Hello, this is Phineas J. Altaris III. I'm here
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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? All right, here we go.
Kept it going a little longer that time. So let's
get the table of contents. Okay. All right. I
got a couple of stories about television and
TV shows. I got a story about the piano outro
on Layla. Cool. Controversy there. People I know
I try to avoid. Uh -huh. And... Then I've got
a story about a guitar factory in Indonesia with
a sub -factory in China that makes an enormous
variety of brands of guitars. So whatever name
it says on the guitar, it's probably coming out
of this factory if it's an import. It's surprising
how many guitars are made there. So I'm kind
of interested in that story. Okay. I have a unique
story about ZZ Top. And then I have a bunch of...
rock bands that are touring this year that you
may not know about. Nice, nice. Just to interject,
I think Alice Cooper has announced the final
tour. Yes, he has. And that Gyasi Juice guy that
he announced as his lead guitarist, it's when
he's out with his original band, they use him.
Oh, really? I didn't know that. So he's got his
regular touring band with Nita and Tommy Hendrickson
and Chuck Garrett and... Ryan Roxy, Glenn Sobel,
who else? That's about it. But then when he tours
with his original lineup from, you know, 67 through
74, that's when he gets Yossi Juice to come play
lead guitar. Okay, now it makes sense. Yeah,
yeah. He was very unclear when he announced all.
He's like, hey, here's my new lead guitarist.
I thought, does that mean Nita Strauss is out?
But different band. No, it's different band.
It is funny how he does that, isn't it? Yeah.
And also, I think some of it is Nita is touring
herself and doing some other projects. I mean,
all of them virtually are doing other things,
too. I'm sorry, I interrupted your table of contents.
Oh, okay. That's pretty much it. But, I mean,
there's some stories that I have earmarked on
my phone that I'm going to go look at that I
want to talk about. So, there it will be, I guess.
So, you're familiar with the long piano outro
to Layla by Derek and the Dominoes, which is
actually Eric Clapton. Yeah. It's different from
the whole rest of the song, which I always thought
was kind of odd. It's like, hey, these two don't
really seem to go together. Well, it turns out
that whole piano outro was a different song.
And it was written by Rita Coolidge and her then
-boyfriend, drummer Jim Gordon. And the song
was called Time with something in parentheses
like, you know, can't let it get away from me
or something like that. And she played it for
Eric Clapton. And he listened and thought, yeah,
that's a good song. I really like it. Yeah, cool.
And then he stole it and put it on the end of
Layla and did not give her songwriting credits.
That's about what I've been hearing about Clapton
for a long time now. Yeah. So Rita Coolidge in
a 2016 autobiography said that she went to Clapton's
manager because the song came out and she heard
that piano outro and the first thing she thought
was, huh, I didn't give him permission to use
my song. Let's go see if I got writing credits.
And she didn't. So she went to Clapton's manager.
and said, that's my song, I came up with it,
and I want some credit on it. And she quoted
Clapton's manager as saying, fuck off, you're
just a girl, what are you going to do about it?
Wow. What a pompous prick. Yeah, now that was
Clapton's manager. So, she went to Eric Clapton,
and he blew her off. He said, no, no, this is
the way it is, and no, it's not changing, and
you don't get credit. And he's had opportunities
all this time, for decades, to give Rita Coolidge
and Jim Gordon the credit they deserve for that
end of Layla, and they won't do it. Yeah. Man,
that's messed up. Isn't it? Yeah. So now when
I listen to Layla and I hear that ending part
came on, I say, thank you, Rita. Thank you, Jim.
I shut it off. No, actually, I didn't know that.
It's like, oh, mail her a dollar or something.
Yeah, yeah, I didn't know that until now. What
a, man, what a dick. Yeah. Wow. All right, I
got a, is that it of that story? Yeah, that was
it. I've got an interesting one here. ZZ Top,
you may know it because you know a lot of interesting
trivia and stuff like that. I never knew this.
It caught me by surprise. The members of ZZ Top
were offered an insane amount of money to shave
their beards in the 80s. Wow. And they turned
it down. Well, yeah, I guess so. Oh, wow, I wonder
how much it was. I'm going to get to that. Billy
Gibbons was asked about the rumor during a recent
episode of Jay Moore's More Stories podcast,
and The Rocker confirmed that it's true. According
to Gibbons, the band was offered $1 million per
member. This is in the 80s. Yeah, that's... One
million per member. Being a millionaire meant
a whole lot more back then. That's like 10 million
now. They're offered a lot of money to do this.
And to shave your beards on television by the
mega razor brand Gillette. So Gillette was, what
a great idea by Gillette. It's like, hey, we'll
pay you all a million dollars to shave you on
live TV with our razors. Billy Gibbons said they
deny it to this day, but it's true. It was a
million dollars per man. What he means by denying
it is they didn't admit to a million dollars.
They said, yeah, we're offering him some money.
We don't know if it's a million. So they admit
to offering him money. They didn't admit to offering
him a million each. And why that is, I don't
know. By receiving the offer, Gibbons called
legendary rock publicist Bob Merrills He said,
the money's good, you might as well consider
it, but I'm not so sure of you guys know what's
under there, is what he said. He's giving them
shit, you know? Oh, yeah. The rocker recalled,
Merlis told them, thus they turned it off for
damn, but noticed that fans were really happy
about the decision. Fans did not want them to
shave it off. Yeah, that kind of would have signaled
the end of their career as they knew it. Because
they would have to reinvent their image all over
again. Yes, I agree. And they would have irritated
a lot of fans that liked the long beard look.
Yeah. If they were on their way out and broke
and nobody was paying attention, that would have
made a lot of sense to take that offer. Yeah,
but right there, they were balling hard. Eliminator
was like a huge seller. Yeah. Well, see, Gillette
did it when it made the offer when it would have
worked out best for Gillette. Mm -hmm. It would
have worked out horribly for ZZ Top. Their gimmick.
I mean, they weren't a glam band in the 80s,
but they hit big on the pop scene, and a lot
of it was because of all their facial hair. People
were going, who are these guys? They were different.
They weren't pretty boys. Yeah. Yeah. That heavy,
heavy blues -based rock. That blues, Billy Gibbons,
blues stuff. He was really high gain. I mean,
you don't think of ZZ Top as being high gain,
but boy, they sure were. I forget what rig he
used. He's got his own line of pickups now. He
does. Is it PB? Yeah, Pearl Gates, made by Seymour
Duncan. Oh, Pearl Gates. Pearl Gates, okay. Yeah.
All right. Yeah, yeah, that's okay. Yeah. And
then a lot of Eliminator, I think, was recorded
on a guitar that looks a lot like your Jackson
Flying B. That's right. With a high gain pickup.
Yeah, yep, with a high gain pickup. He said it's
uncomfortable to play and hold, but... That's
the sound the engineer wants. It's like that
and nothing else sounds like that. You got to
use it. Yeah, I agree. It did very well, that's
for sure. So, I agree with him. Go ahead, you
got something. I've been watching a fair amount
of TV lately. You know, this is music creeps
branching out into pop culture. And it struck
me the other day, I was watching the Andy Griffith
show, which was like... Starring Andy Griffith,
where did I? Yeah, yeah. That was so weird. That's
amazing they found a guy with you. By the exact
same name. But it was on from like 61 through
68, something like that. It ran a long time.
Yeah. There were shows prior to that like...
I'll say the Dick Van Dyke Show was another popular
sitcom in the late 50s, early 60s. Another one.
Same name as the show. Yeah, it was amazing.
How did they do this? Yeah, and the Steve Allen
Show. Oh, shit, same thing. Yeah, this is like
an amazing coincidence. Yeah. But they portrayed
a squeaky clean version of Christian white America
with high morals and totally patriotic. Yeah.
one of the things that stood out the most was
everybody had twin beds in the bedroom. Even
if they'd been married for 40 years, they still
had twin beds in the bedroom. I love Lucy. Most
of those episodes were twin beds. Yeah, Dick
Van Dyke, twin beds. And they were married in
real life. Yeah, yeah. So a lot of people currently
think that that's the way the 50s and 60s were.
And they longed for the good old days when, you
know, morals were high and everybody was, you
know, behaving themselves. Uh -uh. It was still
just as wild and chaotic back then as it is now.
Yes, you just didn't hear about it. Yes. I mean,
the 50s were a time of a lot of drug experimentation.
They didn't have the synthetics that we do now.
No, but, I mean, they still had the normal stuff.
The acids, the mushrooms, all that. People tend
to think it was like, you know, all of a sudden
in 1967, hippies materialized out of nowhere.
I know. And we had flower power. No, no, this
is a long time coming, and people were just as
raunchy and perverse and had just as many fetishes
back then. It's just you never saw it represented,
so you tend to think of that whole era as being
squeaky clean. Oh, no, no, the whole of Hollywood
was one big fucking orgy. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, back in the 30s, there was an actor named
Fatty Arbuckle. Oh, yeah, yeah. Who allegedly
had such rough sex with a young starlet that
he ruptured her internal organs and she died.
Yes. Allegedly. I don't know if that's true or
not, but that's what I read, too. And he was
30 anyhow. Yeah, I mean, there's porn from the
30s and 40s. As soon as the camera was invented,
somebody used it to make porn. Absolutely promise
you it happened within 10 minutes. I love your
point about how man horns up everything. Everything.
And then there's different branches of it. Like,
you ever watch Diners, Dive -Ins, and Dives?
Uh -huh. That's food porn. Yeah. And I'm not
joking. No. It is. And every Yellowstone and
spinoff from Yellowstone is drama porn. You know,
it's for people addicted to drama and they want
to wallow in it. And it's like, yeah, you know,
that's fine. I'm not putting it down that you
don't think of it. as anything other than what
it is. No, I'm not a guy that doesn't want anything
ended that I don't necessarily agree with or
whatever. It's like, no, they're fine doing it.
I don't care. It doesn't bother me or anybody
else that I know of. Yeah. You know, unless you're
using minors or sex trafficking or something,
that's different. But just, you know, this stuff,
want partaking of it, that's fine. I don't care.
Whatever. Yeah. And I also noticed MTV and their...
affiliate channels and everything they show RuPaul's
Drag Race as one of their shows so they advertise
it on every one of their channels all day and
there was a show the other day my wife and I
were watching and every single commercial break
started with the exact same commercial for RuPaul's
Drag Race And after a couple, three times, I
turned to my wife and said, wow, they're really
promoting the heck out of that. She said, yeah,
it must not have good ratings if they're really
pushing it this hard. They have been. Yeah. I
got one for you here real quick. I had one more
little bit on that. Okay, sorry. But I watched
the promo, and the drag queens, it's also interesting
that they constantly refer to them as queens
to try to buff up their image and ego, which
is pretty obvious. But they don't dress as women.
They dress as bizarre creatures. They don't even
look human anymore. And I thought, has it always
been this way? So I found, they're on like season
15 or 16. I went back and found some episodes
from season 4, and they looked like women. Back
then, they looked like very stylish, attractive
women. And somewhere along the way, they became
just these bizarre creatures with... All sorts
of weird stuff sticking out from their costume,
faces painted like it's the Kabuki theater. I
mean, they make Kiss's facial makeup look tame
and amateur. Wow. And it's like, how did they
evolve into that? You know, there's obviously
a market that wants that. And everyone else just
bailed. But it's just really weird. Did they
always want to be that, or are they just chasing
whatever the audience says they want? I think
they're chasing what the audience wants. That
was kind of my impression, too. Yeah. Okay, well,
interesting. Funny how things change. Oh, it
is. Here's something I noticed. I forgot to.
I actually brought a write -up about it, but
I'm just going to try to do it by memory now.
At work, one of the guys that I work with, He
has this AI DJ. Oh, wow. Yeah, and it's okay.
I mean, he's somewhat entertaining, not really
entertaining. Listen to it for five days straight.
He would never mention an artist unless it was
Kendrick Lamar. Wow. They must be getting paid
to mention Kendrick Lamar. Oh, yeah. Because
nothing, I mean... Let's say Biggie comes on.
Okay, cool. Yep, he's dead. So they talk about
him, but not by name. No, they don't say him
by name. They'll say like, you know what, I'm
not really good about the R &B stuff. But he'll
say the name of the song, but won't say the artist.
And this is an AI -generated DJ. Yeah, and he'll
say things like, you know, his album, this, or,
you know. Yes. It's always the pronouns, his
or their. The one that got me was, like, Biggie
Smalls, and it was one of his biggest hits, if
you don't know, you know, how you know that.
I can't think of the name of it, but... I didn't
pay much attention to it. Everybody knows Mickey
Smalls. Even people like me that aren't that
really affluent in R &B knows. I mean, I loved
R &B in the 60s and 70s, but then it changed
into what it is now. I'm not that big of a fan.
No, but back in the day, it was some of the best
music ever recorded. Oh, yeah. So, and I'm like
going, wow, that's so interesting. I didn't mention
him. And then they went on to other stuff, you
know, people that are extreme, you know, that
were... well known like biggie you know yeah
uh and they wouldn't mention their name either
but i noticed any day i heard the name kendrick
lamar probably seven times when they went to
one of his songs wow but he is the only artist
that they named by name only no one else it was
just like uh that was uh so and so and they just
named the song yeah that's it so there must be
a pay level in there yeah yeah we'll play you
on our whatever his service i don't even know
what his service was We'll play you on the service,
but we're not going to say your name unless you
give us some money. Yeah, it's kind of like what
search engines do. It used to be you could pay
to get your name put in the top of the list.
Now you have to pay to get your search results
even shown at all. A good way to test that is
have two windows open and call up a different
search engine from Google. and type in the exact
same thing on each search engine and scroll past
the sponsored results and see things in the other
search engine that Google will never show you
because they're not paid. Well, I'll put it like
this, okay? Let's say you're looking up cruises,
okay? The other day I was looking up cruises
and I was like, you know, there's this one that
Norwegian does from Puerto Rico that we're just
in love with. Yeah. So I Googled NCL. Yeah. That
should take you right to Norwegian. It took me
to this thing called Cruise Addicts or something
like that. And it would do that every time. I
got to scroll down four before I find NCO. And
I was just like, what the hell? I asked for NCO.
I didn't ask for anything else. It showed me
how I could book NCO, but not with NCO. And truth
be told, my oldest son, Louis, my oldest biological
son, That's what he does for a job now. He makes
your web page appear higher. Just through normal
searches and then of course the pay factor. I
bet he loves that. He's really good at it too.
You get all the group of all the people who are
paying to get their name show up and then you
still want to stand out above them. So that's
what he does. He does whatever it takes to the
website to make it I'll bet he's in high demand,
isn't he? Yeah, he was let go from a different
job where he's writing articles, and they cut
everyone back, and then they started paying less
for the articles, and then they finally just
laid him off. That's been going on forever. Yeah,
because AI is taking over writing all the articles.
So he's now doing this, and he's got a sideline
making top ten lists and things like that, which
AI isn't all that good at. So that's his niche
now, and he's making about as much as he did
before, and I think he was unemployed for about
10 days. Yep. Well, that's what happens when
you go to school for the right thing. Yeah, yeah.
And in the meantime, he picked up a job at JCPenney
for seasonal work around the holidays, and he's
impressing them so much that they want to keep
him on after the holidays. He's like, cool, because
he does his other job from home. So it's like,
well, this way I can get out and do a part -time
job out of the house and see people, which for
an autistic guy is pretty awesome. Yeah, that
is. Yeah. Very much so. Okay. All right. You
got something else? Yeah. I was looking up trivia
on a TV show I've been watching. I've been watching
past episodes of Scrubs. Because they're kind
of doing a reboot of that. That was a great show,
too. It was. It was on during Friends and Seinfeld.
So we never did get the love and dessert because
those two were the standouts at Frasier. That's
when NBC was balling hard. Everybody was watching
them. They eventually moved to ABC, I think,
in one season. They did, and then they went away.
They're doing a reboot. Who's doing a reboot?
I think Judy Reyes, who played Nurse Carla, and
John C. McGinley, who played Dr. Perry Cox. I
think they're both back on board. Okay, that's
good. That's a good start. And I think Zach Braff
and Donald Faison, who played J .D. and Turk,
I think they're on board, too. Okay. Which, you
kind of got to need them, because they were the
co -leads, the co -male leads. And the co -female
leads were Judy Reyes as Nurse Carla and Sarah
Chalk as Ellie Green. Yeah, good. Okay. It's
also interesting, as a side note, to see how
inappropriate sexual harassment humor was just...
super common in the script and nobody thought
a thing of it. I remember it was a real horny
-esque show. Yeah, yeah. They did all sorts of
things that nowadays you would not be able to
get away with. There was some episode with panties
in it. I can't remember what it was, but I remember
back then I was like, when they're doing this,
this is like really risque for a primetime 7
.30, 8 o 'clock show on a Wednesday night. One
thing that really struck me, pun intended, was,
for a while, Tara Reid was on the show as J .D.'s
girlfriend. And she liked it rough, and she kept
taunting him, and eventually they showed him
on camera just clocking her right on the jaw
with a closed fist. And she went flying backwards
on the bed, and he was like, oh, oh my god, was
that too hard? And she said, no, I loved it.
And then she reached up and twisted both of his
nipples almost completely off his chest. Oh!
And I thought, well, the nipple -twisting part
they would show nowadays, but they would never,
ever make a new show where a man is hitting a
woman, even if she's asking him to. Which she
was. She was prodding and pushing and taunting
him to hit her, which he finally did. Daddy issues,
yes. So that was like, wow, that was eye -opening.
That's amazing, wow, wow. But when I was looking
up the trivia of the episode... They said that
not every main star was in every single episode.
And I thought, well, that's weird. Like the final
season, J .D. was missing from three episodes.
Sarah Chalk was missing from three. And then
here and there throughout the series. I actually
remember some of that. That's when the show started
declining considerably. And, you know, that is
a direct reflection of budget cuts. Actors get
paid by the episode that they appear in, not
for the whole season. So, you know, say you're
paying this actor $150 ,000 per episode, and
you cut him from six episodes, then that's $900
,000. You don't have to pay him. So that's a
real easy way for a show whose budget is declining
to save money. It's just, eh, you sit this episode
out. You'll also see a lot more of what they
call the B -roll. Anything that doesn't have
the main actors in it is B -roll. Like the exterior
of the coffee shop or the interior of the office
hallway. Or you see a patient on the operating
table and you see two sets of hands and they're
operating, but you don't see the faces of the
stars. So they're not using the stars. Stuff
like that is super easy to film, super cheap
to film. You'll also tend to see a lot more flashbacks
happening, because that's free footage that they
already paid for. Now they can pad out the current
episode with the flashbacks. And something that
I noticed specifically with the show House, they
started out doing 24 episodes a season, and by
the end they were doing, I think, 18. So there
were six whole episodes they didn't have to...
pay to make, and they would run reruns in those
slots, which would generally make just about
as much money as the new episode. That was smart,
because people have it on there, and then they
show reruns. People usually say, oh, I'll watch
it again. Yep, yep. So when I start seeing a
show having fewer new episodes and more reruns,
you can bet it's either going to change network
or get canceled, one of the two. Because that's
one of the things they do as a lifeboat. Yeah.
And then the last thing was where they show only
one actor on the screen at a time. Like if somebody
were here filming this podcast, you're sitting
on that side of the table, I'm sitting on this
side. And we're having a conversation, and when
you speak, the camera would be showing you, and
only you. And then when I was speaking, it would
be showing me, and only me. When they do that
on TV shows... They only have one person there
at a time. They put the camera on them and they
say all their lines. And somebody off -screen
is saying the response lines, blah, blah, blah,
blah. It goes a lot faster. Because if someone
makes a mistake, all you have to do is just do
that again. Okay, do that again. But if you're
filming it live with both of them talking back
and forth, any mistake, you've got to start all
over at the top. So this way, you just splice
it together in post -production. It looks like
they were both sitting here at the table at the
same time talking to each other, but they never
were. and that also saves a crap ton of money
because you can do it faster and you can have
that other star somewhere else filming their
scenes so when I start seeing that it's like
oh this show is keeping out there's very few
ensemble shots and it's always just one person
plus the extras and then oh there's the other
star plus the extras say goodbye to that show
We're trying to save money. Wow. Okay. Are you
done with that? Yep. All right. I got some tours
that are coming up in 2026. Yay. And you're going
to be, I was surprised that so many people are
going on tour this year. Sting. Oh, wow. Sting
3 .0 tour runs May 6th through November 24th.
So all year. Yeah, that's a big chunk of the
year. That is. And, you know, good for him taking
the holidays off. Yeah, yeah. I wonder if Vinnie
Kaliuta, the drummer, is still in his backup
band. Because he's an amazing, amazing drummer.
I remember him, yeah. He played with Zappa and
a bunch of others. I think he got a start with
Zappa. And he was interviewed once saying, you
know, whose music would you be happy playing
the rest of your life? And he said, Stingwood.
Anytime he wants me, I'm always there. I love
his music, and I could happily play that for
the rest of my life. So if Vinnie Kaliuta hasn't
retired... then we're probably going to see him
in his backup. Yeah, I guess he could have retired.
I didn't even think about that. I don't know
what his health's like or anything. No. Okay.
Amazing, amazing drummer. Joe Jackson. Oh, I
love Joe Jackson. Hope and Fury Tour runs May
11th through July 18th, so it's not that long
of a tour. No, no. Wow, I hope he makes a video
because I doubt he's coming anywhere close enough
for me to go to. Same here, I know. That's why
I just wanted to say that name and see you. Yeah.
I couldn't wait. I was like, okay, all right.
I've got a Joe Jackson's Greatest Hits. I listen
to that so often. Everything on it is just excellent.
Really good. It's so good. Yeah, I would agree.
Well, he's probably not going anywhere near us.
Coincidentally, though, you know, I got tickets.
Right now Val's going, but she may change her
mind. he's coming to knuckleheads oh nice when
he was rained out not last August August before
in Sedalia I sent him a message because I'm on
his Instagram and he's answered some stuff before
and I told him I said hey I said they went on
to Denver though because the next show is in
Denver so they got paid for it because there's
insurance they just went on but I told him I
said hey You could probably book knuckleheads
tomorrow. They do this all the time. He didn't
answer. He's on the road, but here it is a year
and a half later, they're booked at knuckleheads.
Everybody plays knuckleheads. Man, I've seen
natural acts. I've seen local acts. I've seen
acts you've never heard of before. And the fun
thing for me is when I go down to do the open
jam, I get to play on the same stage they did.
Isn't that cool? That's just so awesome. Oh,
but what I was going to add is Val changes her
mind. If you want to go, I'll let you know. Oh,
yeah, definitely, definitely. You may want to
go anyhow. I mean, that guy's amazing. Davey
and I watched him with the Dead Daisies, and
I tried to watch him in Sedalia, but his, he,
that, the notes he can hit still, and his falsetto,
and everything else. It's the musician ship.
Oh my gosh, yeah, that one played perfect bass.
But me and Davey was looking at him, and he was
like the epitome of a rock star. Everything was
perfect, all the way down to his fingernails
being painted different colors. Yeah. To the
scarves he was wearing, like a Steven Tyler type
of thing. Wow. To the pants he was wearing. Hey,
my fellow heavy breathers, this is Dash Riptide
with your music news. Glenn Hughes, the legendary
bassist, lead singer of many, many great bands,
such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Black Country
Communion, California Breed, and so on and so
on. He had a U .S. tour planned for this April.
Glenn unfortunately had to cancel due to what
had been described as a minor medical issue.
I already had seats for legendary rocker Knuckleheads,
but like most times, I try to see him and it
gets canceled. Glenn, I love you, but no more.
Third time getting jerked is enough. We do wish
you a full and speedy recovery, and hopefully
a full and speedy recovery of my fucking money.
Again, sorry, not sorry. This is Gash Ruktine,
and that was your music news. If it's too loud,
you probably have ear damage, just like me. I
mean, it was just, you look at that guy, you
go, that guy has it fucking going. That is a
rock star right there. Besides him being so good.
Yeah. And he's like 74, 75, and he's still seen.
Yeah. Every bit as good as he ever could. Yeah,
he's the same age as Pete Carroll, and I think
his career is on the rise. I think so too. As
long as we're sort of talking about Deep Purple.
Yeah. I saw a reaction video the other day to
Deep Purple performing a live version of Child
in Time. Oh. That was Ian Gilliam, wasn't it?
Yes. Yeah. The guy doing the reaction video kept
stopping it, you know, when you do those real
high vocal parts. He's like, wait a minute, and
he'd back it up and listen again. He's like,
oh, my God. They kept changing the dynamics.
He was utterly blown away. That was like 1970,
wasn't it? Yes. He was just totally blown away
by it. Child in Time is such a fantastic song,
but it was like 12 minutes long. It would have
been so amazing to see that live. Oh, I know.
Oh, that would have been so good to see. And
they did play it live. Oh, yeah. It was a video
of a live performance. And it was funny, the
crowd just sitting there like they were frozen.
Because I think it was a television studio and
they just had a crowd come in and sit while they
played it. They're like, how is this guy doing
that? That's why he was chosen by Andrew Lloyd
Webber to do Jesus Christ Superstar. Yeah. The
rumor is... Andrew Lloyd Webber heard that voice,
and he goes, who is that? And they're like, well,
wait a minute, wait a minute. This isn't the
guy you want. He goes, no, that's the guy I want.
Yeah, I've got the soundtrack to Jesus Christ
Superstar, and you can hear him wailing all over
that. When I remember first time hearing it,
I was probably, well, I was in grade school,
so I was under 12. And I was just really stunned,
number one, that a guy could sing like that,
and that high, and that warbly, and number two,
that other people found that desirable and wanted
to hear it. It's like, wow. It's like people
are like me and think this is awesome. Yeah,
because usually they don't hear that. And it's
like, well, usually this gets made fun of, but
I think it's pretty cool. Well, that's one of
those songs, it doesn't matter what it is, the
talent is undeniable. Yeah, there are bands that
are amazingly talented, but I just really kind
of don't like their music. But I give them all
the respect for how amazing they are at their
instruments. It's just kind of not my thing,
and that's okay. And that was funny because Andrew
Lloyd Webber was, you know, he was a music score
guy and all that, you know. And people didn't
think that he would want this metal, if you say,
guy. And he was like, no, that's the guy I want.
He's got that range. Yeah. And it turns out he
did perfectly. And it was supposed to be a rock
and roll musical about the last days of Jesus
Christ. Yeah. So, yeah. All right. Heart. Wow.
February 15th through March 15th, so don't get
excited. Well, I had heard Ann Wilson's been
having some health issues, but she's feeling
pretty good now, so a short tour is probably
best for her. I think so, too. Again, I hope
all of these bands are making concert videos,
because I want to see them all. Yeah, I agree.
How about the Las Vegas residency at the Eagles
at the Las Vegas Sphere? January through March.
January 23rd through March 28th. Who cares? Fuck
them. I have nothing I want to say. I can't stand
them. Everything I hear about the Eagles is just
they're just bad people. And they screw their
fans over with enormous ticket prices and snotty
attitudes. I will never get over how much they're
charging and their attitude. Fuck them. No. Now,
this is one of those bands where they play really
well and they write really nice songs, but as
human beings, I don't want to be in the same
room with them. No, I agree. Same here. Joan
Jett at the House of Blues. Nice. February 13th
through the 21st. Is that in Chicago? I think
there is one in Chicago. I think it might be.
It doesn't say exactly which one, but it would
make sense. Yeah, it would make sense to be in
Chicago. Probably Chicago. Yeah. I wonder if
she's going to have the Blackhearts with her.
Doesn't say. Might just be a solo thing. It could
be, and especially being like a residency type
of a thing. She probably doesn't want to bring
a whole band. It's just like, yeah, I'll be there,
I'll do it. Yeah. Okay. A lot of times those
venues have their own house band anyhow. True,
true. How about John Fogarty? Oh, nice. At Planet
Hollywood, and I believe this is the one in Fort
Lauderdale. He's going to be playing January
22nd and March 21st. Wow. I would drive down
to Florida to see him, I think. I would, too.
Yeah. I mean, and he's going to do a lot of CCR.
I mean, his Centerfield album was good, but man,
not like CCR good. Yeah. You say it's Orlando?
Fort Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale. Oh, that's
a lot further south. That's a little north of
Miami. If it was Orlando, I could stay with my
sister. Or at least I could ask her. Florida
is just enormously long from north to south.
If you've ever ridden on a motorcycle while it's
raining, it lasts forever. Like, damn, this is
as wide as Texas. If you stayed there, you'd
be staying in the skyscraper that looks like
a guitar on the ocean. Nice. Have you ever seen
that? I have, yes. Yeah, isn't that cool? Whenever
you land at Fort Lauderdale International, the
flight path when you're landing, you can see
it really well. And don't ever think that's a
coincidence or just a happy accident. That's
bought and paid for. No, it's bought and paid
for. Absolutely bought and paid for. And I believe
it is temporary after a Les Paul. All right,
and then moving along here, Def Leppard at the
Coliseum. Def Leppard already did a residency
in Las Vegas, so now they're doing another residency
somewhere else? Yeah, at the Coliseum, I believe.
It's big. Yeah. The Los Angeles Coliseum? I think
it is. It's where the Rams used to play. Yeah,
I think it's LA. February 3rd through the 28th.
Yeah, so in LA, you have decent weather. Yeah,
yep. Man, that Vegas residency show was three
hours long. That's just nuts. Oh, I know. It's
hard to believe that they can do a three -hour
set. Yeah, I mean, they're about my age. Yeah.
Joe Elliott, how does he keep his voice? He must
have a hell of a vocal coach. I guess. He does
his work. How about Paul Simon, May 7th through
the 18th? Oh, wow. Unexpected. He only does like
four shows, but May 7th through the 18th, run
him around here. Yeah. How about Eric Clapton?
Pass. April, yeah. April 24th through May 17th.
I wouldn't go see him just because I don't like
him. No, he's kind of an unpleasant person, too.
Maybe he's not as racist as he used to be, but...
he at least needs to address it publicly with
an apology or a statement or something. Right
now, he's just hoping we all forget about his
racist rant back in the 70s. Actually, people
have forgotten about it because I remember mentioning
that. People go, what? He didn't do that. I'm
like, yeah, he did. Yeah, I bring up the video.
I bring up the news articles about it. It's like,
oh, my God, I didn't know. It's like, yeah, well,
PR is a powerful thing. It is, yep. How about...
Deep Purple. Oh, nice. April 10th through December
19th. I'd go just to see Ian Pace play. Yeah.
Of course, the rest of them are great, too. Man,
that guy is timeless. He is. He takes care of
himself. He does. He said the reason he can drum
so late in life is he keeps his drums low. He
doesn't have them high. He said it's got less
strain on you. And a lifetime of not having to
reach over your head for anything. Yeah. You
see these metal drummers and hairband drummers
who put everything up super high for show. Because
it looks cool. Yeah. I grew up with a guy who
had his drum set up like that. It's just like
Lemmy and his fucking microphone three foot above
him. But it was well known. People know the guy's
reaching for the mic. That's Lemmy. Jethro Tull.
Oh, interesting. The Curiosity Tour. And get
this. February 11th through November 23rd. Most
of the year, they are going to be touring. Wow.
I'm guessing it's going to be a much lower energy
show with a lot of acoustic parts. Yeah, probably.
I think his longtime guitarist is deceased, Michael
Desbarres. Yeah, not that long ago. Pamela DeBarnes'
brother. Pamela DeBarnes, you know? Yeah. Yeah,
okay. All right. Craft work. Oh, wow. April 27th
through July 17th. They were pretty influential
in the whole synth -pop movement. They were very
much so. How about the Guess Who? Oh, that's...
Well, here's something I'd like to say, though.
We don't know how many original members are in
this. Yeah, because Burton Cummings was the singer.
Randy Bachman was the guitar player. Yeah. But
I don't know if he's even alive. No, that's what
I'm saying. I don't know who the 17 ships are
and how many there is. Yeah. For all I know is
they could pretty much be, like, foreigner. Yeah,
yeah. And that's a tribute show. Yeah. Although
they don't bill it as that. Yeah. Earth, Wind,
and Fire. Ooh, I like them. Oh, the Guess Who
was January through June. Pretty good tour for
those guys for that age. Yeah. We're twinning
fire March 26th and May 17th. Short. Speaking
of foreigner, with Leonard Skinner, another tribute
band. Yeah, basically. February 25th through
August 29th, so they're doing a pretty good tour.
And I'm glad to see Leonard Skinner is still
retired. Good job. I'm glad you stuck to it.
I mean, it's kind of like the Oak Ridge Boys.
They were founded in 1947. None of those people
are still alive. Oh, I know. But the Oak Ridge
Boys are just slow attrition, replace, replace.
Leonard Skinner, I don't think there's one original
guy left. I don't think so. They're all laughing
to the bank, all of them. Yeah. Grand Funk Roro.
Oh, cool. January 10th through May 29th. I think
that's awesome. Yeah. A grand funk coming out
and actually playing a tour. It's good. Yeah,
yeah. They were a really good time, fun party
band. I always enjoyed them. Yeah, they are.
You didn't have to think too hard. You could
just listen and have a good time. Yeah. They
weren't like prog rock where you had to, well,
did you hear how we modulated the third chorus?
No. Yeah. And my response is always like, no,
but I didn't want to. Yeah. So there you go.
Chicago with Styx on select dates, not always.
February 13th through September 6th. Yeah, I
saw Styx was reuniting for some shows. Yeah,
but not with Dennis Dean. No, no. They're kind
of done with him. Yeah, yep. And you exposed
some of the reasons, didn't you, I thought? Yeah,
he was trying to go more rock opera or pop opera.
He wanted to un -rock a lot of the songs. He
didn't like writing songs with guitar parts in
them. Or Tommy Shaw. Yeah. He was a very accomplished
guitarist. He was like, no, fuck you, we're going
to have guitar. Yeah, but he was basically holding
the rest of the band kind of hostage. And there
was a time where the band was still all together
at that point, and James Young came and said,
we've got this whole tour thing planned, and
here's the songs, and blah, blah, blah, where
it's all set up. And then Dennis D. Young said,
well, I can't do it because I'm allergic to sunlight
now. Which is utter bullshit because there are
people allergic to sunlight, but it pretty much
reaches critical mass when you're about six years
old. So he's not all of a sudden, yeah, it was
just an excuse. He was somewhat of a prima donna
for real. But at that point, James Young said,
all right, you're done. You're out. We're going
to do it without you. How about Pat Benatar with
Neil Girolamo? He's been with her right from
the beginning. I know. They weren't married at
first when they started out, I don't think. He
was just a guitarist at first, wasn't he? I think
so. But it didn't take long for them to hook
up. Yeah, a couple bottles of nitrate one night.
That's it. America is touring. This is what the
Gulf is named after. Yeah. I wonder... See, for
a while, the three original members of America
couldn't get back together because one of them
had become sober and wouldn't work with the other
two unless they became sober, too. Oh, yeah,
yeah, I guess that... So I wonder if they fixed
that, or... I don't know. What I should have
done was seen how many original members were
on here, but that could be next show. Yeah, it
kind of doesn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't. How
about Three Dog Night? Ooh! With Ambrosia. And
John Ford Coley on Select Dance. John Ford Coley,
I haven't heard about him for a while. Me neither.
Runs January 15th, July 7th, so that's about
a half a year that they are playing. They're
going to have a tour about a half a year, and
that's pretty good, I think, for Three Dog Night
and their advanced stages. How about half of
Hall & Oates, John Oates? Oh, yeah. We never
got to see who he wanted to be as a musician.
No, we never did because no one really cared.
Well, it was part of the deal of being Hall &
Oates was he played a character. The silent guy
who never does interviews, never talks, got the
big mustache. Kind of like the dark -haired guy
in Wham. Yeah. Nobody knew who he was. Yeah.
But he was contractually obligated to play that
role. And he, after the band split up, he said
in an interview, he said, you know, I will never
play that role again. So I don't see me ever
reuniting with Daryl Hall because I'm not going
to ever be that guy again. I hate doing it. It
almost ruined his career, actually. I mean, nobody
really, yeah. Daryl Hall got all the accolades.
He did. He got nothing. So, all right. That's
February 20th, March 15th. Not that long of a
tour, but a tour. Toto. Oh, wow. Featuring Christopher
Cross and the Romantics. Oh, I remember the Romantics.
Yeah. I hear the secrets that you keep. When
you're talking in your sleep. Yep. And they also
did What I Like About You. Yes. That was a good
rocker. Yeah, it was. I wonder if the lead singer
is still the drummer. I don't know. It's a good
question. Yeah. Steve Lucifer. Yeah. I think
he's still with him, isn't he? I think the only
two members of Toto that aren't alive anymore
are... He is with him, yeah. Or, you know, Jeff
Porcaro, the drummer. And there's one other guy,
I can't remember his name offhand, but two of
the original members of Toto are deceased. Yes.
But I think the rest are back on board. I think
so. Everyone is there, I do believe, because
I think I did a music news on them. Oh, cool.
Yeah. So, all right, Air Supply. Oh, wow. They
were huge. I mean, a lot of people just loved
Air Supply. You know, they had mellow music,
but it was good. Yeah, it was in the genre of
safe for work, to listen at work. Elevator, a
doctor's office, you could hear them playing.
Yeah, non -threatening, non -offensive, but it
was good. It was well -written music, well done,
and their harmonies were exceptional. That's
what I liked was their harmonies were so good.
And the lead singer such had a high range of
voice, but he didn't sound forced or squeaky
like Geddy Lee can sound sometimes. Yes. For
him, it was just like custard was coming out.
It was just so smooth. So smooth, I know. Yeah.
All right. The Beach Boys. Oh, wow. Well, I don't
know who all is in that band now. Yeah. John
Stamos was in for quite a while, but I think
he's out now. Yeah, yeah. I don't know who's
all in it, but they're going January through
July. That's a pretty good chunk of time. It
is. They've got a lot of hits to play. Yes, they
do. And the people who are wanting to go out
and see the Beach Boys plays are probably kind
of dying off, so now's as good a time as any.
It's going to be as depressing as that Deep Purple
show that I saw at the Uptown. Yes. Half the
people were wearing oxygen. Every entrance will
be a handicap accessible entrance. Oh my gosh,
there was more wheelchairs and walkers there
than there were just people walking in. Yeah.
The only thing we mean by that is it's amazing
that they can draw these... enormous crowds and
how old their fan base still is because you get
older you wind up being on assistance for something
or another but they can still draw this audience
out and it's a hardship for a lot of people to
get out to a concert and stay there a whole few
hours or whatever it's a testament to how much
the band is loved yeah yeah no i agree and i've
always been a huge purple fan anyhow so i have
to see him They may be coming back by for all
I know. They're touring all year. Cool. Because
they never said it was a retirement tour. Yeah.
They just called it the long, slow goodbye. Which
could mean just about anything. Which has been
going on. Long, slow goodbye. All right. Frankie
Valli and the Four Seasons. I didn't know Frankie
Valli was still performing. I didn't either.
And the Four Seasons with him. It runs February
through April, which is decent for their advanced
age. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't mind seeing that
if I could. Yeah. Just to say I was there. You
know, just go, yeah, I've seen Breaking Valley
a bit of a lot. I mean, it's not quite like seeing
Elvis or something, but, you know. Yeah. But
this next one, The Righteous Brothers. Oh, wow.
One of them, I think, had a lot of substance
abuse problems. Yes. I think it was the tall
one with the deeper voice. Deeper voice guy,
yeah, he did. As far as I know, it's all of them.
So, interesting. I mean the ones that can. February
10th through June 19th. That's a pretty happy
year. You've got to make sure your voice can
handle that length of time. Yeah, and I don't
know about backing. tracks and all that stuff
i imagine a lot of these do i mean yeah hopefully
not like triumph oh my gosh yeah really disappointed
they're still putting out story after story trying
to skirt the issue oh yeah you know the drummer
and the guitar player say yeah oh yeah we're
gonna be playing the whole time on every show
yeah right it's like well you're sidestepping
the issue where the bass player says he's not
and he says the rest of you are going to sit
back while the other guys play and sing so you're
not seeing triumph you're seeing triumph Plus
their tribute band simultaneously. It's not what
I want. I don't have a time machine, so I guess
I'm just going to put it down as I'm not going
to ever see them. What would be funny is to show
up for April Wine and then leave. That's what
I want. If the tickets weren't so expensive,
I'd do that because I love April Wine. To me,
they've always been one of the most underrated
bands ever. Yeah, they were a victim of distribution
and promotion. Not in the U .S. In Canada, they're
enormous. They always will be enormous. They
should be. They're a great band. And that was
interesting that Triumph took the other Canadian
band with them. They couldn't take Rush. Alright,
Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees. He's the last one
left. So I guess it's the Monkees and the last
guy left. Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees. February
12th through November 6th. That is all year,
basically. That's all year. I'm guessing a lot
of it is going to be spoken word, question and
answer with some performances. Probably. That's
what I would guess. The way it was, yeah. It's
funny to watch those old episodes of the Monkees
and watch Mickey Dolenz because he had no clue
how to play the drums. Oh, I know. And he couldn't
even fake it well. You have to look on his face,
actually, Tony. He's kind of like, get the camera
off me. But he can play somewhat now. I don't
know how good he is, but he can play now. He's
still like Nicky Six. He can play now. Who knows
how good he is, but he can play. But Danny Bonaduce
never did learn to play the bass from the Partridge
family. He learned how to annoy people on the
radio. That was another that was dubbed in from
Carol Kay, bass player. She's all over the place.
Yeah, that's true. Let's see. The next one is
Tommy James. And the Shandales. Yeah. Shandales.
Shandales. Shandales, I think. Shandales. Yeah.
Boy, we're reaching way back. This is like 60
years ago. That's why I went ahead and did this.
I was like, son of these guys from years and
years ago. I mean, even before Classic. Yeah.
Like, golden oldie stuff. Artur. You know, I
think who would be a prime candidate for this
kind of thing is people who were one -hit wonders
in the 60s because they don't have a lot of miles
on them. Yep. And they're probably still alive.
You can bring them back to do their one hit.
Yeah. I mean, a lot of these, if the price is
right, I go just to say I saw them. Sure. In
whatever form they are now. And you know the
backing band's going to be excellent. They always
are. Yeah, they have to. Yeah. You know, they
want to sound as good as they can, so they find
the right people. Yeah. And these are people
who play just about every night. Yep. Let's see.
Where is it? Cut. Leonard Skinner with Foreigner.
And then, which I'm not even going to go into,
February through September. We both talked about
them already. How about Billy Gibbons only of
CZ Talk with the BFG band. Whoever they are.
Ah, BFG? I'm trying to think who BFG is. I can't.
I don't know. It didn't explain it either. Yeah.
Hang on, let me see. BFG. I have more, but it's
going to get boring. We can do more later. Or
next episode, whatever. Well, the thing I was
looking up, Alex Van Halen, after his brother
died, said, I'm retiring from music. I'm done.
I just don't want to do it anymore. I'm retired.
Guess who unretired? Did he? He and Steve Lukather
are working on an album together. Oh, wait a
minute. I did read that. Yeah. So he unretired
when the Ride Project came along. Good for him.
He's probably got so much music left in him that
he just couldn't deny it. I'm sure. And also,
Lukather is a great... Total professional. Excellent
songwriter. He would be a great guy to team up
with. Total non -bullshitter. Yeah. Yeah, and
his guitar is so good. His music writing is great.
I mean, yeah, that would be a guy you'd want
to do something with. And as much disrespect
as Steve Lukather has gotten over the years,
and he's still just been excellent and never
taken the bait, that's a heck of a guy. He's
always been happy being back a little ways. Instead
of knowing his D guy, he's kind of like, yeah,
I can play really good, but I kind of do this
toto thing. Stop raining and the sun's out. I
just know Get ready for the temperature to drop
Either that or thunderstorms Supposed to get
snow Friday morning tomorrow morning. Oh, yeah.
Yeah then something about snow next Thursday,
baby. Yeah I think winter weather's coming. Oh,
yeah. Been lucky so far. Ooh, nice breeze all
of a sudden. Oh, that felt good, didn't it? Yeah.
It was kind of funny that, no, I'm retired. I'm
done. I just can't do it that way. Oh, yeah,
I'll do his album. I knew he was going to. I
knew he was going to. In his book, he talks too
fondly about making music. I was like, you know,
how can you just stop? I know you're bummed out,
your brother, all that stuff. But man, no, you
know, it's like, that's something you can't get
out of your blood. I mean, there are times I've
stepped away from music when my depression takes
over and I'm just not in a good place mentally.
But then, you know, and then I have to work my
way back, you know, with my chops and my endurance
and stuff. But I can never quit fully. Just,
no. No, it's one of those deals where he has
too much creativity not to create. Yeah, a lot
of times you turn that on, you just can't turn
it back off. No. And like I said, he was a guy
that I learned to really like. I didn't used
to like him. I thought his drumming was horrible.
Yeah, I remember having an Alex Van Halen hating
period, partly because he was so good and I was
so lousy at the time. And partly because I just
couldn't understand his drumming style. It was
just so foreign to me. He's like, I just don't
get it. But it took time. I get it now. I mean,
you know, he has a certain, he can play about
anything, and you'd be like, man, that sounds
like something Alex Van Halen would do. And,
you know, most of the time he slams, but he can
play with gentleness and delicacy and nuance.
Most of the time, the song doesn't require that.
It's also hard to say about his influences. With
that style, I don't know. Yeah, you can see a
little Bonham in him, a little Keith Moon. A
little Moon, yeah. Some of the greats, yeah.
All right, you got something? Yeah, one thing
I was coming up with yesterday is I like to occasionally
come up with people that I like to avoid. And
this episode's version is the people who get
their feelings hurt, not offended, not angry,
just they get their feelings hurt unless you
like what they like. Like the song will come
on and say, oh, I just love this song, don't
you? And you say, well, that's not my thing.
And they get all sad. But it's a good song. Oh,
that drives me nuts. It's like, let me not like
it. I'm not trying to get you to not like it
because I don't. Yeah. I hate that with the snide
comment. I didn't fucking ask. And, you know,
usually people like that, what I've been doing
is just, you know, soft peddling. They look at
me with little sad puppy dog eyes and want my
approval for what they like. It's like, yeah,
yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's great. But now
it's just like, I'm not even going to play their
game anymore. I don't. I'm just like, I don't
like it. End of story. Or just change the subject
and then make a mental note. Do not be around
them. when they're wanting opinions on what they
like. No, no, change your shirt. What? Change
your shirt. What do you mean? I don't like it.
Well, that's not my problem, exactly. Yep. Well,
last episode I had teased a story about a guitar
factory that made enormous numbers of guitars
under different brand names. So I researched
it this time and I've got the full story. The
overall company name is Kortek. And the factory
complex in Indonesia is called PT Kort. Now you
may have heard of Kort guitars. They make a ton
of them, all sorts of different varieties and
styles. But this is a factory actually it's a
factory complex because they have a lot of different
buildings and they have a second complex in Jalan
China That makes the other types, but this factory
complex in Indonesia. They have ten buildings
and The buildings do different things like they've
got one building that we make amplifiers And
they've got another building where they make
acoustic guitars. And they've got affordable
acoustic guitars. And they've got another one
where they make the SE line for Paul Reed Smith.
And then another factory. It's just on and on
and on. And the employees don't switch around
from building to building. So they learn to do
this, and then they do it, and they get really
good at it and really fast at it. They have 2
,500 employees. They have multiple quality levels
of guitars they make. And it's interesting to
note, a lot of times people say, oh, all these
brands came out of the same factory, they're
all the same. Well, they really aren't. Because
each brand and each model, the brand name behind
it says, I want these materials, I want these
types of woods, I want these electronic specs,
etc. So they really all are built to the spec
of the brand. And they have guitars anywhere
from $300 to $2 ,500 retail. And the $2500 guitars
are worth every penny. They really are. The Acoustic
Guitar Factory makes, ready for this, 25 ,000
acoustic guitars a month. That's just nuts. On
the video I watched a woman take an acoustic
guitar top and she put binding around the sound
hole in the middle of the guitar. From absolute
start to the time the binding was installed,
glued in, and everything wiped down and ready
to go, 90 seconds. Wow. Now most factories can't
even put a decal on that fast. But she sat there
and I watched her put that binding in and it
looked perfect. It was five -ply binding. 90
seconds. It's just nuts. They say we have the
same people. They love working here. They work
here a long time and they all get really, really
fast and really, really good. The amp factory,
most of the brands they make there, they weren't
legally allowed to show on the video because
the manufacturers, the original brands don't
want it known, but I looked them up on the internet
and found it anyway. Cool. Now, I have a PRS
SE guitar. I bought it in 2018. It actually doesn't
say Paul Reed Smith anywhere on it. It doesn't?
On that year, they didn't put the name on it.
But it was made, on the back it says, made by
P .T. Wildwood in Indonesia. So P .T. Wildwood
is now P .T. Court. But it was made in that factory
by those people, which is pretty awesome. At
the time it retailed for $5 .99, and I got it
for $4 .99 because they were trying to dump the
red ones. And it's an excellent, excellent guitar.
And the prices on those have gone up considerably
since. But they still say if you can find one
from the 2018, 2019, for the price, they're just
awesome guitars. They're built way above the
price point. They also have a premium factory
where they make premium versions of various brands.
Each brand has their own supply of employees,
parts. woods, techniques, etc. And these are
generally ones from mid to upper price range.
There's a YouTuber named Samurai Guitarist who
has just come out with his own brand of guitar
called Oterra. Really? That's made there. The
guy picked one up and said, here, this is one
of Chris's guitars, Samurai Guitarist guy. He
contracted with this Indonesian factory to make
all of his guitars. And these are $1 ,300 guitars.
That's smart. Isn't it? Yeah. And, you know,
a lot of the parts are U .S.-made that they import
to Indonesia and to China to put on these, like,
Seymour Duncan pickups and CTS pots and Graftek
nuts. I mean, these are all, you know, well,
not all that Graftek, but a lot of things are
made in the U .S. that they just take over and
put into these guitars, and the guitar winds
up being an import with American parts on it.
It's kind of weird. And an interesting part about...
A set neck or neck through versus a bolt on.
Now if you look at the back of a Stratocaster,
there's a bolt on neck. They drill four holes
and they've got a plate and they drive four bolts
through it and attach the neck to the guitar.
The set neck is they cut the wood in a way that
the neck and the body fit together and they glue
it in place. And then the neck through is the
neck... extends all the way through the body
of the guitar as a separate hunk of wood, and
they just add wings on to form the rest of the
body of the guitar. And that's supposed to add
even more sustain. And it turns out the only
difference in price on these is because the bolt
-on necks, it's super easy to work on the individual
parts separately, therefore at the same time.
While you're painting the body, somebody could
go over there putting frets in the neck or installing
the tuners. blah blah. Somebody else is creating
the pickguard and all the electronics in it.
But with the glued in neck and the neck through,
you can only do one thing to it at a time. And
while the glue is drying, you can't do anything
to it. Yeah, good point. So that is the only
reason that set neck and neck through guitars
cost more is because they have to wait around
while the neck dries and they can't paint parts
separately. I thought that was kind of interesting.
That is. They also said that in this factory,
the vast number of tools that all these employees
were using were made by Music Nomad, which is
available to the general public. So that's a
really good endorsement as far as I'm concerned.
They decided on these tools because they last
forever, they never wear out, they can take a
total beating. Because, you know, people are
whipping through guitars at a rapid pace. music
nomad tools eventually apparently hold up really
well they've got a master factory where the high
-end prs and court guitars among other other
ones and they say these indonesian guitars rival
the u .s made and the japanese made ones as far
as quality for significantly less because you're
not paying for the name let's see Every single
guitar and bass that's manufactured there gets
tested playing the exact same song. They only
have one song they play. Smoke on the water.
It's like this arpeggiated thing where they go...
Back down. Kind of nude one? Yeah. But every
guitar and every bass, they play that exact song.
So that way they compare, it's like last time
I played this exactly, next time I'll play this
exactly. That does make sense. It does make sense.
Yeah, it does make sense. They have what's called
the Deluxe Factory, which is a misleading name
because they make the ones in the lower range,
$300 or $600 range. But it's called Deluxe? Yeah.
And the whole overall process is kind of similar
to like... General Motors has an assembly plant
that makes Chevy's and they've got a different
assembly that makes Buick's. Sometimes it's the
same lines but a lot of times it's different
lines. So that's kind of like this is you can
get a guitar from this manufacturer and a different
one from that same manufacturer but they're built
on different lines with different employees because
the quality level is different. So it's not like
everybody who makes an Ibanez import guitar is
going to be working on every single Ibanez import.
It's like, no, you group, do the cheap ones,
you do the mid -tier ones, blah, blah, blah.
One of the major manufacturers that's made there
is Strandberg, which makes headless guitars.
And they talked with Ola Strandberg, who founded
the company. He said, I went to a ton of factories
and when I got there, they're the only ones who
would do absolutely everything exactly the way
I wanted it to be. And if they didn't know how
to do it, they'd learn. If they didn't have the
machines to do it, they'd build them. So he said,
they do exactly what I want to make this guitar
and they do it at a lot cheaper price so I can
sell it at a cheaper price. So he's really impressed
with that. They have one separate building that
just makes the PRS pickups. Okay. And they said
these aren't cheap -ass pickups because they
will take, you know, do whatever magnet you want,
however many windings you want, whatever materials
you want, they will do it exactly. Now, there
are four different guitar brands that each have
their own separate building there where just
their guitars are made, which is pretty impressive.
And they have a subsidiary factory in Dalian,
China, which makes acoustic and hollow body guitars
for Cort, PRS, and the Squier line of Fender,
and also Covenant. And then, since they weren't
going to tell me which brands come out of that
company, I had to go online and look for it.
Here's a list of what guitars are made at that
factory. From the electric guitars, they make
the brands Aero, Classic Rock, EVL, Performer,
G, Gene Simmons, Hollow Body, Ibanez, Sterling,
Sunset, Master 8R, KX Series, M Series, Signature,
Solo, Viva, VXX, Xenon, Xenox. and cr for acoustics
they made the brand's gold limited edition earth
i've got an earth guitar uh cheap acoustic i
got uh core sfx cj mr classical standard bass
s90s jade loose ndx of bluegrass wow for bases
they make gb artisan kerbo action arona gene
simmons acts gene simmons punisher and strandberg
The S -Series guitars are like Stellar, Sterling,
and Starlight. Viva Guitars and MGM are for Matt
Guitar. Billy Cox plays a Freedom bass. Neil
Zaza and Larry Coriel the Elric bass. And Jay
Triggs the Katana and Effector. So there's a
ton of people and a ton of brands coming out
of this one factory. Just tens and tens of thousands
of guitars a day. coming out of indonesia wow
yeah so i'm not going to be afraid to buy an
indonesian made guitar ever again i wouldn't
either after watching it was like a 20 minute
video and a lot of things they had to mute and
you know kind of blur stuff out but my gosh you
can get just about anything there and the people
making it just just looks so totally professional
everything's clean everything's well lit everything's
moving well the finishes are gorgeous schecter
is made there Wow. They got the second list here.
Ibanez, Fender Squire, PRSSE, Schecter, G &L.
I'm going to put my glasses back on. Music Man,
Jackson. Jackson. Your Jackson was probably made
there. Probably made there, yep. Chapman. Rob
Chapman has his own line of high -end guitars.
They're made right there. Gretsch. Gretsch. EVH.
Wow. Yeah. Pretty much if it's an import guitar
and it's not made in China. It's made at PT Court
in Indonesia. Wow. And a lot of amps are made
there, too. They do a good job. They do a good
job. Okay. That kind of reminded me of how, like,
Volkswagen owns, like, 12 different brands, from
Lamborghini to Audi to whatever. And you think
they're all separate brands. No, they're all
VW. I got a little story here. This isn't, you
know, music creeps or even entertainment, but,
you know, we can do other stuff on here because
we run out of music stuff or just want to do
something different. Plus, we have a captive
audience. Yes, this is true. A 38 -year -old
man named Sergi, who was taking part in a corporate
holiday party at the Ingristolov Game and Tables
cooking studio in Moscow, was rushed to surgery
after drinking a cocktail that ruptured his stomach.
Oh. Yeah. Metro UK reported on December 25th,
so Christmas, the liquid nitrogen -infused drink
was part of a crypto, a chiro show, not crypto,
a cryo show being put on by one of the culinary
school chefs. Liquid nitrogen is used by the
chef and mixologist to flash chilled drinks and
provide dramatic effects. Yeah, I've seen that.
Yeah, I have too. But because the liquid expands
rapidly into gas when exposed to room temperatures,
it's critical that the drinks are not consumed
before the nitrogen has had a chance to fully
evaporate. Ah, good point. Yep. Witnesses at
the Moscow event claimed that they were given
no warnings by the chef or the staff of the danger
the cocktail presented. Sergei underwent surgery
and remained in serious condition at the time
of the report. This is the 26th of December.
I guess he's okay. I have nothing else. That
would kind of be like swallowing a mento and
then taking a chug of Coke. Yeah, boom. Yeah.
What happens there is there's a chemical in the
mento that makes the Coke lose all of its carbonation
all at once. Yeah, and it just blooms. Yeah,
so it's not like it's a chemical explosion. It's
just like, nope, all the carbonation is coming
out, poof, like popping a balloon. Yeah. Nature's
burden. Yeah. Gosh, things expand. Water expands
1 ,600 times its size when it turns to steam.
Oh, yeah. 1 ,600 times its size. No wonder boilers
blow up. Yeah, and that's when we used to make
dry ice packs when I was a child. Yeah, yeah.
Yes, I did that. What you did was you took like
a Coke bottle, you know, a Coke Classic bottle,
the thick bottle. They're shaped like a woman,
kind of. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's the whole
idea behind it. Yeah. And because of those grooves
in it, it made the gas have a hard time to escape.
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. John
Karabi, former lead singer of Motley Crue and
The Scream. has a new album coming out on April
24th called New Day. You can pre -order the album
online. The effort features guitars like Richard
Fortis from Guns N' Roses, Paul Taylor from winger
Steve Perry on keyboards, Marty Freckerson, producer
of Multi -Instrumentalist, and Charlie Starr
from Blackberry Smoke on guitar solos, alongside
Evan Freckerson on drums and bass. This should
be a pretty good album. Sure has a lot of talent
to go with it. This is Johnny Rohypno. That was
your music news. And remember, bar chords are
bullshit. It expanded faster than what it could
go to the top. And so you had to be way away
from it. And if it didn't go off, you didn't
get near it for a few days. Yeah. Because it
was very erratic sometimes. I remember forgetting
about it, doing something else. I'd be down the
road, fucking around with a skateboard. Boom!
Yeah. oh, wow, it went off. Yeah. Hope nobody
was there. Yeah, all it takes is one little tip
over the edge, and then the chain reaction takes
over. Yeah, I mean, this is literally like two
hours later. I'm like jumping ramps or some shit,
and then boom. I told my friend Brian, I go,
oh, yeah, yeah, I was down at a city lake trying
to blow the dam up. Yeah. So, all right, cool.
You got something? Not at the moment. Okay, let
me see here now. I remember seeing people experiment
with liquid nitrogen. If you immerse something
in it, you can flash freeze it. Yes. But if you
spill it on yourself, your body heat will just
evaporate it, and it really won't hurt you. It
won't hurt you. People get a cup of it thrown
in their face. It doesn't hurt. It just all evaporates
immediately because your body warms it up so
quickly. Yeah, it looks like it's going to hurt,
but actually it doesn't. If you did that with
boiling water, then hell yeah, it's going to
hurt. That's going to be different. But if you
immerse your face in it like bobbing for apples,
you're going to freeze your face off. Yeah, bobbing
for apples. We used to do that. Yeah, let's all
share our spit. I never did. No, I never did.
That's all right. Number one, I don't like apples
that well. You know, well enough to do that.
Number two, how about if I just walk over there
where there's a pile of apples. You fucking grab
one of them and eat it. Yeah, I think I'll do
that. Yeah, I remember as a kid going to a birthday
party where they were bobbing for apples, and
the first kid I saw him lift his head out of
the barrel with the apple, and just the long
streamers of drool coming out. I was like, uh
-oh. No, no, thank you. No way. No, thank you.
Yeah. All right. After denying requests for a
number of enemy license plates on the grounds
that they requested tags were obscene or inflammatory,
Illinois Secretary of State Alexa Koulianis,
close enough, created a YouTube video in which
he read off some of his favorite, including ibuprofen,
which is spelled like ibuprofen almost. Yeah.
I -B -I -B -POOP. With an N on it. The next one
is Send Nudes, which is abbreviation S -N -D
-N -U -D -Z. Yeah. Badass Mom. Oh, gosh. B -D
-A -S -M -O -M. N, iCup, which is abbreviation
for I -C -U -P. All right. Giannullis is actually
how you pronounce the name. After a further review,
Giannullis and his staff appreciate the creativity
of the state's drivers. He advised them to keep
it clean to avoid ending up on the naughty list.
WBEZ reported on the 26th. Funny. Yeah, pretty
good. How long we got? An hour and 15. All right.
You got something you want to keep going? I remember
when personalized plates came to Missouri, I
started hearing stories about, personalized plates
in other places. And it was common at first for
people to get their last name as the plate and
then a number. It was like, you know, one parent's
car was, you know, Jones 1, and the mom's was
Jones 2, and the daughter's was Jones 3. Tempered
after Air Force 1 and Air Force 2 and all that.
But there was a guy whose last name was Hooker.
And he wanted personalized license plates. And
they said, you know, he wanted hooker one, hooker
two, hooker three. And they said, no, no, this
is obscene. So he went and looked up the origin
of the word hooker. And it was a Civil War general
whose last name was Hooker who always had women
hanging around and he'd sleep with one or two
or three or more at night. So the girls hanging
around his tent were called Hooker's Girls, which
was shortened to Hookers. So it always was a
last name. It has never been anything else but
a last name. Did he get to use it? He got it.
Wow. That convinced the stage, like, okay, you
get it. It's a last name. I think it'd be pretty
evident. They'd look at his driver's license.
Okay, hooker. Oh, okay. Yeah. I got some more
tour stuff. Good, good, good. Rush's 50 -something
tour. June 7th through December 3rd. Yeah, I
tend to forget about them because they've got
a new drummer now. Yeah, they do. Of course,
still Kurt is no longer on this earth, so you
cannot... And it's Annika Nils, Niles, something
like that. Niles, yeah, she's really good. She
is, and she's got a really interesting style.
Yeah, I like her, especially in the role of Newt
Kurt. And everything I've seen her play, she's
had just a very... standard smallish kit. And
she gets a ton of sound out of just a few things,
which has always impressed me. Oh, yeah, I know.
Yeah, it's going to be really good. It's not
around here, so. But it's going to be really
good. But they still never have addressed the
fact that Alex Lifeson said, my hand is shot,
I can't play anymore, I'm retiring because I
can't play anymore. Dead babies. Yeah. Stem cells
from ritualistically murdered babies. Allegedly.
Yeah. Yeah, I would love to see this because
they got a really good drummer. Yeah, I think
she's worthy. I do too. I think the fact that
she's young and female is going to help a lot
of people get over the, you ain't Neil Burt,
man. No, I know. Because if they had some old
guy that was his size and kind of looked like
him, then people would hate on him. But she is
so totally different that you pretty much got
to take her. You kind of have to do that because
Neil Peart was so good. Who the fuck is going
to just go in there and go, oh, okay, that's
good. They're going to go, I don't know. Have
you heard his stuff? I mean, when Simon Phillips
replaced Keith Moon in The Who, he got hate for
a little bit. And then people realized, whoa,
this kid's good. He's really freaking good. So,
you know, all was forgiven. Jakey Lee taking
over for Randy Roach. Uh -huh. Of course, Jakey
Lee did it with a completely different style,
but was still crazy talented. Yeah, but he still
had to play all the stuff that other people had
played, and do it enough like the original that
people were happy, but enough of his own influence
so he's not just a clone. Yeah, but he did it
so well. I encourage anyone to look at Jakey
Lee footage of Bark at the Moon and Ultimate
Sin Tour, where he's playing the Randy stuff.
Yeah. And I mean, even the Tony Iommi stuff.
He did that fantastic. I love the fact that the
Iommi stuff he left pretty much original. It's
like, listen, this wasn't Flash. I'm not playing
Flash. And that's what I always respect about
Jakey Lee is he can play Flash, but he'd rather
write a song. He'd rather write a song that fit
what he was trying to make the song sound like.
And then whenever he got a chance to throw in
harmonics, he would do that, you know, finger
tapping or just some crazy fucking chord that
stretches your hand out to an unbelievably crazy
way that no one else could do. Yeah, yeah. I
remember some of the compositions my father wrote,
he would include a lot of dissonance. You know,
just some weird oddball chord out of nowhere
that at first sounded like it was a mistake,
but then you're like, no, that does kind of fit
because it's what you do with it afterwards.
Yes. Of course, there was one time where he wrote
that, you know, lift the lid of the piano and
drop a number 32 cold chisel onto the strings.
And whatever that sounds like. I love that. To
me, that's really cool. Of course, that's really
damaging to the piano. Well, you want to do it
to someone else's piano. Yeah, definitely do
it to someone else's. But yeah, that's kind of
a hallmark of my dad's compositions. There's
a lot of dissonance. But it never sounded ugly
to me. It just sounded, well, that's dad. I mean,
that's pretty much shaky. on a lot of areas,
too, is that's what he did. Yeah. Or it's kind
of like Paul Rogers with Queen. Yeah, yeah. Paul
Rogers sounded like Paul Rogers on all the Freddie
parts because he knew not to do that. Yeah. He's
like, no, I can't sound like Freddie, so I'm
not going to. So I'm going to do what I do. Yeah,
it's kind of like along the same lines of a band
that does an incredibly good remake of somebody
else's song, only now you're doing it on a continuous
basis. Yeah, yeah. Because like Molly Hatchett's
versions of Dreams I'll Never See is gorgeous.
The Allman Brothers original is equally gorgeous,
and they're totally different from each other.
And a lot of people don't even know. Yeah, yeah.
I watched a long documentary about the Allman
Brothers, and it's pretty interesting, and also
one on Chevy Chase. I'm Chevy Chase and you're
not? Yeah, dude was abused relentlessly as a
child. His mother, I think, was schizophrenic.
She'd wake him up every morning by slapping him
in the face as hard as she could. So he was screwed
up from a real early age, and he's a blurter.
I mean, he has trouble thinking something and
not saying it, no matter how cruel or ugly or
nasty or offensive it is. And he knows he does
it, and he's stopped apologizing for it. He's
just like, this is who I am. This is why I can't
help it. I'm just me. So, you know, deal with
it or don't. Well, you're not him, so then. Yeah.
I love the time where he changed. Usually he
would open up Weekend Update by saying, I am
Chevy Chase, and you're not. I used to love that.
Just look on its face. There was one time where
he opened it and said, I am Chevy Chase, and
you're touching yourself. And, you know, if you've
got your arms crossed, you are touching yourself.
Yes. But originally, Chevy wanted to have a pseudonym,
like make the Weekend Update guy a character
with a different name. And Lorne Michaels was
like, nope, no, you've just got to be Chevy Chase
and be yourself. Just be you reading these. But,
I mean, really, he did it perfectly. So you can't
really get mad at him. He knew what he was doing.
And another thing about the current Chevy Chase,
is a number of years back he had heart failure
and his heart had stopped for a while and they
got it going again. But that kind of thing can
induce serious memory loss. And he says, there's
a lot of things I just cannot remember. As you
say, I did it okay. I probably did. That sounds
like me. But he was talking about his relationship
with the first openly gay character or actor.
a comedian on Saturday Night Live. And apparently
he said something really ugly and cruel to him.
And the guy just kind of laughed it off at the
time. But later in his autobiography, he wrote
about it and how horrible it felt and how it
hurt him deeply. And when they told Chevy Chase
about that, his impulse was, that's a lie. I
never did that. I would never say that. And they
said, well, it was in his book. He wrote about
his autobiography and other people have learned
about it. And he kind of looked around and he
said, well, I have memory loss. I mean, I probably
did it, and I just don't remember it, so I thought
it was a lie. But, yeah, I probably did it. I
just do things like that, and I don't know why.
So I started feeling a lot more sympathy for
him as a person because he really doesn't have
full control of himself. I get it now. And it's
not his fault. None of it's his fault. I get
it now. At the time, I did not. So I would encourage
you to watch. It's called I'm Chevy Chase and
You're Not. I forget which network it was on,
but it was good. Is it on Netflix? No, it was
on broadcast TV. Was it on broadcast TV? Well,
it was on a cable channel, obviously. I've got
it on my DVR. I'll look up and see what channel
it is. Okay, ACDC. Power Up Tour, July 11th,
September 29th. That's a pretty good little run.
I wonder if they'll have Steve Young on the rhythm
guitar. Because Malcolm's gone, and then they
had Steve, and I think there's one other. cousin
that they bring in occasionally. Yeah, I don't
know who it is. Steve, you couldn't tell the
difference. No, they look the same. That's Malcolm
Young up there. Actually, he died. Bon Jovi's
Forever Tour. Wow. Let's see if Richie Sambora
is back. No, Phil X. It's still Phil X. July
7th through the 26th. Phil X, he was doing the
tour with Triumph. Yes. But I guess he decided
to join Bon Jovi again. Yeah, the dates probably
don't conflict. They don't interact, yeah. They
don't cross over. It's interesting, he's doing
two of those big nostalgia tours in the same
year. Oh, I know. And also, he said that he got
reintroduced to Bon Jovi after playing with him
for years. He was doing a small gig around his
hometown, I think in Florida somewhere. Yeah.
He gets a call saying, you've got to answer this
immediately. The guy's insisting. He says it's
an emergency. So he goes behind stage. Yeah.
Hey, this is fun. Just jump on Joby. Can you
be out here tonight? Out where? Washington State.
I think it's like Seattle or something like that.
Yeah. He goes, I need you to play tonight, and
I need you to play following the dates. Okay.
There you go. Let me go quit. He hung up. Hey,
guys, I quit. Bye. Hey, John, I'll be there.
Yeah, that's right. He was a member of Bon Jovi
for a while, and he was also a member of Triumph
for a while. Yeah, he took over. So it kind of
makes sense to bring him back for the tours.
Yeah, he took over for, he actually took over
for Richie Sambora. That's how long he's been
with the band. Wow. Yeah. It wasn't always Phil
X, but he was there from the start of the...
of uh sambora leaving and another thing is i
found interesting is sambora was not fired he
quit yeah he has disputed that but every now
and then sometimes he'll say i quit sometimes
he said i was fired he waffles on that but john
bon jovi said he quit on us no and uh he could
have meant something slightly different like
he just didn't care anymore or something but
um And according from what I heard, this was
Eddie Trunk, I do believe. And Eddie Trunk asked
me, he goes, so what happened to you being let
go? And he goes, I was not let go. He goes, I
quit. He said, I want to do my own thing. He
said, there's no way I could being attached to
such a prolific band like John. True, there's
just no time left. Yeah, and I got what he's
saying the way he explained it. I was like, I
get it. You know, he made enough money, he made
enough fame. He wanted to do what he wanted to
do. He's a huge Hendrix fan, and he has kind
of wanted to do some stuff like that. I think
he even toured doing some sort of a Hendrix type
of a cover for a while. It's odd. I remember
at the time, the statement coming out from the
band, from Jon Bon Jovi specifically, was that
Richie Sambora had emotional problems and had
mental issues. And couldn't handle it, blah,
blah, blah. If you look at his love life, you
may have a point. Yeah, yeah. A lot of weird
shit has happened in that whole area. That's
true. Maybe so. How about Robert Plant? Saving
Grace tour with Saving Grace and Suzy Dean. And
if you go there expecting any Led Zeppelin songs,
you're foolish. Yep. Not a single one, let me
tell you. He will not play them. I mean, look,
he's always said that he can't do this stuff
anymore, but I think a lot of it is just simply
they were not good people to him at the time.
They may be now. Well, one of them's dead, but,
you know, him and John Paul Jones are writing
music and staying loyal. I mean, Robert Plant's
son passed away from a rare genetic disease,
I think. Yeah, it was a stomach condition. Oh,
it was a stomach condition, yeah. But I think
it was genetic. Yeah, but those two that we just
talked about, Bonham and Page, were so fucked
up they didn't even go to the funeral. They didn't
send any type of a message. They pretty much
ignored it. Yeah. I'm pretty sure Robert Plant
does not want to rehash that, but I'm pretty
sure that has a lot to do with the fact that
he doesn't want anything to do with Zeppelin
anymore. Yeah, yeah. I remember hearing a saying,
I'll never forget the people who saw that I was
hurt and struggling and then made it worse. Yes.
And I think, you know, I've got people who are
now no longer part of my life because of that
exact same reason. Is it some of what we talked
about? Yeah. Yeah. And I imagine for Robert Plant,
I imagine it's the same thing. It's like, no,
I was in a horrible place and they made it worse.
And I just don't ever want to be around that
again. I don't blame him. Yeah. Yeah. And I think
that statement right there tells you how come
he is not or never has. They reformed, what,
one time for, was it Live Aid or something? Something
like that. And I remember they kind of got together
to be in the audience while Hart performed Stairway
to Heaven. Yes. So they were at least in the
same theater sitting fairly close to each other.
But that's the limit of their interaction. That
was it right there. Yeah. So interesting. But
they do have this huge project that they won't
talk about. Led Zeppelin does. Yeah. And nobody
really knows what it is. And it's coming out
this year sometime. Right off the top of my head,
I would guess it would be some sort of multimedia.
It's not just going to be audio. There's going
to be a significant visual component to it as
well. Well, everybody's into the AI stuff, and
this might be just the same. Yeah, an AI creation
of a concert video or a holographic. Avatar of
the members playing or something. Yeah, it's
probably heavily steeped in technology. I would
think so. And even if they do release a song
or two, it will probably be in the same vein
because, I mean, they're all well in their 80s.
Yeah. They're going to do what they can do, but
it's kind of like before Ace passed away, and
this is actually a few years. I didn't get to
see him when you did. I had to work over in the
peak. I wanted to see him and Alice. I heard
he was real sloppy, though. He was a bit sloppy.
He was using Gene Simmons' backup band that night.
Which is great. Which is a great band, yeah.
But, yeah, you could hear him playing sloppy,
but it never sounded bad. No, always sloppy.
It was never like, ooh, that was a mistake. It
was more like, eh, so what? He was an innovator,
and so many people got so much from him. And
they talk about it now, but at the time they
didn't. Yeah, it's sad that he didn't get the
public credit while he was still alive to enjoy
it. Oh, yeah, but the whole point was this. I
come to the realization that he can't play like
he used to. And that was at the mirror store
I saw him, and he was the main act. And as good
as it was, I was like, you know, he can't do
those fractured mirrors stuff and all that. He's
just not capable of it, so you're not going to
see that. So all the times I got my hopes up
wanting to see this or that, and some of this
really, really crazy stuff. I never saw it, and
then it dawned on me, he can't do it. Otherwise
he would. It's just like why Robert Plant doesn't
do an immigrant song. They can't do it. A Canadian
folk singer -guitarist that I've always loved
is Gordon Lightfoot. And he had such a deep,
resonant, distinctive voice. When I bought his,
he had two Greatest Hits albums. I bought one
of them. It's like, wow, these sound different.
And I read the liner notes and it said these
were all re -recorded. New versions with a new
band. Oh, wow. Actually, not really a new band.
He said, I picked band members that I've worked
with the most over my time. That makes sense.
He couldn't get Jim Gordon because, as far as
I know, he's still in a psychiatric hospital
in England for killing his mother. Yeah, he's
Flash Gordon's second cousin. Yeah, I know. He
was an undiagnosed schizophrenic. And Tom Gordon,
the baseball player, he was his nephew. Yeah.
And Commissioner Gordon from Batman. That was
his great uncle. Anyway, so he listened to the
voices in his head that told him to starve himself,
which he did, and lost the ability to play drums.
And then eventually the voices in his head said,
kill your mother, which he did with a claw hammer.
Yeah. So, amazing, amazing drummer. I forgot
about that whole thing. That whole crazy thing.
But anyway, so... Eventually, I saw on some premium
channel there was a concert of Gordon Lightfoot,
like, you know, current day. And I bought the
video from that, and wow, his voice is nothing
like it was. It's nasally and kind of weak. And
it was like, oh, this is sad. It was still...
I didn't regret buying it, and I didn't regret
watching it, but it was like, I will never see
him sing like he did back then. He just can't
do it. Yeah. But God bless him. He was out there
giving people what they wanted. And if you had
never heard him sing before, his voice wasn't
bad. It wasn't unattractive. It's kind of like
Ian Gillen. Yeah, the same thing. Yeah, his voice
is still good. You want to hear a highway star?
Forget it. He's not going to be able to do that.
But if you want to hear the midterm stuff that
he can do, do yeah and the same way it sounds
like the gordon lightfoot there's a lot of there's
a lot of singers that do that now they settle
in the middle david coverdale was doing that
before he retired he wasn't doing the uh still
the night screams yeah but he wasn't like whispering
he was somewhere in the middle there he did what
he could yeah so all right uh ringo star oh yeah
i think i did hear that uh as far as i know he's
He's got his son Zach back on the drums. Yes,
he does, because he was unceremoniously let go
by the Who. Yeah, we covered that quite a bit.
Roger Daltrey's a little sissy. Sissy, yeah.
He's a weaseling coward. Yes. I hope that Starkey
hit him in the balls on the way out. If he could
find him. He probably couldn't find him. Yeah.
So, yeah, May 28th, June 14th, not a very long
tour, but he is 84. Yeah, that's about two weeks,
two and a half. Yeah, yeah. So him just getting
out of bed and wiping his ass is pretty good
at that point. Yeah. How about Santana? Oh, wow.
One -list tour. And that is going to run January
through May. Not bad. That's a good tour. I guess
he's overcome his semi -cancellation. I guess.
During a concert, he made a statement saying
that he thought any kind of... gender fluidity
or transgender or alternate genders was ridiculous
he said uh let's see what was it he said that
that's not the way he meant it it come out wrong
or something so they gave him a pass i believe
that's what happened if i remember correctly
he was like oh no i was talking about i mean
i forgot what it was yeah I didn't believe it,
but the average person would probably be like,
oh, okay. And I know Alice came out with something
saying that he thinks all this stuff is just
unnecessarily confusing for kids, and kids have
enough trouble and nothing to worry about anyway.
Oh, we tend to agree with that. And that wasn't,
like, blatantly anti. It was just, you know,
he could have made the case that, oh, I meant
the way society treats them, not that it's their
fault or not their parents' fault. So you could
take it any one of a number of ways, but... Considering
his born -again Christian attitude and upbringing,
I'm pretty sure he meant this is not God's way.
Yeah, he very well could have meant that, but
my deal with this is something different. Kids
should not be exposed to sexuality of any kind,
hetero, homo, transgender, transphobic, nothing.
No, that's off the plate until they turn 17 or
whatever. They can figure it out on their own.
The unanswered question in that whole debate
of should... Could drag queens be allowed to
attend story time and hospitals for little kids
and libraries for little kids? The question nobody
answered was, why do drag queens so badly want
to be in front of your kids? Yeah, that's my
question. Why do you want to do that anyhow?
Yeah. Be happy with who you are. Nobody's stopping
you. But you don't need to be there. Just like
I don't need to be there. For me, it comes under
the category of... trying to force participation
in something that's their business and not mine.
To me, that's wrong. You know, leave it alone.
Let it happen naturally. You let it happen generically,
and that's the way it's supposed to happen. Yeah.
That simple. Yeah. But that's a big thing of
mine. It's like, if it's legal, if it's between
consenting adults, you're not hurting anyone,
and I can avoid it if I want, then it's none
of my business. I agree. But that last kid, if
I can avoid it if I want. you know like making
it illegal for you not to use somebody's pronouns
you're not letting me avoid it if i want no no
and i refuse to be a part of that yeah it's like
look um if i'm your friend you're gonna know
me better if i ever slip up yeah and i do have
friends like that and they know me better yeah
you know if you uh look like a man and i accidentally
call you man deal with it yeah that's the way
it is yeah yeah what It's odd to expect perfection
on something that is kind of strange and unusual
and isn't how we see the world. But suddenly
we have to be perfect on it. Yeah, to me it's
too much like you're going to think like this.
Yeah. See, I'd rather just avoid you completely
because this is just full of traps and landmines.
I don't want anything to do with it. There's
famous historical figures that wanted you to
think identically like them, and one of them
was Hitler. Yeah. So take that for what you want.
All right, David Byrne. Who is the Sky Tour?
So, that would be Talking Heads, right? Yeah,
I really don't know if he's going to do any Talking
Heads material. I don't know. March 26th, May
27th, so it's a fairly lengthy tour. And you
know, the last I heard from him, he said, I don't
want to do music anymore, I'm done, I'm over
it, I've moved past, and I'm just never going
to revisit it. Suddenly, here he is doing it
again. That's why I said talking heads because
it's got to be the same guy. It is the same guy.
There's only one David Byrne. Yeah. Giant suit.
I guess he changed his mind. Stop making sense.
Yeah, that's true. It looks like Alex Van Halen
saying, nope, I'm retiring. It's never going
to play again. Oh, Steve called. Okay. I'll do
that. Yeah. So, yeah, David Byrne, he hasn't
been doing any talking head stuff. No, no. So
I don't look forward to doing it. Bob Dyling,
Dylan. However you pronounce his name, it's very
much in debate. Yeah. Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour
runs March through May. Hmm. So a three -month
tour. Interesting, interesting, interesting.
I'm not a huge Bob Dylan fan. I call him Dylan.
A lot of people call him Dylan. Yeah, he took
his name from the author Dylan Thomas, which
was pronounced Dylan. Okay, so Bob Dylan. Yeah.
He's Robert Zimmerman. Zimmerman, yeah, that's
right. Jew turned Christian. Yeah. He was, what's
his name, Zimmerman down in Florida, the Trayvon
Martin, that's his brother. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
No, no, no, his great -great -nephew. Yeah, great
-nephew. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's almost like
brothers. Yeah, almost. There you go. Journey.
Wow. The final Frontier tour. Well, Frontier
wasn't any more than their albums. Yeah. Do they
have Steve Perry back, or are they using Arnel
Pineda, or do they have a new guy? Didn't Pineda
retire? I'm pretty sure he did, yeah. I don't
know who. I'm not sure who they got. Let me see.
This is going to be interesting. Who was he?
Robert Fleischman? Yeah. Yeah, but I don't think
he's doing it. No, because he didn't do the team.
Steve Perry parts, and also... Which he should
have. Greg Raleigh, their original keyboard player,
he did some of the co -lead vocals on one of
their earlier albums. But he's been out of the
limelight for so long, I doubt he'd want to...
Plus, most people don't remember him ever being
in Journey. No, that's right. No, that was Wheel
in the Sky, and that was the only thing they
really done. Who was touring with the lead singer
of Journey? Feelin' That Way. Arnel Pineda. Oh,
so he's out of retirement. Okay. I guess. He
got a known quantity there. Didn't he just retire?
He did, yeah. So they must have backed a dump
truck full of money up to his front door. I'm
not retiring. I guess. They came with a small
box of cryptocurrency. Here, this is worth $3
billion or nothing, depending on the day. Depending
on the day, yep. I think Pineda, they... Pretty
much, if they're going to do this final tour,
it had to be with him because he was the most
accepted guy next to Steve Perry. Yeah. And it's
because of his story, you know, in Bollywood
and all that, and just coming over really from
nothing. Yeah, he was like a karaoke star doing
Journey songs, and somebody put a video up on
YouTube, and the guys in Journey songs were like,
holy cow, he sounds more like Steve than Steve
does. Even Steve Perry was kind of like, hey,
can you do my tour? You stand backstage and sing.
I'm going to move my mouth. And then finally,
no, no, no, there's two more. Van Morrison. George
Ivan Morrison. Yes. Or Jorge, if you're down
south. Jorge Ivan Morrison. Who was convinced
that he was somehow related to Jim Morrison.
Because when they met, they were just like twin
brothers. It's like they've been... born and
raised in the same family. They were just like
clicked. I didn't know that. Yeah. Jim and Van
were just inseparable for a while. I wonder if
it's like all in New York or something. It's
February 7th through the 24th only. You know,
a lot of those... I don't know how old he is.
There are a number of musical acts that were
scheduled in New York City that are getting cancelled
now. A lot of those. Not just rock and roll,
but all different kinds of music. Well, their
transportation went up so much they can't afford
it. That's true. But yeah, there's some new policies
being put in place in New York City that a lot
of touring acts are like, uh -uh. Oh, new policies.
Okay. Well, let's see. What's different? Oh,
oh. I think they have a communist as a mayor.
Oh. Wait a minute, wait a minute. He said he
wasn't. Well, he came out the other day and said
we're going to. replace rugged individualism
with the warmth of collectivism. I want to punch
him in the face as soon as he says that. People
immediately started posting memes out showing
the warmth of collectivism, which is North Korea
at night, which is pitch black because nobody
can afford to turn on lights. Bread lines in
Soviet Russia. The Berlin Wall. Yeah, it looks
like warm collectivism to me. You have to put
up a wall and armed guards just to keep people
in. My only request is you guys stay there and
accept what you elected. Leave us the fuck alone.
Don't come over here. Stay there. Now, my son,
Louis, is a communist. He thinks communism is
a great idea. Did he ever read a history book?
Yes. And he trots out the same old tired excuse
that almost all communists use is... Well, you
can't point to those because those weren't really
communists. That wasn't real communism. Those
were just dictatorships disguised as communism.
Yes, and what's going to happen next time? Exactly
the same thing. You cannot put all the money
in one pot and put it somewhere. Someone's going
to steal it. Human nature is human nature, just
like AI chooses to be criminals. I think he got
the thing reversed. It's not a dictatorship pretending
to be communism. It's communism is a dictatorship
pretending to be. something else yes communism
is dictatorship no matter what kind of communist
said if you have there's going to be one person
or a group of people who make the important decisions
and they will be corrupt and one person will
rise from that group to be the overall dictator
it's going to happen yeah no human nature takes
over just like ai decided to be criminals whenever
it's given us free will yeah same as humans you're
never going to find everybody on completely.
There's always going to be someone with ulterior
motives that is always going to want to get by
and steal everything. I think the most important
thing that could happen to help the human race
would be if we all naturally developed telepathic
abilities to where we all knew what each other
was thinking and doing. Nobody had any secrets
ever. We'd all learn to behave, wouldn't we?
If everybody... all over the world would instantly
know everything you did, you'd watch your ass.
Without exception, absolutely no exceptions whatsoever,
everyone knew what everyone else was doing all
the time. But maintain your individuality. Usually
something like that, you become a high collective
mind. But I think we need more accountability.
I think you're right. I agree. And emotionally,
human beings really aren't mature enough to have
enormous amounts of power and wealth. We're just
not mature enough. I agree. Maybe in a couple
hundred years we'll be mature enough, but not
now. This next one I'm kind of interested in.
I never was a huge fan of his music, but I would
just like to see him one time, and that's Rod
Stewart. He's going to Morton Ample Theater.
in Riverside or Kansas City by the river or whatever
you want to call it. I was under the impression
that he'd really lost his voice. So maybe he
got some of those magic illegal stem cells too.
Oh yeah, allegedly. To revitalize his voice.
Yeah, the guy waiting for the hatchet as soon
as the baby falls out, they cut his head off.
Yeah, they do their satanic ritual. Smear the
blood on each other. It's a part of that whole
red shoe conspiracy. Yes. I wouldn't mind seeing
that, but I'm probably not going to because I'm
sure the tickets are jacked up. And on another
note, when we're speaking about people like that,
Barry Manilow has cancer really bad. He has chosen
not to fight it. Yeah. And I can't blame him.
Yeah. Yeah, because the treatment itself probably
has a 60 % chance of killing him. Yeah, so he's
just kind of like, I got what I got. He's been
right out his years, hopefully in comfort and
peace. Yeah. So, Barry, we wish you the best.
Thank you for all your music. Was that pretty
diplomatic? Yeah, I went through a whole Barry
Manilow hating phase. I don't hate him. Just
because of my own, you know, mental issues at
the time. But I have since relaxed and... can
freely admit that he was an amazing songwriter,
incredible singer. I never saw him live, but
millions of people did. He's obviously an excellent
entertainer. All respect to him. He didn't have
to be my favorite guy back then. He was just
fine without my fandom. And I'm glad he was.
I quit listening to him when I found out that
every time you listen to him, you lose a little
bit of your penis. Yeah, I've heard that. So
I had to stop that. You know his initial song
that was a big hit, Mandy? Yeah. He originally
wrote it as Brandy, because he wrote it about
his dog, and that was his dog's name. It's just
so pretty. But the band Lookingglass had just
come out with Brandy, You're a Fine Girl. Oh,
yeah, yeah. So it's like, oh, shit, now I've
got to change the name of this. So they changed
it to Mandy. Pretty cool, though, which I...
I think is the nickname of Amanda. Yes, probably.
I think so, yeah. Because Mindy is for Melinda.
Yeah, you're right. Mandy would be Amanda. Or
Nelson Mandidella. Yeah, that's a pretty good
one. The creator of the Mandela Effect. Yes,
yes. There's the movie called The Mandela Effect
that I want to watch. It keeps disappearing from
my streaming services, but it looks pretty interesting.
I've heard of it. It looks freaky. I'll have
to check it out. That does sound interesting,
actually. I'm pretty much... Well, I've got a
couple other tour things, but I mean... I've
got a couple things if you're interested. No,
go ahead. Please do. Do you know the origin of
the term conspiracy theorist or conspiracy theory?
I don't know the origin. I mean, it's been around
for a while, and I know people that they consider
loony. Yeah, yeah. It was created by the CIA.
in the wake of JFK's assassination. They formed
the Warren Commission, and the Warren Commission
pretty much whitewashed, no pun intended, and
bullshitted everybody with this completely fake
and bogus and stupidly unrealistic Warren Commission
report on exactly what happened to have JFK assassinated.
And internal memos from the CIA have been released
under Freedom of Information Act and declassified
that show... Isn't that a great... Yes, I love
that. I do too. But it shows the CIA came up
with the term conspiracy theory and conspiracy
theorist and said we're going to make this term
common and we're going to use it as an insult
for people who doubt the Warren Commission's
report. We're going to call them all conspiracy
theorists and conspiracy theorists. That's so
dumb. Yep, it was a CIA creation, a CIA operation,
and people have latched onto it like it's mother's
milk. Wow. Yeah, so every time you call somebody
a conspiracy theorist, the CIA gets a hard -on.
Of course they do. Yeah. And the last thing is,
it just occurred to me, when's the last time
you heard anything about NFTs, non -fungible
tokens, and how they were supposed to be amazing?
No, they pretty much stopped that. The last ones
I heard were of Trump. Yeah, Trump offered some
way back when. I think his first term. Yeah.
Yeah. But the last thing I heard about it was
an example used to make fun of somebody. A lot
of the NFTs were what they called the bored ape.
It was like a cartoon drawing of an ape smoking
a cigarette looking bored. And there were endless
versions of it, each one slightly different,
so they could be sold as individual, you know,
never to be reproduced. And this guy posted on
X, he... posted a picture of the NFT, and he
said, man, I bought this for $37 ,000, and now
I just had to sell it for $1 ,500. I took a horrible
bath on this. This wasn't a good investment.
And somebody immediately replied, say, if you
sold it, then you have no right to post it here.
You just violated that guy's copyright, and he
can come after your ass. So he posted an example
of something he didn't own anymore and was not
allowed to post. I'm hoping that guy he sold
it to got his $1 ,500 back. I hope he did. I
hope he did. Someone waiting in the brush was
like, oh, really? You know, NFTs always struck
me as like a piece of art. If you really love
it, it's worth whatever you want to spend to
get it. Yeah. But if you don't like it, then
it's worth nothing. Oh, yeah. And that's the
exact same with NFTs. It's just on a daily basis,
people can decide. Yeah, and I really want that.
I'll pay you a quarter million for it. And the
next thing they decide, NF what? No, man, that
was yesterday. It's kind of like my Aussie on
the shelf figurine. Yeah. It's like an elf on
the shelf. Half the time, I need to get it, need
to get it. The other half the time, like right
now, I'm like, yeah, I don't care. Yeah. Yeah,
it's kind of like it depends, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Anything that depends on the mood of other people
as to whether it's got value or not, I personally
am not going to invest in. Oh, I'm not either.
I'm not either, no, because that means there's
too contingent on how people feel. Whenever you
bring feelings into anything, watch out. But
be careful. A lot of people in rural areas, especially
this summer when AC usage is high, they're going
to experience a lot of rolling blackouts because
enormous data centers are being built out in
the boonies. And when they want the electrical
power, they're going to get it. And your town
is going to be turned off. Because the data center
wants the electricity. Yep. And it's like data
centers, AIs, blockchain farms, all of them take
enormous amount of electricity and enormous amounts
of fresh, clean water for cooling. So if your
town needs that too, you're second in line. And
you will always be second in line. So don't get
happy if they're going to build one of those
near your town. Because it's going to fuck you
up. Yep. Yep. So true. Yep. All right, I'm pretty
much out of everything. You got anything? Me
too. We're coming up on two hours. All right.
Everybody, thank you so much for listening. We
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And we can't thank you guys enough. And go fuck
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