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Speaker 1: This is a Taken a Walk podcast and I'm buzzsnight.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, and this is another look at this week

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Speaker 1: in music history for the week of November the twenty fourth.

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling it's going to be a robust week.

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Speaker 1: But just to verify that, I turned to the master

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Speaker 1: of music, Mayhem Harry Jacobs.

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Speaker 2: Harry, what do you got? Got A bunch of stuff?

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Speaker 3: Robust is probably an apt description of this week. We're

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Speaker 3: going to start with Freddie Mercury November twenty fourth. We

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Speaker 3: talked about this a little bit last time over the

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Speaker 3: last couple of episodes that you know, this was the

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Speaker 3: time that he had announced that he had AIDS November

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Speaker 3: twenty third, actually the day before yesterday technically, that he

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Speaker 3: had AIDS, and on the twenty fourth he actually passed away.

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Speaker 3: He lived with the illness. He knew obviously, he knew

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Speaker 3: he was sick. People close to him knew he was sick.

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Speaker 3: I think we all knew there was something going on.

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Speaker 3: And he passed away quietly on November twenty fourth.

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Speaker 2: A huge loss, huge loss. Yes, he was a you know,

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Speaker 2: he was a brilliant guy.

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Speaker 3: We talked about Bohemian Rhapsody, a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 3: and how much work he put into that song, how

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Speaker 3: the whole thing was basically put together by him. He

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Speaker 3: orchestrated it, no pun intended and was really minus Radio

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Speaker 3: Gaga and another one, Bites the Dust you know was

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Speaker 3: a was a musical genius in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 2: Yep, agree, right, agree.

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Speaker 3: And there was probably some genius involved in another one

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Speaker 3: Bites the Dust too simple rhythmic fun nineteen ninety one.

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Speaker 3: On November twenty fourth, Eric Carr, who was one of

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Speaker 3: the guys that replaced Peter Chris, passed away eighteen fifty nine.

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Speaker 3: I know nothing about this. Charles Darwin published on the

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Speaker 3: Origin of species. I'm not fromamiliar with much of that's

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Speaker 3: that's one of those things that with Darwin and his theories.

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Speaker 3: I never I never paid attention to much of that

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Speaker 2: I don't know why.

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Speaker 1: And I love history, Yeah, I love history, but I

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Speaker 1: wasn't paying attention apparently to anything as I look back,

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Speaker 1: so makes sense.

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Speaker 2: November twenty fifth. You're supposed to disagree with that, Sorry O, No,

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Speaker 2: I agree. I agree.

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Speaker 3: I feel the same way like my running joke. As

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Speaker 3: you know, as I graduated from the Worcester Public Schools

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Speaker 2: I didn't pay attention to shit.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy six, November twenty fifth, the band performed the

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Speaker 3: Last Waltz the farewell concert at the Winterland Ballroom.

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Speaker 2: Dylan Neil Young Clapton was a part of that. A

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Speaker 3: You're a big fan of the band and Robbie Robertson,

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Speaker 3: and that was a big deal.

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Speaker 2: It really was. It's a great concert film to this day.

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Speaker 1: I love Joni Mitchell's part of it as well, when

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Speaker 1: she sort of appears in the background and then comes

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Speaker 1: out and it's.

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Speaker 2: Just so beautiful.

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Speaker 1: And then when you learn over time what was really

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Speaker 1: going on, the majority of the band members.

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Speaker 2: Really were not up for this.

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Speaker 1: They had already become a fractionalized unit certainly, and it

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Speaker 1: didn't appear to us then that this was all going on.

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Speaker 1: But the more we would learn years later, I think

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Speaker 1: Levon in particular Levon Helm kind of went kicking and

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Speaker 1: screaming to the last Waltz because he just sort of

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Speaker 1: felt like it wasn't his idea and really wasn't a

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Speaker 2: So but it's a great film.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was angst in the ranks, no doubt really

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Speaker 3: at that point between the members. Robbie was notoriously difficult

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Speaker 3: as well to do. I mean, listen, we all have

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Speaker 3: our personalities. And when you're that close and you've got

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Speaker 3: a band and you're working in close quarters like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you do then appreciate those the first two

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Speaker 1: albums even more when you when you study what was

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Speaker 1: egos all colliding, so it really makes you further. I think,

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Speaker 1: at least me as a fan, really appreciate those first

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Speaker 1: and I think they are, you know, works of art.

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Speaker 1: it really was just a whole different thing. The Richard

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Speaker 2: A hard working, well oiled machine.

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Speaker 1: The last one who who passed was Garth Hudson, who

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Speaker 2: He was he was.

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Speaker 1: Hanging on at a rest home somewhere in upstate New York.

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Speaker 1: And so, you know, because Robbie passed fairly recently as well.

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Speaker 1: Were we working together at ZLX when we had them

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Speaker 1: at the b N Yeah, you want.

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Speaker 3: To tell that story about Ken west on the on

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Speaker 1: Well, I heard this story actually from Robert Mathers who

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Speaker 1: described it, which I didn't. By the way, they I

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Speaker 1: don't want to tell that story because I don't want

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to respect that part.

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Speaker 1: But let's just say our guys went on the bus

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Speaker 1: and it was like Willie Nelson's bus. Let's just call

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Speaker 3: Hey, listen, I got two words to describe the situation.

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Speaker 2: That's it. That's all. Yep.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety seven, Michael Hutchins in Excess was found dead

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Speaker 3: in Sydney. This one kind of hit me hard. I

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Speaker 3: was an Inexcess fan and his death was clouded. But

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Speaker 3: his manner of death, oh god, yeah, it's what they

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Speaker 3: call auto erotic asphyxiation. He I don't even know what.

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Speaker 3: I'm rarely at a loss for words, but this was

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Speaker 3: an odd one to lose him. It was a big

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Speaker 2: Yeah. They were clearly had more in them, you know, musical. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety four, do they know It's Christmas Time? Was

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Speaker 3: recorded by band Aid think about it.

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Speaker 3: It's November twenty fourth, We're a month away from Christmas

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Speaker 3: and it was recorded and then it was released very quickly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a great speedy release. Yep.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, great great song. November twenty sixth, nineteen sixty eight,

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Speaker 1: I feel like we just talked about that, but that

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Speaker 3: So that's my that's right, And we did talk about

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Speaker 3: that's how how how it came up, there was, there was,

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Speaker 2: No complaining.

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Speaker 3: No, this is an interesting one, and this will tax

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Speaker 3: to ask you a question about something, Oh Boy, and

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Speaker 3: I've given you the answer already. Another open book test.

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Speaker 3: This is similar to the was doing alb when killed

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Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty eight, Guns N' Roses. His debut album comes out,

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Speaker 3: Appetite for Destruction. You remember that I do.

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Speaker 2: I'm fright hitt by the way, so I'm listening.

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Speaker 3: Hit number one after a year of climbing the charts.

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Speaker 3: Opening track was Welcome to the Jungle. I great stuff

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Speaker 3: on that, right, mister Brownstone Paradise City, Sweet Child. Welcome

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Speaker 3: movies starring a famous actor. Nineteen eighty eight was its

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Speaker 3: final chapter. Jim Carey was in the movie. He played

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Speaker 3: you remember either the star of the movie or the

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Speaker 2: It's the star of the first name Arnold.

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Speaker 3: No, sir, oh darn you, you're in the right side

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm gonna just give it to you. Yeah, you

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Speaker 3: The last Dirty Harry movie was The Deadpool.

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Speaker 2: It was Clint Eastwood.

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Speaker 3: Clint, and I will tell you I remember seeing this

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Speaker 3: Destruction is the number one selling debut album by a

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Speaker 3: guess I knew the answer. November twenty seventh, nineteen forty two.

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Speaker 3: Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle and another one that,

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Speaker 3: at number one by Whitney Houston. That was part of

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Speaker 3: Whitney's popped the good songs.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen twenty five, the Grand Old Opry debuted on radio

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Speaker 3: nineteen seventy six, Jerry Lee Lewis. You know, if I'm

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I you know, I never got to meet him,

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Speaker 2: Rest in peace, Pierre Robert.

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Speaker 1: So ending it on that note, Harry, thank you for

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Harry, and thanks to all you for listening

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