WEBVTT 00:00:10.830 --> 00:00:13.609 Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that 00:00:13.609 --> 00:00:16.730 takes the classic mixtape approach to building 00:00:16.730 --> 00:00:19.309 a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn. 00:00:19.469 --> 00:00:22.149 Joining me tonight as guest curator is Patreon 00:00:22.149 --> 00:00:25.149 mixtaper Brandon from Virginia. Brandon, pleasure 00:00:25.149 --> 00:00:27.449 to have you on the show, man. It's great to be 00:00:27.449 --> 00:00:29.809 here, Brian. Looking forward to it. Well, as 00:00:29.809 --> 00:00:32.109 a first -time guest, I'd like to start by asking 00:00:32.109 --> 00:00:35.670 you, what does the word mixtape mean to you? 00:00:36.369 --> 00:00:38.759 That's a good question. Thinking back, you know, 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:41.200 I was the kid who always had their Walkman on, 00:00:41.259 --> 00:00:43.600 on the school bus. You know, I listened to a 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:46.579 lot of Zeppelin IV. And then, you know, we weren't 00:00:46.579 --> 00:00:48.560 really making mixtapes because I had so many 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:52.159 records from my brothers. But then a friend of 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:55.740 mine gave me a mixtape that had, it was Misfits 00:00:55.740 --> 00:00:58.240 and Iron Maiden on it. And that was like a whole 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:01.340 new world for me. It was like, wow, all this 00:01:01.340 --> 00:01:04.409 other music that I've never heard before. outside 00:01:04.409 --> 00:01:06.909 of the standard rock norms that my family listened 00:01:06.909 --> 00:01:08.909 to. And that's kind of opened me up to everything 00:01:08.909 --> 00:01:12.989 I listen to now. Awesome. Well, tonight's topic 00:01:12.989 --> 00:01:16.549 is a pretty unique one, inspirational rock songs. 00:01:17.209 --> 00:01:20.750 So what were you looking for in the bank of songs 00:01:20.750 --> 00:01:23.450 you brought to the recording tonight, along with 00:01:23.450 --> 00:01:26.409 the obvious caveat of being inspired, of course? 00:01:26.810 --> 00:01:29.969 You know, I was looking for, you know. Different 00:01:29.969 --> 00:01:32.890 genres of songs. You know, rock is a pretty expansive, 00:01:33.469 --> 00:01:37.290 a lot of music fits into that. So it wasn't just 00:01:37.290 --> 00:01:39.969 punk, wasn't just standard rock, but there's 00:01:39.969 --> 00:01:42.409 a lot of places we could go with this mix. So 00:01:42.409 --> 00:01:44.209 that's really what I was looking for, is where 00:01:44.209 --> 00:01:46.590 could we go? Because there's so many places. 00:01:47.109 --> 00:01:49.310 And keeping it out of gospel, gospel would have 00:01:49.310 --> 00:01:52.269 been really easy, a lot of religious music. So 00:01:52.269 --> 00:01:55.099 I wanted different types of rock. Just what gets 00:01:55.099 --> 00:01:56.939 you pumped, whether if you're on a bike ride 00:01:56.939 --> 00:01:59.319 or working out or sometimes when you're having 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:01.939 a bad day, what brings you out of that bad day? 00:02:02.859 --> 00:02:05.400 Awesome. I love the approach. Mine was very much 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.579 the same from a musical perspective. Everything 00:02:07.579 --> 00:02:11.180 from classic rock to punk and metal and all of 00:02:11.180 --> 00:02:14.280 the in -between is in my list. But lyrically 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:17.819 for me, I was looking for songs that sparked 00:02:17.819 --> 00:02:21.539 some kind of inspirational tone without being. 00:02:22.090 --> 00:02:24.469 too on the nose. Although I'm sure there'll be 00:02:24.469 --> 00:02:27.250 some people out there that when I mentioned some 00:02:27.250 --> 00:02:28.789 of the songs that I picked, they might think 00:02:28.789 --> 00:02:31.490 they're on the nose, but depending on where a 00:02:31.490 --> 00:02:34.150 song hits with you, we'll certainly leave that 00:02:34.150 --> 00:02:37.629 open to interpretation and discussion. It's a 00:02:37.629 --> 00:02:39.810 good way to put it. Yeah. I'd have to agree with 00:02:39.810 --> 00:02:42.479 you on that. Well, let's get down to business. 00:02:42.500 --> 00:02:44.560 As I mentioned at the top of the show, Brandon 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:47.120 and I will be curating the ultimate inspirational 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:49.900 rock songs mixtape, and we're going to use the 00:02:49.900 --> 00:02:52.840 old cassette deck approach. Brandon, as my special 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:55.240 guest, will begin side A with his first song 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:57.680 choice, and then I'll add a song that I feel 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:00.479 best follows up that choice. We'll then flip 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.039 -flop choosing songs until we've mapped out 10 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:06.219 songs for side A. We'll then give our mixtape 00:03:06.219 --> 00:03:08.710 a proverbial flip. And we'll map outside. Be 00:03:08.710 --> 00:03:11.189 only this time, I'll kick things off with Brandon 00:03:11.189 --> 00:03:14.270 choosing second. Our overall goal for the episode 00:03:14.270 --> 00:03:17.509 is to craft the best inspirational rock mixtape 00:03:17.509 --> 00:03:21.310 possible through only 20 songs. At the end of 00:03:21.310 --> 00:03:23.090 the show, you can take our conversation to the 00:03:23.090 --> 00:03:26.849 next level by visiting the episode page at myweeklymixtape 00:03:26.849 --> 00:03:30.530 .com to give our final mixtape a listen via the 00:03:30.530 --> 00:03:33.030 embedded playlist. And if you like what you're 00:03:33.030 --> 00:03:34.909 hearing on the show, you can help me out by either 00:03:34.909 --> 00:03:37.729 telling a friend. Leaving the show a five -star 00:03:37.729 --> 00:03:40.669 review wherever you're tuning in or the way Brandon 00:03:40.669 --> 00:03:43.550 has done becoming a Patreon mixtaper at patreon 00:03:43.550 --> 00:03:47.729 .com forward slash My Weekly Mixtape. There you 00:03:47.729 --> 00:03:50.389 can find ad -free episodes of the show, gain 00:03:50.389 --> 00:03:53.229 early access to future My Weekly Mixtape episodes, 00:03:53.650 --> 00:03:56.270 chime in on upcoming topics, become a future 00:03:56.270 --> 00:03:59.669 guest, and so much more. And several of the Patreon 00:03:59.669 --> 00:04:02.009 mixtapers chimed in with songs they would use 00:04:02.009 --> 00:04:04.189 to kick things off tonight, and I want to give 00:04:04.189 --> 00:04:07.409 a quick shout out to a few of those. Seeker chimed 00:04:07.409 --> 00:04:09.830 in with Peter Gabriel's Don't Give Up, saying 00:04:09.830 --> 00:04:12.830 he takes these words to heart, but also particularly 00:04:12.830 --> 00:04:16.930 Kate Bush's responding lyrics, where she's reassuring 00:04:16.930 --> 00:04:20.329 the protagonist. Philip Bergman chimed in saying 00:04:20.329 --> 00:04:22.449 that he's tempted to throw in some of the Christian 00:04:22.449 --> 00:04:25.889 rock he listened to during his prepubescent phase 00:04:25.889 --> 00:04:29.829 and wasn't sure if Owsley's Rise is quote -unquote 00:04:29.829 --> 00:04:33.069 rock enough for our definition, but that he really 00:04:33.069 --> 00:04:36.149 loves that one along with Firehouse's Hold the 00:04:36.149 --> 00:04:39.750 Dream. Ed Kennard said Frank Turner's Get Better 00:04:39.750 --> 00:04:42.980 definitely springs to mind for him. Sean Goff 00:04:42.980 --> 00:04:45.019 chimed in saying the first song that popped into 00:04:45.019 --> 00:04:47.660 his head was Alley in the Jungle by The Hours, 00:04:47.740 --> 00:04:51.379 saying the song amps him up. Chad LaMassa chimed 00:04:51.379 --> 00:04:53.939 in with Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds Fight. 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.360 And Tom Hutchison chimed in with The Price by 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:00.120 Twisted Sister, saying how wonderful of a song 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:02.480 it is. Once again, if you'd like to chime in 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:05.459 on future My Weekly Mixtape episodes, come join 00:05:05.459 --> 00:05:08.360 the fellow mixtapers at patreon .com forward 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:12.350 slash My Weekly Mixtape. Now, Brandon, with those 00:05:12.350 --> 00:05:14.649 picks out in the atmosphere, I'm officially pressing 00:05:14.649 --> 00:05:17.209 the record button on our mixtape, and the floor 00:05:17.209 --> 00:05:20.430 is yours. What song are you using to kick off 00:05:20.430 --> 00:05:24.769 the inspirational vibes with? You know, those 00:05:24.769 --> 00:05:26.930 were absolutely great picks, and I think only 00:05:26.930 --> 00:05:30.550 a couple of those were in my bank. But I'm not 00:05:30.550 --> 00:05:34.389 using any of those. I'm starting off with a song 00:05:34.389 --> 00:05:40.410 that really kicked off thrash metal for me. Going 00:05:40.410 --> 00:05:42.949 with Suicidal Tendencies, You Can't Bring Me 00:05:42.949 --> 00:05:47.310 Down. Nice. That was the first track on Lights, 00:05:47.310 --> 00:05:50.870 Camera, Revolution from 1990. I was probably 00:05:50.870 --> 00:05:54.529 a sophomore year of high school when that came 00:05:54.529 --> 00:05:58.870 out. And that was a total boom, that record. 00:05:59.769 --> 00:06:03.490 Suicidal evolved from really skate punk to thrash 00:06:03.490 --> 00:06:06.449 metal when Rocky George joined the band. And 00:06:06.449 --> 00:06:10.480 then Robert. Chuelo joined the band. That was 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:12.939 his first record with them and really pushed 00:06:12.939 --> 00:06:17.220 out the rock, pushed out the funk, which later 00:06:17.220 --> 00:06:20.500 turned into Infectious Grooves, that side project 00:06:20.500 --> 00:06:23.720 between him and Mike Muir. But that really was 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:26.899 just like, you can't bring me down. And it reminds 00:06:26.899 --> 00:06:30.300 me of getting home from work, being pissed off 00:06:30.300 --> 00:06:34.100 at your manager. You've had a bad night. Putting 00:06:34.100 --> 00:06:37.100 that on in the car on the way home, like. No 00:06:37.100 --> 00:06:39.500 matter what, you can't mess me up. You can't 00:06:39.500 --> 00:06:42.620 bring me down. Love to pick an album opener to 00:06:42.620 --> 00:06:45.540 start things with. So bravo on that. Anybody 00:06:45.540 --> 00:06:49.279 who grew up watching MTV's Headbangers Ball back 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:53.000 in the day remembers this iconic video of Mike 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:57.199 Muir in the electric chair. Again, like you mentioned, 00:06:57.259 --> 00:07:00.160 this was the first Suck 10 album to feature Robert 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.959 Trujillo, now of Metallica on bass. And it was 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:07.459 that bass insanity. Throughout that album, especially 00:07:07.459 --> 00:07:10.399 during Send Me Your Money, where Mike goes, now 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:14.360 give me some bass. That whole part made me a 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:18.060 fan of Roberts playing. And an interesting fact 00:07:18.060 --> 00:07:21.079 about this song, You Can't Bring Me Down was 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:24.139 nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 91 00:07:24.139 --> 00:07:29.959 Grammy Awards. Except they lost to, in an ironic 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:34.620 sense, Metallica. whose cover of Queen's Stone 00:07:34.620 --> 00:07:38.620 Cold Crazy took the prize. And that is a great 00:07:38.620 --> 00:07:41.139 cover. And it's also funny, was it the year before 00:07:41.139 --> 00:07:44.060 Metallica lost at Jethro Tull? Yep. Best metal 00:07:44.060 --> 00:07:46.959 performance. That is something I will never forget 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:48.939 sitting there. They had just finished performing 00:07:48.939 --> 00:07:51.720 one. And then they came off. You're like, you 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:53.220 know, they're going to win it. They're like Jethro 00:07:53.220 --> 00:07:56.220 Tull. And at that point, I actually turned and 00:07:56.220 --> 00:07:59.660 said to my father, who? And my dad goes. I love 00:07:59.660 --> 00:08:01.819 Jethro Tull. You don't know Jethro Tull, Ed. 00:08:02.060 --> 00:08:04.439 We turned the Grammys off because I was heartbroken 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:05.899 at that point. That was the only reason I was 00:08:05.899 --> 00:08:08.740 tuning in. And he put on the Aqualung album, 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:11.540 and I'm not going to lie, I became a fan of Jethro 00:08:11.540 --> 00:08:13.720 Tull that night, although I'm still mad about 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.819 And Justice For All getting a snub. But the other 00:08:16.819 --> 00:08:19.860 three nominees that year for Best Metal Album, 00:08:19.899 --> 00:08:23.180 you want to talk about a time capsule. Anthrax's 00:08:23.180 --> 00:08:26.819 Persistence of Time. Great, great, great. Judas 00:08:26.819 --> 00:08:31.319 Priest's Painkiller. Oh, fantastic. And Megadeth's 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:34.559 Rust in Peace. What a year for metal music that 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.860 was. Absolutely. Yeah. Played all of that so 00:08:37.860 --> 00:08:40.539 often. It was just a great year for metal. And 00:08:40.539 --> 00:08:42.799 there were so many great albums that came out 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:47.179 from like 90 to like 95 that just really hit 00:08:47.179 --> 00:08:49.539 the ground running. Yeah. And lyrically, the 00:08:49.539 --> 00:08:52.549 line for the song that speaks to me is. Stand 00:08:52.549 --> 00:08:55.049 up. We'll all sing along together. Ain't nothing 00:08:55.049 --> 00:08:57.889 as strong. Won't quit. We ain't in the wrong. 00:08:58.009 --> 00:09:01.809 You can't bring me. All right. Well, I'm going 00:09:01.809 --> 00:09:05.110 to be perfectly honest. I don't have anything 00:09:05.110 --> 00:09:09.570 that heavy in my list, but I think the way to 00:09:09.570 --> 00:09:12.779 bring us out of that. is to keep something that 00:09:12.779 --> 00:09:15.179 is definitely hard rock and definitely heavy, 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:18.659 but bring it down slightly, especially from the 00:09:18.659 --> 00:09:21.120 thrash range, and bring it into something a little 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:24.419 bit more modern, and something that lyrically 00:09:24.419 --> 00:09:27.240 truly speaks to me. I brought my whole family 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.240 to see this group last year, and this was the 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:33.919 closing song of their set. And the lyrics, be 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:38.259 a fighter, backbone desire. Complicated and it 00:09:38.259 --> 00:09:41.379 stings, but we both know what it means. And it's 00:09:41.379 --> 00:09:44.940 time to get real and inspired. When you've got 00:09:44.940 --> 00:09:47.460 two younger kids listening to rock music with 00:09:47.460 --> 00:09:50.940 you, sometimes having lyrics that lift them up 00:09:50.940 --> 00:09:52.779 and make them feel strong and make them feel 00:09:52.779 --> 00:09:56.700 powerful resonate with me. And Shinedown's Cut 00:09:56.700 --> 00:10:00.279 the Chord from 2015's Threat to Survival does 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:04.720 just that. Brent Smith has said both, and I quote, 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.080 Cut the Cord is the statement to the world that 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.940 you will not give up, you will not give in, and 00:10:10.940 --> 00:10:13.759 you refuse to fail. And that it's a wake -up 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.659 call reminding us all that we can control our 00:10:16.659 --> 00:10:19.980 own destiny by finding the courage and tenacity 00:10:19.980 --> 00:10:23.799 to destroy whatever is holding us back. The song 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:26.500 reached number four on the Billboard U .S. Bubbling 00:10:26.500 --> 00:10:30.279 Under Hot 100 and number 23 on the Canada Rock 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:33.429 Chart. This has always been one of my all -time 00:10:33.429 --> 00:10:37.570 favorite Shinedown songs. And back in 2019, my 00:10:37.570 --> 00:10:41.230 wife and I got a free evening out up in New Hampshire. 00:10:41.370 --> 00:10:44.409 My father -in -law said to us, hey, Brian, my 00:10:44.409 --> 00:10:47.450 neighbor's selling Shinedown tickets. Do you 00:10:47.450 --> 00:10:48.970 know who they are? I'm like, yeah, I'm a big 00:10:48.970 --> 00:10:52.610 fan. He goes, call her right now. She's selling 00:10:52.610 --> 00:10:56.009 them less than face value and they're great seats. 00:10:56.610 --> 00:10:59.230 And they were certainly great seats because there 00:10:59.230 --> 00:11:02.139 was a... section that was general admission and 00:11:02.139 --> 00:11:04.799 then there was a little bit of a rise in the 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:08.860 slope of the venue and then there was a divider 00:11:08.860 --> 00:11:11.220 and then there were front row seats and that 00:11:11.220 --> 00:11:14.460 is where my wife and i sat for shine down set 00:11:14.460 --> 00:11:17.139 in 2019 at the bank in new hampshire pavilion 00:11:17.139 --> 00:11:20.399 in guilford new hampshire and i captured one 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.259 song in the night and it was cut the cord and 00:11:23.259 --> 00:11:25.879 i have that video i will embed it on the episode 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:29.980 page at myweeklymixtape .com because Yeah, this 00:11:29.980 --> 00:11:33.600 song just every single time does it for me. You 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:37.019 know, Brian, I will have to say I have heard 00:11:37.019 --> 00:11:41.139 zero Shinedown songs. Really? Really. Yeah. There's 00:11:41.139 --> 00:11:44.539 like a point, like, so my first son was born 00:11:44.539 --> 00:11:49.320 in like maybe in 2004. And from like four to 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:53.720 like 2015. I really heard no new music at all. 00:11:54.019 --> 00:11:58.100 Just Baby Shark. Not Baby Shark. Maybe they might 00:11:58.100 --> 00:12:01.039 be Giants, maybe Barenaked Ladies. Yep, yep. 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:03.860 Some of the other stuff. But it was like, if 00:12:03.860 --> 00:12:06.759 someone from Shinedown walked into me, I wouldn't 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:08.500 even know who they are. So I'm going to have 00:12:08.500 --> 00:12:10.320 to check that out. I'm absolutely going to have 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:12.519 to check that one out. Honestly, if I were to 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:14.580 tell somebody you need to check out some songs 00:12:14.580 --> 00:12:17.940 by Shinedown, it would be this song. especially 00:12:17.940 --> 00:12:20.100 going for the vibe we're going for tonight for 00:12:20.100 --> 00:12:23.580 Inspirational Rock, it would be The Sound of 00:12:23.580 --> 00:12:27.379 Madness and it would be Unity. Those three songs, 00:12:27.659 --> 00:12:29.840 if you don't like them, Shinedown's probably 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.519 not for you. But if you do, you might have a 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:34.740 new rabbit hole to go down. Oh, I'm going to 00:12:34.740 --> 00:12:36.720 have to check it out when we're done. So now 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:38.360 we've got track three. What are you going to 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:42.720 follow that up with? Track three. You know, we 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:46.100 could continue on that big rock sound, but I'm 00:12:46.100 --> 00:12:48.279 going to... Go to another direction here since 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:50.320 we have so many opportunities within rock to 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:54.500 go. I'm going to go with ska punk. Oh, you have 00:12:54.500 --> 00:12:56.799 my attention. I'm going to go with ska punk and 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:00.639 one of the originators of the ska punk sound. 00:13:00.820 --> 00:13:04.320 It's a band named Operation Ivy. Nice. They're 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:09.080 from Berkeley. They were pre -Rancid, pre -Green 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:12.700 Day. There were just four kids playing in Gilman 00:13:12.700 --> 00:13:16.279 Street, which was a... kind of a co -op, a club 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:20.519 out in San Francisco, Berkeley, where all the 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:23.299 kids would play. It was a togetherness atmosphere. 00:13:23.860 --> 00:13:27.600 But the song I'm going to go with is a song called 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:29.700 Sound System. Nice. I don't know if you've ever 00:13:29.700 --> 00:13:32.399 heard Sound System or not. Yes. Tim Armstrong, 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:35.879 goes by Lint, and Jesse, who are the main songwriters 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.200 for the band, write about how music can just 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:42.559 bring you together and bring you up. And, you 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:45.129 know, you click on the radio, You hear the song 00:13:45.129 --> 00:13:47.549 that brings you up and there's nothing like when 00:13:47.549 --> 00:13:49.570 you put on the radio and that's the song that 00:13:49.570 --> 00:13:51.970 gets you going. And this is a perfect ode to 00:13:51.970 --> 00:13:54.970 that. How music brings it together. Operation 00:13:54.970 --> 00:13:57.750 Ivy split before they got signed to a major label. 00:13:57.809 --> 00:13:59.470 They actually decided that we're not going to 00:13:59.470 --> 00:14:03.789 go major. We're done. And if you dig into Tim 00:14:03.789 --> 00:14:06.690 Armstrong's history, he actually went down a 00:14:06.690 --> 00:14:09.730 really bad addiction situation after Operation 00:14:09.730 --> 00:14:13.429 Ivy broke up. But his friends intervened, got 00:14:13.429 --> 00:14:16.320 him back. he and Matt Freeman joined together, 00:14:16.500 --> 00:14:19.960 formed Rancid, and then he really became Tim 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.799 Timebomb, as he's known now, within Rancid and 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.360 has, you know, Timebomb records, a huge, he's 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.120 writing, what was it? Matt Freeman said he writes 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:32.220 a song every day. He's just turned his life around 00:14:32.220 --> 00:14:36.179 and is known as a godfather within the punk world. 00:14:36.970 --> 00:14:40.750 That he most certainly is. Box in my hand, music 00:14:40.750 --> 00:14:43.830 by my side, skank into the rhythm of the music 00:14:43.830 --> 00:14:48.730 by my side. The second song on 1989's Energy, 00:14:49.090 --> 00:14:52.490 which was only released on vinyl and cassette. 00:14:52.889 --> 00:14:57.850 Boo. However, if you snag the 1991 compilation, 00:14:57.929 --> 00:15:00.370 which is probably the album most people have, 00:15:00.490 --> 00:15:03.750 called Operation Ivy, came out on Lookout Records. 00:15:04.590 --> 00:15:06.950 you're covered because the entire energy album 00:15:06.950 --> 00:15:09.730 is on there. That's the one I think most people 00:15:09.730 --> 00:15:13.370 recognize when they think of operation Ivy, but 00:15:13.370 --> 00:15:16.330 I know exactly where I'm going to go from here 00:15:16.330 --> 00:15:18.850 because you brought up Scott punk. You brought 00:15:18.850 --> 00:15:22.330 up Tim time bomb. You brought up time bomb records. 00:15:22.830 --> 00:15:25.289 So I am going to go with my daughter's favorite 00:15:25.289 --> 00:15:29.629 band. Who's on time bomb. And that is going to 00:15:29.629 --> 00:15:34.100 be the interrupters. and title holder from 2018's 00:15:34.100 --> 00:15:37.059 Fight the Good Fight. You gotta fight like a 00:15:37.059 --> 00:15:39.580 title holder, stand like a champion, live like 00:15:39.580 --> 00:15:42.320 a warrior, and never let them break you down. 00:15:42.539 --> 00:15:46.340 I've taken them to see them twice so far. My 00:15:46.340 --> 00:15:50.360 youngest knows every word to every song, and 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:53.539 there's something about seeing her sing songs 00:15:53.539 --> 00:15:58.629 like this one, that as a parent, Put a huge smile 00:15:58.629 --> 00:16:01.629 on my face because she's empowering herself through 00:16:01.629 --> 00:16:04.549 these vocals. She's not putting herself down. 00:16:04.889 --> 00:16:08.870 She's not knocking herself or saying she's not 00:16:08.870 --> 00:16:12.090 good enough. These are songs that prop people 00:16:12.090 --> 00:16:14.590 up and make them feel stronger and make them 00:16:14.590 --> 00:16:17.289 feel more powerful and give them inspiration. 00:16:17.669 --> 00:16:20.309 I know that's the topic of tonight. But seeing 00:16:20.309 --> 00:16:22.409 my, the first time we saw them, she was 10 years 00:16:22.409 --> 00:16:26.090 old, sitting on my wife's shoulder. singing every 00:16:26.090 --> 00:16:29.450 single word to this song. And how can you not 00:16:29.450 --> 00:16:32.289 get a tear in your eye as a parent? Because she's 00:16:32.289 --> 00:16:35.610 up there feeling like a million dollars because 00:16:35.610 --> 00:16:38.190 of a song like this. There's no way this wasn't 00:16:38.190 --> 00:16:40.789 making the list tonight. And coming out of Op 00:16:40.789 --> 00:16:44.169 Ivy, you made it so easy for me. Oh, oh, you 00:16:44.169 --> 00:16:46.389 know, that feeling of, you know, as a parent, 00:16:46.470 --> 00:16:49.370 that's definitely one, you know, having a little 00:16:49.370 --> 00:16:52.409 one on your shoulders at a show. We did this. 00:16:53.019 --> 00:16:56.200 years ago at the Kennedy Center. And we saw, 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.299 you know, this is not on the list here, but we 00:16:58.299 --> 00:17:01.399 saw they might be giants do a show at this Kennedy 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:04.059 Center. They have this little area called the 00:17:04.059 --> 00:17:06.059 Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:09.299 D .C. And they might be giants played there. 00:17:09.420 --> 00:17:11.359 And it was like taking your kids to a huge rock 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:15.160 show, streamers, lasers, everything. And they 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:18.059 just were having such a blast till now this past 00:17:18.059 --> 00:17:21.640 summer. We took our kids now that they're 16 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:24.900 and 20 to see the big green day, smashing pumpkins 00:17:24.900 --> 00:17:27.140 tour, the savior's tour. And that's what it was 00:17:27.140 --> 00:17:29.839 like. Just watching them stinging every word 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:32.359 and just feeling that, that connection to your 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:35.740 kids, that connection and that inspiration of 00:17:35.740 --> 00:17:39.000 seeing your kids enjoy something you enjoy. Amen. 00:17:39.660 --> 00:17:42.960 100%. But I'm not going that same direction. 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:45.519 I'm going to move away from Scott. I was going 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:47.220 to say, what are you going to do for track five? 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:50.990 So. Fight like a title holder. You're saying 00:17:50.990 --> 00:17:53.750 that and made me think of a completely different 00:17:53.750 --> 00:17:56.789 genre. Completely different. We go, I'm going 00:17:56.789 --> 00:18:01.049 to go that swampy rock sound you get out of Austin, 00:18:01.130 --> 00:18:05.269 Texas. All right. There's a band. I don't even 00:18:05.269 --> 00:18:07.230 know if they're how well they're known outside 00:18:07.230 --> 00:18:09.650 of Austin. It's a band named T -Bird and the 00:18:09.650 --> 00:18:12.190 Breaks. They've put out some releases. They went 00:18:12.190 --> 00:18:15.269 dormant for a while, but now they came back this 00:18:15.269 --> 00:18:19.259 summer. And this song is just like Rocky is the 00:18:19.259 --> 00:18:22.140 name of the song. So when you put in fight like 00:18:22.140 --> 00:18:24.819 a title holder, all I could think of was, you 00:18:24.819 --> 00:18:27.279 know what, what's next? Just like Rocky. And 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:30.180 this song, he calls out, yo, Adrian talks about 00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:32.799 Mickey. And in the background, you hear some 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.099 horns and all you can think of is Bill Conti 00:18:35.099 --> 00:18:38.039 is going to fly from the Rocky films. And the 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:41.000 lyrics of that song is no matter if you're going 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:43.859 down, fight like Rocky, because you got to come 00:18:43.859 --> 00:18:46.940 back. You've got to come back. Come on. You got 00:18:46.940 --> 00:18:49.039 to do it. Come on, rock. He keeps saying throughout 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:51.460 the song, like Mickey was saying to him during 00:18:51.460 --> 00:18:55.160 the movies, the Rocky movies were like Rocky 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:58.480 one to Rocky three was the Rocky four even was 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:02.700 like 79, 80 through 86 or so. I'm going to guess, 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:05.740 um, you know, John Avelstock did that first film 00:19:05.740 --> 00:19:08.839 and it was just changed the game and Rocky became 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:12.819 Americana. And that first movie really wasn't 00:19:12.819 --> 00:19:17.759 on anything like. three four was it rocky balboa 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.519 and it really didn't come back till you know 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:22.460 the creed movies where it was more an intimate 00:19:22.460 --> 00:19:25.319 picture it got bigger and bigger but those were 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:28.019 great films and to have someone like t -burn 00:19:28.019 --> 00:19:30.500 in the breaks call back to that was just that's 00:19:30.500 --> 00:19:32.660 got to go after title holder because we're talking 00:19:32.660 --> 00:19:35.819 about rocky and no one else well as someone who's 00:19:35.819 --> 00:19:40.160 a huge fan of jj gray and mo fro You had me at 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:42.299 swampy groove and then you bring in the horn 00:19:42.299 --> 00:19:45.720 section. These guys are right up my alley. Lyrically, 00:19:45.859 --> 00:19:48.539 you've got to reach deep down into the pocket 00:19:48.539 --> 00:19:51.640 of your soul. Pull yourself a diamond from a 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:55.859 pocket full of coal. Oh, God, I'm half tempted 00:19:55.859 --> 00:19:58.640 to go with a J .J. Graham Mofro song to follow 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:01.819 up T -Bird and Breaks and kind of stay musically 00:20:01.819 --> 00:20:05.269 in that atmosphere. But you've given me such 00:20:05.269 --> 00:20:08.509 an easy pivot point. I can't pass the lob up. 00:20:08.670 --> 00:20:11.910 It's a golden opportunity. We got to work the 00:20:11.910 --> 00:20:16.410 Rocky angle here. And you mentioned Rocky III, 00:20:16.529 --> 00:20:20.009 Rocky IV. I could go with Eye of the Tiger. I 00:20:20.009 --> 00:20:23.609 could go with Burning Heart. But when I played 00:20:23.609 --> 00:20:27.430 high school football, our coach had a cassette 00:20:27.430 --> 00:20:31.210 that he would put in for every workout. And he 00:20:31.210 --> 00:20:33.170 would always start it from the beginning. And 00:20:33.170 --> 00:20:36.410 the first song on that tape, so I heard this 00:20:36.410 --> 00:20:40.950 song three to four times a week, every week for 00:20:40.950 --> 00:20:44.349 my junior and senior year in high school, was 00:20:44.349 --> 00:20:47.829 Robert Tepper's No Easy Way Out from the 1985 00:20:47.829 --> 00:20:51.589 Rocky IV soundtrack, as well as the title track 00:20:51.589 --> 00:20:55.670 to Robert's 1986 album. The song actually reached 00:20:55.670 --> 00:21:00.660 number 22 on the Billboard US Hot 100. some things 00:21:00.660 --> 00:21:03.140 are worth fighting for some feelings never die 00:21:03.140 --> 00:21:06.160 i'm not asking for another chance i just want 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:09.059 to know why you can already hear it you're singing 00:21:09.059 --> 00:21:11.079 it even though i'm talking you're singing it 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:14.920 there's no easy way out there's no shortcut home 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:18.940 there's no easy way out given in can't be wrong 00:21:18.940 --> 00:21:21.940 you brought up rocky we had to go down the rocky 00:21:21.940 --> 00:21:24.700 angle and there's something about this song No 00:21:24.700 --> 00:21:27.819 matter how 80s it is, every time I hear it, I 00:21:27.819 --> 00:21:31.119 get nostalgic. I'm literally transported back 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:34.220 into the gym, lifting weights with all my friends. 00:21:34.579 --> 00:21:37.500 And this song to me will forever be timeless. 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:41.400 So was that the training montage scene in Rocky 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:44.180 IV? There was definitely training montage song 00:21:44.180 --> 00:21:46.660 as well, but this was used in the movie as well. 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:48.859 Yeah, because that was definitely, you know, 00:21:48.900 --> 00:21:52.700 I think of Rocky and through Eye of the Tiger 00:21:52.700 --> 00:21:55.240 through this one. There's always a training montage. 00:21:56.059 --> 00:21:58.200 There's absolutely always a training montage. 00:21:58.500 --> 00:22:01.539 This even gets parodied in Wet Hot American Summer, 00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:04.180 which is a great movie if you haven't ever seen 00:22:04.180 --> 00:22:06.160 it. You've seen it, of course. Well, it has everybody 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:08.740 from the state in it. Of course I saw it. Yeah, 00:22:08.740 --> 00:22:12.460 yeah, yeah. So that's even parodied now and to 00:22:12.460 --> 00:22:15.900 the point where I'll put on anything remotely 00:22:15.900 --> 00:22:19.940 in my house near that and my 16 -year -old will 00:22:19.940 --> 00:22:22.650 say, That music sounds like it was written specifically 00:22:22.650 --> 00:22:24.809 for a trading montage, specifically for the end 00:22:24.809 --> 00:22:26.750 of a movie. I'm like, yeah, it probably was. 00:22:26.890 --> 00:22:29.230 I was going to say, don't show them this movie 00:22:29.230 --> 00:22:33.710 yet if they're only 16 and under, but Team America, 00:22:34.009 --> 00:22:37.450 World Police, the montage song from that movie. 00:22:41.849 --> 00:22:44.349 I have looked for that. I can't find it streaming 00:22:44.349 --> 00:22:46.210 anywhere. Maybe it's on Paramount. That's the 00:22:46.210 --> 00:22:48.869 one service we don't have. It might be, but. 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:52.180 That soundtrack is absolute gold. The montage 00:22:52.180 --> 00:23:00.200 song, we need a montage. All right. Well, montages 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.859 aside, we are up to track seven on side A. Where 00:23:03.859 --> 00:23:09.099 do we go from No Easy Way Out? So I'm going to 00:23:09.099 --> 00:23:11.660 go, you know, and you talked about high school 00:23:11.660 --> 00:23:15.359 football, and I think I've even seen this in 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:18.630 a high school football scene. From the TV show 00:23:18.630 --> 00:23:20.609 Spalville. Do you remember that? It was like 00:23:20.609 --> 00:23:24.009 Superboy, Superman, but not yet Superman. And 00:23:24.009 --> 00:23:26.529 I was blown away when I actually heard this song 00:23:26.529 --> 00:23:30.089 on a mainstream TV show. And it's Social Distortion's 00:23:30.089 --> 00:23:34.569 Reach for the Sky. Nice! From 2004's Sex, Love, 00:23:34.609 --> 00:23:37.289 and Rock and Roll. And it's, you know, the lyrics, 00:23:37.509 --> 00:23:40.589 once I thought I was invincible, but now I find 00:23:40.589 --> 00:23:43.589 myself thinking twice. Never thought about the 00:23:43.589 --> 00:23:46.460 future, it was just a roll of the dice. But then 00:23:46.460 --> 00:23:49.200 he finds his way out, needs to learn to reach 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:53.839 for the sky. Mike Ness had a hard life. Addiction, 00:23:53.900 --> 00:23:58.519 jail time, members of his band's dying. But with 00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:00.519 this song, it's like, I've got to carry forward. 00:24:00.940 --> 00:24:03.799 I've got to carry forward. And when you go to 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:06.319 their shows and they play this song, everyone 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:09.000 is singing along because it's such an emotional 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:11.950 song. It tells everyone you've just got to keep 00:24:11.950 --> 00:24:13.730 reaching for it. There's an acoustic version 00:24:13.730 --> 00:24:16.490 out there. I can't say I might have downloaded 00:24:16.490 --> 00:24:21.009 it from some service at some point. It doesn't 00:24:21.009 --> 00:24:23.410 exist right now in any streaming service as far 00:24:23.410 --> 00:24:27.670 as I can find. But it's acoustic guitar, an accordion, 00:24:27.710 --> 00:24:32.089 and it just evokes that yearning to move ahead, 00:24:32.269 --> 00:24:35.309 that yearning to reach for the sky. That's what 00:24:35.309 --> 00:24:38.539 this song does to me. So if you please take this 00:24:38.539 --> 00:24:41.920 moment, try if you can to make it last. Don't 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:44.819 think about no future and just forget about the 00:24:44.819 --> 00:24:49.940 past and make it last. 2004's Sex, Love and Rock 00:24:49.940 --> 00:24:54.299 and Roll. I played in a punk band at this time 00:24:54.299 --> 00:24:57.859 and all anybody talked about at any of our shows 00:24:57.859 --> 00:25:00.920 was Green Day's American Idiot because that was 00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:03.359 the year of American Idiot. And I get it. It 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:07.890 was a big, massive album. but sex, love and rock 00:25:07.890 --> 00:25:10.509 and roll was probably one of the most underrated 00:25:10.509 --> 00:25:13.650 punk albums. And I feel like because of American 00:25:13.650 --> 00:25:15.950 idiot, this album got a little swallowed up. 00:25:15.990 --> 00:25:19.369 The song only reached number 27 on the modern 00:25:19.369 --> 00:25:22.650 rock tracks chart. It's for me, at least a top 00:25:22.650 --> 00:25:26.069 three social D album. I love this album. So, 00:25:26.170 --> 00:25:30.390 so much nickels and dimes footprints on my ceiling. 00:25:30.490 --> 00:25:35.440 This album is so frigging solid. And I'm shocked 00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:38.839 it wasn't a bigger album. And it's one that I 00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:42.640 go back to so, so often because there's a lot 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:47.059 of hindsight on the album. And there's a retrospective 00:25:47.059 --> 00:25:49.859 nature to this album that I think was missing 00:25:49.859 --> 00:25:52.880 from some of their 90s and 80s stuff. I agree 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:55.779 with you on that. I mean, Ness takes a long time 00:25:55.779 --> 00:25:58.480 to put records together. He's not in the studio 00:25:58.480 --> 00:26:00.660 all the time. Like some artists will bang out 00:26:00.660 --> 00:26:03.599 a record once a year, every other year. It takes 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:06.200 him a while to get to that. And he's just so 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:10.099 specific about what he wants to write about and 00:26:10.099 --> 00:26:12.740 just takes his time to get the songs there. I 00:26:12.740 --> 00:26:14.619 don't think they've had a new album out in at 00:26:14.619 --> 00:26:17.819 least a decade, but he just writes these great 00:26:17.819 --> 00:26:19.660 songs. He doesn't need to produce anything new, 00:26:19.660 --> 00:26:21.599 in my opinion. He just writes these great songs 00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:24.200 and he can just keep touring on them, like almost 00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:26.259 like who is like Steve Miller. who just keeps 00:26:26.259 --> 00:26:28.519 touring in the same songs and doesn't need to 00:26:28.519 --> 00:26:30.500 change a thing. Mike Ness is like that too. He 00:26:30.500 --> 00:26:32.859 doesn't need to write another song for any time. 00:26:33.180 --> 00:26:35.980 He's got a great collection of songs. Couldn't 00:26:35.980 --> 00:26:38.400 agree more. Now, and I also got to point out 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:42.200 that Reach for the Sky, just like Title Holder 00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:44.660 and You Can't Bring Me Down, all album openers. 00:26:44.819 --> 00:26:47.339 So I love that we're going down that road. And 00:26:47.339 --> 00:26:50.299 since we have, now I could check off another 00:26:50.299 --> 00:26:53.859 box and drop a cover song in here. But it's not 00:26:53.859 --> 00:26:57.180 a cover song that most people would expect from 00:26:57.180 --> 00:27:02.799 me. Because the original is from 1945. And the 00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:06.779 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. And 00:27:06.779 --> 00:27:10.259 then you might know the 1963 version by Jerry 00:27:10.259 --> 00:27:13.240 and the Pacemakers. The song is called You'll 00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:16.279 Never Walk Alone. But to keep in the punk spirit 00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:20.789 of social distortion. I am going with Dropkick 00:27:20.789 --> 00:27:25.589 Murphy's version from 2017's 11 Short Stories 00:27:25.589 --> 00:27:30.089 of Pain and Glory. Walk on, walk on with hope 00:27:30.089 --> 00:27:33.410 in your hearts and you'll never walk alone. The 00:27:33.410 --> 00:27:35.730 first time I heard this, I'm like, how do I know 00:27:35.730 --> 00:27:38.750 that song? And I looked it up. I'm like, son 00:27:38.750 --> 00:27:42.150 of a bitch. They redid something from Carousel. 00:27:43.470 --> 00:27:46.710 Would not expect it, but it works so frigging 00:27:46.710 --> 00:27:49.250 well. The lyrics really hit home. And then they 00:27:49.250 --> 00:27:52.069 hit home a second time when the band played it 00:27:52.069 --> 00:27:55.390 during the COVID lockdown free live streams they 00:27:55.390 --> 00:27:57.670 were doing. So that took on a whole new meaning 00:27:57.670 --> 00:28:00.190 there. And I feel like there's definitely some 00:28:00.190 --> 00:28:02.730 inspiration there. So coming out of social distortion, 00:28:03.029 --> 00:28:05.730 keep the punk vibes going with Dropkick Murphys. 00:28:05.789 --> 00:28:09.390 You'll never walk alone. So I grew up listening 00:28:09.390 --> 00:28:13.319 to a lot of show tunes. My father. We listened 00:28:13.319 --> 00:28:15.940 to a lot of music growing up, as you can tell 00:28:15.940 --> 00:28:18.480 by, you know, all my choices here, but country, 00:28:18.660 --> 00:28:21.680 rock, and then show tunes. My dad loved show 00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:25.819 tunes. So Camelot and Man of La Mancha are. When 00:28:25.819 --> 00:28:30.000 I was like seven at my brother's bar mitzvah, 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:32.880 I asked if they knew a song from Camelot. I asked 00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:35.119 that of the band. I think I was the only seven 00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:38.559 -year -old asking for show tunes. And then Man 00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:40.460 of La Mancha, you know, holds a special place, 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:44.170 reminds me of my late father. So having this 00:28:44.170 --> 00:28:46.630 in here, a punk version of You'll Never Walk 00:28:46.630 --> 00:28:49.970 Alone, like, whoa. You know, when I first heard 00:28:49.970 --> 00:28:53.410 this song, it wasn't from Carousel or Jerry and 00:28:53.410 --> 00:28:56.990 the Pacemakers, but it was from Pink Floyd. Pink 00:28:56.990 --> 00:29:00.109 Floyd incorporates the Liverpool football club 00:29:00.109 --> 00:29:03.630 fans singing You'll Never Walk Alone. And their 00:29:03.630 --> 00:29:06.549 song Fearless, and that's on Pink Floyd's metal. 00:29:06.789 --> 00:29:11.339 Yes. Wow. That's the craziest thing. Ever. The 00:29:11.339 --> 00:29:13.859 Europeunk version of that. And I will say this, 00:29:13.940 --> 00:29:16.740 Sean Faust, who's been on the show many a times, 00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:19.299 is smiling right now listening to this episode. 00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:23.720 Huge Pink Floyd fan. I had a chance to jam Fearless 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:27.140 with him in his acoustic Pink Floyd tribute in 00:29:27.140 --> 00:29:30.259 the past. And it's one of my favorite Pink Floyd 00:29:30.259 --> 00:29:32.660 songs. I didn't even have that in my notes and 00:29:32.660 --> 00:29:35.140 I'm kind of kicking myself for that. But thank 00:29:35.140 --> 00:29:37.160 you for bringing that point up. I will not look 00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:40.259 back on this episode and regret it now. But now 00:29:40.259 --> 00:29:42.980 we are at track nine. What is your final song 00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:46.599 for Side A? You know, we grew up around the same 00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:48.420 time. You know, we're only a couple years different 00:29:48.420 --> 00:29:51.480 from each other. So there's a few movie touch 00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:54.200 points. We already talked about Rocky. But I'm 00:29:54.200 --> 00:29:57.519 bringing up another movie touch point for boys 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:00.299 growing up in the 80s. And that was the Transformers 00:30:00.299 --> 00:30:07.660 movie. Oh! You beat me to the punch. Yeah. So. 00:30:08.349 --> 00:30:13.750 Stan Bush's The Touch. Yes. So my older son is 00:30:13.750 --> 00:30:17.250 deep in Transformers lore, watches all the shows, 00:30:17.410 --> 00:30:21.769 knows the history of much of the line. I took 00:30:21.769 --> 00:30:24.609 him recently to see a band named Cybertronic 00:30:24.609 --> 00:30:28.490 Spree. Yes. Who dresses as the Transformers, 00:30:28.490 --> 00:30:31.269 and of course they play The Touch, and they play 00:30:31.269 --> 00:30:33.750 Dare from that soundtrack also. They do Dare 00:30:33.750 --> 00:30:36.819 to be Stupid as well, but it's like that. Our 00:30:36.819 --> 00:30:41.039 80s rock. But that song, the touch, you've got 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:44.359 the touch. You've got the power. When all hell 00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:46.240 is breaking loose, you're right in the eye of 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:49.900 the storm. It's that point where you've got this. 00:30:50.259 --> 00:30:53.039 You can do this. You've got it. No one else got 00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:56.319 it but you. All I can think about is Hot Rod 00:30:56.319 --> 00:30:59.859 becoming Rodimus Prime and me wiping the tears 00:30:59.859 --> 00:31:04.339 out of my eye when Optimus Prime died. I have 00:31:04.339 --> 00:31:08.539 this. Theory about the original movie, and I've 00:31:08.539 --> 00:31:11.319 talked about this before, but one of my best 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:13.960 friends and I, we did not know each other during 00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:18.279 the 80s growing up. And in college, we watched 00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:20.420 the DVD of Transformers, the movie. And when 00:31:20.420 --> 00:31:23.700 Optimus Prime's death scene happened, I paused 00:31:23.700 --> 00:31:25.819 the movie and I said, can I just ask you a question? 00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:28.700 And his eyes lit up as if I was about to say 00:31:28.700 --> 00:31:31.839 something that was like a prophecy. And I said, 00:31:31.900 --> 00:31:34.140 when this was in the theater, did you remember 00:31:34.140 --> 00:31:36.140 him? And before I could finish the sentence, 00:31:36.220 --> 00:31:40.079 he goes, he turned to dust. And we both jumped 00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:42.400 up like, how the hell did you know that? We didn't 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:45.500 know each other back then. For decades, I have 00:31:45.500 --> 00:31:48.200 been saying that in the original movie, Optimus 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:51.720 Prime turned gray and then turned to dust. And 00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:55.630 I've tried to find any proof of this. And I have 00:31:55.630 --> 00:31:57.710 no idea if it's just one of those things where 00:31:57.710 --> 00:31:59.930 you thought the Flintstones, the way it's spelled. 00:32:00.210 --> 00:32:03.890 So the Mandela effect for Optimus Prime. I have 00:32:03.890 --> 00:32:07.990 the DVD downstairs. He does not on the DVD. He 00:32:07.990 --> 00:32:11.349 just turns gray. He just turns gray. But the 00:32:11.349 --> 00:32:14.210 return of Optimus Prime cartoon was not done 00:32:14.210 --> 00:32:17.430 yet. And I have this theory that so many kids 00:32:17.430 --> 00:32:20.660 cried the way I did in the theater. When he did 00:32:20.660 --> 00:32:23.339 turn to dust that they removed it from the DVD 00:32:23.339 --> 00:32:26.220 and future pressings and put out that episode 00:32:26.220 --> 00:32:29.480 to calm us all down and stop our therapy a little 00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:33.759 early. That's my opinion. you know what if that's 00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:35.859 what is the phrase if that's your headcanon just 00:32:35.859 --> 00:32:39.740 go with it brian right right and i guess we can't 00:32:39.740 --> 00:32:42.059 mention the touch for some of the younger people 00:32:42.059 --> 00:32:45.579 listening without mentioning 1997's boogie nights 00:32:45.579 --> 00:32:47.839 because depending on your age oh yeah if you 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:50.299 knew none of the transformers talk we did just 00:32:50.299 --> 00:32:54.900 there i'm sure you remember boogie nights all 00:32:54.900 --> 00:32:58.380 right well to close outside a you definitely 00:32:58.380 --> 00:33:01.920 scooped a touch from me. So before we waste another 00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:04.539 moment, I know exactly how we're closing outside 00:33:04.539 --> 00:33:07.380 a, and it's going to be another eighties montage 00:33:07.380 --> 00:33:11.240 song. And with the power and the head of steam 00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:14.680 that Cobra Kai has had for the last several years, 00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:18.420 we're going Joe Esposito. You're the best from 00:33:18.420 --> 00:33:22.660 1984 is karate kids soundtrack. Never doubt that 00:33:22.660 --> 00:33:25.480 you're the one and you can have your dreams. 00:33:25.619 --> 00:33:28.349 You're the best around. Nothing's going to ever 00:33:28.349 --> 00:33:31.650 keep you down. Definitely a montage from the 00:33:31.650 --> 00:33:35.430 All Valley Tournament in the Karate Kid. We had 00:33:35.430 --> 00:33:37.509 to go hella 80s there for the end of the side. 00:33:37.670 --> 00:33:39.569 I just couldn't think of any other song to come 00:33:39.569 --> 00:33:42.430 out of the touch that even quite matched that 00:33:42.430 --> 00:33:45.829 energy. Besides, you're the best. I would say 00:33:45.829 --> 00:33:49.269 that we definitely hit the 80s on this side. 00:33:49.529 --> 00:33:53.430 And I will say this. You're the best. followed 00:33:53.430 --> 00:33:57.069 up no easy way out on my coach's workout mixtape 00:33:57.069 --> 00:33:59.670 so another one that again i hear the song yes 00:33:59.670 --> 00:34:02.369 i think the karate kid but i'm also right back 00:34:02.369 --> 00:34:06.890 in the weight room 1994 So had to go with that. 00:34:07.009 --> 00:34:10.889 But that mixtapers conclude side A of the ultimate 00:34:10.889 --> 00:34:14.110 inspirational rock songs mixtape, which consists 00:34:14.110 --> 00:34:17.210 of Suicidal Tendencies, You Can't Bring Me Down, 00:34:17.489 --> 00:34:20.949 Shinedowns, Cut the Chord, Operation Ivy Sound 00:34:20.949 --> 00:34:24.550 System, The Interrupters, Tidal Holder, T -Bird 00:34:24.550 --> 00:34:27.329 and the Breaks, Just Like Rocky, Robert Tepper's 00:34:27.329 --> 00:34:30.429 No Easy Way Out, Social Distortions, Reach for 00:34:30.429 --> 00:34:33.159 the Sky. Dropkick Murphy's You'll Never Walk 00:34:33.159 --> 00:34:37.139 Alone, Stan Bush's The Touch, and Joe Esposito's 00:34:37.139 --> 00:34:40.000 You're the Best. Head over to myweeklymixtape 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.380 .com to hear all the songs we've discussed in 00:34:42.380 --> 00:34:45.539 this mix through the playlist embedded on the 00:34:45.539 --> 00:34:49.000 episode page. And now I get to kick things off 00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:52.199 for Side B. I actually think I know how I'm going 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:54.599 to kick things off. Normally this would be a 00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:57.940 song that I would put at the end of a side. But 00:34:57.940 --> 00:35:01.940 starting a side with this song. I think is unique 00:35:01.940 --> 00:35:06.340 because it feels like a closing song. And in 00:35:06.340 --> 00:35:09.559 reality, it is a closing song because it was 00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:13.860 the last official song that Freddie Mercury sang 00:35:13.860 --> 00:35:16.780 on a queen album while he was alive on this earth 00:35:16.780 --> 00:35:22.099 from 1991's innuendo. The show must go on. Reached 00:35:22.099 --> 00:35:24.699 number 40 on the US mainstream rock charts, number 00:35:24.699 --> 00:35:28.119 16 in the UK, number 75 in Australia, number 00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:32.159 7 in Germany, and number 2 in France. The show 00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:35.139 must go on. I'll face it with a grin. I'm never 00:35:35.139 --> 00:35:39.639 giving in. On with the show. The fact that this 00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:44.139 man sang such a powerful song as he was staring 00:35:44.139 --> 00:35:49.619 death in the face is so profound to me. It serves 00:35:49.619 --> 00:35:54.010 as... I obviously it's the name of the episode, 00:35:54.070 --> 00:35:57.110 but it serves as inspiration. It puts life into 00:35:57.110 --> 00:36:00.469 perspective. And this past year I had to deal 00:36:00.469 --> 00:36:03.550 with open heart surgery and I was struggling 00:36:03.550 --> 00:36:07.250 for a lot of 2024 from both a physical and mental 00:36:07.250 --> 00:36:10.469 standpoint. And when this song would come on, 00:36:10.489 --> 00:36:13.070 because I listened to nothing but music to try 00:36:13.070 --> 00:36:16.849 to get me through this song, just hit a different 00:36:16.849 --> 00:36:20.210 way for me. And I got to talk about the recording 00:36:20.210 --> 00:36:22.789 of this song because Brian May, I'm going to 00:36:22.789 --> 00:36:25.949 read a quote here. Brian May told Total Guitar 00:36:25.949 --> 00:36:29.829 Magazine about the recording of this song. Freddie 00:36:29.829 --> 00:36:32.690 Mercury just heard it. And now at this point, 00:36:32.789 --> 00:36:35.369 Freddie Mercury was very weak. His vocal range 00:36:35.369 --> 00:36:37.489 was not very good. And he was very concerned 00:36:37.489 --> 00:36:40.010 with how high he was going to sing because it 00:36:40.010 --> 00:36:43.010 would destroy his voice. But after hearing the 00:36:43.010 --> 00:36:45.650 tracks to this song, and this is the quote from 00:36:45.650 --> 00:36:48.449 Brian May. He said, I'll fucking do it. Don't 00:36:48.449 --> 00:36:52.090 worry. He downed a couple of vodkas neat, then 00:36:52.090 --> 00:36:55.210 propped himself up on the desk and worked his 00:36:55.210 --> 00:36:58.110 way through singing all of that song. And it 00:36:58.110 --> 00:37:01.309 was amazing. I think he did three or four takes 00:37:01.309 --> 00:37:05.489 and he obviously smashed that vocal. It's like 00:37:05.489 --> 00:37:08.889 he reached into a place that even he'd never 00:37:08.889 --> 00:37:12.150 got to before. And I'm going to leave it with 00:37:12.150 --> 00:37:18.309 that. So here, leave me with that one. what can 00:37:18.309 --> 00:37:21.369 i say about that what can i say what is the phrase 00:37:21.369 --> 00:37:24.550 that gives me all the feels that song you know 00:37:24.550 --> 00:37:28.809 queen was is was is still such an influential 00:37:28.809 --> 00:37:32.389 band they're really they're still touring they 00:37:32.389 --> 00:37:34.690 have that one guy now who's the one guy adam 00:37:34.690 --> 00:37:37.070 lambert from american idol american idol yeah 00:37:37.070 --> 00:37:39.690 he does a fantastic job i have a blu -ray of 00:37:39.690 --> 00:37:43.179 him doing the show must go on And he nails it. 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:46.440 He does. But the funny thing is, like, when Bohemian 00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:48.059 Rhapsody came out, that's when my kids started 00:37:48.059 --> 00:37:50.500 getting into Queen. And then Queen with Adam 00:37:50.500 --> 00:37:53.579 Lambert was on tour. And so I asked the kids 00:37:53.579 --> 00:37:55.039 if they want to see it. My younger said, no, 00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:57.920 I don't. If Freddie Mercury's not there, I don't 00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:00.199 want to see Queen. I only want to see Queen with 00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:02.659 Freddie Mercury. I mentioned the Green Day show. 00:38:03.079 --> 00:38:05.760 And before Green Day took the stage, they played 00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:09.159 two songs. One was Blitzkrieg Bop, and then they 00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:12.969 play Bohemian Rhapsody. Everybody sang along. 00:38:13.030 --> 00:38:15.449 The entire crowd sang. And then Green Day took 00:38:15.449 --> 00:38:20.030 the stage. And those are the two perfect starting 00:38:20.030 --> 00:38:22.849 points for a Green Day show. You have the punk 00:38:22.849 --> 00:38:27.110 and you have the bombasticity and the stage presence 00:38:27.110 --> 00:38:31.590 of Queen. I can't say that Billy Joe at all sings 00:38:31.590 --> 00:38:33.849 like Freddie Mercury or carries the stage like 00:38:33.849 --> 00:38:35.829 Freddie Mercury, but it was a perfect way to 00:38:35.829 --> 00:38:38.500 begin that concert. Oh, the inspiration is definitely 00:38:38.500 --> 00:38:40.980 there where you can't listen to American Idiot 00:38:40.980 --> 00:38:45.559 and not hear some at least tip of the hats to 00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:48.599 Queen. Now, wish I was following up with that 00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:51.199 one, but I'm going in. I'm going with the same 00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:54.659 vibe for my next song. Same rock vibe. Maybe 00:38:54.659 --> 00:38:57.860 not the same show must go on vibe, but I'm going 00:38:57.860 --> 00:39:02.199 with the dead. Oh, the Grateful Dead presence 00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:06.909 in my house growing up. Ever since, like, the 00:39:06.909 --> 00:39:10.590 late 80s when In the Dark came out, I have two 00:39:10.590 --> 00:39:12.510 older brothers, and both of them immediately 00:39:12.510 --> 00:39:15.829 turned into deadheads. So thinking about what 00:39:15.829 --> 00:39:18.670 Grateful Dead song inspires me, and it's got 00:39:18.670 --> 00:39:22.030 to be Estimated Prophet. Nice. My time has come 00:39:22.030 --> 00:39:25.130 any day. Don't worry about me. No. It's going 00:39:25.130 --> 00:39:27.190 to be just like they say, the voices tell me 00:39:27.190 --> 00:39:29.949 so. That's just the verses. It repeats that over 00:39:29.949 --> 00:39:32.889 and over again. It's like, the show must go on. 00:39:33.400 --> 00:39:35.320 You know, my time's going to come. That's where 00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:38.539 my brain went with this. And I will have to say, 00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:40.500 though, this isn't the album track that I'm going 00:39:40.500 --> 00:39:43.099 to go with. I'm going to go with Dick's Picks 00:39:43.099 --> 00:39:47.880 Volume 15, which is recorded at Raceway Park 00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:52.780 in Ingleshtown, New Jersey. Yes. So that is one 00:39:52.780 --> 00:39:55.880 of the seminal recorded versions of that song. 00:39:56.559 --> 00:39:59.340 You know, I've read that the Dead really didn't 00:39:59.340 --> 00:40:02.579 like the album track. So they stretched it out. 00:40:03.079 --> 00:40:05.360 Made it how they wanted to sound. Like many dead 00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:08.159 songs don't really come alive until they've played 00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:10.940 it in several shows and get the song down right. 00:40:11.059 --> 00:40:13.639 And also, it was a song that it's not in 4 -4 00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:17.639 time. It's a crazy time signature. And it's not 00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:20.099 rock at all. I can't even tell you what it is. 00:40:20.340 --> 00:40:24.019 It's just estimated. It's the Grateful Dead in 00:40:24.019 --> 00:40:28.829 front of 102 ,000 people. Obviously, if you're 00:40:28.829 --> 00:40:31.190 from New Jersey, this show is familiar. September 00:40:31.190 --> 00:40:36.610 3rd, 1977, Raceway Park with new Riders of the 00:40:36.610 --> 00:40:40.650 Purple Sage and the Marshall Tucker Band. For 00:40:40.650 --> 00:40:43.630 me, I grew up in New Jersey, so English Town, 00:40:43.829 --> 00:40:46.989 the flea market's been there since forever. If 00:40:46.989 --> 00:40:49.409 you listen to any radio stations in the area, 00:40:49.610 --> 00:40:52.309 you might remember the commercials for Raceway 00:40:52.309 --> 00:40:54.210 Park that they would play with the chipmunk. 00:40:54.349 --> 00:41:00.489 Yep. Yeah. It was on the radio nonstop. I love 00:41:00.489 --> 00:41:03.349 this song. I like the lyrics you chose, but for 00:41:03.349 --> 00:41:07.210 me, like an angel standing in a shaft of light, 00:41:07.309 --> 00:41:11.329 rising up to paradise. I know I'm going to shine. 00:41:11.710 --> 00:41:16.510 Oh, it's like perfect. So what do you got, Brian? 00:41:16.710 --> 00:41:19.230 Where are we going to continue on with? All right. 00:41:19.769 --> 00:41:24.489 Tapping into that angel. type vibe that i used 00:41:24.489 --> 00:41:27.150 in my lyrics right there i'm gonna go with something 00:41:27.150 --> 00:41:30.730 that's not a gospel song but lyrically could 00:41:30.730 --> 00:41:34.289 be seen as one and we're talking new jersey here 00:41:34.289 --> 00:41:36.869 so let's just tie it all together and go with 00:41:36.869 --> 00:41:40.449 bon jovi's keep the faith from the album of the 00:41:40.449 --> 00:41:43.769 same name the song reached number 29 on the billboard 00:41:43.769 --> 00:41:46.289 us hot 100 number one on the u .s mainstream 00:41:46.289 --> 00:41:50.389 rock chart number five in canada and the uk number 00:41:50.389 --> 00:41:53.730 10 in australia number two in Greece, and number 00:41:53.730 --> 00:41:58.670 one in Norway and Portugal, among others. Lyrically, 00:41:58.889 --> 00:42:01.250 you know you're going to live through the rain. 00:42:01.690 --> 00:42:04.570 Lords, you've got to keep the faith. Don't you 00:42:04.570 --> 00:42:06.889 know it's never too late? Right now, we've got 00:42:06.889 --> 00:42:09.670 to keep the faith. Instead of me talking more 00:42:09.670 --> 00:42:13.869 about this song, episode 54, the ultimate Desmond 00:42:13.869 --> 00:42:17.159 Child playlist, volume one. Desmond Child wrote 00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:20.380 this song with Bon Jovi and he tells an amazing 00:42:20.380 --> 00:42:23.480 story about it. I'd rather point people to go 00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:26.400 listen to that episode because it's coming from 00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:28.860 the guy who put the pen to paper for this one. 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:34.099 And he paints such a picture. He puts you into 00:42:34.099 --> 00:42:36.579 the writing of this song. So I highly recommend 00:42:36.579 --> 00:42:39.380 going to listen to it. But following up Estimated 00:42:39.380 --> 00:42:42.500 Profit brings us a little bit out of the classic 00:42:42.500 --> 00:42:45.329 rock vein. And as soon as you mentioned English 00:42:45.329 --> 00:42:48.429 Town, New Jersey, it was like, oh, New Jersey, 00:42:48.590 --> 00:42:52.349 keep the faith, Bon Jovi. We're both New Jersey 00:42:52.349 --> 00:42:55.510 boys. I guess I'm considered an expat now. I've 00:42:55.510 --> 00:42:57.230 lived in Virginia longer than I've lived in New 00:42:57.230 --> 00:42:59.969 Jersey. Yes, yes. But we had to include Bon Jovi. 00:43:00.610 --> 00:43:03.849 There's another person we always have to include 00:43:03.849 --> 00:43:06.710 if we're talking New Jersey, of course. But when 00:43:06.710 --> 00:43:11.010 I moved down here, when I moved in 98, I moved 00:43:11.010 --> 00:43:14.039 down here to the D .C. area in Virginia. And 00:43:14.039 --> 00:43:15.559 people would find, oh, you're from New Jersey. 00:43:15.659 --> 00:43:18.340 So, you know, do you like Bon Jovi or Bruce Springsteen? 00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:21.159 And I would always tell everyone, my age and 00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:23.679 younger, they like Bon Jovi more. My age and 00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:25.960 older, they like Bruce more. And everyone has 00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:28.219 a story. I grew up on the, you know, on the Jersey 00:43:28.219 --> 00:43:31.679 Shore area around Ezra Park, Red Bank. So, uh, 00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:34.179 Keensburg, you know, Bon Jovi's from Keensburg, 00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:37.280 lives now in Navisink. So people would see them 00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:39.199 everywhere around town. You know, you would see 00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:42.010 people would talk about how they saw Bruce. When 00:43:42.010 --> 00:43:44.650 he played the fair before the band started, people 00:43:44.650 --> 00:43:46.429 talked about they would know Bon Jovi from playing 00:43:46.429 --> 00:43:48.829 bars. But then when people asked me, who do I 00:43:48.829 --> 00:43:51.409 like more? I would always say, I like the Smithereens. 00:43:51.630 --> 00:43:54.929 Ah, nice. But I'm not going with the Smithereens. 00:43:55.889 --> 00:43:58.889 I am going with Bruce. I'm going with Bruce. 00:43:59.230 --> 00:44:02.329 And there's a specific song. And I may get teared 00:44:02.329 --> 00:44:05.929 up as I'm talking about this. So, you know, my 00:44:05.929 --> 00:44:10.030 oldest brother survived 9 -11. He was in the 00:44:10.030 --> 00:44:13.239 second Tower hit. He was at the top working for 00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:16.860 AIG. They evacuated the building. He and a couple 00:44:16.860 --> 00:44:18.559 of coworkers decided they were taking the stairs, 00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:21.760 going down. So they start going down and they 00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:24.239 gave an all clear. A lot of people went back 00:44:24.239 --> 00:44:29.340 to the elevator to go back up. My brother and 00:44:29.340 --> 00:44:31.260 his coworkers looked at the line of people in 00:44:31.260 --> 00:44:32.320 the elevator and said, we're going to walk all 00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:33.760 the way down. We'll get the elevator at the bottom. 00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:38.199 We're already walking. He got out and he survived 00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:41.420 it. He's one of the few. There weren't that many 00:44:41.420 --> 00:44:44.940 people from AIG that survived 9 -11. He was one 00:44:44.940 --> 00:44:48.659 of them. You know, and, you know, so it was early. 00:44:49.719 --> 00:44:54.300 It was nearly winter 2002. Driving with my middle 00:44:54.300 --> 00:44:56.460 brother to go meet up with our oldest brother. 00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:00.119 And for a guy's weekend up in Pennsylvania. And 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:02.139 we're just talking and I'm getting choked up 00:45:02.139 --> 00:45:06.840 now. And my brother Rob, my middle brother, puts 00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:10.139 on The Rising. And I just lost it. We both cried 00:45:10.139 --> 00:45:11.820 as we were driving up to New Jersey Turnpike. 00:45:12.380 --> 00:45:15.000 Because it's just, you know, can't see nothing 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:16.780 in front of me. Can't see nothing behind me. 00:45:16.980 --> 00:45:20.699 Making my way through the darkness. On my back's 00:45:20.699 --> 00:45:23.500 a 60 -pound stone. On my shoulder, a half -mile 00:45:23.500 --> 00:45:27.159 line. You know, some people say he wrote it actually 00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:29.719 about another city. He wrote it about Asbury 00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:34.039 Park. But it became about 9 -11. That's what 00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:36.099 the song's about for all of us who grew up at 00:45:36.099 --> 00:45:39.820 that point in time. Well, one, I am thankful 00:45:39.820 --> 00:45:42.400 to hear that your brother was one of the lucky 00:45:42.400 --> 00:45:46.000 ones in this tragedy. Call it divine intervention, 00:45:46.380 --> 00:45:50.300 call it whatever it is. I was at that exact moment 00:45:50.300 --> 00:45:53.519 on a bus heading into the city to go to my job 00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:57.400 in radio, watching everything as you come around 00:45:57.400 --> 00:45:59.679 the bend from the Lincoln Tunnel, like kind of 00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:02.880 right over the water there. And I just vividly 00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:05.400 remember people trying to kick the windows of 00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:08.500 the bus out. trying to jump out of the windows 00:46:08.500 --> 00:46:10.780 of a moving bus with the bus driver saying, we're 00:46:10.780 --> 00:46:13.420 turning around. They're not letting people into 00:46:13.420 --> 00:46:16.519 the tunnel. You don't need to kick the windows 00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:20.480 out. Everyone try to stay calm. And about a week 00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:23.920 after, maybe within the first 10 days, they did 00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:26.840 the America Tribute to Heroes concert and they 00:46:26.840 --> 00:46:30.920 played My City of Ruin. That song was about Asbury 00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:36.000 Park. But from that performance on. it's always 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.719 been about 9 -11 to me same thing with the rising 00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:42.239 the song reached number 52 on the billboard us 00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:45.340 hot 100 number 94 on the uk singles chart number 00:46:45.340 --> 00:46:48.619 nine in romania and spain number six in italy 00:46:48.619 --> 00:46:51.960 and number five in norway none of that matters 00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:56.300 this song at least for people that live through 00:46:56.300 --> 00:47:03.480 9 -11 in this area the rising became i i want 00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:06.599 to call it An album of therapy for people that 00:47:06.599 --> 00:47:09.340 lived through this firsthand, whether it was 00:47:09.340 --> 00:47:12.780 meant to be or not. It just became that. Come 00:47:12.780 --> 00:47:16.000 on up for the rising. Come on up. Lay your hands 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:18.840 in mine. Like there was a point in New York City 00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:24.519 beyond 9 -11 where everybody lent a helping hand. 00:47:25.260 --> 00:47:28.619 The days following the weeks following, there 00:47:28.619 --> 00:47:31.980 was a. love and a friendliness in new york city 00:47:31.980 --> 00:47:35.099 that's long since been forgotten but working 00:47:35.099 --> 00:47:37.239 in the city at that time and having to be there 00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:40.360 because i was in radio covering it day in and 00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:46.480 day out and it was the most surreal time obviously 00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:51.400 a song like this as inspirational as it is we 00:47:51.400 --> 00:47:54.940 got a little serious here but there's something 00:47:54.940 --> 00:48:00.980 about this album that just It transcends a lot 00:48:00.980 --> 00:48:03.460 of Bruce's catalog, at least for those in the 00:48:03.460 --> 00:48:06.179 New Jersey, New York, Connecticut area. I don't 00:48:06.179 --> 00:48:09.579 know how this album resonates outside of this 00:48:09.579 --> 00:48:13.079 area, but I'm kind of locked into this because 00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:16.159 I've lived in New Jersey all except for my couple 00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:19.440 of years in North Carolina. And yeah, I really 00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:21.280 don't have a way to pivot out of that. I'm just 00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:23.860 thankful that your brothers. Was able to make 00:48:23.860 --> 00:48:26.119 it through this. That he was safe. And I guess 00:48:26.119 --> 00:48:27.719 I'll take this moment to all the people that 00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:34.420 didn't make it. We still never forget. And pivoting 00:48:34.420 --> 00:48:37.139 from that. This is going to be tough. I'm going 00:48:37.139 --> 00:48:42.139 to try to go to something. It's really hard to 00:48:42.139 --> 00:48:45.079 come out of this song. And I'm looking through 00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:48.599 my list. And I think we're going to keep it mellow. 00:48:50.090 --> 00:48:52.769 go with a song that is a little obvious it's 00:48:52.769 --> 00:48:56.349 a little classic rock it's a staple but i think 00:48:56.349 --> 00:48:59.530 musically coming out of the rising it'll make 00:48:59.530 --> 00:49:01.849 sense and then lyrically it'll bring us to a 00:49:01.849 --> 00:49:04.630 little bit of a happier place to continue on 00:49:04.630 --> 00:49:06.969 and i'm going to go with aerosmith's dream on 00:49:06.969 --> 00:49:10.489 from their 1973 self -titled album reach number 00:49:10.489 --> 00:49:14.130 59 on the u .s billboard hot 100 number 87 in 00:49:14.130 --> 00:49:17.869 canada Rolling Stone ranked at number 199 on 00:49:17.869 --> 00:49:20.409 its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. 00:49:20.650 --> 00:49:24.150 And in 2018, the song was inducted into the Grammy 00:49:24.150 --> 00:49:27.710 Hall of Fame. As far as I'm concerned, one line 00:49:27.710 --> 00:49:30.670 sums up the whole song for me. You've got to 00:49:30.670 --> 00:49:34.280 lose to know how to win. Cover songs, I always 00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:37.340 love talking about covers when possible. Eminem, 00:49:37.380 --> 00:49:39.500 it's not a cover, but he interpolated the track 00:49:39.500 --> 00:49:42.739 on Sing for the Moment in the 2000s. And then 00:49:42.739 --> 00:49:47.699 in 2017, Blacktop Mojo delivered a killer rendition 00:49:47.699 --> 00:49:50.360 of the song on their Burn the Ships album. If 00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:52.780 you haven't heard that, it's definitely worth 00:49:52.780 --> 00:49:56.579 checking out. And hopefully that brings us to 00:49:56.579 --> 00:49:58.579 a little bit of a different place to continue 00:49:58.579 --> 00:50:03.110 on here. I will say again. As a New Jersey expat, 00:50:03.150 --> 00:50:05.690 you know, growing up, what was the rock station? 00:50:06.349 --> 00:50:11.889 WNEW -FM. Yes, 1027. 1027. Growing up, listening 00:50:11.889 --> 00:50:15.849 to them, you know, Dream On, Walk This Way, and 00:50:15.849 --> 00:50:17.590 always hoping they'd play another Aerosmith song. 00:50:17.750 --> 00:50:19.969 But until they came around with Love and Elevator, 00:50:20.030 --> 00:50:21.769 those were the two songs he heard from Aerosmith. 00:50:22.329 --> 00:50:24.789 And I'm like, well, why can't they play Big Ten 00:50:24.789 --> 00:50:28.610 Inch? Maybe the FCC would find them with that 00:50:28.610 --> 00:50:31.019 double entendre. And I didn't learn until recently 00:50:31.019 --> 00:50:34.900 that was a cover song. Yes. So yeah, so I'll 00:50:34.900 --> 00:50:38.260 add that in about Dream On, is that a lot of 00:50:38.260 --> 00:50:40.559 us, no one thought Aerosmith was going to get 00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:43.079 back together and do what they did. Dream On 00:50:43.079 --> 00:50:47.599 is such an iconic song for them. And then Run 00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:50.380 DMC hit with Walk This Way and kind of built 00:50:50.380 --> 00:50:53.039 them up. And then Aerosmith came back with Permanent 00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:56.159 Vacation and just blew them all up again. Aerosmith 00:50:56.159 --> 00:51:01.510 was dead. Dead. So they came back because of 00:51:01.510 --> 00:51:04.730 Run DMC. And I will also point out again that 00:51:04.730 --> 00:51:07.769 Desmond Child episode. We talked about Dude Looks 00:51:07.769 --> 00:51:11.230 Like a Lady and Angel. All the stuff that Desmond 00:51:11.230 --> 00:51:15.849 wrote with Aerosmith as well. Guy has four songs 00:51:15.849 --> 00:51:19.510 that have over a billion streams on Spotify. 00:51:19.590 --> 00:51:22.550 To put into perspective his strong writing power. 00:51:22.929 --> 00:51:25.989 Over a billion streams. Four different songs. 00:51:26.309 --> 00:51:29.929 Four different songs. Wow. How much does he make 00:51:29.929 --> 00:51:32.110 off of that? You'll wonder. Well, on Spotify, 00:51:32.289 --> 00:51:34.210 a billion streams is what, like enough for a 00:51:34.210 --> 00:51:36.190 cup of coffee, maybe? Pretty much so, I bet. 00:51:38.230 --> 00:51:41.010 All right. So what are you going to follow up 00:51:41.010 --> 00:51:45.570 for track six? You know what? I'll look at the 00:51:45.570 --> 00:51:47.909 bank of songs and I could go with classic rock 00:51:47.909 --> 00:51:50.889 again. You know, you know, we've hit a lot of 00:51:50.889 --> 00:51:53.150 classic rock. We can carry on. I was thinking 00:51:53.150 --> 00:51:58.030 carry on my wayward son. From Kansas, maybe Miracles 00:51:58.030 --> 00:52:01.849 Out of Nowhere, also from Leftoverture. But I'm 00:52:01.849 --> 00:52:03.909 going to go back to New Jersey. And I'm going 00:52:03.909 --> 00:52:06.530 to bring us a little closer to the pop side of 00:52:06.530 --> 00:52:08.750 rock. We're going to go back to New Jersey with 00:52:08.750 --> 00:52:12.630 Jack Antonoff and the band Fun. Nice. Carry On 00:52:12.630 --> 00:52:15.090 flows between rock and pop. What is my choice? 00:52:15.150 --> 00:52:18.329 Is the song Carry On from Fun? You know, it's 00:52:18.329 --> 00:52:21.510 a bit slow, but the chorus, if you're lost and 00:52:21.510 --> 00:52:23.949 alone or you're sinking like a stone, Carry On. 00:52:24.579 --> 00:52:26.679 May your past be the sound of your feet on the 00:52:26.679 --> 00:52:31.340 ground. Carry on, carry on. It's just, again, 00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:34.539 you know, you may feel low, but you've got to 00:52:34.539 --> 00:52:37.579 carry on. You've got to carry on. You hit the 00:52:37.579 --> 00:52:39.960 nail on the head with the lyrics, the same lyrics 00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:42.099 I would have used if I was talking about this 00:52:42.099 --> 00:52:44.920 song. And I guess you could say Jack Antonoff 00:52:44.920 --> 00:52:47.559 has been a little busy given his work with, you 00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:50.380 know, Taylor Swift and such. But more than a 00:52:50.380 --> 00:52:53.530 decade ago. This song helped make the statement 00:52:53.530 --> 00:52:58.110 for why he is so busy now. And the song reached 00:52:58.110 --> 00:53:00.909 number 20 on the Billboard US Hot 100, number 00:53:00.909 --> 00:53:05.110 18 on the Canada Top 100, number 44 in Australia, 00:53:05.190 --> 00:53:10.090 and a respectable 126 in the UK as well. But 00:53:10.090 --> 00:53:11.889 I like that you went a little pop with this, 00:53:11.909 --> 00:53:14.590 a little pop rock. And I'm going to go with a 00:53:14.590 --> 00:53:18.639 song to follow up fun. That also stays in that 00:53:18.639 --> 00:53:22.179 vein, but brings in a little bit of the pop punk 00:53:22.179 --> 00:53:25.960 sound, a little bit of emo thrown in. I don't 00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:30.719 know, in the 2000s, pop punk, emo, it all kind 00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:33.340 of got lumped together. And this is one of those 00:53:33.340 --> 00:53:36.340 groups that some of their songs had the pop punk 00:53:36.340 --> 00:53:38.360 sound, and then some of them had a little bit 00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:40.619 more of an emotional vibe. And that's this one, 00:53:40.699 --> 00:53:44.420 the title track. From their 2005 album, we're 00:53:44.420 --> 00:53:46.559 going to go with All American Rejects Move Along. 00:53:47.579 --> 00:53:50.199 Reached number 15 on the Billboard US Hot 100 00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:53.460 and the Canada Top 40. And it also hit number 00:53:53.460 --> 00:53:57.760 42 in the UK and number 73 in Australia. When 00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:00.460 all you got to keep is strong, move along, move 00:54:00.460 --> 00:54:03.639 along like I know you do. And even when your 00:54:03.639 --> 00:54:06.980 hope is gone, move along, move along just to 00:54:06.980 --> 00:54:10.360 make it through. That song I have listened to 00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:12.760 so many times. I listened to it during workouts. 00:54:13.179 --> 00:54:15.099 Yes, it's not a song that's going to get you 00:54:15.099 --> 00:54:17.739 pumped up and bench pressing 500 pounds. But 00:54:17.739 --> 00:54:20.699 when you're doing a run, there's something about 00:54:20.699 --> 00:54:23.659 the tribal drum beat in the song and the chorus. 00:54:23.920 --> 00:54:26.380 There's a togetherness in the song. And it's 00:54:26.380 --> 00:54:29.980 very, I know it's the title of the episode, but 00:54:29.980 --> 00:54:33.300 it's very inspirational. It fits right into that, 00:54:33.360 --> 00:54:37.119 that it just makes you feel like you're not alone. 00:54:37.889 --> 00:54:40.730 That's a big part of this episode, I think. Absolutely. 00:54:41.030 --> 00:54:44.429 You know, when I bike to work and back, this 00:54:44.429 --> 00:54:47.010 song comes on, and it's just, you know, there's 00:54:47.010 --> 00:54:49.190 points. Again, like you're saying, you're on 00:54:49.190 --> 00:54:51.449 a run. It's got that right beat to it. It just 00:54:51.449 --> 00:54:53.489 gets your pedals moving, gets your feet moving, 00:54:53.590 --> 00:54:56.829 and gets you that extra mile. It's one of those 00:54:56.829 --> 00:54:59.989 songs that just can keep you moving. All right. 00:55:00.030 --> 00:55:02.369 Well, we are starting to get to the end of things 00:55:02.369 --> 00:55:04.949 here. You have two songs left, and I've got one. 00:55:05.010 --> 00:55:07.510 So what do you have for track eight? What I got 00:55:07.510 --> 00:55:10.090 for track eight, we're going to stick some of 00:55:10.090 --> 00:55:12.449 that emo vibe there and go with Jimmy Eat World. 00:55:12.690 --> 00:55:16.010 Nice. And the song in the middle. Uh -huh. You 00:55:16.010 --> 00:55:18.090 know, and there's a line here. And this, you 00:55:18.090 --> 00:55:22.670 know, this came out in 2001. But if I heard this 00:55:22.670 --> 00:55:27.250 in middle school, this song, it's exactly how 00:55:27.250 --> 00:55:30.949 it felt. That second verse, A, you know, they're 00:55:30.949 --> 00:55:33.630 all the same. You're doing better on your own, 00:55:33.650 --> 00:55:36.650 so don't buy in. Live right now. Just be yourself. 00:55:37.130 --> 00:55:39.369 It doesn't matter if you're good enough for someone 00:55:39.369 --> 00:55:43.789 else. Amen. If someone said that to me in middle 00:55:43.789 --> 00:55:45.789 school, I would have been like, thank you. I 00:55:45.789 --> 00:55:48.869 needed that. So it's just sometimes those songs, 00:55:48.929 --> 00:55:51.489 again, they just sometimes it just hits you like 00:55:51.489 --> 00:55:54.070 this is what I needed to hear right at this moment 00:55:54.070 --> 00:55:57.019 from someone. I have been covering this song 00:55:57.019 --> 00:56:01.179 for close to 20 years now in various bands. And 00:56:01.179 --> 00:56:03.800 I am not going to lie. The lines that you just 00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:10.739 said, I enjoy singing so much in this song because 00:56:10.739 --> 00:56:14.440 I always like clockwork. When this song is played, 00:56:14.619 --> 00:56:17.179 people are singing along with you. And there's 00:56:17.179 --> 00:56:20.739 something about that verse that really resonates 00:56:20.739 --> 00:56:23.079 with people. So I know you said people could 00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:26.309 use that in middle school. I think people could 00:56:26.309 --> 00:56:29.690 use that now. And I think lyrics like that still 00:56:29.690 --> 00:56:32.710 resonate and still hit a home, which is why every 00:56:32.710 --> 00:56:39.369 time my band starts with the people lose their 00:56:39.369 --> 00:56:42.849 shit. The song reached number five on the Billboard 00:56:42.849 --> 00:56:46.650 US Hot 100, number two in Canada, number 49 in 00:56:46.650 --> 00:56:50.469 Australia, number 26 in the UK. I'll go ahead 00:56:50.469 --> 00:56:56.210 and say it. It is a modern. 2000s anthem. Yes, 00:56:56.309 --> 00:56:59.710 I said it. Because when we play this song, people 00:56:59.710 --> 00:57:02.090 sing along with this song just as much as they 00:57:02.090 --> 00:57:04.690 would if you pulled out a Sweet Home Alabama 00:57:04.690 --> 00:57:08.869 or a song from classic rock lore. There are people 00:57:08.869 --> 00:57:12.039 that are. in my generation that truly resonate 00:57:12.039 --> 00:57:14.840 with it. But there's also the generation after 00:57:14.840 --> 00:57:18.280 me that know the song because of us. And there's 00:57:18.280 --> 00:57:20.440 the generation after us, the millennials, and 00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:25.059 even my kids know and love this song. It crosses 00:57:25.059 --> 00:57:28.440 boundaries. It crosses age groups. And it's something 00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:31.460 that brings a lot of people together. Yeah, I 00:57:31.460 --> 00:57:33.380 absolutely agree with you. You know what? Talking 00:57:33.380 --> 00:57:35.500 about it, my hair on my arms are standing up 00:57:35.500 --> 00:57:37.800 on end because it's just that kind of feeling. 00:57:38.250 --> 00:57:42.230 The song is someone gets me. And that's so hard 00:57:42.230 --> 00:57:45.010 at various points in your life that am I all 00:57:45.010 --> 00:57:47.769 alone? Is it just me? And then you hear this. 00:57:47.829 --> 00:57:50.030 I'm like, no, someone gets me. Someone understands 00:57:50.030 --> 00:57:51.989 what I'm going through right at this moment. 00:57:52.469 --> 00:57:55.349 And that is the power and beauty of music. And 00:57:55.349 --> 00:57:57.690 for my last song of the night, I'm going to stick 00:57:57.690 --> 00:57:59.809 with this Colbert and company theme here because 00:57:59.809 --> 00:58:04.889 the middle always goes over well. And when people 00:58:04.889 --> 00:58:07.250 are singing along with that song. I'm going to 00:58:07.250 --> 00:58:10.050 go with a song we like to follow it up with because 00:58:10.050 --> 00:58:15.030 it's another sing along, but it falls right perfectly 00:58:15.030 --> 00:58:18.690 smack into this side of music that we've put 00:58:18.690 --> 00:58:21.989 together here. And it hits a little bit of the 00:58:21.989 --> 00:58:25.329 classic rock vibe and a little bit of the rock 00:58:25.329 --> 00:58:28.250 vibe we've been talking about. And I am going 00:58:28.250 --> 00:58:31.250 to go off of my favorite artist of all times, 00:58:31.329 --> 00:58:35.820 1989 solo album, Full Moon Fever. Tom Petty's 00:58:35.820 --> 00:58:39.500 I Won't Back Down reached number 12 on the Billboard 00:58:39.500 --> 00:58:43.340 US Hot 100, number one on the Billboard Mainstream 00:58:43.340 --> 00:58:46.820 Rock Chart, number five on the Canada Top Singles 00:58:46.820 --> 00:58:50.179 Chart, number 16 on the Australia Aria Chart, 00:58:50.420 --> 00:58:54.219 number 28 on the UK Singles Chart, and also hit 00:58:54.219 --> 00:58:57.320 number 66 in West Germany and number 49 in New 00:58:57.320 --> 00:59:01.329 Zealand. Well, I know what's right. I've got 00:59:01.329 --> 00:59:04.130 just one life in a world that keeps on pushing 00:59:04.130 --> 00:59:07.949 me around, but I'll stand my ground and I won't 00:59:07.949 --> 00:59:11.849 back down. Soon as you get to that, hey, baby, 00:59:11.989 --> 00:59:14.670 everybody in the room stops what they're doing. 00:59:15.130 --> 00:59:18.250 Their glass is up in the air and it's one united 00:59:18.250 --> 00:59:22.690 voice. Episode 95, the ultimate Tom Petty playlist 00:59:22.690 --> 00:59:25.050 with Kevin Brown from the Tom Petty Project. 00:59:25.429 --> 00:59:28.840 If you want to hear a lot about Tom Petty. Go 00:59:28.840 --> 00:59:31.099 listen to that episode. I won't say if this song 00:59:31.099 --> 00:59:33.940 makes it or not, but it's certainly making it 00:59:33.940 --> 00:59:36.940 tonight because we're talking inspiration. And 00:59:36.940 --> 00:59:39.860 because I have followed up the middle with I 00:59:39.860 --> 00:59:41.980 won't back down so many times in the set list, 00:59:42.179 --> 00:59:45.639 it just works perfectly here. I didn't even know 00:59:45.639 --> 00:59:49.739 that. Total serendipity here. Yeah. Again, Full 00:59:49.739 --> 00:59:52.639 Moon Fever, you know, it came out of that Woolbury 00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:55.619 sound, went right into Full Moon Fever. He still 00:59:55.619 --> 00:59:58.619 got Jeff Lidd in there. And that's a seminal 00:59:58.619 --> 01:00:02.219 album for so many people. You know, I don't know 01:00:02.219 --> 01:00:03.440 if I would have gone with Running Down a Dream 01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:07.400 from there. But again, I won't back down. What 01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:10.539 was that movie? It was Barnyard, where it has 01:00:10.539 --> 01:00:15.219 the character. It's the bull is singing it. And 01:00:15.219 --> 01:00:18.650 I think it's Johnny Cash. that they used singing 01:00:18.650 --> 01:00:20.849 I Won't Back Down. I'm not positive. In the movie, 01:00:20.869 --> 01:00:23.590 it was sang by Sam Elliott, but there is a Johnny 01:00:23.590 --> 01:00:26.909 Cash version of that song. Yeah, it's a comedy 01:00:26.909 --> 01:00:30.409 movie. It's a kid's comedy about, you know, animals 01:00:30.409 --> 01:00:33.070 in a barnyard, but the strong father character 01:00:33.070 --> 01:00:38.170 is sitting strumming a guitar, protecting the 01:00:38.170 --> 01:00:41.650 animals before the coyotes come and try to get 01:00:41.650 --> 01:00:43.829 them all. And he's singing I Won't Back Down. 01:00:44.380 --> 01:00:46.539 And it's just like, that's the feeling right 01:00:46.539 --> 01:00:48.579 there. I'm not going to back down at all. No 01:00:48.579 --> 01:00:50.179 matter what comes to me, I'm not going to back 01:00:50.179 --> 01:00:52.539 down. And that, I don't know where I pulled that 01:00:52.539 --> 01:00:58.079 out of. Well, Brandon, we have been all over 01:00:58.079 --> 01:01:01.880 the spectrum from fun stories to emotional. This 01:01:01.880 --> 01:01:05.880 has been a roller coaster of an episode and you 01:01:05.880 --> 01:01:08.360 get to take us home with our final song choice 01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:11.440 of the night. What are we closing the ultimate? 01:01:12.420 --> 01:01:16.059 inspirational rock songs playlist with? So I 01:01:16.059 --> 01:01:19.420 brought up radio. I brought up the sound system 01:01:19.420 --> 01:01:22.579 and how important that is to bring you up. But 01:01:22.579 --> 01:01:26.059 sometimes you just put the radio on and you've 01:01:26.059 --> 01:01:29.219 got the feeling of I'm done with this. I'm heading 01:01:29.219 --> 01:01:32.440 out. I'm leaving this situation. Put the music 01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:34.980 on and let's go. And that's also an inspiration 01:01:34.980 --> 01:01:38.820 sometimes. So I was thinking about that. And 01:01:38.820 --> 01:01:40.719 there's a New Jersey band. They're an underground 01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:42.500 New Jersey band. I think they had two or three 01:01:42.500 --> 01:01:44.820 major label releases. Oh, I think I know where 01:01:44.820 --> 01:01:46.039 you're going with this. And this band is From 01:01:46.039 --> 01:01:49.460 Good Homes. Yes! No. I talked about my older 01:01:49.460 --> 01:01:51.719 brothers. My brother Rob is definitely the one 01:01:51.719 --> 01:01:54.300 who is estimated. He's definitely the deadhead. 01:01:54.440 --> 01:01:56.960 And also, my oldest brother John was the one 01:01:56.960 --> 01:02:01.610 who had that first From Good Homes tape. Grr 01:02:01.610 --> 01:02:04.309 was the name of it. It eventually got released 01:02:04.309 --> 01:02:07.010 on CD and on streaming, but it was impossible 01:02:07.010 --> 01:02:10.010 to find anywhere unless you dubbed it. And I 01:02:10.010 --> 01:02:12.269 believe Radio On was on it, but this was on their 01:02:12.269 --> 01:02:15.090 second release as well. You know, From Good Homes, 01:02:15.150 --> 01:02:18.449 they got overshadowed by the Dave Matthews band. 01:02:18.730 --> 01:02:20.750 They both struck it around the same time and 01:02:20.750 --> 01:02:23.949 had major label deals at the same time and made 01:02:23.949 --> 01:02:26.309 a similar sound. So I think Dave Matthews overshadowed 01:02:26.309 --> 01:02:29.949 them. But From Good Homes, if you're from northern 01:02:29.949 --> 01:02:33.219 New Jersey, You know this band. You've heard 01:02:33.219 --> 01:02:36.280 this band. You may even been in a bar watching 01:02:36.280 --> 01:02:39.219 this band play. You know, you've got the mix 01:02:39.219 --> 01:02:41.760 of bluegrass. You've got the rock. And it's just 01:02:41.760 --> 01:02:44.480 this song is I've got the radio on cussing everything 01:02:44.480 --> 01:02:47.079 I own. Dreaming in a long dark night, but I got 01:02:47.079 --> 01:02:50.659 the radio on. I've got the radio on. Well, I 01:02:50.659 --> 01:02:53.159 don't know where I'm going. Don't know what I'm 01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:56.949 doing, but I know I'm not going back. Love the 01:02:56.949 --> 01:03:00.110 pick. Back in my tune styles days, Jay Sweet 01:03:00.110 --> 01:03:03.250 and I had Patrick Fitzsimmons on the podcast 01:03:03.250 --> 01:03:06.550 to talk about From Good Homes and their legacy 01:03:06.550 --> 01:03:09.730 and their reunion shows. I love this band so 01:03:09.730 --> 01:03:13.889 much. Back in 2011, my wife and I went to go 01:03:13.889 --> 01:03:16.730 see them in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at an event 01:03:16.730 --> 01:03:19.309 called Steel Jam. It was at the Steel Stacks 01:03:19.309 --> 01:03:23.170 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. And it was them, 01:03:23.269 --> 01:03:26.730 ALO, Lubriphonic, Umphreys McGee, a bunch of 01:03:26.730 --> 01:03:30.429 different jam bands. And before From Good Homes 01:03:30.429 --> 01:03:33.750 came on, I ran into Todd Schaefer before the 01:03:33.750 --> 01:03:36.909 set. And I just shook his hand, got a picture 01:03:36.909 --> 01:03:38.250 with him and said, hey, Todd, I just want to 01:03:38.250 --> 01:03:40.510 let you know that for the last couple of years 01:03:40.510 --> 01:03:43.210 when I've been doing my solo acoustic gigs, I've 01:03:43.210 --> 01:03:47.849 been playing Maybe We Will at my shows. I hope 01:03:47.849 --> 01:03:50.269 to hear it tonight. I love singing along with 01:03:50.269 --> 01:03:53.699 it. And he just shook my hand, thanked me so 01:03:53.699 --> 01:03:57.460 much, was surprised to hear it. And they went 01:03:57.460 --> 01:03:59.579 on stage and did their set. And for the last 01:03:59.579 --> 01:04:02.019 song of the night, he kind of looks down at the 01:04:02.019 --> 01:04:04.619 stage for a second. He goes, before the show, 01:04:04.659 --> 01:04:07.599 I was talking to this guy, Brian, and he said 01:04:07.599 --> 01:04:11.119 that he covers Maybe We Will. So, Brian, why 01:04:11.119 --> 01:04:14.840 don't you come up on stage and perform the song 01:04:14.840 --> 01:04:17.840 with us? And this is on YouTube. I will embed 01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:20.280 it on the episode page at myweeklymixtape .com. 01:04:20.380 --> 01:04:24.900 I got to sing Maybe We Will with From Good Homes. 01:04:24.980 --> 01:04:27.619 I got to dance around like an absolute jackass 01:04:27.619 --> 01:04:30.039 on stage. I actually, in the studio where I record, 01:04:30.380 --> 01:04:32.920 I have a photo that a professional photographer 01:04:32.920 --> 01:04:36.179 took of me on stage with him. I was next to Brady 01:04:36.179 --> 01:04:39.380 Reimer, pretty much the entire song. Jamie Cohen 01:04:39.380 --> 01:04:42.300 from the band was kind enough to play violin 01:04:42.300 --> 01:04:44.940 on some songs from my album. Forever was worth 01:04:44.940 --> 01:04:47.599 the wait. Like these guys mean so much to me. 01:04:47.639 --> 01:04:50.119 They did so much in the New Jersey community. 01:04:50.280 --> 01:04:53.420 I'm so, so thankful you close with this because 01:04:53.420 --> 01:04:57.619 it's such an amazing song. And yeah, that might've 01:04:57.619 --> 01:05:00.500 been the single most fun live performance I've 01:05:00.500 --> 01:05:02.679 ever done in my entire life. Getting to sing 01:05:02.679 --> 01:05:06.739 with those guys. So, Brian, I saw them many times. 01:05:06.780 --> 01:05:10.139 I've seen them play on Sandy Hook at Clearwater 01:05:10.139 --> 01:05:13.760 Festival. I've seen them at the Birch Hill. Yes. 01:05:14.079 --> 01:05:18.559 The Birch Hill, I've seen them. And the only 01:05:18.559 --> 01:05:21.820 time I saw them down here, there used to be this 01:05:21.820 --> 01:05:25.320 club in Georgetown called The Bayou. And that 01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:28.199 was an iconic club. There's even a documentary 01:05:28.199 --> 01:05:31.019 you'll find maybe on some of the PBS streaming 01:05:31.019 --> 01:05:33.909 apps. You'll find it. The Bayou was an iconic 01:05:33.909 --> 01:05:37.570 club. And I lived down here in the last year 01:05:37.570 --> 01:05:40.050 before they closed it down and saw From Good 01:05:40.050 --> 01:05:43.269 Homes there. And, you know, they ended the show 01:05:43.269 --> 01:05:47.929 on a jam starting with Franklin's Tower and just 01:05:47.929 --> 01:05:51.469 went in and ended with Born on the Bayou. But 01:05:51.469 --> 01:05:53.750 Todd Schaefer changed it to Burn Down the Bayou 01:05:53.750 --> 01:05:57.409 because it was the last few shows at the club. 01:05:57.929 --> 01:06:02.949 And now it's an AMC movie theater. Oh, yeah. 01:06:03.070 --> 01:06:06.090 And now the Birch Hill Nightclub is townhouses 01:06:06.090 --> 01:06:09.369 and condos. Oh, man. There are so many stories 01:06:09.369 --> 01:06:11.730 we could trade about that place. As far as I'm 01:06:11.730 --> 01:06:13.829 concerned, take Paradise and put up a parking 01:06:13.829 --> 01:06:17.809 lot, right? Absolutely. There's so that all the 01:06:17.809 --> 01:06:21.769 venues, Club Bonet, long gone, you know. Oh, 01:06:21.849 --> 01:06:24.670 and even, what was it, Nazare Park? The Saint 01:06:24.670 --> 01:06:27.500 just got knocked down, too. I've played the Saint. 01:06:27.539 --> 01:06:31.039 I played Birdchill. Like these places are ingrained 01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:33.960 in my New Jersey DNA. For those of you that are 01:06:33.960 --> 01:06:36.039 listening to this that are not from New Jersey, 01:06:36.139 --> 01:06:39.739 I apologize. But these venues obviously hold 01:06:39.739 --> 01:06:42.639 a special place in both of our hearts being from 01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:45.840 this area. But more importantly, there you have 01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:49.360 it, folks. Side B of the ultimate inspirational 01:06:49.360 --> 01:06:52.599 rock songs mixtape, which consists of Queen. 01:06:52.739 --> 01:06:55.579 The show must go on. Grateful Dead's estimated. 01:06:55.789 --> 01:06:59.929 Profit, Bon Jovi's Keep the Faith, Bruce Springsteen's 01:06:59.929 --> 01:07:03.789 The Rising, Aerosmith's Dream On, Fun's Carry 01:07:03.789 --> 01:07:07.650 On, All American Rejects' Move Along, Jimmy Eat 01:07:07.650 --> 01:07:10.449 World's The Middle, Tom Petty's I Won't Back 01:07:10.449 --> 01:07:14.630 Down, and From Good Homes' Radio On. Head over 01:07:14.630 --> 01:07:17.469 to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs 01:07:17.469 --> 01:07:20.489 we've discussed in this mix through the playlist 01:07:20.489 --> 01:07:23.860 embedded on the episode page. Well, Brandon, 01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:26.500 first, I want to thank you so much for being 01:07:26.500 --> 01:07:29.679 a part of the Patreon mixtaper community. But 01:07:29.679 --> 01:07:31.820 more importantly, thank you for joining me on 01:07:31.820 --> 01:07:34.619 the show tonight. Brian, it was my pleasure. 01:07:34.760 --> 01:07:37.039 I know I felt like we probably went a little 01:07:37.039 --> 01:07:40.639 too far down the New York, New Jersey, Tri -State 01:07:40.639 --> 01:07:43.679 area rabbit hole. But, you know, music brings 01:07:43.679 --> 01:07:46.800 you back to your youth. I've read that. Heard 01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:48.980 Alan Cross talk about it a couple of times at 01:07:48.980 --> 01:07:53.079 that timeframe between like age 15 and 25 are 01:07:53.079 --> 01:07:55.380 the most formative years when it comes to what 01:07:55.380 --> 01:07:58.000 music you'll be listening to. And where was that? 01:07:58.260 --> 01:08:01.619 New Jersey for me, just like you. Well, thank 01:08:01.619 --> 01:08:03.860 you very much for being a part of the show and 01:08:03.860 --> 01:08:05.639 look forward to having you back on again down 01:08:05.639 --> 01:08:07.980 the road here. Have a good night, Brian. And 01:08:07.980 --> 01:08:10.159 you as well, my friend. 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