, that song is just so catchy.
Anybody in any genre of music would like it.
They go, man, that's pretty cool.
Yeah.
Ironically, this is in the category for me of really good guitar solos in songs that
I don't really care for.
Because if Hot Legs came on, I wouldn't necessarily listen to it except just for the solo.
Yeah.
No, that's me too.
Yeah.
The guitar is what gets me on it and not just the solo, the whole thing.
That exemplified Jeff Beck and how he didn't have to do what everyone else did because
he had his own thing.
There you go.
My next one, you already covered, but I agree with it 100%, Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb.
I mean, what can you say?
That's like one of the most perfect solos ever done for a song that needed that.
And the way the band builds up behind him is perfect.
That's a great way.
Because by the end, they're all just back there smashing cymbals and drums and pounding
on the bass.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
Yeah.
It is orchestrated beautifully.
So yeah, the next one is Ozzy Osbourne, but it's Jakey Lee.
Okay.
Killer of Giants.
Yes.
I don't think I'm familiar with that one.
When you get a chance, listen to it.
He starts out acoustic and then he goes into, the song never does go into the crunch or
nothing.
Yeah.
The song is fairly laid back.
But when you go to the solo, it is such a song inside the song.
It's like you could have taken it out and made another song.
Yeah.
It's really good.
Cool.
I've always had the utmost respect for Jakey Lee's playing.
He is like an unsung hero in Ozzy or anything else.
Technically and precisely, that guy was one of the best that's ever been around.
I mean, his insightfulness on these chords that he played in different progressions and
how he would pick them and make them be the song instead of progressing with another chord.
Yeah.
I dare anyone to just read the music if you can or listen to someone explaining the music
and they can tell you what this guy is doing.
Yeah.
There are a lot of places where a musician can get to a certain point.
It's like, okay, I can go this way or that way and both of them are pretty standard.
Yeah.
Jakey Lee goes, oh, how about this way?
Yeah.
He's one of those guys.
And that's one of those ones like Richie Blackmore.
Uh-huh.
Everybody thinks smoke on the water is one way.
Yeah.
It's like it's slightly different, but it's different enough to where you know that he's
the one that did it and nobody else did.
That's similar with Jakey Lee on this song.
Yeah.
Is that.
You know it's him because of the way it was done.
Yeah.
Some guitar players you recognize for their tone.
Yeah.
Others you recognize for what they played, what they choose not to play.
What's in their head.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yep.
And that goes along with the greatest music ever.
It's a lot of what you left out.
Yeah.
And not what you put in.
So.
I mean a perfect example is Vinnie Vincent to Richie Blackmore.
Uh-huh.
I would be.
I had no doubt.
Yeah.
So all right.
Um.
Next one is Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child.
We already went into that, but I mean that thing is just.
The whole thing's a solo.
And it's also important to remember that at the time nobody was doing anything like that.
It was so new.
No.
No, you're right.
It was.
People were turning their heads going what?
Yeah.
And a lot of people was like what the hell instrument is that?
They couldn't even recognize it as a guitar.
No, they thought it was synthesizer.
Yeah.
A lot of people thought it was synthesizer.
It was not.
Yeah.
I mean it was Jimi Hendrix with some of the newest stuff around and also some of the oldest
tricks in the book.
Yeah.
A little bit of everything.
So.
Then finally there's another Ozzy Osbourne song, but this will be with the late great
Randy Rhoades.
Mm-hmm.
Goodbye to Romance.
Oh, that's another one I'll have to listen to.
That is really, really good.
Um.
The solo on it is a song within a song, but it's like the perfect song and the only song
that could go along with that song.
Yeah.
So.
Well, I thought of an honorable mention once while you were doing yours.
Okay.
The song is Bad Out of Hell by Meat Loaf.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Todd Rundon plays the guitar solo and he made his guitar sound like a motorcycle revving
up and then driving off and then he seamlessly transitions into the guitar solo, which is
a pretty awesome guitar solo.
Mm-hmm.
But it uses the exact same tone.
You know how many people don't know there's Todd Rundgren playing that?
I mean, it's a large, I would say more people don't know that Todd Rundgren actually played
the solo on that.
And do you know who the drummer was all over that album?
Um, I do, but I can't think of his name.
Max Weinberg.
Yeah.
From Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
He also was on one of the late night talk shows in the studio band.
Yeah.
Max Weinberg.
Yeah, that's right.
Yep.
That was the drummer all over Bad Out of Hell.
You're talking about one of the greatest compositions ever written in rock history.
Oh, yeah.
And like I said, I was making fun of this, but I was talking to Rob on the douchebag
saying about how Jelly Roll is in New Meat Loaf.
Yeah.
They're both, look, no disrespect to either one of them.
They're both big fat, greasy bitches, but nobody cares.
They have so much swag that it overrides anything.
Yeah.
That was the image of Meat Loaf.
It was like that voice out of that guy.
Yes, but the women went nuts over him because his swag.
His charisma.
Yeah.
I mean, everybody was like, look, the guy is highly overweight, but look at him.
He's fucking awesome.
He would turn around and everyone would look at him.
Yep.
And same way with Jelly Roll, he has that same swag.
He has that same charisma, and that is one of the things that makes him the it, just
like it did Meat Loaf.
And it shows you like sometimes, man, we're not even talking dad bod.
We're talking about fucking sweating ham chunks on top of the gym.
They don't care.
Yeah, like Pawn Stars bod.
Yeah, yes.
Chumbly bod.
Yeah, and this is the highest compliment that I can give a person.
I'm not making fun of him.
I'm overweight.
Not making fun of him.
No, me too.
I'm telling you, man, I'm illustrating probably a little bit through the absurd yes.
They're not sweating ham chunks on him, no.
But I think I'm trying to get the point across.
They were, they're beautiful at what they do.
They're the best at what they do.
Yeah.
And it kind of shows that if you get past the physical and visual and look at the person.
Women are able to do that a lot better than men.
Yeah.
There's a certain subset of people that are all over social media that are all about image
and appearance.
Yeah.
And if you're like three ounces overweight, you're a loser.
Those are the people who miss out.
They miss out on so much.
Because when you're so judgmental and close yourself off from so much, there's so much
you miss out on.
Yeah.
It's nuts.
Yeah.
I mean, you'd never think someone like Jenny, Jelly Roll was a panty dropper.
Yes, he is.
Yeah.
Yep.
So is Meat Loaf.
Yeah.
God bless his soul.
Hello.
Hey, did you see Mrs. Golf and Steen walk by earlier?
Yes, I did earlier.
Yeah, I was worried about her.
She's got a new look.
Yeah.
So that's nice that she's still around.
She's jazzing it up just a little bit with the bright colors.
She wasn't yelling at any walls or slamming any chairs.
No, no, no.
She's not mad at the wall anymore.
Yeah.
Her and the wall made amends.
And I was going to mention it, but we got onto something else.
Yeah.
Yeah, Mrs. Golf and Steen is alive and well.
That makes me happy.
Me too.
Because God bless her crazy soul.
She's awesome.
See, she added so much flavor to our podcast.
Yeah.
Running by screaming.
You know, it's probably because it's getting colder.
It is, yeah.
So she's inside now.
She's a little warmer.
She doesn't come in here all that much.
You know what she thought?
Oh, fuck.
It's those guys again.
Damn it.
I'm just going to walk by real quick and hopefully they don't see me.
She's probably thinking podcasters.
Oh, there goes the neighborhood.
Yeah.
They're ruining it for us homeless people.
How can it just be a nice bunch of homeless people?
No, it's got to be these morons.
Yeah.
All right.
That is my 10.
You said you had some stuff that you wrote down and you come up with.
So let's hear it.
Yeah.
So it says, how much choreography do you like in a live performance?
Okay.
Let me think of how to describe this.
I don't want so much as distraction.
Yeah.
I want it to complement the music.
So Kiss.
Yeah.
Kiss did a great Alice Cooper.
Motley Crue used to do a great job of it.
It has to complement the music.
It cannot take over the music.
Yeah.
Woss just did a great job of it.
Yeah.
There's bands that can pull it off because they know what they need to do with the choreography.
And there's bands that cannot because they need it as a crutch.
Yeah.
So I can only describe it like this.
If it takes over the music or challenges the music, they miss the point.
Yeah.
That's kind of how I'm leaning is, you know, have the lights synchronized, have the special
effects synchronized, have like the rear projection screen, all that stuff is fine.
If you start getting into wild sound effects not produced by the people on stage, I'm not
so much of a fan.
You've lost it.
To me it's not a live experience anymore.
It's more of a, I don't know, an event.
I mean, now I know Kiss, Alice Cooper, all that were events.
Yes.
I'm talking about the event being the event and not the actual music being the event.
Yeah.
Because here is Alice Cooper and all of a sudden billion dollar babies come on.
The pop is crazy.
All of a sudden everyone's like, yeah.
Well, that's because the show didn't override the music.
Yeah.
Here's the breaking point for me on a lot of stuff comparing like 70s and 80s to now.
If there are more than two people on stage that aren't playing instruments and they're
just dancing, I'm out.
Oh, yes.
You know what?
Me too.
Two I can handle.
The most I'll go is the backup dancers.
I forgot what they did on Motley Crue even though I don't even want to see them anymore.
But back in the day I think they're the Nasty Habits, they called them.
I think so, yeah.
Yeah.
And they each had their own nasty name.
But anyhow, that was perfect.
Yeah, if they're backup singers they're contributing to the music.
But there's some acts you go on stage and there's just like a dozen people that all
they're doing is dancing to a routine they've memorized.
I don't think the singers...
I don't like that.
I don't think they sang anything but at least they portrayed singers so you're right.
No, I agree.
You got people on stage with no purpose.
No.
Yeah, see you and I put the music first.
Yes.
It's like this is a musical performance and anything visual needs to enhance the music.
But it's gotten to be physical overrides the music.
In fact, the visual is more important than the music.
To me, it irritates the fuck out of me when it takes over the music.
It's like I don't even want to see this anymore.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
And a lot of shows have too much distraction on stage.
Like every five seconds there's lights going crazy or confetti blasting out or fog or
something or someone leaps in from off stage or just every five, 10 seconds there's some
wild distraction.
I don't need that.
And also...
The music is enough for me.
Me too.
And also, an artist needs no one to grow up with the people.
Yeah.
So...
That's something that Madonna didn't figure out.
No.
She's still trying to be that 80s girl and...
It's not working.
And there's a few of her diehard fans that still love her and love on her on social media,
but they don't buy enough music.
Far and large, they're cringy.
They're cringy.
Yeah.
And she can't make money on just the very few people who want her to stay the way she
was when they were kids.
No.
I know.
And also, the people that are doing that, let's face it, they're not regular society.
I see that all the time on reactions to things that's like, oh, I don't care that Vince Neal
is fat and can't sing.
He's Vince Neal and I remember him in the 80s.
Well, they're going to the show to relive a memory.
I would go to the show because I want to hear what he can do now.
So that's the different philosophy is they're going to relive the childhood.
I'm going because I want to hear if he's still good and what he can do.
So it's a different approach to it.
Okay.
If I want to relive my childhood, I'll go play the album.
I'm not going to go to an Alice Cooper concert and pretend he can still do everything he
could in 72.
Yeah, I agree.
Anyway, I wanted to talk about the Primus auditions because long time drummer Tim Herb
Alexander quit Primus for the second time.
He left a while back and then came back and then here recently he said, you know, this
isn't what I want for my life anymore.
I just don't want to do this.
For me to be a healthy person living a good life, I need to step away from this and I'm
just done.
I haven't really been keeping up with Primus and that didn't show up on my feed.
So I had no idea.
Okay.
So a lot of people are sending in audition tapes.
Okay.
And my friend, Sean Sharp from the Mushroom Brotherhood, he's going to audition for Primus
as well.
I hope he gets it because then I will know the drummer for Primus.
Yeah.
But maybe you'll get to meet Claypool.
Yeah, that'd be nice.
But I've been watching some of these audition videos and just about everybody I've seen
is trying to imitate the previous drummer.
And it's to the point where Les Claypool put out a statement saying, look, we're not looking
for a clone.
Bring what you have to the table.
That's why Jakey Lee got hired instead of all these other ones that sounded just like
Randy Rhoades.
Yeah.
And they wanted another Randy Rhoades.
That had been done and he was no longer with us and they wanted to move on.
Yeah.
I mean, for some bands, they do want a direct replacement, but Primus is like, no, we're
ready for somebody who's got fresh ideas and a different way of playing.
And this was Steely Dan.
They'd want a replacement.
Yeah.
And Journey wanted a direct replacement.
Yes.
And for obvious reasons because, you know, the sound.
Bad boys.
Yeah.
So yeah, they didn't want a clone and I get it.
They're Primus.
They're just like, bring something else out.
And being a three piece band, every member is super important because you're carrying,
you know, apart from the vocals, you're carrying a third of the music.
So you got to have something interesting to say all the time.
Yeah.
Let's face it.
They're not worried about their sound per se at this point.
They're just worried about another chapter in their careers and they just don't want
somebody that sounds just like him.
Yeah.
I remember another example back in seventy five, I think, at the height of Elton John's
fame.
Excuse me.
He busted up his band.
He fired the bass player, the drummer.
And the bass player he got was different, but the drummer sounded just like the one
he fired.
And eventually he fired that guy and got a different guy and he sounded just like the
drummer that was fired, Nigel Olsen.
And eventually he hired Nigel Olsen back.
Well, coincidentally, his brother Elton Dan took on all the rest of the band.
Elton Dan is that tribute band.
Melton John.
Molton John.
He's like plucking his feathers.
Yeah.
The other day I was watching a music video from the Edgar Winter group and the song Frankenstein.
I remember them.
Yeah.
I remember that song.
It's an instrumental and it was a live performance and Edgar Winter starts out with a keyboard
that he's wearing around his neck.
And then he.
I used to love the keytar.
Yeah.
Everybody hated it but me.
I was like, hey, right on.
And then he picked out a saxophone and then he went over and played the drums too along
with the other drummer.
But the thing that struck right off the bat was you've seen Eddie Van Halen doing his
two handed finger tapping arpeggio.
Yeah, when he quit turning around to the amp.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
This was a song from 72 or 73.
And Edgar Winter was doing that on the keyboard.
Wow.
Finger tapping on a keyboard.
Two handed finger tapping on the piano keys.
And it sounded just like Van Halen.
So there's a full four, five years before Van Halen's first album came out in what,
77 or 78?
Well, there's such an argument going on whether Randy Rhoades started finger tapping or Eddie
Van Halen.
I don't think either one of them started.
Or Alan Holdsworth.
Yeah.
Alan Holdsworth would have actually probably been the correct one.
Yeah.
But they're talking about Ace Frehley doing the guitar pick tapping, which led to the
finger tapping because it was easier.
I remember seeing guitar pick tapping.
But I was so stunned.
Here's Edgar Winter, 1972.
And he's over there up and down the keyboard with both hands.
It was like, son of a gun.
That would be something that someone would look at and go, yeah.
I thought that was so cool.
But no, I think it was done a long time ago because I think some bluegrass has finger
tapping.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure some bluegrass music does have finger tapping.
Why not?
I mean, people experiment all the time.
You know people have come up with all this stuff.
I refuse to believe that these two people were the first ones to ever figure it out.
They popularized it.
Yeah, they popularized it.
That's what they say.
Yeah.
It's just like that email I got that said, anybody can finger tap?
Yeah, that's true.
But not everybody can make it sound good.
That's the main thing.
Yeah.
Another interesting thing was in Edgar Winter's backup band, the guitar player was Rick Daringer.
We were just talking about him last week.
Rick Daringer, yeah.
Rock and roll.
He didn't have much of a solo career, but he was a heck of a guitar player.
He really was, yeah.
And he opened up for a lot of really good bands, too.
Yeah, he did.
He was like a great opener because he was a good guitar oriented guy and he could get
the crowd to pump it a little bit but not overtake it.
Yeah.
He wasn't quite the guitar hero kind of guy.
No.
But he had kind of a raunchy, accessible sound, kind of an everyman.
He was British, I think.
Was he?
I don't remember.
But he seemed American.
I mean, he could pull off being American in American sound.
So that kind of helped over here.
But anyway.
That's interesting, I'm going to look that up, Edgar Winter.
I want to see that.
Yeah.
I want to see that.
That was fun.
I want to hear it, too.
And the transitions that you get in the studio version, he would have to, you know, the band
would have to kind of vamp for a little bit while he changed instruments and then he'd
come in.
So it's not quite as seamless as the studio version, but it's still pretty awesome.
That's cool.
I still love it.
Anyhow, okay.
I also read a story about Larry Mullins Jr., the drummer for U2.
U2.
Okay, I couldn't remember where the name was.
He also drummed on Alice Cooper's Paranormal album.
Okay.
That's an album that I never really did get into that much, so I don't know.
Yeah, there's some oddball songs on it, but there's some really tasty ones.
I remember it.
It was in the 90s, wasn't it?
Paranormal?
Yeah.
I think that was like five, six years ago.
Oh, was that late?
Pretty recent, yeah.
Because Cindy and I went out to Starlight and saw them on that tour.
Okay, I thought it was before that, but okay.
Hailstorm opened and Motionless and White opened, too.
So that wasn't all that.
It was after Cindy and I got married, so it was in the last 13 years.
Okay.
All right.
Hailstorm.
I'm yet to see them, but I hear they're fantastic.
They're a lot of fun.
Now, the drummer's amazing.
Yeah, Lizzy Hale is...
Is this true that Lizzy Hale is the sister of...
I forgot the name of her name now.
Sings in another very prolific band.
Shit, anyhow.
I don't know.
The only relative of hers I know is the drummer, A.J.
Hale.
Okay, it doesn't matter.
Yeah.
So the drummer is her brother, so that has helped her stay grounded in the band to always
have her brother there.
So there's always somebody in the band who's got your back.
Yeah.
Pretty awesome.
Go ahead and keep talking.
I'm gonna look this up because I think that was true.
So Larry Mullen...
Is it Mullen?
Yeah, there's no S. Larry Mullen Jr. has been diagnosed and has recently gone public with
a condition called dyscalculia.
Did I get that right?
Yeah, dyscalculia.
It is the numbers version of dyslexia.
In dyslexia, you get letters and words mixed up and backwards.
You can't see them quite right.
Well, in dyscalculia, he has so much trouble with numbers and he can't do math.
And it makes it really difficult to count.
And it makes it really especially difficult to understand and play along with music.
Oh, I would bet.
So he has been overcoming this all these years to be the drummer of U2 and also be on demand
for other albums.
Wow, that is incredible.
Yeah.
And he said, people used to say, you know, man, you look so pained and strained when
you're playing.
You know, your face looks like you're not having a good time.
And he said, it's tough.
I'm out there trying to count and counting for me is like climbing Everest.
It is so tough.
It would have to be.
Geez.
Yeah.
And in performance, you're just like hanging on by your fingernails because you can just
barely do it.
The Lizzy Hill.
That's amazing.
That was fake news there, apparently.
I just saw an article that said that's bullshit.
So forget everything.
I'm glad I couldn't remember the person's name.
Yeah.
I get a lot of those fake stuff.
Yeah.
But I thought, congrats on Larry Mullen for being able to be as good as he is and successful
as he is with that incredible disadvantage.
He is so good on YouTube because he just does what's required and it sounds great.
Yeah.
You know.
So, yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's overcoming a lot, actually.
So good for you.
Yeah.
Let's see what else I got here.
Well, I think the last music-related one I have is REO Speedwagon is done.
They have announced that they are over.
But, Kronen, Kevin Kronen is touring.
Yes.
Yeah.
He's touring as a solo act.
He bills himself as Kevin Kronen of REO Speedwagon.
Oh, is that what he's doing?
Uh-huh.
Okay.
So, we went down to Kevin Kronen, the singer, and Bruce Hall, who is the bass player, and
Neil Doughty, who is the keyboard player.
Those three owned REO Speedwagon.
REO Speedwagon name.
Yeah.
And they had a vote.
I mean, none of them were really active.
They weren't touring.
They weren't performing, doing anything as REO.
So the other two said, let's just retire and be done with it.
And Kevin Kronen voted no.
I want to keep going.
And the other two voted, yeah, we're done.
So it was two to one.
It looks to me like he's getting just as many gigs.
I think he will.
Yeah.
I think he will.
Neil Doughty was a heck of a keyboard player.
I agree.
An amazing keyboard player.
I agree.
And the last concert I saw from them was probably less than 10 years ago.
And he could still play.
Wow.
Crazy good keyboard player.
They played a few years ago, Southern Missouri, Arkansas, as REO Speedwagon.
They didn't come around here.
Kevin Kronen already has a gig in Springfield this year coming up, some sort of a Rockfest
type of deal.
Yeah.
He's touring with Styx and I forget who else.
There's one other.
There's another old classic band.
Yeah.
But it's not quite the old classic band.
It's a version of them.
Yeah.
And in a sense, a lot of people hated Dennis DeYoung.
It's not Styx without Dennis DeYoung to me because it was Yen and Yang, again, that makes
music perfect.
Yeah.
It was so much of the sound was that softer edge that he brought to it.
Yeah.
Dennis DeYoung to me was almost a Freddie Mercury that he brought to the Brian May.
You know, where Freddie Mercury was like this operatic guy, you know?
Yeah.
Classical influence on a lot of different levels.
Brian May was a guitarist guitarist with the crunchiness and the riffs.
But they made it blend.
They made it blend so well and they constantly fought about the music but loved each other.
You know, another one like that was Gary Sharone and Noodle Betancourt.
Yeah.
They said that they were constantly fighting each other, constantly on the music.
It's the same way with Tommy Shaw and Dennis DeYoung.
Yeah.
They hated each other music.
Well, now they don't like each other at all but before, you know, they got along but they
hated each other's music style and they constantly were butting heads.
But what they figured out was that made great music.
Steven Tyler and Joe Perry.
Oh, that's a great one.
They were nicknamed the Toxic Twins.
Yes.
Yep.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
That's another, that's a really good one.
They were nicknamed the Glimmer Twins.
The Glimmer Twins, yeah.
They fought like crazy.
Yep.
But they made a heck of a lot of good music.
Yeah.
Yeah, the Glimmer Twins, yep.
There was a lot of other great examples too and a lot of-
Lennon and McCartney.
Lennon and McCartney's a great example.
Yeah.
Only that did end pretty badly.
Yeah.
I can't even remember, did McCartney even go to Lennon's funeral?
I don't know.
I know McCartney was the holdout in the Beatles reunion on Saturday Night Live.
Yeah, that's it, yeah.
The other three were there ready to go and McCartney's like, yeah, I can't be bothered.
Yeah.
And the whole thing started out as a joke on Saturday Night Live because they were offering
joke prizes and then Lennon called up and said, I'm in.
Yeah and-
I think at the closing credits of that episode of Saturday Night Live you can see Lennon
and Harrison and Star standing there, or at least Lennon and Harrison.
He's like, we were here, we tried.
Yeah.
Yeah, he was a cop a couple of years ago before that in Canada so I think he was kind of intimidated
by showing up there.
That's true, that's true.
Yeah.
Billy.
Yeah, Billy.
Billy McCartney, I mean Paul McCartney.
Paul McCartney.
And I think you're right about John Lennon symbolizing his death to him through that
and that's all it was, was him symbolizing-
Yeah he was mentally killing Paul McCartney over and over and over.
And he was that type of guy that had to do that to him.
Yeah, that's how he could handle dealing with him on a daily basis like, yeah, in my mind
I've already killed you a hundred times.
Yeah, you're dead, I know, I have to worry about you.
And let's face it, they both did very well without each other.
Yeah, that's true.
I still say that Lennon probably wrote better songs but whatever.
Yeah.
I know a lot of people-
I like Lennon songs better.
I mean, McCartney's were more pop and-
Well, with the Wings-
Booky and radio friendly and that really wasn't what I was into.
Yeah.
I like some of the stuff he did with the Wings.
Yeah, Wings was a good band.
Wings was a really good band but then after that I really didn't care for anything.
No.
He did that much to me like you and it's just poppy and no substance really.
Yeah.
Yeah, where Lennon's right and imagined.
And you know, I think what bugged me the most is everything Paul McCartney put out, no matter
how poppy or schlocky or easy listening it was, it was still played on the rock and roll
stations just because it was Paul McCartney.
Which pissed me off because it was horrible.
Yeah.
You know, you listen on KY and you hear Aerosmith or Deep Purple and then they go into Paul
McCartney and I'm like, no, I don't care if he was a Beatle.
No.
You don't play that here.
Get it out of here.
Yeah, that was after they stopped listening to us, the listeners, and started going with
what the programming services told them was, this will optimize your profits.
Oh yeah, yeah.
That was something that KY did so well was they did what they wanted to and they always
have program directors that didn't give a shit.
Yeah.
And at the end of the day they had a lot of challengers but at the end of the day they
won all of them.
I mean, you know, until big corporations killed them.
Yeah, there really were kind of two kinds of radio stations, the ones that would play
you what you wanted to hear and the ones that would try to make you listen to what they
wanted to play.
Yes.
And you know what?
There's a political party kind of like that that wants to make you listen to what they
want to play.
And they're not doing so well right now, are they?
We won't mention any names because there's more than two political parties.
Yeah, they're kind of looking at each other going, how did that happen?
Well, Joe Worker here and Joe Retirement there, we know why it happened.
So, anyhow.
All right, but do you have anything else you want to go into?
Oh, I got some non-music stuff but it's still interesting.
Okay, we can go back into some of the music stuff a little bit later because I have some
more of the rock musicians that went broke.
A lot of them came back afterwards but they did go broke and it tells why.
But could you pause this for a second?
Sure.
All right.
Well, one last thing I was going to mention was lately I've been watching some reaction
videos from a guy in England.
He's probably 20, 24 years old.
Goes by the name Molly Boy.
And he grew up listening to hip hop and the only rock he really liked was Nirvana.
So he started this YouTube channel that a lot of his friends kept saying, you should
listen to this song and try out this song.
And so he's like, well, I'm just going to do reaction videos.
So he's listening to a lot of songs and bands for the very first time.
And his reactions are just amazing.
I love his expressions and the way he talks.
He's a sucker for a guitar solo.
He just loves guitar solos.
That's cool.
Now, one of the things he keeps mentioning over and over was the sound of all the instruments.
It's so good.
Even like back in the 70s and the 80s, it's like this snare drum sound is just so excellent
as I can't believe how good this thing sounds.
And it occurred to me that he's actually hearing real instruments played by a real person in
real time.
What happens now is somebody will record the perfect snare hit and then they'll just use
that recorded sample over and over and over.
That's your snare hit for the whole song.
But he's hearing music where there was an actual drummer and every time they hit that
drum, it was slightly different.
And you're getting all the nuances of that drum and that shell and that microphone and
that recording studio.
He's never heard anything so amazingly organic.
It is just blowing his mind.
That is cool.
So much music is processed now and compressed and homogenized.
Yeah, I know.
It's amazing.
There's no feeling.
They took out all the feeling in it.
I have Rob's Top 7 Country One Hit Wonders.
Oh, excellent.
Yeah, I forgot to get to this on the last one because your voice was going out rapidly
and there's nothing we could do.
Alright, he sent in the Top 7 Country One Hit Wonders and this is what Ronnie from Tulsa
King, he came up with this one for him knowing that he is a country music fan.
So, okay, the number one that he has on the list is Dust on the Bottle, 1995.
Oh yeah.
David Lee Murphy.
I remember that song.
Yeah, I don't remember David Lee Murphy but I remember that song.
So what Rob said there is perfect right there.
I played in the country band for a few years so there's going to be some of these songs
I'll know.
Yeah, and I remember the song but not the artist so he is absolutely 100% right on that.
So number two that he has on the list actually doesn't have numbers on them.
So okay, Should've Asked Her Faster by 1995 by Ty England.
I don't think I know that one.
I don't think I know that one either but it sounds like a 1995 country song because that's
when they're coming in big with all the pop stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, rock went dirt and then they went pop.
Yeah, there's so much of modern country that sounds just as hard rock as hard rock of the
70s.
Yeah, yeah.
It's crazy.
It's written in the same chords and scale a lot of it.
There's not that much difference.
Just the way that they sing it and they throw in a little steel guitar here and there for
good measure and that's about it.
So the next one he has is Feed Jake, 1991 Pirates of the Mississippi would be the artist.
Don't know that one.
You know what?
I mean tonight on the Douchebag Show I'll ask him.
Yeah.
I'll ask him to describe the songs or go in depth on them.
Yeah.
There we go.
The next one, I remember this one, Strawberry Wine, 1996 by Dina Carter.
Yeah.
Again, don't remember her but remember the song.
I think she was trying to imply that she was part of the June Carter Cash family.
I think you're right.
Yeah, she wasn't.
Yeah.
But she kind of tried to insinuate herself in.
She got called out fairly early on it.
But now you have nothing to do with them and we know this.
Remember Paul McCartney's wife, Linda?
Yeah.
She went by Linda Eastman?
That's right.
And she tried to insinuate that her family was the same as like the Eastman Kodak.
Yeah, I remember that.
But they weren't.
No.
They changed their name from Epstein because they didn't want people to know they were
Jewish.
Yep.
But she could have let it go there but she started implying that she was part of that
family.
And the Eastland family said, no, no you aren't.
You're not.
See, I think she married such a legend and all that that she wanted to have her own legacy.
She wanted a backstory.
Yeah, yep.
And well.
Yep.
And she got him back.
She got breast cancer and died.
Like there.
Show him.
Yeah.
That was horrible.
I apologize.
That was, yeah.
All right.
And then McCartney married the gold digger.
Now who's talking about who?
Yeah.
Yeah, the one-legged gold digger.
The one-legged gold digger.
That liked to piss in a little porta potty deal.
She definitely had some bathroom fetishes.
Oh.
Yeah.
How do you go to that from being Paul McCartney?
The sex must have been great.
It had to have been insane.
Yeah.
Must have been something about one-legged chick that's just amazing.
I don't know.
You know.
Apparently she was willing to do things that even in France they thought was disgusting.
And that's, wow.
You're really going, yeah, you're saying something there.
How we got to that I don't know.
I don't know.
But any, all right.
I think it's the E. Breakey Heart, 1992 by Billy Ray Cyrus.
And that would be, what's her name's dad?
Miley's daddy.
Miley's dad, yeah.
Hannah Montana's dad.
Oh wait, no.
She's not Hannah Montana anymore.
No.
That was her Disney persona.
Nope.
She's snatch grabbing fucking Miley Cyrus.
But you know, she's still a better human being than her dad is.
Yeah.
Because Billy Ray has been in all sorts of legal trouble.
And he's apparently a jerk and a bully and a sexual predator.
That's what it sounds like.
Yeah.
So there are a lot of people starting to think that he sexually abused his daughter.
And that her hypersexuality is a result of that.
That would make sense because, and also he pimped her out to Disney to make the show.
I mean, yeah.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Yep.
That guy, he kind of lost his luster in a big way, didn't he?
And not just lost his luster, but he fell from grace.
I mean, he fell so hard that it fucking, yeah.
And did you know Achey Brachy Heart was a cover?
Somebody else did it first.
I did know that actually.
I can't remember who did it.
It was back in the early 60s I think.
Probably, yeah.
But it wasn't even his song.
A lot of people don't know that, but I actually knew that because I remember reading that
and going, huh, okay.
Yep.
So, alright.
I guess no one had done it with a mullet before.
I guess not.
And tight Levi's.
Shit kicker boots.
Yep.
I hear he had a filling full patch on the front of his Levi's.
Yeah, he had a little sock stuffer there.
Hey, I'm Billy Ray Cyrus.
Look what I'm working with, kids.
Yeah, that's right.
He took the fake latex balls off the back of his pickup truck and stuffed them down
his pants for the video.
His trans pickup truck.
Yeah, yeah.
It's funny how many guys love to have their transgender pickup truck with the balls hanging
on it.
I keep waiting for a woman driving a pickup truck to drive around in some big vagina hanging
off the back of her trailer.
Dare.
What kind of truck would she be driving?
A Nissan may I?
Dodge Dakota.
Yep, there you go.
Or a Honda Ridgeline.
Ridgeline, yeah.
Either one.
Either one will work.
Subaru Brat.
Yeah.
That's it.
Hands down.
That's got to be it.
Yeah.
She'd go around and stop everyone and go, I lived.
Remember that stupid ask a birthday?
Nobody asked you.
Yeah.
We're not saying we're happy about it, so don't go around bragging.
Okay, now back to Rob.
Harper Valley PTA, 1968.
Wow, 1968.
I remember when that song came out.
That was on the top 40 for a while.
WHB AM710.
Yeah, it had to have been 1968.
Yeah.
That's before KY.
KY came out in 74 maybe, was it?
Yeah.
My family moved back to Kansas City in 68 and I was seven years old.
Did you have a WHB Car Star?
Oh yeah.
You remember those?
Yeah, I remember those.
Yeah, I saw a lot of those.
I remember the Chicken Man.
Chicken Man, yeah.
Chicken Man.
He's everywhere.
Yeah.
It really wasn't even that funny.
Yeah.
It was just like, oh, okay.
Remember Sky Spy?
That was the traffic guy.
Yeah.
He used to yell at people.
He used to be like, what the hell are you guys doing down there on I-35?
It's just a guy that needs to get a new battery.
Get up, go get, start moving.
What the hell?
I mean, he was great.
I remember what I liked the most about that Harbor Valley PTA was the funky syncopation
in the... Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, no, that was... They tried to make that song risque.
No, I was thinking of Tallahatchie Bridge song.
Oh, okay.
No, Harbor Valley PTA.
I do remember Harbor Valley PTA, but it was more of a sassy, straight up.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, sassy... Kind of in the mode of Dolly Parton singing Nine
to Five.
Yeah.
Kind of along those lines.
Yeah, I would call risque the way they did it.
As a day, I socked it to the Harbor Valley.
Yeah.
All right, and then finally, I think everyone will remember this, Convoy 1976 CW Cole.
Just like the bird.
Yeah.
Except... Actually, I think they're spelled different.
CW Cole wasn't even his name.
No.
I can't remember what his real name was, but he's done a number of novelty songs like that.
He wasn't the country kind of guy.
He was just whatever he could paint up with.
Yeah, and that's what... The gig he got, and that's what he did.
After that single Convoy faded, he started the band Mannheim Steamroller, if you remember
then.
Yes, I do.
Wow.
Yeah.
It wasn't an instrumental, mostly.
Yeah, it was.
It was like a precursor to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
I was getting ready to say, yeah.
They were on a more, let's see, elegant level, maybe, because Trans-Siberian Orchestra gets
rockers, gets shit kickers, gets everybody.
That is like... To think that there's members of Sabotage that started that.
Let's see, one of them died, the guitarist, maybe.
I think so, yeah.
Yeah.
But it still has his brother in the band.
But you know the thing always bothered me about the Trans-Siberian Orchestra?
They didn't wear dresses.
No, I don't believe they're all trans.
That's what I... Yeah.
Okay, we went to the same place.
It's the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
I was thinking they should at least wear dresses if they're going to be a trans orchestra,
but no.
If they're going to claim to be transgender.
I mean, come on, yeah.
Yeah.
False advertising, yeah.
Cultural appropriation, man.
That's right.
I can't believe you're using their name without actually being it.
That's insulting.
Why don't you just call yourself the Bisexual Siberian Orchestra if you're not gay.
No one has an answer for that.
Skip next.
You mean words have more than one meaning?
Huh.
And some words were in use long before we decided they were a buzzword?
If you believe Led Zeppelin, words sometimes do have two meanings.
Yeah, I just heard that the other day.
Yeah, and then you play it backwards.
It says, Sweet Satan is massaging my foot and ate my pencil.
And buy Goodyear tires.
Yes.
Because Satan said so.
Exactly.
That's what I want to put in a song.
I want to make a song and backwards it says, Satan ate my pencil.
I want to put one that says, Dumb shit, why are you spinning this record backwards?
Now you've got to get a new one, don't you?
That's right.
You've got to replace that needle too.
That's right, fuck stick.
You've got to get a new one.
Oh man.
All right.
Let's see.
You had some other stuff that you wanted to get into, maybe possibly?
Yeah.
Something I've been noticing on TV shows just is general trends.
Yeah.
It seems like on a lot of the, especially situational comedies, it's pretty much a given
in the storyline that people are going to try to get away with something.
Get extra, get stuff they don't deserve, get away with doing something, even if there's
absolutely no reason to, just because they can.
That's a good point.
It really is, and I think it's like that people like the thought of getting away, getting
by with something.
They like the voyeuristic aspect of seeing this and going, look what they're doing.
Hey, hey, hey Jimmy, come here, look at that.
In the TV show, it's always portrayed as funny or clever or, oh look at him, ha ha, he sure
got over on so and so.
It's always portrayed positive.
He took that corpse and just killed it and put it in so and so's closet.
No, that's true.
And I'm thinking the reason is it goes back to giving people the illusion that they have
something that they don't, which is defiance against the system.
That's right.
I mean, they will let people rebel in little teeny tiny ways, but not in meaningful ways.
So by portraying it on TV in this fashion, we're all getting the idea that, ha ha, we
got away with something.
Psychologically, I think that's spot on.
Yeah.
It makes sense why it's, go ahead.
That's why gambling is so popular because every time you win, you feel like you got
away with something.
And also gambling is the perfect scenario.
They lie.
Yes.
Gamblers lie.
Oh, I won so big and everyone's like, wow, he won.
He's a stupid ass.
Yeah.
Everybody lies about their gambling and what they won.
Everyone's like, oh yeah, yeah, I took them to the bank.
Oh my God.
Yeah, they, they, they, man, they won't let me in the door.
Yeah.
It's amazing that this industry can get people to be their own best promoters.
Yeah.
They don't even have to spend much money advertising because the gamblers will go out and promote
it relentlessly just cause they don't want to be the only ones gambling.
It's a perfect crime.
Yeah.
You lose and you go around and tell everybody you won.
Yeah.
And I think part of it is not to sound like a dumb ass and foolish.
And I think part of it is to bring people in on your misery.
Yeah.
But if you're in a watch, if you're watching TV shows, watch for that where they, they show
people getting away with something or, or beating the system or like, I already know
several examples like on big bang theory, Penny was always talking about, you know,
this slinky black dress got me out of three speeding tickets.
That's another, and then the audience laughs.
And that's another example of getting away with something, gaming.
But is that misogynistic?
Yeah.
Well, wait a minute.
Hang on.
Because it's a female, she can do that?
Well, see, that's up to the, the police officer to not give a damn if she's attractive or
fit or whatever.
It's just like, no, you're getting the speeding ticket.
What you're saying is, is there's different, there's different things where you can be
misogynistic and it's okay.
Okay.
So they get to pick and choose what's misogynistic.
Yeah.
I'm sorry to interrupt.
So yeah, that is, that's a common thing is a woman bragging about using her sexuality
to get away with something.
And then five minutes later, you see another female character screaming, complaining about
being objectified as a sexual object.
Yeah.
And then you realize that Hollywood doesn't have an agenda.
They're just throwing everything out there, hoping you'll buy it.
Exactly.
If they find something to stick, so go with it.
If they don't, then they just go ahead and go on to the next thing.
That's true.
But the other trend I've been noticing in a lot of TV shows, and this I'm sure has been
happening a long time, but I'm really noticing it as a pervasive thing is whenever difficulties
or problems arise in the show, like every show has to have some sort of conflict that
needs to be resolved or a difficulty or an obstacle to overcome.
Almost all the time, the show will send, will show people spending money to fix the problem.
That's true.
They always spend the money.
It's the only answer they go to constantly is, well, you can get out of this.
Just buy a new one.
Yeah.
Or upgrade to the next phone.
You know that's the sponsors that do that.
Or pay for this service to come in and fix it.
It's always spend money.
That's how problems get solved on TV is someone spends money.
Have you noticed the new double, kind of on the same thing, the new double layer commercial
that has Snoop Dogg and Patrick Mahomes?
Yep.
It's interesting because you got the old wise guy, you know, been around forever.
You know, he knows a little bit everything and he's the guy that says, don't give everything,
don't give everything away so fast T-Mobile.
Yep.
And you got Patrick Mahomes pimping going, this new thing is the most incredible thing.
That thing is a very brilliant commercial.
That's pretty clever.
Yeah, it is because you got the older wiser guy that's been around forever going, hey,
stop giving away all this stuff right now guys, you're going to run out of shit.
And you got Mahomes going, man, this is the best ever.
Everybody wants everything now.
So let's give it to them now.
Yeah.
Yep.
And you got Snoop Dogg clarifying that going, hey, you guys got to slow down.
So yeah, let's just think about that commercial.
Why did they use both of them?
The same reason they use Deion Sanders and Nick Saban.
Nick Saban is the old wise guy.
He's been around forever, college coach.
He knows.
And he's one that says Aflac means money.
Yeah.
And Deion Sanders is a goofy guy that's going around with a duck.
How that happened, I have no idea.
Must be paying him enough.
No, that's how it happened.
They paid him enough.
I mean, why would Nick Saban do it?
He doesn't, traditionally doesn't do anything, well, did anything but coach you.
He was kind of a hard nosed guy that knew how to recruit, knew how to bring people down.
You know, he's not a guy that go around, but he played himself.
He had his glasses down around his nose.
Aflac means money.
Yep.
Yeah, you know, yep.
It just kind of like Snoop Dogg.
Don't give everything away at once, guys.
That's a formula that I've been noticing quite a bit lately.
Yeah.
So.
And some things that I thought were trends before actually all fall under these.
You know, spend money to solve your problems.
Like the people who will fly last minute.
It's like, oh, last second, let's just go fly somewhere.
Oh, yeah.
It always works out perfectly because they're spending money.
When it never does in real life.
Yeah, it doesn't.
Or they get the new car or the new computer or whatever.
It always works perfectly because they want to reward behavior of spending money.
And when you watch that for hours a day of people spending money and the life works out
great for them, of course we'll be in debt.
We're trying to recreate what we see on TV.
Well, I mean, that's what our economy is built on from the government up.
I mean, trillions.
I think it's even probably thousands of trillions now, not even hundreds.
Yeah, it's nuts.
Yeah.
Every day you hear about a new spending package in the trillions.
So the whole thing's built on...
House of Cards.
Yeah, House of Cards.
Listen, I mean, the propped up stock market, all this stuff.
I mean, if I wanted to be a doomsday guy, I got plenty of material, but I'm not.
I'm just saying, watch your shit.
Yeah.
And remember what happened before in 2008.
It could happen again, but only on steroids.
Because certain things are in place now.
This one is not one you can buy your way out of if and when it hits.
You can't buy your way out of debt.
And Americans have had, since 2008, we've had 16 years to get accustomed to getting
what we want, when we want, with no interruptions and no fail.
Absolutely.
And when something disrupts that, I'm really wondering how a lot of people are going to
be able to handle it.
Well, the shuffling of the cards is one of the biggest things that America does, is this
right here.
You work all your life to get this house.
You're doing great.
The economy goes to shit.
You lose that house.
The bank gets it again.
Then they resell it to you.
Yep.
What a fucking scam.
That's what most used car lots are.
They're not trying to sell cars.
They're selling loans.
They're selling car loans.
Yeah.
That's how they make their business, is the loan on the car.
Yeah, yeah.
Because I can prove this.
Remember Nissan, Raytown Nissan, I think might have been the name of it, on 350 Highway and
Blue Ridge Boulevard.
I saved up enough money, worked a lot of overtime and everything.
I had enough money to pay cash for a truck.
I wanted a new Pathfinder.
Brand new just came off the shelf, Pathfinder at the time.
I think it's Pathfinder.
No, Frontier.
Oh yeah.
Frontier, not Pathfinder.
And I love this one.
I went in there, hey man, I'm ready to buy this.
Air winds buzzing around.
I got cash.
Nobody was around anymore.
They all took off.
Yep.
And they only make maybe, and this isn't a lie because I know enough people in the car
industry, they might make a thousand off of it, but they make the money off of the loan.
And they can actually even take a loss if they need to to make the sale because they
make the money off the loan.
If you do the loan for long enough and with enough interest, they'll sell it to you under
cost.
Yep.
Yeah.
Yep, yep, yep.
Yeah, so.
And yeah, I learned my lesson because a guy came over and he goes, yeah, the biggest
problem is he's there, it's what you need to do.
You take half that money, put it in the bank and make the payments.
But right now, you say, hey, I got all the money down I need and I want to buy a truck.
Everyone will be here.
Yeah, that's something that a friend of mine did in high school.
Excuse me, he figured out what he could spend on a monthly car payment.
And then he just started putting that aside every month.
Yeah.
And eventually had enough to buy the car.
So he made the payments to himself and then bought the car.
Yeah.
Instead of getting the car now and making the payments plus more.
Yeah.
To the dealership.
Yep.
That's a lost artist delayed gratification, putting off the thing you want until it makes
more sense.
Well, I learned it from a coworker of mine.
A coworker of mine came in with a brand new vehicle one day, no payments.
What?
And he did the same thing.
He worked every ounce of overtime he could for two years, threw all that in the bank,
did not touch it, and had enough for his new car.
And that's basically what I did.
My mom bought a house that way.
Oh my gosh.
She saved up 85 grand and bought a house outright.
Wow.
Did she not have any hobbies?
She did after.
After he had a house as a hobby.
And I think the house sold for just under $300,000.
Did better than the stock market.
Yeah.
Wow.
So I learned an interesting thing about Pyrex versus Pyrex.
Rich Mill with Pyrex, it's the glass brand that's oven safe.
They make big mixing cups and casserole pans.
Yeah, they're baking stuff.
Basically, yeah.
It's glass that can handle high heat.
Yeah, high heat glass.
Okay.
But people have noticed there's Pyrex in all capital letters and there's Pyrex in all lower
case letters.
Spelt the same?
Same thing, yeah.
P-R-Y.
P-Y-R-E-X.
And they are actually both the same company and made by the same company.
I think they would have to be with the name.
Yeah.
But the difference is the Pyrex with the capital letters is made of the original borosilicate
glass, which is really strong, tends to bounce instead of shatter, handles heat extremely
well.
And those are manufactured outside of the United States for sale outside of the United
States.
Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, all those places.
So they get the capital letter cup glassware with the borosilicate glass.
The lower case ones are the ones made in the United States for sale in the United States.
And they are made with cheaper soda lime glass, which isn't as good.
I'm familiar with soda lime, yeah.
So isn't that weird that it's an American company making the product here for us and
we get the cheap version?
Well that is what America does though.
I mean this is the Walmartization of everything.
I think it boils down to we would accept it so that's how they make it.
Yeah, where other places like it, that's garbage we don't want it.
So they go ahead and make the good stuff for them because they know they will reject the
crap stuff.
We'd rather buy it.
We take the crap stuff apparently.
Yeah.
I can believe it.
So even an American company like Pyrex knows that they can pass off second rate shit at
home and sell the good stuff overseas and make money hand over fist.
That is so...
This is what America has become.
Make money regardless.
Yeah.
Everyone is talking about side hustles and grinding and they make all that money.
It's got to come from somewhere.
Yeah.
Wow.
And on a related note, black plastic kitchen utensils, they're everywhere.
Yeah, oh yeah.
When they were like a big thing all of a sudden black plastic kitchen utensils were everywhere.
Remember that?
Yeah, they just came out of nowhere and they use them all the time now when it used to
be white ones.
The reason that they were suddenly everywhere was because there was a huge replacement of
fire resistant plastics in manufacturing.
And so they pulled out all this old model stuff and put in the better new model stuff.
They're like, oh, well now we've got this old fire resistant plastic.
Okay, let's recycle it into kitchen utensils.
And that's what they did.
The only problem is that the chemicals they put in the plastic to make it fire retardant
are toxic and that's what we're getting in our food.
Every time you use it, every time you stir with it, you're getting some of those fire
retardant chemicals that were never intended for human consumption or use.
That happened so much.
It was like free material.
People were like giving it away.
It's like, take this damn black fireproof plastic.
We can't do anything with it.
Oh, let's just all press them into kitchen utensils.
Then people will pay us for this stuff that you can't throw away.
They took that page from China.
Yeah.
Took that page from China.
Turn your trash into something that you can convince people to buy.
Yeah, China does it perfectly.
They do.
They just looked over their shoulder at China and said, we're going to start doing that.
I have taken every black plastic kitchen utensil out of my kitchen and thrown it away.
Not even in recycling.
I've thrown it away because it's toxic.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
If anyone's wondering, this is the douchebag section that I spoke about.
Yeah, we're kind of getting into...
Yeah, yeah.
No, no, no, because I got a little bit of flack because you can't, like we spoke about,
you can't do three people on a conference call and have a successful podcast.
It's too much time lag.
Yeah.
You don't want to be talking all over each other because of the time lag.
Yeah.
So, this is our douchebag segment right here built in naturally to the music creeps.
Yeah.
So, there you go.
Yeah.
I think the only thing last I had... Oh, I had two more things.
Sorry.
I know I'm kind of monopolizing.
Well, that's all right because I got a get before a whole lot longer.
So, go ahead.
Two more things I learned on watching reaction videos.
One was comparing the infant mortality rate between the US and Norway.
And infant mortality means when the child is born, within a certain number of days it
dies.
Norway has a much better success rate than the US.
That is insane.
But it's misleading.
With our medical system.
Oh, go ahead.
It's utterly misleading.
Okay.
Because here's the thing.
Their average citizen in Norway, in fact the vast majority of citizens in Norway are wealthy,
white, and Norwegian.
In the United States, if you compared Norway's wealthy white Norwegians to wealthy white
Americans, the infant mortality rate would be the same.
It's because we have different ethnic groups.
We have economic disparity.
I get it.
We have less access to health.
That's what's making the difference.
You know that.
We are fully capable.
Yes.
That makes so much sense because we have groups that aren't as successful or have...
And look, I mean the reasons are all there.
You guys can come up with your own.
But we have people not being as advanced as other people and it's because of all different
kinds of reasons that have been going on.
Yeah.
Here's a big one.
Black people are still under prescribed pain medication.
Wow.
Even though they make a shit ton of money on prescription medication, the racist attitude
among doctors is still that black people are tougher and they can handle the pain, therefore
they don't need the good narcotics the way the white people do.
That is still a thing.
That's insane.
Isn't it?
That's insane.
Racism is trumping greed.
I mean why wouldn't you sell them every prescription you can sell them?
Instead the racist attitude takes over.
Oh, they don't need this.
They're black.
So they don't even ask.
No.
They just under prescribe.
They'll give them Tylenol instead of codeine.
Wow.
Isn't that nuts?
That is nuts.
So that's why the United States looks so crappy in healthcare statistics next to the rest
of the world.
It's because we're so uneven.
Some people get excellent care and others get virtually none.
So, interesting misleading.
So true.
Yeah.
And then the other interesting thing was it was misconceptions about the United States
and they were saying people from Europe come over and they expect to see Americans walking
down the street carrying guns all the time.
It's just not true.
I mean I can't even think of the last time I saw anybody with a gun other than a police
officer.
Last time was someone I worked with and I was out there looking at their truck and they
had it in there.
They have a conceal and carry and I go, here let me move this.
This is my gun.
And he showed me something and I go, oh.
Yeah.
It's like no big deal.
Yeah.
No.
It wasn't a big deal because I know that it's conceal and carry and that's what he was doing
and I get it.
I get it.
But here's the interesting comparison.
If you are Swiss, a citizen of Switzerland, you are way more likely to encounter guns
or know how to handle guns than Americans.
Okay.
Way more likely.
The Swiss are all about guns.
And you know why?
Because everybody who's a Swiss citizen is in the military.
Oh.
When you're born a Swiss, you're in the military.
Yeah.
Everybody gets military training.
Everybody learns how to handle firearms.
That's why Greece used to do that too but they don't do it anymore.
Yeah.
Switzerland takes their neutrality so seriously that if anyone tries to invade, every member,
every bit of the population of the country knows how to arm themselves and fight back.
Every single citizen.
Plus they have a lot of things booby trapped.
All the key bridges, rail yards, dams, mountain passes, tunnels, they'll blow it all up.
Yeah.
And the only way in or out of Switzerland is going to be by air.
Parachute drop.
That's how seriously Switzerland takes their neutrality.
Say we will torch ourselves and burn ourselves to the ground before we let them take us over.
Unlike Ken.
Ken was like, hey, United States, hey, United States, come here.
Come here.
Hey.
Come here.
But isn't it interesting that nobody criticizes the Swiss?
They don't.
For their stance and for having a well-armed and gun savvy population.
Personally, I think it's brilliant.
Well, it's been argued over in Greece is this right here.
The younger generation is more of a socialistic communist view.
Yeah.
Well, capitalism hasn't been working for Greece for a long time.
No, it hasn't.
This whole mindset took over when they quit making indoctrination two years in the army.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
They didn't have their like acclamation to this is what we do here and all that.
It's been argued that that led to, well, they're probably eventually going to go socialist
or communist because the younger generation doesn't know better.
I remember when I was just out of high school, my mom sponsored a brother, sister team of
figure skaters from Luxembourg who wanted to come over and compete, but they didn't
have money for a place to stay, so they stayed at our house.
After they'd done their thing, they were saying, oh, well, we need to go back because it's
my time for service.
It's like, what?
He said, oh, yeah, I do two years in the army.
Everybody does.
No exception.
If you're in Luxembourg, you do two years of military service when you reach a certain
age.
There's no way around it unless you're just completely incapable.
They're a very well-off little country, too.
Yeah, and they're very, very, very small, so they need to have a local militia.
They need to have the population.
That's why they have to have the population be part of the army.
And see, that was the reason behind the Second Amendment, a well-armed militia being important
for the security.
Yeah.
Well, people take that whole term completely different than what was meant there.
And it's like what the Swiss are doing and what Luxembourg is doing is this is your population.
This is your last line of defense.
Arm them and let them know how to do it.
So with the United States right now, I would not want everybody armed because there are
way too many stupid people out there.
So it wouldn't work here until American culture changed.
But I just thought it was interesting how the Swiss did it.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, you know what?
I mean, they have to do it the way they do it, and I think they're pretty brilliant about
it.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay, well, how long we got on this thing?
We got hour and a half.
All right.
Is that all the subjects you had?
That was everything I had.
All right.
Well, I'm good, too, so let's go ahead and call this Music Creeps a wrap.
All righty.
Thank you, everybody, for listening.
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