Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, we'll go to the one and only Lonnie Smith.
Speaker 2: We catch up with right on a Friday morning as
Speaker 2: part of Australia Overnight Rode.
Speaker 3: Good morning, so a very good morning to you, Tony.
Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Thank you sir, very kind of you, very
Speaker 2: sweet of you to say so. Just watching these pictures
Speaker 2: come in, you know, mate, these big national stories that
Speaker 2: come in unimaginable. Really, two hundred ninety people that have
Speaker 2: been killed in this Air India crash. It is dreadful
Speaker 2: and they're only in the air for sixty plus seconds
Speaker 2: and then all hell, all let's loose.
Speaker 4: It's just so tragically, tragically sad.
Speaker 3: But the astonishing story there, Tony. One survivor, a survivor
Speaker 3: and he's still holding his boarding path.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is just a great There'll be more on
Speaker 2: that one than no death throughout the day. Let me
Speaker 2: ask you this before you start to further The rights
Speaker 2: are where you are the riots in LA Are you
Speaker 2: walking around and you shown yourself at We're not that
Speaker 2: far away.
Speaker 4: We're going to be really careful. Does it feel horrid
Speaker 4: or not?
Speaker 3: No? Look down here pretty safe. About an hour and
Speaker 3: a half south of Los Angeles, which is good, a
Speaker 3: good way to be, especially when that's going on. Look
Speaker 3: the images of cars set ablaze, protesters tossing rocks at police,
Speaker 3: and an office inspiring non lethal rounds and tear gas
Speaker 3: at protest as well several days of unrest in Los
Speaker 3: Angeles of protests over immigration enforcement. Is far different in
Speaker 3: a scale from the nineteen ninety two riots. Now, after
Speaker 3: the current protests that began what Friday, Donald Trump ordered
Speaker 3: the deployment of National Guards and seven hundred marines. But
Speaker 3: you know, there is a curfew in place. It covers
Speaker 3: two point five kilometers square of downtown Los Angeles from
Speaker 3: eight pm to six am and is expected to last
Speaker 3: for several days, as they say. But the part that
Speaker 3: you would have seen on TV and a lot of
Speaker 3: people in Australia and around the world when nine journalists
Speaker 3: Lauren Tamasi reporting on the LA riots, was shot by
Speaker 3: a rubber bullet fire by an LA police officer. And look,
Speaker 3: when you're reporting stuff like that, really it can get
Speaker 3: pretty dangerous. So you know, she's okay, which is great.
Speaker 4: Does anybody have found out why he chose to shoot
Speaker 4: what was clearly a working journalist?
Speaker 3: I think in the background Tony to if you watch
Speaker 3: the video to her, probably he right, there was someone
Speaker 3: else close by, so he more than likely saw her
Speaker 3: in that vicinity, but there was someone coming up or
Speaker 3: whatever like that, but he wasn't a good shot because
Speaker 3: he shot her, so, which was very sad.
Speaker 2: On this program yesterday in the two o'clock hour, something
Speaker 2: took my fancy and we were just meandering through some
Speaker 2: of the great songs from the Beach Boys. Coincidentally, one
Speaker 2: of the big couple of the big ones were actually
Speaker 2: at anniversary of the recording going back to about sixty
Speaker 2: four or sixty five, and I said, what are those
Speaker 2: great Beach Boys songs? So we had lots of callers
Speaker 2: talking about memories of the Beach Boys. So this is
Speaker 2: in the two o'clock hour. The news came up at
Speaker 2: three o'clock yesterday. Then as the news finished, I saw
Speaker 2: it flick up on my phone, Brian Wilson dead, and
Speaker 2: I thought, oh, I know it must be different. Brian
Speaker 2: Wilson couldn't be surely anyway, it turns out clearly was.
Speaker 2: I've been thinking about that all day for the last
Speaker 2: twenty four plus hours now, thinking how weird and odd
Speaker 2: that made me feel. I mean, I was really taken
Speaker 2: back by it that we had been spent nearly an
Speaker 2: hour talking about songs associated with the Beach Boys and
Speaker 2: Brian Wilson and then that news came through.
Speaker 3: Look, well, Brian was the heart of the Beach Boys.
Speaker 3: He was the soul of the Beach Boy sound, gifted
Speaker 3: with you know, like dreaming up melodies where he poured
Speaker 3: emotions into every note. And Mike Love from the Beach
Speaker 3: Boys paid tribute to his cousin on the journey together
Speaker 3: that was filled with moments of brilliance, heartbreak, laughter, perplexity,
Speaker 3: and most of all love. Although Love and Wilson were
Speaker 3: successful collaborators, you know, the two occasionally buttered heads over
Speaker 3: the course of the band's direction, and Wilson wanted to
Speaker 3: really continue to move into more experimental material while Love
Speaker 3: wanted to take the band's focus on the commercial side.
Speaker 3: And the Beach Boys really helped to make the world
Speaker 3: believe in sunshine, surfing and teenage dreams. And as the
Speaker 3: news of Brian Wilson's passing, it reverberated around the world
Speaker 3: and especially in the music world, you know, and it's
Speaker 3: heartening to know Tony that his contributions are celebrated by
Speaker 3: young and old, and even Paul McCartney, one of Wilson's
Speaker 3: biggest admirers, has said the Beach Boys song God Only
Speaker 3: Knows is the greatest song ever written. Now that's from
Speaker 3: Paul McCartney's lips. Now, McCartney has said it means so
Speaker 3: much to him. It's one of few songs that reduces
Speaker 3: him to tears every time he hears it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful genius of Brian Wilson. Countless music luminaries
Speaker 3: Bob Dylan, Mick Fleetwood, Geryl King, Elton, John Ronnie Wood
Speaker 3: among the many who are playing tribute to Brian passing
Speaker 3: away at eighty two. You know like he did have
Speaker 3: his health.
Speaker 2: Issues, Yeah, drug issues of these which were well documented
Speaker 2: as well. Rod state, they will come back in just
Speaker 2: a moment on this day in music, and a sorry
Speaker 2: about Don McLean of all people that's next to Strada Overnight,
Speaker 2: we love it. Nice to every company. We're halfway through,
Speaker 2: more than halfway through. Really we run out a time
Speaker 2: that we're doing with this half hour's just completely gone.
Speaker 2: Rod Smith, Don MacLean, the great Don McLean. Wouldn't you
Speaker 2: have liked to have written back in all those years ago,
Speaker 2: American Pie.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and look the parody of American Pie. Don
Speaker 3: McLean has said that it's better than the original. You
Speaker 3: know of weird Al because he's amassed countless fans over
Speaker 3: the decades, including some of the artists he has spoofed.
Speaker 3: So look the folk rock legend. Don McLean praised the
Speaker 3: saga Begins Now Yankevic's take on American Pie, in which
Speaker 3: he hilariously describes the plot of Star Wars Episode one,
Speaker 3: the Phantom Menace. When MacLean heard the version, he thought
Speaker 3: it was better than the original. And weird Ol has
Speaker 3: been the king of parodies for a number of decades,
Speaker 3: with songs like eBay, like a Surgeon, Armish.
Speaker 4: Paradise, He's eat it, eat it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, so he's still touring. Would you believe he's got
Speaker 3: his bigger and weirder twenty twenty five tour happening right now.
Speaker 2: Just to wrap up, and this is such an important
Speaker 2: story which we had a bit more time. But it's
Speaker 2: about the reading to children, which is certainly lacking because
Speaker 2: of the genre's parenting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look that they aren't reading to their kids as
Speaker 3: often as other generations because they feel it isn't funny
Speaker 3: anymore tony. It raises concerns about the lack of early
Speaker 3: exposure to books for kids, and the recent study found
Speaker 3: that the attitude towards reading is seemingly being passed on
Speaker 3: to their children. So if they're not going to help
Speaker 3: the kids read, well, the kids aren't going to read either.
Speaker 3: So very sad and you know it's really going to
Speaker 3: turn out like how many kids are going to read?
Speaker 3: Is ai going to take a.
Speaker 4: Well, maybe that'll take care of it.
Speaker 2: But the idea of sitting down and reading to children,
Speaker 2: of specting to lots of people, lots of teachers and
Speaker 2: families over the years, and the real clever people still
Speaker 2: read to their children.
Speaker 4: It is so important at a very early age. It
Speaker 4: is it is mate, We're going to run at a time.
Speaker 2: I know we wanted to talk about the Beach Boys again,
Speaker 2: which will do that? That song you write is such
Speaker 2: a beautiful song. Listen to it a few times yesterday.
Speaker 2: Lots of the reports featured that God only knows it
Speaker 2: is such a beautiful.
Speaker 3: Track, and it was the B side of Wouldn't It
Speaker 3: Be Nice?
Speaker 2: It was a two which are two beautiful, fabulous songs.
Speaker 4: You have a great one and we'll talk again next week.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the one and only.
Speaker 3: Have a great birthday, Tony.
Speaker 2: See you mate. Talking about all those things coming out
Speaker 2: of the United States, the Beatles, Supremes, beach Boys. We
Speaker 2: might look at that coming up the next hour cereal time.
Speaker 4: It is all part of a strainer overnight. Good morning,