Hello, this is Phineas J. Baltaris III. I'm here
to deliver your music news this evening. 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? 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? We are the music.
We are the music. All right, enough. I love doing
that part. I'm getting better at it, too. Yes,
you are. Or at least better at being worse. Better
at being bad. We are the Music Creeps. Oh, I'm
Mark. I'm Topher. This is for the last show you'll
hear, too, the Sports Bastards. I'm still Mark
on that. Are you still Topher on that one? I'm
still Topher on that one, yeah. We weren't able
to catch this breaking news, but it looks like
the Chiefs are considering if... The Falcons
release Kirk Cousins to save $35 million in cap
hit. The Chiefs are looking at signing him as
next year's season starter until Mahomes is ready.
Yep. I think that's a smart move. I think it
is, too. He's 37, but, hell, how old is Brady?
Yeah, yeah, we got the Kirkster on our side.
We're all right, man. The most important thing
is they can relax. They can let Mahomes heal.
Yes. Kirk Cousins is a fine quarterback that
can carry the load until they get back. And he
keeps his 500. They're going to be happy. And
Minshew's contract is up. You don't resign him?
No. No. Especially now that he's injured, which
is mean. No, no, no. But also, I mean, that throw
was not necessary. He was forcing it into Kelsey.
Yeah. Probably because Kelsey said, hey, man,
just throw it to me next pass. The safety, I
believe it was, was right there watching. Depped
right in. He could not wait. He saw Minshew's
eyes, and he's like, oh. Okay, let me stand back
here until he launches, and then let me jump
in front of him. So, yeah, that alone I wouldn't
rehire Minshew, but not only that, but he's spotty
anyhow, and that's how come he's always been
a backup. Cousins is a starter a lot more than
Minshew ever was. Yeah, his body work is much
better. Yeah. He's actually a pretty good quarterback,
and he should be able to be a serviceable quarterback
to at least keep his 500 because our schedule
should be easier next year. Well, I guess we
should chase the music, the sports bastards out.
Get out of here. We can talk about that for a
while. All right, this is Mark of the Music Creeps.
I'm Tobert. Of the music creeds? Of the music
creeds. All right, good. Now that we know that.
Yeah. All right, you got something you want to
go into? Here's a fun little douchebaggy thing
I found. Oh, good. Tesla is marking down their
Cybertrucks in price again. Again? Again. They
were originally, when they came out, they were
$80 ,000. Uh -huh. Enough. Uh -huh. Because most
people were spending $100 ,000. Oh, most of them,
yeah, were spending over because of all the extras
and everything. Yeah. Usually over. Now they're
marking down the price of a brand new one to
$35 ,000. That is better than most regular trucks.
Isn't it? Yeah. Okay. Now, the existing Tesla
Cybertruck owners are pissed as hell because
this kills the resale. They were accustomed to
selling their used ones for like 30 grand. If
you got one, you're fucked. You're fucked now,
yeah. You're going to get maybe 10 out of yours
if you're lucky. And if you bought it for that
price, no sense in doing a lawsuit. You're not
going to win it. You signed on the line. Yeah,
yeah. That's free market. They get to change
prices. They don't owe you shit. Yeah, so...
And then I had a little bit about the Doomsday
Glacier. Have you heard about the Doomsday Glacier
in Antarctica? I've heard about it for over the
last 10 years or so. Yes, I have too. It's the
Thwaites Glacier, T -H -W -A -I -T -E -S. It's
a very large glacier, and apparently the way
it's situated, typically as glaciers move, they
move downhill, of course, gravity's pulling them,
and they move downhill towards the sea. Now,
the Thwaites Glacier... is different in that
there's a geological feature on the floor of
the ocean that is like a sticking spot for the
glacier. So it kind of hangs up on there and
backs up the way stuff backs up from a clogged
drain. So for a long, long time, you've had this
feature on the floor of the ocean that's been
holding things back and slowing things down.
Well, it's not holding anymore. And the glacier's
starting to crack in multiple directions in multiple
ways. Cracks anywhere from two to eight kilometers
long. And it's all starting to break apart. And
they said if it goes the way they think it is,
then that whole big backlog is going to come
tumbling down and flood into the ocean. The way
you pull the wad of gunk out of your drain and
all the water goes flushing down. That's what's
going to happen, and by the time it gets into
the ocean and then melts, it'll raise sea levels
worldwide by about a foot and a half. And you
don't think a foot and a half's a lot? Wait till
that happens. Now, on the other hand, I have
been hearing for a long time that ocean levels
are rising. They are. I've been seeing pictures
of places getting flooded. Bonaire. Go ahead,
and I'll tell you my story about Bonaire. We
were there earlier. I've also seen photographs
of, like, the Statue of Liberty and the big pedestal
it's on from, like, the 1880s. And you can see,
very clearly see, where the ocean level is. Photographs
taken now, ocean level's at the exact same spot.
Now, if it's higher anywhere, it's got to be
higher everywhere. Yes, I agree. It can't just
be higher there and lower here. So why isn't
it higher there? And then you start looking at
a lot of other touristy spots around the globe
that people have been taking pictures of for
about 100 years. And you look at those old photographs
from the ocean level still exactly where it was
before. Okay, then, all right, then this is bullshit.
Doesn't this kind of seem like it? Yeah, I think
so. The lady that was the tour guide on the bus
in Bonaire earlier this year said that the north
side of the island, was going to be submerged
in water in the next five years because the ocean
rising. I guess she was wrong, it sounds like.
Yeah. She was talking about the resorts there
and going, you know, if you're going to book
one after five years up there, don't do it and
all that stuff. Thank you. Yeah. I forgot to
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It's okay. Thank you. You guys got any questions
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It's delicious. Sounds good to me. And we have
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I love it. Okay. Wow. All right. Thank you. Appreciate
it. Thanks. City Market Coffee, best coffee in
Kansas City and probably in the world. It's the
only one I drink when I'm down here. Yeah, me
too. All right. Have a slider. I wonder if they
have dairy in them anywhere. Oh, I don't know.
In that case, have a french fry. Grab a french
fry. Here we go. Okay. So, well, while you eat,
Nazareth is still out there doing stuff, making
music, playing dates. They have just replaced
their singer. Their original singer, Dan McCafferty,
left the band 10 years ago and since passed away.
Christian McCafferty's brother. Yes. And they've
been using a singer named Carl Sentence in the
meantime. Okay. Now, they're not saying why he's
gone. They're just saying lead singer Carl Sentence
and the band Nazareth have parted ways. That
means something is really pissed, and there's
probably going to be legal action, and they don't
want to say anything to prejudice anybody. That's
what it is. Yep. So they've hired a guy named
Gianni Pontillo from the German metal band Victory.
So you can go out and listen to some songs by
Victory and see how he sounds, but Nazareth is
pretty excited about him. Okay. Never heard of
Carl Sentence or... Gianni Pontillo, but then
again, I'm an old man living in the Midwest.
Same here. Original Jethro Tull guitarist Mick
Abrahams has died at age 82. He was a founding
member and played on their first album. Then
he left and started his own band called Blodwin
Pig. Is it Bloodwin or Blodwin Pig? But he was
very, very well thought of by all the members
of Jethro still. They all are mourning his loss,
so he left on good terms, apparently. Okay. I'll
have to check out Blodwin Pig. Okay. So Jethro
Tull's still touring? No, I don't think so. It's
just this guitarist guy. I mean, the band is
still together, but I don't think they're really
doing anything. They're not really touring. They
might do a one -off here or there, right? Yeah.
But they're not actually really touring. Festivals.
Ian Anderson's got to be near 80. Yeah, he's
probably 80 as well. Yeah. Okay. Yngwie Malmsteen?
Yeah. He is slamming all the singers he's ever
worked with. Yeah, like Jeff Scott Soto and all
of them. And I couldn't believe it because he
had some really good singers. I've got a list
of them here. Jeff Scott Soto, Mark Bowles, Mark
Weitz, Joe Lynn Turner. Yep. Goran Edmund, Michael
Vassara, Matt Levins, Jorn Landa, Doogie White,
Tim Ripper Owens. He's slamming all of them and
using capital letters in his tweets to yell in
his social media posts. How rude. He's saying
all of them have wanted credit for his... compositions.
And he's like, hey man, you come in and write
a line or two of words or maybe change a little
bit of melody. You don't get songwriting credit,
man. It's my song. I wrote it. And you're all
a bunch of users and losers and you're no talent.
He actually pointed out, what have they done
without me? Huh? Nothing. Well, it could be argued,
what has the mountain steam done in the last
50 years? 40 years? 30 years? Whatever. He is
really coming off as the total narcissist. Because
he went on to say, Man, sometimes I just wake
up and I've got like the fully formed song in
my head all the way down to the final production.
Like, okay, bragger. So he's trying to make it
sound like I don't need anybody and you're all
just damn lucky I let you play on my album. Wow.
Okay. He's turning into a crackpot. He is notorious
for being narcissistic, actually. Because he's
the guy that went off when someone compared him
to Ritchie Blackmore. Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. The
way he holds the guitar, the way he looks when
he's playing guitar, the guitar itself, everything
screams Ritchie Blackmore, including his riffs
when he's trying to do songs and not trying to
do these long instrumentals. And he said, I am
not blues -based. I'm classical -based. So is
Ritchie Blackmore. I know. I know. Bullshit.
Ever since I read that, I never took him seriously
on anything that he said because it's obvious.
But also, the other thing that got me was, they're
talking about Generation X, and Steve Vai doesn't
really, or was it Steve Vai? I think so. Yeah,
yeah, he had to share co -headline, or no, no,
no, he had to let Yngwie be the headliner for
him to join the tour. Otherwise, he wasn't going
to do it. But Steve Vai is much more accomplished
and much more successful than Malmsteen has ever
been. commercially yeah i'd say so yeah and so
he was talking about but he wasn't mad about
it someone asked him i goes yeah he goes he wanted
to have the main seat so we let him you know
and also he had all these stipulations and stuff
allegedly you know i need this i need that i
need this but the only way to get that generation
x tour off of the ground they needed him so they
had to um yeah yeah but um Like I said, they
weren't dogging him. Steve Vai was not dogging
him. He said, no, it's fine. He said, he can
have it. He's a great guitarist. He deserves
it. You know, he didn't have any ego in it where
Malmsteen was nothing but ego. He was all worried
about being number two instead of number one.
So this just fits everything that I've ever heard
about the guy. I've got a Steve Vai story that
fits in with this. Steve was saying that back
when he was basically a nobody and Frank Zappa
hired him for his band. I forgot about that.
Yeah. He was listed in the credits as impossible
guitar parts, Steve Vai. Zappa was right. Zappa
was paying him a compliment. But he said there
was a time when it was just himself and Frank
in the studio at like 2 in the morning, and they
both had acoustic guitars. That's pretty much
Frank. They were just jamming. And Steve just
stopped and thought. how the hell did I get here?
I'm sitting in Frank Zappa's studio jamming with
Frank Zappa. I'm nobody. How the hell did I get
here? See, Mountainstein would be like, what's
this guy doing in my area? Yeah, meh. Yeah. But
Frank said, okay, Steve, how many Jimi Hendrixes
are there? He's like, well, just one. He's like,
how many Vinnie Kaliudas are there? Just one.
He's like, how many Steve Vies are there? And
he's like, well, I don't get it. Frank said,
there's only one of you, and someday people are
going to see the very special and unique things
about you, and they're all going to say there's
only one Steve Vai. And they are. And he said
that gave him a lot of confidence. He said, if
Frank Zappa thought I had something really special
in me, then by God, I do. Yeah, very much so.
Frank Zappa was not a bullshitter. No. He had
his problems and his issues. He just kind of...
He didn't like strong women, let me put it that
way. Yeah. Frank Zappa musically, I'll tell you
what, I would listen to him above everybody because
of his honesty. He had nothing to hide, literally
nothing to hide. Yep. Yeah, he did what he did,
and he was not ashamed of it. And lyrically,
a lot of his songs are ugly, but just don't pay
attention. Listen to the music. The music is
amazing. He'd sing from the heart, and this is
what he felt. So I can't necessarily blame him,
because that does make a great song. Outrage,
disappointment, all this stuff makes great songs.
It does. And he illustrated it so well in his
songs. I thought that was a nice story. It was.
Did you know that Simon Cowell has a boy band?
I read something. Go ahead. I did read something
about it. Well, actually, Simon Cowell has...
a netflix tv show that's it yeah it's called
the next act so that's why he's looking for a
boy band is because that's the premise of the
tv show and the tv show is how he's making his
money and the boy band is just getting used okay
so he's got one put together and he calls it
december 10. spelled with a one and a zero okay
there is a scottish metal band that's been around
for a while called december 10th spelled T -E
-N -T -H. Okay. And they're taking Simon Cowell
and his band to court saying, uh -uh, this is
way too close to our name, and the proof is we've
got like 10 ,000 new followers on our webpage
who think we're a boy band. So obviously the
name is too close and it's causing confusion.
And the metal band picked the name December 10th
because that was the date a friend of theirs
was executed. He was having a lot of mental issues
and did some wrong and bad things, and the Scottish
government executed him on December 10th. So
that's where they named their band. So they don't
want to change their name. But Simon Cowell was
playing this off as, oh, this is nothing, it's
totally different. No, they're going to win.
Yeah, yeah. Especially since the boy band is
strictly for the purposes of a TV show, whereas
the Scottish metal band is actually doing it
to be a band. Simon Cowell's band can change
their name to anything because they're nothing
yet. So, yeah, I would see this going. The prize
are yours. Oh, thank you. I'm completely full.
Thank you. Yep, you're welcome. But how weird
that Simon Cowell's got a boy band. He likes
being on TV. No, that's just it. To me, he's
an attention whore. What better way? That's pretty
much how everyone is looking at Greta Thunberg
now. Oh, gosh. She's a joke. She always has been,
but now people see it for what it is. The term
I've heard is fame whore. Yep. I saw a video
taken of she and some followers were on this
boat trying to get to Gaza to help them. I know.
And they were being turned away. And one of the
people was taking, like, like one liter plastic
soda bottles that were empty and stuffing a few
dollar bills in it, put the lid back on and throwing
it overboard in the ocean and saying we're doing
this so this money will float to shore and help
the people of Gaza. But they never got it. It's
so stupid. It's a meaningless gesture that's
not going to do it good and how childish and
stupid to stand there in front of a camera, stuff
a few dollar bills in a plastic bottle. And throw
it in the ocean a mile and a half from shore.
And where's Gaza going to go buy this stuff at?
I know, it's just a stupid gesture. They're right
next to the ocean. They're not going to go down
to 7 -Eleven and buy themselves a fucking burrito.
They're going to still be getting there, getting
pushed into the ocean, basically. So, it's ridiculous.
Greta Thunberg has always been, in my opinion,
full of shit. Yeah, and I'm not really even...
convinced it's all her doing. No, someone's pushing
her. Somebody's got their hand up the back of
her shirt like the Triloquist dummy and is telling
her what to do and when to do it, and it's all
really bad advice. The problem is that she's
not a cute little girl anymore. She's not a very
attractive 20 -something female, which has no
clout in this world at all. And according to
reports, she's also trying to make her point
about... the environment by not bathing anymore.
Oh, yeah. So now she is, like, super skanky.
And I saw a recent photograph of some people,
some police escorting her through a crowd, and
they all had the surgeon gloves on because they
didn't want to touch her because she's just so
stinky and dirty. That girl is going to wind
up in some mental institution and then write
a tell -all book in about 20 years. Yeah, yeah,
what they did to her. She didn't want to make
her that fucked up. Yep. Yeah. I read they punched
her asshole every time she didn't do whatever
they said. They punched her in the asshole really,
really hard. Probably so. Yeah, yeah. I think
there's some OnlyFans pages like that. I think
so, too. That might have been the one that Shannon
Sharp was on. Oh, I bet it was. Yeah. Stinkstar
punching. Stinkstar punching. Dirty Baloo not
jabbing. Yeah. Okay. How did we get there? I
don't know. Anyhow. Jane's Addiction. Remember
them? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Perry Farrell, that nice
guy. Yeah. Guess what? They're trying to reconcile
and get back together now. They need money. They
need money. They hated each other. Yeah. How
many fistfights did they get into on stage? God,
I don't know. Quite a few. Quite a few. But now
they're spinning what happened as... well, Perry
Farrell has addictions and he's got some mental
health issues and that led to the violence and
we just want to be able to reconcile and make
more music. But they want to sell legacy products.
That's what they want to do. They want people
to buy the box sets and the t -shirts and the
reissues of concert t -shirts. They're not going
to be getting together and making music. They're
not going to be releasing albums. They just want
everyone to think they're back together, so they'll
buy the legacy products. That's all this is,
and pretty much everybody is recognizing it immediately.
Even the article I read about it was basically
sneering at them and being so transparent that
they're just trying to grab the money. I will
never see them because of that. Number one, they're
not going to put on a good show because they
hate each other. But not only that, but all the
things that they've said in the press and everything,
why would I want to go see them? It's going to
be almost as bad as the Triumph show. We're going
to get in that in a minute. The only reason I
want to go is because of April Wine. Yeah. Because
April Wine, to me, has been criminally underrated.
That man was so good. And they haven't been around
in a long time, and I appreciate Triumph getting
them. Yeah. But I don't appreciate them. Well,
you can go into it. Do you want to go into it
or do it a little bit later? Let's go ahead.
Okay. I read an article from Triumph bass player
Mike Levine. And the article started out with,
I've got this medical issue, damage to my hand,
and I really can't play well anymore. So, they're
doing the 50th anniversary tour. And it's Mike
Levine bass, Rick Emmett. Hey there, slap nuts.
It's time for the Creeps Music News. Hey, my
little pumpkin seeds. This is Johnny Rohypnol
with your music news. The latest news from the
coroner and the death of Ace Brealey. His founding
member, lead guitarist, and successful solo artist
was Ace Had a Stroke. and led to his fall that
resulted in a brain bleed and his unfortunate
passing. We already miss you, Ace. Condolences
to his family and friends. This is Johnny Rohypnol.
That was your music news. And remember, bar chords
are bullshit. drummer and a guitar player and
two of them can sing two of them can sing just
like rick emmett and he said in a script meeting
with rick emmett about the show now it's already
pretty sad that they're having script meetings
to script out their live show when you send me
when you i i was like oh my god when i thought
it was bad it was worse yeah so what they're
talking about doing they're not even going to
play a full song Everyone. They can't do it.
They're unable to do it. And they're not even
trying to hide the fact that they're unable to
play even a full one of their own songs. They're
going to have these other people do it. Yeah,
they're going to have those other three people
on stage and the three original members of Triumph.
This is straight from Mike Levine, the bass player.
So we were deciding when in the song that we
should just turn it over to the other guys. I
forget what song you mentioned. It's like after
the first verse, they were just going to turn
it over to the other guys. And the three original
members of Triumph are just going to stand there
and watch. So basically, they're touring with
their own cover band, and about 80 % of what
you're going to hear is the cover band. And then
the next song, the original Triumph members will
play maybe up through the chorus. And Mike Levine
is saying, yeah, then there's this one guitar
solo. The backup musician does a better job,
so he's going to play that. Then this guy's going
to sing this song, because he sings it so much
better now than Rick does, and blah, blah. That's
what passes for a live concert now, is basically
the guys are going to stand around with you while
you watch the cover band. That's just so stupid.
Do you actually believe that they're even going
to do any of the song? No. I don't think so.
To me, that does not sound right. We're deciding
when to turn the song over. How is that going
to be done? You know how music's produced. You
know how it is on stage. You've been on stage
before. Yeah. Okay. That is not how it works.
No. I think it's almost impossible for them to
just go, all right, now just start taking over
my lead while I'm letting it go. No, there's
not a transition like that. It's going to be
horrible. The only way it could possibly work
if all six of them started playing at once and
the three tribute band guys, Just played really
quiet and simple, and then at a certain pre -range
point, they just turn up and the guys turn down.
I guess that could be done like that. But it's
going to sound like shit. Yeah, I mean, I don't
know how you can sync all that up and make it
sound good. I'm not even sure if this tour is
going to happen, actually. Because I think that
a lot of people, when they read this, are like,
I don't know. Yeah, I mean, they're telling you
right up front you're not going to see Triumph
play. Maybe a little bit here and there. I know
people go and see Foreigner and stuff like that
with no original members, but the way they worded
this does not look good at all. It looks to me
like a cash grab, and what you're having is the
people standing there that were original, and
actually a cover band is playing everything.
Yeah. It just blows my mind that they're being
so open about this. They think, oh, everyone
will just flock to this. This is good enough.
They don't deserve any better for their $50,
$60, $100 tickets, whatever. I was so stoked
to see Tribe 2. We were talking about that, remember?
Yeah, we were going to go. Yeah, and also, we've
always been talking about what an underrated
band they've been. They got compared to Rush
because they're from Canada, but there's no comparison.
But they did their thing so well. Yeah. And if
they can't play anymore, if they can't play a
whole song or even a whole set, then don't go
out on the road, dude. Do like Ace Frehley did.
Hire a good guitarist, and he does what he could
do, and then the other guitarist does the rest
of it. Yeah, the whole concept of we'll stop
and they'll take over, it's just wrong. It just
sounds so wrong. He should have never said it
like that. Yeah. Can't take it back now. Yeah,
he should have said backtracking because that's
sexy now. Yeah. Oh, you want it to sound better?
Okay. No, live music's dead, like you said. Yeah.
And I don't want anything to do with it. And
earlier we were talking about Nikki Sixx. Do
you want to go into that really quick? Sure.
Okay. Now, what did he say, you know, not verbatim
but around? He was calling out older rock stars.
who are going out and acting like they're still
25. Although he does. He does, yeah. I'm sure
he was talking directly about David Lee Roth.
Yeah, there's no doubt. All the video that's
out about him, he is so creepy. Yeah. And the
way he grabs his ass isn't like, hey females,
it's kind of like, come and get it, whoever.
Yeah. It is just creepy as hell. There's always
been questions about him anyhow. Yeah. There
have been large questions about him. It has not
made anything any better. His solo vocals are
atrocious. He does some sort of a noise that
isn't usually possible. Yeah, it's just some
squeak out of his damaged vocal cords. Yeah,
his vocal cords are like toast. But people are
going and watching it, so he's grabbing the money.
So, yeah, I don't blame him. But, you know, those
people are drying up. I mean, not literally,
but the people who will see is like, you know,
he was so hot in 1975 or 1985, but I'm going
to go see him because he was hot back then. That
works maybe once. Well, some of the video, you
ought to see the old fucking, the old nasties
that are in the front row there. It's so bad
that even David Lee Roth doesn't want to look
at them. They look like he does. Yeah. Like he
does on the females. Yeah. And they're... They're
all getting older, dying off, or at least getting
unable to go to concerts anymore. And that's
the only people who really want to see him, other
than to go out and laugh at him. I almost went
to laugh at him, honestly. He played at Grindr's.
It almost went, but the tickets were so high,
I was like, no. Just to laugh at him, no. If
he put on a good show, yes. I'd go see Corey
Feldman. Oh, I would too, but that's different.
We know that's hilarious. Yeah, that is hilarious
as hell. It's like live Spinal Tap. Yes. Yeah,
but yeah, the nasties that were at that Emily
Rock concert, they looked like the kind of woman
that would grab a ball, a little bouncy ball,
put it on the ground and go, I'm going to push
this around my nose and you come behind me and
hit me as hard as you can. That's what they look
like. Wow. On mushrooms. They kind of looked
like the women that really weren't much even
back in their prime. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were
the ones that were like, no, I don't know, no,
I don't know. Ten beers later. Still a no. 20
beers later, still a no. They would have put
a roofie in your drink to get you to take home.
And they probably did. Yeah. All right. So, let's
see. Where were we when I derailed? Oh, Nikki
Sixx. Okay. He said that, okay? All right. Then,
I want to talk about how he was like... Back
in the day, it was known that Nikki Sixx used
to... He did say he wanted Jakey Lee to join
the band. But he said, oh, we were drunk. I didn't
mean it. But they wanted to replace Mick Morris
back then with Jakey Lee. And Jakey Lee wasn't
going to leave Ozzy, of course. So it was a solid
no, but he used to jam with them all the time.
And he was good friends with them. Well, when
Jakey Lee brought that up a few years back, Nikki
Sixx went after him. That never happened. That's
bullshit. When he admitted it before. Isn't that
weird? Yeah, it is. I guess he doesn't have a
very good memory. Yeah. When he used to say,
oh, we're just drunk. Now he says it didn't happen
and he's lying and he made it up. So the other
day I was listening to Talk is Jericho. Jakey
Lee was on there. Did like an hour and ten minute
interview. It's one of the best interviews I've
ever heard of Jakey Lee. Really sanded. And he
was talking about how he got shot up. You know,
he got shot four times. And then he has an arthritic
condition. So he went back to the beginning concert.
He was afraid to play that solo. He said, I remember.
He goes, I remember that Ultimate Sin solo. I
thought it was easier than what it was. But I
knew better. I remember that thing. I'm like,
no. No, no, no. That's not easy. Nothing easy
about that. No. So nothing he did was easy. That
guy is just a phenomenal talent. But, okay. He
was, like, really scared of it, and he said,
I was afraid I was going to come out there and
sound like Nikki Sixx playing the bass. Whoa.
That's a good little slam. Yeah, it is, but also
I think there's a lot of truth rooted into it,
too. Bob Rock said that Nikki Sixx could never
play the bass until later when he came back to,
was it Bob Rock or Doc McGee? I think it was
Bob Rock. Bob Rock, yeah. But, yeah, Carol Kay
was playing the bass for him. Yes. She also played
bass on the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations. That's
how long she's been around. Did she play on the
albums or what? On the albums. Yeah, and I don't
know who played the live backing track. Well,
I mean, they've always been backtracking anyhow
for a long time now. Yeah, but no, it was based
in truth, but I love that little jab. I was like,
boy, that was a good one. Jakey Lee got that
in there really good. Yeah, it's like a little
towel flick while you're walking by. Yep, and
you notice nothing from Nikki. Nope. Nope. Don't
want to touch that, does he? Yep. He doesn't
want to go out there and have to actually lie
and then someone prove him wrong. Yeah. Yeah.
So played on, how many albums did she play on?
At least the first two. Okay. And those were
the two, let me think, heartbeat based, not the
most complicated. Yeah. But that was the stuff
that made Motley Motley back then. Yeah. Yeah.
The second one was Shout at the Devil. The first
one was what, Too Fast for Love? Yes. And that
was a really good bass. It's not the most complicated.
It's really simple. But that's exactly what the
songs needed. Yeah, Carole Kay made up the bass
parts. And then Nikki had to learn how to fake
along with them when they did live. So I love
that. I thought that was a great reply. And it's
a reply to where Nikki couldn't say anything.
I better keep my mouth shut. You heard of Finn
Wolfhard? No. He's apparently an actor on the
show Stranger Things. Okay, that's the one. I
haven't watched it yet. Everybody's raving about
it. It's on its final season. There was a time
a little while back when I was spending some
time in a psychiatric hospital, and television
privileges were pretty heavily restricted, and
we watched a lot of Stranger Things. Is that
when you start throwing your poop? Yeah, yeah.
Oh, okay, good. So anyway, that's where I learned
about Stranger Things. Oh, okay. Apparently this
Finn Wolfhard guy has directed and produced a
new George Harrison music video. Now the problem
is George Harrison's dead. Yeah. Been dead for
a while. For a while, yes. He took the old song,
Give Me Love, by George Harrison, and then he
went through and found photographs. short video
clips, anything he could find to kind of make
a mashup to be the video of the song. And then
he had artists draw over it and animate it. Kind
of rotoscoping kind of thing. So he's got this
whole new video for an old George Harrison song
that was cobbled together with bits of video
from the dead guy. And most people who... He
says it's a loving tribute. to George Harrison,
most people who've seen the video are creeped
out by it. I would too, by the way you described
it. I don't think I'd like that at all. Because
you're very aware that George Harrison is dead.
Yes. He's been dead a long time. Since what,
2001 maybe? Early, yeah, this was early 2000s.
Yeah, 2002, somewhere there. He was the second
one to go after Leonard and not too much long
back. Harrison had cancer. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's now being... called a shameless fame
grab and cash grab that is using a dead man's
legacy to make money. Wow. And the way this is
all set up, with the putting together the pieces
and then digital art over them and rotoscoping
stuff, he doesn't have to pay squat to whoever
owns George Harrison, except he has to pay for
the rights to the song, but he can use that image
as much as he wants without paying anybody because
it's not really George Harrison. Wow. Is that
Sweet Connie that owns the rights? Probably so.
Probably so. And the plaster casters? Yeah. Okay.
Google it. Yeah. But I think that's just another
thing to try to get us more accustomed to and
get us to accept fake AI shit. Well, yeah. I
mean, Kiss is working on it diligently, and I
forgot what other band said they were going to
do it too. Yeah, I've been hearing somebody else.
I can't remember. Some other prominent band said
that they were going to do that too. Yeah. Damn
it. Oh, well, but we know Kiss is. It's going
to be AI. Yeah. And the other band said they're
going to tour with the AI. Yikes. I can't remember
who it is, but anyhow, it doesn't matter. Yeah.
And, you know, the people who go out and buy
the tickets and pay for it, they're going to
ruin it for the rest of us. No, I know. Because
they're going to keep this going. Yeah, that's
all they're going to offer if that's going to
be good enough. It's like, boycott it. Yeah.
Let's get real live humans performing music.
Slam the door on it right fucking now. Don't
let it keep going. It won't happen. Because the
fear of missing out will take over. And the bragging
rights of saying, I went and I posted it on social
media and you weren't there, nee, nee, nee. Yeah.
That will win out over anything. Oh, I know.
Yeah. It's been proven. People cut their own
arm off. Oh, yeah, yeah. And they give them 10
minutes of fame. Yeah. Marilyn Manson has beaten
the rap. Oh, has he? The judge dismissed a sexual
assault and battery lawsuit filed against him
by former personal assistant Ashley Walters,
who was employed between 2010 and 2011. To me,
it always sounded like a disgruntled case, yes.
But I didn't know for sure. Well, the primary
problem is the statute of limitations has run
out. Oh, so it might be valid. Because there's
only 10 years. And there is an exception to that
if the person who was injured... didn't realize
during that 10 -year period, then the statute
of limitations is superseded. But they said there's
no way that she could have been unaware of what
was going on, and she spent more than 10 years
not reporting it, not telling it anyway, and
then after the statute of limitations ran out,
then she filed. So that's making it look like
she filed to get attention, knowing it would
never go anywhere. Exactly, yeah. So filing the
lawsuit against Marilyn Manson was the goal.
Not winning it, just filing it. Not winning it,
but just getting her name out there. Now she's
probably going to do appearances and talks and
talk about how horrible it was and all that stuff.
And I imagine this has already been cleared in
advance with Marilyn Manson. She probably went
to him and said, look, I'm going to file this
lawsuit, but there's no way it's going anywhere
because the time's all up. It'll get attention
for me. It'll get attention for you. Let's play
it up, and we'll both benefit. That's probably
what's going on here. Yeah, yeah, allegedly.
I'm going to call BS on the whole thing. Me too.
I agree. That just stinks. It stinks bad. Bassist
Steve Harris. Iron Maiden. Of Iron Maiden. I
broke right down as Iron Maiden. He says an Ozzy
-like final concert is going to happen for Iron
Maiden. Yes, that's going to be cool. They were
so impressed with Ozzy's thing, they're like,
oh yeah, we need to do one of these too. Coincidentally,
which is odd, because the last I knew, Bruce
Dickinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden, and Sharon
Osbourne still hated each other. As a matter
of fact, the spoken word, he could not quit making
fun of her. The spoken word, he was brutal about
her, and he did not stop either. Wow. We'll see
how it all plays out. I have a feeling we're
going to get a whole string of these Ozzy -like
farewell blowouts. Yeah. Eventually people are
going to get tired of them. Until they quit working,
yes. I don't think it's going to tarnish Ozzy's
since it was the first and so well done and he
died so quickly afterwards. Nothing's going to
tarnish that. No, nothing's going to trump that
or nothing's going to even tarnish it ever. That
thing is going to be a standalone. Just epic
event. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to get documentary
movies, at least one. We'll probably get three
books at least. Yeah. About it. Yeah, I'm sure.
Well, Ozzy said this after the show. He said,
I had no idea how many people loved me. That's
amazing. Oh, I know. Must have been a very humble
man. Well, yeah, he was. But he's a guy that,
like everyone said, I mean, there's been a couple
of, for instances, it's like, I think it was
Nikki Sixx, actually, when he was still cool,
said that them and Bon Jovi were there at the
Russia, what was it, Us Festival or something
like that. And they're all fighting over who's
going to get headlined. Yeah. And Ozzy just walks
up there and goes, put me in whenever. And they
were sorry about that. Yeah. He went on during
daylight, and most of the crowd left after that.
They're like, nothing's going to, this is the
best, let's go. There was a concert like that
at Arrowhead back when I was a teenager. Frampton
was the headliner, and Steve Miller was the opening.
There was like two other bands on the bill, too,
because it was a stadium. But Steve Miller was,
you know, a lot of people said Steve Miller should
have been the headliner, but he was before. And
I didn't go to this one, but I was working there
at the time, and from what I heard, After Steve
Miller finished playing, roughly half the audience
left. Because they didn't even care to stick
around. I remember that. I wasn't there, but
I remember reading about that somewhere. They
didn't even care to stick around and hear Frampton.
They were like, we're done. We're tired. We're
going home. To me, Frampton is very safe and
boring anyhow. Not really my thing. I mean, he
plays his instrument very well. Sorry about his
penis, though. I guess he's very hung like a
hamster. I would classify Frampton as music that
I really don't pay much attention to. It's okay
if it's playing and it's on in the background.
It's all right. It's not something I seek. Yeah,
yeah. Now, Steve Miller, I'll sit and listen
to his guitar playing. I'll listen to the drummers
playing because there's stuff buried in there
that's interesting. He's very interesting, yeah.
I like Peter Frampton's drummer a lot. The song
arrangements, yeah, they're boring and droll
on. We're, Steve Miller is a pretty good songwriter.
Yeah. And he puts it, it's put together very
well. So. Steve Miller used to jam with Les Paul.
Yeah. Les Paul used to come by his house and
jam. Isn't that something? The guy the guitar
was named after. I was getting ready to make
a joke. I was going to go, yeah, the guitar came
over and played with him all the time. The Les
Paul guitar loved him. Yeah. Yeah, I used to
jump in his lap and go, will you finger me? In
a nice way. Pluck me, baby. Pluck me. Pluck me
hard. Pluck me hard. Oh, no, no, no. Don't bring
the slide out. Oh, oh, oh. No capo, you weirdo.
Yeah, get that slide out of here. Just your fingers.
All right. I can keep going as long as you want
me to. Okay, I got stuff. Sure. All right. These
are commercials that happen. Rock stars. that
people don't remember or never even knew wow
yeah the bingles ringo sauce wow well it's in
japan oh well okay okay in 1996 ringo star starred
in a japanese commercial for applesauce it was
ringo sauce it was applesauce the reason in japanese
the word for apple is ringo That's funny. Yeah,
it was a marketing match made in heaven, or at
least the produce aisle. That's awesome. I love
that one. When I read that, I'm like, this is
something I want to do. So I had to copy and
paste all of them and print them. You know, I've
heard a lot about people who don't want to do
commercials in the U .S. will go overseas and
do commercials thinking, well, they'll never
be shown in the U .S. That's already gone by
the wayside. Now, everybody will do the most
tasteless, stupid commercials where they act
like a total jackass and just cash the check.
See Josh Allen in pistachios. Andy Reid acting
like a brain -dead fool. Or writing on people's
faces. Yeah. You wave enough cash under their
face, they'll act like a complete snotbag on
TV. He'll steal your noogies, your nuggies. He'll
steal your nuggies for the right amount of money.
Okay, everyone heard about Van Halen's Brown
M &M's gig? Yeah. Supposedly, they have Brown
M &M's, or we're not showing up. Yeah. So when
they get in there and they peek in the dressing
room, if there's one red one, they leave. It
has to be all Brown M &M's. And everyone knows
Brown M &M's suck. Even though they're all the
same flavor, the Brown M &M's suck. Yeah. So,
all right. That was done specifically to make
sure they read every line of their tour writer.
They said if they skip that part, who knows what
else they skipped, and we might not be safe playing.
I agree with what they did. I think it's a brilliant
way of doing it, but it's also fun, too. It's
like, what? They want only Brown M &M's, so make
sure that happens. Yep. But I'm going to have
to buy like 300 packs. We don't care. Yeah. Got
to make the show happen. Got to make the show
happen. All right. The legendary No Brown M &M's
Claus, Van Halen's concert rider, wasn't just
a diva demand. It was... A canary in the coal
mine. If the band found a brown M &M in the dressing
room, they knew the promoter hadn't read the
technical safety specifications for their massive,
dangerous stage equipment. That was right. It
was stuck in with the safety rules. Well, you
were close enough. Yeah. And I agree with that.
It was a brilliant way to get that done. That,
yeah. And you tell them, hey, there's something
in there that will kill the show if you don't
do it right. So you better read and do everything.
yeah and if we see that we're not going to tell
you what it is but if we see it hasn't been done
right then we ain't playing yeah and it's brilliant
also got a great puck yes because they're supposed
to be in a band you know like throwing out couches
down out an 80 story window plus brown m m's
plus they used to have a place underneath the
underneath the stage where they would have their
roadies pick out women oh yeah yeah and they
would meet them there During the show a lot of
times. Get a little relief and come back up there
and kick some more ass. Tommy Lee's doing a drum
solo. Let's go in and get a blowjob. Yeah, it
happened all the time. Probably still happens.
Only they look like Skeletor now. Alright. Led
Zeppelin's High Speed Hotel. Have you ever heard
about that? No. Neither did I until I read this.
Drummer John Bonham was known for a particular
brand of hotel trashing. He once received a Harley
Davidson for his 25th birthday and proceeded
to ride it through the hallways of the Chateau
Mermont in Los Angeles, leaving tire marks across
the luxury carpet. You don't get more rock star
than that. And also the way he went out, I mean,
you know, smashed. Choking on your own vomit.
Choking on your own vomit. There's not a more
glorious way to die if you're a rock star. We
were told he might have been choking on someone
else's vomit. Might have been, yeah. We don't
know. And supposedly it was in Aleister Crowley's.
former Aleister Crowley's former dungeon. But
I don't know if that's been confirmed or not.
That could be an add -on later. This one goes,
yeah, it was also in Aleister Crowley's dungeon
and they were doing the Black Mass. Well, what
I heard is he went over to Jimmy Page's house
to jam. Uh -huh. Because at that point... John
Paul Jones and Bob Plant were doing the songwriting.
Yeah. Because Bonham and Page were kind of unreliable.
So they'd get together and jam and work on stuff.
And during the course of jamming together, he
downed like 40 shots. Yeah. And that's what got
him. And that's what got him. But knowing that
it was Jimmy Page's house, it probably was Aleister
Crowley's dungeon. Yeah, because that's what
Jimmy Page was living in. Yeah. He was fascinated.
He loved that dark energy. Yeah, he did. Whether
it had anything to do with his music or not,
here's what I read. Sabbath did this. Purple
did this. Other bands have done this. I think
maybe you're right. He might have. Okay, what
they did was they did this for ambience and ambience
and the flavor of the song. Yeah. You go to a...
Haunted or black magic dungeon that happened
whenever medieval times now whatever. Yeah, so
Anyhow, what it was was this they would get this
certain vibe the certain I can see that Yeah,
I could too so I could see why they do that yeah,
if you're writing if you're trying to do a song
about heartache or struggle or Overcoming adversity
and you're sitting in a comfortable studio With
someone handing you beers and cigarettes and
stuff, it's really hard to get in the mood. Yeah,
yeah. So where he was, you know, they did this
dark energy stuff, like you said. I mean, a lot
of people, they didn't mind the publicity about
them actually worshiping the devil. Yeah, yeah,
at the time that was considered cool. Yeah, yeah.
While heroin was considered cool. Yeah, that's
true, yeah. So bloodletting used to be cool.
Owning other people used to be considered cool.
Putting a giant boulder on someone to prove they're
not a witch used to be cool. So I could see the
energy coming from that because the songs were
written in a particularly mysterious, stark way
anyhow. You had to have a certain fire in them.
So I get it. I get it. It was a great idea. Chances
are they were just recording, but everything
else got from, oh, they were worshipping the
devil, they conjured a demon, and he killed him
dead, you know, all this stuff. So who knows?
I think Zac Brown is doing that now. Yes. He's
getting a lot of flack. I know. When actually
it was just bullshit. He was just like, no, we're
just fucking doing a show. Well, he says the
show is about him, you know, overcoming his problems
and adversity, struggling with his inner demons,
etc. Yeah. So the videos, you know, of course,
in the sphere, you've got video everywhere. And
all of the imagery is really pretty shocking.
You know, actual demons and hellfires. Oh, I
agree. A lot of his Christian fans are like,
yeah, I'm not going anywhere near this, guys.
This is straight up devil worship. This guy is
just off the hinge. And the outfits he's wearing
are just bizarre. Yeah. So he's not a country
artist anymore. No, no, no, no. And he's doing
this for effect. We all know this. He can label
it whatever he wants, but controversy has always
made a start. It seems like everybody who plays
the sphere has to get sort of controversy going
to get attention. Yeah, they have to. Yeah. And
that's how they get traction. That's how they
get anything in this world because it's social
media world. And whenever you do something like
that, you get pictures and you get plastered
all over X, all over Facebook, all over Insta,
all that. Now, while those Christian fans are
getting upset, the metalheads think it's hilarious.
Yeah, they do, because we've already been through
this. We know exactly what's going on. It's like,
hey, put a label on it, too, okay? Just tell
the kids they can't have it. Yep. Tell them they
can't have it, and then see what happens. All
right, how about the Rolling Stones' Breakfast
Jingle? Oh, don't remember that one. Me neither.
The Rolling Stones' Breakfast Jingle, before
they were the world's greatest rock band, I don't
think they are. Allegedly. That's like the Cowboys
calling themselves America's team. They gave
themselves that title. And I believe the Stones
have gave themselves that title, too. Actually,
I don't even think they're in the top ten to
me. The world has passed them by. Yeah, the songwriting
to me was not that solid. People love them, but
to me it's kind of jingle -ish. Look, I love
the Beatles, but I also knew what they were.
You know, I mean, nothing wrong with it. But
it's just, I know what they are, you know what
they are. Yeah. So, all right. Before they were
the greatest rock band, the Rolling Stones recorded
a 1964 television jingle for Rice Krispies. Oh,
my God. It featured Brian Jones. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
yeah, the original. Yeah. On guitar. Blondie.
Yep. And, yeah, went to Blondie, right? And then
where else? No, no, I'm saying he was blonde.
Oh, he was blonde? Brian Jones was blonde. No,
he did not join Blondie. He died. He died. He
died. That's right. Okay. All right. He's down
in the swimming pool. Yep, that's right. And
he was Blondie. Yep. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff
about that, too, that they're saying was shady
and happened, really was a murder. Marion Faithful
was kind of hanging around a lot of people who
died around those days. Yes. So she kind of pops
up a little too often where rock stars die. She's
like the Hillary. of rock. All these people die
around her. No explanation. Bad luck. Bad luck.
Just awful luck. I guess they're entitled to
royalties just like someone's getting ready to
do a grand jury testimony. Something like that.
Something like that. Kind of. Maybe. Let's move
on. We'll all be found in Central Park wrapped
up in a carpet with a hole in the back of our
head that we did. Like Ron Brown, whose plane
was shot down? Yeah, he was supposed to testify
the next day, and the damn thing just, boom!
Actually, he wasn't shot down. It was that U
.N. secretary that was shot down. They thought
his plane had just crashed. It was like 1961
or 2 or something. Yeah. And I saw a Washington
Air crash investigation, and they have since
determined, yeah, he was actually shot down.
And they covered it up because it would have
started a massive war. Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah. I can't remember the guy's name. You'd
know his name if I mentioned it. But they found
spent ammunition casings in the wreckage. And
they said, oh, well, he had armed security guards
with him because this was like a diplomatic slash
military. And what would they be shooting at?
Yeah. It was just ammo that cooked off. It was
like, no, they discovered this ammo was the ammo
used in... military aircraft to shoot down other
aircraft. That was the empties that they were
finding. And they also found a recording of the
radio message of the two fighter pilots that
were sent to shoot down that plane and one reporting,
yeah, I got it and it's going down. So there's
actual video recording of the people who shot
the plane down saying, yep, we just shot the
plane down. And they hid it for decades because
it would have started a massive world war. Yeah.
Wow. Yep. Wow. Things that almost happened. I
know. Well, it's just like in the book. I forgot
the guy's name. He was Secretary of Defense under
Nixon, I believe. Kissinger. Oh, Kissinger. No,
he was Secretary of State. Oh, he was Secretary
of State. I forgot his name, but he wrote a book
before he died. He was in his 90s. He wrote a
book, and he released it knowing he was going
to die. Was it McNamara? Could have been, but
I don't think so. I think he was a military general.
Yeah, it was. And I'll stop guessing. Well, you
know what? I will, too. I'll look it up, and
I'll look the book up, too, and I'll let everybody
know. But not right now, though, but I'll look
it up later. So he said the closest we ever came
to nuclear war was he was doing his secretary
of defense. And back then, I mean, they still
have the red phone, but it's not the same, the
communications. But the red phone was everything.
The red phone, if you answered it, you knew one
thing. Russia was probably attacking with nuclear
weapons. So he looks on this computer screen
that he had, whatever they were using back then,
and he saw that Russia had launched all their
nuclear weapons. Shit! I've got to get to Nixon!
He calls up Nixon, and Nixon's like, are you
sure? Are you sure? Give me a minute. I don't
know if he called him back or sat the phone down.
Yeah, I don't know any of the particulars. He
checks again, and it appeared to be the same.
Nixon, he got back on the phone. He goes, I think
this is really happening, Richard, Mr. President
Nixon, whatever he used, you, hey, whatever.
Dick. Dick. Yeah, Dick, I think this is really
happening. Check one more time. It was still
there, but there was some inconsistencies. And
he goes, here's what's going on. It's not the
same. Some of them have disappeared, but they're
still weapons in the air, according to this.
Richard Nixon, instead of making a call, he said,
I'm going to leave this to you. Whatever you
think is happening, you go with it. This is why
I hired you. I trust your judgment. He checked
one more time and saw more inconsistencies, and
then they got to the bottom of it. It was a computer
glitch. And that was the closest we came to nuclear
war, according to him. Yeah, I've heard references
to that over the years in shows. documentary
saying, you know, a computer glitch brought us
to the brink of world war. That's what they're
referring to. We were like two seconds away.
If Richard Nixon did not tell them to check it
again, if he would have been really reactionary
and said, we can't let them. Yeah. It would have
been over. Yeah. A lot of us wouldn't have grown
up at all. Yeah. I mean, the earth might've been
recovering by now. I don't know, but I mean,
we wouldn't be here. It'd be vastly different.
Yeah, it would be. So yeah, five headed people
and I don't know. so um that was the closest
that we came to it and yeah so anyhow all right
um we got there from uh ron brown and yeah okay
so oh the rolling stones rolling stones uh and
uh anyhow brian jones um who ended up dying kind
of mysteriously or something and there's a big
hoopla about that who knows yeah so all right
so they had the snap crackle and pop shortly
before they released I can't get no satisfaction.
So then after they released that, they didn't
give a shit about commercials, and nothing ever
happened again. They were on their way. And Brian
Jones is on his way to the morgue. All right.
And finally, no, no, no, I have one more after
this. Alice Cooper and the chicken incident.
You know all about this. We spoke about it several
times. All right. The famous story that Alice
Cooper bit the head off a chicken is a myth,
mostly. During a 1969 show, a fan threw a live
chicken onto the stage. Cooper, thinking it could
fly, threw it back to the audience. The crowd,
which was quite aggressive and worked into a
frenzy by then, proceeded to tear the bird apart,
leading to the headlines that made Cooper a shock
rock legend overnight. Yeah. Yeah. All he was
trying to do was throw it in the air to fly.
It fell to the crowd, and they promptly tore
it apart. Yep. Yep. And he built on that. The
next album they put out was Killer with the song
Dead Babies. Dead Babies, yeah. So he capitalized
on the chicken thing by taking dolls on stage
and chopping them up with a hatchet, and they
had little blood capsules taped to them, and
then he threw the bloody doll parts out into
the audience. So that was taking the chicken
incident and working it into something cool.
It was just like wasp and raw meat. I remember
seeing that and going, this doesn't get any better.
Yeah. Yeah, a bunch of Ravage fans getting raw
meat thrown at their face. Hopefully steroid
-filled raw meat. Probably, probably. I mean,
that was in the 80s, so they probably weren't
steroiding them up by then. Now, I have seen,
that was the Toronto Music Festival, that the
chicken incident happened, and Alice Cooper and
his band played that for free. All they wanted
was to be the last band before John Lennon. Yeah.
So that's what they're allowed to do. And I have
seen the whole video of that whole Alice Cooper
concert, their show. It's like 18 minutes. They
weren't out on the stage for all that long. And
half the time they're playing, half the time
they're basically destroying their instruments
and pushing things over. And the weird thing
is... in some other scenes not necessarily that
video but other videos uh the bass players want
to point this out he said if you look at a number
of our older videos you will see cages on top
of the amps with chickens in them we brought
chickens onto the stage a lot yeah because that
was their gimmick that's what they're known for
but this was before the chicken incident oh was
it yes he said we were already bringing chickens
on the stage because um They kind of got into
that by, they had a big fight in a hotel room
once, and they all started trashing the place,
and it developed into a pillow fight. And it
basically filled the whole room with goose feathers,
back when they had actual feather pillows. And
they said, let's do this on stage too. So they
would get like two pillows from the hotel and
cut slits in them, and then start having a pillow
fight, and they said two pillows will pretty
much fill up any venue you've got with feathers.
And then the last part of the bit from the bass
player for Alice Cooper's band said that they
would bring chickens on the stage, and he was
never really sure if it was a chicken provided
by an audience member or one of the chickens
got loose from one of their cages, but either
way, you can see Alice Cooper picking up a chicken
and flinging it out into the audience, and that's
all you ever see. The aftermath was bloody pieces
of chicken were thrown back up on the stage for
the band. But if you can find the concert video,
it's really interesting to look at that and think,
all of those Alice Cooper hits came from this
bizarre band that didn't look like they had much
talent at all. So it's a pretty eye -opening
experience, and you get to see the chicken take
a dive. Okay, slight little screech there. I
had to use the bathroom, and the City Market
Coffee is closed. We're doing this later in the
evening today because of medical reasons. Yeah,
this is an interesting vibe to be here when it's
dark outside. Yeah, I think Ms. Goldfinstein
is no longer around here, at least, if on this
earth. About right now, she'd be screaming at
the walls. This is true. This is about when we'd
see her. So maybe she's being reincarnated into
one of these pigeons. That keeps swooping at
us. I'm saying, yeah, she did change Robin to
a capuchin monkey. She's got the shape -changing
skills. Yeah, yeah. So she might definitely be
a pigeon. But I'd like to bring this up. We are
the first program that Two Douchebags and Microphone
has spawned and endorsed, even though we are
the two original douchebags. Yes. Yeah, it doesn't
matter. Yep. We are that show. It's like a podcast
within a podcast, which is also a first. Yes,
yes. So there you go. Just wanted to mention
it. Just saying. We're awesome, man. Yes, we
are. Pat, pat, pat. Everyone should want our
picture. That's right. All right. Queen and David
Bowie under pressure fluke. The song was never
supposed to happen. Bowie happened to be at the
same studio in Switzerland where Queen was recording
after a marathon session of drinking and jamming.
which Freddie Mercury described as pure chaos.
No bet. And if that was him... Hey, my fellow
heavy breathers, this is Dash Riptide, your music
news. Megadeth has announced a final album and
a 2026 global farewell tour. To conclude their
career after 40 years, the first wave of tour
dates for a Latin American leg in April and May
2026 with more dates to be announced for the
worldwide tour. While the full tour schedule
has been released, tickets for the initial dates
are available, and there is also an announced
performance with Iron Maiden Concert in Harrison,
New Jersey, in September 2026. This is Dash Ruktein,
and that was your music news. If it's too loud,
you probably have ear damage, just like me. Describing
it as pure chaos. It was pure chaos. Yeah, he's
got a pretty high bar. Yes, he does. They improvised
the entire track in a single night. That masterpiece
in one single night. That wasn't an uncommon
thing to have musicians just drop by when other
musicians were in the studio and just see what
happened. Yeah, used to happen all the time.
It doesn't so much anymore because the way music's
written and released. But, yeah, I want Ringo
Sauce. For a while, pop music was doing it intentionally.
Remember how albums would come out with a song
featuring this guy and this guy, featuring this
gal and that band. It was like half the album
was somebody else. I used to think their foot
was on it. Yeah. FT, feature foot. What's his
foot doing on it? Why do they want his foot?
And it used to be when a new album was coming
out, The important thing was to release the list
of who was featured on the album. Yes. Not the
songs, not the tracks, not anything about the
album, who the features were. Because that would
make people run out and buy it, and then when
they actually heard the songs, they're like,
oh, too late, you already spun it. Yeah. Done.
Everybody wants to sell it to you sight unseen.
Yes. All right. Okay, I'm done with those. We've
got a good Sharon Osbourne story. Oh, let's hear
it. She was revealing recently that in the week
leading to Ozzy's death, He told her that he
was repeatedly dreaming of many people standing
around him, watching, not speaking. And it's
people he'd never seen before. He didn't know
who they were. It's not like friends or loved
ones. It was just like large people that were
just standing and watching. And he said that
really made him feel like things were getting
prepared, things were getting ready. The morning
of his death, he... woke up early about 4 30
in the morning and he told Sharon to wake up
and she said I'm already awake and she said he
then said kiss me which she did and then he said
hug me tight and she hugged him briefly and then
he went downstairs and started to work out and
passed away 20 minutes later and she was left
thinking if I'd known I would have kissed him
hard I would have hugged him longer I would have
done something but she she believes that he was
ready and knew it was coming. I think he was
ready ever since the last show was completed.
Yeah, pretty much. Because there was nothing
anymore left. That was it. You know, his career
is over that he loved so much. They had the plans
of, like, well, let's collaborate, let's do some
music, we'll do this, but it probably wasn't
ever going to happen anyway. Yeah, I mean, the
Jakey Lee thing, he said he was going to make
it back to L .A. and have a little sit -down
with him. And the more I got thinking about that,
he wasn't going to make it back to L .A. anyhow.
It was a pipe dream, unless Jakey Lee went over
there, and that very well could have happened.
You know, they had the studios and everything,
so it wasn't a big deal. It was fine. They're
saying the CEO of the Birmingham Airport has
received over 80 ,000 signatures wanting them
to change the name of the airport. He said, actually,
we're not going to change the name of the airport,
but we are going to have a Prince of Darkness
mural with Ozzie and others in it. That's nice,
but let me explain why that needs to happen.
How many people... Like me, if they ever get
a chance, we'll go check into Ozzy Osbourne International.
No kidding. Yeah, that is bragging rights. All
of a sudden, you're scrolling through Facebook.
What the fuck? Mark is there. Look, he's at Ozzy
Osbourne International. Even if they wanted to
name it John Osbourne. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah.
Or maybe Black Sabbath International. Yeah. Maybe
give them all props. Yeah. But the thing is,
is they're missing out on excellent opportunity,
and people like me just go in there for that.
Yeah, really. Then you go to the bench, and you
go to their bridge. Hopefully they have a museum
up, I think. So you do all this stuff while you're
there. Mm -hmm. Eat some blood sausage and never
get near it again. You know? Yeah, that venue
where Black Sabbath played their first gigs,
they've got, posters in the windows but i don't
think the venue's open at all and i don't think
it is either yeah there's a guy that does reaction
videos he goes by the name molly boy tv yeah
and he went and did a tour of birmingham because
he lives really close to there and uh he walked
he was outside the venue and he said i would
love to see this place open back up and bands
coming in here and playing but i think molly
boy listens for real yeah i keep getting the
suggestions On my feed of him. Yeah. Yeah, so
he's looking at the page at least. He's got some
fun reaction videos. Yeah, I like him. He's very
unique. He's got 230 ,000 subscribers. When I
started watching him, he had about 20 ,000. So
he's just blown up in the meantime. Molly, call
him when we get a phone number. Yeah. Yeah. John
Declan is his name. John Declan? No, Declan Hughes.
Oh. That's it. It isn't DK? No. No, it's not
DeCaylin Zacarius. No, that's right. His name
is Declan Hughes, and my mom's maiden name was
Hughes, so he and I might be related. Oh, okay.
I think you are. Probably so. I'm going to go
ahead and call it. All right. Would you like
to hear a list of Clem Burke's top ten drumming
albums? Yes. Clem Burke was the drummer for Blondie.
Awesome drummer. Very good. Passed away recently.
But he gave a list of albums that he thought
had the absolute best drumming on it if you want
to listen to good drumming. First is The Beatles,
an album called With The Beatles from 1963. So
he's a big Ringo fan. The Dave Clark Five, greatest
hits. There's a few greatest hits on here. That
was 1966. The Who, The Who Sings My Generation,
1965. Interesting song. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Now,
he's talking about the whole album. Oh, yeah,
that's right. Okay, My Generation album. Booker
T and the MG, Greatest Hits, 1970. The Dave Brubeck
Quartet, their album Take Five, which came out
in 1961. It's called Take Five because just about
everything is in 5 -4 time signature. So it's
really odd and different, but they make it sound
easy and simple. That's pretty cool, really.
I love the name of it because of that, too. I
mean, it makes sense. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme,
1965. John Coltrane, yeah. David Bowie, The Rise
of Siggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,
1972. I don't think I've heard that whole album,
but David Bowie did have good drummers. I remember
that. Yeah, I don't know enough about it to say
anything, but I trust it. I mean, you know, David
Bowie always traditionally had a good band, so
I could see that. Next up is a band called Television
and their album Marquee Moon in 1977. You have
no idea. The band Television, I'm trying to remember
the guy's name, who was kind of the, Tom Volta,
I think. Something like that. Sounds about right.
But that album, Marquee Moon, has been cited
by so many people. It's just super influential.
It's like hardly anybody bought it to listen
to it, but everybody who did buy it went out
and started a band. It really inspired a ton
of people. Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in
1977. Okay. I don't get that one. I don't either.
That's all a bunch of disco, and disco's not
notorious for great drum beats or whatever. Yeah,
there we go. And then for his last, he said Anything
by either Hal Blaine or Earl Palmer. Anything.
Okay. I get both of those. Yeah, Hal Blaine was
pretty amazing. Yeah. And Palmer, I can't deny
him. He's great, too. Best hard rock and metal
albums of 2025? Okay. First one is Heat, H -E
-A -T, Welcome to the Future. Critics say it
pretty much sounds like you're teleported back
to 1987 in the glory of hair metal. Really? Yeah.
It's called Heat? Heat, H -E -H dot E dot A dot
T dot. Like an abbreviation? Yeah. Okay. And
this album is Welcome to the Future. I'll have
to check that out just for fun. Yeah. Next up,
Castle Rat and their album The Bestiary. They
say, imagine Black Sabbath but with pop energy.
I would check that out. Which Sabbath, though?
Probably the original? I would guess the original,
yeah. Next up, The Wild Hearts and their album
Satanic Rites of the Wild Hearts. They say it's
like a cross between glam pop and heavy metal
with absolute shredding vocal screams. Is glam
starting to work its way back in, I'm wondering?
I think so, because a number of these talk about
glam. Huh, okay. Next up, Dream Theater and the
album Parasomnia. They're still making albums.
Yeah, yeah. I agree on this one. I saw the video
for their first single off it called Night Terrors.
It's pretty amazing. It's really, really something.
Well, they've always... The music's so complex.
It's either boring or phenomenal. Mike Portnoy's
back in the band. Yes, that's a big thing. Their
singer, James Labrie, has gotten his voice back.
He lost his voice completely. I remember. He
had food poisoning. And it caused him to vomit
so repeatedly and so violently that it completely
destroyed his voice. And he had to learn to sing
all over again. Yeah, that was such a... Well,
I'm glad he's got his voice back. And Mike Portnoy
back in the band makes the band what it is. But
they say there are eight tracks on the album,
each averaging about nine minutes. And pretty
much all the songs... They're the same. They
say all the songs are about sleep disturbances.
About the same. Yeah. Okay. Dream Theater. Dirty
Honey. Oh, yeah, yeah. I love Dirty Honey. They
have a double live album out called Mayhem and
Revelry Live. They're at the wrong time. Yeah.
That's the problem. But, man, they fit the bill
of so much in the 80s. They're so good. That
is a glam thing, too. Dirty Honey is glam. Definitely.
I mean, not over flamboyant, but they like to
look good and they like to dress up. They like
a stage show. They have good songs, too. And
I liked Greta Van Fleet. They're boring now.
Until Dirty Honey came out, and it was like,
oh, yeah, Dirty Honey does it better. Yeah. Kronofayette
Fleet was trying to be a pop zeppelin, if you
will, and it was good at first, but then the
more I heard it, the more I thought, nah, I don't
care. It was kind of that way when the Black
Crows were popular for a good chunk of time.
Yeah, they were like the Stones -ish, and they
even toured with the Stones. But the funny thing
is, while everyone was listening to the Black
Crows, I switched over to Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies.
Yeah. Which were an Atlanta -based band. Yes.
And to me, they were what the Black Crows should
have been. The Black Crows are opening up for
Guns. Guns N' Roses. Oh, wow. And also Ice Cube.
Oh, awesome. They're doing it again. He had some
lockers. No, I know. They're doing it again.
They did Ice T. body count. I went to that show
and I thought it was going to end in disaster,
but it didn't. Everybody got along. Everybody
loved it. Next on the list, Styx. They have a
new album out called Circling From Above. Actually,
I've never heard it, but I did hear about the
new album. It's all Tommy Shaw pretty much. They
say it's melodic prog rock. Which is weird because
one of the reasons that Dennis DeYoung isn't
in the band anymore... is they got tired of this
show tune opera stuff and they wanted to be more
rocker. But now they do an album that's like
that. I mean, it's like, is it because they can't
do what they used to do and they had to go in
another direction? This kind of says, they say
the album sounds very polished with all the best
from their 70s AM radio heyday. Okay, all right.
So this is saying it's like sticks at their best
in the 1970s. I've got to listen to that. Yeah.
That sounds pretty good. To me, Styx was a very
underrated band. They were like a queen. Yeah.
Not quite as talented, but somewhere in the middle
there. Yeah. They were so good. Yeah. They had
a good, crunchy sound when they wanted it, but
they could also sound very lush and full and
gorgeous if they wanted to. Yeah. Tommy Shaw
had the same relationship with Dennis DeYoung
that was with Brian May and Freddie Mercury.
You know, where they always clashed. But when
they came in the middle, it was fucking beautiful
music. So when they met in the middle, it was
excellent. So, anyhow. Ghost has a new album
called Skeletal. Do they sound the same or did
they change their sound? They said this is a
blend of hard rock, glam metal, and pop. They're
the same. Which is kind of the same. But it's
their first number one album ever. Really? Yeah.
Wow, they've been very popular too. I've seen
them open for Iron Maiden and they're very good.
They are like Danish. Death metal artists that
started this band. And they're all fucking huge.
They're tall. Tobias Forge is like the main guy.
Yes. He's the guy that's never changed. My understanding
is... Yeah, everybody else comes and goes. Yes.
Yeah. Mammoth. Eddie Van Halen. Or not Eddie
Van Halen. Wolfie. Wolfie. The album's called
The End. It's described as having soaring alt
-rock hooks, titanic grooves... and Eddie Van
Halen -style shredding on the title track. I
would agree. I would agree. I've heard some of
that, and I was like, oh, my God, where was this
before? I know he had the talent. I've watched
him play an incredible solo opening up for Creed.
I was just like going, where in the fuck has
this been? He is like his dad. I mean, I could
not believe it. The finger tapping, the precise,
the going up and down on the frets, the neck,
the working. You know Eddie showed them all his
tricks. Yeah. All of his secrets. But he had
that thing coming out of nowhere. Yeah. You know
what I'm talking about? Eddie Van Halen's coming
out of nowhere. It's like, what the hell was
that? And why is it in there? But it works. He's
doing the same thing. The impressive thing about
this new Mammoth album is Wolfie plays every
instrument. Yes. He is so good. So good. Well,
his uncle was Alex Van Halen. Yeah, yeah. And
Alex Van Halen, didn't he do some work on this?
He didn't say so. Or am I mistaken? I think he's
still retired. He's retired. He's not doing anything.
I don't think he's doing anything. Maybe that's
a dream. I think I just want that to happen.
All right. L .A. Guns has a new album called
Leopard Skin. Well, they were good for a while,
but then they started getting these trashy lead
singers that didn't fit the band. Yeah. But now
they have Phil Lewis back, don't they? I think
so, yeah. Okay. Well, he was their biggest sound,
their best sound. They're saying this album has
Rolling Stones. style swagger, some acoustic
songs, and all the shredding and sleazy hooks
that the fans want. I would love that. I didn't
know they had a new album I'll have to listen
to. I like that sleazy hooks. Well, they've always
been sleazy. I mean, you're talking about Tracy
Guns, who was Guns N' Roses' original guitarist.
Yeah. His own band, he just got tired of showing
up, so they just went on without him. Yeah, they
went on without him. Next up, The Dirty Nil,
NIL. I've heard of them. It's their Ontario power
trio. Their album is called The Lash. Nil is
also used in soccer as in zero. Yeah, it's kind
of the European term. They're an Ontario power
trio with high -octane rift -based anthems. The
Dirty Nil. The Dirty Nil. I'll have to check
that out. Next up, The Darkness. I remember them.
Their album is called Dreams on Toast. They were
actually out in the late 90s, early 2000s. And
they came out with this glam metal sound, but
did not look glam. It says this is their eighth
album. Okay. It says it's filled with catchy
arena rock and songs about party cowboys. That
sounds about right. That's what they did before.
Except for that fucking yodeling the guy does.
It's like, no, no, no. Testament has an album
out called Parabellum. They're Bay Area thrash.
They say they sound hungrier and more pissed
off than ever, which is good news for their fans.
Yep. And a lot of death metal and black metal
beats filling the album. And they sound like
they're just, like, out for blood, which is what
you want from Testament. The Melvins. They have
a new album out. They're still around? 28th album
called Thunderball. You know what you're getting
with the Melvins? Yep, they're pretty much noise
rock. That's how there's noise rock. But this
has the original lineup, and it's just packed
with heavy riffs. Oh, wow. The Melvins and the
Butthole Surfers used to do a lot of stuff together.
Yeah, they did. Next up, Alice Cooper with his
album The Revenge of Alice Cooper. This is the
first album with the original band since the
1973 -74 recordings. So they did do an album
together. Yep. Everybody but Glenn Buxton, who
died in 1997. This was even produced by the longtime
producer Bob Ezrin. Yeah. And it says it brings
a harder and rougher edge to Alice that's been
missing in a lot of his recent albums. You know,
he's been kind of power pop leaning, but this
apparently just brings him right back down into
the dirt. Okay, I'd love to hear that. I like
Ezrin, too. Ezrin is a spectacular producer.
He is. He is like one of the greats. Cheap Trick
has a new album out. Didn't know that. Didn't
know that. Called All Washed Up. Kind of a play
on all shook up. It's their 21st album. I believe
that. It's more hard rock and power pop, but
kind of refreshed and sounding a lot like their
1970s golden period. See, I love that because,
I mean, Like some of the songs like Gonna Raise
Hell and stuff like that, people don't even know
that's Cheap Trick. Yeah. It's not melodic. It's
heavy. It's punchy. Yeah. Robin Zander does not
sound like Robin Zander. No, not really. Yeah.
Yeah. Great. That was amazing. So that's the
hard rock and middle albums for 2025. That was
a decent list, and I can't wait to check some
of those out. All right. All right. Well. Do
you want to stay in music or do you want to go
into this health care thing I don't want to talk
about? I've got a couple short music things I
can finish off with. Brian May has had a stroke.
Wasn't that Brian May that had a stroke or not?
No, somebody else. I'm trying to think of who
it was. Ace Frehley had a stroke when he fell.
So Brian May. Had Master Luthier Andrew Guyton
build a left -handed replica of his famous Red
Special guitar and gifted it to Tony Iommi. Yeah,
yeah, I saw that. And then Tony Iommi, didn't
he put it up for auction for charity? I think
so. Yeah. This was built using all the same techniques
that Brian May used when he built his original.
And they used... all the older electronics they
could find to try to make it sound exactly like.
It had the treble booster built in, all sorts
of cool stuff. That would be awesome if he auctioned
it off. Yeah, I thought that was really cool,
but I do think Brian May was recovering from
a stroke. Hang on, it wasn't widely publicized,
but in an article that I read about that guitar,
in general than it being released for auction
yeah is brian may was supposedly still recovering
from a stroke and it wasn't widely publicized
but go ahead and i'm going to look this up here
right um did brian may have a stroke pink floyd
drummer nick mason yes has been talking about
the album wish you were here which is having
a 50th anniversary so he did have a stroke minor
stroke minor stroke yeah it wasn't worth it publicized
yeah okay yep Interesting. But he's on the mend.
That's good. Okay. So Nick Mason says recording
Wish You Were Here was really difficult. Pretty
much nobody had any good ideas, and they wasted
a lot of time recording sounds not made by musical
instruments, like tearing paper and throwing
things down the stairs and just all sorts of
weird stuff. Yep. They actually came up with
the idea for Wish You Were Here before they made
Dark Side of the Moon. Yeah, that's what I understood,
yeah. But they just couldn't figure out what
to do, so they set it aside and said, we need
another album, let's just go on to the next one.
And Dark Side of the Moon, they kind of hurried
through. It was a massive hit, massive, massive
hit for them. It was the only album that appeared
on every decade. Every decade it appeared in
the top 50, was it, or 40, or something like
that. Something like that, yeah. Every decade.
Enough people kept buying it to keep it on that
list. The only album that's ever done that. Yeah,
they tried to record it but couldn't get anything
done, so they did Dark Side of the Moon. Then
still kind of had no clue. They should have toured
the Dark Side of the Moon tour longer, but they
came off the tour to try to get this album going.
They pretty much scrapped everything they came
up with first. And they just started over from
scratch, kind of like Def Leppard did with the
first album they did after their drummer lost
his arm. They had a whole album's worth of stuff
recorded and trying to mix it, and they decided
this is all just crap. And they dumped everything
and just started all over. And I commend them,
too. Yeah, because Hysteria wound up being such
an amazing album. Yeah, sales and also just musically.
Yeah. Yeah. Several members of Pink Floyd have
said they always liked Wish You Were Here, thought
it was a better album than Dark Side, because
they took their time on Wish You Were Here and
made it sound exactly how they wanted it to sound.
Whereas Dark Side of the Moon, it was like, yeah,
let's hurry, let's get this done, go on a tour,
and then get back so we can work on this other
album again. Yeah. It's kind of ironic. It is,
isn't it? And it's just like, I mean, all the
great albums, it's so weird when you look at
it. Most of them were written in a day, if not...
Earlier than that. Yeah. I mean, like hours or
something. They've only had so much studio time,
and that turned out to be their masterpiece.
Yeah. So weird. Aerosmith have been booted from
Disney World, from Disneyland, let me say. They
said Disney World in Florida, but it's Disneyland
in Florida. Uh -huh. Aerosmith have been permanently
removed from the Rock and Roller Coaster attraction
at Disneyland in Florida. The veteran rockers
have been the stars of the ride's pre -show video,
the one they show you when you're waiting in
line, since its launch in 1999, but now will
be replaced with a Muppets -themed video in 2026.
The original video featured the band members
and the ride itself, with soundtrack by Aerosmith,
hits including Walk This Way, Dude Looks Like
a Lady, and Sweet Emotion. But now that's just
too tough. It's too rough. Dude looked like a
lady. It was written about Vince Neil when he
first met him. He thought he was a chick. Steven
Tyler was going to go hit on him. Hang on there,
Steven. Hang on. He did look pretty good. That
blonde hair, that skinny build, it was in. It
was in. He probably would have been big on Epstein's
Island, allegedly. Yeah, yeah. Bill Clinton might
have really liked him. Yeah, yeah. Probably so.
He liked him young. Yeah, he did, yeah. Jam Band
Fish. He made him tuck, though. Yeah. Yeah, he
didn't want that farm animal. No danglers. No
danglers. Jam Band Fish has returned to the Sphere
for a nine -date residency. They were last there
in 2024. I don't know. How would Phish really
go over in the sphere? They're taking anybody,
aren't they? They are. I think they're losing
just crack tons of money. Phish is just kind
of like a, what would you call it, like a novelty
type of band, really? They're kind of like the
Grateful Dead, except they really don't write
complete songs. They just jam. No, they just
jam. They just jam. Look, they do what they do,
but, I mean, the sphere? Yeah. I think that that's
just like maybe a cheaper concert some people
can get in. Yeah. You know, they're just kind
of like, hey, we only have to charge like $3
,000 a ticket on here instead of $7 ,000 for
the Stones. And people are like, oh, $3 ,000?
Fish? Okay, let's go watch it. I ran into one
of the percussionists for Fish at a drum store
once. I remember you telling me about that. Yeah.
He was in line ahead of me buying this tiny,
tiny, tiny little set of bongos that would fit
in the palm of your hand. And he was so fascinated
by this tiny little set of bongos. And he was
just standing in line. He was playing them with
a finger. And he bought it and kind of floated
out of the store. And Wes said, that's percussionist
for fish. They're in town. He's like, oh, I've
heard of fish. And it's with a P -H. So when
you go hook them up, it's fish. Puh -fish. Not
fish. Puh -fish. Puh -fish. Remember the Another
Prick in the Wall t -shirts? Yes. Apparently
those were only available for 48 hours. I know,
I know. I tried to get one. I wanted one. No,
I was going to order you one as a surprise. I'll
have to make some knockoffs. Yeah, yep. Barry
Manilow was recently diagnosed with lung cancer.
Lung cancer, yeah. Cancer spot in his left lung,
but his doctor said, good news, we're going to
do the surgery. You can skip chemo, skip the
radiation. It was caught very early. Yeah, they
were actually looking for something else. He
had, like, bronchitis for a long time. I think
they were looking for a penis in his mouth. Maybe
so. Yeah, in his stomach or something. Allegedly.
All right, Steve Morse says that a couple of
the guys in Deep Purple were pretty glad to see
him go. Yeah, this, go ahead, please. I should
have put this one down, but I forgot to. In their
words, they wanted to return to the roots and
stop with all the fancy crap. And Steve said
with a laugh, I'm full of fancy crap. Well, then
he had to take care of a family member, didn't
he? And then they just got him. Damn it, I forgot
his name. Simon Ride. Yeah, yeah. Who was great?
Irish guitar player Simon Ride replaced him.
He is a lot more blues -based. He sounds more
like a Richie Blackmore. The songwriting will
probably get better now. I mean, I love Purple,
but the songwriting they did post -Blackmore
and post the other, you know, the Steve Morse
era, the songs were up -tempo and moved up instead
of going steady, and then it didn't have the
same flow at all. It didn't have the same feeling,
the same... I don't know how else to describe
it, really. Yeah, yeah. Steve Morse played in
the Dixie, Dixie Dregs. In Kansas. And they were
all about, in Kansas, yeah. Dixie Dregs particularly
were all about precision. Yes. And everything
coming out exactly perfect. So you kind of lose
some of the feel that way. We saw Steve Morse
in concert, and he was excellent. St. Louis,
we saw Deep Purple, and that was Steve Morse.
And he was, he was excellent. He was really good.
The one that really got me was Don Airy. And
I pointed out to you, but I think you and me
are the only two people that knew it. Don Erri,
when he started his synthesizer solo, he started
out with Mr. Crowley. Yep. And he did that as
a little Iggy. You know, I mean, it's kind of
like a, everyone knows me from Ozzy. Let's see
who gets this. Yeah. And he's like, oh, those
two back there. Those two got it. Look at them.
They're like, ah! Somebody throw them a t -shirt.
Yeah. They need a t -shirt cannon for us. Hoffner
of Germany is filing for bankruptcy. They made
the famous violin -shaped guitars that Paul McCartney
played. Yeah. They just really can't sell anymore.
Epiphone makes a version of it, too, in addition
to Hoffner. And I've seen one other brand making
a version of it. I've tried them out. I've tried
playing them. They're short -scale basses, and
they've got a particular sound. And it just didn't
feel comfortable to me. That bass player friend
of mine... Ed Rodina, he's got a Hoffner bass,
and he just loves it. It's got a nice thump to
it. Okay. Sounds good when he plays it. It sounded
like crap when I played it. You sound like Nikki
Sixx? Yeah. Maybe not that bad. No, no. Okay.
And I'm not even a bass player. Neither is Nikki.
No, apparently not. Ian Gillan. Allegedly. Will
sing on Italian rocker U -Rock's album called
The Line. He's going to sing on the title track.
He says he turns down hundreds of... 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. Baltar S. 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? ...requests for
people who want him to come sing on their albums,
but he said he really likes the song and he really
likes the band. So it's U -Rock, the letter U
-R -O -C -K. Okay. And the album's called The
Line, and he's going to be singing the title
track only. Okay. He'll actually be singing it
with the other lead singer. Well, he's going
to need to. His voice at this point at 82 is
not, I mean... Yeah, I don't think he'd do a
whole album. No, no, no. And he can't do anything
fancy at all. It's pretty monotone at this point,
but I commend him for still doing it. Yeah. And
then the last thing I got, Sammy Hagar has said
that Joe Satriani was one notch better at guitar
than Eddie Van Halen. He puts him a little bit
ahead. I don't see that, but... He said mostly.
It's because Satriani was better at writing songs
quickly. He could write out a song in about 10,
15 minutes. Eddie would slave and agonize and
work on songs for weeks. And he said, that's
what kind of puts Joe Satriani ahead of Eddie
in my book. I disagree with that. Apparently
a lot of journalists are agreeing with Sammy.
Really? Yeah, which is kind of an unpopular opinion
to take, but they're like, yeah, as a whole person
guitar player, you have to be able to catch on
quickly and do things quickly and blah. So I
don't really get why that makes such a big difference.
No, Eddie Van Halen was a perfectionist, and
if it wasn't right, it wasn't right. Yeah. And
that's what made him so good. Santorini's fine,
but he's not even in the top five. Yeah, yeah.
Sammy worked with him for a long time, and he
really likes him, so I think that kind of colored
his views. I think it does, too, and he didn't
like Eddie, and also he's pissed off because
Alex didn't include him in his book, and there's
been a lot of bad blood, and that's the whole
thing. So he was also mad that he wasn't invited
to a memorial tour for Eddie, but David Lee Roth
fucked that up, it sounds like so. But I think
Sammy was maybe looking for a little attention
and didn't mind saying this. No, he didn't mind.
I mean, Eddie's dead, and he doesn't like Alex,
and he doesn't really care for Wolfie, so why
wouldn't he? I think overall impact, Eddie made
much more of an impact on the music industry
than Joe Satriani. To me, it's not even fucking
close. Not even close. And I think Satriani would
have been kind of a niche person. If Eddie hadn't
been there to kind of normalize the whole guitar
shredding thing. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I think
Eddie really ushered in that whole scene. All
these journalists that are jumping on would do
that for anybody that's still alive. Yeah. That
could hear him and see them saying that. That's
the way I feel about those music journalists.
Yeah. They're tip -huggers. Yeah. They jump on
the tip and hug. They hang on. Frank Zappa had
a lot to say about. rock and roll journalists
in what was the song Packard Goose is the name
of the song I remember him saying the line fuck
all those writers they're the worst kind of sleaze
selling punk rock like it's the newest disease
They can all kiss my ass, but because it's so
grand, they best just stay away. There was only
one Zappa. Yep. He was amazing. Yep. But the
thing about Zappas, you either got him or you
didn't. Yeah. We happened to get him because
we enjoyed his thoughts. You can't take him seriously.
I mean, you just don't take the guy seriously.
You drive yourself crazy if you do that. He was
so complex and so him. His own thing that you
either got it or you didn't. And that's what
you had. He didn't do anything else. He did him.
Yeah. So, I mean, he was true to the game. Very
much an uncompromising man. I would love to see
if he is still alive to see where he would have
taken this whole show to. Yeah, yeah. Makes you
wonder in today's market what he would have done.
All he had to do was get his prostate checked
and he would have lived. I know. Isn't that crazy?
Yeah. Yep. Dio, his cancer was very curable,
but he waited until it was all over his body.
Yeah. And when they opened his stomach up to
look at him, like, oh. Closing back up. Yeah,
we might give you a little chemo, but he died
like a week later. The guy who played Gunther
on Friends, the guy at the coffee shop, he let
his prostate cancer go until it was everywhere.
That's the blonde hair guy, right? Yeah. Yeah,
that, like, was a real dick to, who was he? Ross.
Because he was in love with Rachel. Yeah, that
was a storyline. After the show wrapped, he asked
the producers, can I actually take the name Central
Perk and open coffee shops? And they said, sure,
we'd love it, go ahead. And they just let him
have it. That's crazy. That's how he made his
living after the show was over by cooking. In
today's litigious society and money grabbing,
that was refreshing. Go ahead. And he did do
it. And I liked the guy personally. Yeah, he
seemed like a really fun guy, a really neat guy.
He was completely different than what he was
on camera, which is what you want. So he is an
actor. He originally started out, his character
had no name because they weren't expecting anyone
to ever call him by name. They eventually had
to come up with a name for him. Everybody loved
his condescending prick act. They're like, he
did it so well. It was just perfect. He was good.
Yeah. And Gunther was a perfect name for him.
It was. He looked like a Gunther. He looked like
a Gunther. Him and Gunther Cunningham, they were
spitting image of each other. Right down to the
shooting glasses. Yes. Google it. Gunther? Gunther
it. Didn't he say Gunther one time or something,
or was it a sports journalist? Gunther. Gunther.
Yeah, I think that's more of the German pronunciation.
I think that's why it was said, but I think it
was a sports journalist that said it, and everyone
was like, no. Yeah. No, it's Gunther now. Stop.
I remember a girl in high school whose last name
was Wagner, but she insisted everyone pronounce
it Wagner, the German pronunciation. She said,
no, my name is Wagner. I would have called her
Vagner, just be a dick. Hi, Vagner. Well, that's
how I pronounce it. That's the only way I know
how to pronounce it. I can't pronounce it any
other way. I'm sorry. It's Vagner. Yeah. Yep.
All right. Is that all of your stuff? All right.
I'm kind of tapping. I want to get your opinion
on this. Yeah. We talk about subscription -based
everything. All right. Hey, if you don't want
to hear anything serious, go ahead and click
it off right now. We got your minute. We don't
care. Yeah. We got an hour and 40 minutes of
you. Yeah, so there. All right. You're getting
your money's worth. Yeah. Yeah. So, all right.
We're talking about prescription everything,
and I was talking about prescription -based cancer.
Subscription. What did I say? Prescription? Prescription,
yeah. Oh, okay. Subscription -based everything,
including cancer. It's like, hey, you can keep
this going if you can find a way to pay for it.
We're going to keep doing this, and we'll keep
you alive as long as we can. We're not saying
about quality or nothing, but we'll keep you
on this earth for a while longer. So it's essentially,
I don't know where that just came from. There's
that hum. That's weird. Is that a heater up there
rattling maybe? I think it might be. Yeah. Is
that when they turn them off, it makes the hum?
I don't know. That's all sorts of fun. Maybe
the mothership is landing. That's it. It's a
mothership. Yeah. Trying to get us to quit talking
about subscription -based health care. That's
what it is. Oh, it's them. Yeah. It's them. Well,
insurance companies are so shitty anymore, this
does make sense. My general doctor, she's a very
good doctor, and I'm really considering doing
this because of how good of a doctor she is.
Okay. Right now, she sees about 3 ,000 patients
a year. Yeah. That's a lot. When she goes to
this new practice, it's going to be 500 people
maximum, and then it cuts off. No more people.
Okay? You're going to have a personalized phone
number for you, and instead of spending 15, 20
minutes with you, she can spend an hour with
you. Wow. She can go over. She has people on
her staff that have wellness, can speak to you
about all different kinds of advice you need
to do according to your tests. That's important
because I've heard that most doctors, within
three minutes, they've already decided what's
wrong with you and they don't listen to anything
else you say. Yes. What she's getting ready to
do is different if you can afford it. Yeah. So
here's the deal. All right. When they take blood,
they don't take it to Quest or something around
here. They send it to the Cleveland Clinic. That's
part of the cost. Yeah. The Cleveland Clinic
can pretty much diagnose about anything through
your blood. whether it's a speck of cancer the
size of a sand flea, if not smaller, they can
usually detect all of that. So the whole thing
is you can have fantastic health care, but here's
what it does. It's going to cost you $2 ,400
a year to be in the subscription -based health
care. Yeah, it's about $200 a month. Yes. Now,
that is worth it, but how many people can afford
it? And how our insurance is going to react to
this, that's something I want to know. Our insurance
is going to go, well, if you're paying for it,
we're wiping our hands. They could. And I can
see them doing that. They're that evil, in my
opinion. Either that or they'll co -opt it into
their, they'll start offering a subscription
service in addition to regular insurance. I can
see it going like that, too. But, well, you can
have our premium. They already do that. They
have different tiers, you know, like my old company,
those idiots. I'm pretty sure they're... Their
health care was different than ours because ours
was completely fucking horrible. Yeah. Yeah,
they pretty much wiped their ass with our policy.
And I'm pretty sure they treated their policy
like gold. Yeah. That's a weird noise. It is.
So, your thoughts? It's kind of disturbing. I
mean, in a way, with a regular health insurance,
you're paying a monthly premium anyway, but then
you've got co -pays and deductibles and all this.
With a straight subscription base, that's all
you pay ever, but you're pretty much guaranteed
to pay that rest of your life. Yeah. With regular
insurance companies, I guess you can switch around,
try this, try that, different rates, different
coverage, et cetera. Well, I mean, you can't
really dump your insurance because what if you've
got to go to the hospital? What if you need an
ambulance? What if you need help? Well, that's
true. This would have to be a supplemental plan.
It is a supplemental. Yeah, it doesn't take over
your insurance. That's why I'm saying it's subscription
-based, extra health care. That might work out
pretty well for people on Medicare. Yeah, because
they may pay for it. Yeah, because Medicare is
pretty much an 80 -20. They pay 80%, you pay
20%. So if you pay $200 a month into this other
plan and they pick up the other 20%, that's probably
good for you in the long run. Yeah. So it looks
like it'll have some places where it's usable
and useful. It's just kind of creepy to have
so much turning into the never -ending monthly
payment. Believe it or not, 50, 60 years ago,
people would go for whole decades at a time without
any kind of monthly payment. Yeah. Because you
had to basically borrow money to have to make
a monthly payment. That's back when you could
actually save money. Yeah. Now it's so much is
if you want it, you pay for it every month. And
then you stop paying, it all goes away. Subscription.
Yeah. I mean. Cell phone, TV, dating apps, any
kind of service. NFL. Extended warranties on
your car are starting to be that. I remember
a lot of extended car warranty stuff, and it
was always big one -time payment. Yeah, yeah.
Like $1 ,000, you're covered until 120 ,000 miles.
But now it's like, well, with your payments,
it's only going to raise your payment by $30
a month. Yeah. That's how they do it now. Yeah,
yeah. And there's so many things that if you
want to make a one -time payment, you can't.
You say, nope, nope, nope. No, no, they want
you on the hook. Monthly fee and never -ending
monthly. Next time I get a cell phone, I'm going
to ask, is there a one -time fee I can pay to
just have cell phone service the rest of my life?
And they'll probably just scratch their heads
and think I'm a weirdo. I would love to hear
their answer. Yeah. It's like, hey, if I gave
you like $10 ,000 right now and I never had to
pay another penny, for cell phone service, would
that be all right? And I'm sure they'd say no.
And I'll tell you why they're going to say no,
too. Here's how they're going to disguise it
as. Well, in today's environment and marketplace,
we say, you know, so many companies sell. We
would hate for you to pay that, and then we sell
it to another company, and they don't honor it.
So we can't do that out of your interest. And
that is actually true, but the... The hook is
the business community has created that situation
just to make sure that you don't want to do the
one -time payments. Yes. Because they can fix
that very easily. They're choosing not to because
everything is designed to drive you towards the
never -ending rent payment. Just like subscription
-based health care. That's the same thing. It's
like, keep me on the hook. I'm not saying it's
a bad thing at all. I'm just saying this is a
weird introduction. Yeah. But this is also...
It's probably a necessity for a lot of people
because health insurances are so horrible. But
the problem is, is again, like I was telling
my cousins when they were down here and their
daughter was thinking about going to Mid -American
Nazarene, right? And had a scholarship and all
this. They live in Canada. And so my cousin wants
them to have a good Christian education here
in America, which I agree with. I think that's
a great idea. So Mid -America was one of the
ones that were... vying for his daughter to play
soccer and also academics. She's getting scholarships
on both. So... Where was I going with this whole
fucking thing now? I don't know. I just lost
it. I've been doing that. Subscription payments.
Mid -America Nazarene. Yeah, dammit, I can't
remember. Shit. I don't know. I've been doing
this lately. It's really concerning. With me,
I think it's because I'm not getting as much
sleep as I used to or I need to do. I don't know
what my deal is, but it's concerning me because
I'm doing this all the time now and I fucking
hate it. I'll have something in mind to say and
I'm just like, and I'll lose it. It's probably
those alien abductions where they take you every
night and then they poke and prod you and extract
your memories. Bastards. I knew they were doing
it. Oh God, they stole my kidney. Oh, health
care. I remember now. Okay. Okay. So I told my
cousin, he goes, oh, my God, we took her to St.
Luke's South, great part of town, right? A fluid,
very nice new hospital. And took her there. They
got her right in in like a couple of minutes.
Got her in a room. Diagnosed the problem within
an hour. And the next morning, they kept her
next morning, she had her operation. He goes,
I can't believe how good your health care is.
And I said, that's hair. Yeah. You go to another
side of town and you're waiting for hours and
you're not getting this. You're probably being
sent home and told, well, figure out a way to
pay it. So I said that's the way health care
in America is. This is an extension of that.
If you can afford it, you can have much better
health care. But the problem is if you can afford
that $200 a month. And I think there's also a
benefit to the health care company that's collecting
the $200 a month. Because most businesses aren't
in one business. They're in multiple businesses.
And any company that has a subscriber list, they
can say, all right, look, we've got 15 ,000 people
signed up, and every one of them is sending us
$80 a month with no end in sight. So this is
what we can borrow against because we know we're
getting 15 ,000 times $80 every month from now
until whenever. So that is a piece of collateral
they can use to buy other things. That's a good
point. So giving us health care really isn't
what they're into. It's getting us to subscribe
so they can have that as something to borrow
against. And giving us the health care is just
kind of like, oh, well, yeah, I guess we've got
to do that too. But that was never the goal.
The goal was to get a bunch of subscribers that
you can borrow against. And whether you're subscribing
to health care or a porn site or an ice cream
delivery service, whatever it is, they just want...
Big block of subscribers that go to a bank and
say, look, that's guaranteed income. Most people
would subscribe to the porting site before they
would the medical. True, true, true, true, true.
It's a love -hate thing I got with it. I mean,
I really don't know which way I'm going to go
with this. Look at Amazon .com. They're not in
business to sell products. That's just a tool
they use. They're in business to gather data
and exploit that. That's pretty much. They do
it very well. Yeah. That's pretty much what they've
been ever since they branched out from books.
Yeah, they started out as an online bookseller.
Just an online bookseller. That was it. They
were competing with Barnes & Noble and a couple
of the other ones. But they quickly realized
that the data they can gather from the customers
is worth more than anything else. So selling
the products became just a way to get your data.
And also the renewals of the prime. They keep
raising the price, but they don't tell you. And
then it just goes off of your card. See, there's
your big block of subscribers that they can borrow
against. Yep, right there. They're in the business
of collecting data, taking out huge loans, selling
that data, mining the data. getting conclusions
from that data, and in the meantime, they sell
us crap that they get from China, half of it's
knockoff, half of it's counterfeit. Yeah, but
they don't care. No, because they don't care
about selling items. It's a business partner.
They want to get the data. Amazon business partner.
So the companies just really aren't doing what
we think they're doing. We see what they're doing
to us and for us, but their actual goal is something
vastly different. Yeah. Yep. Alright, it is getting
pretty late, so do you want to shut this thing
down? Yeah, I think the werewolves are coming
out, so... Well, I mean, ever since Miss Golfenstein,
you know, the war hero, isn't here anymore, the
werewolves, they come out. But when she was here,
she would fight them off. Yeah. So they quit
coming. Yeah. She would bite them so hard. that
it would leave a chunk out of them and they'd
run. Remember that one that she knocked down
and she farted right in his face? Oh, my gosh,
yeah. He turned back into a human and threw up.
Yes. And if you're dead, Ms. Goldfinchstein,
we apologize. We don't know for sure. Yeah. We
honor your memory. Yes, we do. Thank you for
your service. And don't change Rob back. I love
him as a capuchin monkey. Yeah. He is so adorable.
Does he still have to wear the little diaper?
Yes, yeah. I mean, we were holding him the other
day. Yeah, he started trying to suckle on my
tit. Oh. Oh, I know. He's so cute. Yeah. Yeah.
He's going to hear this guy. You motherfuckers.
No kidding. You fucking dicks. I can't trust
you with anything. No. All right. Hey, everybody,
thank you for listening. Our numbers reflect
it. We're doing so well. Really appreciate it.
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And anyhow, go fuck yourself.