Latest / O'Brien & Doug / O'Brien & Doug Ep162 [August 24, 2023 Jesus Is My Friend! Zap!]
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- 0:00SPEAKER_12: It's ridiculous.
- 0:01SPEAKER_12: It's preposterous.
- 0:02SPEAKER_12: It's ludicrous.
- 0:03SPEAKER_12: By God, it's impetuous.
- 0:07SPEAKER_03: The O'Brien and Doug Podcast is brought to you in part by MosierMultimedia.com.
- 0:11SPEAKER_03: J H Music in Prascina, Maine.
- 0:13SPEAKER_03: The Ridge Runner in Westfield, Maine.
- 0:14SPEAKER_06: And my cousin, Larry.
- 0:17unknown: Who?
- 0:18SPEAKER_03: Larry.
- 0:18SPEAKER_03: Oh, Larry.
- 0:20SPEAKER_06: I'm warning you, I'm seriously stressed out here.
- 0:26SPEAKER_03: Welcome to the O'Brien and Doug Podcast.
- 0:28SPEAKER_03: I'm O'Brien.
- 0:29SPEAKER_03: I'm Roxanne.
- 0:31SPEAKER_03: Podcast.
- 0:32SPEAKER_06: Podcast.
- 0:33SPEAKER_03: You have to turn on the red light.
- 0:36SPEAKER_03: Means you're recording.
- 0:38SPEAKER_03: So yes, we are.
- 0:39SPEAKER_03: We are recording.
- 0:41SPEAKER_03: Yay.
- 0:42SPEAKER_03: Um episode 162.
- 0:45SPEAKER_04: Yes.
- 0:45SPEAKER_03: Hard to believe.
- 0:46SPEAKER_03: But we say that every time.
- 0:48SPEAKER_03: It's hard to believe we're still going, Doug.
- 0:49SPEAKER_03: Well, I know.
- 0:50SPEAKER_03: It's it's really uh it boggles the mind.
- 0:52SPEAKER_03: It does.
- 0:53SPEAKER_03: Um, but it's really the only it's really the only friend day I have during the week.
- 0:58SPEAKER_03: Friend day?
- 0:59SPEAKER_03: Friend day.
- 1:00SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:00SPEAKER_06: I get to have a friend over.
- 1:03SPEAKER_06: You won't come over and play?
- 1:05SPEAKER_06: We'll do a podcast.
- 1:07SPEAKER_03: Well, I mean, it's true.
- 1:08SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it really is.
- 1:09SPEAKER_06: Right?
- 1:09SPEAKER_06: It's the adult version of a play date.
- 1:11SPEAKER_06: It really is.
- 1:12SPEAKER_06: It really is.
- 1:13SPEAKER_06: Is Doug coming over tonight?
- 1:14SPEAKER_06: I think so.
- 1:15SPEAKER_03: I hope so.
- 1:15SPEAKER_03: Oh let's do it, Double.
- 1:19SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:24SPEAKER_03: It's pretty sad, really.
- 1:27SPEAKER_03: We're grown grown men.
- 1:29SPEAKER_03: Um we all we work for a living.
- 1:32SPEAKER_03: We just kind of I don't know.
- 1:34SPEAKER_06: It's just But you need that, you need that uh release.
- 1:37SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 1:37SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 1:38SPEAKER_06: You do.
- 1:38SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you just need to be goofy for an hour or something.
- 1:41SPEAKER_03: My wife needs to get out.
- 1:42SPEAKER_03: She needs a friend.
- 1:43SPEAKER_03: A girlfriend.
- 1:44SPEAKER_03: Thank you very much.
- 1:45SPEAKER_03: She, you know, she needs- she's single?
- 1:48SPEAKER_03: No.
- 1:49SPEAKER_03: No, the girlfriend.
- 1:50SPEAKER_03: Oh, the girlfriend.
- 1:50SPEAKER_03: Oh.
- 1:50SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:51SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that would be nice, wouldn't it?
- 1:52SPEAKER_03: It would be nice.
- 1:52SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:53SPEAKER_03: Because then we could like double date.
- 1:55SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 1:55SPEAKER_03: And then they'd be like, why are we with these idiots?
- 1:58SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
- 1:59SPEAKER_03: Because she says that to me on an individual basis.
- 2:01SPEAKER_06: Well, I'm sure she says that about both of us.
- 2:03SPEAKER_06: Of course she does.
- 2:04SPEAKER_06: So I think she may blame most of your idiocy on me.
- 2:10SPEAKER_03: Oh, and did you see what I posted in the in the um syndicate um there?
- 2:15SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 2:16SPEAKER_03: So she and and uh I'll qualify that because there was one thing that I said in the mic, and that you said off the mic, that I was hoping didn't go over here.
- 2:27SPEAKER_03: Let me let me give you a backstory.
- 2:28SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 2:28SPEAKER_03: So the Syndicate played Washburn August Fest uh last Saturday.
- 2:33SPEAKER_06: August Fest, that's what it's called.
- 2:34SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Washburn August Fest.
- 2:36SPEAKER_06: I called it August Washburn Days or something.
- 2:39SPEAKER_06: Same thing.
- 2:39SPEAKER_03: Same idea.
- 2:40SPEAKER_03: Yeah, same thing.
- 2:41SPEAKER_03: So we started the town right there.
- 2:43SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 2:44SPEAKER_03: So we when we play outdoors, we we we often mic the horns, and and Washburn was no exception.
- 2:51SPEAKER_03: We had a mic in front of the trumpets, we had a mic in front of the saxophones, we had a mic in front of the trombones.
- 2:56SPEAKER_03: And all of the mics were working very, very well.
- 2:59SPEAKER_03: Let's just say that.
- 3:01SPEAKER_03: And my wife's in the crowd, and and we do what we do.
- 3:05SPEAKER_03: We goof around and we talk to each other while we're on stage in between songs and blah blah blah.
- 3:11SPEAKER_03: And she made a point to say, you know, we can hear everything that you're saying.
- 3:15SPEAKER_03: I'm like everything.
- 3:18SPEAKER_03: The mics were working very, very well.
- 3:21SPEAKER_03: We could know we could hear uh so-and-so's instructions to so-and-so, and we could hear, you know, you t talking about a uh request or something like that.
- 3:30SPEAKER_03: I'm like, oh good.
- 3:31SPEAKER_03: Did you hear the part where I said this is really one of our favorite venues to play?
- 3:37SPEAKER_03: And then Doug said, Don't we say that about every venue?
- 3:41SPEAKER_03: And I said, Shut up.
- 3:42SPEAKER_03: She's like, No, I don't think I heard that one.
- 3:44SPEAKER_03: I was like, Oh good.
- 3:45SPEAKER_03: That is good now that I just put it on the podcast.
- 3:48SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 3:48SPEAKER_03: Don't worry, nobody listens to those either.
- 3:50SPEAKER_03: I know.
- 3:52SPEAKER_06: So, yeah, so that was the impetus for that little uh that little Well, I mean, but it you know, I the way I look at it is every place we get to play is my favorite place to play.
- 4:01SPEAKER_06: Of course it is, of course it is.
- 4:02SPEAKER_06: Because I'm with my favorite people, yeah, and I get to play my favorite thing, you know, songs and stuff.
- 4:09SPEAKER_03: So And my whole my whole reasoning for putting that in there is not to stop us from doing that stuff, like in between songs.
- 4:15SPEAKER_03: It's because that's us.
- 4:17SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we're still gonna do it.
- 4:18SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 4:18SPEAKER_03: We of course we are, yeah.
- 4:20SPEAKER_03: Because that's just the way we are.
- 4:21SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 4:22SPEAKER_03: But to always be be mindful of what it is we're saying.
- 4:27SPEAKER_06: Well it's a good thing we're not vulgar.
- 4:29SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 4:30SPEAKER_06: You know, because that that could get really uh ugly pretty quick.
- 4:33SPEAKER_03: We're not a we're we we're not a uh uh 9 p.m.
- 4:37SPEAKER_03: to one a.m.
- 4:37SPEAKER_03: rock band.
- 4:38SPEAKER_06: Yes, exactly.
- 4:39SPEAKER_06: This is this isn't a bar gig.
- 4:40SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 4:40SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
- 4:41SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
- 4:41SPEAKER_06: Where that kind of thing can kind of slide.
- 4:43SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
- 4:44SPEAKER_06: Because, you know, usually the the the audience is worse than the band.
- 4:48SPEAKER_06: Usually.
- 4:49SPEAKER_06: You know what I mean?
- 4:49SPEAKER_06: Yes.
- 4:50SPEAKER_06: So you know.
- 4:54SPEAKER_06: I'm never gonna let that go.
- 4:55SPEAKER_03: Oh no.
- 4:56SPEAKER_06: Because that just made me it made me laugh.
- 4:58SPEAKER_06: It made me mad at first.
- 4:59SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 5:00SPEAKER_06: And then it made me laugh because we just kept going with it.
- 5:02SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 5:02SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 5:03SPEAKER_06: I thought I thought Pat was gonna bust a gut when I did the whole beginning of Everybody Plays the Fool.
- 5:09SPEAKER_11: Right.
- 5:10SPEAKER_03: So did we already we already talked about that, right?
- 5:12SPEAKER_03: On a previous podcast where we had some lady come up on stage and say, play smooth or play smooth again.
- 5:18SPEAKER_03: No, we played it already.
- 5:19SPEAKER_03: Play it again, play it again.
- 5:21SPEAKER_06: Yeah, because every time I got quiet, play smooth.
- 5:23SPEAKER_06: Yeah, exactly.
- 5:25SPEAKER_03: We did not give in, just so you know.
- 5:26SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 5:27SPEAKER_03: So um so yeah, but it was a good show.
- 5:30SPEAKER_03: It was it was fun.
- 5:31SPEAKER_06: I say it was a good show, but you know, God loves the syndicate because he made the rain go around.
- 5:36SPEAKER_06: Did you when you left, did you see?
- 5:39SPEAKER_06: Like right outside of town, the road was wet.
- 5:42SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah.
- 5:42SPEAKER_06: It had rained.
- 5:43SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 5:43SPEAKER_06: I mean, it had just missed us by not much.
- 5:46SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 5:46SPEAKER_03: And uh but we all had a positive attitude.
- 5:49SPEAKER_03: What was the what was the uh what was the mantra?
- 5:51SPEAKER_03: Just keep swimming.
- 5:52SPEAKER_03: Just keep swimming.
- 5:53SPEAKER_06: Just keep swimming.
- 5:54SPEAKER_06: Jenna came up with that one.
- 5:56SPEAKER_03: So so we did, and uh, we made it through the rain.
- 5:59SPEAKER_03: So that's that's that was awesome.
- 6:01SPEAKER_03: It was awesome.
- 6:01SPEAKER_06: I I I was thoroughly expecting to get short dumped on.
- 6:06SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah, and then uh I kept going.
- 6:08SPEAKER_06: I was like, geez, we might just make it.
- 6:10SPEAKER_03: I say it was an awesome gig.
- 6:12SPEAKER_03: It was an awesome gig for everyone else, probably, but um it's you know those one song that I look forward to because I work so hard on the guitar solo?
- 6:21SPEAKER_03: I started it in the wrong key.
- 6:23SPEAKER_03: Hold on?
- 6:24SPEAKER_06: Yes.
- 6:24SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I was like, where is he?
- 6:26SPEAKER_06: Yes, you could tell.
- 6:28SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
- 6:28SPEAKER_06: I mean, I'm not a good guitar player, but I know.
- 6:31SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 6:32SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
- 6:32SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 6:33SPEAKER_11: I started it in F.
- 6:35SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 6:35SPEAKER_03: I started in F and it's in F sharp, and I I got there eventually.
- 6:39SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, yeah.
- 6:40SPEAKER_06: I mean you you hit it well.
- 6:41SPEAKER_06: But the first the first uh few bars were like Yeah and I look forward to that song every single time.
- 6:49unknown: Yeah.
- 6:50SPEAKER_06: Oh well.
- 6:51SPEAKER_06: We only got two left.
- 6:53SPEAKER_03: I know, that's true.
- 6:54SPEAKER_03: And then we're done for the for the season.
- 6:56SPEAKER_03: So anyway.
- 6:57SPEAKER_06: Our friend Hadley's coming up.
- 6:58SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah?
- 6:59SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I got a text from her this morning.
- 7:00SPEAKER_03: For the Thursday night?
- 7:02SPEAKER_06: No, for Thursday night.
- 7:03SPEAKER_06: Nice.
- 7:03SPEAKER_06: So that'll be good.
- 7:04SPEAKER_06: Nice.
- 7:05SPEAKER_03: I haven't seen her since last year, so uh always, always enjoy Hadley's company.
- 7:09SPEAKER_03: Yeah, she's awesome.
- 7:10SPEAKER_03: She brightens up the places for sure.
- 7:12SPEAKER_06: She does.
- 7:13SPEAKER_03: Um so I want to talk about we always we often talk about new music.
- 7:17SPEAKER_03: Um I found a new song.
- 7:18SPEAKER_03: I don't know if you've heard it yet.
- 7:20SPEAKER_03: So I figured I would play it.
- 7:23SPEAKER_03: And see if you like it.
- 7:26SPEAKER_03: See if you actually I want to look something up here, too.
- 7:30SPEAKER_14: Um, there, and then there's that, and then there and again, and there.
- 7:38SPEAKER_03: Uh oh no, I already did that one.
- 7:40SPEAKER_03: That was the extreme.
- 7:41SPEAKER_03: Oh no, we talked about it, but we didn't play it.
- 7:43SPEAKER_03: Uh let me do this first.
- 7:44SPEAKER_03: Small Town Beautiful?
- 7:45SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 7:46SPEAKER_03: Um Extreme from their latest album six.
- 7:51SPEAKER_03: Um they've released, boys, they've released a lot of from their new album.
- 7:57SPEAKER_06: Four or five at least, haven't they?
- 7:59SPEAKER_03: Yeah, let me uh get to it here and then I will uh because I'm looking.
- 8:04SPEAKER_03: Holy god, I got a lot of songs on my iTunes.
- 8:06SPEAKER_03: That's just ridiculous.
- 8:09SPEAKER_06: Is there is there too many songs in my iTunes?
- 8:12SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 8:13SPEAKER_06: Is there such a thing?
- 8:14SPEAKER_06: I don't think so.
- 8:15SPEAKER_06: I don't think so.
- 8:16SPEAKER_03: But I think you know my daughter was down here the other day, sitting on the floor, annoying the crap out of me.
- 8:23SPEAKER_03: She looks up and she says, Dad.
- 8:28SPEAKER_03: Every guy's father's dad.
- 8:33SPEAKER_03: She says, Dad, I think you're gonna have to get rid of some of your CDs or your records.
- 8:38SPEAKER_03: And I I said, Why?
- 8:40SPEAKER_03: She says, You have too many.
- 8:42SPEAKER_03: I mean, you don't listen to them.
- 8:46SPEAKER_06: You should have been like, I'll get rid of you first.
- 8:50SPEAKER_06: Before I get rid of these.
- 8:51SPEAKER_03: It's like, Kyra, I'm sorry, this is uh vintage copy of Van Halen's Diver Down.
- 8:57SPEAKER_03: Um no.
- 8:58unknown: Yeah.
- 8:59SPEAKER_06: Go sleep over at a friend's house.
- 9:00SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, must I.
- 9:01SPEAKER_06: Uh get yourself a hobo bag and you don't.
- 9:05SPEAKER_03: You're on your own, kid.
- 9:06SPEAKER_03: Bye.
- 9:06SPEAKER_03: So what we were talking about is extreme.
- 9:08SPEAKER_03: So they released uh Rise, Rebel, Banshee, Other Side of the Rainbow.
- 9:13SPEAKER_03: So they've released four songs from the new album, and then they just released this one, which is actually a really nice, pretty song.
- 9:22SPEAKER_03: Small Town Beautiful.
- 9:23SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 9:24SPEAKER_03: Let's just hear it be a piece of this.
- 9:57SPEAKER_03: I like how they do that, how they go back and forth between Gary and I like it too.
- 10:05SPEAKER_06: Sometimes it's seamless, you can't even tell, right?
- 10:44SPEAKER_03: Great song.
- 10:45SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 10:46SPEAKER_03: Great song.
- 10:46SPEAKER_03: And great album.
- 10:47SPEAKER_03: Well, you know, we were talking about this before that I love Extreme, and I know you do too.
- 10:52SPEAKER_03: Uh this album took me a while to get to get it.
- 10:56SPEAKER_06: It did.
- 10:56SPEAKER_06: It took a few listens to before I got it.
- 10:58SPEAKER_06: I was like, oh yeah, there it is.
- 11:00SPEAKER_06: Because it starts out strong.
- 11:01SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 11:02SPEAKER_03: Uh, and then like virtually every extreme album except the first one, and maybe waiting for the punchline, it just goes off in all these different styles and directions.
- 11:16SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 11:17SPEAKER_03: Which is a you know, a testament to the talent that is the guy's in extreme.
- 11:23SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 11:23SPEAKER_03: Um, but I mean they've got they've got uh well we've we've done this before, but this is almost like a right.
- 11:40SPEAKER_03: But listen to the to the voice here.
- 11:43SPEAKER_00: We're all thinners and we're all fans.
- 11:46SPEAKER_03: Is that Nuno?
- 11:46SPEAKER_00: We're all people.
- 11:48SPEAKER_00: Hard to tell, I think it is, but we're all winners and we're all cheap.
- 11:53SPEAKER_00: We're all the things that we wanna defeat.
- 11:57SPEAKER_00: We're all in the water.
- 11:58SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and then you go from that to like almost electronic.
- 12:04SPEAKER_03: Yeah, right?
- 12:11SPEAKER_03: It's just a it's a very wide uh wide.
- 12:16SPEAKER_03: It's another ballad.
- 12:17SPEAKER_03: That's hurricane, one.
- 12:18SPEAKER_03: Yeah, this is hurricane.
- 12:19SPEAKER_06: This is a hurricane.
- 12:22SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and you go to this all acoustic.
- 12:25SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 12:25SPEAKER_03: You go from this to put the right and here's the biggest leap, which is your favorite.
- 12:33SPEAKER_06: I absolutely love this song.
- 12:35SPEAKER_06: I cannot help it.
- 12:40SPEAKER_06: It's my happy song.
- 12:49unknown: All around the world.
- 12:57SPEAKER_13: All around the world.
- 12:59SPEAKER_03: You know what this reminds me of?
- 13:01SPEAKER_03: Oh, this is gonna make you mad.
- 13:02SPEAKER_11: Beautiful, beautiful girls.
- 13:04SPEAKER_06: Maybe you shouldn't say it.
- 13:06SPEAKER_03: No, no.
- 13:07SPEAKER_03: No, it's uh mission.
- 13:09SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna let this play.
- 13:10SPEAKER_03: I'll see if I can find it.
- 13:11SPEAKER_03: It's not a girl, it's a kind of a joke.
- 13:13SPEAKER_13: Okay, in Tokyo.
- 13:31SPEAKER_03: I found it.
- 13:31SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 13:33SPEAKER_03: So I'm gonna stop this for a second.
- 13:35SPEAKER_03: And I was like, I I when I heard when I heard that song, I was like, this is another song.
- 13:43SPEAKER_03: I don't know what it is that remind that reminds me of it.
- 13:46SPEAKER_03: And then I thought of this song, and it's not the same, but this is a ongoing joke with the friend of the fire by kids and I have a friend of the thing.
- 13:56SPEAKER_13: Jesus is a friend of the fire.
- 13:57SPEAKER_13: I have a friend of Jesus.
- 13:59SPEAKER_13: Jesus is a friend of the mind.
- 14:01SPEAKER_13: I have no idea.
- 14:02SPEAKER_13: Jesus is a friend.
- 14:05SPEAKER_13: He taught me how to live my life as it should be.
- 14:08SPEAKER_13: He taught me how to turn my chicken left at me.
- 14:12SPEAKER_13: I've been friends before, and I can tell you that when we will never leave you back.
- 14:19SPEAKER_13: Sounds like you stop and you hear off big tails.
- 14:24SPEAKER_03: But they're taking it very seriously.
- 14:27SPEAKER_03: Oh I'm sure.
- 14:28SPEAKER_13: It's it's it's like the break and have to take my soul.
- 14:40SPEAKER_13: Is this like an 80s?
- 14:42SPEAKER_04: 80s, I think, yeah.
- 14:44SPEAKER_04: Late 70s.
- 14:49SPEAKER_06: Okay, I thought this was a cartoon.
- 14:50SPEAKER_06: I thought I totally thought this was a cartoon.
- 14:54SPEAKER_06: These are live people.
- 14:55SPEAKER_03: These are live people.
- 14:57SPEAKER_03: This is a family.
- 14:59SPEAKER_03: Oh, it's a family?
- 15:00SPEAKER_03: I believe it's a family.
- 15:01SPEAKER_03: I w I don't want to tell you the name.
- 15:03SPEAKER_06: It's gotta be, it's gotta be late 70s, early 80s, man.
- 15:06SPEAKER_06: I think it's 80s.
- 15:07SPEAKER_03: Judging by the laser suits, but it's Sun Seed.
- 15:12SPEAKER_06: Really?
- 15:13SPEAKER_06: That's a terrible name.
- 15:17SPEAKER_04: Jesus is my friend.
- 15:19SPEAKER_04: I like it though.
- 15:20SPEAKER_04: Jesus is my friend.
- 15:22SPEAKER_03: So we use this to uh annoy our in-law or uh my sister-in-law and her family when we went down to North Carolina.
- 15:28SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we just kept we woke up every morning.
- 15:30SPEAKER_04: Jesus, this my friend!
- 15:36SPEAKER_03: Too bad you guys are heathens and you don't enjoy this.
- 15:40SPEAKER_03: No, I and I don't know why that do you get it though?
- 15:45SPEAKER_06: Because it makes me do this with my head.
- 15:46SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 15:46SPEAKER_06: So it's the same thing.
- 15:47SPEAKER_06: So yeah.
- 15:48SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 15:48SPEAKER_03: So it was yeah.
- 15:49SPEAKER_06: That's funny.
- 15:50SPEAKER_06: Jesus is a friend of mine.
- 15:53SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 15:53SPEAKER_06: That's the name of the episode.
- 15:55SPEAKER_06: Jesus is my friend?
- 15:56SPEAKER_06: Jesus, Jesus is a friend of mine.
- 15:59SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, that's the name of the episode.
- 16:00SPEAKER_03: Alright, actually, you missed one thing that he said in the um uh he he finished the uh a lyric in the verse, and then before he went to Jesus Is My Friend, he said Zap.
- 16:12SPEAKER_03: So I'm gonna Jesus Is My Friend.
- 16:15SPEAKER_03: That's the name of it.
- 16:16SPEAKER_06: Okay, okay.
- 16:16SPEAKER_06: Done.
- 16:17SPEAKER_06: Done.
- 16:18SPEAKER_06: Episode named.
- 16:20SPEAKER_03: Um got a new song from Guns N' Roses.
- 16:23SPEAKER_03: Really?
- 16:24SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 16:25SPEAKER_03: Are you a big GNR fan?
- 16:28SPEAKER_03: Sort of.
- 16:29SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 16:30SPEAKER_06: I like the first album.
- 16:31SPEAKER_06: Yep.
- 16:32SPEAKER_06: Uh I like the second album.
- 16:34SPEAKER_03: There there were two there.
- 16:35SPEAKER_06: What Usu Illusion?
- 16:36SPEAKER_06: No, no.
- 16:37SPEAKER_03: You forget about GR Lies.
- 16:39SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 16:39SPEAKER_03: GNR Lies.
- 16:40SPEAKER_06: I like that one.
- 16:40SPEAKER_06: Yep.
- 16:41SPEAKER_06: I I was okay with Use Your Illusion one and two.
- 16:44SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 16:45SPEAKER_06: And then nothing.
- 16:47SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well they I mean they put out uh Well, I literally I just kind of lost interest.
- 16:52SPEAKER_03: Well they didn't have much after that.
- 16:53SPEAKER_03: They had the Spaghetti Incident, which was like an EP, and then they had uh Chinese Democracy.
- 16:58SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah, forget about that.
- 16:59SPEAKER_03: Which was uh disappeared.
- 17:01SPEAKER_03: Just like Chinese Democracy.
- 17:02SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 17:03SPEAKER_03: Um I have always appreciated Guns N' Roses, but I've never been a huge fan.
- 17:08SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 17:09SPEAKER_03: Um I love the first album.
- 17:11SPEAKER_03: I shouldn't say I love the first album.
- 17:12SPEAKER_03: The first album is balls out rocking.
- 17:15SPEAKER_03: Yeah, the first one is awesome.
- 17:17SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 17:17SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 17:18SPEAKER_03: Um and the signature sound, you know.
- 17:21SPEAKER_03: Um use your illusion was was great.
- 17:24SPEAKER_03: Um but I was never a I gotta go see them live.
- 17:28SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I know I I had a chance.
- 17:30SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 17:30SPEAKER_06: And I said no.
- 17:32SPEAKER_03: I was I was just I was just uh I was a fan, but I'm not like a a big, big fan.
- 17:37SPEAKER_11: Right.
- 17:38SPEAKER_03: Um but and so I they have the a new song out, and you know, in the era of singles, you know, Spotify and everything, they just bands put out songs now.
- 17:47SPEAKER_03: They don't put out albums.
- 17:48SPEAKER_03: Um maybe this will end up on an album somewhere at some point, I don't know.
- 17:52SPEAKER_03: Um but this is new stuff from G and R, and it's called Perhaps.
- 17:58SPEAKER_03: And Perhaps what?
- 18:00SPEAKER_03: I think you'll be Perhaps we're a band.
- 18:02SPEAKER_03: I think you'll be surprised too.
- 18:04SPEAKER_03: Really?
- 18:05SPEAKER_03: Because I mean it sounds like I mean it sounds like G and R, but it sounds like an older and wiser G and R.
- 18:14SPEAKER_03: Really?
- 18:15SPEAKER_03: I think so.
- 18:16SPEAKER_06: Older, yes.
- 18:18SPEAKER_06: Wiser?
- 18:18SPEAKER_03: Not necessarily not necessarily in the lyrical content, um, but it just sound maybe more restrained.
- 18:26SPEAKER_05: Okay.
- 18:27SPEAKER_03: Um I'll just play it.
- 18:28SPEAKER_03: All right, yeah, and see you tell me what you think.
- 20:15SPEAKER_06: I don't know, maybe it's the mix.
- 20:17SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's not a very good mix, but it's definitely GNR.
- 20:22SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 20:23SPEAKER_06: No doubt.
- 20:23SPEAKER_06: But you know, Axel kind of likes he sounds like a guy trying to be Axl Rose.
- 20:30SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's a good good observation.
- 20:32SPEAKER_03: He sounds good.
- 20:33SPEAKER_06: I mean, he sounds like he doesn't sound bad, yeah.
- 20:35SPEAKER_06: He actually sounds pretty decent.
- 20:37SPEAKER_06: But you're right.
- 20:38SPEAKER_06: It does sound But it sounds like a guy trying to sound like an Axl Rose.
- 20:42SPEAKER_06: I don't know why.
- 20:43SPEAKER_06: He throws those The piano threw me.
- 20:52SPEAKER_06: I will admit it, the piano threw me.
- 20:54SPEAKER_06: I do think it's it's gotta be the mix.
- 20:56SPEAKER_06: It doesn't sound as it doesn't sound polished, it's like a rough mix.
- 21:01SPEAKER_06: Oh it just doesn't sound as bombastic as we want our guns and roses to be.
- 21:07SPEAKER_06: I like the song.
- 21:08SPEAKER_06: It's actually not a bad song.
- 21:09SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's actually pretty good.
- 21:21SPEAKER_03: But again, not uh not anything new.
- 21:26SPEAKER_03: I mean it's it's good.
- 21:28SPEAKER_03: It's good, I like it.
- 21:29SPEAKER_03: Uh nothing groundbreaking, I guess.
- 21:30SPEAKER_03: I mean it's rock and roll.
- 21:31SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's it's it's G and R.
- 21:33SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 21:33SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 21:34SPEAKER_03: So and they're gonna they've released it as a single, uh, which they did.
- 21:38SPEAKER_06: So does that mean there's an album kind of?
- 21:39SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 21:40SPEAKER_03: They released uh another single not too long ago.
- 21:43SPEAKER_03: Um, maybe f five or six months ago, I think there was another single.
- 21:47SPEAKER_03: I can't remember what it was called.
- 21:48SPEAKER_03: Um but I I don't know if they're working on an an album or interesting if they were.
- 21:53SPEAKER_03: Actually, I wonder if it says on here anywhere.
- 21:57SPEAKER_03: Uh slash is to be taken as a word, there may even be More new Guns N' Roses music arriving in the not so distant future.
- 22:03SPEAKER_03: He told our favorite Eddie Trunk last October that he wants to go in and cut a whole brand new record at some point, probably sooner than later.
- 22:14SPEAKER_03: He said the band has a handful of unreleased new songs, including a couple of epic ones coming out, so he's excited about that.
- 22:21SPEAKER_06: November rain type.
- 22:23SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well that's what I would think.
- 22:25SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 22:25SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's what I would think.
- 22:26SPEAKER_03: So that's good.
- 22:27SPEAKER_03: I mean, they've been on that that tour for how many years now?
- 22:32SPEAKER_03: Four or five years?
- 22:33SPEAKER_03: Oh, at least, yeah.
- 22:34SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 22:34SPEAKER_03: Been crazy.
- 22:35SPEAKER_03: Just kind of road dogs raking it in.
- 22:38SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 22:39SPEAKER_03: Um moving on now.
- 22:41SPEAKER_06: You know, real quick.
- 22:42SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I found this uh this meme.
- 22:44SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 22:45SPEAKER_06: Streaming payouts.
- 22:47SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 22:48SPEAKER_03: Don't get me started.
- 22:49SPEAKER_06: Well, here's here's what's interesting.
- 22:52SPEAKER_06: They ranked them one through nine.
- 22:54SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 22:55SPEAKER_06: Number one?
- 22:56SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 22:56SPEAKER_06: Napster.
- 22:58SPEAKER_06: Pays the most?
- 23:00SPEAKER_06: Yes.
- 23:04SPEAKER_06: Cents.
- 23:04SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 23:05SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 23:05SPEAKER_06: Number two, title.
- 23:07SPEAKER_06: Never heard of them.
- 23:07SPEAKER_03: I have T-I-D-A-L title.
- 23:10SPEAKER_06: T-I-D-A-L, yeah.
- 23:11SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 23:11SPEAKER_03: That's I think that's Jay-Z's company company.
- 23:14SPEAKER_03: I think so.
- 23:14SPEAKER_06: They pay out.0125 cents.
- 23:19SPEAKER_06: Number three, Apple Music.00735.
- 23:24SPEAKER_03: This is per per play of the song.
- 23:26SPEAKER_06: Per play of the song.
- 23:27SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 23:28SPEAKER_06: Number four, Google Play.00676.
- 23:33SPEAKER_06: Number five, Deezer.
- 23:34SPEAKER_06: I've never heard of that.
- 23:35SPEAKER_06: I've never heard of that.00640.
- 23:40SPEAKER_06: Number six, Spotify, point zero zero four three seven.
- 23:46SPEAKER_03: Sense.
- 23:46SPEAKER_06: Sense.
- 23:47SPEAKER_03: Oh of a cent, yes.
- 23:48SPEAKER_06: Of a cent.
- 23:49SPEAKER_06: Number seven, Amazon, point zero zero four zero two.
- 23:54SPEAKER_06: Number eight, Pandora, point zero zero one three three.
- 24:00SPEAKER_06: And number nine, YouTube, point zero zero zero six nine.
- 24:07SPEAKER_06: So anybody saying that streaming is the way to go is full of crap.
- 24:11SPEAKER_03: So if your song played on YouTube a million times, let's just try and figure that out.
- 24:20SPEAKER_03: Is that right?
- 24:21SPEAKER_03: One million times.
- 24:23SPEAKER_03: You would get six hundred and ninety dollars.
- 24:25SPEAKER_03: Wow.
- 24:27SPEAKER_03: If that if that's if that's right, I mean uh because I just I just did point zero zero zero six nine times a million.
- 24:37SPEAKER_03: That's six hundred and ninety dollars.
- 24:39SPEAKER_03: Wait.
- 24:45SPEAKER_06: Let me get my calculator out.
- 24:47SPEAKER_06: Yeah, please.
- 24:49SPEAKER_06: One million dollars.
- 24:50SPEAKER_06: Okay, there's one million times point zero zero zero six nine, right?
- 24:57SPEAKER_06: Yep.
- 24:58SPEAKER_06: Is that what I said?
- 24:58SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 24:59SPEAKER_06: So that's six hundred and ninety dollars.
- 25:01SPEAKER_03: So that's point zero zero six nine cents.
- 25:05SPEAKER_06: Right?
- 25:06SPEAKER_06: No.
- 25:06SPEAKER_06: Six hundred and ninety dollars.
- 25:08SPEAKER_03: Right, but what I'm saying is that point zero zero six zero zero zero six nine is cents.
- 25:13SPEAKER_03: Is is like of one cent.
- 25:14SPEAKER_06: Of one cent, yes.
- 25:15SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 25:16SPEAKER_06: So it's basically six hundred and ninety dollars.
- 25:19SPEAKER_06: Six hundred ninety dollars.
- 25:20SPEAKER_03: For a million plays on YouTube.
- 25:21SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 25:22SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah.
- 25:22SPEAKER_06: So I so when you you know hear, oh, this song got played like five million times on Spotify.
- 25:28SPEAKER_06: Well, they made crap.
- 25:29SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 25:30SPEAKER_03: Made about a thousand bucks.
- 25:31SPEAKER_06: Maybe.
- 25:32SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 25:32SPEAKER_06: If they're lucky.
- 25:33SPEAKER_06: Yep.
- 25:33SPEAKER_06: So that's that's that's my take of it.
- 25:37SPEAKER_02: But everybody is streaming.
- 25:39SPEAKER_06: Streaming's not great.
- 25:40SPEAKER_04: Everybody's streaming.
- 25:42SPEAKER_06: Stream, iStream.
- 25:44SPEAKER_06: We all scream for iStream.
- 25:46SPEAKER_06: That's that's the next music.
- 25:48SPEAKER_06: Oh, I just uh I just came up with the next musical platform.
- 25:52SPEAKER_03: iStream.
- 25:54SPEAKER_03: Isn't that Apple?
- 25:55SPEAKER_03: Oh wait, that's iTunes.
- 25:56SPEAKER_03: iStream.
- 25:57SPEAKER_06: Apple Music.
- 25:58SPEAKER_06: Oh iStream.
- 25:59SPEAKER_06: I stream.
- 26:00SPEAKER_06: I bet I bet if we put it out, they would buy us out.
- 26:03SPEAKER_06: I bet they'd sue us.
- 26:05SPEAKER_06: Or buy us out.
- 26:08SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna go with buy us out.
- 26:10SPEAKER_04: Um because that'll be awesome! You know how one million dollars!
- 26:15SPEAKER_03: You know how some songs get stuck in your head?
- 26:18SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 26:18SPEAKER_03: Like Jesus is my friend.
- 26:21SPEAKER_03: Right?
- 26:22SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 26:23SPEAKER_03: Jesus is my friend.
- 26:24SPEAKER_03: You find yourself humming, tapping your foot.
- 26:26SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 26:27SPEAKER_03: Um across the span of time, I'm reading an article now.
- 26:31SPEAKER_03: Across the span of time from everyday individuals to the most ingenious thinkers, people have attempted to unravel the enigmatic formula behind a song that becomes an instant favorite.
- 26:43SPEAKER_03: We talk we always talk about nostalgia, and every music is so subjective, and there's this just magical thing, hold that it has on us, right?
- 26:57SPEAKER_03: What would you say is the best song ever?
- 27:01SPEAKER_03: The best song ever.
- 27:02SPEAKER_06: There is no best song ever.
- 27:04SPEAKER_06: No?
- 27:04SPEAKER_03: No.
- 27:05SPEAKER_03: Well, someone would disagree with you.
- 27:07SPEAKER_06: Who's that?
- 27:08SPEAKER_06: Someone.
- 27:08SPEAKER_03: Um Giz Moto.
- 27:10SPEAKER_03: They're a famous website.
- 27:12SPEAKER_03: They were curious, so they decided to do some investigating.
- 27:15SPEAKER_03: They collected a group of music enthusiasts and brain experts.
- 27:19SPEAKER_03: So this is science.
- 27:21SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 27:21SPEAKER_06: Did you just say musical experts and brain experts?
- 27:24SPEAKER_06: No, music enthusiasts.
- 27:25SPEAKER_06: Oh, music enthusiasts and brain experts.
- 27:27SPEAKER_03: Brain experts, yes.
- 27:29SPEAKER_06: That's that m that must have been an awesome party.
- 27:33SPEAKER_03: They were to investigate investigate the precise factors that contribute to a song's extreme memorability by combining science and emotion.
- 27:42SPEAKER_06: Oh well.
- 27:43SPEAKER_06: If you're combining science and emotion, then what could possibly go wrong?
- 27:49SPEAKER_03: There are times when simple reactions can provide us with valuable insights.
- 27:53SPEAKER_03: For example, when a song prompts us to clap, smile, and even shed a tear, it has successfully evoked emotions in us.
- 27:59SPEAKER_03: While advanced tools can analyze our brain activity, the most telling signs are our authentic feelings.
- 28:06SPEAKER_03: It's not only about how we feel, though.
- 28:08SPEAKER_03: Beats, rhythms, and lyrics are only a few of the components of songs.
- 28:11SPEAKER_03: It's like magic when all these pieces come together perfectly.
- 28:14SPEAKER_03: The lyrics of the song stick with us, and the melody becomes ingrained in our thoughts.
- 28:21SPEAKER_03: So what do you think the best song ever is, according to this scientific study?
- 28:26SPEAKER_06: They're gonna say something really stupid, and I'm gonna say really not.
- 28:29SPEAKER_06: Actually, it's not it's not that stupid.
- 28:31SPEAKER_06: Oh, it's not?
- 28:32SPEAKER_03: It's not I I don't know that I agree with it.
- 28:35SPEAKER_06: Um There's just one song.
- 28:39SPEAKER_03: One song is the best song ever.
- 28:41SPEAKER_06: Best song ever.
- 28:41SPEAKER_06: Yeah, okay.
- 28:42SPEAKER_03: I'm trying to see it's uh understanding music wasn't even wasn't the end of science.
- 28:46SPEAKER_03: Additionally, the audience for these songs was examined.
- 28:48SPEAKER_03: Uh interesting tidbit they discovered individuals who enjoy rock and metal music tend to be hard workers, often excelling in their jobs.
- 28:57SPEAKER_03: Yeah, okay.
- 29:02SPEAKER_03: Turns out that our musical preferences can reveal quite a bit about it.
- 29:12SPEAKER_03: Uh we go through our feelings and memories with the help of music, even if we may not fully understand what specifically makes a strong a song appealing to all people.
- 29:20SPEAKER_03: When we combine rational analysis with the force of emotions, we get closer to discovering the solution.
- 29:27SPEAKER_03: We become part of the dynamic world of music as we listen, move to the beat, or sing along.
- 29:34SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 29:35SPEAKER_03: So it's all science.
- 29:36SPEAKER_03: Oh, good.
- 29:38SPEAKER_03: Are you ready for the best song ever?
- 29:40SPEAKER_03: Yeah, hit me with it.
- 29:41SPEAKER_03: According to this scientific study.
- 29:43SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 29:43SPEAKER_06: You got a drum roll on the keyboard there?
- 29:45SPEAKER_06: I don't.
- 29:46SPEAKER_06: You don't have a drum roll on your keyboard.
- 29:52SPEAKER_06: Oh.
- 29:56SPEAKER_06: Like, I, you know, I love this song.
- 29:59SPEAKER_06: I do too.
- 29:59SPEAKER_06: I'm not sure it's the best song ever, but I do love the song.
- 30:02SPEAKER_03: According to Science, Doug, and Science is never wrong.
- 30:06SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 30:06SPEAKER_03: This is the best song ever.
- 30:09SPEAKER_03: Really?
- 30:09SPEAKER_10: I hear the drums that go in tonight.
- 30:13SPEAKER_10: She has only whispers of so quiet mistakes.
- 30:19SPEAKER_03: I mean, there's no denying it's a masterpiece.
- 30:22SPEAKER_06: Oh, it is.
- 30:23SPEAKER_06: I I I mean, I'm glad it wasn't something stupid like happy shiny people.
- 30:28SPEAKER_06: Something like that.
- 30:30SPEAKER_06: Or something by T-Swift.
- 30:32SPEAKER_06: Um I'm happy.
- 30:34SPEAKER_06: It's actual music.
- 30:35SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 30:35SPEAKER_10: So open the fun stone for God.
- 30:38SPEAKER_03: I shared a video uh in the Common Crossing thread the other day of a duo.
- 30:46SPEAKER_11: Oh, yeah.
- 30:46SPEAKER_03: At like a coffee shop doing the song, and it was amazing.
- 30:48SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 30:50SPEAKER_03: Because of course it's Africa by Toro.
- 31:16SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 31:17SPEAKER_06: I love Toto.
- 31:19SPEAKER_06: I love that song.
- 31:20SPEAKER_06: That's an awesome song.
- 31:20SPEAKER_06: It is an awesome song.
- 31:21SPEAKER_06: So I'm glad at least they chose a good song.
- 31:24SPEAKER_06: Now, is it the best song ever?
- 31:26SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 31:29SPEAKER_06: I don't uh I'm not sold on that.
- 31:33SPEAKER_03: Do you want to know what some people think is the worst song ever?
- 31:38SPEAKER_03: Shiny Happy People.
- 31:40SPEAKER_03: Well, there's one of them, but Really?
- 31:41SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 31:42SPEAKER_03: Oh good.
- 31:43SPEAKER_03: Anything by Nickelback?
- 31:45SPEAKER_03: I just want to.
- 31:45SPEAKER_06: Hey, they're in Bangor on Thursday, by the way.
- 31:47SPEAKER_06: Are they really?
- 31:48SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 31:48SPEAKER_06: You want to go?
- 31:50SPEAKER_06: Oh, darn it.
- 31:50SPEAKER_06: We're just playing.
- 31:52SPEAKER_06: We're actually playing music, so yeah, sorry, guys.
- 31:55SPEAKER_06: You haven't softened on Nickelback at all?
- 31:57SPEAKER_06: No.
- 31:57SPEAKER_06: No.
- 31:58SPEAKER_06: I only like that one song.
- 32:00SPEAKER_06: Which one was it?
- 32:00SPEAKER_06: Side of a bullet.
- 32:01SPEAKER_06: Oh, Side of a Bullet.
- 32:02SPEAKER_03: I uh I've softened on them a little bit.
- 32:05SPEAKER_06: I'm not I'm not taking away from their talent.
- 32:08SPEAKER_06: I'm not saying they're a bad song.
- 32:09SPEAKER_03: You just don't like them.
- 32:10SPEAKER_06: I just don't care for them.
- 32:10SPEAKER_03: Because everybody else likes them.
- 32:12SPEAKER_06: Exactly.
- 32:13SPEAKER_06: Because that's why I haven't heard that Richmond North of whatever, you know, song.
- 32:17SPEAKER_03: Oh, yes.
- 32:17SPEAKER_03: Um Oliver Ant Oliver Anthony.
- 32:19SPEAKER_03: Oliver Anthony.
- 32:20SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 32:20SPEAKER_06: That's why I haven't heard that song because everybody's like, oh, it's the greatest song ever! So I'm like, well, I'm not gonna listen to it.
- 32:25SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Richmond North of Richmond.
- 32:27SPEAKER_03: I was gonna play it for you.
- 32:28SPEAKER_03: And then uh, you know, everybody is like is is reacting to the song.
- 32:32SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 32:33SPEAKER_03: It's all over YouTube, and I just said, you know what?
- 32:35SPEAKER_03: Let's not do it.
- 32:36SPEAKER_06: I I I just I just if if everybody's for it, I'm gonna be naturally against it.
- 32:41SPEAKER_03: You know, and that's an interesting instinct too, because I kind of have that to a certain extent.
- 32:45SPEAKER_03: Like uh somebody was asking me about actually I had a conversation with uh a coworker of mine this morning.
- 32:51SPEAKER_03: Uh we were talking about because they listen to the podcast.
- 32:54SPEAKER_03: There's Pat.
- 32:55SPEAKER_03: Listen to the podcast and uh uh talking about um thing people that are legends to us in music and who would be the legends to the younger generation.
- 33:04SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 33:04SPEAKER_03: So obviously we said Taylor Swift, you know, uh things like that.
- 33:07SPEAKER_03: And so he brought up uh modern country music.
- 33:13SPEAKER_03: Right?
- 33:14SPEAKER_03: Are you okay?
- 33:14SPEAKER_03: Yeah, okay.
- 33:16SPEAKER_03: I just you're balancing your mic stands up.
- 33:18SPEAKER_03: Well, I I don't want to like into the mic, and it's like I see the mic stand swaying back and forth.
- 33:26SPEAKER_03: So I'm like, you okay?
- 33:27SPEAKER_03: You good?
- 33:28SPEAKER_06: See, that's annoying.
- 33:29SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 33:30SPEAKER_06: If I'm not talking, I don't want to be like in the mic, you know.
- 33:33SPEAKER_06: But I don't think you can hear me breathe on the mic, but I'm always paranoid about it.
- 33:37SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 33:37SPEAKER_06: So I'm always just like I'm like, these are what are you doing?
- 33:42SPEAKER_06: Because it's a really sensitive mics.
- 33:46SPEAKER_03: Yes, yes.
- 33:46SPEAKER_03: So they pick up everything.
- 33:47SPEAKER_03: Um they pick up my thoughts.
- 33:49SPEAKER_03: They were talking modern country music, right?
- 33:51SPEAKER_03: And um there's there's a few, only a few artists that I enjoy.
- 33:57SPEAKER_03: Uh, one of the newer artists that I enjoy is Luke Combs.
- 34:00SPEAKER_03: I know your mom loves Luke Combs.
- 34:01SPEAKER_03: Mom loves Luke Combs.
- 34:03SPEAKER_03: I call Luke Combs the Nickelback of Country Music.
- 34:06SPEAKER_03: Ooh.
- 34:06SPEAKER_03: Because if you've listened to, well, let me show you why.
- 34:10SPEAKER_03: Because the one thing I will say about Nickelback is the production on their songs.
- 34:16SPEAKER_03: It's so thick.
- 34:18SPEAKER_06: There's a distinct it's a it's a sound.
- 34:21SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's a sound.
- 34:22SPEAKER_03: So if you listen to, let me see if I can find one that uh kind of illustrates that.
- 34:30SPEAKER_03: Um well he did this duet with uh Brooks and Dunn.
- 34:35SPEAKER_05: What?
- 34:35SPEAKER_03: He did a duet with Brooks and Dunn.
- 34:37SPEAKER_03: Really?
- 34:37SPEAKER_03: On one of his albums, yeah.
- 34:39SPEAKER_03: And it's just listen to it for a second.
- 34:41SPEAKER_05: Alright.
- 34:45SPEAKER_02: Do you see what I mean?
- 34:46SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 34:47SPEAKER_02: It's thick.
- 34:49SPEAKER_02: It's like a cough around the round stick.
- 34:53SPEAKER_07: Is that him?
- 34:53SPEAKER_07: That's him.
- 34:54SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 34:58SPEAKER_02: It sounds like it works and done songs.
- 34:59SPEAKER_06: It does sound like it works in done song.
- 35:01SPEAKER_06: And I was just like, holy crap, is it easy redoing one or what?
- 35:07SPEAKER_07: Turn it off once.
- 35:09SPEAKER_07: Turn it off.
- 35:20SPEAKER_03: But his the production on Luke Comb stuff is very thick.
- 35:24SPEAKER_03: And it's distinctive.
- 35:25SPEAKER_03: You know it's him.
- 35:26SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 35:26SPEAKER_03: So that's why I call him nickel back of country music.
- 35:28SPEAKER_03: Makes sense.
- 35:29SPEAKER_07: Um well this is And then the brooks that comes in.
- 35:38SPEAKER_03: Anyway, this is the one I brought up with the car conversation.
- 35:42SPEAKER_03: This is like the one of this is a fast car.
- 35:44SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
- 35:45SPEAKER_03: It's in like the top three right now.
- 35:47SPEAKER_03: And I almost like it better than Tracy Chapman's.
- 35:50SPEAKER_03: Almost.
- 35:51SPEAKER_03: I love Tracy Chapman's.
- 35:52SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 35:53SPEAKER_07: Uh I want to dig it too anyway.
- 35:55SPEAKER_03: You know, people were saying that this is it's it's racist because he covered it.
- 35:59SPEAKER_03: Why is it racist?
- 36:00SPEAKER_03: Because he's not a struggling African American.
- 36:05SPEAKER_03: Neither is Chase Tracy Chapman's.
- 36:07SPEAKER_03: Not anymore.
- 36:07SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 36:08SPEAKER_03: But she was.
- 36:08SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm sure she was, but the guy covered it because he loves the song.
- 36:12SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 36:13SPEAKER_03: What's wrong with that?
- 36:14SPEAKER_03: There's nothing wrong with it.
- 36:15SPEAKER_03: Anyway.
- 36:16SPEAKER_03: My point is, uh, you were talking about how you just don't, if everybody likes it, you probably don't.
- 36:23SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 36:23SPEAKER_03: I feel the same way with Morgan Wallen.
- 36:26SPEAKER_06: Yeah, everybody makes such a big deal of Morgan Wallen, and I really just don't care.
- 36:30SPEAKER_03: Be all and all of country artists lately, the past couple years.
- 36:34SPEAKER_06: Wasn't he just in Bangor like last week?
- 36:36SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 36:36SPEAKER_06: Or something.
- 36:37SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 36:38SPEAKER_03: I cannot stand the guy's voice.
- 36:40SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he's just I don't I don't get it.
- 36:42SPEAKER_03: I don't either.
- 36:42SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 36:43SPEAKER_03: And I'm not saying he's not talented.
- 36:44SPEAKER_03: I'm not saying the songs are bad.
- 36:46SPEAKER_06: I'm just, you know, he's he obviously has something, but I just don't want it.
- 36:50SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 36:51SPEAKER_06: You know, if you know, it's like if he had syphilis, I don't want it.
- 36:53SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 36:54SPEAKER_06: You know?
- 36:54SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 36:55SPEAKER_06: Um so I'm not saying Morgan Wallen has syphilis, okay?
- 36:59SPEAKER_06: Don't know anybody think I'm trying to say he has some sort of STD.
- 37:05SPEAKER_06: I'm sure he doesn't.
- 37:06SPEAKER_06: I'm sure he's a healthy individual.
- 37:08SPEAKER_06: Nobody's listening anyway.
- 37:09SPEAKER_06: What?
- 37:10SPEAKER_06: What?
- 37:10SPEAKER_06: Then why are we doing this?
- 37:11SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 37:12SPEAKER_03: Because we like to hear ourselves talk.
- 37:14SPEAKER_06: This is more for our own entertainment than anything.
- 37:17SPEAKER_03: Back to back to um uh a song that are that everybody hates.
- 37:21SPEAKER_06: Oh, right, yeah.
- 37:22SPEAKER_03: Not everybody hates, you don't hate it, I don't hate it, but the artists, the artist that made the song hates the song.
- 37:28SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 37:29SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 37:29SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna play a little interview, just a just a little bit.
- 37:33SPEAKER_03: Um, and I know you can guess who it is as soon as you hear it.
- 37:38SPEAKER_08: Take a song like We Didn Start the Fire, it's really not much of a song.
- 37:42SPEAKER_08: Uh if you go like this.
- 37:50SPEAKER_08: Just listen.
- 37:53SPEAKER_08: It's a terrible piece of music, but it started out as a whole different song.
- 37:58SPEAKER_08: The original song was this country idea they had, which was Jolie.
- 38:05SPEAKER_09: Take me some game.
- 38:26SPEAKER_09: If you take the melody by itself, terrible.
- 38:30SPEAKER_09: Like a dentist drill.
- 38:32SPEAKER_09: Like a dentist drill.
- 38:35SPEAKER_03: He does not like the song.
- 38:37SPEAKER_03: Wow.
- 38:37SPEAKER_03: Uh it was an exercise for him, you know, to the history.
- 38:40SPEAKER_03: He loves history and stuff like that, but he's not crazy about the song.
- 38:44SPEAKER_03: And it's one of the most universally panned songs out there.
- 38:49SPEAKER_03: But I like it.
- 38:50SPEAKER_03: But it's lasted so long.
- 38:52SPEAKER_03: I like it too, because I love Billy Joel and I like what the song does.
- 38:56SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 38:56SPEAKER_06: You know, um I like it because it was something completely different from Billy Joel.
- 39:00SPEAKER_06: It was.
- 39:00SPEAKER_06: You know, so yeah, it was.
- 39:02SPEAKER_03: So uh you go from the the the best song ever to supposedly the worst song ever, which actually wasn't Billy Joel, it was We Built the City, the City by Starship.
- 39:12SPEAKER_03: Really?
- 39:13SPEAKER_03: That was the worst song ever.
- 39:14SPEAKER_03: That's one of the one of the things that they said was it was one of the wor the worst song ever.
- 39:17SPEAKER_06: I mean, it's not the best, you know.
- 39:19SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I can think of a lot worse songs.
- 39:21SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I can think of it.
- 39:22SPEAKER_03: Anything on the Lulu album from Metallica is.
- 39:25SPEAKER_03: Yes, hello.
- 39:26SPEAKER_03: Yeah, a lot worse.
- 39:28SPEAKER_06: Oh man, that's such a terrible.
- 39:30SPEAKER_06: Yeah, but I think I'll I think that's I'm embarrassed for Metallica.
- 39:33SPEAKER_03: I think critics liked it though.
- 39:34SPEAKER_06: Well, of course critics liked it because critics are morons.
- 39:38SPEAKER_06: That's true.
- 39:39SPEAKER_04: So all right, let's do this.
- 39:42SPEAKER_04: Oh, uh oh.
- 39:44SPEAKER_06: Before we do that, I wanna uh uh cousin Larry sent me this uh reel.
- 39:48SPEAKER_06: Okay it's it's it's Neil Peart.
- 39:51SPEAKER_06: And he's telling drummer jokes.
- 39:54SPEAKER_03: Neil Peart is telling jokes?
- 39:56SPEAKER_06: Yes.
- 39:57SPEAKER_06: It's really funny.
- 39:58SPEAKER_06: I gotta I gotta play it because it's really great.
- 40:00SPEAKER_06: Hold on.
- 40:03SPEAKER_06: Turn up the volume, dog.
- 40:14SPEAKER_04: I'm so good with technology.
- 40:17SPEAKER_01: No, in fact, there's a whole raft of excellent drummer jokes based just to be.
- 40:21SPEAKER_01: Tell me some drummer jokes.
- 40:22SPEAKER_01: Uh well, for example, um, what did the drummer get on his IQ test?
- 40:27SPEAKER_01: Bottom drool.
- 40:30SPEAKER_01: What do you call a drummer with half a brain?
- 40:31SPEAKER_01: What?
- 40:32SPEAKER_01: Gifted.
- 40:33SPEAKER_01: What does a drummer use for birth control?
- 40:35SPEAKER_01: Well, his personality.
- 40:40SPEAKER_06: That's a sign of Neil Pearl you don't often see.
- 40:43SPEAKER_06: He really he really was a funny guy.
- 40:45SPEAKER_06: Well, then he was funny.
- 40:46SPEAKER_06: He was just he was just very serious.
- 40:48SPEAKER_06: So, you know, so when he made a joke, it was even funnier because he was always so serious about stuff.
- 40:53SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 40:54SPEAKER_03: So I just by themselves.
- 40:59SPEAKER_03: Alex is hilarious.
- 41:00SPEAKER_03: I mean, just weirdly hilarious.
- 41:03SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and and yeah, yeah.
- 41:05SPEAKER_06: Great uh yeah, that's why they were such a great band.
- 41:07SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah.
- 41:08SPEAKER_03: Great chemistry.
- 41:08SPEAKER_03: I agree.
- 41:09SPEAKER_03: I agree.
- 41:09SPEAKER_03: So let me do this.
- 41:10SPEAKER_03: So sorry about that.
- 41:11SPEAKER_03: Let me do this again.
- 41:12SPEAKER_04: It was so quiet.
- 41:14SPEAKER_03: That wasn't very loud.
- 41:16SPEAKER_03: That's better.
- 41:17SPEAKER_03: That's better.
- 41:18SPEAKER_03: Let's do the alphabet.
- 41:19SPEAKER_03: Okay, okay, okay.
- 41:23SPEAKER_03: So it's the what is it?
- 41:24SPEAKER_03: Beckfinder book.
- 41:25SPEAKER_03: It's the heavy metal.
- 41:26SPEAKER_03: Metal Legends.
- 41:27SPEAKER_03: Metal Legends album.
- 41:30SPEAKER_06: I went on her website last night and to uh see if there were any other interesting uh books out there.
- 41:37SPEAKER_03: Yeah?
- 41:38SPEAKER_03: No.
- 41:38SPEAKER_03: No.
- 41:40SPEAKER_03: She's taking hiatus.
- 41:41SPEAKER_06: Yeah, well, I know.
- 41:42SPEAKER_06: She has some new ones out, but uh none of them are music related.
- 41:46SPEAKER_06: Uh-huh.
- 41:47SPEAKER_06: I just kind of like, yeah, well, I don't really want to.
- 41:49SPEAKER_06: Oh, wow, oh, uh, oh we did N oh.
- 41:55SPEAKER_06: Type O.
- 41:56SPEAKER_06: Oh, oh, oh.
- 41:57SPEAKER_06: Okay, we're on the letter O today.
- 42:00SPEAKER_06: O is for Opeth.
- 42:03SPEAKER_06: Opeth.
- 42:04SPEAKER_03: Opeth.
- 42:04SPEAKER_03: I've I've hold on one second.
- 42:07SPEAKER_03: Because I think we should we should be doing this right along.
- 42:10SPEAKER_03: Uh, when we talk about a band like this, we should be having their music in the background.
- 42:14SPEAKER_03: I have never heard Opeth.
- 42:16SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 42:16SPEAKER_03: Um, to be honest.
- 42:18SPEAKER_03: I know it's probably not my um not my thing.
- 42:25SPEAKER_06: So go ahead.
- 42:27SPEAKER_06: Uh mixing Nordic folk with death metal.
- 42:31SPEAKER_06: This progressive Oh my.
- 42:34SPEAKER_06: This progressive outfit from Stockholm, Sweden evokes the cold of Scandinavia.
- 42:40SPEAKER_06: Formed in 1989, they've released 13 studio albums, including 2019's Incautta Venenum.
- 42:50SPEAKER_06: Recorded and released in both Swedish and English to Rave Reviews.
- 42:58SPEAKER_03: This is the kind of metal I hate.
- 42:59SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you don't like this.
- 43:00SPEAKER_03: I don't like this at all.
- 43:01SPEAKER_03: Do you like this?
- 43:02SPEAKER_06: I I can I can tolerate it.
- 43:04SPEAKER_06: It's not my favorite.
- 43:19SPEAKER_03: Uh I will say something as someone who has taken a vocal class, what he's doing is actually an art.
- 43:30SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
- 43:31SPEAKER_03: It's it sounds like he's destroying his voice.
- 43:34SPEAKER_06: It's like that uh what what is that uh throat singing?
- 43:37SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's what it is.
- 43:38SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's he's not destroying his voice.
- 43:41SPEAKER_03: There's an art to it.
- 43:42SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you have to well, I mean, take uh what's his face?
- 43:45SPEAKER_06: Uh Corey Taylor.
- 43:47SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 43:47SPEAKER_06: I mean he was always like but he can actually sing.
- 43:50SPEAKER_06: Absolutely.
- 43:50SPEAKER_03: You know, so what what's uh his other band there?
- 43:52SPEAKER_03: Uh Stone Sour.
- 43:54SPEAKER_03: Stone's Tower, yeah.
- 43:54SPEAKER_03: Great voice.
- 43:55SPEAKER_03: Yeah, great voice.
- 43:57SPEAKER_03: Uh but yeah, I was never uh a fan of that type.
- 44:00SPEAKER_03: Of of singing or the I just like the power.
- 44:04SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, no, I get it.
- 44:05SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
- 44:06SPEAKER_03: I get it.
- 44:07SPEAKER_03: I get it.
- 44:08SPEAKER_03: Uh alright.
- 44:09SPEAKER_03: So let's close that up.
- 44:12SPEAKER_03: And we're gonna take a break.
- 44:14SPEAKER_03: And we're gonna am I missing something?
- 44:16SPEAKER_03: I want to make sure that I'm on the right path here.
- 44:18SPEAKER_03: So we're gonna take a break.
- 44:20SPEAKER_03: We're gonna come back and climb the wall of tunes.
- 44:23SPEAKER_05: Okay.
- 44:24SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 44:25SPEAKER_03: Alright.
- 44:27SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 44:28SPEAKER_06: Let's take a break now.
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- 45:37SPEAKER_03: And we're back.
- 45:39SPEAKER_03: And we're about to climb the wall of tunes.
- 45:41SPEAKER_03: But before we do that, before we do that, you're we're gonna do uh Doug's history in a nutshell, and I have to pick a topic.
- 45:49SPEAKER_03: Let's see.
- 45:50SPEAKER_03: I've got it.
- 45:51SPEAKER_03: Alright.
- 45:52SPEAKER_03: You ready?
- 45:53SPEAKER_03: I'm ready.
- 45:54SPEAKER_03: Oh, wait, I'm not ready.
- 45:55SPEAKER_03: Hold on.
- 45:56SPEAKER_03: Let me see if I can uh do this here.
- 46:00SPEAKER_03: Because I I know what I'm doing.
- 46:04SPEAKER_03: Do you?
- 46:07SPEAKER_03: Maybe I don't have any.
- 46:20SPEAKER_03: Maybe I have it in the history.
- 47:02SPEAKER_06: The banjo goes back to uh the early nineteenth century.
- 47:07SPEAKER_06: Um so guitars weren't really a thing yet.
- 47:14SPEAKER_06: You know, because before the guitar we had the leer.
- 47:18SPEAKER_06: You know, the leer, you know, the little thing like that.
- 47:22SPEAKER_06: So, you know, so when the English came over and started selling North America, you know, they forgot their leers at home.
- 47:29SPEAKER_06: Because you you don't only have so much room.
- 47:31SPEAKER_06: You know what I mean?
- 47:33SPEAKER_06: So, you know, they could bring a fiddle or a viol well, they call them violins in Europe.
- 47:40SPEAKER_06: When they got to America, they became fiddles.
- 47:43SPEAKER_06: And so, you know, so you got room for that, but you know, you don't have room for a leer, you know, because it you know, it's just like uh that's you know, we're trying to go start a new life in America, and you know, we gotta work hard, so we don't really have time for music.
- 47:57SPEAKER_06: But when they got over here, they were like, well, we got plenty of time for music, we should have music.
- 48:01SPEAKER_06: So, so one guy came with the idea, he was he was sitting at his the supper table, and of course they had like metal um, you know, metal plates back there, you know, stuff like that, you know, and so you know, so he decided that, you know, well, I don't have my guitar, so I'll take this uh this wire that I found uh outside.
- 48:27SPEAKER_06: I think I think some Native Americans left it there.
- 48:30SPEAKER_06: You know?
- 48:30SPEAKER_06: So I'm gonna take that and I'm gonna attach it to my plate.
- 48:34SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 48:35SPEAKER_06: My plate?
- 48:36SPEAKER_06: Yeah, my plate.
- 48:36SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 48:37SPEAKER_06: Because I I'm done eating right now.
- 48:39SPEAKER_06: So, you know, I'm bored.
- 48:41SPEAKER_06: You know, the sun's gone down.
- 48:43SPEAKER_06: I can't, you know, I can't work outside because I'll get eaten by a wolf or you know, attacked or something, you know, because it it's America, you know, it's you know, it's pretty wild at this point.
- 48:53SPEAKER_06: So they decided, you know, I'm gonna attach this and then I'm gonna play, you know, play it like a leer.
- 48:59SPEAKER_06: But with the metal plate, it gave it a distinctive sound, which you hear in the background right now.
- 49:07SPEAKER_06: That's that's the metal plate.
- 49:09SPEAKER_06: You know, he was like, Whoa, this is cool, man.
- 49:12SPEAKER_06: You know, what do I call it?
- 49:14SPEAKER_06: You know, I'm sure he saw yeah, I'm sure he came up with something cooler at that moment.
- 49:18SPEAKER_06: I mean, I was probably like, it's it's a metal, it's a metal musical instrument.
- 49:23SPEAKER_06: It's heavy met I we I invented heavy metal.
- 49:26SPEAKER_06: He's like, no, no, that's not gonna come until Black Sabbath.
- 49:31SPEAKER_06: Hold on, hold on.
- 49:32SPEAKER_06: I gotta come up with the name for this.
- 49:35SPEAKER_06: Hey, honey! Honey, what should I call this?
- 49:38SPEAKER_06: I'm a little kid! Why don't you go do something productive, you banjo?
- 49:42SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah, I'll call it a banjo.
- 49:45SPEAKER_06: Wonderful.
- 49:46SPEAKER_06: You're you're the best wife ever.
- 49:47SPEAKER_04: I'm not even your wife!
- 49:50SPEAKER_06: I'm just a neighbor! I'm from the next hill over.
- 49:57SPEAKER_06: How are you playing this god awful thing?
- 50:01SPEAKER_06: The one that came over telling you to cut it out.
- 50:05SPEAKER_06: That was fantastic.
- 50:07SPEAKER_06: Eh, you know, that's that's what a uh that's what a bachelor's degree in history will do for you.
- 50:16SPEAKER_06: It'll give you the opportunity to make up stories.
- 50:18SPEAKER_03: You almost sounded like you knew what you're talking about.
- 50:20SPEAKER_03: What is there such a thing as a lear?
- 50:22SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 50:23SPEAKER_06: That's actual an instrument.
- 50:25SPEAKER_06: It is?
- 50:25SPEAKER_06: It's like a it's like a mini, it's like the precursor to the mandolin, I think.
- 50:30SPEAKER_06: How do you spell it?
- 50:30SPEAKER_06: L-Y-R-E.
- 50:32SPEAKER_06: L-Y-R.
- 50:35SPEAKER_06: I'm pr I'm sure I'm pronouncing it wrong.
- 50:37SPEAKER_06: That's probably lyre.
- 50:39SPEAKER_03: You know.
- 50:40SPEAKER_03: Stringed musical instrument classified by Hornbostel Sachs as a member of a loot family of instruments.
- 50:49SPEAKER_03: Never even knew that.
- 50:50SPEAKER_06: See?
- 50:51SPEAKER_06: I play guitar and I play guitar.
- 50:52SPEAKER_06: I know.
- 50:53SPEAKER_06: So you learn something when I when I do history in a nutshell.
- 50:56SPEAKER_06: Yes, yes.
- 50:58SPEAKER_06: I'm not completely making it all up.
- 51:00SPEAKER_06: There there's a nugget of truth there.
- 51:02SPEAKER_06: Yes.
- 51:02SPEAKER_06: When I when I tell these stories.
- 51:04SPEAKER_06: That was quite inspirational.
- 51:05SPEAKER_06: Well, there you go.
- 51:05SPEAKER_06: So the the history of the banjo.
- 51:08SPEAKER_03: Uh alright.
- 51:09SPEAKER_03: So let's just pretend, just because I like getting the um the um climbing the wall music in there.
- 51:17SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
- 51:18SPEAKER_03: So let's just pretend that I'm climbing the wall right now.
- 51:20SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 51:20SPEAKER_03: So because I already have an album.
- 51:22SPEAKER_03: Alright.
- 51:22SPEAKER_04: So I'm climbing the wall, my eyes are closed.
- 51:27SPEAKER_04: I can't see nothing.
- 51:29SPEAKER_03: I can't see anything.
- 51:31SPEAKER_03: Let's see.
- 51:31SPEAKER_03: I'm just kind of waiting for the music because I enjoy the music.
- 51:36SPEAKER_05: The music is awesome.
- 51:38SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
- 51:38SPEAKER_05: It's the best part of it.
- 51:40SPEAKER_03: Alright.
- 51:41SPEAKER_05: Is it there?
- 51:42SPEAKER_05: Are we there yet?
- 51:43SPEAKER_03: I have an album.
- 51:44SPEAKER_03: Alright.
- 51:45SPEAKER_03: Uh so let the guessing begin.
- 51:49SPEAKER_06: Is it a band?
- 51:50SPEAKER_06: No.
- 51:51SPEAKER_06: It's a solo.
- 51:52SPEAKER_06: Yes.
- 51:53SPEAKER_06: Is it a man or is it a woman?
- 51:54SPEAKER_06: It's a man.
- 51:55SPEAKER_06: It's a man.
- 51:56SPEAKER_06: It's a he him.
- 51:58SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 51:59SPEAKER_06: Thank you for that.
- 52:01SPEAKER_06: Uh height of popularity.
- 52:05SPEAKER_03: Uh.
- 52:09SPEAKER_03: That's a tough one.
- 52:11SPEAKER_03: I think I will have to say late 80s, early 90s.
- 52:16SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 52:18SPEAKER_06: What genre?
- 52:19SPEAKER_06: Rock.
- 52:19SPEAKER_06: Rock.
- 52:20SPEAKER_06: He's a rock?
- 52:21SPEAKER_06: Yep.
- 52:21SPEAKER_06: Billy Joel.
- 52:22SPEAKER_06: Nope.
- 52:24SPEAKER_06: Solo.
- 52:25SPEAKER_06: Solo.
- 52:26SPEAKER_06: Solo guy.
- 52:27SPEAKER_06: Yep.
- 52:27SPEAKER_06: Does he play an instrument?
- 52:28SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 52:29SPEAKER_03: I think we've done this artist before, too, but I could be wrong.
- 52:34SPEAKER_06: You just call an instrument question.
- 52:35SPEAKER_06: Yes, he does play an instrument.
- 52:36SPEAKER_06: What instrument is he playing?
- 52:37SPEAKER_06: Guitar.
- 52:38SPEAKER_06: He plays guitar.
- 52:39SPEAKER_06: You like somebody's a rock guy?
- 52:41SPEAKER_06: Yep.
- 52:41SPEAKER_06: Is it Rick Springfield?
- 52:42SPEAKER_06: Nope.
- 52:43SPEAKER_06: No.
- 52:44SPEAKER_06: Is it Richard Mark?
- 52:46SPEAKER_06: Nope.
- 52:46SPEAKER_06: Does he play guitar?
- 52:47SPEAKER_06: He does.
- 52:48SPEAKER_06: Oh, it's Kenny Loggins.
- 52:49SPEAKER_06: Nope.
- 52:50SPEAKER_06: No?
- 52:50SPEAKER_06: Nope.
- 52:51SPEAKER_06: Rock, not pop.
- 52:52SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 52:54SPEAKER_06: Solo guy?
- 52:55SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 52:57SPEAKER_06: Um doesn't sing much.
- 53:00SPEAKER_06: He's more of a guitar guy?
- 53:01SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 53:02SPEAKER_06: Is it Ingve Malmstein?
- 53:04SPEAKER_06: Nope.
- 53:04SPEAKER_06: No?
- 53:05SPEAKER_06: We should do hymn.
- 53:07SPEAKER_06: We should.
- 53:07SPEAKER_06: Is it- Oh, is it is it Satch?
- 53:11SPEAKER_02: It is.
- 53:12SPEAKER_06: No! Hold on.
- 53:14SPEAKER_06: Hold on.
- 53:15SPEAKER_06: There it is.
- 53:17SPEAKER_06: It's Satch.
- 53:18SPEAKER_06: It is Satch.
- 53:19SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we've done we've done Satch before.
- 53:21SPEAKER_06: Well that we've done this one.
- 53:22SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we've done that one.
- 53:24SPEAKER_06: We have not.
- 53:24SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we have.
- 53:25SPEAKER_06: I'm pretty sure we have.
- 53:27SPEAKER_06: But it's okay because it's such a great album.
- 53:29SPEAKER_06: We could do it again.
- 53:30SPEAKER_06: Are you sure we've done this album?
- 53:32SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 53:36SPEAKER_06: Then why was it over there?
- 53:37SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 53:38SPEAKER_06: I don't know your system.
- 53:41SPEAKER_06: But it was so long ago when we did this.
- 53:43SPEAKER_06: Nobody's gonna remember.
- 53:46SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it was like the first season.
- 53:48SPEAKER_06: So oh, we don't have the same people listening anyway.
- 53:51SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 53:52SPEAKER_03: Um first time I heard Joe Sacciani surfing with the alien.
- 53:58SPEAKER_02: This was gosh.
- 54:01SPEAKER_02: 80 80 87.
- 54:07SPEAKER_02: 87, yeah.
- 54:09SPEAKER_02: 87.
- 54:10SPEAKER_02: Wow.
- 54:10SPEAKER_02: And it's a classic, man.
- 54:14SPEAKER_02: This just um this is back before.
- 54:18SPEAKER_03: No, it's not.
- 54:20SPEAKER_03: Because I I was gonna say, before instrumental guitar rock was like like virtuostic rock was a thing.
- 54:33SPEAKER_03: But it wasn't because around that around that same time, or maybe even before, there was the whole shrapnel records.
- 54:40SPEAKER_03: Um, Paul Gilbert.
- 54:41SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 54:42SPEAKER_06: And well Steve Vai did uh flex flexible.
- 54:45SPEAKER_06: Was that before 87?
- 54:47SPEAKER_06: I want to say it's right around the same time.
- 54:50SPEAKER_06: Might be like 88, 89.
- 54:53SPEAKER_06: Well, we're gonna find that out.
- 54:56SPEAKER_03: I should have I should have done some Steve Vai.
- 54:59SPEAKER_03: Did we just do Steve Vai?
- 55:01SPEAKER_03: No, we've never done Steve Vai.
- 55:02SPEAKER_03: No.
- 55:03SPEAKER_03: Uh let's see.
- 55:05SPEAKER_03: Steve Vai.
- 55:08SPEAKER_03: You know, Steve Vai was a Satch Reality student.
- 55:10SPEAKER_03: Did you know that you didn't do that?
- 55:12SPEAKER_03: I knew you did.
- 55:14SPEAKER_03: Flexible came out.
- 55:21SPEAKER_14: Oh my.
- 55:23SPEAKER_06: 1984.
- 55:24SPEAKER_06: Really?
- 55:25SPEAKER_06: So he was he was actually before Satch.
- 55:27SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, Satch was too busy teaching everybody to play guitar.
- 55:30SPEAKER_06: He's like, hey, hey, wait a minute.
- 55:32SPEAKER_03: A little punk did that.
- 55:33SPEAKER_03: I gotta do something now.
- 55:34SPEAKER_03: Satch taught, uh, well, I shouldn't say taught.
- 55:37SPEAKER_03: He he gave lessons to Kirk Hammett of Metallica.
- 55:40SPEAKER_03: Uh Steve Vi.
- 55:42SPEAKER_03: Um The dude from Testament, too, right?
- 55:44SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 55:44SPEAKER_03: Um can't think of his name right now.
- 55:46SPEAKER_03: I uh shoot.
- 55:50SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 55:51SPEAKER_03: Testament movie.
- 55:52SPEAKER_03: Alex Skolnick.
- 55:53SPEAKER_03: Yes, Alex Skolnik.
- 55:54SPEAKER_03: There it is, yeah.
- 55:54SPEAKER_03: And I almost think John Pertrucci took lessons from Vibe.
- 55:58SPEAKER_03: Maybe.
- 55:58SPEAKER_03: I could be wrong.
- 55:59SPEAKER_06: I can't remember.
- 56:00SPEAKER_06: Um Server with the Alien is the best, is the best Satch album.
- 56:06SPEAKER_03: I think maybe it's nostalgic because I like some of his newer stuff too.
- 56:09SPEAKER_06: But no, I mean he's got a lot of great songs all you know throughout the decades, but this is by far my favorite Saj album.
- 56:16SPEAKER_03: I think so too, because I mean this one right here, always with me, always with you.
- 56:20SPEAKER_03: Yeah, come on.
- 56:21SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 56:23SPEAKER_03: And it's and it's there's a such a wide variety of stuff on here.
- 56:27SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
- 56:30SPEAKER_03: Just the melody.
- 56:31SPEAKER_03: This is one of the first melodies I learned to play on electric guitar.
- 56:34SPEAKER_03: Oh, is it?
- 56:34SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 56:37SPEAKER_03: Right here.
- 57:05SPEAKER_06: You know, uh, I'm still trying to figure out how he got away with having the silver surfer on the album cover.
- 57:11SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 57:12SPEAKER_06: And then didn't get sued for copyright or something by Stan Lee.
- 57:19SPEAKER_03: He's just got such a way with tunes.
- 57:23SPEAKER_03: Rifts.
- 57:37SPEAKER_03: No.
- 57:42SPEAKER_03: So melodic.
- 57:48SPEAKER_03: And he takes it in a whole different place here in a second.
- 58:00SPEAKER_06: Circles.
- 58:01SPEAKER_06: Circles, yes, okay.
- 58:12SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 58:15SPEAKER_03: And then Lords of Karma.
- 58:27SPEAKER_03: And of course, if you're a fan of uh like uh Chickenfoot, that's that's all it's had trailing.
- 58:32SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 58:33SPEAKER_06: And I think what that the beginning of that sounds like a Queensrike song.
- 58:37SPEAKER_06: Which song?
- 58:38SPEAKER_06: Um It's off the uh Operation Minecrime album.
- 58:44SPEAKER_06: It's like Waiting for 22 or something like that.
- 58:48SPEAKER_06: Oh, it's empty my empty room, I think.
- 58:51SPEAKER_03: Okay, well now we're gonna go off on a tangent now.
- 58:54SPEAKER_03: My empty room?
- 58:55SPEAKER_06: I think.
- 58:56SPEAKER_06: It's either waiting for 22 or my empty room.
- 58:59SPEAKER_06: Well try my empty room first.
- 59:01SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 59:01SPEAKER_06: My empty room.
- 59:03SPEAKER_03: I think that's the name of the song.
- 59:04SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 59:05SPEAKER_03: So let's see.
- 59:06SPEAKER_03: Let's see if you know what you're talking about.
- 59:21SPEAKER_03: I get what you're what you're saying.
- 59:24SPEAKER_03: But it's very close.
- 59:25SPEAKER_03: I get what you're saying.
- 59:26SPEAKER_03: I get what you're saying.
- 59:28SPEAKER_03: That's another great album.
- 59:29SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 59:29SPEAKER_03: We should do Queen's Right sometime, too.
- 59:31SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 59:31SPEAKER_06: I dude, I could talk hours on Mind Crime.
- 59:35SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, we should.
- 59:36SPEAKER_03: That is my favorite Queen's Rike album.
- 59:39SPEAKER_03: We should deconstruct that album.
- 59:40SPEAKER_03: We should do that like the whole episode.
- 59:42SPEAKER_06: We could do that.
- 59:43SPEAKER_06: Because it's a concept album.
- 59:44SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 59:45SPEAKER_06: There's a whole story everything.
- 59:49SPEAKER_03: This is another Satriani from the surfing album called Midnight.
- 1:00:01SPEAKER_03: I almost think it's called Echo.
- 1:00:11SPEAKER_03: If you're a guitar player, even if you're not a guitar player, you just like good melodies.
- 1:00:15SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:00:16SPEAKER_03: And just great music.
- 1:00:19SPEAKER_03: That's Satch.
- 1:00:20SPEAKER_03: That's Satch.
- 1:00:22SPEAKER_03: But yeah, uh, all the Chickenfoot stuff, he came in with all the music.
- 1:00:26SPEAKER_03: Oh, of course he did.
- 1:00:27SPEAKER_03: And uh Sammy wrote all the words, which is why they're very Sammy Hagar-esque.
- 1:00:32SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah.
- 1:00:33SPEAKER_06: But uh But Joe, Joe was the musical uh force model.
- 1:00:36SPEAKER_03: Which is the way it was in Van Halen.
- 1:00:38SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:00:38SPEAKER_03: And he would write all the music and Sammy would come in.
- 1:00:40SPEAKER_06: Sammy would do the lyrics, yeah.
- 1:00:41SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 1:00:43SPEAKER_03: There you go.
- 1:00:44SPEAKER_03: That is the album of the week.
- 1:00:47SPEAKER_03: Again.
- 1:00:48SPEAKER_03: Joe Satriani.
- 1:00:50SPEAKER_06: Surfing with the alien.
- 1:00:51SPEAKER_03: The alien.
- 1:00:52SPEAKER_03: And he had hair.
- 1:00:53SPEAKER_06: Yeah, he had a lot of hair.
- 1:00:54SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 1:00:54SPEAKER_06: He actually was kind of one of the you know the big hair phase.
- 1:00:57SPEAKER_06: Yep.
- 1:00:58SPEAKER_06: Now he has no hair.
- 1:00:59SPEAKER_04: I have whoops.
- 1:01:00SPEAKER_04: Oh, good.
- 1:01:01SPEAKER_04: That's that's good.
- 1:01:02SPEAKER_04: You just just throw that anywhere.
- 1:01:05SPEAKER_03: This is a uh uh double C D.
- 1:01:07SPEAKER_03: Actually, no, it's not.
- 1:01:09SPEAKER_03: It's uh it's got the original album, and it has a DVD, a previously unreleased concert, Montreux Jazz Festival 1988.
- 1:01:19SPEAKER_03: Wow.
- 1:01:20SPEAKER_03: Bonus features, a Nigel Tufnell interview, Satch Boogie video, and always with me, always with you video.
- 1:01:28SPEAKER_03: Cool.
- 1:01:28SPEAKER_02: Yeah, good stuff.
- 1:01:30SPEAKER_06: Nigel Tuffnell.
- 1:01:31SPEAKER_03: I know we're loving it.
- 1:01:32SPEAKER_03: Nigel Tuffnell, of course, from Spinal Tap.
- 1:01:34SPEAKER_03: Spinal Tap, yes.
- 1:01:36SPEAKER_03: So get you some Joe Sancho.
- 1:01:38SPEAKER_06: Now he's had a lot of albums.
- 1:01:42SPEAKER_06: A lot of albums.
- 1:01:43SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 1:01:43SPEAKER_03: He puts them out, you know, pretty regularly.
- 1:01:47SPEAKER_03: Um let me just just for giggles here.
- 1:01:51SPEAKER_03: Are we giggling?
- 1:01:55SPEAKER_03: I want to go to like a maybe uh there's it is a Wikipedia page for Joe Satrion.
- 1:02:01SPEAKER_03: I just want to see how many albums he's got here.
- 1:02:04SPEAKER_03: Solo albums, so let's see.
- 1:02:08SPEAKER_03: Uh oh, those are Grammys.
- 1:02:11SPEAKER_03: Or nominations.
- 1:02:12SPEAKER_03: Sorry, nominations.
- 1:02:15SPEAKER_03: Oh, it doesn't list his it doesn't list his albums.
- 1:02:17SPEAKER_03: Yes, it does.
- 1:02:18SPEAKER_03: Never mind.
- 1:02:19SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
- 1:02:20SPEAKER_03: So Surfing wasn't his first album.
- 1:02:23SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
- 1:02:23SPEAKER_03: I guess I didn't realize that.
- 1:02:24SPEAKER_03: Not of this earth was his first album back in '86.
- 1:02:30SPEAKER_03: Uh so he's got one so solo albums.
- 1:02:32SPEAKER_03: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eight.
- 1:02:43SPEAKER_03: He's got eighteen.
- 1:02:44SPEAKER_03: Jesus.
- 1:02:45SPEAKER_03: Eighteen solo albums.
- 1:02:46SPEAKER_03: Talk about friggin' production, man.
- 1:02:48SPEAKER_03: Uh I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight of them.
- 1:03:00SPEAKER_03: I guess I got some work to do.
- 1:03:02SPEAKER_06: You got some catching up to, man.
- 1:03:03SPEAKER_06: I only got the one.
- 1:03:04SPEAKER_06: I got surfing with the alien.
- 1:03:05SPEAKER_06: That's the only one I have.
- 1:03:06SPEAKER_03: I got stuff.
- 1:03:07SPEAKER_03: I will tell you that, um, and you remember this.
- 1:03:10SPEAKER_03: I was such a fan of Joe Satriani.
- 1:03:13SPEAKER_03: We wanted to do something, um we wanted to do something different for our wedding.
- 1:03:19SPEAKER_03: Do you remember this?
- 1:03:21SPEAKER_03: So when when my wife and I came through into the reception, you know how they were introducing the uh the the bride party, bridal party?
- 1:03:33SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was there.
- 1:03:33SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I know.
- 1:03:35SPEAKER_03: But when my wife and I came through, don't you remember?
- 1:03:40unknown: Yeah.
- 1:03:40SPEAKER_03: This is a song that was playing.
- 1:03:45SPEAKER_03: From the extremists, it's called Friends.
- 1:03:51SPEAKER_03: Oh, I could I could share all these albums with you, but we don't have enough time.
- 1:03:56SPEAKER_04: Well, there's 18 of them, so yeah.
- 1:03:58SPEAKER_04: I only have eight.
- 1:03:59SPEAKER_06: That would be uh that would be a series.
- 1:04:02SPEAKER_06: It would.
- 1:04:03SPEAKER_06: I mean, we could do a whole season on Satch.
- 1:04:06SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
- 1:04:10SPEAKER_03: My favorite.
- 1:04:11SPEAKER_03: And he's got some great titles for his albums too.
- 1:04:14SPEAKER_03: So Not of This Earth, Surfing with the Alien, Flying in a Blue Dream, The Extremist, Time Machine, Joe Satriani.
- 1:04:21SPEAKER_03: Well, that's original.
- 1:04:22SPEAKER_03: What?
- 1:04:23SPEAKER_03: That's crazy.
- 1:04:23SPEAKER_03: Crystal Planet, Engines of Creation, Strange, Beautiful Music, Is Their Love in Space, Super Colossal.
- 1:04:32SPEAKER_03: My favorite one right here.
- 1:04:33SPEAKER_03: Professor Satifunculus and the Mysterian of Rock.
- 1:04:37SPEAKER_03: Ah, yeah, yeah, I like that one.
- 1:04:39SPEAKER_03: Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards, Unstoppable Momentum, Shockwave Supernova, What Happens Next, Shapeshifting, and his latest, The Elephants of Mars.
- 1:04:49SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.
- 1:04:50SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, I've been I've been meaning to get it.
- 1:04:53SPEAKER_03: He has a space theme, I don't know.
- 1:04:54SPEAKER_03: He does, yeah.
- 1:04:56SPEAKER_03: I know he's uh he's into comics and stuff like that.
- 1:05:00SPEAKER_03: Obviously with Silver Surfer.
- 1:05:02SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 1:05:02SPEAKER_03: So anyway, Joe Satriana, if you're into that kind of thing, check him out.
- 1:05:06SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah.
- 1:05:07SPEAKER_03: You won't be disappointed.
- 1:05:08SPEAKER_03: That's it.
- 1:05:08SPEAKER_03: That's episode 162.
- 1:05:10SPEAKER_03: Two.
- 1:05:11SPEAKER_03: 162.
- 1:05:13SPEAKER_03: Um so until uh next time, I guess.
- 1:05:21SPEAKER_03: Why?
- 1:05:21SPEAKER_03: What are we calling this one again?
- 1:05:22SPEAKER_03: Oh, Jesus is my friend.
- 1:05:24SPEAKER_06: Jesus is my friend.
- 1:05:25SPEAKER_06: I have a friend in Jesus.
- 1:05:27SPEAKER_06: I have a friend in Jesus.
- 1:05:33SPEAKER_03: Do we really have to call it that?
- 1:05:34SPEAKER_03: Oh wait, zap.
- 1:05:35SPEAKER_03: I gotta put the zap in there.
- 1:05:36SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:05:36SPEAKER_03: Jesus is my friend.
- 1:05:39SPEAKER_06: I'm not sure what the zap is for.
- 1:05:41SPEAKER_03: That makes it funnier.
- 1:05:42SPEAKER_03: Oh, uh, hold on.
- 1:05:44SPEAKER_03: Well, I'll show you.
- 1:05:45SPEAKER_03: Because you know, we got time.
- 1:05:47SPEAKER_03: Uh everybody's like, please end this now.
- 1:05:54SPEAKER_03: I wanted to show you.
- 1:05:55SPEAKER_03: I wasn't lying when I said uh Jesus is my friend.
- 1:06:00SPEAKER_13: He loves me when I'm quiet and I have nothing to say.
- 1:06:03SPEAKER_13: He'll love me when I'm perfect if I am perfect that way.
- 1:06:09SPEAKER_03: It wasn't that verse.
- 1:06:20SPEAKER_13: And he'll tap you anyway.
- 1:06:23SPEAKER_06: Ah, that's where the zap cover zap you anyway.
- 1:06:27SPEAKER_03: Alright.
- 1:06:28SPEAKER_03: Oh my word, look that up.
- 1:06:30SPEAKER_03: Uh Sunseed.
- 1:06:31SPEAKER_03: Jesus is my friend by Sunseed on YouTube.
- 1:06:34SPEAKER_03: You won't be disappointed.
- 1:06:40SPEAKER_04: Alright, I'm still done.
- 1:06:41SPEAKER_04: Bye everybody! Jesus is my friend.
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