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PODCAST: Epsiode 740 - What Rock or Metal Musicians' Death Hurt You The Most? · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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None. What's up everybody, late night
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Kifi. I know I swore I wasn't going to
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do another late night one of these but here we are.
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Seems like we're live everywhere but Instagram again.
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Having trouble with Instagram since I got a new computer setup
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recently. I'm trying to remove Instagram
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and put it back and see what happens but doesn't seem to be
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working and I don't know why. Screen key, save the changes,
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tell it to go live. But all right, we'll see what
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happens. Maybe it'll come on.
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Anywho, why are we here? It's been a tough week in the
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music world and I have been thinking a lot about death.
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A topic I think about a lot. Doesn't make me a hit at
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parties. I told a very poor joke and
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dinner with my girlfriend's family this last weekend about
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making my family die from laughter.
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I thought it was very funny. Some people that some people
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didn't. It's OK.
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Drop a comment and tell us what is the worst celebrity or rock
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specifically music like in your life?
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What is the musician that died that hurt the most?
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I will engage with you. I will.
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This is not this is purely just a a rundown.
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There's been a bunch of deaths this week in the music world and
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I found it to be, you know, I all I find all these things to
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be hard. I've had a lot of death
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personally. Ghost cult has lost some
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staffers over the years that have been very near and dear to
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my heart. And it's always hard.
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But you know, this is the genre. This is the thing we love,
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right? Music and there's been celebrity
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deaths and there's been pop culture people who pass away.
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But you know, I want to know what is your you know, whether
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you watch this live right now or you check the podcast out when
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this is a podcast tomorrow or Friday or the next day, drop a
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comment and and share memory of the of the pain you felt.
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Maybe it cathartically. We'll all release it all.
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You know, it's been it's been hard for me.
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There's been so many and there's been so many.
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You know, I'm a I'm a fond I'm fond of saying death is
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undefeated. It never loses.
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So with that in mind, I made AI made a deck here and I'm going
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to add it here. And I'm still on the other side
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of the I'm on the other side of this thing a little.
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So let's this guy here a little bit.
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So we did this the worst deaths in in rock and metal.
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And I'm going to start off by talking about the ones that
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personally affected me, right? And again, I'm Kitty from
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ghostcultmag.com. Chances are this is your first
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time watching with us. Matt Williams is here and
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Colette is here and Voya is here and Furnash Man is here.
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And we're talking about the worst deaths in rocket metal and
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maybe a few that are in rocket metal at the end.
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But I want to hear from you. Tell me who has been the worst
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one for you and I'll share mine the most closest ones to my
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heart or toward the beginning of this, but this is quite a long
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list. I was you know you could just
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add to this forever. Tom Petty I had Tom Petty is on
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our list. Of course, I never saw Tom Petty
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really sad great guy and very young 54, but we'll talk about
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that in a second. So this photo is actually of
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time back Darryl when he was you guys on TikTok are not getting
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to see this. If you want to join on YouTube
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and hop in the comments. But either way, I'll engage with
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everybody here. I cannot seem to get Instagram
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to UN fuck itself. So we're still not going live on
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the gram. That's a bummer because we
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always pull in a nice group of people there, but OK, the gram
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is just a struggle. Any who so dime back down.
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This is this is a tough one for me personally.
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Feel free to subscribe. We will subscribe back and
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follow you back And but tomorrow or later today in about 16 hours
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is our usual weekly rock and metal News Live stream.
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And we'll talk about the the deaths this week specifically.
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And we'll talk about some birthdays and we'll talk about
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some metal festivals and some rock tours that got announced
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and interviews we did here on our YouTube this week and on our
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podcasts and all the things and, and probably share and unlock
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some cool stuff too, because we like to do that, you know?
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Yeah, absolutely, man, Tom Petty's a rocker, bro.
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He's absolutely a rocker. But anyway, with that out of the
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way, let's let's talk a bit about these debts.
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And I'm going to talk specifically about the ones kind
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of close to me and I'll again, I'll you know, dime bag.
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This is a photo of our from our own evil Rob.
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He's got a few in here and the dime bag.
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Oh, no problem with Rashman. Thanks for joining in.
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It's no problem. It's no worries.
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I appreciate you. Amber is here also and Jade GGG
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Ewon is here. I don't know how to say that
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pal. Galvin is here.
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So yeah. Man, Dimebag really broke me.
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I remember where I was when he died.
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He was murdered on stage. Just an absolute horror of a
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thing to have happened to a person.
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I mean, LED Belly was apparently shot in a concert and walked it
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off somehow. LED Belly.
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Ergo the name. Maybe it's a fiction, maybe it's
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not. But Dime was murdered along with
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a bunch of people at the concert.
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Security. Other people were injured.
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It's a miracle more people weren't killed.
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It's hard to believe that is 2021 years ago.
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Oh my God. Like thanks for being Raven also
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and Jay Fields like yeah man just terrible.
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I wasn't there. I saw a damage plan the week
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before Don Beg was murdered. So damage plan?
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Played New York City about 8 days before he was killed with
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Shadows Fall and they were fucking great.
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And I met Vinny and I had a chance to meet Dime and I had
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met other members of Pantera in the past and I just I was guy
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big was mobbed by people and I was like yo I'll see you next
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time. And I hung out with Vinny for a
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minute and he gave me a big hug and I thanked him for coming
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back with damage plan and I was like I'll see him next time and
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there was no next time. So I've been very fortunate.
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I saw Pantera a ton of times as a younger guy, and I've seen the
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newer version of Pantera, whatever you want to call it,
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the tribute to Pantera with Philip and Rex and Charlie
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Benante and Zach. And I thought they did a great
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job. I do not want new music from
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Pantera under that name. But that's an episode for
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another time. In addition to the passing the
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dime bag, obviously, you know, not quite as tragic, but still
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tragically young. Vinny Paul passed away a few
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years ago. This is another picture by Evil
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Robin. Vinny was hell yeah.
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We have some exclusive photos on our website of Vinnie and Dime,
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like behind the scenes stuff from before they passed.
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And, you know, Vinnie was never the same guy.
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And you wouldn't be either if your brother was, you know, lost
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like that in a horrible murder. It really shook metal.
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I mean, you know, this is this is insane.
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But you know, a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff has happened.
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A lot of stuff, super sad. And then just, you know, the
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brothers are buried side by side in Arlington, near Dallas.
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I believe this is not the most recent photo of the grave site,
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but this is a photo that was sent in to us and they had to
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put like a protective covering over it 'cause people were like,
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defacing the gravestones. I think people just don't know
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how to act, especially since the plague.
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People don't know how to act. But yeah, man, the murder of
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Dimebag hurt me very badly. And again, this first batch of
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ones, you know, I think most people will relate to all of
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them and some of them are very personally hurtful to me.
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And then I'm going to open it up to a more wide general list.
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But the first whole bunch of these, more than half of the
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list is ones you should all know.
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Obviously, Lemmy, this is a photo I took of Lemmy on Shot
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Motörhead 3 times. I don't do concert photography
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anymore, but I'm too busy editing the website and posting
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news and stuff like that. But thanks for following
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Ziberman appreciate you and and James is here again if you want
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to contribute and drop a comment with the rock or metal or music
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just in general music death that hurt you the most.
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Let us know what it is. Let me this hurt me.
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I was so sad about let me we covered Motörhead a bunch.
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I was lucky enough to see Motörhead a bunch of times.
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I photographed Motörhead. This is a mayhem fest and on the
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second stage, and I use this photo a lot when talking about
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Motörhead. And, you know, I'm really proud
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that I got to see Motörhead, you know, with full power.
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Chuck is in our list, man, Absolutely, Chuck.
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You know, man, what another one to talk about.
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It's coming up in a few slides. Absolutely have to talk about
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Chuck. And some more recent Chuck news,
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actually, Cliff Burton. These are exclusive photos that
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Ghost Call has access to via Michael Alago.
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Perhaps you're familiar with him.
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Michael Ilago is the guy who signed Metallica to Electra
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Records. He helped make White Zombie into
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a monster before Rob Zombie went solo.
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These are private photos that Michael shared with us when we
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interviewed him the first time. And Michael was the A&R Rep and
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he signed Metallica and he worked on the big major records
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with them, the first four and and then went on to another
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record company. But, you know, he had a personal
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relationship with Cliff and all her members of Metallica, and
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he's still friends with the rest of them.
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Cliff is a huge hero of mine as a bassist.
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I sing and play bass for a long time and can't tell you how many
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hours I learned to play these Cliff bass lines and and try to,
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you know, perform. Eric Carr, man, same thing.
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Yeah. I was actually going to bring
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that up. I don't have an Eric Carr photo,
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but absolutely Eric Carr gutting Freddie is coming up in here
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too. So yeah, Cliff just died
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tragically in the infamous bus accident.
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Glad that Metallica kind of pays tribute to Cliff at every show
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and a lot of things that they do.
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There's a Cliff Burton Day here in the Bay Area where Cliff is
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from. Every February 10th on Cliff's
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birthday is Cliff Burton Day in the Castro Valley.
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And go look on YouTube for Cliff Burton Day and you'll see like
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the latest stuff. Every year there's kind of a
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celebration. And this year one of his sister
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was there really cool Lance daily.
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And also in this photo is Mike Starr, Alice In Chains, one of
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my absolute favorite bands. And this is just, you know, just
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a another terrible tragedy, you know, just just brutal, A brutal
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loss. I love Alice In Chains.
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They're easily in my top three bands.
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And you know, Lane is one of the greats of all time.
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And I do love that Alice In Chains has continued and I love
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that they found a way to move forward.
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And Alice In Chains has continued to William Duvall and
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Jerry Cantrell kind of launched, relaunched his solo career to a
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lot more success now and does a lot of Alice In Chains in his
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live show with Greg Pucciano or Pucciano from from formerly A
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villager escape plan and a better lovers and the black
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queen and stuff. And Greg is an incredible singer
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and he does great justice to Lane as this William so much
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man, so much man. I never I really never came back
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from that one either. And then, you know, Mike Starr
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is also in this photo. So really been really sad.
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And then of course, you know, Dio, maybe the greatest metal
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singer ever in terms of pure vocal ability and and talent.
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I highly recommend the Dio book and documentary Dreamers Never
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Die. It's kind of funny.
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I think mainstream people were not really aware of Dio.
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So metal heads love Dio and no Dio and no Rainbow and no Black
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Sabbath with Dio. And I was really an Aussie
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person and I was really angry that Ozzy was fired.
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And I was sort of Team Ozzy 10 years old or whatever, 8910
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years old when Ozzy went solo. And but I love Dio.
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I got to see Dio and I'm really appreciative that I made it like
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a just a concerted effort in the 90s to check his solo band out
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and enjoy and appreciate him because he was magical live.
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I do feel like now mainstream metalheads because of streaming,
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because of these events hailing Ronnie and and, you know, these
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cancer charity events that help raise money in his name.
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I think there's a tremendous great new awareness of DO that.
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Maybe there wasn't when he died because I still feel like he was
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somehow an underground guy most of his career.
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But yeah, man, I love heaven and hell.
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Also trash, man, you fucking rule.
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Thank you so much for your contributions here, pal.
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So, yeah, DO Jeff Hanneman of Slayer, you know, second member
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of the big 4 bands to pass. And obviously also, you know,
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his drinking had been a problem. And perhaps his, if he had, you
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know, had gotten his drinking and alcoholism under control, he
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might not have. I know, bro.
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I know I'm breaking my own heart and This is why I'm doing this.
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It's a little bit of, I mean, like, I have therapy tomorrow
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afternoon. I probably should have waited
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till after this, but you know, I said right at the top before you
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tuned in thrash man, that like, I hope, like maybe all of us
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together can like let go of our grief cathartically.
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So Jeff, man, Jeff passed away. I was lucky to see Slayer a lot.
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And I've seen Slayer with Jeff with with Jeff and Gary and I've
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seen Slayer with all their drummers, including John Daddy.
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And you know, I know a lot of people feel like Slayer wasn't
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the same when Jeff asked. And I don't think there was a
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notion that Jeff wouldn't come back until he passed.
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You know, like I think he I think they expected him to
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return to get well, to get his strength back.
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I know he suffered a terrible flesh eating bacteria is an
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extremely metal way to go and a terrible way to go.
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Extremely painful. He was kind of nodding to doing
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the skin graft, but like there was a hope that he could, you
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know, rehab and get his strength back and return.
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So, you know, I don't, I don't think until he passed they
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envisioned the going on without him.
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But once he passed, they had a choice to make and they made it.
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And Gary is great and the Slayer return has been great.
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Ghost Cult has been a part of it.
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We were covered the very first Slayer comeback concert at Riot
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Fest last year and gave away VIP tickets to the weekend.
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And we were quoted in the original press release touting
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Slayer's return, that the world had turned to shit since they
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were gone and now they came back.
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And I know that people are very cynical and bands don't stay
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broken up, but I'm glad like somebody today is going to
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discover Slayer and then go backwards and buy all the
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records and become a die hard fan and.
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And yeah, really, you know, really caught them off guard and
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and and you know what? I know there's some sadness
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there from those guys, too. I don't see it purely like money
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is the reason for everything. It's very easy to be cynical.
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But like, Slayer is also their band, just like Panterra's
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Philip and Rex's band too. Like they lost Daryl and Vinny,
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but that's also their band. So should they not have a band
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anymore? There's plenty of bands out here
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with no original members. Varner has almost no original
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members I saw. I'll talk about it tomorrow in
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the live stream for the new show.
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I saw a video of the new Black Flag line up.
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God, not good. So, you know, no shade to
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anybody who is carrying on and trying to have a career without
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their, you know, band numbers. Overkill indeed.
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I love overkill. Cornell, man.
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Here's another one. Chris Cornell.
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Just absolutely brutal. I know exactly where I was when
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he died. And you know, suicide is
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horrible. And we'll talk a lot about that.
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I've had some suicide very close to me.
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Friends, people who worked with us at Ghost Cone, Cornell, just
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brutal. When Cornell died, just
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absolutely, just positively robbed of how great he is.
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I'm really glad that Soundgarden got in the Rock and Roll Hall of
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Fame. I am really glad that the
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lawsuit between his second wife and the remaining band members
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is over and they will be the final Soundgarden album
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released. We will get new Chris Cornell
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solo material, maybe a box set of vinyls or something.
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He apparently had a lot of material in the can for a new
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record, unplugged and electric. So and you know, as great a
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voice as Chris Cornell had an unbelievable earth shattering
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voice. He's an incredible songwriter
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and guitar player and I don't think enough people talk about
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that. And in my opinion, more people
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should talk about that. I want to just give a shout out
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again to everybody watching. That's some people watching on
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the Tube of you, some people here on TikTok, some on Twitch.
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I could not get the in the instead of go for the second
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time tomorrow, we'll try again. And then, of course, you can't
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talk about Cornell without Chester.
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And even if you're not a fan of Linkin Park.
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It's hard to calculate like how huge is like a second wave, new
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metal band and rock band. Linkin Park became one of the
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best selling bands of all time of the last 25 years.
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No surprise that they were able to put out a version of the band
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and come back to like headline arenas and stadiums around the
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world and headline festivals, which is nothing short of
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remarkable on the strength of this potent band and Chester's
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beautiful soul. And him and Cornell were very
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close. And, and you know, it's widely
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accepted that maybe Chester killed himself on Cornell's
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birthday, which is 2 months after Cornell died, which is
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just absolutely fucking brutal. I think they were a A and rehab
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buddies and maybe Cornell was Chester's sponsor.
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So Cornell fell off the wagon and then on alive to himself.
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You know what, what would you know, what hope Chester would
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have lost? You know, like, so sad.
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And he left behind six kids. And I know that his second wife
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and his kid is kind of a hot mess, constantly throwing shade.
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And I think he expected to be the new Lincoln Park singer or
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something. And he seems unwell and needs to
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take care of his mental well-being and health.
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But this is a wonderful photo of Chester when he was fronting
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Stone Temple Pilots, which I also photographed them.
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This is shot by my good friend Meg Loyal.
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Meg Loyal Photography out of LA. And I saw Chester with STP and
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Weiland was his favorite singer. Weiland is on this list also.
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Another tragedy. But yeah, man, Chester, it's a
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tough one and it's a real tough one.
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I understand. Like aside from the political
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things with, you know, the choice of of singer, I think
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like, you know, oh, how could they go on without Chester?
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You know, Linkin Park wasn't Chester's band in the 1st place.
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He joined late. It certainly was his band.
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He made it his band, but he wasn't the founder of the band.
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It was always Mike's band. And again, I don't, I don't
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fault them for trying to pick up the pieces and move on and have
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a band again. But some people do.
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I understand if you just can't accept them without Chester, but
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I think it's good for music to have the band back.
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Phil Linett man Philo from from Thin Lizzy, easily the most
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underrated person on this entire list probably.
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And a band that should have been so much bigger.
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They never really got to be huge in America the way Queen and Led
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Zeppelin and Black Sabbath did, and Thin Lizzy is much more than
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you hear the same 3 or 4 songs that you know from rock radio.
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But Thin Lizzy is an incredible band with an iconic original
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sound. Phil is one of the greatest
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singers and songwriters ever to live.
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He's an incredible bass player and a beautiful lyricist.
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Great singer and very well gone before too too long, like lost
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before his time. I think had he lived, we would
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have got like some newer version of Thin Lizzy in the 90s and the
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2000s where he would have gotten everything he would have
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deserved because he really deserves to be talked about,
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like Led Zeppelin and Freddie and Queen.
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And I really, really underrated, really unheralded.
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And a lot of people just know the big hits, which are
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wonderful songs. I appreciate that Metallica
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plays Whiskey in the jar all the time, and that puts money in his
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family's pockets. But his daughters, we're grown
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now. But like, such a great band and
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so underrated and and so, you know, so many more great songs
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than what you've heard before. Like, go explore those records,
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especially that middle period, like 73 to like 83, man.
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That's, that's the time. Yeah.
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They just don't know Finlizzi, man.
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They just don't know him. I appreciate you, Zeppelin.
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Of course, man. John Bottom.
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I don't know if anybody has seen.
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I can talk all day and night about Led Zeppelin, one of my
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favorite bands ever. Obviously, John Bottom's death
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ended the band and that's, you know, a lot of bands would do
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that and have that. I don't know if you've seen
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Becoming Led Zeppelin, I highly recommend the movie.
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So far my favorite music documentary of the year.
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A little. I also do love the Pink Floyd
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documentary that's out, and there's a few others coming that
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I want to see. Well, Pink Floyd's not so much a
24:44
documentary as it's a concert film with a little documentary.
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But the the Zeppelin movie is unbelievable anyway, just on its
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own, like the first three to five years of the band, you
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know, the first couple of albums and change.
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But to hear Bonham and speak interviewed at length on on like
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with deep answers and and very thoughtful, coherent stuff about
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the formation of the band and how he makes music and about how
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him and Jones play together and Jimmy and Robert and how we knew
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Robert from around the way in Birmingham, Really incredible
25:21
stuff. And Bonham still to this day,
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you could put on a Led Zeppelin record and be like, that's John
25:26
Bonham. Maybe a lot of people sound like
25:28
him, but that's him and you could always tell he was
25:31
definitely the the linchpin of the rhythm section of the band.
25:35
But they were all you know, it's kind of like an Avengers
25:38
Assemble. They were all pretty incredible,
25:39
but bottom is unbelievable. I highly recommend that
25:42
documentary. And again, Freddie Mercury, man,
25:46
what a just a loss. If you wanted to say Freddie
25:48
Mercury is the best singer ever in rock music, I would not argue
25:51
with you. He is technically perfect.
25:54
He was incredible. He couldn't read music, but he
25:57
pulled the music out of himself, like out of the ether and made,
26:01
you know, incredible songs. He played piano like a, like a
26:04
maestro. He sang beautifully.
26:07
He could do, you know, high tenor, soaring vocals.
26:11
He had a beautiful voice, almost like a violin note, like like a
26:14
violinist plays or a cello, like just an incredible, soulful,
26:19
beautiful voice. And, you know, obviously, he's
26:24
gone a long time now, 35 years since he passed away.
26:28
And again, you mentioned earlier, Eric Carr passed away
26:33
the same day as Freddie Mercury, and his death was completely
26:37
overshadowed. I know it's a thing.
26:39
It's like one of the few things that Gene Simmons is grinds his
26:42
gears that I back him on. He's like nobody even paid
26:45
respect to Eric Carr. And he's right.
26:47
And Eric Carr, you know, sadly died and Kiss got to continue on
26:53
with Eric Singer and Peter Chris and then Eric Singer again.
26:57
And but Carr was one-of-a-kind. He he came in and, you know,
27:02
like we're not going to talk all about Kiss today, but Eric was
27:06
incredible and deserves a lot of flowers.
27:08
He's an incredible drumming on the 80s Kiss records is some of
27:11
the best things about those records.
27:13
But Freddie was one-of-a-kind. And, you know, Queen is one of
27:18
the greatest bands ever. It's kind of interesting.
27:21
My other podcast, the Glacial musical, Poor Kiss, we have done
27:24
a huge nine album run of deep dive of every record and outside
27:29
of the hits, there's some duds on all those records, which is
27:32
interesting. But Freddie, man, he really was
27:35
the cherry on top of the sundae, Chuck.
27:40
So this has come up, of course, Chuck Schuldener for you death
27:42
metal fans, so many great tributes to Chuck.
27:46
It's really the, the failure, honestly.
27:50
Like if you don't understand why healthcare needs to be universal
27:53
and it's a right, it's a human right.
27:55
Chuck is your case study case. Chuck is gone because he
28:00
couldn't get he had a treatable operable brain tumor and he
28:04
couldn't get it because the surgery or care because he
28:08
didn't have health insurance and no one would cover him.
28:10
And he didn't couldn't afford it out of his pocket, even though
28:14
he made some of the most iconic and great death metal of all
28:16
time. And I think he was probably
28:18
moving into some progressive metal.
28:22
I feel very fortunate that death to all is the thing.
28:25
I think Chuck's music lives on in all these great crazy tech
28:28
death bands. Left to Die and Gruesome are two
28:32
bands that are, you know, pure death worship and honor.
28:36
I think you hear death in a lot of current bands and a lot of
28:40
people still are learning at the feet of Chuck and the fingers of
28:44
Chuck. We have some interviews coming
28:47
up on the channel both with Matt Harvey of Gruesome and Exhumed
28:53
and also Gus Rios of of Left to Die and Gruesome to talk a bit
28:59
about Chuck as well. So hey, Wise Blood records this
29:01
year. I'm up late doing a little live
29:02
stream now. I hope you're well.
29:05
And great lyric writing, like, you know, great and evolved as a
29:09
vocalist from like his early screamy thrash stuff to more
29:14
pure death metal, right? What a loss.
29:21
Definitely a guy that was not replaceable.
29:24
You know, Prince, man, maybe not the first name you think of when
29:28
you think of this channel or when you think of rocket metal,
29:31
but Prince was absolutely a rocker as much as he was a
29:35
funker, you know, a funk master and, and a maestro of R&B and
29:40
soul and sex. The guy was an incredible guitar
29:44
player, an extremely skilled student of rock music.
29:49
It's clear his influences melded these things all together in a
29:53
way that really never been done before, never truly been done
29:58
before. He was revolutionary, and that's
30:00
not just a pun. Prince is unbelievable and it's
30:05
such a devastating loss. And I'll share a little
30:10
anecdote. Ironically, here's a connection.
30:12
Just unironically. Hey, Pike Bishop is here and
30:14
says Cliff hurt the most. Absolutely.
30:16
So young, so tragic, so much in front of him.
30:18
And again, it's very cynical to say that Metallica would have
30:22
stayed heavy or stayed trash. Cliff was the guy making him do
30:26
like Fade to Black and some of called Cthulhu and like Ryan and
30:33
Cliff is the one that wanted them to make concise punk rock
30:36
songs and not these and Justice for all nine minute epics.
30:40
He would have very much been in the camp of the Black Album.
30:44
Maybe it would have even been softer.
30:48
Definitely love Cliff though. Cliff's a huge inspiration to
30:50
me. I used to play bass and I had a
30:52
wild like Cliff and all these things.
30:54
Prince is incredible and really we'll never really know what we
30:59
could've got. He died so young and we lost so
31:02
much. The guy was one-of-a-kind.
31:04
Absolutely. You can't really say that about
31:05
everybody on this list, but Prince was absolutely
31:07
one-of-a-kind. Bowie, man.
31:10
Bowie hurt a lot, kind of right after, you know, that year was
31:14
terrible, right after Lemmy. And the thing with Bowie is that
31:20
he was sick for years with cancer and didn't tell anybody
31:24
outside of his most inner circle.
31:25
Was not made public and he just kind of created the his final
31:31
masterpiece record, Black Star in kind of privacy with his
31:36
usual collaborators. He knew he was going to perish.
31:39
He knew he was going to die and he made this unbelievable
31:42
record. Bowie really copied and imitated
31:45
over and over. He was really reinvented himself
31:50
so many times, so many times really.
31:55
There's very few artists who can really compare him to.
31:57
He had many lives. He cut across 5-6 decades of
32:01
music, 7 decades of music and it really hasn't been the same
32:06
since he passed. You know, it really, it really
32:11
hurt. Bowie was great.
32:13
My partner here at Ghost Ghost called Omar was at the David
32:17
Bowie 50th birthday party in New York City in the 90s and I was
32:22
like, where the fuck was I? I was probably on drugs,
32:25
honestly. Alcohol, on drugs.
32:26
Anyway, I was in a fucking stupor.
32:31
Anyhow, Bowie, another tough one.
32:35
Pink Floyd, man, Pink Floyd is my favorite band ever and the
32:38
death of Rick Wright hit me extremely hard.
32:41
Rick is the secret sauce that makes the band wonderful.
32:44
His vocals, his piano, his jazz sensibilities is the Prague in
32:49
the prog rock of Pink Floyd to a great degree.
32:52
And they all are. And Rick was just beautiful,
32:57
man. And I really love how much he's
32:59
featured in the Pompeii footage, in Live at Pompeii, the album
33:03
and the footage. They really show him and his
33:06
craft. You know, he never, he kind of
33:11
suffered because of the split. He's the person that suffered
33:14
the most. He was technically fired by
33:16
Rodger from Pink Floyd and he can never really be hired back
33:19
officially. So they always paid him like a
33:22
like, you know, a hired guy, very well hired guy, very well
33:26
paid hired guy. But just one of the real legends
33:29
of of classic rock and just so distinctive and interesting and
33:35
really the art of playing beautifully and gently and
33:39
slowly and patiently as opposed to, you know, another Keith
33:44
Emerson passed and Greg Lake passed.
33:45
Those guys are great. And I love Keith Emerson and
33:47
Rick Wakeman is still out there banging around and John Lord
33:50
passed away. There's many of them.
33:52
But you know, Rick was one-of-a-kind.
33:54
He really was very special. And nobody quite sounds like
33:57
him. And and people are still copying
34:00
his stuff and still copying Pink Floyd to this day.
34:04
Jimi Hendrix, man, maybe except for Eddie Van Halen, did more
34:08
for guitar and guitar music than anybody ever like, just.
34:13
But what he did in a few years to push guitar music forward to
34:18
the pinnacle, to the lead of all of rock music, it cannot be
34:23
understated. There are nice little solos in
34:25
The Beatles music. There are some cool solos in The
34:27
Who. There are some great solos even
34:30
by Clapton on Cream and things, but Hendrix just, you know,
34:34
reinvented everything. Guitar, guitar sounds, recording
34:38
guitar, guitar effects, guitars themselves, how to be a
34:42
performer, how to be a showman. His first show in London, the
34:46
front row was The Beatles and Eric Clapton and The Who all
34:49
like mouth open like a gape, like they didn't know what they
34:53
were seeing. Like an alien came down and said
34:56
take me to your leader. But instead he was there.
35:00
There was a Beatles record that came out like Sergeant Pepper
35:02
came out on a Tuesday, and Jimmy played in London on Thursday and
35:06
opened with Sergeant Pepper the song.
35:08
And the band was like, what the fuck?
35:10
He bought the record and learned the song like in a few days.
35:13
I'm not saying it's not impossible now, but that's the
35:15
dedication. That's the talent level.
35:17
This guy had another seltzer. I wish it was a beer right now.
35:22
But yeah, Jimmy, man. Still, I listen to Hendrix
35:25
records and Floyd records and I and Zeppelin records and Sabbath
35:29
and I and Lizzie and I still discover new things.
35:31
You know, I could have put Keith Moon in here, too.
35:37
I didn't put Keith Moon in here, but that's OK.
35:40
Who's a little before my time, actually.
35:42
But good band, Ramones, man. This one also gutted me because
35:46
growing up in New York City, Oh, Bill's Mafia 716 and change,
35:52
says Cornell, still hurts. Still hurts, man.
35:54
I'm with you Ramones. Being a New York guy, I love
35:57
Ramones. I was never a punk.
36:00
I was always a metal head and punk adjacent.
36:02
But I grew up with a lot of punks and hardcore kids.
36:05
And I really love the Ramones, man.
36:08
I I love them so much. And especially the one that hurt
36:11
the most is honestly Joey. Johnny's a guy nobody liked.
36:14
He was very talented, he could write a riff.
36:17
Dee Dee was a wonderful disaster and all the original Ramones are
36:22
passed and Joey hurt the most. I really hope that Johnny's wife
36:28
let's up and allows that movie to get made.
36:33
I think Pete Davidson is trying to play the role of Joey Ramone.
36:35
He's obsessed with them. He's loves the Ramones,
36:38
apparently. I think that's interesting, kind
36:40
of his star power and comedic ability.
36:42
I'm sure you could get like a really fun cast to play Blondie
36:45
and Talking Heads and Wire and Television and Alan Vega and
36:49
things like that, the CBG VS People.
36:51
But Ramones, I got to see him a few times.
36:53
They were unbelievable, and it's very sad that they are all gone.
36:58
I really want to get to Berlin someday and go to the Ramones
37:01
museum there. Why is there not a Ramones
37:03
museum in New York? What the hell?
37:07
Eddie Van Halen, This one's brutal.
37:10
Just because he suffered a lot and he was very sick to the end,
37:12
which I find, you know, very sad.
37:15
But yeah, Eddie, this is a Photoshop again by Evil Rob for
37:19
Ghost Cult in 2015 on their final.
37:22
What wound wound up being their final tour?
37:30
And you know, man, just really rough.
37:37
He was so revolutionary and great.
37:39
Similar to Hendrix, he pushed guitar boundaries of guitar.
37:44
I know people want to say Van Halen was simple, but like, you
37:46
know, they could have made more complex music.
37:49
They were trying to make, like, simple, catchy songs and then
37:53
show off in the space between. It's so brilliant.
37:56
It's so essential. He really changed everything.
38:01
I mean, overnight people were throwing away their pedals and
38:03
going over to racks and changing their type of guitars and amps.
38:06
And really, maybe today's Polyphia and Pliny and Animals
38:14
As Leaders and all your shredding people don't exist.
38:18
If Van Halen didn't and Randy Rhodes was coming up soon,
38:21
didn't kind of push the genre forward the way Hendrix did, you
38:26
know, 10 years prior. And what a loss.
38:29
And we lost Van Halen. And Alex has totally got rid of
38:31
all his drums. And obviously he's old and hurt
38:33
too. But he, you know, he lost his
38:35
love for music because his brother died.
38:37
Similar to Finnie, very sad. Peter Steele, Type O Negative,
38:42
man. The fun part of Type O Negative
38:45
is I got to see him a few times, but also I could have seen him
38:48
like 100 times and I was like, these guys play all the time in
38:51
New York. I'll see him next time.
38:53
I'll see him next time. And I would go occasionally, but
38:55
they would show up at a festival I was at like Oz Fest, and they
38:58
were there. But Type O Negative was great.
39:02
Again, a lot of personal stories tied up to acquaintances and
39:05
close friends of mine with Peter, by all accounts, a
39:08
wonderful person and I know he was a complex person, a big fan
39:12
of carnivore. Take it for what it is, you
39:15
know, somewhat of a, you know, an ironic joke band.
39:20
And Peter was just magical. Type O Negative's music is
39:23
magical. I highly recommend probably the
39:26
closest thing we'll ever get to a Type O Negative.
39:29
Maybe someday. We've heard that both Johnny and
39:31
Kenny are open to a Type O Negative tribute show, but I
39:35
think what you should do is check out Sun Don't Shine, which
39:38
is the new super group with Kenny and Johnny from Typo and
39:42
Kirk and Todd from Down. And they have a new single
39:46
coming out soon. And the final writing session is
39:49
taking place now for their debut album, which I think is very
39:52
exciting on Corpse Paint Records.
39:54
I'm very excited about that. But Peter always close to my
39:57
heart and I love that dude. Neil Perk.
40:00
This kind of shattered me. And again, it was like just we
40:02
didn't know he was sick, and then we found out how sick he
40:05
was after he died, which is just absolutely tragic.
40:10
I don't really care for people talking like I knew all along he
40:14
was sick or he was, we were, you know, I was in the know.
40:18
And you know, name dropping a person after they die when
40:24
they're not around to verify it is a very convenient kind of
40:27
thing, very unique to the Internet and social media and
40:31
click bait things. But you know, very sad I did not
40:36
go to the farewell, what became the farewell Rush 40 tour.
40:40
I was like, oh, they'll be back in another year.
40:41
I'll go next year on the new album.
40:43
And they never came back. But I saw Rush many times in my
40:45
first arena concert ever was Rush and Kansas at Madison
40:51
Square Garden when I was in junior high school.
40:54
Which is crazy because I'm fucking old.
40:57
RIP to the professor, ACDC. Man, just even looking at this
41:03
picture makes me sad. Highway to Hell photo shoot
41:06
here. Von Scott on your right hand
41:09
side and Malcolm Young on the left.
41:11
Malcolm obviously died a few years ago.
41:16
We might have just seen the last A/C DCUS tour.
41:19
I'm hopeful they're going to announce another bunch of dates.
41:21
But really, they did what they could do, and it was like 15
41:25
dates, tops across the country. And that's all they could do.
41:28
And so, you know, every city got kind of two dates or two dates
41:31
close to each other so people could drive a certain distance
41:34
to see them. But, you know, Bond died.
41:37
Bond was like the soul of the band and really underrated as a
41:42
singer and a front man. And you know him, Levy and Ozzy
41:45
used to raise hell. Mark Evans, who was the original
41:51
bassist or the original sort of prominent basis of ACDC before
41:56
Cliff came in for like 40 something years.
41:58
Mark's book, which is highly recommended.
42:00
Mark was like, we were waking up after a particular hard weekend
42:06
of carousing and we're like lounging on a on a deck and some
42:10
robes and we're looking out at the Eiffel Tower.
42:13
And Bond looks over to me while we're like soaking up some sun
42:17
with hangovers and sunglasses on and drinks and smokes and he
42:21
goes on. I think they got one of them
42:23
towers in Paris, but we're in Paris, that's the Eiffel Tower.
42:28
Oh, cool, gone. But, you know, Malcolm was a Rif
42:32
machine and really was the heartbeat of that band as much
42:35
as anybody, as much as Angus is the face of the band, you know,
42:39
Malcolm was really the soul. And one of my regrets is I've
42:42
never seen ACDCI. Wouldn't mind going but it's not
42:46
going to be the same with Malcolm.
42:48
Brian is great and did a great job.
42:50
Very few bands have succeeded even more after switching
42:54
singers or having a singer pass away.
42:56
ACDC is one of them. I wouldn't argue about Black
43:00
Sabbath or Van Halen. This is Randy Rhodes's mom D
43:06
with Ozzy, Sharon John 5. I see Zack Wylde there some
43:12
other faces when Randy was inducted into the Rock Walk in
43:17
Hollywood 21 years ago. D Rhodes has passed away since
43:23
then. Obviously Randy Rhodes at the
43:25
time of his past and he probably would have abandoned rock music.
43:29
There's a there's a Randy Rhodes biography movie in the works.
43:34
There's an Ozzy movie in the works.
43:38
Randy, you know, tragically died in that, you know, plane crash.
43:45
Just brutal. He was so young, he was so
43:48
gifted. He definitely was rising beyond
43:50
metal. He probably would have
43:52
eventually left Ozzy's band to do something else in music.
43:55
He probably would have been, I think like a Segovia or a
44:00
progressive rock musician like Devin Townsend without the
44:03
vocals. That's my guest.
44:06
Really incredible. There's definitely a camp of
44:08
people think Randy was ahead of Eddie at that time, but they
44:12
were very similar from similar cuts and he is the shit.
44:16
He is incredible the the bodywork that he left behind.
44:21
Wyland. Here's Scott Wyland, man,
44:23
absolutely tragic. Velvet revolver and of course,
44:26
Stone Tuble pilots, one of the most.
44:29
It's weird. They got kind of smashed a
44:31
little when they came out right at the sort of the break of
44:34
grunge bands in that second wave with Bush and other bands.
44:38
But really, Stone Tuble Pilots is far beyond just a grunge band
44:42
or, you know, obviously they were San Diego by way of New
44:45
Jersey and not Seattle. And violin is not at all from
44:49
that area. But he just ended up their
44:51
singer, you know, just phenomenal.
44:55
Just a phenomenal singer, a brilliant, poetic lyricist, and,
45:01
you know, just a very big tragedy that he passed.
45:08
And of course, you can't talk about these things without
45:11
talking about The Beatles. John murdered, you know, half a
45:14
King Crimson dude. More than that, I'm so sad about
45:18
Crimson Crimson, one of my favorite bands also.
45:20
And Bill Reeflin died a few years ago.
45:23
I saw the last full tour of King Crimson with Bill on drums like
45:27
yeah, sick man, just the original lyricist.
45:30
That's right. And Giles side and yeah, just
45:34
very, very sad. But you know, Beatles, obviously
45:37
John murdered. I was like a little kid watching
45:40
Monday Night Football because December 8th is not only the day
45:43
that I'm very was killed and the day that John Lennon was
45:47
murdered, but it's my mom's birthday.
45:48
So we were like Monday night watching Monday Night Football
45:53
and having, like, ice cream with my mom for her birthday.
45:56
And then Howard Cosell announces that John Lennon is dead,
45:59
obviously a long time later. And after that, George Harrison,
46:05
who had a insane life. Like, he was so good.
46:09
And he got to really come into his own outside of The Beatles
46:13
as a solo artist and the collaborator with other artists
46:17
and bands, traveling Wilburys and things like that.
46:19
And then he was like there was like a home invasion in his home
46:22
in Staten Island and he was stabbed almost to death.
46:25
He recovered from that and then died anyway of cancer.
46:29
But George and and and John obviously legends Beatles not I
46:34
love the later Beatles more than the early Beatles.
46:37
And I think some of The Beatles solo stuff equals The Beatles.
46:39
But you know, we still have Paul and we still have Ringo.
46:43
I don't, you know, those guys are both 80 something, which is
46:47
wild. And of course the biggest band
46:50
in the last 25 years is Slipknot and they've lost two of their
46:53
founding members and they're still going on with sometimes
46:57
Clown and just Clown and Corey. And I think Clown is not
47:00
participating in some of the Slipknot's headline tour stuff
47:04
right now because he's got some family problems.
47:06
But you know, obviously Joey died 4 years ago and, and Paul
47:11
15 years ago. And it's nice that the band pays
47:14
it forward and everything they do with that with those guys.
47:17
And you know, again, cynical people are like how dare they
47:20
continue without those guys that help Co found the band.
47:24
Well, they're not here, unfortunately, And apparently
47:27
both the estates of of the both the estates of those guys have
47:34
permitted. Looks like the garbage dump is
47:36
here. This is an especially tough one
47:45
for me, man. Trevor Surnard is a person I
47:47
knew personally. We interviewed him.
47:50
The very first Ghost Cult podcast interview was with
47:52
Trevor. Trevor lived in Brooklyn for
47:55
quite a time when I also had moved back to Brooklyn from
47:58
Boston before I moved here to California.
48:00
Trevor was absolutely wonderful. He did so much for Underground
48:04
Metals. So many unknown bands got put on
48:10
because of Trevor. I mean he really one of the
48:13
biggest tragedies in the last few years.
48:15
Suicide is terrible. It leaves people with such a
48:18
loss. But also like, think of how much
48:20
pain he was in to take his own life.
48:23
I still miss the guy. He was really good to ghost
48:25
Cult. He was always nice to us and
48:31
it's rough man, it's very rough. I get emotional.
48:37
I just think about it on the bar which is getting picked up in my
48:40
building one more second. We now have the unfortunate
48:48
distinction of having several people that we've interviewed
48:51
pass away, and one of those people is Riley Gale of Power
48:54
Trip. And we was one of our first big
48:58
in person interviews. I watched the band playing many,
49:02
many shows where they slayed. I once spent a whole night with
49:05
him at Duffs Alcohol Abuse Center in Brooklyn, drinking and
49:08
talking politics. Yeah, absolutely.
49:12
Sheridan Douglas. And we're going to talk about
49:15
that in a minute. I'm a big nitsoreb fan.
49:21
I don't even like writing obituary.
49:23
Like, you know, I write a good deal of the news on
49:26
ghostcalledman.com and I don't like writing obituaries.
49:29
I'm a I'm a trained, I'm a trained TikTok.
49:35
It's like we're restricting you for talking about death and
49:37
unalighing. Great.
49:39
I'm trying to help people and myself anyway, you know, I'm I
49:44
went to journalism school. So like I learned how to write
49:47
death notices and obituaries and I don't like doing it.
49:50
They all hurt to a degree. Riley hurts me and I I sat next
49:55
to this guy and talked about, you know, him being liberal in a
50:00
red state and what that was like and how to organize and how to
50:04
be politically active and not be a douche knuckle and not, you
50:08
know, have it be part of your musical identity and not ruin
50:10
your band doing it. So I'm in favor of power trip
50:15
continuing the way they are now. I do believe they're going to
50:18
sign a record deal and put out new music at some point in the
50:21
future. That may be controversial, but
50:23
we shall see. Riley was one-of-a-kind.
50:25
Also an amazing and a huge, just a hugely knowledgeable fan of
50:30
punk and metal, which I loved about him.
50:33
Tom Petty Here you go, just 54. Die too young.
50:38
Just you know, men. I'm, I'm almost the same age
50:43
that Tom is when he passed. And I have been taking, you
50:47
know, more serious care of my health the last year and a half.
50:53
This year has been mostly mental health.
50:55
Last year was more physical stuff, but I'm doing both in
50:58
equal measures as much as I humanly can.
51:00
And, you know, maybe Tom was not paying attention or ignoring
51:05
certain signs. Maybe we could have got, you
51:08
know, we never know. We could have got checked out.
51:10
But it sucks. It's super sucks.
51:14
Thanks again, everybody watching here.
51:20
Steve Clark of Def Leppard, man, I should not do these things
51:23
overnight. Steve Clark, Steven Steve of Def
51:25
Leppard died of alcoholism. He had kind of stepped down from
51:30
the band. He was replaced by Vivian
51:31
Campbell, formerly Dio, and Nancy Savage, and a bunch of
51:34
other bands. And Steve is really the
51:37
architect of Def Leppard's early success.
51:40
His rhythm guitar, his songwriting was really the heart
51:46
and soul of that band for a long time.
51:48
And it's clear their best material was with Steve.
51:52
I think everything after generalized his big step down.
51:55
And I like the band a great deal, and I would love to see
51:57
them again someday. I know most of the show is kind
52:01
of on tape, but it kind of has to be.
52:03
Steve was incredible. He's really underrated as a
52:05
songwriter. And he was, you know, just
52:08
still. There's a memorial to him in his
52:11
hometown of Sheffield, England, where the band is from, where
52:14
Def Leppard is from. And he's still, you know, well
52:17
regarded and, you know, the scene.
52:22
Yeah, same thing, man. Same thing.
52:24
Thrash, man. I agree.
52:26
And of course can't have this conversation.
52:27
I'll talk about Kurt Cobain on the day after Nirvana surpasses
52:32
2 billion streams on YouTube for Smells Like Teen Spirit, of
52:40
course, which only took them five years to get another
52:43
billion after the first billion. You know, Kurt Cobain, Not my
52:46
favorite Seattle band, not my favorite guy, but inarguably an
52:51
excellent band that had a profound impact on generations
52:54
of musicians. People are still discovering
52:56
this band, you know, very interesting stuff for some cool
53:03
insight about and, and I mean, of course, like Mark Lanigan,
53:06
Seattle's had so many people pass away.
53:09
I don't really have a good photo of Mark that I'm able to use but
53:12
legally, but Mark is also hugely important to me, you know, would
53:19
be one of them. You know, Kurt, I remember where
53:21
I was when he passed away too, was a shockwave when he died.
53:24
It was horrifying. This is kind of the halfway
53:29
point of the show. So yeah, once again, if you want
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Pretty close to me. Used to live.
53:54
Alright, Sheridan, checking in from perhaps the UK or from the
53:58
UK. Nice to meet you.
54:00
Thanks for sharing that comment. I appreciate you and I
54:03
appreciate you being part of this conversation.
54:06
Yeah, Doug McCarthy, very sad for me, man.
54:09
And yeah, again, this is our tip menu.
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I should update this for tomorrow.
54:12
But anyhow, 2:30 in the AM on the Pacific Coast, I got to go
54:16
to bed soon. But this is almost over.
54:18
Obviously again beside Douglas, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys
54:23
passed away or announced he passed away today.
54:26
Sliced stone earlier this week. I don't know if you were MTV
54:30
watchers of like the last, you know, 25 years, Inaga Lewis
54:34
passed away from breast cancer or after a bout with breast
54:38
cancer. That's just we're losing people
54:40
left and right and, you know, listen, Brian.
54:44
Oh, Slashes from there. That's Stoke Stoke on Trent,
54:46
right, Killer slash and his mom, who Tiny Dancer is about his
54:52
mom, by the way, Slashes mom. I don't know if a lot of people
54:55
know that, but so, yeah, man, Sly Stone, we're losing a lot of
55:03
our heroes and I'm really worried about Ozzy.
55:07
I know I had a picture of Ozzy earlier with the Randy Rhodes
55:09
plaque. Really, really concerned about
55:15
Ozzy. Like he even said, I hope I can
55:17
even, you know, I'm trying my best to get into shape to do a
55:20
few songs, but can I even do it? I don't even know if I'll make
55:24
it. Like, that's so upsetting.
55:25
I'm not ready to live without Ozzy.
55:27
You don't know. Here's another couple of ones,
55:31
just a few more to run out the string on this.
55:35
Nick Menza. There's a documentary about Nick
55:37
coming out. This was My Life by Ellson
55:40
Films, made by David Ellison, his former band mate in
55:43
Megadeth. This picture makes me happy and
55:46
sad. Nick being Nick and the NAMM
55:48
show and the taker of this photograph, Molina Dellamongio,
55:53
who worked for Ghost Called, died just a few months after
55:56
Nick died, a few months after this photo was taken.
55:59
So this photo was taken in January 2016.
56:02
Nick passes away, has a heart attack on stage in LA at the
56:05
baked potato, dies. Molina passed away a few months
56:11
later. Just a terrible chain of events
56:13
and always kind of forever linked for me.
56:16
But Molina was wonderful. We've had some wonderful
56:18
staffers that lost their lives with us and I again am very
56:24
fortunate to do what I do and know the people I know.
56:26
Mitch Lucker of Suicide Silence died terribly.
56:33
Was nice. I met him a few times.
56:35
I wasn't the hugest Suicide Silence fan but the band has
56:39
continued on with Eddie Hermita from OSHA Parish and Mitch by
56:43
all accounts was a nice guy and a real big booster to the scene
56:48
in smaller bands. Not sure if any of you all out
56:52
there were fans. Reed Mullen This is another one.
56:55
I love Corrosion and Conformity and Reed Mullen.
57:00
This is one of the last times we ever covered him and he died.
57:04
He also had some demons, but his health kind of gave out on him
57:08
before he could turn his demons around.
57:10
COC is an incredible band and I love his drumming and he was AI.
57:15
Don't know how many people are legends across a few different
57:17
genres, but in terms of Stoner doom, Stoner rock, thrash, and
57:23
punk, Reed is one of those dudes.
57:27
He definitely was a great dude. I have a picture of me and him
57:30
somewhere on one of my other accounts.
57:34
This is a thumbnail from YouTube.
57:36
But it's just like this is a very common photo people have of
57:40
of dead and Euronymous from Mayhem, right?
57:42
A dead took his own life. We've seen Lords of cats.
57:45
We've read the book. I wish someone had killed Barg
57:48
instead of bark killing Euronymous.
57:50
But you know, you can't have first wave black metal without
57:54
these guys. And whatever you think about
57:57
Mayhem today, the entire black metal scene owes these two guys
58:03
specifically. Dad was incredible,
58:05
one-of-a-kind as a vocalist, too.
58:07
And he probably would have developed even further had he
58:09
not died. And, you know, we never know.
58:12
Eronymous might have, you know, come back to the band or come
58:16
rekindled the band at some point.
58:19
Jimmy the Reb Sullivan of Avenged Sevenfold died in 2009.
58:25
It's hard to believe it's going to be 16 years at Christmas
58:29
time. Guy was incredibly talented,
58:33
only 28 years old when he died and really was the the brains of
58:38
that band for a long time or so. I've been Sunfold a few times
58:41
with Jimmy and a few times since without, and I appreciate that
58:46
they pay tribute to him multiple ways, multiple songs.
58:50
Probably some of the best fans I've ever seen ever is Avenged
58:54
Sevenfold fans. I know that may sound like a
58:55
surprise to you all, but I really do think they have some
58:58
of the best fans. Clean Purple Unicorn has passed
59:02
by. Hello Lynyrd Skynyrd.
59:05
This is not that album, this is the debut album.
59:07
So it's not this exact band that had the plane crash.
59:10
But obviously, you know, we lost many members of Lynyrd Skynyrd
59:15
in that fateful plane crash after St.
59:17
Survivors and that prophetic album cover.
59:19
But Lynyrd Skynyrd managed to continue on to this day with a
59:24
different cast of people and you know, they they turn tragedy
59:30
into a positive story, which is admirable.
59:34
Lynyrd Skynyrd, who knows what more great music they would have
59:38
made. You know, if that crash should
59:41
not happen. Chuck Mosley.
59:44
I'm a huge Faith No More fan. And Chuck is the original singer
59:49
or the best known original singer of Faith No More.
59:52
Obviously on Introduce Yourself Clearly Patton comes in and
59:57
rejuvenates the band to a different level.
59:59
But you know what a great vocalist and and a fun front man
1:00:02
he was and really encapsulated the spirit of the early band,
1:00:06
especially whether it was his lyrics or Roddy's.
1:00:15
So yeah, rest in power, Chuck. Eddie Leeway died just recently.
1:00:21
Leeway is one of the most inspirational and original
1:00:25
hardcore and crossover thrash bands ever.
1:00:29
Just very sad Eddie's health problems caught up with him
1:00:31
after many years. We also lost Todd Youth who was
1:00:35
one of my favourite interviews ever.
1:00:37
I don't really have a a handy picture of Todd but the guy was
1:00:41
beast as a songwriter and a beautiful person.
1:00:44
I, I miss that guy. Also, this is the statue of
1:00:47
Stevie Ray Vaughan in Austin, TX.
1:00:50
I've never been to Austin. Tell me if you have if you are
1:00:52
from there or have been there. You know, Stevie Ray kind of was
1:00:57
hailed as the second coming of, of Jimmy in a lot of ways, at
1:01:01
least as a Blues man. He was, you know, likened to
1:01:04
Paige, Clapton and Beck for his guitar prowess.
1:01:07
And he died tragically in that helicopter crash in 1990.
1:01:14
And he's still revered in Texas for his plan, his Blues plan.
1:01:20
VTech from Decapitated. There's quite a few death metal
1:01:23
people on this list. Of course, we talked about
1:01:25
Chuck. I think the tragedy of VTech
1:01:28
dying so young and after really doing a masterpiece.
1:01:33
I don't know one death metal head that can't name Spears of
1:01:36
Madness and that riff we have, we may have some concert footage
1:01:41
of that coming up soon here in the channel on YouTube.
1:01:44
I'm glad Decapitating got to continue with their career with
1:01:48
Vog his brother. But what a loss again to lose
1:01:50
your brother and could carry on without him.
1:01:53
Just such a young guy, you know, just just very young, 23 years
1:01:59
old when he died. Here is Joy Division and Ian
1:02:03
Curtis in the centre. A little bum to see Joy Division
1:02:06
slash New Order. Not get in the Hall of Fame this
1:02:09
year, but fuck the Hall of Fame anyway.
1:02:12
Ian Curtis really special as a front man and lyricist and
1:02:15
vocalist and we really didn't get some get his full bore of
1:02:20
talents. Do you recommend seeing the Joy
1:02:24
Division movie that's out there? I thought it was pretty well
1:02:27
done. This is valfar from Windier.
1:02:33
Windier is one of the original second wave Norwegian black
1:02:38
metal bands and such an important important band.
1:02:45
Windier. I forget what it means in
1:02:51
folklore, in Norse it might mean Blizzard, I'm not sure.
1:02:58
But you know what an incredible band Terje Valfor Bakken is His
1:03:03
name and members of Windier went on to to Front Ride and Mr. and
1:03:09
course corporally. This guy was incredible.
1:03:12
Windier is a band you definitely have not heard enough of and you
1:03:15
need to go and check out if you love old school black metal.
1:03:22
I just found this is this is heartbreaking.
1:03:24
So one of my favorite industrial metal bands is God Lives
1:03:27
Underwater and this is David Riley.
1:03:29
And I just found out going down like a rabbit hole about God
1:03:32
Lives Underwater, which I listen to all the time, literally every
1:03:36
week. And I just now realized that he
1:03:38
died like 20 years ago. Just what the fuck?
1:03:45
Put out tons of music, mostly unknown, produced and remixed a
1:03:49
lot of other people. Was signed to Rick Rubin's
1:03:53
American Recordings and they had a couple of hits and MTV hits
1:03:57
even in the post MTV hit age. And then he just kind of
1:04:01
vanished. Very sad.
1:04:05
Then a few more people who are not rocker metal but just maybe
1:04:09
they touched your life or maybe their music was important to
1:04:11
you. Obviously Biggie Smalls and
1:04:13
Tupac, the two poles polar opposites of of hip hop in the
1:04:18
90s. I'm personally more of a Tupac
1:04:20
person in terms of quality and talent, but Biggie was hugely
1:04:23
important. I'm from the East Coast.
1:04:25
Pock is also originally from the East Coast, but he's obviously
1:04:28
associated with the West Coast rap.
1:04:29
Amy Winehouse, Phenomenal voice. I host some karaoke every Sunday
1:04:33
and a lot of people sing a lot of Amy Winehouse stuff, so I
1:04:36
kind of gotten a new appreciation for her talent.
1:04:40
She was always, I thought, a great vocalist, but I didn't
1:04:42
really wasn't listening to a lot of pop music back, you know, 15,
1:04:47
20 years ago. I was really just listening to
1:04:49
what I listened to and, and I like a lot of stuff that's not
1:04:52
pop. I didn't mention any jazz
1:04:54
artists here. And I have an encyclopedic
1:04:56
knowledge of all errors of jazz. And I didn't bring up anybody.
1:05:00
And I could have, you know, Body Count has lost a ton of band
1:05:05
members. I didn't mention them.
1:05:06
There's a bunch of people we didn't bring in, but Selena,
1:05:10
Selena's hugely influential and important.
1:05:14
She would have been probably by now on the level of a Taylor
1:05:17
Swift or a Beyoncé. And she not been murdered.
1:05:20
Very sad. Sinead O'Connor died recently.
1:05:24
Again, very sad, tragic and hard fought life.
1:05:28
And I'm really amazing singer and spirit and soul and they're
1:05:33
just going too soon, just gone too soon, too good for the world
1:05:36
and gone too soon. And George Michael, not at all
1:05:38
rock or metal, but honestly a personal favorite of mine.
1:05:41
I love George Michael to a level you can't understand and just an
1:05:47
incredible singer and I never got to see him.
1:05:49
That's my bad. So I'll I'll leave on that note.
1:05:53
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1:06:07
death in rock and metal or not rock and metal, whatever.
1:06:10
Fish, Penny Zappa, Andre Segovia.
1:06:14
Maybe it's Beethoven, you know, maybe it's Janis Joplin, maybe
1:06:19
it's Jim Morrison, the 27 Club, maybe it's Kurt Cobain.
1:06:25
Lance Daily. Absolutely.
1:06:27
Elaine was at the top of the show here.
1:06:29
Thanks for chiming in there here late.
1:06:31
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1:06:34
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