WEBVTT 00:00:10.419 --> 00:00:13.300 Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that 00:00:13.300 --> 00:00:16.339 takes the classic mixtape approach to building 00:00:16.339 --> 00:00:18.980 a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn. 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:22.280 Joining me once again on the show is John Laurie, 00:00:22.539 --> 00:00:24.940 drummer for Tantric. John, welcome back to the 00:00:24.940 --> 00:00:28.379 show, my friend. Ah, so happy to be back, as 00:00:28.379 --> 00:00:32.259 always. You were here all the way back on Episode 00:00:32.259 --> 00:00:35.539 9, the ultimate greatest rock drummer's playlist, 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:40.479 as well as... Episode 40, the ultimate underrated 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:43.740 drummer's playlist. But tonight, for your three 00:00:43.740 --> 00:00:47.299 -peat on the show, we're pivoting away from a 00:00:47.299 --> 00:00:51.299 drum -centric topic, unless you use a steering 00:00:51.299 --> 00:00:54.299 wheel as a makeshift drum kit, and I am very 00:00:54.299 --> 00:00:57.780 guilty of that. Tonight, our topic is the ultimate 00:00:57.780 --> 00:01:02.219 hard rock road trip playlist. So, John, as someone 00:01:02.219 --> 00:01:05.659 who spends a lot of time on the road with Tantric, 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:09.260 What were you looking to bring to the musical 00:01:09.260 --> 00:01:13.549 mix this evening? Oh, this was hard because number 00:01:13.549 --> 00:01:16.750 one, it's not drum centered, as you said. And 00:01:16.750 --> 00:01:19.230 that's a little strange. I'm like, I'm going 00:01:19.230 --> 00:01:21.969 to have to pick songs that I enjoy listening 00:01:21.969 --> 00:01:25.969 to while I drive, but also pick songs that maybe 00:01:25.969 --> 00:01:29.129 I was trying to go with the not so on the nose 00:01:29.129 --> 00:01:32.069 thing. But then I ended up defaulting to a lot 00:01:32.069 --> 00:01:34.189 of songs that had to do with driving because 00:01:34.189 --> 00:01:36.189 I'm like, that's a great song and it gets me 00:01:36.189 --> 00:01:39.170 amped to drive. And full disclosure. When you're 00:01:39.170 --> 00:01:42.790 kind of in a touring rock band, I feel like I 00:01:42.790 --> 00:01:45.890 listen to so much rock music that sometimes it's 00:01:45.890 --> 00:01:48.730 really the, this would be the driving jazz playlist. 00:01:48.849 --> 00:01:51.430 If this was what I actually listened to on the 00:01:51.430 --> 00:01:55.129 road, it would be a lot of jazz. But here we 00:01:55.129 --> 00:01:57.150 are and we're talking about rock music. And these 00:01:57.150 --> 00:01:59.829 were songs that I remember having my first car 00:01:59.829 --> 00:02:04.230 and just blasting these songs while I was driving 00:02:04.230 --> 00:02:06.310 for the first time with that first feeling of 00:02:06.310 --> 00:02:10.370 freedom. That's this. Awesome. And my approach 00:02:10.370 --> 00:02:13.409 was very similar to yours. You don't realize 00:02:13.409 --> 00:02:17.430 just how many songs there are about road trips 00:02:17.430 --> 00:02:22.069 and driving and cars. It's a pretty popular topic, 00:02:22.150 --> 00:02:24.030 even when you go all the way back to the 50s 00:02:24.030 --> 00:02:27.050 and 60s. There is no shortage of these type of 00:02:27.050 --> 00:02:30.569 songs. However, there was an outlier of songs 00:02:30.569 --> 00:02:32.969 that I put at the bottom of the list that are 00:02:32.969 --> 00:02:35.469 songs I love to rock out to when I'm driving, 00:02:35.550 --> 00:02:38.659 but have absolutely nothing to do. with being 00:02:38.659 --> 00:02:41.719 behind the wheel of anything. So I'll be interested 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:44.879 to see, because I've got a list of over 40 songs 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:47.139 right now, which ones I pick and choose from. 00:02:47.580 --> 00:02:51.500 My list is right around 30, so I'm kind of up 00:02:51.500 --> 00:02:54.270 there with you. And I think... You know, there 00:02:54.270 --> 00:02:56.750 are songs you get super amped about while you 00:02:56.750 --> 00:02:59.430 drive and they kind of force your foot to push 00:02:59.430 --> 00:03:02.110 down on the gas just a little bit and you don't 00:03:02.110 --> 00:03:04.210 even realize it. So I kind of went with those 00:03:04.210 --> 00:03:08.250 as well. And I also picked a lot of songs that 00:03:08.250 --> 00:03:13.430 were more modern than towards the 80s realm or 00:03:13.430 --> 00:03:17.150 the 90s where we started to see bands get a little 00:03:17.150 --> 00:03:19.870 bit more aggressive with their approach. So, 00:03:19.930 --> 00:03:22.050 yeah, it's going to be super interesting. Very 00:03:22.050 --> 00:03:24.580 excited. Well, let's get down to business tonight. 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:27.360 As I mentioned at the top of the show, John and 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:30.479 I will be curating a hard rock road trip mixtape, 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:32.719 and we'll use the old cassette deck approach. 00:03:33.259 --> 00:03:35.900 John, as my special guest, will begin side A 00:03:35.900 --> 00:03:38.340 with his first song choice, and then I'll add 00:03:38.340 --> 00:03:40.719 a song that I feel best follows up that choice. 00:03:40.900 --> 00:03:43.379 We'll then flip -flop choosing songs until we've 00:03:43.379 --> 00:03:47.050 mapped out 10 songs for side A. We'll then give 00:03:47.050 --> 00:03:49.849 our mixtape a proverbial flip and we'll map outside. 00:03:49.949 --> 00:03:52.449 Be only this time, I'll kick things off with 00:03:52.449 --> 00:03:55.210 John choosing second. Our overall goal for the 00:03:55.210 --> 00:03:58.229 episode is to craft the best hard rock road trip 00:03:58.229 --> 00:04:02.210 mixtape possible through only 20 songs. At the 00:04:02.210 --> 00:04:03.810 end of the show, you can take our conversation 00:04:03.810 --> 00:04:06.889 to the next level by visiting the episode page 00:04:06.889 --> 00:04:09.990 at myweeklymixtape .com to give our final mixtape 00:04:09.990 --> 00:04:13.460 a listen via the embedded playlist. 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Mike Daly 00:04:44.810 --> 00:04:47.310 chimed in with Rage Against the Machines' Sleep 00:04:47.310 --> 00:04:49.829 Now in the Fire to set the tone for the rest 00:04:49.829 --> 00:04:54.009 of the trip. David Owens chimed in saying ACDC 00:04:54.009 --> 00:04:56.769 deserves some recognition in this mix. And he 00:04:56.769 --> 00:04:58.949 went with It's a Long Way to the Top if you want 00:04:58.949 --> 00:05:02.220 to rock and roll. David Lee Smith chimed in with 00:05:02.220 --> 00:05:06.139 Badlands Hard Driver. Sean Goff chimed in saying 00:05:06.139 --> 00:05:09.199 the first time he heard this song and band, he 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:12.459 was on a road trip with his uncle in his Thunderbird 00:05:12.459 --> 00:05:15.180 with the T -Tops down. And that track would be 00:05:15.180 --> 00:05:19.220 Tesla's Modern Day Cowboy. Philip Bergman chimed 00:05:19.220 --> 00:05:22.800 in with Finger Eleven's Paralyzer. Chad LaMassa 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.759 chimed in with Dead Sarah's Weatherman saying 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:29.120 Suzy Medley's opening riff is absolutely amazing. 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:33.100 Sticking with that opening riff theme, Tom Hutchinson 00:05:33.100 --> 00:05:37.459 said the same about Ted Nugent's Snake Skin Cowboys. 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:41.000 And finally. Seeker chimed in with Iron Maiden's 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.779 The Writing on the Wall, saying the opening sounds 00:05:43.779 --> 00:05:47.680 almost country or desert rock, and the song as 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.399 well as the video have a lot of allusions to 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:52.980 riding, traveling, and questing. Once again, 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:55.519 if you'd like to chime in on a future My Weekly 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:58.500 Mixtape episode, you could join the Patreon mixtaper 00:05:58.500 --> 00:06:03.160 family at patreon .com forward slash myweeklymixtape. 00:06:03.819 --> 00:06:06.139 John, I'm officially pressing the record button 00:06:06.139 --> 00:06:09.639 on this mixtape and the keys are yours. What 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:15.259 song are you using to get this show on the road? 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:24.120 Oh, man. Well, with that, I'm going to go with 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:27.540 Fuel by Metallica. Number one. I think that's 00:06:27.540 --> 00:06:31.000 like hard rock driving song about driving and 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:35.399 cars and muscle. Fire and things. Yeah, I'm fueled 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:38.379 by Metallica. All you have to say is give me 00:06:38.379 --> 00:06:40.660 fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire. 00:06:41.370 --> 00:06:45.689 And everybody knows what's about to happen. And 00:06:45.689 --> 00:06:47.610 there's actually a really funny meme I love out 00:06:47.610 --> 00:06:49.910 there that just says, give me fuel, give me fire, 00:06:50.029 --> 00:06:54.149 give me dabba jabba zaza. Yeah, I also saw, I 00:06:54.149 --> 00:06:56.930 reposted one not too long ago that was, give 00:06:56.930 --> 00:06:59.550 me fuel, give me fire, give me Reba McIntyre. 00:06:59.769 --> 00:07:03.709 And I'm a big Reba fan. So I was like, that's 00:07:03.709 --> 00:07:08.769 perfect. Look, I have no problem with fuel being 00:07:08.769 --> 00:07:12.240 on a hard rock. road trip mixtape i know there's 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:14.959 some people out there going but guys metallic 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:19.939 is metal the load and reload albums really are 00:07:19.939 --> 00:07:23.199 hard rock centric i'd say they're the band's 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:27.439 closest thing to a black sabbath album that they'll 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.139 ever do and i'm actually a big fan of both load 00:07:30.139 --> 00:07:33.620 and reload more the load side of things but fuel 00:07:33.620 --> 00:07:36.480 is one that they play pretty much every show 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:40.319 it's a staple it's lived long enough in the Metallica 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:45.540 legacy to be just a concert staple. And tonight, 00:07:45.740 --> 00:07:50.240 Road Trip Kickstarter, which I'm exactly going 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:53.660 to jump off of that statement and go to 1989. 00:07:53.939 --> 00:07:56.779 I know you said you didn't do a lot of 80s stuff, 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:59.879 but coming out of fuel, let's go right on the 00:07:59.879 --> 00:08:04.519 nose. 1989's Dr. Feel Good, Motley Crue, Kickstart 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:07.480 My Heart. When I get high, get high on speed. 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:11.220 Top Fuel Funny Car is a drug for me. This is 00:08:11.220 --> 00:08:15.319 one of those songs that is not necessarily about 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:19.560 driving. However, it's used in so many driving 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:23.019 instances. NASCAR, you see it in racing commercials. 00:08:23.660 --> 00:08:27.300 It's very much associated with driving, even 00:08:27.300 --> 00:08:29.800 though anyone that knows what happened in Nikki 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:33.559 Sixx knows this song is more about the heart 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:38.419 part of it. Then racing double entendres that 00:08:38.419 --> 00:08:40.100 are going to be through a lot of the songs I've 00:08:40.100 --> 00:08:42.759 picked. A lot of the songs I pick could be very 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:45.340 on the nose about driving, but in a lot of instances, 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:48.039 they're about something else. And kickstart my 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:52.100 heart is literally what they had to do to Nikki 00:08:52.100 --> 00:08:55.600 six. And while it's kind of autobiographical, 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:59.299 it fits perfectly into this hard rock road trip 00:08:59.299 --> 00:09:02.990 mix. I was actually. figuring you would pick 00:09:02.990 --> 00:09:07.629 this one so that's why i didn't and so i was 00:09:07.629 --> 00:09:11.190 like i think brian's gonna pick kickstart my 00:09:11.190 --> 00:09:13.049 heart so i just won't even bother putting it 00:09:13.049 --> 00:09:15.690 on my list but great choice if you didn't say 00:09:15.690 --> 00:09:19.169 anything about it or if it wasn't implied i probably 00:09:19.169 --> 00:09:21.929 would have picked it myself at some point so 00:09:21.929 --> 00:09:25.980 great choice uh always you know that riff starting 00:09:25.980 --> 00:09:29.279 right out of the gate is like, whoa, all right, 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:31.860 I'm ready to get behind the wheel. So I think 00:09:31.860 --> 00:09:34.460 we're going to have a lot of songs like that 00:09:34.460 --> 00:09:39.000 on this hard rock road trip mix. Yeah, this episode 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.820 already seems like it's going to be renamed to 00:09:41.820 --> 00:09:45.600 songs to get speeding tickets to. But with that 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.659 said, what do you have to follow up fuel and 00:09:48.659 --> 00:09:51.799 kickstart my heart? Yeah. All right. So I can 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:55.980 have something that bridges from the 80s to the 00:09:55.980 --> 00:10:00.820 2000s with Ozzy Osbourne's I Don't Want to Stop. 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:05.759 For me, growing up, this was one of those songs 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:07.940 that I heard for the first time and was like, 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:12.909 whoa, this is like. hard rock this is exactly 00:10:12.909 --> 00:10:16.809 what i need in my life to get me amped and i 00:10:16.809 --> 00:10:19.429 i love ozzy i've always been one of the bigger 00:10:19.429 --> 00:10:22.870 ozzy fans and so i just think that this song 00:10:22.870 --> 00:10:26.870 is perfect for a hard rock mix easily my favorite 00:10:26.870 --> 00:10:32.049 song on 2007's black rain it's a great tune and 00:10:32.809 --> 00:10:35.509 I've been a little hard on Ozzy's last two albums. 00:10:35.610 --> 00:10:39.450 I do enjoy some of the production that Andrew 00:10:39.450 --> 00:10:43.409 Watt has done, specifically speaking, the Rolling 00:10:43.409 --> 00:10:46.649 Stones recent album. But there's something about 00:10:46.649 --> 00:10:49.429 the two Ozzy albums that he produced that I'm 00:10:49.429 --> 00:10:52.870 not fully on board with. I don't want to say 00:10:52.870 --> 00:10:56.490 I hate them, but it just seems a little too slick. 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.440 For Ozzy. And I feel like Black Rain was the 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:03.259 last album of Ozzy's that truly sounded and felt 00:11:03.259 --> 00:11:07.919 like a tried and true Ozzy Osbourne album. I 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:10.860 agree with that. And I think they've been trying 00:11:10.860 --> 00:11:14.120 to do at least the Andrew Watt stuff has been 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:17.419 trying to go back to, hey, let's kind of be like 00:11:17.419 --> 00:11:20.860 Sabbath here and let's kind of do a throwback. 00:11:20.899 --> 00:11:23.600 But it's going to be modern, too. And it's going 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:26.559 to be small on production. And it's not going 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:29.039 to be this big, grandiose, you know, where all 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:31.240 the drums are triggered and such. And I'm sure 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:34.399 they were. But, you know, you don't get the black 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:37.809 rain thing from the previous two. Ozzy albums 00:11:37.809 --> 00:11:40.970 that we've gotten so for me same way I think 00:11:40.970 --> 00:11:45.669 that this is like Ozzy's last big arena rock 00:11:45.669 --> 00:11:49.289 production well I am gonna tap right into that 00:11:49.289 --> 00:11:51.669 arena rock production and I'm gonna go with a 00:11:51.669 --> 00:11:56.710 band whose drum sound is signature to that arena 00:11:56.710 --> 00:12:01.049 rock sound although it's done in the 2000s and 00:12:01.049 --> 00:12:05.100 beyond there's something about this band's drum 00:12:05.100 --> 00:12:08.679 sound that I really like him back to the big 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:12.740 hair band 80s sound however it's done with modern 00:12:12.740 --> 00:12:17.019 rock and not a lot of bands use it but when you're 00:12:17.019 --> 00:12:20.519 using it the song has to be big enough to fit 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:25.000 the bombastic explosion that happens in the track 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:28.740 and I know I'm going to hear groans because we're 00:12:28.740 --> 00:12:32.000 coming out of Metallica Motley Crue and Ozzy 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:35.809 Osbourne but Batting cleanup on the ultimate 00:12:35.809 --> 00:12:40.090 hard rock road trip mixtape is Nickelback in 00:12:40.090 --> 00:12:45.230 Animals from 2005's All the Right Reasons. I'm 00:12:45.230 --> 00:12:48.049 driving back on black. Just got my license back. 00:12:48.169 --> 00:12:50.610 I got this feeling in my veins. This train is 00:12:50.610 --> 00:12:54.669 coming off the track. This song has nothing to 00:12:54.669 --> 00:13:00.370 do with driving except that line. However. The 00:13:00.370 --> 00:13:03.850 song, the drums and the guitar riff, it just 00:13:03.850 --> 00:13:07.730 makes me drive faster. And it's one of those 00:13:07.730 --> 00:13:12.990 songs that has allusions to driving, but is about 00:13:12.990 --> 00:13:15.289 something completely different. One of the first 00:13:15.289 --> 00:13:17.809 of many examples, but nickel and I know you're 00:13:17.809 --> 00:13:19.990 a Nickelback fan here, so I know you're going 00:13:19.990 --> 00:13:22.769 to be on board with me at least. Yeah, I had 00:13:22.769 --> 00:13:25.850 like at least six Nickelback songs on this playlist 00:13:25.850 --> 00:13:29.629 as far as what I was thinking for ideas. Of course, 00:13:29.629 --> 00:13:32.029 animals being one of them. And I always feel 00:13:32.029 --> 00:13:34.889 like it is on the nose in a sense. And that's 00:13:34.889 --> 00:13:38.110 fine because it yeah, it's not about driving, 00:13:38.210 --> 00:13:41.350 but it is about driving. And I think that if 00:13:41.350 --> 00:13:44.809 you're. Riding down the road in your fast car, 00:13:45.029 --> 00:13:47.389 this is like the perfect song for it. You get 00:13:47.389 --> 00:13:51.950 that sort of thunderous engine rumbling vibe 00:13:51.950 --> 00:13:55.690 from Animals. Of course, I'm a huge Daniel Adair 00:13:55.690 --> 00:13:58.049 fan, so all those fills at the very beginning 00:13:58.049 --> 00:14:01.889 of the track are phenomenal fills. And I feel 00:14:01.889 --> 00:14:05.029 like it's one of the songs that changed the modern 00:14:05.029 --> 00:14:08.750 landscape of... rock music it's one of those 00:14:08.750 --> 00:14:11.450 that it became such a big hit and guys were kind 00:14:11.450 --> 00:14:14.870 of like wait we can write about that now can 00:14:14.870 --> 00:14:18.429 we take one gates open that can we yeah can we 00:14:18.429 --> 00:14:21.210 push that envelope a little bit more and nickelback 00:14:21.210 --> 00:14:23.629 was always at the forefront of that so i'm i'm 00:14:23.629 --> 00:14:25.590 with you on that i like it that's a great choice 00:14:25.590 --> 00:14:28.309 all right so we're up to the fifth spot what 00:14:28.309 --> 00:14:31.190 are you following up nickelback's animals with 00:14:31.190 --> 00:14:38.039 um fifth spot In the same vein, though, another 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:43.320 great band known for their more arena rock bombastic 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:47.620 2000s style approach to rock music. I'm going 00:14:47.620 --> 00:14:52.340 to go with Adrenaline by Shinedown. Yes! Yeah. 00:14:53.460 --> 00:14:59.399 And I saw Shinedown. Jeez. This is probably going 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:03.480 back 15 years now. Maybe. Yeah. Close to it. 00:15:03.539 --> 00:15:08.519 And they opened with Adrenaline and nothing gets. 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:11.539 Yeah, this was back. I guess this record had 00:15:11.539 --> 00:15:14.159 just come out and then Threat to Survival was 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:16.259 the one after it. I saw them on whatever tour 00:15:16.259 --> 00:15:18.639 that was, which is going back a ways now. But 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.740 Adrenaline is such a great track and it's a great 00:15:22.740 --> 00:15:25.639 opener to this record to probably my favorite 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:29.360 Shinedown record, Amaryllis. And it doesn't have 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:31.379 anything to do with driving, but it gets you 00:15:31.379 --> 00:15:34.289 amped. I guess no needles in the red needles 00:15:34.289 --> 00:15:36.490 in the red. They do say that. Yeah. Like the 00:15:36.490 --> 00:15:40.049 only line that really would lend itself to being 00:15:40.049 --> 00:15:43.230 in a car would be give me the wheel so we can 00:15:43.230 --> 00:15:45.669 move a little faster. I'll make it real. I'm 00:15:45.669 --> 00:15:48.250 not a glorious disaster. I mean, the way you 00:15:48.250 --> 00:15:51.889 think steering wheel. Yeah. I'll be honest. 100%. 00:15:51.889 --> 00:15:55.529 This was on my list. The same band song and album 00:15:55.529 --> 00:15:59.149 complete scoop on it. This song had to make. 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:01.799 the episode tonight. And if you didn't pick it, 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:06.279 I was going to, I think it is one of their most 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:11.500 adrenaline fueled songs. It just has this ridiculous 00:16:11.500 --> 00:16:15.820 tempo and pacing to it that a lot of shine down 00:16:15.820 --> 00:16:18.019 music, especially their more modern stuff is 00:16:18.019 --> 00:16:22.059 a little slower and a little more driving. Like 00:16:22.059 --> 00:16:26.159 the sound of madness, cut the cord. Planet Zero. 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:29.320 It's more of that driving riff. Adrenaline is 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:33.139 just literally pedal to the metal. And I love 00:16:33.139 --> 00:16:35.740 this song so much. And yeah, I'd have to say 00:16:35.740 --> 00:16:38.519 Amaryllis is my favorite album of theirs as well. 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:42.100 They still play a lot from it live. I'll Follow 00:16:42.100 --> 00:16:45.620 You is always a staple. The title track, Amaryllis, 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:48.100 is a staple. But they could play pretty much 00:16:48.100 --> 00:16:50.740 anything off that. Bully. They haven't played 00:16:50.740 --> 00:16:53.080 Adrenaline much in recent years, and I think 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:56.559 that's a shame. Obviously, they have more and 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:59.440 more albums with each cycle. And they've been 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:01.960 moving through the times a whole heck of a lot, 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:05.079 too. And another band that's at the forefront 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:08.400 of the change of landscape with rock music. So 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:12.140 a lot of their stuff has developed a bigger production 00:17:12.140 --> 00:17:16.619 value. And so Adrenaline, though, to me, just 00:17:16.619 --> 00:17:21.039 sounds like four guys just riffing. And that's 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:24.640 one of my favorite parts about that song. Not 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:27.799 a whole lot of production in the quote unquote 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:31.500 sense. And it's just a rock tune that opens such 00:17:31.500 --> 00:17:35.039 a great record. So I'm going to lean into the 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:37.940 atmosphere that we have going musically, but 00:17:37.940 --> 00:17:39.440 I'm going to go with a song that has a little 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.799 bit more production as this gentleman's music 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:49.710 always was very heavy on a specific sound. and 00:17:49.710 --> 00:17:52.910 uniqueness to his music. And I'm going to go 00:17:52.910 --> 00:17:57.809 off of 1998's Hellbilly Deluxe, his first ever 00:17:57.809 --> 00:18:02.049 solo single. This track was named after Grandpa 00:18:02.049 --> 00:18:05.509 Munster's car. We're going with Rob Zombie and 00:18:05.509 --> 00:18:09.730 Dragula. Shockingly, another hard rock song that's 00:18:09.730 --> 00:18:12.950 using driving as a metaphor for sex. Dig through 00:18:12.950 --> 00:18:15.170 the ditches and burn through the witches. I slam 00:18:15.170 --> 00:18:18.839 in the back of my Dragula. Regardless. The video, 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:23.599 you think the car, it's synonymous for me because 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:27.039 Dragula was the Munster's car. And you know Rob 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:30.000 Zombie brought that metal touch to it. So regardless 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.119 of the metaphors, this song is all about putting 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:35.720 the pedal to the metal. And it just fits with 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:39.160 the vibe we've got going on Side A so far. Nice. 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:43.000 I love it. That is a great choice. Dragula, of 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:45.220 course. I'm a huge Monsters fan. And then when 00:18:45.220 --> 00:18:47.740 you find out, like, you know, oh, this guy Rob 00:18:47.740 --> 00:18:50.740 Zombie wrote a song about Dragula. It's like, 00:18:50.859 --> 00:18:54.380 yeah, that is awesome. And it's a great driving 00:18:54.380 --> 00:18:57.200 song I have on my list as well. So good scoop 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:00.339 on that one. Just trying to think of what to 00:19:00.339 --> 00:19:03.920 do next. Where do we go? I don't even... How 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:07.000 many more songs do we have on side? You have 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:11.160 two and I have two. Oh, boy. Okay. All right. 00:19:11.180 --> 00:19:15.279 I got it. I got it. I'm going to go with same. 00:19:15.380 --> 00:19:19.539 We're in the same vein. Something that gets me 00:19:19.539 --> 00:19:22.400 amped to drive but has nothing to do with driving 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:28.660 is Black Label Society's Fire It Up. I love Black 00:19:28.660 --> 00:19:33.160 Label Society. They're more of that mid -tempo 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:38.079 style band. But this song is about getting you 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:40.640 pumped. And the very beginning of it, when it 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:44.059 does kick into the main riff, is the perfect 00:19:44.059 --> 00:19:47.180 thing when you're driving down the highway. And 00:19:47.180 --> 00:19:49.960 in what would only be considered a happy coincidence, 00:19:50.619 --> 00:19:53.859 Zach Weil was the lead guitarist on Ozzy's I 00:19:53.859 --> 00:19:56.859 Don't Wanna Stop. Oh, that is right. Yeah. So 00:19:56.859 --> 00:19:59.920 he's making a second appearance on tonight's 00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:03.819 episode on Side A. He has such a unique sound. 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:08.299 He is legendary. I had the chance back in 2000, 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:11.539 my hard rock band at the time, opened for Black 00:20:11.539 --> 00:20:13.920 Label Society at the Stone Pony on the summer 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:17.579 stage. And it was one of the most insane gigs. 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:21.200 We got to play in front of his wall of amps and 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:23.460 everything else. I'll never forget that day. 00:20:23.700 --> 00:20:26.700 Real good dude. The band was incredible. This 00:20:26.700 --> 00:20:29.480 song is awesome. So, yeah, you know, I mean, 00:20:29.500 --> 00:20:32.099 you could say you're firing up the car. I mean, 00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:34.880 really. Yeah, that's what I was going with. Yeah, 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:37.680 there you go. And I'm going to go with another 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:40.119 guitarist who I think is a household name like 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:44.900 a Zach Wild and go with a song that is really 00:20:44.900 --> 00:20:48.400 on the nose. I can't see the road through the 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:50.839 driving rain, but I won't stop now. Her love 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:53.920 is calling me home. Seems to guide the way, so 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:58.000 I won't. Stop now from 2018 is living the dream. 00:20:58.180 --> 00:21:01.680 I'm going with slash featuring miles Kennedy 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:06.319 and the conspirators driving rain. This riff 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:10.279 is dare. I say it the best slash riff since something 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:13.180 off of appetite for destruction. This riff is 00:21:13.180 --> 00:21:17.119 a down and dirty blues rock riff. And I'll also 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:21.339 say this is my favorite ever miles Kennedy vocal 00:21:21.339 --> 00:21:25.430 performance over. Ghosts of Days Gone By from 00:21:25.430 --> 00:21:28.890 Alter Bridge. There's something about the harmonies 00:21:28.890 --> 00:21:34.430 in this chorus. They're so simple yet effective. 00:21:34.750 --> 00:21:38.849 I love the way Miles Kennedy's dropping down 00:21:38.849 --> 00:21:43.869 in the chorus to let. Todd Kearns, the bass guitarist 00:21:43.869 --> 00:21:46.789 and backing vocalist for Miles Kennedy and the 00:21:46.789 --> 00:21:49.690 Conspirators, take the higher end of the spectrum. 00:21:49.970 --> 00:21:53.430 Their voices work so well against each other, 00:21:53.529 --> 00:21:57.390 it just adds a vocal dynamic to the song that 00:21:57.390 --> 00:22:03.049 I really gravitated to. This song just rips, 00:22:03.069 --> 00:22:05.890 and yeah, it's on the nose with Driving 2, and 00:22:05.890 --> 00:22:08.859 hell, it's in the title, Driving Ring. That's 00:22:08.859 --> 00:22:11.359 a great choice. And I've always loved the Slash 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:14.640 and Miles Kennedy duo. I think that they work 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:17.960 super well together. And it's everything that 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:21.420 you could have wanted Guns N' Roses to become 00:22:21.420 --> 00:22:24.259 if things were different. And that's what I like 00:22:24.259 --> 00:22:26.940 about them. Slash still rips and he still creates 00:22:26.940 --> 00:22:30.160 some of the best guitar intros, this being one 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:33.599 of them for sure. And yeah, on the nose, it works. 00:22:33.740 --> 00:22:36.160 It's awesome. That's perfect. All right, well, 00:22:36.220 --> 00:22:38.039 what are you going to follow up Driving Rain 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:42.880 with? At the very, this is the last one on side 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:49.839 A, right? For you, yes. For me, yeah. Oh, man, 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:52.400 this is tough. Okay, I'm going to do it. The 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:57.400 Pretender by the Foo Fighters. Yes. I, again, 00:22:57.640 --> 00:23:00.210 it's. I'm picking stuff that's out there, but 00:23:00.210 --> 00:23:03.049 I think if we're talking about up -tempo songs 00:23:03.049 --> 00:23:06.410 that get you pumped to drive, this is definitely 00:23:06.410 --> 00:23:09.390 one of them. That snare in the very beginning, 00:23:09.410 --> 00:23:12.769 once the vocals fade out, that bop, bop, bop, 00:23:12.769 --> 00:23:16.750 bop. It gets you pumped. It's a very aggressive 00:23:16.750 --> 00:23:20.420 song. And we've talked about the Foo Fighters 00:23:20.420 --> 00:23:22.839 on this show multiple times, especially Taylor 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:26.700 Hawkins and Dave Grohl. So yeah, I feel like 00:23:26.700 --> 00:23:30.079 there had to have been a Foo Fighters song on 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:32.940 this. Could not agree more. You may have picked 00:23:32.940 --> 00:23:35.640 my all -time favorite Foo Fighters song. That 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:39.819 might be number one. Sometimes I pivot between 00:23:39.819 --> 00:23:42.500 a couple of songs, but that one is really, really 00:23:42.500 --> 00:23:47.160 up there. I actually had No Way Back. from 2005's 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:50.519 in your honor on my list thinking please to meet 00:23:50.519 --> 00:23:53.019 you take my hand there is no way back from here 00:23:53.019 --> 00:23:54.980 it's like i guess you could say that's like get 00:23:54.980 --> 00:23:57.920 in the car where you had that riff that's that 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:02.180 very breezy riff in that song but the pretender 00:24:02.180 --> 00:24:07.759 has that really bluesy riff and it feels like 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:12.380 that old school 70s rock bravado yes brought 00:24:12.380 --> 00:24:15.809 to a modern era And also, I feel like it's a 00:24:15.809 --> 00:24:19.069 freedom thing, too. You know, what if I say I'm 00:24:19.069 --> 00:24:21.410 not like the others and then you're behind the 00:24:21.410 --> 00:24:23.369 wheel? It's like, yeah, I'm not like everybody 00:24:23.369 --> 00:24:26.930 else out here. And when I talked at the beginning 00:24:26.930 --> 00:24:30.549 of the episode about playing the wheel drum, 00:24:30.809 --> 00:24:34.319 so to speak, whenever this song comes on. I almost 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:38.759 feel myself like closed fist, like, because it's 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:40.819 just one of those songs that really gets you 00:24:40.819 --> 00:24:43.440 going. It gets you pumped up and, you know, probably 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:46.019 gets you a speeding ticket, which a lot of the 00:24:46.019 --> 00:24:49.039 songs on Side A would do. Yeah, I definitely 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:52.839 agree with that. We have weaved in and out of 00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:56.119 older bands and newer bands throughout the side. 00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:58.599 And there's been a lot of classic names on this 00:24:58.599 --> 00:25:02.359 side. Because I only get to close out one side, 00:25:02.460 --> 00:25:05.960 I'm going to go with an anthem to close out side 00:25:05.960 --> 00:25:10.259 A with a band name that's as big as Metallica, 00:25:10.299 --> 00:25:14.079 as far as I'm concerned. Metallica might be the 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:17.880 biggest metal band of all time, but ACDC's got 00:25:17.880 --> 00:25:20.059 to be the biggest hard rock band of all time. 00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:23.380 They got to be in the top three for most people, 00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:28.150 I would think. No stop signs, speed limits. Nobody's 00:25:28.150 --> 00:25:30.309 going to slow me down like a wheel going to spin 00:25:30.309 --> 00:25:32.630 it. Nobody's going to mess me around. Let's go 00:25:32.630 --> 00:25:36.269 really on the nose. The title track from 1979's 00:25:36.269 --> 00:25:39.089 Highway to Hell. I could have went with Rock 00:25:39.089 --> 00:25:42.930 and Roll Train from 2008's Black Ice. And yes, 00:25:43.049 --> 00:25:45.670 that's you're traveling, but you're on the tracks. 00:25:46.049 --> 00:25:48.529 And I don't know, like, I love that song for 00:25:48.529 --> 00:25:52.710 driving, but Highway to Hell is the true driving 00:25:52.710 --> 00:25:57.200 anthem. for ac dc and i do want to again give 00:25:57.200 --> 00:25:59.400 a shout out to david owens who chimed in with 00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:01.799 it's a long way to the top if you want to rock 00:26:01.799 --> 00:26:06.279 and roll absolutely love cranking that up especially 00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:08.259 if you're in a convertible there's something 00:26:08.259 --> 00:26:10.440 about going down the highway in a convertible 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:14.279 with a rock song with bagpipes it's just a vibe 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:19.059 i love it that's so good and yeah i felt like 00:26:19.059 --> 00:26:22.220 this at some point had to make the list regardless, 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:27.460 too, because I mean, think about all of the lyricism 00:26:27.460 --> 00:26:31.359 in this song having to do with driving and, you 00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:34.279 know, that sort of more aggressive side of driving 00:26:34.279 --> 00:26:38.980 even into hell. So, yeah, it's definitely top 00:26:38.980 --> 00:26:42.440 driving hard rock song for sure. Well, there 00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:46.079 you have it. Side A of our ultimate hard rock 00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:49.519 road trip mixtape, which kicked off with Metallica's 00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:53.839 Fuel. Motley Crue, Kickstart My Heart, Ozzy Osbourne, 00:26:53.980 --> 00:26:58.200 I Don't Wanna Stop, Nickelback, Animals, Shinedown, 00:26:58.279 --> 00:27:02.440 Adrenaline, Rob Zombie, Dragula, Black Label 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:06.359 Society, Fire It Up, Slash, featuring Miles Kennedy 00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:09.980 and the Conspirators, Driving Rain, Foo Fighters, 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:14.359 The Pretender, and ACDC's Highway to Hell. Head 00:27:14.359 --> 00:27:16.940 over to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the 00:27:16.940 --> 00:27:19.950 songs we've discussed in this mix. through the 00:27:19.950 --> 00:27:24.069 playlist embedded on the episode page. So, John, 00:27:24.089 --> 00:27:26.650 it looks like Tantric's touring schedule is starting 00:27:26.650 --> 00:27:30.130 to ramp up now in 2024, as you have dates coming 00:27:30.130 --> 00:27:33.569 up with Josie Scott's Saliva, Power Man 5000, 00:27:33.990 --> 00:27:36.769 and Sponge, among others. Want to fill people 00:27:36.769 --> 00:27:38.849 in on what's been going on with the band? Yeah, 00:27:38.869 --> 00:27:43.200 we've got a lot going on. This year is no breaks 00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:46.160 as usual, not to also make a driving reference 00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:50.359 there. But we've been hitting it hard and we've 00:27:50.359 --> 00:27:53.180 actually, we've had a couple of months off to 00:27:53.180 --> 00:27:56.559 get some much needed time with family and friends 00:27:56.559 --> 00:28:00.009 and home and so on. Yeah, as far as May goes, 00:28:00.109 --> 00:28:04.029 we go out with Josie Scott's version of Saliva 00:28:04.029 --> 00:28:07.609 and Trapped and Adema, who we've toured with 00:28:07.609 --> 00:28:10.869 before. So we do that basically all of May, all 00:28:10.869 --> 00:28:13.509 across the country. Then we have most of June 00:28:13.509 --> 00:28:16.549 off, a couple of pockets of dates here and there, 00:28:16.650 --> 00:28:19.170 and then we go out with Power Man 5000 and Sponge. 00:28:20.700 --> 00:28:24.000 That'll be all of July. And yeah, going into 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:27.299 next year, a bunch of more headlining dates are 00:28:27.299 --> 00:28:30.619 coming in. We do Louder Than Life in Louisville, 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:34.539 which is huge. And yeah, just hopefully hoping 00:28:34.539 --> 00:28:38.700 on a new record coming next year, early next 00:28:38.700 --> 00:28:41.230 year, hopefully. You got me with my follow up 00:28:41.230 --> 00:28:42.950 because I was going to say I saw some pictures 00:28:42.950 --> 00:28:45.789 of you guys in the studios working on some stuff. 00:28:45.849 --> 00:28:47.890 Is there any chance that some of those songs 00:28:47.890 --> 00:28:50.650 might get, quote unquote, road tested this summer? 00:28:50.970 --> 00:28:55.170 I hope so. I think that we've got a good batch 00:28:55.170 --> 00:29:00.029 of tunes that. We sat in a room in Massachusetts 00:29:00.029 --> 00:29:03.410 for like a whole weekend and just jammed. And 00:29:03.410 --> 00:29:06.349 it was like the first authentic feeling version 00:29:06.349 --> 00:29:10.190 of tantric where it was four guys in a room with 00:29:10.190 --> 00:29:13.950 two little tiny condenser microphones and just 00:29:13.950 --> 00:29:16.690 jamming and seeing what came out. And then we 00:29:16.690 --> 00:29:20.470 took some of those to be full on demos where 00:29:20.470 --> 00:29:22.930 we. track drums and then track guitar and so 00:29:22.930 --> 00:29:27.509 on so we've had those moments of writing and 00:29:27.509 --> 00:29:31.329 hoping for some good tunes to come going into 00:29:31.329 --> 00:29:35.150 next year awesome well we are going to start 00:29:35.150 --> 00:29:38.910 off side b and this time i get to kick things 00:29:38.910 --> 00:29:42.240 off And I am going to go back a little bit. I 00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:45.920 love my 80s hard rock. And this is one of those 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:49.980 bands that I have said for decades wrongly got 00:29:49.980 --> 00:29:53.759 lumped in. To the hair band movement, just because 00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:56.200 on their first album, yes, they did incorporate 00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.039 a little bit of the look. But musically, this 00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:02.400 was a band that was much more rooted in the Rolling 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:06.859 Stones and bluesy hard rock than they were, quote 00:30:06.859 --> 00:30:10.140 unquote, hair bands. However, when you have a 00:30:10.140 --> 00:30:13.500 few hit power ballads that will kind of make 00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:16.650 you that way guilty by. default or whatever you 00:30:16.650 --> 00:30:20.190 want to call it. However, on 1988's Long Cold 00:30:20.190 --> 00:30:23.569 Winter, Cinderella released a song that even 00:30:23.569 --> 00:30:26.049 when I was growing up, sitting in the backseat 00:30:26.049 --> 00:30:28.549 of my parents' car, going down to North Carolina 00:30:28.549 --> 00:30:32.529 for vacation, I would blast this song and just 00:30:32.529 --> 00:30:34.849 look out the window and feel like I was on the 00:30:34.849 --> 00:30:38.109 road with this tune. Some fast talking jerk for 00:30:38.109 --> 00:30:41.069 a dollar wiped the smile off my face. I'm driving 00:30:41.069 --> 00:30:44.490 all night just to keep the rat in a race. Gypsy 00:30:44.490 --> 00:30:47.609 Road from Cinderella's Long Cold Winter. This 00:30:47.609 --> 00:30:54.990 riff is so dirty and so bluesy and so not a hair 00:30:54.990 --> 00:30:58.349 band song. But for some reason, Cinderella just 00:30:58.349 --> 00:31:00.190 got lumped in. They're like, well, you've got 00:31:00.190 --> 00:31:03.349 hair. You've got guitars. You're now hair metal. 00:31:04.430 --> 00:31:07.750 They were so much more than that. And I hope 00:31:07.750 --> 00:31:09.670 people get to go out and see Tom Kiefer when 00:31:09.670 --> 00:31:11.410 he comes around with his solo band because they 00:31:11.410 --> 00:31:14.690 still play the entire Cinderella catalog. And 00:31:14.690 --> 00:31:18.029 to that, he still is able to bring the heft vocally 00:31:18.029 --> 00:31:20.789 that he did back in his days with Cinderella. 00:31:21.069 --> 00:31:23.930 So it's kind of a win -win. Unfortunately, Cinderella 00:31:23.930 --> 00:31:26.670 is no longer going out on the road. And to me, 00:31:26.670 --> 00:31:29.269 that truly sucks because they were one of my 00:31:29.269 --> 00:31:31.730 favorites from that era. But yeah, I got to go 00:31:31.730 --> 00:31:34.680 with... gypsy road for my first pick on side 00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:39.779 b there are um so if you didn't know my old guitar 00:31:39.779 --> 00:31:43.599 player sebastian labar is jeff's son so yes um 00:31:43.599 --> 00:31:47.440 you know sebastian and i always we would jam 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:53.539 a lot of those 80s bands that had some more bluesy 00:31:53.539 --> 00:31:55.880 influence and it was always talked about that 00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.819 Unfortunately, they were lumped into that 80s 00:31:59.819 --> 00:32:02.180 hair metal thing because they were definitely 00:32:02.180 --> 00:32:06.410 a blues band. They had a lot of that bluesy influence 00:32:06.410 --> 00:32:10.509 and Tom Kiefer's high voice being that, nobody's 00:32:10.509 --> 00:32:14.930 fool. It didn't necessarily lend itself to be 00:32:14.930 --> 00:32:18.430 in the vein of like a Stevie Ray Vaughan when 00:32:18.430 --> 00:32:21.869 we think about the blues, but yet they had so 00:32:21.869 --> 00:32:24.950 much of that swag that a blues band would and 00:32:24.950 --> 00:32:28.569 a phenomenal, phenomenal choice to kick off the 00:32:28.569 --> 00:32:31.369 second side. So what are you going to follow 00:32:31.369 --> 00:32:35.500 up Gypsy Road with? Oh, that's tough. That's 00:32:35.500 --> 00:32:43.880 tough. I'm going to go with, it's not classic 00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:47.599 rock. Well, I guess 20 years old does mean something. 00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:50.519 Does a classic rock song make? Yeah, exactly. 00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:56.579 And so now I'm going to go with a band that does 00:32:56.579 --> 00:32:58.660 get thrown into the hard rock realm, but they 00:32:58.660 --> 00:33:00.980 are so much more and they're phenomenal writers 00:33:00.980 --> 00:33:05.130 and good people. Three Doors Down, It's Not My 00:33:05.130 --> 00:33:10.390 Time. I love this tune and I was trying to go 00:33:10.390 --> 00:33:12.869 off of what you were saying where you can picture 00:33:12.869 --> 00:33:16.390 yourself looking out the window as you're driving 00:33:16.390 --> 00:33:18.549 down the road with your family going like, oh, 00:33:18.630 --> 00:33:21.490 I feel like I'm in it. This song by Three Doors 00:33:21.490 --> 00:33:24.859 Down, I always loved growing up. And it has this 00:33:24.859 --> 00:33:27.500 feeling of you're not backing down and you're 00:33:27.500 --> 00:33:29.839 ready to take on whatever's coming your way. 00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:33.200 And I've always connected with tropes like that 00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:34.880 while I was driving. So that's what I'm going 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:37.700 with. I completely see where you're coming from, 00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:41.960 where a song that I'd say has a very positive 00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:45.160 message and it makes you feel good lyrically. 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:47.059 When you put that when you're behind the wheel 00:33:47.059 --> 00:33:51.220 of a car, it almost heightens the feeling and 00:33:51.220 --> 00:33:54.589 message of the song. one that comes to mind for 00:33:54.589 --> 00:33:59.390 me would be probably something that I, I was 00:33:59.390 --> 00:34:01.849 going to use a song here, but I, maybe it would 00:34:01.849 --> 00:34:05.910 work on this episode. So I'm going to put a pin 00:34:05.910 --> 00:34:09.050 in my thought there. Yeah. Right. Dance around 00:34:09.050 --> 00:34:11.150 that. Cause now I just got an idea for something 00:34:11.150 --> 00:34:14.150 for the end of this episode for my last pick. 00:34:14.550 --> 00:34:16.789 So I'm going to hold onto that for now. And right 00:34:16.789 --> 00:34:20.570 back to three doors down. It's not my time. Has 00:34:20.570 --> 00:34:24.760 this. chord progression that is dare i use the 00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:28.219 word breezy but when you think about the guitar 00:34:28.219 --> 00:34:32.420 work in gypsy road it's not chugging along it's 00:34:32.420 --> 00:34:35.820 not a heavy tune it's more the open chords kind 00:34:35.820 --> 00:34:40.639 of just rocking out and this when the song actually 00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:43.920 kicks in after the opening guitar riff it's that 00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:47.300 breezy chord progression that kind of guides 00:34:47.300 --> 00:34:49.639 you through the song and it has a similar vibe 00:34:50.230 --> 00:34:53.530 To Gypsy Road. Three Doors Down is a band that 00:34:53.530 --> 00:34:57.510 aren't necessarily hard rock, meaning heavy, 00:34:57.610 --> 00:34:59.710 heavy, heavy. They have their heavier moments, 00:34:59.750 --> 00:35:03.369 like in Loser, and even to some extent, Kryptonite 00:35:03.369 --> 00:35:06.230 has a heavier side to it. But It's Not My Time 00:35:06.230 --> 00:35:10.750 really brings in this... pop element to the rock 00:35:10.750 --> 00:35:14.230 music they're playing and it works so so well 00:35:14.230 --> 00:35:16.909 and these guys are truly a hell of a band to 00:35:16.909 --> 00:35:20.489 see live they really sound just as good if not 00:35:20.489 --> 00:35:23.619 better than on the albums No, I love this band. 00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:27.380 And the first time I saw them was at the Balloon 00:35:27.380 --> 00:35:30.320 Festival in 2015. I was at that show. When me 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:32.840 and my brothers in our school of rock had opened 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:35.800 for them. And they were very cool guys. And that 00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:39.559 automatically for me is a big check mark. So 00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:42.380 then going through the rest of my teen years. 00:35:42.989 --> 00:35:46.289 Getting finally behind the wheel by myself, Three 00:35:46.289 --> 00:35:48.530 Doors Down was definitely one of those bands 00:35:48.530 --> 00:35:53.710 that I spend a bunch. To me, it's very synonymous 00:35:53.710 --> 00:35:56.610 with driving, and I think it just has to do with 00:35:56.610 --> 00:36:00.650 growing up and hearing this band in my generation. 00:36:01.489 --> 00:36:05.570 While following that up, I actually had an artist 00:36:05.570 --> 00:36:09.030 in mind, but I'm going to pivot and use the same 00:36:09.030 --> 00:36:12.179 artist, but in a different way. Because thankfully, 00:36:12.300 --> 00:36:15.840 this artist has sang about cars across the spectrum 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:19.239 of his entire career. And the original song I 00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:21.699 was thinking about would be Sammy Hagar's I Can't 00:36:21.699 --> 00:36:25.099 Drive 55. But that has a little bit more of the 00:36:25.099 --> 00:36:29.199 80s rock feel to it. So being you went with something 00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:31.460 a little newer, I'm going to go with something 00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:34.820 newer, or at least on the newer end of the spectrum 00:36:34.820 --> 00:36:38.360 from Sammy. It's 13 years old. So is it considered 00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:41.170 a classic rock yet? Who knows? But I'm going 00:36:41.170 --> 00:36:45.530 to go off of 2011's Chicken Foot 3. The band 00:36:45.530 --> 00:36:49.110 featuring Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael 00:36:49.110 --> 00:36:53.030 Anthony, and Chad Smith. And I am going with 00:36:53.030 --> 00:36:55.789 Bigfoot. Don't you worry. It's going to be all 00:36:55.789 --> 00:36:58.050 right. I'm in a hurry. I'm going to drive all 00:36:58.050 --> 00:37:00.650 night. Be there in the morning. You can bet your 00:37:00.650 --> 00:37:03.849 ass. I got both hands on the wheel and my Bigfoot 00:37:03.849 --> 00:37:08.619 on the gas. Literally the most on the nose driving 00:37:08.619 --> 00:37:11.400 lyrics we've had tonight. That is not a double 00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:14.920 entendre. No innuendo here. He's literally singing 00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:19.340 about driving a car to get to his girl. And it's 00:37:19.340 --> 00:37:22.639 true Sammy fashion. I'm so excited because this 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:26.159 summer is going to mark the first time I am catching 00:37:26.159 --> 00:37:29.739 Sammy Hagar live. And he's doing it with Joe 00:37:29.739 --> 00:37:33.599 Satriani, Michael Anthony. But instead of having. 00:37:34.170 --> 00:37:38.090 Chad Smith on drums. It's Jason Bonham. And they're 00:37:38.090 --> 00:37:41.449 doing a night of Van Halen as well as stuff throughout 00:37:41.449 --> 00:37:44.210 Sammy's career. So hopefully Chickenfoot gets 00:37:44.210 --> 00:37:46.469 a little bit of representation there, maybe Bigfoot. 00:37:46.690 --> 00:37:51.489 They are such a super group. And I was just talking 00:37:51.489 --> 00:37:54.610 to somebody about them the other day saying they 00:37:54.610 --> 00:37:57.829 should do more. Like, why don't they? I wish 00:37:57.829 --> 00:38:00.130 they would. And I'm sure it's scheduling and 00:38:00.130 --> 00:38:03.659 things not lining up and so on. Chickenfoot's 00:38:03.659 --> 00:38:06.820 a fantastic supergroup of a band, and that's 00:38:06.820 --> 00:38:09.860 an on -the -nose song, but it totally works. 00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:13.000 And what are you going to follow up Gypsy Road, 00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:17.019 It's Not My Time, and Bigfoot with? Yeah, if 00:38:17.019 --> 00:38:19.840 we're talking about... I feel like we have a 00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:21.780 vibe here. I feel like there's something going 00:38:21.780 --> 00:38:27.900 on. And more modern bands that had 80s and 90s 00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:31.730 tropes in what they were doing. This is actually 00:38:31.730 --> 00:38:37.469 a cover of a song, and it's off their first album, 00:38:37.710 --> 00:38:41.730 Extreme Behavior. It's Hinder's version of Born 00:38:41.730 --> 00:38:45.429 to be Wild. Okay, okay. Now, if you haven't heard 00:38:45.429 --> 00:38:50.010 this, it is a more, in quotes, blistering version 00:38:50.010 --> 00:38:53.429 of it, and I always wanted to hear Born to be 00:38:53.429 --> 00:38:57.690 Wild with a little bit more... Gusto? Is that 00:38:57.690 --> 00:39:00.190 the word? I don't know. But I wanted to always 00:39:00.190 --> 00:39:03.030 have a hard rock version of Born to be Wild. 00:39:03.130 --> 00:39:05.369 And we all know the song, so it's easy to sing 00:39:05.369 --> 00:39:09.309 along to, but it's a great driving track. And 00:39:09.309 --> 00:39:11.809 Cody Hanson's one of my favorite drummers ever. 00:39:12.070 --> 00:39:16.130 And this track just absolutely, it has to go 00:39:16.130 --> 00:39:19.159 on some driving playlist somewhere. I love the 00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:21.780 fact that you went with that. The same deluxe 00:39:21.780 --> 00:39:25.199 version of Extreme Behavior has their cover of 00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:27.760 Take Me Home Tonight as well, which is really 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:31.360 good. Hard to find on streaming, but Hinder is 00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:35.199 great when it comes to covers. Austin does the 00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:39.219 vocals on this version extremely well and with 00:39:39.219 --> 00:39:41.980 a lot more gravel than the original, which is 00:39:41.980 --> 00:39:43.880 what he did when he brought the heavier side 00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:48.489 to Hinder at the time. And their version felt 00:39:48.489 --> 00:39:53.030 faithful, but modern. And what I think I'm going 00:39:53.030 --> 00:39:56.909 to do is pivot off of that mindset. And I'm going 00:39:56.909 --> 00:39:59.510 to go with a newer band, but I'm going to stick 00:39:59.510 --> 00:40:02.409 with the cover song theme here. They released 00:40:02.409 --> 00:40:07.949 this digital single in 2022. Now, I'm running 00:40:07.949 --> 00:40:10.969 out of time because I could see the sun light 00:40:10.969 --> 00:40:17.019 up the sky. So I hit the road in overdrive. Baby, 00:40:17.019 --> 00:40:20.780 the song is the weekend's blinding lights, but 00:40:20.780 --> 00:40:24.500 I am going with St. Sonia's hard rock version 00:40:24.500 --> 00:40:29.139 that they put out in 2022. I love the original 00:40:29.139 --> 00:40:31.440 blinding lights. I'm the first to admit that 00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:33.500 the first time I heard that, I'm like, this song 00:40:33.500 --> 00:40:38.800 is frigging awesome. And I use that on my road 00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:42.119 trip mixes all the time. When I heard St. Sonia 00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:44.630 came out with a hard rock version. I was like, 00:40:44.670 --> 00:40:47.650 oh, now we're talking. And they knock it out 00:40:47.650 --> 00:40:51.190 of the park. It is so good that I could listen 00:40:51.190 --> 00:40:54.409 to the original by The Weeknd, followed up by 00:40:54.409 --> 00:40:58.269 Saint Esonia. And there's enough of a vibe difference 00:40:58.269 --> 00:41:00.650 that you can listen to them back to back and 00:41:00.650 --> 00:41:03.670 still enjoy them equally. We just saw them. Me 00:41:03.670 --> 00:41:05.510 and my brother just saw them with Blackstone 00:41:05.510 --> 00:41:08.929 Cherry and they played it and it was so good. 00:41:09.110 --> 00:41:11.940 It was like. better than what they had recorded. 00:41:12.099 --> 00:41:14.840 And that's just a live thing, but I love their 00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:19.000 cover of it because it's not, uh, they have enough 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:24.380 feel change in it to be them and to be their 00:41:24.380 --> 00:41:27.639 own version. But yet when that chorus comes in 00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:32.139 and it's more of a halftime style groove, it's 00:41:32.139 --> 00:41:36.260 fantastic. So yeah, great, great choice. Love 00:41:36.260 --> 00:41:39.139 it. So what are you going to follow up our pair 00:41:39.139 --> 00:41:42.659 of cover songs with? I don't know if I can do 00:41:42.659 --> 00:41:45.119 another cover. I don't know. I don't know if 00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:48.940 I have it in me to go to another cover, but I 00:41:48.940 --> 00:41:51.099 feel like we did a good thing there. I really 00:41:51.099 --> 00:41:56.260 do. What I think I want to go with. Oh, geez. 00:41:56.320 --> 00:42:01.320 Because this could be, we are, we are now blurring 00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:03.860 the line between hard rock and metal, but I'm 00:42:03.860 --> 00:42:08.469 going to do it anyway. So I'm going to go with. 00:42:10.230 --> 00:42:14.090 Ah, OK. All right. I'm just going to do it. I'm 00:42:14.090 --> 00:42:15.690 going to do it and I'm not going to have any 00:42:15.690 --> 00:42:19.329 regrets. So I'm going to go with off of City 00:42:19.329 --> 00:42:24.849 of Evil Avenged Sevenfold back. country i think 00:42:24.849 --> 00:42:27.510 i knew as soon as you said blur the lines i'm 00:42:27.510 --> 00:42:31.710 like it's gonna be back country i don't want 00:42:31.710 --> 00:42:34.849 to but in the same like in the same vein our 00:42:34.849 --> 00:42:37.849 genres are always switching in a song like back 00:42:37.849 --> 00:42:41.150 country you hear on modern rock radio because 00:42:41.150 --> 00:42:45.369 now it is it was deemed as metal and now it's 00:42:45.369 --> 00:42:48.869 kind of transitioned to where our metal nowadays 00:42:48.869 --> 00:42:51.409 is even way more aggressive than this and our 00:42:51.409 --> 00:42:54.320 hard rock is right in line with a song like bat 00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:57.760 country so when i think about this i think about 00:42:57.760 --> 00:43:00.300 the music video and them driving and all the 00:43:00.300 --> 00:43:03.280 bats are around them and you know i think that 00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:07.440 this is just a great song to drive to um and 00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:11.019 it's it's just aggressive i love it based on 00:43:11.019 --> 00:43:15.289 hunter thompson's 1971 novel fear and loathing 00:43:15.289 --> 00:43:19.010 in las vegas the video you hear the revving at 00:43:19.010 --> 00:43:21.510 the beginning of the song like yes it's not about 00:43:21.510 --> 00:43:25.949 driving but yes it kind of is yeah yeah and you 00:43:25.949 --> 00:43:29.329 hear that initial line he who makes a beast out 00:43:29.329 --> 00:43:32.570 of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man 00:43:33.050 --> 00:43:35.969 And the way that Matt shadows says it, it's like, 00:43:36.090 --> 00:43:39.949 Oh yeah, I want to be that guy. So yeah, I, when 00:43:39.949 --> 00:43:42.889 that's that song that when your foot hits the 00:43:42.889 --> 00:43:46.809 gas, it starts to go a little bit heavier on 00:43:46.809 --> 00:43:51.030 that. Couldn't agree more. And Oh my God, I am 00:43:51.030 --> 00:43:57.050 trying to, okay. Avenged seven fold has a hard 00:43:57.050 --> 00:44:01.610 rock metal vibe. But they also bring some punk 00:44:01.610 --> 00:44:04.989 into their sound. So I'm going to lean into that 00:44:04.989 --> 00:44:09.750 punk side of Avenged Sevenfold and literally 00:44:09.750 --> 00:44:13.349 pivot us just a bit where we dip our toe into 00:44:13.349 --> 00:44:17.110 pure punk rock and bring it into the road trip 00:44:17.110 --> 00:44:20.949 mix. Because there is one song that I have consistently 00:44:20.949 --> 00:44:25.409 said for 30 years that every time it comes on, 00:44:25.510 --> 00:44:27.869 I don't want to be behind the wheel because I 00:44:27.869 --> 00:44:32.179 always find myself. speeding and the song is 00:44:32.179 --> 00:44:36.179 not about driving per se but it's about road 00:44:36.179 --> 00:44:42.079 rage so in no way shape or form am i or anybody 00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:45.639 at my weekly mixtape promoting road rage but 00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:47.519 damn it if i don't drive a little bit faster 00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:51.110 when the offspring's bad habit kicks on from 00:44:51.110 --> 00:44:54.510 1994 smash when i'm in my car don't give me no 00:44:54.510 --> 00:44:56.829 crap because the slightest thing i just might 00:44:56.829 --> 00:44:59.610 snap and when that riff kicks in it's almost 00:44:59.610 --> 00:45:03.210 metal -esque where i feel like coming out of 00:45:03.210 --> 00:45:06.869 avenge sevenfold's backcountry musically it actually 00:45:06.869 --> 00:45:11.130 complements it and this song is just a million 00:45:11.130 --> 00:45:15.090 miles an hour it's so much fun and yeah i know 00:45:15.090 --> 00:45:17.610 i'm kind of dipping in my toe in punk rock in 00:45:17.610 --> 00:45:21.519 a hard rock mixtape which on paper might seem 00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:23.900 odd, but when you listen to Backcountry and it 00:45:23.900 --> 00:45:26.420 goes into bad habit, it does make sense. I promise 00:45:26.420 --> 00:45:29.940 you that. I can get behind that for sure. And 00:45:29.940 --> 00:45:33.420 there are a lot of these bands on this playlist. 00:45:33.929 --> 00:45:37.969 already that like the offspring are what you 00:45:37.969 --> 00:45:41.369 would deem as like a punk band or we would put 00:45:41.369 --> 00:45:45.489 these labels on it but yet they all in a sense 00:45:45.489 --> 00:45:48.710 have had a song or two that branches somewhere 00:45:48.710 --> 00:45:53.570 else so just like that i could definitely see 00:45:53.570 --> 00:45:55.989 this working on on this playlist that's a great 00:45:55.989 --> 00:45:59.690 choice i i believe in it i stand behind it so 00:45:59.690 --> 00:46:02.070 you have my vote well if it's john lori approved 00:46:02.070 --> 00:46:05.389 then it is good enough for me john what are you 00:46:05.389 --> 00:46:10.289 gonna follow up this kind of punk metal mix of 00:46:10.289 --> 00:46:13.369 bad country and bad habit with now this actually 00:46:13.369 --> 00:46:17.030 opens this opens a door which is kind of nice 00:46:17.030 --> 00:46:19.849 because there were a couple on my list that had 00:46:19.849 --> 00:46:22.809 to do with driving that were more in the vein 00:46:22.809 --> 00:46:28.500 of punk and in a way this band has kind of transitioned 00:46:28.500 --> 00:46:33.320 into metal. And they are also my girlfriend's 00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:35.900 favorite band of all time. So I'm gonna go with 00:46:35.900 --> 00:46:39.699 Bayside, Already Gone. And for those that don't 00:46:39.699 --> 00:46:43.900 know, they're very cult. Celtic band. Their fan 00:46:43.900 --> 00:46:46.019 base is called The Cult. So if you don't know 00:46:46.019 --> 00:46:48.940 Bayside, I highly, highly recommend it. But Already 00:46:48.940 --> 00:46:52.360 Gone in the title, no, it's not a cover. It has 00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:54.380 nothing to do with the Eagles, Already Gone. 00:46:54.519 --> 00:46:58.440 But this version or this actual song of Already 00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:03.119 Gone, it's a phenomenal driving tune. It's talking 00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:06.079 about leaving a girl and you're already gone. 00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:08.159 You're already out of the house and you've moved 00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:11.130 on. I think that that's just a great song to 00:47:11.130 --> 00:47:13.590 drive to. It's also aggressive, and it's also 00:47:13.590 --> 00:47:18.969 touching the vein of punk just enough. From 2011's 00:47:18.969 --> 00:47:22.550 Killing Time, great song. I definitely catch 00:47:22.550 --> 00:47:25.269 where you're going with the fact that, yes, they're 00:47:25.269 --> 00:47:27.969 a punk band, but they're also incorporating elements 00:47:27.969 --> 00:47:32.550 of hard rock and metal into that punk rock sound, 00:47:32.610 --> 00:47:36.090 similar to what Avenged Sevenfold does from the 00:47:36.090 --> 00:47:38.570 hard rock side, where they kind of veer a little 00:47:38.570 --> 00:47:41.010 bit into punk, but it's still considered hard 00:47:41.010 --> 00:47:44.190 rock slash metal. Bayside's kind of the flip 00:47:44.190 --> 00:47:47.070 of that, where they're a punk band that dabbles. 00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:51.039 in hard rock and at times metal, in their sound. 00:47:51.380 --> 00:47:54.559 This is where they kind of turned into more of 00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:57.340 a radio -centric band, even though they were 00:47:57.340 --> 00:48:01.000 never a radio band. They were always an underground, 00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:06.599 New York -based... punk -ish band um but they 00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:08.800 always had this different sound and this different 00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:11.239 approach to it and nowadays they've just gone 00:48:11.239 --> 00:48:13.860 like full -blown metal for the most part hiring 00:48:13.860 --> 00:48:16.719 i forget his name but the guy that did the last 00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:19.840 mega death record getting him in to do their 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:22.920 stuff so they've kind of turned metal but this 00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:25.559 song while you're driving already gotten that's 00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:29.519 a nice one oh god okay i'm gonna pull the pin 00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:31.639 out of what i was talking about before but i 00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:35.690 don't know if it's gonna work Oh, no. It's not 00:48:35.690 --> 00:48:39.650 a hard rock song. It's a rock song that has a 00:48:39.650 --> 00:48:43.269 hard rock drive to it. And to me, it's probably 00:48:43.269 --> 00:48:47.409 my favorite road trip song of all time. I love 00:48:47.409 --> 00:48:49.949 when this comes on and I'm driving. I put my 00:48:49.949 --> 00:48:53.369 pedal down to this song just as hard as I would 00:48:53.369 --> 00:48:56.849 kickstart my heart. So you know what? Screw it. 00:48:56.909 --> 00:49:00.750 I'm just coming out of Bayside with Tom Petty 00:49:00.750 --> 00:49:03.150 and I'm going with Running Down a Dream from 00:49:03.150 --> 00:49:06.909 1989's Full Moon Fever. I rolled on. The sky 00:49:06.909 --> 00:49:09.150 grew dark. I put the pedal down to make some 00:49:09.150 --> 00:49:11.929 time. There's something good waiting down this 00:49:11.929 --> 00:49:15.809 road. I'm picking up whatever's mine. Yes, it's 00:49:15.809 --> 00:49:20.989 not quote unquote hard rock, but hard rock bands. 00:49:21.500 --> 00:49:24.780 Love Tom Petty. Punk rock bands love Tom Petty. 00:49:24.800 --> 00:49:27.500 Metal artists love Tom Petty. Country artists 00:49:27.500 --> 00:49:32.199 love Tom Petty. I love Tom Petty. I'm going to 00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:35.119 blur the lines. This is a very hard rock and 00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:38.460 Tom Petty song. Yes, in no way, shape or form. 00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:41.159 Is it the heft of Metallica or Motley Crue or 00:49:41.159 --> 00:49:45.900 even Cinderella or Hinder? But Tom Petty, he 00:49:45.900 --> 00:49:48.880 deserves. to be in this conversation for road 00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:51.139 trip songs. Damn it. Even if it's a little bit 00:49:51.139 --> 00:49:54.760 of a stretch on my part, I'm fine with it. You 00:49:54.760 --> 00:49:58.239 know, even at a certain point, ACDC is a little 00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:01.639 pedestrian for the average metal aficionado, 00:50:01.679 --> 00:50:04.980 you know, but at the time that was really aggressive 00:50:04.980 --> 00:50:08.119 stuff. And even with something like Tom Petty's 00:50:08.119 --> 00:50:13.780 riff, that's a great riff. There is an essence 00:50:13.780 --> 00:50:17.480 to hard rock that. came out of something like 00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:21.019 Tom Petty. Had it have not been for what he was 00:50:21.019 --> 00:50:24.280 creating and the whole culture and the vibe of 00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:28.000 that song, that's a great riff. And like you 00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:30.780 said, it touched a lot of different facets of 00:50:30.780 --> 00:50:34.349 music. An artist like Tom Petty, you're going 00:50:34.349 --> 00:50:36.690 to find in country and you're going to find it 00:50:36.690 --> 00:50:39.670 in metal and hard rock. So I'm down. That's fine. 00:50:39.809 --> 00:50:42.050 Yeah. And I can also throw in the fact that on 00:50:42.050 --> 00:50:44.449 Wildflowers, you had Honeybee, which he performed 00:50:44.449 --> 00:50:47.550 on Saturday Night Live with another drummer we 00:50:47.550 --> 00:50:50.289 talked about tonight, Dave Grohl, when he sat 00:50:50.289 --> 00:50:54.789 in with Tom Petty for that live version. And 00:50:54.789 --> 00:50:57.030 the Foo Fighters and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 00:50:57.030 --> 00:51:01.010 had a great relationship through the years. Yeah, 00:51:01.030 --> 00:51:03.590 I feel like he's woven enough through the fabric 00:51:03.590 --> 00:51:06.590 of these bands we've talked about that it still 00:51:06.590 --> 00:51:11.889 makes sense. But John, 19 songs down. You get 00:51:11.889 --> 00:51:15.230 to put the cherry on top of this hard rock road 00:51:15.230 --> 00:51:18.190 trip mixtape. And I threw a little bit of a curveball 00:51:18.190 --> 00:51:20.650 here for you at the end. What are you closing 00:51:20.650 --> 00:51:23.909 up the night with? You actually picked the perfect 00:51:23.909 --> 00:51:27.090 song to then lead into what I wanted to close 00:51:27.090 --> 00:51:29.530 with. It was either going to open this list or 00:51:29.530 --> 00:51:32.340 it was going to close this list. or at some point 00:51:32.340 --> 00:51:34.920 make it into this list. And you and I both know 00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:37.380 that we are both big fans of this band, and I 00:51:37.380 --> 00:51:39.619 absolutely love them, and I think that they're 00:51:39.619 --> 00:51:42.860 just one of the most underrated hard rock bands 00:51:42.860 --> 00:51:45.199 that's out there, because they can get super 00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:48.599 heavy, but in this case, they can bring it down 00:51:48.599 --> 00:51:52.079 to its grassroots, pseudo -country hard rock 00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:55.440 vibe, and I'm going to go with, off Between the 00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:58.420 Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Blackstone Cherries, 00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:02.800 Like I Roll. This is a driving song. This is 00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:06.460 100%. This made the top of my list and the first 00:52:06.460 --> 00:52:08.360 song that I ever thought about when we were going 00:52:08.360 --> 00:52:11.400 into this hard rock mixtape, even though it has 00:52:11.400 --> 00:52:16.019 its sort of roots in a country vibe. This song 00:52:16.019 --> 00:52:18.960 is the perfect driving song with the windows 00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:21.679 down. The rest of the record's heavy as well, 00:52:21.679 --> 00:52:24.659 so you can... listen to the rest of it and get 00:52:24.659 --> 00:52:27.260 your heavy hard rock out. But this song is the 00:52:27.260 --> 00:52:30.860 perfect, perfect driving song. And coming out 00:52:30.860 --> 00:52:33.579 of Tom Petty, it's the chef's kiss. I love the 00:52:33.579 --> 00:52:37.000 fact that you went with this one. I had blind 00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:40.099 man on my list under the bottom where it was 00:52:40.099 --> 00:52:43.019 a little less on the nose songs. Cause when that 00:52:43.019 --> 00:52:46.159 blind man riff kicks in, I could literally feel 00:52:46.159 --> 00:52:49.219 the car like picking up pace. And like I roll 00:52:49.219 --> 00:52:52.699 definitely has that top down. Wind in your hair 00:52:52.699 --> 00:52:55.300 vibe, similar to running down a dream to close 00:52:55.300 --> 00:52:58.920 it out. So bravo on that. And that was a good 00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:02.219 team effort, I feel, because you did Tom Petty, 00:53:02.219 --> 00:53:05.019 which was, like you said, it's a perfect segue 00:53:05.019 --> 00:53:10.079 to get us. to a more mellow hard rock that then 00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:13.119 closes out this playlist. There you have it, 00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:15.980 folks. Side B of our ultimate hard rock road 00:53:15.980 --> 00:53:18.679 trip mixtape, which kicked off with Cinderella's 00:53:18.679 --> 00:53:21.780 Gypsy Road, Three Doors Down, It's Not My Time, 00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:26.199 Chicken Foot, Bigfoot, Hinder, Born to be Wild, 00:53:26.340 --> 00:53:29.320 The Steppenwolf Cover, Saint Esonia's Blinding 00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:32.159 Lights, The Weekend Cover, Avenged Sevenfold, 00:53:32.360 --> 00:53:36.119 Bat Country, The Offspring, Bad Habit, Bayside, 00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:39.760 Already Gone, Not a Cover, Tom Petty, Running 00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:43.739 Down a Dream, and Blackstone Cherry, Like I Roll. 00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:46.739 Head over to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all 00:53:46.739 --> 00:53:49.360 the songs we've discussed in this mix through 00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:53.159 the playlist embedded on the episode page. 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