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Graham Parker Talks 'This Is 40' Cameo [Highlight From Episode 331] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booked on Rock.
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  Speaker 1: We have Graham Parker and Jay Nackman, the author of
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  Speaker 1: Ram Parker's Howl and Wind. I was telling my friend
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  Speaker 1: I was going to be interviewing you, and she goes,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, this is forty That was the first
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  Speaker 1: thing she said, So what did that do for? What
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  Speaker 1: was that experience?
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  Speaker 2: So how did that all come about?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, But then also you know that that
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  Speaker 1: got you some notice, people recognize you, right, well, yeah
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  Speaker 1: it got.
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  Speaker 3: It was a really good career bump or life bump.
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  Speaker 3: Really it was like have my first album, right, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was.
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  Speaker 2: A bit like that. This was like, wow, this excitement
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  Speaker 2: is amazing. Man, great movie.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, For those who may not know, Graham
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  Speaker 1: is in.
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  Speaker 3: That John Apatow and you know pul Rudd, who's he
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  Speaker 3: talking to the Jewish Journal?
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  Speaker 4: The Jewish Journal.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently old Jews are the only ones who still buy
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  Speaker 1: hard copy of records because they don't like to download
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  Speaker 1: music because they don't know what downloading means. Why is
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  Speaker 1: this album different from men other album?
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  Speaker 4: It isn't. What is he wearing? It's a hat with
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  Speaker 4: the Oriole logo on it why. I don't think he's
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  Speaker 4: being ironic. I think he just really likes Oreos.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Paul Westburg record did okay, Frank Black record did
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  Speaker 1: all right?
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  Speaker 4: The haircut one hundred down so much.
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  Speaker 1: We have to break this record otherwise we're not here.
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  Speaker 2: Next year's oriole Man is coming Man to see Cookie
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  Speaker 2: is the best.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jewish journal guy loves the record.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 4: Got a bit of a problem, touch of gout. Gout. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: my whole family, they all had gout. Jesus, that's very unfortunately.
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  Speaker 3: My auntie Queeney, she had a foot like this is
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  Speaker 3: like a size of a small pig.
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  Speaker 4: I've got a photo of it.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to see that photo of that gout foot.
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  Speaker 4: And a couple of Bunyan's as well.
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  Speaker 3: Fuck, I've got to go to the podiatrist, and I
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  Speaker 3: hope he can shoot me up with something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, let's let's get you to the pediatrist.
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  Speaker 1: II Graham, good.
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  Speaker 2: Luck with your goat.
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  Speaker 4: Baby.
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  Speaker 2: It was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: I just reformed the rumor by accident, and they were
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  Speaker 3: going to Okay, they all agreed they were going to
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  Speaker 3: come to the USA. I wanted to do it there
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  Speaker 3: and a studio I'd worked out Struck by Lightning being
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  Speaker 3: one of the records, and quite quite a few others.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to do the first reunion album there. And
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  Speaker 3: within a week or two of doing that, John Appasow
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  Speaker 3: got a hold of my new publishing company and they
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  Speaker 3: said he wants to talk to you. I said, come on,
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  Speaker 3: give me okay email and I said, I'll meet you anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Jud And because he used Love Gets You Twisted in
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  Speaker 3: one of his shows, it's called Undeclared. Fantastic show actually,
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  Speaker 3: along with Freaks and Geeks, TV shows that never made
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  Speaker 3: it big because they were too good and TV networks
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  Speaker 3: didn't really regret show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there were.
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  Speaker 3: Great shows and I missed them entirely until my song
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  Speaker 3: had been used, and then I discovered Freaks and Geeks.
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  Speaker 3: I think it came before Undeclared. And so Judd is
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  Speaker 3: a big fan of lots of artists. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 3: just one of the many. But he saw the potential
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  Speaker 3: of me acting this guy who destroys the record company
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  Speaker 3: by dint of his spectacular unpopularity, and he's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm in my sixties. It was the record company in
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  Speaker 3: Unfiltered Record Paul Runn's record label has also signed hair
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  Speaker 3: Cut one hundred apparently, and you know, Frank Black without
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  Speaker 3: the main focus of his music, which is the Bigxies,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and he signed all these losers potentially and really,
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  Speaker 3: and I thought, oh, I can kill this role.
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  Speaker 2: This is me.
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  Speaker 3: I can destroy a record company just like that man,
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  Speaker 3: no problem.
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  Speaker 2: And so it was a great bump. It was a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful thing.
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  Speaker 3: And they were I was turning up at all these
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  Speaker 3: things at some big hall in New York with all
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  Speaker 3: the half most of the cast of the actors being
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  Speaker 3: flown first class.
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  Speaker 2: This is years after.
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  Speaker 3: Hollywood, to be at the Billboard building with artists and
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  Speaker 3: talking about music and film like I know anything blessing
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  Speaker 3: my way. So oh great, I get a lot of
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  Speaker 3: free food, a first class hotel, in the first class flight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah bring it, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And whenever I'd be out in England anywhere and a
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  Speaker 3: few people say it's Gray and Parker and they'd look
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  Speaker 3: me up. Oh yeah, I saw the movie. Young people,
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  Speaker 3: young people like twenty year.
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  Speaker 2: Old, Oh yeah, you're the guy who ruined that agency records.
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  Speaker 3: My neighbors in the here in London, their kids were
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  Speaker 3: watching the TV. They were watching the They didn't know
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  Speaker 3: much about me. They knew something to do with music.
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  Speaker 3: They were watching the TV one night and This Is
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  Speaker 3: forty came.
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  Speaker 2: On and they were like, it's great, it's next door.
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  Speaker 3: And the kids were really little. From then on, those
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  Speaker 3: kids were like hiding from me. So there's a movie
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  Speaker 3: starff you know. Now they're great, big tall men and
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  Speaker 3: they're like, you know, is that just that stupid geezer ol?
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  Speaker 2: The bumbles round and