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results. Hey, my fellow heavy breathers. This
is Dash Riptide. Your music news. Hey, check
it out. Iron Maiden finally gets nominated for
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Like it means
anything at this point. Blaze Bailey has been
added to the names to be inducted with Maiden
if they should get in. And they should. It's
just 30 years fucking late. That's all. Good
luck and up the irons, kids. This is Dash Riptide.
And that was your music news. If it's too loud,
you probably have ear damage, just like me. We
are the music creeps. There we go. All right.
First time I got three of them out, three paragraphs
out. All right. In a while. I was trying to take
a little bit of inspiration from Rob's new theme
song. Oh, yeah, yeah, yes. I like the funk. I
asked them for funky, and they fucking spiced
it up, didn't they? Oh, yeah, that was awesome.
It was. You want to hear a list of the loudest
concerts ever recorded? Oh, that sounds like
a good idea. I think I've been to a couple of
them. Oh, shit. Like I said, I have tinnitus
for a reason. Well, also my job, too. You know,
metal work and glass work. It's not that low
volume. It's not a quiet application. Yeah, it's
not a quiet application, no. The first one they
have on the list is Leonard Skinner, 1977. A
performance in the middle of a thunderstorm saw
them reach the sound decimals of 142. Oh, wow.
One of the loudest ever recorded. You know, at
180 decibels, it goes from sound to an actual
physical force. Yes. Which ain't that far from
140 -something. No, 40 decibels off. Actually,
38 decibels off. Yeah. Yeah. The Who in 1976.
Everyone knows about this one. The Who is apparently
insanely loud. Yes. And horrible on their instruments.
Yeah. Known for their explosive performances,
the Who hit around 126 decimals at a show in
London. I believe it. Yeah. Deep Purple, 1972.
This wasn't even the Cal Jam. This is another
one because the Cal Jam was notoriously loud,
too. Yeah. But... All right, Deep Purple, 1972,
reached 117 decimals during the performance at
the 1972 Made in Japan tour. Wow. All right,
so there were some deaf Japanese after that.
Yeah. Motley Crue, 1984, their concerts during
Shout at the Devil tour are reported to have
hit 115 decimals. And here is the thing of that.
They were the opening act for Ozzy. Yeah. And
Ozzy let them use their equipment. He was notorious
for doing that. He was not selfish. He was like,
yeah. And he also didn't care how long I played,
too. He was just like, do whatever you do. I
got my part. That's a smart way to do it, is
let's make the whole concert enjoyable instead
of making the opening act suck. And also, he
knew. He was like, they're not going to beat
me. No. He said, they may love the band, but
when I come out, everybody looks at me. Yeah.
You know, and he had Jakey Lee just starting
off. Some people didn't like him because... They
looked at it like he took Randy Rode's job even
though he died. The logic in that is just fucking
ridiculous, but whatever. They're flipping him
off and spitting at him and stuff. But Jakey
Lee was great. Great stage presence. Played his
ass off. Really good solo. A lot in the lines
of Ace Frehley. Not stolen, just influenced.
All right, Kiss 1977. wait they are so wrong
on this oh yeah their concert at the lick it
up tour was noted for reaching over 120 decimals
1977 the lick it up was in the future at that
point yeah they are completely wrong on that
thank you ai yeah so um i'm not sure when they
reached if it was 1977 i would say it was 1977
because um lick it up they were becoming a different
band Yeah, that was without the makeup at that
point. Yeah. I remember the video and looking
at their faces and thinking, ooh, you're not
really attractive men. That's why. When the look
it up video came out, that's why people realized
they put on makeup. And it wasn't just Vinnie
Vincent because he was not with the band. Ace
was not particularly a great looking guy either.
No. So anyhow, the only one that looked kind
of like. Not really at... Horrible. Horrible
was Peter Criss. Yeah. But still, he wasn't like
the best looking guy either. No, but you don't
expect your drummer to be good looking. No, no,
no. No, drummers are the guy that hangs around
the real musicians, right? Yes, that's what I
always did. Hey, you know, I love drummer jokes.
They're my favorite. My favorite one is like,
what's a guy that knows a whole bunch of musicians?
Drummer. What do you call a drummer whose girlfriend
broke up with him? What? Homeless. Homeless.
All the drummers I knew in my life, that's not
far off. Not far off. The woman went to work
and he sat at home going... What does a stripper
do with her asshole every night before work?
What? Drops them off at band practice. I don't
like that one really well. That one caught me
off guard. You being a drummer, I guess you should
know all the drummer jokes. Yeah, if you've got
more, email them in. I collect drummer jokes.
Yeah, yeah, come on, do it. Do it. All right.
Try to send me one I haven't heard before. 2douches
at mail .com. TwoDouchesAtMail .com. Yep. And
I've got to find that bit because I've got to
start putting it back in because we're starting
to get some of the same people over and over.
We're trying to get new people coming in, but
I only can achieve that by putting the damn bit
in that tells our actual email address. It's
TwoDouchesAtMail .com. Yeah. That was in a recent
episode that I listened to. Yeah, it was. I just
don't put it in there enough. We'll start mentioning
it live. But I would also like to say we have
some great listeners that are constant write
-ins. They have great emails, too. Oh, yeah.
Ross, Rossington, whatever. He wants to go by
that name. Ronnie in Tulsa. Even Mitch. There
have been others, too. Oh, we got one from Jimmy
and Opal. Opal is our oldest recorded listener.
She's like 87, 88. Nice. She's not doing so well,
but she's hanging in there and still listening
with Jimmy's help. I appreciate that. Yeah, she
never was the one that could figure out the Bluetooth
and all that, but Jimmy did that for her, and
she heard him listening to us one day, and she
goes, those guys are kind of funny. And she's
been a regular listener ever since, so Jimmy.
actually wrote in he hasn't wrote in in six months
because he's had a lot of health issues with
his grandma which sucks but anyhow so anyhow
jimmy we're with you like always and we love
you all right motorhead 1981 oh yeah known for
their loud sound their performance in 1981 measured
an impressive 120 decibels you know i think when
the chiefs set the record for the loudest stadium
it was like 42 I think it was on 117. Was it
117? Yeah. Oh, gosh, that's quite a battle. Yeah,
I think it was in the teens. Okay. Okay. I'll
have to check that, but... Yeah, I'll check it
later. Yeah. I don't care enough to right now.
How about the Ramones in 1977? They hit 120 decibels
at a concert in London. London's getting the
brunt of this shit, aren't they? Yeah, a lot
of them in 1977, too. Yeah, London must have
been like a free game. It's like, hey, they don't
care how long you turn it up. Just go in. Yeah.
Wow. Yeah. How about ACDC 1991? Monsters of Rock
Festival performance reached 130. You know, that's
weird. I wouldn't think of ACDC as being insanely
loud. No, I saw them a couple of times and they
were not. They were incredibly low volume. Yeah.
The show focused more on Angus Young and his
theatrics. Yeah. You know, and his little schoolboy
outfit kicking. I wonder if he ever got sick
of that. I'm sure he had to. So, yeah, I mean...
Just like Stevie Wonder's really sick and tired
of pretending he's blind. Yes. I mean, dude can
see. Supposedly, that is true. Yeah, there's
a lot of people close to Stevie who say, oh,
hell yeah, dude can see. It's just his gimmick
when he was a kid, and then he couldn't get out
of it. Yeah, and that, I mean, it's like pretty
much common knowledge now, it seems like. Allegedly.
There's a video of him driving a car. There's
a video of him shooting a gun and hitting the
target. It's like, dude is doing stuff that sighted
people do. Although some people still don't believe
it. Because they don't want to. Yep. All the
evidence is there. Look it up. Allegedly. Allegedly.
All right. Nicky Romero, whoever that is, 2013
at the Tomorrowland Festival reached 137 decibels,
making it one of the loudest electronic music.
There we go. Okay. performances all right fuck
nikki romero and electronic he's probably a dj
yeah yeah fuck you nikki romero i want to go
on i want to go on record saying fuck you i want
to fight you Yeah. I want to kick your ass. If
it's not real musicians playing real instruments,
then it doesn't really count. Yeah. Yep. And
if you're a club DJ like that, I could beat you
with my shoe. Yeah. I could take my shoe out
and beat you to death with it. Yep. Yep. I could
beat you with a toddler shoe. Yes. I could beat
you with, I could find a, let's see, a toothpick.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because if you do that type
of music, electronic music, you are a pussy.
And as a matter of fact, that's going to be in
the next one. Mm. If you perform or enjoy electronic
music, you're a pussy. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah.
All right. And then finally, Sammy Hagar, 2008,
at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. His concert
peaked at 130 decibels. Wow. Wow. And he still
can't drive 55, according to him. He said, nope.
He said, not possible. Two of the loudest shows
I remember was Blue Oyster Cult opening for Judas
Priest. And Blue Oyster Cult was fine. priest
came out and they're pretty freaking loud and
then rob halford came out on the harley with
the microphone taped to the exhaust pipe and
sat there on stage revving it over and over and
over and i looked at my you know my currently
she's my ex but at the time we were still married
we looked each other's like yeah we're out this
is just stupid yeah i mean it is kind of childish
to stand on stage and just make noise for the
sake of making noise And a lot of people were
like, well, awesome, cool. It was kind of like
a priest gimmick at the time. They were this
heavy metal band that was kind of mainstream.
So they had to come out and shock people. And
they wanted people to go home and go, Rob Halford
brought his Harley on stage, and he taped the
microphone to the exhaust, and he revved it up,
and everybody passed out. It was so cool. I remember
getting overwhelmed by Motorcycle Exhaust 2.
I don't think they can do that nowadays. They
get sued or something. I remember ZZ Top used
to bring an actual longhorn steer on stage with
them. I remember that too, yeah. And I think
a coyote as well. I think so. I think you're
right, yeah. Let's see. I'm trying to think of
the loudest concerts I ever attended. Another
one was... Motley Crue. Yeah, Motley Crue is
pretty loud. But this was Megadeth opening for
Alice Cooper. Oh, Metallica. Yeah, Metallica.
Very loud. Stupid loud. Megadeth was loud too.
Yeah, Megadeth. And it was like, you know how
you put like 100 wasps in a glass jar and shake
it real hard and they all go... That's what they
sounded like. Just a monotone buzz coming from
the stage because it was so insanely loud. You
couldn't hear the drums. and it was just like
a wall of noise. You couldn't hear individual
notes. You couldn't tell what the song was. You
couldn't hear the singing. It was just this wall
of buzzing noise, and they were the opening act.
And my ex and I, we got out of our seats, and
we just walked around outside in the concourse
hallway area of Kemper. Yeah. It rattled this
whole foundation here. Okay, anyhow. But that
was awful. We couldn't hang it. I mean, you put
your hands over your ears, and the amount of
sound pressure just pummeling your body was bad
enough. But I'm sure Dave Mustaine was deep into
his heroin addiction at the time. Oh, yeah, probably.
Slipknot. Slipknot was really loud, too. I've
heard Slipknot was awful. Ozzy started out really
loud. Then he lowered the volume. The older his
fans got, like, kissed it. Yeah. And as a matter
of fact, the last Kiss show, the end of the road,
I didn't even need air plugs. Oh, nice. And that's
because they're bringing their grandchildren
at this point. Yeah. The fans. Yeah. And that's
when they stopped cussing, too. It was like maybe
1987 or something. I went to see them. I can't
remember the tour. It was without makeup when
they progressed into that. Asylum tour, I believe.
And I'm watching it as, I believe it was at Municipal
when they used to still have concerts like that
at Municipal Auditorium. And I started noticing
they didn't cuss anymore. I'm like, wow, because
Paul Stanley used to be up there and say fuck
and all this stuff all the time. And I was like,
wow, I wonder how come they cleaned up. And I
started looking around, and there were people
bringing their kids. And then at the end of the
road, there were people bringing their grandkids.
And it's a lot more important to bring in the
next generation than it is to stick with your
attitude and your image of before. It's like
images come and go. They sold two tickets to
the grandkids. Yep. Yeah, that's all they care
about. Yep. So. Cool. Yep. All right, that's
the list on that. You got something? Yeah. There's
a Kansas City -born drummer, James Gadsden, that
died recently, so I wanted to give a little overview
of his career. Okay. KC -born James Gadsden,
R &B drummer who played for Jackson 5, Harry
Styles, among others, has died. He died at his
Los Angeles home Thursday at age 86. I think
it was a week, maybe it was a week ago Thursday.
I'm not sure. But that's him playing with Bill
Withers on Lean On Me. Really? Okay. Gloria Gaynor's
disco anthem, I Will Survive. Okay. Dancing Machine
by the Jackson 5. Oh, wow. Okay. Love Hangover
by Diana Ross. Okay. Harry Styles' second studio
album, Fine Line. Over decades as a studio musician
in Los Angeles, he worked with and has been sampled
by, that's another big part, a who's who of the
music world, Aretha Franklin. Paul McCartney,
Kelly Clarkson, Leonard Cohen, Ray Charles, Nora
Jones, B .B. King, Justin Timberlake, Beck, Anita
Baker, Lana Del Rey, Florence and the Machine.
He's worked with all of them. Wow. Or they've
used samples of his previous work. Okay then.
Wow. Yeah. Go ahead. So Gadsden became one of
the most recorded drummers in R &B history. He
taught himself how to play drums in Kansas City,
the birthplace of a unique sound that other drummers
yearn to learn and duplicate. He started as a
jazz drummer, and KC jazz drummers definitely
have their own kind of sound and style. Questlove,
drummer for The Roots and musical director for
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, wrote a tribute
on Instagram that included a clip of Gadsden
playing. Some drummers are soulful, some drummers
are funky, some drummers are rockin', some drummers
are swinging, but no drummer has impacted the
art of breakbeat drumming, which is dance beats,
like James Gadsden. He wrote, James Gadsden is
breakbeats defined. These are just a fraction
of 60 years of quality drumming. Even in the
last 20 years, he did some of the best work.
The beat will truly go on and on. Rest in beats,
legend. I tried to print out the list, but the
whole list was one giant link. So I couldn't
get the list. Gadsden was born in Kansas City
on June 17, 1939 to Thomas Harold Gadsden and
Arlethia Hobson Gadsden. When it became clear
that Gadsden was more interested in music than
studying, he dropped out of high school. Mom
sent him off to the Air Force. Oh, okay. Now,
by the time he got out of the Air Force, his
brother Tootie had a popular band in Kansas City
called the Derbies. Okay. When the band's drummer
quit, Tootie told his brother to see what you
could do on the drums. So Gadsden taught himself
how to play. The band's agent, a local white
lawyer named Alan Bell, booked the band into
many diverse establishments across the country.
Some were in the South and racist and unwelcome.
Okay, so he's African American. Yes. Okay. They
played on the Chitlin Circuit, which is a circuit
down south of bars and nightclubs that were...
welcoming and friendly to people of color as
entertainers. I don't know if you can even name
it that nowadays. No, no. But at the time, that
was the Chitlin Circuit. The Chitlin Circuit.
Like, for a while in New York, there was a series
of playhouses that was called the Borscht Belt
because it was popularized and attended by mostly
Russian immigrants. Oh, okay. So it was called
the Borscht Belt. Go play to all the Russians.
And no one cared. No, no. But the Chitlin' Circuit
allowed black entertainers during segregation
to play mostly safe and friendly venues. In Kansas
City, the derbies regularly played at OG's, a
popular Kansas City jazz club at 31st and Indiana,
owned by Ollie Gates before he became a barbecue
king. Oh, wow. Yeah, that Gates. Probably the
first, not the second. Yeah, yeah. Let's see,
where am I? Gadsden began rubbing shoulders with
famous musicians here, backing up singers who
came to Kansas City on tour, like Otis Redding
and Sam Cooke. He said he almost starved to death
before he became the drummer for the widely sampled
Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, led by singer
and guitarist Charles Wright. When he met Hal
Davis, the legendary Motown producer, he hired
him. to sit in on the recording session for Dancing
Machine by the Jackson 5. Quote, I remember the
first Motown session I did, which was the Jackson's
Dancing Machine. We were out there creating,
and I put that eighth note hop in, and they said,
hey, do that again. He began making a name for
himself after working on Bill Withers' 1972 album,
Still Bill, drumming on Use Me and Lean On Me.
I like the song Use Me. That's a fun little beat.
But he said that sound became a template for
R &B and soul sounds that followed. So he basically
created it and everybody else copied him. Quote,
Gat was a very talented drummer, but equally
gifted as a vocalist, his sister said. Many don't
know that he co -wrote and contributed to many
of Bill Withers' greatest hits. How about that?
Yeah. The hits he contributed to in the disco
era alone are solid gold. Cheryl Lynn's Got to
Be Real, Smokey Robinson's Cruisin', Tavara's
Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel, Peaches and
Herb's Shake Your Groove Thing, and Reunited.
Thelma Houston's Don't Leave Me This Way. Because
he didn't share much about his work, his sister
is just now finding out that, quote, he was often
not given the credit for much of his work. Sometimes
it was racism, sometimes it was greed or jealousy.
She hopes that someone in Kansas City will step
up and find a way to honor how he shaped America's
musical landscape with talents born and raised
here. Flea, the bassist and a founder of the
Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote... 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. Remember the 70s rock band
Angel? Yep, those guys. All dressed in white
with the logo that read Angel, Upside or Down.
Yes, those guys. Well, they have a final album
in the works with a final tour. No date set yet,
but the album is coming out this summer. This
is Johnny Rohypnol. That was your Music News,
and remember... Bar chords are bullshit. Quote
on Instagram that he was lucky enough, quote,
to have played with him on many occasions and
to have been his friend. I could see Flee playing
with a guy that plays like that too because of
his funky... Oh, yeah. Yeah. The bass popping.
The green cold banana peppers are definitely
a funk band. Yeah, yeah. They were. Yes. Now
I don't know what the fuck that is. There's something.
Yeah, there's something. His sister said she
spoke to her brother every day, but he had not
shared the health challenges that he faced in
recent years. He was a 30 -year survivor of prostate
cancer. Oh, wow. Kick ass. If the tests come
back favorably Thursday, then I'll be a five
-year survivor. Good, and that usually is the...
The endorsement of, yeah, you're free of that.
Yeah, they go by five -year survival rates. So
if I survive five years, then that's pretty good.
Oh, fuck cancer. Yeah, absolutely. He had just
recently fallen and re -injured his spine, compounding
damage from an accident years ago that she never
knew about. He was still up and going, she said,
until his wife Barbara found him unresponsive
in their home on Thursday. And what was it, did
they say? No. Like a stroke or heart attack?
Stroke or heart attack or something. He was 86.
Oh, okay. So he probably had an advanced case
of natural causes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, if
this is 40 years ago, I'd be like, oh, he died.
Yeah. Okay, all right, thanks. But on the final
note, it said, Once reminded by a fan of the
great recordings that will forever bear his stamp,
the ever -humble Gadsden replied, Thank you.
I've been truly blessed. I was in the right place
at the right time. A lot of times. Well, I love
that because that's what Buck O 'Neill said.
Yeah. We're going, well, you know, you had so
much adversity. You wish you were, you know,
maybe in a different era. He goes, no. He goes,
I was where I was supposed to be. Yep. I was
born right on time. Yep. And he always stated
that, too. He said, no, this is the way it's
supposed to be, and that's the way it happened.
Yeah. Yeah, I like that attitude, and he had
the same thing. He's like, nah, you know what?
Things may not have been perfect, and there could
have been, you know, a lot of adversity and people
doing stupid things, but. it was good. We all,
you know, I'm very happy to be where I was at.
So being grateful is the best thing that you
can do ever is being grateful for what you have.
And also another thing that people don't give
enough credit to is being grateful for what you
don't forget about that. All right. So I would
venture only one more comment. I would venture
to say that James Gadsden is probably the most
successful drummer to camp come out of Kansas
city. that I can think of or have ever heard
of. As far as I know, yes. Some people try to
count Danny Carey of Tool, but he's from Topeka.
He's from Topeka, yeah. Yeah, and the guy from
Banshee, what is it, Westoff or whatever? Yeah.
No, he never was at ground. Who's the guy from
the Rainmakers? Who cares? Pat Tomek. Yeah, Pat
Tomek. I don't really know if he was from Kansas
City or not. I don't think he was. He's played
on a lot of stuff, too. He's played for Kelly
Clarkson, too. Yeah, I like him. They had different
music. I've got to give you credit. They were
very unique at that time, especially. All right.
Here are some famous bands that endured a name
change that people don't even know. A lot of
people don't know. Oh, cool. All right. The Beatles
and the name change. The Beatles were initially
called the Quarrymen. Oh, I think I've heard
of that name. Before changing their name, they
even briefly performed under the name Johnny
and the Moondogs. I'll bet Paul hated that. I
actually knew about Johnny and the Moondogs.
I knew that name was there. But I didn't know
about the Quarrymen. But I did hear that name
before. Yeah. But I had no idea. It's okay. The
bridge is not collapsing. Oh, was that the bridge
doing it? No, I think that's... Oh, yeah, look,
see the machinery over there is working. Oh,
yeah, that's right. All those big gears and things.
Cool. When the bridge might start to move, we'll
let you know. Is this a drawbridge? Oh, no. I
wouldn't think it would be a drawbridge. You
know, Kansas River, a lot of cruise ships come
by here. Oh, that's true. Yeah, a lot of tall
sailing ships. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they have that
one mega ship, the USS Shithole or something
like that. Yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. Oh, gosh.
Okay, let's see. Where were we? I don't know.
I'm just going to go from here. Okay. And actually,
this is Rock Band Oddities. It's not name changes.
I'd forgotten. The article I was looking at started
going into this, and I decided to just go ahead
and go with that. Kiss and their convention.
The band Kiss holds a record for the most merchandise
sold by a band. Wow. Including everything from
action figures to coffins. I do remember Kiss
Coffins. I do, too. Hey, NASCAR made coffins.
Well, you know, guitarist for Pantera. Diamond
Bag Darryl. Diamond Bag Darryl. He was buried
in a Kiss coffin. He was a huge fan, and Kiss
said, here, have a coffin. Yep, and he was buried
with Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstrat. Frankenstrat,
yep. One of them, anyway. One of them, yeah.
Wolfie's got the other one. Yeah, Wolfie has
the other one, but that was very nice that both
of those, the guy, you know, Eddie Van Halen,
and also Kiss doing a tribute to him because
he was huge fans of both, and he made no bones
about it, and he was a really good guitarist
in his own right. Yeah. All right, Led Zeppelin's
Airplane. Led Zeppelin's private jet was named
the Starship. It was featured a dining room,
a bedroom, and even a bar, making it one of the
most lavish tour planes at the time. Wow. Now
they all have that, if they're big enough and
can afford it. But at that time, that didn't
happen. And a lot of bands have realized that
touring by bus is actually the more economical
way to go. A lot of bands do that now. But when
you've got more money than you know what to do
with, like Taylor Swift, you can take airplanes
everywhere. Well, before when they did the advances
and the concert was actually funded by somebody
and not on a preliminary, here are the tickets
sold, here's the money we have to start the tour.
That's when they got all these perks. And they
used to famously go, no, we're not going to do
this unless we get this, this, and this. And
then if Live Nation or whoever was responsible
back then, they would do it. They'd be like,
we really need this show. So they would do it.
And, you know, it used to be that rock bands
would save their money so they could finance
their next tour. And then they get to keep all
the money because they finance the tour. But
they don't do that anymore. No, no. All of that
they've done is completely different now. Yeah.
So now it's like loans from us. Yes. Zero interest
loans from the ticket buyers. Yep. And you'll
never get that money back. Yep. How about a...
Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. The song Bohemian
Rhapsody was almost never completed as Freddie
Mercury originally wrote it as an opera parody.
He had no intentions of releasing it. That's
funny. It's like Van Halen's song Ain't Talkin'
About Love from their first album was a diss
song meant to make fun of punk rock. for being
so simple because ain't talking about love is
two chords g and a that's it surprised me to
no end yeah i know i i just uh yeah but i read
that i was like okay i think i get it now but
i was like wow no one would it would you have
ever guessed that no but that was straight from
michael anthony's mouth on an interview oh i
believe it and no one contested it either no
you didn't have wolfgang or somebody going no
i don't think that's true everyone was like okay
yep How about Metallica's naive disguise? When
Metallica was trying to secure a record deal,
they sent a demo tape to labels under the alias
calling themselves the Lizard King to avoid rejection
because they had that thrash metal stigma. I've
heard of bands booking themselves into clubs
under a fake name and then showing up and being
who they are. Oh, that's happened a lot. I love
it, too. You get the people go, yeah, I was just
there, and all of a sudden, you know, that one
band called the Pencil Sticks, it ended up being
somebody cool. It turned out to be the Fudge
Pickles, after all. Oh, yeah, I love the Fudge
Pickles. Who doesn't? Oh, God, Fudge Pickle,
that could be nasty. Yeah, it could be. It's
like the town of Uranus where they said they'll
pack your fudge for you. Yes. As a matter of
fact, that's in one of the intros. Uh -huh, I
heard that. They're actually, I remember seeing
a little bit about Uranus. It's unincorporated.
It's more like a glorified rest stop. Yeah. But
they have, like, life -size dinosaurs, and there's,
like, puns everywhere. Yeah, like the fudge factory.
Uranus' fudge factory. Yep. Yeah. It's pretty
awesome. It is. And then you can also get things
at, say, Uranus Fudge Factory. Yep. Besides,
like, the sack that they give you when you buy
something. So. All right. ACDC's name meaning.
The name, I think we all know this, but here
we go. The name ACDC refers to alternate current,
direct current, which was inspired by a sewing
machine belonging to the sister of the band member,
Angus Young. That conflicts with a story I heard.
Back when ACDC still had Bon Scott and were just
starting to get popular? Yeah, the first guy
was Ambiguous and they were playing off of that.
Yeah. And then Bon Scott supposedly ramped up
his ambiguity, ambiguity, you know, to allure,
you know, kind of people go, what? Okay, what
is this band? Ah. Back then that stuff was still
like, what? You know, people turning their heads.
Well, up until 71, Alice Cooper was playing with
sexual ambiguity. Yeah. Because, you know, he
had a woman's name, and he'd get on stage and
be wearing women's clothes and makeup and stuff.
He was like, either that's a guy in drag or a
really ugly woman. A lot of bands have done it,
too. It's not like Alice was the first and not
the last. A lot of bands have done it. But I
can understand ACDC wanting to get away from
the bisexuality innuendo. It's like, nah, let's
just be straight -ahead rockers. I think the
ambiguous... I think, okay, that did... After
their first lead singer, I forgot his name. I
don't remember either. I think after they got
to looking at it and going, okay, ACDC, this
kind of fits in. Look at this guy. You know,
he's up there kind of, you know, being ambiguous.
And I think that it, I think it went from there.
Yeah. So they're kind of like both right, really.
Is Faith No More on your list? No, actually it's
not, but go ahead. Because that was another one
where they said the name Faith No More came from,
originally they had a singer whose name was Dave,
and they didn't like him. And when they got rid
of him, they started jokingly referring to the
band as Dave No More. And Dave and Faith sound
pretty similar, so they thought, well, we'll
just change it to Faith No More, which sounds
pretty cool. That is pretty cool. Who knows if
that's true, but that's a nice story. Well, and
I mean, I don't know if the sewing machine's
true either, but I read that on a couple of places.
I've seen that in a number of places, too. Yeah,
so, oh, well. All right, Nirvana, Smells Like
Teen Spirit. Now, this one got me. Yeah. I had
no idea. The famous song was named after a brand
of deodorant, which we all know. Yeah. Which
Kurt Cobain never even knew about until after
the song became popular. Weird. So I don't even
think he named the song. Could have been like
Novoselic or Grohl or somebody named it. Yeah,
because he never sings that in the song. No.
Yeah. And Cobain. He had the habit of, he'd take
notebooks with him all the time. And he'd come
up with like one to three lines of something
and he'd just write it down. He was, yeah. And
then when it was time to put lyrics to a song,
he'd just go through and pick out all the best
parts from his notebook so I can use this for
the first chorus. Okay, that was good for the
second verse. I actually love the way he song
wrote. Yeah. Especially the lyrics. He already
had them down and then he'd hear a melody or
play a melody and go, you know what, this sounds
like this. That was a brilliant way of writing.
And ironically, their second album, Nevermind,
a number of the songs wound up having references
to guns. And that was not really intentional.
Someone mentioned afterwards, like, wow, you
talk about guns a lot on this album. And he's
like, I do? He listened back to it and was like,
oh, hell yeah, I do. It was on his mind a lot.
So, yeah, In Utero was their third and final
album. Because Kurt Cobain took his life during
that tour, wasn't it? Or was it right after?
It was after. Right after the tour. Allegedly.
Allegedly, yeah. But yeah, you listen to In Utero.
There is a lot of, yeah. But the album In Utero,
you can hear that the band is really just...
lost its way and they they don't have any cohesive
ideas they're just fulfilling the recording contract
in utero had no direction at all no it was a
bunch of noise and sound put together yeah um
they uh kirk cobain got into a fight with the
record company geffen yeah he wanted to call
the name and you can look this up i hate myself
i just want a guy yeah and geffen was like uh
We're not putting that on our record. No, we
can't sell that. And he almost, Kurt Cobain almost
stopped the record and said, no, we're not doing
it. But the rest of the band had their way, if
what I read is correct. Yeah. But, you know,
that's why whenever people say he didn't kill
himself, there's a lot of evidence that would
suggest that he's very unhappy living, too. So,
you know, I don't know, you know. It's hard to
say. You come up with an album, I Hate Myself,
I Just Want to Die. I'm going to say that you're
suicidal, but that's just me. So, all right.
The Rolling Stones iconic logo, the famous tongue
logo of the Rolling Stones, was designed by John
Pash, or Pashy, or whatever you want, one of
those two, in 1970, and was influenced by Hindu
goddess Kali, who has a similar tongue, and I
actually knew that, or Kali, either one. Yeah,
yeah, I've seen a side -by -side picture, and
you can tell that's where he got the mouth logo.
At least they admitted it. Yeah. So, yep. All
right, the Who's destruction. The Who are infamous
for their stage antics, including smashing guitars,
and have a record for destroying the more instruments
than any other band. Yeah. Yep. And Guns N' Roses
first name. I didn't know this because I knew
about Hollywood Rose, but I didn't know about
this. Hollywood Rose, I guess, was their second
name. Huh. Guns N' Roses first name. before settling
on Guns N' Roses because the guns came from Tracy
Guns, who left the band, and then they kept it.
Guns N' Roses, the band was originally called
Axl Rose, Axl's Rose, after the frontman's Axl
Rose's childhood nickname, and his real name
is William Bailey. Yep. Won't you come home,
Bill Bailey? Won't you come home? I'm sure he
loves that. Oh, I'm sure he just enjoys having
people sing that to him left and right. Big fan,
big fan, yes. All right, you got something? Yeah.
Recently there was a summer festival in London,
which is weird because it's not summer yet. But
apparently this festival has already happened.
I got the story before it happened, but apparently
it has already gone unhappened. But it's Kanye
West was going to be his headliner. Apparently
he goes by the name Yee. Now, Y -E. Oh, yeah.
But I'm going to call him Kanye because that's
easier. Yeah. But pressure was mounting on Kanye
to be pulled from his headlining role. Pressure
was mounting Sunday on American rapper Kanye
to be pulled from his headline role at a London,
UK music festival this summer after criticism
from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Uh -huh.
Pepsi has already withdrawn its lead sponsorship
role of the Wireless Festival at Finsbury Park
in North London between July 10th and 12th. Other
sponsors of the event, including Budweiser and
PayPal, are being urged to follow suit. Okay,
I guess the festival hasn't happened yet, but
there was a recent concert where Kanye performed
and someone else went and saw him. Pepsi did
not provide an explicit reason for its decision
to pull out of the event, even though publicity
for the festival promoted the event under the
branding Pepsi Presents Wireless. Quote, Pepsi
has decided to withdraw its sponsorship of the
wireless festival. And that was all they said
about it. Kanye was booked to perform in front
of around 150 ,000 revelers over the course of
the festival's three nights. Has already drawn
widespread controversy in recent years for a
series of anti -Semitic remarks. And has voiced
admiration for Adolf Hitler. Last year he released
a song called Heil Hitler. A few months after
he advertising a swastika t -shirt for sale on
his website. The 48 -year -old musician apologized
in January for his anti -Semitic remarks in a
letter published as a full -page advert on the
Wall Street Journal. He said his bipolar disorder
led him to fall into a four -month -long manic
episode of psychotic, paranoid, and impulsive
behavior that destroyed my life. Fans had just
sold out Concert Friday at SoFi Stadium. I guess
that's the one where someone saw him. His first
major US performance in nearly five years appeared
to separate his personal beliefs and public statements
from his music and were ready to forgive him.
However, Starmer said it was deeply concerning
that the rapper was booked to perform at the
long -established festival. And in the UK right
now, it's all about don't hurt people's feelings.
Yeah, I know. There was a guy who went from the
UK to America on vacation, posted pictures. on
social media of himself firing a gun legally
in the United States, and when he went home,
he was arrested by the UK government. Wow. For
firing a gun legally in another country, he's
now under arrest. That's how things are in the
UK right now. I wouldn't go. They're worse than
I thought, and I thought they were bad. Yes,
they are. They're awful. Quote... From Starmer,
anti -Semitism in any form is abhorrent and must
be confronted clearly and firmly wherever it
appears, he said in remarks published by the
Sun and Sunday newspaper. Everyone has a responsibility
to ensure Britain is a place where Jewish people
feel safe and secure. Kanye's scheduled appearance
follows signs of growing anti -Semitism in the
UK. Two men and a 17 -year -old boy were ordered
to remain in custody on Saturday on charges of
torching four ambulances run by a Jewish community
service in northwest London. And last October,
two men died in an attack on a Manchester synagogue.
Phil Rosenberg, president of the Board of Deputies
of British Jews, said it was, quote, absolutely
the wrong decision to allow Kanye to play. And
then Wireless Festival did not immediately comment.
Yeah, what could they say? Yeah, no kidding.
It's like, we want to make money off this guy,
but damn it, he said stupid things. That guy's
been toxic for a long time. Yeah. And anyone
even entertaining and hiring him, I have questions
about. And the reason is, look, I think everyone
deserves to have a job. Yeah. You know, unless
you're too terrible, you know. Yeah. But the
thing is, you should be incarcerated and forgot
about it. Yeah. But the thing is, is if someone
is... pissing off that many people and making
so many statements that are obviously horrible,
why would you want your name attached to them?
That's what I'm saying. Then you become them.
Yeah, it gives tacit approval or acceptance.
And even if it was a bipolar thing, well, he
still did it and said it. He needs to take responsibility.
If a person falls asleep in their car and it
runs off the road and kills somebody, well, they
didn't do it on purpose and they couldn't help
it, but they still did it. So they should still
get the blame for that. I think Kanye should
still get the blame for what he did and said
because he could have chosen to shut up. I agree.
He could have chosen to stay home and not speak
publicly. Yes, anything that he does like that
is on him. Yeah. He knows. He knows better. And
he's got enough people that he could hire somebody
to watch his mouth for him. And say, Kanye, no,
you can't say that. You see, that's the problem.
He's too arrogant. He won't do that. It's like
all these idiots like Tiger Woods who has way
more money than he needs and could afford to
have somebody drive him, yet he gets behind the
wheel anyway when he's drunk off his ass. And
then he tries to intimidate the cop by saying,
yeah, I was just here to talk to the president.
When the cop rolled up on him, that's what Tiger
was, was on the phone. He said, yeah, I'm just
sitting here talking to the president because
he was hoping he would intimidate the cop. That
was probably the worst thing he could have done.
I know. Because if I was a cop, I'd be like,
and your point is. Yep. I'd say like, yeah, I
didn't vote for him. Even if you did. Even if
you did. Yeah. I would have been like, okay,
well, get him on the phone and let's see a pardon.
You know, get him on the phone and say there's
going to be a pardon. Anything short of that,
shut up. Yep. And guess what? Presidential pardons
don't work for state laws. No, they don't. Nope.
That's what I was getting ready to get at. There's
nothing you can do about it. Yep. Got to talk
to the governor. I've got some bullet points.
Yay! All right. The first one. Will there ever
be a new delivery of music, or is on -demand
streaming going to be the it? I think there will
be something new. Yeah, I think so, too. I'm
not sure how, what. But then again, before streaming,
we never really saw that either. I mean, until
you started seeing Netflix and stuff like that
pop up, then you realize there's a whole other
avenue in delivery. So we probably don't even
see it yet, but they're working on it. Two things
that I see as possibilities. One, with Elon Musk's
brain chip that he's developed, will get installed
in people and you can get music directly in your
brain that way. Another would be to get people
to buy and or subscribe to their own personal
music -making AI that makes music just for them.
So you don't have to have musicians anywhere,
recording studios or anything. You've just got
your little AI bot that you pay $20 a month,
and it makes all sorts of music for you all the
time. I think that's going to be a viable thing.
I do too. Completely put musicians out of work.
I think video entertainment is going to go the
same way. Instead of having actors standing around
in front of a camera and having to write lines
for them and have to edit stuff, you just turn
it all over to AI and they make your video entertainment
for you and it's made specifically for you. All
the things you want to see and hear, etc. I think
it's going to be intensely personalized. Yeah,
I think you're right. Yep. That would be one
way they could go. And it wouldn't take that
much of a stretch to do it either. I wish that
damn wind would settle. Yeah, I'm kind of done
with the wind. Although, if we had podcasted
tomorrow, that was going to be hellaciously windy
tomorrow too. Okay, good. Well, I'm glad I messed
it up. Yeah. Will AI be big in making music?
They already are. Yeah. And I don't see it changing.
Yeah. I mean, look at the stuff I've done. Yeah.
And the number one most popular music worldwide
right now is from an AI. That's the most popular.
It's bigger than Taylor Swift right now. I made
that question before you told me at this point.
And I was like, hmm, that's going to fit right
in. Will fans settle for AI music? Of course,
they don't care. Enough of them will settle that
you and I are not going to have any choice. No,
it's just going to be the way it is. Yeah. Okay,
what do you think about rebooting old radio shows
with AI, like Paul Harvey and such? Because they're
already doing a certain amount of that. And if
my understanding is correct, they're paying whoever's
left to use a voice and to do different episodes,
new. Like they could come out with new Rush Limbaugh
with AI. And simply it'll do like it did us and
get everything so remarkably close you don't
know. I think there will be a lot of that. Like
everything else, it's going to be hit and miss.
They'll put up something that people just don't
want at all. You know, 13 seasons of our show,
usually about 50 episodes a season, if not more.
And it picked out something we did in one episode
in the first and second season and exploited
it. So you tell me that it can't get a Paul Harvey
or a Rush Limbaugh and do something like that.
Yeah. Yeah, I think that's going to be a big
part of it. I do too. Did all the great rock
producers retire? Yeah. Pretty much. There's
none left. If there was any left, we'd be seeing
it. And so many producers now have zero experience
working with actual instruments that make sound.
It's all samples, digitized loops, this, that.
They're not accustomed. They wouldn't even know
how to mic up an actual band and record it. knowledge
is just going away. Because no one does it anymore.
It's a sad. No, it is. It really is. Who was
the most complete rock singer ever? Look, voice,
and moves. Wow. Could be Robert Plant. Could
be Robert Plant, yeah. Looks like someone else.
David Lee Roth has got to be mentioned somewhere
in the conversation. He didn't have the range,
but... For a while there, he was like. He had
the yells, the screams, and the pizzazz. Oh,
my gosh. The look and the charisma. Yeah. He
was the one that the modern lead man based off
of. Yeah. You know, and he was probably based
off of Jim Dandy, obviously. Yeah. Freddie Mercury
would probably fit in that category. Freddie
Mercury would fit in that category. Looks, talent,
music. Yeah. Yeah. Stage presence. Yep. You know,
I heard a lot of people telling me that Leonard's
game. Hello, this is Phineas J. Altaris III.
I'm here to deliver your music news this evening.
Another Aussie story alert. ELP, Deep Purple,
and Sabbath were all playing at the 1974 California
Jam. The bands had to be flown in by helicopter
to the gig. Aussie said after the bands had been
flown in, they were all standing behind the trailer.
They look up, and there's a pinball machine hanging
below a helicopter flying through the air. Turns
out the members of ELP owned a pinball machine
and demand it to be flown to the jams. Then other
bands wanted their own pinball machine, and by
the end of the gig, everybody had their own pinball
machine to play before and after the show. This
is Phineas J. Baltar S. III. That has been your
music news for this evening. I have one burning
question for you all. Do people really skip around
the Maypole? It sounded like the opinion of a
fanboy. Yeah, yeah, yep. You remind me of, uh...
Hank Williams Jr. or something. Kind of had that
kind of a southern fried look. Yeah. But anyhow.
Okay, I would agree with you. Who was the most
complete bassist ever? Ooh. Who was the guy off
the cream? Jack Bruce. Jack Bruce? Yeah. He was
pretty amazing. He was. Tony Franklin was really
good, but he did rock music in the firm. But
he was more of a blues guy. I was trying to think
of the name of that Motown bass player. Is it
Robert Jameson? Robert Jameson, yes. He played
with, like, his index finger, and he called it
the claw. Yeah, yes. Very good. And he's played
on so many songs you've heard. And he also came
up with the bass line on almost all of them.
And there's, like, so many bassists that play
the fretless bass. Well, Tony Franklin did that,
but there's other ones, too. I mean, like locally,
back the Rumble Jets had a guy that did that,
and then now Popsicle Rebels. Yeah, I think they
have a guy that does that, too. There's a lot
of really good bassists that aren't that well
-known that do a lot of the finger work and don't
even use picks. Yeah. So it just depends on what
you like, really. Carol Kay would be another
one. Carol Kay would be another one. Yeah. Let's
see. Oh, Geezer Butler. Geezer Butler's a good
one. Chris Squire. Chris Squire. Yes. Yes. Very
good one. He influenced so many bass players.
And people don't even know it. Yeah. I know.
Pretty much every bass player I know holds Chris
Squire in great high regard. He is a musician's
musician, Chris Squire. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, yeah.
I think all of those are good names. I know some
people will talk about Les Claypool from Primus,
but his stuff just turns me right off. To me,
it's too much. Even Flea. Yeah, Flea's a little
too much. Too much popping, too much funk. At
some point, you've got to make music. Yeah. And
remember that no instrument is the lead instrument.
You're all there as a band. Exactly. And whenever
it's lead bass, even getting lead. Yeah. And
even Iron Maiden, kind of, a little bit. Yeah.
Steve Harris is really good, but he likes to
try, not try, he kind of takes the lead with
his rhythm. Which is good in Iron Maiden music,
but it's not good in all music. True, true. Oh,
well. All right, how about drummer? Neil Peart.
Neil Peart, yeah. Vinny Kaliuta, who's retiring
soon. Yeah, he is. He played with Sting for a
long time. Yeah. I think he started... Who's
the guy from Elton John? The original was Nigel
Olsen. Nigel Olsen. He played in Your Eye of
Heat briefly. Yeah, I liked him a lot. Yeah.
Oh, Ginger Baker. Ginger Baker. Even though he
is impossible, it sounds like. Yeah, he was a
great drummer, not so much of a great human being.
Not the way it sounds. Not the way it sounds,
no. Somebody that a lot of people haven't heard
of, Jim Gordon, who was the drummer in Traffic.
He played with Gordon Lightfoot. He played with
Alice. He played with Peter Gabriel. He played
with a ton of people. And he had a monster drum
set, but by listening to him, you wouldn't really
hear that he had a monster drum set because he
only played what was necessary. Yeah. But listen
to some of the older traffic tunes, and that's
Jim Gordon on drums. He's got such a delicate
touch. He can play rock. He can do jazz. Yeah,
he can do it all. Yeah. It's just such a shame
that no one figured out he was schizophrenic
in time. Yes. He listened to the voices that
told him to starve himself and then kill his
mother. Yeah. He did both. He did both. Yeah.
Let's see. There's others, too. I'm just not
thinking of them right now. Steve Smith. Steve
Smith is good. Ex -Journey. I always liked Nico
McBrain. Yeah, Nico's a real good guy. Yeah.
I just missed his Iron Maiden cover band at Rock
and Roll Ribs in Coral Springs, Florida by one
day. Oh, I was so pissed. I wanted to see him
play. He plays in that cover band out in their
yard until the beer runs out. I'm trying to remember
the name of Santana's original drummer because
he was pretty stunning. Graham Lear took over
after a while, but then they went back to their
original guy. I can't remember his name. I can't
remember. Another guy that's notable is Tommy
Lee. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was hugely influential.
Yes. Very good drummer. Yeah, and very inventive
on his sound. Yeah. He would do all different
kinds of different things. He was kind of like
Eddie Van Halen at drums. Yeah, yeah. Although
Alex Van Halen was no slouch either. No, I learned
to like him much later. I didn't like him earlier.
I didn't either. Symbols, yeah. No, no, he was
a lot more than that. And both you and me, Hopford
Teacher, turned us around. Yeah. It was like,
what the hell? Yeah, that's something else. And
he keeps adding to it and adding to it. And it's
like, how many fucking things is he going to
do here? Now, I never saw Van Halen live. I have.
But I hear that when they did Hot for Teacher,
Alex would play that intro wrong intentionally.
And the band would make him stop. You know, I
don't remember. And then Fuss Adam and David
Lee Roth would point and say, hey, let's give
a round of applause for our drummer's drinking
problem. And everybody, ah. And then he'd play
it correctly. But it was a gag to, you know,
make a joke about his excessive drinking and
then screwing up his drumming. Okay. So that
was a fun gag. I did not get to catch them with
David Lee Roth. I got to catch them with Sammy
Hagar. Oh, yeah. So that probably wasn't their
thing with Sammy Hagar. Yeah. So... Yeah, they
were more of a party band with David. Yeah. And
then they started growing up a little bit with
Sammy. I prefer David, though, but that's okay.
All right, and that's just because I like the
raw, dirty rock like they did. Yeah, yeah. They
didn't put so much thought and effort to it,
so it was more of a... The song was more like
it was originally thought of, and the first few
playthroughs is like, yeah, this is cool, and
then they think about it too much, and they add
too much, and they change some things. Yeah,
yeah, production is a weird thing. You need production.
But they also need to know when to stop. Absolutely.
And as Eddie Van Halen got more control, he started
overworking his songs, and they became not quite
as spontaneous and energy -filled as they could
have been. Okay. Okay, yeah, no, I agree. I agree
100%. Let's take the same question to guitarists.
Okay. Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen's good.
Jeff Beck. Jeff Beck, oh, yeah. Jeff Beck was
so good at emotion. Yeah. But he was good at
everything, actually. Another guitar player that
really never gets mentioned in the conversation
is Frank Zappa. Yeah, that's true. And his son,
too. He was nuts on guitar. Dweezil, yeah. Dweezil
was good, too. Yeah. Yeah, Frank Zappa, his music
didn't actually accentuate it that much on albums,
but he was a fantastic guitarist. Another one
was Prince. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Prince could do things
with the guitar that you just really didn't know
because he rarely ever did it. Yeah, I know.
And, yeah, he was not known for a guitarist,
but, my God, when you heard him play, you didn't
forget it. Yeah. So he played with a lot of feeling,
compassion, and precision. Yeah. Let's see. There's
a lot of other guitarists, too, but the apex
would probably have been Nuno Beckencourt is
one now. Yeah. Another one that people just sounds
good. besides like mcmars did and all that was
uh slash yeah slash is the most precise he isn't
the most unique he just sounds good yeah he can
write a riff yeah you can write a really good
riff yeah it's odd it i guess it would describe
it as easy to listen to easy to listen you know
because when you listen to like jeff beck you
got to work at it oh yeah you gotta figure out
what he's trying to do same with alex leifson
you got to listen to figure out what's going
on yeah But Slash is just like, yeah, just let
it wash over me while I drink this beer. Yeah.
Next thing you know, you're nodding your head
and tapping your tongue going, yeah, this is
good. And you remember it the next day. You're
like, yeah. Very Joe Perry -ish. And Joe Perry
should probably be mentioned. But although, if
you're going to mention him, you've got to mention
Brad Whitford. True. Brad Whitford might even
be a better guitarist, depending on how you look
at it. He was definitely a lot more reliable
over the long term. Oh, fuck yeah, he was. Joe
Perry had his own things, too. Not just Steven
Tyler. Yeah. They called them the Toxic Twins
for a reason. Man, this wind is giving us quite
the blowjob up here. It is. And not the good
kind. No. Okay, so that's the end of that. Alrighty.
Here's an interesting story. Okay. WKRP is making
a return. Really? Yeah. I love the original.
I hope they don't fuck it up. Well, it's not
quite going to be what you think, but it is making
a return. Okay. The call letters made famous
by the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati are
set to return to the Ohio City, according to
the head of a non -profit organization that has
controlled the brand for more than a decade.
I heard Joe Burrow is going to play McFly. Venus
flytrap? Yeah, yeah. Hey, he would dress. Yeah.
Back to the future. Yeah. But, yeah, he would
dress about like that, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Quote. No blackface. No. No, no, no. Leave that
to Ted Danson. And Robert Downey Jr. Yes. Okay,
quote, I cannot, by contract, tell you when.
I cannot tell you who. Venus Flytrap. God, that
was a good name, too. Johnny Fever. Anyhow, go
ahead. But he said, I can tell you, direct to
the camera, WKRP, after 48 years, is coming to
Cincinnati. DP McIntyre, who leads the media
nonprofit that has been auctioning the call letters,
tells the Associated Press, book it, it's done.
The WKRP call sign became widely known through
the CBS sitcom that aired from 78 to 82 and featured
fictional radio station employees. It was only
four years? Yeah, only four. Boy, it seems longer
than that. It does, yeah. And on YouTube, you
can find episodes from seasons two through four,
but almost none from season one. Why? I'm not
really sure. The fictional radio station included
disc jockeys and a hapless newsman, Les Nesman.
Oh, I love it. He was such a good character.
Timid little geek. Yes. And apparently, you know,
when the camera wasn't rolling, he was the one
who cracked everybody up. Oh, I know. Because
he was just funny as hell. He was funny as hell.
Yep. The show helped launch the careers of several
actors and remains remembered for a comedic Thanksgiving
episode involving live turkeys dropped from a
helicopter. Oh, yeah. Which itself was based
on a real event where they dropped turkeys from,
I think, a car driving by. They were throwing
turkeys out at a used car lot. Okay. McIntyre
said the program influenced his own career ambitions.
At the end of a 30 -minute episode, he said,
I got to proclaim, I'm going to be in radio,
and if I ever have the opportunity, I'm going
to run a station and call it WKRP. He began working
in radio as a teenager, and in 2014, his North
Carolina -based nonprofit acquired the WKRP call
letters from the Federal Communications Commission.
They were available? They were available. The
designation had previously been used by stations
in Georgia and Tennessee. I'll be damned. Didn't
know. And when the TV show was in first run in
78, there was a radio station in Cincinnati called...
WKRZ, I think it was. Very, very close. I think
I remember a little bit about that, yeah. And
they had to call and ask permission. You know,
our show's going to be very similar. Is that
okay with you? And the radio station just said,
oh, heck yeah. Yeah, please. Please. The non
-profit launched WKRP -LP, a low -power FM station,
in 2015. Broadcasting at 101 .9 FM, the station
featured a mix of music formats and locally -oriented
programming. Low -power FM stations limited to
non -profit or operators typically cover a small
geographic area with reduced transmission strength.
McIntyre described the station's approach as
a throwback to earlier eras of radio. Our format
is what radio used to be 35 years ago in small
-town America. And that's the way I want to hear
it, too, you know? After a decade, McIntyre said
the organization decided to transfer control
of the WKRP brand as its founding members stepped
back. The nonprofit has sought bids for the use
of the call letters across radio, television,
and digital platforms. Proceeds are expected
to support a new venture, Independent Broadcast
Consultants, aimed at helping emerging broadcasters.
McIntyre said an agreement to bring WKRP back
to Cincinnati has been finalized, though he declined
to provide details. It will be radio, he said,
but that's all I can tell you at this time. He
added that he hopes any future use of the call
sign will honor its cultural legacy. It has a
special place in the hearts of an awful lot of
people, he said, and we have been very, very
proud to have been a steward of that legacy.
Okay. So it's going to be an actual full -power
radio station. Who knows what they're going to
do with it. I'm going to listen to it online
because they'll have an online outlet. Very cool.
Yeah. Then we'll be another day with KRP. I was
so surprised it wasn't taken, but I guess it
sounds to me like some radio stations went out
of business and gave it up. Yeah. Wow. It's just
like KYYS, I believe, is still owned by Odyssey,
maybe, I think, because Intercom still owned
it. Yeah. And I think they transferred it to
a Mexican station. Yeah, because you can't just
get the call letters and sit on it. No, you have
to do something with it. Yeah, so they had to
use them on a radio station in order to keep
them. That's why this group was doing the low
-power FM stations. Okay. So they could maintain
control and ownership. And that's another thing
that's happening, too, is the low -powered FM
stations are really becoming very popular. I
would love to see some. locally that we could
tune into i would too because it's pretty much
a free -for -all they don't operate on that big
a budget yeah yeah you also get a lot of homegrown
talent like that too you know it's just like
just get on there say whatever we don't care
you know just don't get the fcc on our ass that's
it yeah bro um you know cvs right the store cvs
you know what the real name of it stands for
no i was just wondering that okay consumer value
store Well, that makes sense. Now, people came
up with their own names for it. So, one of the
ones that they came up with is candies, candy,
vitamins, and shit. That's a good one. I'm like,
pretty much covers it. The next one that someone
wrote in about, this is like some sort of a,
I don't know, poll or something that people wrote
in. The next one was Greek for very long receipt.
Oh, okay. That's true because their receipts
are like fucking three miles long. I just leave
the receipt because it takes ten minutes of standing
there for it to print out. Yeah. So the next
one, condoms and vaginal supplies. That's a good
one. So this is for the name CVS, which stands
for Consumer Value Store. But this is what people
wrote in and said what they thought it meant
or what it should mean. Next one would be can't
verify shit, which has been my experience with
our self -service kiosk and nobody else. This
next one, come visit Satan. How about condoms,
volume, and sodas? That one I like a lot. And
this next one is just pretty much true. Where'd
it go? COVID vaccine status. COVID vaccine status.
Yep. Yep. And then finally, the other one, the
last one didn't print out. Coca -Cola Vaseline
and sardines. And they do sell sardines there.
I've seen them. Oh, okay. And I'm sure they have
Vaseline as well. Oh, I would think so. I mean,
you know, they've got to sell something that
will counter the sardines, right? They do. It's
like, man, my ass really burns. Well, here's
some Vaseline. Yeah. Stone Temple Pilots like
Vaseline so much they wrote a song about it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who can blame them? Flies in
the Vaseline. That's right, yeah. Interesting
song, too. Yeah, yeah. Originally it was called
Dingleberries in My Vaseline, but then he changed
it. Yeah, yeah, I get it, yeah. The way the rolling
drum beat and everything just starts out is interesting
on that song. It's like they went right in the
middle. Yeah. And then the guitar is pretty interesting,
too. I mean, really odd rhythm. Yeah. For me,
it seems like you're rocking, swaying back and
forth. It is that kind of a song. Yeah, like
you're on a train and it's rocking back and forth.
Yeah, it does. And I wonder if they tried to
come across like that, because it certainly did.
How long have we got? Just over an hour. Okay.
I got a story about Journey. Oh, okay. Let's
hear it. Journey singer Arnel Pena just said
he tried to quit the band twice due to intense
personal problems, and they wouldn't let him.
Isn't that weird? Quote, I said to Neil Sean
and Jonathan Cain I wanted to retire because
of my personal problems. No answer, he said.
Obviously, they don't want to find another singer.
Pineda has been the frontman of Journey since
2007 when guitarist Neil Sean spotted his pitch
-perfect version of Faithfully on YouTube and
invited him to audition. He joined the rockers
in place of singer Steve Perry, who exited the
band for the second and final time in 1998. Well,
they probably got him on a really good contract,
and they don't want him to leave. He came from
nothing, I mean, you know. Yeah, he really did.
Though becoming the face of one of the world's
biggest bands overnight was a welcome surprise,
the 19 years of singing Journey's operatic hits
like Don't Stop Believin' and Open Arms have
taken a toll on Pineda's voice, and the star
has also struggled in the midst of a contentious
divorce. The Filipino singer told Rolling Stone
that he'd informed Kane, 76, and Sean, 72, in
2024 that if they were planning farewell dates,
they should keep him in the loop as his personal
issues were getting more intense, and he wasn't
sure that he'd want to commit to a tour. I said,
I want you to discuss the schedule with me. It
is what it is now, but then I was really not
happy with how they scheduled this tour. My body
has changed, he said. I can't take the cold weather
anymore. Pineda claims he... Well, at least that
makes sense. He wasn't consulted. He claims to
Rolling Stone he was not consulted before Journey
booked 60 dates in the U .S. Final Frontier Tour
for 2026, scheduled through August, and 40 more
for next year. Sean told the outlet that Pineda
can't up and quit the group as their touring
contract allegedly stipulates that no tour can
happen without Arnel Pineda. So he's got pull.
Wow. Right now, they can't tour his Journey without
him. Wow. Isn't that something? That is. Meanwhile,
Pineda explained that much of this conflict stems
from his divorce from wife Cherry, with whom
he shares two children. The star accused Cherry
of adultery in court filings in 2023, which she
has denied, whereas prosecutors allege that she
endured verbal abuse, manipulation, and coercive
behavior, which he has denied. So, he said, she
said. Quote, my personal problems really took
a toll on me. That's why I wanted to prioritize
my family. It's not that I hate touring with
Journey. It's like the same thing that happened
with Steve Perry. He has a hip problem, Pineda
said. Me, I have a personal problem that's taking
a toll on me. It's getting in my head emotionally.
I told them that I was a wreck and needed a little
more time so that I could fix my family, but
still I have to do this. Despite the disagreements,
Pineda told the outlet that he has nothing but
adoration for his bandmates. I love these guys.
I respect them so much, and I will remain until
the last days of my life grateful and really
feeling blessed for what they've done for me,
he said. Okay. So interesting. Yeah. Interesting
that he has that much pull. Yeah. For one, I
didn't think they would give it to him. Yeah.
So he had a good agent at one point that said,
yeah, let's make sure you guys can't dump him
behind his back. Yes, and another thing is Pineda
became a darling. Yeah. You know, a success story
out of nothing, rags to riches. And right now
he's been in Journey way longer than Steve Perry
was. Yes. He's got the most seniority in the
band. He didn't write the songs, but. No, no.
Yeah, wow. Okay. You want to hear some rock names
of songs that you want to hear their original
name. Oh, yeah. Okay. Breed Nirvana, the song
Breed, the original title was Emodium. That's
a brand name. You can't really use that. Well,
I think maybe that's why they changed it. I don't
know. Kurt Cobain originally titled Nevermind
Trek after the anti -diarrheal medicine his tour
mate Ted Doyle was using on tour. That's good.
That is good. He just didn't put in the A .D.
Yeah. Bohemian Rhapsody. The original title was
The Cowboy Song. Why in the hell would it be
named that? Must have had different lyrics. Freddie
Mercury's masterpiece was nearly named after
the cowboy song bits he had written years prior.
So it's going to be named after something like
that. All right, Jumpin' Jack Flash, The Stones.
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were at the Redlands,
Richards' home, when the sound of their gardener,
Jack Dyer, stomping a rubber boots. I woke them
up. Richard said, oh, that's Jack. That's Jumping
Jack. And that was the original name. And then
they started calling it Jumping Jack Flash. Nice.
Instead of Jumping Jack. Not that big of a difference,
but that was the original name. I'm made of wax,
Larry. What are you made of? A day to remember.
The title is a direct quote from 2006 Ben Stiller's
movie, Night at the Museum. And it doesn't say
what band came up with that. No. I don't know
why it didn't. It has all the other bands in
here. 5150 Van Halen, named after the California
police code for detaining a psychiatric patient,
which was also named Eddie Van Halen's new recording
studio. Yep, and PV put that on an amplifier.
Yeah, they did. It was even on a guitar at one
time, wasn't it? 5150, I believe so. And that
was their comeback album, too, with Van Hagar,
if you will. The Hellcat Spangled... Sha -la
-la by the Arctic Monkeys. Okay, whatever. They
were going to call it Suck It and See. Oh, my
God. I know. But then again, it's Arctic Monkeys,
so who cares? All right. Several Species of Small
Furry Animals. Pink Floyd. Oh, I know that song.
The full title is Several Species of Small Furry
Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving
with a Pict. Yes. Which is a term for an ancient
Scottish. Yes, that's it right there. Yep. It's
a weird, it's not really a song. It's a bunch
of animal noises and some guy murmuring in the
background. Yeah, yeah. It's garbage. It's pretty
much garbage. If you're high off your ass, it's
kind of fun, but otherwise I'd say avoid it.
Yep. The Way, fastball. The hit was inspired
by a true dark story of a runaway couple, Layla
and Raymond Howard, who went missing after a
festival and was called Lost The Way. Oh. That
was called The Way. And a simple delusionary,
again, this thing is leaving stuff out. My printer
is bullshit. The rest of it, I don't know what
the hell it says, so we can move on. Well, I
thought of two. There was Barry Manilow's first
big hit called Mandy. Yeah. Was originally called
Brandy. Yeah. After his dog. Yeah. But a band
called Looking Glass already had a song out called
Brandy, You're a Fine Girl, What a Good Wife
You Would Be, etc., etc. So his label said, eh,
got to change the name Brandy to something else.
So he switched to Mandy. Oh, okay. And there's
a Beatles song, I think it was Strawberry Fields,
that original, or maybe it was the song Yesterday,
but the original title was Scrambled Eggs. Because
that's what somebody had for breakfast that morning.
Hey, let's do that scrambled egg song. I kind
of like it. Yeah. Okay. I've got some of the
worst song titles ever, or do you have something?
I've got a quick thing. Okay. Rush's tour date's
coming up. I saw something that's kind of interesting
about their tour dates. They're not coming by
Kansas City, I know that. No. Which is, I find
it disappointing, because I would like to see
them. Yeah. Even without Neil Peart, they didn't
kick him out, he died. Yeah. But the interesting
thing about their tour dates in the U .S., they're
doing at least tour and up to four concerts in
a location before moving on. No single dates.
Okay. So that would be a part of the reason.
So they're like minor residency. Yeah. That's
why they wouldn't be here. That's why they wouldn't
be here because if they don't think they can
sell two nights. But a lot of places they're
doing four in a row. Wow. But the interesting
thing is, you know, even if they're like. Are
they Toronto they're doing four in a row? Yeah.
Then they're doing British Columbia, et cetera.
But they're never playing back -to -back nights.
There's always a day in between. You know what?
And I believe that I agree with that because
they weren't going to do it at all. They just
said they don't think they're really that good.
They don't think they can really do it that well
anymore. So this makes sense. They're kind of
spacing it apart so they can give a better show.
And that's what Stevie Nicks does also. She does
a concert, and then she'll schedule three, maybe
four days off to let her voice recover before
she'll do another show. So that's kind of what
Rush is doing. And they also were building in
between two to eight days of travel time between
locations. Okay. So it used to be you play every
night, and then you finish here and drive all
night, and next night you're in the next town.
No, this is a much more slow and leisurely. They
don't do that anymore. Most of the bands from
our area don't do that anymore. They can't. Yeah.
And then after the first of the year, Rush will
do the international part. They do one to three
shows per venue with two to 15 days of travel
time in between. So they're leaving themselves
a lot of rest and downtime during this tour.
You know what? I can't blame them. I can't blame
you. They're old men. Yeah. I'm getting to be
an old man. At least they're smart enough to
realize this. The bands that don't and they embarrass
themselves are the ones that, you know. Yeah.
So that's great. I'm glad that they, yeah. They
are definitely traveling with a full -time keyboardist
who's going to take the bulk of the keyboard
duties away from Geddy Lee. That's good. And
there's also... I've heard it mentioned a couple
of times that they're bringing along a second
guitar player, too. Good. So it's going to be
Rush without the drummer. 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 20 -26 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. And with two more extra people.
Yeah, with Alex Lifeson and another guitarist,
and then Geddy Lee and another synthesizer. And
I get that because he plays bass also. Yeah,
because at one point he had a bass around his
neck, he was playing keys with his hands, playing
bass pedals with his feet, and singing a song
that he wrote himself. Yeah, very talented guy.
Yeah. That's it for the Rush Tour. All right.
Well, how long have we got? Do you want to keep
going? An hour and 15. Okay. I got some song
titles. Okay. Okay. These are what people consider
the worst song titles ever, as in a poll that
they took. Uh -huh. Okay, the first one we already
mentioned not too long ago, and that's several
species of small furry animals gathered together
in a cave and grew them with a pit. Of course,
by Pink Floyd. Yep. They consider that the worst
song title ever, and I think I would probably
agree with them. Probably so, yes. Next one would
be Detachable Penis by King Missile. Oh, that
makes sense. Kind of reminds me of a Tool song
called Hooker with a Penis. Oh, yeah, yeah, I
forgot about that song. It's not a bad song,
but once you hear it, it sticks in your head
for way too long. It does, yeah, like a lot of
Tool songs. Shoot, yeah, like Stink Fist, that
whole album, fuck. Just the name. I sit on acid.
Lords of acid. That's a little weird. This next
one. I've never been to the mechanical courts.
They have a song called I Come Blood. I think
there's something wrong if that's what's happening.
I think they better go see a doctor immediately.
And I've never been a Cannibal Corpse fan. I
might have heard their music one time and said,
that's not for me. Yeah, no. All right. You know,
they've got a following, and they fill a niche,
but not everything is for everybody, and that's
the way it's supposed to be. If you like going
to clubs with 20 people, there you go. Cannibal
Corpse is your guys. How about Yellow Leadbetter?
I remember that song. And still no one knows
what it's about, Pearl Jam. No one knows. They
never gave an explanation for the song. For the
one I'm thinking about, it's pretty awful, too.
He's, like, super pitchy. Yes. He can't hold
a note for more than half a second. The best
part of it is the guitar. Yeah. And that's it.
And it's really slowish. Yeah. Yeah. It's like,
do you remember the song River of Deceit? Yeah.
Lane Staley and somebody else. I forget the name
of the band. But the guitar playing in that is
just so beautiful. The song is kind of sad and
depressing, but the guitar playing is just gorgeous.
Yeah. Well, I've got a list of misheard song
lyrics from the 1970s. You want to check out
those? Yeah. Or get more? Yeah, we can go to
that. All right, I got a list of misheard lyrics
from songs of the 70s. Now, I should preface
this by saying back in the 70s, it was all about
the beer and the weed. So, mishearing rock lyrics
was probably happening a lot more often back
then. Plus, people wanted to mishear them. You
know, people wanted to hear what they wanted
to hear. Oh, yeah, yeah. Usually, excuse me while
I kiss the sky. Yeah. Instead of sky. Yep. Yeah,
and they did that. I wouldn't doubt if that came
from the Hendrix camp just to make people talk.
Yep, it is. Not a bad idea. No. Okay, the first
on my list is the Aerosmith song, Dream On. It
has in the chorus, he says, sing women, sing
for the year, sing for the laughter, and sing
for the tear. Yeah, but people think it's volunteer.
What a lot of people heard was sing for the centuries,
sing for the beer. Oh. I never, ever heard that
one ever. That was because people wanted to hear
the word beer. I always heard it was volunteer,
sing and volunteer. Yeah, because he stretches
out. He said instead of sing for the year, he
said sing for the year. Yeah. Kind of like that.
And people thought it meant sing voluntarily.
Yeah. And even I did. I was like, okay, I guess
that's what it says. Yeah. And, you know, we
tend to hear things and try to make them make
sense. We do, yeah, and I connected the dots
myself. Yeah. So, okay. Another one, Elton John
did a song, Tiny Dancer. Yeah. Where he says,
hold me closer, tiny dancer. A lot of people
heard, hold me closer, Tony Danza. And people
believed that. Because, you know, Elton's gay,
so why not? Yeah, Tony Danza is a nice looking
guy, I can see that. He took care of himself,
yeah. Yeah, he talked a little odd, but yeah.
Yo, babe. Yo, babe. Yeah. Steely Dan, Reeling
in the Years. A lot of people heard it as Reeling
in the Ears. Okay, I could see that more. Yeah.
But, you know, you could look at the title and
it says Reeling in the Years. So how did that
become a thing? I guess they just weren't looking
at it. Yeah, radio. There you go. People didn't
go and buy the album soon. It's like, oh, okay.
Ringing in the ears. It makes sense. Queen, We
Will Rock You, where he's got the line, you got
blood on your face, big disgrace, kicking your
can all over the place. A lot of people thought
it was kicking your cat all over the place. How
the hell did they get that? And they called in
and protested because the song was cruelty to
animals. And they're like, no, no, no, no, that's
not what he's saying. It's not cat. It's Cam.
But so many people thought he was talking about
kicking your cat. Oh, my God. I don't want to
hear somebody on the radio singing about kicking
a cat. So you've got to figure that's not what
he's saying. Oh, man. That was fun. Anyway, Fleetwood
Mac, Go Your Own Way. Now, these are Fleetwood
Mac fans. A lot of them heard instead, Grow Your
Own Weed. You can grow your own weed. I don't
get that. I think that was a big case of wishful
thinking. I think so, too. There is no way that
sounds like weed. No, there's no. Okay. The Eagles
Hotel, California. Right in the beginning where
they say, on a dark desert highway, cool whip
in my hair. I mean, cool wind in my hair. I thought
it was cool whip in my hair. And then he says
warm smell of colitas rising up in the air. Yeah,
which is the bud of a marijuana plant. Yep, it
is. Colitas means little tails, often referring
to the buds on a marijuana plant. And it also
refers to smoking weed. But a lot of people heard
warm smell of fajitas rising up in the air. Okay,
number one, that's stupid, but I do think that
is. I could see that. Yeah, I was trying to see
that. Okay, so they like Mexican food. I get
it. Steve Miller, the Joker. He's got the line,
because I speak of the pompatus of love. Yeah.
Pompatus is a completely made -up word. People
thought he was saying pompous, promise, properties.
No, he was making up a totally made up word.
I always wondered about that word. I thought
it had to have been a real word. He said his
inspiration came from a song, The Letter, by
the Medallions, an old doo -wop group. And the
singer had ad -libbed the word puppet toots.
And he took puppet toots and changed it to pompatus.
Puppet toots. I didn't know puppets could fart.
I didn't either. So that's where it came from.
Well, it would stand to reason. I mean, I don't
begrudge them for farting. That's a normal function.
They probably have an odd diet. Yeah, what do
puppets eat? Sawdust, maybe? I think so. Pencil
shavings, I think. Which we have some. I mean,
if you write in enough, we'll give you the pencil
shavings. And the new guy, evidently he doesn't
like pencil shavings. He's been gone a little
while. I think he's coming back this next episode,
the new guy. He's a dick. There's an old joke
about a guy in the army whose sergeant tells
him to go make some coffee. So the first thing
he does is grab a bunch of pencils and starts
sharpening the pencils. And the sergeant comes
back and says, hey, I thought you told you to
make some coffee. And he said, what do you think
the pencil shavings are for? That's pretty good.
I like that. Army coffee. Army coffee, yep. Man,
did you see that? Man, look at that burger from
Riverhouse. Oh, my gosh, look at that thing.
It's big. Yeah, man, what kind of cheese is that
melted on it? Gosh. No, it's not Pepper Jack.
It looks like cheddar and maybe something else.
Colby Jack? Maybe, possibly. Yeah. Oh, my God.
Smell that. I'm telling you, River House is a
place to be. This, man. Oh, oh, oh, what is that?
Is that barbecue? I think it is. Well, yeah,
they got that smoker downstairs. Yeah, that's
true. And they also, what is that, Oyster's Rockefeller?
I believe it is. Oh, man, this place is awesome.
It is. Really cool. Anyhow, I'm sorry. I smelt
the food and I got distracted. Yeah. Where am
I? Oh, yeah, Queen. Another one from Queen from
the song Bohemian Rhapsody or the Cowboy song,
as it was almost blessed. Still okay. He's got
in that section in the middle where he's doing
all the vocal stuff, he says, spare him his life
from this monstrosity. Yes. People thought it
was spare him his life from this warm sausage
tea. Well, there's a lot of jokes and innuendos
that could be put in there. Yeah, especially
considering what the sausage was and why it was
warm tea coming out of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it was spare him his life from this momstrosity.
Okay. All right. You know, no, I don't believe
that. It was sausage tea. No, go ahead. ACDC,
Highway to Hell. There's the verse, no stop sign,
speed limit, season ticket on a one -way ride.
Oh, I know what a lot of people thought it said.
I'm not going to say it. A lot of people thought
he was saying shitting on a railway line. That's
not the one I was thinking of. Instead of season
ticket on a one -way ride, it was shitting on
a railway line. Well, there's another one that
people think it says, too. What's that? I don't
want to say it on the podcast. Okay, let me hit
the pause button. Yeah, go ahead. Wow, I can
see why you didn't want to say that one on the
air. And it does sound like it. It does sound
like it. Yikes. And I'm like going, I'm certain
it doesn't say that. I'm certain it does not
say that. And then finally we had Manfred Mann's
Earth Band. The song Blinded by the Light. Originally
written by comrade Bruce Springsteen. And the
original line was cut loose like a deuce, another
runner in the night. Yeah. Manfred Mann switched
it to revved up like a deuce, another rumor in
the night. But the way he slurred it together
sounded like wrapped up like a deuce. Everybody
thinks it says that. Everyone thinks it's wrapped
up like a deuce, but he swears to this day that
he said revved up like a deuce. Okay. Yeah, if
he says so. Yeah. Interesting. Interesting. All
right. Did you have another one you wanted to
get to? Nothing very short. Okay, well, I could
do the rest of the bad song titles as voted.
Oh, yeah, excellent. Okay, I think we stopped
off at Yellow Leadbetter. Oh, yeah. Still no
one knows what it meant. They'll never explain
it, and I think they kind of like doing that.
A little mystery to it. I'm pretty sure at this
point no one gives a damn anymore. But we all
agree it's a horrible song. Oh, yes. Album filler.
Yeah, album filler, yes. The next one would be
the Electric Six, the song Gay Bar. Oh. I've
heard it. It's a gimmick song. Yeah. Something
like, I want to take you to a gay bar. And it's
just really nothing. It's a horrible song, really.
They were inspired by Katy Perry's I Kissed a
Girl, and they decided, hey, let's do one about
a gay bar. It's probably the other way around,
because this came by a long time ago, but still.
All right. But anyhow. The next one, Bloodhound
Gang, had a song called The Bad Touch. Ooh. Not
a good touch. Bad touch. Bad touch. Bad touch,
yeah. It's like, here's the doll. Now, where
did he touch you? Where did the Scoutmaster touch
you, allegedly? Yay! Where did the priest allegedly
touch you? We didn't say Catholic priest. No,
no. There are other kinds of priests out there.
Yeah, so all you Catholics back off. Yes. They
have been after us. And not only that, we're
a podcast. Yeah. If they said, you know what
I do to emails like that? I don't even print
them out. I crumple them up mentally and then
delete them. It's like we're not broadcasting,
so different rules apply. Yes. Yep. As of right
now, who knows in the future. All right. Tenacious
D, how about Fuck Her Gently? Which is a funny
song. Pretty bad title, though. Oh, it's horrible.
Jack Black meant it like that. He was like, I'm
going to be so abrasive and so stiff that people
are going to run the other way. And he didn't.
There's a song by Monster Magnet called Mindfucker.
Yeah, I love that song. In fact, they named the
whole album Mindfucker. Mindfucker, yep. And
it's so funny to see a label on the front saying,
this album contains explicit lyrics. It's like,
you think? The title is Mindfucker. It's printed
right there on the front. I'm so glad you told
me that. I had no idea. It's right there in big
print. I could have played that for my mom and
children. Okay. All right. Next one is, what's
new, pussycat? That was awful. The whole song
was bad. Yeah, and it says on here as a joke,
play it multiple times. Yeah. No, thank you.
Yeah. I would have to use my April's bullet in
the head instead. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I know
it doesn't even pertain to this, but I'm using
it anyhow. Yeah. All right. How about tiptoe
through the tulips? Oh, yeah. Tiny Tim, the weirdest
motherfucker ever to live, or one of them. No
kidding. He was an oddball. And the song was
just stupid. He wasn't entertaining at all. He
was weird. He was stupid. I never got his whole
thing. It was like watching a slow motion train
wreck. I was like, I kind of want to watch, but
this isn't any fun. To me, it was like celebrating
somebody with mental illness. Like, hey, he's
doing something really stupid that no one can
understand. Yay! Later in life, in an interview,
he said that he doesn't wear... conventional
underwear. He only wears adult diapers. I like
the idea that it's completely sterile and sanitary
when I put it on. I don't use them. I just wear
them as underwear and then throw them away. Why
the hell do we want to know this? I was surprised
that that... particular moment in the interview
made it anywhere yeah that was like one of those
ones like okay we got to edit some of this out
we're going to start with that yeah so and then
finally and i think everybody knows this you
remember barnes and barnes the gimmick group
oh yeah fish heads as is as heard on dr demento
roly -poly fish heads yeah fish heads fish heads
roly -poly fish heads actually i love barnes
and barnes they did a lot of unique stuff and
actually they were pretty much broken Into famedom
by Dr. Demento. Yeah, he was. That's where weird
Al Yankovic got his start. Yeah, he did. Dr.
Demento broke so many people. Actually, I don't
know if he broke Barnes & Barnes. I think they
were already big when he started playing them.
I'm not for sure. I can't remember. I don't know.
Oh, well. One thing I wanted to mention, I wanted
to give everyone some homework, you included.
is find the song Imaginary Lover by the Atlanta
Rhythm Section. Okay. And you can find it on
YouTube. It's all over the place. But listen
to the version that is played too fast. Because
what had happened is the band had sent out the
single to a bunch of radio stations, but it was
recorded in album speed, 33 and a third. And
the radio station played it at 45 RPM. So it
was like, what up? About a 30 % increase in speed.
Something like that. Yeah. It sounds exactly
like Fleetwood Mac. And the vocals sound exactly
like Stevie Nicks. And this is when it's sped
up to 45. To 45, not 30. Yeah, the sped up version
of Imaginary Lover. sounds exactly like Stevie
Nicks. And everyone thought it was Fleetwood
Mac when he played it. A 45 record back in the
day was sped up. That's why they called it a
45 instead of a 33. Yeah, it went faster. So
yeah, just go out and find the YouTube version
of Imaginary Lover at the faster speed and listen
to how much it sounds like Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood
Mac. It's just nuts. I will. Someone told me,
it's like, oh yeah. And I listened, it's like,
oh my God, this would have fooled me. It absolutely
would have fooled me. Well, if it's coming from
you, I have no doubt that's what's going on.
If someone else that I questionable told me,
I'd be like, okay, probably has a resemblance,
but you saying that means that, yeah, I'm going
to listen to it. We'll listen to it on the way
home. Okay, that sounds good. It's so surprising.
Okay. All righty, I guess we're going to wrap
this shit show up, guys. Yes, indeed. All right.
Thank you all for joining us. Like I said before
on the last one, you know what? Usually they
get jumbled around by the time they're released
anyhow. So whenever you hear this, thank you
very much for listening. We're doing very well
because of you, and go fuck yourself.