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Mark interviews radio icon Scott Shannon. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: If you're listening to Mark on the iHeartRadio app, save
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  Speaker 1: the Mark Simone Show on wr Well, Ladies and Gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: A radio god. You know they got the Radio Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame. This is like he would be on the
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  Speaker 1: radio Mount Rushmore, the greatest living DJ Scott Shannon of
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  Speaker 1: course of the true Oldies channel. You can listen to
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  Speaker 1: that and it's great to happen with us. Scott Shannon,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so happy to be here on seven to ten
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  Speaker 2: woor home of the Sean Hannity Show and the legendary
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  Speaker 2: Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 1: And you are the voice of the Sean Hannity Show
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  Speaker 1: of course every day.
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  Speaker 2: But he's a neighbor of mine, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you mean that Florida. Yeah, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean I don't live right down the street from him,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm close by. Let's put it that way. It's
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  Speaker 2: a different area, let's put it that way.
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  Speaker 1: And when you're near his house, tell us about the noise,
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  Speaker 1: the loud parties. Is that what's going on there?
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  Speaker 2: No, there's nothing going on, by the way, I thought
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  Speaker 2: by you. The other night, I was my wife's birthday
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  Speaker 2: was on Saturday and we went to eat probably a
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  Speaker 2: place you go to La Penguin.
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  Speaker 1: The Penguin is Greenwich, right, that's correct.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we were going in there and I noticed the
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  Speaker 2: guys sitting on the table next to me. He kept
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  Speaker 2: looking at me and he said, aren't you Scott Shannon?
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  Speaker 2: And I said yeah, And I thought he might listen
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  Speaker 2: to me on the True Oldies channeler an old PLJ Listen.
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  Speaker 2: I listened to you all the time on Mark some
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  Speaker 2: own show.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you see that's our audience, that very upscale, well
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  Speaker 1: to do Penguin type crowd, that's who listens.
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  Speaker 2: To That's amazing. I said, yeah. The fact I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be on there coming Monday, I said. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we often discussed the power of the swifties, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and you're always amazed at how popular she is and
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  Speaker 2: how many albums she sells. But now this is kind
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  Speaker 2: of weird. Did you hear about the museum in Germany? No, Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's a big, famous museum there. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: the name of the place is, but they have a
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  Speaker 2: picture of the Shakespeare character Ophelia and there's a song
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  Speaker 2: on her album, you know, this very popular life of
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  Speaker 2: a Showgirl and it's the first single, I believe Ophelia.
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  Speaker 2: And that's all these swifties are flocking to the museum
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  Speaker 2: to take pictures and to be there and look at Ophelia.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, how does that loga saying no?
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  Speaker 2: And also she's doing she has a video of it
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  Speaker 2: that they've had, like I don't know, some like seventy
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  Speaker 2: million views already in the video. So she becomes she
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  Speaker 2: plays Ophelia, and she's you know, out of some kind
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  Speaker 2: of white gown and she's in a bed of water
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  Speaker 2: lilies and all that. And I think the play the
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  Speaker 2: museum Weissbotten, Do I say that? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But just more more proof that these swift these are
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  Speaker 2: such big fans.
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  Speaker 1: So how does this work? They make an album, there's
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  Speaker 1: twelve songs, and then they tell all the radio stations
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  Speaker 1: this will be the first single, this is the one
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  Speaker 1: we want you to play.
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  Speaker 2: That's how it works. However, believe it or not, I
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  Speaker 2: think she occupied the top ten places with singles from
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  Speaker 2: the album, just songs from the album.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, but there have been cases where you guys,
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  Speaker 1: like a smart guy with great ears, like you'll hear
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  Speaker 1: another cut. You said, wait, a minute, this is the one,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll play that, and that'll be coming hit without
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  Speaker 1: the That happened.
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  Speaker 2: That's happened to me several times in my life. Wan
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  Speaker 2: involved a group that's been in the headline lately.
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  Speaker 1: Kiss.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. I left the radio business for a
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  Speaker 2: short period back in the seventies. I was young and
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  Speaker 2: crazy and wanted to live in La I didn't know,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't understand what a hell hole. But I got
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  Speaker 2: a job at Casablanca Records, which had Kiss on their label.
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  Speaker 2: I happened. I knew the CEO, the owner, Neil Bogar,
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  Speaker 2: you know his name. They had a movie about him
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  Speaker 2: that was a big flop I had. When Kiss first started,
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  Speaker 2: he wanted All he wanted to do was get Kiss
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  Speaker 2: played on Top forty radio. So I suggested that they
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  Speaker 2: record this song I thought to be cute. It was
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  Speaker 2: an oldie from the sixties done by maybe you remember
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Rydell and Kissing Time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Bobby Rydell's still around, isn't he.
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  Speaker 2: No, he's past. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of years ago he was still around.
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  Speaker 2: But the group Kiss, Actually we've had to record that
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  Speaker 2: because I said that and Gene Simmons never let me
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  Speaker 2: forget that year the A Hole made us record that
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  Speaker 2: song Kissing Time. And I also actually toured with the band.
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  Speaker 2: He put me on the road with the band to
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  Speaker 2: go around the different cities and get them interviewed on
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  Speaker 2: the radio stations and possibly they would play their music
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  Speaker 2: and we were doing it. And you got to understand,
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  Speaker 2: Ace Frehley was a different kind of musician. He was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he was a little wacky, but he a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more whacky, but he was a great guitar player.
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  Speaker 2: Ace Frehley was an awesome guitar player. And as you know,
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  Speaker 2: he just died at the age of seventy four. He
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  Speaker 2: fell at his home. He's got a home studio and
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  Speaker 2: he got a brain bleed and they kept him alive
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  Speaker 2: like four or five weeks, and he finally passed away
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  Speaker 2: on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: But he was a very special guy. And the funny
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  Speaker 2: part about it is the guys who actually threw him
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  Speaker 2: out of the band all of a sudden love him.
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  Speaker 2: They put out these statements about Ace Frehley and and
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  Speaker 2: Gene Simmons and the singer Paul Stanley actually run that
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  Speaker 2: thing you know that's there, that's their baby. And if
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  Speaker 2: you were if you worked in the band, you had
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  Speaker 2: a salary. But they they owned the band, so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. Now this year, you spent a year
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  Speaker 1: on the road with him, I imagine, do a concert,
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  Speaker 1: go right back to hotel, go right to sleep right. No,
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  Speaker 1: there were no parties nothing.
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  Speaker 2: They had parties every night. Don't remember that song rock
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  Speaker 2: and roll all night and party every day. That's kiss
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  Speaker 2: and And it's a funny thing about it too, that
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  Speaker 2: the Ace Ace and Peter Christ the drummer, both had
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  Speaker 2: problems in certain areas. All right. Every every time I'd
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  Speaker 2: go out with as freely to the radio station, he
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  Speaker 2: always had a bottle of Blue Nun, remember that wine.
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  Speaker 2: He would carry the blue Nun bottle with him everywhere
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  Speaker 2: he went and just sip off of it. And I
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  Speaker 2: remember we were we were doing an autograph party in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 2: remember the Peaches record stores. They were huge, and we
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  Speaker 2: were doing a personal appearance. And back then, they wore
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  Speaker 2: all those kiss outfits everywhere they went. That was what
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  Speaker 2: they did. So they get up and get They wanted
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  Speaker 2: to be famous and successful so bad they had makeup
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  Speaker 2: artists and make up do all their makeup and get
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  Speaker 2: in those big stupid boots and they would it would
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  Speaker 2: go to the station with me, and also I would
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  Speaker 2: take them to We set up this big, big promotion
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  Speaker 2: at the Peaches store. So there was probably five thousand
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  Speaker 2: kids in line to meet Kiss and all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden they got ready to leave. They had a couple
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  Speaker 2: of limos out front, and Jean Simmons says, hey, Scott,
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  Speaker 2: where the hell is Ace. I said, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where Ace is. Let me look around.
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  Speaker 2: So I found him. I came back out and he
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  Speaker 2: was talking to the manager of the Peaches store and
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  Speaker 2: they were sitting in his blue nun bottle back in
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  Speaker 2: the storeroom, and I came back. I said, Ace, it's
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  Speaker 2: time to go, and Jeane says, he's going to leave
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  Speaker 2: without you're taking the limos. So sure enough, Simmons just
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  Speaker 2: took off and took the other two members, Peter and Paul,
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  Speaker 2: but left Ace in full uniform in the back room
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  Speaker 2: at the Peaches with me.
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  Speaker 1: Hard to hail a cab dressed like that.
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  Speaker 2: So we were I was going to get a cab.
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  Speaker 2: He's got those big boots on. He says, Nah, it
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  Speaker 2: right down the street. Let's just walk down there. So
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  Speaker 2: we're in right on Peachtree Boulevard in Atlanta, walking down
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  Speaker 2: the street and some kids come by. They were at
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  Speaker 2: the I guess, at the thing and they had like
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  Speaker 2: this little Ford, I don't know what it was, a
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  Speaker 2: very small Ford Falcon or something like that, and say,
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  Speaker 2: you guys want to ride? He said, yeah, we'll go
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  Speaker 2: with you. And he had to put his friend in
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  Speaker 2: the back seat because Ace couldn't sit back there because
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  Speaker 2: they had the big boots on. So we're going. It's
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  Speaker 2: only two blocks down the road and the kid says, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you're funny. You dressed up like Ace Frehley to come
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  Speaker 2: to the Beaches store. I said, no, no, this is Ace,
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  Speaker 2: and the kid swat. He pulled the car over and
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  Speaker 2: he says, oh my god, A's Frayley's in my car
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  Speaker 2: and he looks over him and they can't even talk
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  Speaker 2: at that point. So finally they drop us off at
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  Speaker 2: the hotel. That was pretty funny. And you got to
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  Speaker 2: remember when when Kiss finally got fairly successful, they all
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  Speaker 2: four put out solo albums. That was Neil Bogart's idea.
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  Speaker 2: They put out solo albums and Kiss I Mean and
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  Speaker 2: Ace had the only one that really sold. It was
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  Speaker 2: the biggest of all four. He had the biggest following
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  Speaker 2: and the only and the only big hit. You remember
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  Speaker 2: that song called back in the New York Group.
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  Speaker 1: I love that song. That's right, huge it. Hey, we
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  Speaker 1: got to We're out of time, but can we continue
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  Speaker 1: this next time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I got a lot, I got I got Britney
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  Speaker 2: Spears News.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to that next time. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: check out the True Oldies Channel. You can go to
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  Speaker 1: True Oldieschannel dot com. You can listen to it. It's great.
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  Speaker 1: And Scott Channon, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Mark. Talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 1: Br