Hey, guess what? You just landed on the sports
bastards. Sorry about your luck. Well, since
the sports show can't be called two douchebags
with a microphone, maybe we could just call them
the sports bastards. Okay. Bad enough, huh? Yeah,
bad enough. Went from bad to worse. I loved it.
It was great. We suck on purpose. Yes, we do.
Okay. All right. You got something you want to
go into? I've got my... Top 16 most expensive
guitars ever sold at auction. Oh, this will be
interesting. Yeah. All right. And if it's the
same as the list I had before, then a number
of these were owned by the same people. What
I've got up first is Eric Clapton's Blackie Fender
Stratocaster. It sold in New York in 2004 for
$959 ,000. I'm surprised he named it Blackie.
Not African -American -y. Or damn immigrant -y.
Damn immigrant -y. Considering Eric Clapton's
white supremacy views, you figured he'd only
have white guitars. Allegedly. No, that's exactly
what I was alluding to. Well, at the time, it
was about the most expensive one ever sold, but
now it's number 16. Oh, wow. He bought... The
entire stock from a Nashville guitar store called
Show Bud, because he really wanted a 1970 Stratocaster.
So he went through and picked them all out, and
three of them he gave to his friends, George
Harrison, Pete Townsend, and Steve Wynwood, and
then assembled his ideal Strat from the rest.
A 1956 body, a 1957 neck, and a third guitar's
pickups, two from the 50s and one from 1970.
Yay! And then he played at Ole Mix exclusively
from 74 through 85. And by the end, the neck
was so worn that the low E string hung off the
edge. Wow. So he put it up for auction. Most
of these times when they put these up for auction,
the proceeds go to charity. Yeah. Every now and
then, the proceeds go back to the person. But
usually they go to charity, which is good. That's
great. Yeah. I think David Gilmour has auctioned
off a couple that way. All right, up next. Roger
Waters was demanding his cut. Yes. Allegedly.
Number 15, Bob Dylan's 1964 Fender Stratocaster.
Sold in 2013 for the price of $965 ,000. At the
1965 Newport Folk Festival, Dylan went electric
for the first time with this 1964 Strat and an
Alembic. And he got booed off the stage because
how dare he go to electric guitar. Snotty little
fuckers, aren't they? Now, eventually, he left
it on an airplane. And the pilot picked it up,
and it stayed in his family for about 50 years.
Oh, wow. Auction catalog photos show it's in
excellent condition, especially since it's been
played in gigs. Three -tone sunburst, free of
dings and fading. Pre -CBS, before CBS bought
the company from Leo Fender, which makes them
much more desirable. Oh, yeah. The original strap
and case included. It was expected to go for
$500 ,000. It went for $965 ,000. Wow. Yeah.
Number 14, David Gilmour's Martin D -35 Acoustic.
It's a six -string acoustic. 2019, sold in New
York for $1 ,000 ,000. $95 ,000. Wow. In 2003,
David Gilmour told BBC Radio No. 4's Desert Island
Discs that his Martin D -35 was the one luxury
item he'd want if he were stranded at sea. Quote,
it's the best guitar I own. It's the guitar that's
always by my side. I've written just about every
piece of music using that guitar. My ideas come
through that guitar. Most prominently heard on
Wish You Were Here, it was used on every Pink
Floyd album from Dark Side of the Moon in 73
to The Final Cut in 83. The 1969 D -35 proved
not to be entirely indispensable, however, because
Gilmer auctioned it to benefit the charity Climate
Earth. So it's interesting that he was ready
to give it up for that cause. I guess maybe he
wasn't playing as much anymore? I guess. That'd
be my guess. Number 13, Rory Gallagher's 1961
Fender Stratocaster. A lot of Stratocasters so
far. Yeah, yeah. Rory was an Irish, what would
you call him, blues, Irish blues guy maybe? Yeah.
He did rock, and he landed on the rock charts
with several songs. Yeah. I think he died pretty
young from cirrhosis. Yeah, that sounds about
right. Yeah. Just give me a little rundown on
Roy Gallagher because he wasn't that well known
per se. No. He usually played with other people.
Yes. He kind of got left out. This guitar sold
in 2024 in London for $1 .16 million. When the
Roy Gallagher's family gave notice that they
would be selling his 61 Strat plus a lot of the
gear. it sparked a lot of worldwide interests.
Members of the Irish government endorsed a grassroots
fundraising effort to keep the guitar of the
late blues rock guitarist in the native country
of Ireland. Joe Bonamassa joined in. Oh, yep,
I believe that. And then owing to the significance
of this particular Strat, the legend is it's
the first one to ever reach Irish soil. I've
heard that, yes. Yeah, I have too. No one will
be surprised to see it make this list of top
-selling guitars. Gallagher wielded this heavily
aged guitar throughout the course of his career
and used it to cement himself as one of the all
-time greats of guitar music. When the auction
rolled around in October of 24, the Hammer eventually
went down at 700 ,000 pounds, but with the added
buyer's premium was 889 ,400, which equates to
1 .26 million. Wow. U .S. dollars. However, the
person who bought it was not from Ireland, but
he bowed to their wishes and put it in a national
museum in Ireland. Oh, wow. That's where it sits.
Isn't that awesome? Next up, Dwayne Allman's
1957 Gibson Les Paul gold top. Okay. Sold in
Dallas. And this is Dwayne Ullman. Dwayne Ullman.
Yeah. Yeah. He's dead and he died a long time
ago. Motorcycle crash. Motorcycle crash, yeah.
Sold in Dallas in 2019 for a price of $1 .25
million. Oh. And it's, you know, it's not a burst.
It's a gold top, which in 1957 was a real high
seller. Everyone loved the gold top. I used to
love the gold top. Now it just kind of looks
bland to me. Yeah, I agree. I was the same. Yeah,
I've seen them in person at the Gibson Garage.
It's nice, but not for me. But this particular
guitar was used on the first two Allman Brothers
albums, as well as Derek and the Dominoes' Layla
and other assorted love songs, before Dwayne
traded it for a Sunburst model. Allman insisted
on keeping the pickups, so this guitar now has
the humbuckers from the burst that he bought.
So he just traded pickups. So this does not have
the original pickups, but yeah. The subsequent
owner refinished it badly before Tom Murphy,
who of the Murphy Labs works for Gibson, restored
it to glory. Former owner Scott Lamar frequently
loaned it out, so you've seen it on stage with
the likes of Billy Gibbons, Kirk Hammett, and
Derek Trucks. Kirk Hammett even? Yeah. Okay.
Interesting. So even without the non -original
pickups and the fact that it had to be refinished,
one and a quarter million. Wow. But the fact
that the Murphy Lab did it in Nashville. Gives
it a significance. Yes, yes. That's going to
be quality. Yep. Number 14 is Eric Clapton's
1964 Gibson SG nicknamed The Fool because of
the painting that's on it. It's a painting of
a fool. It's wild colors. There's yellows and
greens and blues. He just had this amazing painting
put on it. I don't like the way it looks, really,
the painting all over the body, and they've done
some recreations and reissues of it. Eh, let
some people at it. Anyways, it sold in Nashville
in 2023 for $1 .27 million. It was a 1964 from
his days in Cream, and it was famously known
as The Fool. It was named after the Dutch art
collective that gave it its striking body artwork.
The Fool became Slow Hand's go -to guitar in
his post -Blues Breakers day while he and Cream
bandmates were piecing together the riff -oriented
Disraeli Gears. So all those songs off Disraeli
Gears, it's a Gibson SG, not a Stratocaster.
He was known for a Strat for so many times, people
just can't picture him with anything else. But
he also played a Gibson 335 a lot, the semi -hollow
body. You know a couple of guitars that will
never be on there, but I always wondered if they
ever auctioned them off or something. Paul Stanley's
Ibanez, his Shattered guitar. Oh yeah, the Iceman
with the Shattered. Yes. Oh yeah. I'll have to
look that one up. Yeah, because that to me was
one of the prettiest guitars ever. I don't know
about how, well he sounded great. Yeah. But that
right there, to me, I'd like to know what happened
to that. Because he had one signature one. He
was really during the Love Gun rock and roll
era where he had that shattered guitar out quite
a bit. Yeah. I'd love to know what happened to
that. And then I'd like to know what happened
to Blackie Wallace's B .C. Rich Warlock. Oh,
yeah. Remember that? Black and red? Yeah. B .C.
Rich made a lot of real pointy guitars, didn't
they? They did, yeah. They came up with some
interesting patterns. There was the Warlock,
the Rich Pitch. The Rich Pitch, yeah. Mockingbird,
Eagle, Seagull. There's a couple more. There's
a couple more, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anyhow, go ahead.
I just wanted to mention those. As long as it's
a sidetrack of Kiss, I saw a video the other
day where Paul Stanley was talking that Kiss,
he and Gene Simmons have sold Kiss. Yeah. Completely
sold everything to it. The name, the costumes,
the designs, the makeup, the songs, absolutely
publishing absolutely everything for $350 million.
So from this point on, Gene Simmons and Paul
Stanley need to get permission to perform as
Kiss, do anything Kiss related, and then they
will have to pay a fee to whoever owns Kiss.
Well, they're going to have to pay a fee because
they're going to do that Las Vegas 50 years or
whatever tribute. So they're going to have to
get permission then and probably cut them a check.
But you know, in a way, this is actually a good
deal because now Kiss takes none of the risk.
Exactly. Because somebody else owns it. Somebody
else is putting the bill. KISS says, hey, we'll
do it for, you know, here's your cut for, you
know, using their name and the appearance and
everything, and then the rest we'll keep. And
I'm sure it's in the contract that Gene and Paul
get paid no matter what. So even if it bombs,
they're going to get paid. So there's zero risk
to them. And they also sold it to a Japanese
animation company. Yes. Which will be huge. It'll
be huge over there. And everywhere that their
reach extends. Yeah, yeah. So I found out there
is a mini Aussie. Oh, wow. I was wanting one
because I was like, you know, hey, we got mini
Kiss now, but we need a mini Aussie. Well, I
guess he's been around for a few years. Didn't
know. So, anyhow. But the only thing is he really,
many kids say goodbye with it because, you know,
they have all the, you know, makeup and all that.
But, mini Ozzy, he looks a little bad, but, man.
So, so, anyhow. I'd like to see a mini Alice
Cooper. Oh, I'd love to see that. Yeah, put him
in a little tiny guillotine. Yeah. Welcome to
my night. A little bitty straitjacket. I think
you're gonna like it. Okay, where were we? Sounds
like he's on helium. Okay. Alright, Eric Clapton's
The Fool. This guitar also became the face of
the psychedelic era and the symbol of 1967's
Summer of Love phenomenon. It also helped Clapton
concoct what he called his woman tone, which
is a term that's falling out of favor because
it's... Basically what you do is you turn the
gain up all the way, get on the bridge pickup,
turn the tone all the way down. And if you do
it right, it sounds almost like a violin, but
with balls. And that's considered a woman tone,
but other people are trying to get rid of that
term and call it the violin tone. But it works
extremely well on just about any guitar. High
gain, turn the tone all the way down on your
guitar and use the bridge pickup. There you go.
It's great for soloing. Good. Anyway. So you've
heard it on songs like Sunshine of Your Love,
White Room, I Feel Free. That is probably one
of my favorite sounds from them. Yeah. Yeah,
it's an awesome tone. In late 2023, renowned
collector Jim Irsay... The former owner of the
Indianapolis Colts. He had about the biggest
vintage guitar, vintage musical instrument collection
on the planet. Yeah. It's amazing. He was a very
interesting guy. Yeah. But this makes it the
most expensive Eric Clapton guitar sold at auction.
Okay, now we're in the top ten. Kurt Cobain's
1993 Fender Mustang, which were nicknamed SkyStang
1. Because it was in sky blue, and it was a Mustang,
and he bought two of them. Actually, he bought
ten of them for a tour, and this particular one
he liked over all the other nine, and he gave
some on the way. So this is SkyStang 1, sold
for $1 .587... No. They added a bunch of numbers.
$1 ,587 ,500. They had to add that extra $500
on the end, didn't they? Yeah, they sure did.
So it can be seen on the March 1st, 1994 concert,
the final show of Nirvana. Last concert Kurt
Cobain ever played, and he's playing that guitar.
It was his go -to guitar for the whole In Utero
tour. It was built in Japan by the iconic Fuji
-Gen factory by custom Luthier Scott Zimmerman
because it wasn't offered in left -handed. They
had to actually physically hand -make all of
those specifically for him. Wow. That makes it
even more valuable. Probably so, yeah. Now, following
Kurt Cobain's death, Courtney Love, in a rare
moment of generosity and decent human, she gave
it to Kurt's brother, Chad. which, you know,
Chad was there at that concert, and he said,
that's the guitar I always associate with my
brother Kurt. And so when Courtney gave it to
me, I was just thrilled. It was just wonderful.
It's cool that she did that. Yeah. Let's see.
Chad Cobain didn't hold it all that long. He
sold it to Japan -based businessman Mitsuro Sato,
and then he's the one who put it up for auction.
Well, that's kind of depressing. Yeah. Oh, this
one I remember my brother in all the time, and
then he sells it. But, you know, I don't think
Chad Cobain played guitar, so all he could do
was hang it on the wall. Yeah, I get it. And
he's like, why shouldn't it sit in my house?
Yeah, let someone enjoy it. Yeah. Number nine,
David Gilmour again, his 1954 Fender Stratocaster.
It's kind of a cream white. Sold in 2019 for
$1 ,815 ,000. Wow. Now, even without it being
David Gilmour's guitar, this would have been
extremely collectible because it's the very first
Fender Stratocaster made to be given a serial
number. There were some made before this, but
they were made specifically to be given away
or as demonstrators. This was the first one made
specifically to be sold to the public, and its
serial number is 0001. Oh, nice. Yeah. Let's
see. The first owner was country star Rex Gallion,
who Fender directly sold it to. And then it was
owned by Seymour Duncan of the pickup. company.
Then it was also used to record Niles Rodgers
-esque rhythm parts on another brick of the wall.
It eventually came to David Gilmour in 1974,
I think it was. So it spent 20 years bouncing
around to other people before David Gilmour got
it in 74. You're familiar with Another Brick
in the Wall. There's that clean guitar playing
the rhythm. That's the one. That's the 54 Fender
Strat. All original. 100 % original. Very cool.
Yeah. It was sold at Christie's auction. And
the auction guide predicted it would probably
sell for between $100 ,000 to $150 ,000. $1 .8
million. Wow. That would have worked a lot more.
But in that instance, it was a guitar that he
had retired from playing because it was so worn.
And then, again, David Gilmour wanted to raise
money for a charity, so he said, I'll auction
this guitar I'm not playing. That's cool. Yeah.
Next up at number eight, Jerry Garcia of the
Grateful Dead. His guitar called Wolf, which
was hand -built for him. It's a weird -looking
sucker. made from a lot of woods that are endangered
species now, so you can't make guitars out of
them. It's hard to describe. Imagine a Fender
Stratocaster that's been kind of squished around
a little bit, and the headstock's all wrong.
That's kind of how it looks. It's a weird -ass
looking guitar. It is a weird -ass looking guitar.
And it's called the Wolf because there was a
cartoony wolf sticker put on it. And eventually
when that wore off, they recreated it in wooden
inlay and put it on the guitar. Now it sold in
2017 for $1 .9 million. Luthier Doug Irwin created
it specifically for Jerry Garcia. And he used
it... Pretty much from then on, that was his
go -to guitar. I smell french fries now. I do
too. They smell incredible. It had an ingenious
plate system to allow pickup systems to be dropped
in or out. No heavy wiring or taking the guitar
apart. Just drop them in, pull them out if you
want to change the sound. It had two outputs
so he could run his effects loop separately from
his main guitar. Let's see. They skipped the
part in here that I saw in the other one. When
the guitar, when Jerry Garcia passed away, the
guitar was given to the man who made it, Doug
Irwin, who at the time was homeless because he
had fallen on hard times. And so he was thrilled
to get these guitars. He's like, man, I'm going
to sell this because I really need the money
and I'm not going to play it anyway. The band
stepped in and said, no, no, no. That guitar
really kind of belongs to the band, not to Jerry.
So the band wanted to steal it back from a homeless
guy who built it in the first place. So all you
hippies there who like the Grateful Dead, this
is who they are. Yeah. And it took two years
to settle the suit. And the guy who made it finally
did get the guitar. Oh, good. Yeah. And there
are two ex... hippie deadheads who were lawyers
who took the case for free. That figures. And
that guitar was the flagship of the auction.
The auction in total raised $3 .2 million for
the Southern Poverty Law Center. Oh, that's cool.
Yeah. So there again, there was the Grateful
Dead trying to block that. Because they're assholes.
And the music is shit. Anyway. Next up, number
seven, John Lennon's Gibson J160E Acoustic. I
covered this one on the story about stolen guitars,
famous stolen guitars. It was one that John Lennon
and George Harrison each bought one at the same
time, same store, and there's a picture taken
of them holding their new guitars, and the store
owner standing next to them has no idea who these
people are. But you heard it on hits like I Want
to Hold Your Hand. You could see him playing
it in the movie Help. It was on Love Me Do. It
was stolen during a Christmas concert in 1963.
Lennon replaced it with another one, but eventually
it wound up being found in somebody's attic.
Wow. And it had been up there for years and years
and years, and it was still in decent condition,
so it was brought. brought down and sold at auction
in 2015 in Los Angeles and got $2 .41 million.
Wow. Wow. This next one's a little weird. Excuse
me. Because it's not really historical or vintage
or anything, but it's got its own kind of value.
It's called the Reach Out to Asia. Fender Stratocaster.
Oh, wow. It was sold in Qatar in 2005 for $2
.7 million. Qatar sounds like guitar. Yeah, it
does. I think that's why they like them over
there. All right. Now, this starts out as a Mexican
-made standard Stratocaster, which is the lower,
even American -made or high dollar. The Mexican
-made are a little cheaper, although they're
pretty much just as good. But this was designed
to raise money for the tsunami victims of the
2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. So somebody went out
and bought this white Strat and then got every
guitar god and rock god he could think of to
sign it. And that's what gives it its value.
He got the signatures of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards,
Eric Clapton, Brian May, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour,
Jeff Beck. Pete Townsend, Mark Doffler, Ray Davies,
Liam Gallagher, Ronnie Wood, Tony Iommi, Angus
and Malcolm Young, Paul McCartney, Sting, Richie
Blackmore, Def Leppard, and Brian Adams. Okay.
All those people signed it. Liam Gallagher, Sting,
and Brian Adams. They need to scribble all those
off. Yeah. And the rest are great. Yeah, the
rest of them are good. Okay, cool. Wow, he got
a lot of different signatures. Yeah. Now the
newly made ones sold for around $350 at the time.
So that's probably what the guy paid for it.
It sold for $2 .7 million because of the signatures.
All the signatures, yep. And that said, it makes
it pretty much the most overpriced guitar in
all of history. Now as a sideline, do you remember...
a musician, Christopher Cross. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
He did kind of yacht rock. Say, baby, take me
away to where I'm going. Did you know that he
once subbed for Richie Blackmore in a Rainbow
concert? No. Yep. It was during his hard rock
days. He had long hair. He had a flying V. He
was really into Rainbow and Richie Blackmore,
and he was a good guitar player, and Richie was
sick for a show, and he couldn't do it, so they
called up. Christopher Cross and said, can you
come play? And he said, okay. And he did it.
Wow. It's so weird to think of the guy writing
those gentle songs. He was up there rocking with
a rainbow. Wow. And they showed a picture of
him with his long hair and I didn't recognize
him. Totally different looking guy. Wow. You
just never know. People have been all over the
place and done all sorts of things. It's amazing.
That's pretty cool, really. That is pretty cool.
Number five, John Lennon's 12 -string Framus
Hootenanny. Framus is the brand, and it was the
Hootenanny model. It's got a flying trapeze bridge,
and it's a 12 -string. You see it looks kind
of vintage. This is one that Julian Lennon announced
as Discovery. Where did they lose it? Anyways,
used extensively during their help recording
sessions. He wrote some songs on it. The song,
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away. He can be
seen actually playing it in the movie. It was
found in the back of an attic, having been missing
for 50 years. They had no idea really what they
had, so they brought it and had it evaluated
and looked at. And it wound up selling in 2024
for the price of $2. million eight hundred fifty
seven thousand five hundred dollars that's a
lot yeah geez to be found in an attic and at
the time it set the record for um the most expensive
beatles guitar to ever sell at auction beating
out uh lennon's 2 .4 million gibson acoustic
that we just talked about wow uh number four
Eddie Van Halen's Hot for Teacher Kramer guitar.
Red with white stripes. Kind of looked like his
Frankenstein Strat, except this is a Kramer.
It has a Kramer headstock. I remember that because
Kramer was endorsing Kramer. He was. He was a
Kramer endorser. They needed a Kramer guitar,
so they made him one that looked like the Frankenstein
Strat. But you'll notice it's got a hockey stick
tile headstock. Yeah. Yep. And it was purpose
-built with just one pickup, whereas his Frankenstrat
had the two other pickups just torn out. Yeah.
So this one sold in New York in 2023 for $3 .932
million. Just under $4 million. Wow. So this
is the one that he used in the video for Hot
for Teacher and played. It exceeded its auction
estimate by nearly a million dollars. It was
built by Paul Unkert. and was reportedly one
of Van Halen's primary instruments in the 83
and 84, and most notably for the Hot for Teacher
music video. Someone speculated, what do you
think Frankenstrat would actually sell for? This
one sold for $4 million. Or the Bumblebee one
that was buried with Dimebag Daryl. Oh, yeah.
Those are probably closer to $10 million. Probably.
Yeah. Frankenstrat, who owns that? Wolfie does.
Wolfie does. Yeah, and he's used it on some of
the music he's put out. Yeah, that's right. I
have seen it, yeah. And Wolfie, he's a fantastic
guitarist. He can play it. Oh, my God. And he's
a good drummer, too. Yeah, he's a great drummer.
Well, he plays about every instrument around,
actually. Why not? Why not? Yeah. I mean, his
whole family's musical, so, you know. So right
now, this is the most expensive. Van Halen guitar
ever sold and maybe will be the most expensive
ever sold. Yeah, because Frankenstrat's probably
not going to be sold. No, I wouldn't think so.
I'd go to Wolfie's son. Number three, David Gilmour's
Black Spender Stratocaster. Sold in New York
in 2019 for $3 .975 million. This is Black Strat?
It's a Black Stratocaster. Okay. This blackstrap
went for the price of a Beverly Hills mansion,
despite having been thoroughly messed with. It
came with a sales receipt for three different
custom pickups wound by Seymour Duncan for Gilmore,
and the shortened whammy bar. This is a guitar
he used for the Comfortably Numb solo. It was
his number one guitar from 70 through 86. And
as far as I can understand, it was... Like a
different one, it was assembled from parts. It's,
you know, this neck and this body. It was just
all kind of put together. And it just became
so special to him. Getting to the end here. Number
two, Kurt Cobain's Fender Mustang that he used
on the Smells Like Teen Spirit video. Sold in
2022 for $4 ,550 ,000. And that's the one with
the big chunk taken out of it and it's broken,
isn't it? Yeah. On one of the tours, there's
video of him smashing it into the mixing desk.
Yeah. It said it fractured the neck, but he used
glue and tape to hold it together and finish
playing the rest of the tour with it. I found
that incredible. Yeah. Now, the auction only
estimated it was probably going to sell for about
$800 ,000. Try five times that much. Jeez. So
it was the first guitar you ever saw Kurt Cobain
playing and holding because it was in that video.
Yeah. That video has been viewed on YouTube almost
1 .5 billion times. So when you own that guitar,
you've got a guitar that billions of people have
looked at. Wow. Lake Placid Blue is the color.
And it's got some stripes painted on it, which
looks pretty cool. And it really isn't anything
special. Kurt said of the Fender Mustangs, this
is my favorite guitar because it's cheap, it
doesn't work very well, it sounds like shit,
but you can always get something out of it. Fender
wasn't too happy with that kind of description,
but it worked. It worked. Who said, yeah, it
got its nasty neck joint break after Kurt Bane
used it to smash up a mixing board at Nirvana's
Tree Club concert in Dallas. The guitar was promptly
patched up and saw action again in the 1993 Hollywood
Rock Festival set. It again was bought by Indianapolis
Colts owner Jim Irsay. You added it to the Jim
Irsay collection. I actually remember that, yeah.
Yep. Wow. Now, the number one guitar. Sold at
auction. It's an acoustic. It's Kurt Cobain's
Martin D -18E that he played in the unplugged
video. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That sold
in August. That sold in Los Angeles in 2020.
$6 ,010 ,000. Yeah. Okay. So, it looked pretty
heavily modified. It had three knobs stuck on
it. He played it left -handed and it was a right
-handed guitar. So it was used for the Immortal
set. You'll probably have heard his cover of
David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World. Yeah.
That's that guitar. Yep. The guy who bought it,
Peter Friedman, is the owner and founder of Rhodes
Microphones. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. So he's
always been into music, and music has helped
him make his career and his fortune. And he said
he wanted to make sure that guitar didn't just
get hidden away somewhere. So he's promised to
exhibit it on a world tour. And he also wants
it to continue to be used and played and recorded.
Oh, wow. But I believe it's a 1933. And here's
several things about that guitar. It's a Martin,
which means it's worth a little bit. Number two,
it's made in 1933, so it's survived a long time
in great shape. Number three, it was built as
a very fancy, expensive, special guitar in the
first place. Number four, they only made a few
of them. Number five, it was used by Kurt Cobain
in one of the most famous unplugged concerts
everywhere. This had to be the most expensive
guitar. There's just so much going for it. Now
that you put it like that, now I get it. Yeah.
Okay. And thank goodness it's going to continue
to be used. Yeah, that is cool. Yeah. Good. So
that's the top 16 most expensive guitars ever
sold at auction. That was pretty cool. I like
that. That's a nice little list and a good description
of why they sold like they did. Yeah, yeah. All
right. Oh, I got some bullet points if you want
to go into them. I love the bullet points. And
it's funny. You're talking about Nirvana. Well,
that's... Oh. Yeah, okay. It's still going. I
thought that it hung up. Oh, okay. I thought,
why is this not moving? And then it moved. Okay,
good. Never mind. All right. I do that all the
time, too. Oh, shit. Oh, wait a minute. It's
okay. All right. Since we're talking about Nirvana,
let's start off with them again, all right? Yeah.
If there was a Nirvana reunion suddenly announced,
who would make a great singer to replace Cobain?
Wow. That's a tough one. It is, isn't it? Damn,
I can't think of anybody right off the bat. Because
everyone I'm thinking about is already dead.
Yeah. Let's see, there's one left. And that would
be Eddie Vedder. Yeah, that's what I was thinking
of. It's about the only one left is Eddie Vedder.
Yeah. I'm sure there's a smaller one over there
somewhere, Seattle or something. Yeah. That's
closer to... You know, I think Billy Corgan could
do a good job. He wouldn't really sound like
Kurt Cobain so much, but he could definitely
put the range and the passion in that Kurt Cobain
put. You know who I think could do it very well?
Robin Zander. Yeah. I know he's a really polished,
great singer. I think he could just go up there
and do it. I think he's got enough raw talent
to where he'd just be like, you know. Yeah, especially
if he didn't try to be perfect. Exactly. I think
he could do it. Because Nirvana, at heart, was
a punk band. Yeah. And punk doesn't try to be
perfect. Don't try. Actually, punk tries not
to be perfect. Yes, yes. That's their whole gimmick
is, oh, that's horrible. Yes. Yes, it is. Thank
you. All right. How about the same question,
but about Mother Love Bone? I'd say Mark Turay.
For Andy Wood? Yeah. Yeah, I would say he's a
good choice. And he can sing like it, too. I've
heard Mert Turin sing so many different ways.
Yeah, he has an amazing range. He even looks
similar. Well, he did. He did, yeah. He's had
some rough miles put on him, that's for sure.
He's had some rough miles, but yeah. Last I heard,
he was getting sued by a few of his baby mamas.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I did see something about that.
Yeah, I don't know if he has any money left,
even. Yeah, he's still working, but he doesn't
have any money. Yeah. Man, I can't think of anybody
but him. Yeah, that's about it. Yeah. Huh. Those
are all great. That's a toughie. Yeah, it is.
Who else is good? Maybe Rob Halpert. Maybe. Nah,
that wouldn't really work. He's got too much
of his own style. It'd have to be somebody that
was so overwhelmingly their own style. Yeah.
Sebastian Bach, possibly. Sebastian Bach. I think,
actually, he might be a better fit than anybody
else. Yeah, I think vocally they could both do
it. Okay. Cool. And Mark Turan, if he looked
like he used to. Yes. Yeah. He had the blonde
hair and all that. He was a heartthrob for a
bit. I mean, not really a heartthrob, but he
was definitely up there on the posters for a
while. He fit the look of the rock star. Yes.
All right. The kind of guy that countless of
young teenage girls and guys wanted to lose their
virginity to. Yes. What grudge band could have
used an organ, piano, or synthesizer? Wow. I'm
going to say Alice in Chains. Yeah, Alice in
Chains could have been awesome. Wouldn't it be
great with an organ and he plays John Lord style?
Yeah. With Jerry Cantrell. Oh, man, that'd be
good. Green Day, no, because they played mostly
too fast. Yeah. And then, you know, they put
in strings and whatever they wanted in the studio
anyway. But just as an every song player, Nirvana
used a cello player for a while. In fact, Kurt
was seriously considering asking her to join
the band permanently on cello, but he died before
he did. Sounded great. Yeah. Sounded great in
there, too, the cello. Yeah. Gosh. I know there's
more. Yeah. Maybe the Ramones with the distorted
kind of electric piano sound. I can hear that.
Yeah. I can hear that. Slightly out of tune.
Slightly out of tune. Like somebody hammering
away on their busted up old fender roads. I think
that sounds about right. Yeah. Motorhead. Yeah.
They had enough noise. And Ozzy had plenty of
synthesizers. Black Sabbath did too. Dio did.
Dio is really big with synthesizers. I can't
see Alice in Chains needing anything like that.
They did enough sonically with just guitars.
I'd like to see him play John Lloyd style on
Alice in Chains where he follows the guitar.
Or leads the guitar depending on how you look
at it. But I can't see Kim Thayil of Soundgarden
really fitting in well with a keyboard player.
That's interesting. With all the sounds that
they come up with, they might be able to use
keyboards on the back end. That's true. Because
they do the solos like I was talking about that
are just sounds that fit. I mean, like Tom Morello,
Jimmy Page done a lot of that. It's not supposed
to be a musical melody that you follow, but more
a feeling and an emotion you get. No, it's just
like, this is the sound that describes how we
feel. Yeah. And that's it. Perfectly valid to
me. Yeah, me too. To me, that stuff is more brilliant
than the stuff you can write that's supposed
to sound like a song within a song. Yeah. If
you capture the feeling of the song, that's what
you're trying to do. You're explaining what's
going on. That could be something we look into
as the most overwritten and overproduced songs.
Yes. Let's do that on the next one. Yes. I like
that. I'm going to write that down. Pretty much
everything by Asia was overproduced. Oh, yeah.
It was meant to. That's what they didn't do as
well as they could have. Yeah. It's described
as a very wet sound. I agree. Okay, will you
watch a movie about Ozzie's final six years?
Yes. Me too. Hell, I'll buy a book about it.
I did. I got it pre -ordered already. All right.
The name of it is Last Rites, and it starts with
Ozzie's falling home in 2019 that set him on
the path to full -blown Parkinson's and many
other issues. Yeah. Do you like this idea? I
do. It's going to be kind of sad, I think. Yeah,
it will, but I think we can hack it. I do too,
and I think it's important to see. He worked
so hard and believed in trying to get the fans
one more time, and everything that he'd done.
Yeah, everyone's really comfortable with Ozzy.
Ozzy is the lovable goofball, but you see the...
dedicated, hard -working man underneath it, that's
going to be a good thing. Well, he's a person
that loved his fans unconditionally. Oh, yeah.
And it shows. I mean, you know, he did everything
he could, as bad a help as he could, to be there
and to be out there on stage as long as he could.
And he did a lot more songs than I ever thought
he would do. As opposed to Roger Waters, who
once was spitting on the audience because he
hated him so much during the Dark Side of the
Moon tour. I know it was the Wish You Were Here
tour, I think. He's like, screw success, screw
all these fans, I don't want to be here. He's
just spitting on people who are requesting songs.
Play money! Play time! Okay, they probably need
to be spit on. But that's when he came up with
the idea for the album The Wall. Build a wall
in front of them? Yeah, his own disaffection
with the fans, the people who put him where he
was, suddenly he can't stand them. So he thought,
ooh, this is a good idea for a double album.
Worked out very well. Yeah, but he's still a
jerk. Yeah, it is. And coincidentally, that is
one of my least favorite albums from him. Yeah,
yeah. I found it boring, as opposed to a lot
of the other things. Yeah, there's some really
interesting moments here and there, and it makes
a great soundtrack for a movie. But the album
before Dark Side of the Moon called Metal. I
like that one so much better. Oh, I do too. And
Wish You Were Here. And Dark Side of the Moon,
of course, too. Yeah. And Animals. I like Animals
better. Animals is great, too. Yeah. Oh, Wish
You Were Here was one of the classic songs ever
made. Yeah. One of the most classic songs. Yeah.
Very recognizable. Yeah. Yeah. Heartfelt. Great.
One of those ones that you don't play in the
music store because everyone does. Yes. That's
the one where everybody's proud because they
progressed from Smoke on the Water to that. Yes.
Look what I did in there. But you were here,
right? Everyone does that. Everyone does that.
Well, I told you about like in the Richie Blackmore,
you know, the documentary. He said that they
used to have signs on the wall in England music
stores saying, if you play Smoke on the Water,
you're kicked out. Yep. And I've seen the shortened
version that just says no 035. Because that's
the chorus, you know, E then G then A, 035. I
love that. And someone's like, I wonder what
that, oh. That's what it means. And that's not
even played right. No, uh -uh. Yeah, the 035.
That's just the simple version. That's the simple
version that everybody learns because it's easy.
Yeah. And that's one that Blackmore hates. Yeah,
I'm sure. Oh, my gosh. He's like, you dumbed
down my song. That's not how you play it. Just
cash your checks, Richie. Yeah, there you go.
And play your Celtic music. Yes. Yes. With your
funny hat. And your weird little tights that
an 80 -year -old man should not wear. And those
big boots. Those big boots with the flaps on
them that go up to your knees. They have bells
on the end. Yeah, probably. And he's got the,
you know, the, oh, like shoe strings up on the
top where it cuts down. Yeah, the little laced
part there. Now he needs like a little chain
mail or something. We love you, Richie. Yes,
we do. Thank you for the music. Yes, yeah. A
lot of really good music. from a lot of different
bands what a versatile guy really a genius yeah
one of the best musicians ever in my book yeah
england put out a lot of them for a small country
they cranked out a lot of amazing musicians oh
i know it's amazing how many great musicians
that they uh cranked out the different types
of music and the things that they figured out.
I mean, from the Beatles on, they're constantly
figuring out new concepts of music like heavy
metal. I mean, you know, I mean, I only pretty
much invented that out of accident, out of necessity,
but it was invented through him. And I think
wasn't he using like... The guitar strings at
the time were way too light and thin. You couldn't
get a decent sound out of them. So he was using
banjo strings. Banjo strings, yep. Yeah, and
then finally the string makers said, oh, okay,
there's a market for these. We'll start making
bigger strings. They started making them, yep.
Yeah. And this was out of necessity too because
there's fingers that were chopped off. We had
some of them. He had to basically make it sound
larger and thicker and heavier without more movement.
Yeah. And he did it. And he had the perfect guitar,
the Gibson SG. Oh, that's my favorite. It is.
Mine too. I had an email about, like, if there
was just a guitar that, to me, sort of represents
rock and metal, that's mine. Yep. Gibson SG.
And I gave examples like Iommi and Malcolm Young
and Angus Young. Yep. They all used SGs. Yep.
All of the really good tone eccentric people
used SGs. Yep. So. I have two of them. Yeah,
they're the best. I've got a black 61 reissue,
which is... Mine's a 2018, I think. And Angus
Young uses one. I think it's a slightly different
year, but it's the exact same production model
as mine. Really? And then I've got a Gibson SG
Special. And that has the lightning bolt bridge
and P90 pickups. It was built as a lower priced
guitar, but it rocks out. Those P90s sound so
good through a Marshall. It's amazing. I love
my SGs. That's cool. Yeah, SGs are the best.
I'm telling you, the tone, everything, and the
people that just play them are cool. Yeah. All
right. Will Rage Against the Machine ever put
out new music? I think so. I think it will. I
think the singer will kiss and make up. Zach
Delaroche, his rap career did not go as planned.
No. So I'm thinking you're probably right, but
I'm afraid that the music has probably passed
him up. Yeah, yeah. And maybe they shouldn't
go there, but they're probably going to go there.
Yeah, yeah. they haven't released from back then
that they could do? I could see that because
I thought when Zach De La Rocha left the band
that they did say something about they had unreleased
stuff or something, but I don't think it ever
made it to any counter anywhere. Probably not
because they would have had to get everybody's
permission. Probably everyone's like, fuck you.
And I don't know how the deal went with De La
Rocha and the rest of the band. I don't know
if it's a big fuck you fest or hey, we understand,
have a good time or whatever. A lot of bands,
even ones that had really bad breakups, they're
realizing that they're leaving money on the table
if they don't patch things up and get out there
on the road and take advantage of the people
who want to see them still. Spinal Tap can get
back together and do it again. I don't see any
reason that Rage Against the Machine couldn't.
That's a good point. I am so over Spinal Tap.
Me too. I'm not even going to watch it. It seems
to me that it's fading out already. I watched
Naked Gun. I finally broke down. Oh, yeah. It
was good, but you'll never be able to capture
the original Leslie Nielsen and all that. How
about just O .J. and the looks and the stuff
that he did that was just brilliant. He just
played the O. Morty type of guy. And he knew
he was. He was having so much fun with it, too.
He's like, oh, here, let me do this look. Ooh,
let me do this one. Ah. And he did it so well,
and he did it so willingly. I just thought it
was like, this is a guy that is just having fun.
Yep. Yeah. He's okay with looking goofy. Yeah,
yeah, and I really respected that. Yeah. There's
not a whole lot of that going on, and I also
felt like they could have focused in on a little
bit more than the Liam Neeson, the lead character.
Yeah, true. And also Pamela Anderson, the lead
chick. They could have branched out like the
first ones where they offered more people doing
more things that were funny. Yeah, yeah. There
were a lot of good cameos in the early ones.
It was good and it was worth watching, but I
felt it could have been done much better. You
know what? I don't know if they can necessarily
do movies that funny anymore. I don't know if
that type of a... If it's even in people's vocabulary
anymore to be that funny. Yeah, I know. It really
seems like it passed us. It may be that they're
looking at it as, okay, what's funny now, and
what part of this might be objectionable in 10
years so where we can't sell it then. Yeah. Or
here's half a script, give it to the AI and let
it finish the script. Yeah. Like a lot of that
stuff, like Arthur, okay? Yeah. This just, people
today don't get it, but the lady goes to him,
I forgot her name, goes to Arthur, she goes,
Give me your hand. And he goes, well, that would
leave me with one. People don't get that today.
Just that silly little humor. Yeah, it's like,
oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah, people don't really
catch that stuff anymore. They're like, what
do you mean? You're not actually giving him your
hand. It's like, you know, this is pretend world.
This is fake world. Yeah. If they do it at all,
it's done in the dumb and dumber style where
instead of a little joke, they slip under the
door. It's more like they bash the door down
and then run over you with the joke six times
and then yell in your face, did you get it? Did
you get it? Oh, yeah. I mean, that seems to be
kind of where a lot of humor is. They have to
be incredibly obvious because most people just
really aren't paying attention. Aren't paying
attention, yeah. Yeah, that's what I mean. Something
like that would leave me wondering if people,
if they catch it even, would be like, well, where
do you see that? Have you noticed there's almost
no movies out there with complex storylines?
Because nobody can follow it. Nobody's even going
to bother to try following it. For a while there,
Netflix was doing concept stuff like that. It
looks to me like they backed off from it. And
I think probably because people weren't watching
it. They watched like, I don't know, 30 minutes
ago. Eh, that's too much. I don't get it. Yeah.
But the movies that are more successful are the
ones that keep reminding you as the movie goes
along. Okay, here's the story. This is the story.
Here's the plot points. Okay, this is what happened
five minutes ago. Remember this. They have to
keep reminding you every step of the way what
you just saw 20 minutes ago because you've forgotten
already. That's true. Yeah. Or before, you know,
everyone would be sitting around watching and,
like, wondering and predicting their moves. Hey,
I think so -and -so is still alive. And you're
trying to figure it out. Yeah, it's like he's
going to jump up from the level and kill them
all. You watch, you know. Yeah. The only way
to make anything like that successful anymore
is give people an opportunity to bet on it. You
know, follow the complex storyline and then bet
on what happens next. When's that going to start
happening? It's got to. And they've been talking
about interactive TV for as long as I've been
alive. Well, ones that you can insert yourself
into also. Movies that you can jump into. Yeah.
And they react to you and see you and talk to
you. Uh -huh. It's, what do they call it, a hologram
type. Yeah. That's been talked about and I guess
done, but it's just not mainstream. It's so hard
to do. Dead bots. Yeah, dead bots, yeah. Yeah,
if you want to get scared, look up the digital
afterlife industry. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I did.
You told me about that. That's nuts. It's creepy
as hell. I've got a lot of stuff I'm going to
report on, and I think I'm going to have to do
its own segment on it, unless you want to help
produce one with me and do one about it. Yeah,
I'll dig up some material for you, absolutely.
Yeah, we can either, like, recorded together
or what or i can do it or whatever but um i that
that's like a focus one that i'd like to do just
like i'm going to do more little uh quick hits
or whatever because those things garner a lot
of hits yeah yeah anytime there's like breaking
news you know crank one out yeah 10 minutes five
minutes people are down for that they're like
oh i got 10 minutes all right here let me listen
Yeah, it surprised me that it was allowed to
be used in court. Yes, me too. They had a dead
person recreated using AI, and that person testified
during the penalty phase of the trial of the
person who murdered them. Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Yeah, it's like bringing John Lennon back from
the dead so he can go to the parole hearing of
Mark David Chapman. And the court allowed it.
Boy, what a way to put it. Yeah, you're right.
Yeah. When this first started being talked about,
probably 10, 15, 20 years ago, what I thought
they were going to do was find people who have
already died, like James Dean or other Hollywood
people, Joaquin Phoenix. who died before making
all sorts of great movies, and then just make
more movies and use their digital image and recreate
them so it looks like... Was it Joaquin or River?
River, whoever. It was River. That's right. Okay.
All right. Anyhow. Or do it with Amy Winehouse
and put out new music with her singing it and
have the AI learn how she sang and what she did
and recreate her. I think that's going to happen.
But the way it's mostly being used now is...
to calm and comfort people by recreating their
deceased loved ones. But the creepy thing about
that is it's a subscription service. Access to
it is a subscription service. Well, we can't
really afford Uncle Joe anymore. And what the
company does is if you can't afford the subscription,
they delete it. It's gone. So it's like killing
your loved one all over again. Unless you keep
up the monthly payments. Oh my God, that's evil.
Isn't that sick? That's evil. They're preying
on people's sadness and grief to get a monthly
payment out. Remember when they're doing those
undercovers and they show it? Uh -huh. Oh, this
is your mom. You need a really nice pillow. This
is eternal sleep. Yep. And they're like, yeah,
you're right. Would you do that to your mommy?
You make her sleep on a bad pillow the rest of
her time ever. My wife was really good about
that when they started trying to do that to her.
Because she's like, no, this is just the empty
vessel. My mom and dad, they're up in heaven
now. This is just the empty vessel they don't
need anymore. So they don't need some fancy pillow
to lay their head on because they're not there
anymore. They've already moved on. This is just
what the husk left behind. And they're like,
oh, shit, we don't know how to handle this. I
bet they backed the fuck off and said, just let
us know what you think. We gave, you know, we
spent what we needed to spend, and everything
was decent and nice, but they were trying to
talk us into all these extras, like, uh -uh.
Yeah. To me, that's the same thing that they
do. Absolutely. Just like they say, eye company.
Yeah. Now, you brought up a good point that I
want to go into real quick, and I know this is
music, but you know what? It's entertainment.
Entertainment, too. Yes. River Phoenix, his career
was cut very short. Heath Ledger. That's what
I was also thinking of. Heath Ledger's another
good one. Yeah. Oh, you're thinking of Joker.
The Joker was Joaquin Phoenix. Yeah. Okay, I
thought you meant his brother River. But, yeah,
one of the Phoenixes died outside of a nightclub,
didn't he? Yeah, outside the Viper Club. Yeah.
I think he OD'd. Yeah. Now, someone like him
that was cut short or Heath Ledger that was cut
short, people would still like to see movies
with him in. Yeah. I would not doubt if the right
people sold the rights, if they would generate
movies with them in and again. You know, I think
something that really opened Hollywood's eyes
was when they were filming The Crow. And their
lead actor, Brandon Lee, was killed during production.
But they still managed to finish the movie using
a body double and a stand -in filmed from behind.
And I think it really opened their eyes. Everyone
knows that he's dead and he didn't finish this
movie, but they don't care. They want to see
it anyway. It made me want to see it more. This
is the last movie ever. And they even had an
extended version released. And then there was
a sequel. And it's like, that opened their eyes.
Like, people will pay. We'll fake up the dead
person who isn't here anymore, and that's going
to be good enough for enough people that we'll
make money on this. Yeah, that's true. There
will be people who will never go see it. It's
like, no, that's not him. It's just fake. It's
not good enough. But enough people will go. There
was enough of him in the first game that he was
really there before he was killed. that I was
willing to go see it. And I understand that they
had to do the stuff from behind and all that
stuff. And that's fine. I get it. Do you remember
a movie in the 80s from Steve Martin called Dead
Men Don't Wear Plaid? Yeah. They did a different
take on that where they took actual movie clips
from historic movies. and then inserted Steve
Martin in them. They matched the colors, they
matched the movement, they matched the lighting,
and it really looked like Steve Martin was doing
a scene with Humphrey Bogart or Claude Rains
or all these different Hollywood legends. Man,
that's a forgotten movie. It is. The movie kind
of bombed, but the technology was amazing. At
the time, it looked flawless. And I watched it
a few years later for a second time, and it still
looked pretty damn good. I'll have to go back
and revisit that because I don't remember that
much about it. Yeah. It was supposed to be some
30s film noir, kind of a dark. atmosphere and
he was like a private detective and there was
some vast conspiracy. Yeah, yeah. Movies of that
time usually involved Nazis and communists because
it was the 30s. Yeah, they were the bad guys.
Which they are, but you know. Yeah, he was doing
like The Jerk and planes, trains, and automobiles
and Saturday Night Live. And that movie really
didn't fit the mold of all the other ones? No,
and he said he made it because he loved those
style of movies, and he wanted to do something
to commemorate them and celebrate them, and he
was hoping to revive interest in preserving them,
etc. And what a great way to showcase how good
you are. Yeah. You insert yourself in a classic,
and you're going along with them doing the same
thing, playing in there. I mean, I think that's
a brilliant concept myself. And it'd be nice
if they redid it with the right person. Yeah,
yeah. All right. Is there any place for the trombone
in metal music? Ooh. No, I'm going to say no.
No, you could have it in Sgt. Pepper's. Yeah.
That's about it. Gosh. Yeah, that's it. Sgt.
Pepper. Any kind of low brass just really doesn't
fit in. No. No, no. You remember a band called
Morphine? A little bit, yeah. It was a bass player,
a drummer, and then a guy who played two saxophones
simultaneously. That rings a bell. And they played
very low, kind of downer kind of music. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. I remember a little bit of that.
Yeah. They never really went anywhere, but it
was such an unusual band. And the musical style
was kind of... out there. Maybe a saxophone could
fit in with metal, because you can distort and
overdrive a saxophone pretty hard, and it still
sounds awesome. Saxophone was great with Foreigner.
Look how well they incorporated that. I mean,
Meatloaf. Yeah. I think my favorite saxophone
song is from Traffic, and it's called The Low
Spark of High -Heeled Boys. and it is at least
two saxophone solos in there. And I don't know
who that sax player is. I have to look it up.
It is amazing. They do things to that saxophone
I didn't think you could do. And it's a really,
it's kind of a slow, moody song, but Steve Winwood's
vocals are just perfect on it. I have to listen
to that. Yeah, it's a long song. It's about 11
minutes, 9 to 11 minutes long. There's so much
saxophone solo. I love it. Now, bagpipes have
been used in rock music, too. Bagpipes are awesome.
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock
and roll. It was in there. There was a song called
Big Country. Yeah. They used some bagpipes in
there. Who the hell was that? The name of the
band was Big Country. And I think the song was
Big Country. It was. Yeah. And then there was
the church under the Milky Way. Yeah. There's
a bagpipe solo right there towards the end. Yeah.
And there's some other ones where they don't
use the full pipes, they just use the, not the
bagpipes, but the small pipes. I love the way
the elders plays everything. Yeah. They even
play the pan, everything. Very cool. A sax that
I like, just a solo, was actually off a Rocky
Horror Picture Show, and it was me though. Hot
Petunia, Bless My Soul was the song. Yeah, and
he just goes nuts on that. That was a good sax
solo. It was. He could play sax very well. He
got eaten, though. Yeah, he got eaten, so it
didn't matter. Well, at first, didn't he get
beaten to death and stabbed? Yes, first Dr. Frank
beat him to death with an ice axe, an ice pick,
and then served him for dinner. Yes, and that's
because his monster that he made, his beautiful
creation, liked him playing saxophone. Yep, yep.
What a show, what a movie. He even fed him to
his own uncle. Yeah, he did, yep. Uncle Scott
was at the table. Speaking of Eddie, that's a
rather tender subject. He pulls the tablecloth
back and there's the carcass. I finally got my
wife to watch that movie, and she thought, that
was okay. She liked the music, but the rest of
it, she's like, eh, it's okay. What's his name,
Tim Curry? Tim Curry, yeah. Oh, he was, jeez.
I'm so glad that he has recovered quite a bit
from his stroke, and he's no longer in such bad
shape. Because he was really just kind of a wheelchair
-bound lump for a while. Yeah, he was horrible
for a while. Oh, along that level, Vince Neal
is looking much better. I saw a recent one, I
think like last night or the night before. He
looked okay. Dude was going to die soon if he
just kept going the way he's doing. You could
look at him and tell him his body was struggling.
Yeah, he's still overweight. He needs to do something
about it really bad. He's like 60 or 60 -something,
and he's got this huge gut on him, which is not
good. And part of that is probably a swollen
liver. Probably. Look, I think he's done things
to his body he's never going to exactly recover
from. Or tell us about. Or tell us about, yeah.
All right. Now, I'm going to go into a preface,
whatever you want to call it, a little explanation
of what I'm getting ready to ask. Okay. Okay,
you're familiar with the Pantera breakup, right?
Yes. All right. Phil Insamo was in a huge scuffle
with Dimebag. Yes. Okay. Phil Ansamo, who said
that Dimebag needed to be beaten to death. Not
a good thing to say. A few weeks later, an insane
man jumped on stage and shot that man to death
on stage. Right in front of his brother. Right
in front of his brother. Of course, there's horrible
feelings. People were calling for a reunion.
Vinnie Paul said, no way. Without my brother,
it cannot be Pantera. Okay, well, tragically,
Vinnie Paul died from a heart attack a few years
later. So there's only one person, well, there's
two people left in the band, and they wanted
to do a reunion. Dimebag's best friend is Zach
Wild. Oh, wow, yeah. And Zach Wild can play just
like him. So after these two gentlemen died that
was in the way, Rex Brown... And Phil Ansamo
got together with Zach Wild, and I forgot who
the drummer is. I don't know who could play Vinnie
Pol's parts. Is that by that guy who was fast,
precise, and manly to hit hard? Oh, he was good,
yeah. I mean, Kenny Aronoff can hit that hard,
but I don't think he can play that style. Yeah,
I can't remember who took the drumming, but the
thing is, do you personally support knowing all
of this about how, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell
felt, well, Vinnie Paul, Dimebag was already
dead. How he felt about a reunion, and especially
what was said about his brother, and that could
have possibly led to maybe the shooting. You
know, I think - What Vinnie Paul was trying to
say was any reunion that includes Phillip Anselmo
is not going to happen. Bingo, that's what I
was thinking too. So if this one's going to include
him, then that's kind of spitting into Dimebag
Darrell's face. Well, Zach Wild was best friends
with Dimebag. Yeah. So, to me, I'm like you.
I'm like, I'm not sure if there's that respect
for him. Yeah, especially when his brother said
no. His brother was adamant about it. And he
was diplomatic. He could have said, I'm never
playing with that motherfucker again. Yeah, but
I'm sure he didn't want people to go after Phillip
Anselmo and do to him what happened to Dimebag.
Yeah, so he was like very diplomatic and said,
without my brother, it cannot be a review. So,
I love Zach. Rex Brown, I have no problems with,
but to me, I think... I think it's a bad idea.
Phillip Anselmo, I don't have any problems with
either. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. To me, it's
kind of not that good. Yeah, when all you got
left is the bass player and the singer, and the
singer was half the problem, it's not really
the band. It just isn't. I agree. Yeah. I agree.
So, okay. Okay, yeah, that's good. I mean, but
the only good thing is I never got to see Pantera
live. Yeah. If it had come by close enough, I
would actually entertain it. Yeah, I would too.
if nothing else, just to hear the songs. Yeah,
to hear the songs. Like we went and saw Jerry
Cantrell, and that's the only chance I'm going
to get to hear Alice in Chains songs. Yeah, that's
why I thought we should have went for it, and
we did, and that was great. And it was great
seeing the legend like that on stage, which would
be the same. I mean, I've seen Zach Wild enough
times, but Phil Anselmo, only way I'm ever going
to see him. Now that show definitely would have
a mosh pit. Yes, it would. Yeah. Actually, I
did see Phil Insomo. I forgot. What was the name
of his band? Down or something like that? I don't
remember. They played at the Beaumont Club. Oh,
wow. Okay. You know what? I stand corrected on
that by myself. Yeah? I did see that. All right.
I'll look up Philip Insomo. Okay. Yeah. I can't
remember. Stone the Crow might have been another
one too. I think that's the song Stone the Crown.
Member of Pantera, Down, M Minor, Philip H. Anselmo
and the Illegals, and Scour. Okay. Yeah, I've
seen Down at the Beaumont Club. Yeah. So I did
see Philip Anselmo. So, okay. Previous bands
are Super Joint, Arson Anthem, Viking Crown,
Necrophagia, Ibon, Christ Inversion, and Razor
White. Jeez. And also Pussy Pantera, the one
in the 80s. Yes, the glam one. Yes, the one for
Barbies, the Barbie doll Pantera. And then they
became Cowboys from Hell. Yes. And never looked
back. Yes. Then they have songs like Walk. Yes.
Talking to me. You better get out sucking. That
was pretty good. Or the famous vulgar display
of power. Yes. I've got that one. Yeah, the artwork
on the front of it. Yeah. Where a fist is just
destroying somebody's face. I wonder whose face
that is. I don't know. But he's getting the shit
knocked out of him. Yeah, that looks like a broken
jaw for sure. Yeah, that was funny. Yeah, oh
yeah, yeah, probably. crooked nose out of the
deal too. I imagine they curb stomped him too.
It looked like they were pretty pissed at him.
I don't know what he did. Fucking stole his fucking
lunch money or some shit. There should be a meme
of Andy doing that to Travis Kelsey. There is.
There's a couple of them. Alright. Would you,
this is final, this is it. Would you ever spend
40 bucks on a concert t -shirt at a show? Is
there one of them that could do it? I think there's
one of them that could do it. Yeah, maybe once.
There was some of them that I really entertained
getting and I'd pay a good price to get right
now. There's some lost Aussie t -shirts with
Jakey Lee. After Jakey Lee was fired from the
band and Zach came in, there's some sort of allergen
in there that's getting me right now. They just
forgot about those. They weren't really a concert
promoted one or nothing. It was just ones that
they had to have. Like you go to the show and
the main one would be like Ozzy and Jake on the
front where he's grabbing his hair or some shit.
But this one was just one -offs. And a couple
of them didn't even have Ozzy in it. It was like
Jake and some other things. So I entertained
buying one of those for a decent hefty price
just because I want one. So I think there is
something that could appeal to me for $40. Yeah.
What about you? Yeah, yeah. Something that really
represents a lot from the artist or some kind
of commemorative thing. Yeah. Like a big final
event or a reunion or something like that. But
a vintage one, if they could find one. I remember
back in the 70s, at the end of the tour, they'd
throw all that shit away. Oh, I know. It's like,
we're never going to sell this, and they'd just
throw it away. There's like hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of T -shirts and
hats and shit they just threw away because they
never thought it was worth saving. One of those
old, traditional, vintage ones from the 70s,
I'd pay a lot for it. Oh, I would too. The one
that I'm looking for is the famous black and
blue. Black Sabbath Blue Oyster Colt. Oh, yeah.
The one with Dio is a 1980 tour that they split
with Dio because they did not a full tour, but
they did play with Bach before. Yeah. So I would
love to have that one. Yeah. But it's got to
be the right one because they have ones for just
Sabbath only and for Blue Oyster Cult. They have
one that had both bands on it. Yeah, make it
rare. The front was Sabbath and the back was
Blue Oyster Cult. Oh, yeah. And the front of
it said Black and Blue, 1980. Yeah. And then
the back of it had the tour stops. Yeah, I always
liked the one with the tour dates on it because
then you knew it was a tour t -shirt. It was
a tour shirt, yeah. And then you could find your
own city on there. I said, look, there's where
I am. Right there, Kansas City. All right, all
I got is one more story after this. Sure. Okay,
you want me to go ahead? Go ahead. I'm kind of
tapped out here. Did you know that Richie Kotzen,
you know, formerly of Poison and his own band
and Winery Dogs and a couple other things, he
nearly joined Ozzy's band in 1995. Wow. Zach
Wild left. They were kind of at odds and everything.
I think it's kind of a famous story by now. Yeah.
They made up. He came back. But after Zach left,
participating in meetings and sending music for
the band, Richie Kotzen was doing this. He was
actually going to meetings and sending music.
And so the opportunity was lost when a friend
leaked the news of his potential hire on an AOL
chat room. Oh, man. Which caused negative fan
reaction due to him being in Poison. Wow. In
the 80s. No one liked the fact that a Poison
guitarist was going to play with Ozzy. Yeah.
And they're all motherfucking... Because it was
like grandpa music. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, so they...
Gosh. Yeah, so they ended up not hiring him.
Makes you wonder if that was intentional to kind
of test the waters, say, hey, let's find out
what they really think and whether this would
be accepted. I thought of that, too, and have
someone go in there and it's overwhelmingly no.
Yeah. Because I think that any time that you're
in a band like Poison, and no offense to him,
but I think if people are going to question what
you shouldn't on him, he's very talented, very
talented, really good guitarist, good singer.
I think it's, yeah. Hey, how you doing? Yeah,
you're a crazy train. Yeah. Some AI heard us
talking about it. Yep, decided to play it. It
was Spotify AI. Yes. Yeah. Well, yeah, that's
all I got. All right. Well, you mentioned Spotify.
I'll bring up something. Okay. There are some
people who still apparently have a big love affair
with Spotify, and they put their playlists on
there. There's a reaction video series I follow,
and the guy puts his favorite songs on the Spotify
playlist. But Spotify was recently accused and
then admitted that they have AI music farms,
where they have AI just creating a lot of fake
bands with fake background stories and fake album
art and putting out AI -generated music and passing
it off as real human beings. So Spotify just
has whole farms cranking out fake music. And
they're charging people for it. And they're charging
people for it. Yeah. They have a subscription
service. It's like, we're just going to make
up shit out of thin air, and you're going to
pay for it. Wow. And they finally admitted it
and said, yeah, we've kind of been doing that.
Sorry. Sorry. Here's our hand. Smack. Yep. Okay,
we're done. Thank you. Learned my lesson. Turned
a corner. Never again. So I have a problem with
Spotify because, number one, that's faking out
the customers. Number two, that's taking earnings
away from actual real living human beings who
made music. Well, Spotify, I'm having too much
fun with. I'm eventually going to quit them.
Their algorithms and AI I love to screw with
because they come back at you. And they figure
out ways constantly. No matter what I do, they
figure out ways. yeah they figured out when i
was at work and i couldn't get to the uh get
to the phone quick enough to stop it when a commercial
come on so they crammed four in yeah right there
so then i was uh out in the parking lot and i
didn't go home yet and i was doing that and i
waited for the first four spot to come up and
i shut it off and i didn't go back to it for
a month whoa yeah So now they give me one commercial
at a time. Right now it's behaving. It's going
to start getting bold again. Yeah. It's going
to be one commercial at a time about every 15
minutes. Yeah. Which is okay. It's like a 30
-second spot. Yeah, that's not so bad. No. But
it learned its lesson. It's kind of like, this
guy's playing hardball. Yeah. He just shut us
off for good. Well, I'm still trying to teach
YouTube that I want the video first and not a
commercial. YouTube's a bastard. It's working
pretty well. It is working. I have to keep on
them because if I get distracted and the ads
pop up and I don't jump right on them. Spotify,
yeah, they take advantage. They're like, hey,
he's not looking. Come on over. So I've noticed
they've added a second advertisement to my recommended
videos. Because now when I bring up YouTube,
it goes, the first line is recommended for you,
and the first one's an advertisement. And that's
been that way for like a month or so. And now
if I scroll down, the fourth or fifth one is
also an advertisement. So now they're starting
to work even more. Pretty soon, the majority
of the recommended videos are just going to be
ads. The next thing that YouTube is doing to
try to combat me, usually what I'll do is I'll
start the video and then I'll look down the lower
right -hand corner and see if that... The timer
pops up saying, you know, five seconds until
you can skip. And as soon as I see it, I back
out because I know, well, this is an ad. It's
not the video. So what it's starting to do now
is run the ad for about two or three seconds
and then bring up the timer. Oh, so you're dedicating
that. Yeah, so I have to pay really close attention
and see whether it's an ad or my show, which
means they're getting me to pay attention. And
they run the ad for two or three seconds, and
they make sure that the product's logo is always
in that first second or two. And then I back
out. I'm sure they still get paid for it. I think
they're still getting paid for that, so they've
figured out. Then we'll go through that amount
of trouble that we're not getting paid for it.
And then the last sneaky thing they're doing
is sometimes I'll put on a YouTube video, like
last for like an hour, and there's an accident
in the series, and I'll fall asleep. YouTube
has figured out that I'm falling asleep during
these videos because now they're offering me,
like one was a World War II history of war factories.
So after I fell asleep to that a couple of times,
I log into YouTube and one of the first things
in my recommended videos is two hours of World
War II facts to fall asleep to. That's the name
of the video. And I looked at it, and it said
it was made two years ago, and there's like 1
.2 million likes and views. And then I looked
through the comments. They were all AI -generated
comments. Oh, I wouldn't believe that for shit.
So that video just didn't exist yesterday. They
just created it out of nothing because they figured
I'll click on it, and they'll wait for me to
fall asleep, and then they'll just hammer my
subconscious brain with commercials for an hour
or two. It's evil, evil. Oh, I agree. So if it
ever says, here's something to fall asleep to,
don't believe it. Because they're just going
to wait for you to fall asleep, and the TV is
going to use the inboard microphone to monitor
your breathing and tell when you're asleep, and
then they're just going to hammer your unconscious
brain with urges to vote for this person and
buy this product and give your money to these
people. That type of thing, yep. Leave the programming
machine on all night. Just to make it clear,
though, if we go to YouTube, we love them. Oh,
yes. Yeah, they're great. Yes. Great. Yes. You
know, if they're paying us money, then all of
a sudden we like it. Just like the NFL. Yeah,
yeah. But only if we go to them. Other than that,
this stands. Yeah. So, yeah. Okay, you got anything
else? I'm pretty much out of everything. I don't
think we need to load up the canoe and paddle
our way home through this deluge of downpour
and flooding. Yeah, we got flooding everywhere.
Oh, look at that guy. He's getting ready to go
into Missouri River. Oh, he's fishing. Look,
he's got a pole. He's all right. Yeah, yeah,
he is. A lot further off than when we used to
broadcast from a sandbar. Yeah, I remember that.
Back in the drought days, we'd go out in the
middle of the Missouri River and all those little
islands that would pop up. We did a podcast on
one of those. That one started sinking. That
was a little scary. Yeah, yeah. But that was
fun. There's still a laptop in there somewhere.
Yeah, yeah. We got so many bug bites. Oh, sure,
yeah. Those Japanese carp attacked us. Oh, yeah.
We didn't know they attacked your genitals. Oh,
yeah. Yeah, I guess anything huge and throbbing,
they just go right for it. Right there. We're
looking for blood flow. All right. Anyhow, everybody,
thank you for listening, and go fuck yourself.
Oh, no. Looks like the show's over, kids. Mark
has explosive diarrhea and can't afford a wireless
mic. Fear not, assholes. They'll be back invading
your ear holes soon.