As it's well documented, the music industry is
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You might ask why Harambe never listens to our
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some idiot did not watch her child properly while
looking on her phone. Sadly, Harambe does not
listen to our original show, Too Gypsious, in
the cheap Radio Shack realistic tape recorder,
or any other show. Anymore. Sorry, Harambe. Music
creeps. Yep. We are the music creeps. We are
the music creeps. Wait, there we go. I kept it
together pretty well that time. Yeah, you did
pretty good. You made me go off script and crack
up. And then everyone's like, okay, time to stop.
All right, what do you got? Well, let's see some
little things here. Something that's happened
recently at Coachella. Green Day. caused a little
minor controversy when they started modifying
the lyrics of some of their songs to be maybe
not fully anti -Trump, but they changed the words
to American Idiot, where he would usually say,
I'm not part of the redneck agenda. He said,
I'm not part of the MAGA agenda. Yes. Which was
a little thing, but people pounced on it. Look,
anyone can have their opinion. I don't give a
shit. This goes both ways. Who cares about someone's
opinion? They have a right to it. Why try to
cancel them just because they have a different
opinion? I'm sick of it. They get to have their
opinion, yeah. Look, you may think it's as wrong
as anything, or you might think it's as right
as anything, but it's not our... We can't rule
the world and tell people how to think. Yeah,
yeah. Now, I could see the Coachella organizers
saying, this is not part of entertaining the
crowd. This is you expressing your personal opinions
when you're supposed to be being an entertainer.
So I could see them taking it on that level.
It's like everyone's paying the money to be here
and get entertained, not get a lecture on your
political views. Yeah, and I go to the shut up
and sing thing that we've talked about so much.
And unless you're sure that absolutely everybody's
on board with your opinion, then maybe not piss
off the people who are there paying you for your
appearance. Maybe not do that. Of course, then
the next thing that happened was there's this
Irish rap group called Kneecap. Kneecap? Kneecap.
And they finished their set with three things
that were incredibly pro -Palestine and anti
-Israel. and making very definite, very definitely
taking the side of Hamas against Israel and saying,
basically the third message was fuck Israel,
long live Palestine. Oh yeah, I remember that.
And they got run right out. And even Sharon Osbourne
is weighing in on that. Oh, is she? What did
she say? She was saying that it's basically how
inappropriate it was to do that. in an entertainment
venue. And being a member of the United Kingdom
herself, she understands how the Irish through
the years have felt about oppression and occupation
and that stuff. So I think her point was they're
using their experience as Irish people. to have
an opinion about Hamas and Israel. And it doesn't
necessarily correlate. You can't just substitute
one for the other. Things are vastly different.
So, again, it's political grandstanding when
you're supposed to be entertaining the crowd.
Yeah, on the other side of the spectrum, I never
had to pronounce this guy's name. I've heard
people say Deadmau5, and I've also heard Deadmau5,
because the last character is a five instead
of an S. Yeah, I've heard Deadmau5, but yeah.
So whatever you pronounce his name. The guy with
the big giant helmet on does the DJ stuff. During
his recent set at Coachella, he was so drunk
he blacked out during his own show. Yeah, so
he was criticized widely for that. But he has
apologized, and let's hope he gets a little assistance
for his monitoring his use of recreational drugs.
But imagine how awful it would be if he'd thrown
up inside that big -ass helmet he wears. Oh,
that would have been funny. It would have shorted
everything out. It would be smoking and burning
you like Darth Vader. I had something I was going
to look up, and I can't find it now, damn it.
And I was going to bring it on this show. Well,
I have some more names that you put together
that are, you know, you probably don't want to
put together two bands. All right. I've got Rage
Against the Wallflowers. Why not? Those poor
wallflowers never did anything. They're like,
what the hell? Why is everybody beating on us
and yelling and screaming? Oh, my gosh. The next
one I have is deep oyster. Wow, that could mean
all sorts of things. Yes, that's why I said that.
What do you want to do tonight? Let's do the
deep oyster. I don't know. Hard to get arrested
for that. What I'm trying to look up is the Allman
Brothers motorcycle curse, but it keeps taking
me to stupid shit. Oh, yeah. So that's why I'm
reading these off until then. I have these right
here. It's Dwayne Allman and Barry O 'Reilly.
Mm -hmm. They both had motorcycle wrecks. Yeah,
and then it was... You know what? We can piece
this together ourselves, but we can go into it
a little bit more. They had a roadie, and they
also had a manager and a producer. Oh, wow. Die
in motorcycle wrecks, but I can't seem to find
it right now. My next one would be... U2 B40.
I love that. Both of you. Both of you. Not one
of you. Both of you. U2 named themselves after
a spy plane that the Americans used. Oh, that's
right. They did, didn't they? And UB40 named
themselves after the form you fill out to get
unemployment and welfare in England. I'd always
heard that it was the abortion pill. ub40 and
that's why no no i i believe your version more
i think you ever watch the movie train spotting
they refer to it by number as the ub40 that's
right well that was just like one of those uh
urban legends yeah so and then the bangles song
going down to liverpool uh -huh uh the chorus
goes uh In the verse, she says, hey, now, where
are you going with that UB -40 in your hand?
That's right. And then the chorus says, I'm going
down to Liverpool and do nothing for the rest
of my life. Which means I'm going to go get on
public assistance and just give up. Yeah. Yep.
So that is what it means. Yeah. No, I'd heard
that before. Everyone knew what it actually meant.
It was widely speculated that it meant the abortion
pill, but I think the abortion pill is like a
couple letters off. It was Plan B. Plan B, UB40.
That's where they got it, I think. I think that's
where they kind of, yeah, they kind of see it.
All right. The next one, Ronnie James Lauper.
Girls just want to have holy fun. Wow. What kind
of hairstyle would Bonnie James Walker have?
Okay, it would have to be blonde with some pink
in it. Yeah. Yeah. And he can wear his chainmail
outfit. Wow. It's just like a friend of mine
said, he met Dio. His uncle owned a bunch of
venues in town, and he met Dio. And the first
thing he said to him, he got kicked out of backstage
and said, why the English accent? You're from
Philly. I guess he liked to talk in the English
accent. I've met some people like that. Yeah.
And he was ordered out very quickly. All right.
Next one. 10 ,000 pumpkins. I like that one.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, a lot of pumpkins. It was
a great season, man. We had a bumper crop. 10
,000 pumpkins. Oh, this next one, you're going
to like. Black maiden. Wow, that could be inappropriate
on a lot of levels. It could be, but I meant
it like an African -American woman. Getting ready
to get married. Yeah, there you go. So there
you go. But, I mean, something like this, it
leaves a lot of innuendos. So anyone can take
it wherever they want. That's not how it's meant.
The next one is Roach Pie. Papa Roach and Humble
Pie? Yes. That's awesome. That, I thought, is
like, ugh. You see, like, little legs and shells.
I've been trying to do something with the band
name Spooky Tooth, but that's already stupid
enough. It is. How far can you take that? Yeah.
Spooky Tooth. Okay. I think you just added a
letter after that. Yeah. Spooky Tooth LM. Yeah,
there you go. Well, it was a British band. British
teeth are kind of scary over the years. Yeah,
that's true. Was that thunder? It sounded like
a little bit of thunder. All right. Cool. Blue
Sky Thunder. That's interesting. Okay, it doesn't
look like he sleeps under here. Yeah, I see your
blue sky over your shoulder, but yeah, I think
we're okay. Yeah, I think we're okay. If you
hear a loud buzzing noise, it's because we all
got shorted out and electrocuted. Yes. It's been
nice knowing you. Yeah. Don't look for any more
podcasts. Not even this one. Not even this one.
All right. The next one, Rancid Buffet. Or Buffet.
Rancid Buffet, yes. I always called him Jimmy
Buffay anyway. I did too. That's why I did this.
Just because the Parrotheads didn't like it.
It's like, oh, you don't like it? I'm going to
do it some more then. Yeah, I used to do that
too. It's not Buffay, it's Buffett. It's like,
oh, who says? Well, he's not saying anything
now. Well, if you ever wanted to have sex with
an alcoholic milf. Then a Jimmy Buffett concert
was the place to do it. Yes. It's like 90 % alcoholic
milfs. Yes. The next one, Five Finger Palmer.
Wow, that sounds like pleasuring yourself. Yeah.
Hey, what are you doing? The five -finger Palmer.
All right, I'm out. Bye. Be sure to wash your
hands before you handle a customer's food. Yeah,
but if you have to do that right now, make sure
there's a wash your hands and then get the germ
stuff over there, too. Get underneath your nails.
You never know. Especially the one where you
had your fingers up your own butt. Oh, yeah,
yeah, yeah. You know, look, I'm not here to judge,
but I think it's unsanitary. Yeah. Just a guess.
Yeah. The next one, Red Hot Pussycat. I actually
kind of like that one. I do, too. That'd make
a good band name. As long as Anthony Key just
wasn't in the band. Because I don't want to see
his pussycat. No, no, no, no. Yeah, I mean, I
guess he could always make out with David Navarro,
like all those, how many videos did they have
him doing that? A bunch. Yeah, and it was kind
of like a... Okay, it was shocking. Now we're
just like, okay, so you guys are buying. Okay,
whatever. Can we get past it? It's like, what,
a Sunday or Monday, this past Sunday or Monday,
where Kanye West came out and publicly told everybody
he sucked his cousin's dick for like eight years
straight. I didn't know that. Yeah, it's like
all over the memes everywhere. And people are
like, is this really true? And he said, yeah,
he really said it. From age like 16 to 14, he
was sucking his cousin's dick just about every
day. Now, whether he's being forced to or he's
bullied into it, how old the cousin was, I have
no idea. It's been long rumored that he's been
gay for a long time. But he just comes right
out and tells everybody that. It's like, well,
I hope that whatever... Imagine his cousin. Yeah.
It's like, I hope whatever you were hoping to
accomplish there really is worth it, but I didn't
need to know that about him. Yeah, I don't know
why you would do that unless you're trying to
get sympathy. Sympathy, yeah. Sympathy. Yeah,
well, whatever. I can't say today. Like, yeah,
big surprise. But see how far he's fallen. Remember,
at one point he had billionaire status. Yeah.
Now he's down to $400 million, which is still
way more money than I'll ever see. Yeah. Is he
trying to gather attention for something he's
getting ready to do? Because that $400 million
could dry up really quick. If his businesses
are devalued, it all goes away. It's not like
he has that much cash in the bank. Yeah, how
old was his cousin? I don't know. Was it a molesting
thing? It could be. If his cousin was over the
age of, say, 18, then absolutely. Yeah, I mean,
if he goes more into it and it's something like
that, then I understand why he said something
to bring awareness like this happens to family
members. Right now it sounds like he wanted attention,
so he said this. Yeah, then everyone's just kind
of like that. We kind of figured. It's just weird
how he just decided to tell everybody that out
of the blue. For a long time it's been rumored
that he's been gay, and he always travels with
that artist guy or something, or maybe his clothes
designer or something, another dude. Yeah. They're
always traveling together. So there's always
been speculating, hey, those guys are together
a lot, and that other guy is not what they say
he is. All right, the next one I got. I feel
a little bit of rain again. I'm smelling wet
concrete and wet asphalt. I don't see it, though.
That's weird. We're just hallucinating. I do,
too. I smell it, too, big time. It always reminds
me of being at an amusement park in the summer,
and a little cloudburst comes over and lets everything
down, so the ride's shut down for about 20 minutes.
But you smell that concrete. Yeah. The next one
I got is Pink Zombie. They do make them. I checked
it up. There are pink zombies. Wow. They're the
gay zombies. Oh, okay. You know, they have to
be some. The Rumble Jets had a song called Zombie
Girl. Yeah, they did. I love that song. I'm in
love with a zombie girl. Yeah. I like that song.
I'm going to get out my Rumble Jets CD, listen
to that. Yeah, we actually watch them perform.
Form that up in Weston, didn't we? Yeah, yeah.
It used to be an old speakeasy. You had to go
all the way down underground. Oh, Mallee's. Yeah,
yeah. That was an actual speakeasy from the 30s,
20s, I guess. Yeah, and they're having Tesco
Fest up there that I wanted to go to. Oh, yeah.
But I'm going to be on a cruise. Well, I'll be
in Miami that day, coming back. So, yeah. Oh,
well. Next one, maybe. No, the one in Bentonville
looks much better. Never get a chance to look
it up. They have topless. gunny sack races where
two chicks are topless and they each have their
left foot in the gunny sack. They have naked
mud wrestling, huge bonfires, bands, testicle
throwing contest, testicle eating contest, tank
top, best tank top. I think Skip Bayless would
probably win the testicle eating contest. Yes,
he would. He's had Jerry Jones' balls in there
his whole life. Yeah, yeah. Now, if it were 420
friendly, that would be awesome. Oh, and then
Joe Burrow. And I'm pretty sure Joe Burrow's
like, dude, get the fuck away from me, man. Don't
talk about me. Don't like me nothing. Just stay
away. Yeah. No matter who you are, you don't
want Skip Bayless to jump on your bandwagon.
No, no, because that's certain death right there.
If Skip Bayless likes you automatically, 90 %
of humanity does not like you anymore. All right,
the next one I got is Captain Kiss. So... That
could either be Captain Intoneal or Captain Beefheart.
Beefheart. Okay, he was more fun. Yeah. And then
finally I have Rage Against the Naked Ladies.
I mean, you know, I mean, maybe they didn't look
so good naked. Get out of here right now, you
damn naked women. Wow, that's good. Yeah. Why
would you rage against naked ladies? I don't
know either. I mean, I felt sorry for them. You
know, there they are trying to do something for
people. Yeah. And you start screaming at them,
put your clothes back on. This is not a damn
burlesque. I think I'd just, you know, organize
a volleyball game. Yes. Or a gunny sack race.
Yeah. Or at least jumping jacks. Yeah. Yes, yes,
yes. Or mud wrestling. Yeah. Yeah. I want my
mud wrestlers to have a mud tattoo on their shoulder.
And an eye patch. Ooh. Yeah, but not on their
eye. I want them to have nipple rings too. That
way one of them can pull the other one out when
they're on the ground. They can reach up there
and go kink. Or have the type of match where
they're tethered to each other by their nipple
rings. That's it. That's what I want. It's like
you can't get any further apart than this. It
ends up being... A bloody chain with two bloody
nipples on it. It would be like flag football.
You yank the girl's nipple off, you win. Of course,
then the guys could do it with a penis piercing.
The terror out there would be so much worse.
Every guy around, they start to watch it. They're
like, you know what, I don't need to watch it.
There's got to be some Priest Company reruns.
Nasty. Shit, anyhow, where were we? Oh, I'm at
the end of my stuff, so go ahead. Did we ever
talk about Weezer's bassist and his wife getting
shot? No. Oh, okay. Well, it was supposed to
be for the last podcast where it didn't work
out, but Weezer's... I was on a Coke binge. I'm
sorry. And I was on a Pepsi binge. Yeah. Yes.
Anyway, the guy's last name is Shriner. I don't
remember his first name. But his wife, Jillian,
is the one who got shot by police and then arrested.
Wait, maybe I did hear a little bit. Go ahead.
I did hear a little bit about that. So the police
were responding to a call in the neighborhood.
And when they got there, they saw Jillian Shriner
with a handgun in her hand on her front lawn
talking to another woman. And the police got
out of their vehicles and pointed their guns
at her because they didn't know who the hell
this person was and said, drop your weapon, drop
your weapon. She refused. And according to the
police, well, according to everyone, she raised
her gun and pointed it at the police. According
to the police, she then fired and shot. They
returned fire, wounding her. She ran into the
house, along with the other woman, came out a
few minutes later and surrendered to police.
And they arrested her and took her away. Now,
her husband was so upset and distraught about
this that two days later he flew off to do a
Weezer concert. So that's how much he cared.
Okay. Obviously she's insane. Yeah, I think so.
It's probably like, they didn't take her to jail
long enough. I've got to go do a concert. Yeah.
Now, I've heard someone commenting that she either
is or has been heavily into drugs and is a former
porn star. That would make the optimal amount
of sense. Yeah. Because particularly hard rock
people and hard alternative, whatever you call
it, guitar -based, they tend to like porn stars.
And drug addicts. So it fits the bill. Yeah.
I can't believe Weezer. To me, the surprise is
Weezer is still doing concerts. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Everything else I can believe. Yeah. The Weezer
doing a concert. I don't know if I believe that.
Yeah. This is kind of weird. I think he made
that up. They're not really like. a big act selling
out anywhere so the concert the guy went off
to play was probably something just kind of mediocre
oh i agree but it's really telling that you know
his wife was in jail and then in the hospital
for a gunshot from the police and he's like yeah
whatever bitch i got a job to do yeah yeah okay
hope you heal bye yeah tells me about the state
of their relationship yeah and i also think it's
probably because she's insane or on drugs on
drugs insane which is even worse yeah there's
a current trend recent but current mexican fans
are starting to write pro -cartel songs glorifying
the murders and the terrorism and the destruction
of the drug cartels and they're doing these at
outdoor concerts and it's causing riots in the
in the crowd Wow. Yeah. That's not good at all.
Now, I kind of think it's along the lines of
in the 60s and early 70s, it became a thing to
get satanic in rock and roll. Yes. And it was
to piss off the parents, basically. But you didn't
have riots in the crowd, again, among the pro
-Christian and anti -Christian fans. It's getting
ready to pour here, by the way. I just checked
it. I think we're okay underneath here. Yeah,
I think so. Anyhow, okay. But it seems like these
Mexican bands are doing it for the shock value
and don't really care about the consequences.
Yeah. It's really an attitude of I'm living for
right now and who cares about tomorrow. Yeah.
Okay, I have something a little bit different
on this because I've read about this too. Okay,
it's getting to where it's affecting tourism,
the cartels. Before it didn't. People were like,
oh, that doesn't happen that much. Now that it's
all over, people are actually going to other
places besides Mexico. The government is going
to have to make a conscious effort to try to
quell this because it's really hurting their
bottom line on money. They're not having American
money go in there as much because people are
going, we're going to go to St. Thomas. It's
just a little bit more money, but there's no
gang activity there. And that's a lesson that
so many countries have learned. is that you chase
away the tourism dollars, you're hurting, and
it takes a while to get back. Especially Mexico.
Mexico really relies on American money going
down there. I mean, the poaching of wild game
animals in Africa has had such a bad effect on
tourism that the game rangers, the game wardens
out there, shoot to kill. They see a poacher,
they shoot to kill. Yeah. Number one, they know
the poacher's going to shoot back. And number
two, it's that important for tourism. So countries
take this very seriously. So once you interfere
with the government's flow of money, either the
cartel has to make up for that flow or the government's
going to come after you. Mexico does things differently
than America. True, true. So they're not going
to have a bunch of people battling them on this,
but I think they're going to outlaw any type
of cartel talk or songs about in any concert.
As I recall, Mexico does not have a constitutionally
guaranteed freedom of speech. Exactly. And so
the government can go tell you to shut up. Yeah,
so they could even go in there with force. Go,
you know what, next time they do it, just go
in there and take them out. Yeah, I wouldn't
be surprised. Yeah, so I think that they have
to. They may not necessarily give a shit per
se, but they do when their money's affected.
And I know three people. And this is how I already
read about it. I know three people that were
going to go to Mexico, but now we're going somewhere
else. Because of that. They're like, you know
what, we're getting tired of it. And we don't
go on Western Caribbean cruises anymore because
of that. You get hassled. You get ripped off.
You get fucked with. You get people surly. It's
like, yeah, we can go to St. Thomas and everybody
loves us. And it's beautiful. So fuck you. We
don't need you. We don't need to go to your beaches
or whatever. There's better beaches over where
we're getting ready to go, the ABC Islands. I
remember growing up hearing my grandparents tell
stories about they would take a yearly trip to
Mexico by car or motorhome. This would have been
the late 50s, early and mid -60s. They loved
it. They enjoyed every bit of it. They said it's
so cheap. Everyone's so friendly. It's just so
nice. The weather's so nice. Looking back on
it, I can hear now that when my grandmother talked
about the Mexican people, she did so the way
you would talk about an unruly child. So she
didn't really think of the Mexican people in
their own country as full -grown adults like
her. She considered them less than. Okay. So
I think that was a big thing for a long time.
The people were told, suck up to the tourists,
be nice to the tourists, let them treat you like
dirt. All these white people are going to come
to the United States and spend money. Let them
call you whatever words they want to call you
because we want the money. I think a lot of that
resentment has all, you know, the bill has come
due on that. And a lot of people are like, you
know, fuck tourism. You know, this is our country.
We want to run it the way we want to do what
we want. To hell with tourism. They're going
to have to really rethink that because on a tour
of Belize that I had quite a few years ago, I
think it's 2006 if I remember correctly, the
lady was explaining Belize and how it used to
be called Wallace. Oh, wow. And it was pretty
much occupied by the British. It was one of the
British isles or whatever you want to call them.
That was, you know, their territory. They all
got together, the Belizeans, I guess, or whatever.
Okay. And they said, we don't want the white
man here running things. So the British took
all their industry. And this lady was mad. She
was a Belizean. And she goes. They took all the
industry and we have nothing now. Now we have
to have the white man come over. And she wasn't
being an adversary at all. She was just explaining
how she saw it. She goes, now we have to have
the white man come over and trample our land.
So before we used to be able to do industry because,
yeah, there's some white people there. And it
wasn't necessarily, let me explain this a little
bit better. It was not a racial thing. It was
like. Not that I could tell. Not by the way it
was worded. It was more like, these people are
controlling us. Oh, shit, I didn't mean to do
that. So I hit your ambient noise. These people
are controlling us, and we don't like it. Yeah,
whatever kind of business deal you had with them,
they weren't citizens of your country, so that
didn't mean the money was leaving the country.
White man was a description. Yeah. It's not that
they were white, it's just that they weren't
Belize. They weren't our people, therefore they're
taking money out of our country. We should be
running this. Yeah, so if you heard that in the
wrong way, that's not how it's meant. I'm not
saying Belize people are racist or nothing like
that. What I'm saying is they don't like to be
controlled by a foreign government. i'm not going
to hold anything against any people who resent
the occupying force no me neither and that's
why that's why i had to clarify that yeah is
less it is not i'm pretty sure it's not like
well your skin color looks different so get the
fuck out of here i think it's more like hey what
are these guys doing here yeah but then They
have to rely on tourism now. Same thing with
Mexico, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, they do have some
industry and everything, but I think they really
rely on tourism more than they want to admit.
Yeah, they do. Yeah, I know they get a lot of
money from oil exports. They get a lot of money
from Mexican citizens abroad sending money home.
Yes. Well, that has been cut way down now. Yeah,
for a while that was their number two source
of income right behind oil. But that, yeah, that
has been cut down quite a bit. So tourism, as
far as legitimate businesses go, as far as non
-legitimate businesses, you know, there's the
drug trade. Yeah. There's, you know, human trafficking
of getting people across the border. And Mexico
has also become a real hotbed for counterfeit
products. Yes. Yeah, like it used to be. China
used to do it all the time. Now Mexico's doing
it. Yeah. And I was looking at some fake Rolexes
in Ensenada. Number one, I'd never wear even
a fake Rolex because that puts you as a target.
Absolutely. But they're selling for $10. I mean,
I've seen Rolexes before. Yeah. And I don't know
how you can really tell the difference. It must
be a serial number or something. These things
were beautiful. Yeah. At $10? I've been seeing
fake guitars. that look just like the real thing.
Yes. In fact, people say this plays better than
my genuine one. I've seen that. It was the one
with the SG, the Gibson SG. Yeah. And the guy
was like, this plays better. Why wouldn't you
buy it? Yeah. And then Mexico's all as far as
the counterfeiting goes. They've started making
counterfeit firearms. Yes, and those ones right
there. Those have been leading to a lot of injuries
and deaths. Yeah, and the one I heard about in
particular was a certain model of Glock semi
-automatic handgun. And it's one that's extremely
popular, so there's a crap ton of aftermarket
accessories. And these counterfeits, all the
accessories fit, no problem. But the fun thing
about these counterfeits, there's absolutely
no numbers anywhere. No identifying numbers anywhere.
So they are the perfect invisible gun. Yeah.
Use it, throw it away, they can never figure
out where it came from. Yeah, and scary as hell.
A Glock is a plastic gun. So it can't be really
detected by metal detectors. Not very well. Not
very well. They'll detect the ammo more than
they detect the guns. Yeah, because the ammo
they cannot, well, I guess they could make it
out of plastic, but it would sting the shit out
of you. Yeah, it would blow up the whole thing.
Yeah, so, yeah, it would probably blow up the
whole thing. Okay, yeah, it's leading to a lot
of deaths. Some of them don't work properly,
and some of them because people go commit crimes,
and there's absolutely nothing to go by except
the shell casing. That's it. And I've heard any
more the shell casing is better at identifying
a firearm than the scratches on the bullet itself.
Yes. And nine times out of ten, the shell casing
is in better shape than the bullet is. That's
why they go to that. That's how come, you know,
on TV you see the crime scenes. First thing they
go for is the shell cases. Yep. And that's because
it tells a story. It tells what was shot out
of it. It tells it about, they can even tell
the time by the carbon that's left. Uh -huh.
And a lot of people leave fingerprints on the
brass. That's another thing, too, because they
think because they fired it off it would burn
it off. No. No, it doesn't. So a lot of criminals
have gone back to shooting revolvers because
they don't eject any shell casings. You've got
five or six shots and then you've got to reload,
but if you bring a second revolver, you've got
just as much as your 12 -round lock does. That's
true. And no shell casings to pick up. Grab a
koala bear's paw and put it on the shell casing.
Yeah. There you go. They'll arrest all the koalas.
Yeah. Well, no, they're identical to humans.
Did you know that? Oh, that's right. I've heard
that chimpanzees and gorillas have really detailed
fingerprints as well. They do, but the koalas
bit us almost perfectly. Off topic, but I've
also heard that with the advancements in computer
technology and comparing fingerprints, they've
discovered that fingerprints are not unique.
Really? There are repeats. Boy, that really hurts
a lot of testimonies. Doesn't it? Yeah. I mean,
the odds are pretty low. It's like instead of
like, well, with all these marches, like one
in 10 trillion, now it's like, oh, one in several
hundred million. So what you're saying is there's
still a chance. There's still a chance. Yeah.
And they watch Dumb and Dumber. They know exactly
what I'm talking about. So fingerprints, DNA
still works. DNA is still really, really unique.
So, let's see. What was I going to say? Damn
it, I was going to go into something else that
I found interesting. But go ahead. Just keep
going. All right. Neil Young has come out with
some apologies. Really? For some of his songs
in the past. Okay. You remember the line in Sweet
Home Alabama where Leonard Skinner says, I heard
Neil Young sing about us. I heard old Neil put
her down. I hope Neil Young will remember a Southern
man don't need him around anyhow. Yeah. It was
because Neil Young had come out with a song called
Southern Man. Yeah. In which he blamed Southern
men for all of the civil rights violations and
all of the, basically everything bad happening
to black people in America. He was blaming on
Southern men, specifically. And he is now walking
that back and saying, well, I really didn't mean
Southern men specifically. I meant everybody
in general. I'm not buying it. At the time, he
was criticizing Southern men because the South,
during the late 60s, early 70s, was one of the
last remaining hot meds of Jim Crow laws, open
white supremacy, open Klan activities. So, yeah,
he was talking about them. Yes, he was. And I
think it would have been better at this point
just to go with it. Yeah, yeah. Leonard Skinner
is only like, well, they're retired now, aren't
they? Yeah, I think they are, yeah. Yeah. But
it was like a third of them anyhow. I mean, Plain
took out a bunch of them, and then Time took
out a few of them too. And now they're just like,
I don't know, whoever. They're almost like a
cover band. Yeah. And as far as the Van Zant's
go, the cousin? has done way more shows than
Johnny Manzan. Yeah, it's ironic. Yeah. Arnold
Pineda, who replaced Steve Perry in Journey,
has done way more shows than Steve Perry ever
did. Yeah, and he just retired, didn't he? Yeah.
Yeah, he's done way more shows, I know. And he's
good. He's really, really good. It kind of reminds
me of the Queensryche singer, Todd LaTorre. Oh,
yeah. He sounds so much like Jeff Tate. That
it probably pisses Jeff Tate off. Yeah. I can't
remember the singer for Foreigner, but he sounds
a lot like Lou Graham. Lou Graham, yeah. What
the hell is his name? But if you're going to
have a replacement, that guy was like, I mean,
so. Now, speaking of Lou Graham. Okay. Who is
74 years old. Wow. He is rejoining Foreigner.
He is? Finally? I thought his voice was totally
done, but apparently he can sing still. And he
says that any differences he's ever had in the
past with any member of Foreigner, he says, I
don't care. It doesn't mean anything. It's useless
to hang on to that. Everybody's forgiven. I hope
everybody forgives me. Let's just go make some
music together. I'd love that. Right on. Right
on. Well, supposedly Steve Perry can sing too,
and he had all kinds of problems before. Steven
Tyler is even starting to be able to sing again.
Yes, that's right. Yeah. Didn't he have like
a vocal stroke or something? Yeah. And the rhythm
guitarist, Brad Hamilton, was saying, you know,
he's starting to be able to sing a little bit.
There's no way he's ever going to be able to
sing in a concert ever again. Now Steven Tyler
is saying, heck yeah, I want to do concerts,
multiple concerts. So maybe a miracle of medical
engineering. The fact that he's still alive.
Yeah. Yeah, probably the blood of 12 virgin fetuses
had to be transplanted into his vocal cords.
I'm pretty sure that's what happened. And then,
you know, 15 incantations to the Dark One. He
marked off the stem cells. He got to pick who
they came from. Anyways, all right. Oh, and the
sacrifice to the Dark Lord, too. Yes, yes. But
apparently Lou Graham had this big epiphany when
Foreigner was inducted into the Hall of Fame
in 2024. He's like, what am I missing out on?
For what reason? I want to be part of this again.
So good for him. After this, because that statement
right there, I've got something that we probably
should have talked about way before now, but
go ahead. That was the end of my Lou Gram story.
Oh, okay. Glenn Hughes. Yeah. Deep Purple for
four albums maybe. The problem is there's only
two with Blackmore, and he was pretty much their
sound. Then they had Bowlin, Tommy Bowlin. And
I think for two albums, and then he died. But
the band was already broke up, according to Glenn
Hughes, and they never got to tell him. Okay,
Glenn Hughes and David Coverdale both went to
the Hall of Fame induction. Glenn Hughes said,
and it actually kind of backs it up on tape,
take a look when you get a chance. He tried to
give Ian Gillen a hug. And Ian Gillan pushed
him away and would not even look at him. Wow.
He said that Ian Gillan has a problem with me
and Coverdale. He did the same thing with David
Coverdale. And he doesn't know what they did
to him. Wow. And the other member that was gone,
oh, Roger Glover. Yeah. Was the same way. Huh.
And the rest of the band, I think, were kind
of indifferent. They weren't really becoming,
they're just kind of like, oh, hey, they're here.
Yeah. The only thing I can think of is, They
don't consider the Burn album and the Stormbringer
and what was the other? I can't remember. They
thought that maybe it watered down their music.
That's the only thing I could think of. Or maybe
they thought they shouldn't even be there. I
mean, Burn was a big enough hit on its own, and
Stormbringer was a fair good hit. It's always
difficult when you nominate a band and they've
had lineup changes. Well, I always wanted Ronnie
Dio to go in with Sabbath. Yeah. I thought he
did such iconic work with them, he should have
been there. And I don't understand why he wasn't.
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, the only thing I
can think of is they thought they were hangers
-on and they didn't think they deserved to be
there. I know sometimes they go by album sales
with this member in the band. Who knows? I don't
know why, because Ronnie James Dio did way more
than... What the hell? Way more than two albums
with him, and the requirement is two albums in
a band. I never plugged the computer in. Oh,
that's why I flipped out. Yeah, its battery's
about to die, so... Okay. Here we go. All right.
So... Ta -da! It's happy again. There we go.
I plugged it into the power bank, forgot to plug
it into the computer. So this is how long the
laptop battery goes until it's about to fail.
That's actually not bad. Yeah, we've been here
a while. Yeah, I was going to do a podcast from
the cruise, a couple of them, with a laptop and
a mic and all that stuff, but evidently they
have outlawed them on cruises because people
do videocasts, and I guess they're showing stuff
they don't want them to. I could see that, yeah.
Yeah, so it's like you could try it. Yeah, well,
on some of the places they may be okay with it,
but you don't know. You could get kicked off
at the next port if they don't like it. Wow.
Yeah. And if you're going to do it, you've got
to do it in your room, but I don't want to carry
all that stuff and have to do it in the room.
Yeah. You know, I'd rather go up there and just
do it there, you know, just be up there. When
you sign on the dotted line for your tickets,
you're agreeing to all sorts of stuff that you
don't know because you can't read all that fine
print. Pretty much it's their discretion. So
I could do a podcast there and they didn't like
it and they're like, get off. Risking your whole
cruise. And then generally speaking, if you get
kicked off of one cruise, you're usually done.
The maritime board does not like that. They'll
share the information. They'll say, no, this
guy doesn't need to be there. We don't like his
money. Yep. So the thing that I think is is this
right here. I think that the animosity is they
think that Deep Purple was not the same without,
you know, Ian Gillen and Roger Clover. Yeah.
Those two people in particular and the rest of
the band kind of seem to think, even though the
rest of the band was there with them. Yeah. I
mean, Blackmore wasn't with them at the... He
declined to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
So the whole band, the ones that were with him,
like Ian Pace and John Lord, were definitely
there. They were there with Coverdell, and Blackmore
was too, with Coverdell and Glenn Hughes. That
lineup, whatever it was, MK30 or whatever, they
were with them there. performing the music. So
I don't see why Ian Gillen or someone like that
would have a problem with it because his bandmates
were there. So these guys were the real, just
the, they were replacement people. Then they
all got back together and did some more good
music and then they did some not so good music.
So if it was a music thing, wouldn't you be mad
at yourself for putting out some subpar albums
in the 90s and late 80s? Yeah, David Bowie apparently
doesn't like his song, the one about Major Tom,
Space Oddity. Yeah. He says, I did that to capitalize
on a current news story, and I didn't put much
thought and effort into it, and I'm embarrassed
by it, but oh my God, everybody wants it. No,
I know, that became maybe his most popular song.
Yeah, but he really did not like that one. He's
like, oh, I wish everyone would just forget that
song. Yeah, well, I mean, that happens all the
time, though. It's usually the songs that musicians
hate become hits. Yeah, and there's been a lot
of musicians who put out an album they're so
proud of, and it tanks. And it sucks. Yeah. Well,
it's typical overthinking. Yeah, I mean, when
you're counting on other people to buy it, you've
got to give them what they want, not what you
want to give them. I always say the Malcolm Young.
Mick Mars effect. Simplicity. Simplicity is the
key. I don't care if it's a note. I don't care
if it's a note and a minor chord. It doesn't
matter. If it hits that sound, it sounds good.
Don't fuck with it. You have musicians that go,
I'm going to really show my talent on this album.
Never buy that album. It's going to be full of
horns that don't need to be there. It's going
to be full of synthesizers that have no meaning.
Yeah, endless solos, all sorts of self -indulgences.
Yeah, and they want everyone to love it, and
everyone's like, that doesn't sound like your
hits. It's like, I'll listen to it every once
in a while if you give it away, but I'm not buying
that. Yeah, I'm definitely not going to go to
concerts to see you doing that. I get it. I get
it. I do, too. You got something else? Yeah.
Do you remember the band Mumford & Sons? Yeah,
yeah. They sing that kind of Irish folk. Yeah,
kind of like that, yeah. There's an article where
they released a new album recently, but the whole
article was talking about how even though it
debuted fairly high on the charts, it's their
worst debut ever. And it's not selling, even
though it is selling, it's not selling as well
as they have in the past. That's a sophomore
curse. It happens all the time in music. Yeah.
The music scene changes just enough to where
they come out with the same stuff and it doesn't
hit. Yeah. Yeah, the band is thinking, well,
you know, we think we're still just as good as
we have. We like this material. I think we're
doing well. And apparently they're doing okay.
But... It seemed odd to me the article was really
harping on the fact that, oh, they're slipping,
they're not as good as they used to be, look
how they're slipping. So I started thinking,
is that the record label planting that story
to try to get the band to go back to their winning
formula? Okay, that could be nowadays, but I'll
give you a great example. Quiet Riot, Condition
Critical, $30 million. highly successful album,
took the world by storm. I was like, what's this
new metal stuff? What's this new glam stuff?
Everyone started going that way, gravitating
to it. Their second album, I forgot the name
of it, it escapes me, sold five million, and
that was a flop. And the reason is because the
music scene changed a little, enough to where
five million people liked it, which was not a
flop. No. But... Compared to that debut, 50 Million,
Come on, Feel the Noise, Mental Health, all that
stuff, it didn't have the same punch because
the music scene changed just enough. Yeah, especially
if you're something so brand new, like some kind
of sound or attitude that most people haven't
heard of before. By the time your second album
comes out, number one, they're familiar with
it. Number two, there have been a dozen bands
copying you in the meantime. So your second album
has to be not more of the same old stuff. And
then when they did another cover of Slade, that
really iced them. Mama, we're all crazy now.
It started out as Soul 5 Million, and I liked
the album. It was good. It wasn't nearly as good
as the first one, in my opinion. But the music
scene went a little bit more glam. Now, Mumford
& Son, I have a feeling what you're saying, that's
true. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't seem like an article
that was written by somebody who's interested
in the success of the band. I agree. I agree.
And I think that that was designed to get the
band back on track as they see it. And as unpopular
as Mumford & Sons is on my feed, the fact that
it was pushed onto my feed, tells me that somebody
paid for that article to be written and spread
and put onto people's news feeds just to bring
up Mumford & Son and say how badly they're doing
now. It sounds like something to influence. Some
record company probably overpaid for them. Yeah.
And they expected more albums, and this one just
flopped. Yeah. So they're like... We've got to
try to get them back on track. Yeah, some sort
of power struggle being played out. That's what
it sounds like to me. What passes for the press.
That's pretty much what I figured. I use that
example because what did this latest album do?
I know they don't sell nearly as much anymore.
It's all internet. But was it comparable? I mean,
$30 million and $5 million, if you look at it
by numbers, it's like, oh, that's horrible. But
if you look at it as success, that's fine. Yeah,
if I make $10 million next year and the year
after that I make $150 ,000, that's okay. $150
,000 is still a shit ton of money. Yeah, you're
not losing money. That's better than none. Yeah,
I'd like to know the sales compared and see what
they're saying there. Yeah. All right. Oh, I
want to make a correction here. Yeah. Metal Health
was Quiet Riot's first. Condition Critical was
their second. Metal Health was the one that sold
like $30 million. Blew up, yeah. Condition Critical
sold $5 million. Yeah. Very respectable still.
Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying is they called
it a complete failure. It really wasn't. If they'd
had that one first, it would be like, what a
success. Yeah, yeah. And then they'd go to $30
million from there, like, oh my, this band is
off the hook. Yeah. That's a good point. If it
would have been the other way around, people
would have been like flipping out, going, oh
my gosh. Let's buy stock in them. Yeah. How do
you do that? I don't know. You can actually kind
of own a band. There was a, I think a Dutch or
Danish millionaire. who basically owned a super
tramp. He funded them nonstop up until the point
they got successful and couldn't make their own
money. Yeah. But they never had to pay any of
their bills. He believed in them so much, he
just paid everything. And it was like five albums
in before they had a success. This is in reverse,
but Meachum, I forgot his first name, was Saba's
first manager. And he pacified them. He was making
all this money off of them. And he pacified them
by, Ozzy go up and go, I want a Beamer. Okay.
Go get him one. Yep. I want a, I don't know,
whatever. I want to buy this. Okay. He go do
it. They had no idea how much money he was making
off of them. And he was just appeasing them because
they never had anything before. Yeah. Yeah. They
go, I want a. They figure, I must be rich. I
get everything I asked for. Yes. And then they
finally found out, wait a minute, this guy just
goes and gets it like that. He must be making
a shit ton of money off of us. And they finally,
you know, that's how they caught on was he would
just go buy anything. Let's see, you were going
to go into another story. Yeah, I read about
a dead musician whose body parts are still being
used. to make music as part of an art exhibit.
Creepy, huh? Okay. This is in Australia. Of course.
There was a musician named Alvin Lucier who died
in 2021. Now, before he died, he donated blood.
And somebody went and got that blood. And you
can manipulate blood, which is, blood is tissue.
You can manipulate it to grow other kinds of
tissue. and they managed to get it to grow this
tiny little micro brain. It actually has functioning
neurons the way a human brain is supposed to,
but it's basically just a web of neurons that
they call a little micro brain. And they've laid
this over a sheet of electrodes, and every time
one of the neurons fires, it triggers one of
these electrodes, and it sends a signal out to
a pneumatic hammer, which funks a piece of metal.
Wow. So when you stand in the room with this
thing, you hear hammers hitting pieces of metal,
and each one is a brain cell firing in this thing.
Is that how they write the music? That is supposed
to be the music. The music. You go and listen
to the clang, clang, clang, bing, bing, clang,
clang, clang, clang. So basically it came up
with a skeletal melody? Yeah. Wow. They're using
artificially... and human -created fake body
parts from a dead guy to get visitors to their
art gallery. The little micro brain is intriguing
enough, let alone getting music from it. But
they're exploiting it for money. Damn, human
rights laws. I'm surprised there isn't some lawsuits.
I know human rights laws in Australia must be
vastly different than here because I can't imagine
something like that being allowed here. They
would have to be. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, here there'd
be so many lawsuits. They'd be like, no, no,
no, that's our property because, you know, whatever.
The way they get around it is, well, he donated
the blood. The blood isn't him. Therefore, since
he willingly and freely gave it away, then we
get it. Like you said. Like you said, the laws
are completely different in Australia because
that would never fly here. Well, it would until
someone caught up with a family member. Yeah,
it's probably been tried over and over here,
but it's been stopped. A record company would
come back and go, well, he was signed under us.
That's our music. Exactly. Yeah, we know you
came up with it. We know you come up with a system,
but that's ours. Yeah. I could see that happening.
I could see that being a court case. I could
too, and I could see the court case ruling. for
the record company since they owed him the rights.
And you could say, well, the guy died. Well,
this is living tissue from him that isn't dead,
so in a way he's continued, and this living tissue
from him is producing music, therefore we own
the rights to that. Yeah. I could see lawyers
getting very rich arguing that over and over.
I could too. I could too. I mean, we live in
a litigious society where someone can do an invention
that's already been trademarked. and keep producing
it and producing it for years, and then the trademark
owner can come back and get all his money. All
right, you got anything else? The last little
thing I had was the who firing their drummer
and rehiring him. Yeah, yeah. That was a bunch
of bullshit, it sounds like. Yeah, so it was
on day one. Well, let's see. The evening of the
concert, Roger Daltrey, at the end of the show,
interrupts a song and says, I'm sorry, I can't
sing this. In order to sing this, I have to hear
the key, by which he means hear the other notes
so he can sing in tune. But all I hear is the
drums going boom, boom, boom, and I can't sing
to that. So he calls the drummer out in front
of the whole audience for playing too loud. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Or at the very least calling out
the sound guy for doing the mix wrong. The one
that I read was the sound guy, but then it evolved
into the drummer. But go ahead. And then immediately
after the show, there were accusations that Daltrey
made about the drummer plays too much. It's like,
excuse me, he's playing for Keith Moon. How would
he know? He can't hear. Yeah, I know. But when
you're drumming Who songs, especially the ones
that Keith Moon originated, playing too much
is what you do. That was Keith Moon's whole thing
is he played all the time. I don't get that at
all. And then they say, well, he's fired. And
this is Zach Starkey, the son of Ringo Starr.
And he's been with the band for 29 years and
change. That sounds to me like a personal difference
or something happened behind the scenes. Yep.
And Roger Daltrey put it to this when it actually
is not there. Yeah. And then during the next
day when this reported, by that afternoon, there
were so many people pointing out, including people
who had worked on that Who Tour or other Who
Tours previously, said, number one, Roger Daltrey
has in -ear monitors. Yes. So you don't hear
a damn thing except what's in those monitors.
So that's the sound guy, not the drummer. Number
two, all of Zach Starkey's drums are silent drums
with electronic triggers. They look like real
drums and cymbals, but they're all electronically
triggered. That's a good point. So when they're
hitting them on stage, they sound like this.
That's about all the sound you get out of them.
He could not have heard that. No. And even people
are talking about, well, yeah, that's the center
of the stage, and it's tricky to balance the
sound there. Well, he's got in -ear monitors.
He's only hearing what the sound board is sending
him. It doesn't matter where he's standing on
the stage. He's only hearing what the sound man
is sending him. Yes. And then another... thing
was they could put barriers up in front of the
drums. If you ever see a church band, they always
have a barrier up in front of the drums to contain
that sound. They could have done that. You don't
call them out in the middle of a concert. No,
that's forbidden. Yeah. So the whole thing just
stinks of he doesn't like the drummer, he's got
a beef with the drummer, he's blaming him for
something that isn't the drummer's fault and
isn't even really a problem because... Everyone's
listed several ways that you immediately fix
that, so it never would have been a problem that
he's hearing too much drums. It's all a lie.
He doesn't like the drummer. He wanted to get
rid of him. And then the next day, Pete Townsend...
I'm sorry, I'm interrupting you. Pete Townsend
releases... The first is Roger Daltrey bitching
and bitching and firing him. And then the next...
time we hear it's pete townsend saying oh no
no no he's he's still in the band you know we
we love him and it was just some disputes and
we resolved everything and sorry it all got blown
out of proportion blah blah blah i think real
roger daltrey just doesn't like the guy wanted
him out of the band and figured i'm going to
blow this up on stage so this way they have to
get rid of them and pete townsend found a way
to smooth it over Well, they had to because,
I mean, Daltrey's done after this anyhow. Absolutely.
He's going blind and deaf. He's becoming a real
-life Tommy as he jumped around. But I'll get
to that here in a minute. This reminds me a little
bit, remind me to go back to Pete Townsend and
Roger Daltrey because I have something on that
too. So, okay. Axl Rose, it was in St. Louis,
jumped down on stage. He was pissed off. bad
at slashing duck because they're fucked up yeah
and he told everybody he said these two guys
right here are fucking assholes they don't take
what we do seriously they're smashed and i'm
not going to sit up here and fucking play because
they're making a mockery of what we do and it
almost caused a riot oh wow people are like throwing
chairs and screaming at them and stuff And the
press reported it as just yelling at his bandmates,
not what he was saying. No, he was calling it
out. He made it sound like Axl's fault. I'm not
saying that Axl was valid in his criticisms,
but the way he handled it was bad. That was another
time I could think of someone coming out and
mouthing off, but they did the same thing. Slash
and Duff, oh, that's just Axl. He was just joking
around. No, he wasn't. No, he wasn't. He was
pissed. He was. So I guess that does happen.
Not that often, but whenever it does, it's like
the other side has to poo -poo it away. Oh, that's
nothing. It's like when Dave Navarro took a swing
and punched out Perry Farrell in a James Addiction
concert. It's like it had gotten to the point
so bad that he was actually punching him on stage
and there's taking swings. Even the guys, those
roadies who were dragging Perry Furrow off the
stage started taking swings at him because everyone
hates him so much. Oh, yeah. But the very next
day it was like, oh, it was a misunderstanding.
That's what I was getting ready to say. That's
exactly what they did. They go, oh, he's just,
he's temperamental. We love him. The immediate
spin. Yes. I hate that immediate spin. Yeah.
Everybody knows better. Why do they even bother?
Does anyone believe it? No, that's what I'm saying.
Why would you even bother? Because nobody believes
it anyhow, obviously. It's like those stupid
groundbreaking ceremonies. Does anyone really
think these people are breaking the ground and
causing this to start? No. This is just bullshit.
I mean, I'm surprised they're not plastic shovels.
Yeah, really. Or I'll go, hey, assistant. Dig.
Well, with you, most of the times they bring
a backhoe in and dig up some soil and make it
nice and soft, and that's where they can stick
their shovels into. I want one of them to hit
a rock and hurt themselves. I want one of them
to hit a landmine. Yes. Oops. Or a water main,
at least a water main. At least a water main,
yeah. All right, I could go for that. It's been
a nice rain coming down here. It is. It smells
great, doesn't it? It does. Okay, Pete Towne
said Roger Daltrey. Pete Townsend had a bionic
ear years ago because he was going deaf. Yeah.
I wonder how come Roger Galtry's not talking
that. Interesting. You think, well, going blind
for one thing would suck, yeah. And he probably
wouldn't want to be on stage, you know. Yeah.
I get that. But he didn't say anything about
anything medical trying to do that. He kind of
acted like he was just going to become a recluse
almost in a statement. There's a really good
movie out that talks about the cochlear implant
to get certain deaf people their hearing. The
movie's called The Sound of Metal. and the lead
character is the drummer in a heavy metal group
who loses his hearing, and then he's got to deal
with it. I remember a little bit about that,
yeah. And eventually they give an example of
kind of how the cochlear implant works. You're
not really hearing what's going on. The implant
is hearing it. It's telling a computer chip,
and the computer chip is guessing that that's
what it would sound like and creating those signals
for your brain. So it's nothing like what you're
hearing, but you can kind of get an idea of what
you're actually hearing. Like, oh yeah, it's
a car horn. But you're not really hearing the
car horn, you're hearing the computer's interpretation
of what it probably sounds like. I wonder how
Townsend plays them. I think he uses that mostly
for a sense of timing, like a metronome. And
that's it, okay. And like Beethoven, he hears
the notes in his head, and he plays along with
the music that's going along in his head. He
just needs that external timekeeping. Okay, and
that just helps him do what he does. He doesn't
hear it per se like that, but that's what helps
him with the timing. But I think Daltrey needs
to hear himself sing in order to hit the right
note. That's the difference. So he needs to hear
it. He needs to know exactly what note he's hitting.
There's no way. Oh, he's singing it. Cochlear
implants just can't do that. You would sound
horrible if you couldn't hear yourself sing.
Yeah, it would be different from when you hear
deaf people speaking aloud, but it would be along
those lines of you really don't have a full grasp
of what sounds you're making. So you're making
a lot of sounds you don't intend, and you're
not making sounds you think you are. Nobody's
going to pay to hear a person sing like that.
It would be a disaster. So I don't think the
implants are going to work for Roger. Okay, you
just made sense of it then. But then I also attributed
the blind thing too, because would you really
want to be out on stage blind? I mean, you couldn't
see the crowd. You know, that's something that
I thought about. You know, if I lose my sight,
I can still play, but I would never be able to
see the visual cues from the other players on
stage. Yeah, that would be rough. You would never
be able to improv. unless you've got somebody
in your ear and through headphones saying, okay,
here's what we're doing next. Yeah, and that
wouldn't be very much fun. That would be more
like a chore than actually doing music. So Daltrey
could sing and perform live blind, but it would
have to be the exact same stage set up and everything
else pretty much the same because changing things
on the fly, how do you communicate that to him
when he already can't hear very well and now
he can't sing? Yeah, it would be really tough.
The logistics just don't work out. No. It reminds
me of something there, totally off base of what
we're talking about, but when I get back, I need
to bring my guitar down, and we need to figure
out that floor drum. Oh, yeah, that tremolo.
Yeah, I had it tuned in again, but when you play
it a little bit, you have to have it fine -tuned
to lock it in. If not, it goes out real easy.
You're close. You are actually in tune, but barely.
You know, you don't have that definite... It's
enough to really throw it off. Yeah, you got
that... Yeah. I guess that's the way to describe
it. You got that... Not that... If you tune guitars,
you know what I'm talking about. If not, then
just move along. At least you've got a Floyd
Rose and not a collar. K -A -H -L -E -R. Oh,
those things are garbage. Oh, my God. Those are
the worst. Yeah, because they had the Kaler,
and then they had the Kaler Tremolo. Yeah. And
that thing was horrible because it never did
work. Never did. No. It was a cheaper alternative,
but it just didn't work. Floyd Rose II. after
they got it figured out after the first couple
of years, it works and it works well, but you
have to figure out how to do it. And it's kind
of a pain in the ass to do it too. There's a
lot of extra moving parts. I mean, I'm pretty
sure someone like Richie Blackmore would benefit
from that because he plays the tremolo a lot,
especially on his solos. And that would keep
his guitar in tune. But he's also figured out
a really unique way to play when he's out of
tune, too. He plays it slightly different when
he's out of tune. Yeah, he can bend it back into
tune. Yes. You've got to have perfect pitch pretty
much to do that. I couldn't do it, but he could.
There's another option called the Evertune Bridge.
I've heard of it, but I'm not real familiar with
it. Yeah, it's only useful on guitars with the
tremolo system. Actually, it's a vibrato, but
everyone calls it a tremolo. The whammy bar.
The whammy bar. You know what? That was an 80s
thing. Yes. The whammy bar. Nowadays they go,
what the hell? Is that a gay bar? No, no, no,
no. So what this Evertune bridge does, it's got
a whole series of springs in the back of the
guitar like the trim system does, except you
adjust it before you get your guitar string tuned,
and then you adjust the tension on that spring.
And then no matter what you do with that string,
the spring is going to keep that tension identical,
so it never goes out of tune. You could bend
the string all the way up the neck, and the tone
wouldn't change because the spring is compensating.
Yeah. You'd have no personality at all. No, every
note is played exactly, you know. Imagine Ace
Freely. Yeah, no bending, none at all. There's
so many people, so many great guitarists. You
recognize them by their chord bending. I'm trying
to think of guitar players that just really don't
bend. I'm thinking Dream Theater's guitar player,
John Petrucci. He has no room at all. He doesn't
bend anywhere. Rhythm guitar players generally
don't do a lot of bending. Tony Iommi doesn't
do a lot. He's straightforward. He's got a pattern
to his music. Let's see. Richie Blackmore doesn't
that much. He uses a treble a lot. Mick Mars.
No, no, no. No? No, he had a couple albums. He
uses the slide, but not so much the bending.
And with the Nevertune Bridge, I think it's got
the option to lock it so you can use the whammy
bar. Malcolm Young. Yep, Malcolm Young. Because
Angus did all the bending. Yeah. Malcolm just
sat back there doing the rhythm, which is straightforward.
Yeah. What were you saying? I'm sorry. I said,
you know, with the Evertune bridge in place,
you hit that whammy bar and the springs are going
to compensate. Your whammy bar doesn't do anything.
So I think you can hit a lock button and now
your whammy works. Yeah. And then you unlock
it when you're done and the springs go back to
compensating and you're right back in perfect
tune and you stay in perfect tune no matter what.
That would make sense. Yeah. They're expensive.
They're a little heavy. And then you've got to
do all the adjustment. And if you change string
gauges or string length, you've got to do it
all over again. I see it on some higher -end
guitarists. I like the imperfect way. I mean,
you listen to some of the great guitarists that
wrote great songs. I don't know about their virtuoso
stuff and all that. But, yeah, I mean, like a
Joe Perry or a Brad Whitford or somebody like
that. They don't slash. They don't sound perfect.
By any means. Even Zach Wild, as good as he is,
he likes a little sloppiness on his stuff, too.
Stephen Clark for Def Leppard. Jimmy Page. Jimmy
Page, yeah. He's sloppy as hell, but it sounds
good. It sounds good. Doesn't matter. Like I
said, some of his best stuff, like, is it Trampled
Underfoot? It sounds like he just takes a fucking
guitar and throws it on the ground, and then
he goes from there. Yeah. His guitar is what's
trampled underfoot. Yeah. I think that's why
he did it. He was like, well, trampled underfoot.
Oh, I got it. So, yeah. And Jimmy Page could
not play. He could not play clean. No, a little
sharp, choppy, precise, picking the way Eddie
Van Halen did. That wasn't his thing. He probably
didn't even want to. Oh, yeah. And that's where
I wanted to go into. This is going to be hard
to figure out, but there's bands that have done
this. The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, then Jeff
Beck. Jeff Beck turned it over to the new Yardbirds
and had Jimmy Page come in. Yeah. Okay. Jeff
Beck or Eric Clapton could not stay in Led Zeppelin.
No. They just didn't. They don't have that type
of a plan. I want to go into bands that had guitarists
that went into bands that no one else could fill
the void. So it had to be a band that was in
existence. They got rid of their guitarists.
And then the next one came in. It's a complete
flop. And it's because they couldn't duplicate
the sound. And this is going by something that
never happened. Jeff Beck stepped down to do
his solo stuff. and he referred Jimmy Page. So
the New Yardbirds were so different, they had
to come up with another name. Yeah. I'm trying
to think of how Led Zeppelin would have turned
out if Jeff Beckett stayed in the band. A bit
more bluesy. Yeah, same with Clapton. All those
earlier albums, it was Page and Plant writing
the songs, and then eventually he turned over
songwriting to John Paul Jones, who wrote songs
on piano, not on guitar. And you could tell a
lot of their songs. Big shift in the way the
songs were written. They were still good. It
just wasn't so dark. And you can tell that you
can easily see how so much of the early Zeppelin
sound was because of Jimmy Jones, because he
was not only playing it, he was writing it. So
if it was Clapton or Beck writing it and playing
it... It would have been such a different vibe,
different scene. They wouldn't have had the long
heroine guitar solos. No, like, how about Dazed
and Confused? Wow, I don't know that that even
really would have worked without Paige. No, he
was so... The feeling. Yeah. And the song title.
Yeah. It just went hand in hand. Yeah. Yeah,
that's the perfect meeting of material and artist.
Yes, and like I said, Sloppy, but no one else
could have done that. And that was pretty much
their signature song at the first. Bad in Good
Times, Bad Times, I believe, was also the Zeppelin
one. I always wanted to hear When the Levee Breaks
a lot more often than I did. They'd play all
these Zeppelin songs I'd heard a million times.
It was like, play I'm Gonna Crawl. I like that
one. I love that one, too. Or how about Ron Y
.R. Stump? Yeah. How? No one can tell me exactly
how that's supposed to be pronounced. It's probably
Gaelic. That's what I was thinking, too. The
closest Harvard is Brawn -y -ar. Or Brawn -y
-ar. Yeah, yeah. Someone said it was like Brownstomp
or Brawnstomp or something like that. Yeah, there's
a lot of times the words are... Like, we don't
say Worcestershire, we say Worcestershire. Worcestershire.
Worcestershire, yeah. Gloucester, Massachusetts
is pronounced Gloucester. That's right. But it's
spelled Gloucester. Yeah, yeah. So, you know,
maybe Braunweih are, it really is called Braunstamper.
How about Hats Off to Roy Harper? You remember
that song? Oh my gosh, no. That's a Zeppelin
song. I think it's off of... Hang on. Let me
look. Tool had a song called Message to Harry
Manback. Yeah. I never did find out the story
on that. Hats off to Roy Harper. The story I
heard about Harry Manback was that was a message
that their landlord left on their answering machine
because they hadn't been paying their rent and
he wanted to move out. English folk rock singer
was Roy Harper. Now, let me try this. Hats off
to Roy Harper. What album is it on? AI is hating
you. Led Zeppelin III. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay,
now I know what it's about. It's a folk singer
in England. I'm sorry, you were going somewhere
and I had to figure this shit out. No, I was
yakking over you, that's okay. Okay, sorry. I
don't even remember what I said because it's
five minutes ago. You know what, I'll listen
to it later and figure out what you said. Okay,
so now we got the hats off to Roy Harper figured
out. Yep. And now it's pouring. We really need
to be going. I've got to do my appointment. But
what now? I was going to say, good rain going
here. They're trying to wash us away. Yeah, they
are. They're trying to get us out of here. I
agree. I understand. I'm pretty much done. Okay.
All right. Well, hey, everybody, thank you for
listening, and go fuck yourself.