Hey there, slap nuts. It's time for the Creeps
Music News. Hey, my little pumpkin seeds. This
is Johnny Rohypnol with your music news. Known
asshole and constant complainer and social preaching.
Hypocrite Neil Young has canceled all his 2026
tour dates. Most in the U .S. still proving.
If you hate America so much, stay the fuck out
of it. Bye -bye, male Felicia. This is Johnny
Rohypnol. That was your music news. And remember,
bar chords are bullshit. We are. There we go.
All right. I lasted about 15 seconds. Okay. That's
what she said. All right. Hey, next time, maybe
we need to switch it and I'll do the drums and
you do the music. We are. Cool. We can just trade
off like that. Yeah. You want to practice real
quick? We are the music. We are the music. I
was trying to do a solo. I was going to say I'll
have to practice that, but no, no, I'm not going
to practice. It's got to be spontaneous. It sucked
like the other version. Yeah, right. Good for
us. The suckier the better. Yes. We're already
a minute in, so we got our credit for a download
if you listen to this part. Oh, they already
hung up. Yeah, okay. Yeah, they already hung
up. I've got some interesting stuff. I've got
bullet points, but I've got press or pass. And
that's bands that they all say they're going
to put out another album. And we either say,
yeah, press a button, yes, or we say pass, no.
Yeah, sounds good. You got something you want
to go into? I got some famous musical duos that
broke up and why. Okay. I've got an article on
the guitars of the former Soviet Union. I like
that one a lot. Some pretty bizarre electric
guitars. It's too bad you can't show the picture
of them though. Yeah, I'll have to tell people
to look these up. And then I started looking
up guitar string manufacturers because there
are only like about six in the U .S. And then...
like 40 different brands will just buy their
strings from these six makers and have it relabeled.
They call it white label. Oh, yeah. To have someone
else make it for you with just a white label,
then you print the label. I couldn't really get
what brands buy theirs from these big makers,
but I did look up and see these big string manufacturers.
It's interesting to see what else they own. They're
not just string makers. They own a bunch of other
stuff. Real quick, two douches at Mail .com.
Who is better? Is it Phineas J. Valtar as the
third? Is it Dash Riptide, Birds of Johnny, Roe
Hypno, all music reporters on this show, and
the douchebags? I like Dash Riptide really well.
I do too, yeah. Yep, if you're too loud, if it's
too loud, you probably have hearing damage, just
like me. I love that. It's true. And actually,
Johnny Rohypnol, bar chords are bullshit. Yeah,
that's true. Oh, no, but how about Phineas J.
Voltarez? He has one burning question. Do people
really skip around the Maypole? Oh. Yeah. I almost
want to go with Voltarez just because of that.
Now, you do see these big -ass football players
skipping off the field. Yes. I mean. These grown
-ass men weighing 300 pounds and they're skipping
like little kids on the schoolyard. Yes. As funny
as hell to me. It is funny as hell. But I'm not
going to go up and tell them they look like a
sissy. No, no. It's like, that looks great. Keep
it up. That's what I'm saying. You do you, man.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you do you. It's fine with
me. Yep. Anyhow, vote. All right. And vote early
and vote often. Yes, yes. Get all your dead relatives
to vote. I was going to say, if you're a Democrat,
get all the dead votes. Go to the cemetery and
write down names. Yes. There you go. All right.
What are we going to start off with? Let's start
with duos that broke up. Oh, I like that. And
then we'll go into press or pass. Yeah, I like
that. Okay. Hall of Notes, pretty well known.
You make my dreams come true. Yep. You have to
say it just like that. You make my dreams come
true. Yeah, you can't go, you make my dreams
come true. No, that's not it. Yeah. You've got
to say, you make them mine. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
that's it. Oh, okay, so Hall & Oates, they actually
didn't exactly break up, but rather their partnership
ended in a bitter legal battle. Oh, I remember
that. Oates is also the descendant of Quaker
Oates. Yes. Yeah, yeah, he's like the great...
Great grandchild. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. And I
think he still wears the breast pumps that they
get the oat milk. He does. He does. Yes. Okay.
That visual still fucking kills me. The Quaker
Oats guy with a couple of breast pumps strapped
to him and a smile on his face. Come and get
it. Ding, ding. He's got a bell. Ding, ding,
ding, ding. Oat milk ready. Okay. The legal battle
started in late 2023 centered on John Oates.
attempt to sell his share of their joint business
entity, Whole Oats Enterprises, to Primary Wave,
which Daryl Hall sued to block, citing a breach
of partnership, which led to irreparable damage,
with both confirming they wouldn't work together
again. While they had issues before, the lawsuit
over the sale finalized their split, with both
moving on to solo careers and expressing no future
performances together. Now, it seems weird to
me that if I own half of something that I can't
sell it to whoever I want. And then somehow the
person who owns the other half can stop me. You
see, I knew that they had a riff, but that was
it? That was it. Now, built on top of that is
John Oates did not like his role in the band.
Which was decided for him that you're going to
be the silent guy with a mustache that you never
shave off. And you don't do interviews where
you're just a silent, mysterious guy. And also
all the rumors about him being gay and all that.
Which I don't think he was, was he? I don't think
so either. But yeah, he was told to just keep
your mouth shut and play your part. Yeah, yeah.
And cash your checks. I think he felt kind of
betrayed. Yeah, yeah. Because he's like, I'm
getting accused of all this stuff. And it's not
anything against gays or nothing like that at
all. It's just at the time, it put you in a different
category. So he couldn't say anything about it.
Like, hey, I'm not. Nothing against him, but
I'm not. And he was also kind of dismissed as
a creative member of the band. Even though his
name was on a lot of the songwriting credits,
people just thought, oh, well, they just put
him on there because he's nothing. He's nobody.
He's not important. I think that was the biggest
problem right there is because he was discredited
on everything. Yeah. It's just like, yeah, he's
that other guy. Yeah. Yeah. I remember the band
Lady Antebellum, they became Lady A. Yeah. It
was two guys and a gal that were there in all
the videos. And what I remember over and over
was the... radio stations that would play it.
And the guy kept saying, you know, I think it
should just be that man and the woman that sing.
That third guy, they should just cut him out.
He's a distraction. And it turned out he's the
main songwriter. Yeah. But the DJ in their visual
perception is, ooh, he's a distraction. Get him
out of there. I don't want him. I don't want
to see him. He's not important. Well, yeah. And
Wham! Wham! is another one. Exactly. Nobody knows
what happened to the dark -haired guy. Yeah.
In Lady Antebellum, you would have never guessed
that either. That's not anything you heard or
ever saw. But it figures the DJs would look at
the singers and go, oh, they're the most important
ones. They're just singing what somebody wrote
for them to sing. Exactly, Milli Vanilli style.
Well, actually, they didn't sing. Someone like
Al Pacino is a great actor, but he didn't write
his own lines. Someone else wrote those lines.
Yeah. Yep. It's the same thing with these lead
singers. All right. A little secret there that
we can't tell you until next week. We have a
secret. Yep. See, if you were here live while
we're doing this, you would know it. True. It's
a good reason to show up when we're recording
down here. Yeah, even though I'm not posting.
So you have to just know. Yep. Yeah. Hey, we're
pretty regular down here. It should be easy to
figure out. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's true. Let's
see. Oh, our next couple. Our next duo is Simon
and Garfunkel. They had a number of hits. They
were childhood friends from Queens, New York.
They recorded their first song under the band
name Tom and Jerry. Really? Yeah. They were Tom
and Jerry. Just like the mouse and cat cartoon.
I find that funny as hell. Isn't that weird?
Which one was Tom and which one was Jerry? I
don't know. I'm guessing Paul Simon is probably
the mouse because he's small. I want the mother
to come out and hit him with a broom while they're
singing. Thomas, you get your ass in line, son.
Okay, that track called Hey Schoolgirl was a
mild hit, and as its writer, Simon was asked
if he could come up with more songs. Simon proceeded
to not only write but also record more music,
all without his partner's knowledge. And an upset
Garfunkel quit the band. Yeah, yeah, and then
he became Paul Simon, right? No, actually a few
years later, amid New York's burgeoning folk
music scene, the two reunited and started performing
under the name Simon and Garfunkel. I didn't
know that. So they got together, recorded, and
broke up under Tom and Jerry. And then became
Simon and Garfunkel. And then a couple years
later became Simon and Garfunkel. Oh, okay, okay,
I had it backwards, sorry. Forget everything
I just said. Okay. The pair released a series
of five albums between 1964 and 1970, Wednesday
Morning, 3 a .m., Sounds of Silence, Parsley
Sage Rosemary in Time, Bookends, and Bridge Over
Troubled Water, which I didn't realize was their
last album together. I didn't either, but man,
you read that body of work. Oh my gosh, man.
Sounds of Silence is one of the, what would you
call it, realistic, poignant... Yeah, instead
of being like a folky protest song, it's one
that has a real deep emotional impact. Yeah,
like someone that really has issues and really
can't get through them. And then was it Five
Finger Death Punks that redid it so well? Disturbed
did it as well. Oh, it was Disturbed. Yeah, it
was Disturbed, not Five Finger. Jeff Tate did
a remake of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme.
Oh, he did? Yeah. I think it's Are You Going
to Scarborough Fair? See, I think he'd do good
at it. He's such a good singer. It was a really
good version of that. But by the time of the
final album, Bridge Over Troubled Water, things
were once again strained. This time it was Paul
Simon who took issue with Garfunkel's pursuit
of a movie career. Garfunkel had roles in 1970's
Catch -22 and 1971's controversial Colonel Knowledge.
Several years later, Simon took an acting role
in the Best Picture winner Annie Hall. So they
both did. The duo played two concerts at their
hometown Forest Hills Stadium in 1970, then went
their separate ways. After a reunion concert
in the 2010s, somewhere around 2015, Garfunkel
said, that's it, I'm done with it, never perform
together again, I'm over it. And he's pretty
much stuck by that since. Paul Simon is still
out there performing, but most people say that
he just does not have the voice left. I've heard
that. Yeah, he was on a list that I read, and
I forgot to download, and I can't find it again.
A list of performers that are the worst, that
cannot do anything. I mean, David Lee Roth, you
know, Rod Stewart was one of them. Yeah. Frankie
Valli. Frankie Valli, yeah. You did that last
week, but I think my phone heard me or heard
you. And it gave me a list, and I can't find
it. But there were a lot of names on there I'd
forgotten. But go ahead. Okay, next up we have
the Everly brothers, Don and Phil. Their daughter,
Everly. Which daughter married Axel Rose? I can't
remember which Everly. I can't either. Oh, well,
it doesn't matter. It's just, yeah. Initially,
he called her Beverly Everly, but she refused
to take that name. Yeah, I don't blame her. No,
not Beverly. Okay, they fell out due to years
of built -up tension and drug addiction, especially
Don's. Yep. Professional disagreements with their
manager. And actually, I think it was Don Everly's
daughter. I think so, yeah. And the pressures
of constant touring culminating in a famously
public onstage breakup in 1973 when Phil smashed
his guitar and walked off after Don performed
Clearly Drunk. leading to a decade -long separation
before they reunited in 1983. No wonder Erin
Everly married Axel. That's what she's used to.
Yep. Here's one from way back. Sonny and Cher.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that was bitter. That
was. Now, Cher is still around. She's another
one of those who... needs to retire and quit
singing because she can't sing anymore. Yeah,
she was up on the list. Yeah. Sonny scrambled
his brains. He did. Skin. Yeah. Let's see. Salvatore
Bono, when he first met Cheryl Sarkeesian in
the summer, in the autumn of 1962, he was working
for the legendary music producer Phil Spector.
Yeah. Phil Spector and his wall of sound. Yep.
Also turned out to be quite the scumbag. Scumbag
as well. He murdered somebody and went to prison.
Yep. The two started a romantic relationship
and simultaneously began working together as
backup singers on several Spector -produced hits,
notably Darlene Love's Be My Baby. Really? Be
my little baby. Yeah. Yeah. Ronnie and the Ronettes.
did a remake of that. Ronnie and the Ronettes.
I think I remember that, yeah. Ronnie was Ronnie
Spector. It was Phil Spector's child bride. Oh!
He married her so he controlled her career. Yeah.
And he basically treated her as his personal
property. Is he still alive in prison? I don't
think so. I don't think so. I think he died in
prison. Yeah, I think he did. And he needed to.
The world's not... Not missing a beat. Murder
wasn't the only thing he'd done. No. He was disgusting.
He was horribly abusive to everybody. He'd pull
guns on people in the studio and threaten to
shoot them if they didn't record it right. Yeah.
He was a fucked up individual. He was. It was
all the coke. Yeah, yes. Okay, efforts to launch
a music career of their own stumbled initially
under the monikers Caesar and Cleo. What a name.
Yeah, Caesar and Cleo. Yeah, not so good. Imagine
a little short Sonny Bono calling himself Caesar.
Yeah. No. 1965 saw the release of their single.
You got a great salad. Yeah, that's true. 1965
they released the single I Got You Babe from
the duo now named Sonny and Cher and everything
took off. Groundhog Day for you youngsters. Yes.
Yeah, the movie. The duo tried multiple times
to get a movie career off the ground, including
the 1967 flop Good Times, but to no avail. One
of their intended films, Speedway, even wound
up booting Sonny and Cher in favor of Nancy,
Sinatra, and Elvis. So it was their movie project
that they got fired from it. That's pretty bad.
Cher recovered nicely. She did. Well, actually,
Bono went into politics. He did. Yeah, and he
did good, too. So, anyhow. In 1971, Sonny and
Cher did manage to get a successful TV variety
show, which I remember watching. Yeah. It was
widely popular amongst the hippies and hipsters.
They loved it. Typically, at that point, a variety
show would start with a little stand -up routine
between the two. And then they'd have skits.
Yes. And then they would have musical performances.
And if you watch it nowadays, it is not funny
at all. The humor back then is not the humor
nowadays. As I recall, all of the humor centered
around Cher making fun of Sonny. Criticizing
him, insulting him. rolling her eyes, and he
played this pathetic puppy dog always trying
to win her affection. Yeah, yes. She was constantly
running him down and insulting him. I remember
at the time thinking, this is stupid, I don't
like this. But everyone else seemed to enjoy
it. Oh, yeah. And the humor was just so not fun.
Oh, God, it was so corny. Even back then, it
was jokes that had been around for 20, 30, 40
years and everyone was sick of. Wasn't it like
Ed Sullivan that used to go, we got a really
big show tonight, a really big shoe, and everyone
would be like, ah! He said shoe instead of show.
Oh, that's so funny. It's like, no it isn't.
I remember when it used to be just like screamingly
funny to show a fat man and a skinny man standing
together. Yes. That was funny. Okay, I still
giggle. Laurel and Hardy. Yes. Stan Laurel was
the skinny guy, and Oliver Hardy was the big
fat guy. They used to order around the skinny
guy, remember? And just the visual of the two
together used to crack people up. Nowadays, it's
like, oh, I'm supposed to laugh at that? Huh?
Oh, hang on, hang on. That guy's overweight.
We love him more. Yes. Yes. Come on, guys. Come
on. That skinny guy's an asshole. Go ahead. Okay,
so they had the Sunday and Cher show, but creative
tensions between the two, particularly Bono's,
continued to need control over every aspect of
the output. He was a micromanager. It coalesced
with personal strife. By the show's third season,
the couple filed for divorce. And they continued
the show, even through the divorce. And I remember
Cher bringing out their, who was then their daughter,
Chastity. He's now Chaz. Chaz, yeah. Hey there,
Slap Nets. It's time for the Creeps Music News.
Hey, my little pumpkin seeds. This is Johnny
Rohypnol with your music news. Blackie Lawless
founder, frontman, and owner of the rock band
Wasp. will not be touring this year or even making
new music. He will instead be finishing up his
autobiography and releasing the book later this
year. This is Johnny Rohypnol. That was your
music news. And remember, bar chords are bullshit.
And then they both, let's see, Bono went into
politics. He served as the U .S. Representative
for California's 44th District from 1995 until
his death. And he was Republican, too, wasn't
he? Yeah, which is weird because you don't see
that anymore. Yeah, no. Entertainers go to Democrat
side, definitely. Yes, and also California. Yeah.
I remember they each had their own show after
they split up. Cher's show took off. Sonny's
show was basically the exact same as the Sonny
and Cher show, only with a different woman. Yeah.
And she was doing exactly the same thing, running
him down, insulting him, treating him like an
idiot child. But apparently the audience thought,
okay, if it's your wife doing that, it's funny.
If it's just some random chick doing it, it's
not funny. And it bombed. But he was skiing.
and skied right into a support pole for the ski
lift. Smack. It was like head -on in a truck
on the highway kind of thing. It was not a good
scene. Not a good scene. Reportedly, his brains
were everywhere. Yeah. Now, I do remember a different
incident. This came up in the yearly Darwin Awards.
That's for people who are so stupid that they
killed themselves with their own stupidity. This
was a guy who went and tore the foam insulation
off of the ski lift support pole to use as a
sled. And he went up the hill and he slid down
on it and slid into the pole right at the spot
where he pulled the insulation off and killed
him. Oh. I thought that was just so fucking funny.
That's a Darwin Award right there. That guy deserved
it. He's just like, the ski pole's like. All
right, you peel that shit off me, you're coming
right back here, man. That just made me laugh.
That made me smile. Ike and Tina Turner. Oh,
yeah. Okay, where are you going to start on that
one? Let's see. For more than 15 years, from
1960 to 1976, Ike and Tina Turner electrified
the music scene. Their explosive performance
in the landmark 1964 music film The T .A .M .I.
Show, Tammy Show. Oh, yeah. led to the duo touring
with the Rolling Stones. And I remember the Rolling
Stones would come out and watch Ike and Tina
Turner every night and think, how the hell did
we get so lucky to get them opening for us? And
one of these days people are going to figure
out they're better than us. The Stones were very
impressed with Ike and Tina. Delighting audiences
with their 66th single, River Deep Mountain High,
which was a hit in Europe at the time but not
yet in the United States. And then they turned
the bluesy Creedence Clearwater revival song
Proud Mary into a funk -infused high -energy
song, which earned the married couple a Grammy
Award. Now, this is another instance where the
dude married the woman because she was the talent
and he wanted to control her. Yeah. And it also
kind of clears up, so many people think that
Proud Mary was Ike and Tina first. and that Creedence
Clearwater redid it? Opposite way. Opposite way.
Opposite way. And that's funny you said that
because I thought it like that too. Yep. Let's
see. You can't really talk about this musical
duo without mentioning the years of abuse Tina
suffered at Ike's hand. As she would outline
in her 1986 autobiography, I, Tina, behind the
scenes of the musical phenomenon was prolonged
ordeal of physical, sexual, and psychological
abuse. Uh -huh. It came to a head on July 1st,
1976, when Tina, her face bruised and bleeding,
fled from the hotel room she was sharing with
Ike, fearing for the safety of herself and their
children. She mentioned in an interview that
she was in the room, and Ike was there too, and
she waited for him to fall asleep, and waited
for his breathing to reach that point where he
was just really, really asleep. And then she
snuck out of the room, and as soon as she got
out, She had to cross a multi -lane highway,
and she couldn't really see the cars coming because
it was night, so she just said a quick prayer,
hoped for the best, and just ran across the highway
without looking and managed to not get hit. Wow,
and that says something, right? Yeah. That says
everything. She would rather run across a highway
blind than stay with Ike. Yeah. Wow. She filed
for divorce on July 27. and went on to have a
rich solo career in music and on film. Ike, in
the depths of addiction, spent 18 months in prison
on drug chargers and died of an overdose in 2007.
Yep, no big deal. No, I don't think people really
bother. Piece of garbage. Now, he's not... People
sometimes confuse the actor who played Chef on
South Park. Oh, yeah, Isaac Hayes. Isaac Hayes.
Some people think that was Ike Turner. Totally
different person. Completely different person.
Completely different, yeah. Isaac Hayes was a
decent guy. Yeah. And he was a chef. Yeah, you
know, give me some sweet loving. All the stuff
he said, I did great. Yeah, I don't think the
guys from South Park would have bothered with
Ike, even if he was around. Girl, what's wrong
with you? I just gave you sweet loving ten minutes
ago. Anyhow, go ahead. All right, Captain and
Tennille. Oh, yeah. Love Will Keep Us Together,
Muskrat Love, which actually was done by the
band America at first. Oh, yeah. Muskrat Love
was? Muskrat Love was. Isn't that weird? Yeah,
it is. But Love Will Keep Us Together is actually
a really good song. Yeah, I liked it. That was
real good pop. It was a really good piano on
it, just a little poppy little ditty that was
really good. Yeah, it was. It was a great sing
-along song, too. Yeah, it was. Okay, Captain
and Tennille, which is Daryl Dragon and Tony
Tennille, divorced in 2014 after nearly 40 years
of marriage due to Tony Tennille's long -standing
feelings of loneliness and lack of intimacy stemming
from Daryl's emotional distance and inability
to show affection. Tony Tennille was a female
in case anyone's knowing. Yeah. Yeah, because
they're both could -be -male names. Yeah, yeah.
Despite their success in musical Shark Park's
partnership, Tennille revealed in her memoir
that their marriage was loveless and that Dragon,
who had grown up in a very difficult family,
was emotionally unavailable, often sleeping in
separate rooms, leading her to finally end the
marriage despite the public perception of their...
Their happiness. Perfect happiness and perfect...
Hey, how you doing? No, no. Oh, right on. You
gonna play? No, I just care just to stop the
pretty girl. Oh, yeah. Good on you. That was
awesome. I love that. I remember at the time
when Love Will Keep Us Together came out, I thought
Tony Tennille was pretty darn cute. She kind
of looked like a blonde Pat Benatar in a way.
They had kind of similar features. The Leuven
Brothers. Brothers Ira. And Charlie, Ira was
born in April of 24, and Charlie in July of 27.
That was quite a while ago. Their birth name
was Loudermilk, but they changed it to Louvin,
L -O -U -V -I -N. I think that's a good idea.
Yeah. But they are... Oh, there he is. Yeah.
Now, there is a musician whose last name is Loudermilk,
and they're like cousins. Okay. In the 1940s,
they began their career in gospel music. They
grew up listening to and singing shape note music,
which is a traditional American 18th and 19th
century style of writing music for vocal only.
And instead of standard notation with the notes,
it uses geometric shapes. Oh, okay. Like a triangle,
circle, square, and diamond to represent notes
of the scale. Yeah. Which makes sight reading
a lot easier. Sometimes it's called sacred harp
type of music. Yeah. But that influenced the
rest of their musical career. Their first foray
into secular music was the minor hit The Get
Acquainted Waltz, recorded with Chet Atkins.
Uh -huh. Their other hits included Cash on the
Barrelhead and When I Stopped Dreaming. They
joined the Grand Old Opry in 1955 and stayed
there until breaking up in 1963. Songs were heavily
influenced by their Baptist faith and warned
against sin. Nevertheless, Iris Leuven was notorious
for his drinking, womanizing, and volcanic temper.
Doesn't that figure. He was married four times.
Oh, boy. His third wife, Faye, shot him four
times in the chest and twice in the hand after
he allegedly tried to strangle her with a telephone
cord. Oh. Ah. Although seriously injured, he
survived. When performing and drinking, Ira would
sometimes become angry enough on stage to smash
his mandolin when he was unable to tune it and,
when sober, glue it back together. So Ira was
mandolin and Charlie was guitar. Guitar, okay.
I love that. Smash it and then fucking glue it
back together. Dammit, why'd I do this? His style
was heavily influenced by Bill Monroe and his
brother Charlie Monroe, who had a tempestuous
relationship with Ira, considered him one of
the top mandolin players in Nashville. In his
New York Times review of Charlie's biography
called Satan is Real, which was one of their
album titles, and they weren't saying that to
be flip or funny. They were saying, yeah, Satan's
real. Everyone get real about it. He's really
happy. Alex Abramovich said, Even the most careful
listeners would lose track of which man was carrying
the lead and singing which part. That's pretty
damn cool. Yeah. So this was more than close
harmony singing. Each instance was an act of
transubstantiation, which is a religious term,
but the correct musical term would be voice exchange.
But they would just trade parts, just in the
middle, without even a glance or a look. It was
just somehow they knew, okay, we're still helping.
That is so talented. Isn't it? Yeah, that's,
yeah, okay. In 1963, fed up with Ira's drinking
and abusive behavior, Charlie started a solo
career, and Ira also went on his own. Ira died
in June 20, 1965, two years later, at the age
of 41. His fourth wife, Ann Young, and he were
on the way home from performance in Kansas City
when they came to a section of construction on
Highway 70 outside of Williamsburg, Missouri.
I -70 was still under construction. Wow. Traffic
had been reduced down to one lane. A drunken
driver struck their car head -on, killing both
Ira and his wife. Oh, wow. I didn't know that.
So how odd that he was the drinker and partier,
yet some other drunk driver killed him. That's
the definition of irony. Isn't it? If anyone
doesn't know. Wow. So that's my famous duos that
broke up. Okay. Want to do the press and pass?
Yes. Okay. So all these bands that I'm talking
about, they all said just one day, they all go,
we're coming out with new music. No. Okay. But
we have a press or pass button. It's like send
it through or no thank you. Yeah. Now the bands
are going to say, we got it determined. Yeah,
we want to hear it or no, you don't need to do
it. Yeah. It also works because press was what
they do to vinyl. Exactly. They press the vinyl.
Yes. Press or pass. Yep. I like that. I do too.
Motley Crue. Pass. They got nothing to offer
them, so. No. They kind of showed everyone when
they had AI write their songs for them and they
pretended that they didn't. I know. That was
the worst. You've told us that you have nothing
left in the tank, and you're trying to claim
AI songs as your own creation. I think that's
why they wanted John 5 so bad. They thought he
was going to breathe life into the band, and
I don't think he did. I think he's got nothing
for them. Creatively, they're bankrupt. Yes,
and they have been. Even with Mick Mars, if he
was still playing music with them, it'd still
be the same. They just can't do it anymore. They
lost it. Yeah, I really think so. Really, after
the original breakup, Them and Vince, that was
it. They really have not come out with great
music since. This is true. Except for the one
with John Carabi. He wrote a lot of that album.
Yeah, yeah. I think they should firmly get on
board with the nostalgia circuit and just try
to pretend to be their glory days and forget
about the new music. Yeah, I think they should
too. And also, I mean, aren't they supposed to
be retired from touring? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They
had at least two final tours. Maybe three. Maybe
three, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so no thank you. Yeah,
pass. Yeah. Okay, the next one. This is with
the replacement singer, and he's pretty good,
whatever his name is. Nobody knows his name,
but they're like, he's not bad. Okay. Linkin
Park. I wouldn't mind it myself. I'd say press.
I would say press also. Yeah. I think they have
a lot left in the tank. I mean, once his name
killed himself, so it kind of fizzled it out.
Yeah, yeah. That does set up a situation where
the band has a lot more to say. Yeah. And we're
ready to quit. We're ready to stop. It's just
something that happened to them. Well, I'll put
it to Alice in Chains, which is pretty much Jerry
Can't Trail now, which it probably should have
been after. They do have some good music. Yeah.
It'll never be as popular as it once was, and
the same way with Linkin Park. It'll never have
that original popularity, but I would like to
hear it. Yeah, I would too. Yeah. It'll also
be a reason to tour. So, okay. How about this
one? Queen with Adam Lambert, but actually it's
two members of Queen with Adam Lambert. Right,
because the bass player doesn't go. Yeah, yeah.
So it's Brian May and... Roger Taylor. Roger
Taylor, yeah. Yeah, I get... Roger Taylor is
the drummer for Queen. Roger Earl is the drummer
for Foghat. Yes, yeah. They're both Rogers. Yep.
One's an Earl, one's a Taylor. Yeah, John Deacon
was a bassist. Uh -huh. And he was one that I
would like to hear some music from because he
had a great voice. Yeah, he did. And he wrote
some music, and I thought he would have been
really good. I do enjoy Brian Mays had some solo
stuff, and it's not bad. Yeah. But Queen with
Adam Lambert, I'm going to pass. Yeah, I'm going
to pass. Just because I just think it's a hell
of a legacy to live up to. If they took and they
put Brian May with Adam Lambert alone or something
and called it something else, I'd be fine with
it. Yeah. And he could even sound like Queen
and I'd be fine with it. But to call it Queen
with someone other than Freddie just doesn't
seem legitimate. No. No. So I'm saying no. How
about ACDC? They have put out good music. Yeah.
That's tough because, you know, in a way I'd
like to hear more, but on the other hand, it's
just kind of the same stuff. Brian Johnson's
voice is horrible anymore. Nobody's mentioning
that. Yeah. Yeah, he is really done vocally.
Yeah, and he never was. I mean, he had his niche.
Yeah. But he wasn't overly talented. I mean,
when he was in Geordie, he would actually sing
like a normal singer, and it was decent. They
didn't even want that. No, they wanted the shriek
and the screech. And there's the only thing,
honestly, you couldn't replace Bon Scott. Yeah.
But you could do something unique like that.
Yeah. And they did. It was brilliant to bring
him in. Yeah. They did want Mark Staracci of
Crocus. Oh, yeah. But he turned him down. He
said, no, my man Crocus is going to be much bigger
than you guys. Oops. That's when you do both,
dude. You do both. You do both. You don't give
up on one. You do both. Yeah, you go, all right,
I'll come over there. I actually, I wanted Axl
Rose to do both. Yeah. Yeah. That would have
been cool. Yeah, and at the time, they weren't
really Guns N' Roses anyhow. It was Axl with
a bunch of other people. Yeah. Actually, who
I think would be a great lead vocalist for ACDC
would be William Shatner. Yes. I mean, check
out some of his spoken language recordings where
he talks his way through songs. I can see it.
It's hilarious as hell. I am. I am. Back in black.
Hit the sack. Better watch out because I'm coming
back. Yeah, yeah, perfect. I mean, I found a
video of Bill Shatner doing Rocket Man by Elton
John. Oh, I heard that. Oh, God. God bless Bill
Shatner. He knows he can't sing and he owns it.
He's like, hey, this is what they want to hear.
I'm going to do it. He's smart. He's like, oh,
everybody likes this kind of gimmick that I got
going on. He just kept it going. And he's laughing
at himself just as much as we're laughing at
him. So he's okay with it. And then he's doing
stuff like the one where he goes to Iowa and
what was it? Oh, yeah. Because his character
was from Iowa. Yeah, anyhow. All right. Pretty
good for a guy who was living in his car and
doing dinner theater here in Kansas. Yeah, that's
when the kid come up to him and said, hey, you
want to talk? No, I got to go. That lady wants
me to security. That's tight security. Oh, security's
running you out? Yeah, she goes, you're smoking
pot. I was going outside. You never see me smoke
pot again. I'm out there by the pass of the bay.
Yeah. Smoking weed. She's a bitch. That's bullshit.
I would say prove it wasn't tobacco. Yeah. Prove
it wasn't hemp, which is perfectly legal. Yeah.
How much authority do they have is what I'm wondering.
Yeah. Gosh. Damn it. People with a little bit
of authority. A little bit of authority. Yeah,
fuck. Well, we're not getting music. Yeah. See,
musicians get oppressed everywhere, man. They
do, yeah. Yeah. How about Metallica? Huh. No.
There again, I don't think that, I don't see
them coming up with anything new or different
or exciting, so it'd be more of the same, so
I'll pass. Yeah. Yeah, it is. As you're mentioning,
they don't have the best track record lately.
No, they haven't. And also, I hate their sound.
They don't use bass anymore. Yeah. And it's all
because Cliff Burton died. It's like, no, you
should do good music to celebrate him. Yeah.
Yeah. They're fucked. I mean, really. Yeah. They're
lucky they've gotten as far as they have. Yeah,
and for hanging around as long as they have through
their mistakes and missteps. Yeah. They should
be... Counting their blessings. Yeah. Oh, got
the hiccups. How about Jon Bon Jovi? Actually,
it's not Jon Bon Jovi. It's Bon Jovi. Jon Bon
Jovi is the solo. Yeah. How about with Richie
Sambora, too? I'm still going to say pass because
Jon Bon Jovi has no voice left. I agree. Yeah.
I agree. They would have to use AI to do his
vocals for him, and then it's just fakery anyway.
Yeah. He is proven by a lot of vocal performances
live. He can't do it anymore. I saw him at the
early parts of the Super Bowl. He came out there
and said, oh, here's Jon Bon Jovi. Man, I would
not have recognized him. He looks like Jamie
Lee Curtis. No, that's what I was getting ready
to say. He looks just like Jamie Lee Curtis.
Yes, everyone has the memes now. Jamie Lee Curtis
made it out to the Super Bowl and all this stuff,
yeah. Yeah, that's like Bruce Springsteen looks
like Woody Allen. Nobody wants to look like Woody
Allen. Woody Allen doesn't want to look like
Woody Allen. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah. Well, his
stepdaughter. His stepdaughter wife. Yeah, his
stepdaughter wife. Mia Farrow adopted her, and
then Woody married Mia Farrow, and then immediately
started having an affair with the stepdaughter,
and then dumped Mia and married the stepdaughter.
Wouldn't you know it, Woody Allen features prominently
in the Epstein Files. Yes. Gee, who would have
figured that? Who would have thought he was a
pervert? It surprised us all not. Yeah. Okay,
so we're snowing Bon Jovi. Okay. R .E .M. No.
No. Everyone's tired of Michael Stipe. Yeah.
He thought he was like big Mr. Mysterioso and
everybody was fascinated by him. Most people
just thought he was kind of a weirdo and wished
he would just be a regular singer. The dark -haired
gal from the B -52s, Kate something, she did
a song with Michael Stipe and R .E .M., Shiny
Happy People. The B -52s are kind of a weird
band, but she did an interview later and said,
Oh my God, I've never been around so much weirdness
in my life. That guy is a freak. I don't want
anything to do with him. I will never work with
him again. He was scary. Yeah. Hearing him talk,
I have to concur with that 100%. Yeah. But what
defined him for me was, for a while, the press
kept pestering him to reveal his sexual preference.
Yes. Which, at the time, was kind of a thing.
And he kept saying no, no, no, no, no. And eventually
it became not a thing and nobody cared and everyone
stopped asking him. And after a couple years
of no one asking him, he came out and said, oh,
by the way, I'm gay. I'm gay. I'm going to tell
everyone. Everybody already knew. Yeah, and the
ones that didn't know didn't care. Yeah, it was
like, this is old news, dude. Don't try to get
your name in the press now. It's not, yeah, nobody
cares. Yeah, yeah. And just the way he handled
that whole thing of trying to. hide it as if
it was something private. And then when nobody
cared anymore, he couldn't wait to tell everyone
about it and wanted lots of attention and accolade
for it. Yeah, and everybody's like, man, we don't
care. Yeah. It's like trying to get attention
for being, oh, look, I'm a chef and I have tattoos.
Well, yeah, everybody who's a chef has tattoos.
You kind of got to have to now. Yeah. You know,
if you're a chef, you got to have tattoos and
lots of piercings because that's what people
expect. So don't think you're something special
by suddenly announcing, oh, I'm a chef and I
have a tattoo. No, it was like widely, there
are a bunch of day artists all over the music
industry, and you've been proven a miserable
bastard anyhow, so why even bother? Yeah, nobody
cared. Yeah. Next one, how about, okay, so that's
a pass. That's a pass. Yep. The Red Hot Chili
Peppers. Pass. Pass. I think they've got nothing.
I never really was all that. impressed with them
to begin with. I understand a lot of people were
and really liked them, but to me, they were very
repetitious. They were. They used that funk bass
way, way, way to pop in and all that. They used
it way too much. And every other song was about
California. Yep. And, yeah, it's just... They
didn't seem to have enough different and interesting
stuff creatively to sustain more than a few albums.
And then they just kind of coasted by on reputation
and controversy. I'm smelling weed all of a sudden
now. I am too. Someone's out there smoking weed.
They've got chicks going to bust them too. Yeah.
I mean, even my wife liked the red hot chili
peppers for a while, and now she's totally done
with them. They're like, meh, for nothing. I
think they're meh also. Same old, same old. Oh,
the best Super Bowl commercial was meh, the first
one. It was Jason Kelsey and his wife. Did you
see that or not? I must have missed that one.
Look it up. For like the first half of the Super
Bowl, we were eating and talking and watching,
so we didn't take it. Too much attention. That
one was really good. There were some decent ones,
but that one was the best one they started off
with. But anyhow, look it up when you get a chance.
At halftime, they switched over to watch the
Olympics. One gal was like, how come the commercials
are so boring? Oh, that's right. It's not the
Super Bowl anymore. It's the Olympics. All right.
How about the Scorpions? I would be wanting to
hear what they have to offer. Yeah, their singer,
again, is the guy who's lost it. Yeah. So it's
not going to be... I'd be willing to say press
just because the musicianship is going to be
decent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, Klaus doesn't
have the voice he used to, but I think he could
manage it enough for an album. Okay, yeah. Reluctantly
press pass. Or press pass. Yeah, me too. Look,
if it's horrible, I'll accept responsibility
for passing it, but... Eh, why not? Yeah. How
about Disturbed? Huh. I think they could have
more to say. I think they could, too. I would
like to see what direction they go into, because
they couldn't do what they did before, the powder
rock, quasi -metal -er. Yeah. Yeah, that's not
really the style right now at all. I think, and
they were mainstream. I mean, they're played
on many stations across America and still are.
Yeah. Yeah, I'd like to see that. Yeah, I'll
do press. Evanescent. Yes. Yeah, I would like
to hear it. Yeah, I don't think Amy Lee really
got the chance to do what she really wanted to
do. No, I agree. Even on their big breakout album.
She had the Wake Me Up Inside. What was the other
one? A couple other ones. Yeah. Yeah. My Last
Breath. Going Under. Going Under. But a number
of those songs, the production actually said,
no, we don't want a female vocal all the way
through. We have to have a male lead vocal too.
Otherwise, the metalheads are going to tune out.
Yeah. So there's a lot of creative choices that
the band wasn't allowed to make. Yeah. So I'd
like to see her do something in that style and
do it her way, the way she would have wanted
to do it in the first place. Yeah. I kind of
feel the same way. Or her go solo. Yeah. All
right. How about Aerosmith? Nah. Nah. Even Joe
Perry, his latest stuff. Nah. I mean, I'm a big
fan of the rhythm section. You know, the bass,
the drums, and the rhythm guitar. But Joe Perry
and Steven Tyler, I just really don't want to
hear anything more from them. I'm just so tired
of them. And even Brad Whitford. I love him.
I mean, Brad Whitford is so underrated. Yeah.
Joe Perry got all the love, but Brad Whitford
is just as much of a guitarist as Joe Perry is.
He just didn't get the rub. And most of those
nice, big, meaty hooks that you get in Aerosmith
songs, those are played by Brad Whitford, not
Joe. Yeah, that's Brad. He's doing the rhythm
parts. Yep. So, all right, we agree with that.
How about the Goo Goo Dolls? Huh, that'd be interesting
to see. I would just to see what they do. Yeah,
they got really big for just like half a minute,
and then they just went away. Was there a name?
Yeah, I will tell them your name, and there's
Iris, and there's Slide. I think Name was probably
their biggest one. And that's one that's still
played all over. It's got the acoustic beginning
and all that. But it's so funny how they went
from, you know, the next big thing to playing
state fairs. Yeah, I know. In a heartbeat. And
they're one of the first. It's daylight when
they play. Yeah. Yeah, so it's not even like,
hey, the Google goals are fronting this, I don't
know, Sedalia or whatever, you know. It's like,
no. No. Yeah, I think at Mocan Fest, not Mocan,
but the Ozark Mountain Fest, got sued. And it's
no longer in existence. And I think it was over
the original Ozark Mountain Festival. I didn't
read up on it, but I saw a little blurb on the
internet. And I'm like, wow, because people are
saying, yeah, you got your ass sued, didn't you?
All this stuff. So I'll have to read up on it.
All right. So Goo Goo Dolls is a yes. How about
Guns N' Roses? I do. Their new song is not that
bad. It's pretty good. They put some thought
into it. You couldn't put it up against appetite.
or even any of the illusions. But it's not bad,
especially for this time of day. They actually
put a little production and thought and effort
into it. I thought it was good. And it's nothing
without the G's. I mean, nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
I guess I'll press. I'll press. Me too. This
one's hard to read because... Okay, Starship.
I'm saying that just because they haven't done
anything in so long. I'm all done with Grace
Slick. Yeah. And the last stuff that Starship
did was just corporate rock for the sake of profits.
Yeah. Grace Slick said openly in an interview
for their last album, you know, we built this
city on rock and roll, et cetera. She wanted
to do one more album and one big tour to make
a bunch of money and then retire. She said, everything's
got to be a hit. Everything's got to be. You
know, massive airplay. And we'll do one big ass
tour so I have enough money to live on when I
die. Okay. So she was selling out very obviously.
And I'm not really interested in listening to
Grace Slick and her sellout music. No, me neither.
This next one. I wasn't a huge fan of them like
a lot of people. Green Day. Eh, I'm done with
Green Day. There you go. I never really cared
for them that much anyhow. Now that they're all
mouthy, fuck them. They need to shut up and sing.
Once you go into musical theater, you've kind
of lost your punk image. It's kind of done with
them. I agree with that 100%. Yeah, that's a
solid big time uh -uh. Yeah, big pass. This next
one, I'll leave it to you because I'm saying
no because the recent stuff has been horrible
to me. The Foo Fighters. Yeah, I'll pass on that.
They came out with good music for many years,
but I think finally Dave Grohl is just like,
it passed him or whatever. Yeah, I think so.
He developed too much as a musician to where
he doesn't want to play. I don't know what it
is. Whatever happens to these people somewhere
down the line, it happened to him. Yeah. Okay,
so Foo Fighters definitely a no. How about Nickelback?
I'm going to go press just because it pisses
a lot of people off. Yes. All the Nickelback
haters are like, oh, oh. I want to see him squirm.
Even their town in Canada that they came from
took down their sign. Oh, God. And all they said
was, this is how you remind me. Yep. No sign.
All right. This one I think is the easy but foreigner.
No, there's not one original member. No, there's
nobody left. No, if it said Foreigner cover band,
I might be interested. But it said Foreigner,
so no. I got Lou Graham out there. Mick Jones
died, didn't he? I think so, yeah. Yeah, he at
least wasn't performing most of the time. Yeah,
but he's no longer an option. This next one,
Pink Floyd. No. Nope. No. Not even. Nick Mason
doesn't play drums anymore. No. David Gilmour,
I would rather hear him solo if they did anything,
and that's it. Richard Wright, the keyboard player,
he's dead. Yep. Roger Waters is a fucking complete
asshole that can't make music or sing anymore.
Yeah, yeah. Even if Roger Waters just came out
and did his music, he still can't do it. No.
He can't sing and he can't play anything like
he should. All he's got left is his political
controversy. And Arabe hates him, so he can just
go away like he should have a long time ago.
And then finally, Poison. I'd say no. I'm going
to pass because they haven't come out with anything
in so long. I don't think they intend to. And
this also goes with Bret Michaels solo. Nothing
has been out, so I think they have nothing left.
Yeah. And Bret Michaels' attitude of wanting
to pay $6 ,000 be paid six times as much as everyone
else what a dick uh members of the band are coming
out now and saying this is the way he's always
been you know all the way back to when we were
starting out there were reports that long time
ago oh yeah yeah he's he wanted um he started
out wanting his own separate room and then that
turned into my own room at my own hotel where
the rest of the band is not staying And then
while the rest of the band was traveling by bus,
he wanted a private plane. As soon as the show
was over, he would be whisked out of the venue
into a van, off to the airport, fly to the next
venue, check into a hotel, and be resting and
relaxing while the rest of the band was still
trying to get their asses out the door and into
the bus. Every step of the way, he's been like,
he's the emperor and we're his little peons.
And the rest of the band's like, screw him. If
he wants to get paid six times as much, he can
go hire a new band. Okay. I'm pretty much saying
Bret Michaels has got a severe case of lead singer
disease. Yes, he does. Yeah. And I knew he was
a dick like that when he did that Mary and Bret
Michaels or whatever shit. Yeah. You can spot
the arrogance on his face. Yeah. It's like, that
bandana you're wearing is fooling nobody. We
all know you're bald as an egg on top. So just
take the damn thing off and come clean. He has
enough money. Why didn't he ever get a transplant
of some sort? I don't understand. Kiss did. And
they look great after that. I guess that would
be, he would have to admit that he's going bald
and he doesn't want to. So as long as he keeps
it covered with that do -rag shit, then he can
deny that he's losing his hair. But it's so obvious
to everybody. Pretty obvious. I mean, it's so
tight and flat to his scalp, you can tell there's
no hair under that. It's just the fake hair that's
sticking out around the edges. He's probably
shaved clean under there. Yeah, probably. Probably
so. Yep. All right, so that was a solid no also.
All right, you got something? I'll add one to
the presser. Add as many as you want. I love
this presser. Alice Cooper. New music? Yeah,
I'm going to press pass. I'm going to press pass
too. It hurts my heart. It does, it does. He's
always been one of my favorites. Something that
has disturbed me lately, he came out with an
EP called... Red Crumbs. And then he later came
out with a full album called Detroit Stories
that was the EP plus a few other songs. And I
thought, what a rip -off. You already released
this as an EP. Yeah. And now we're paying for
it again on this album. And then his latest album,
Road, has remakes and sequel songs on it. That's
a warning sign. I agree. Running out of creativity.
Running out of ideas. He can't figure out what
Alice would do next. And, you know, he's Vince.
He's a golf player. He's a Christian. He's Vince.
And he tries to figure out what would Alice do
next. And he's just running out of ideas. Is
it a go? No. Oh, damn it. Yeah. No smoking sign.
Have you seen a no smoking sign in this area?
No. Not at all. We've got a lot to talk about.
I'm like, let's find out her name. Yeah, there
you go. Yes. All right, you too. Damn it. Yeah,
lost our music background. Yeah, we did. And
a cool guy. Yeah. But, you know, as much as it
hurts me to say, then I think Alice should hang
it up. Me too. It hurts my heart, but I agree.
Yeah. Don't embarrass yourself, man. Alice, we
love you. He's 78 years old. I think he's done
enough. He's got nothing to prove. Yeah. Nothing.
No. I mean, he took the most out of really not
that much talent. And, I mean, he has talent.
He's kind of like Ozzy. He has talent, but it's
not the obvious talent of coming out there and
singing. Yeah, he's never been a good singer,
and he knows it. He doesn't pretend to be a good
singer. And all this theatrics and stage show
is partly to make up for the fact that he's not
a very good singer. Yeah. Well, Richie Blackmore
put it perfectly when he was asked about Ozzy.
I thought he was going to take a shit on him,
right? Yeah. Because he's a perfectionist. He
goes, no. He goes, the preference for the people,
the preferred voice is Ozzy. He didn't say it's
the best voice. He didn't say anything. He just
said that is the preferred voice of everybody.
Everybody likes his voice. Yeah. So it was a
compliment like it should have been. It was like
everybody loves him. I'm not saying whether he's
great or not. Everybody loves him. Yeah. Yeah.
Everybody likes his voice. They're comfortable
with it. Alice Cooper is another one. Everybody
is comfortable with the voice, and they're comfortable
with him. He's pretty non -controversial at this
point. He made his big splash by being insanely
controversial for the time. Now everyone knows,
well, this is just an act. It's just like Ozzy
was. It's like an actor on a TV show. You don't
judge him by the character he's playing. You
judge him by the entertainment value. I want
to see the before and after of the Osborn show.
I want to see the demographic that people have
bought his music before and then after. Good
point, yeah. It's night and day, I guarantee
it. Because everybody loved him after that. Before,
people were afraid of him. That's that guy that
put the head off the doves and the bats and he
devil worships and he drinks blood and he kills
children. And then all of a sudden he's on there
talking about... He fucking is the bulldog shitting
in the living room. He's just a regular old suburban
dad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or when Sharon told him
in Vegas he's going to do Bubbles. And he's like,
I'm the prince of fucking darkness. I don't do
Bubbles. And next thing they show him on stage
with Bubbles everywhere. So, yeah, yeah. So,
Alice was kind of like that. They made graphic
novels. They made all this stuff about him. He
became friendly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he played
the Alice character in movies, too. Ironically,
a movie called Prince of Darkness by John Carpenter.
That's right. Yep, he was a homeless guy who
murdered somebody with a bicycle. He played in,
what was the one, Sammy Kerr? Sammy Kerr. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. The rocker that was killing people.
Shit, he's a monster dog, too. 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 Riptine. and that was your music
news. If it's too loud, you probably have ear
damage, just like me. Oh, well. He did some TV.
Way back in the day, he did the Snoop Sisters.
Snoop Sisters? Okay, please explain. I don't
know. This was back around 1973, after a Billion
Dollar Babies album came out. Uh -huh. School's
Out, the previous album, pretty much made them
superstars, and then Billion Dollar Babies came
out, and it was like a victory lap. Yeah. And
Snoop Sisters was... Sammy Kerr, what movie was
that character? The Snoop Sisters was two little
old ladies that solved crimes. Trick or Treat.
Trick or Treat, yeah, that was it. Okay, anyhow,
go ahead. That was Helen Hayes and somebody else.
And on one of the episodes, there was witchcraft
involved, so they had to go ask a local witch
for information, who was played by Alice Cooper.
Oh. I didn't know this. He came out and sang
a modified version of the song Sick Things. Okay.
And then the Snoop sisters went up and talked
to him, and he was reluctant to share information.
Snoop Dogg's ants? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And
then they told him... It's Duke Midas' brother.
Yes. They said, you know, we were referred to
you by so -and -so, and they said that the witch
who helped us would probably become a warlock
pretty soon. And he was like, really? He said
that? Then all of a sudden he's willing to help.
So he gave them the information they needed.
I've got to look that up on the internet. That
sounds good. And he was on The Muppet Show. Oh,
yeah. Yes, a couple of times. Okay. He was on
there with Vincent Price once. Yes. Who was one
of his idols. He was, yeah. He had Vincent Price
in his movie. On a song, Black Widow? Yep. Yeah,
Black Widow, yeah. Welcome to my nightmare. Yeah.
And Vincent Price and Alice Cooper on the same
song is fucking awesome. It was awesome. I remember
hearing that at first going, oh, this is heaven.
Yeah, yeah. Unfortunately, 78 years old. What
do you expect? Yeah. You know? And especially,
he had a hard life for a few years. He did. So.
He pretty much destroyed his body with alcohol
and then. The next few years after that, destroyed
it with cocaine. Yeah. And then after that, went
to an insane asylum. No, he went to an insane
asylum first. Yeah. And then got on coke afterwards
because he quit alcohol. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Kind
of messed up. Yeah, what a story, though. And
he's born again. Christian, that is, is he PGA?
He's PGA rated, isn't he? I think he is. Yeah,
he's really good at golfing. He is really good.
So, almost got to meet him, but he went golfing
instead. I was lucky enough to receive a backstage
pass, and the guy came out like 40 minutes later.
He said, Alice is sorry, but he had a golf date.
Yeah. I was able to leave birthday wishes on
his phone once. Oh, you were? Yeah, a bass player
friend of mine had met Alice through his uncle,
who was also in show business. And he said, what
a lot of people don't know is Alice's phone is
in his mother's name. So if you look at Alice
Cooper in the phone book, it's not there. But
if you look up Furnier. And so he said, I've
got that number. So we called. It was Marge Furnier.
Yeah, I guess so. Marge Furnier. Margaret Furnier.
So we called, and I wished him a happy birthday.
He had to have checked the message. Somebody
checked that message and heard my voice wishing
him happy birthday. So that's the closest I've
come to him. Wow, that's kind of cool. That's
really cool. I don't even know the number. The
guy dialed it and handed me the phone. He said,
I'm not giving you the number. Oh, damn it. But
I'm going to dial it and hand you the phone.
He knew better. Yes, he did. Alice, I play drums.
I want to be your drummer. Please hire me right
now. I wish you a happy birthday. Oh, I would
have been such a fucking mark. Oh, yeah. Well,
I've got a story on the guitars, the electric
guitars of the former Soviet Union. I love it.
Or the USSR. Yes. Or the Iron Curtain. Yes. Or
all the countries that they invaded and took
over but then split up later. Yes. So, go ahead,
please. And there's some of these... Some were
imported into the USSR from Czechoslovakia and
East Germany. Back in the USSR. The first brand
we have is Tonika. T -O -N -I -K -A. You should
look that up on your phone. It's a pretty freaking
ugly looking guitar. I imagine everything that
went to the Soviet Union was probably ugly. Because
back then, they didn't have anything pretty,
including their leaders. Tonika? T -O -N -I -K
-A. T -O -N -I -N -K. Okay. I -K -A. I -K -A.
What's typical of the Soviet era guitars? Odd
body shapes, dull finishes, unattractive colors,
too many switches, mass produced but still mostly
handmade, wiring harnesses that look like the
inside of a 1950s radio but just without the
tubes. It seems like a lot of these bodies were
made from scrap pieces of wood. It's like, we've
got this, yeah, isn't that an ugly piece of shit?
Yeah. You can buy one for $261. Yep. But doesn't
it look like they just had a bunch of scrap wood,
and they said, let's just cut a few corners off
and make a guitar body out of it. You know whenever
you puke and there's just a little blotch? Yeah.
That's what it looks like. That is what it looks
like. The neck is a little string of saliva and
then there's a little splat that could be vomit
or bird poop or baby poop or something. That's
exactly what it looks like. It's pretty awful.
Or a splatter of diarrhea on the bottom of the
stool. That was flat ugly. Everyone should look
up the Tonica guitar. It's awesome. Yeah, if
you want to bomb it, there you go. Now, they
were made mostly in Leningrad, but also in some
various other factories. Considered one of the
first mass -produced Soviet electric guitars
starting in the late 60s. Known for unconventional,
bizarre body shapes and birch bodies. Pretty
much all Soviet -era guitars are known for having
unusual and challenging tone circuits. So the
volume and tone, and then a lot of them had just
bunches of switches and balance knobs, just all
sorts of bizarre stuff. And I went to a website
called Cheesy Guitars where he did some deep
dives on this, and he said there's one he has
that I've looked over all this wiring and stuff.
I can't figure out what it is or what it does.
It's just incomprehensible. I just can't figure
this mess out. Another brand, Ural, U -R -A -L,
made in Sverdlovsk and the Katerinaberg. Okay.
This was the most common Soviet electric guitar.
The Ural 650 was produced in a furniture factory.
Uh -huh. Red to green sunburst finish and high
output pickups. Very heavy, a round fretboard.
You know how the fretboard where you press the
strings down, it's mostly flat, but it has a
little bit of curve to it? Yeah. This is about
as round as, like, shower curtain rod. Okay.
And it's, like, incredibly hard to play because
you have to wrap your fingers around the end
of the board, then around that edge of the board.
What the... It's too... They made it circular
like that because that made it very sturdy and
very unlikely to break, especially during manufacturing.
They knew nothing about music, did they? They
did not. They absolutely did not. Okay. The tone
circuit had built -in effects, stereo outputs,
switchable circuits, and pretty much most of
these electronic parts were designed by radio
manufacturers. So they used these big, heavy,
robust radio parts, and they'd have no idea how
electric guitar electronics worked. They said,
oh, well, it's like a radio. We'll just make
it like a radio. So they all sounded like shit.
The Aelita, A -E -L -I -T -A, was mostly built
in Rostov -on -Don. Produced in the 1970s, influenced
by Japanese Taisco designs, particularly the
Aelita II. Again, odd body shapes, bizarre tone
circuits. It was one of the ones that sold for
a little more because it wasn't quite as ugly
as the others. It's almost like they wanted to
discourage making music. Yeah, yeah. Initially,
the Soviet Union was like, rock music is evil,
it's corrupt, it's awful. But then they realized,
well, there's money to be made, so let's do the
Soviet version of it. The communism is you take
all the joy out of life. Music is joy. Yes. Well,
these guitars were ugly and heavy, so that would
remove a lot of the joy of actually playing.
Yes, that's what it was. You don't make life
enjoyable, so we control you. Okay, Formanta
guitars made in Borisov. Known for the Formanta
Solo II, which featured built -in effects such
as fuzz. Imagine having fuzz built into your
guitar. You could never play anything clean.
If you ever wanted a different fuzz. You're stuck
with this one. Yeah. That makes no sense, but
okay, just like the rest of their stuff. But
for the time, it had a fairly advanced tremolo
system. Okay, now we're talking tremolo, yeah.
Formanta refers to a prominent Soviet -era manufacturer
which made the Kachkana radio plant, is where
they're made, known for producing unique, rugged
analog synthesizers, drum machines, and guitars
from the 1970s to the 1990s. Analog? Its most
iconic product includes the Polyvox synthesizer
and the Formanta UDS drum machine, often characterized
by military -grade components, distinctive harsh
sounds, and distinctive cyrillic interfaces,
which is the Russian alphabet. Now, some of their
key instruments, they had the Polyvox synth from
82 to 90, a famous duophonic synthesizer with
two oscillators, which meant you could play two
notes at once. Yeah. Because before then, synthesizers
were monophonic. You'd play one note, and if
you played any other note, only the lower note
would sound. But this also had a highly aggressive
filter, similar to the Polyvox, and it was often
used for industrial sounds. It didn't make pretty
music. The Formanta UDS Rockton. A drum synthesizer
with five assignable voices known for producing
bleeps, clangs, and punchy dry sounds, often
described as a Soviet counterpart to the TR -909.
That's like the real early days of electronic
drums where they didn't even sound like drums.
The Formanta EMS -01, a hybrid instrument combining
a five -octic polyphonic organ and a monophonic
synthesizer. So the organ part, you could play
chords. Synthesizer part, you can just play one
note at a time leads. Wow. The Formanta Quintet,
which is labeled the Covintet, an analog string
slash brass synthesizer with utilitarian design.
Okay. Formanta guitars, various electric guitar
models, such as the Formanta Solo II, offering
featuring unique, sometimes hard -to -play designs.
I think so, yeah. Other gear includes the Formanta
Echo, which is a spring reverb, and Artan vocoders.
And actually, nowadays, Formanta instruments
are prized and highly sought after, especially
the electronic music production for their unique
character and distorted sound. A lot of times
they require restoration, like most of the capacitors
are all dried up and need to be replaced. Okay.
But the Polyvox synthesizer... In good condition,
we'll bring you $1 ,000 to $3 ,000. Wow. The
UDS drum machine will be in the $250 to $600
range, and the guitars are typically in the $300
to $400 range, even though they all need a lot
of maintenance. You buy it for $300 or $400,
but it won't play. You have to go fix it and
change everything, but people still want them.
Yeah. Next up, we have Stella. A hi -fi model,
often featuring four split stereo pickups. Four.
And each one could be split left and right. Okay.
Isn't that weird? Yeah. Complex electronics.
A butcher block style body instead of plywood.
So is it phenomenally heavy. Covered in caustic
and possibly carcinogenic plastic. A terrible
build quality. made in an accordion factory.
Even worse. Its wiring is undecipherable. And
even though it's supposed to be stereo, the pickups
are split left and right. The top three strings,
the wound ones, would be on one pickup, and the
bottom three strings would be on a different
pickup. So it's split left and right. These three
strings would be on the left and those three
strings would be on the right. Just a horrible
way to split them. And they would split phase
that way too. But they put mono parts into the
stereo wiring circuit, which completely defeated
the stereo capabilities and the balance control
just did nothing. So right from the factory...
Okay, that doesn't make any sense at all. Right
from the factory it didn't work. Because they
put mono parts into a stereo circuit. okay so
they were idiots they were idiots okay that explains
it it wasn't taking joy out another like yeah
they're just flat stupid okay uh there's another
one orpheus that were built in the bulgaria and
i could find almost nothing on this because several
other manufacturers have used the name since
and all i was getting was their results all i
could find out it was known for distinctive often
sunburst finished offset designs So, not symmetrical.
Okay. Then overall, it said these guitars often
used furniture -grade materials, heavy polyester
varnishes, and DIN pin outputs. Instead of a
quarter -inch jack like we plug in, they had,
like, multi -pin outputs. You have to have a
special cord, and they're generally pretty fragile.
Okay. They were designed for affordability and
durability within the USSR rather than for high
-fidelity performance. Other notable often imported
or block produced brands popular to USR include
Jolana from Czechoslovakia and Musima from East
Germany. Yep. And you can still buy a lot of
these guitars today. Yeah, I could have bought
the first one, I forgot the name of it, for $360.
The Tonica. Yeah, the Tonica. I could have bought
that for $360 and have it delivered probably
in a couple of days. There was one guy who bought...
Just a loaded pickguard. So it was the picks,
I mean, it was the pickups and all the electronics
and knobs, etc. And then he found a picture of
the guitar body and then drew one and cut it
out and fashioned it from scratch. And then he's
going to find half the neck to stick on. So he's
going to try to make it look like the original,
but all he had was the electronics part. Oh,
wow. He could probably get away with it, too.
Nobody knows enough. Really? How about some bullet
points? Love them. All righty. Bands don't brag
about womanizing anymore. No, they don't. Why
is that? I think it's pretty obvious, but...
Oh, well, it's not seen as cool or conquest anymore.
No. That was more common back in the days when
young women were considered not really complete...
full human beings that they were, you know, oh,
it's okay to abuse them and do whatever you want.
They're just women. Yeah. That kind of attitude.
Uh -huh. And then the advent of HIV made it less
than cool to be sleeping around a lot. That's
when everybody really started putting on the
brakes. Yeah. Yeah. But I think mostly people
realized that when they bragged about it, either
people didn't care or actively disliked it. Yeah,
you're right. It's one or the other. So it wasn't
chic anymore to go, I did this, I did that. People
were like, you're a rock star. Yeah, it's not
even cool anymore to talk about how much you
drank the night before. No, it isn't. That's
just considered bad form. Well, kind of along
the same lines, one of the best answers I've
ever heard was, when Ozzy got busted cheating
with a hairdresser. And he'd come out and he
goes, I'm a rock star. That's what I'm supposed
to fucking do. Yep. It was the greatest comment
ever. Pretty much. Everyone's like, uh, okay.
Got us there. That was it. Yeah, there was certain
behavior we expected from rock stars. Yes. But
now it's totally different. Yeah, and I think
also it's the redundancy. It's like, yeah, and,
you know, you go to concerts, I mean, and you
always see, even at Jerry Cantrell. There were
groupies there. We saw them, you know. They're
dressed up like groupies and up there, you know,
hovering around. Yep. And they just looked like
such cliches. Yes. Just so ridiculous. They looked
out of time. Yeah. And that's another thing,
too, is they're easy pickings. So nobody cares.
Yeah. If they didn't get the band, another guy
with long hair would have got her. Yeah. And
that's it. So I think that's all that together
is like big fucking deal. Do they not do it because
it's frowned upon? That's part of it. Yeah. They
may still do it. They just don't brag about it.
Exactly. That's what I'm saying is they still
do it, but they're not going to openly tell you.
Yeah. Yeah. But at the same time, I think there
are a lot more musicians that no longer feel
the social pressure to cheat. And it's like,
oh, well, you know, I'm supposed to because the
guys will expect, they'll think I'm a weenie
if I don't anymore. Most people are like, yeah,
I don't care what you think about me in private.
I'm worried about my public image. And then in
private, I'm going to live my life, and I'm not
going to do it just because you expect me to.
Jon Bon Jovi kind of hurt his image because when
people found out he married his high school sweetheart
and was faithful, they're kind of like a... That's
not a rock star. This is back, you know, 80s.
Yeah, he started seeming a little toothless and
plain. Yeah, I'd be like, I don't like that.
I want him doing stupid shit. Yeah, I want some
tough guy out there swaggering and risking his
life every night and winning the girl in the
end and being everything that I wish I could
be kind of thing. Calculated businessman, and
people didn't like that. I mean, he did very
well still. Yeah, people want to live vicariously
through their rock stars. You know, there's tons
of people out there looking at Taylor Swift and
wishing they could live her life for a day or
a week or a month. That's one of the biggest
allures of it among younger is living vicariously
through them. Yeah. Yeah, and putting yourself
up there. Yeah. Wow, that'd be so cool. All right,
next one. Was the Who or Pink Floyd a bigger
radio success? I think the Who was. I think so,
too. Because The Who is heard on virtually every
classic rock station around. Pink Floyd has gotten
better about it, but I think The Who has actually
been a lot more prolific on radio. Maybe not
sales -wise, I'm not for sure. Yeah, The Who
definitely wrote more radio -friendly stuff.
Pink Floyd, some of their best music was... too
long for radio. Yeah, yeah. You only heard it
late at night when Vaughn Mack had to take a
dump. Yeah. Googling. And his all -night rock
and roll cafe, remember? Oh, that's right, yeah.
I goofed on one thing on this. It still selected
the previous recording, so it's going to stop
this recording when the previous one ends. I
think I'm going to try to see if I can bypass
this thing on the second. Okay. Okay, that worked.
Okay, all right. We are back. That would have
cut off in about five minutes and stopped recording
because of the program I'm using. We've had to
redo some bits before. If you look over at the
damn thing, it's great recording. It's like,
shit, we've got to recreate the last ten minutes.
Yep. Yeah, and I'm glad you caught it. It's so
good. All right. Have you heard Tony Iommi music
before he had his finger accident? No, I haven't.
I have, only in Jethro Tull. And it was like
a recording that wasn't that well. But he was
surprisingly normal sounding. But he was also
in a band where he was like, you're going to
play this or that. True, true. He really couldn't.
Whoa. What? Right behind you there, there was
a high -speed chase going on. Oh, really? And
the cop threw out the stop sticks. But he didn't
make it. Oh, damn it. He threw him out not quite
in time. The car went right past him. Man, that
car was flying. The little white car looked like
it was going three times the speed limit. And
I've seen four cop cars go after it. Wow. There's
a street right behind you there. If he keeps
going that way, he's going to run out of real
estate. He doesn't know it. There goes the fifth
one. There goes the fifth car. I wonder if this
will actually make the news. Half of this stuff
he never gets on the news. No, I know. Damn it.
Yeah, I saw that cop stop, and he came out with
these long, like, black things, and then he threw
them out, and just as he threw them out, this
car went zoom. Just a blur. Damn. I hope he keeps
going east, because he's going to run up at the
river. Yeah. And it's going to be done. He's
probably thinking, oh, escape into Kansas. Kansas
is the other way. Yeah. Oops. He's going to go,
is this the Kansas River? Oh, no. Oh, no. But
good news, you keep driving for about five hours,
you reach Illinois. That's true. Yeah, yeah.
So just jump in. Jump in, grab a log. Oh, my
gosh. What was the best band name ever? Oh, I
like the Dead Kennedys pretty well. Oh, I do,
too. Yeah. Let's see. Dead Kennedys is a good
one. Yeah. Let's see. You know, as far as the
punk era, the musicians' names were often better
than the band's names. They were, yeah. Johnny
Rotten, Sid Vicious, you know. Yeah. I mean,
the band names were cool. You had X -Raced Bags
and The Slits. The Slits. Yeah. The Cramps. Yes,
The Cramps was good. Yep. Oh, shit. Yeah, there's
so many. All right. There's other bands too.
I mean, Aerosmith I thought was a genius name
because it kind of made its own thing, you know.
It was like Aerosmith. It's not really a name.
Yeah, it kind of brought in like airplanes and
basically a blacksmith or some sort of. creation
process or something. I like the Smithereens.
I think that's a great band name. That was good.
I thought the Replacements was a pretty clever
name. That is good. Let's see. GNR or Guns N'
Roses I think is a good name. Motley Crue is
a good name. Yeah. Motorhead. I always love that
name. Yeah, yeah. Let's see. There was a local
band called Just In Case. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. How about Black 7? Black Sabbath is also
excellent. Deep Purple is a great name. Yeah.
Super Tramp. Yeah, and I mean, that was, with
the name Super Tramp, you have no idea how the
music is supposed to sound. No, I know. And that's
the way the music was, too. It's like, what is
this? Yeah. It's good, but it's weird in that
voice, the singer, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Okay,
Abba. That was pretty clever. oh okay this is
the next oh okay yeah it's a polydrome yeah yeah
either way were they pompous or true to themselves
but abba is a good name yeah it is you know i
watched uh a documentary that was mostly focused
on the blonde gerbil um yeah pretty much the
focal yeah yeah And when they started out, they
seemed like they were just being pretty genuine
and having a lot of fun. And this is just really,
you know, the kind of music they liked. And then,
you know, the record label would find the producer
to give it that immense, massive, thick sound.
Four Non Blondes is another great name. Yes,
that was another good name. Nine Inch Nails.
Yeah. Great name. Yeah. And when there were,
you know, of course, when Nine Inch Nails got
popular, there were a bunch of bands that tried
to copy them. And they were collectively known
as 8 -inch nails. Yes. Some of them were 4 -inch.
Yes. And I remember the guitar player in the
band I was in at the time, John Axford, he got
a hat that said 9 -inch male. You have 9 -inch
nails? I'm a 9 -inch male. There you go. Much
better name. So, okay, the ABBA. You're going
somewhere with that, I think, right? Yeah, they
seem pretty genuine and true to themselves. Disco
was big, dance music was big. It was pretty much
music that was designed to be danced to. It was
listenable, you could just sit and listen to
it, but primarily they wanted you to listen to
it while you were dancing. Yeah, and it was.
It was dance music, not so much... listening
to music, but you could if you wanted to. It
was decent. What band is the biggest phonies
of all time? Pink Floyd. Yeah, Pink Floyd would
be a good one. An obvious one like the Monkees
and the Partridge family. They were fake to begin
with. All the boy bands. But the Partridge family,
they had people that could play. Where the Monkees...
They learned the instruments afterwards. Yeah.
I think Michael Nesmith actually could play guitar.
That's right. Yeah, he was about the only one
that could play this at the time. Yeah, all the
boy bands were phonies. Yeah. Gosh, I know there's
another one where it was just kind of put together
and designed to be a power station. Yeah, yes.
There you go. Power stage is good because Robert
Palmer. Hey, how are you doing? We're super boring.
Yes. It was pretty boring. Yeah, it was boring.
Oh, my God. They already have a prediction of
the Chiefs next year. Oh, yeah? They already
have. That's what they're saying. That's what
I've seen on Facebook. They know something we
don't. Well, it's one of those things with the
logo and all that. They already have it predicted.
Oh, I see. Even though that has never been true.
Every time I've looked, I've never seen the colors
they say. That's the rumor going around. We're
preordained. Yeah, that was... Sucked. It was
horrible. I mean, I was asking my... My brother,
what was the lowest scoring game? I know there's
been another one. Well, I wanted him to be shut
out. It'd be the first one ever. Yeah, there's
never been a shutout. Yeah, I would have loved
to have seen that. What was the score of Super
Bowl V? That was the other one that was really
horrible. It's very similar to this. Okay, Super
Bowl V between the Baltimore Colts. And the Dallas
Cowboys, the final score was 16 -13. Wow. And
it was called the Blooper Bowl because there
were 11 combined turnovers between the two teams.
Okay. Baltimore won by three points. MVP was
Chuck Howley, linebacker for the Cowboys. MVP
is a linebacker. It is good for luck. Yeah, you
got a ring. I'm very happy for you. Yeah, that
is nice. Yeah, and also Sam Darnold got a ring
before Josh Allen, got a ring before Lamar Jackson.
And I can't think of the other quarterback. Herbert.
Herbert, Justin Herbert, yeah. I can't remember,
I think it was last week they were talking about,
cuz originally he got drafted by the Vikings.
Yeah. I think so, didn't he, Sam Darnold? No,
the Jets. The Jets? Yeah, that's right. Okay,
maybe it was the Jets. He went to the Vikings
as a free agent. They won 13 games, and they
got blown out in the first round. Was it the
Vikings or the Jets that fired the GM? Oh, that
was the Vikings. Okay, I think the thing that
I was listening to, they were talking about the
GM. It was pretty much wrong of them. I mean,
but who would know, but he got rid of Sam Donald.
It's like, look what happened now. Yeah. Yeah,
that's why he got fired, because Sam Donald went
on to win a Super Bowl, and Minnesota went on
to be a bottom feeder. Yeah. Yeah, and I agree
with that decision. I mean, they should have
beefed up around him is what they should have
done. They said, all right, you know, the guy
got it done this far. Yeah. But, yeah. And then
last season, Minnesota couldn't keep the same
quarterback on the field because they kept getting
hurt. Yeah. Same with the Jets. The Jets might
as well drop down to the UFL. I'm kind of interested
in seeing how the Giants are going to do. I think
John Harbaugh is going to. I mean, I think we
talked about that the last time, but what's his
face? John Harbaugh with Jackson Dart. Matt Nagy
is the OC there now. Oh, he took him. Yep. So
he's the Giants' OC. That's kind of one point
against them, but still. They might get it done.
I think that Matt Nagy didn't get the job he
wanted, so he's got to take another non -play
-call -and -roll. And you know, the hardball
came off of the Andy Reid tree. Maybe that's
one of those things he called them up. Hey, can
you take me? That's the way I take it. It's like,
hey, Nagy agreed. He said, you called plays.
He just needs a job. But then again, I don't
know. Maybe Harbaugh is a little different on
that part. Maybe he'll say, hey, you do your
thing. It's just kind of iffy with the Chiefs,
who's calling plays. Matt Nagy's not as bad as
he seems because when he came into power, per
se, we didn't have the offensive line we did
before. So it's really hard to judge. I think
he was here all of Alex Smith and towards the
end. Two years with Mahomes. Yeah, I believe,
wasn't it two years with Mahomes? Cuz I thought
Doug Peterson took over when - Wait a minute,
Doug Peterson did take over, that's right. Yeah,
he was here though, Matt Nagy was. He was like
- Quarterback's coach. I think he was like a
wide receiver guy and then he transitioned to
assistant coordinator. Yeah, I think you're right,
something like that. Then he's like, okay, OCE
coach. And that was the year the Chiefs... That
was the D -4 ball. No, before that, what was
the left tackle? Fisher. Oh, Eric Fisher. Yeah,
against the Steelers. When we had the, I think
it was the playoff game. Yeah, it was a playoff
game. Okay. That was Alex Smith, he was the quarterback.
Yeah, that's right. I think we didn't, I think
we didn't kick, we kicked field goals, I think,
the whole time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
It was something weird, yeah. Yeah, so, I don't
know, you know what, Matt Nagy, I'm glad he's
got a job, and I'm glad he's on that, you know,
let him have him. Yeah. He can't burn us anymore.
I'll put it like this. The excitement of all
of the players when Eric Viettami was back spoke
volumes. Yeah, it did. You know, maybe it will
work because look at, oh, what's the coordinator
for the Patriots? McDaniels. Oh, McDaniels, Josh
McDaniels. He tried going, you know, he went
to, I think he coached the Raiders. Yes, he was
the coach for the Raiders. Didn't work out. Yeah.
He went back there. He's been OC. So, you know,
it's one of those things like Cornell. Like,
he wasn't a great head coach, but as a coordinator.
Well, it's kind of like Spagnuolo. Yeah, Spags.
People did not like him as a head coach, but
as a defensive coordinator, he's one of the best.
He has more rings than Andy Reid. Yeah. Yeah,
because when he was with the Giants, that was
when Tom Coughlin was. as a coach, I think. Oh,
wow. That's been a while. Yeah, that's with Eli
Manning and a great defense, which was Spagnuolo's.
I think he had Strahan there and everything.
Strahan? Yeah, very possibly. I think it was.
Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah. So, you
know what? I mean, I'm glad that we made some
changes, and now it's going to be interesting
to see what they do with the roster. Yeah. They
do need to address running back and wide receivers.
No, that's what we were talking about earlier.
Oh, really? Okay, yeah. Walker III, the Seattle,
the running back. That guy, do you see how fierce
he ran? He took no for an answer. That's who
I was talking about the other day when we were
talking. Yeah, Walker. Yeah, that guy is insane.
He doesn't stop. He's going to be a free agent.
Oh, I'd love to get him if he's a free agent.
Pacheco was doing that before he got injured.
Yeah, I think he was injured. He slew up a little
bit. Well, the problem is Pacheco is not, he
doesn't have the body type. Walker does. That's
how come he kept getting injured. Enough with
all these little guys. Get somebody that can
pound, you know, we need a yard. Andy Reid's
always been a speed guy. Now he needs to start
playing some more of the smash mouth. Yeah. And
that's throughout the league. I think throughout
the league, everywhere, it's all speed. Everything's
speed, speed, speed. Well, now, have you noticed
the last two Super Bowls have been won by a defensive
line? Yeah. Well, there's that old saying. Hey,
there's that old saying. Defense wins championships.
That's what Ray Lewis always said. Bill Purcell
started that. Oh, yeah. Bill Purcell is the one
that said that. And that was true. And then the
year the quarterback came along. Yep. It keeps
getting reinvented. Because Mahomes came along,
and all of a sudden it was like a Brady -Mahomes,
oh, it's a quarterback leap. Okay, perfect example.
Like, look at, there's no more fullbacks, really.
There's only a few teams. And you see very seldom
I -formation or offset I -formation. You don't
see that no more. It's all... Shotgun, pistol,
wildcat. It's funny, I was actually asked my
dad, you fairly seldom, remember Jake Palmer
when he was with Broncos, he would always do
that bootleg. Nobody does a bootleg no more.
I mean, very seldom I see it. You're right, yeah.
Or the flea flicker. They'll hand it off. I've
seen it, I think, a couple of times. They do
the gadget plays, but they don't do the good
old reliable. Yeah. See, that's one thing with
everything. You've got to stick to the basics.
Yeah. No, I agree. This really shows. Here's
the way I see this happening right here. They
got together some of these GMs and head coaches
and said, We're not going to be Mahomes. So what
is going to be the new Mahomes? That's the defensive
line. The D -line is your new Mahomes. And the
thing is, too, Mahomes, he can't. We've talked
about it. It can't be like, oh, we got Mahomes.
Let's see what he's going to do. He can't do
that. I mean, he is getting older. All their
time is going to catch up with everybody. So,
you know, I mean, he needs to change his style
up. He needs to tweak some things if he can do
that. He could be a great quarterback out there.
I mean, well, he's already a great quarterback.
But they were accustomed to using him as like
90 % of the offense. He needs to cut it back
to 50%. The other half of the time, hand it off.
Only backyard football when you need it. Absolutely
need it. But other than that, no backyard football.
All that tricky stuff, it's great, but it's one
of those things, okay, if he does a no -look
pass, okay, yeah, it works. But if he doesn't,
it's like, come on. Like you said, enough with
the - Or when it gets tipped and it goes into
the hands of the opposing team. Yeah. Yeah. And
that's when we lost to Tampa Bay. What was the
coach for Tampa Bay? Arians. Where's Arians?
He's like, they're just a fancy football team.
And they just pretty much played smash mouth
football. Yeah. And that's where Andy Reid is
like the speed guy. Yeah. It's like you said,
we need to get those. That Tampa Super Bowl,
you know where it was lost? And I knew it when
I saw it. I identified it. Okay. When Andy Reid,
they had a minute and a half left, and they had
third and long against Tampa. And Andy Reid,
instead of letting the time run down and just
go to halftime, he called the timeout. Yeah.
And Tom Brady looked on his face and was like,
oh, you think you're getting the ball back. He
shoved the ball up his ass is what he did. That's
where I think. Besides playing Smash Mouth, that
game right there, that was it. He made a statement.
The clock thing, I remember, I remember, I mean,
this is even years ago. I remember that was always
an issue with Andy Reid in Philly. Yeah, and
they said that too. The clock man, like he would
always do stupid things. I mean, yeah. And now,
I mean, I don't know. It's not too much. It just
seems like he's trying to control the game too
much. It's like I said, Mahomes, he's already
managing football. Why? Let him go out there,
throw four or five touchdowns. Yeah. I mean,
he had that one season, was it his first? The
year we lost to the Patriots, he had 50 touchdowns.
Oh, the D4 game. Yeah, that was D4, yes. 50 touchdowns.
Yeah. And then after that. I know his numbers
have to have been dropping. He hasn't got up
to 50. His best was, I think, the year that he
threw the interception in overtime to Cincinnati.
And I think, was it 2022? He had 5 ,250 yards
right around there. Oh, really? And 55 touchdowns,
maybe? Oh, he had 55. I believe he had, well,
quite a bit over 50. I mean, as in like 53 years.
Well, I thought the record was, I mean, I could
be wrong. I thought it was 50. Maybe it was.
You know what? Well, you know what? I don't feel
like looking at him. But he did have 5 ,200 and
some yards. But the touchdowns, I don't know.
It's somewhere in there. It was either high 40s
or low 50s. Yeah. I mean, all this year, though,
Andy, I mean, like, they need to keep up in a
lot of areas. Yeah. Well, you know what? I'm
glad we have Andy Reid, though. I mean, I trust
him more than anybody. I mean, you know, no one
else is. You know, John Harbaugh, you can say
that. He won it once. Yeah. And he won that with
Joe Flacco against Tom Brady, which I have to
respect. He had Lamar, but Lamar, he's a scrambling
quarterback. And he gets hurt. And he gets hurt,
yeah. And now I don't know how much is left in
the tank, honestly. He makes a 40 -yard pass.
Great. To me, most of the time, he's not an accurate
quarterback. If you give him 10 shots like that,
he will probably get a point. He's accurate if
the guy's wide open in the middle, he's great.
But if you've got to do that pinpoint on the
sideline. He can do it. That's usually when he
takes off running. That's like Jimmy Garoppolo.
He's great in the middle. But throwing that pinpoint
pass like in the Super Bowl, he couldn't do it.
That was the difference in the game. Mahomes
did it. He didn't. They had a wide open at the
close to the end of the game where the Chiefs
went up by 10. And he had a wide open pass. I
forgot to who. And the guy was on the sideline.
He would have been in the end zone in like a
second. But he missed him. I mean, not just kind
of. He missed him. And he was not being harassed.
He was not being chased out of the pocket. He
just couldn't do it. And then the next year,
they didn't have him anymore. He went to the
Raiders. And A .J. Brown, I think he's going
to be available. Yeah. You know what? I'd love
to see A .J. Brown. I'll take him. Walker. I
don't think, I want to say, I don't think after
that Super Bowl, I don't, from what I've kind
of read and seen, I don't think he's too happy
over it. No, him and Sirianni don't like each
other for real. kind of beefing or something,
I don't know. Well, okay, I can put this in perspective,
and I've said this before. Okay, Travis Kelsey
and Andy Reid, they get a little heated. Yeah.
Okay, but they turn around. Sirianni turned around,
went right after A .J. Brown, and A .J. Brown
turned around and went after Sirianni. That's
the difference. Yeah. That's that Todd Haley,
Matt Castle guy. Yes. Yeah, where Todd Haley,
you can see him screaming, just throw the fucking
ball. And everyone's like, ooh, I know what he
said. And you can see Matt Castle. That's where
Andy Reid and them, they're just like, hey, you
know, why'd you do that? Oh, because of the,
you know, they're just. Yeah, they don't address
this like, all right, he's pissed off. I'm going
to leave. I'm going to turn around and let him
calm down. And then later on, they're hugging.
I didn't have him with Sirianni. Same with Biennium.
Yeah, Biennium too, yes. Him and Mahomes were
in each other's face. Yeah, because Kelsey made
that fumble that one time. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's an even better example. That's what the
Chiefs, you need that a little bit. But look
at Kelsey now. He's like, oh, my God, my man's
back. Yeah, yeah. Well, maybe hopefully we can
get another year of Kelsey and, you know, Mahomes.
I can say this. All right. Whenever your dad
punished you and you needed it, right? We talk
about it now lovingly, right? We're like, yeah,
I remember, man, like one time I hit a monkey
wrench in the middle of the yard and my dad hit
it with a lawnmower. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Fucked
up the lawnmower, monkey wrench went flying,
you know. So, hey, Mark, were you working on
your bike earlier? Yeah. What'd you do to that
wrench? Smack. Oh, fuck. Okay. Now I think it's
funnier now. It's loving. I think it's the same
way with the enemy getting in his ass. He's like,
yeah, you know what? I really needed it. I love
the guy. That's how it should be with the NFL.
I mean, and all the money that they're making.
I mean, that's another thing I was talking to
my dad about. I think we talked about this where
I mentioned it. They need to bring some of that.
90s style with the secondary of play, like being
able to touch the quarterback. I would love to
see that, yeah. And, I mean, even the quarterbacks.
I mean, you've got a defensive end coming full
speed. How are you supposed to let up if you
throw the ball? I've got a question for you.
We talked about this earlier. How do you feel
about the non -personal foul calls in the Super
Bowl? I think I might have missed one. We were
talking about it earlier. Yeah, they had the
big fight that went on. Somebody hit Diggs out
of bounds. Knocked the piss out of him. And then
they started pushing and shoving, then punches
were thrown. One of the non -players intervened?
I don't know. I'm not for sure. There was a pile
of people that could have happened. Yeah, and
I remember one of the officials hitting the ground
pretty hard. He got pushed or shoved. Yeah, okay,
yeah, yeah, yeah. Not one flag was thrown. Not
one single flag. Really? They just broke it up,
ignored it, and went back to the game. Was that
supposed to be a necessary reference? It's supposed
to be all sorts of things. There were punches
thrown, lay hits out of bounds. That could have
been an ejection. Yeah, and under different circumstances,
it would have been. So nobody got ejected? Nope.
But for some reason... Yeah, because a ref, when
you said, got hit and fell, yeah. Yeah, and he
kind of... And everybody saw that punch being
thrown, and that's an automatic ejection. Yes.
But they just decided, let's just ignore the
whole thing. I can't remember exactly, but no,
we were talking about, that's how we got into
the whole conversation as well. But we were talking
about the officiating, how terrible it's been.
I made the comment, and my dad said kind of the
same thing, but they got somebody watching the
games in New York and stuff. Uh -huh. Okay. you
make a call on the play, how come we can't say,
hey, Mark, let's look at that play before you
make a decision? Yeah. I mean, won't they have
somebody, like, looking at the game and say,
okay, hey, look, we're calling a play here. That's
a good point. Yeah, and have a system like that,
I think. I mean, they actually do. Like my dad
said. Oh, they do? It's called quick review.
And they've used it a number of times during
the season where the officials on the field make
one call, and then New York buzzes in and says,
wait a second, we're going to take a look at
that. Wait a minute, that's right. And then they
overturn it and say, nope, nope, New York said
it's supposed to be this way. And so the officials
on the field say, after a quick review, brother.
So they have that system in place. They just
choose not to use it when they don't want to.
So they're not using it every time. And it's
just like the unnecessary roughness and the disqualifications.
They choose not to use it. I want to know how
come. A couple of Super Bowls, that would have
been called, and there would have been objections.
Now this one, nothing. Because it's one of the
ways they influence the game. That's kind of
what I told my dad. There's just so many stupid
calls and stuff that's costing games. Do you
think they're influencing the game for the gambling
community? Probably, I think so. I think so.
I mean, like my dad said, okay, so it slows the
game down. You're going to make more money on
your commercials. They love it. They always put
Jake from State Park there, a little split screen.
I think every single commercial you hear something
about DraftKings. Yeah, they're the new sex.
Whenever you see a field goal, right there, DraftKings.
It's usually like there's some sort of controversial
play. They're trying to figure out what's going
on. and nobody knows yet, so they go to a commercial,
and it's for a gambling house. It's like they're
telling you, get online now and bet on how this
play is going to – we're pausing the game so
you can bet. I think it is going almost all to
the gambling thing. Their bread and butter, I
think, is gambling now, and they know it because
all these states are legalizing it. And that's
another thing I kind of – we were talking about
too. It's just like politics. You know, you've
got all those football guys there. So the next
guy that's going to take over for Goodell is
going to be one of those guys that are, yes,
sir, you know, kind of know what's going on already.
So it's not that somebody else is going to come
in there and start changing things. Maybe. Maybe
they do. Maybe they don't. Yeah. Well, I know
when Pete Roselle was commissioner of the NFL.
That's who it was. I couldn't remember what the
guy's name was. He. He was in charge. He was
a commissioner, and he kicked people's asses.
But even though he made the league what it is
today by getting the first really giant TV contracts,
after he retired, the owners got together and
said, we don't want a commissioner anymore that's
going to tell us what to do. We want to tell
him what to do. So after Rozelle, they've only
elected Yes Men to be commissioner. That's where
the league needs to say no. We're running things.
You guys work for us. You guys control your team.
But we run the whole big show. That's how it
should be. But it's set up as the team owners
are the franchise owners and the league office
is there to serve the franchisees, the team owners.
And until like 10 years ago, the NFL... league
office was a non -profit organization it was
listed tax -wise as non -profit the nfl league
office isn't that amazing and also it is also
in entertainment it is not not a sports industry
yeah it's legally registered as an entertainment
the same as wwe yeah yeah same thing and that
gets them out of the fair competition laws they
don't have to do anything for fair competition
Then that answers everything right there. Yeah.
They can't get sued. So then that's like what
we're just talking about. That answers our question.
They can legally script. All the bad calls and
stuff. They can legally script the game and fix
the game and there's nothing anyone can do about
it because it's just like writing a movie. Yeah.
I came across that on Facebook all the time where
there's somebody, oh, the league gets scripted.
I didn't even know that. Well, I don't think
it's scripted. I think it's influenced. Very
much influenced, yeah. But they could script
it if they wanted to do it. Yeah, back in the...
Maybe in a little bit, you know, because that
year was great. There was a lot of favoring him
on calls. They changed stuff because of him.
It was back in the 70s. The Detroit Lions fans
got together a class action lawsuit against the
team and the league saying, you're not putting
a fair and competitive product on the field.
You're not even trying. So we're not getting
our money's worth out of our season tickets.
And so they sued. And it was immediately thrown
out by the judge saying, they're not a sports
industry. They're an entertainment industry.
A lot of my questions, I didn't even, I was never
aware of any of that. So it'd be like, you know,
suing ABC because their TV show wasn't funny
enough. You can't do that. Oh, they'd be getting
sued all the time. I mean, I remember, well,
I mean, I've seen highlights and stuff, but I
remember 80s, 90s with Jim McMahon. I mean, like,
he was getting thrown around, broken ribs. Oh,
hang on, hang on, go ahead. Now, if any of these
people get injured, oh, you know, I can't. Mahomes,
yeah, he came out there with his knee that time.
I think in the 70s and the 80s, the players were
still considered fairly replaceable. And then
you started getting superstars, and then with
the advent of social media, they realized if
we can make our players stars and keep them around,
that makes a whole lot of difference. When did
they change? I want to say it was in... In the
90s, maybe? Late 90s? That they changed that
rule? About hitting the quarterback? Yeah. That
sounds about right, because up until then, they
were selling videos at the end of every season
showcasing the biggest hits, the most damaging,
injuring hits. They called it NFL's Greatest
Hits. Yeah. All right, we both had very important
phone calls. Franco had one, and so did I. So
anyhow, that was Franco from Corolla's Italian
market, the best Italian market in the world,
even in Italy. Oh, yeah. We were trying to figure
out when it was the rules changed so much that
you couldn't get the quarterback so badly. And
I'm thinking it probably coincided somewhere
around the time when smartphones came out, and
then it became super easy to share things really
quickly. And the NFL couldn't just hide the replay
and say, oh, well, no one saw it. Now everyone
can see everything, and everything gets pressed
around, everything gets spread really quickly.
At the time, it was harder to deny things that
actually really happened. And people were going,
oh, look at this hit. Look, you can see his bone
pushing out through his skin. Ew, this is icky.
That was part of it. And then another part is
the teams realized that. Instead of being replaceable
and disposable, the players were actually commodities
that they could market and turn into superstars
and make more money off of. And they didn't want
their star sitting on the sideline with a broken
leg. So it's like, hey, we've got to quit hitting
these quarterbacks because they're the face of
the team. We make a shit ton of money off of
them, but only if they're playing. Yeah. So let's
quit hitting them so they can all keep playing.
Yeah. Damn it. You know, I mean, I love that
call I just got because it was good news. Yeah.
But we were all going somewhere and it was like,
it kind of bothered me. I'm like, well, I got
to take this, but. Yeah. Damn it, what was Franco
talking about? We were talking about the league
as entertainment rather than real sport. Yeah,
I lost it now. So anyhow, that's fine. Oh, this
is a music creeps anyhow. It is. Bonus content
there. Yeah, there we go. Well, anytime Franco
comes by, we're talking football because that
guy is probably more knowledgeable than both
of us. Yeah. He's really, really good at it.
He keeps into it. Yeah, yep. I think we owe him
a coffee probably. Probably so. Yep. All right.
Let's see, where were we? You were... Give me
some questions there. Okay. What... Okay, what
rock band was the biggest... Okay, we went to
ABBA. Did we do the biggest phonies of all time,
rock stars? Okay. Pink Floyd. Oh, I think we
were on phonies, yeah. Yeah, we were on phonies.
Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd. Motley Crue. Motley Crue,
all the boy bands. Yeah, NSYNC. Backstreet men.
Backstreet, yeah, yeah. Men to men. New men on
the block. Yes. There weren't any kids or boys.
These were grown -ass men. You wanted to have
sex with your daughters. Yes, yeah. Quit pretending
they're little kids. And they probably did. Yeah.
And they probably did. Yeah. Let's just be glad
they used perfilactics. Yes. In case anyone doesn't
know, that's rubbers. Yeah. Yeah. There were
a lot of grunge bands that were posers. I think
Bush were posers. Hello, this is Phineas J. Altaris
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have one burning question for you all. Do people
really skip around the Maypole? Yeah. Oh, gosh,
yeah. Yeah. Beastie Boys, I consider posers and
phonies. Man, it's about all I can come up with
at the top of my head. Okay. We're coming up
on two hours here. I've got another story here
about string makers, but if you want to save
that for next time or go ahead and do it. No,
we can go ahead and do it. Do you feel like hanging
out more? Sure. Okay, I've got one more. Do it.
Would Super Tramp have been much bigger if they
were promoted better? Yes. Yes. I've always felt
that. Because several of their albums preceding
Breakfast in America were really damn good. They
were better. Well, I don't know better. Crime
of the Century had some awesome hits on it, like
Bloody Well Right and School. Yeah. Crisis What
Crisis had some really good songs on it. And
those were the two right before Breakfast in
America. Yeah. And then after Breakfast in America,
they did one other album and they were done.
Okay. Okay, yeah, all right, so let's go to you.
All right. I was trying to look up string manufacturers
because there are only a few companies that really
make most of the guitar strings. I'm glad you're
doing this. And then everyone else just buys
them. It's called the white label market where
the big manufacturer makes them to somebody else's
specs and sends them to them in unmarked packaging,
and then that company marks them up with their
brand name, et cetera, and sells them. It's like
a couple of episodes ago, I talked about that
guitar factory in Indonesia that makes dozens
of different brands. You and I could get investors
together and design a guitar and write out all
the specs and then contact that company, the
Cortec in Indonesia, and said, here's our new
guitar company. and we want you to make a guitar
that looks like this, and here's the logo and
everything, and they would make it exactly the
way we want, and then we could sell it as our
guitar. Even though we have no idea how to make
a guitar, they would do it for us. So a lot of
companies do the same with strings or drum heads
or whatever. They just go to the companies that
know how to make it well and then put their name
on it. There are about 39 notable brands. Available
globally. But in the U .S., there are only six
major manufacturers of strings. And the rest
just buy from them. Yeah, okay. Wow. The big
manufacturers are D 'Addario, Ernie Ball, Fender,
GHS, La Bella, and Martin. Wow. I remember GHS
I used to love because of that metallic sound.
Yeah. And Ernie Ball had the clear. Yeah. Yeah.
More of an acoustic type maybe sound. Yeah. So
there's only six of them left now? These are
the big ones. Okay, those are the ones. And then
there's some, there's Savaree in France, Roto
Sound in the UK, and Honebach in Germany, major
manufacturers. Okay. But we have six here in
the U .S. D 'Addario is considered the world's
largest. The industry concentration is, although
hundreds of brands exist, most strings are produced
by the six American big six, and then European
ones a lot, maybe by the European ones, but they
come out under dozens and dozens and dozens of
different brand names. Yeah, that's why I was
surprised, like, the six big ones are making
all of them kind of like guitars. Yeah. I mean,
like, Gibson has its own line of guitar strings,
but they're made by somebody else, and Gibson
just puts their name on them. Gibson doesn't
have a factory anywhere making guitar strings.
They just don't. You know, that makes sense,
too, honestly. They don't want to do that. They
want to act like they're in the game, but they
don't want to actually do it. And I'll tell you
my guitar string story a little bit later. I
got a really good one that I remembered. All
right. As far as longevity, La Bella is considered
as the oldest continuously family -owned string
manufacturers in the world, dating back to the
1800s easily. Really? If not earlier. And then
you have specialized manufacturers like Aquila
that focus on specific types of strings like
nylon or ukulele strings. So it's sort of a specialized
market. So I tried to look up and see, okay,
what brands don't make their own string and instead
buy it from someone else. And I could not get
the search engine to tell me. I think a lot of
the companies try to hide that information. If
you know their strings are coming from that guy
over there, you just buy them from that guy over
there. It'd probably be cheaper anyway. So instead,
I looked up these string manufacturers and tried
to see what brands they own. So for Ernie Ball,
they're primarily known for manufacturing high
-quality electric and acoustic guitar strings
under the product line Slinky. They have Slinky,
Super Slinky, Extra Slinky, etc. Bass strings...
Accessories like picks and straps. They have
Ernie Ball Music Man, a subsidiary that produces
premium American -made guitars and basses, including
iconic models like the Stingray Bass, Silhouette,
and Axis. I remember when Music Man came out
with their Stingray Bass in the 70s, everybody
switched to it. I mean, just about everybody
switched to it. And then they also own Sterling.
by Music Man, which was launched in 2008 as a
division to provide more accessible, budget -friendly,
imported versions of the Ernie Ball Music Man.
Now, I have a Sterling Stingray bass. It's a
five -string. Oh, yeah. And it's like the offset
Fender design with one giant, massive humbucker
near the bridge. Okay, I got a question about
that. So it looks just like a regular Stingray,
plays great, but it was way less because it's
the import version. Okay. The bass strings, is
it an octave string or a bass string that's the
extra? Well, I mean like on a regular four -string
bass? Yes. It's the first four strings of the
guitar, but down an octave. Down an octave, okay.
So it's E -A -D -G. Yeah, I didn't say that quite
right. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay. But they're generally
down an octave from the guitar version. Down
an octave instead of, okay. Yeah. All right.
Now Fender is another string manufacturer. Here
are the brands owned by Fender. The Fender Musical
Instruments Corporation owns several prominent
brands in the music industry specializing in
guitars, amplifiers, and audio equipment. Its
core active portfolio includes Fender, Squier,
Jackson, Gretsch, but for fretted instruments
only. They don't do the Gretsch drums. Charvel,
EVH, and Bixby, along with the digital audio
company's PreSonus. Fender is their flagship
brand for acoustic, electric guitars, basses,
and amps. Squier is the budget -friendly version.
Those are all imports, and those are all made
at the Cortec facility in Indonesia. Jackson,
known for metal and high -performance guitar.
Charvel, high -performance rock -oriented guitars.
Gretsch, specialized in hollow body and semi
-hollow body and vintage -style guitars. They're
distributed and produced by Fender, but not completely
made. EVH, Eddie Van Halen's brand of guitars,
amps, and gear. owned by you know how many people
don't know that that stands for eddie van halen
a lot of them i know i think it's like just some
just some yeah just some letters uh bigsby the
iconic tremolo systems and vibrato tails now
everything on a guitar that they call it tremolo
is a vibrato yeah i know i yeah but fender screwed
it up by calling it a tremolo and an actual tremolo
is completely different than yeah yeah a vibrato
varies the pitch, which is what the guitar does.
It actually goes down and pitch and up and down.
And you got to watch it. I don't know how Richie
Blackmore, he must have switched his guitars
out a lot because he used that tremolo religiously.
Yeah. And it notoriously throws your guitar out
of tune. It's a problem. Yeah. One of the easiest
things you can do if it's throwing your guitar
out of tune is put in more springs. That's probably
what he did then. I was unaware of that because
I used to always be, oh, hang on. Here's my tremolo.
Hang on a second. I'll be right back. I've got
a Paul Reed Smith that I've had since 2018. And
it would always come back right into tune. Except
for the last year or so, it doesn't always do
that. Because the springs are getting older and
a little weaker. So I just added another spring.
Now it's coming back in tune again. I wonder
if I could do that with the Jackson I got. Probably
so. with Floyd Brooks too. Yeah. Okay. They generally
have room for five springs. Yeah. And they generally
come out for three a minute. That's what I need
to do then because that way when I tune it, you
can just bypass all the other bullshit. Yeah.
You tune it regularly and just leave it. Yeah.
I mean, you can get it good enough without doing
it, but if you want it perfectly, you got to
do it like that. True. That's fine tuning is
what I'm talking about where you have to, anybody
out there. Yeah, they turn the little tiny thing.
Yeah, I hate it. Anyhow. Let's see, they also
PreSonus, audio interfaces, mixers, and studio
gear. Other owned and related brands, the Sun
Amplifier Company. Sun with two N's. Historically
acquired and sometimes associated with Fender.
Tacoma Guitars, an acoustic brand that they formerly
acquired. SWR Sound Corporation, which is bass
amps. The SWR Working Man bass amp is a pretty
well -known model. And then, oddly enough, Fender
itself is owned by somebody else. It's owned
by Servco Pacific. Okay. Servco Pacific is a
Hawaiian company. It's Hawaii's largest privately
held business. Founded in 1919, headquartered
in Honolulu, with over 2 ,000 employees and 1
.8 billion plus annual revenue. It operates in
automotive distribution and retail, which is
Toyota, Lexus, and Subarus. Uh -huh. In Hawaii
and Australia. Consumer products and appliance
distribution. It also is a top 20 U .S. auto
dealer group. And they own Fender. And they own
Fender, of course. Key business segments. Automotive.
Servco is the exclusive distributor for Toyota,
Lexus, and Subaru in Hawaii. They operate numerous
dealerships offering sales, servicing, and financing.
Other ventures. The company holds investments
in musical instruments, including a majority
stake in Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
Insurance. They maintain insurance brokerage
offices in Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. Appliance
distribution. They distribute brands like General
Electric, Thermador, and Bosch. Key facts. Recognition.
Servco has been named one of the best places
to work in Hawaii for over 15 consecutive years.
It also recognized as the U .S. best managed
company, earning gold standard status for six
consecutive years. That's impressive. The company
was led for 29 years by CEO Mark Fukunaga, who
transitioned to executive chair, highlighting
a focus on long -term growth and, as shown on
their YouTube channel, strategic planning. Fukunaga
is also responsible for the city in Japan. It
was named after him. Yeah. Yes. Anyhow, sorry.
I had to. Company culture, core values include
respect, service, teamwork, and innovation. Now,
back in 1919 when they were founded, they started
as a two -car repair garage on Oahu. Really?
A two -car repair garage. They could repair two
cars at the same time. Now they're a diversified
multinational corporation. Wow. And they own
Fender. That's hard to believe. Isn't it something?
You talk about sticking to your guns and fighting
through it. Yeah. Wow. GHS. You're talking about
GHS, the good metallic sound. The boomers, yeah,
you should love that. Man, if you wanted that
metal sound, you want to sound like Warren Demartini
or something like that, you got them. And I think
they had a bass string line called Boomers. They
did. Yeah. GHS Boomers, and I like those a lot
too. Yeah. The only thing is they would really
chap your fingers. If you didn't use a pick,
you had to callous them up really good. Yeah,
they tend to heat up your fingers. They do. Okay,
GHS refers to several different unrelated entities
rather than a single major conglomerate. Isn't
that weird? I didn't know that. Key companies
include GHS Strings, which is Guitar Strings
and Rocktron. GHS Lift, Boat Hydraulic Lifts.
I actually think I worked with those and had
no idea it was the same fucking company. GHS
Holdings, H -Dry Technologies. Okay. GHS Studio,
which is pet beds. And GHSLTD, which is tubbies
and racetrack restaurants. I know there's racetrack
restaurants inside the racetrack gas stations.
I think so. Yeah. Is it Checker? Yeah, yeah,
yeah. I think it is. Okay. So they break them
down a little more. GHS Strings produces musical
instrument strings and owns Rocktron, which is
guitar electronics. Okay. GHS Lift is marine
and industrial, specializes in hydraulic platform
lift for boat manufacturers. GHS Holdings is
apparel tech, represents H -Dry waterproof and
breathable apparel technology. It's insane. GHS
LTD Retail Food in the UK owns Tubby's Dessert
Lab. Vaped for you in Racetrack Pit Stop. All
eating places. Okay. Then that would be Racetrack.
Racetrack's pit stop is inside. Yeah. Okay. So
GHS Studio, which is Home Goods, produces pet
beds in collaboration with Silent Night. Okay.
And GHS Corporation Industrial owns Palatech
Air Compressors and Sullivan Industries. Have
you seen those compressors that they drag around
behind trucks that say Solair? Yeah. That's them.
That's them. Owned by GHS. Okay. Yeah, it is.
D 'Addario, main manufacturer of musical instruments
and accessories, owning prominent brands including
Evans Drumheads, Promark Drumsticks, Rico Reeds
for woodwinds, Pure Sound Snare Wire, and National
Picks. They also produce D 'Addario accessories
formerly marketed under Planet Waves. I remember
Planet Waves. I do too. D 'Addario orchestral,
including supersensitive strings and HQ percussion.
Detailed breakdown. D 'Addario fretted and orchestral.
It would be strings for acoustic, electro, classical,
and all bass guitars, as well as violins, cellos,
and other orchestral instruments. Evans drumheads.
They were acquired in the 1990s, offering a wide
range of drumheads. Promark drumsticks, which
they acquired in 2011, specializing in drumsticks
and percussion accessories. Now, I use Promark
drumsticks, but since D 'Addario took them over,
they've cut down on the number of different models
they offer, and some of the ones I like, they
don't offer anymore. So that makes me sad. Rico
Reeds, acquired in 2004, a leading brand for
woodwind reeds. D 'Addario Accessories, formerly
Planet Waves, guitar straps, cables, tuners,
and maintenance products. Pure Sound Percussion,
acquired in 2007, known for high -quality snare
wires. Super Sensitive Musical String Company,
acquired in 2020, known for Red Label and other
educational orchestral strings. National Picks,
acquired five years ago, specializing in metal
finger picks for like banjo and other styles.
HQ Percussion for practice pads and other business
units, G -Bass .com, an online marketplace for
vintage and used gear, and Sensory Percussion,
an electronic drumming technology line. So they
focus mostly on musical. GHS is all over the
place. I cannot believe what they fuck. And Fender's
owner is all over the place. Yeah, both of them.
But, you know, I started thinking about that.
Like 100 years ago, if you had a business that,
say, made cloth fabric for clothing manufacturers,
and you made the same fabric, and you made it
all the time, you had the same customers, and
your business made like 20 million profit a year.
That was good enough. As long as you had a steady
income, steady return, everyone loved that. Well,
they started gobbling stuff up is what it was.
Hey, this is a good deal. They probably got some
financial people. They said, hey, this is a good
deal. We can make money off of this. And they
actually became something completely different
than what they started. It happens all the time.
Plus, I think the way business... attitudes changed
that if you're making a good solid return and
you're making that same good solid return, well,
you're stagnating. You're not growing. Therefore,
you're a loser. And all your investors are going
to bail on you. The philosophy of big business,
you're right. Somehow, you have to be constantly
growing. Yes. Which is why so many of these companies
overextend and overexpand and fall apart because
your investors will run for the hills unless
you keep growing. So if you've got a core business
and it's really kind of maxed out, the only thing
you've got left is to buy a different business.
You know, it's like, oh, well, we manufacture
this, you know, this cloth for clothing manufacturing,
but that's pretty much maxed out and it's not
growing. So we're going to buy this company over
here that makes traffic cones. And look, this
business is growing. So we are a growing business.
So we get to claim that and we get more investment.
Then when that traffic cone business levels off,
it's like, all right, we're going to buy this
company that makes the equipment for cotton candy.
And then just on and on and on like that. And
it's constantly networking. Dump this because
it's not making money anymore. So you're not
really growing. It's like a physical stock market.
Yeah. It's like somebody jumping up and down
on a trampoline. And every time they jump up
in the air, they say, look, we're getting higher.
And then they fall back down and hit the trampoline
and jump up again and say, look, see, we're higher.
Yeah. They're trying to add up all the gains,
but they're not counting all the losses. Before,
they're like, oh, we made $20 million. Cool.
All right. Well, we're doing something right.
Then they try to figure out their own business
of getting bigger. But instead of their own business
doing things bigger and better, they're like,
hey, let's grab this business and nurture it
up. Yeah. It's easier to have. Like 15 different
modestly successful businesses, and if one fails,
you can replace it with something. Or one big
modestly successful business, and if something
goes wrong with it, you're sunk. It's much better
to diversify. And as long as something in your
company is making money, that's what you point
to and talk about. And say, oh look investors,
I'm making money, I'm growing, I'm getting bigger.
And then all your failings, well, you just distribute
the money around and charge it off to this or
that and you hide it and you launder it. You
try not to pay taxes and you don't tell your
investors about it. That's a big part of buying
a business. You write it down as, well, this
was an investment into this. So actually it was
a loss on this marketing campaign, but you just
ascribed it to that business over there and called
it investment so everyone's cool with it. It's
the way to lie to your investors. Yeah. So businesses
aren't really doing what's best for business.
They're doing what's going to make them the most
money in the short term and keep the investors
interested. Exactly, and that's all the whole
name of it is, is to keep people engaged and
going, hey, you know, yeah, the worst thing they
want is a bunch of people bailing and the stock
price going to nothing. Yeah. So, yeah. Weatherhead,
how did you get that name? Oh, yeah. Explain
who Weatherhead is first. Okay, Weatherhead was
a band I joined in the mid -90s. At the time,
it was a cover band. The previous drummer left,
I forget why. Because it was a cover band? Yeah,
it could have been. I don't know. But the band
was considering the name 1976, which at the time
was the prefix you would dial to get one of those
online... phone sex lines where you would pay
$5 for the first minute and $2 every additional
minute, and they all started with 1976. Oh, okay.
So that was going to be the name, and we actually
performed once or twice under that name, trying
to think of another one. I mean, the bass player's
wife was like, oh, hell no, you're not going
to be that. You're not going to call yourselves
that. You've got to come up with a different
name. That's too bad. What a genius name. I love
that name. They even had promotional material
already started made of stuff. So there was one,
we played a New Year's Eve gig, and somebody
opened a bottle of champagne next to my drums
and sprayed them all with the sticky champagne.
So the next morning, it was a Sunday, it was
a New Year's Day, and there were football games
on. I pulled all my drums up out of the basement
and put them all out of their cases, and I stripped
all the heads and hardware off, and I was cleaning
them all up with furniture polish. and on the
TV was the Cleveland Browns playing somebody,
and they had a receiver named Weathers. I don't
know if it was Carl Weathers, Clarence Weathers,
something like that. I think it was Clarence.
Clarence, because Carl Weathers was the actor.
Yeah, the actor, yeah. So I was looking at that
name Weathers, and I was still working at the
post office at the time, so I was very interested
in the daily weather, since I had to walk around
in it all day. Yeah. So I started thinking the
name Weather, you know, and I remember there
was a jazz band called Weather Report. Okay.
There was a homegrown terrorist group in the
60s called Weather Underground. Okay. They joined
up, I think, with... God, who did they join up
with? It wasn't the Black Panthers, but it was
somebody else. Anyway, so Weather was kind of
on my mind. And then I was putting all my drums
back together, and I was looking at these drum
heads that say Remo Weather King Drum Head. And
I thought, well, there's weather again. And then
I saw, well, head, drum head, weather, head.
They both have the E -A. They're both pronounced
the same. And it really doesn't mean anything,
you know, weather head. What the heck's a weather
head? So I thought, well, that kind of sounds
good. I wrote it as one bird, but the H in head
was capitalized. So that kind of made it a little
different. And I proposed it to the band, and
nobody was really all that excited about it.
But we wound up picking it because, one, no one
really objected to it, and two, nobody else had
it. So we started looking up to see if anybody
else had Weatherhead, and that's when we learned
where the Weatherhead actually is. You see like
a pipe sticking up out of the top building with
electrical wires coming out of it. That's a weather
head? And the part on the end of that pipe that
keeps the rain and the snow and shit from blowing
in, that is the weather head. I'll be damned.
So you've heard of a bulkhead and a wellhead.
Well, this is a weather head. It's supposed to
stop the weather from entering through the same
pipe that your electrical wires are running into.
I want to name a band Dickhead. Yeah, there you
go. I like it. That's pretty good. All right.
I was always wondering. It has a unique name.
Makes sense. But interestingly enough, a few
years back, I was doing an online search for
Weatherhead, thinking I might find some old videos
or pictures or recordings or something. There
are a number of different companies that use
the name Weatherhead now. There were none back
in the 90s when we were there. Yep. So if we
had made a... going of this, you know, we might
have had to battle some other companies for the
Weatherhead name. I don't know. But we rode that
name for a while and then eventually the band
fired me because I was getting migraines a lot
and I was getting unreliable. And then they hired
somebody else and he didn't quite work out and
they kept it going for another six, eight months
and then they all split off and went to separate.
separate projects. The singer went on to do Musical
Blades which was a pirate singing group and kind
of acting thing. And that has disbanded and now
he's Plunder .exe and it's still pirate based
but he's using AI to help write the songs, perform
the music and make the videos. The bass player
went on to do a lot of tribute bands. He was
in an ACDC tribute band here in town. Was it
KCDC? I think it was. They were really good.
And the singer died, so they decided instead
of trying to replace him, they just moved on.
He's in Boogie Nights KC. He's in Petty Thieves,
a Tom Petty tribute band. Nice. And the Silver
Bullets, or Silver Bullet Band, which is a Bob
Seger tribute band. So he's heavily into the
tribute band circuit. Very cool. And then John
Axford, the guitar player, he started joining
a number of local cover bands, and then I kind
of lost track of him. Okay. He stopped returning
my messages and things. Recently, I've seen him
on Facebook. He's selling off a lot of his musical
equipment. A lot of PA stuff. He's just not doing
it anymore. I think he's kind of done playing
out and performing live. Uh -huh. He's probably
five to six years older than me, so he's over
70, I imagine, at this point in his life. Oh,
probably so. I will tell my guitar string story
next time. Okay. Because, yeah, that way I've
got another story and I got the... the Simpson
story, and the top disco songs ever. Awesome.
For next one. So that's a good start for next
week. So, yeah. I think we've probably done enough
this week. Probably. And my guitar string story
isn't that extraordinary. Okay. It's just cool.
But it's not like, wow. So, eh, fuck it. I'll
tell it. Plus, I need to pee real bad. Oh, okay.
I won't. Let me hit pause for a second. No, no,
no. Let's just go in there. Okay. All right.
Thank you, everybody, for listening. Our numbers
are growing because you guys are being so cool
and telling everybody. We can't thank you guys
enough. You guys are amazing. We won that award
in Australia. Oh, yes, that's right. Yes, best
non -monetized podcast by a duo. Yes, yes. Actually,
yeah, at a table that happens between 9 and 3.
Yeah, that was great. Yeah, number one. Yeah,
number one. But we would like to get more downloads
in Australia. So if anybody in Australia or knows
somebody in Australia listening, we would like
to get some more downloads. We finally broke
into South America. Yeah, yeah. That was awesome.
In a big way. And we blame the lady that we talked
to down here. Yeah. Someone listens to us on
the coastal highway there. I can tell you that
because all the hits are straight up and down.
We have some everywhere else, but straight up
and down that highway, someone likes us. I can
tell you that. Probably a trucker. I don't know.
And we actually have some downloads in Russia,
too. Yeah. That's pretty amazing. Yeah. Well,
they convert us to Russian, you know, the language.
I wonder what two douchebags and a microphone
sounds like in Russian. Just as bad. Yeah. Anyhow,
thank you. I forgot to do my thing of other countries'
version of the expression, I don't give a fuck.
Oh, yeah, yeah. We've got to do that before we
go. Yes, we do. Okay. There are a lot of countries
around the world that have a similar expression
to the American expression of, I don't give a
fuck. So somebody went and found out what their
equivalent expression is and translated it into
English. So in Germany, instead of saying, I
don't give a fuck, they say, it's sausage to
me. Okay. You figure Germans and sausage. Okay.
In Spain, they don't say, I don't give a fuck.
They say, I care a cucumber. That's pretty close.
Yes. In the Netherlands, where they speak Dutch.
They say, it can oxidize on my anus. That's my
favorite. So I guess you could say it can rust
on my ass. Rust on my ass, yeah. Okay, in France,
they say, I slap my balls on it. That's probably
the coolest thing the French ever did. It's probably.
In Finland, they say, it interests me as much
as a kilogram of shit. And then your homeland,
the beautiful Greek Isles. Yes. Instead of saying,
I don't give a fuck, they say, flowers on my
dick and bees all around. That's got to be my
favorite. Yes. You see, I thought it was still
Malacca. Malacca was the catch -all. And I'll
tell my Malacca story here real quick. Okay.
Okay. There was this job site that the owners
were Christian. This is my old job. And they
didn't want anyone cussing on them. So I was
like, you know what? I know some Greek cuss words.
So Malacca is like one of the worst things you
can say, but it's a catch -all. If you wanted
to say cocksucker, dickface, anything, that's
what it is. You say Malacca and they're like,
ooh. You know, you pulled out the Malacca card.
Well, there's this guy being a real dick. And
I go, that guy's a Malacca. The foreman was Greek.
Then I got to looking at him like, oh, I see
it now. And he was not happy. He goes, what?
And I go, he goes, what'd you say? And I kind
of got the feeling he knew what it was. I go,
Malacca, get out of here. I'm like, what? He
goes, yeah. He goes, I'm Greek. I'm like, oh
shit. Then I tried to pull the green card. Well,
so get out of here. I said Chewbacca. I really,
I said Chewbacca. Yeah. If I would have known,
but anyhow, I thought I was going to get a warning
or something, but I got back in there. Yeah.
I apologize. I said, listen, I said, nobody else
knew except me and you, right? Okay. Yeah. Well,
nobody knows I cussed, right? He said, yeah.
He said, don't do it again. The owners are adamant
about cuss words. I'm like, okay. All right.
Yeah, yeah, I got busted big time. But you can
still cuss on American TV as long as it's in
a different language. They don't believe it or
anything. And in fact, the closed captioning
won't even pick it up. They'll just say, speaking
in foreign language. Isn't that weird? The AI
on the closed captioning can understand English
and translate it. And I'm sure over in France,
they're translating French. And over in Mexico,
they're translating Spanish. But when it's an
English -speaking country... and the character
speaks in any other language, it won't translate
it. It won't translate. It'll just say, speaking
in foreign language. Yeah, and I guess they figure
the... Here's what I think. I've always seen
that. I think they figure the American public
doesn't give a shit. Yeah. That's it. And it
may be for the storyline that we're not supposed
to know what they said. That could be, too. Yeah.
So, anyhow. All right. Well, anyhow, thank you
guys for listening so much. You guys are so amazing.
And my guitar string story is coming up next
week. So now you have a real reason to... Okay,
maybe not. Anyhow, thank you for spreading the
word and go fuck yourself.