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Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that

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takes the classic mixtape approach to building

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a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.

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Joining me tonight as guest curator is David

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Rosen, host of the Piecing It Together podcast.

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David, thank you so much for joining me on My

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Weekly Mixtape. Yeah, thanks so much for having

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me. I am really looking forward to this. I love

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making myself a mixtape, and I think we got something

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really cool here. Well, then let me start by

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asking you my first -timers question, which is,

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what does the word mixtape mean to you? Yeah,

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you know, back in the day, of course, it meant

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something. tangible and uh you know mix tapes

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or mix cds even uh a little bit later on nowadays

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i think it's kind of interchangeable with playlists

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i mean i don't know about you but uh i'm kind

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of lazy at this stage of my life and so uh yeah

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they've made it very easy for us and uh you know

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as a musician myself not exactly a big fan of

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the streaming services but uh you know it certainly

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makes it easier to put together a mix like this

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and basically just picking songs that either

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you love or that fit together, depending on what

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kind of a mix that you want to make. Well, the

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mix that we're going to make tonight is another

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songs about episode. And that kind of episode

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is where David and I chose a random object and

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we craft a playlist dedicated to that object.

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And tonight that object is guitars. So David,

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what were you looking for in the songs you brought

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to the discussion this evening? Yeah, I think.

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For me, it was specifically like celebrating

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the guitar. Like, I think that that was kind

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of my entry point. And yeah, there's a lot of

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different ways to do this because I know when

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you first came to me, it was like specifically

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song about a guitar. But then as soon as I started

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making my list, and there's some certainly that

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are about a guitar, but they started just being

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about like, you know, the love of playing guitar,

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the love of, you know, your guitar and what a

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guitar can do for you and what you could put

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out into the world. with a guitar so it really

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became more about like celebrating guitars within

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the actual song and the songwriting and the lyrics

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and that was very much where I was going with

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my pick of songs sometimes where the guitar is

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used as an object within the storytelling of

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the song sometimes it's the actual guitar that

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is the piece of the song's affection if you will

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or it's about the love of the instrument in general

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Yeah, absolutely. So let's get down to business

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because tonight, as I mentioned at the top of

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the show, David and I are curating a songs about

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guitars mixtape, and we're going to use the old

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cassette deck approach. David, as my special

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guest, will begin side A with his first song

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choice, and then I'll add a song that I feel

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best follows up that choice. We'll then flip

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-flop choosing songs until we've mapped out 10

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songs for side A. We'll then give our mixtape

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a proverbial flip and we'll map outside, be only

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this time I'll kick things off with David choosing

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second. Our overall goal for this episode is

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to craft the best songs about guitars mixtape

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possible through only 20 songs. At the end of

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the show, you can take our conversation to the

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next level by visiting the episode page at myweeklymixtape

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.com to give our final mixtape a listen. via

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the embedded playlist. And if you like what you're

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episodes of the show, become a future guest,

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and so much more, such as chiming in on the weekly

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episode topics, which several of the mixtapers

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have done tonight. And I'd like to shout out

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a couple. of those suggestions. Tom Hutchinson

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chimed in with While My Guitar Gently Weeps,

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saying it's his favorite Beatles song. However,

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the version by Tom Petty, Prince and Jeff Lynne

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for the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is an

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incredible cover and amazes him. It amazes me

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as well. Chad LaMassa echoed Tom 100%. as he

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was going to chime in with both of those versions

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as well, but instead he added Lucille by B .B.

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King. Sherry Thomas chimed in with Guitar by

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Prince. Philip Bergman chimed in with Guitar

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Man by Jerry Reed, Guitar Boogie Shuffle by The

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Virtues, Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar by

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Dwayne Eddy, and Yakety Axe by Chet Atkins. And

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Seeker chimed in with Axe Grinder by the Hoodoo

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Gurus, an Aussie psychedelic rock band, saying

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they also have a 1985 album titled Mars Needs

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Guitars. So a two for one there. I could dig

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it. Once again, if you'd like to. join the Patreon

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mixtaper family and chime in for future episodes,

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you could do so as well at patreon .com forward

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slash my weekly mixtape. And David, with that,

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I'm officially going to press the record button

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on our mixtape and pass the mic to you. Which

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O2 or song about guitars are you using to kick

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off tonight's playlist? This is the first song

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that I thought of when you came to me with this

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concept. And it is Tom Petty's Into the Great

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Wide Open from the album Into the Great Wide

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Open in 1991. This is a song about just going

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out there into the world with your guitar and

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crafting a path for yourself. And of course,

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you know, starting out into a world of music.

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And really when it comes to singing about a guitar,

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like you have to be a musician who is like kind

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of speaking to the experience that you had. taking

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that leap basically and i mean there's kind of

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no better song about that than this one from

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tom petty and tom petty is just amazing and i

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kind of think belongs on almost any mixtape well

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considering he's my favorite artist of all time

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i'm never going to argue that 1991's into the

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great wide open is one of my favorite tom petty

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albums i absolutely love the entire album it's

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up there with wildflowers full moon fever and

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dan the torpedoes for me but This is Tom Petty

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at some of the storytelling best. He's done it

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throughout his entire career. You think about

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songs like The Last DJ. This is just an extension

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of that. Surprisingly, though, this song was

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only played live by Tom Petty and Tom Petty and

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the Heartbreakers 134 times, according to setlist

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.fm. And to put that into some perspective. Learning

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to Fly has been played over 500 times live. So

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this is kind of, even though it was a big hit,

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it's kind of a deeper live cut for the band.

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And obviously everybody remembers the smash hit

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video on MTV with Johnny Depp as the Eddie character.

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The only thing that truly bothers me about this

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video and this song is that the video version

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is longer. And you get some tasty Ben Montench

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moments as well as some beautiful Mike Campbell

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guitar licks that are missing from the original

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studio version. So I'm hoping that Tom Petty

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Estate at some point releases the video version

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of this song because it's truly complete in that

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version as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, that would

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be great. I would love to get that extended video

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cut at some point because, yeah. Any excuse to

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get some of that extra musicianship from that

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band, I'm down for that. Well, following up Tom

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Petty, I mean, one of the first songs I thought

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of when we talked about songs about guitars,

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it's like, what's one of the first guitars you

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think about when you think about guitars? And

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for me, that would be B .B. King's Lucille. So

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shout out to Patreon mixtaper, Chad LaMassa,

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because he chimed in with this one. I am lockstep

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with you. 1968 Lucille. And I'm going to go with

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the title track. I mean, to hear the story of

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why one of the most legendary guitars came to

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be, who doesn't want to hear that? And here,

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sure. Very much like Tom Petty in, into the great

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wide open. This is BB King in storytelling form.

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Only. Through this song, he's pretty much talking

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to you as the song is playing. There's a lot

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less of a melody to what he's saying, more than

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a cadence and a rhythm as he's kind of giving

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this poem about Lucille. And I don't want to

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offer too much commentary on the story because.

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the story of the guitar kind of lies the magic.

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And if you've never heard it before, I don't

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want to spoil that, especially coming from somebody

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who hosts a movie podcast. I think you respect

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to go spoiler free and it's really hard to spoil

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a song. Yeah. But in this instance, when there's

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a story in the song, that's where you can spoil

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it. And I don't want to do that. However, I have

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a personal Lucille story. In my early days in

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radio, I worked in a radio network in New York

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City, and I was given a stack of tapes to bring

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to one of the studios. And as I'm carrying this

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stack, it kind of covers right up to about the

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tip of my nose, right underneath my eyeballs,

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holding about maybe a dozen or so tapes. And

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my boss is talking to me, so I'm stepping backwards

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in the hallway slowly, hearing what she has to

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say. And kind of working my way to get the tapes

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to the studio. And as she's talking, I feel this

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hand hit my right shoulder. And I hear, whoa,

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whoa, whoa, young man. And I'm like, oh God.

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And I kind of stopped short and I turn around

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and it's BB King holding Lucille. Wow. I'm holding

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these tapes. So I'm kind of like looking through

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the top of the, so I kind of lower them as much

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as I can. And my, my jaw's on the ground because

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here's this legendary blues musician holding.

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One of the most iconic guitars. And I said, Mr.

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King, I am so, so sorry, sir. I am just, he's

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like, you are doing your job, young man. However,

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if you knock me down, I'll just get right back

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up. But Lucille doesn't know how to take a fall

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very well. And I was like, well, right. I backed

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up and I'm like, after you, Mr. King. And he

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walked by and he said, have a good day, young

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man. And he went off into another studio. But

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that was my moment and my brush with greatness.

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And I felt like that was the perfect way for

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me to start my contribution to guitars tonight.

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Amazing. Amazing. I love it. Is Lucille, where

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is Lucille now? Do we know that? I'm guessing

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in some museum or something. The actual guitar.

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I'm not sure. Yeah, I wonder. It's got to be

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somewhere. I think everybody would want to see

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that because that is, like you said, it's just

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legendary. And it's one of the most important

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guitar players of all time, his cherished guitar.

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So it's got to be. Well, I hate to say it, but

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because as we're talking, obviously we have the

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internet. It's sold at a U .S. auction for $280

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,000 back in 2019. Hopefully it's got a good

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home. Hopefully they're going to do something

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good with it. I hope so, too. But obviously you

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can get the replicas out there. So at least there's

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that. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. Well,

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we've got Tom Petty, my favorite artist of all

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time. Lucille, one of my favorite guitars of

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all time. Where do we go from here? We have to

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go to a guitar pick. with the Tenacious D song,

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The Pick of Destiny, from the soundtrack to the

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album, The Pick of Destiny from 2006, the film.

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And this is, honestly, when this song came out,

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I was, I want to say, I was 25 at the time, and

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it was probably the coolest song I'd ever heard

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in my life at that moment. It's just Jack Black

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being purely ridiculous and, of course, doing

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one of these kinds of movie plot recap songs

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where he's just kind of talking about like the

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events of the movie itself. And it is just the

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coolest, just most awesome riff. And we love

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Jack Black as a singer as well. And just what

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he brings to that song is incredible. But Cage

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is just awesome on it. And yeah, singing about

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basically this pick that was chipped off of The

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Devil's Tooth, which is, of course, a play on

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many of these classical blues tales. But it is

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such a fun movie, such a ridiculous movie for

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anyone who's a musician or into guitars. And

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it is an awesome song. And I think it deserves

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a place on here. Wow. I did not expect that coming

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out of Lucille, but because he who is sleazy

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is easy to please. I will take that pick any

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day of the week. What a fun kind of cult comedy

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classic. Oh yeah, absolutely. And if you're a

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musician, it steps that up even higher. Definitely.

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All right. I wasn't expecting to go there and

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you went to something that it's kind of comedic,

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the song. So this gives me an open door to put

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in a song that I didn't know how I would ever

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be able to include it in this list. Cause this

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song is a little bit of an outlier. It's a punk

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song, but it's a tongue in cheek punk song. And

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there's a little bit of a comedic aspect to it.

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But now that you've introduced comedy to the

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mix, I easily know what I'm going with here from

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1988 bills above. I am going to go with the dead

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milk men's the guitar song. Now, this is the

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album that most people will be familiar with

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the name The Dead Milkman because of Punk Rock

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Girl. It was a video staple on MTV. But four

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songs later on the album is this masterpiece

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of an ode to the guitar. And the song, like The

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Pick of Destiny, doesn't take itself very seriously

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at all. Sure. Repeating what's that sound coming

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out of the hole in the wood at points just screaming

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it. Over this tranquil, almost acoustic music

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bed. It is a real goofy song, but every time

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I'm playing the guitar and I'm kind of warming

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up and tuning it, sometimes I will go, hey, what's

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that sound? Coming out of the hole in the wood.

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Like, it's just, it's a fun song and I had an

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excuse to use it now. Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad

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that you brought this one up because this is

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a very fun, ridiculous song. It also reminds

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me so much of just like walking around a record

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store and just kind of like browsing vinyl with

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my family. We have a record store here in Las

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Vegas, Wax Tracks Records. And every time I'm

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in a record store, you hear like these weird

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little goofy songs like this. And this just totally

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reminds me of that kind of song that you would

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hear in that kind of setting. And it's a really

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fun one. Yeah, the Dead Milkmen are one of the

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more underrated punk rock groups based out of

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Philadelphia. If anybody wants to go down a really

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fun, sometimes not too serious, sometimes quirky,

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and sometimes even offensive, depending on who

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you are, rabbit hole, check out the Dead Milkmen.

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But now, David, I'm throwing it back to you.

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We've done a pair of really serious songs, followed

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up by a pair of not so serious, probably comedic

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songs. So where do we go from here? I guess we'll

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go heartfelt because I'm bringing up Olivia Rodrigo,

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a new artist, and her song Scared of My Guitar.

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It's from the expanded, spilled edition of her

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album Guts from 2023, which. This she is one

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of my favorite like current artists right now.

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I think she's doing like really, really great

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stuff. She's got that kind of heart on her sleeve

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kind of emotional thing that a lot of these kinds

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of artists, these pop singers have nowadays,

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but mixed with like a real serious musicianship.

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And this is a song about how she's scared of

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her guitar because. She knows that even though

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she can lie to her boyfriend, who is right there

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in the room with her, she can't lie to the guitar

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while she's writing a song. And it's going to

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get the truth out of her no matter what. And

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it's a really clever song. You know, it's tough

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nowadays to find new artists that you, like,

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really connect with. And it's really exciting

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when one comes along who is just so damn good.

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And this is a fantastic album. And the regular

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version of Guts was great. This extended version

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added four more songs, and they're all really,

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really good, too, this being one of them. and

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uh yeah it's probably the newest song that we're

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gonna have on this list i would encourage people

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to check it out who you know maybe are like oh

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it's not rock and roll i'm not gonna go check

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out olivia rodrigo but i think you'll be surprised

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if you check out her album you'll really like

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it yeah my oldest is a big fan of olivia rodrigo

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and i understand why i'm gonna give a hot take

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here this might be my favorite olivia rodrigo

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song period there's such a poetic beauty to the

00:17:52.579 --> 00:17:56.960
song i mean the lyric so why is there a pit in

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my gut in the shape of you which when you're

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sitting there picturing her holding the guitar

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it's a very visual description she's holding

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the guitar in her gut but she's actually talking

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about the pit of her gut like in her soul sure

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but yeah so it's literal and figurative simultaneously

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That adds an immediate punch to the opening.

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The song's beautiful. And it's quite the pivot

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from the Dead Milkman. But I like it. I like

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it a lot. Absolutely. Absolutely. You got to

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go around. That's part of what makes a good mixtape,

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right? Yeah. So I'm going to stay in this kind

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of serious mode here and go with another lyric

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that really hits me from another female artist

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who sadly, unfortunately, is no longer with us.

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And the lyric I'm going with is, and she plays

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along while I sing out my blues. And I'm going

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to go with Amy Winehouse's Cherry. Now, that

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was originally on her Frank album as a studio

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cut. However, it's almost relegated to this kind

00:19:02.910 --> 00:19:05.990
of like in -betweener track because on streaming,

00:19:06.130 --> 00:19:09.859
it's just kind of slash. tacked onto the end

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of you sent me flying. So I'm actually going

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to go with the 2007 version. That's live from

00:19:17.819 --> 00:19:21.180
shepherd's bush on the album. I told you I was

00:19:21.180 --> 00:19:24.539
trouble live in London because the studio version

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is only 90 seconds long. It's beautiful, but

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it feels brief. It feels like a transitional

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piece on that album. This live version opens

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it up to a nice three minute and change song.

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And the guitar solo adds this dynamic tension

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because it feels as if almost the guitar is singing

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back to her saying, I love you too, but through

00:19:47.250 --> 00:19:51.329
the notes being played. So it's a very well -crafted

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story that's being told. And I mean, at the end

00:19:54.150 --> 00:19:56.890
of the day, God, Amy Winehouse's voice is just,

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it's hypnotizing. What a beautiful song. What

00:20:00.230 --> 00:20:03.130
a beautiful song and what a beautiful voice and

00:20:03.130 --> 00:20:05.470
just gut -wrenching that we don't have anything

00:20:05.470 --> 00:20:09.140
new from her. Yeah, no, absolutely. Yeah, it's

00:20:09.140 --> 00:20:11.039
a solid song. I had actually never heard this

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song when you brought it up to me. And it's a

00:20:14.460 --> 00:20:18.319
very good song. And it's interesting, like bringing

00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:20.920
up a song like this along with something like

00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:23.920
B .B. King's Lucille, which, you know, Amy Winehouse

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being. Someone who, you know, her whole vibe

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is like this whole retro thing and bringing back

00:20:28.809 --> 00:20:31.230
these styles that weren't really in vogue at

00:20:31.230 --> 00:20:34.190
the time when she came out. And she kind of brought

00:20:34.190 --> 00:20:36.369
everybody along with her into celebrating all

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this stuff. And I feel like just bringing back

00:20:39.490 --> 00:20:42.349
the celebration of the guitar and a song like

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a BB King Lucille is something that was like

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clearly on her mind when she wrote this. You

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don't think of Amy Winehouse as the guitarist

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because she was always the front woman on the

00:20:52.750 --> 00:20:57.049
stage, but she does play. And that part of it

00:20:57.049 --> 00:20:59.609
is where the songwriting aspect of her came out.

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But she's kind of telling the story of how she

00:21:01.990 --> 00:21:05.230
presents her stories in music. And I think it's

00:21:05.230 --> 00:21:08.420
just a. Perfect follow up to Olivia Rodrigo,

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because they're both telling similar stories

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about how the guitar is kind of part of their

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voice. And I feel like lyrically, these two flow

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very nicely back to back. Absolutely. All right.

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Well, following that up, we are up to track seven.

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What do you got? Well, actually, perfect that

00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:31.059
it goes after that Amy Winehouse Cherry song,

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because I was just saying about how Cherry was

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probably inspired by Lucille. This one is from

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one of my favorite artists, Ryan Adams, and it's

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from his 2005 album Cold Roses. It's called Rosebud,

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and it is inspired by Jerry Garcia's guitar,

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Rosebud, which I love the idea of, you know,

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an artist singing about their influences, basically.

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And this is a song about like, you know, it's

00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:58.660
kind of just like. almost a little silly ish

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just like about like when i pick up my guitar

00:22:00.500 --> 00:22:02.759
i don't really know what to sing or what to play

00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:05.920
but i think about rosebud i think about jerry

00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:07.799
garcia's guitar and i just start trying to play

00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:10.599
like that basically and that's where the song

00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:12.859
comes from and a lot of people would compare

00:22:12.859 --> 00:22:15.799
that kind of cold roses era of ryan adams his

00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:18.900
style and genre changes from album to album after

00:22:18.900 --> 00:22:21.400
his like 20 something albums over the years but

00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:25.779
that one is very grateful dead style And so it's

00:22:25.779 --> 00:22:28.960
pretty obvious where his influence was at that

00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.980
very moment. And I just think it's a fantastic

00:22:31.980 --> 00:22:34.660
song. It's kind of a deep cut on the album, but

00:22:34.660 --> 00:22:37.599
I wanted to include it here. I think you summed

00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:41.059
up the track perfectly. You could hear the love

00:22:41.059 --> 00:22:44.880
of the dead coming through this song and throughout

00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:47.960
the whole album. But there's a production style

00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:51.529
on this album that to me feels like. a tip of

00:22:51.529 --> 00:22:55.190
the cap from Ryan Adams to Neil Young's harvest.

00:22:55.369 --> 00:22:59.549
If you listen to Rosebud up against the song,

00:22:59.609 --> 00:23:02.769
like out on the weekend or heart of gold, there's

00:23:02.769 --> 00:23:06.029
this tone that kind of sits over the production

00:23:06.029 --> 00:23:09.630
that it feels like they're from the same era.

00:23:09.710 --> 00:23:12.250
And I think that, and again, I'm guessing, but

00:23:12.250 --> 00:23:15.089
from listening to the lyrics on the album and

00:23:15.089 --> 00:23:18.549
where Ryan Adams was coming from. I kind of get

00:23:18.549 --> 00:23:21.130
the vibe that he was trying to make it sound

00:23:21.130 --> 00:23:24.789
like a seventies era dead album, which does have

00:23:24.789 --> 00:23:27.670
the same output and sound. If you think about

00:23:27.670 --> 00:23:31.150
some of the acoustic songs on working man's dead

00:23:31.150 --> 00:23:34.269
to Neil Young's harvest, there's like kind of

00:23:34.269 --> 00:23:38.869
this sound of that era and it comes through shining

00:23:38.869 --> 00:23:43.289
in this one. Absolutely. So following that up,

00:23:43.529 --> 00:23:47.400
I think I know what I'm going to do. I am going

00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:50.579
to go a lot newer with a song that came out in

00:23:50.579 --> 00:23:54.180
the last now four years. And I remember during

00:23:54.180 --> 00:23:58.519
COVID, there was not much new going on, but there

00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:01.460
was a documentary that Bruce Springsteen put

00:24:01.460 --> 00:24:04.180
out about his new album at the time, Letter to

00:24:04.180 --> 00:24:05.900
You. And to me, that was like, oh, thank God,

00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:08.380
something to watch that's like musical and fun.

00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:11.859
And there's a part of that documentary that focuses

00:24:11.859 --> 00:24:15.680
on this one song, House of a Thousand Guitars.

00:24:16.779 --> 00:24:20.180
And that part to me was a very powerful part

00:24:20.180 --> 00:24:24.480
of the documentary. The song is fantastic. It

00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:28.099
feels like a classic Bruce Springsteen in the

00:24:28.099 --> 00:24:32.099
E Street Band song. And Bruce Springsteen had

00:24:32.099 --> 00:24:34.599
talked about this song to the Irish Times. And

00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:36.539
I want to read this quote here because I think

00:24:36.539 --> 00:24:39.140
it's kind of sums it up better than I could.

00:24:39.849 --> 00:24:42.970
House of 1000 Guitars attempts to define the

00:24:42.970 --> 00:24:45.650
world that I attempted to create with my audience

00:24:45.650 --> 00:24:49.670
and my listeners from the beginning. It's a world

00:24:49.670 --> 00:24:54.269
of value, of code, of honor, fun, and joy. And

00:24:54.269 --> 00:24:56.750
that's a world I create when I walk on stage

00:24:56.750 --> 00:24:59.309
at night and my audience walks through the door.

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We live in that world for two or three hours,

00:25:02.349 --> 00:25:05.069
and then we leave and take that world with us

00:25:05.069 --> 00:25:08.549
and hope that it sustains us. for as long as

00:25:08.549 --> 00:25:11.730
it can. The house of a thousand guitars is the

00:25:11.730 --> 00:25:15.210
house we built. And within this house, these

00:25:15.210 --> 00:25:19.150
things matter. That's why I picked the song.

00:25:19.250 --> 00:25:22.789
Like, I mean, that's the love of music and the

00:25:22.789 --> 00:25:25.990
love of the instrument and how it brings the

00:25:25.990 --> 00:25:29.069
crowd and the fans and the musician and the artists

00:25:29.069 --> 00:25:31.940
together. And to me, this song kind of celebrates

00:25:31.940 --> 00:25:34.460
that. And I also want to say, if you're a Bruce

00:25:34.460 --> 00:25:38.859
Springsteen fan, episode 53, there's the ultimate

00:25:38.859 --> 00:25:41.279
Bruce Springsteen playlist with Jesse Jackson,

00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:44.660
host of the Set Lusting Bruce podcast, who's

00:25:44.660 --> 00:25:47.019
another proud member of the Pantheon podcast

00:25:47.019 --> 00:25:50.079
family. I am not going to spoil, like the movie

00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:51.880
thing I said, I'm not going to spoil if House

00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:54.519
of a Thousand Guitars made the list, but it's

00:25:54.519 --> 00:25:56.740
definitely in my bank of songs that I'm bringing

00:25:56.740 --> 00:25:59.279
to the table. So if you like Bruce, you want

00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:01.099
to go back. and check that one out. But following

00:26:01.099 --> 00:26:04.180
up Ryan Adams, Bruce Springsteen's House of 1000

00:26:04.180 --> 00:26:07.160
Guitars. I actually almost picked this song.

00:26:07.500 --> 00:26:11.799
This is one on my mind, but I didn't. But I love

00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:14.599
that quote that you brought up. And not very

00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:17.299
surprising that Bruce Springsteen knows how to

00:26:17.299 --> 00:26:20.019
articulate his love of music and of bringing

00:26:20.019 --> 00:26:24.119
the crowd together and of guitars. He knows how

00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:27.000
to kind of tell a story and how to celebrate

00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:29.400
music. So, yeah, that's a great quote, though.

00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:32.380
And yeah, Set Lusting Bruce, great podcast. One

00:26:32.380 --> 00:26:34.880
of the first podcasts I ever guested on. Awesome.

00:26:34.940 --> 00:26:38.240
Awesome. Very cool. Well, coming out, we've each

00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:41.460
got one song left on side A. So what is your

00:26:41.460 --> 00:26:45.250
last contribution for track nine? So I wanted

00:26:45.250 --> 00:26:47.450
to mix things up a little bit and I got a hip

00:26:47.450 --> 00:26:50.589
hop song in here. I've got the Fugees killing

00:26:50.589 --> 00:26:54.750
me softly from 1996 is the score. When I first

00:26:54.750 --> 00:26:56.109
was thinking about this one, I was like, maybe

00:26:56.109 --> 00:26:57.890
I should go back to Roberta Flack. But then I

00:26:57.890 --> 00:27:00.210
was like, actually, that was a cover, too. So,

00:27:00.210 --> 00:27:01.549
you know what? Screw it. I'm just going to go

00:27:01.549 --> 00:27:04.430
with the Fugees. And it's a it's a great song.

00:27:04.549 --> 00:27:07.460
And it's, you know, obviously with the. You know,

00:27:07.460 --> 00:27:09.619
strumming my pain with his finger line, you know,

00:27:09.619 --> 00:27:12.619
fits in with our whole mixtape here. And, you

00:27:12.619 --> 00:27:15.099
know, it is about somebody who is performing

00:27:15.099 --> 00:27:18.440
music and how that makes somebody feel. And so

00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:21.079
I think it fits well enough. And it's just a

00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:25.119
great track and was a huge hit and deservedly

00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:26.880
so. And it's always great when you hear this

00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:29.799
song pop on. I'm always down to listen to this

00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:32.779
one. I'm glad that you mentioned it was a cover

00:27:32.779 --> 00:27:36.960
of Roberta Flack. But like you said, wait. That's

00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:40.200
a cover. Most people don't realize that the song

00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:43.319
was originally recorded by Lori Lieberman in

00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:46.980
1972. But Roberta Flax was the first one that

00:27:46.980 --> 00:27:50.259
charted and became that massive hit that it was.

00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:53.700
But there's this interesting fact. It did not

00:27:53.700 --> 00:27:57.859
appear on the Billboard U .S. Hot 100 because

00:27:57.859 --> 00:28:01.200
it was never officially released as a commercial

00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:05.109
single. which was a rule at that time. However,

00:28:05.210 --> 00:28:08.450
it reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100

00:28:08.450 --> 00:28:12.089
airplay chart and number one on the Hot R &B

00:28:12.089 --> 00:28:15.430
airplay chart. If you're into that whole wait,

00:28:15.470 --> 00:28:17.609
that's a cover song kind of movement, episode

00:28:17.609 --> 00:28:20.410
33 of the show, we do a whole dive into songs

00:28:20.410 --> 00:28:23.069
that people don't know if they're, wait, wait,

00:28:23.069 --> 00:28:24.990
that's a cover? That's a whole episode dedicated

00:28:24.990 --> 00:28:28.130
to that. This year, there's been a lot of talk

00:28:28.130 --> 00:28:31.700
about Lauryn Hill. Because the Miseducation of

00:28:31.700 --> 00:28:35.720
Lauryn Hill topped Apple Music's 100 Best Albums

00:28:35.720 --> 00:28:39.640
list. And I'll just say this. One, Miseducation

00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:43.559
is an absolute masterpiece. A brilliant work

00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:48.519
of art. And I absolutely love the album. But

00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:53.480
lists like the 100 Best Albums are... Kind of

00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:55.640
hard to quantify because the fact of the matter

00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:59.220
is we're not talking factual things here. How

00:28:59.220 --> 00:29:02.539
many records have been sold? How many streams

00:29:02.539 --> 00:29:04.359
has happened? That's kind of putting together

00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:09.519
a list based on fact. So here we're talking about

00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:13.700
a collective group of people's opinions to kind

00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:18.500
of put the list together. So while I love miseducation.

00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:21.519
I think John Coltrane's A Love Supreme should

00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:24.440
have at least been in contention for the top

00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:26.839
spot and it didn't come anywhere near it. So

00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:29.579
the one thing I'll say about this list, I love

00:29:29.579 --> 00:29:32.859
that it brings up dialogue and musical conversations.

00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:36.119
So if that's the purpose for it, then so be it.

00:29:36.220 --> 00:29:39.940
It's creating musical conversations, but I'd

00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:42.059
love to kind of hear more about how that list

00:29:42.059 --> 00:29:44.759
was really compiled because as much as I love

00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:50.309
the album, I question. why how where yeah sure

00:29:50.309 --> 00:29:53.609
absolutely it's impossible and this comes up

00:29:53.609 --> 00:29:55.529
all the time in the world of movies too it's

00:29:55.529 --> 00:29:59.369
just trying to rank the definitive of all time

00:29:59.369 --> 00:30:01.809
list it's just it's hard enough to make a list

00:30:01.809 --> 00:30:04.009
of 10 songs about guitars that we want to uh

00:30:04.009 --> 00:30:09.009
talk about yeah yeah well closing out side a

00:30:09.009 --> 00:30:12.009
i wanted to just go with one that is an obvious

00:30:12.009 --> 00:30:16.619
home run the song that a lot of people probably

00:30:16.619 --> 00:30:20.779
have on their mind tonight an obvious pick one

00:30:20.779 --> 00:30:23.900
of the biggest rock songs of all time released

00:30:23.900 --> 00:30:28.099
as a single in 1958 and it was credited as the

00:30:28.099 --> 00:30:32.599
first rock and roll hit about rock and roll stardom

00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:35.259
we're going to go with the legendary chuck berry

00:30:36.009 --> 00:30:40.890
And Johnny be good. In 2021, it ranked 33 on

00:30:40.890 --> 00:30:43.769
Rolling Stone's 500 greatest songs of all time,

00:30:43.849 --> 00:30:48.150
as well as number one on their 100 greatest guitar

00:30:48.150 --> 00:30:51.950
songs of all time. It also is included in the

00:30:51.950 --> 00:30:55.690
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 songs that shaped

00:30:55.690 --> 00:30:58.769
rock and roll. And to think if it wasn't for

00:30:58.769 --> 00:31:02.549
Chuck's cousin, Marvin Berry and the Starlighters

00:31:02.549 --> 00:31:06.180
calling Chuck during some. High school dance.

00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:09.500
He may never have been inspired to write this

00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:14.039
masterpiece. We were just talking about those,

00:31:14.140 --> 00:31:16.920
you know, the rankings, the top 100 albums of

00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:19.220
all time or whatever. Like, I think this is one

00:31:19.220 --> 00:31:21.680
song that I can't imagine anyone complaining

00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:24.500
about it showing up on a best songs list. It's

00:31:24.500 --> 00:31:27.960
just who doesn't like this song? I've never met

00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:30.740
anyone that doesn't. And obviously, if you don't

00:31:30.740 --> 00:31:33.640
get the reference I made before, no. Go back

00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:35.819
and watch Back to the Future. However, cover

00:31:35.819 --> 00:31:39.119
songs, this will either get praise or venom,

00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:42.180
but look no further than Judas Priest's version

00:31:42.180 --> 00:31:46.740
of Johnny B. Goode from 1988's Ram It Down, as

00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:48.720
well as to bring up another movie reference,

00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:52.099
the soundtrack to the 80s comedy of the same

00:31:52.099 --> 00:31:55.380
name, Johnny B. Goode. Oh, yeah. I forgot about

00:31:55.380 --> 00:31:57.920
that movie. A lot of people did, but the song.

00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:00.740
The song sticks out when you hear Rob Halford

00:32:00.740 --> 00:32:04.180
belting out Johnny B. Goode at his stratospheric

00:32:04.180 --> 00:32:07.720
levels. Nice, nice. Well, there you have it,

00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:11.000
folks. Side A of our Songs About Guitars playlist,

00:32:11.180 --> 00:32:13.440
which kicked off with Tom Petty's Into the Great

00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:17.380
Wide Open, B .B. King's Lucille, Tenacious D's

00:32:17.380 --> 00:32:20.200
The Pick of Destiny, The Dead Milkman's The Guitar

00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:24.140
Song, Olivia Rodrigo's Scared of My Guitar, Amy

00:32:24.140 --> 00:32:26.680
Winehouse's Cherry, Live from Shepherd's Bush,

00:32:27.420 --> 00:32:30.480
Ryan Adams' Rosebud, Bruce Springsteen's House

00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:33.640
of a Thousand Guitars, Fuji's Killing Me Softly,

00:32:33.700 --> 00:32:36.880
and Chuck Berry's Johnny Be Good. Head over to

00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:39.759
myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs we've

00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:42.740
discussed in this mix through the playlist embedded

00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:46.359
on the episode page. Now, David, why don't you

00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:48.400
tell people a little bit about piecing it together

00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:50.980
as well as how they can connect with you and

00:32:50.980 --> 00:32:54.509
the show? Absolutely. Thank you so much. You

00:32:54.509 --> 00:32:56.890
can find Piecing It Together on all of the podcast

00:32:56.890 --> 00:32:59.869
apps, and I'm very, very active on social media

00:32:59.869 --> 00:33:02.569
at PiecingPod. But what Piecing It Together is,

00:33:02.650 --> 00:33:05.750
is a podcast about movies and what movies inspired

00:33:05.750 --> 00:33:09.019
them. Me and guests. from all over the world

00:33:09.019 --> 00:33:12.000
for the past over six years now. We will take

00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.140
a look at a new movie and kind of use it as a

00:33:14.140 --> 00:33:16.519
jumping off point to discuss other films that

00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:19.700
deal with similar ideas, themes, filmmaking styles,

00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.089
whatever it may be that we think. might make

00:33:23.089 --> 00:33:26.150
these other movies an influence on this new release

00:33:26.150 --> 00:33:29.410
and Yeah, it's been a really fun ride I'm now

00:33:29.410 --> 00:33:31.789
doing these live episodes of the show where I

00:33:31.789 --> 00:33:34.769
do it right there in a movie theater with a panel

00:33:34.769 --> 00:33:37.990
of three guests right after the movie plays and

00:33:37.990 --> 00:33:41.710
Hoping to continue to build that out but I do

00:33:41.710 --> 00:33:44.650
weekly episodes of just the regular one -on -ones

00:33:44.650 --> 00:33:48.230
and it's something that has been a really fun

00:33:48.230 --> 00:33:51.849
ride for movie fans and You end up with a big

00:33:51.849 --> 00:33:54.089
list of other films to check out that deal with

00:33:54.089 --> 00:33:56.349
these similar ideas by the end of the conversation.

00:33:56.789 --> 00:33:59.549
I'm also a musician as well. You can find my

00:33:59.549 --> 00:34:02.609
albums under my name, David Rosen. I have...

00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:05.819
I think eight at this point, albums out. I lost

00:34:05.819 --> 00:34:09.340
track. But a whole bunch of albums of instrumental

00:34:09.340 --> 00:34:13.260
music. It's all kind of a mix of electronica,

00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:16.599
industrial, new age, alternative rock. I also

00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:19.280
score films, so that film score kind of vibe

00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:21.820
to it as well. So you can check out my albums.

00:34:21.900 --> 00:34:24.159
My most recent one is actually called More Content,

00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:28.119
a kind of tongue -in -cheek play at the era that

00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:31.010
we're living in right now. Yeah, you can find

00:34:31.010 --> 00:34:33.349
them on all the streaming services under my name,

00:34:33.369 --> 00:34:38.429
David Rosen. Well, kicking off Side B, I am going

00:34:38.429 --> 00:34:41.809
to first make an admission of guilt. I feel like

00:34:41.809 --> 00:34:44.829
I've been a little selfish in this episode because

00:34:44.829 --> 00:34:48.610
between BB King's Lucille and my opening track

00:34:48.610 --> 00:34:53.250
for Side B, I am taking up 30 minutes of our

00:34:53.250 --> 00:34:57.250
listeners' time musically. However, it's a very,

00:34:57.409 --> 00:35:00.920
very... Well spent 30 minutes of music, if you

00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:03.179
ask me, because, you know, between B .B. King's

00:35:03.179 --> 00:35:08.480
Lucille and the title track to 1976 is 2112 by

00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:12.860
Rush. That's 30 awesome minutes. Now, without

00:35:12.860 --> 00:35:15.280
getting too deep into the woods of this song,

00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:18.840
Rush's fandom site actually sums up the story.

00:35:19.389 --> 00:35:22.570
quite well so again without spoiling the ending

00:35:22.570 --> 00:35:25.050
of the song if you haven't heard it yet in the

00:35:25.050 --> 00:35:29.690
year 2062 a galaxy -wide war results in the union

00:35:29.690 --> 00:35:33.230
of all planets under the rule of the red star

00:35:33.230 --> 00:35:37.269
of the solar federation by 2112 the world is

00:35:37.269 --> 00:35:40.730
controlled by the priests of the temples of syrinx

00:35:40.730 --> 00:35:43.769
who determine the content of all reading matter

00:35:43.769 --> 00:35:49.130
songs pictures every facet of life A man discovers

00:35:49.130 --> 00:35:51.750
a guitar and learns to play different music.

00:35:51.809 --> 00:35:54.769
When he goes to present to the priests of the

00:35:54.769 --> 00:35:58.309
temples, they destroy the guitar. He goes into

00:35:58.309 --> 00:36:01.849
hiding and dreams of a world before the Solar

00:36:01.849 --> 00:36:08.409
Federation. Upon awakening, dot, dot, dot. Listen

00:36:08.409 --> 00:36:10.929
to the 20 -minute masterpiece and find out for

00:36:10.929 --> 00:36:14.119
yourself because... rush knows how to tell a

00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:17.940
story if you're a rush fan episode 52 the ultimate

00:36:17.940 --> 00:36:21.619
rush playlist with fellow pantheon podcast network

00:36:21.619 --> 00:36:25.119
made steve from the something for nothing a rush

00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:28.179
fan cast episode will have a lot more to fill

00:36:28.179 --> 00:36:31.599
that rush void in your life but when i think

00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:35.159
about a song that's built around a guitar as

00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:39.349
part of the story The way you started off into

00:36:39.349 --> 00:36:41.570
the great wide open as the guitar being part

00:36:41.570 --> 00:36:47.250
of Eddie's story. Here we've got Rush and 2112.

00:36:48.059 --> 00:36:51.039
That is a hell of a story in this song. Yeah,

00:36:51.199 --> 00:36:53.699
I've never been a big Rush guy. Like, I don't

00:36:53.699 --> 00:36:55.679
dislike them. I've just never dug into their

00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:57.559
music or anything. So I wasn't really familiar

00:36:57.559 --> 00:36:59.820
with this, aside from just knowing it was a Rush

00:36:59.820 --> 00:37:02.480
song title. So I just didn't really know what

00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:05.260
it was going in. And as it was playing out, I

00:37:05.260 --> 00:37:08.300
was like, where is this going? This is a crazy

00:37:08.300 --> 00:37:12.099
song. But yeah, it's a cool song, though. And

00:37:12.099 --> 00:37:13.780
one of these days, I think I'm going to have

00:37:13.780 --> 00:37:16.559
to... like finally go on the rush journey and

00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:18.460
like dig in. Cause I always like everything I

00:37:18.460 --> 00:37:21.199
hear from them. I think you'll be blown away

00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:24.840
to be honest. It's one of those things that sometimes

00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:27.480
when you hear certain songs picked out here and

00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:31.099
there, they make sense in that moment. But when

00:37:31.099 --> 00:37:34.940
you hear them in the rush catalog and in the

00:37:34.940 --> 00:37:38.139
album space, the songs take on bigger meanings.

00:37:38.219 --> 00:37:42.550
And I think that's what makes rush fans. So intense

00:37:42.550 --> 00:37:44.829
about their love of the songs because within

00:37:44.829 --> 00:37:47.829
the albums the songs really do take on a higher

00:37:47.829 --> 00:37:51.050
meaning yeah absolutely i i could totally see

00:37:51.050 --> 00:37:52.989
that i could see you know especially for a group

00:37:52.989 --> 00:37:56.730
like that that it's once you dig in like it just

00:37:56.730 --> 00:37:59.190
keeps enveloping everything and you just kind

00:37:59.190 --> 00:38:02.289
of can't get it back out well what are you now

00:38:02.289 --> 00:38:04.309
i've given you 20 minutes here to think about

00:38:04.309 --> 00:38:08.130
your next pick so sure sure yeah as the song

00:38:08.130 --> 00:38:11.840
is finally winding down yeah And we are hearing,

00:38:11.880 --> 00:38:14.360
attention all planets of the Solar Federation,

00:38:14.780 --> 00:38:18.179
we have assumed control. Where are you going

00:38:18.179 --> 00:38:21.460
from here? We are going to, I think, one of the

00:38:21.460 --> 00:38:24.420
most obvious picks for this list. And that is

00:38:24.420 --> 00:38:28.719
Foreigner's Jukebox Hero from 1981's Spore. This

00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:32.480
is just, it's such an obvious song for like a

00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:36.079
celebration of the guitar. This song paints such

00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:41.000
a picture of someone who has... head hung low

00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:43.900
and you know in the rain and he hears that band

00:38:43.900 --> 00:38:45.860
playing and then he hears that one guitar and

00:38:45.860 --> 00:38:48.699
then it just changes his life it is just it goes

00:38:48.699 --> 00:38:50.599
right along with Tom Petty which I started the

00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:53.699
first A -side with a guitar being kind of that

00:38:53.699 --> 00:38:57.420
catalyst for changing your life and taking you

00:38:57.420 --> 00:39:00.360
on a journey I think it's a great song it's a

00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:03.780
fun song it's a totally singable song honestly

00:39:03.780 --> 00:39:07.110
and another thing I don't remember if it was

00:39:07.110 --> 00:39:10.210
Guitar Hero or Rock Band, but there was a moment

00:39:10.210 --> 00:39:12.250
when those games were like super, super popular.

00:39:12.429 --> 00:39:14.710
And I feel like this was probably the single

00:39:14.710 --> 00:39:18.570
most played song on one of those games. Everybody

00:39:18.570 --> 00:39:20.650
would always pick this song and it was always

00:39:20.650 --> 00:39:23.269
just such a blast to play along to. Well, I know

00:39:23.269 --> 00:39:27.130
that Patreon mixtaper David Lee Smith is a huge

00:39:27.130 --> 00:39:30.989
Guitar Hero guy. I actually watched him on YouTube

00:39:30.989 --> 00:39:36.050
play Eruption. on the hard level on guitar hero

00:39:36.050 --> 00:39:40.030
and just absolutely annihilated like ridiculous

00:39:40.030 --> 00:39:42.710
he'll know the answer to that question so david

00:39:42.710 --> 00:39:45.409
when you're listening to this chime in and let

00:39:45.409 --> 00:39:47.829
us know and i'll follow up on social media the

00:39:47.829 --> 00:39:50.349
song reached number 26 on the billboard us hot

00:39:50.349 --> 00:39:53.349
100 i actually thought it was a top 20 hit so

00:39:53.349 --> 00:39:56.389
i was surprised by that fact and another interesting

00:39:56.389 --> 00:39:59.840
fact about the song thomas dolby plays the main

00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:04.019
synthesizers on the track, and the story's lead

00:40:04.019 --> 00:40:07.960
singer, Ian Lloyd, and Robert Mutt -Lang are

00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:11.980
singing background vocals on the track. I also

00:40:11.980 --> 00:40:14.719
like the fact that in kind of a nod or a similar

00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:18.059
fashion of 2112, there's this kind of storytelling

00:40:18.059 --> 00:40:21.239
in the song. You know, kid gets sold out of show,

00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:25.420
kid hears guitar, kid has epiphany, kid learns

00:40:25.420 --> 00:40:29.599
to play guitar, kid becomes rock star. you know

00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:33.059
the jukebox hero it's that old story absolutely

00:40:33.059 --> 00:40:35.780
and i'm not going to spoil the ending this too

00:40:35.780 --> 00:40:38.360
has an ending to it that i could spoil so i'm

00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:40.239
not going to do that even though you probably

00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:43.179
know jukebox hero i don't want to spoil the ending

00:40:43.179 --> 00:40:45.780
of jukebox hero so what i'm going to do is move

00:40:45.780 --> 00:40:48.800
on to the next track and i'm going to cheat because

00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:51.139
it is my show and every now and then i could

00:40:51.139 --> 00:40:54.019
cheat and i'm going to cheat here because technically

00:40:54.019 --> 00:40:58.369
on streaming This is broken out as two songs,

00:40:58.469 --> 00:41:01.630
but growing up listening to this album on vinyl,

00:41:01.789 --> 00:41:05.710
if I hear the flamenco guitar opening to little

00:41:05.710 --> 00:41:09.550
guitars in little guitar intro, I want to hear

00:41:09.550 --> 00:41:12.969
the entire little guitar song. However, if the

00:41:12.969 --> 00:41:15.050
little guitar song starts and I don't hear the

00:41:15.050 --> 00:41:17.969
flamenco acoustic guitar intro, I feel like I

00:41:17.969 --> 00:41:21.269
got cheated. So I am doing a twofer on this going

00:41:21.269 --> 00:41:24.809
with little guitars intro into little guitars

00:41:24.809 --> 00:41:27.599
because. It's just kind of wrong to separate

00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:31.300
them. And we're doing a guitar episode. So I

00:41:31.300 --> 00:41:33.719
feel like mentioning Eddie just has to happen

00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:36.900
at some point. Sure. And I'd be remiss. I sound

00:41:36.900 --> 00:41:39.019
like I'm a promo whore tonight and I apologize,

00:41:39.099 --> 00:41:43.440
but episode 46. the ultimate Van Halen playlist

00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:47.059
with Eric Senich of the Van Halen News Desk and

00:41:47.059 --> 00:41:50.400
Patreon mixtaper Cactus Pete. It's a feature

00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:54.159
film length episode of the show because Van Halen

00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:57.380
needed that kind of time. And I won't spoil if

00:41:57.380 --> 00:41:59.719
this song made the cut or not, but how could

00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:02.280
it not make the cut tonight? It's a song about

00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:04.760
guitars with some of the most amazing guitar

00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:08.389
work ever. So little guitars. Great song. Great

00:42:08.389 --> 00:42:11.530
pick. This is one of those picks on this list

00:42:11.530 --> 00:42:14.050
that like, you know, I think about it and I'm

00:42:14.050 --> 00:42:15.849
like, you know, of course Van Halen had to have

00:42:15.849 --> 00:42:19.630
something that would fit here. But a lot of like

00:42:19.630 --> 00:42:22.289
favorites that you would think have a song about

00:42:22.289 --> 00:42:24.409
guitars. I was like, God, they got to have something.

00:42:24.449 --> 00:42:27.909
And they just there wasn't anything. And so I'm

00:42:27.909 --> 00:42:30.530
glad Van Halen has a song that could fit this

00:42:30.530 --> 00:42:32.449
list, because how could you not have them on

00:42:32.449 --> 00:42:36.550
this list? Like you said. Right. So we got Eddie

00:42:36.550 --> 00:42:38.690
on the list. We got Chuck Berry on the list.

00:42:38.730 --> 00:42:41.309
We got foreigners jukebox here. So we're checking

00:42:41.309 --> 00:42:44.190
off some of the big boxes. What do we have next?

00:42:45.010 --> 00:42:47.889
We've got Dire Straits, which we got to also

00:42:47.889 --> 00:42:50.010
include on this list. We're going to go with

00:42:50.010 --> 00:42:52.889
Sultans of Swing from the self -titled Dire Straits

00:42:52.889 --> 00:42:55.610
album, 1978. For some reason, I remember not

00:42:55.610 --> 00:42:58.329
liking this song when I was a kid. And just later

00:42:58.329 --> 00:43:00.389
on in life, I was like, what the hell was I thinking?

00:43:00.510 --> 00:43:03.900
Like this song just absolutely rules. I will

00:43:03.900 --> 00:43:07.260
say, though, that it exists in this level of

00:43:07.260 --> 00:43:10.440
cool that just doesn't really work nowadays,

00:43:10.900 --> 00:43:14.679
but worked so well back then. And I think that's

00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:16.239
part of its charm, though, and I think part of

00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:19.079
what makes it so great. And it fits in with all

00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:21.599
the storytelling. It fits in with songs about

00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:24.539
guitar players and what they can do with the

00:43:24.539 --> 00:43:27.559
guitar. And it's just an absolutely killer track.

00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:32.719
From their self -titled 1978 masterpiece. I mean,

00:43:32.739 --> 00:43:37.599
I love the story behind this song. And that story

00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:40.179
is that Mark Knopfler went to a bar in Ipswich

00:43:40.179 --> 00:43:43.760
on a rainy night. And this, we'll just call it

00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:47.500
not so great band, was finishing up a set for

00:43:47.500 --> 00:43:50.260
like the bartender and like two people at the

00:43:50.260 --> 00:43:54.300
bar. When they ended, apparently the singer unironically

00:43:54.300 --> 00:43:57.630
said. Good night and thank you. We are the Sultans

00:43:57.630 --> 00:44:01.050
of Swing. Amazing. Mark thought that was hysterical

00:44:01.050 --> 00:44:04.389
because, as he puts it, and I quote, Sultans

00:44:04.389 --> 00:44:07.110
they were not. Now, there's a reason this song

00:44:07.110 --> 00:44:10.510
is covered all the time by aspiring guitarists

00:44:10.510 --> 00:44:13.650
on TikTok and on YouTube short videos because

00:44:13.650 --> 00:44:18.329
this is an insanely hard guitar solo to tackle.

00:44:18.510 --> 00:44:22.559
Sure. when you're trying to match the tone that

00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:25.679
Mark brought to this song. If you add distortion

00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:28.960
to the song, some of the notes you could kind

00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:33.320
of bridge together easier than the way that Mark

00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:37.679
pulls it off with that clean, crisp, tight tone.

00:44:38.139 --> 00:44:41.239
So this song is almost a trap when you think

00:44:41.239 --> 00:44:43.559
like, oh, that can't be that tough to play. But

00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:45.800
when you listen to it and you realize he's playing

00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:49.369
it clean, it's ridiculous. There's no room for

00:44:49.369 --> 00:44:52.429
mistakes whatsoever. And I mean, that's why he's

00:44:52.429 --> 00:44:54.510
up there when we talk about some of the best

00:44:54.510 --> 00:44:57.809
guitar players. And I am going to cheat again.

00:44:57.929 --> 00:45:01.449
I am sorry, My Weekly Mixtape listeners, but

00:45:01.449 --> 00:45:05.510
Brian Colburn is going rogue tonight. You just

00:45:05.510 --> 00:45:08.969
picked Mark Knopfler. However, you picked Dire

00:45:08.969 --> 00:45:12.590
Straits. And I found a loophole to cheat. And

00:45:12.590 --> 00:45:15.090
I'm going to take that loophole because I want

00:45:15.090 --> 00:45:17.170
to talk about Mark Knopfler again. I'm still

00:45:17.170 --> 00:45:21.590
on a high because just a few episodes ago, episode

00:45:21.590 --> 00:45:25.909
70 .5, the bonus episode, I had Guy Fletcher

00:45:25.909 --> 00:45:29.210
from Dire Straits on the podcast to talk about

00:45:29.210 --> 00:45:32.530
Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes Going Home theme

00:45:32.530 --> 00:45:37.039
from Local Hero. And Guy talks about, because

00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:39.440
we kind of go through a lot of Mark Knopfler's

00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:42.420
career and Guy's with Dire Straits in the episode,

00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:48.119
the 1991 duo album of Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler

00:45:48.119 --> 00:45:51.500
called Neck and Neck. And he talks about this

00:45:51.500 --> 00:45:54.630
song on that episode, which is why I'm. promo

00:45:54.630 --> 00:45:57.489
whore Brian again, apparently. But I'm going

00:45:57.489 --> 00:45:59.929
to go with one that Patreon mixtaper Philip Bergman

00:45:59.929 --> 00:46:02.929
chimed in with the original, which was Chet Atkins'

00:46:03.070 --> 00:46:05.289
Yakety Yak's. But I'm going to go with the one

00:46:05.289 --> 00:46:08.289
from 1991's Neck and Neck that features Mark

00:46:08.289 --> 00:46:12.010
Knopfler and lyrics on this version because it

00:46:12.010 --> 00:46:14.070
adds, again, a little bit more of a storytelling

00:46:14.070 --> 00:46:18.230
vibe to it. and it's a cheat, but it's pretty

00:46:18.230 --> 00:46:20.969
cool to come out of Mark Knopfler into Mark Knopfler

00:46:20.969 --> 00:46:23.989
with a legend like Chet Atkins, who's really

00:46:23.989 --> 00:46:28.449
kind of the, he's the star of this song because

00:46:28.449 --> 00:46:32.110
it's his original, which is a remake from a song,

00:46:32.230 --> 00:46:35.690
Yakety Sax. However, it's a Chet Atkins tune

00:46:35.690 --> 00:46:39.269
that Mark is kind of sitting back on, on this

00:46:39.269 --> 00:46:42.250
duo album. And I feel like. it's a good cheat

00:46:42.250 --> 00:46:45.489
to go dire straits into a feature of Mark and

00:46:45.489 --> 00:46:47.869
I can't get enough of Mark's guitar playing anyway.

00:46:47.969 --> 00:46:50.750
So there you go. Yeah, absolutely. This is a

00:46:50.750 --> 00:46:54.230
fun pick. And I was trying to kind of place it.

00:46:54.269 --> 00:46:57.070
Like I was trying to imagine when this song came

00:46:57.070 --> 00:46:59.829
out, like guitar nerds at the time must've just

00:46:59.829 --> 00:47:02.489
like, it must've blown their minds hearing this.

00:47:02.750 --> 00:47:05.909
It blows my mind to this day hearing it. Yeah.

00:47:07.789 --> 00:47:09.710
All right, what are we going to follow up the

00:47:09.710 --> 00:47:14.929
pair of Mark Knopfler tracks with? A great songwriter,

00:47:15.050 --> 00:47:17.590
let's put it that way. I'm going to go with Jason

00:47:17.590 --> 00:47:20.949
Isbell's Something to Love from his 2017 album,

00:47:21.210 --> 00:47:24.010
The Nashville Sound. This is just a fantastic

00:47:24.010 --> 00:47:27.469
song that closes out the album and it's really

00:47:27.469 --> 00:47:29.889
basically about passing down music from generation

00:47:29.889 --> 00:47:33.579
to generation. In the lyrics to the song, he's

00:47:33.579 --> 00:47:36.920
talking about how he learned a love of music

00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:39.739
from his family, sitting out on the porch and

00:47:39.739 --> 00:47:42.059
learning chords and learning to play and learning

00:47:42.059 --> 00:47:45.480
to sing. And now he's passing that down to his

00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:48.679
child. And it's just a real celebration of music

00:47:48.679 --> 00:47:51.719
and a beautiful song. And I think it beautifully

00:47:51.719 --> 00:47:54.679
closes out the album, which is one of his best

00:47:54.679 --> 00:47:57.780
albums, I think. as far as like we're talking

00:47:57.780 --> 00:48:00.679
celebrations of the guitar i think this does

00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:03.260
that while also celebrating the art of songwriting

00:48:03.260 --> 00:48:06.239
as well which you know of course is just so tied

00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:09.070
together with the exact same thing Believe it

00:48:09.070 --> 00:48:11.210
or not, I've never heard a Jason Isbell song

00:48:11.210 --> 00:48:14.690
that I don't like, but I've never done a catalog

00:48:14.690 --> 00:48:17.690
dive of all of his albums. I really need to do

00:48:17.690 --> 00:48:20.210
that because when you talk about a lyric, I know

00:48:20.210 --> 00:48:22.389
you brought this up in the story, but the lyric

00:48:22.389 --> 00:48:25.949
itself, we made music on the porch on Sunday

00:48:25.949 --> 00:48:29.349
nights, old men with old guitars smoking Winston

00:48:29.349 --> 00:48:33.469
lights. Amazing. So vivid. Yeah. It paints the

00:48:33.469 --> 00:48:36.880
picture. And it's just such a vulnerable open

00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:41.980
sound in this song. And he is such a gifted songwriter.

00:48:42.300 --> 00:48:45.099
Yeah. And I think that's what I'm going to tap

00:48:45.099 --> 00:48:47.719
into to follow it up because you scooped my favorite

00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:50.440
songwriter of all time with the first song of

00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:52.980
the episode. So I'm going to go with my second

00:48:52.980 --> 00:48:57.780
favorite singer songwriter of all time. Okay.

00:48:58.059 --> 00:49:03.389
And this is a guy that, I mean. When I discovered

00:49:03.389 --> 00:49:05.730
his music, I didn't even realize I'd already

00:49:05.730 --> 00:49:08.630
known his music. Because he's the songwriter

00:49:08.630 --> 00:49:11.710
to Bonnie Raitt's Thing Called Love and the co

00:49:11.710 --> 00:49:14.849
-writer to Jeff Healy Band's Angel Eyes, along

00:49:14.849 --> 00:49:17.949
with Fred Kohler. I'm going to go with John Hyatt

00:49:17.949 --> 00:49:22.309
and the title track to 1993's Perfectly Good

00:49:22.309 --> 00:49:25.670
Guitar. A few nights before I shipped off to

00:49:25.670 --> 00:49:28.510
college my freshman year. I was getting ready

00:49:28.510 --> 00:49:30.070
to pack and I'm kind of just flipping through

00:49:30.070 --> 00:49:31.630
the channels trying to find something to put

00:49:31.630 --> 00:49:35.110
on as I'm packing. And I stumbled across John's

00:49:35.110 --> 00:49:38.769
live from Austin, Texas performance. And all

00:49:38.769 --> 00:49:41.809
I know is I stopped packing and I just sat there

00:49:41.809 --> 00:49:44.190
and watched the entire thing. And I instantly

00:49:44.190 --> 00:49:48.369
became a fan of his entire vibe, just everything

00:49:48.369 --> 00:49:52.760
about him. When it was over, I finished up packing

00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:55.119
and my folks said, you know, before we head out

00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:56.940
tomorrow, is there anything you need that we

00:49:56.940 --> 00:50:00.000
got to hit before we whisk you off to college?

00:50:00.340 --> 00:50:03.199
And I said, I just watched this really awesome

00:50:03.199 --> 00:50:07.500
special on TV and I got a long drive ahead of

00:50:07.500 --> 00:50:10.280
me. I'd love to grab this CD for the ride. And

00:50:10.280 --> 00:50:12.460
before we left, they took me to the music store

00:50:12.460 --> 00:50:17.019
and I grabbed 1993's Perfectly Good Guitar. My

00:50:17.019 --> 00:50:19.820
first drive down to college is filled with memories

00:50:19.820 --> 00:50:22.719
from this album. And you don't want to smash

00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:25.079
a perfectly good guitar. This is a song about

00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:29.500
anti -guitar violence. And I think that's a message

00:50:29.500 --> 00:50:32.260
that needs to be put out there. Because at the

00:50:32.260 --> 00:50:36.440
time of this song, Garth Brooks, who was massive,

00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:40.460
completely blowing up, was making it a point

00:50:40.460 --> 00:50:43.059
to smash guitars at the end of his shows. Well,

00:50:43.079 --> 00:50:46.079
93, I feel like everybody was. Oh, sure. And

00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:48.440
like grunge and punk. But this was mainstream

00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:51.699
country. This was a completely different audience.

00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:54.320
But actually, no matter what genre we're talking

00:50:54.320 --> 00:51:00.960
about here, stop. This is a PSA of epic proportions.

00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:05.099
Absolutely. Absolutely. I got to admit, I am

00:51:05.099 --> 00:51:08.019
not really familiar with John Hyatt that much.

00:51:08.179 --> 00:51:12.179
Like I heard this song and. Hearing you describe

00:51:12.179 --> 00:51:14.900
your love of John Hyatt songwriting. I really

00:51:14.900 --> 00:51:17.940
want to take the dive now because I found this

00:51:17.940 --> 00:51:20.179
song to be like super silly, but really great.

00:51:20.679 --> 00:51:23.699
It's, you know, almost borders on novelty in

00:51:23.699 --> 00:51:25.739
a way, just because of how it's just like this

00:51:25.739 --> 00:51:28.159
kind of silly idea of like, like you said, a

00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:32.099
PSA almost like do not smash guitars. So now

00:51:32.099 --> 00:51:33.900
I want to hear like some of his other songwriting

00:51:33.900 --> 00:51:36.710
and see like where that vibe takes him. Well,

00:51:36.730 --> 00:51:39.130
I'll tell you this. You're a movie guy. You host

00:51:39.130 --> 00:51:41.489
a movie podcast. Have you ever seen the Disney

00:51:41.489 --> 00:51:44.550
movie that came out? I want to say it was 2003

00:51:44.550 --> 00:51:48.590
or 2004. The live action The Country Bears. You

00:51:48.590 --> 00:51:50.710
know, it's funny. One of my friends who likes

00:51:50.710 --> 00:51:53.590
a lot of like movies that don't necessarily have

00:51:53.590 --> 00:51:56.449
the best reputations was just telling me that

00:51:56.449 --> 00:51:59.130
he loves that movie and that I need to watch

00:51:59.130 --> 00:52:03.510
it. So do I. And a lot of the soundtrack is written

00:52:03.510 --> 00:52:06.980
by John Hyatt. including the closing song, which

00:52:06.980 --> 00:52:10.719
is just a beautiful track. He is a masterful

00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:15.119
songwriter that just for some reason, like if

00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:18.860
you know who John Hyatt is, you know exactly

00:52:18.860 --> 00:52:21.179
what I'm talking about. Why he wasn't bigger

00:52:21.179 --> 00:52:23.960
is beyond me because there were other artists

00:52:23.960 --> 00:52:26.139
that were able to take his songs to new heights.

00:52:26.260 --> 00:52:30.760
Even when BB King and Eric Clapton put out their

00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:33.739
duo album, riding with the King, riding with

00:52:33.739 --> 00:52:36.739
the King. John Hyatt song. Oh, there you go.

00:52:36.940 --> 00:52:39.119
There you go. Wow. All right. Yeah, I'm going

00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:42.599
to have to dive in. I got to listen to more for

00:52:42.599 --> 00:52:45.699
sure. You do that as I'm diving into Jason Isbell.

00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:47.900
And now I'm throwing it back to you to follow

00:52:47.900 --> 00:52:51.519
up that pair of amazing singer songwriters. What

00:52:51.519 --> 00:52:54.420
do we got next? Well, I'm going to Prince for

00:52:54.420 --> 00:52:58.690
my next pick here. Prince, another guitar god

00:52:58.690 --> 00:53:01.989
to add to this list with the song Guitar from

00:53:01.989 --> 00:53:06.559
a late era album, 2007's Planet Earth. Who doesn't

00:53:06.559 --> 00:53:08.579
like Prince? But I was always more of a Michael

00:53:08.579 --> 00:53:11.719
Jackson guy myself, to be honest. But this was

00:53:11.719 --> 00:53:14.699
one of the songs that I was just like, oh, you

00:53:14.699 --> 00:53:16.780
know what? Hell yeah, I'm into this. And of course,

00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:18.539
who doesn't love the classic Prince stuff? But

00:53:18.539 --> 00:53:21.280
I mean of the later era stuff. But this is just

00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:24.440
a killer song. And I hadn't heard it in years.

00:53:24.579 --> 00:53:26.780
But it was kind of in the back of my mind when

00:53:26.780 --> 00:53:29.699
we started this exercise here. And I was like,

00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:32.119
I wonder how that song Guitar by Prince holds

00:53:32.119 --> 00:53:34.500
up. And I went back and listened to it. And I

00:53:34.500 --> 00:53:36.500
was like, it's Prince. Of course, it's great,

00:53:36.659 --> 00:53:40.239
you know, and it's a great concept for a song

00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:43.019
telling this girl that, you know, he loves her,

00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:44.980
but just not like he loves his guitar. I mean,

00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:48.539
it's it's a great like kiss off of a song. Great

00:53:48.539 --> 00:53:52.000
attitude, you know, and it's just a really fun

00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:54.340
one. And it's got that sense of humor to it.

00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:57.179
And it's also got some great freaking guitar

00:53:57.179 --> 00:53:59.579
playing. Of course it's Prince. I mean, that

00:53:59.579 --> 00:54:01.280
goes without saying, I don't think there's any

00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:03.119
Prince song where you're like, well, you know,

00:54:03.139 --> 00:54:05.219
that Prince song with the mediocre guitar playing,

00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:08.519
but this one is just on another level. Shout

00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:11.079
out to Patreon mixtape or Sherry Thomas who chimed

00:54:11.079 --> 00:54:14.320
in with this one. This song ranked number 39

00:54:14.320 --> 00:54:17.500
on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best songs

00:54:17.500 --> 00:54:21.119
from 2007. So it was definitely recognized and

00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:25.340
it charted in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands,

00:54:25.639 --> 00:54:30.440
Switzerland, and the UK, but not in the US. I

00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:33.019
kind of think we got it wrong. I think the US

00:54:33.019 --> 00:54:35.500
got it wrong because this is a great, great track.

00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:38.480
Yeah, absolutely. I think I saw him in 2007.

00:54:38.739 --> 00:54:41.480
Actually, I was promoting this. I was I was working

00:54:41.480 --> 00:54:43.460
for a label at the time and promoting bands.

00:54:43.739 --> 00:54:45.800
And yeah, we were promoting this and I got to

00:54:45.800 --> 00:54:49.019
see him. And of course, amazing, amazing show.

00:54:49.519 --> 00:54:51.599
But yeah, I don't know why this one just didn't

00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:53.880
quite take off at this kind of era in his career.

00:54:53.940 --> 00:54:55.739
Just wasn't nothing was really like connecting

00:54:55.739 --> 00:54:58.900
exactly. Yeah, that's unfortunately a musical

00:54:58.900 --> 00:55:01.320
bucket list that I won't be able to check off.

00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:06.150
But man, just a another worldly talent and i

00:55:06.150 --> 00:55:09.969
think i'm gonna go back to this talent and again

00:55:09.969 --> 00:55:12.489
i'm not cheating this time because we're gonna

00:55:12.489 --> 00:55:15.130
talk about it of course we're gonna talk about

00:55:15.130 --> 00:55:19.650
it we have to talk about it but once again shout

00:55:19.650 --> 00:55:23.619
out to a patreon mixtaper we are really checking

00:55:23.619 --> 00:55:26.860
off the boxes and in sync with the Patreon mixtapers

00:55:26.860 --> 00:55:29.239
tonight. That doesn't happen all the time, but

00:55:29.239 --> 00:55:32.139
we are in lockstep tonight. Tom Hutchinson, he

00:55:32.139 --> 00:55:36.260
chimed in with both the Beatles and the Tom Petty

00:55:36.260 --> 00:55:39.460
Prince version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:43.260
However, we've talked about Tom Petty and we've

00:55:43.260 --> 00:55:46.000
talked about Prince, so I feel like it's probably

00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:50.219
fitting to bring George Harrison and Eric Clapton.

00:55:50.730 --> 00:55:53.110
Yeah. Into the discussion tonight and go off

00:55:53.110 --> 00:55:57.329
of 1968, the Beatles or the white album. Rolling

00:55:57.329 --> 00:56:01.150
stone ranks at one 35 on its list of the 500

00:56:01.150 --> 00:56:04.469
greatest songs of all time. Seventh on the 100

00:56:04.469 --> 00:56:07.630
greatest guitar songs of all time. And number

00:56:07.630 --> 00:56:11.510
10 on its list of the Beatles, 100 greatest songs.

00:56:11.710 --> 00:56:17.130
And in 2008, it ranked number 42 in guitar worlds,

00:56:17.210 --> 00:56:21.460
2008 list. of the 100 greatest guitar solos.

00:56:21.460 --> 00:56:25.900
Now, the guitar is not the literal focus of the

00:56:25.900 --> 00:56:30.599
song, but the emotions that the lyrics are conveying

00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:36.079
are spoken through the lens of the guitar, so

00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:39.019
to speak. And to me, that's a really interesting

00:56:39.019 --> 00:56:43.260
way to tell the story. And it's, I think, one

00:56:43.260 --> 00:56:46.559
of the more powerful George Harrison moments

00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:49.579
in his time with the Beatles saying like, I could

00:56:49.579 --> 00:56:53.679
write some like you get to all things must pass

00:56:53.679 --> 00:56:56.739
through while my guitar gently weeps. This is

00:56:56.739 --> 00:56:59.699
George Harrison flexing his songwriting muscles

00:56:59.699 --> 00:57:02.800
here. Absolutely. Yeah. And I've never been a

00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:05.079
big Beatles guy. Like, you know, this is another

00:57:05.079 --> 00:57:07.340
one where it's like, of course we all love a

00:57:07.340 --> 00:57:10.420
lot of their songs, but this was always the best

00:57:10.420 --> 00:57:13.559
I felt. And especially the covers, like it's

00:57:13.559 --> 00:57:16.800
just a great song that has been brought to life

00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:18.760
in all these amazing ways. You mentioned some

00:57:18.760 --> 00:57:21.760
of them already, but like whenever you hear a

00:57:21.760 --> 00:57:24.059
cover of while my guitar gently weeps, like you

00:57:24.059 --> 00:57:26.179
could kind of know whoever it is, they're going

00:57:26.179 --> 00:57:28.099
to put some kind of spin on it and they're going

00:57:28.099 --> 00:57:30.320
to connect with it. And it's, It feels like a

00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:32.599
song that just means a lot to anybody who picks

00:57:32.599 --> 00:57:35.980
up a guitar. Well, David, we are down to one

00:57:35.980 --> 00:57:39.760
last song and I get to turn it over to you. You

00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:41.900
started the evening and now you get to close

00:57:41.900 --> 00:57:45.039
out the evening. What is going to put the cherry

00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:49.800
on top of our songs about guitars Sunday? Well,

00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:53.119
a lot of the picks that I made kind of stretched

00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:55.340
the original premise in a lot of different ways.

00:57:55.400 --> 00:57:58.400
But this one is 100 % on the money. Exactly what

00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:01.219
you asked me to do. Songs about guitars. It's

00:58:01.219 --> 00:58:04.900
James Taylor, Me and My Guitar. Nice. It is from

00:58:04.900 --> 00:58:11.719
1974's Working Man. And I mean, this is it. This

00:58:11.719 --> 00:58:15.599
is just a song about an amazing songwriter. Writing

00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:18.980
about his guitar, basically, and why he loves

00:58:18.980 --> 00:58:22.239
it, why he loves writing songs with it, why he

00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:24.559
loves spending time being a musician and why

00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:28.780
he chose this life, you know, and it's a great

00:58:28.780 --> 00:58:31.940
song. And I think it's a really integral part

00:58:31.940 --> 00:58:34.780
of a playlist like this. You're definitely going

00:58:34.780 --> 00:58:37.280
to score points with my wife on this one. James

00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:39.239
Taylor is one of her all time favorites. I've

00:58:39.239 --> 00:58:42.809
heard all of his albums through her. This is

00:58:42.809 --> 00:58:45.710
definitely a top five James Taylor song for me

00:58:45.710 --> 00:58:49.030
personally. It's fun. It's funky. The storytelling

00:58:49.030 --> 00:58:51.769
is incredible. Two kind of lyrics that stick

00:58:51.769 --> 00:58:54.769
out to me in this song is he hops up on my knee

00:58:54.769 --> 00:58:58.250
singing, get down pops. It's song time. Like

00:58:58.250 --> 00:59:02.329
how vivid is that? And then my favorite lyric

00:59:02.329 --> 00:59:04.530
in the song, which I think really sums up the

00:59:04.530 --> 00:59:07.809
evening as a whole, but pay no attention to the

00:59:07.809 --> 00:59:10.809
man behind the curtain. It's me and my guitar.

00:59:11.469 --> 00:59:16.610
And there you have it, folks. Side B of our Songs

00:59:16.610 --> 00:59:19.349
About Guitars playlist, which kicked off with

00:59:19.349 --> 00:59:24.269
Rush's 2112, Foreigner's Jukebox Hero, Van Halen's

00:59:24.269 --> 00:59:26.630
Little Guitars. Yes, I'm throwing the intro in

00:59:26.630 --> 00:59:30.409
as well. Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing, Chet

00:59:30.409 --> 00:59:33.449
Atkins and Mark Knopfler's Yakety Axe, Jason

00:59:33.449 --> 00:59:36.789
Isbell's Something to Love, John Hyatt's Perfectly

00:59:36.789 --> 00:59:40.340
Good Guitar. Prince's guitar, The Beatles' While

00:59:40.340 --> 00:59:43.820
My Guitar Gently Weeps, and James Taylor's Me

00:59:43.820 --> 00:59:47.400
and My Guitar. Head over to myweeklymixtape .com

00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:49.539
to hear all the songs we've discussed in this

00:59:49.539 --> 00:59:52.820
mix through the playlist embedded on the episode

00:59:52.820 --> 00:59:57.099
page. Well, David Rosen, piecing it together,

00:59:57.300 --> 00:59:59.800
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