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Music's Lost History Its Classic Rocker About Sex Without Coming Out And Saying It · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Narrow Collins.
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  Speaker 2: Musics Lost History.
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  Speaker 1: The stories that make you move.
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  Speaker 2: Your soundtrack on fire Music's Lost History name song far
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  Speaker 2: Way Down.
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  Speaker 1: There used to be a time when MTV, radio, v
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  Speaker 1: H one and YouTube put a lot of importance on
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  Speaker 1: the physical act of storytelling. These days we've got AI
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  Speaker 1: and all of that data didn't live it. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know the name? What songs do you say?
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  Speaker 2: Musics Lost History? Name the song Wait to.
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  Speaker 1: Collins, his back and back back back we Are. This
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  Speaker 1: is one of those songs that sounds like it was
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  Speaker 1: carefully engineered become a classic rock tune, but its beginnings
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  Speaker 1: were very spontaneous. Now, the song itself was written by
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  Speaker 1: Dave Peverrett. The idea came from one of those good
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  Speaker 1: old fashioned jam sessions. I mean, the band was already
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  Speaker 1: known for its deep blues and boogie, so it fit
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  Speaker 1: in quite well. This wasn't a slow process or a
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  Speaker 1: fogged over creative project. The members were on a mission
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  Speaker 1: to follow their influence blues great John Lee Hooker. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: the song is about sex, but that doesn't change the ride.
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  Speaker 1: The clever part is how the hats in the band
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  Speaker 1: never mention anything about sex once it's the tempo, the
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  Speaker 1: bassline and the insistent guitar that slows this Ride down
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  Speaker 1: into a take it easy mindset. But why does it
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  Speaker 1: sound so powerful?
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  Speaker 2: We're running back music clastiest name song the boy we Do.
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  Speaker 1: We've got more clues coming up next, Hey, welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: The drummer plays a very important role in the mood
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  Speaker 1: and mindset of this legendary classic rock tune. It's a heavy,
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  Speaker 1: steady pulse that enhances the sex appeal of that bass guitar.
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  Speaker 1: This is why you instantly recognize the song when it begins.
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  Speaker 1: What you've been jamming to, though on the radio is
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  Speaker 1: not the original version. Uh uh. Radio didn't have room
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  Speaker 1: for an eight minute piece of soon to be history.
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  Speaker 1: As much as we hear the song today, it barely
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  Speaker 1: scratched its way onto the top twenty on Billboard's charts.
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  Speaker 1: The important part of this story is that fog Hat
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  Speaker 1: did not set out to make this song timeless. Through
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  Speaker 1: great writing and unbelievable recording, Slow Ride was mastered in
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  Speaker 1: the way of making listeners feel incredible, which takes us
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  Speaker 1: all the way back to the origin. It's about sex
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  Speaker 1: without really coming out to say it, which is why
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  Speaker 1: you feel so good every time. Slow ride from fog
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  Speaker 1: Hat Music. Oh it is so so so lost, but
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  Speaker 1: we're here to find it. My name is Erro