Hey, my fellow heavy breathers, this is Dash
Riptide with your music news. For a nerd to take
center stage on Stranger Things float at Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade, I remember the infamous
Kiss float years ago where the large Gibson guitar
on their float was replaced with a much smaller
ugly one. Paul was seen mincing and bitching,
so in other words, he was being normal. George
Thorogood has announced a world tour. Minus the
rest of the world. It kicks off March 8th, Thousand
Oaks, California. March 10th, Napa, California.
March 17th, Kamloops, California. March 19th,
Parkland, California. It ends in Fort Wayne on
March 31st with a Hamilton, Canada three days
later. And that appears to be all the tour as
of date. He is 150, so he probably is not going
to tour more than that. This is Gash Rooktine,
and that was your music news. If it's too loud,
you probably have ear damage, just like me. The
music creeps. There we go. It's gotten embarrassing
enough. Yes. We made enough people shut it off
quickly. Yeah, I was starting to cringe. I was
getting ready to shut it off, and we're doing
it. I was like, where the fuck's the button?
Who's making that? Oh, I'm making that noise.
Hang on. Damn it. So your usual high -quality,
attractive opening for the music creeps? Yep.
You see, but I was doing the smart thing. If
I didn't like it, I was going to shut it off.
I wouldn't get online and try to motherfuck it.
I'd be like, if it's other people's things, that's
fine. So people would do that. I question their
integrity and their soul. They're choosing hate.
Yes, they are. I don't understand why anybody
would choose to hate. Yeah, that's right. It's
always a choice. So Joe Q Public on my friends
list. If you're listening to this, turn it off.
You don't like it. Fuck face. All right. We're
already a minute in, so we got him hooked. We
got him hooked. I'm having fun with it. I don't
give a shit what anybody thinks about it at all.
But it is fun fodder. It gave me something to
work on. I'll take little jabs here and there
if I get a response even better. But probably
not because the hit and run guys like that, they
don't ever respond. Do you remember jabs and
runoff? I got him. Tiny little fist area. You
need to come back and see if there's anything
else going on. See what the effect is. Make another
comment. Don't just leave it up in the air like
a fucking mustard burp. Come on, bring it on.
Bring your shit on, man. Bring them up. Come
on, fucking raise those fists. Give me a fight,
bitch. Come on. What the hell, man? You at home
scratching your fucking ball sack, bitching about
me, bitching about Topher. Crying about... world
in general and how it's mistreating you. Yeah,
yeah. Rob Rad doesn't really live in Lake of
the Ozarks. That's bullshit. There probably isn't
a Rob Rad. He's probably just AI. Yeah, that's
it. Yeah. No, if you're Rob Rad, he's a very
unique guy. He is Rob Rad. I don't think AI could
replicate. No. No. No, I love him on the podcast.
He is just so different. Yeah, that's what you
need, too. Yeah, yeah. He's an excellent, I mean.
As far as people go, he's as good as they come.
You can hand him your wallet and say, hold on
to this for two years. There wouldn't be a penny
taken out of it. He's a great guy, a solid guy,
good guy, worked hard his whole life, good man.
But his unique perspective on everything is really
what caps it. He does not think like me at all.
He doesn't think like Topher at all. I love it.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I remember posting once,
if you agree with everything I believe and everything
I say, you are really boring to me. Yes. Yeah.
I agree. I'm going to say, I don't want to talk
to you. I already know what you're going to say.
Yeah. Yeah. And that isn't a bad thing. It's
just like, I really don't, yeah, I don't really
have a reason to say it, you know, because you're
going to repeat me. Yeah. Yeah, so. Anyhow, all
right. We are the Music Creeps. Craig, you got
something you want to go into? I have bullet
points for later, and I have some stories. The
first story is a breaking one that I saw yesterday.
There's some people that, you know, a lot of
people don't like Nicky Sixx, obviously. I used
to love him, but now he's become, to me, he's
become an atypical asshole. It used to be you
could hate on him for not being a good bass player,
but he is now. So, you know, now you criticize
him for the... questionable choices he makes
as a human being. Well, whenever you have, like,
opening bands writing songs about what you're
crying like a bitch and stuff, you know, you're
doing something wrong, especially after your
teeth were cut by Ozzy letting you have anything.
Yeah. He babysat them the whole time on that
tour because he wanted them to succeed. It was
so bad that Sharon had to start going along and
going, what are you guys going to end up on a
stretcher? And one of them did. I mean, it was
from Hanoi Rocks, but, I mean, yeah, he did end
up dead. Yeah. And then still ended up in jail
for, what, one day or something? I don't know.
Something like that. So, yeah, they gave him
everything. And the reason he was being such
a bitch, I mean, to me, I... I don't like that
kind of guy. Yeah. And I can tell you what I
think he is. He's a guy that got out of recovery
and thought too much of it. Oh, that makes a
lot of sense. Yeah. Now he's looking down his
nose. Maybe he's one of those guys that can only
be in recovery by looking down on everyone who's
like. what he used to be. I could be completely
wrong. I don't know the man. Everything could
be completely misread by what we read. It could
be. But from what I've read, and if it's all
true, what he's been saying and everything, I
look at him and one of these guys go, I've been
through recovery, so I know more than you. Yeah.
Yeah. No one can walk my shoes like they did.
You know, that type of stuff. The high and mighty.
Nose up in the air because I defeated it, the
big bad addiction monster. Which is odd because
most people, when they get through recovery from
any kind of addiction, they feel humbled. Yeah.
He feels like a king, I guess. I guess. Like
the one thing he might have done right in life,
he's going to jump on top and beat his chest
about it over and over and over. But meanwhile,
you do things that people that brought you there
are no longer walking with you, like me. Like,
okay, we have two shows coming to the new Morton
Amphitheater over there on the Missouri River,
over in Riverside area. Yeah. Okay. One of them
is Motley Crue, Carnival of Sins. They did this
quite a few years back. Kind of an anniversary
tour. Yeah, Tesla and Extreme opening. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, which I'd love to see Tesla and Extreme
both. You know Beckport. He's so much fun. Oh,
my God. He's, yeah, fantastic. So, I'd love to
see those two. Motley Crue, I don't want to see.
Now Guns N' Roses is coming. That raised my eyebrow.
Because they have not destroyed their legacy.
No, they haven't. As a matter of fact, I think
they kind of re -carved out their rock image
in the rock and roll Mount Rushmore, if you will.
Yeah, I think so too. They could have just fallen
away and everyone said, yeah, well, whatever.
did what they needed to do to kind of rehabilitate
their image and be somebody that you could respect
again. Yeah, and they have. Yeah. And they're
still popular, and they'll still sell out. You
know, Guns N' Roses doesn't need Tesla and Extreme
to support them. Yeah. I'm sure they're going
to have a good opening band or two if they want,
but they don't need that. You know, Motley had
to redo the Den of Sins or Carnival of Sins tour.
Yeah. Yeah. So, anyhow, yeah. So that's what
that legacy does. If Mick Mars is still in the
band, unless he, okay, he stepped down, right?
Then that is forgivable. You can't help that.
But the way that they acted after, towards him,
to me, is unforgivable. Give him his fucking
quarter of it. He was a quarter of that band.
They would have not done it without him and his
specific tone that he reaches and his chords,
although simple, did what they needed to do.
It's just like Malcolm Young. You didn't mess
with him. You're going to go, that's not complex
enough. He's going to look at you and go, get
out of here. You want to see how much money I
made this band? So the legacy thing means a lot,
especially to guys like us that grew up around
it. I don't want to see Motley Crue. With him
in it. Yeah. I don't respect him at all, and
I don't like what he's been saying, and I won't
support him. Yeah, and I don't want any money
of mine to go into his pocket. Exactly. So, but
Guns N' Roses, I don't have a problem with them
getting some of my money. No, and as far as I
can tell, the former and current members of Guns
N' Roses... get along. They don't run each other
down in public, so that makes a big difference,
doesn't it? Axel Rose has been in recovery because
he was abused horribly as a child. Yes, he was.
He got through it. He's a better person. He wrote
open letters of apology. He humbled himself.
He recognized his faults. He admitted them. He
said he was sorry. You don't hear that from Nicky.
No. So I'll go see a Guns concert. Yeah. I will
not go see. And I used to despise Axl Rose because
of the stuff he did. Yeah. Now I admire him.
Now I understand him. Yeah. Now I admire him
because he's like, he got through it all. He's
a better person. Yeah. So he passed the test.
He does. Nicky failed. Yeah. Whatever that smell
is, it smells great. It does. Oh, gosh. That's
like onions and peppers boiling. Oh, my gosh.
Yeah. Yeah. You know, if my stomach had a boner,
it would have one right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
If my stomach was a penis, it would be hard.
My small intestine is getting hard. Yes. It's
just like I love you so much, you make my middle
finger hard. Well, anyway, Nikki Sixx is getting
some heat now, and apparently there are people
who are starting to rat him out about some things.
Yes. And the one that surfaced yesterday that
I saw is people are sharing some of the texts
that he's been sending around. This one is dating
back to when they're still, you know, kicking
out Nick Bars or he resigned or however it happened.
Depends on which article you read, how it went
down. Yeah. Nick Bars wanted to be in the band
on music. He didn't want to tour. Yeah, he's
old and he has... Bad medical conditions. It's
like Pete Townsend. He told Roger Daltrey, I
still want to put out albums, but I don't want
to tour anymore. And Roger Daltrey's like, screw
that, I don't want to do anything. But then Pete
Townsend started looking at Roger Daltrey and
said, never mind, I withdrew my request. You're
going to throw the drummer under the bus? Yeah,
and then doubled down on him. And tripled down
on him. Anyhow, Nicky, I've heard a little bit
about this, but I never got the real story. Apparently
when they were looking for a replacement guitar
player, it was floated as a joke. He's like,
hey, you're Nicky Six. Why don't you hire John
Five? So you got Five and Six. And Nicky fell
for it hook, line, and sinker and was dead set
on getting John Five into the group and did whatever.
He promised him anything, did whatever it had.
He wanted him in just for that little. And the
word is that now that Vince Neil is having trouble
and having some strokes and having some issues,
he's doing okay better now. But Nicky Six was
thinking he wanted to replace Vince Neil. And
he was going to keep the number thing going and
try to hire Tech 9. I love that. So it would
be Nicky 6, John 5, and Tech 9. And I guess Tommy
Lee would have to change his name to Tommy 8
1⁄2. No, probably 30. Yeah, yeah. Tommy 30 -inch.
Yeah, because that's about the size of his dick.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He could throw it over his
shoulder and still have room. So, I mean, imagine.
Tech N9ne singing for, or rapping for Motley
Crue. And all this is allegedly, you know, we've
read this on the internet. Yeah, it was an anonymous
source releasing these text messages saying this
is Nikki Sixx. But, you know, I believe it. It
kind of makes sense. It makes sense to me. So
it makes more sense than anything else he's done
in a long time. That's true. And it kind of explains
why in the world did they hire John Fives. Like,
well, he had the right last name, I guess. Yeah,
there we go. No, I've never agreed with that.
He is... A Rob Zombie guy. He's a crunch guy.
He's not a Motley guy. Motley Crue is always
a lot more melodic and had catchy hooks and had
fun songs. And they're not fast. Rob Zombie's
all about doom and sludge and slow and menacing.
And also, the songs on Motley are slowed down.
I mean, now you have Kickstart, which is a relatively
fast one. And then Theater of Pain was kind of
a fast album on rhythm -wise. But most of the
time, you have that slide type of vibe on it,
whether it's slide or not. But you had the chords
that were, that hung in the air. Yeah, you need
a slower tempo in order to be able to do things
like that. You don't have something that takes
a while to develop. If your song's going by at
120 beats a minute, you know, you don't have
time for that. Yeah, no, you had to support Vince's
voice, which back then was Banshee -like. Yes.
I mean, he really had a classic voice for this
stuff. Yeah. I mean, he had the look of David
Lee Roth, but the voice that really did it. And
he could still sing. I've heard him sing fine.
But the problem is he's too erratic. He can't
seem to hold it in the whole concert. And as
active as he's needing to be and walk around,
the cardio needs to be there. He runs out of
air. And then he gives the mic to the people.
And he stops in no sense. Instead of like...
trying to get through it without, like, running
everywhere and huffing and puffing. He hands
the mic, you know, he puts it to the crowd, and
the crowd's confused, like, you just did this
in the middle of a line. Yeah. No, no, no, do
left and right or something. Hey, oh, left's
kicking your ass, guys. You guys over here hung
over? The hell, you know. You don't just, like,
hand it to them as soon as you're huffing and
puffing and can't see. Yeah. And people see right
through that. And then people make funny videos
about what you did. It looked like you said as
opposed to what you did say. That was David Lee
Roth, too. There were videos about him and his
recent outing. It's like every other line, he's
holding the mic out. For a while, he just held
the mic out to the audience so they could sing
a verse or two. Well, he does something questionable
like grab his ass. Yeah. Ew. I mean, that ass
grab was creepy like come and get it, not like,
hey, look at this. Yeah. It was kind of like,
hey, it's open. Come on over. Like grabbing a
bleached -out prune. Yeah. He's Uncle Creepy.
Oh, my gosh, yeah. He is Uncle Creepy. Oh, my
gosh, yeah. He's like the... The very not politically
correct older uncle that shows up at Thanksgiving
that nobody invited. Yes. And he comes around
and makes fucking jokes about the younger girls
there. Oh, boy, you're going to be a real shower
later, aren't you? Look at those breasts. Boy,
they're getting there, aren't they? Always gives
off the pedophile vibe. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yep.
Yeah. And he wears, like, skin -tight stuff where
you can count his little thimbles, like David
Lee Roth does. The other day I was watching kind
of an analysis show about the TV series House.
Yeah. And one of the things the guy brought up
was the creepy sort of semi -pedophile vibe that
would surface in a number of episodes over and
over and over. In House? In House, yeah. There
was one whole episode where it was a 15 -year
-old supermodel who collapsed on the catwalk,
and couldn't stop talking about her ass and her
breasts and how hot she was and how sexy she
was. And everyone just kind of raised their eyebrows
and went on about their visit. There was another
episode where an 8 -year -old girl dying of brain
cancer, and she tells one of the other doctors,
I've never been kissed, so he gives her a full
-on mouth kiss. Oh. And just, you know, on and
on like this. And he was saying, now, this might
have nothing to do with it, or it might have
everything to do with executive producer Brian
Singer, who, as it turns out, may actually be
a pedophile, allegedly. Okay. And his name is
there in under credits every episode. In fact,
he was in one episode, did a cameo as a director
during the episode. But they're saying he's the
guy who put all the creepy pedophile stuff in,
and everyone just went along with it. Okay, here
is my version on that. Okay, I think that one
of the things that the people that are really
pedophiles do, they try to normalize it. Yes,
exactly. And how do you normalize it? Pretend
as if it's no big deal, it's just everyday stuff.
Yes, and that's why these filthy groups like
NAMBLA and all that are trying to normalize it.
They're talking about, well, what's the big deal?
They can make their own decisions. No, they can't.
They're trying to introduce phrases like minor
attracted person. Yes, and all that, trying to
normalize it. Trying to say that, well, if I
never touch a little boy, then no harm ever occurred.
My opinion, that's what that guy's doing. I think
so. My opinion, yeah. Yeah, it's trying to normalize.
And look at all the other things they normalize
through popular culture. Yes. Yeah, they make
stuff just, oh, that's just the way it is. It's
fine. But it isn't. Yeah. So that was interesting
to know that he was allegedly the person behind
it working all that in. It is interesting to
know you're right, yeah. They even did it on
the show Frasier. Frasier's father, Martin Crane,
ex -veteran. Slash was on Eddie Trunk's Trunk
Nation the other day. Eddie asked Slash if they
planned on doing any U .S. dates next year. Slash's
reply was, yes, we are doing a U .S. tour next
year as well as another album. He said they have
more than enough material for a full album. This
is great news for all the Guns N' Roses fans,
including myself. Hired a police officer, injured
in the line of duty, but later in the series,
they make him a total perv, drooling all over
the young women and making inappropriate comments.
I think I quit watching it by that time. I'm
glad I did watch it. They turned him into a total
pervert. That's too bad because his character
was so strong and good. Yeah, and they also turned
him into an idiot. I did notice that. His back
story was a veteran, went in the police department,
became a detective, became an undercover cop,
was a homicide detective. In the first few seasons
he was smart, but then the last few seasons he's
just a moron that can't quit drooling over young
women. Yeah, that's crazy. It's sad. It's like,
oh, let's just throw this character away. Anyway,
music creeps. It's pop culture, too. Yeah, no,
no, no. I like that, and we do. We've got to
keep stuff like this going. I just dropped my
pencil, but I'm not going to pick it up again
because I think there's homeless vomit on the
floor. Probably so. I had one other thing. We
can get to your bullet points. I love the bullet
points. I do, too. Something I've been... I'm
kind of getting the impression of lately is for
guitar players, the tube amp is kind of on its
way out. It came back for a while. We were discussing
this before the show. Yeah, I mean, when solid
-state technology kind of took over for tube
technology. Attack pigeon. Yeah. That's two fucknuts
in a recorder. They train pigeons. That's true.
Yeah, they're trying to ruin our show. That could
be a drone disguised as a pigeon. Yeah, they
have that capability. Yeah, they do. They're
in their mom's basement up in... Is it Gladstone?
It's over here on the Missouri River, just east
of Independence on 40 Highway. Oh. What is the
name of that town? blanking on that. Well, that
was a story we came up with a long time ago.
But, yeah, the tube technology, everyone said,
oh, old -fashioned, go solid state. And then
realized, well, solid state doesn't quite sound
the same. And then when the former Soviet Union
fell, there were a lot of plants over there that
could make tubes. Buckner. So tube had kind of
a resurgence. It's kind of a combination of things
now. One is the modeling amps are so much better
at replicating not only the sound but the feel
of how a tube amp reacts. Another one is quality
tubes are getting really hard to find again.
And a third one is tube amp manufacturers are
cheaping out on the build quality. And one of
the big things they're doing is instead of installing
a socket for the tube, which, you know, separates
it from the motherboard and keeps it from, you
know, leaking heat into your motherboard. Instead,
they're putting it directly on, the tube plugs
directly into the motherboard. Oh, okay. So when
the tube heats up, that whole motherboard heats
up. And all those solder joints heat and then
cool and heat and cool. And it cracks the board,
it cracks solder joints, it screws up everything.
As to the point now where amps like the Fender
Blues Junior, it's like a $500, $600 amp, but
the tube's plugged directly into the circuit
board. You pretty much can't find anybody who
will repair that amp. If it breaks down on you
and you need to repair, there's just about nobody
who will fix it because it's going to break again
right away and they don't want to have to do
the warranty work. Yeah, you know what, you're
right, yeah. Okay. Now Marshall is doing that.
Marshall's been sold twice since the Marshall
family owned it. Yeah, it really bothers me.
I try not to keep up anymore. It's such a proud,
long history of amplifiers. It was sold to Sounds,
and now it's been sold to some Swedish firm.
But pretty much they're turning, unless it's
one of their hand -wired, high -expensive ones,
then the rest of them are going to the tube directly
into the motherboard. So the amps they're making
are becoming disposable tube amps. If they break,
throw it away because no one's going to fix it.
They can't fix it properly. And then the people
who work on tube amps are going to give up and
retire and go do something else. Yeah, and also,
you know, like the warning work. You know that's
coming, so why wouldn't you do it? Yeah. Just
like that's why a lot of people, let's say you're
a handyman, you don't put in doors. Yeah. Because
then every time they don't shut within a year
or two. they're calling you up going hey there's
something wrong with this it's like well it could
be your house settling but you know but but since
i did this not too long ago i'm gonna have to
come out and figure something out you know which
usually shim the uh you take and you shim the
uh the hinges yeah and then bring it out a little
bit but then you're forever doing morning work
so it's same thing with that so yeah and then
the tubes themselves can still become a big still
be a big part of music because we're seeing a
lot more tube -driven effects and tube -driven
processors, like compressors, there are tubes
in microphones, tube rack -mounted effects with
tubes in them. So the tube technology they're
going to still be able to use, but the amplifiers
are going to be like modelers or something that
plugs directly into your computer so there's
never going through a speaker anyway. But in
that way, the lack of service options are going
to make the amp itself a real problem. But you'll
still be able to buy tube -driven effects and
processors, and then they can start ramping up
the cost of the tubes, and they can become an
exclusive high -end product. It's like, oh, we'll
buy this tube -driven overdrive pedal. and put
a $150 tube in, and then it's going to sound
good. They'll get people to think, oh, my God,
I've got to get an awesome tube, but I only have
to buy one, so it's worth it. What a great ploy,
too. Yeah. Yeah. So whatever tube they're deciding,
usually it's the 12AX7. That's a pretty common
preamp tube. So if that's their plan, they're
going to manufacture a metric buttload of them
and then suddenly make them exclusive. and then
they're going to take one out of the box and
say, oh, this one's the special, you know, extra
this or that. It's $20 more. And then they'll
reach in the same box, pull another one, and
this has twice it, so it's $50 more. It's just
all going to be lies and hype. Oh, yeah. But
they're going to make the tube into something
that people don't really get all that well. Oh,
yeah. And they're going to pay whatever they're
told to pay. I've figured out what they're doing
over there. Turn around and look. That one lady
has been, like, all over the place pointing and
stuff. They're putting up Christmas decorations.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Look at those down here on this
side. That's nice. I like it. Yeah, I kept looking
over there because she's been walking around
kind of, like, you know, pissy and, like, expressive.
Do this. Do that. Yeah, yeah. And I couldn't
figure out what was going on. Okay, they're putting
up Christmas decorations. Yeah. Very cool. So
that's my prediction. The tube amp is going to
go away, but tubes themselves are going to become
something expensive and status -driven. Because
right now, you're typically like, I've got a
tube amp. It's not like, eh. I'm going to say,
hey, my effects pedal has this special tube in
it. That gets it right there. It's like, oh,
okay, I'm listening. And that's a big part of
business is find something that you can brag
about and make other people envious, and then
they will come to you begging to buy your product.
It's typical. It happens all the time. Some of
the worst products, you know, they do that, and
it just explodes overnight. Like a pet rock.
Yes, yeah. There actually was a pet rock. I mean,
look it up if you don't remember. But it became
a status thing. They didn't really even have
to advertise because other people would talk
you into it. Oh, this is cute. Get a pet rock.
Yeah, people would have it on their desk as a
paperweight. People would go, what's that? Oh,
that's my pet rock. What? That's my pet rock.
And when the popularity started to wane, they
came up with pet rock funerals. Did your pet
rock die? I forgot about that. Buy this coffin
and bury it. And people did it. If there was
social media back then, you would have had like
three years of people burying their fucking pet
rock. Yeah, this was all word of mouth. I mean,
you could call somebody on the telephone and
tell them about it, but that was it for social
media. That's the ultimate cruelty. You take
a rock that worked its way up from the ground,
and then you put it back in the ground in a box.
Oh, gosh, that poor rock. Yeah, poor thing. He's
like, hey, wait a minute. It took me 10 ,000
years to get up there, and now you guys are putting
me in a box and putting me in the ground again.
I'd be furious. I would be too. All right, should
we go to bullet points? Yes. All right. David
Coverdale. Retiring. Yeah, and now this is retirement
a week ago. Which Whitesnake album is the best?
The one with Ainsley Dunbar on it. Sliding In?
Yeah. Yeah, that is their best. It's when they
adopted that. White Snake logo that was on the
album. John Sykes. Yeah. Also. Yeah, they did.
They developed that White Snake cover. Ainsley
Dunbar, number one. John Sykes, also. Because
John Sykes is responsible for all their hits.
Yeah. Well, most of them. Most of them. He was
a heck of a writer. Oh, yeah. And they had a
falling out. I don't know what happened, but
he quit the band before they hit it really big
with their self -titled album. Yeah. Geffen Records
picked him up. They prettied up David Coverdale
like crazy. They Bon Jovi'd him. At the time,
they Bon Jovi'd him. They looked very similar
in the way they dressed and looked and everything.
That's similar to being Sunday Night Footballed.
Yes, Sunday Night Footballed. That's where they
take your song and they turn it into a weird
caricature of itself. Yes. Like they did before
Joan Jett's song. Yeah, with songs like Slide
It In and Slow and Easy and some of that classic,
classic. Not only drums, the backbeat, the bass,
everything. Just so classy. I'll clear up a misconception.
The album was Ainsley Dunbar drumming, but the
video is Tommy Aldridge. Yes. Because Ainsley
Dunbar quit and they hired Tommy Aldridge and
had him mime along. No, and everybody thought
it was Tommy Aldridge, but it was not. It was
Ainsley Dunbar. And David Grohl had to do that
for a couple of Nirvana videos. because some
of those songs from their Nevermind album, the
drumming was done by a different drummer who
was before Dave, so he had to fake along with
the other guy's drumming for the video. Yeah,
yeah, I can't remember which song. I think one
was Come As You Are. I think so, yeah. Yeah,
with a really, really unique bass, which turns
out is easy to do when they showed it. Whoa,
Mark sees it again. No, the cello. Yeah, the
bass player. Yeah, he showed how to do it one
time, and you just let the echo reverb, and it
comes up on its own. It's like dun -a -dun -a
-dun, then it fills in. Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting
how he does that. Of course, it's more complicated
than that. I'm just making it like a common version.
There's a Van Halen song like that, too, where
he's using an echo. Yeah. So he's not playing
all of the chords you're hearing. He's letting
the echo fill in. Yeah, and it works out perfectly.
The beat is perfect on that song. Come As You
Are, and also the Van Halen song, which we can't
think of. Oh, it's the beginning of Panama. Panama,
yeah. Okay, we agree. Slide It In is the best.
Second best would be the self -titled album when
Geffen picked them up that went enormous. Which
is the one with Slow and Easy? That's Slide It
In. No, maybe not Slow and Easy. Still of the
Night? No, it's the one I've got in my car. The
last song on it, I think, is Babe, Don't You
Leave Me This Way, something like that. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yes. That song is amazing. That song
is kind of almost like... Prayer for the Dying
is on it. Yeah, that song, those two songs in
particular, are almost like a throwback to the
old Purple stuff before they disbanded and then
the original band came back. The MK3 lineup or
4 lineup, whatever it was. Actually... Yeah,
because they started getting into funk and some
of the blues and some of the almost Led Zeppelin
-ish stuff. True. And that's when Blackmore said,
I don't want to do this anymore. I don't like
it. I'm going to go form my own band. I wonder
if some of that wasn't written back then, and
he just took it with him. Oh, yeah. A lot of
times you'll get songs on an album that were
written seven, eight years ago, and they just
never fit, and they never fit. Or they never
came up with the part that finishes the song.
Yeah. Yeah, so, yeah. So, yeah, those songs like
Babe Don't Ever Leave Me and stuff like that
are kind of like the classic crooner kind of
driving song. Yeah. The album, Whitesnake, Whitesnake,
the one that hit huge when Geffen signed them
in America and promoted them and all that, all
of those songs were written by Sykes and Coverdell
also, and also there have been a couple other
influences. But I think Altridge had something
to do with that writing. Let's see, who else
was it? Oh, well, it doesn't matter. Yeah. All
right. Motley Crue, Tesla, and Extreme are touring
this coming summer. Is that lineup strong enough
to buy a ticket and leave when Motley comes up?
Depends on how much they are is what I say. Yeah,
yeah, I'd say so. I've never seen Tesla. I'd
like to see Tesla. I don't care how many original
members are in it. Back when I saw them, they
were boring, but I was much younger. Yeah. Now
I probably like them. Yeah. I remember not liking
Cinderella all that well because I didn't like
the way the lead vocalist sounded, but I like
him now. But Tesla I'd like to see. Extreme,
as long as Nuno's in the band, I'll go for that.
Yes. Well, I also like Gary Cherone. Yeah. Not
in Van Halen, but with Extreme, he's fantastic.
And actually, that whole album, Van Halen 3,
was a good album. It was, yeah. It's just you
could not put that many prolific lead singers
in a band. And have people accept it. Finally,
there's a point where they're like, no more.
That's it. And that's what they came up against.
And you don't spend $2 million on a $100 ,000
making video. Really? Yeah. But yeah, I'd like
to see Tesla in Extreme. I could skip Motley
Crue, of course. And if it's just going to be
those two, I'd like to go see them in Knuckleheads.
You know, a small venue like that. Yeah, me too.
I'm with you. I'm with you. If it's not selling
very well and they're trying to fill up the amphitheater,
you get one for $25 or something. Yeah. Yeah,
all day long. Yeah. But other than that, no,
I'm not paying real ticket price to go watch
two bands that I will eventually see at Knuckleheads
or Uptown. Yeah. Yeah. Who is the very best rock
guitarist still living? Ryan May has to be in
the conversation. Tony Iommi. Tony Iommi. Well,
now that Ace is gone, you can't put him in there.
True, true. Well, he is a healthy songwriter.
But it was also him and Paul Stanley both writing
together that really had that magic. Yeah. Rick
Derringer's died, so that one counts. Oh, yeah,
that's gone now. I forgot. Richard Blackmore.
Yeah. He's barely hanging in there. Stevie Ray
Vaughan's gone. I think I'd have to go to Brian
May right now. Even though he's not really musically
active, the amount of awesome songs and riffs
and just his guitar sound in general. What about
Jimmy Page? I like Jimmy Page, but... No, you're
like me. You like him, but he's not that upper,
upper. He's right below. Just barely below, but
he's right below. Even though his body of work
is probably better than most people's. Yeah.
I mean, he was able to leave Zeppelin and be
successful in a couple of bands. Yeah. Coverdale
Page, The Firm. He worked with Plant on his solo
album. Yeah, yes. He's had a body of work. He's
done a lot more than that. Yeah. He's appeared
on a lot of different things that people would
go, what? So he's been very successful without
Led Zeppelin, but I still, I would have to go
with an Iommi, a May, a Blackmore. People were
not even thinking about him. Possibly Mark Knopfler
from Dire Straits. Oh, Mark Knopfler would have
to be way up there. He's not a hard rocker by
any means, but just his fluidity and his skill,
he's just amazing. His insight on writing a song
is insane. I mean, he doesn't come from left,
right, middle. I don't know where he comes from,
but it's out of this world the way he writes.
The drummer equivalent. of Mark Knopfler would
be Stuart Copeland from The Police. Oh, that's
a good analogy. I mean, Neil Peart would listen
to Stuart Copeland and say, this guy's my hero.
I can't figure out how the hell he does all this.
I would agree. It's just all feel and style and
not so much technique. But Neil Peart thought
Stuart Copeland was the bomb, and so do I. I
would agree, too. Yeah. I would agree, too. Even
if you don't like police songs in general. Listen
to the drummer. He's incredible. And he does
so much with just a few. I like a few of their
songs, but I'm not a fanatic. Yeah. But I can
listen to Copeland anytime and go, yeah, that
guy. That guy has it. He has that hit. Yeah.
I'm not a real fan of their guitar player, Andy
Summers. I thought he was pretty replaceable
in the band. He was very replaceable, although
he gets all the love. He does for some reason.
I don't know why. Yeah. I don't know. It's like
other guitar players really like him. I remember
when The Doors had their resurgence in the 70s,
and every guitar player I knew thought The Doors'
drummer was awesome and thought that The Doors'
guitar player was crap. And I thought the opposite.
I thought the guitar player was pretty cool,
and the drummer was not playing anything like
what the song needed. I've always thought that,
too. Yeah. I've always found that confusing.
But, I mean, if you really want to get down to
it, Ray Manzarek. Yeah, he was it. Yeah, he was
it. Without him, there would have been no doors.
No, that, what would you call it? Carnival type
of a... Yeah, it was a farfisa organ was what
he used for his right hand. And then his left
hand was a little bass keyboard sitting on top.
And then he was playing with his feet, too. Yeah.
And singing back up. Yeah. And when Jim Morrison
would pass out drunk, he'd sing lead. Yeah, he
got everything. He did. But he was the sound.
He made those songs what they were, honestly.
Yeah. I mean, you could have Ian Asbury do the
same thing, and he did. Yeah. Oh, anyhow. All
right. Will Jakey Lee ever get his songwriting
credits for Bark at the Moon? I'm going to say
at this point, no. Even though they get along.
Hello, this is Phineas J. Altaris III. I'm here
to deliver your music news this evening. Hold
the line. Toto's U .S. tour is coming together
just fine. I didn't write that. Legendary rock
band Toto will be touring as an evening with
Steve Lukather and Joseph Williams. They have
curated a set list for this entire excursion.
February 18th, the tour kicks off in Milwaukee
and will wrap up in Buffalo, Michigan. Our home
base of Kansas City is getting snubbed, unless
you feel like traveling to Tulsa, Omaha, or Des
Moines. That's not very far to travel, so if
you love Toto, there you go. This is Phineas
J. Baltaris III. That has been your music news
for this evening. I have one burning question
for you all. do people really skip around the
maypole i'm thinking the only thing that would
get him his credits is he's about ready to die
from some bad chronic disease and he begged sharon
kind of like lee kerslake did he said hey could
i please get that platinum record for my wall
before i die and they sent it to him but not
a minute until then yeah i i think if jakey lee
signed away any financial gain i think he did
To say, just give me the credit and don't give
me any money. But I think he will get it after
he dies. I think Sharon will wait until after
he dies before doing anything. Yeah, if she's
still around. Yeah. Okay, I think that to be
in that band, he was a hired hand to begin with.
Even Randy Rose was a hired hand. It was Ozzy's
band. Him and Sharon came up with all of everything
that it was. And that's the way it is. And they
went searching for the musicians that they wanted
to represent them. So when Randy Rhodes tragically
died, then J .K. Lee came in, and at the time,
they could get away with whatever. It's like,
oh, you want to be in Ozzy's band? Look, right
now, what are you in? What's the name of that
band? Rough Cut? Do you want to stay with Rough
Cut, or do you want to play with Ozzy? I think
it was Rough Cut, wasn't it? It sounds right.
I remember watching a documentary about Randy
Rhoades and how we went from this small band
to... Yeah, I mean, Quiet Riot wasn't the whole
lot. And it was like, I got a chance to go play
with Ozzy. And they're like, do it, man. Yeah,
they're like, you're going to be much better.
But the thing is, they needed Carlos Cavazos.
to come into that band and simplify the music
for what they were doing. Randy Rhodes was too
good for that band. He was almost too good for
Ozzy. He demanded too much of the listener in
a lot of ways. He really did. I mean, save that
for one or two tracks on the album, but for every
song to require the listener to be fully involved
in paying attention? No. Yeah, I agree. Especially
that genre of music, it's meant to be blasted
loud, but you're doing something else while it's
playing. Drinking, you're playing a game, you're
whatever. No, no, no, I agree. Driving, having
sex. Driving, yeah. Driving in, having sex. Playing
badminton. Yeah. So, yeah, back at that time,
they'd get away with murder. Yeah. And I'm pretty
sure they did. Yeah. They were like, Jakey Lee,
rough cut or Aussie? Aussie. Okay, well, here's
the contract. Where's the pen? Yeah. So. And
also after that, then that affords him to go
into a band like Badlands and be reasonably successful.
Yeah. Because of the name. I went out and bought
the album thinking, Jakey Lee, guitar virtuoso,
and left going, I didn't want to hear the blues.
So, anyhow, but God bless him. That's what he
wanted to do, and he stuck to it. He didn't change
it, so. All right. Do you believe? And I know
your answer on this because you and me have talked
about it a few times. Do you believe that the
80s flashy guitar style was heavily influenced
by Ace Frehley? Yes. Without a doubt. Yeah, yeah.
Almost copied it. You could say, oh, well, they
were copying Eddie Van Halen, but no, not really.
No, no, no, not Ace. Because they weren't listening
to Eddie Van Halen when those good hard players
were growing up. They were listening to Ace.
Yeah, Eddie Van Halen listened to Ace. Randy
Rose listened to Ace. Every guitarist, Warren
Demartini listened to Ace. All of those guys
in that age range of you and I right now, we
all grew up listening to Ace. Yeah. Ace had such
a unique sound and songwriting abilities. That
always put him. I know he is sloppy. Yeah. So
is Jimmy Page. Yeah. Jimmy Hendrix. So is Steve
Clark for Steve Leppard. But, man, that sloppiness
sounded so good. Now, my sloppiness is not so
good. No, me neither. It sounds quite so good.
My sloppiness reeks of no talent. Their sloppiness
reeks of talent. Yes. They're a difference. A
big difference. So, yeah, Ace Frehley did so
much. And he got a lot of credit, but this was
musician's credit. Yeah. Not guy standing on
the side of the road credit. Right, right. But
now... Go ahead. No, I'm good. I was going to
say, I like the hidden influence or hidden idol.
I think about bands like Nine Inch Nails and
Rob Zombie and before that, White Zombie. And
Chabelle. And his sister... Rose Zombie? Rose
Zombie, yeah. And his mom, Opal Zombie. No, I'm
sorry, go ahead. A lot of those bands listened
to Gary Newman. And you think, wait, Gary Newman?
But listen to Gary Newman. Really heavily overdriven
synthesizers. He would play a lot of synths,
but he'd run them through guitar pedals. And
he'd overdrive and distort them and just fire
those bad boys up. And the guitars were always
super high gain. And the lyrics were a lot of
times very personal and self -reflective and
delivered with a soft voice. Sounds like Nine
Inch Nails to me. Those guys were listening to
Gary. And listen to Gary Newman now. He's still
putting out music. He's still touring. He's awesome.
Maybe Trent Reznor did a salute to him or something?
I would hope. I can't remember. I've got to look
at it. When you did that, that rung a bell of
some sort. I think you're right. People think
of cars and our friend's electric. He came a
long way in the meantime. The cars got a lot
from him. Including the way that... Oh, he's
dead now. I can't think of his fucking name.
Bass player? Rick O 'Cason. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
The way he sang and the way he played. Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. And Gary Newman, he kind of has
what he calls android persona when he's a lead
singer. So it's not... Rico Kasich, same thing.
Yeah, yeah. He really kind of cribbed on that.
Max Headroom type of thing. Yeah. Where you're
just kind of standing and your head moves a little
here and there. Yeah. But... You know, if you
listen to the songs on Savage, there's an album
called Savage, Songs from a Broken Mind. That
was a good album. Incredible songs. I mean, really
heart -wrenching, you know, a lot of depth to
the music, the lyrics, and man, do they sound
good loud. The thing I loved is he always had
something to say. Yes. Always had something to
say, which is everything in music. Yeah. I mean,
some of the song titles, like Ghost Nation. Bed
of Thorns. Bed of Thorns, yeah. My Name is Ruined.
Oh, I love that one. That might be my favorite.
My Name is Ruined. Save Me From What God Intended.
From the song title, you'd think this would be
a nice song. It's called Mercy. That's not a
happy, fun, pleasant song. No, it is not. No,
that's a miserable song. That is, yeah. There
was times when my mental health was low, and
I just couldn't listen to that album because
it just affected me too much. Oh, yeah. because
he's gone through depression, he's autistic,
which has made his life a lot more complicated.
You know, that's not very well known either.
No, it isn't. No, it's never really focused on
him because he's such a strong musician and writer.
Yeah. All right, and I think it helped his writing,
actually, because it allowed him to focus on
things that he needed to to write music, and
especially a lot of bad things. Yeah. So, all
right. Do you believe that Eddie Van Halen might
have stolen Ace's work from Kiss Alive 2, or
was it just circumstantial? Oh, I went and listened
to that. I read in the article it said, shock
me from Kiss Alive 2 and forward up to about
4 minutes and 8 seconds for the solo that ends
the song. That's when he starts doing the really
fast rhythm, and then with the break. That is
the start of it. That is the start of a lot of
different solos, not just aces, but that tempo
that he presents there is like a template for
solos in the 80s. Yeah, it really was. It was
like, here's the lead in that really gets them
going. And structurally, yeah, it was so similar
to Eruption. It was crazy. I mean, it didn't
sound, you know, note -wise or the key was in
or the little minor melodies playing, but structure
-wise. Only people that know music and understand
it somewhat can catch what we're saying. Yeah,
yeah. If you go into it thinking you're going
to hear a carbon copy, you're not. No, you're
going to hear similarities, but that's it. And
then also, the guitar picking, the guitar tapping,
the pick tapping that they used, that Ace used.
really set the template for what they did in
the 80s. And it's not the fact that he was pick
-tapping instead of his fingers, it's the way
it was done. He was doing the da -da -da -da
-da -da -da -da -da -da, you know, doing the
scale, if you will, somewhat, on the neck, and
only the neck. So it's about the same thing,
a little bit different, than someone didn't have
a pick one time and did it with their fingers
and said, hey, look at this. Probably Eddie.
Instead of one pick, I can use eight figures.
Yeah, they're like, hey, look at that. Or they
watch Bluegrass. Yeah, yeah. Bluegrass is nothing
but a series of that. You want to talk about
any Bluegrass musician that's good could outdo
anybody in the rock realm. Well, hell, go look
at videos from the late 60s and 70s of Roy Clark.
Oh, gosh. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That banjo.
Banjo, guitar, 12 -string guitar. Everything.
Oh, that guy. If it had strings on it, that guy
could play it and play the heck out of it. He
was amazing. He might have been the best ever.
I mean, Jesus. Stuff that he did. Yeah, with
a big old grin on his face, too. Oh, yeah, he
always had the big grin on his face. I mean,
he was just kind of a portly -looking guy, just
really nothing that special until you see him
playing. Oh, yeah. Then you're like, how in the
hell? How can someone have that many rhythms
in his head and express them at one time? You
know who else is a really underrated guitar player?
Glen Campbell. Dude could play. Yeah, he just,
like, wrote hits, but he could play, yeah. Yeah,
the radio hits didn't really... need or want
a lot of intricate guitar work, but when he played
live, wow. Yeah, he would show you that. He was
amazing. Yeah, and a lot of people went to go
see him because of that. They didn't want to
really, per se, hear Rhinestone Cowboy or something.
Yeah, which is a good song. It's a good song.
Or Wichita Lyman's a little better. Yeah, I agree.
Wichita Lyman's unfinished, but that was intentional.
It's still good. I agree. Very good. Alright,
if the band had opened up their tour bus toilet
over the Chicago River... was a metal band and
not dave matthews band would have been a much
bigger deal yeah oh hell yeah oh yeah oh they
would they would have been claiming it was satanic
poop yeah yeah yes yes yep yeah they did it for
the dark lord yeah shit on their neighbor something
like that i don't know you know if dave matthews
had been a little more likable as a person they
probably could have skated a little better on
that but he was he's a pompous Nobody really
liked him. I mean, he's not a total jerk, but
he's arrogant, and he's full of himself, which
works for... He's man -bun guy, and nobody likes
man -bun guy. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah.
Man -bun guy needs to be smacked in the face
every time he wears that thing. Yeah. What'd
you call it? A blotch of spaghetti on his head
or something? Yeah, a hair hamburger. Hair hamburger,
that was it. I like the term douche -not. Douche
-not. That's the best right there. Yeah, so,
yeah, he wasn't a very likable guy, but if that
would have been a metal band, that would have
been so much. They would still be talking about
it. Oh, yeah. Metal band shit all over everybody
under the Chicago River. Yeah. Architectural
tour. They're all looking up. Oh, my God. And
here you see the Sears... Imagine the PTSD from
something like that. Oh, I would still be vomiting
to this day if I was one of those ones. They're
oohing and aahing over some structure. And then
liquid shit hitting me all over my orifices.
I don't think there's... You couldn't shower
often enough to get rid of that feeling. And
they didn't have a shower on that fucking boat.
So what are they going to do? They've got to
wear that shit home. I remember the first excuse
that Dave Matthews' band came up with after they
said, oh, it wasn't us. It was like, well, yeah,
it was. Their second excuse was, oh, well, we
never pooped in the toilet on the bus because
they said we couldn't. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, somebody was. Yeah, somebody launched some
turds on top of some people. Oh, my gosh. Hopefully
the grids, like, kind of filtered out the big
turds. Let's hope. I mean, think of all the things
that rock bands have done to get famous, like
trash hotel rooms and throw TV into the swimming
pool. And you got famous for dumping your waste
water on a tour group. And then lying about it
completely. Yes, then lying about it like Jamar
Chase. Yes. I didn't do that. Well, the video
says that you, oh, video's a liar. Let me rephrase
that. The reason I did that. Yeah. They pivot
from, no, I didn't, to, well, let me tell you
why I did. Yeah, yeah. It's like, well, that's
quite a bit different than no, you didn't, isn't
it? Can we go back and address the part where
you lied? Yeah, yeah. Let's go ahead and go with
that. Let's go from there forward. I don't want
to skip over the part where you lied right to
my face. Yeah, yeah. Let's go back and talk about
that. Three or four or five times. And you got
insulted that I would suggest that. Remember
that, too? Yeah, yeah. Or at least, you know,
let people like Jamar Chase know. It's like,
all right, now we know you're a liar. And things
that come out of your mouth are lies. So now
we know Jamar Chase is a liar. And he can never
bring any kind of legal action against anyone
who calls him a liar because he's on record as
being a liar. That's true. So that would be awesome
if everyone just calls him a liar to his face.
The liar just gained four yards. Oh, the liar
lost some yardage at the line of scrimmage. But
considering the NFL is all about. fun, happy,
and polishing our own image, they're not going
to let anybody talk shit about them. Nope, that
will not be brought up again this year. Just
like the pink cocaine that Stefan Diggs had.
Oh, let's not talk about that. There's too much
money to be made. Oh, yeah, no, I know. They're
too busy patting him on the back now. Oh, great
guy, great guy. If that's your daughter, would
that be a great guy? Probably not. Well, it's
the way things work. If you can make money for
somebody... They'll put up with any of your crap.
Whatever your crap is, they'll put up with it
as long as you're making them enough money. But
when the income dips, they'll cut your ass loose.
If anyone wants to argue that, look up Epstein
-Arden. Yeah. Erwin knew what he was doing, but
he was benefiting them. 1934 in Nazi Germany,
the Night of the Long Knives, when Hitler got
into power, solidified his power, and then...
murdered everybody who helped put him there.
Yes. Because they were rivals now. Because they
were rivals now. So there were a lot of people
died that night. Oh, yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And,
like, would he do that? He just did. Yep. Yeah.
So, all right. Why does David Lee Roth continue
to embarrass himself? I've got a theory, but
I want to hear yours first. The only thing I
really think of is he just doesn't care. and
he wants to make some more money and maybe he's
still delusional about how hot he is. That's
what I think. That's the only thing I can think
of is just he doesn't realize or just doesn't
care. It's like, hey, I'm getting paid. I'm going
to keep doing it. I'd say he's delusional. Yeah.
Because he seems awfully confident up there in
the very tight clothing that he wears. Yeah,
he's acting like he's still a 25 -year -old man.
Yeah, he's acting like he did in 1979, 1980.
Either it's a really good actor or he really
still thinks he's that. I think he really still
thinks he's that. I think he's delusional. I
think he can't accept the fact that he's 70 and
doesn't look so good anymore. There are 70 -year
-olds that carry it very well. He's not one of
them. No. He did not age well. He got really
haggard really quick and never recovered. He's
got that freaky kind of death grin thing going
when he smiles. Yeah, that's it. He just looks
so unhealthy. It's like, ooh, you look like you
died a couple weeks ago and you just haven't
stopped moving yet. Yeah. I think he has. We're
going to find out that this last tour he was
actually dead. It was like a weekend at Bernie's
kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yes. All right, and
finally... A weekend at Joe Biden's. Oh, no,
no, that'd be a jewel cup. Allegedly. Allegedly,
yeah. Yeah, we've got to throw that allegedly
in there. Like, Joe... Democratic secret police
might be after us. Yeah, yes, yep. And then they'll
find some way to cancel us. Yeah. Or it'll turn
up that we both... decided to commit suicide
by shooting ourselves eight times. In the back
of the head and wrap ourselves in carpet. Yes.
And throw ourselves in Central Park. Clearly
a suicide. Clearly. Google it. All right. And
then finally, David Lee Roth. The reason I think
he's delusional is he does not use backtracking.
He needs to. Yeah. Bad. He has his backing band
sing a lot of stuff he should, but it's not the
same. You need to hear his voice when it was,
well, as good as it was. Yeah. You know? Yeah.
Yeah, why doesn't he use backtracking? He could
just go up there and be a fool if he sounded
much better instead of being a fool and sounding
horrible. And, you know, I don't think anyone
would care if he went up there and lip synced
to recordings. I'd be like, you know what, that's
fine. I wanted to see him. The reason I didn't
see him is because of how horrible he sounded.
I would like to have seen him one last time.
Yeah. If he would have backtracked, I would have
seen him. And I know that goes against everything
I've ever said, but here's why. I wanted to see
him one more time, but I did not want to hear
what I heard on video. Oh, God, that was awful.
Yeah. I'd rather see him up there doing his stuff,
as bad as it was, and just go, yeah, I got to
see him one last time. Wasn't very good, but
I don't care. Got to see him. You know, there
have been a lot of bands I saw one last time
I probably shouldn't have, but I'm glad I did.
I mean, to be fair, the last couple of WOS shows.
that I watched weren't that amazing. Yeah. Actually
weren't that good at all. I mean, they were okay.
Yeah. But I saw it because this was part of my
growing up and I'm relatively sure this is the
last time you're going to see them anywhere around
here. So I decided to go and it's just one guy
and that's Blackie Lawless. You know, Dave Lee
Ross the same way. No Steve Vai. No Billy Sheehan.
None of those guys. Yeah. Right? No, definitely
no Eddie. None of that. But there's something
to be said for just the one last time. And Walsh
sounded good. He did not. So the Walsh shows
I considered a success. If I would have saw him,
I would have had a horrible taste in my mouth
forever and I would have done it. That's kind
of how I feel about Alice Cooper anymore. The
last show I saw Alice do where Ace freely opened,
Ace was cool because I'd never seen him before.
But then Alice, I kept thinking, this is the
exact same show I've seen a bunch of times. It's
the same musicians. Everything's the same. There's
nothing really new or fun here. It was okay,
but it was like, eh. I would go see Alice again
if he toured with the three surviving members
of his old band. Neil Smith, Dennis Dunaway,
and Michael Prince. Who later went on to be a
football player. Yes. Yes, Neil Smith. Changed
the spelling of his first name a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And also the color of his skin
a little bit. Yes. Well, I guess he was about
the same height. Yeah, probably pretty close.
He's a tall guy. Very tall guy. But I would go
see Alice again if he toured with his old band,
even if they only played half the show. I would
too. But anymore, I really don't know that I'm
going to go see Alice again. I will if he's opening
for a band that I really like. And he's only
doing like five or six songs. That's fine. But
to see the same show, the guillotine, I Love
the Dead, the Killing the Hooker and all that,
it's great. But I've seen it too many times.
And there's a number of his songs that I want
to hear the whole song that he just puts in the
middle. He plays like 30 seconds of it, or the
band plays 30 seconds of it while he's offstage
changing. It's like, no, I want to hear that
whole song. Yes, I agree. And that's another
thing about it too. You know, he's 76 or 77.
77, right? Seven, yeah. Okay. He has to temper
a lot of what he does because he just can't do
it like he used to. Yeah. Now, his voice isn't
a problem because he's never had the singing
voice. He's had the talking voice. Which is great.
Kind of like Ozzy never really had vocal problems
per se because he didn't have to put on some
type of a sound. That's what he was. That was
just like really just waiting. The singers who
push themselves that wind up having problems.
Yeah. Unless you're a pure singer like Glenn
Hughes where you can put a candle up to him.
He sings from his diaphragm like you should.
He doesn't have vocal problems because he does
it the right way. But everyone else, the nasal
stuff and all that, they tend to lose their voice.
So David Lee Roth had to stretch to even sing.
And then the high notes and screams really did
his voice in. Destroyed it. So, yeah, that's
all of the bullet points. Good bullet points.
All right. Thank you. I have some odd facts.
Love it. Unless you got something. I'm kind of
tapped. Okay. How long have we got going on this?
We've just come up on an hour. Okay. Peter Gabriel
and Genesis. Sledgehammer was Peter Gabriel's
only number one on the U .S. chart. Yeah. Which
surprised me because I thought War Without Frontiers
might have. Yeah, that was a big hit. Yeah, it
was, but I guess it wasn't as big as Sledgehammer.
But the video on Sledgehammer is what got everybody.
That's true. That's true. Put it in the rotation.
Yeah, the song was good, but I thought that Gabe's
More About Frontiers was better. Yeah. I mean,
musically, and to me, more catchy. Yeah. But
Sledgehammer was number one. Peter Gabriel's
only number one in the U .S. charts in 1986.
The song at this place at number one was Invisible
Touch. by Genesis. Wow. His former band, which
happened to be their only number one hit. That
was such a pop hit, too. Yeah, it was. It was
one of my least favorite by them. Yeah. And then
a lot of the stuff that people think is Genesis
was his solo stuff. Yeah, it really was. Yeah,
a lot of people were going, I like that Mama
song. That wasn't Genesis. No. That was not Genesis.
That was Phil Collins solo. Shock the Monkey.
That was Peter Gabriel solo. People think that
was Genesis. That's another great example, but
only with Peter Gabriel. Prince, he wrote both
Kiss and Manic Monday, which were number one
and number two on the Billboard charts, respectively.
Preventing the Bengals from having a number one
hit. He wrote both songs, Bannock Monday. Yeah.
Yeah. So he took a song that he wrote and displaced
it that the Bengals were going to have a really
big time with that that he wrote, but he knocked
it off with his own song. I thought that was
pretty interesting, and that was Kiss, which
was a great song, and especially removed from
Purple Rain and all that, the commercial success
on that really kind of did him well. Because
people were starting to view him as very talented
but a niche. Yeah. And then it kind of brought
him out because Michael Jackson really kind of
trumped him at that point. Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, so that kind of brought him back and said,
see, this guy is just as good. Yeah. So, anyhow.
And all that can be, you know, all that can be
argued. Yeah. I'm not going to argue. They're
both fantastic. So, all right. Mama Cass and
Keith Moon both died in the same apartment. Did
you know that? Oh, wow, I'd forgotten, but that's
true, that's true. I don't think I ever, if I
knew that, I forgot it. I know. And Mama Cass
did not die from a chicken bone or a sandwich
or whatever. Ham sandwich. Ham sandwich, yeah.
Yeah. Everyone bet on it. Well, she's kind of
big, she's kind of portly, I'm going to say she
did. Yeah, yeah. But what I heard was heart attack,
and everyone presumed, well, it's because she
was choking on a chicken bone, but it was more
likely from drug abuse. Yes. Destroyed her heart
muscle. It's just like Elvis. When it got out
that he's on the shitter having a heart attack,
it was either masturbation or constipation. Yeah.
It was an of some sort. Pulling too hard or pushing
too hard? Yes, butter. Take your pick, or maybe
both. He might have been ambidextrous, if you
will. Some guys do both at the same time. That's
right. He was a talented fellow. He was multitasking.
Yeah, multitasking. He was like, I really need
to pinch one out, but at the same time, I've
got to relieve myself. Now you can triple task
by smoking a cigarette at the same time with
your other hand. I'm sure he was. All right,
and that's my hero there. Anybody that can do
that? My hero. So, all right. All right. Joe
Walsh and Ringo Starr, they are brother -in -laws.
Oh, wow. I did not know that. Ringo's married
to Barbara Bach. Yeah. Not the one everybody...
Yeah. The actress? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And
Joe is married to Barbara's sister, May Jury.
Oh. The Beatles' Paul McCartney claims he chose
the name Eleanor Rigby. This is a different one.
Yeah. But it was stuck together, so I'm going
into it. Okay. So, like a dumbass that I am.
Paul McCartney claims he chose the name Eleanor
Rigby from a shop sign, but it was later discovered
that Eleanor Rigby was a real person buried in
Wilton near where John and Paul first met. Oh.
And the reason he would have done that is because
he hated John, so he was trying to eliminate
all the memories of him. Disassociated with him.
Yeah, including pretending he was dead. Kind
of seems like it. Yeah. I don't know that for
sure, but it kind of seems like he might have
done that. Yeah, they kind of seem to play their
feud out on the album tracks. Yes. And this is
no different. They're like, I didn't meet Eleanor
Rigby with that asshole. Yeah. I made her up.
Yeah. So, just like I made John Lennon up. Never
existed. I had heard that the Marshall Tucker
Band got their name from a shoe company. They
saw the sign out the window and said, oh, look,
Marshall Tucker, that's a good name. Damn it,
I don't have that one on here, but I don't know
how. I might have it down here in here somewhere.
But, yeah, that's actually on there. Oh, okay.
But I think it was something else besides a shoe
company. Yeah. I'll look for it here in a little
bit. Okay. All right. Limp Bizkit. Yeah. The
band filmed a music video for Roland Airway Vehicle,
parentheses. That's titled both, actually. One
of the World Trade Center South Towers. They
did that on top of the South Tower of the World
Trade Center. The old ones. Not the new one,
the old one. And they received a thank you letter
from the Port Authority the day before 9 -11.
Talk about hollow victory. Yeah. What happened?
Okay. Back around 1970, there was a musical movie
called Godspell. And it was kind of like a retelling
of the life of Jesus, but with hippies. And I
think the end song in the movie is everybody
standing on top of one of the towers of the World
Trade Center, which was still under construction
at the time. Oh, wow. And a helicopter's up there
flying around, filming and performing the song
and dance on top of the World Trade Center, one
of the towers. That was just kind of weird. Okay.
So the World Trade Center was renting themselves
out for all sorts of publicity stuff. Oh, yeah.
Evidently, I have a... dentist appointment at
3 o 'clock today that I just got the damn thing
on. Wow. Today's November 25th, right? Uh...
Yep. Oh, shit. Alright, well, um, okay, uh, how
long have we got there? Hour and seven. Okay,
let's see, uh, Phil Spector, his Christmas album,
A Christmas Gift for You, was released on November
22nd. 1963, the same day that President John
F. Kennedy was assassinated. That's right. Damn.
Yeah. Wow. Let's see. Here's another weird fact.
On April 20th, everyone celebrates marijuana.
It's also Adolf Hitler's birthday. Actually,
I knew that. Isn't that funny? Yeah. What another
hollow victory. Yes. What day is it? Don't ever
talk about that again. I used to tease people.
It's like, why is everyone out here getting high
in celebration of Hitler's birthday? I don't
get it. Yeah. Well, I guess being stoned makes
you happier. I don't know. Hitler was on every
other drug, so why not me? Why not me, Beth?
So, all right. Got anything else? I think I'm
good. All right. I think I'm good, too, due to
the fact that I evidently had a dentist appointment.
Yeah. Sometimes you find out last minute. Well,
I believe it's the teeth cleaning because I have
nothing else going on, I think. So, yeah. All
right. I mean, at least I'll feel good afterwards,
not during. Yeah. So, all right. Hey, everybody,
thank you for listening. We enjoyed doing this,
so keep listening and go fuck yourself.