WEBVTT 00:01:08.650 --> 00:01:10.810 Welcome one and all to the latest episode of 00:01:10.810 --> 00:01:13.909 Signals from Mars. I am Victor. He's Jeremy. 00:01:14.709 --> 00:01:17.590 I'm doing great. How are you, Jeremy? I'm doing 00:01:17.590 --> 00:01:21.430 great as well. And you can't hear this, but this 00:01:21.430 --> 00:01:24.030 evening there's actually a concert going on just 00:01:24.030 --> 00:01:26.709 across the water from me. It's a Live Aid tribute 00:01:26.709 --> 00:01:29.489 concert. And I've got the doors open so I can 00:01:29.489 --> 00:01:31.810 kind of hear the echoing going on, you know, 00:01:31.810 --> 00:01:34.010 in the distance. So it's great to hear live music 00:01:34.010 --> 00:01:37.090 as it always is. And anyway, how's things over 00:01:37.090 --> 00:01:41.859 there? We are battling through a stormy, rainy 00:01:41.859 --> 00:01:45.180 night, which is par for the course here in the 00:01:45.180 --> 00:01:50.170 north of Spain. What kind of bands are playing 00:01:50.170 --> 00:01:53.189 at this event? Yeah, so I'm actually going tomorrow. 00:01:53.590 --> 00:01:55.129 Myself and my wife are going tomorrow, and we're 00:01:55.129 --> 00:01:57.409 going to see bands like sort of the stuff that 00:01:57.409 --> 00:01:59.569 was on at Live Aid. It's Spandau Ballet, it's 00:01:59.569 --> 00:02:03.170 Style Council, it's Queen, it's Phil Collins, 00:02:03.310 --> 00:02:05.230 you know, all those sort of bands that played 00:02:05.230 --> 00:02:08.330 the original. Tonight, I'm not entirely certain. 00:02:08.430 --> 00:02:10.590 I think definitely Status Quo we're on because 00:02:10.590 --> 00:02:13.560 they obviously opened Live Aid. And there's a 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:15.960 few others on that I don't know about tonight. 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:18.080 But as I say, we'll be there all day tomorrow. 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:20.740 It's going to be a very, very hot day. And I 00:02:20.740 --> 00:02:22.919 think everyone's going to enjoy themselves. So 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:27.419 yeah, local live aid. So they're giving people 00:02:27.419 --> 00:02:33.419 whatever they want. Yeah. And they'll be taking 00:02:33.419 --> 00:02:39.120 the midnight train to... I don't know. I can 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:41.180 take you on the midnight train. Yeah. Okay. So 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:43.479 people that are in the States that have no idea 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:47.620 who status quo is, that's me. No idea. They're 00:02:47.620 --> 00:02:49.659 one of the biggest bands that were in the, of 00:02:49.659 --> 00:02:53.439 the seventies. Yeah. And they're one of those 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:58.520 classic bands that just made no dent in the U 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:04.860 S I personally, I didn't know of them until the 00:03:04.860 --> 00:03:08.520 eighties. Yeah. I guess that song, it's interesting. 00:03:08.580 --> 00:03:11.199 We're going to be talking about vinyl in a second 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:16.680 about albums, but, um, as a kid growing up, my 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:20.759 uncles would send compilation albums, like the 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:24.639 summer hits and we would get them. And one of 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:28.039 them had, uh, whatever you want by Spandau ballet. 00:03:28.219 --> 00:03:30.560 And I remember that was like the most rocking 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:36.139 thing on one of those compilations. And And it 00:03:36.139 --> 00:03:37.879 was the song that I would play over and over 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.800 again. So it was, it was interesting. So yeah, 00:03:40.860 --> 00:03:43.460 that has to be late seventies, early eighties, 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:47.819 if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. Boston was another 00:03:47.819 --> 00:03:51.300 one that was frequently on those compilations. 00:03:51.300 --> 00:03:55.539 But I remember when they released the track in 00:03:55.539 --> 00:04:00.340 the army now, which was 86 ish. I'm thinking 00:04:00.340 --> 00:04:03.949 someone in that neighborhood. Yeah. That was 00:04:03.949 --> 00:04:07.310 like the first kind of new status quo song that 00:04:07.310 --> 00:04:08.969 I heard a lot. And I was like, oh, my God, what 00:04:08.969 --> 00:04:12.469 is this? This is going to be huge. Got back to 00:04:12.469 --> 00:04:16.569 the US and no one had heard of it. Yeah. But 00:04:16.569 --> 00:04:19.269 if you go to a wedding in the UK, you're bound 00:04:19.269 --> 00:04:21.589 to hear at least one status quo track because 00:04:21.589 --> 00:04:24.029 everybody likes that as the sort of the rock 00:04:24.029 --> 00:04:26.290 and roll track. And so it could be rocking all 00:04:26.290 --> 00:04:29.009 over the world. It could be, you know, whatever 00:04:29.009 --> 00:04:31.990 you want. It could be again and again, any of 00:04:31.990 --> 00:04:34.660 those sort of tracks. They will feature at a 00:04:34.660 --> 00:04:39.180 UK wedding very frequently. Okay. And there was 00:04:39.180 --> 00:04:42.180 another big song that was a woman's name, wasn't 00:04:42.180 --> 00:04:48.060 there? Oh, yes, there was. Not Caroline, is it? 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:50.439 Yes, Caroline. That's right. Sweet Caroline. 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:55.160 No, it's not Sweet Caroline, but Caroline. Sweet 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:58.160 Caroline is Neil Diamond. That's right. That's 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:01.959 right. We seem to like, or artists seem to like 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:09.199 to sing about Caroline. Funny enough, Jeremy 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:11.600 knows about this. Some of my patrons know about 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:16.319 this, working at a basketball camp. And one of 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:19.060 the days we, well, at night we do activities 00:05:19.060 --> 00:05:26.689 with the participants of the camp. And the coaches, 00:05:26.970 --> 00:05:34.230 well, the one night was a kind of a singing battle 00:05:34.230 --> 00:05:38.230 where there would be a topic and there were teams 00:05:38.230 --> 00:05:42.389 split up by groups. And the coaches had a group 00:05:42.389 --> 00:05:45.170 of their own. And of course, I was throwing out 00:05:45.170 --> 00:05:48.889 references of stuff that nobody even knew. And 00:05:48.889 --> 00:05:52.009 last year I kept saying there was someone's name. 00:05:52.129 --> 00:05:54.290 I said, Sweet Caroline. They have to know this 00:05:54.290 --> 00:05:57.329 from premiership games. You know, they have Sweet 00:05:57.329 --> 00:06:02.389 Caroline. I don't know that. What song is that? 00:06:02.649 --> 00:06:07.129 And one group did it this year. So I got up. 00:06:07.129 --> 00:06:10.050 I'm like, see, I told you guys we could do Sweet 00:06:10.050 --> 00:06:14.009 Caroline. Somebody knows it, not only me. And 00:06:14.009 --> 00:06:18.370 oh, my God, it was like. It was like pulling 00:06:18.370 --> 00:06:24.410 teeth. We need a different song. I said Lucy 00:06:24.410 --> 00:06:26.529 in the Sky with Diamonds. Come on. You guys have 00:06:26.529 --> 00:06:31.529 to know the Beatles. Who are they? All right. 00:06:31.709 --> 00:06:36.629 All right. Next topic can either be sun, moon, 00:06:36.709 --> 00:06:42.509 stars. No, that was sky. That was for sky. It 00:06:42.509 --> 00:06:45.000 wasn't for the name. And I said, okay, walking 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:47.060 on the moon, police. I know that a lot of you 00:06:47.060 --> 00:06:52.100 people won't know this, but that's the one. Never 00:06:52.100 --> 00:06:56.399 heard of it. And then it's funny because the 00:06:56.399 --> 00:07:04.660 founder of the camp, silver medalist in the 84 00:07:04.660 --> 00:07:10.480 Olympics in LA, guarded Michael Jordan. Joe Llorente 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:12.879 is the last name. Llorente, I guess you would 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:16.759 pronounce it in English. But he comes up and 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:19.620 he suggests a song. And I said, I suggested that 00:07:19.620 --> 00:07:23.300 10 minutes ago. Nobody knew it. You come up here 00:07:23.300 --> 00:07:27.399 and everyone knows it all of a sudden. So, yeah, 00:07:27.540 --> 00:07:31.180 losing battle. Anyway, it was a color. I said, 00:07:31.180 --> 00:07:35.699 purple rain. Nothing. No one knew anything. Anyway. 00:07:36.060 --> 00:07:40.569 As you would say, crickets. I can help you with 00:07:40.569 --> 00:07:56.750 that. There we go. All right. So we're going 00:07:56.750 --> 00:08:00.430 to talk about vinyl albums here. We've picked 00:08:00.430 --> 00:08:04.230 out a few. We're going to talk about why we picked 00:08:04.230 --> 00:08:06.470 them, why we think these albums are magical. 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:11.399 And we'll kind of see where the road takes us 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:16.779 with this. So, Jeremy, Jeremy pulled aside a 00:08:16.779 --> 00:08:20.079 bunch of albums. Yeah, well, I had to because, 00:08:20.180 --> 00:08:23.680 as you're probably aware from previous episodes, 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:27.160 I keep all my CDs downstairs, but I keep all 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:31.100 my vinyls upstairs. So I had to bring down a 00:08:31.100 --> 00:08:34.980 huge pile just to make sure I had enough. But 00:08:34.980 --> 00:08:37.820 I did select them carefully. I went through them 00:08:37.820 --> 00:08:39.879 this afternoon. I thought, yeah, maybe that one, 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.220 maybe not that one, all that sort of stuff. So 00:08:42.220 --> 00:08:44.600 the very first album that I'm going to put in 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:47.220 front of us is a fairly recent one, actually. 00:08:47.259 --> 00:08:53.460 It's Rival Sons with Dark Fighter. That, as you 00:08:53.460 --> 00:08:56.919 know, is one of my favorite albums by the band. 00:08:57.389 --> 00:08:59.309 but it's also one of my favorite albums of all 00:08:59.309 --> 00:09:03.009 time. I would suggest, I mean, as you know, I'm 00:09:03.009 --> 00:09:04.870 a big fan of Rival Sons. I've seen them live 00:09:04.870 --> 00:09:07.350 a couple of times. I think that they're really 00:09:07.350 --> 00:09:08.789 good. We're going to probably talk about them 00:09:08.789 --> 00:09:11.690 a little bit later as well, or we'll say later 00:09:11.690 --> 00:09:15.909 in a future episode, I think, when we talk about, 00:09:15.909 --> 00:09:19.990 you know, concerts. But this album I thought 00:09:19.990 --> 00:09:22.289 was pretty perfect because there's only eight 00:09:22.289 --> 00:09:27.740 tracks on it. And it has... A really, really 00:09:27.740 --> 00:09:30.139 great song at the end, Dark Side, which is a 00:09:30.139 --> 00:09:33.179 very long song where it's just a tremendous sort 00:09:33.179 --> 00:09:35.559 of almost like a stairway to heaven type. I almost 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:37.860 get the feeling this is like their Led Zeppelin 00:09:37.860 --> 00:09:41.419 4. You know, it really, really resonates with 00:09:41.419 --> 00:09:43.440 me, this album. I can put it on and you have 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:45.539 to really sort of sit down and listen to it, 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.940 turn it up well. Maybe got a slight problem with 00:09:48.940 --> 00:09:51.039 the production. I think maybe some of the other 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:54.360 albums have got a very superior production, just 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:58.389 a little bit. But that aside, I think that they 00:09:58.389 --> 00:10:00.549 didn't waste time on this album. They put the 00:10:00.549 --> 00:10:02.210 best songs on it. And, of course, they brought 00:10:02.210 --> 00:10:06.529 out the album Lightbringer just in the same year, 00:10:06.690 --> 00:10:09.330 which I thought was not as good. It was a different 00:10:09.330 --> 00:10:11.509 type of album, more like a Led Zepp 3 than a 00:10:11.509 --> 00:10:15.490 Led Zepp 4. Right. And took a little bit more 00:10:15.490 --> 00:10:17.649 listening, and I did think it was quite as good. 00:10:17.809 --> 00:10:20.429 This particular album, I'll just show you because 00:10:20.429 --> 00:10:25.820 it is an album. I got the clear. play a vinyl 00:10:25.820 --> 00:10:28.320 so it's a you know a bit more of a special one 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:32.100 and i do play a lot um i played it this week 00:10:32.100 --> 00:10:34.279 in fact before i knew we were going to do this 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:38.779 um so i do play it quite a bit and um i like 00:10:38.779 --> 00:10:40.820 a lot of the songs on here i mean we talked about 00:10:40.820 --> 00:10:43.100 this i think we we gave it an album of the week 00:10:43.100 --> 00:10:47.220 uh probably both of us actually um you know i 00:10:47.220 --> 00:10:50.629 like um Well, I like all of the songs, to be 00:10:50.629 --> 00:10:53.529 fair. But I really like Nobody Wants to Die. 00:10:53.669 --> 00:10:56.070 That's a real rocky number. It's a real sing 00:10:56.070 --> 00:11:00.110 -along one. I like Horse's Breath. I think that's 00:11:00.110 --> 00:11:02.470 a really good song as well. And I like the opening 00:11:02.470 --> 00:11:04.929 track Mirrors. But, you know, I feel all eight 00:11:04.929 --> 00:11:06.769 songs are really nicely balanced. They're all 00:11:06.769 --> 00:11:10.049 a little bit different. And I think they're a 00:11:10.049 --> 00:11:12.549 really, really good band that probably don't 00:11:12.549 --> 00:11:14.929 get the recognition they deserve. I think that 00:11:14.929 --> 00:11:17.549 really they should be... Moving further up the 00:11:17.549 --> 00:11:21.169 bill and getting a lot more fans involved, but 00:11:21.169 --> 00:11:24.750 that's the way it is nowadays. So yeah, my first 00:11:24.750 --> 00:11:27.250 one that I'm going to pick is this Rival Sons 00:11:27.250 --> 00:11:29.330 album, and it's an absolutely fantastic album. 00:11:30.090 --> 00:11:34.230 So I've got three things to mention about that 00:11:34.230 --> 00:11:38.629 album. One, it's waiting for me when I get to 00:11:38.629 --> 00:11:44.220 the States at my parents' house. Okay. Because 00:11:44.220 --> 00:11:47.360 it was just way too expensive here in Spain. 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:51.580 They were asking like 50 euros for it. And I 00:11:51.580 --> 00:11:57.639 picked it up for like $22 in the States. Yeah, 00:11:57.659 --> 00:12:03.500 that makes sense. Second, do you think that their 00:12:03.500 --> 00:12:09.139 involvement in last week's concert at Villa Park? 00:12:10.970 --> 00:12:16.309 will help move them up the rankings because they're 00:12:16.309 --> 00:12:20.210 one of the exclusive few that actually played 00:12:20.210 --> 00:12:25.049 at the final show by Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne. 00:12:25.129 --> 00:12:33.570 That's something that will always be a calling 00:12:33.570 --> 00:12:36.129 card for them, you know, to be able to say, hey, 00:12:36.190 --> 00:12:38.230 we played this, you know, we're that important. 00:12:41.049 --> 00:12:44.509 And having that, the Osborne stamp of approval, 00:12:44.850 --> 00:12:48.350 you know, because here's the other thing. A lot 00:12:48.350 --> 00:12:52.450 of people talk about how they sound like Zeppelin 00:12:52.450 --> 00:12:55.490 and whatnot, but they've never kind of been pigeonholed 00:12:55.490 --> 00:12:59.210 like a Greta Van Fleet has been. Yeah. You know, 00:12:59.210 --> 00:13:05.789 where I think that Rival Sons is unique enough. 00:13:08.750 --> 00:13:14.169 that people respect them as musicians. I think 00:13:14.169 --> 00:13:18.950 that's what's different about them. Yeah. Yeah. 00:13:19.049 --> 00:13:21.529 I mean, the other thing to point out is that 00:13:21.529 --> 00:13:23.529 they were actually the support band on the end 00:13:23.529 --> 00:13:25.490 tour, the Black Sabbath, the end tour, you know, 00:13:25.509 --> 00:13:28.570 years ago. And I saw them then supporting Sabbath 00:13:28.570 --> 00:13:31.389 and they were fantastic then. They're very, very 00:13:31.389 --> 00:13:34.600 good live. um to answer your question i think 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:36.980 that it's only going to help their career because 00:13:36.980 --> 00:13:39.379 you know they're in the public eye people are 00:13:39.379 --> 00:13:41.639 going to check out their music they played obviously 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:44.559 only two tracks um they did do your worst and 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:47.460 they did secret uh with a with a sabba song in 00:13:47.460 --> 00:13:51.100 between and um yeah it's only going to help that 00:13:51.100 --> 00:13:53.559 i thought they did really well but we won't go 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:55.899 into that in too much detail now because obviously 00:13:55.899 --> 00:13:58.000 we're going to talk about that in a later episode 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:04.379 but um yeah I just think that there are a band 00:14:04.379 --> 00:14:08.460 out there that maybe people just need to touch 00:14:08.460 --> 00:14:11.000 upon. They've obviously got their fan base. They've 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:13.059 got people like me and you who have sort of cottoned 00:14:13.059 --> 00:14:16.679 on to the fact that they are really good. I saw 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.360 them live in Manchester and it was sold out in 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:21.340 Manchester, but it was in a smaller venue. They 00:14:21.340 --> 00:14:24.139 weren't playing a bigger venue where they could 00:14:24.139 --> 00:14:26.860 possibly do that in the future. They have the 00:14:26.860 --> 00:14:29.269 songs. They have the guitarists, they have the 00:14:29.269 --> 00:14:33.129 vocals, and like you say, they are slightly distinctive. 00:14:33.149 --> 00:14:36.570 They're not quite a Zeppelin band. There are 00:14:36.570 --> 00:14:39.909 those influences. There are Bad Company influences. 00:14:40.149 --> 00:14:42.649 There are Free influences, those sort of classic 00:14:42.649 --> 00:14:45.450 rock tunes, but they have great songs of their 00:14:45.450 --> 00:14:49.149 own. Yeah, I agree. The final point that I want 00:14:49.149 --> 00:14:54.090 to bring up about Rival Sons, I've had a lot 00:14:54.090 --> 00:14:59.340 of... Proud Papa moments, especially going back 00:14:59.340 --> 00:15:05.379 and forth to basketball camp every day and asking 00:15:05.379 --> 00:15:08.320 my kids who bands are and whatnot or having them 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:13.779 ask me who bands are. And we had to use my son's 00:15:13.779 --> 00:15:16.460 phone for something because it was the only one 00:15:16.460 --> 00:15:27.379 that had a headphone jack. And so. um, as I, 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:30.440 I'm creating a playlist with songs that we needed 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:35.240 to use for, for an event. Um, I see that album 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:40.639 as one of the albums in his, uh, in his Apple 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:43.320 music. So I was proud when I saw that, like, 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:47.980 Oh, awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I think they're a band 00:15:47.980 --> 00:15:50.120 also, you know, they do appeal to the older rock 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:52.399 crowd and the younger crowd. And, you know, that's, 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:54.610 that's a good thing that they, they do get across 00:15:54.610 --> 00:16:01.490 to both. Yeah. So, okay. So I didn't realize 00:16:01.490 --> 00:16:03.929 this. This is just something that I grabbed for. 00:16:04.009 --> 00:16:08.049 This was, although I had, um, the album before 00:16:08.049 --> 00:16:11.909 this, and I don't remember the name right now. 00:16:11.970 --> 00:16:14.450 It has colony of Birchman, which had Josh Homme 00:16:14.450 --> 00:16:18.450 on it. Um, old man brain in full effect right 00:16:18.450 --> 00:16:20.850 now. So I'm not remembering the previous album 00:16:20.850 --> 00:16:25.379 by Mastodon, but this is, Crack the Sky. There 00:16:25.379 --> 00:16:31.059 was so much hype surrounding them. And I heard 00:16:31.059 --> 00:16:35.919 this album. I heard Divinations, the first single 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:39.159 off of it. I'm like, wow, this is awesome. This 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:42.059 doesn't sound anything like what I'm used to 00:16:42.059 --> 00:16:45.759 from Mastodon. It isn't screamy. It's straight 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:51.759 up rock. It has some great melodies. And then 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:54.759 they released the first album off, the first 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:58.639 track off of this album, Oblivion, as the second 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:01.440 single. And I was like, oh my God, I need this 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:05.559 album. And I remember buying it before there 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:07.640 was Apple Music, there was iTunes, and I bought 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:12.539 the album on iTunes. And it came with this rendition 00:17:12.539 --> 00:17:17.099 plus the instrumental version of the album. And 00:17:17.099 --> 00:17:20.920 I just became hooked on Mastodon. After this, 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:25.740 I really like this band. Um, interesting, interestingly 00:17:25.740 --> 00:17:30.400 enough, like rival sons also played at the, um, 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:34.299 at the, this show I was just mentioning, but, 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:39.740 um, this album is great beginning to end. Um, 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:45.119 it's a starting point to what they would become. 00:17:45.700 --> 00:17:49.859 And it's funny because a lot of, Diehards criticized 00:17:49.859 --> 00:17:52.460 this because it didn't have the guttural vocals, 00:17:52.579 --> 00:17:55.799 because it didn't have a lot of different things 00:17:55.799 --> 00:18:01.480 that people were accustomed to by the band up 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:06.059 to then. And I remember specifically hearing 00:18:06.059 --> 00:18:09.660 an interview where they said, you know, we're 00:18:09.660 --> 00:18:11.619 kind of only going to get lighter because our 00:18:11.619 --> 00:18:17.180 influences are. Thin Lizzy and ACDC and Kiss 00:18:17.180 --> 00:18:20.720 and Black Sabbath and stuff like that. So the 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:23.619 older we get, the more we're going to go towards 00:18:23.619 --> 00:18:28.200 our influences. So I think Crack the Sky is a 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:32.200 great album. But I think everything after this 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:36.799 has been really good as well. That's my first 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:39.019 album to showcase. Yeah. I'm going to have some 00:18:39.019 --> 00:18:41.180 comments about them live as well when we talk 00:18:41.180 --> 00:18:44.259 about the Black Sabbath gig in a future episode. 00:18:44.380 --> 00:18:46.799 So, yeah, that's interesting you mentioned that 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:52.099 one. Okay, cool. Next for you. Yeah. So, again, 00:18:52.339 --> 00:18:54.640 you know, I was thinking, what do I bring along 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:56.880 to this? I need to bring along an album that 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:00.859 I play regularly, an album that I really enjoy 00:19:00.859 --> 00:19:05.019 and I think is a really quality hard rock album. 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:08.539 And so I brought along Elegant Weapons, Horns 00:19:08.539 --> 00:19:12.720 for a Halo. Okay. Because I think that this is 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:16.640 pretty fantastic. I got to love this album. When 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:19.119 I first heard it, I thought it was good. But 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:21.539 when I listen to it again and again, I've started 00:19:21.539 --> 00:19:23.539 to really, really like it. I mean, as you know, 00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:26.079 it's got Ronnie Romero on vocals on this one, 00:19:26.140 --> 00:19:27.839 but I think he does a really good job on here. 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:31.420 Richie Faulkner really sort of lays out some 00:19:31.420 --> 00:19:34.140 great riffs on here. I think that probably there 00:19:34.140 --> 00:19:36.440 was one or two riffs on here he would like to 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:38.480 have put on the Judas Priest album, but he didn't 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.339 have time or he couldn't do so. So they were 00:19:41.339 --> 00:19:44.359 lying around and he did, you know, there's... 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:47.619 So many good tracks on it. It starts off with 00:19:47.619 --> 00:19:49.940 Dead Man Walking, which is a really good. And, 00:19:49.980 --> 00:19:52.599 you know, there's a lot of melody in there, but 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.339 there's also some really good expert guitar work 00:19:56.339 --> 00:20:00.200 in there, which Richie's known for. He's a proper 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:04.680 rock metal guitarist, which, you know, some people 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:07.700 don't really get to that sort of level, but he 00:20:07.700 --> 00:20:10.819 has. And, you know, playing with Priest has really 00:20:10.819 --> 00:20:15.269 brought him on as well. They do actually. They 00:20:15.269 --> 00:20:18.269 do a cover on here as well of Lights Out. And 00:20:18.269 --> 00:20:21.130 while I originally thought that, you know, it 00:20:21.130 --> 00:20:23.529 wasn't necessary because, you know, who needs 00:20:23.529 --> 00:20:26.609 a cover of UFOs Lights Out? I think they actually 00:20:26.609 --> 00:20:28.829 do a good version of it. So I don't think it 00:20:28.829 --> 00:20:32.230 detracts too much from the other material, which 00:20:32.230 --> 00:20:37.750 is all unique. So, yeah, I listen to this a lot. 00:20:37.829 --> 00:20:39.809 I can listen to all the songs on it. There's 00:20:39.809 --> 00:20:42.589 nothing that really, you know, I'd say is a dud 00:20:42.589 --> 00:20:45.339 song on there. And I think I'm really looking 00:20:45.339 --> 00:20:47.680 forward to hearing more music from him because 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:50.240 I think he's done a good job with Elegant Weapons. 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:54.779 And I'd like to hear a follow -up album. I think 00:20:54.779 --> 00:20:59.099 they are working on that. And he kind of said 00:20:59.099 --> 00:21:02.680 something to the effect of, you know, I need 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:05.779 to also start working on what my exit strategy 00:21:05.779 --> 00:21:09.240 is going to be when Priest is done. So I want 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:12.180 to have something established. So that only makes 00:21:12.180 --> 00:21:16.670 sense. Who was the rhythm section on that? Was 00:21:16.670 --> 00:21:21.490 it Rex Brown? And was it Scott Travis on that? 00:21:21.650 --> 00:21:23.990 Definitely Scott Travis. Yeah. And I think you're 00:21:23.990 --> 00:21:27.450 right. I think it was Rex. I'm just looking down 00:21:27.450 --> 00:21:29.109 to remind myself because I haven't looked at 00:21:29.109 --> 00:21:32.390 it for a little while. Right. We know that Sneak 00:21:32.390 --> 00:21:35.430 mixed it. It's hard to see actually because, 00:21:35.509 --> 00:21:37.710 yeah, here we go. Yeah, definitely Rex Brown. 00:21:37.869 --> 00:21:41.400 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I remember that because 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:44.000 Pantera had gotten back together again. They 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:49.160 had actually they had done one live show at least. 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:51.720 And someone else stepped in. I don't remember 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:53.940 who, but it was somebody well known as well. 00:21:54.579 --> 00:22:01.400 All right. So pick number two. We're going to 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:04.019 go back. This is a special one. So I was trying 00:22:04.019 --> 00:22:07.140 to figure out if I was going to go in your things, 00:22:07.259 --> 00:22:11.259 older things, things in the middle. When I was 00:22:11.259 --> 00:22:14.880 doing my album of the week, I was trying to pick 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:21.819 things that kind of stood out and not to be show 00:22:21.819 --> 00:22:24.880 offy, but just things that are special to me 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:29.720 and things that I really like. Yeah. This one 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:32.420 was kind of winking back at me as I'm going through 00:22:32.420 --> 00:22:39.109 the vinyl, but it is. Yeah. Is Iron Maiden running 00:22:39.109 --> 00:22:47.589 free with. This is on the backside. It is women. 00:22:47.690 --> 00:22:51.109 Well, Sanctuary with. Yeah. All right. So I'm 00:22:51.109 --> 00:22:54.190 screwing this up here. It is running free and 00:22:54.190 --> 00:22:56.309 burning ambition on one vinyl. And the other 00:22:56.309 --> 00:23:00.049 vinyl is Sanctuary with Drifter. And I've got 00:23:00.049 --> 00:23:03.109 the fire. And then an interview with Nico McBrain. 00:23:03.230 --> 00:23:05.809 I don't think I've ever listened to the interview 00:23:05.809 --> 00:23:09.609 with Nico. To be honest, it's probably when I 00:23:09.609 --> 00:23:13.769 first got it, but I don't recall it. Let's hope 00:23:13.769 --> 00:23:19.170 Nico's not listening in. Yeah. If he is, let's 00:23:19.170 --> 00:23:21.750 hope he's not offended. Now, I would just like 00:23:21.750 --> 00:23:23.789 to say straight up, I've not seen that version 00:23:23.789 --> 00:23:25.890 there because I remember obviously when Sanctuary 00:23:25.890 --> 00:23:29.809 came out and I remember all those singles, but 00:23:29.809 --> 00:23:32.170 I've not seen that version. So tell me a little 00:23:32.170 --> 00:23:37.130 bit more about it. So up here. with the ring 00:23:37.130 --> 00:23:40.529 light you can't really see but this was something 00:23:40.529 --> 00:23:47.670 that was released in 1990 so the first 10 years 00:23:47.670 --> 00:23:53.210 and they had re -released on vinyl cassette and 00:23:53.210 --> 00:23:58.450 cd all of their singles leading up to uh seventh 00:23:58.450 --> 00:24:01.630 son so essentially what they're touring now it's 00:24:01.630 --> 00:24:04.349 seventh son and actually they're they've done 00:24:04.349 --> 00:24:07.230 up and they, they did fear the dark. So I'm wrong 00:24:07.230 --> 00:24:11.089 with that. But anyway, so it was called the first 00:24:11.089 --> 00:24:14.589 10 years box set. I have the whole thing on, 00:24:14.609 --> 00:24:18.809 on CD. I bought it off of eBay years ago before 00:24:18.809 --> 00:24:22.190 moving overseas. This is the only vinyl that 00:24:22.190 --> 00:24:25.910 I got a hand that I got my hands on. Um, but 00:24:25.910 --> 00:24:28.190 I have a bunch of different maiden cassettes 00:24:28.190 --> 00:24:35.309 as well. This, this to me was, Like finding a 00:24:35.309 --> 00:24:38.609 treasure when I came across it, you know, I would 00:24:38.609 --> 00:24:42.089 come overseas to Spain as a kid. And anytime 00:24:42.089 --> 00:24:45.250 I could find something that I could go back and 00:24:45.250 --> 00:24:47.470 be like, wow, you know, I'm the only one that's 00:24:47.470 --> 00:24:50.470 going to have this. You know, I'm going to show 00:24:50.470 --> 00:24:52.349 this off to my friends. This is going to be so 00:24:52.349 --> 00:24:55.150 cool. We're going to enjoy this so much. You 00:24:55.150 --> 00:24:56.670 know, I'm going to share this with everyone. 00:24:58.250 --> 00:25:01.890 It was a big deal to me. So it still is. I still 00:25:01.890 --> 00:25:05.160 love those. those songs. And yeah, I have digital 00:25:05.160 --> 00:25:08.059 versions of them now, but just hearing those 00:25:08.059 --> 00:25:10.599 songs on vinyl, just have a certain warmth and 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:15.299 a certain thing to them. Um, I remember, uh, 00:25:15.460 --> 00:25:18.839 on despot geek, they talked about the fact that 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:21.680 they didn't like the song drifter. I love the 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:23.940 song drifter. That's probably my favorite song 00:25:23.940 --> 00:25:26.460 off of killer. And there's a, there's a live 00:25:26.460 --> 00:25:29.980 rendition of that on there. And it's so cool 00:25:29.980 --> 00:25:33.140 just hearing them play it and just, how bombastic 00:25:33.140 --> 00:25:36.859 they were live with Clive Burr and with Paul 00:25:36.859 --> 00:25:40.799 D 'Anno. So I love that. So that's what I wanted 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:46.640 to share. I'm going to pick also an older album 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:50.380 next. This is an album that means a lot to me. 00:25:50.460 --> 00:25:52.900 I think it's probably my favorite by the band. 00:25:53.700 --> 00:25:57.640 In the 1980s, my friends and I played this a 00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:01.160 lot, and we realized that this band was something 00:26:01.160 --> 00:26:05.799 special. really really special um the expertise 00:26:05.799 --> 00:26:08.900 on the album was amazing and it's um it's van 00:26:08.900 --> 00:26:12.619 halen with fair warning wow that this is the 00:26:12.619 --> 00:26:15.460 original copy by the way that i had um which 00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:19.119 i bought in the 1980s uh still doing quite well 00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:21.440 still can play it very flimsy as you know the 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:25.380 vinyls in the old days were quite flimsy um and 00:26:25.380 --> 00:26:28.640 i just feel that They actually peaked on this 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:31.839 album for me personally. It isn't that they didn't 00:26:31.839 --> 00:26:34.819 produce other great stuff. You know, I like 1984. 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:37.299 I like various other bits and pieces. I like 00:26:37.299 --> 00:26:41.799 Diver Down. But I just felt that this was quite 00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:44.839 a unique sounding album. It really showed the 00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:48.839 musicianship of the band altogether, but obviously 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:52.200 Eddie. And if you really wanted to, you know, 00:26:52.220 --> 00:26:54.259 a lot of people always go back to the first Van 00:26:54.259 --> 00:26:56.519 Halen album. They say, you must listen to Eruption. 00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:59.299 You must, you know, that's Eddie Van Halen. But, 00:26:59.380 --> 00:27:01.880 you know, have you ever listened to Unchained? 00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:04.759 The riff that goes on in Unchained, it's just 00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:08.400 incredible. And Dave was sort of, he had his 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:12.680 little lines in there, you know, as he did. And 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:14.740 I just feel that they really got it right on 00:27:14.740 --> 00:27:17.200 this album. It's a fantastic album cover as well. 00:27:17.299 --> 00:27:21.509 The artwork's amazing. And I just feel that this, 00:27:21.589 --> 00:27:25.109 if I ever listened to just one Van Halen album, 00:27:25.190 --> 00:27:33.309 it would probably be this one. It warms my heart 00:27:33.309 --> 00:27:37.549 that you pulled that one out because that's the 00:27:37.549 --> 00:27:40.049 first Van Halen album that I heard in its entirety. 00:27:40.630 --> 00:27:44.369 Right. Because my brother had it on cassette. 00:27:47.819 --> 00:27:53.700 I've always felt that that. I mean, I could go 00:27:53.700 --> 00:27:56.579 back and forth because there's everything leading 00:27:56.579 --> 00:28:02.220 up to that album to me is absolutely great. But 00:28:02.220 --> 00:28:06.539 having said that, Fair Warning is just a special 00:28:06.539 --> 00:28:11.299 album to me. Fair Warning. Fair Warning and Van 00:28:11.299 --> 00:28:14.819 Halen 2 are probably my favorite two albums by 00:28:14.819 --> 00:28:20.099 the band. I could go back and forth with either 00:28:20.099 --> 00:28:27.440 one of those, but Unchained, Mean Streets, Dirty 00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:38.180 Movies, Sinner's Swing. It's so funny that Saturday 00:28:38.180 --> 00:28:40.720 in the Park, I think, is the instrumental on 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:47.230 that. That is my go -to song to test. a stereo 00:28:47.230 --> 00:28:52.730 or speakers out. And it was, uh, it was so funny 00:28:52.730 --> 00:28:56.549 because back in the day when, uh, when they would 00:28:56.549 --> 00:29:00.069 advertise for the planetarium in New York, they 00:29:00.069 --> 00:29:03.210 would play that behind the intro this weekend 00:29:03.210 --> 00:29:06.710 at the Hayden planetarium. Boom, boom, boom, 00:29:06.789 --> 00:29:10.670 boom, boom. It was, it was just, I still listen 00:29:10.670 --> 00:29:14.920 to that song and it's magical. And it's funny 00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:19.359 because we're possibly going to go to the Hayden 00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:22.079 planetarium this year. And I was looking for, 00:29:22.099 --> 00:29:28.000 uh, old promos from the radio to see if that 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:30.240 was there. And I didn't find that, but I found 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:35.380 like, um, uh, like flyers for it. And they said, 00:29:35.460 --> 00:29:38.240 you know, laser show and planet show set to the 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:41.839 music of Van Halen and rush and pink Floyd. And 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:44.519 stuff like that. And I was like, oh, wow. I wish 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:47.519 that that was something that we could still see. 00:29:48.339 --> 00:29:51.259 You know, that must have been so cool to see 00:29:51.259 --> 00:29:55.019 back in the day. So, yeah, I love Fair Warning. 00:29:55.579 --> 00:30:01.819 It is just a great, great album. It is. This 00:30:01.819 --> 00:30:05.339 is something newer. And by saying newer, it was 00:30:05.339 --> 00:30:13.039 released in the mid -90s. Right. So this is probably 00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:17.460 one of the only triple gatefolds that I have. 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:22.000 I've been listening to this. I mean, I love this 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:25.400 band. I've seen them in concert two, three times. 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:28.440 I've been listening to them quite a bit the last 00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:30.980 few months. They're kind of a go -to band for 00:30:30.980 --> 00:30:34.200 me. It is Fear Factory. I know that not everyone 00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:37.680 that's a patron or that listens to what I do 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.069 here on Signals from Mars is into them. But this 00:30:41.069 --> 00:30:52.089 album was revolutionary to me. Man, I remember 00:30:52.089 --> 00:30:55.190 hearing this, and this is similar to a lot of 00:30:55.190 --> 00:30:56.970 other bands that I've listened to that have kind 00:30:56.970 --> 00:31:01.410 of changed the soundtrack of my life, where I 00:31:01.410 --> 00:31:03.910 didn't get them at first. I remember listening 00:31:03.910 --> 00:31:07.670 to the song Replica, which is on here, and I 00:31:07.670 --> 00:31:11.250 wasn't into death metal. The guttural vocals 00:31:11.250 --> 00:31:15.170 just didn't do it for me. And what did it for 00:31:15.170 --> 00:31:17.190 me was that Burton C. Bell, the lead singer, 00:31:17.349 --> 00:31:20.309 was the lead singer on the first Geezer Butler 00:31:20.309 --> 00:31:25.269 solo album. And there was a song off of that 00:31:25.269 --> 00:31:33.289 called... Damn it, I don't remember the damn 00:31:33.289 --> 00:31:39.069 song title. Invisible. Okay. I remember hearing 00:31:39.069 --> 00:31:41.970 that and that was the that was one of the first 00:31:41.970 --> 00:31:44.170 moments. Actually, Chuck Billy's the first one 00:31:44.170 --> 00:31:47.029 that got me into kind of guttural vocals with 00:31:47.029 --> 00:31:52.170 the Testament album low. But this. I heard replica 00:31:52.170 --> 00:31:54.809 and I was like, what is this? I don't get it. 00:31:55.390 --> 00:31:57.670 You know, why isn't he singing clean throughout 00:31:57.670 --> 00:31:59.750 the whole song? It was it was like a punch in 00:31:59.750 --> 00:32:02.490 the face. I didn't know how to how to how to 00:32:02.490 --> 00:32:08.720 take it. And. All of a sudden, I heard that song, 00:32:08.859 --> 00:32:11.240 and I remember the local radio station, the local 00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:14.619 college radio station, WSOU, was saying, oh, 00:32:14.700 --> 00:32:20.779 well, that's Burton Seabell of Fear Factory singing 00:32:20.779 --> 00:32:22.759 that. And now we're going to play Replica by 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:25.119 Fear Factory. I was like, yeah, I really wasn't 00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:27.660 into that song. And then I heard it, and I was 00:32:27.660 --> 00:32:33.660 like, maybe it isn't that bad. And I remember 00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:37.140 getting the Mortal Kombat soundtrack because 00:32:37.140 --> 00:32:41.740 it had that track from Geezer Butler, from GZR 00:32:41.740 --> 00:32:45.779 at the time. And there wasn't an album that was 00:32:45.779 --> 00:32:49.099 coming out yet. I was like, wow, I love this 00:32:49.099 --> 00:32:53.420 song. I need to get it. And on that had the third 00:32:53.420 --> 00:32:58.619 track off of this, which is Zero Signal. And 00:32:58.619 --> 00:33:02.990 that's when I started to get Fear Factory. And 00:33:02.990 --> 00:33:05.109 they've become a huge part of the soundtrack 00:33:05.109 --> 00:33:07.269 of my life since this came out. This originally 00:33:07.269 --> 00:33:12.890 came out in 95, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, 95. 00:33:15.150 --> 00:33:19.589 I love this album. I love this band. And when 00:33:19.589 --> 00:33:22.109 I saw it, and I've been listening to them quite 00:33:22.109 --> 00:33:25.329 a bit lately, I said it needed to be one of the 00:33:25.329 --> 00:33:27.809 albums that I was going to speak about. Nice. 00:33:28.450 --> 00:33:33.420 Yeah. Nice. Well, I'm going to move on to an 00:33:33.420 --> 00:33:36.920 album I think we'll both like because I think 00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:41.079 you kind of pushed me in the direction of buying 00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:43.759 this at one point because we got talking about 00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:48.019 it and I realized that I didn't have it and I 00:33:48.019 --> 00:33:50.440 didn't really listen to it properly at the time. 00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:56.019 But obviously when Judas Priest split for a bit, 00:33:56.180 --> 00:33:59.900 Holford sort of moved off and he recorded a few 00:33:59.900 --> 00:34:02.960 albums of his own. And so I bought Resurrection, 00:34:03.180 --> 00:34:07.759 which, you know, all I can say about Resurrection 00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:10.579 immediately is that if I had a top three Judas 00:34:10.579 --> 00:34:13.099 Priest albums, this would be in the top three. 00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:19.119 Because I think that he's put together an album 00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:22.300 here that is phenomenal. I mean, this is also 00:34:22.300 --> 00:34:24.360 to say, because we're talking about vinyls, it's 00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:27.639 a normal black vinyl, but you play it at 45, 00:34:27.940 --> 00:34:35.800 it's half speed. half speed mastering it sounds 00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:38.780 phenomenal when you put it on the turntable because 00:34:38.780 --> 00:34:41.820 of that the production quality is immense you 00:34:41.820 --> 00:34:44.039 turn it up and you're just in a world of heavy 00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:47.699 metal Judas Priest stroke Holford heavy metal 00:34:47.699 --> 00:34:54.010 I mean he doesn't veer from A lot from the sort 00:34:54.010 --> 00:34:57.650 of priest sound, obviously, you know, he's got 00:34:57.650 --> 00:35:00.150 the voice and he likes those sort of songs. He 00:35:00.150 --> 00:35:02.309 likes the very, very heavy songs, doesn't he? 00:35:03.090 --> 00:35:05.630 But some of the songs on here are just immense. 00:35:05.889 --> 00:35:10.250 And he's got a really good backing band. The 00:35:10.250 --> 00:35:15.789 guys on guitar, Patrick Lachman and Mike Schlesliak, 00:35:15.889 --> 00:35:19.469 if I pronounce that right. And he's got Ray Riendo. 00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:25.119 on bass guitar and Bobby on drums, but he's got 00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:27.639 a good band back in him and he's got some amazing 00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:30.420 songs and it's a beautifully produced album as 00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:32.820 well. You know, just in the way that he's, uh, 00:35:33.139 --> 00:35:36.059 it's put together, uh, with this sort of half 00:35:36.059 --> 00:35:39.940 speed mastering. And I play this a lot and it 00:35:39.940 --> 00:35:42.440 means a lot to me because it, it's, it's, you 00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:45.079 know, Rob Halford is one of the sounds of heavy 00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:47.860 metal. If you had to list a few of the vocalists 00:35:47.860 --> 00:35:51.809 who, um, define heavy metal you know we talk 00:35:51.809 --> 00:35:55.650 about ozzy we talk about um ronnie james dio 00:35:55.650 --> 00:36:01.510 and we talk about rob halford and um he's always 00:36:01.510 --> 00:36:03.570 going to be a legend and i just feel this is 00:36:03.570 --> 00:36:06.230 a slightly overlooked part of his uh the judas 00:36:06.230 --> 00:36:08.610 priest sort of canon in a way because it was 00:36:08.610 --> 00:36:10.949 him on his own and i think a lot of people you 00:36:10.949 --> 00:36:12.630 know they listen to it maybe at the time but 00:36:12.630 --> 00:36:16.119 he doesn't obviously play them live now whereas 00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:18.900 he did at the time. And it's a shame because 00:36:18.900 --> 00:36:21.380 I would like to see a few of these put into a 00:36:21.380 --> 00:36:24.159 Judas Priest set in a way, but it's never going 00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:26.719 to happen, obviously, for obvious reasons. So 00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:29.940 yeah, that's a super album. And I think you're 00:36:29.940 --> 00:36:31.679 probably on my side on that one, I'm guessing. 00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:37.059 Yeah, I've got that one behind me. I love that 00:36:37.059 --> 00:36:40.239 album. That album's great. I got to see him play 00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:43.179 live on that tour, opening up for Iron Maiden. 00:36:43.630 --> 00:36:47.469 It was Halford, Queensryche, and Iron Maiden. 00:36:48.050 --> 00:36:52.690 Oh, wow. A really good show. Yeah, yeah. That 00:36:52.690 --> 00:36:55.309 was at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania. 00:36:55.929 --> 00:37:01.329 It was really good. We saw Megadeth and Motley 00:37:01.329 --> 00:37:04.989 Crue the night before and then saw that show 00:37:04.989 --> 00:37:08.210 after. Wow. That sounds like a really good couple 00:37:08.210 --> 00:37:15.159 of days. Yep. Absolutely. Here's an album. Again, 00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:17.780 I've been jamming songs off of this recently. 00:37:18.539 --> 00:37:24.079 And I have a playlist that's called Up. And it 00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:25.980 has nothing to do with the Disney movie. It just 00:37:25.980 --> 00:37:29.059 has to do with songs that get me in a good mood. 00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:35.360 So if I want to continue that positive energy 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:41.400 or if I'm in a shitty mood and want to play something 00:37:41.400 --> 00:37:45.730 that... really gets me in a better mood, I'll 00:37:45.730 --> 00:37:50.010 play that playlist. The songs can be upbeat or 00:37:50.010 --> 00:37:54.409 they can be about fighting through a struggle 00:37:54.409 --> 00:37:57.349 and getting past it, which is what this album 00:37:57.349 --> 00:38:08.550 is kind of about. The album is Leave a Scar by 00:38:08.550 --> 00:38:12.619 Dee Snider. Wow, yeah. This album is heavy. It's 00:38:12.619 --> 00:38:18.599 in your face. It is great. It is, I hope, not 00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:21.960 Dee Snider's last solo album. I know he's against 00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:25.420 doing another album at the moment because of 00:38:25.420 --> 00:38:28.420 all the time and energy and people don't, you 00:38:28.420 --> 00:38:34.360 know, not enough people listen to it. I mean, 00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:37.719 I get that if I was a full -time professional 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:44.320 musician. Especially one of his ilk that's had 00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:49.460 a lot of fame and fortune over the years to go 00:38:49.460 --> 00:38:53.139 out and do something that's less than, probably 00:38:53.139 --> 00:38:56.500 hard. But at the same time, you've got a diehard 00:38:56.500 --> 00:38:59.340 audience that's loved you and followed you for 00:38:59.340 --> 00:39:02.739 years. And they're just craving more music. So 00:39:02.739 --> 00:39:07.579 D, this album is great. Your last two solo albums 00:39:07.579 --> 00:39:09.800 are great. I know you're watching. I know you're 00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:12.699 listening. Please get together with the Belmore 00:39:12.699 --> 00:39:16.179 Brothers and record another solo album, please. 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:23.619 Yeah, I agree. Yeah, we've got time for more. 00:39:23.940 --> 00:39:26.239 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to pick an 00:39:26.239 --> 00:39:30.420 album that means a lot to me for various reasons. 00:39:30.500 --> 00:39:32.260 When I first got into heavy metal, I got into 00:39:32.260 --> 00:39:34.780 certain bands, obviously British bands at first. 00:39:35.260 --> 00:39:38.489 And so, you know, those sort of bands, They mean 00:39:38.489 --> 00:39:40.590 a lot to you. And, you know, over the years, 00:39:40.630 --> 00:39:43.030 I lost one or two albums along the way. I don't 00:39:43.030 --> 00:39:44.969 know whether I swapped them with friends or, 00:39:45.030 --> 00:39:48.110 you know, they went because people weren't playing 00:39:48.110 --> 00:39:51.090 albums anymore, vinyls. And so, you know, we 00:39:51.090 --> 00:39:54.449 were into CDs. And I had to repurchase this album, 00:39:54.510 --> 00:39:57.650 which I'd originally bought in the 1980s. And 00:39:57.650 --> 00:40:01.909 it's by a band that you know I like a lot, which 00:40:01.909 --> 00:40:05.659 is Saxon Denim and Leather. What a shock. Yeah, 00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:08.840 there you go. And I'll just show you the actual 00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:11.079 vinyl of this one because it's a nice color. 00:40:11.380 --> 00:40:14.139 Oh, wow. There you go. Cool splatter. Yeah, yeah. 00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:18.280 This one they've not remastered. So the early 00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:21.219 ones that they've done, they are exactly as you 00:40:21.219 --> 00:40:23.860 remember them when you first heard them, but 00:40:23.860 --> 00:40:28.039 they're just on a nice vinyl. This is a special 00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:30.159 HMV one, actually, where they give you the little 00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:33.900 thing. And the reason I like it is it's not the 00:40:33.900 --> 00:40:36.539 greatest album in terms of the overall songs, 00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:40.559 but obviously the title track is an anthem of 00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:43.079 our time. Denim and Leather brought us all together. 00:40:43.340 --> 00:40:46.719 I mean, every word in that song means a lot to 00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:49.420 me. It means something in there because I was 00:40:49.420 --> 00:40:51.079 a person who used to queue up in the ice and 00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:53.239 snow. I used to wear the denim, used to wear 00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:55.460 the leather, you know, queued up at the front. 00:40:56.889 --> 00:40:59.010 So, you know, it means a lot. And as you get 00:40:59.010 --> 00:41:01.989 older, those sort of early things in your life 00:41:01.989 --> 00:41:05.349 mean a hell of a lot. And particularly music 00:41:05.349 --> 00:41:09.409 is something that you always remember. And as 00:41:09.409 --> 00:41:11.769 we've said in a previous episode, you know, we 00:41:11.769 --> 00:41:15.829 hope that Biff is well because he's been going 00:41:15.829 --> 00:41:18.570 through a lot of illness lately, hoping to go 00:41:18.570 --> 00:41:22.369 and see him in November again. And fantastic 00:41:22.369 --> 00:41:26.480 band live. But, you know. This is a great album. 00:41:26.559 --> 00:41:29.179 There's some good songs on there, but particularly 00:41:29.179 --> 00:41:31.739 the title track. So there you go. Denim and Leather 00:41:31.739 --> 00:41:36.360 is one of the ones close to my heart. All right, 00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:41.599 cool. So for my final pick here is actually a 00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:46.380 box set. And I had the pleasure of doing a show 00:41:46.380 --> 00:41:50.739 with Ed where a bunch of people voted for Megadeth 00:41:50.739 --> 00:41:55.059 albums. And this is the... Peace sells, but who's 00:41:55.059 --> 00:42:01.179 buying box set? Oh, wow. So this has, this was 00:42:01.179 --> 00:42:04.820 the 25th anniversary. So there's a bunch of CDs 00:42:04.820 --> 00:42:09.719 and vinyl here. It's the original album remake 00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:14.800 remastered in 2011. Then the remix remastered 00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:20.380 version from 2004. Then the original Randy Burns 00:42:20.380 --> 00:42:25.389 mixes remastered. 2011 and then there's a live 00:42:25.389 --> 00:42:28.750 at the uh fantasy theater in cleveland in 1987 00:42:28.750 --> 00:42:35.429 there's um a disc with high resolution wave audio 00:42:35.429 --> 00:42:38.469 files of the original remastered album and live 00:42:38.469 --> 00:42:46.389 show and let's see um so those are all cds the 00:42:46.389 --> 00:42:51.110 vinyl is the original album and then it's the 00:42:51.110 --> 00:42:57.210 uh A live album. Okay. It also brings a bunch 00:42:57.210 --> 00:43:04.710 of knickknacks. It brings a book, a picture of 00:43:04.710 --> 00:43:07.610 the album. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff. Postcards, 00:43:07.610 --> 00:43:11.809 some different things from advertisements from 00:43:11.809 --> 00:43:15.070 back in the day. I mentioned this during the 00:43:15.070 --> 00:43:20.739 episode I did with Ed. I couldn't get the vinyl 00:43:20.739 --> 00:43:25.880 out, so I actually had to cut slits in the inner 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:32.519 sleeve so that I could pull the vinyl out. Yeah, 00:43:33.179 --> 00:43:39.039 it's like a marble. But this is the first album 00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:44.619 that introduced me to thrash. So the CDs are 00:43:44.619 --> 00:43:49.280 kept here. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, really cool. 00:43:51.659 --> 00:43:58.639 Bumping the mic here. The vinyls are in here. 00:44:04.420 --> 00:44:10.119 So this is the actual cover blown up. The vinyls 00:44:10.119 --> 00:44:16.300 are going to fly out. And this is the booklet. 00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:26.480 Yeah. When did that come out again? 2015 anniversary, 00:44:26.739 --> 00:44:33.900 so 2011, I guess. 11, yeah, yeah. It has some 00:44:33.900 --> 00:44:43.300 promo shots from back in the day before CD, or 00:44:43.300 --> 00:44:46.599 not before CD, because when CDs were coming out, 00:44:46.679 --> 00:44:48.639 they were still sending those to radio stations. 00:44:49.869 --> 00:44:59.429 A reproduction of a ticket. And then these are 00:44:59.429 --> 00:45:03.150 the flyers. Them playing with Motorhead and the 00:45:03.150 --> 00:45:06.429 Cro -Mags. Come party at the pavilion with Lemmy. 00:45:07.329 --> 00:45:11.070 Hey, that's cool. I like that. San Bernardino, 00:45:11.070 --> 00:45:16.369 California. And then another one for them playing 00:45:16.369 --> 00:45:23.550 with... Dark angel, uh, agent steel and special 00:45:23.550 --> 00:45:35.829 guests. No mercy. Hmm. So pretty cool. So there 00:45:35.829 --> 00:45:40.989 you go. That is my pick. Number five. Nice. Very. 00:45:41.090 --> 00:45:43.829 You've ended on a high note. Put it that way. 00:45:44.329 --> 00:45:48.199 I think. I think the entire show was a high note. 00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:51.380 How about that? With nothing but good classic 00:45:51.380 --> 00:45:55.920 music that means something to, to both of us. 00:45:56.559 --> 00:45:59.960 And that's what music is all about. Releasing 00:45:59.960 --> 00:46:03.280 emotion and, you know, helping you get through 00:46:03.280 --> 00:46:05.940 the good times, the bad times and everything 00:46:05.940 --> 00:46:09.960 in between. On that note, Jeremy, thank you for 00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:12.960 sharing some of your vinyl with us tonight. And 00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:16.260 we will see you guys next time right here on 00:46:16.260 --> 00:46:41.239 Signals from Mars. See you, folks. Go to signalsfrommark 00:46:41.239 --> 00:46:43.900 .com for more information. This concludes our 00:46:43.900 --> 00:46:44.139 show.