1 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: I'm Buzz Night. 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 2: I'm the host of the Taking a Walk podcast, and 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 2: we take a look at music history for the week 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 2: of May the nineteenth, and we go over to the 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 2: music history. 6 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: Desk to Harry Jacobs. Harry, what is your favorite of. 7 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 2: The terms that I have laid out for you? The 8 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: Maestro of all things music? I think was the most 9 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 2: recent one. I've gone through many different variations of it. 10 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite that you'd like to us 11 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 2: to stick with music Maven? 12 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: I kind of I enjoy I gotta give some thought 13 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: to it, all right, because repetition, you know, is a good. 14 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 2: Thing if it's the right name, and certainly if it's 15 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 2: one you are happy with, so just or listeners can 16 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 2: chime in as well. 17 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 3: Perception is reality, So if you keep using the same thing, 18 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 3: people will think, oh, Harry Jacobs, he's the Maven of 19 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 3: all things music history or whatever. 20 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 2: Then I see all sorts of marketing plow merchandise that 21 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 2: it really takes off. 22 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:09,680 Speaker 3: May nineteenth, Buzz twenty seventeen, Lincoln Park released One More 23 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 3: Light and that was their last album with Chester Bennington, 24 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 3: who died took his own life just a couple months later. 25 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: On the twentieth of July and twenty seventeen. 26 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 2: Awful, terrible story, great band and just I mean, just 27 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 2: what a tortured story, My god. 28 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 3: A great sound for them. It was kind of an 29 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 3: interesting not straight rock. It was almost kind of a 30 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 3: rap or a pop you know. I had multiple elements 31 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 3: in their music. 32 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 2: They did yeah like industrial sounding, yeah, yeah. 33 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 3: Really really neat nineteen seventy eight. On May nineteen, Sultan's 34 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 3: a Swing was released, and it was initially a demo 35 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 3: and then they were playing it around town, got released 36 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 3: on the radio, and then when they at their album field, 37 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 3: they re recorded it, so the early recordings were dello. 38 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 2: I have to tell you a funny story about that. 39 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 2: When that came out. I was programming in Connecticut at 40 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 2: the station called I ninety five, and we around the 41 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 2: release of that, had decided we were going to do 42 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 2: something called a Guitar Stars weekend where it was highlighting 43 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: you know, various great guitarists. The great Mark Knopfler was 44 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 2: doing a little press to promote the album release, and 45 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 2: once the interview was over, I asked him if he 46 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 2: would cut a little promo saying Hi, I'm Mark Knopfler 47 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 2: and you're listening to a Guitar Stars weekend. And he 48 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 2: didn't want to do it. And he was not like 49 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 2: an ass about it. He just didn't want to do it. 50 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: I said, is okay, Well, why don't you want to 51 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 2: do it? And he said, because I don't consider myself 52 00:02:58,480 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: a guitar star. 53 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,079 Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting? Ye? Did you ask him to say? 54 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 3: Hi, this is Mark Knopfler, And whenever I'm traveling through Danbury, Connecticut, 55 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 3: I'm listening to I ninety five. 56 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: I was at that point. I was too intimidated. 57 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 2: I didn't want to piss him off any further, and 58 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 2: I said, okay, you got it. 59 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: I gotcha. You know I can't listen, by the way, if. 60 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 3: I'm listening to that song and someone's around, there's a 61 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 3: certain part of that song where I just have to say, 62 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 3: stop the conversation right now, and I have to turn 63 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 3: it up and go oh, Mark's gonna say And Harry 64 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 3: doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene. 65 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: He's got a daytime job and he's doing all right. 66 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: I love that. Dusty Hill's birthday. 67 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 3: Was May nineteenth, and he passed away in July of 68 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. He had a bunch of issues that 69 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 3: you wouldn't think would have taken someone's life. He had 70 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 3: an issue with persidas, he had an issue with a hip, 71 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 3: he had a hip surgery. 72 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: But he passed away what seemed to be pretty suddenly 73 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: for us. Yeah, I. 74 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 2: Wondered what else was going on there, but it was 75 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 2: I was so sad, you know, yes, passing. 76 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: You know. Netflix released the documentary that. 77 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 3: They had an Easy Top documentary. 78 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: I think you can find it now on. 79 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 3: Amazon, which was really insightful. But they did a lot. 80 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,119 Speaker 3: We learned a lot about all three of those guys 81 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 3: that were in their homes. Dusty Hills a monster Elvis 82 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 3: fan and had a monster collection of Elvis stuff and 83 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 3: all this Easy Top history. But it was quite a 84 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 3: surprise they by the way, they didn't miss a beat. 85 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 3: Elwood Francis, who was their guitar tech, literally stepped in 86 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 3: the next night. Oh wow, Frank Beard and Billy and 87 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 3: Elwood played the next night. 88 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 2: Next night. Wow, that's interesting. You know, when John Entwhistle 89 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 2: passed away here in Vegas by the way, yep, you know, 90 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 2: the who came out days later with a replacement and 91 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 2: played like literally a couple of days. 92 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 3: Later, when you know when things like this happened. It 93 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 3: often surprises people that a band could go on or 94 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 3: they could find someone who knows, you know, the music 95 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 3: or whatever. But you look at what's someone quickly. There 96 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 3: are always studio guys that know how to play right. 97 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 3: There are always going to be, especially here this happened 98 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 3: in Vegas with that whistle. They might have actually played here. 99 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 3: I got to that'll be an interesting fact to look at, 100 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 3: but they might. They were here in Vegas when that happened, 101 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 3: and I think they may have. Listen, you could find 102 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 3: somebody in any town that knows, that really knows music, 103 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 3: or studio musician that can look at a chart, especially 104 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 3: with bass. I don't want to I'm not cutting on 105 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 3: the bass players, but what key are we in? You 106 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 3: know what are we It is a surprise I think 107 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 3: the people that that bands can pick up, but not 108 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 3: especially with bass. 109 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: Not a huge surprise. Aerosmith did it right. They used 110 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: a tech, yeh, a drum tech. And by the way, 111 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: who's been used on in other acts too. 112 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 3: They're a handful of guys that are like journeymen that 113 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 3: can fill in like that. 114 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: So yeah, almost like you know, quality session people. You know, yeah, 115 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: absolutely right. 116 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 3: In nineteen seventy nine, on May nineteenth, Eric Clapton celebrated 117 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 3: his marriage to Patty Boyd and and Patty Boyd was 118 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 3: was an important figure and led to the recording of 119 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 3: of one of Clapton's most famous songs, bus. 120 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: You mean Layla, Yeah that's right, Yeah, big big deal, 121 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: Derek and the Dominoes. 122 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:39,239 Speaker 2: Patty is still I think in you know, London area, 123 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 2: aid whatever, and would be interesting to hear her take 124 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 2: on everything now, you know. 125 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 3: Crazy, such a crazy situation for those that aren't familiar 126 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 3: with it. But Eric Clapton fell in love with Patty Harrison, 127 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 3: George Harrison's wife. They were the closest of friends at 128 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 3: the time, which made it, you know, further awkward. What 129 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 3: do you think, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, completely fed up 130 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 3: situation that he fell in love with his best friend's wife. 131 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 3: You know, the air was cleared. Clapton and Harrison got 132 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 3: along after that, which is weird. But they celebrated their 133 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 3: wedding in nineteen seventy nine on May nineteenth, and a 134 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 3: whole bunch of great guests, Mick Jagger and a bunch 135 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 3: of people, and it was a it was a musical 136 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 3: type event. You know, A bunch of those guys played 137 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 3: party May twentieth. Another you know bit of sad news. 138 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 3: I've actually got two pieces of sad news here. From 139 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 3: May twentieth, ray Manzeric, keyboardist from The Doors, died in Germany. 140 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 3: He had a rare form of cancer in twenty thirteen 141 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 3: and it unfortunately took him, took his life. And in 142 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 3: twenty twelve Robin Gibb from the Beg's died of cole 143 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 3: Rechtel cancer and then kidney and liver failure as well 144 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 3: multiple complications from his cancer. No I will, by the way, 145 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 3: I admitted to the Donna Summer thing last week. I'm 146 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 3: kind of a closet Beg's fan as well. I know 147 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 3: you told me to be careful with this. 148 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 2: But I'll come along for the ride on the Beg's Anytime, 149 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 2: Night Fever, stay Alive, you should again, come on, Yeah 150 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 2: go No Worries. 151 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:23,679 Speaker 3: In nineteen fifty four, on May twentieth, Bill Haley released 152 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 3: Rock around the Clock. This was the first rock song 153 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 3: to reach number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred charts. 154 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:35,959 Speaker 3: It's a big deal musically. It had a lot of 155 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 3: different elements. Bill Haley was a country artist before he 156 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 3: was playing with the Comments, But that song had elements 157 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 3: of R and B. It had elements of country, and 158 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 3: it has elements of swing musically. It's a really neat 159 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 3: song to listen to. Is a lot of different stuff 160 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 3: going on in it, and that song is in ways the. 161 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: First real rock song the beginning. 162 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 3: And that song was used as the theme of Happy 163 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 3: Days in the first couple of seasons before the Happy 164 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 3: Day's theme came along. 165 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 1: I've forgotten that, but now I remember that. 166 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 3: Ye May twenty first, sixty six, the Stones released actually 167 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 3: it didn't release, it had been released, but Painted Black 168 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 3: hit number one in the UK and then later on 169 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 3: in the US. 170 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 1: But Painted Black is one of those. 171 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 3: Songs when you hear it like in a movie or something, 172 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 3: you know, something bad's gonna happen. 173 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's just it's it's completely haunting. 174 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: So that was nineteen sixty six. 175 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 3: Another Stone story, actually another two really to follow in 176 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 3: seventy one. 177 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: On May twenty. 178 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 3: Second, they released Brown Sugar and that was the first 179 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,839 Speaker 3: song on the Rolling Stones record label, which they kept 180 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 3: going until nineteen ninety two, and they signed with Virgin Wow. 181 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 2: I love them both so Painted black and Brown Sugar 182 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:03,439 Speaker 2: Love Them. 183 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 3: May twenty fourth, twenty twenty one, was the day that 184 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 3: Charlie Watts passed, and that's our last story for the week. 185 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,959 Speaker 3: He died at eighty. He had battled throat cancer two 186 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 3: thousand and four. He had throat cancer and he beat it. 187 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 3: They never released his cause of death in twenty twenty one. 188 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 3: But you know, a sad day for rock and roll 189 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 3: to lose Charlie Watts. 190 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 2: And one of the true gentlemen of rock and roll. 191 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 2: Everyone always said Charlie was really more comfortable playing jazz 192 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 2: rather than playing rock and roll. But what a great drummer, 193 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 2: what a gentleman, and what a terrible loss. 194 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: You you really appreciate his work as a drummer. 195 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,959 Speaker 3: If you see video of him playing you know, non stones, right, 196 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 3: playing jazz or playing another style, you really can appreciate, you. 197 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: Know, him as a as a drummer, that's right. And 198 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: in fact, that Painted Black his drum licks during Pain Black. 199 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 3: We're just amazing. Well that's this week in Music for 200 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,680 Speaker 3: the nineteenth, the twenty fifth of May. That'll wrap it 201 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 3: up for the week. 202 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 2: Bus Well, thank you, Harry, And you know it's sad 203 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 2: with a lot of the passing of the great icons 204 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 2: of music, but we do have to report on that 205 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: just as much as we celebrate there. 206 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: They're great music as well. 207 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 2: But it's another look at this week in music history 208 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 2: for the week of May the nineteenth, and thanks for 209 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 2: checking out the Taking a Walk podcast. We are available 210 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 2: on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and are part of the iHeart 211 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 2: podcast network.