Speaker 1: Hi, this is Buzz Night Tho, host of the Taking
Speaker 1: a Walk podcast, and welcome to another look at this
Speaker 1: week in music history. It's for the week of June
Speaker 1: the thirtieth, and we saunter over to the music history
Speaker 1: desk to Harry Jacobs. Hello, Harry, reporting.
Speaker 2: In live from Las Vegas, where it's only about one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty six degrees today, So the dry heat thing,
Speaker 2: it's a dry heat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get rolling.
Speaker 3: Buzz.
Speaker 2: June thirtieth through the seventeenth is the week we're doing,
Speaker 2: and let's start with a bang. Nineteen sixty nine is
Speaker 2: when Fleetwood Mac and Peter Green released oh Well, a
Speaker 2: song that you know. It starts off with a bang,
Speaker 2: with that great lick, but it's one of those necessities
Speaker 2: for guitar players, or if you're a blues band, that's
Speaker 2: a song you play Oh Well.
Speaker 1: He was greatly underappreciated, and I'll just as I often do,
Speaker 1: I'll throw a trivia question at you, what's the band?
Speaker 1: And I believe this would have been their only album
Speaker 1: rock charting song that did a great remake of oh Well?
Speaker 2: Who did a remake of Oh Well? I should know this,
Speaker 2: I definitely should know this.
Speaker 1: It just came to me. It was buried in my
Speaker 1: recesses and somehow unearthed it just as we were talking.
Speaker 2: Why do I want to say the rockets? I don't
Speaker 2: know that that's right, am. I corrected with that spin
Speaker 2: the prize wheel? Wow? How about that?
Speaker 3: I pulled that right out of my fanny, as they
Speaker 3: would say.
Speaker 1: And the rot is it's starting to m hm, you
Speaker 1: win the next time I'm in Vegas, dinner at Ferraro's.
Speaker 3: Where everybody knows your name, not everyone's name, just Buzz
Speaker 3: Night's name.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy five, on June thirtieth, the Eagles released
Speaker 2: One of These Nights. This, in my opinion, was a
Speaker 2: break away from the country kind of sound they heard
Speaker 2: that they played with the title with One of These Nights.
Speaker 1: That's not a country rock sounding song at all to me. No,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a great rock song, kind of an
Speaker 1: anthem in its own regard. I'm sure it's about some
Speaker 1: moment misery that they had, because all great music comes
Speaker 1: out of misery. But it's a great one. But lion
Speaker 1: I goes back to, certainly the country theme.
Speaker 2: And a song about misery, right, about a woman who
Speaker 2: is heading to the cheat inside of town.
Speaker 1: You know, so many people when I talk to him
Speaker 1: about country music, they go.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't really like country. It's not my favorite thing.
Speaker 1: I don't really like country, and that I don't like
Speaker 1: countries to twangy and then you know how I stop
Speaker 1: them in their tracks. I say, do you like the Eagles?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love the Eagles. Well, what do you think
Speaker 1: it's a derivative of It's not pure, pure country, but
Speaker 1: it's definitely a derivative of country.
Speaker 3: Lynyrd skinnerd Almon Brothers, Charlie Day.
Speaker 2: I mean, you go through the list of classic rock
Speaker 2: stuff that's the thirty eight special, All that stuff is
Speaker 2: a derivative. I like that you get to use the
Speaker 2: word derivative here because this is not a math show.
Speaker 2: But it's all a derivative of country music. It's a derivative,
Speaker 2: exactly derivative. Nineteen eighty nine, the Stones began recording Steel
Speaker 2: Wheels and Montserrat, their first album with Bill Wyman since
Speaker 2: eighty six, and apparently there were some internal tensions there,
Speaker 2: but Steel Wheels that that was kind of an epic
Speaker 2: album for sure.
Speaker 1: And a great tour as well. Got to see it
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, and it was one of the great schmooze
Speaker 1: fests before before that show, we went back and saw
Speaker 1: the boys and I would say they were in good spirits.
Speaker 1: Keith was, Ronnie was, Charlie Watts.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes there are these celebrity meetings where you go, boy,
Speaker 2: that was something I'll never forget. Was was this one
Speaker 2: of those with the Stones you get to actually talk
Speaker 2: to Keith or Mick at all?
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, a lot of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just really that part was really cool
Speaker 1: because they were good natured. Mick was pretty much don't
Speaker 1: touch me, don't look at me, don't come anywhere near
Speaker 1: my space. Charlie was just Charlie not really into the
Speaker 1: scene per se, but looking really dapper and dignified. But
Speaker 1: it was rare because it was one of these moments
Speaker 1: we got to be there before the show and we
Speaker 1: got to spend literally an hour, you know, great catering,
Speaker 1: pool tables. Really a sensational event. And I think somewhere
Speaker 1: I've got a group picture of it. I'll have to
Speaker 1: take a look. That'd be a good picture for your
Speaker 1: wall for taking a walk behind you.
Speaker 2: It'd be nice to you know, little rolling stones and
Speaker 2: buzz Night.
Speaker 4: It was a fun night nineteen forty four.
Speaker 3: On June thirtieth is glensh Rock's birthday. Glens Rock is
Speaker 3: who you might ask.
Speaker 2: He's the lead singer of the Little River Band and
Speaker 2: they had a bunch of hits. You know, I'm a
Speaker 2: fan of pop music, but reminiscing cool Chains, Lonesome Loser,
Speaker 2: Help Us on the Way. There were a number of
Speaker 2: a number of good numbers by the Little River Band,
Speaker 2: but you know, a little schlocky, a little adult contemporary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't my favorite. But they did have an
Speaker 1: album track I think it was. It was one of
Speaker 1: those long album tracks, kind of semi progressive. I think
Speaker 1: it was called It's a Long Way Home or something
Speaker 1: like that. Does that ring a bell? Doesn't ring a
Speaker 1: bell with me? Not the Supertramp. It's take them take
Speaker 1: a long the way home. But I'll double check that
Speaker 1: and we can go in and you know, change this
Speaker 1: or eliminate this.
Speaker 4: Whole conversation if we choose.
Speaker 3: No, I like it, and you know, little River bands
Speaker 3: out right now.
Speaker 2: We jokingly talked about this the other day that you know,
Speaker 2: I'd said, well, they're probably just you know, got one
Speaker 2: band member like Chicago as you know, a horn player,
Speaker 2: and I jokingly said, well, it's probably the player. It's
Speaker 2: probably just the bass player that's it, and everyone else
Speaker 2: is new. And sure enough when I went back in
Speaker 2: and checked it, that's all Little River Bands out, but
Speaker 2: just with the original bass player.
Speaker 1: As all the bass players take all the heat, don't they.
Speaker 2: They do take a lot of grief, and they've got
Speaker 2: a tough gig. It's not as simple as people would
Speaker 2: make it.
Speaker 1: See, Harry, I do have the song I did a cheat.
Speaker 1: It's called It's a Long Way There. So check that
Speaker 1: one out. It's kind of a cool little river band song,
Speaker 1: especially if you're like me and you're not necessarily in
Speaker 1: favor of the pop side of the band.
Speaker 2: Right on July first, nineteen sixty seven, Sergeant Pepper's hit
Speaker 2: number one on the Billboard two hundred. It was there
Speaker 2: for fifteen weeks or so. We talk about it over
Speaker 2: and over, but what an amazing album, concept album, the sound.
Speaker 2: Think about the evolution of the sound of that band
Speaker 2: from She Loves You or I Want to Hold Your
Speaker 2: Hand and you know in sixty three, sixty four to
Speaker 2: really seven, you know, six or seven years later when
Speaker 2: they really started.
Speaker 3: To change the pace.
Speaker 2: Even four years for Sergeant Pepper's right, it was not
Speaker 2: a long time before they changed their sound.
Speaker 4: And the great George Martin was pushing them hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think his influence was there in terms of
Speaker 2: changing that sound and experimenting.
Speaker 3: How important was that was his role in that?
Speaker 4: I think he was integral.
Speaker 1: Now, look, it took a receptive gathering of the boys
Speaker 1: to be able to be willing to do the things.
Speaker 1: But I think he was the guy that was noodling
Speaker 1: around different things, different ways, experimentation.
Speaker 4: I believe that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nineteen seventy nine is Sony Walkman debuted in Japan,
Speaker 2: and this changed the world for how we listened to music.
Speaker 2: You know, we were listening to cassette players. This portable
Speaker 2: device changed the world. Think back to how great to
Speaker 2: us it sounded. At that point, we were thinking, it's
Speaker 2: not going to get any better than this. This is
Speaker 2: amazing sound. It was breakthrough time for sure, and we
Speaker 2: were taping it from our record players right in our stereos.
Speaker 2: We were making mixtapes and dropping them into the Walkman
Speaker 2: so crazy. I had one of the original ones. My
Speaker 2: father had one. I ended up getting it handed down,
Speaker 2: but I had one of the waterproof ones, remember the
Speaker 2: yellow waterproof?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do actually walking Yeah.
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty three, John bon Jovi signed with Mercury Records.
Speaker 2: The band actually signed with Mercury Records, setting the stage
Speaker 2: for that debut album in eighty four, and they ended
Speaker 2: up being you know, pop or metal, you know.
Speaker 3: Hair band kind of icons.
Speaker 1: And that first one was so well received. You know,
Speaker 1: it was not put into the Oh is it a
Speaker 1: little too you know, reminiscent of other Jersey artists we
Speaker 1: don't have to name, you know, is it taking a
Speaker 1: page out of that? But it was, you know, it
Speaker 1: was a monster album.
Speaker 2: I only stood on its own, and I just you know,
Speaker 2: he's a good guy. You hear everything, you know, you
Speaker 2: hear stuff online or see stuff online.
Speaker 3: He's just friendly and affable.
Speaker 2: And to that end, I saw a video that's I
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe it's ten years old at this point
Speaker 2: or older, but he's sitting at a wedding and the
Speaker 2: wedding band they had the nerve to sing living on
Speaker 2: a prayer and the lead singer walks up to bon
Speaker 2: Jovi as she's singing it, and he looks and he
Speaker 2: looks around the room, and then he grabs the microphone
Speaker 2: out of her hand and walks up on stage and
Speaker 2: joins the wedding band for Living on a Prayer, which
Speaker 2: was fun.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure at that whole event that was zero
Speaker 1: alcohol involved.
Speaker 2: Well, certainly listen for him. Probably, I don't think he
Speaker 2: was a I don't think he was much of a drinker.
Speaker 4: Did he have a history not don't believe so.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe others possibly, But you're afraid to Richie, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe a little like to enjoy, like to imbibe a
Speaker 1: little bit, a little bit.
Speaker 2: Nineteen forty five, July first, Debbie Harriet Blondie new resident
Speaker 2: of Woodbury, Connecticut, not Water but Woodbury, Connecticut.
Speaker 3: She was born in Miami, Florida.
Speaker 2: And you know, just a bunch of great songs out
Speaker 2: of that band and out of her and she's, you know,
Speaker 2: she's still going at it.
Speaker 1: She is, she still is loving being out there. At
Speaker 1: least it appears that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah. July second, nineteen sixty nine, The Jimmy Hendricks Experience.
Speaker 2: They disbanded when Noel Redding left the band after the
Speaker 2: Denver Pop Festival. This was not a planned break up
Speaker 2: or end of the band. I think it was just
Speaker 2: at the end of that festival he said, I've had enough,
Speaker 2: and that was the end of that iconic lineup for
Speaker 2: the Jimmy Hendricks experience.
Speaker 1: They were done after that. Got to think the tempers
Speaker 1: flared and you know, it probably took a while, but
Speaker 1: eventually they regretted it.
Speaker 2: All there was There was obviously substance involved there across
Speaker 2: all fronts, and that didn't make.
Speaker 4: It easy, I dare say.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy one, Queen performed their first concert with
Speaker 2: Freddie and Brian and Roger and John Deacon at Surrey
Speaker 2: College and that Kingdom. This this really set them off.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about them again, you know, in
Speaker 2: a minute here, but this was this was the first
Speaker 2: event for them in public ever.
Speaker 4: Get to see Queen in that early, early shape.
Speaker 2: I regret that I saw him with Adam Lambert at
Speaker 2: the Park Theater at the MGM, but I would love
Speaker 2: to have seen him with Freddy.
Speaker 3: How about you.
Speaker 4: Never saw him.
Speaker 1: Wasn't really into him in a big way back when
Speaker 1: they first came out, but over time, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of appreciated it more. And I really think that Adam
Speaker 1: Lambert piece is kind of cool. How he's kind of
Speaker 1: carried it on. I mean, we could all debate with
Speaker 1: there others who could have done a better job. But
Speaker 1: I've known folks that have gone and really dug the show.
Speaker 1: With Adam, you know, and the remaining band members.
Speaker 3: It was fun.
Speaker 2: It was you know, a little over the top in
Speaker 2: certain ways, but I certainly enjoyed it. So nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: July second, Bob Marley and the Whalers began their final tour.
Speaker 2: When they went out, Bob was unaware of his terminal
Speaker 2: cancer at that point, and not long after that tour
Speaker 2: we ended up losing Bob Marley.
Speaker 1: Kind of mind blowing when you think about it.
Speaker 3: Really is nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2: A guy by the name of Vladimir Nobakov He died
Speaker 2: on this date in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 3: That nam ring a bell with you at all?
Speaker 1: Not at all. Nope.
Speaker 2: His novel Lolita inspired a whole bunch of music, not
Speaker 2: the least of which is Don't Stand So Close to
Speaker 2: Me by the Police, which is really a song about
Speaker 2: a creeper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's creeper song.
Speaker 4: Wow on a little girl.
Speaker 3: So that was it.
Speaker 2: That was inspired by Vladimir Nobakoff who died on this day.
Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy seven, another death, another member of the
Speaker 2: twenty seven club, passed away on July third. There's actually
Speaker 2: two deaths from guys that were twenty seven years old
Speaker 2: on this date. In nineteen sixty nine, Brian Jones, who
Speaker 2: was a founding member of The Stones, drowned in a
Speaker 2: swimming pool. This was shortly after the Stones kicked him
Speaker 2: out of the band. He was fired. Do you realize
Speaker 2: the timing on that.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize the timing that, you know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: was some kind of trigger to it all.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sure, and ended up in his pool and that's where
Speaker 2: he was found. And in nineteen seventy one, the bigger name,
Speaker 2: if you will, was Jim Morrison who died in Paris
Speaker 2: at twenty seven. Allegedly died in Paris from heart failure,
Speaker 2: although no autopsy was performed. And you believe he's living
Speaker 2: near Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts or something like that.
Speaker 3: Where do you think Where do think he's going.
Speaker 4: Outside of Syracuse? Yeah, Syracuse.
Speaker 1: As soon as I find this out, I'm going in person.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'll go in person for that interview and
Speaker 1: because any chance to go to Syracuse.
Speaker 2: Right Dinosaur Barbecue, you can roll down the road, listen
Speaker 2: to Brother Weez and Rochester.
Speaker 3: There's a whole bunch of reasons to hit to Western
Speaker 3: New York.
Speaker 4: Oh nothing better.
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty six, you two began recording The Joshua Tree.
Speaker 2: This is the album that would change the world for
Speaker 2: you too. This was there Born in the USA.
Speaker 1: And every song a great song on it.
Speaker 2: The concert on the rooftop where they were playing you Know,
Speaker 2: with or Without You, and Where the Streets Have No
Speaker 2: Name the I think it was the video for Where
Speaker 2: the Streets Have No Name that was on MTV and everywhere.
Speaker 2: It was obviously reminiscent of the Beatles, but the crowd
Speaker 2: that brought to the streets of Los Angeles was pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: I love the music. I loved the band. There's just
Speaker 1: one thing that bugs me. What's that those glasses that
Speaker 1: Bono wears.
Speaker 2: Oh man, come on, he's like Phyllis Diller, the Phillis
Speaker 2: Diller of rock and roll with the big glasses.
Speaker 1: It's too much.
Speaker 4: After at first it was cool, then it's like, okay.
Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, enough, enough is enough.
Speaker 2: July fourth, nineteen seventy, the Who performed at the Atlanta
Speaker 2: Pop Festival. This was something that included tracks from Tommy
Speaker 2: and of course their first certainly their first album, which was.
Speaker 1: Buzz, Meaty, beady, big and bouncy. Just fun to say, right,
Speaker 1: it's terrific. I remember back selling it and screwing it
Speaker 1: up royally almost every time it sounds.
Speaker 3: Like you're saying something filthy, but you're not.
Speaker 2: You're just giving the title of the Who album and
Speaker 2: of course Can't Explain and other great songs on that
Speaker 2: as well. On this day in nineteen eighty two, Ozzy
Speaker 2: married Sharon Sharon, the former Sharon Arden. Who was who
Speaker 2: was the relationship the relationship between Ossie? Who was he
Speaker 2: just Sharon at that or who was Sharon to Ozzy?
Speaker 4: That manager? That's right, yeah, big force of nature manager.
Speaker 2: She married him and really, I think continued to this
Speaker 2: day continues to manage him. And she's done very well
Speaker 2: by him. Think about the trajectory that he was on
Speaker 2: after that, after that marriage, the television show, the reality show,
Speaker 2: her own career, she's she's done a great job.
Speaker 1: But he said, all aboard, I'm getting on the ozz
Speaker 1: of the crazy train and then.
Speaker 3: She was the conductor, the conductor.
Speaker 2: July fifth, nineteen seventy five, Pink Floyd performed Wish You
Speaker 2: Were Here some tracks of that at the Nebworth Festival
Speaker 2: in the United Kingdom. In London, Roy Harper joined for
Speaker 2: Have a Cigar? Is that a name that rings a
Speaker 2: bell to you? Roy Harper?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I remember he had, you know, certainly an album
Speaker 1: or so out, so it was, you know, early progressive.
Speaker 1: I couldn't remember anything about him, but yes, I do
Speaker 1: remember that name.
Speaker 2: Interesting story there, and Pink Floyd did not have a
Speaker 2: lot of folks ever really joined them.
Speaker 3: They kind of stood on their own.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like the Stones who would bring guests out
Speaker 2: or others who will bring guests out. But this is
Speaker 2: something that happened early on in their you know, in
Speaker 2: their career.
Speaker 1: And people are so crazy in a good way over
Speaker 1: progressive rock and Floyd and all that. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: sure someone will let us know, Hey, you idiots, he
Speaker 1: did this or he did this with Pink Floyd. So
Speaker 1: we'll probably follow up on this, absolutely will.
Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety one, Guns N' Roses You Could Be
Speaker 2: Mine was released as a single from What movie Buzz
Speaker 2: would it be Terminator, It would be it would be
Speaker 2: Terminator two got to number twenty nine. Appearing on a
Speaker 2: movie soundtrack. This would not be their first time doing
Speaker 2: that in nineteen ninety one. In eighty eight, Welcome to
Speaker 2: the Jungle was featured in the Clin Eastwood movie The Deadpool,
Speaker 2: and Jim Carrey played the singer of this band that
Speaker 2: was making a music video and ended up meeting his
Speaker 2: demise during the course of that that process. In that movie,
Speaker 2: Jim Carrey, serious actor, played an addict and the song
Speaker 2: he was, you know, singing during the music video was
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Jungle.
Speaker 3: That was our first exposure to Welcome to the Jungle.
Speaker 4: Great songs.
Speaker 2: I remember I was spending a lot of time with
Speaker 2: our friend Chuck Nolan in those days in nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 2: and I remember us hearing that after seeing that movie,
Speaker 2: thinking what a song that is? That's one immediately the
Speaker 2: first time you hear it, you go, what is that?
Speaker 1: And we know very well Chuck Nolan quite a headbanger
Speaker 1: in his day.
Speaker 3: He was. He had the.
Speaker 2: Mullet going, he had that big head of curly hair. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this was not morning show, Chuck Nolan. This is not,
Speaker 2: you know, the older Chuck Nolan, Chuck Nolan in the
Speaker 2: later years, right.
Speaker 4: So he would hate us for this.
Speaker 3: He and let me tell you something, I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna cuddle the lempy three of it, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna post it on our Facebook. In nineteen forty three,
Speaker 2: on July fifth, Robbie Robertson, the guitarist and songwriter for
Speaker 2: the band, was born in Toronto. The Last Waltz the
Speaker 2: way you have a you have a connection to Robbie Robertson,
Speaker 2: you have a love for that band. To take me
Speaker 2: through a couple of your favorite stories and memories for Robbie.
Speaker 1: Oh, I had a few of them over over time,
Speaker 1: just direct occurrences.
Speaker 4: I remember one of the times.
Speaker 1: Actually, I don't think I've told you this. I did
Speaker 1: a series of New York City shows that I didn't do.
Speaker 4: I produced for my morning show at that time.
Speaker 1: That was Tommy and the Bull from FM ninety nine
Speaker 1: w n R, The Late Bull and Norfolk. Yes, And
Speaker 1: we were camped at the I believe it was the
Speaker 1: Carnegie or the Stage Deli, and that's what we were
Speaker 1: bringing guests in. And you know, lo and behold we
Speaker 1: got Robbie to come on over and spend the half
Speaker 1: hour and.
Speaker 4: Do an interview over there.
Speaker 1: So he was always very amenable to doing things, certainly
Speaker 1: seen shot, but also was very transparent about stories, and
Speaker 1: it was really always wonderful to be able to have
Speaker 1: time with him. Here's another bit of trivia. His first
Speaker 1: name is not Robbie. Do you know what it is?
Speaker 3: No, I had no idea that his name was not
Speaker 3: Robbie Jamie. Really Jamie is Robbie the middle name.
Speaker 4: I believe so, But Jamie Robbie Robertson, I believe you.
Speaker 3: Isn't that interesting? There are two other things here.
Speaker 2: You have spoken with me in the past about his
Speaker 2: reputation amongst band members in that band.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people think that ultimately he kind of pulled the
Speaker 1: land grab, if you will, and when the last Waltz
Speaker 1: finally occurred, things were crumbling down with the infrastructure of
Speaker 1: the band. But I think some people thought, right up
Speaker 1: until Robbie's end that he kind of did the other
Speaker 1: band members wrong and kind of you know, as far
Speaker 1: as songwriting credits and those sort of things, we'll never know.
Speaker 3: You know, he also had a great voice. He did
Speaker 3: some voice over work.
Speaker 2: Actually, he was the voice of a Budweiser commercial and
Speaker 2: a little you had a little light go off, a
Speaker 2: little brainstorm yourself after you heard that great voice of
Speaker 2: his on the Budweiser commercial.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I sort of knew he was hanging around some
Speaker 1: studio and in the era of fax machines, I said,
Speaker 1: let me just put together a page of promos for
Speaker 1: WZLX and send them over, And sure enough, Robbie got him.
Speaker 1: And I think the next day or two days, a
Speaker 1: FedEx shows up and there is a tape with Robbie's
Speaker 1: session and it was pretty prigg and cool.
Speaker 2: It really pleasant. Here's a word for you, malifluous voice.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, deep and raspy and just sounded like a
Speaker 2: regular guy. So hearing him read our liners for ZLX
Speaker 2: was quite a little hit.
Speaker 4: It was fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: July sixth, nineteen sixty four, the Beatles released the film
Speaker 2: The Hard Day, Hard Days, and that you know, featured
Speaker 2: Can't Buy Me Love among other songs. Can't Buy Me
Speaker 2: Love ended up making to number one. We obviously don't
Speaker 2: get through a week without Beatles.
Speaker 1: So that's right. It's another great Beatles week, great.
Speaker 2: Song, great movie, and we just talked about Queen a
Speaker 2: few minutes ago. But in nineteen seventy three, on July sixth,
Speaker 2: their first album actually came out, and Keep Yourself Alive
Speaker 2: was on that. That was the big the big rock
Speaker 2: song from that album. And what a great song it is?
Speaker 4: You like that one now?
Speaker 3: Unique sounding? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I like that one. That's a good one.
Speaker 2: When COVID happened, Brian May started to and like a
Speaker 2: lot of us that were, you know, have gone to
Speaker 2: video from just doing audio, Brian May was trying to
Speaker 2: figure out how to do video. So there's a video
Speaker 2: of Brian May teaching you how to play if you're
Speaker 2: a guitar player Keep Yourself Alive, and he's trying to
Speaker 2: figure out how to hold his guitar and get his
Speaker 2: guitar into the scene.
Speaker 3: And then it's the second he starts playing and it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: it sounds just like the record.
Speaker 1: He gets that sound.
Speaker 2: By the way, part of that sound of his guitar
Speaker 2: is that he plays with our pivalent of a quarter,
Speaker 2: and it's got those you know, a pick normally is
Speaker 2: just a flat piece of plastic, a flat triangular piece
Speaker 2: of plastic. He plays with basically a quarter, and he
Speaker 2: uses those serrated edges to get his sound.
Speaker 4: And that's pretty cool, really unique.
Speaker 2: So if you're a guitar player, you want to check
Speaker 2: that out on YouTube, just go to you know, go
Speaker 2: to Brian May tutorial and you'll find a bunch with him.
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty five, Phil Collins released No Jacket Required, hit
Speaker 2: number one. I was a fan of the studio. The
Speaker 2: other song on that album was One More Night. Those
Speaker 2: ac songs that Phil Collins did I grew very tired
Speaker 2: of because I was playing him on the radio. I
Speaker 2: was never a fan of the schmaltcy Phil Collins.
Speaker 1: Same here, but boy, his body of work, whether it
Speaker 1: be his solo body of work, whether it be his
Speaker 1: Genesis work, or whether it be with the other amazing
Speaker 1: and that he fronted that kind of flew under the radar.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew about that band, Harry.
Speaker 1: They were called Brand Dex. Did you know about that?
Speaker 1: NORANDX a fusion jazz band basically that knew how to
Speaker 1: rock real hard and was just really tremendous, uh to
Speaker 1: see in person. So great respect for Phil and his
Speaker 1: body of work. And you guess what's going on right now, Harry, take.
Speaker 2: A tell me what is your dog barking in the
Speaker 2: bad one of your one of your many dogs.
Speaker 3: Tell me what's going on?
Speaker 4: FedEx is here.
Speaker 1: I should bring the microphone out and have the FedEx
Speaker 1: person come on.
Speaker 2: Since there, FedEx guy may have a Phil Collins story.
Speaker 2: He may be rocking some Phil Collins in his in
Speaker 2: his truck right now.
Speaker 3: We don't know.
Speaker 1: He could be.
Speaker 3: You know, I want to talk about.
Speaker 2: Genesis for one minute, because in nineteen eighty three they
Speaker 2: released and now this is a band that just got
Speaker 2: better and better over years. That album in nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 2: you know, I think it was just called Genesis. Mama,
Speaker 2: Home by the Sea, Illegal Alien, just a job to do,
Speaker 2: that's all taking it all too hard. There are two
Speaker 2: songs that I don't know. Silver Rainbow is one of them.
Speaker 2: I think that that does not ring a bell with me.
Speaker 2: And maybe second Home by the Sea part of that,
Speaker 2: or it's getting better, But that wasn't an album that
Speaker 2: really rocked. Mama was a really creepy sounded song.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was, but you just went through and there
Speaker 4: you go.
Speaker 1: Seventy five percent of the songs on there, you know,
Speaker 1: really sound great. My favorite on that was Home by
Speaker 1: the Sea, by the way, not Home by the Sea too.
Speaker 1: But we sometimes on the little sessions that we have
Speaker 1: here at the household listening to music, we go deep
Speaker 1: into the Genesis catalog many times.
Speaker 2: Think about three Sides Live, right, there were some great
Speaker 2: songs that live verse. Not that Abacab wasn't an epic
Speaker 2: on the Abacab album, but that you know, eight or
Speaker 2: nine minute version on the live album on Three Sides
Speaker 2: Live was really fantastic.
Speaker 1: A great story, you know. Musically, Phil Collins sad ending
Speaker 1: for sure, you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, he can barely stand now and doesn't play
Speaker 2: so but.
Speaker 1: His son Nick Collins has taken over, when at least
Speaker 1: he did for a time, you know.
Speaker 2: A great, great player in his own right. So with that,
Speaker 2: that brings to a close this week in Music. July
Speaker 2: sixth would be the last day that we covered for
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 1: Well, it was a terrific week and it's always a
Speaker 1: terrific one to go over with you, Harry for this
Speaker 1: week in music history. For the week of June thirtieth,