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Epic And Infamous Moments That Defined Rock Music [Episode 295] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: The Kings played a show organized by John Wayne Gacy.
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  Speaker 1: It's true. Our guest is Andrew Crayman. He's the author
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  Speaker 1: of The Rock and Roll Almanac. We've got that story
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  Speaker 1: and a whole lot more coming up next.
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  Speaker 2: We're totally booming rock and roll. I mean, I'll leave you.
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  Speaker 2: You're reading Little Hands since it's time.
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  Speaker 3: To rock and roll, Rock Roll Out, I totally booked.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Booked on Rock and Eric Sanach this episode,
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  Speaker 1: it's a guest is Andrew Crainman. He's the author of
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  Speaker 1: the fantastic new book titled The Rock and Roll Almanac,
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  Speaker 1: a day by day journey through seventy years of legendary
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  Speaker 1: music history. Welcome to the podcast, Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. I'm delighted to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Look where you are. You look very relaxed. You were
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  Speaker 1: in our vacation.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a vacation.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in a friend's summer cabin here in the Finish Archipelago.
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  Speaker 2: But I hope I look relaxed.
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  Speaker 3: I we just arrived like thirty minutes ago, and there's
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  Speaker 3: no electricity, and you know there should I was hoping
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  Speaker 3: that there should be a table here, something that I
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  Speaker 3: can put my stuff on and now I'm sitting on
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  Speaker 3: a little stool and the computer is on a keg
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  Speaker 3: or something. So okay, okay, it's really nice that it
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  Speaker 3: comes to you as it relaxed.
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  Speaker 1: So before we get into some of the bands and
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  Speaker 1: the artists and the albums and songs in the book,
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  Speaker 1: tell us about the book. This is chronological to day
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  Speaker 1: by day. It goes back seventy years, and you have
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  Speaker 1: singles of the day, album of the day. So tell
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  Speaker 1: us how it's all set up.
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  Speaker 3: Many of the music history books are specific on one
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  Speaker 3: band or one setting, or one era or something. I
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  Speaker 3: think this is the rock and roll Bible, if you
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  Speaker 3: want to say, it has a single today.
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  Speaker 2: Every day some single was released.
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  Speaker 3: Every day an album was released, and I did have
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  Speaker 3: to pick some. You know, there was good albums, there
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  Speaker 3: were good singles, but these are, in my opinion, the
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  Speaker 3: most important one for that day. And it's it's funny
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  Speaker 3: because when I was searching for the data and writing
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  Speaker 3: the manuscript, I just stumbled on the fact that it
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  Speaker 3: is actually seventy years of rock, the seventh decade of rock,
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  Speaker 3: because I think in well, in my books, it was
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  Speaker 3: nineteen fifty five Bill Haley and his comets rock around
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  Speaker 3: the Clock, Chuck Berry, Little Richard.
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  Speaker 2: That's I think.
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  Speaker 3: That's when the rock and roll became mainstream, and you
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  Speaker 3: know it all started. So that's why the seventy years
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  Speaker 3: of rock.
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  Speaker 1: How did the idea come up? You said it was
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  Speaker 1: a night out with your bandmates. You're musicians, So we'll
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  Speaker 1: go back to two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, December eleventh, two thousand and eight, and it was
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  Speaker 2: it was we were both my bandmates. We were drinking beer.
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  Speaker 3: I stumbled on the fact that it was the tenth
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  Speaker 3: anniversary of the death of James lind Streit, who was
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  Speaker 3: a front man of the band Nu Medal Bands Not
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  Speaker 3: And I was listening to the I'm a huge metal head,
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  Speaker 3: and so I burned a CD as one did back
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  Speaker 3: in the day, took it with me.
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  Speaker 2: We were listening to it with the guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a great album, the only one that
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  Speaker 3: they have, and we were thinking about the big what if,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what if James Lenstrait was still alive, how
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  Speaker 3: would the band be now? And then it occurred to
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  Speaker 3: me that there should be every day has a story,
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  Speaker 3: someone has born, someone has died, a new album came,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, the Golden Ages rock and roll, when
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  Speaker 3: the rock and roll kings and queens had too much money,
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  Speaker 3: too much time, and too many drugs on their hands,
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  Speaker 3: they made some peculiar stuff. So it kind of I
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  Speaker 3: think it was ten years ago that I thought that, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: perhaps I'm making app. Everybody was making apps then, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm really really thankful that I didn't do it because
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  Speaker 3: we are so screen oriented these days. So I think
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  Speaker 3: something that you can have in your hands, perhaps give
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  Speaker 3: as a gift to someone is it means much more
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  Speaker 3: to me than just, you know, an app.
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  Speaker 1: And books have far outlasted the changes in technology. I
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  Speaker 1: was talking about this recently with a guest. The books
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  Speaker 1: are really the only thing nowadays where you can't you
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  Speaker 1: still can't beat the value of a book in your hands.
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  Speaker 1: This book particularly, you would like to have rather than
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  Speaker 1: an app, because this is a conversation piece. This is
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  Speaker 1: something you can have when your family, friends are over,
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  Speaker 1: pick it up, look through it, start chatting. You can't
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  Speaker 1: do that with an app that easily unless somebody, you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's got their phones out. But you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is right down in front of everybody. Yeah, which
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  Speaker 1: is what I love. What are the sources that you
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  Speaker 1: because like January first, One of the entries is January first,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty. The golliwogs are Berkeley, California, Swamp Band formerly
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  Speaker 1: known as the Blue Velvet's rebrand as Creten's clear Water Revival,
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  Speaker 1: you know, stuff like that. What were the sources and
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  Speaker 1: how long did it take to compile all of these
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  Speaker 1: for the book?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's another thing that I'm happy that I did
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  Speaker 3: it in the in the last year that I did,
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  Speaker 3: because ten years ago I would have to move to
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  Speaker 3: a library. Because now everything is online. You can find
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  Speaker 3: all the stuff. So I think I had ten or
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  Speaker 3: fifteen or twenty different sites that I was just you know,
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  Speaker 3: cross checking, searching. I started with the date, put all
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  Speaker 3: everything that I considered rock and roll. Put under that date,
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  Speaker 3: every birth, every death, and then at some point, you know, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this is a better story.
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  Speaker 2: I have to put this had to make room for
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  Speaker 2: better stories. But you know, it's a day by day.
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  Speaker 3: Cross checking from different websites and hopefully it's all true,
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  Speaker 3: because there's rock and roll law. You know, you never
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  Speaker 3: know what is actually true and what is not sure.
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  Speaker 1: We mentioned this book goes back seventy years was the
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  Speaker 1: very earliest entry rock around the Clock.
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  Speaker 3: The earliest entries are, of course, they are the birthdays.
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  Speaker 3: There's Link Ray who is born in nineteen twenty nine,
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  Speaker 3: Johnny Cass, Carl Perkins nineteen thirty two, Elvis Presley and
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  Speaker 3: Early Lewis were born in thirty five, Okay, Buddy Holy
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  Speaker 3: thirty six.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you go with dates of birth, then
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  Speaker 1: you're going to go all the way back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the earliest is link Ray I think in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen twenty nine if I'm correct, But the first ones
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  Speaker 3: are nineteen fifty one. That are, you know, truly the
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  Speaker 3: stories like an event. Yeah, it's eleventh of July. If
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  Speaker 3: you want to look it up, it's nineteen fifty one.
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  Speaker 3: Rock and roll gets its name, you know, sort of
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  Speaker 3: a There's a Cleveland DJ who launches his moon Dog
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  Speaker 3: House rock and Roll Party on WJW radio, and he's
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  Speaker 3: one of the first who popularized the phrase rock and roll.
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  Speaker 1: Know him very well, Alan Freed, being a longtime radio guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's the guy we all salute. He's the guy who
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  Speaker 1: he really started it all off. He used to have
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  Speaker 1: concerts he would put together and they were considered the
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  Speaker 1: first rock and roll concerts, which the first one was
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  Speaker 1: in Cleveland, which is why the Rock and Roll Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame is in Cleveland. That's the whole connection to
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  Speaker 1: why that's in Cleveland, all right.
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  Speaker 3: And the second one from nineteen fifty one is eighteen
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  Speaker 3: year old Richard Pennyman, already performing as Little Richard, steps
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  Speaker 3: into the studio for the first time, recording his early tracks.
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  Speaker 3: So it goes from there. This one that I still
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  Speaker 3: wanted to mention, and here it's nineteen forty five, a
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  Speaker 3: ten year old Elvis Presley takes the stage for the
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  Speaker 3: first time at a talent contest.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't win, but you know, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: For those watching a video, that's how set up. So
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  Speaker 1: at the top of each page you got the single,
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  Speaker 1: the single released on that day, and the album release
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  Speaker 1: on that day, which is cool. So that gets it started,
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  Speaker 1: and then you get into some of the entries as
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  Speaker 1: you go through. So that's really cool, really good. And
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  Speaker 1: then for would you talk about how you knew you'd
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  Speaker 1: enjoy writing the book but it turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: so much more than you expect. And this is that
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  Speaker 1: you write in the book quote you truly can't underestimate
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  Speaker 1: the ingenuity of people with too much money, too much time,
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  Speaker 1: and too many drugs. What are some of the stories
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  Speaker 1: that for you really stand out going back to the
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  Speaker 1: early part of the book, like January fourth, nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: to Who's Keith Moon accidentally runs over and kills the
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  Speaker 1: show fur while trying to flee a fight with skin
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  Speaker 1: heads at a pub. That's a wild one. What are
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  Speaker 1: some of the ones that really stand out to you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think there's so many. If I haven't miscalculated,
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  Speaker 3: there's two seven hundred and fifty one of these anecdotes in.
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  Speaker 1: And I expect you to know every single one. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go through each other one.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be a long show and along edit.
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  Speaker 1: For you afterwards part one of one hundred episodes.
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  Speaker 3: So there's no shortage off of why drug moments in history.
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  Speaker 3: But I think one of the craziest was when Kiss
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  Speaker 3: donated wiles of their own blood to be mixed with
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  Speaker 3: ink to be printed on a Marvel comic book.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some funny moments or some cool we we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about the John Wayne Gacy one with
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  Speaker 1: the Kinks is insane, a serial killer promotes a King's Concert,
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  Speaker 1: which we'll get to in a bit teaser.
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  Speaker 3: And two that stand out the most was when the
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  Speaker 3: organized It's April eighth, the organizers for two thy twelve
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  Speaker 3: London Olympic Games. They reached out to the Who's management
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  Speaker 3: asking if Keith Moon could be available to perform.
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  Speaker 1: I remember, I remember that story. How can how how
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  Speaker 1: can you be that clueless? Yeah, you can't google. You
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  Speaker 1: can't google the current WHO lineup?
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  Speaker 3: And it was the management said that he died as
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  Speaker 3: as he wrote, I hope I died before I get old.
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  Speaker 2: He really did that? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how do you not get offended by that?
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  Speaker 1: Pete Townsend Roger Doltry like, excuse me, but he's been
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  Speaker 1: dead for the last however many years, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: thirty Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think it was seventy eight when he died. So the
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  Speaker 3: next that I thought was funny. Everybody knows the story
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  Speaker 3: about Ozzy Osborne biting the head of the Bats, but
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  Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen, Ozzy Osborne embraces in his own legacy
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  Speaker 3: by releasing an official plush bat with a detachable head.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I love that they made fun for him.
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  Speaker 3: You can buy it, doll you know, so.
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  Speaker 1: Well, kiss has some great ones. Is a kiss casket
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  Speaker 1: in there in the book? Yeah, a kiss cat. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that kiss has some great ones. Kisses, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they are the ultimate when it came to promotion. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's we're in the month of June now, So since
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  Speaker 1: we're in the month of June, let's run through some
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  Speaker 1: of the entries from this month. I plucked out some
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  Speaker 1: of my favorites here throughout the book. On the day
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  Speaker 1: I was born, actually June second, nineteen seventy two, Pink
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  Speaker 1: Floyd released Obscured by Clouds, their seventh studio album, comes
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  Speaker 1: together in anunther two weeks while the band is in
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  Speaker 1: Paris a couple of cool stones events. Charlie Watts born
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  Speaker 1: June second, nineteen forty one. I always knew that because
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  Speaker 1: every time, every time it's my birthday, I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: me and Charlie they made also made their US TV
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  Speaker 1: debut on June second, nineteen sixty four. Fresh off the
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  Speaker 1: plane for the first ever US tour, they sit down
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  Speaker 1: for an interview on The Less Crane Show. When asked
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  Speaker 1: if they're thrilled about their American TV debut, Keith Richards
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  Speaker 1: delivers a dry classic Richards response, Yeah, knocks me out.
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  Speaker 1: There's June second. How about Springsteen released Born in the
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  Speaker 1: USA June fourth, nineteen eighty four. Do you have an
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  Speaker 1: all time favorite band or artists?
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  Speaker 2: I really cannot say one. It depends on the date.
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  Speaker 3: Today it's something, tomorrow it's something more. But you did
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  Speaker 3: ask me before if I had the.
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  Speaker 1: Best top five greatest bands or yeah, I have.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I have to think about think about it,
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  Speaker 3: and I have been given it some thought. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's the kind of question that you know
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  Speaker 3: starts fights and ends friendships.
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  Speaker 2: But if I had to name just the five greatest bands.
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  Speaker 3: I would go with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, led Zeppelin,
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  Speaker 3: Queen and Nirvana the third.
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  Speaker 2: You know, with the Beatles.
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  Speaker 3: If some of the kids listening now youngsters.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in my early forties.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I don't think I knew how much
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  Speaker 3: good music Beatles did. I think Old Bloody and Obloody
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  Speaker 3: turned me off the path of really recognising the Beatles.
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  Speaker 3: But I have been listening to them quite much lately. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: And they did so many kinds of music and had
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  Speaker 3: so much fun. And you know, if you think about
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  Speaker 3: the Walrus, it's just you know, one big f you
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  Speaker 3: to the music music critics. You'll find this thing again
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  Speaker 3: in the book and the Rolling Stones because.
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  Speaker 2: They are still performing live.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing.
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  Speaker 2: How old does these guys it's.
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  Speaker 1: Eighty, they're around eighty, and Charlie Watts would have been
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  Speaker 1: in his mid to late eighties.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's amazing, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, let's Zeppelin, what they did, what kind of
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  Speaker 3: sounds and different kinds of things they brought to it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think Queen is.
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  Speaker 3: There because of Freddy Mercury. Of course they made awesome music,
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  Speaker 3: but he's iconic vocals made the band.
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  Speaker 2: I think what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is there are two different types of list
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  Speaker 1: you could you could make. There's one what's your favorite
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  Speaker 1: five favorite bands? Or this is really an objective top
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  Speaker 1: five greatest bands and artists of all time? You can
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  Speaker 1: it could change if it's if you're talking about your
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  Speaker 1: personal favorites.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if if you, if you ask me tomorrow, that
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  Speaker 3: that might be you know, Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteeing's easy
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  Speaker 3: top It's hard, it's hard, but.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry I interrupted. Yeah you you so you talked
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  Speaker 1: about Queen and Freddie Mercury.
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  Speaker 4: Next would be Yeah, Nirvana, Nirvanairvana, do you know, because
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  Speaker 4: what they started, I think they kicked the grunch from
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  Speaker 4: the ground and it was Nirvana Mania like it was
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  Speaker 4: Beatlemania back in the in the sixties and seventies.
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  Speaker 1: Last shift changing rock and roll band. Last. Some would
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  Speaker 1: say maybe the last great rock and roll band. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So for me, I guess top five greatest band. Gotta
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  Speaker 1: go with the Beatles.
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  Speaker 4: One.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go with Zeppelin, two Stone's three, I say
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  Speaker 1: Pink Floyd.
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  Speaker 2: Four.
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  Speaker 1: The five spot is tough, you know, I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: with Grateful Dead and I'm gonna say the Dead just
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  Speaker 1: because of what they did was so unusual and so
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  Speaker 1: different than any other rock and roll band. They built
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  Speaker 1: this empire on the music and the fans together. I
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  Speaker 1: just interviewed their publicist, Dennis mcnalan. He said, usually when
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  Speaker 1: you're when you're a publicists for a band, they're looking
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  Speaker 1: to get attention. These guys didn't want it. They actually
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  Speaker 1: went about it a whole different way. And then by
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  Speaker 1: allowing recordings and changing up the set list every night,
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  Speaker 1: it just built the fan base up more and more
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  Speaker 1: because if you missed one show, you would regret it
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  Speaker 1: because they would change the set list up. If you
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  Speaker 1: did go to one show, you're gonna want to go
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  Speaker 1: to the next one because it's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: the same as last night. And then also it's just
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  Speaker 1: advertising the band when you're exchanging tapes. So I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was fascinating. But the Beatles really just set the standard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, who did I second?
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  Speaker 1: I had Zeppelin because from a heavy heavy metal or
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  Speaker 1: a hard rock standpoint, they are the Beatles of hard
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  Speaker 1: rock a metal although they did so many different kinds,
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  Speaker 1: so many styles of music, but still Zeppelin was like
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  Speaker 1: the template for what every rock and roal band would
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  Speaker 1: be after that. Yeah, the Stones just for longevity, but
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  Speaker 1: also the body of work. Now they've had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of albums where there's some duds in there, but overall
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  Speaker 1: that run that they had in the mid late sixties
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  Speaker 1: the mid seventies, I mean, that's it's unreal what they
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  Speaker 1: pulled off, and those songs are timeless. And yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: also set the standard because at one time it was
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  Speaker 1: they were considered old in the mid seventies when they
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  Speaker 1: hit their thirties, and they've set the standard. They've basically
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  Speaker 1: said it's okay to rock until you're eighty. Maybe they'll
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  Speaker 1: still be here when they're ninety. I don't know. Pink Floyd,
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  Speaker 1: just Pink Floyd to me, Ducks out of the Moon
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest rock and the album of all time
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  Speaker 1: because it relates to everybody, and the music is brilliant
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  Speaker 1: and their body of work. And that's an example of
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  Speaker 1: a band name becoming bigger than the band members themselves.
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• 18:11
  Speaker 1: How about top five greatest albums of all time? I
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: named number one, which is Dark Side of the Moon
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: my number one.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I tried and I tried, and I couldn't decide.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Back in Black ac DC. Yes, you know, if you
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: look at some of the biggest selling albums of all time,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Eagles Hotel California.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Oh that's I just bought it as a vinyl whol
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: two or three weeks ago from a second headshot.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I just you know, I didn't know. He was amazed
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: that I found it.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: It's the original, first first print, and it was in
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: great condition, and it was cheap. I don't know if
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: if Eagles are not recognized enough here in the Nordics,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Know, but but it is. It is still a great
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: album after all these years.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Zeppelon one, Zeppon two, Zeppan four, those three right there
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: are huge. Yeah all day. Yeah. It is a hard question,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: is question?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: It is so hard.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, personally, for me, I love Van Hill and
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Van Hill and One.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: The debut album nineteen eighty four is awesome.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: It's my favorite personal favorite album by the band.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: And I have I also have it as a vinyl
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: it was my father's, you know, my late father. So
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I am cherishing it. I'm a metal has so there's
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: you know, yeah, what about Metallica, Well, yes and no. Metallica,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: yes and no. They have but I've heard them all
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: so many times. You know, they are repeatedly played in radio,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: and I think I've heard them too a bit.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Too much, Okay, because I just say Master of Poppets.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Is it is good. But because I'm born in the
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: mid eighties, I wasn't a metal head at that time.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: I I you know, I first found I think it
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: was Limp Biscuits Significant Other and I think, no, no, no,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: the first Limp.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Biscuit album, what's it called? Three Dollars Bill y'all? And
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: that that was it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: And then the cover of Faith by George michael On there.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I think that was. That was the one that lured
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: me in. I was I was listening to it that
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: what's this? This is fun? You know, this is fun?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: And after that system of a down.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Oh there's so many pass in the nineties, I am
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: definitely corn. One of the first CDIs that I bought
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: was Cordon's Follow the Leader. So I I don't know
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: if it's in your in your in your questions, But
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I am thinking about the next one, and it should
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: be Heavy Metal Almanac.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: This is what I think.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: This was kind of kind of easy to find all
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: the bands to all the stories because I knew ninety
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: percent of the songs that were mentioned. I knew ninety
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: percent of the bands, and if I didn't know, I
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: used to, you know, just spotify this sound.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Oh well, this is rock and roll enough for the book.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: And I think I know heavy metal also, and.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: You know, I think it will be a great step next.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: And the metal heads are you know, a tight group.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: If something is heavy metal, it's ours. So there's a
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: possibility that someone by the book.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Also, you could have a series. Really, if these do well,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you could do all sorts of genres that would be
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: cool metal.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, why is it not?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Metal? Is a great idea. Plus, like I say, it's
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: right down strike Zone. Andrew Craman is the author of
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: The Rock and Roll Almanac. At Day by Day, Journey
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: through seventy years of Legendary music history. June first, nineteen
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: eighty seven, an important day in grunge history. Soundgun released
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: their first single, hunted Down, on sub Pop Records. The
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: official arrival of the Seattle scene soon to be rulers.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I always have to remember that the history of Grund
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: goes pretty far back nineteen eighty seven. That's during the
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: hairband era. How about a cool def Leopard entry June sixth,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine. Def Leopard's career changing gig takes place
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: not in a stadium, but at a Sheffield Workingmen's club,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: playing Crooks Workingmen's Club. The young rockers get their first
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: major press when UK music magazine Sounds reviews the show.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: The buzz from the article leads to a recording contract
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: with Phonogram Records, setting Deaf Leopard on the path to
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: rock superstardom. I like that one because I'm a huge
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Deaf Leopard fan, so I picked that one out. They
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: opened for ACDC here early on here in the States.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: In the US, there's so many stories that someone has
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: opened for someone else and then they became too big.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Who was it that had some.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Vanhalen opened for Black Sabbath blow them off the stage? Yeah,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: there are stories of unusual opening acts like the Beastie
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Boys opening for Madonna, Jimmy Hendrix opening for the Monkeys.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, definitely.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Is there a year that really stood out to you
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: in the book that you had to really pare down.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: There was a lot happening.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy seven is one of those that stands out.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: You know, punk was exploding, Disco was peaking, and you
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: know the classic rock giants like Zeppelin and Pink Foix
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: was still in full swing.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: And it's a year where you.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Can find a Ramones gig and the Beg's hit and
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: the Fleetwood Mac Drama all in the same week.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: So you know that the contrast is so big.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: You're right, an FM rock radio was really started to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: take off. Yeah, how about specific decade? Was the seventies
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the most important or noteworthy?
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: I think it was the richest. You know, it had
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: everything that you know. There's arena rock, there's punk, glam rock, metal,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: progressive rock, and artists were pushing boundaries. The nineties still
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: surprised me also, you know, because there's more depth to
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: it than just the grunge, this brit pop, alternative rock, industrial,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: even early new metal, and you know it's all happening
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: at once, bubbling under it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a lot of good bands that are forgotten.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: In fact, I just read a book on Alanis Morissett's
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Jagged Little Pill, which is a phenomenal album.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Great album.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: That's thirty.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how old was she? She was like seventeen.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Twenty one, so she was seventeen. She was in her
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: late teens when she left Canada and came to La
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: to change her image, change her career. She put out
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: two pop out dance pop albums in Canada that were popular.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: She was just called Atlantis. She went with her full name,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: signed with a new manager, didn't have a record deal.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: They were shopping around for a producer. They found Glenn Ballard.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: They hit it off immediately. Within thirty minutes, wrote a song,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: started writing a song, day crank and songs out and
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: we had Jagged Little Pill, which is that has six
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: singles on that album. The nineties was a decade of
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: female rockers really coming forward and Torriemos.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: No doubt is fair out.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So there's a lot of stuff that happened in
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the nineties that there's a I mean, you could literally
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: just do books on decades too, I mean you could
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: expand that. Yeah. How about well, well let's stick with
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: June a little bit more. June ten, nineteen sixty seven,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: California host what might be the very first rock festival,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the Magic Mountain Music Festival June ten, nineteen sixty seven,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: fifteen thousand fans, Jefferson Air playing the Doors and the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Birds making history a week later, though, it's completely overshadowed
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: by the two hundred thousand strong Monterey Pop Festival. Janis Joplin,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Hendrix and the who Stole that show? That's really interesting.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: So the Magic Mountain Music Festival kind of lost in
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: rock history. It's an event that was important.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: How about Uriah Heap kicks their heavy mental journey with
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: the release of the debut album Very every Very Humble.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that's a good album.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Also, Oh yeah, so I was gonna ask I for
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: your what And I just only recently got into them
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: because I covered the book in an episode. Phenomenal band.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a cassette when I was young of
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Uriah Heap. But there was this Rolling Stone critic who
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: who declared that show commits suicide if the band ever makes.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: It yep, spoiler they did, and she did not.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Those bands are progressive rock bands, yes, early Genesis. They
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: never got the credit they deserved by critics. What day
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: was that in the month of June. It was the thirteenth,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: thirteenth of June. Yeah, third is Yeah, I love the title.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Very heavy, very humble.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: So I think one of the reasons that I cannot
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: name any you know, specific albums that you know that
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: are the best or the greatest, are because I was
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: introduced and reintroduced to a lot of albums and a
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: lot of great songs when I did the manuscript, when
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: I you know, when I was mining the data for this.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: The cover says that there's four hundred plus albums, and
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: that's because there's six three hundred and sixty six days,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: even for the leap here, and there's an album for
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: every day.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: But there were so many albums.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: That were monumental or I think, really good that I
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: couldn't put up there as an album released on that day.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: So they are mentioned in the Little Stories.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Otherwise the book would have gone on forever. I mean,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: it's already how many pages, four hundred and seven, I think, yeah, right,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: so you had to pare it down. This is It's
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: cool though. Also on June thirteen, I just mentioned Elanis
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Morrisset's Jagged Little Pill. That was the day June thirteen,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: ninety five, but also June thirteen, nineteen seventy five, Talk
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: about the seventies. Peter seventies was the era of live albums.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Peter Frampton takes the stage at San Francisco's legendary Winterland
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Ballroom for the first of two nights that would change
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: his career forever. Recordings from these shows, along with others,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: makeup Frampton Comes Alive, the double live album that catapults
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: him from respected musician to global superstar. That's Got Show
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Me the Way, Baby, I Love Your Way? Do you
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: feel like we do? The album dominates the charts, spending
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: ten non consecutive weeks and number one, becoming the best
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: selling album of nineteen seventy Six. Decades later, it still
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: holds its place among the greatest live albums of all time.
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• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Let's get to the John Wayne Gacy when this is bizarre?
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: This is so bizarre. June twenty third, nineteen sixty five.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: All right, you ready for this, folks, Here we go.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: The Kinks played a show organized by John Wayne Gacy,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the serial killer who dressed up like a clown and
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: had bodies buried underneath his house. How about that, folks,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: don't blame the Kinks. They had no idea. This has
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: gone way back. What did I say? June twenty third,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five. Yeah, and what is now one of
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the creepiest footnotes in rock history. The Kings unknowingly play
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: a show in Springfield, Illinois, organized by none other than
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: John Wayne Gacy, a man would later be unmasked as
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: one of America's most notorious serial killers. Gaysey, known as
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the Killer Clown, was still years away from his horrifying crimes,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: but the fact that he once promoted rock shows before
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: becoming a monster is pure nightmare. Fuel never knew that
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: until reading this book.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: You do learn every day something. And I think, as
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: you said about the book being a you're being able
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: to just take it off the shelf or from the
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: coffee table. The user in the face is you know,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: it's unbeatable. It never runs out of battery.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: But you can just read.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: A snippet here and a bit there and another here,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: then put it back and you know it can stay
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: there for a week or two or a month and
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: you can.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Still go back to it. Sure, I think this will
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: stand the test of time because most of the golden
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: age of the rock and roll is already behind this. Sadly,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: but honestly.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: That's why these books are so important. Though of course, yes,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I say this is story time. This is the time
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to put it all together and make sure that people
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: are aware of this and generations to come. The Springfield
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Show was organized by future serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: He was then vice president of the local jac's chapter.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: This is according to a search online here, and two
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: thousand band member recounted Gaysey invited the Kings to his home,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: a story dismissed by their band biographers. So whether that's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: true or not, who knows. Hey, guys, come on over.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I'll be dressed in clown and make up and we
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: can go over the plans for your upcoming concert. That
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: is absolutely surreal, bizarre. And that's just one. I didn't
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: read the whole I just thumbed through the month of
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Ji and some other months. So who knows what else
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: is in here? Man?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: There is other killers.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: There is someone who was who was pretending to be
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: some leader of some other band.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: I really don't.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I mean there's the well known ones.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: The it was the Bad Sean and now something, and
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: he was performing.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I think you're talking about Elmer Edward Sally, convicted of
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: manslaughter nineteen seventy pretend to be Seana Now guitarist Vinnie Taylor.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: So you have that in the book.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And he had he had a show or something
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: going on, and he I think he was making some
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: money of it, not just pretending to be someone else,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: but you know, making money from it, and they gladly
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: someone found out.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Oh lord.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: But there's also okay, so we have many funny funny stories,
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: many stupid stories, but there are are also some tragic
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: stories in there. Starting from the past. Buddy Holly and
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: the Big Barber were in the airplane just before Buddy Holy,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: you know, made it out in the big shows, and
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: they died. Everybody, I think most of the people know about, Oh,
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: I hit a blackout, what's the what's the band?
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Uh? October of seventy the airplane accident.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Of course, there are people that have been shot on
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: the stage, like dying back Daryl.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: That's I think more of it in.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: The sometimes sometimes upcoming heavy Mental Almanac. One of the
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: one of which I think I have to mention as
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: I am here in Finland, and and finished the Hannah
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Rocks drummer Razzle, who was killed in a car accident.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: The Vince Neil was driving the car after some show
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: and I don't know what happened, but they ended up
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: in car wreck and Razzle died and that was the
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: end of Hannah Rocks kind of because they couldn't just
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: you know, go on.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll finish with I guess July fourth coming up,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: so let's do some fourth of July one and we'll
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: wrap this up July four, nineteen sixty four, Let's see
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the Stones get a taste of the critics Wrath appearing
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: as panelists on the BBC's Jukebox Jerry, Mick, Keith and
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: the Gang weighing on the latest records. Their performance less
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: than polished. The Daily Sketch skewers them in a scathing review,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: calling them gum chewing, ill mannered, ill humored, illiberal and
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: illogical jurors. Translation exactly what the kids love about that.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: July four, nineteen sixty nine, Grand Funk Railroad rocks the
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Pop Festival shirtless. Still a fledgling band at the time,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Grand Funk wins over a massive crowd at the festival.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Mark Farner, lead singer, ditches his shirt in mid set
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: because it was so hot out, much to the delight
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: of the audience. Okay, we got one here. Oh. The
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: first first ever public gig for the Clash July four,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six. They opened for the Sex Pistols, The
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Black Swan and Sheffield. Jeremy Spencer of Fleetwood Mac is
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: a July four birthday See the Animals. Dave Rowberry born
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: in nineteen forty July four, Oh, this is a good
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: one July four, nineteen eighty five, Dire Straits began a
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: record breaking Wembley run, kicking off fourteen consecutive nights at
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Wembley Arena fourteen. They delivered a marathon performance to packed
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: crowds each night. On day ten, took a little detour
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: across the parking lot to Wembley Stadium four Live Aid,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: where they play an afternoon set before returning for their
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: scheduled the evening show Double Duty. Never looked so smooth
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: now mentioned the people talk about Phil Collins, how he
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: played in Philadelphia and London and that was a lot
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: of work for him. But still are Straits, man? They were.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: They were killing it that summer. Man, that was huge
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: that album.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question if you have, if
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: you had a time machine, what's a gig you would
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: like to go and see?
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, oh Woodstack?
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: No questions.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to say Woodstock nineteen sixty nine, hands down.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: And I've been to that site in Bethel, New York,
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  Speaker 1: and it was it was hair raising just to be
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: standing on that field. It really was cool. And they
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: have a museum and everything. But I would say one Woodstock,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: two would be Live Aid. And I have friends who
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: were there, and I guess if I'm going to come
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: up with a third one, I would say I'll throw
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: in Woodstock ninety four. That would have been cool, and
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I could have. I mean, I was certainly of age
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: to go at that time. I just didn't go. Not
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: ninety nine Woodstock, No thanks?
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, if I.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Come back alive. Rock and Roll Almanac, a day by
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: day journey through seventy years of legend in music history.
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  Speaker 1: It's out now. You can find whoever books are sold.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: You can find it at your nearest bookstore. Go to
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: book down rock dot com to find your nearest independent bookstore.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Where can people find you online? Andrew Krahmon Well.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: I think they can find the Rock ro Almanac from
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Facebook and Instagram and from x I originally thought that
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: I didn't have to be on social media because I'm
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: not a big fan, big fan of those, but as
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: the nowadays is what it is, you can find them
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: there and if you want to contact straight with me,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: I'm on the new I think it's new, the Blue
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Sky app, if you're familiar with it.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I just jumped down at blue Sky as well. I
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: have two followers on blue Sky right now I've got
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: some work to do.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: You'll have three in a minute.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna have three. No, it's true, I'm not.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have social media if now for the show.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: In fact, even even then though, I'm like, God, i
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: feel like I'm annoying people because I'm posting stuff almost
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: every other day. But it's a necessary thing. You got
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: to get the word out. So there you have it.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: But I'm not one of those. I'm not into it.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I'm suspecting you're not either. Where you just post stuff
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: like hey, today, I was at at the store today
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: and boy, check out the prices on on on meat
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the meat ale today. This is fascinating anyway, Guys just
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: want to let you know I can't do that. No,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: but that's listen, man, there are influencers that do that stuff,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: and God bless them.
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: Man, they're making the hope they're happy, and I truly
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: hope they're happy after two three decades, you know, when
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: they think back, what's the what they have done?
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Hey, I just saw on Netflix they had a documentary
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: on this guy, the Liver King. Do you know about
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: this guy? Okay, I you know, you know, Yeah, I know.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: I've seen pictures.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Jacked out of his mind, and everybody, like Joe Rogan
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: was like he's on Royd's No Doubt, and he kept saying, No,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I don't do steroids. I just eat raw, you know,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I liver, I eat the liver of a cow. I
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: eat that, you know. I I just eat nothing but
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: natural food, like a caveman. And he finally got caught
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: and he admits it in the in the Netflix documentary.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: But again there's an example of a guy who's posting
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: and he's like, hey, guys, you know, I'm out in
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: the woods today and I'm gonna I'm gonna eat the
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: testicles of a bear. It's like, okay, that's great, man,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Good for you. God bless you, God bless you. All right, Andrew,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: thanks man, this was great. Thanks so much for coming on.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: When you have that next book out on the Almanac
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: on what on Metal history.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: With that should be a while, It will take a while.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Perhaps I'm happy if it's it's out next summer, but
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: I once I thought that, you know, perhaps rap music
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: is really big also, and it's it's getting bigger and
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: bigger now as we speak.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: But I don't understand anything of it.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know the names, I don't know the songs.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Someone else has to do, has to do it, I
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: don't know. It could be a seller, you know the seller,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: but but sorry I can't.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: I'm a rock and roll guy.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: That's your rock and roller. Well, you're welcome back here
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: as soon as it comes out. We'll get the word
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: out and have some fun talking about that one. Andrew,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: thanks so much.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Thanks for having That's it. It's in the books.