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Speaker 1: I'm Buzzsnight, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to another look at this week in music history.

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Speaker 1: This is the week of August twenty fifth through August

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Speaker 1: thirty first, and we got a lot to talk about.

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Speaker 1: So let's head over to the music history desk to

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Speaker 1: Harry Jacobs.

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Speaker 2: Buzz, it's great to be here this week. Another great week.

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Speaker 2: I've got some questions for you on information that we're

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Speaker 2: talking about, So I hope, but as my mother used

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Speaker 2: to say to me, I hope you got your listening

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Speaker 2: ears on, young man. I'm trying my best. August twenty fifth,

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty seven, the Beatles met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in

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Speaker 2: Wales and this began their interest in TM transcendental meditation.

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Speaker 2: It changed everything. Yeah, did you ever get into meditation?

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Speaker 2: Was that ever? Not enough? I have? I do, but

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Speaker 2: not enough.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, as they say, those that do, they

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Speaker 1: refer to it as a practice, which means they're always practicing.

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Speaker 1: And as somebody who needs to probably practice at a

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Speaker 1: lot of things, I should get back to the practice.

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Speaker 2: It's referred to as the practice of mindfulness, right, that's right. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety four, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant reunited

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Speaker 2: for MTV Unplugged to tape that was that was really

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Speaker 2: neat to see, if you think about it. Led Zeppelin

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Speaker 2: was done, you know, nineteen eighty after Bottom, you know,

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Speaker 2: had had left us, and then they reunited for Live

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Speaker 2: Aid and I don't know that they got together again,

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Speaker 2: certainly the full band, but to see Page and Plant together,

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Speaker 2: I don't think. I think there was that gap from

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Speaker 2: Live Aid to nineteen ninety four? Am I wrong?

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Speaker 1: I think you're correct, And I want to go back

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Speaker 1: and listen and watch some of that if it's available.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure in some forms that it is, because that

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Speaker 1: had to be pretty special, and I know it was,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's worth going back and looking at.

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Speaker 2: It's so funny that you say that, because that's exactly

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Speaker 2: where I'm when I said I have questions, I have

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Speaker 2: stuff for you this week. You know, we've known each

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Speaker 2: other so long and we think along the same lines.

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Speaker 2: When I saw this come up, I thought to myself, Boy,

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Speaker 2: is this available? Can I get it on my phone?

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Speaker 2: Can I can I make a playlist out of it?

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Speaker 2: How do I find it? And it's not available on iTunes?

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Speaker 2: It's not available on Spotify. Okay, there are a couple

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Speaker 2: of songs I think no Quarters available on Apple iTunes,

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Speaker 2: but they have not made it available easily available. You

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Speaker 2: things that's available on streaming. You can buy the DVD,

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Speaker 2: not that any of us have DVDs anymore. What you

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Speaker 2: can do, the easiest thing to do is to go

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Speaker 2: to YouTube. That YouTube who was gobbling up the world

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Speaker 2: of entertainment leading you know, fragmentation, you know, hands down.

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Speaker 2: But I think you can find the entire MTV unplugged

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Speaker 2: on on YouTube. That's the way to find it. But

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Speaker 2: no quarter, thank you. What is and what should never be?

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Speaker 2: Battle of evermore? Kashmir? I think Kashmir is only on

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Speaker 2: the DVD when the levy breaks the rain song just amazing.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you Another thing to go look at and

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Speaker 1: rediscover is Chris Robinson from The Black Crows with Jimmy Page.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, it was great. There was some great

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Speaker 2: They went ripping through a whole lot of Love and

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Speaker 2: bunch of great, great tunes done done there with Chris Robinson,

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Page. August twenty six, nineteen sixty eight, Hey Jude

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Speaker 2: as Gomer Pyle would say, surprise, surprise, that's right. August

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Speaker 2: twenty seventh, nineteen ninety. Here's the Stevie Rayvaugh tragedy. We

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Speaker 2: had a story about Stevie Ravon performing his last concert

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Speaker 2: and he took that helicopter ride from Alpine and and

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Speaker 2: he he didn't pass away right away after that accident.

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Speaker 2: He lived for a short period of time, and he

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Speaker 2: passed away in nineteen ninety on this day, on August

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Speaker 1: I had forgotten that he, you know, was still in

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Speaker 2: And here's a meeting that you would love to have

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Speaker 2: August twenty seventh, nineteen sixty five, the Beatles met Elvis

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Speaker 1: Like, I guarantee it was the Beatles in awe And

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Speaker 2: You know, I've never heard a story about it. I've

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Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy nine U two signed their first record deal

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Speaker 2: connection to our friend, your your former co worker, Carter Allen.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: They slept on the floor at the Carter Allen apartment.

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, WBCN in Boston w ZX and Boston

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Speaker 2: Carter Allen. But BCN was instrumental in signing in playing

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Speaker 2: you just said, you know they slept at his place,

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Speaker 2: right you saw the video. There's video and I'm sure

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Speaker 2: you heard the story of YouTube playing at Gillette Stadium

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Speaker 2: forget what it was, but you know, Bono starts this

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Speaker 2: How cool is that? But you know, can you imagine

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Speaker 2: Bono is singing your name.

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Speaker 1: I know, well, Carter one of the best human beings

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Speaker 2: So yeah, listen, he's a vegetarian. Aside from that, I

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Speaker 2: August twenty eighth, nineteen sixty four, Bob Dylan introduced the

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Speaker 1: How do we know though, that it was on that

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Speaker 1: Or who wrote that down? Did somebody commit this somewhere?

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone in this life would would remember

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Speaker 2: This is a fact that we can't you know what,

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Speaker 2: They use shows they met. Those were great shows to watch. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty two, Queen played to one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: Freddy Must It must have been amazing. I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: correct anyway. Nineteen sixty six, another Beatles story. The Beatles

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Speaker 2: You know why this is an interesting story. Why that

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Speaker 2: Pretty unique, was there? Hysteria this week in nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: Documentary, Well, I think, first of all, his appreciation for,

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Speaker 1: But it's an honest, candid, insightful documentary, and it really

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Speaker 2: He you know, it was interesting that the classical music

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Speaker 1: Well, Harry, that is a quite a week, but they

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Speaker 1: all are amazing weeks. Thank you for this and I

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Speaker 1: Taking a Walk podcast and checking us out an Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart,

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