1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: I'm Buzz night and this is to take in a 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:10,559 Speaker 1: Walk podcast. Welcome, and this is another episode of This 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: Week in Music History the Master of Music Mayhem Harry Jacobs. 4 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: That's see that term has stuck, Harry, it really has 5 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: like probably a bad piece of gum on your shoes, 6 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: maybe from your opinion, or maybe you like it. 7 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 2: I don't know. Welcome either way. 8 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 3: I have a stack of paper in front of me 9 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 3: right here, and this right here is official name change 10 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 3: paper work. I am changing my name from Harry Truman 11 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 3: Jacobs to Harry Mayhem Jacobs. Okay, paperwork, build out, I'm 12 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 3: signing it, and I'm bringing it down to the courthouse. 13 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 4: And make sure you have copies in duplicate, triplicate nor rise. Yeah, 14 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 4: all right above this is this is a great week, Buzz. 15 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 4: There's a lot going on. I think, you know, if 16 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 4: I were in college, I could do a thesis on this. 17 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 4: Remember first through the seventh there were a lot of 18 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 4: big things that happened. Beginning in nineteen sixty six, the 19 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:12,279 Speaker 4: Birds released eight Miles High. This was a controversial record. 20 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 4: If you remember at the time, it was a very 21 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 4: psychedelic sounding song. It is a very psychedelic summer. It's 22 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 4: a song that was vastly different than what they had 23 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 4: been doing. Think about mister Tamboree Man and how folky 24 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 4: you know that that sounded. This was a groundbreaker, heavy distortion. 25 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 4: Roger mcgwynn, this modal sound he stole essentially from John Coltrane, 26 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 4: you know, with jazz, and there's like this fusion thing 27 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 4: and the song well, you know, a neat song. 28 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 3: Not but I don't think one of their best. It's 29 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 3: one that created a lot of grief for the band 30 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 3: because this insinuation that eight Miles High had to do 31 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 3: with being high. It was to be a drug song, right, 32 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 3: you remember that was banned on radio. Some radio stations 33 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 3: didn't play it. 34 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: And we don't think that really back when it was created, 35 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: that it was a drug song. 36 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 3: Well the you know me I do the deep dive. 37 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 3: This song was about their first trip to London in 38 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 3: nineteen sixty five and the disorientation of international travel, right, 39 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 3: big time change. This was their first time doing that. 40 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 3: It was a it was a big deal and it 41 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 3: was just about the concept of you know, being at 42 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 3: thirty thousand or forty thousand feet, you know, traveling. You know, 43 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 3: if they were coming from the West coast. It's you know, 44 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 3: it's twelve hours. It's not six hours like it is 45 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 3: for you guys on the East coast to get over London, 46 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 3: probably longer in those days, and it was a disorienting 47 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 3: thing for them. So the way that it's told is 48 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:00,679 Speaker 3: that it has nothing to do with drug. It's got 49 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 3: to do with disorientation of international flight. And it was just, 50 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 3: you know, it was a kind of a nothing in 51 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 3: a way song. But the thought was, well from the critics, 52 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 3: this is a drug song. It's about being eight miles high. 53 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: I think it was the disorientation of international flight while 54 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: doing peyote buttons or something to that effect. 55 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 2: So I don't know. 56 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: I mean, you're probably uncovering something that truthfully no one 57 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: thought of because it was so obvious eight miles high. Oh, 58 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: it's a drug song, but nonetheless a great song. Oh 59 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: how you slice it? I got some trivia for you. Yeah, 60 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: probably asked it to you a year ago. In five seconds, 61 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: Harry Jacob's Master of Mayhem. What is Roger mcgwin's real 62 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: first name? 63 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know, I don't know. 64 00:03:54,720 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 2: I can't Jim, is it really? Yeah? 65 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 3: I have a Roger mcgwinn story for you. This will 66 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 3: show you how delusional that the master of music Mayhem is. 67 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety five. You and I are working together in 68 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 3: the prew at w ZLX. At one point in time, 69 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 3: Roger mcgwinn's going to come up and spend some time 70 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 3: with Chuck Nolan, and it's my assignment to go down 71 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 3: to the first floor or to the parking garage and 72 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 3: get Roger mcgwinn out of his limousine. You said, hey, 73 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 3: would you go meet Roger mcgwinn and Braham up. That 74 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 3: was one of the assignments I love. When a star came, 75 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 3: it was always me that was dispatched to go fetch them. 76 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 3: So Roger mcgwinn and I have this conversation about guitars 77 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 3: because he brought this beautiful Martin. 78 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 5: Guitar with him to play. I said, well, you haven't 79 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 5: played guitar since I was a kid. I love guitar, 80 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 5: and you know, blah blah blah, and so we're talking 81 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 5: about guitars. It's a ten minute elevator ride and walk 82 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 5: or whatever it is to get up to the studios, 83 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:01,359 Speaker 5: get up to the production room. 84 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 3: I put his guitar and I carry his guitar. I 85 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 3: put his guitar down. He said, open it up, open 86 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 3: that up. And I open it up and it's this 87 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 3: beautiful Martin guitar worth thousands of dollars. And I said, oh, 88 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 3: it's magnificent. And I walked away and I said, there 89 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 3: you go, and he said, play me something, and I 90 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 3: picked up his guitar and I played, So you'll want 91 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 3: to be a rock and roll star. 92 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 2: For Roger mcgwinn, that's pretty cool. 93 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 3: And he said to me, let me show you how 94 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 3: I play that song a little different than how you 95 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 3: played it. And I said, yes, sir, and I handed 96 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 3: it to him like I had the you know, Faberge egg. 97 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 3: A great Roger mcgwinn's story for me personally. 98 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: Fantastic and not at all surprising, because him and a 99 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: radio station visit which always included him back in those 100 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: days playing you know as the lex happened in Norfolk, 101 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: Virginia wouldn't have been any nicer for being such a 102 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 1: rock legend. 103 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 3: Nineteen fifty five a monumental moment in civil rights history. 104 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 3: We don't do a lot of politics, we don't do 105 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 3: a lot of things like this, but Rosa Parks in 106 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 3: nineteen sixty or fifty five. Rather, she refused to give 107 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 3: up her seat on that bus in Montgomery, and this 108 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 3: sparked this movement ultimately led to and I didn't realize 109 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 3: that Martin Luther King connection to this, but Martin Luther 110 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 3: King was really involved in leading that boycott of the 111 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 3: buses in Montgomery at that point in time. They boycotted 112 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,160 Speaker 3: the buses for over a year. It was like three 113 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 3: hundred and eighty days or something like this. Rosa Parks 114 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 3: was actually working at the end of ACP at the 115 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 3: time too. I didn't realize that she had some administrative role. 116 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,799 Speaker 3: And she and two other people on the bus. Because 117 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 3: the bus, the white section of the bus filled up. 118 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 3: The bus driver demanded that they move for one white man. 119 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 3: But I came across this as I was thinking about 120 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 3: the week, and I thought, you know, I want to 121 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 3: spend a minute talking about this. It's an important event 122 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 3: in our history well. 123 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: Because there's so many things that had implications with including 124 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: around music and the way music talked about it sure 125 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: or could talk about it. So it's a critical part 126 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: of our life to you know, even before our time acknowledge. 127 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 3: So at any rate, here's one that's interesting, and as 128 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 3: I dug into it, it seemed to get more interesting 129 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 3: for me. December second, nineteen seventy one, Crosby, Stills, Nash 130 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 3: and Young released Four Way Street. This was, you know, 131 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 3: not one of the greatest albums of all time, nice 132 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 3: piece of work, but it was one that sparked a 133 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 3: lot of controversy. People said it was self indulgent, people 134 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 3: said there was this disingenuous element to it. It was 135 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 3: thought to be disingenuous because they went in after the 136 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 3: fact and re recorded a whole bunch of tracks. Harmonies, vocals, 137 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 3: guitar solos, Guitar solos were replaced completely on many tracks. 138 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: But think about that now, that wouldn't be anything unusual. 139 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 3: You're right, it wouldn't. I think because the technology wasn't 140 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 3: what it is now. That probably played a role in 141 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 3: that it was an interesting album because there were, you know, 142 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 3: the band was very different when you think about you know, 143 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 3: Graham Nash and Steven Stills and Neil Young and David Crosby, 144 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 3: you know, musically they were all kind of on different planes. 145 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,959 Speaker 3: Neil Young was really wanting to be electric, really wanting 146 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 3: to represent rock, heavy rock in their music, and it 147 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 3: was one that created tension within that band. The tour 148 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy was one that was split up. First 149 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 3: half of the show was acoustic and the second half 150 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 3: of the show was electric. The album represented that, you know, 151 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,839 Speaker 3: there was you know, a great kind of traditional version 152 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 3: of Lovely one Year with on it. There was a 153 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 3: raucous Ohio. There were two things in particular that surprised 154 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 3: me and went back and I downloaded the album this morning. 155 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 3: So before we did this, I was listening to the album. 156 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 3: Southern Man in particular was one because there's a fourteen 157 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 3: minute version of Southern Man on four Way Street, and 158 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 3: I think when people are talking about you know, self indulgent, 159 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 3: that makes it longer than Freebird, right, you know at 160 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 3: that point, and of course we got a skinnered Neil 161 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 3: Young connection to with Southern Man and Sweep Home Alabama. 162 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 3: But this, you know, comes up on the heels of 163 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 3: what was an important moment for them with the Dejabu 164 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 3: album and then Kent State shooting and that you know, 165 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 3: Ohio was released very quickly after that. But it was 166 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:18,959 Speaker 3: interesting album, not really loved by the critics. They kind 167 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 3: of pulled it apart and when I listened to it 168 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 3: this morning, I was kind of you know. 169 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 2: I understood the critics part. 170 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, I understood it. On this date in nineteen ninety two, 171 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 3: on December second, the first text message was sent. What 172 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 3: year do you think that was done? 173 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 2: I think, did you just say nineteen ninety two? Oh 174 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 2: I did? I gave it away. 175 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 3: And I'm only drinking water. 176 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: I'm thinking, did I just have a stroke or something 177 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: like that, and I think I heard the answer. 178 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, you did. Anyway, I'm pulling that back. You get 179 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 3: the points, and you know. 180 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 1: What the reality is, it changed everything, probably for the 181 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: worst ever since. 182 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:13,719 Speaker 3: It really did. But nineteen ninety two, I mean, none 183 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 3: of us, you know, we didn't have really no one 184 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 3: was using cell phones really at that point. It was, 185 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 3: this was at the very beginning. I remember having a 186 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 3: cell phone around that time, but you know, the thought 187 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 3: of sending a message that way, it just wasn't something 188 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 3: we thought about. 189 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, but now it's wrecked everything. You see couples who 190 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: can't go to dinner without staring at who's texting them 191 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: or what's on their feet, or kids that are doing that. 192 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: And I mean, granted, yet it's an easy way. I know, 193 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: I'm crabbing, and man, man, it's an easy way to communicate. 194 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: I get that there's some of it that's great, but 195 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 1: it's ruined a lot of things in my opinion. 196 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 3: Let's say we can't get our faces out of our phones. 197 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 3: That's right, we just can't. So you're right, be present, right, yep, 198 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 3: it's important. Now we tend to stay away from pop. 199 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 3: We'll go disco a little bit, you'll go disco. I'll 200 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 3: go disco a little bit, but we tend to stay 201 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 3: away from pop. Britney Spears' birthday is December second. Today 202 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 3: she's off the rails again. I mean she is the 203 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 3: dancing and the outfits and the and the behavior. It's 204 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 3: just like these folks. And Federal Line said this in 205 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 3: the book that he just put out. All these people 206 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 3: that spent all this time and energy on the Free 207 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:39,839 Speaker 3: Britney movement to. 208 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 2: Get her out of that. 209 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 3: Conservatorship ought to be spending their energy now with a 210 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 3: save Brittany effort. 211 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 2: Oh it's sad. 212 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 3: She's in rough shape right now, my opinion. I follow 213 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 3: her on on Instagram and I see these kooky videos 214 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 3: that she's putting out, and I see what she's doing 215 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 3: you don't pay much attention to that stuff. But but 216 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 3: I watch it and I you know, I kind of 217 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 3: watch it in horror. 218 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it really is. 219 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 3: Said. December third, nineteen sixty five, the Beatles released Robert 220 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 3: Soul in the UK, an amazing record. We don't have 221 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 3: a week without something Beatles. 222 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 2: Doesn't get much better than Rubber Soul now. 223 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 3: In nineteen seventy six, Bob Marley survived an assassination and 224 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 3: a TEP You remember this story, right, I do. He 225 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 3: was in Jamaica. It was two days before the Smile 226 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 3: Jamaica concert was to happen. That was a concert that 227 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 3: was supposed to quell all of this political unrest that 228 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 3: was happening in Jamaica. He was home, He was home 229 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 3: with his wife, and he was home with his manager, 230 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 3: and seven gunmen stormed his home. All three people were shot. 231 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:01,839 Speaker 3: His manager, Don Taylor was shot five times and he lived. 232 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:06,439 Speaker 3: His wife was shot, Marley was shot, and two days 233 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:10,959 Speaker 3: later Bob Marley played that benefit. Wow he gets shot 234 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 3: in two days later he played but incredible. He ended 235 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 3: up after that, He ended up going into exile. He 236 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 3: moved to London at that point. After that, But an 237 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 3: interesting moment, you know, being music people like we are 238 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 3: and being the you know, master of music. Man. I 239 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 3: really am loving going into the history of these artists 240 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 3: that we love, and we often, you know, we forget 241 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 3: more than we ever knew. 242 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes yeah, you know, or who we ran into. 243 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely interesting date in history. In nineteen eighty nine, 244 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 3: President Bush and Mikhel Warbachef declared that the Cold War 245 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 3: was finally over. Big Day, December fourth, nineteen seventy one. 246 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 3: This was the day that the Mantro Casino burn to 247 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 3: the ground during a Frank Zappa concert. Do you know 248 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 3: how the fire was started? 249 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 2: I'm listening to the lyrics in my head of Smoke 250 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 2: on the Water, so. 251 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 3: I will. 252 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 2: At some deep purple. 253 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, And at a Frank Zappa show, someone shot some 254 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 3: idiot shot a flare gun and and then it caused 255 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 3: this catastrophic fire. The reason they call it that is 256 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 3: they were staying across Lake Geneva at a hotel and 257 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 3: they saw the fire and the actual smoke coming across 258 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 3: the water is what stayed with them. They had been 259 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 3: there to record, right, They had been the casino had 260 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 3: a recording studio inside, and and that was the deal. 261 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 3: Some idiot with a flare gun. Shot. The flare gun 262 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 3: burned the whole place to the ground. Smoke on the water, 263 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,080 Speaker 3: the smoke coming across Lake Geneva at and then they 264 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 3: saw it from the balconies to their hotel. 265 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 2: It's a crazy story. 266 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 3: They went on by the way to record. They are 267 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 3: still but they did it in a mobile truck. They 268 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 3: brought out a mobile unit. 269 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 2: Interesting. 270 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 3: Listen, it's the song that all of us learn how 271 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 3: to play the first time we pick up a guitar. 272 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 3: Here you go, three little things to remember, and it's easy. 273 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 3: And you know, I could plug it into my little 274 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 3: Fender telecaster and the twin amp and it would sound 275 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 3: rocket and you would go, oh, that sounds good. And 276 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 3: it's simple. Right. Yeah, of course you could play Smoke 277 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 3: on the Water. Everyone can. Nineteen eighty led Zeppelin on 278 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 3: December fourth announced their breakup after the death of John Bonham. 279 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 2: Wow, this was. 280 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 3: An awful moment on many levels for rock music. The 281 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 3: fact that they decided not to go on bottom was 282 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 3: so important to the band that they thought they couldn't 283 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 3: do a justice and that was the end of it. 284 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 3: It was quick and while they've come to get there 285 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 3: are a couple of times. There's there's not been a period 286 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 3: of time where they were considered reunited. 287 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: Have you heard of Robert Plant's new band. I just 288 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:14,719 Speaker 1: saw him on Colbert. Yeah, the band called Saving Grace. 289 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 290 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a great appearance. If you haven't seen 291 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,199 Speaker 1: the Colbert he didn't play. He just sat with Colbert 292 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: and clearly there's some history. 293 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:32,239 Speaker 2: Between those two. But he he was smiling and I 294 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 2: think a good time. 295 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 3: Did he tell a story about how Alison Kraus taught 296 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 3: him how to sing? 297 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 2: He didn't tell that story. 298 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: No, he talked about the last time he saw Colbert, 299 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,679 Speaker 1: which was on the Colbert Report, and I think he 300 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 1: slipped them a little bit of what do you say? 301 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 3: Raoul? Raoul was the code name that we that people 302 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 3: we know. That's right, he used for marijuana back in 303 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 3: the day before it was leaked. 304 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 2: Raoul. I remember from when I was a young Matt. 305 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 2: That's right, still are yeah. 306 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty one PanAm Airlines ceased to exist on this day. 307 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 3: They were on the way down the flight from Lockerby 308 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,160 Speaker 3: had happened. They were never a domestic airline either. They 309 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 3: just went through one issue after another that arguably a 310 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 3: great airline to fly prior to that PanAm one or 311 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 3: three bombing, but this was the day in nineteen ninety 312 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 3: one that they went out of business. I think it 313 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 3: was a mistake for them to not fly domestically. They 314 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 3: were just doing international stuff and it was mismanaged at whatever. 315 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,439 Speaker 3: I just thought it was an interesting note. I knew 316 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:43,919 Speaker 3: a girl. I know a girl who lives in Shrewsbury, 317 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 3: mass not terribly far from where you are right now. 318 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 3: Her name is Nicole Blander and her sister NICKI was 319 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 3: on that flight and I remember being in Worcester one 320 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 3: that happened. I knew Nicole, I knew Niki from when 321 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 3: they were kids, and it was crazy to know someone 322 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 3: in a tragedy like that. December fifth, nineteen seventy three, 323 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 3: Paul McCartney in the Wings released Band on the Run. 324 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 3: This is another one that the album was in a 325 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 3: way shrouded with some controversy, and I didn't realize that 326 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 3: the band had basically fallen apart. The band had broken 327 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 3: up just before the recording of the album started, So 328 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 3: what ended up happening. What's on the album is McCartney 329 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 3: and Linda and Denny Lane, and that's it. McCartney played 330 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:39,159 Speaker 3: drums Wow, I bad on the front, and he played 331 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 3: most of the guitar parts wow. So I didn't realize 332 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 3: that it was also recorded in Lagos, Nigeria. McCartney was 333 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 3: robbed while they were there. 334 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 2: Do you recall that? 335 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 3: And when they robbed him, I'm sure they took they 336 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 3: took money. I'm sure they took all his drugs, but 337 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 3: they also took the recordings that he had to that 338 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 3: point of the album of the tracks, and he literally 339 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 3: had to go back into the studio and do it 340 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 3: for memory. So between the getting rubbed at knife point, 341 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 3: the band basically falling apart, it was kind of a 342 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 3: mess and it turned out to be an unbelievable record. 343 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 3: He won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album in 344 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 3: nineteen seventy three or seventy four as a result of 345 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 3: that great album. Listen to that song in the same 346 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 3: way that Live and Let Die was just kind of 347 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 3: an epic in terms of all the changes and how 348 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 3: musically it was so interesting. Go back and listen to 349 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 3: band on the run. I went and did that this 350 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 3: morning because I always loved the song. But I thought 351 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 3: about the song has like three different pieces to It 352 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 3: has this kind of light opening thing with keyboards, and 353 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 3: then it rocks and then it's very theatrical at the end. 354 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 3: All in four minutes and some change. Ye. Right, It's 355 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 3: just a great record. And I believe that all the 356 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 3: songs on that album once the song ended, what happened 357 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 3: after the song was basically ending. Do you remember the 358 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 3: hook from band on the Run we'd come in at 359 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 3: the end? 360 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 2: Yes? 361 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 3: On no songs, Yes, verified it myself this morning. Kind 362 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,199 Speaker 3: of a crazy thing to do. But like if they 363 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 3: didn't know they were listening to band on the Run, 364 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 3: well you were listening to something band on the ruck. 365 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. 366 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 3: Branding branding is this is early days brandingh December sixth, 367 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:46,399 Speaker 3: nineteen sixty nine, the Altamont concert happened. This was build 368 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,399 Speaker 3: by a lot of people to be the Woodstock of 369 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 3: the West, and it was anything about that. There was 370 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 3: nothing peace and love about that show at all the 371 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 3: Stones where the headliner. This was the last date of 372 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:09,120 Speaker 3: their sixty nine tour. And I don't know, I guess 373 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 3: I should know this. I don't know if it was 374 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 3: a Bill Graham event or who's the fact it was, 375 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 3: but someone whether it be the Stalines or the promoter, 376 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,159 Speaker 3: someone thought it was a good idea to hire the 377 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 3: Hell's Angels to do security, and four people lost their 378 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 3: lives and there wasn't a moment of peace from the 379 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 3: beginning of the concert. The has were roughing people up. 380 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 3: It was an ugly day for rock. 381 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 2: Should have been called the Hot Mess Concert. 382 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it really A lot of people said at 383 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,919 Speaker 3: the time that it was the end of the peace 384 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 3: era of the sixties. I don't know if that was true, 385 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 3: but of course it being the end of nineteen sixty nine, 386 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,479 Speaker 3: it's probably a fitting way to describe it. Not a 387 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 3: great end for the sixties at all. And there were 388 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 3: I think there were like three hundred thousand people or 389 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 3: more at that show as well. So nothing but but 390 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 3: Chaos was supposed to be Woodstock of the West, and 391 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 3: it was anything but. That nineteen seventy, the Doors played 392 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,719 Speaker 3: their final concert with Jim Morrison in New Orleans. Buzz 393 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 3: seems to think that Jim Morrison is still alive. Every 394 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 3: time we talk about Jim Morrison, you go still live. 395 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:20,120 Speaker 2: He's not coming back. 396 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: I could see the show popping up outside of Syracuse 397 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: any anytime listen. 398 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 3: I've been told he was seen at Heidie's of Liverpool 399 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 3: in Syracuse, the famous restaurant they had oftened in nineteen seventeen. 400 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 3: So you know, who knows, But I think he's we 401 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 3: know he's dead. December seventh, nineteen seventy three. This is 402 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 3: a good one. This is a really it's one of 403 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 3: my favorite stories of the week. Billy Joel's Piano Man 404 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 3: was released. He worked at the Executive Room in La 405 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 3: the Executive Room Bar in La as a you know, 406 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 3: the piano player. He would sit in that bar and 407 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 3: he would play. He was also Billy Joel at the time, 408 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 3: but he used his first in his middle name, Billy 409 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,360 Speaker 3: Martin or Bill Martin, right, So he played at the bar. 410 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 3: He didn't have any money, he needed to make money, 411 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,919 Speaker 3: and he sat there for six months and he was 412 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 3: the piano man. Four facts about pio Man John at 413 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,679 Speaker 3: the bar was the name of the bartender, was the 414 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 3: actual guy, wasn't just some rhyme scheme thing. Paul the 415 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,679 Speaker 3: real estate agent who was a novelist, was actually a 416 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 3: real estate broker and was writing a novel. And Davy 417 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,120 Speaker 3: Who's still in the Navy was based on a guy 418 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:40,919 Speaker 3: by the name of Davy Hines, real person, and the 419 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 3: fourth one and the waitress practicing politics was his first wife. Oh, libe, 420 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 3: how about that? How about that? 421 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 2: Wow? 422 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 3: For Billy Joel for the piano man in eighty four, 423 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 3: Bob Guildolf, do they know it's Christmas time? This was 424 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 3: on the of him seeing a documentary that the BBC 425 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:07,360 Speaker 3: had produced. That documentary was about the famine and Ethiopia, 426 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 3: and it caused him to mobilize the forces, right. He 427 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 3: got everyone, really, anyone that's anyone at that time was recruited, 428 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,639 Speaker 3: Phil Collins, Sting Bono. It was a who's who of 429 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 3: musicians from across the pond. Duran Durant, George Michael was 430 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:36,159 Speaker 3: involved in it. Just a great feel good song. It 431 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 3: sold a million copies in the first week. There's a monster. 432 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,120 Speaker 2: Guildolf got it done, Yeah he did. 433 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 3: Pearl Harvard was attacked on this day in nineteen forty one. 434 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 3: I've been down this rabbit hole watching stuff about Pearl Harvard, 435 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 3: watching something on Netflix right now about history, and it's 436 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 3: just the older I get, the more interested I get 437 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 3: in history, and this was just an incredible thing to happen. 438 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 2: Yep. 439 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 3: Anyway, that is the week and music history first through 440 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 3: the seventh and December bus Well. 441 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 2: Master of music Mayhem. 442 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: You left it in Mayhem with that last story, but 443 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: it does need to be reported. But the Harry Jacobs 444 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 1: thank you so much for this week in music history 445 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: for the week of December the first, and thanks to 446 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: all of you for listening to the Taking a Walk podcast. 447 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 1: We're part of the iHeart podcast network.