1 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Buzznight Tho, host of the Taken a 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: Walk podcast, and welcome to another edition of This. 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 2: Week music History. The week of April the twenty eighth. 4 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 2: Let's wander over to the music history desk to musician, podcaster, 5 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 2: music fan, purveyor of all things music theyor of all 6 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 2: things music. 7 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 3: History, Harry Jacobs, purveyor like a guy selling sausages on 8 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 3: the street in downtown Boston, at the common right at 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 3: the card out there, and you're popular and ready to 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 3: rock and roll alright. April twenty eighth, nineteen sixty six, 11 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 3: the Beatles began recording Paperback Writer. This continues our tradition 12 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 3: of every single week of the year there was something 13 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 3: related to the Beatles and Beatles history. And also in 14 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 3: this week in nineteen seventy they released Let It Be 15 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 3: in the UK, So big, big week for the Beatles. 16 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 2: I have a feeling they'll be more on this particular 17 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 2: episode with the Beatles. 18 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 3: I think you're right. This is also an interesting one. 19 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 3: Nineteen sixty seven, Muhammad al Li had been drafted and 20 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 3: he refused his induction into the US Army. 21 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 4: This is a big deal. 22 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 3: He claimed exemption as a conscientious objector based on religious 23 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 3: beliefs as a member of the Nation of Islam. He 24 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 3: appeared at the induction and it happened in Houston. He 25 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 3: refused to step forward when his name was called, and 26 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 3: he ended up getting arrested, and it was a big ordeal. 27 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 4: Consequences were severe. 28 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: Right, early, badass move, huge badass move. 29 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 3: He got banned from the New York State Athletic Commission, 30 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 3: so they suspended him from boxing. They took away his license, 31 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 3: they stripped that heavyweight title at that point, and then 32 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 3: other boxing commissions followed and he was convicted of draft 33 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 3: evasion on June twenty twentieth and sentenced to five years 34 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 3: in prison as a result. 35 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: What a remarkable human being, right. 36 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 3: Absolutely, And by the way, while he was on appeal, 37 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 3: he was able to fight professionally. By the way, he 38 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 3: was between twenty five and twenty nine years old during 39 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 3: that period of time, so he was really. 40 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 4: At his pride. 41 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, he was, You got that right. The next day, 42 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 3: April twenty ninth. In nineteen seventy six, Bruce Springsteen jumped 43 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 3: over the fence at Graceland attempting to meet Elvis Presley. 44 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 4: Remember this story, I do remember it. 45 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 2: Do you think there's a little bit of writer's embellishment 46 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 2: with this story. 47 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 3: I wondered about this, you know, I don't know. I mean, listen, 48 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 3: here's the deal. There's a couple of things that happened 49 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 3: around this that. 50 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 4: Had me a little bit puzzled. 51 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 3: In October of seventy five, he was on the cover 52 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 3: of Time and Newsweak. He was a big deal, like 53 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 3: no one in the history of those magazines appeared on 54 00:02:54,960 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 3: the cover, certainly from an entertainment perspective. At the same time, 55 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 3: I mean, Newsweek didn't talk to each other. They didn't 56 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 3: know they were both putting Bruce on the cover. So 57 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 3: that had happened in October, so November, December, January, February, March, April. 58 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 3: Six months later, in the middle of the boorn to 59 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 3: run tour. After the show in Memphis, he and Stevie 60 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:17,799 Speaker 3: get a brainstorm at three am and decide to hop 61 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 3: Defense because they want to meet Elvis. 62 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:21,119 Speaker 4: They want to meet their peer. 63 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 3: So they saw the light on in the house, they 64 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 3: hopped Defense and they're intercepted by a security guard. And 65 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 3: the way Bruce tells it, and this may be the 66 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 3: embellishment where you're getting that Bruce said, is Elvis home 67 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 3: stage is on you now? Buss, Well, listen. 68 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 5: A great story can be a great story at the beginning, 69 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 5: and then just that little tweak of something can supercharge 70 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 5: it and propel it to that next level. 71 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 3: I don't. I love the story, so I prefer to 72 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 3: believe it. 73 00:03:55,960 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 2: But it just I just wonder sometimes how story where 74 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 2: he's become legends. 75 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 3: Bruce is a storyteller. Bruce has ben Zellen to him, 76 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 3: bellis we know this? Yeah, nineteen seventy seven, led Zeppelin 77 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 3: broke the record at the Pontiac Silver Dome, drawing seventy 78 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 3: six and twenty nine fans to that show. 79 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 4: Big deal. 80 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 2: And can you think about people that you know, maybe 81 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 2: we know from that area. Yeah, maybe have that ticket 82 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 2: stub as a source of memory and inspiration from that 83 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 2: moment to be fascinating to talk to someone about that. 84 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 3: I need you to reach out to our old friend 85 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 3: and famous radio consultant, Fred Jacobs to see if he 86 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 3: was there, because all right, I think in nineteen eighty 87 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 3: he was programming Riff. 88 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 4: The legendary Wrif. 89 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 3: So I'd like to know if Fred was at the 90 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 3: at the Silver Dome for that. 91 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 2: That would be a pretty incredible little thing for us 92 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 2: to do to you know, trace back a moment like 93 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 2: that music history, get two of the three people that 94 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,799 Speaker 2: we either know or discover, and then do a little 95 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 2: panel discussion with him. 96 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 3: Listen, I vote for Fred Jacobs to be on the 97 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 3: first episode of whatever we do with that. Okay, good. 98 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many times I've said to people, Oh, yeah, 99 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 3: he's my uncle. 100 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 4: He's my uncle. No relationship. 101 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 3: By the way, April thirtieth, the Alman Brothers released Eat 102 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 3: a Peach in nineteen seventy two. Great tracks on that album, 103 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 3: Right Blue Sky, One Way. 104 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 4: Out, a lot of. 105 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 3: You know, there was trouble at that time, obviously too, 106 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 3: right Dwayne. In the middle of the recording of that album, 107 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 3: Dwayne got killed motorcycle accident. 108 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, so parts. 109 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 3: Of the album were recorded without Dwayne being alive. Right 110 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 3: Blue Sky in One Way Out were done while he 111 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 3: was alive, and then they used his tracks for Ain't 112 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,239 Speaker 3: Wasting Time No More and Melissa They were done after 113 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 3: his death with him obviously, So that was kind of 114 00:05:58,240 --> 00:05:59,239 Speaker 3: an interesting deal. 115 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 2: Some of my favorites and I remember listening to the 116 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 2: station that I would get to work at, WNWFM and 117 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 2: the morning guy back in those days when Eat a 118 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 2: Peach and that that era when stuff came out. 119 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: Dave Herman was the guy's name. Dave used to do 120 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 1: a little seven to ten in the morning benchmark. He 121 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: played Blue Sky every morning at seven ten e rees 122 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: during the summer. 123 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't cool. 124 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 3: Little thing that became his little signature. That's interesting the 125 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 3: thought that the album was named Eat a Peach because 126 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,799 Speaker 3: Dwayne had a collision on his motorcycle with a peach truck. 127 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 4: True or false? 128 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 3: I don't know. Let's go. I say probably true. 129 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 4: You want to phone a friend? Is that your final answer? 130 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 3: There are cash or prizes on the line, Derek Ferraros 131 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 3: in Vegas. If you're right, user has to pay the check. 132 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 3: So you think you say that I just need to 133 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 3: get this on record because you've paid every time. But 134 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 3: you say it's true, Dwayne Almond colliding with the peach 135 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 3: truck and that's why they called it Eat a Peach. 136 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 4: Oh, I say true? 137 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: Okay, buzz yeah, all right, let's. 138 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 3: Say what happens that's incorrect. Survey says it is long okay, 139 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 3: collided with a construction truck. Ah, all right, And it 140 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 3: was just the whole kind of peach thing. So I'll 141 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 3: still buy dinner anyway. I don't care. 142 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 4: Listen, I love you for that. 143 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 3: We can we talk, by the way about Ferraros for 144 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 3: just a minute, where legendary Vegas place. Not long ago, 145 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 3: you were out here for the National Association of Broadcasters 146 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 3: meeting the collection of executives, and you and I have 147 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 3: this routine where we eat it. Ferraros. It's a legendary 148 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 3: Vegas place. I've eaten there for the twenty five years. 149 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 3: I've been here. Every time you're here, you find your 150 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 3: way there. Generally it's us. We walked in on the 151 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 3: Sunday night of the NAB. Listen, I've been here twenty 152 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 3: five years. I'm a Boston guy. I like go in 153 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 3: places where people know me and they know my name. 154 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 3: But we walked into three different people from that restaurant 155 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 3: that all looked at you and didn't just say hello. 156 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 3: They shook your hand and said, oh, mister Knight, welcome back. 157 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 3: I'm like it was one. 158 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 4: It was like you paid people in advance to go. 159 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 3: I'm walking in with this Vegas guy, and I need 160 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 3: you to make sure you address me by name and 161 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 3: shake my hand and welcome me back. 162 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: The King's greeting terribly aggravating, ridiculous. 163 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 3: And it didn't stop there. The waiter at the tables like, oh, 164 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 3: mister Knight, welcome back. I'm like, got the shit are 165 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 3: you shitting me with this? And then we get all 166 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,439 Speaker 3: the way through dinner and the guy who owns the restaurant, 167 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 3: the guy who gets to carry the thermometer in his 168 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 3: sleeve pocket and a white shirt, walks out and fist 169 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 3: bumps me. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's a very healthy moment 170 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 3: for you. 171 00:08:58,040 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 4: And I was a win on that. 172 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 3: But by the way, one of the guys did tell 173 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 3: us that he knows you and knows your name because 174 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,319 Speaker 3: you emailed him basically every day leading up to it. 175 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 4: For some reason or another. 176 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 3: I don't know what the story was with that, but 177 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 3: maybe pleading for recognition. I don't know if this was 178 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 3: the attention seeking behavior. 179 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 4: Yeah it is. 180 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 2: There's a gap bit somewhere, you know, apparently being locked 181 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 2: in a closet does not have benefits. 182 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, all right. 183 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 3: May first, Elvis married Priscilla here in Vegas. 184 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 4: Big big deal. She was able to rein him in. 185 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: Was at one of those cheesy, you know, wedding Panels Is. 186 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 3: You know, I don't know. I would imagine it was 187 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 3: probably at the Hilton. 188 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 4: That would have been my guest. I don't know the 189 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 4: answer to that. 190 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 3: But the Hilton was his kind of home away from 191 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 3: Holmes sure while he played here, So I would imagine 192 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 3: that the Hilton did something for him. The Hilton's now 193 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 3: the Westgate. It's still there, still looks on the outside 194 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 3: exactly like it did, but but that happened one that way. 195 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,079 Speaker 3: On the inside too exactly. 196 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 4: I'll say it's rough, it's rough. 197 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 3: They upgraded it a bit though, So Yeah. In nineteen 198 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 3: seventy one, Stones released Sticky Fingers, the album with the zipper, 199 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 3: a working zipper remember that, Oh yeah, absolutely on the cover. 200 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 2: That'll get your attention, yes it will, well not your attention, no, 201 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 2: but you know, ladies or whatever, it's fine. 202 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 3: In nineteen sixty five, Bob Dylan performed his first concert 203 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 3: using electric instruments. Did that at the Royal Albert Hall 204 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 3: in London, and that was a big deal, right. His 205 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 3: label and his you know, everyone around him wanted him 206 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 3: to continue to play acoustically and he began to experiment 207 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 3: with electric you know, management basically fighting with him about 208 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 3: playing electric versus playing the music that people want to 209 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:53,599 Speaker 3: hear acoustically. 210 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 1: There is some cool new Dylan information that's that's out 211 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: on this next you know, extended tour that he's even 212 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: a rough and rowdy tour or whatever it's it's called. 213 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: I think it's pretty interesting. So Bob for quite a 214 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: few years has. 215 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 3: Not been playing guitar. 216 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: He's he's he's just been playing keyboard. 217 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 2: And I mean this honestly, this could be ten years 218 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 2: that he's stopped playing guitar, at least in concert. And 219 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 2: I'm led to believe it's due to some some issue 220 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 2: with you know, a hand or you know, something that 221 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 2: limits him in terms of the playing. 222 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 1: Apparently he's playing a song two, you know, playing some guitar. 223 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:50,079 Speaker 1: So he's playing been playing. 224 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 2: Places like Sious City, Iowa, and Cedar Rapids in places 225 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 2: like that. But there's excitement in the Dylan fan base 226 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 2: because Bob is back playing some guitar. 227 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 3: He has just just cheated while we were while you 228 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 3: were talking, he has arthritis and tendonitis, and that would 229 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 3: explain his lack of desire or ability to play. Yep, 230 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 3: he's bad playing. 231 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 4: Some always hires great musicians, you know, I heard a 232 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 4: story about G. E. Smith, and I want. 233 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 3: To say, I wonder if did Nils Lofgren play I 234 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 3: know Nils played with Neil, but I think that Nil's 235 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 3: played with Dylan at some point. He may have. I'm 236 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 3: not sure about that. But you know who's on this 237 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:35,320 Speaker 3: tour now? 238 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: Also, do you remember the great drummer Anton Figg who's 239 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:41,439 Speaker 1: Letterman Letterman? 240 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, Oh that's all right, he's drumming. 241 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 4: That's great. 242 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 3: I remember the story that whoever it was G. Smith 243 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 3: or Nils or someone saying they had to learn one 244 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,599 Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five songs before. 245 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 4: They went out. 246 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 3: You know, guy's got to play fifteen during the night, 247 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 3: but they've got to know one hundred and sixty five 248 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 3: in case he gets a hair across his ass about 249 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 3: a certain You know, hey, I want to play Hurricane, right? 250 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 4: Can we do it? 251 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 3: April thirty, at nineteen seventy five, the Vietnam War ended 252 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 3: with the fall of Saigon. A big day and a 253 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 3: war that, like most accomplished nothing for anybody. 254 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 4: So yeah, episode sad Yeah. 255 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 3: May second, nineteen sixty four, Beles did camp Buy Me 256 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 3: Love That It reached number one in the US. Third 257 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 3: consecutive chart topper for them. Springsteen released Darkness in seventy eight, 258 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 3: and in seventy two The Stones started their tour in 259 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 3: support of Exile on Main Street. They essentially fled the 260 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 3: UK because there were tax exiles, like, I guess just. 261 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 4: Tax cheats or tax frauds. I guess. 262 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 3: I don't know what that means, tax exile, like I 263 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 3: don't want to pay taxes. 264 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 4: So I'm going to split. 265 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm not sure. But you know, knowing the. 266 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 6: Stones, maybe they didn't know at that moment exactly what 267 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 6: the do was either. Maybe they left it to some 268 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 6: crazy accountant, right, because I can't imagine they're obsessing about 269 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 6: doing their taxes. 270 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 4: No, no, I can't. You know. The band all went 271 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 4: to different places. 272 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 3: Keith ended up renting a villa in the French Riviera. 273 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 4: I don't know if you know this story, but. 274 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 3: In the basement is where they recorded Exile. They used 275 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 3: the mobile truck outside. Basically they ran everything outside. But 276 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 3: in the basement of that villa that Keith had rented 277 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 3: are tunnels leading outside of that villa, and the Nazis 278 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 3: used it during their. 279 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 4: Invasion of France. 280 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 3: It's insane, and that was in that that was in 281 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 3: that villa. But an unbelievable album, think about it, Tumbling Dice, Happy, 282 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 3: Sweet Virginia. 283 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 4: Just to name a few from that Monster. 284 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 3: One of my favorites for sure. May third, nineteen sixty nine, 285 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 3: Hendrix was arrested at the Toronto International Airport for possession 286 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 3: of narcotics. 287 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: Surprise, surprise, Jimmy, what are you doing man? 288 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 4: I know, I mean, I know. Crazy. 289 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 3: Fleetwood Mac released their self titled album with Lindsey and 290 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 3: Stevie and James Brown was born in nineteen thirty three. 291 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:24,479 Speaker 3: Speaking of crazy artists and drugs, James Brown and boys. 292 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: Was he rough on his band members with the whole 293 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: finding thing or what? 294 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 4: I think? 295 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: That still amazes me. 296 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 2: How he just he would not allow for them to 297 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 2: miss a note, and he. 298 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 3: Charged they had to pay him. 299 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 2: He fined them if really, if they missed the note 300 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 2: or did something that was outside of the musical scheme, 301 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 2: he wanted. 302 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 3: His fifty dollars whatever. 303 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 4: Why yeah, the tax for the wrong note tax. 304 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 3: James Brown tough to work for and he ended up 305 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 3: in you know, crashing and burning, like he set a 306 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 3: hotel room on fire and you know, all beat up 307 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 3: his wife and just you know awful. 308 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, but a legendary performer. Did you ever get a 309 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 2: chance to see him play? 310 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 3: No, And by the time I was really interested, it was, 311 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 3: you know, living in America time for him on the road, 312 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 3: and that was just not a good time to see him. 313 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 3: I would love to have seen him in the sixties, 314 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 3: but I was, you know, just a young man. You 315 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 3: would have been able to see him because you were 316 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 3: like twenty and back in the sixties and you know, 317 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 3: you could have gone to a show testing twenty two 318 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 3: this working, this thing working. May fourth, nineteen seventy, the 319 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 3: National Guard fired on protesters at Kent State and this 320 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 3: inspired the classic Neil Young song. 321 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 4: Which song was this buzz Ohio? There you go? 322 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, one time hitchhiking back from school at the University 323 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 2: of Dayton and Dayton, Ohio, back to Connecticut for Thanksgiving. 324 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 3: On the way back hitchhiking. Did you really hitchhike from Dayton, 325 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 3: Ohio to Connecticut? 326 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 2: Yes, sir, and uh, but we got stuck in Kent 327 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 2: State because of a big snowstorm, so we had a 328 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 2: we had to cool our heels for a day and 329 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 2: a half and Ken State. 330 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:22,439 Speaker 3: Interesting, Holy crap, hitchhiking from Dayton to How long did 331 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:24,959 Speaker 3: that take you, like snowhal or something? 332 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 2: I don't know, four days, Yeah, ridiculous. I don't think 333 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 2: I ever told my parents too. 334 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 4: They didn't. 335 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 3: They never questioned, like how you got homelick, but you know, 336 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 3: how'd you get home? 337 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:33,160 Speaker 4: Bus? 338 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,360 Speaker 3: I got a ride from some friends. There you go. 339 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 3: In nineteen seventy six, Bob Dylan released Desire in the UK. 340 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 3: Hurricane is one of my favorite songs. The story of 341 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 3: Ruben Carter, the boxer accused of murder that allegedly didn't do. 342 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 2: It right, and Bob, uh, you know, put himself out 343 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 2: there for something he believed. 344 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 4: Took up, took up the yeah, bought the police. 345 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety six, the final original lineup of the 346 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 3: ramones I Guess played their last concert The Palace in Hollywood. 347 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 4: I never played again after that. 348 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 2: Well in that form was because they did take shape 349 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,360 Speaker 2: with other people whose last name became Ramone who were 350 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 2: not originals, so they Yeah, it probably was other forms 351 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 2: that they played, but that was the one, the last one. 352 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 4: There you go. 353 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,160 Speaker 3: And that's this week, well, Harry's. 354 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 2: It was a very colorful week and thanks for giving 355 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 2: it to us for this week in music history, and 356 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 2: thanks to all of you for listening to the taket 357 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 2: a Walk podcast. 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