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's 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
Riptide. And that was your music news. If it's
too loud, you probably have ear damage, just
like me. If they keep trying to pimp it and I
keep going by it, I need to watch the tutorial.
Yeah. All right. Well, I guess we can get going
here. All right. Which means... We are the music.
We are the music. We are. All right, there we
go. Well, of course we're the music creeps. You've
heard that ten times by now. I'm Topher. I'm
Mark. I'm one of the creeps. Are you the other
creep? I am the other creep. Okay, can Rob be
a creep too? Absolutely. Okay, Rob, you're a
creep when you listen to this. Yeah. All right.
With love, though. With love. Yes. Yeah. All
right, we are the Music Creeps, and Topher, you
said you have a shit ton of stuff. I got some
good stuff. All right, good. First thing I'd
like to start with is I have a big list of how
certain bands got their names. I like that. Yeah,
I think some of these are bullshit. I don't care.
If it sounds good, I'm good. Anyway, so first
up we have, remember the 80s band Duran Duran?
Yes. They were named after a character in the
movie Barbarella. That was a 1968 movie with
Jane Fonda. I do believe that's true. It was
a science fiction movie. There was a character
in there called Dr. Durand Durand. So they named
their band Durand Durand. I remember reading
that. I think that's true. Now that movie Barbarella
was as close as Jane Fonda ever got to doing
a porn movie. Because her character was basically
an intergalactic vixen that wanted to hump anything
that moved. Kind of like Miley Cyrus. Right up
next, Fine Young Cannibals. Remember them? Yeah,
yeah. It was FYC, if you want to be clear. They
were named after a 1965 movie, All the Fine Young
Cannibals. I think I remember that one, too.
Okay. A number of these bands are named after
movies. That's cool. Alphaville, also named after
a 1965 sci -fi movie. Okay. Remember the Thompson
twins? Yeah. They were named after... Hold me
now. Yes. They were named after twin characters
in The Adventures of Tintin, an animated movie.
I remember that, yeah. There were twins in there
named Thompson without the P and Thompson with
the P. So that's how the band got their name,
Thompson and Thompson, Thompson Twins. Okay.
Spandau Ballet. Yeah, I always thought that was
a peculiar name. Yeah. That's a movie, too? That
was a prison in the British sector of West Berlin.
Oh, wow. And it was a slang term used by World
War II prisoners of Spandau Prison, which was
described as a bleak fortress. I find that odd
that a, oh, a soft -hitting, you know, pop band
like that is named after a prison. Isn't that
weird? It is. Yeah. You know, like if it was
Slayer named Spandau Ballet and you knew that
it was after a prison, you'd be like, okay, yeah.
Yeah, you kind of get that. Or Lamb of God or
something, but not Spandau Ballet. So, anyhow.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Yeah, I know this
one. Relax, don't do it when you want. Anyway.
Good song. They named themselves after a newspaper
headline, which was a story about Frank Sinatra
making movies. And the headline was, Frankie
Goes Hollywood. So they changed it to Frankie
Goes to Hollywood. And then what happens? I want
to know what happens. Yeah, well, he made a bunch
of movies. Okay. And somebody wound up with a
horse head in their bed. Yeah, I guess that's
true. Because they wouldn't give them the lead
role in From Here to Eternity. Yeah, yeah. Although
Sinatra had nothing to do with that. Yes. Nothing.
That was friends of his. He told them no. He
said no horse head, but they did anyhow. But
yeah, that was interesting. When I saw the movie
The Godfather, where the Frank Sinatra character
was like Johnny something in the movie. And there
was this new big war picture that he'd be perfect
for, and he wanted the lead role. Well, in real
life, that was Frank Sinatra, and he wanted the
lead in From Here to Eternity, which was a movie
about the people in Hawaii leading up to the
attack on Pearl Harbor. It's actually a really,
really good movie. But the director slash producer
was determined not to give it to him because
Sinatra had humped his girlfriend. Or the protege
that he was playing to hump himself. Okay. So
that was where the movie pretty much got it exactly
right for what happened in Frank Sinatra's life.
And he eventually did get that role because the
director was persuaded. Don't know if it was
a horse head. Don't know. It might have been
a dog's head. Might have been a person's head.
You never know. That could have been. Allegedly.
Allegedly. All right. Flock of seagulls. And
I ran, I ran so far away. That epic hairstyle.
Yeah. It was a line in the 1978 song by the Stranglers,
and the song was Toiler of the Sea. Toiler? I
like Toilet of the Sea better. Yeah, Toilet of
the Sea. But the line was something about a flock
of seagulls, so they're like, ah, there we go,
there's our name. Yeah, that'll work. Okay, Thin
Lizzy. Oh, I know what that's... Boys are Back
in Town. Yeah. There was a character in a comic
strip. The comic strip is called Dandy, and there's
a character named Tin Lizzy, which was a robot
girl made out of tin. I thought, okay, that's
contradictory to what I always thought. Yeah,
I was always told it was about the car. The car,
yeah. Yeah. Okay. But they showed a picture of
the comic, and there was Tin Lizzy. Okay. A robot
girl. I always thought it was the car. Yeah.
Like you. You probably know this one, Black Sabbath.
Yeah, yeah. A 1963 horror film of the same name.
Boris Karloff movie. Deep Purple. I read this,
but I can't remember what it was. Richie Blackmore's
mother's favorite song was a song called Deep
Purple. Yes. It looked like it was from the early
50s. Uh -huh. Isn't that weird how he lost control
of the band, though? Yeah. He obviously started
it. Then he left it, came back, left it, came
back, and finally he doesn't have any... I wonder
if they paid him off or something. They probably
did, because I don't think he has anything at
all to do with the band anymore. No, he doesn't.
Sticks, the 70s kind of lush orchestral rock
band. Sticks refers to the river in the underworld
that spirits have to pay the ferryman to cross.
I knew that. Well, people say that it's a river
in hell. Not really. It's not from the Christian
mythos at all. No, no, no, but that's what they
say, but I think it was urban order, and what
you're saying, the underworld is actually what
it was. Yeah, I mean, the mythos this came from
is everybody went to the underworld. Yeah, but
the temples of Syrinx is what they're thinking
about right there. That is about... you know,
a river in hell. Yeah. Not sticks. No. But everybody
thinks that sticks is a river in hell. Yeah.
Yeah, so anyways. And oddly enough, syrinx is
what they call the voice box in birds. In humans,
it's a larynx. Yeah, larynx. In birds, it's a
syrinx. Yeah. So there's a bird reference there,
too. And you know what? I better check that because
that's another one just like the Din Lizzy. Uh
-huh. Maybe that's not correct about Syrinx.
Yeah, you never know. But anyhow, that's what
I was known, anyhow. Uriah Heath. I know. Good
band. They're really underrated. Very much, yeah.
Oh, man, they're so good. You know they're still
together? They are, yeah. I think my favorite
song from theirs is Stealin' when I should have
been buyin'. Yeah, they released a new album
two years ago, and it was really good. Excellent.
It actually has Bob Daisley on it. Oh, wow. Yeah,
he came back for a little bit. They got their
name from a character in a Dickens novel, David
Copperfield. There was a person in that book
named Uriah Heep. And if you watch the movie
David Copperfield, you can actually see people
talking about him. Wow. Yeah. Uriah Heep was
named after that? Just a character in a book.
Okay. All right. Along the same lines, Jethro
Tull. That was an 18th century lawyer turned
agricultural inventor and was labeled as a farming
rebel because he was trying to revolutionize
the way farming was done in the 1700s. Now, why
in the world they picked him, I guess they must
have just thought his name was kind of cool.
Jeff Roe Toll. Yeah, and also it's T -U -L -L,
not T -A -L -L. It's such a unique name. When
you hear it, you think band. So, I get it. For
years, everyone thought Ian Anderson was Jethro.
Yeah, I know. And also, Tony Iommi never did
an album with him, like what's going around.
Even I felt for him for a little bit. No, he
never did an album. He did a couple of shows
and then went back to Earth at the time, which
became Black Sabbath. Oh, yeah. Here's one that
most people know, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Yeah. It was
their high school football coach whose name was
Leonard Skinner. Yeah. But they had to change
it because that was his name. Yeah. And I've
actually seen the video of Coach Leonard Skinner
standing next to, I think, one of the guitar
players from Leonard Skinner introducing their
next song. One of the 30 guitar players from
Leonard Skinner. Yeah. He's saying, here he is,
the real Coach Leonard Skinner that we named
our band after. Here to introduce our song. He
was notorious for telling them to cut their hair.
They're never going to amount to anything. And
then he became friends with them. And they're
like, this is Leonard Skinner. And he's like,
hey, these are my boys. I'm glad they didn't
cut their hair. Really? Super Tramp. They're
a very good band. Breakfast in America. Huge
in the 70s. What? I mean, Breakfast in America.
was not big enough. It was enormous, but it still
wasn't big enough. It still wasn't big enough.
That elk will never get. And their unique sound,
too. Yeah. They'll never get the credit they
deserve. They got their name after the autobiography
of a man called W .H. Davies. And his book was
called Autobiography of a Super Tramp. He lived
as a hobo and wrote a book about it. Oh, wow.
So they just took the name Super Tramp. And that
was Ray Davies' cousin. Yes. Yeah. Another one
that most people know, the Rolling Stones. It
was a Muddy Waters song. Papa was a Rolling Stone.
I knew that, yeah. But it was genius to call
the band that. Yeah, yeah. I was going to guess
that no moss grew on them, so they called themselves
Rolling Stones. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they still
don't have moss on them. Mick Jagger. cannot
believe he's like 82 or 83 he still runs across
the stage like he's like i don't know 50 at least
maybe younger yeah his voice i mean he doesn't
sing that prolific so it stayed intact but still
his voice is great yeah all those good stem cells
yes and penises in his mouth allegedly allegedly
pink floyd yes named after two blues musicians,
Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Yep. So Elton
John did the same thing. Yeah. I didn't know
that until you said that on a Music Creeps, I
don't know, a couple of months ago. Yeah, yeah.
There was a musician, Elton James. He's like,
well, the Elton part's really good, but we can't
come up with him. James and Elton John. I still
like the cover band Elton Dan. Yes. Elton Dan.
Elton Dan. Or how about Don Bon Jovi? Yes. And
the cover band for Bread calls themselves Toast.
Toast. That's so good. I mean, yeah, some of
them are pretty original. Yeah. The Doors. Come
on, baby, light my fire. Break on through. A
novelist, Aldous Huxley, wrote a book called
The Doors of Perception. So that's what they
meant themselves to be. He recites some of the
poetry from them in a couple of songs. And it's
odd, Jim Morrison joined as a poet. Yes. He got
together with Ray Manzarek, the keyboard player,
and listened to some of their songs, and he just
started writing down this poetry to fit the song.
And Ray Manzarek said, man, you need to join
this band, and we're going to make a million
dollars. And Jim Morrison's like, exactly. Yeah.
He's just like, exactly what I intended. He was
not into that, yeah. No, he really wasn't into
the fame and fortune anyway. Yep. Jefferson Airplane.
Now this is one I've heard a different version
of. Okay. Posing for the picture, sorry. You
got to. Jefferson Airplane. Supposedly from a
nickname of a different musician, Blind Thomas
Jefferson Airplane. Now, what I heard was Jefferson
Airplane is a roach clip that you make out of
a paper match. I think I believe that one. I
believe that one, yeah. Supposedly, one of the
forming members, Jorma Kalkkonen, was the one
who came up with, hey, let's name ourselves after
Blind Thomas Jefferson Airplane. But I really
think it makes more sense that it's the roach
clip made out of a paper match. Okay. Sorry,
I'm going to get a selfie so we can promote it
a little bit. Yeah. All right. Here we go again.
I don't know why it comes out so cloudy in here,
the pictures, but anyhow, go ahead. The loving
spoonful. Oh, yeah. I've heard a different version,
but what this says is it was a line in a song
by Mississippi John Hurt called Coffee Blues.
He's like a loving spoonful in his coffee. Oh,
okay. That makes sense. Yeah. But what I've heard
was a spoonful is approximately how much is the
typical amount that a man ejaculates. That's
what I heard, too. And that's why it's called
a lovin' spoonful. Anyway, we'll give them a
pass on that one. Yep. Buffalo Springfield. Remember
them? Uh -huh, I sure do. They got their name
from a steamroller company, the Buffalo Springfield
Roller Company, that made steamrollers. And they
just thought the name was cool. That's funny.
Uh... Credence Clearwater Revival. They had a
friend named Credence Newball. So they took Credence
from him. They were seeing ads for Clearwater
beer. So they took Clearwater from that. And
then since they're from the south, then revival
meetings were coming. And they thought revival
is a really positive word. So it became Credence
Clearwater Revival. Named after a person, a beer,
and an event. That's cool. Isn't that interesting?
That is very interesting. I would have never
guessed that either. Now here's another one that
I think is wrong. ZZ Top. Billy Gibbons said,
we named the band after two people, B .B. King
and ZZ Hill. B .B. King is considered the top
of the blues musicians, so he's the top, and
then ZZ Hill for the ZZ. That's cool. But what
I heard was it's two brands of rolling papers.
Top and Zigzag. Oh, okay. That makes sense. And
that makes a hell of a lot more sense because
at least one of their album covers features giant
bales of marijuana on the cover. And the members
of ZZ Top getting busted bringing them across
the Rio Grande into Texas. So I'm pretty sure
it's the Rolling Papers version that's true.
I think you're right. Yeah. Zigzag for ZZ and
then Top for Top. The Ramones. Okay. I want to
be sedated. Yeah, they're all brothers, too.
That is so weird. I mean, every time they lose
one, they gain another brother. How many brothers
do they have? And they all look alike, too. All
that long black hair. All that black hair, yeah.
It's almost as if they're wigs or something.
Yeah, or dyed. Wow, that's crazy. Well, Paul
Ramon. was the fake name that Paul McCartney
used to check into hotels so nobody would know
who he was and who was there by looking at the
registry. So he called himself Paul Ramone. And
the guy who started the Ramones said, yeah, that's
who I want to be. We're going to be the Ramones,
and we're all going to be Ramones. We're all
going to pretend we're in the same family. We're
all brothers and cousins and whatever. I can't
remember which band it was, but... Some band
used to throw a swerve on all the groupies and
the guys that wanted to meet them and all that.
And what they would do was they would come up
with an outrageous couple of fake names and put
them way away from where they stayed. And they
were like Ben Smith or something like that. And
then those guys were like Phil Uranus and stuff
like that. So everyone would find the registry
and go, oh. That's them right there, Phil Uranus.
And they go all the way to the other side of
the hotel, and they were Ben Smith over on the
right side of the hotel. So anyhow. I remember
reading in a book written by a guy who wrote
books about rock bands. And he wanted to write
a song about a rock band, but he wanted to participate
as a member. So he was friends with Bob Ezrin
and said, you know, Do you know any band that
would be willing to have me hang out and work
on the album and go with them on tour so I can
write a book? And he said, hey, do it with Alice
Cooper. So he was like, all right. So the last
album with the original Alice Cooper group, 1974's
Muscle of Love, he sang backup vocals on that.
You can see him in the credits, Bob Green or
Bob Drew and stuff like that. And then he went
on tour with them on a holiday tour. And on a
previous tour, they had a guy who impersonated
Nixon who would come out and flash the peace
sign and the members of the band would beat him
up and haul him off the stage because Nixon was
very unpopular at the time. So this time they
thought, Bob, you come with us on the tour and
you're Santa Claus. And you come out at the end
of the show and you throw posters and gifts out
to the audience and then we'll come up and just
beat the snot out of you and drag you off the
stage. Love that. So he played Santa Claus. Cool.
I think that was the last American tour they
did with the original lineup. And at one point
on the tour, ZZ Top was their opening act. And
they were at the, the ZZ Top stayed at a different
hotel. Okay. So Bob and a couple other guys on
the crew were riding up in the hotel elevator,
and a groupie came up and said, you know, are
you guys with the Alice Cooper group? Because
I heard Alice was staying at this hotel. And
they're like, oh, really? Well, why do you want
to know? And she said, well, what she wanted
was a pearl necklace. And that's where you press
her boobs together and the guy pumps her boobs.
And jizz is on her. Yeah. And the little drops
look like a pearl necklace. If you know what
jizz is, Google it. Yeah. J -I -Z -Z. What they
did was they... They told her that Alice was
staying at the other hotel where ZZ Top was and
sent her over there. And then amazingly enough,
a few years later, ZZ Top comes out with a song
called Pearl Necklace. I wonder if it was that
groupie that made them think of writing that
song. Well, I mean, Plaster Caster was about
a groupie. Layla was about a groupie. Actually,
there's plenty more songs than that, so I could
find it very easily being about a groupie. There
are many songs written about him. Yeah. I just
found that very coincidental. Sweet Connie and
Hamlet to Barn. Yeah. That was just too much
of a coincidence for that to be not. I would
agree. I think the writing there is probably
pretty much true. Yeah. All right. Let's see.
Iron Maiden is from the Medieval Torture Device.
Which I love that name. That is one of the best
names ever. And someone has researched that and
discovered that no one actually ever used the
Iron Maiden as it was intended. It was just there
to scare people. It was never actually used.
Okay, Iron Maiden does not want you to know that.
Yes. Now here's another one that I think is wrong.
Because I've heard something vastly different.
ACDC. Angus Young said... The label on the back
of his sister's sewing machine could run on AC
or DC voltage, and it said AC slash DC. And his
sister was making their stage costumes, so he
was very familiar with her and her sewing machine.
Now, what I heard was their original lead singer
before they had Bon Scott was very sexually ambiguous.
And ACDC has for a long time been a slang term
for bisexual. Yep. And that was what I was told
was the original name their band meant. That
is their lead singer was bisexual. See, I didn't
know that until you discussed that on this show.
And then I looked it up, and that appears to
me that looks like where it came from. But, I
mean, now I guess it's in question because they're
saying, no, okay. It may be that they're trying
to spin this because it would look disrespectful
to use that slang term. I think so. Because before,
they didn't argue. Now, all of a sudden, it's
like, eh, yeah. I've seen some video of their
original lead singer, and in today's world, he
would look pretty ordinary. But for back then,
he looked... Pretty oddball. Well, Bon Scott
was pretty big himself. I mean, just his demeanor
on stage. He'd come out there and just kind of,
I don't know, be real fluid and fluffy. Yeah.
Yeah. And the snotty vocals didn't help either.
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, listen to Dirty Deeds
Done Dirt Cheap. Oh! Oh! Yeah, that's snotty
as it gets. But I am firmly a Bob Scott fan.
Yeah, definitely. Bob Scott, to me, was the best
lead singer in ACDC. And I could definitely see
how he had about triple the sex appeals of Brian
Johnson. Yes. Although I do know two girls that
had sex with Brian Johnson, allegedly. I imagine
some have, yeah. Oh, they said that... He was
quite the interesting guy with the whiskey and
everything. So that guy, according to them, if
they didn't lie, and I don't think they lied
because it didn't look very complimentary to
them. Yeah. They said that he was 100 % rock
star because he would get fucking smashed and
wake up, you know, fucking vomiting, you know.
So he's quite the rock star. He's like a lemmy.
He did what he preached. There you go. Bad company.
Until the day they die. Yes. Ask Mick Rouse.
Mick Rouse, yes. That was from the 1972 movie
Bad Company about Civil War draft dodgers. Jeff
Bridges was in it. A guy named Tim Brown, I think.
Tom Brown, something like that. I think I remember
that a little bit now. Okay, it was about that.
And if you listen to the song Bad Company and
the lyrics, it's very close to the plot of the
movie. And it's actually a really good movie.
It's pretty grim, but it's a very good movie.
Also a very good song. Yes, yes. So if you haven't
seen, I mean, there's Bad Company that was like
a buddy cop movie from the 90s. This isn't it.
This is 1972, and it's a western. And they don't
pull any punches. I mean, it really kind of looks
like how life would have been back then. Dirty,
kind of ugly. Life was short. Oh, I hear music.
I do. I do, too. ABBA. They got their name from
the initials of the band members. Agnetha, Bjorn,
Benny, and Annefrid. ABBA. I believe that. That's
too... Now, what a lot of people thought was
a rhyming scheme. Yeah, it goes back. ABBA. It's
a power drum, too, also, yeah. Yeah. That is
their initials. The Hollies. Long, cool woman
in a black dress. Yeah. They got their name from
Buddy Holly. Oh, they're a big fan. Now here's
one I'm not so sure about. The Bee Gees. They
say they named themselves after two early fans.
A guy named Bill Good and a guy named, get this,
Bill Gates. Both of them had the initials Bee
Gee, so that's how they named their band. I call
BS on that because the Brothers Gibb makes a
lot more sense. Bee Gees. Okay, that does. Yeah.
Judas Priest. You know how they got their name?
Uh -uh. It's a Bob Dylan song called The Ballad
of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest. Okay. And they
played a clip of it, and you could hear Bob Dylan.
It's like so weird to hear Bob Dylan saying the
term Judas Priest. That is weird. It's like,
no, don't say the word again. Don't. It just
sounds wrong. Led Zeppelin. It's after a Keith
Moon joke that Jimmy Page's new band was going
to go over the world's largest lead balloon.
Oh, yeah. What's larger than a Zeppelin? Yep.
Toto. Rosanna, Hold the Line, Africa. Yep. They
actually did name their band after the Little
Dog and the Wizard of Oz. Oh, that is true. That
is absolutely true. Steve Lukather himself said,
yep, that's where we got the name. It's a cool
name. Nobody was even from Kansas, but it was
a good name. That is funny. And Lukather is such
a good guitarist. He's one of the most underrated
musicians. Oh, yeah. You never hear his name.
Other musicians know. Yes, that's something I
say. But the general public doesn't quite know
how good he is. He's one of the musician's musicians.
Yes. Depeche Mode. Yeah. That was a French fashion
magazine. It was the exact name of a French fashion
magazine. Wow. That's weird. Yeah, that's interesting.
This is another one I call BS on. Joy Division.
Okay. They were like post -punk. Yeah, I remember
that. Supposedly from a 1959 novel, The House
of Dolls. Yeah. There's a reference to Joy Division.
Now, the term I heard was that... During World
War II, the Nazis set up a traveling whorehouse
for German soldiers. And it was nicknamed the
Joy Division. Because there was a Nazi propaganda
song about strength through joy. Love your homeland,
love what you're doing, love your fellow German,
and we'll have strength through joy. So the German
soldiers changed that to, I lost strength through
joy, meaning I'm so tired from talking, I can't
fight. So they nicknamed that traveling brothel
the Joy Division. I like that. Division for a
military group, because they followed the army
around everywhere, so they'd have somebody to
hump when the hard day of fighting was over.
I wonder if they had the boll weevil clap. Probably
so. Yeah, probably. Of course, back then it was
probably like the thistle clap. Maybe the Barley
Hop Club. Anyway, so I think Joy Division actually
was named after the slang term for the traveling...
brothel that the Germans... Probably, and they
probably just don't want that known now. At the
time, it was cool. Now it's like, hey, wait a
minute. It's a little correct. But, you know,
it was right after punk. They were looking for
utterly disrespectful and offensive terms. You
know, you're going against the Dick Kennedys
and the Sex Pistols. The Slits. The Slits, yeah.
Yeah. Um, UB40. Oh, yeah. Red wine. Anyway, UB40
is the form number of the form you fill out for
unemployment in Britain. I knew that. Yeah, I
knew that. Just like that Bengals song, Going
Down to Liverpool. They have a line in there,
where are you going with that UB40 in your hand?
Going down to Liverpool and do nothing. There's
other ones that talk about the quid and the take.
There's also talking about doling. Getting the
Dole, which means public assistance. There's
a lot of songs that actually offer that in there.
And it's about being on welfare or being unemployed.
Sucking from the public tit. Yes, that. You remember
a band called The Misfits? They were from a 1961
Marilyn Monroe movie of the same name. Velvet
Underground. Oh, yeah. Remember Bill Bruford
quit Yes to going to Velvet Underground? I remember
that. What a great move. Yeah. But the Velvet
Underground was named after a book about underground
sexual subcultures. Oh, wow. Yeah. So it was
kind of a tell -all about all the pervs. doing
pervy stuff that most people didn't know about.
Of course, now we have the internet, and you
can get a video of it. Yeah, yeah. But that's
what the Velvet Underground is like, bizarre
sexual practices. Yeah, you want to see a guy
trying to fuck a hamster? There you go, internet.
Or insert one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that too. You
see, if you insert one, you put it inside pantyhose.
If you're going to fuck it, you wrap it in duct
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burst wide open. Oh, thank you. All right, everybody.
Allegedly and all that. See, that was the joke
I was told. It was like, you know why you wrap
your hamster in duct tape? No, why? So it doesn't
burst when you fuck it. It's like, yeah, thanks.
Great joke. I'll remember that. Write it down.
If you want to make somebody vomit internally,
just tell them that one. That is fucking funny.
Okay, Radiohead. It was a song by the Talking
Heads. Really? Yeah. They used the term radio
head. And I guess Tom, was it York? He picked
up on it and was like, ooh, I like that. 10 ,000
Maniacs? Uh -huh. They got their name from a
1964 cult horror film that was actually called
2 ,000 Maniacs. So they upped it to 10 ,000.
And this was a time when the band was having
trouble getting gigs. Yeah, what was the chick's
name? Natalie Merchant. They would change their
name every time because bars wouldn't hire them
back. So they'd show up one week and be the sunflowers.
And the band say, yeah, they're never coming
back. So they show up next week and say, hey,
we're 10 ,000 Maniacs. Like, all right, I'll
give you a shot. And then they show up and it's
the same band. They're like, fuck. Damn it. Well,
they're already booked. Let them on stage. That's
funny right now. And ironically for them, when
they got discovered by a talent, an AR and R
rep from the record label, they were performing
under the name 10 ,000 Maniacs. And the record
label insisted they keep that name. And they're
like, fuck. So from the moment. that they started
putting out albums under the name 10 ,000 Maniacs,
the singer Natalie Merchant was already planning
on going solo because she couldn't stand the
name. Okay, that makes sense because she went
solo pretty young. Pretty fast, yeah. Yeah, and
she left everybody else kind of sitting in the
dust. Tears for Fears. Shout, shout, let it all
out. Those are the things we can do it out? Yeah.
Can't do it out. Come on. I'm talking to you.
Come on. Arthur Jenoff. Brilliant. Yes, yes.
He was a psychologist who pioneered the primal
scream therapy, and that's what Tears for Fears
was. Oh, I love that. It was a different term
for the primal scream. Which doesn't make sense
at all. No. The song we just sang to you was
her signature song. Yeah. Yeah. Doesn't match.
Everybody wants to rule the world. Yeah, that's
another one. And as it turns out, primal scream
therapy was just nothing anyway. It was just
stupid. Didn't work. Gimmick. Yeah, it was basically
tap into your primal rage and fear and frustration
and let it all in one big scream. Just let it
out. Well, that doesn't fix anything. No, no,
no. And they used to call it tension -breaking
screams. Yeah. I remember we used to do that
all the time. Someone would just walk up in the
middle of a party and start throwing shit going,
tension -breaking scream. Everyone would be like,
okay, are you done? Yeah, okay. Turn the TV up.
The band Simple Minds. Most of their listeners.
Don't You Forget About Me. Oh, yeah. It was from
a David Bowie song, Gene Genie. Really? And I
know that song. But somewhere in there he says
Simple Minds. Or Simple Minded. I don't know
where, but okay. I've got a double album of old.
It was like David Bowie's singles from 1969 through
1992. And Gene Genie's on there. R .E .M. from
Georgia. they actually named their band after
the sleep cycle. Yes. Rapid eye movement. That's
when you're dreaming and your eyes are moving
like you're looking at what you're dreaming.
You see, that was one of those ones that I knew
without knowing, you know, but then I read later,
yeah, that is what they named it after. I was
like, that makes sense. Some of them are pretty
obvious. Daft Punk. Oh, yeah. Early on in their
career. A music critic used the phrase to describe
their music as daft, punky thrash. So they said,
all right, we're going to change our name to
Daft Punk. Then later on they became Steampunk
and made a lot of money with those images. They
did very well with all this gadgetry. Bananarama.
Not to be confused with Banana Hammock. Close,
close, though. Close, yeah. It was a combination
of the word banana, which they thought was funny,
and a song by Roxy Music called Pajamarama. So
they combined banana and pajamarama to become
Bananarama. Bananarama. Bananarama. Okay. God
bless them. Yes. That's all you can say. God
bless them. Yeah, they didn't last long. Soundgarden.
Soundgarden. I use the German pronunciation.
Soundgarden. Soundgarden. All right. It's a wind.
sculpture in seattle that uses pipes that channels
the wind and makes moaning and hooting sounds
and it's called the sound garden who would have
fucking thought yeah i even saw a picture of
it there it is that's what they named themselves
after the sound garden i love the name i always
thought it was about you know a garden of sound
yeah yeah yeah One of the most underrated guitars
ever. Yeah. Guy's amazing. I think he single
-handedly brought guild guitars back from the
brink. He did. He did. Because people started
liking guild guitars again when they saw him
playing them and all the amazing sounds he could
get out of them. Yeah, and he was actually at
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when they were
inducted, too. Yeah. I appreciated that. The
Foo Fighters. You ever hear of that one? Yeah,
yeah. Isn't that named after the Japanese fighters
or not? This was an aerial phenomenon reported
by World War II fighters, and there were balls
of light that were flitting around their airplanes
and hanging around the wingtips. And I've seen
film of this. It's a formation of airplanes flying
over, and these little weird balls of light are
flying around them. Yeah. Now, the theory is
that it's static electricity. because the plane
is whooshing by real fast, you're rubbing across
all that air, you build up static. So it's similar
to ball lightning, but they just named them Foo
Fighters. Okay, you see, there were Japanese
fighters that were called Foo Fighters, too,
weren't there? Yeah, I think it's because the
round circle on the emblem looked like a ball.
They just didn't know. Ball, Foo Fighters. You
see, I didn't know they were named after the
phenomenon. I thought they were named after the
actual Foo Fighters of the Japanese fighters.
Okay, that's interesting. Close, but... Yeah.
The Offspring? There was a 1987 horror movie
of the same name. the offspring. I think I do
remember that, too. Yeah, I barely remember it.
Savage Garden. Not Sound Garden. Savage Garden.
It's from a phrase used in one of Anne Rice's
Vampire Chronicles books. She used the term Savage
Garden. Probably so, yeah. Now, I have heard
of a band called Secret Garden, and they're apparently
named after a vagina. Because that's what people
say. Oh, I gave them access to my secret garden.
They're talking about their vaginas. Oh, yeah,
yeah. What do you use, a hoe? Yeah. Oh, okay.
Three Dog Night is an aboriginal phrase describing
a very cold night. What was their biggest hit?
Joy to the World. Joy to the World, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. All right. And let's see. The Beatles,
they either took it from the bug. after, like,
Buddy Holly and the Crickets, and they wanted
some sort of bug name and then dispelled it.
Or it was a 1953 biker movie called The Wild
Ones, and one of the guys in the movie referred
to his fellow bikers as beetles. Oh. Completely
different than what I thought. It's not really
sure which one is the real one because the beetles
aren't telling. You see, I love the ones that
are like this that throw a swerve on you. You're
like, what? All these years, and now you're telling
me... So, that was like 52 bands and how they
got their names. Very cool. Thank you. All right.
I got some interesting things here. I love it.
Let's play... What was the number one song of
the year? Oh, this will be good. Okay. 1987.
What do you think the song of the year might
have been? This was during the pop, big pop era.
And there was also glam metal, but it was starting.
Guns N' Roses were coming out. The mass deflation
of hairdos started happening. There was no grunge
yet? No, no grunge, not yet. So I remember Journey
and Loverboy were real big. Yep. Gosh, I'm going
to say either Loverboy's Turn Me Loose or Working
for the Weekend. That was close. That was in
the top ten. Oh, okay. Yeah. Or some Journey
hit. I'm not sure about Journey, but probably,
because that sounds about the right timeline.
They have that one about birth control. Don't
stop conceiving. Yes, yeah, yeah. Hold on to
that semen. Yeah, I mean, it's used in movies.
Yeah, it's great. It's all about not using birth
control and having lots of babies. Don't stop
conceiving. Yeah, and that's why they go black
on the Sopranos one. All right. 1987, the Bengals
walked like an Egyptian was the number one song.
It's kind of hard to believe that the Bengals,
being all poppy and a girl band, getting the
number one hit in 1987 with all the other bands.
Bon Jovi was huge. I think Steve Martin helped
because he had his old King Tut thing not too
long before that. So that kind of got raised
awareness for Egyptians and mummies and tombs.
And then you have the demonstrators. Yeah, they
come out and say, yeah, we need to give the Egyptians
more credit. Yeah. Plus Susanna Hoffs was just
so freaking hot. It was so hot. Oh, my God. I
about ruined my dick to her. Oh, did I say that?
You said the quiet part aloud, I think. Yeah,
I think I did. Yeah, yeah. And poor guy, he got
beat up pretty good over her. Yep. All right.
How about 1986? This one's a tricky one, because
it's a collab of a lot of people. Oh, gosh. Okay,
so it's one of those We Are the World or Beat
Africa kind of things? How about Dion and Friends,
as in Dion Warwick? Huh? Gladys Knight, Elton
John, and Stevie Wonder called That's What Friends
Are For. Oh, yeah. I remember it now, but not
a minute until. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, that was like
baby food for your ears. Yes. They made sure
every single note and every single syllable couldn't
possibly cause offense to anybody. Yeah, so they're
like, come here for the big grip hug. Yeah. It's
like the world's safest family -friendly music.
It was made boring as hell. You drop your toxic
masculinity at the door right now, mister. Put
it down. Put it down. In this room, nobody has
testicles. Testicles don't exist. They're evil.
Nobody has genitals. Yeah. Yeah. Ooh, yeah. Ooh,
ah. All right. 1985, I actually guessed this
before I looked it up. Okay, the emerging band
that did it was Wham. Oh. Careless Whisper. Careless
Whisper. Yeah. Yeah, with George Michael and
that other guy. Yeah, that nobody knows about.
Yeah. I think he was parking my car the other
day. Yeah. Nice guy. I really like him. Actually,
George Michael did a really nice thing for him.
Even though George Michael wrote that song years
before when he was in high school. He wrote all
the words, all the music, everything. Which one?
Careless Whisper? Careless Whisper. When he put
it out, he gave his partner in Wham half the
songwriting credits. That's good. So that way
that guy would be just as rich as George Michael
and never have to worry about money again. So
wherever he is, he's sitting on a pile of cash.
Yeah, yeah. George Michael is sitting on a cloud
or I don't know. Yeah, he's decomposing. In a
bathroom somewhere. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He did die young, didn't he? About 50. Yeah.
A heart attack, massive heart attack took him
out. Yeah. Usually that's because of a long cocaine
use. Well, yeah, yeah. It roasts your heart.
And it's funny how this stuff comes out way after
the fact. Like James Gandolfini, he died at 50.
Mm -hmm. From a heart attack, massive heart attack.
And then you find out years later that he was
a massive cokehead. Yes. He used to come on the
set and fuck things up, and he would actually
pay his co -stars for putting up with him. Yep.
And you're like, what, him? I thought he was
squeaky clean. It is. Yeah, everyone said how
he was just completely opposite of that soprano
character. No. Not so much. I think it kind of
got to him. Yeah. It's like when Toto's drummer
died, Jeff Porcaro. Oh, yeah. They started the
rumor that, oh, he'd been spraying pesticides
in his yard earlier and just had a bad reaction.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it was cocaine. It
was cocaine, yeah. He turned his blood vessels
into concrete pipe. John Etwistle. His heart
exploded. John Etwistle, another one of the who.
Yeah. They said at first, they said, yeah, coronary,
too bad, yeah, artery disease, yeah, sucks. And
then later on, it's like, oh, there might have
been a little bit of cocaine involved and a couple
of hookers. Yeah. It was like, oh, yeah, yeah,
a heart attack brought on by all the others.
Yeah, it's like you could say that. Cocaine and
ejaculation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You could say
that John F. Kennedy died of heart failure because
his heart stopped beating after his head was
blown open. Yes. You know, it all comes down
to at some point your heart stops. You could
call anything a cardiac event, a heart failure,
whatever, and not even really be lying. You know,
you could say whatever you want about Jackie
Kennedy or Onassis, whatever you want to call
her. She did try to put his head back together
after it was fucking blown off. I felt so bad
for her because her first instinct was to save
her husband's life, and she tried to put his
head back together after it had been shattered.
And if you look at that still photograph, she
got out of her seat and crawled backward onto
the trunk of the car to get a piece of his skull.
Yes. So that had to have been a shot from the
front. That's something they never bring up.
And Lee Harvey Oswald was behind. Behind, I know.
Yeah. No, the fix was in. The fix was in. It's
just like when Trump was almost assassinated.
There is a template that they use. And they,
you can say whoever they are. Whoever. Whoever
the real people are in charge. But this is what
happened. Okay, you got a guy, right? Okay. And
he suddenly just gets by all the security somewhere
and he's got a chip shot. Right there. Okay.
He dies. Nothing to see here. Nobody around.
Nothing. So, close case. Guy's dead. Lee Harvey
Oswald, he survived that, but he did not survive
the police tunnel that Jack Ruby, a reputed mobster
in Dallas, how'd he get there? He had no clerics
and he killed him. And then Jack Ruby died not
too long after. Two days later from cancer. Yes.
Another example I can give you is the organized
crime... boss of chicago i forget allegedly all
this yeah yeah um he went on vacation um he had
just moved out of this big palatial house because
he figured the irs paying too much attention
and moved to a much more modest ranch style home
a lot of them did yeah a lot of them did so he
went on vacation and then this other this other
thug in chicago decided to go rob his house because
he didn't like it that the mob was making him
pay tribute. So he went and was like, I'm just
going to go rob the guy's house. So he put together
a small crew and they went and robbed the guy's
house. So when Mob Boss gets back and finds out
that he's been burglarized, he contacts Tony
Spolatro, the Joe Pesci character from Casino.
Yes. he has him said, go find out who did this.
And he hunts them down. And remember that scene
in Casino where he's got the guy's head in a
vice? He said, give up your partner. That was
about this breakup. I didn't know that. I might
be confusing two stories, but anyway, Tony found
out who did it. And suddenly those guys started
showing up, shot to death, throats cut in the
trunks of their cars. And this is like 78, 79,
and 1980. In all fairness, that was pretty fucking
stupid. Yeah. But it's like guy after guy after
guy. One of them was apprehended by the mob guys
wearing a watch that belonged to the mob boss.
And they tortured the snot out of him. I mean,
they did all sorts of things to him before they
killed him. You see, those guys, if we went back
to, like, caveman days, those were the first
ones killed by the fucking lion. Yes. Yeah, that's
too dumb to live. And also, what he did was,
it's a known practice. I grew up with some, we'll
just leave them unnamed. They lived up the road
on the hill. I lived in North Kansas City. They
were up on the... on the bluff, the Missouri
River Bluffs over there off Gladstone Boulevard,
if you're familiar. And I used to hang out with
their kids. You didn't know what they did. You
had no idea. But I always thought it was weird
how they'd have a very modest outside of the
house. You walk in, there'd be a baby grand piano
and golden doorknobs. It's like, even as a child,
there's something going on here that I don't
know about. And I don't know if I want to know
about it. Maybe I shouldn't play dice with these
kids anymore. Yeah, really. Yeah, so anyhow.
So these bodies kept turning up. And then after
all of the people who ran the burglary had been
taken care of, there was a pause of a couple
of months, and then two more bodies showed up,
shot, didn't have their throats cut, but they
were shot and stuffed in the trunks of their
cars. Those were the two guys who had done all
the previous killings. It was like, you two guys,
here's the names of all the guys who ripped me
off, go kill them all. And then when they were
done, those two guys got killed. to break the
chain of accountability. I'm sure the federal
government has learned all these lessons, and
they have assassins they can use and then kill.
And that's what they did all the time, is they
would hire a couple of outside assassins and
then kill them right after. The guy who shot
and killed Joey Colombo in Philadelphia shot
himself moments later. It's like, hey, you kill
our big mob boss, and then they're going to kill
him. Yeah, then when they kill him, there's nobody
to talk about. Nobody knows what happened. Next
in line, come on up. And I'm sure there's a lot
of governments around the world who are bright
enough to figure that thing out and say, you
know, that works out pretty well. Maybe we'll
do that too. Yeah, you know, we talked about
wag the dog on the way here. What do you think
about my theory without going into it? Yeah,
sounds pretty right. Big fucking bowl of nothing.
But everyone's focusing in on it. It happens
all the time. Hey, look over there. Jingle the
keys in front of the baby's face so they don't
see mama walking out the door. Yeah, that's a
great way to describe dinner. Or hey, look, there's
a naked person running while someone grabs your
wallet. And you're like, where, where? Or peeks
at your cards. Or something. Alright, how about
1984? I should have guessed this because I was
a huge fan. I found him really refreshing. I
was going to say some hit by Van Halen, but I'm
guessing not. No, him. One person. One person.
He might have been from Minneapolis, maybe. Oh,
Prince. Yeah. When Doves Cry. When Doves Cry.
Yes. And I should have guessed it. Yeah. Because
1984 and Prince, I remember that album. I remember
thinking, what a guitar player. And nobody ever
talked about his guitar playing. Yeah. Oh, he
is so gifted. Yeah. That right there is why fentanyl
needs to be outlawed. Yeah. It took out Prince.
It did. Yeah. And then that was propofol on Michael
Jackson, so we're going to go ahead and let propofol
stay. We don't care about that, but we do care
about Prince. All right. All this tongue -in
-cheek. We know this. We don't want anyone dead.
All right. 1983. I just did a story about the...
I'm going to say journey. Okay, the drummer showed
up at a Black Sabbath store step. And the guy
said, hey, the police are here. Stuart Copeland,
the police? Yes. Okay. Yeah, the police every
breath you take. Every breath you take, yeah.
Yep, which was a creepy song. Oh, yeah. But she
admitted about stalking somebody. Yeah, but people
suddenly, oh, I'll play that at my wedding. Ew,
okay. Yeah, it's like, you really want to play
that? That guy was a creep chasing somebody and
wouldn't leave him alone. Yeah, I got this real
pretty song by Marilyn Manson that you want to
play. Or one by Lex Diamond. Maybe you'll play
it at your wedding. King Diamond. King Diamond,
yeah. Lex Diamond, they were fucking him up.
Yeah. I got to get you that flyer. The guy from
the hurricane, the manager of the hurricane,
was so pissed. He put a bounty on us. I think
it was like a couple hundred dollars to catch
who was putting that the fuckhammer was playing
at the hurricane. Because if someone was smart,
they wouldn't name themselves fuckhammer. Yeah.
Because everybody loved them for no reason. You
did all the legwork for them. I did all the legwork.
They could have just cashed right in. Yes. And
then the fact that Lake's Diamond looks so fucking
cool. They're as ugly as fucking sin in a church
on Sunday. But they tried to pretty it up with
a lot of makeup. Did not work. 1990. 90? Yeah,
this is kind of hip -hop pop. Oh, gosh. Can't
touch this. Close. End of the road. Boys to men.
Men to men. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Men to men now.
New men on the block. Yep. Yep, 1990. Backstreet
men. Backstreet men. Because they weren't boys.
They weren't kids. Backstreet men doing questionable
things. These were horny adult men that wanted
to rape your little daughter. Allegedly. Allegedly.
Yeah. Except for that gay one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He wanted your son. Yes. But that's okay, you
know. It was like that Elton John. Like that
Elton John song, Don't Let Your Son Go Down On
Me? Oh, that's not the way it goes? Oh, okay.
No, that's the way it goes. I'm pretty sure.
Yeah, that's it. How about 1991? Man, Soundgarden's
got to be in here somewhere. But I doubt that
they were the number one song in the country.
There's usually, you know, some... Unfortunately,
no, they're not anywhere on here. Corporate bullshit.
Usually winds up being the number one song. That's
pretty much what all these are, yeah. These are
forced down our throat. 91, I can't. I'm going
to guess Sweet Child of Mine. Well, that's a
good guess, but Bryan Adams, Everything I Do.
Oh, yeah, another mushy, soft ballad. That's
all they would let them do for a while. Rock
is getting too threatening. We need to make it
nice and soft and friendly. Too much. pull everyone's
teeth and cut everyone's balls off and just make
them all breathy voices. Yeah, that toxic masculinity
has no business in music. We need to end it now.
Frank Zappa was right about record producers.
They're all scum and slime and they all need
to go to jail. Yes, I agree with him. Record
executives, not producers, record executives,
that was it. You notice on Zappa's albums there
was no executive anything. Nobody wanted that
name next to their name because Zappa hated executives.
Yes. He also kind of hated women, if you read
the lyrics. He just kind of had a problem with
women. Yeah, he really did. Yeah. His track record
wasn't the best either. I think he had that album,
Thingfish, where there was a strong career woman
who had sex with a briefcase. Yeah, Zappa had
a problem with women. He did, yes. Very much
so. All right. 1990. 1990. This is a couple of
women that got together, and they were prominent
musician dads. Their hit was Hold On. Oh. How
about Wilson Phillips? Oh, okay. Okay. That was
hard. That's why I gave you all the clues. I
was thinking of a Kansas song called Hold On.
I couldn't get that out of me. Oh, that's right.
Hold on, baby, hold on. So yeah, the Hold On
was featured in the movie Bridesmaids, which
is a pretty freaking funny movie. Yeah, it was.
And I'm not going in order here. I'm actually
ascending. I was ascending. Now I'm descending.
It's more fun when you don't go in order. It
is, yeah. 1989. Named after a big city in the
Midwest. Wichita lineman. That's it. Chicago.
Oh, okay. Look away. Had to be from some movie
because I don't recognize the song. Yeah. You
notice there for a while movie theme songs were
like dominating the airwaves. It's like they
were trying to get us to not rock out anymore.
They didn't want us to be happy. I think some
of these songs that we don't recognize were probably
movie themes. They were huge, like you said.
This guy was down there a little ways, but in
a band a little bit ago. 1988. His real name
is George Papakirio. That would be one George
Michael. Oh, okay. I was thinking George Harrison.
George, right? Yeah, okay. That makes sense.
George Michael. I think it's Papa Garrio. Something
like that. It's a long -ass Greek name. Okay,
it was Faith. Oh, yeah. Which, I really like
that song. I thought the song was really... I
actually really like George Michael. I mean,
his voice had such a range, but he didn't really
use it in his music. until he joined Queen. Yeah.
And then he started showing, and I'm like, my
God, this guy, where was this guy this whole
time? Yeah. I knew he had talent, but not that
kind of talent. I remember listening to his song
Father Figure. Uh -huh. And even if people don't
like the music, listen to his vocal control.
It's amazing what he's able to accomplish. The
guy was so talented, and the thing is, to me,
was wasted on the pop music. Yeah. But he was
making money. Yeah. I would put George Michael's
vocal abilities in the same ballpark with Whitney
Houston. Me too. Because that woman was phenomenal.
And shame on Bobby Brown for destroying Whitney
Houston's life and robbing us of all the music
she could have created. Yeah, no, I agree. People
need to be smacking Bobby Brown in the face every
opportunity they get. They should, even though
they set him up, supposedly. Allegedly. Supposedly
allegedly. Yeah, they wanted to enhance her gangster
image. Allegedly. I don't know if this is true,
but this has been going around a long time. Imagine
Whitney Houston doing gangster rap. That would
just suck. That would suck right out loud. Boy,
my God, too. And I mean, she would, you know,
we don't even need to go into it. That whole
thing is sad. As a side note, there is a medical
examiner in Seattle. who has re -examined the
materials surrounding Kurt Cobain's death and
has ruled that this has been a staged event and
that he did not commit suicide. Who did this?
A medical examiner in Seattle. Now, he's not
official on the case, but he is a medical examiner,
and he got a hold of all the materials and everything
surrounding Kurt Cobain's death, and he says
this was staged. This was absolutely not a naturally
occurring event. This was staged. So expect that
guy to wind up dead pretty soon. Yes. Because
they've killed everyone else who's been trying
to tell us that Kurt Cobain was murdered. Too
bad they never got Courtney Love. Well, she's
one of the ones killing people. Oh, that's right.
She should use a killery claim. The guy that
she allegedly hired to go shoot him, he gave
two interviews saying, yeah, Courtney hired me,
she offered me $10 ,000 to go kill her husband.
After the second interview, he disappeared. And
he has never been found. I mean, it's like he
was just removed from life. Wow. Yeah. Okay.
Wherever Jimmy Hoffa is, that guy is too. Giant
Stadium? I don't know. All right. 2020. The year
2020. The COVID year. That fun year. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Gosh. I don't know that I was even listening
to the radio. I wasn't either. Yeah, what was
our hot song that year? The Weekend, but it's
spelled W -E -E -K -N -D. The Weekend. Weekend.
Like, you got weaker, so you've been weakened.
Oh, I guess it would be weakened. Okay, The Weekend.
He's got a weak need. He has weak knees, or he's
just been weakened. Who knows how they meant
it. Oh, well, Blinding Lights. Whatever. That's
the guy that destroyed his face with plastic
surgery. He just looks like bad taxidermy now.
What, the weekend, or the weekend guy? Yeah,
the weekend guy, yeah. Is that how they pronounced
it, the weekend? No, it's supposed to be the
weekend, but I pronounce it weekend, just to
be disrespectful. Okay, I believe it was weekend,
so okay. But yeah, he, man, he just didn't look
human anymore. No, no, he, yeah. In Blinding
Lights, I don't remember that song at all, do
you? No. In fact, I think he's gone back to using
his real name instead of that slang term, because
it just wasn't working for him. Yeah, I can't
remember. All right, 2019. I believe this, but
I did not know this song was this old. I can't
think of what would be there. Lil Nas featured
Billy Ray Cyrus, Old Town Road. Oh, okay. Yeah,
and I didn't think a song was that old. No. I
definitely thought it was post -COVID. Yeah.
Yeah. It is kind of surprising that Billy Ray
was still active in the music industry as recently
as 2019. No, I know. Isn't that weird? Yeah.
Yeah. I thought people pretty much already figured
him out by around the year 2000 or so. I think
his daughter probably helped his career along
again. That's true. Brought awareness to him,
all that good stuff. Yeah. 2018. Yep. His name
rhymes with rake, like garden rake. Drake? Yes.
Canadian guy? Yeah. The only thing I know about
Drake is some ridiculous person got his name
tattooed in giant letters across her forehead.
Oh, what a great idea. Yeah. God's Plan was the
name of the song, so I'll take their word on
it. Okay. All right. 2017. That would have been
the Grateful Dead Touch of Grey. This guy's a
pop guy. The music creeps. The greatest podcast
ever in the history of mankind. Just kidding.
That did not look like any type of a rock guy
at all. He looked like a goofy kid next door
that could sing really well. And his name is
Ed Sheerhan. Oh, yeah. Shape of You was the name
of the song. I made a very concentrated effort
to never hear any of Ed Sheerhan's music. That's
a smart move. I accidentally heard some one time,
and I had to go to therapy for a couple of months.
It was awful. I was screaming and night terrors
and everything. It was horrible. Just the uncontrollable
vomiting that happens. Oh, my God. I've got to
move on. I've got to move on. It was like the
other day I turned on the football game, and
I had the sound down, but I had the closed captioning
on. And it would say what one of the announcers
was saying, and then when the other announcer
would talk, it wasn't words. It would just say
in parentheses, you know, angry chimp noises.
or caveman grunting. It's like, who the hell?
So I turned the sound off. It was Tony Romo.
Well, of course. Yeah. So when he talks, AI can
only interpret it as angry chimps grunting. It
does sound like angry chimps grunting. Yeah.
The other day on a game, the Bills were lining
up for quarterback sneak, and he rushed in so
hard, he had to get the term tush -push in there.
He just had to scram it right in there right
before the play happened. He was so eager to
use that word. But they don't do the tush -push.
They do the push -push. Tony Romo just really
wanted to say that phrase on air. I'm sure they've
been told, say that as many times as possible.
Until they outlaw it. Yeah. All right. 2016.
This guy had some delightful times with... What
the hell is his name now? Damn it, the guy with
all the baby oil. P. Diddy. P. Diddy, yeah. Sean
Combs. Yeah, Sean Diddy Combs. Sean Beaver Oil
Combs. Justin Beaver would be. Justin Beaver,
oh yeah. The song's called Love Yourself. With
a penis, someone else's penis. Make love to yourself,
yeah. Yeah, with someone else's penis. Boy, Justin
Beaver's been just kind of. disappeared for a
while, hasn't he? Yes, he has. I mean, he's trying
to recover from all the times that Diddy raped
him. He needs to start doing, like, charity work
or something. He needs to rebuild his image because
people are, like, going, dude. Yeah, I mean,
for part of the time, he was a child being taken
advantage of by adults, but I think at some point
he started joining in wholeheartedly and embraced
that sick... pedophile lifestyle. Yes. And now
he's got to go, you know, redo himself and try
to get out from under it. I would agree. How
about 2021? That one I'm just going to blank
on. Okay, so this is spelled D -U -A. Dua? Dua.
Dua. Lipa. Or Lipa. L -I -P -A. So named after
liposuction. Yeah, do a liposuction. Yeah. Levitating.
You sure her first name isn't FUPA? It is. It's
FUPA. FUPA, which stands for fatty upper pubic
area. Yes, yeah. It's FUPA. FUPA liposuction.
Liposuction, yeah. And that would be levitating
after you lost all your weight. You know what's
funny? The other day I saw a commercial for one
of those, I won't say the name of the, but one
of those that do the cryogenic freeze thing to
remove fat. Yeah, where Ted Williams' head fucking
rotted. It's not normal liposuction. It's like
cool liposuction where they freeze the fat and
then suck it out of you. They showed the staff
of that place. Not a damn one of them. has had
that procedure done. I would never have it done.
All of them are very big people. It's like they
work there and they don't even want it done to
them. So you know that what they're doing is
pretty awful. They know the secrets. Yeah. Like
five years from now, your body's going to erode
into mush because of this bizarre procedure that
was done. It's like the employees won't even
use it and I ain't using it. No, I agree. No,
no, no. And those were all very big people working
at that weight loss clinic. Yeah. How about 2022?
I'm just going to go with it. Glass Animals,
Heat Waves. See these bands I don't even know.
2023, Morgan Wallen, Last Night. 2024, Teddy
Swims, Boost Control. 2025, though, Lady Gaga,
Bruno Mars, Die With a Smile. You know what's
interesting? Nowhere on that list was Taylor
Swift. That is interesting, isn't it? I thought
she had all the hits and was the hugest thing
ever, but maybe it was all just PR. Maybe it's
PR. Maybe PR convinced us Taylor Swift was a
lot bigger than she really was. I have a shit
ton of more, but I think we'll save them for
another time because I think it's probably starting
to get a little boring. I've got a list of old
bands that are still out there touring that just
need to stop and hang it up. Yeah. David Lee
Roth springs to mind. You know what? She is not
on here anywhere. Isn't that weird? That is really
weird. She must have a bunch of number twos.
Oh, yeah. And that could be used either way.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Oh, here's one.
Ace of Base. Ooh. All right. That was a long
time ago. Yes, it was. Alright, starting our
list of bands that are still touring that need
to just cut it out. Okay. Bon Jovi. Yes. If you
take a look at his clips, live clips from 2024
and 2025, his voice is nothing like it used to
be. I mean, you think of Bad Medicine and Young
Guns and Living on a Prayer, that's not how he
sounds. You would not even recognize him anymore.
It's weak. It's broken. He looks like Ellen DeGeneres.
He really does. He's got tons of loose, wrinkly
arm skin hanging down. When he puts his arms
over his head in the rock and roll gesture, there's
all this loose, crepe -looking, wobbly skin.
It's like, dude, put a long -sleeved shirt on,
please. He's not David Lee Roth cringe -worthy,
but I'm telling you, in another few years, he
might be there. Yeah. Yeah. And something, you
know, I saw clips of a lot of these bands and
their live performances, and I made a list of
things that the tour managers do to try to make
it more palatable for the crowd. Okay, the songs
are slowed down. Way slower. So anytime you go
out and see one of these bands from the 70s or
80s or whatever, their songs are going to be
really slow because they just can't sing them
fast enough. A lot of them are lowered in pitch
because they can't sing that high anymore. The
hard parts are rewritten and rearranged where
the song doesn't even sound like it used to because
the singer can't sing that anymore. Or they hand
off the vocals to the backing vocals, which will
drown out the singer so you can't tell they're
not hitting the note. Or the singer will just
hold the microphone out to the crowd. That's
something Vince Neil does about half the time.
It drives me fucking nuts. It's because he can't
sing and he's out of breath and he's tired. Well,
the problem is I figured it out. And you tell
me if you think I'm wrong, okay? Vince Neil wants
to act like his fatness is not impeding on him.
So he runs as fast as he can on stage. Yeah.
But he can't sing when he does that. If he stood
still, he'd be able to sing quite a bit better.
Yeah. It doesn't look well for him. Number one,
he's tubby and he's running in leather pants.
Not a good look. Number two, when he does that,
he sticks a microphone out and doesn't do anything.
Yeah. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Another thing that
they'll do is they'll do talk singing, where
they don't sing the notes anymore. They just
kind of talk the line. Bon Jovi's doing a shit
ton of that. He's done a shit ton of that. I'll
tell you another one that's doing it, but he
has a really, really good excuse. It's Ian Gillen.
He's 82. Yeah. Yeah, in fact, Dee Purple's on
this list. Oh, okay. Yeah. Except Ian Pace. Yeah,
that's true. Ian Pace could definitely still
be his fan. I can't believe it, yeah. Now, a
lot of these tours will also manage the energy.
It's like Vince Neil running around on the stage.
He'll only do that every few minutes. Yeah. And
they'll have a slow song. And then they'll have
a fast song and then three more slow songs because
they can't maintain the energy level. They have
lots of visual distraction on stage. Like 15
people dancing around with costumes and lights
going off and smoke and pyrotechnics. It's like
do everything but look and pay attention to the
singer because they can't hack it anymore. They'll
use backing tracks. They'll do unplugged versions,
which gives an excuse to sing low and soft and
easy. Or they'll do non -vocal versions or medleys.
Now, this is something Alice Cooper's been doing
for years. He'll take, like, five of his best
songs, and he'll have the band do an instrumental
medley of them while he goes offstage. and takes
a rest, gets to drink water, pees, maybe gets
an IV, I don't know. But he's taking it easy.
He's taking an extra long break while nobody
is singing and Alice isn't even on the stage
for about 10 minutes. It's because he's old and
he's tired. The one person that didn't ever do
that in his latter years was Ozzy. This is pre
-2020, pre -late 2019. He never did medleys.
He always did the whole song and that was smart
of him because people didn't want a medley. No.
No, I've always disliked the medley. Well, even
Dio did a lot of medleys with Sabbath in on his
own, and I never did like him. Yeah. No. Next
up, we have Leonard Skinner. No original members
left. Duh. It's a tribute band. I know. That's
all it is, and people go and spend... ridiculous
amounts of money thinking they're seeing Lynyrd
Skynyrd and the sing -along is like, yay, just
like my youth. No, this is a tribute band. Rob
wants to go see them, and I warned him. I said,
this is a tribute band. He said, no, I just want
to go see them so I can tell people I've seen
them. It's the name. So there's value in that,
I guess. I'm not one of those guys. But, you
know, that's... And so much of this just looks
so much like a cash grab. It's like everybody
associated with these tours knows that they can't
hack it anymore. Dave Lee Roth is a cash grab.
But they know that the fans are so nostalgic
and such suckers for I want to feel good, I want
to recapture my youth. They'll go watch an opossum
taking a diuretic dump, if it sounds like this
thing. Look, I mean... I think that David Lee
Roth knows it, but when he saw all these other
bands that couldn't do it anymore, he's like,
because he did retire because he couldn't do
it anymore. I think now he's just like going,
if people are going to buy the tickets, I don't
give a shit. Alex Lifeson of Rush retired because
he couldn't do it anymore. I'll just say he's
back. Yeah, he got dead babies inserted. I don't
know. Allegedly, possibly, maybe, who knows.
Paul McCartney. Oh, yeah. His voice is gone.
Absolutely gone. He cannot sing even a little
bit anymore. It fucking hurts me to hear it.
That's how it sounds. That's exactly how it sounds.
He sounds like Yoko. It's ridiculous. He does.
He sounds worse than Yoko. He has no power, no
range. He can't hit any notes. He kind of barks
and warbles and talks his way through. Father
Time took a baseball bat in his voice. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, check out the Saturday Night Live
50th Anniversary Show. And look at his performance
there. Is that where I saw him? It's sickening.
I think that's what I'm referring to. Yeah, it's
like, who the hell is so corrupt inside that
they're willing to put this poor sick old man
on stage and make money off of him? That's just
sick. That would be NBC. That would be NBC, yeah.
Paul McCartney is so stubborn that he says, I'm
never retiring, I'm always going to do this.
Like, time to hide his shoes, you know? Hide
his clothes so he can't get on stage. The guy
is just, yeah. Yeah. I have zero respect left
for Paul McCartney because he's just this disgusting
creature. Yeah, I agree. All right, next up we
have Deep Purple. And for them, they mostly focused
on Ian Gillian. He can't hit the notes. He can't
do anything with the power. For some reason,
they mentioned that he's, like, only has 30 %
of his vision left. I don't know how that would
affect anything performance -wise, but... Well,
he's going to stand there anyhow. He's 82. Yeah,
yeah. Okay, well, all right. There is a possibility
he's damaging his legacy by, you know, is this
what you want people to remember? Well, I don't
think they're popular enough now for him to damage
his legacy. This is true. This is true. I mean...
When I went to the Uptown Theater, it was bad
enough in St. Louis with all the older people
there, right? Yeah. You know, the walkers and
all that. But when I saw them a couple of years
later, this is like, I don't know, 2019, I believe,
and saw all the wheelchairs and the walkers and
the oxygen tanks, I was like going... Yeah, yeah.
The majority of the people that knew what they
were like in their heyday are dead or dying.
Yeah, yeah. So now they can reinvent themselves
as whatever they want. Yeah, I don't think he's
damaging his legacy because all those people
are either dead or on their way there. Good point,
good point. But anyhow, nevertheless, I need
to stop. Next up, Metallica. Their new material
is weak. Songwriting -wise, intensity -wise,
it's just weak. Oh, it's horrible. It's horrible.
Hetfield used to have that big, powerful roar
of a voice. It's nothing. It's nothing anymore.
It's a shadow of what it used to be. They distort
their legacy 100%. Yeah. 100%. 100%. Yeah. Every
time Lars posts a video online of his live drumming,
he gets relentlessly roasted by the drumming
community. Because he never was that good. No,
no. It was... It was always PR. I mean, they
built up a reputation. I remember hearing so
many people saying, oh, he's the greatest drummer
in heavy metal, greatest drummer in hard rock.
He's just awesome. He's the drumming god. That
was PR. That was like Dallas calling themselves
America's team. Yeah. Just because they made
it up and said it didn't mean it's true. Yeah.
Back in mid-'90s, Metallica was touring with
Dream Theater opening. Mm -hmm. And I went to
see the drummer, Mike Portnoy, in the drum clinic.
I love him, and he's back. He is back. He's awesome.
But after the clinic, I got a chance to talk
with him. And he was saying during the tour with
Metallica, they had the drummer backstage doing
Lars' double kick parts because Lars couldn't
do it. He didn't have the power, didn't have
the timing, he didn't have the energy. He just
couldn't do it. So they roasted him mercilessly.
on that whole tour about needing a backup drummer
backstage to cover his ass. And so they never
really thought he was anything special. And it
was funny to see the Metallica fans in the audience
going, I'm having to think about it. Well, Metallica
shoved away the real fans and bought a bunch
of posers. Yes, they did. Yeah. Somebody convinced
Metallica, here's how you can make the most money
in the short term. And they said, sign us up.
Yeah. Well, it started in the 90s when they did
the Alternica version of Metallica. And they
never recovered from that. Never. The Who. I
think they have actually quit. Roger Daltrey
is a weak, old, whiny, insecure creep who blames
everyone else for his own mistakes and gets bandmates
fired for his own mistakes. For his own mistakes,
yeah. He has no voice left, no stage presence.
He's publicly... secured his place as a whiny
little crybaby. Yep. Ugh. Yeah. And even Pete
Townsend has come out saying, you know, I don't
enjoy these Who tours. They're a struggle. It's
work to get through it. I don't enjoy it, and
I don't like it. When he was trying, he was wanting
to do another album to stay active, and then
after Roger Daltrey pulled all his shit, he was
like, I think I'm going to retire. Yep. I'm all
done. Yeah. Up next, the Eagles. Insane ticket
prices. Fuck them. Don Henley's the only one
left in the band. And he sucks. And it's just
a cash grab. Yep. All of the vocals and most
of the instruments are pre -recorded. And I watched
a guy do an audio analysis of a number of Eagles
concerts. And he did music, he did guitar solos,
and he did vocals. And he took... I think three
examples of the song Seven Bridges Road with
all those harmonies in it. And he isolated out
the vocals. This is from this date in this town.
This is from two years previous in this town.
And this is from a year before that in this town.
And he plotted the audio spectrum. They were
identical. Which means they were pre -recorded.
Yes, they were just playing the same tape over
and over. Because it's not physically possible
for any human, let alone a group of humans. to
perfectly reproduce what they did before over
and over in a live setting. Can't happen. Same
with the guitar solos. Note for note, pause for
pause, timing exactly the same guitar solo that
has been used in a hundred other shows. Everything
is pre -recorded. They just get up there and
fake their way through, and people are paying
$1 ,000 a seat for that shit. It's not that I
don't believe they're doing this. It's the fact
that they sell out. Yeah. Their fans are suckers
and morons and fools. It's disgusting. A bunch
of fucking rubes that just enjoy getting fucking
pleased. Now, my wife is a big Eagles fan. So
we hear Eagles a lot around my house. But I just
don't like them anymore because... They're creeps.
I hear their music and don't like it either.
I'm like, nah, I don't like them. It's like that
song by Gary Glitter, Rock and Roll Part 2. I
can't listen to that either. I was never a fan
of that song, but if I was, I wouldn't listen
to it now because the guy's a fucking creep.
Now that I know that he's a completely unrepentant
child molester and he's been convicted numerous
times and always claims... Unapologetic. Unapologetic.
Doesn't care. Doesn't care. He's been kicked
out of numerous countries and banned from ever
returning because he wants to come over and rape
their children. Yes. I don't want to hear his
song. Isn't he in jail in Vietnam or something
right now? Britain. Britain. Yeah, he's British.
And the last thing, he was set free again and
after many, many years was allowed to have a
cell phone on the condition that it was regularly
checked and monitored. And it wasn't a week before
he had child porn on his telephone. Yeah. And
then he claimed, oh, I don't know how that got
there. That's not my fault. I didn't do it. And
then they threw his ass back in jail. But I went
to a wedding a couple years ago where they played
that song at the wedding reception, and I thought,
are you people insane? This guy is an unrepentant,
unapologetic pedophile, and you're listening
to his music? Okay. Your choice, I guess. Anyway,
Iron Maiden. It was amid the list. Bruce can't
sing very high anymore. He can't sing very long.
He talks through a lot of his lyrics. I didn't
know that. Audiences have commented on how exhausted
he looks from the beginning of the show onward.
He just looks exhausted. Struggling to get through
the show. And the fact that Nico McBrain is gone.
It just don't sound the same. And a lot of Iron
Maiden fans are like, the combination of no Nico.
And Bruce can't sing the way he used to. It's
just not the same thundering thing anymore. Yeah.
It's just kind of a shadow of what it used to
be. Yeah. You know, that sucks because the last
time I saw him, it was spoken word, so he didn't
sing. Yeah. And it was so good. I just hate to
think that Bruce Dickinson is one of them now
that are still trying to keep it going when it's
not possible. I know. It makes you wonder, do
they have obligations where they really can't
get out of this and they have to pretend that
they're on board? I think it's the denial of
your own mortality. I can keep doing this. No
big deal. I didn't age that much. Look at me.
I look young. I'm putting Alice Cooper on this
list as well. Unfortunately. He can still sing
about as well as he used to because he never
was all that great of a singer anyway. But the
thing that I'm really tired of is all the shows
are identical anymore. Back when we saw him in
St. Louis, he threw in a couple of songs from
his past catalog that I'd never heard him play
live before. I was like, oh, that's pretty cool.
Never heard Halo of Flies before. But anymore,
he's dropped all that. Now it's just the same
tired set list that he's been using for a long,
long time. You know, I'm 18, feed my Frankenstein,
poison, and just on and on and on. And the medleys
kill Alice Cooper. Yeah, as I said before, they
do the medley while he leaves the stage and goes
take a rest somewhere. And it's the same band
members. on his touring band. They play exactly
the same way. The stage show is pretty much almost
the same for a version that I've seen before.
The encores are the same. It's like, I've seen
this concert a dozen times already. I want something
new. I want something different. It's just the
same. It's just over and over and over. Supposedly,
he's doing a farewell tour. So, if that is different
and noticeably different and a whole different
song list and set list and stuff... You're right.
He was going out with somebody. It was something
like David Copperfield, but it's not. Chris Angel.
Chris Angel. Yeah. I don't hear anything about
those shows anymore. I think that was a limited
run and it's done. And it's done. I think so.
But yeah, I'm not going to go see Alice again.
I don't have a reason to. No. I mean, if he goes
on tour... And there were reviews of his show
saying, yes, this is totally different. He's
revamped. He's gone back to the beginning. Then
I'll think about it. Then I'll try it. But if
it's the same thing I've already seen a bunch
of times, I don't need it. I'm done with the
bullshit concert industry and them stealing my
money constantly. Fuck them. I'm so sick of them.
The government needs to get involved in that
and make sure that these pieces of shit give
you your money back instead of credit. I'm fucking
sick of it. The Glenn Hughes tour canceled before
it even started. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.
Yeah, and then the lying to people that it was
a health issue and it was because they didn't
sell enough. They didn't sell enough tickets.
Not enough pre -sales. If they don't get enough
pre -sale, then they have to borrow money to
go on tour and they don't want to do that. They're
not going to do that. They'd rather borrow our
money. I want to say fuck every one of them.
I'm tired of them. They're musicians and everything
because they're in on it too. Fuck every one
of them. They may have a great talent. I might
love what they do, but I think personally they're
all pieces of shit. No kidding. So, anyhow. It's
their choice to be part of this. Now this racket.
Yeah, I was the hugest Glenn Hughes fan. Now
I don't fucking like him. Twisted Sister. They
already did the farewell tour. Did the whole
farewell, we're done, bye thing. And now they're
back. The drummer's gone. Yeah. And now it's
like Dee Snider and whoever. AJ Perro or something
like that was the drummer. Was that it? AJ Perro.
Sounds right. And then I think the bassist passed
away. Yeah. So this is the Dee Snider cash grab.
I mean, he can still sort of sing like he used
to and still kind of do the stuff. But for him,
it never was singing. It was his crazy stage
presence. Yes, and the wild makeup and the bizarre.
It's like a very ugly man wearing girls' makeup.
He looked like a zombie hooker. Yeah, definitely
a zombie hooker. I mean, he's a smart guy. He's
an interesting guy. Oh, I love the guy. Especially
the PMRC stuff. Yeah. But he's ugly as a box
of boiled shit. Yeah. But he was so cool tearing
up the idiots. Of course, so am I. Same here.
He was so cool tearing up the fucking idiots
at the PMRC. Tipper Gore. Yeah, he was one of
the... Yeah, Al Gore's wife. Allegedly. He was
one of the... Yeah, allegedly. So... Anyhow,
he, what was I going to say? Oh, he was one of
the musicians, he was one of the entertainers
that tore them up and they didn't even understand
how bad he tore them up. Yes, they were really
expecting all these rock and rollers to be idiots
and mouth breathers. The only idiots on that
was them. They were like twice as smart and twice
as prepared as all these supposed experts on
the panel or committee. And they thought, oh,
we're just going to run roughshod over these
long hairs. Oh, and how about their asses handed
to them? John Denver. Yes. Oh, they thought he
was going to start pointing their bat for them.
He's like, no, no, no, no, no. Y 'all discriminated
against my song, too, so I'm on their side, not
yours. I think he would have been anyhow, but
still. I mean, because he was a musician, a damn
good one, and he knows that expressing yourself
doesn't exactly make everybody happy. Yeah. But
that's what it's about. The big three, I think,
were John Denver, because he's so accessible
and so popular, and everyone thought he was such
a nice guy, and he was not on their side. Oh,
he tilted the scale. When he got off of that
podium, everyone, like, you could see everything
just deflated over there in the PMRC. But they
got their revenge on him. John Denver wanted
to go up in the space shuttle, but because he
embarrassed and humiliated the committee, they
black -hauled him from NASA. Really? Yep. Fucking
dicks. Aren't they? Yeah. But the second person
was Dee Snider, who's like an everyman but made
a ton of sense and was very clear and everyone
got what he was saying. And the third was Frank
Zappa. Frank Zappa. Who knew every... Hey there,
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from the coroner and the death of Ace Brealey.
His founding member, lead guitarist, and successful
solo artist was. Ace had a stroke and led to
his fall that resulted in a brain bleed and his
unfortunate passing. We already miss you, Ace.
Condolences to his family and friends. This is
Johnny Rohypnol. That was your music news. And
remember, bar chords are bullshit. Everything.
And knew everything. And he called them all out
on lies and misinformation and misrepresentation.
And no, that's not correct. Here's what's correct.
And here's how you can tell it's correct. But
he just embarrassed the snot out of them. But
he wasn't all that relatable to your average.
No, no, no. Most people didn't get it. He's an
intellectual that people didn't think was an
intellectual. Yeah. I mean, if you listened to
his music, you would know he was. Yeah. Because
he wrote the lyrics and obviously there's a lot
going on in the head. There's a lot of intelligence
and creativity. Yes. Obviously, yeah. But yeah,
he loved it. Yeah, I did too. And the thing is,
is he tore them up so bad that they didn't even
understand how bad he tore them up, which was
funny as hell. They had to get their lawyers
to come back later and review the testimony and
say, here's exactly how he yanked your pants
down in front of the world. Yeah, he pantsed
them. And for that, I always owe gratitude to
Frank Zappa. Besides that, all the music he influenced.
I mean, as him himself, you could say that, yeah,
he was a good... He was a good star and everything,
you know. He was fairly popular, but he couldn't
reach much more heights not being so himself.
Yeah. So, anyhow. Aerosmith, they forced the
drummer out. They continue to force the drummer
out every chance they get. They're using backing
tracks. They have low -energy shows. Who is this?
Aerosmith. Oh, Aerosmith, yeah. And despite all
the talk to the contrary, Steven Tyler's voice
is not anything like it used to be. They're saying
it's fine? No. He fractured his larynx, and you
don't just come back 100 % from that. And also
his asshole, too, I heard. He fractured his asshole.
I don't know how that happened allegedly, but
we're not here to judge. And we talked about
David Lee Roth. He's just like creep personified.
That disgusting grin on his face constantly.
He does this on purpose, I'm almost certain,
just like Corey Feldman. Yes. Same thing. He's
trying to creep you out. Yeah. So you keep talking
about him. Yeah, and he knows that everything
on YouTube is posted when he acts like he's jerking
off or when he grabs his ass and almost fingers
himself. Yeah. All that garbage that he does.
Watch me check my own oil. Yeah. So everyone
goes back and goes, look what this guy did. And
then people go, you know what, I wasn't going
to go watch it, but I think I want to watch this
train wreck. Yeah. Makes sense. That could be
part of it. Yeah, I think so. Or he could just
be insane. Yeah. Last one I got is Bruce Springsteen.
Now, again, he looks like Woody Allen on a bad
day. There's nothing left of his voice. He struggles,
he screams, he screams, he screws his face up
into these weird contortions, and he still almost
barely hits the notes. And these are notes that
he... could have easily hit, and the high ones,
the hard ones, he didn't even try. And it's not
like he's that great of a singer to begin with.
He's a horrible singer. Yeah. No, me and Rob
just fucking tore him up on the last podcast,
the one before this. And the reason is because
he's supposed to be Mr. America. You know, I
was in Vietnam. I wore the American bandana in
my back pocket. You know, son, you know, I went
to the VA. Man, he said you don't understand.
All this stuff about loving America. And then
you got this bitter old man that fucking seemingly
hates everything about us and won't shut up.
Yes. You know, the guy, that's the type of guy
that needs to go away forever. Just shut up.
Go find something to do. In Argentina. Get the
fuck out of here. He's letting everyone know
that he's always been a hypocrite and they've
always been lying to us about his image. Yes.
Yeah, that guy had never been what he posed to
be in my opinion. It's like the poster child
for destroying your legacy. Oh, yeah, yeah. And
I'd like to just be able to meet Bruce Springsteen
one time and go, dude, you're the only one that
thinks anything of yourself. Yeah. You are your
biggest fan. Yep. And there's not that many others.
So maybe you ought to rethink about your, recalibrate
your life. Yeah. So, anyhow. You got something
or I got something? So I've got Overlook Singers
and I've got Overlook Drummers. Let's do the
Overlook Singers first. Okay. First on my list
is Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson
Starship. Okay, people would have to go back.
This is pre -Gray Slick? No, this is with Gray
Slick. Was this with Gray Slick? But he was often
overshadowed by Gray Slick. They pretty much
had about the same vocal range. So it was really
tough for them. Was anyone singing Jamie? No,
that was Mickey Thomas. That was Mickey Thomas.
Yeah, but he did like Miracles. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, yeah, yeah. Okay, I remember. Yeah, a little
softer, but he could still hit the high notes.
It was a crooner's voice almost. Yeah, you know
what? You're right. That guy was a great singer.
And me, I always just think of Mickey Thomas.
I don't think, you know what I mean? But I forgot
there was people before him. And then Grace Slick
was so prolific on everything that she did. And
I think the band learned early that people at
the live shows would rather see Grace Slick in
front of the microphone than Marty. Yeah. But
Marty was the principal songwriter for all the
early years, all the early albums. I mean, he
was writing and writing and writing. And they
eventually just unceremoniously kicked his ass
out for Mickey Thomas. Wow. And I think the idea
at the time was Marty wouldn't take a knee in
front of Grace Lick. So they're like, okay, you're
out. Mickey, you can join the band if you know
Grace Lick is your boss. You have to do what
she tells you. And he was like, all right. And
he took and tucked his nuts in and said, all
right, I'll do it. He'd been singing for Elvin
Bishop, Fooled Around and Fell in Love. Oh, yeah.
That's Mickey Thomas. I didn't know that, but
yeah, okay. But, yeah, Marty Balin never got
the respect he needed. Part of that deal was
Grace Slick got to carry around his balls in
her pocket. Helped him hit the high notes. Yes,
it really did. He didn't have his balls anymore.
Yes. Jack Bruce, the bass player for Cream. He
sang lead on Sunshine of Your Love, White Room,
I Feel Free. Wow. Much better singer than Eric
Clapton. Oh, God. Much better singer. Yeah, much,
much better. But he was constantly overshadowed
by slow hand, I hate immigrants, Eric Clapton.
Well, I read something. I was really on Eric
Clapton bad. And, yeah, he did do that. He did
say that and all that. He's not a very nice person
to a lot of people. Yeah. Okay. So there was
a rumor that was like really, really big time
that he told Ace Frehley at a signing one time
that he was nothing more. He wasn't a guitar
player. He was a clown in a circus. That was
false. No, him and Ace got along really well
because he was one of Ace's idols. So they were
trying to stir up controversy. Yeah, but I read
that and then I did some other searches and it
said, no, that did not happen. That was just
someone coming up with that. So he didn't do
that. He did everything else, but he didn't do
that. Including George Harrison's wife. Yeah.
Can't forget that. Burton Cummings from the Guess
Who. Oh, okay. American Woman, No Sugar Tonight
in My Coffee, These Eyes, No Time. Yeah. Amazing
voice. I would agree. And he went solo from the
Guess Who, and that's when Randy Bachman left
the band too and Gordon Bachman turned it over,
right? Yep, BTO. Yep. But Burton Cummings, amazing
voice. I would agree. The songs that he put out
kind of changed after he left the Guess Who.
He became a lot more contemporary adult pop.
Yeah, he was trying to kind of be like a star.
Yeah. More of a star than in a system, in a band.
Yeah. Okay. Brad Delp of Boston. Yes. The super
high voice. I've always felt that. Yeah. Yeah,
he was incredible. Yeah, but Boston didn't put
out albums very often. It was like three years
between albums. It was a record. dispute. That's
why they waited 10 years to put out Boston 3.
And by that time, no one cared about them. They
had a couple of really good hits on there. Amanda,
and then what was the other one? Amanda's the
only one I remember. There's another one too.
It wasn't quite as big as Amanda, but the thing
is, they weren't that big of hits because people
forgot about them. They were doing it to prove
a point because they were getting fucked over
by the record company, but it ruined their career.
And Tom Schultz, who basically created Boston,
he went to work for Peavey. And so he was making
tons of money designing amplifiers and coming
up with stuff for Eddie Van Halen to use. Oh,
yeah. He was having no trouble at all. All of
Boston, man, those guys were highly educated
and business people. They did not need the music
industry, and that's why they waited 10 years.
Yeah. I remember when the first album came out,
it was like, wow, this is amazing. And then their
second one didn't come out for three years. And
when it came out, I thought, well, this is still
good, but it would have been even better two
years ago. And then it was another ten years,
and the third album came out, and I thought,
this just sounds like sad nostalgia now. Yeah,
and it was. And it was all drum machine. They
tried to pretend it wasn't, but every track I
heard on Boston 3 was a drum machine. You know,
I don't claim to be a good musician at all. As
a matter of fact, I'm horrible, but you can tell.
Yeah. Had a sad end to Brad Delvin. Yeah. Oh,
yeah, yeah, yeah. He killed himself. But you
don't want to know the best story I got out of
that was? What? He put signs up everywhere going,
be careful, carbon monoxide. Yes. He didn't want
anyone else to die. He didn't want the first
responders to get hurt. Yeah, it was sad. He
committed suicide in his apartment, I believe.
Yeah. Yeah. He was living with his fiancée slash
girlfriend. Yeah. And they had an argument, and
she asked him to move out. So he moved in with
her sister and her husband. Oh, yeah. And was
staying in their guest room. And then he set
up cameras so he could watch them having sex
and got caught. That's okay, okay, okay. And
so his girlfriend and the sister both said, you
know, you need to come clean on this and make
amends, et cetera. And so he did. He apologized
to them, but then he decided that... professionally
and personally, he couldn't stand the shame,
so that's when he decided to delete himself.
I did not remember this story. I read it afterwards,
after he killed himself. I didn't know any of
this went on. I didn't either. But also, he did
it with charcoal. Yeah, it was like a whole bunch
of little Weber grills. Yeah, all over his apartment.
That'll do the trick, let me tell you. Yeah.
Of course, then Greta Thunberg's going to come
and yell at him for his carbon emissions. Yes.
Did you pay your carbon tax? Who are you, you
little bitch? Little attention whore. Hey, you
want to boot to the head, you little bitch? Get
out of here. Here's another one. David Draymond
of Disturbed. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay.
Yeah, but he's got much broader range an amazing
vocal control. Actually. I know that I've heard
him singing ballads Yeah, you listen to him sing
the sound of silence. Oh my god. Yeah incredible
voice Apparently the live version is even better
than the studio. Yes. He does it better than
The original band Simon and Garfunkel. Yeah,
he did it so much better than those guys. Oh
my gosh I mean because the way he did it he described
how the person was feeling Not by saying it,
but by his sound, his voice. It was masterful.
And after that, I was like, that guy's really
fucking good. And another one is Phil Anselmo.
Yes. Yeah. That guy's range is insane. He had
a beautiful ballad voice. It was deep and rich.
Yeah. It's just not the kind of music he wanted
to do. No, no, no, no. He wanted to do much other
things. But he did well in it, and so did Dave
Draymond. Oh, okay. I'm just trying to decipher
my handwriting here. Corey Glover from Living
Color. Remember the song Cult of Personality?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was that the singer? That was
the singer. Okay. He had a great voice. Amazing.
I got that album and the second album after that
called Time's Up. And amazing vocal ability.
You don't hear it on the radio hits, but you
listen to the rest of the album. Damn, that guy's
insane. Even the guitarist. Yeah. The guitarist
is insane on the scale. Yeah, it was Vernon Reed,
I think, is the guitar player. Yes. His scale
is just insane. He would go up and down, back
and forth. Almost Eddie Van Halen -esque. Yeah.
Yeah. He never got the credit either. No, no.
A lot of people looked down on him because he
used a signal processor like Steve Vai uses.
Yeah, but still, the talent's there. You can't
take away the talent because of that. But anyhow.
The weird thing about Corey Glover is he was
a minor character in the 1986 Oliver Stone movie,
Platoon. Yes. He was in there. Corey Glover.
You learn something every day. Case in point.
Did you know that crooner Chris Isaac was in
Silence of the Lambs? No. He was the officer
in charge of the SWAT team. Fuck. That was Chris
Isaac. I'll tell you how this happened is the
producers or an actor, they were fans of those
people. They probably called him and said, hey,
you want to do a cameo? Yeah, I imagine so. Go
out and get your SAG card. Come on over. Oh,
did you read the cameo thing that the guy's doing?
He was fooling people. He came up with a fake
cameo. You know cameo is the one where the stars
come in and go, and you pay them. And they go,
hey, I just wanted to wish Mark a happy birthday.
He's my best friend. I love the guy. I remember
when we used to rip off people's shoes and put
shit in it. They would do this, and according
to how long your message is, is how much they
charged you. The guy was a really good impersonator,
and he came up with a fake phone number that
he answered. And then if he could do that voice,
he would charge a person to do that voice, but
it was fake. That's awesome. I know. I was like,
brilliant. And the thing is, they didn't charge
him. They did not charge him because of the way
he worded it. Nice. Because when people were
buying this, in the fine print, it said, this
may not be actually who you're faking it. And
he got away with it. Excellent. Which I'm all
for. I'm all for that. I think that's great if
you can do that. Lizzie Hale. The Pale Storm.
Oh, fuck yeah. She did guest appearances with
Skid Row in 2024, and she handled their stuff
just fine. Yes, I loved her in Skid Row, actually.
She has a super strong, super powerful voice.
You know, and they had so many lead singers since
Sebastian Bach. She was the only one that I really,
really liked. I didn't like Johnny Sollinger,
and I didn't like the guy before him, and the
guy before him, and the guy before him, and the
guy before him. But I liked her in it. And then
a couple guys before them, I didn't care for
them either. Here's one out of left field, Peter
Gabriel. I could see that. He's got, I mean,
it's not like a classically beautiful voice,
but he has an immense emotional range. And he
has the ability to lose control when he's singing.
Where it doesn't sound bad, it just sounds like
he's really, really into it. His range in Games
Without Frontiers is insane. And it's done very
offhanded. Yeah. You go, damn, so popular. Yeah,
he's just like tossing off these little lines.
Yeah, and it's like, wow, that is fucking great.
Yeah. But it's not long form. Yeah. There's just
little bits here that he threw in there that
you can tell there's a lot of underlying talent
there. I always liked him better than Phil Collins
anyhow. One of my favorite songs from him is
My Body is a Cage. And it's long and it's kind
of orchestral. And the phrasing is odd, so it
took a lot of talent. And the emotion that he
puts into his voice is really intense. I've always
been a big Peter Gabriel fan, though. I've always
recognized his talent, so I can totally believe
that. Eric Burton of Animals and War. His song,
House of the Rising Sun, you look at his face
and you hear that voice coming out of it and
you're like, this doesn't make sense. That amazing
voice coming out of this kind of ordinary looking
guy, it's something else. But he's got an incredible
voice. I don't know if he's still alive or not,
but he had an incredible voice. I don't know,
but yeah, I would agree with that. Steve Marriott
from Humble Pie and the Small Faces. Oh yeah,
another good one. Great voice, great voice. Here's
one most people haven't heard of. Jimmy Hall.
He was the singer for Wet Willie. Uncle Willie?
Yeah, but Wet Willie was kind of soul, funk,
blues, and southern rock all together. And he
had a smooth yet rough voice that just fit in
perfectly with the band. And Wet Willie never
got big, but they've got some awesome songs.
If you want to do a little dive on some of their
albums. I'm going to look at them later, but
I'm going to see if Uncle Willie's still around.
Do you remember them? The guy was kind of an
Alice Cooper ripoff, but, I mean, he was really
good, though. I wonder if he's still around.
He's probably dead. He was old back then. Uncle
Willie Band. Go ahead, anyhow. There's an album
cover for Wet Willie that shows a naked woman
spread -eagled. Uncle Willie Band. And there's
an arm with a boxing glove punching her right
in the crotch. And that album cover got banned
in the 70s. They made him cover it up. Okay.
It is still around. Okay. And he's got a band
backing him called Taste of Life Band. Okay,
anyhow, go ahead. Dolores O 'Riordan from the
Cranberries. Oh, yeah. Incredible. Listen to
the song Zombie. That song is emotionally very
impactful. Didn't she end up killing herself?
She drank herself to death. Drank herself to
death, that was it. Yeah, no, I've always admired
her voice. Her voice was so original. I wanted
to see her go into heavier rock. Yeah, yeah.
There's so much more I wanted to hear from her,
but she just could not. Alcohol took over her
life and basically destroyed her life and her
career and then eventually killed her. Listen
to Zombie if you want to know the vocal style
we're talking about because nothing comes near
it. You cannot describe it. It's insane. Brian
Ferry, Roxy Music. Beautiful, smooth, high, clear
voice. His dad started Ferryland Park. He did.
75th and Prospect here in Kansas City. Now defunct.
Yeah, yeah. Now I think it's a landfill or something.
I remember going there for my ninth birthday,
and I wanted to ride the Wildcat roller coaster.
But it was broke. No, I wasn't tall enough. Oh,
shit. My brother got to ride, but I didn't get
to ride. Okay, the only time I went there, it
was broke. Yeah. Oh, I was pissed. Oh, damn.
But yeah, Brian Ferry's got a very distinctive
voice, and he uses a lot of dynamics and volume.
to convey the message is pretty good. Ian Asbury
of the Colt. Yeah, oh God, yeah. Gorgeous voice,
amazing power, so unique. Yeah. It'd be nice
if he could work more, because the Colt doesn't
get a whole lot of work. No, they don't. So it'd
be awesome if he could do a bunch of other vocal
work on other stuff, just so we could hear more
of him. He did the Broadway of The Doors, and
he did it really well. He even looked like him.
I mean, he did a great job. I would agree. Ian
Asbury has always been one of my favorite singers.
And the Colt has always been one of the most
underrated bands in my opinion. Them and April
Wine and a couple other ones. Mike Patton from
Faith No More and Mr. Bungle. Like a five octave
range. He can hit any note he wants to out of
the blue just flawlessly. But he can also sound
rough and punk. nasally and weird. He doesn't
have the beautiful voice of Michael P. Clay unless
he wants to. Yeah, in concert it's where I found
that out. Because he was singing commercials
in between songs and hitting those octaves. And
I remember me and David looking at each other
going, what the fuck? He opened up for Robert
Plant. Fake No More just got big with Epic. And
then they had the piano blowing up song. Falling
to Pieces. Yes. Was that Falling to Pieces or
was that Korn Falling to Pieces? Faith No More
was My Life is Falling to Pieces, Somebody Put
Me Together. Yeah, that's it. Somebody put me
together. Yeah, that's right. That's a good song.
And then Falling to Pieces was actually unhinged
or something like that from Korn, but it has
that lyric in it. Anyhow, it doesn't matter.
Greg Lake from Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Songs
like From the Beginning. He's relatives to Longview
Lake. Yes. Yeah, the maker of Longview Lake.
Yeah, and Carnell Lake, who was a defensive back
for the Steelers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were
all in on the Longview Lake. Yeah. But he's got
such a beautiful, clear, smooth voice. Yeah.
Lucky Man is another good example. Oh, that's
a good one. Yeah. The tones that he hits on the
lower scale. Yeah. Beautiful. It's funny. I was
listening to the song from the beginning. And
I realized that Greg Lake was singing, playing
acoustic guitar, playing bass, pretty much doing
everything until close to the end of the song
when Keith Emerson came in with some keyboards.
And then you hear a little bit of Carl Palmer
doing some little hand percussion. But the majority
of the song was Greg Lake. That was awesome.
I also enjoy his lakes. He's done a great job.
But Truman Lake, too. I forgot about that. True,
true. Yeah, yeah. Lake of the Ozarks was a little
bit before him. Yeah. But his ancestors were
in on that. And Table Rock was a different lake
crew. They were from down south somewhere. And
I think there's a segment in his family that
changed their last name to Reservoir. Yes, yeah,
yeah. And then they changed Truman to Reservoir
instead of Lake, yeah. Eric Wolfson of Allen
Parsons. Okay. Incredible high range. He can
be soft and breathy. He really doesn't sing with
power, but he can sing just all over the place.
I try to sing Alan Parsons songs, and there's
very, very few I can actually sing because he
has such a wide range, and I don't. You and most
other people. Mark Torian of the Bullet Boys.
Oh, fuck yeah. He used to play guitar for Rat
until he kicked his ass out, and then he became
the singer for the Bullet Boys. He can do a rock
and roll scream like nobody else. He should have
replaced David Lee Roth and Van Halen. Yes, he
should have. I don't know why they didn't go
for him. And it's weird. He's a born -again Christian,
but he's still raunchy and rude as hell. And
he's funny as hell, too. Yes, he is. He does
these little lines and undertones and stuff,
and it's just like, what the fuck? I love him.
He's very flamboyant, but he isn't gay or anything
that I know of. No, he's got a lot of ex -wives.
I know that. Yes, he does. Jeff Lynn of ELO.
Oh, shit, yeah. Plus, just the musicianship.
Yeah. Oh, my God, yeah. He wrote everything to
ELO. Oh, I know. But he also has a much higher
range than you would think just listening to
ELO songs. Try singing along to some of those.
He goes way up there. Oh, I know he does. It's
just incredible. Yeah. Let's see, Gary Neumann?
Yes. If you're a fan of Nine Inch Nails, Gary
Neumann is where Trent Reznor got a lot of his
ideas. The heavily overdriven synthesizers, high
-gain guitars, and the vocals that are either
a painful scream from the depths of your soul
or a soft whisper like you're in a confession.
Gary Newman does all that. Yeah. And the material
that he writes has a lot to do with mental health,
mental illness, problems. So it's meaningful
stuff. He had a lot to say, which I always enjoy.
Yeah. One of my favorite albums from Gary Newman
is called Savage. And it's got songs like...
Savage. Savage. Ghost Nation, Bed of Thorns,
My Name is Ruined. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. I love
that song. Mercy. Mercy is another good one.
Mercy is another really good one. I would highly
recommend picking up the album Savage. And that's
where Trent Reznor got a lot of his stuff. He
did. Trent was listening to a lot of Gary Newman.
I'm convinced My Name is Ruined is where he got
a lot of his material from. Yeah. You know, he's
like, you know, I wear this crown of shit, you
know, on my liar's throne. All that stuff is
so Newman -ish. You know, the self -deprecating.
The song Bed of Thorns, the chorus is, you're
welcome to stand in my place. You're welcome
to feel what I feel. You're welcome to live my
life. You're welcome to sleep in my bed of thorns.
Yes. And it's a really good example of, you think
you got it bad? Come over and take over for me.
I will gladly trade with you. And it's a very
powerful song. Paul Newman's brother, right?
No, no, no, no, actually second cousin. Second
cousin. From Vermont. Yes. And one of my favorite
autistic singers. He is autistic. Is he really?
Yes, he is. Oh, I thought you were joking around
about his mannerisms. No, he's actually autistic.
Okay. Glenn Shorrock of the Little River Band.
Oh, okay. He's the one that did all the 70s hits.
Lady, Reminiscing, Happy Anniversary. I could
see that. Beautiful, clear, high voice. Nobody
could sing like him. They had a really tough
time finding a replacement for him when he left.
Very good. Colin Hay. from Men at Work. Yes.
Oh, my God, yeah. Laying Down Under, Overkill.
I found out about him on a morning show that
I still listen to every now and then. It's Bubba
the Love Sponge. They had him on there, and he
was doing all this stuff, and I'm like, where
has this guy been? Yeah. Men at Work really didn't
showcase his talents. He's got kind of a rough,
raspy, scratchy voice like Rod Stewart. He played
the role. He can hit any note, anytime, anywhere.
He can do fast, fluid runs. He has a high range.
The guy's incredible. Yeah. And he's a great
guitar player, too. Yes, he is. But Colin Hay,
man, I like the way he sings. He did like two
guest appearances on the show Scrubs. Oh, did
he? As himself, playing songs. Very cool. Yeah,
I've always been a huge fan of his once I found
out how good he really is. Yeah, I would recommend
checking out some Colin Hay. Pat Benatar. Yes.
Oh, my gosh. I saw a video from a couple years
ago when she was doing Promises in the Dark,
and she says it's been 41 years since she refers
to her husband, Neil Giraldo, as Spider. So Spider
and I got together in 79, and this was one of
the first songs. They're still married, by the
way. Yes, they're 44 years. She said, when we
got together, we were just writing songs about
stuff. We were writing songs about, and she pointed
to the audience, all y 'all. But he said, then
we decided we want to start writing songs about
our personal stuff. And Promises in the Dark
was the first one they wrote that had personal
meaning. And from what I could tell, they still
had their original band name. Myron Grombacher
on drums. I love Myron Grombacher. He's this
big ginger. And he plays with such wild abandon
and joy. I love Pat Benatar's drummer. Always
have. Oh, I have too. Listen to Heartbreaker.
Yeah. Oh my gosh. Or Treat Me Right. Yes. The
range that she hits there is just phenomenal.
And she was a person that I would love to see
went to a hard rock band that I really liked.
Because of her range and her style. Trent Reznor
of Nine Inch Nails. I didn't know that, but I
can see it. And he can convey a ton of emotion
in his voice. Yes. Oh, my God, yeah. Whenever
he sees despair. You know what he's feeling.
You feel what he's feeling. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
we're talking despair in its worst sense. Yeah.
Like there's nothing left. Yeah. When he wrote
and recorded the downward spiral. Yeah. And then
toured that. He was actually planning on ending
his life after that because he figured there's
nowhere to go from here. I've laid it all out
there. But he turned it around and got happy.
Yeah. About 20 pounds. Now he can't write music
and he doesn't look as good, but he's happy.
Yeah, but he's alive. Yes. That's the important
part. Maybe that's what Chris Cornell should
have done. Yeah. Just get happy. Start getting
eaten. Yeah. Here's an old one. Roy Orbison.
Yes. A lot of people don't like his. My wife
doesn't like his voice. Really? But it's a gorgeous
voice. Oh, my God. His voice is one of the best
voices ever. Yeah. Good old boy from Texas, and
he can sing like that. They said that he would
have been bigger than Elvis if he looked like
Elvis. Yeah. He just didn't have the looks. No,
no. They'd be like, man, that voice. And then
they'd see him go, oh. Yeah. Yeah. He was great
on the radio, not so good on the album cover.
He had a voice on the radio. That's about it.
John Lennon. Of the four original Beatles, I
thought he was the best vocalist. Absolutely.
He had a better range. He was the only one who,
when he was singing, I believed what he was saying.
Me too. And his complexity of his songwriting,
even when they're in the Beatles writing ditties,
to me, he was the best musician and the most
tortured out of all of them. Martha Davis of
the Motels. Yes. Suddenly Last Summer, Only the
Lonely, Little Robbers. Icy Red, all sorts of
beautiful boys. I've always enjoyed her. I had
such a crush on her back in the 80s. Oh, yeah.
She's another one that I wore my thimble out.
Yeah. Fee Waybill of the Tubes. The Tubes? Yeah.
Talk to you later. She's a beauty. She's a beauty.
I enjoyed her. Okay, I could see probably something
that she's a beauty. Let's see, on the Remote
Control album, their single was Primetime. But
he has a super high range, and he can sing with
just balls -to -the -wall power, or he can break
into the falsetto and just croon. They had a
female singer as part of the Tubes, and it went
under the name Ree Styles. He could sing higher
than her. Wow. Yeah. They did a duet on Primetime,
and he sang every bit as high as she did. I've
got a question. This is a big argument among
people, especially musicians. What do you think
of Axl Rose? I think he's really good. I think
he's a lot better vocalist than a lot of people
think. And if he had a slightly different vocal
tone... He probably would have been a lot more
apparent. But I think people tend to dismiss
him with that rock and roll tone as, oh, he's
just another rocker. No, but he's got a great
range. Yeah. And he knows how to sing. And that's
how come all the bands that Slash came up with
afterwards never hit because they didn't have
that. Even Scott Weiland couldn't help them.
They had to have that. That was about the closest
they came with Scott Weiland. But still, Build
a Revolver, it's still, it's sagged to the rest
of the music that they did. And then the last
I've got is all three singers from Three Dog
Night. Chuck Negron, Corey Wells, and Danny Hutt.
I was never that huge into them, so I'm going
to take your word for it. Chuck Negron was the
one who did all the really high vocals on Eli's
Coming and Pieces of April. He's also the one
that got so heavily into LSD that he destroyed
his career and his place in the band. He actually
wrote an autobiography called Three Dog Nightmare
about his drug problems. And one of the other
guys, Danny Hutton, said, yeah, Chuck fought
the war on drugs. Drugs 1. Drugs 1. Fucking awesome.
Yeah. But I just love the vocals on Three Dog
Night. That list was very well thought of. I
like that list a lot. I've got a Three Dog Night
Greatest Hits CD, but I recently learned that
a number of the songs on it are shortened radio
edit versions. Oh, fuck that. Yeah. That's not
why you buy an album. No, no. I want the album
cut. How long have we got on this? We have two
hours and five minutes. Oh, hell yeah. Mama told
me not to come. That was written by Randy Newman.
Actually, I think I knew that. Yeah, very cool.
And Joy to the World was written by Hoyt Axton.
Yeah, okay, I know Joy to the World and stuff
like that, but I know they're talented, but I
never really got into them that much. Okay, very
cool. All right, well, should we end this? I
think we should. All right. Everybody, thank
you for listening. Our numbers are growing. You
know, we got our million download and then some.
We really appreciate it. It's because all of
you guys taking the time to let people know and
smash them in the face if they don't listen.
We really appreciate that too. Allegedly, I'm
just joking. But anyhow, we really appreciate
it and go fuck yourself. Oh no. Looks like the
show's over, kids. Mark has explosive diarrhea
and can't afford a wireless mic. Fear not, assholes.
They'll be back invading your ear holes soon.