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Episode 10: The Riffs Strike Back · Bearded And Crunchy

0:20
SPEAKER_01: From good year heights.
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SPEAKER_01: Music lovers everywhere.
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SPEAKER_02: Welcome back to Bearded and Crunchy episode ten.
0:32
SPEAKER_02: The Riff Strike Back.
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SPEAKER_02: That's right, guys.
0:36
SPEAKER_02: You heard it.
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SPEAKER_02: The music episode has returned.
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SPEAKER_02: New music episode.
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SPEAKER_02: We realized there was way too much uh way too much music stuff that that you just can't cram in an hour.
0:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: And to date, it's our biggest, our second biggest episode behind the Star Wars one.
0:57
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: The Star Wars one's a 75.
1:00
SPEAKER_02: Uh, but but the rifts is right there.
1:02
SPEAKER_02: Like 50 seven.
1:03
SPEAKER_02: I think it's at like no, I think it's up to like 54, 55.
1:06
SPEAKER_02: Oh, nice.
1:07
SPEAKER_02: Um, it's up there.
1:08
SPEAKER_02: So we knew we had to we we we had to come back to this.
1:12
SPEAKER_02: Me and Bob wanted to come back to this, and there's a few of our listeners that really, really enjoyed that episode.
1:17
SPEAKER_02: So people like music, apparently.
1:19
SPEAKER_02: And and as always, guys, uh, we want to thank you for for you know taking the hour out of your day to listen to us.
1:27
SPEAKER_02: And you know, your time is very important.
1:29
SPEAKER_02: You all have jobs and families, and you know, even if you don't, we still thank you for listening.
1:34
SPEAKER_02: And thanks for listening.
1:35
SPEAKER_02: We're on all socials, bearded and crunchy.
1:38
SPEAKER_02: Um, again, reach out to us.
1:39
SPEAKER_02: Our email is bearded and crunchy 26 at gmail, please.
1:43
SPEAKER_02: Uh email us.
1:44
SPEAKER_02: And and and is Bob.
1:45
SPEAKER_02: I'm glad you brought this up a couple episodes ago.
1:48
SPEAKER_02: If you're watching us, yeah, uh, like and subscribe, subscribe, uh, comment, do all of that because it it it it helps us tremendously.
1:56
SPEAKER_02: But Bob, we're here.
1:58
SPEAKER_02: Music part duh.
1:59
SPEAKER_01: Part duh.
2:01
SPEAKER_01: I was so excited about this when we were initially talking about it and getting where we were gonna go with it because I don't want to do the same episode as we did.
2:09
SPEAKER_02: Uh we definitely wanna we don't want to do the same thing over again because you can just go back and listen to that episode if you really wanted to.
2:18
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, I've been really excited to it too because you know the first one was fun because we got to tell everybody like what we loved what we loved and that kind of stuff, but now we can really start getting into who we are musically and and and to see you know last week was obvious, this week not so much.
2:39
SPEAKER_01: So um, yeah, it's yeah, I think we're gonna step, I think we're gonna step out of our comfort zones a little bit here.
2:45
SPEAKER_02: Definitely, definitely.
2:46
SPEAKER_02: You proposed uh a good question that's that's gonna put me out of mine, and you're gonna be put out of yours.
2:51
SPEAKER_02: So it's yeah, it's gonna be a fun episode.
2:54
SPEAKER_02: I think so.
2:54
SPEAKER_02: We definitely like doing these episodes.
2:57
SPEAKER_02: I mean, we've said in many episodes how much music really, you know, brought us together.
3:03
SPEAKER_02: You know, that's why the first three episodes were Star Wars, sports, and and music, because that's you know, really what our topics of conversations, you know, mainly, you know, subject matter was.
3:16
SPEAKER_02: So with that, it's time for the question, ain't it?
3:24
SPEAKER_01: And mine's kind of a mine is kind of a loaded question, honestly.
3:28
SPEAKER_01: And it's it I think they always are.
3:31
SPEAKER_01: But actually, I don't know this about you.
3:33
SPEAKER_01: And I thought about that, I was like, man, I don't know this about it.
3:35
SPEAKER_01: You don't know that about me.
3:36
SPEAKER_02: No, I I have no no clue.
3:38
SPEAKER_01: Mine's gonna blow your mind.
3:40
SPEAKER_01: Um because it's it it's not what you would think at all, uh, musically speaking, but it's cool.
3:46
SPEAKER_01: Eric, what was the first concert you could remember going to?
3:50
SPEAKER_02: So, like you, this one's gonna blow your mind.
3:53
SPEAKER_02: I I was a kid and I went with my parents, and this is actually still they had three really, really big hits, but they're not the biggest known uh uh band in the world.
4:08
SPEAKER_02: I mean they had their their in the late 70s, early 80s, they had their thing, but the Moody Blues.
4:13
SPEAKER_00: Dude, I love that band.
4:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Knights in White Satin in your wildest dreams, in your wildest dreams.
4:19
SPEAKER_02: Uh I I actually really really love the Moody Blues, but that was the very first concert that I I remember going to.
4:27
SPEAKER_02: I'm 99% sure that was the very first one.
4:30
SPEAKER_00: That's fucking bad, man.
4:32
SPEAKER_00: That's a great concert.
4:33
SPEAKER_02: I know, I know, and that's a good band.
4:35
SPEAKER_02: It is, and and from I mean, I was really young, but from what I remember and what I remember my parents saying, I had a blast.
4:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I could bet.
4:42
SPEAKER_01: I could bet it was it was a good concert, but they changed from the 70s into the 80s, though.
4:47
SPEAKER_01: They were more like what 70s rock sounded like, and then they kind of transitioned to that 80s like synth pop.
4:53
SPEAKER_01: Yep, yeah, but man, it was still so good.
4:56
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but they never really got away from that moody blue sound that made it kind of adapted to what was kind of you know what the trend was going, but not losing sight of themselves.
5:09
SPEAKER_01: That's almost like a deep cut, man.
5:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, nobody talks about moody blues.
5:13
SPEAKER_02: I had you amazing, and like I can show you, I have them in a playlist.
5:16
SPEAKER_02: Like, I I listen to I love uh the moody blues.
5:20
SPEAKER_02: So what about you, Bob?
5:23
SPEAKER_02: And mine's gonna I just I'm excited.
5:26
SPEAKER_02: It's kind of weird.
5:26
SPEAKER_02: You guys can see the smile on my face.
5:28
SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm anxious to hear this.
5:30
SPEAKER_01: So we live in you know northeast Ohio, and there's a radio station in Cleveland called uh 105.7 Magic 105.7 Magic 105 WMJ.
5:40
SPEAKER_01: And they used to do every year, they used to do the Magic Moondog Coronation Ball.
5:45
SPEAKER_01: Okay, where they would have a bunch of groups come in, like oldies groups.
5:49
SPEAKER_01: I actually went two years in a row back in the late 90s with my dad.
5:54
SPEAKER_01: The first time we went, I believe we saw Tommy James and the Shondells.
6:01
SPEAKER_01: Oh wow, right?
6:02
SPEAKER_02: That's old, like that's ball that's uh sock hop type stuff.
6:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but so it was them, I believe it was Leslie Gore.
6:11
SPEAKER_01: Oh wow, right?
6:13
SPEAKER_01: It's my party, and yeah, that and then we saw Little Anthony and the Imperials, Jesus, so like early Motown stuff, yeah.
6:22
SPEAKER_01: And then I believe to end the show, I believe it was Jay Black and the Americans.
6:26
SPEAKER_02: Oh wow.
6:26
SPEAKER_01: So that's all oldie stuff, but I like all that stuff.
6:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
6:30
SPEAKER_02: So that's kind of a like Yeah, yeah, that yeah, that you definitely I wasn't expecting that.
6:34
SPEAKER_02: You went went way back to the stuff.
6:36
SPEAKER_01: You think of like hard rock, heavy metal, or something like that.
6:39
SPEAKER_02: Uh I I'll give you an uh uh two more quick ones just since we're on that subject because it's music and why not.
6:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, the next one that I went to was the Doobie Brothers, and I seen them at Blossom at like seven years old.
6:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I can respect that.
6:53
SPEAKER_01: I like Doobie Brothers.
6:54
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, China Grove.
6:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's so you know, uh that was a good one.
6:58
SPEAKER_02: There was another band that was with them, and I can never remember it.
7:01
SPEAKER_02: Unfortunately, I can't ask my parents because they're not here.
7:03
SPEAKER_02: They don't.
7:04
SPEAKER_02: Um, but real quick, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna say one that's gonna blow your mind.
7:08
SPEAKER_02: But I don't know if you remember this, but in 1990, um when when Ninja Turtles was at their peak, they actually did a nationwide rock concert called We're Coming Out of Our Shells.
7:21
SPEAKER_01: I remember hearing that.
7:22
SPEAKER_02: My dad actually took me through.
7:24
SPEAKER_02: Really?
7:25
SPEAKER_02: One of the very few, you know, I talk about many a times we didn't have a lot of money and stuff.
7:29
SPEAKER_02: And there was there was, you know, times when we had a little bit and then we lost it, you know, whatever.
7:35
SPEAKER_02: Uh a lot of ups and downs.
7:36
SPEAKER_02: Um, we were never well off by any sense of the word, but yeah, I I remember going to that.
7:41
SPEAKER_02: I actually in one of my totes, I still have, I don't know if you remember this, but back in the day at concerts, they had programs, but they were like this big.
7:50
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
7:51
SPEAKER_02: They were literally like two and a half feet tall.
7:54
SPEAKER_02: They were huge.
7:55
SPEAKER_02: I still have it.
7:56
SPEAKER_02: Nice.
7:56
SPEAKER_02: Um, I'll have to try to find it.
7:58
SPEAKER_02: But in the YouTube video, I'll bring up I'll I'll show a couple of clips from the the concert.
8:04
SPEAKER_02: But it was guys in suits, and obviously, like they weren't singing and playing the the I mean, because they had these big ass suits on.
8:11
SPEAKER_02: I'm assuming they had a surrogate band behind because they were moving around the stage and shit.
8:15
SPEAKER_02: There's no way they were playing in those big ass suits.
8:18
SPEAKER_02: No, no, there's no fucking way.
8:19
SPEAKER_02: No, but I remember it being amazing, but that is a fucking amazing you always come up with the best questions.
8:25
SPEAKER_02: I mean, seriously, like it makes you think back, right?
8:28
SPEAKER_02: It does, and and I really think it really gets you in the mood and gets people ready to see what the rest of the episode is, and and and you're getting you're you're you're so unique with it that I I think I think eventually it's gonna be a um uh what's the word that I'm thinking of?
8:46
SPEAKER_02: It's it's gonna be something that we're gonna be known by.
8:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that and the dad joke, you know.
8:51
SPEAKER_01: Like I don't know, maybe.
8:52
SPEAKER_01: I hope it honestly makes people that listen to this stuff think.
8:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, and that's the thing.
8:57
SPEAKER_02: Like we talk about it, but these are to make you guys think about it.
9:00
SPEAKER_02: Like, I can tell you times when I've listened to podcasts and I've heard people talk about things, I'm in my car listening to it, going, fuck that.
9:07
SPEAKER_02: I like that, you know, shit like that.
9:09
SPEAKER_02: And that's what we want from you guys, you know, and that's why we tell you don't be like a ghost listener.
9:15
SPEAKER_02: Comment.
9:16
SPEAKER_02: Tell us your favorite concerts, guys.
9:17
SPEAKER_02: Go on our our our our our socials, go go to the YouTube in that video, comment.
9:22
SPEAKER_02: Like, we literally have had two comments out of all of the platforms.
9:28
SPEAKER_02: One was Bob and one was me, where I said these guys suck.
9:32
SPEAKER_02: Uh, just to see if anybody would see it.
9:35
SPEAKER_02: Um, guys, interact with us.
9:37
SPEAKER_02: We want to know your favorite stuff.
9:39
SPEAKER_02: Put it in the comments, you know.
9:40
SPEAKER_02: Send us, you know, if if you don't want it public, send us an email for sure.
9:45
SPEAKER_02: Send us the direct message.
9:46
SPEAKER_02: But we want to know this stuff about you guys too.
9:48
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I would love to hear some of that stuff because we love music.
9:51
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't matter what I don't give a shit.
9:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't, you know, I don't care if you like classical the bathtub with your toaster, it doesn't matter to me.
9:58
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't matter.
9:58
SPEAKER_02: Even if you like, like I there's a subject that we talked about for the first episode that we never got to, but our takes on popular artists and sounds that we don't like.
10:09
SPEAKER_02: Um, I think that's when we can we're not gonna be done with this episode music, guys.
10:14
SPEAKER_01: It's probably gonna be a recurring yeah.
10:15
SPEAKER_02: There's so much that we can talk about in music, but yeah, um, and it's perfect that question to go into what we're gonna talk about first.
10:26
SPEAKER_01: For sure, for sure.
10:27
SPEAKER_02: So we're gonna talk about some of our favorite concerts.
10:31
SPEAKER_02: Um, I'm gonna, you know, last episode, which you guys will, you know, will already know when you hear this, but don't know yet.
10:40
SPEAKER_02: Um, I kind of took the lead role on.
10:41
SPEAKER_02: It was kind of something more my wheelhouse.
10:43
SPEAKER_02: And although we're very equal in this, I want Bob to get his shine.
10:46
SPEAKER_02: So I'm gonna let him take the beginning of the uh these these topics so he can really, you know, especially because you know, with this music episode, like guys, he puts a lot of like thought into these, and yeah, we really try to make these laid out.
10:59
SPEAKER_01: So and try to try to remember things that happened from you know, sometimes 20 years ago, and yeah, starting a podcast at 45 instead of 25.
11:06
SPEAKER_02: We may have a lot more memories to talk about, but that's also a lot more shit we gotta try to remember.
11:11
SPEAKER_01: Which is fun though, because then it's like, well, it brings back those.
11:15
SPEAKER_02: Well, and then there's things you might say that I go, holy shit, I remember.
11:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I remember that, or oh, wait a minute, that made me think of this.
11:21
SPEAKER_02: So what's our first topic?
11:24
SPEAKER_01: Our first topic?
11:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's our favorite concerts, bro.
11:29
SPEAKER_02: It's a perfect segue.
11:30
SPEAKER_01: And I don't have like any particular order or anything like that.
11:34
SPEAKER_01: They're just my favorite concerts that I've personally attended.
11:38
SPEAKER_01: I know you've probably been to a hell of a lot more than I have.
11:40
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I've I'm I won't lie to you.
11:43
SPEAKER_02: I uh me and me and Rihanna have been at least just in our time together, at least 15.
11:51
SPEAKER_02: At least, and I would say more.
11:54
SPEAKER_02: But regardless, um, you know.
11:59
SPEAKER_02: So let's let's let's hear some of yours.
12:01
SPEAKER_01: I'm actually gonna start off in the year 2022 of our Lort.
12:05
SPEAKER_01: Ah, the LORT.
12:08
SPEAKER_01: And my wife and I actually saw these guys.
12:12
SPEAKER_01: They actually played at in Cleveland at Rocket Arena on our actual first anniversary.
12:18
SPEAKER_01: And they're one of those legacy bands where you're like, man, this is just great.
12:23
SPEAKER_01: They're always gonna be good.
12:24
SPEAKER_01: The music is always gonna be good.
12:26
SPEAKER_01: No matter who's singing, it's always gonna be good.
12:28
SPEAKER_01: But we got a chance to see Toto and Journey, Journey headlighting.
12:33
SPEAKER_01: And bro, let me tell you, Toto, freaking amazing.
12:36
SPEAKER_01: They played all the hits, obviously, because they didn't have an extensive catalog of you know greatness.
12:42
SPEAKER_02: Well, they they had great songs, but they didn't release big hits outside of Africa.
12:48
SPEAKER_01: Uh, there's Africa, there's Hold the Line, there's Roxanne.
12:51
SPEAKER_01: I always forget about it.
12:52
SPEAKER_01: Not Roxanne.
12:53
SPEAKER_02: Uh not Roxanne, um, but Hold the Line.
12:54
SPEAKER_01: Rosanna.
12:55
SPEAKER_01: Rosanna is Rosanna.
12:57
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
12:57
SPEAKER_01: I always say banana, bad, bad ding, bad ding.
13:02
SPEAKER_01: And yeah, like I said, we went on our anniversary for that.
13:08
SPEAKER_01: Great show.
13:08
SPEAKER_01: Journey played all of the freaking hits.
13:10
SPEAKER_01: And that's you.
13:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that that could be a two and a half hour.
13:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
13:15
SPEAKER_02: Those guys were fucking throwing out hits like Halloween candy.
13:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they they they did play for about two and a half hours.
13:20
SPEAKER_01: And it was like, and s there were some deep cuts too, but you know, obviously you got you know faithfully and you know, wheel in the sky, you know, the the massive, massive yeah, yeah, you know, journey hits.
13:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
13:34
SPEAKER_01: You know, the only regret obviously is no Steve Perry.
13:37
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
13:37
SPEAKER_01: But Arnell is amazing.
13:39
SPEAKER_01: You know, and they're actually, I think they're on their farewell tour or gonna be on their farewell tour this year.
13:45
SPEAKER_01: I believe.
13:46
SPEAKER_02: I'll believe it when they quit touring.
13:48
SPEAKER_02: Right.
13:49
SPEAKER_02: Like so many of these bands.
13:50
SPEAKER_02: I mean, dude, the the I'll get to it when I get into mine, but yeah.
13:55
SPEAKER_01: But then I I I kind of referenced this a little bit in the first music episode.
13:59
SPEAKER_01: I took my dad also in 2022.
14:02
SPEAKER_01: He's a massive Eagles fan.
14:03
SPEAKER_01: You know, I like the Eagles, I think you like the Eagles.
14:05
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love them.
14:06
SPEAKER_01: You know, tons of big hits.
14:08
SPEAKER_02: Uh their um greatest hits album is the top-selling album of all time.
14:13
SPEAKER_02: I can believe it.
14:14
SPEAKER_02: It's went uh triple diamond, I believe.
14:16
SPEAKER_02: It's sold over like 30 million or close to 30 million.
14:19
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
14:20
SPEAKER_02: It's insane.
14:21
SPEAKER_02: But when you think about the amount of hits that they had, I mean um uh obviously it's escaping me because I'm trying to think.
14:29
SPEAKER_02: But I mean, you got Hotel California, Take It Easy, Um Witchy Woman, I mean Desperado Desperado.
14:35
SPEAKER_02: That's a that was actually that's my that was my mom's favorite Eagles song.
14:40
SPEAKER_01: She loved that song.
14:41
SPEAKER_01: That album is phenomenal, and it's I from what I remember, my dad telling me about the album Desperado, it's written like a book, yeah, to where every song kind of leads into the next.
14:52
SPEAKER_01: So there's not a lot of people that do that kind of concept.
14:54
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, you know, one thing I'll say about the Eagles, they were like the original supergroup that because they they're like that in the original Wu-Tang.
15:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because like all of them had a fucking insane uh uh Glenn Fry, um uh uh I can't think of it.
15:11
SPEAKER_02: I know Don Henley, uh and then what's his face, the guitarist that um Joe Walsh.
15:17
SPEAKER_02: Joe Walsh.
15:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean, all of those guys had phenomenal careers by themselves.
15:22
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, it it's I mean, I I'm unfortunately that's one of the groups I I have not seen.
15:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh, but I can imagine, I mean, they could probably put on a three and a half hours.
15:31
SPEAKER_01: Oh, easy.
15:32
SPEAKER_01: I got a chance to see him with uh it was after Glenn Fry passed away, and his son wasn't there that night because his son had started filling in, and his son is amazing vocally, he sounds just like his dad.
15:43
SPEAKER_01: But we got lucky and got Vince Gill.
15:46
SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
15:47
SPEAKER_01: So and he's I I don't know if you ever really listened to Vince Gill.
15:50
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I remember him, but I uh you know, I I would be lying if I said like I listened to him a lot.
15:55
SPEAKER_01: But you automatically think country music, obviously.
15:57
SPEAKER_01: And bro, I'm gonna tell you he's a great guitar player, and he's he's a great singer, he can sing anything.
16:02
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
16:03
SPEAKER_01: So it it one of the best shows of a single band, like a single band show I've ever seen.
16:10
SPEAKER_01: And that it that was it, it was just them the whole night.
16:13
SPEAKER_01: They played Hotel California because it was whatever anniversary.
16:17
SPEAKER_01: They took like a 25-minute intermission and they came out and they played like all of the hits.
16:22
SPEAKER_02: Um that that's a good segue.
16:24
SPEAKER_02: I'll go into one of mine because that's perfect.
16:26
SPEAKER_02: Because uh one of Rihannon's favorite bands is Guns N' Roses.
16:29
SPEAKER_02: All right, and in 2017 they did the Not in My Lifetime tour.
16:33
SPEAKER_02: Because if you remember, Slash and Axel they said we'll never tour again.
16:39
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, not in this lifetime.
16:41
SPEAKER_02: So that's what they called it.
16:43
SPEAKER_02: And bro, people were talking shit that like Axel Rose sounded like shit and all that.
16:47
SPEAKER_02: Let me tell you, those guys played for three and a half hours with one 20-minute intermission that Slash sat on top of this stage and he did Darth, he did um the Imperial theme, uh, he did uh Smells Like Teen Spirit.
17:03
SPEAKER_02: Oh wow, he did Johnny Be Good, like he just did all these little solos as the intermission.
17:08
SPEAKER_02: And bro, when they did November Rain, he fucking comes up out of the stage with the piano, and I I'll never forget this.
17:17
SPEAKER_02: Uh to this day, Rihanna makes fun of me.
17:21
SPEAKER_02: I didn't know that he actually played the piano on the song.
17:25
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, because if you know, like I listened to Guns N' Roses, that's the only song and video you see him playing the piano, so I just assumed it was just for show or whatever.
17:37
SPEAKER_02: And then when he came out, I I was like, holy shit, yeah, and bro, they were amazing, and it's the same thing, it was just them, no opener.
17:45
SPEAKER_02: They just played.
17:46
SPEAKER_02: I mean, literally, they came on at like 8 15, show was over at like 11 30.
17:51
SPEAKER_02: It was intense.
17:53
SPEAKER_02: Um, with that, I'm gonna go into uh one of my most recents on this list, and that was 2021.
18:02
SPEAKER_02: I went with my cousin to Blossom.
18:04
SPEAKER_02: Wu Tang and Nas did the um uh New York State of Mind tour.
18:10
SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
18:11
SPEAKER_02: Um and it was it was a absolute um bucket list for me.
18:19
SPEAKER_02: Um mainly because, like I've said before, there's nine members uh in Wu Tang, and and unfortunately ODB died uh I think almost 20 years ago.
18:29
SPEAKER_02: Jesus uh or over.
18:31
SPEAKER_02: Um but typically you wouldn't get all of them together.
18:36
SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
18:37
SPEAKER_02: So this was the first one where like and Buster Rhimes was on the tour with him.
18:42
SPEAKER_02: Nice.
18:43
SPEAKER_02: It was just unfortunately he wasn't at uh the Kyog show because he was receiving some crazy like lifetime achievement award.
18:54
SPEAKER_02: Oh, well, that's a good reason to not be there.
18:55
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, I was like, alright, cool, I'll take it.
18:57
SPEAKER_02: But um, I'd never seen Wusang before, and you get I mean everybody knows that that's oh yeah you know that's my favorite.
19:04
SPEAKER_02: That's that's and Nas is a legend, like Ilmatic is uh considered like literally like when when when you say hip hop, it's considered the greatest hip-hop album of all time.
19:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so to see them two together, and and and I always bring this up when I tell people about this.
19:24
SPEAKER_02: What impressed me is, and you'll know this right away, people that are not from Ohio or don't do their homework, when they come to Blossom, they say, What's up, Cleveland?
19:35
SPEAKER_02: Blossom is actually not in Cleveland, it's in California Falls.
19:39
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Nas comes out and goes, What's up, Cuyahoga Falls?
19:44
SPEAKER_02: Nice, and when he said that, I was like, Fucking hey, finally, like you know where you're at.
19:49
SPEAKER_02: And and not that it's a big deal, I get it.
19:51
SPEAKER_02: You guys say laptoers, but it was the fact that he took the time to make sure he was saying where he was playing.
19:57
SPEAKER_02: Um uh, but yeah, dude, it was I I remember that because again, I mean I was 40 years old, so I was older, right?
20:07
SPEAKER_02: And the crowd was crazy because, like, you know, there was a lot of people our age, but there was a lot of younger people there too.
20:17
SPEAKER_02: And that made me really feel good.
20:19
SPEAKER_02: It's like, okay, you know, and you know, you would hear back in the day, people would talk a lot of shit about hip-hop shows, and guys, there's no violence at hip-hop shows.
20:26
SPEAKER_02: I can tell you that.
20:27
SPEAKER_02: I've been to quite a few.
20:28
SPEAKER_02: There's a lot of weed smoke, but I'll say that.
20:31
SPEAKER_02: Like, I mean, guys, it's just people having fun and and and and enjoying bro to see that that that that that W up on the Oh I'm sure I'm never I'm getting chills thinking about it.
20:42
SPEAKER_02: But uh what's what's a couple more that you you you got on your list?
20:47
SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna kind of lump these together.
20:50
SPEAKER_01: I have seen had the pleasure of seeing disturbed three separate times.
20:56
SPEAKER_01: And I believe you've seen them a couple times too, yes.
21:00
SPEAKER_02: There well, I I I I was waiting for you because there's one I'm 99% sure we've talked about that we were both we're at and didn't realize it.
21:08
SPEAKER_01: That that that's not that I'm doing a list, right?
21:13
SPEAKER_01: But that's higher up on my my concert, you know, my favorite concerts is 2016 when they were at Blossom and they had Breaking Benjamin directly open for them.
21:24
SPEAKER_02: And then I believe it was uh I gotta be I I don't remember who was who opened up before them, but I know it was Oh Altar Bridge and Saint Osonia, which Saint Osonia, yeah.
21:40
SPEAKER_01: They they did that was they had the singer from um Three Days Grace and they did a couple three days grace songs, and it was that's right, yep.
21:46
SPEAKER_01: As an opener to hear a three days grace song from the guy that sang it.
21:50
SPEAKER_02: I I have I have, I mean you can see I have it right here.
21:55
SPEAKER_02: It was because we actually went to that, you were there, yeah, which so we shared that.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah without knowing not knowing yeah but we actually went with her brother and his his okay they never got married but they've been together like 30 years so basically wives yeah yeah um but Katrina's amazing I love her to death dude um and him too but we went with them but you remember there was a really really bad storm thunderstorm that came through and a lot of people actually evacuated yeah and we actually got stuck under a tree because oh you guys were lawn we were lawn oh bro and so you know while a lot of people were escaping we stepped under a tree it only lasted I said we only really had to wait about a half hour it wasn't too bad it kind of subsided and I was what was I I was last literally last Rowan pavilion for that show okay so you would have still gotten wet when regardless I got soaked even though I was covered but I mean man what a killer show oh that show was amazing I I I I always say this the lead singer of Disturbed is very crowd oriented yes go look at his shows online like he always like I remember there was a concert I've seen him online where some people were mosh pitting a little too hard and he called him out he goes hey guys we're brothers and sisters here like we're not here to hurt each other like you know we're here to have a good time and shit and that's what it's supposed to be yeah and I can appreciate that but you know to just to piggyback that I think me and Rihannon have seen Breaking Benjamin four or five times dude they're amazing alive so good live and Rihannon loves it because I don't know if you know this but uh Benjamin's wife the lead singer's name is Rihannon oh no shit that's cool as well yeah so that that you know that kind of ties in yeah no man I love those guys I've liked them from their original you know what they were originally as a band and then you know he's the only original member left right right the the the guitarist has changed the drummers have changed yeah everybody's new but but yeah they're yeah I mean I I was actually introduced to them when I was working at Wings um back in the late 2000s going into the 2010s uh we had a manager there and I was still burning CDs at that time but then it was Limewire yeah that's everybody's fucking computer um but we had a guy there that his favorite band was breaking Benjamin so at the time I burnt their entire catalog at that point for nice and that's how I got into like Diarrhea Jane and I was like oh these guys are good and then when I when me and Rihanna got together you know I love music but I'm a hip hop guy any other genres of music it's typically word of mouth yes that I hear and you know that's when I started listening to other stuff but then I really started diving and I'm like dude these guys don't make bad music yeah well she she loves tool though oh yeah absolutely that's one of her I I really used to like them a lot I love the fact that they would do weird time signatures and time changes in in songs but I have said and she looks at me like this but she doesn't like but I'm telling you they're a new age Pink Floyd yeah they focus more on the musicality of it yep the words are meant to hit hard but be very few like I'm not saying they're the same band no what I'm saying is is their approach to music is very similar.
25:11
SPEAKER_02: Yes their visual Pink Floyd was extremely visual they lost money on most of their shows in the 70s and early 80s because of how big of a production it was right right and and and I always felt that and and you know to piggyback on that I actually she had never seen Tool and since we've been together we've seen Tool twice.
25:30
SPEAKER_02: Oh that's bad we've seen a perfect circle and we've seen Pussifer.
25:34
SPEAKER_02: We've seen Pussifer because the last time we've seen Tool Pussifer opened so he performed with them because that's basically Tool yeah with a female it's it's like the band with a female kind of lead singer and um I think my sister saw them down in Nashville here about a month or so there was a there was a show where it was Tool but they opened up so I've seen all three iterations of his band yeah it's which is kind of crazy yeah yeah like I said dude we've been to a lot of concerts together yeah um I'll go into um I'm not gonna mention because you mentioned it the disturbed and Frankie Benjamin had it on here.
26:10
SPEAKER_02: No it's fine I'm gonna go into we talked about in our last music episode that I'm a big Pink Floyd fan.
26:17
SPEAKER_02: Yeah um I gave you guys a little insight to to their story.
26:22
SPEAKER_02: Sid Barrett um you know he he got really messed up with drugs and he ended up passing away in I think 06 uh and then Richard Wright died of cancer the same year my mom died of cancer in 08 uh and uh so there really is no Roger Waters or there really is no Pink Floyd anymore uh at least not with any original uh iteration that they had but in 2017 we also I got to see Roger Waters the Us and them tour where he was doing the entirety of Dark Side of the Moon yeah plus you know other hit songs you know as a band um but you want to talk man these guys put on a show like it was they also did a lot a lesser known but but actually an album I like is Animals.
27:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah and when they originally did animals they had this infloatable pig and there's a big story behind that but in this one they had these like screens that was like a rectangle so it was like a a rectangular box and it was hanging across the middle of the arena and it looked like when when that pigs fly in those smokestacks it looked like that building and there was just a real pig floating above the ground the entire dude it was so fucking insane and um you know Rihanna not being a Pink Floyd fan sat through yeah two and a half hours because Pink Floyd doesn't have opening bands neither they just go and do their shit and Roger Waters is the same way.
27:51
SPEAKER_02: So that's one uh that that I I got to see Pink Floyd was on my bucket list so I got to see the next best thing and they do have um a uh uh a really good um cover band and the name's escaping me now yeah I can't think of it but there's a really famous cover band that that does a real good job covering them but before I get into uh uh my last two and what I guess would consider probably my favorite um I'll let you go ahead and round out you know your favorites yeah I have had a chance to see a few country concerts over there I'm just kind of kind of lump them in together real quick me and my wife saw Kane Brown in November of 2021 before Thanksgiving that was amazing because I love seeing the melting pot there were you know white people black people Asian people Mexican people it it just didn't matter what color your skin was it was it was beautiful to me because everybody was there for one thing and it was to enjoy the music.
28:54
SPEAKER_01: That's what I always like festivals and shit like that for because you know it it really you could really see that you know music doesn't have a color or age barrier you know it's not ageism it's not racist it's not sexist it's not yeah but then I saw this year I took my wife I I mentioned it last music episode we saw uh Brett Young who we used his song for our first dance at our wedding and that was amazing it was you know a small venue it was packed but it sounded great and then I'm gonna go to my favorite all-time concert and that's a bucket list item for me much like you got to see Roger Waters as close as you could get to Pink Floyd but I I don't know if you've ever seen him or not but in 2004 I got to see Metallica in Cleveland.
29:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah I have yet to see Metallica that's that's a band that that that's been on my list that I'd love to see that I never got around to seeing unfortunately I would totally recommend to see you into seeing them because they're I mean mind you this is 2004 so we're talking 22 years ago at this point but even in 2004 their production quality was the best I had ever heard at a concert and I I mean the the clarity of the vocals the drums the bass the guitars everything was just it was perfect and Godsmack opened for them so I literally went to that show to see two of my favorite bands at the time obviously Godsmack they're great love them but I was there for Metallica and dude I lost my voice for three days I went back to work the next day because I worked at Schwables in the falls at the time and my one supervisor knew I was going to that concert and he goes hey Bob how's the show last night I was like great because my voice was gone it was shocked I will go into I'm gonna throw a couple out there that I definitely want to mention I mentioned in our last episode I've seen Weird Owl um that that that was that would be killer bucket list that was amazing I mean we've seen we we also went to another concert with her brother and sister uh it was like the 90s jam it had like um uh young MC Vanilla Ice was there like it had a bunch of like the 90s big games and then we went to another concert where it was all RB it had Genuine Jagged Edge Drew Hill like Cisco was very nice there was a lot of good but um in 03 uh Eminem was doing what he called the anger management tour and I went and seen that with Vonnie you know Kurt Thompson he went with us Aaron Boyle I think she went with us wow uh there was a few of us it was like four or five maybe six of us um but it was Eminem D12 Ludacris Exhibit Papa Roach Papa Roach yeah and uh an unknown band that I've told you about by Anna Jive okay um yeah it was called Anger Management because you know Eminem was still listened to by like mess that up yeah sorry about that Bob there's your there's your alarm for your music for my medicine um but uh he he always had tried to have you know alternative type music you know what was popular there too so more people would come out and see him but yeah I'll never forget it it was in and this was like this was it's the around the time when um the MM show okay so he had on stage it was a giant Ferris wheel and every time like when he was on stage every time a member of like D12 would come out they would come in off of this Ferris wheel it was really neat um but my my favorite and I've thought long and hard about this because you know Wu Tang was huge long and hard um but such a child the reason why I'm putting this here is because I'm gonna tell you a fact that I tend to leave out this concert that I went to there was only four shows of okay two in New York two in Detroit nice and it was 2010 it was called the Home and Home Tour okay and it was Eminem and Jay-Z and in Detroit Jay-Z opened Eminem finished because he's from Detroit and in New York Eminem opened and Jay-Z finished I went to the Detroit show because it was only two and a half hours away from us right right but when I tell you we got general admission tickets which you had your front like 15 rows which were like your VIP and then general admission when you got there you got there.
33:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah and you didn't piss the whole time did you no but the the kid that I worked with worked with me at at Wings at the time and I wasn't gonna go because I was dirt fucking poor and these tickets were$100 for general admission in 2010.
34:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah Rihann talked me into going she was like you never do anything yeah work your ass off go to the concert so I ended up going well he had to go to the bathroom now I'm gonna explain this to you we were probably about 10 rows back from that VIP so we were close.
34:22
SPEAKER_02: Yeah maybe 50 to 75 yards to our left that's how close these porta potties were okay he decided to go to the bathroom I was holding it I wasn't losing my spot it took him an hour and a half to get there piss and get back to where I was nope and uh it was it was amazing it he brought out 50 cent that's all he brought out Dre um it it was Jay Z brought out Memphis bleak and it was and and and I don't know if you remember there was an artist around that time that was really popular named BOB but he opened um and yeah I mean the the the reason why that's number one is because they only did four shows.
35:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah and you got to go to one of them and I got to go fuck you and and to see like people don't understand like you know people talk about Mount Rushbour but there's uh a YouTuber that I listen to named Screwface John and he likes to say there's a Mount Olympus of rappers that people get to and he puts Jay-Z you know and that's kind of where I'm at like Eminem and Jay-Z are icons in hip hop that will always have their place there and to see them together and it's funny because like you know they're both lyrical geniuses and they've only been on one track together and that was Renegade off of Jay-Z's blueprint album right in 2001 so yeah that's um that's that's probably where I'm going with my concert but those are you know again I didn't really do a list I did give you what my favorite one was because again yeah I mean four shows and I I got to witness that I mean you know yeah I I think some of the stuff that we're doing this episode they don't really necessarily need a list and a ranking it's it's kind of more what our favorites are out of that and I think that works better because you know again I'm I mentioned this in our last episode mood dictates what I listen to and what what what I'm wanting to listen to in that moment so you know you have to take that into consideration.
36:30
SPEAKER_01: My top five today could be different into tomorrow yeah so so take us what's our what's our next subject we're gonna talk about we're gonna go into and I know I I'm the one that suggested this I'm okay with it because I know that you're you're not a a fan of country music I don't I I I like songs.
36:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah you like you like country songs yeah yeah I'm not uh you know uh um I I don't listen to it as much as others but I do have probably about two dozen songs on my phone that I enjoy so okay you know I and I don't it's music music's subjective I'm not saying it's terrible it's just the majority of it just doesn't grab me like I listen to hip hop I know a lot of people that it to them it sounds like noise they don't like it it's okay but I like it yeah and that's okay and I'm and I want to talk about these things because again I my list can give you insight into maybe the type of country that I like yeah you know that's and that's kind of where I'm at with it I I wanted to take you out of your comfort zone a little bit with it to make you think because I country is not a problem with me thanks to my wife.
37:40
SPEAKER_02: Well then I will I will go I will start off then since since this is your wheelhouse I'll give a couple um couple older ones nothing older than the 90s okay um I I'll be honest I didn't old old country I really don't like really outside of like Dolly Parton I do really really enjoy her but outside of that um uh my my my first one I'm gonna go with Chicken Fry by Zach Brown oh dude good song I love that song it's so catchy and fun it's so good and and uh what got me into that song was back in oh three there was a girl that I was dating and she was a big fan of it and she got me into it and we would write around she had an all black uh Mustang and we would write around and she would blare that and we'd just sing it so that's fun.
38:29
SPEAKER_02: And then I'll go into one other real quick that's pretty obvious and the rest of them will kind of catch you off guard but uh Burning It Down by Jason Aldean.
38:36
SPEAKER_02: Good song.
38:37
SPEAKER_02: I I love it.
38:38
SPEAKER_02: It's such a me and Rihanna came across that when he dropped it and we just loved it and it's it's a really good song.
38:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah I listen to it but I'll segue that into you giving me a couple of yours.
38:49
SPEAKER_02: I know you're you're a little bit more seasoned when it comes to country so I you know the funny thing is as you say that but I don't have anything but I have one song that's from the 90s on here.
38:59
SPEAKER_01: Everything is pretty new.
39:00
SPEAKER_01: Oh okay surprising yeah I I wouldn't have guessed that and and a lot of it is because of how I feel right now and some of these songs are very the one thing I will say why I have gravitated back into liking country music is I have a thing with 60s and 70s songwriters and like folk song stuff.
39:20
SPEAKER_01: I love the singer songwriter like genre of that and there's a lot of country songs that do a great job of telling a complete story in a song.
39:30
SPEAKER_01: And if you some of these songs you've probably never heard of I would recommend you know hey you get a chance dude listen to them you might really really like 'em uh three on my list are storytellers yeah nice and I'm I'm actually gonna start out with with two for me right now that I I I really really enjoy and they're both by the same guy uh his name is Cody Johnson Dirt Cheap if you've never heard the song Dirt Cheap I implore you please give it a spin because that is one of those songs especially at the end and I've seen a lot of reaction videos to it man it'll it'll make you tear up because you're like damn yeah and then he's got another one called The Fall where he's going through I I believe it's like because I think he's a cowboy or was a cowboy one or the other like rodeo guy.
40:25
SPEAKER_01: But he's basically talking about you know everything is worth it like this is worth you know this was worth this this was worth this and it was all worth you know it was all worth it in the end.
40:37
SPEAKER_01: Right.
40:38
SPEAKER_01: And and it it's another good yeah check it out.
40:42
SPEAKER_02: Uh the the next couple I'm gonna I'm gonna hop on and then I'm gonna hop in the ones that I got are yeah um Wanted by Hunter Hayes.
40:51
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
40:52
SPEAKER_02: Um I just I don't know what it is about that song I just really like that song.
40:56
SPEAKER_02: Uh and this one's uh Watching Airplanes by Gary Allen.
41:00
SPEAKER_02: Dude good song I love that song I'm just sitting here watching oh man yeah I I don't know what it is but that's all it gets me um I I will go ahead and get these last three and then then you can go just because these these are songs that that make you it'll make it can make you tear up uh the first one is she's everything by Brad Paisley that's one of the very first country songs I loved and I like Brad Paisley um that that song just I mean he's got a bunch of other songs that I mean yeah Brad Paisley was huge back then um but she's everything but these next two um Austin by Blake Shelton such a tearjerker have you ever heard the acoustic version he did for I think Apple or Amazon music no I'll have to I'll have to check that out oh it's so good that that song is just a it's fucking tearjerker and this next one I think is one of my favorites but it's it's or might be my favorite but it's really hard to listen to uh and that's Don't Take the Girl by Tim McGraw.
42:03
SPEAKER_02: That's um monster I have a quick story to tell about that um what got me to listen to that song so I've told you guys I used to work at Wing Warehouse which was a sports bar that mainly dealt in wings and there was this couple that was that was younger than me at the time they were in their like late 20s and um she died suddenly uh of of a rare something and um uh they had like a like fundraiser kind of thing yeah yeah yeah and there was this part where they put that song on oh bro and you hear everybody singing and celebrating and then all of a sudden and I'm in the kitchen you know because I worked in the kitchen yeah it's just quiet quiet and I'm listening to this song and I'm like did everybody go outside for the smoke and I walk out there and there's like this long line of like five people on each side side of this guy and everybody's just crying.
43:12
SPEAKER_02: Wow and I'm like what the hell and I'm listening to the words oh it was and I'm just like yeah I start crying I'm like holy shit yeah and ever since then man when I listen to that song I think I have that moment attached but it's such a when he talks about like guys it is such a good song because he talks about like being a kid and this little girl wanting to go fishing and he doesn't want to go because he's a kid.
43:41
SPEAKER_02: Right?
43:41
SPEAKER_02: He doesn't want the girl to come with him and then as he gets older he realizes oh it's guys go listen to it.
43:48
SPEAKER_02: But I will let you I will let you finish so we can we can keep this party going.
43:52
SPEAKER_01: Keep the party going and I actually have two that are dealing with dads.
43:56
SPEAKER_01: Oh so when my dad was going through his heart stuff last year and But I've heard these songs uh quite a few times, anyways.
44:03
SPEAKER_01: I'm a fan of both artists.
44:04
SPEAKER_01: But Zach Brown Band does a song called My Old Man.
44:08
SPEAKER_01: If you haven't heard it, I haven't listened to that.
44:10
SPEAKER_01: And I like Zach Brown, I'm dude, I'm telling you right now, if you listen to that song, uh be in a proper headspace.
44:18
SPEAKER_01: Because that will make you cry no matter, you know.
44:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
44:21
SPEAKER_01: And then the other one is Luke Combs Remember Him That Way.
44:25
SPEAKER_01: And that's a newer one by Luke.
44:27
SPEAKER_01: And it's a good one because he's talking about his dad getting older and how he's watching him gray up, and the you know, the he always looked at his dad as Superman.
44:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
44:36
SPEAKER_01: And now at that age, his dad he says the S on your chest is starting to fade.
44:41
SPEAKER_01: But Oliver is I'll I'll always remember you as Superman.
44:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
44:44
SPEAKER_01: So those those kind of hit me when I was going through that with the old man.
44:49
SPEAKER_01: And then there's one by uh Nate Smith I really enjoy.
44:51
SPEAKER_01: It's called Fix What You Didn't Break.
44:53
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's a good one.
44:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean the name, the name is I believe I sent you that one a couple months back.
44:59
SPEAKER_01: You could have, man.
45:00
SPEAKER_02: I I apologize if I don't remember off the top of my head.
45:03
SPEAKER_01: But talking about getting with a woman after having a horrible breakup with another woman.
45:07
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
45:08
SPEAKER_01: And basically she's fixing him, and she's not the one that broke him.
45:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
45:12
SPEAKER_01: So but it's another storytelling song.
45:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
45:16
SPEAKER_02: Um, real quick before we get into our next one, it made me think of one that you talked about.
45:20
SPEAKER_02: There's one by uh a Christian kind of country group.
45:24
SPEAKER_02: You ever heard a new song?
45:25
SPEAKER_02: No.
45:27
SPEAKER_02: They do a song that I've only listened to twice since my mom died, and once was to let Ty listen to it, but it's called Mama's Christmas Shoes.
45:34
SPEAKER_02: Oh wow.
45:35
SPEAKER_02: And it's about this little boy who is going to the store to buy these shoes for his mom, and when he's at the counter, he doesn't have enough money.
45:46
SPEAKER_02: And this guy, he's telling it from he's watching his perspective.
45:50
SPEAKER_02: Gotcha.
45:51
SPEAKER_02: And the kid's talking like he's singing the story, but this kid's talking about how his mom is dying in the hospital and she'd really like these shoes.
45:59
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
45:59
SPEAKER_02: And I'm trying, I got chills.
46:01
SPEAKER_02: I'm trying not to, it makes me cry.
46:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
46:03
SPEAKER_02: Um, and and the bridge going into the song, he goes, uh, because I want mama to look uh, I want mama beautiful if she go meets Jesus tonight.
46:12
SPEAKER_02: Oh, dude, I just got chills.
46:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, if you guys get a chance, it's called Mama's Christmas Shoes.
46:17
SPEAKER_02: But for that, we'll we'll hop into the next one.
46:20
SPEAKER_02: And now we're getting into mine and his uncomfort zone.
46:23
SPEAKER_01: A little bit.
46:24
SPEAKER_02: And this one was tough because I I could have made a 30, like a list of 30.
46:28
SPEAKER_02: Like this isn't a list, but I'm saying I could have listed 30 different.
46:31
SPEAKER_02: Oh, for sure.
46:32
SPEAKER_02: But we're gonna go 90s RB songs.
46:34
SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, we can go 2000s, whatever, or or not 90s, but just top RB songs.
46:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but I primarily went 90s because that's one of my specific genres that I really love is 90s RB.
46:46
SPEAKER_02: There was an immense amount of RB bands in that time that just was producing really great songs.
46:52
SPEAKER_02: Um uh, but uh if you wanna if you want to go ahead and lead us off uh with with with a couple of yours, I know you're not you're not looking forward to this one.
47:04
SPEAKER_01: No, honestly, these are songs that I actually know you're gonna have good ones.
47:08
SPEAKER_02: I just know this isn't your you know your comfort zones.
47:10
SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna have any deep cuts or anything weird like that.
47:13
SPEAKER_01: These are probably gonna be all heavy hitters that everybody knows.
47:16
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna start what I like off.
47:18
SPEAKER_01: In fact, I was just listening to this the other day, Nobody by Keith Sweat.
47:23
SPEAKER_01: He's got slept up.
47:24
SPEAKER_02: There was about 10 of his I could have put on my list.
47:26
SPEAKER_02: I went through a bunch of them.
47:27
SPEAKER_02: I have a 90s RB playlist that I have, and and and I went through that listening and going, yep, that could go.
47:34
SPEAKER_02: Yep, that could go, yep, that could go.
47:36
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, Keith Sweat didn't make my list, but there's no reason why he couldn't make somebody else's.
47:42
SPEAKER_01: For sure.
47:43
SPEAKER_01: And then I went I went big heavy hitter with uh Brian McKnight with Back at One.
47:48
SPEAKER_01: That's one of my favorite RB songs of all time, right there.
47:51
SPEAKER_02: I have B Mac on mine, but not that one.
47:53
SPEAKER_02: But Back at One is a great song.
47:55
SPEAKER_02: Um, I'm gonna go into a couple of of my honorable mentions before I mention because like I said, I didn't make a list, I just kind of said, hey, these are some that I like.
48:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
48:03
SPEAKER_02: Um Brian McKnight but Crazy Love.
48:08
SPEAKER_02: Okay, good song.
48:08
SPEAKER_02: Uh Crazy Love.
48:09
SPEAKER_02: Um uh I got Boys to Men on Bended Knee.
48:12
SPEAKER_02: I almost um I I could have put a whole Boys Demen 2, the album.
48:16
SPEAKER_02: I could have put the whole album on there.
48:17
SPEAKER_01: For me, absolutely.
48:18
SPEAKER_01: I love Boys Demon.
48:19
SPEAKER_01: I actually went with uh Water Runs Dry on that one.
48:22
SPEAKER_02: It was between that and uh Thank You is another one that I like.
48:26
SPEAKER_02: That's a deep cut, but it's not and then um honorable mention is uh Let's Get Married by Jagged Edge.
48:34
SPEAKER_02: Um and I mean the original.
48:36
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there is one that became a hit that had Reverend Run on it, yeah.
48:41
SPEAKER_02: But it was a regular like like ballad before it was like that party type sound, so I have that.
48:48
SPEAKER_02: Um but if you want to go ahead and and and and dive a little more into your list.
48:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna do my bottom what I you know of where I'm at.
48:58
SPEAKER_01: And these are kind of old school, obviously, but I did uh The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding.
49:03
SPEAKER_01: Can't go wrong with Otis.
49:04
SPEAKER_01: I love that song.
49:05
SPEAKER_01: And Under the Boardwalk by the Drifters.
49:07
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's a good one.
49:08
SPEAKER_01: That's I heard it the other day on the radio and I put it down.
49:11
SPEAKER_01: I was like, I was like, bro, I can't leave that off there.
49:14
SPEAKER_01: But uh these are my top two favorite RB songs, and no kidding, no joke, as you would figure, they're from the 90s, because we're primarily Yeah, dude.
49:26
SPEAKER_01: 80s babies raised in the 90s.
49:28
SPEAKER_01: 90s.
49:28
SPEAKER_01: Yep, doing dumb shit in the 2000s.
49:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
49:30
SPEAKER_01: Uh I went with I Wanna Know by Joe.
49:33
SPEAKER_01: Such a good song.
49:33
SPEAKER_02: Joe had so many.
49:34
SPEAKER_02: Oh, the concert I was telling you about, the 90s RB, he was there too.
49:38
SPEAKER_01: Oh, awesome.
49:39
SPEAKER_01: And then my favorite RB song is All My Life by Casey and Jojo.
49:44
SPEAKER_02: Uh they when they branched off, uh Casey and Jojo was part of a group called Joe Dicey.
49:50
SPEAKER_02: Uh Javante and um I forget the other guy's name, but uh they they had a group, they were big, and then Casey and Jojo went off and did their thing, and they had hits.
50:00
SPEAKER_02: Um I only have one older one on mine.
50:03
SPEAKER_02: Uh now that I thought about it, I've seen that.
50:05
SPEAKER_02: Uh I'm going Lean on Me, Bill Withers.
50:07
SPEAKER_02: Good song.
50:08
SPEAKER_02: Lean on me.
50:09
SPEAKER_02: Uh the way I there's it has been redone a million times.
50:13
SPEAKER_02: Nobody sings it the way Bill Withers does.
50:15
SPEAKER_01: Um, I'll give you that.
50:17
SPEAKER_02: My uh another one, uh, two of mine, uh, and these are uh if you have kids, close their ears.
50:25
SPEAKER_02: These are sexually.
50:27
SPEAKER_02: Uh one's called Last Night by As Yet.
50:30
SPEAKER_02: You'll have to look it up.
50:30
SPEAKER_02: Most of you guys aren't gonna know it, but it's I've never heard of it.
50:33
SPEAKER_02: It's a song about the next day after you have something with yeah, and then Peaches and Cream by 112.
50:40
SPEAKER_01: I've no I've heard that one.
50:43
SPEAKER_02: That is about Cunilingus, just so you guys know.
50:45
SPEAKER_02: So if you go listen to it, understand.
50:47
SPEAKER_02: But that's but my top uh, I would say my my three favorite as making this list was I have um Joe Dicey, not Casey and Jojo, Fienin.
50:58
SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah.
50:58
SPEAKER_02: Uh that's my favorite.
51:00
SPEAKER_02: Um Pony by Genuine, which is on almost everybody's gonna be like, skipped it over just because of that.
51:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, everybody's gonna have that on their list, but guys, a lot of babies were made to that song.
51:10
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
51:12
SPEAKER_02: And I think my favorite is Walked Out of Heaven by Jagged Edge.
51:17
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
51:17
SPEAKER_02: It's a song where he talks, they talk about like he messed up in this relationship, and like you know, this girl had to go, and like because of that, like since they're broken up, he feels like he walked straight out of heaven.
51:30
SPEAKER_02: Sure.
51:30
SPEAKER_02: And uh, but yeah, for RB, that's kind of where uh where I'm at with 90s.
51:37
SPEAKER_02: I guys I I could do an episode just on this alone.
51:40
SPEAKER_02: There's so many artists out there we forgot immature, um uh like I said, we said Joe Dice, um TLC, uh I mean even like early 2000s, Destiny's Child.
51:52
SPEAKER_02: I mean, there was so much good RB back then.
51:54
SPEAKER_02: Drew Hill, um, Shy uh H Town.
51:58
SPEAKER_02: I I could keep going.
52:00
SPEAKER_02: The names could go off the top of my head, but I I almost put a Shy song on there.
52:04
SPEAKER_01: Was it the next time or whatever?
52:06
SPEAKER_02: It's um Um It was our homecoming song, my freshman year.
52:11
SPEAKER_01: Um She'll be my friend.
52:15
SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, I can't remember the name of it off the top of the show.
52:18
SPEAKER_01: I can hear the tune in my head too.
52:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
52:21
SPEAKER_02: Shy had a couple of good hits, but all right, let's uh let's go into my mess up on the first one.
52:27
SPEAKER_02: When he said album covers, I was thinking artwork.
52:30
SPEAKER_02: So we put it into this episode.
52:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we're gonna do album artwork, and all for all you people watching, uh I'll definitely flash these up there so you can see what they look like.
52:39
SPEAKER_02: There's a reason.
52:40
SPEAKER_04: Right.
52:40
SPEAKER_02: Um, but I'll let you go into this first because I know you know the one thing I will say is old classic rock and heavy metal have really had some really awesome album covers over the years.
52:51
SPEAKER_01: I know, but I'm I'm gonna tell you one of my favorite all times is Doggy Style, man.
52:54
SPEAKER_01: I mentioned it last music episode.
52:56
SPEAKER_02: I I didn't put that one on here just because I thought you might put that on there, and I didn't I didn't want to as best as we could try to double up, but but have you seen what Apple Music has done with it when you open it up and it's interactive, everything's interactive, yeah, yeah, yeah.
53:09
SPEAKER_02: Did you know that Snoop released in around Christmas time 2024, I believe?
53:15
SPEAKER_02: Missionary.
53:16
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, and it was actually alright.
53:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and Dr.
53:19
SPEAKER_02: Dre produced the whole thing that was the first time.
53:23
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, that's a that's a classic.
53:24
SPEAKER_02: It's a classic.
53:25
SPEAKER_01: I I I have a couple of obscure ones, and I don't know if you've ever heard of the band, but they're called Mindless Self-Indulgence.
53:31
SPEAKER_01: I have not.
53:32
SPEAKER_01: Uh, shortened to MSI.
53:34
SPEAKER_01: I actually got a chance to see them with my drummer years ago at the Agora.
53:37
SPEAKER_01: But they have an album called Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy.
53:42
SPEAKER_01: Long titled album cover for album, but the guy that did the artwork for that also does a lot of work for the gorillas.
53:50
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's all you had to tell me.
53:51
SPEAKER_01: So it's cool.
53:52
SPEAKER_01: Uh it's very cool.
53:53
SPEAKER_01: As soon as we're done, I'll show you.
53:55
SPEAKER_02: I'm a big gorillas fan.
53:57
SPEAKER_02: Garles Barkley and oh, dude, I can yeah.
54:00
SPEAKER_01: But then I kind of went, I I kind of kept it simple.
54:03
SPEAKER_01: Uh being a big Metallica fan, I went And Justice for All.
54:06
SPEAKER_01: That's a good one.
54:06
SPEAKER_01: Just because of Lady Justice with the scales.
54:09
SPEAKER_01: Uh follow the leader by corn, because that's such an awesome hopscotch to the edge of the leg.
54:15
SPEAKER_02: You want to hear something crazy about that?
54:16
SPEAKER_02: You know how I got into corn?
54:18
SPEAKER_02: Jermaine.
54:19
SPEAKER_02: Really?
54:20
SPEAKER_02: He was a big corn corn and Primus.
54:23
SPEAKER_01: I Primus is just I like Primus, but they're very technical.
54:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he he he was he was big enough, but he got me, he's the one that got me into corn, and it was because of Follow the Leader.
54:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because they did the song with Ice Cube.
54:34
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
54:34
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna end mine with Abbey Road by the Beatles, just because it's iconic.
54:38
SPEAKER_01: I know you don't like the Beatles.
54:40
SPEAKER_02: I I have yet to say that because I know we would do a section at some point on that, but yes, guys, one of my most overrated bands of all time is the Beatles, and I will tell you why in the future.
54:50
SPEAKER_02: So until then, yes, you're gonna have to hate me and not know why.
54:54
SPEAKER_02: But the beat, but that's but it's a classic album, it's them walking.
54:57
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's iconic.
54:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
54:59
SPEAKER_02: Um so for me, um, my I'm gonna go Queen 2.
55:06
SPEAKER_02: Okay, because that's the picture of just their four heads on it.
55:09
SPEAKER_02: Yes, um, it was actually um kind of a parody or copied.
55:17
SPEAKER_02: Um, there was a live version of the wall that Pink Floyd did.
55:20
SPEAKER_02: And if you know that's about like putting up masks and hiding behind a wall, they actually did a cover of all four of them with masks on the front of it, kind of like that, but that's on there.
55:29
SPEAKER_02: And then obviously I put Dark Side of the Moon.
55:31
SPEAKER_02: You probably thought I would put that on here.
55:32
SPEAKER_02: It's an iconic.
55:33
SPEAKER_02: I mean, guys, it's it almost made it almost made it for me.
55:37
SPEAKER_02: It's it's an iconic, yes.
55:38
SPEAKER_02: You know, as soon as you see it, you know it.
55:41
SPEAKER_02: Um, and then I'm gonna go into Nevermind.
55:44
SPEAKER_02: Oh, Nirvana, yeah.
55:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh, guys, if you get to see it, it's a baby being thrown into a pool chasing a dollar on a fishing line.
55:50
SPEAKER_02: It's great.
55:51
SPEAKER_02: Um, Nirvana is oh we could do a whole episode on grunge alone.
55:56
SPEAKER_01: Yes, there's a lot of great grunge bands that I that I like.
55:59
SPEAKER_02: But if we're going, I'm gonna go um Wu-Tang 36 Chambers.
56:03
SPEAKER_02: I told a little story about that, about how on the cover it there's a bunch, there's you it looks like all of them have these like white masks, like yeah, like masks on, and that was because not all of them showed up, and they're like, Well, we can't have a fucking cover with half of you guys, yeah.
56:17
SPEAKER_02: Right, so they had like sound engineers and like guys put your masks on.
56:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, put this on.
56:22
SPEAKER_01: We need to take a picture.
56:23
SPEAKER_02: Um, and I'm gonna I'm gonna take a uh you like Tupac, Machiavelli.
56:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, people don't remember he put himself on the cross like Jesus, and that caused a lot of oh yeah, a lot of problems.
56:34
SPEAKER_02: And if you guys don't know, there was a uh I think it was a 14th century um like czar, his name was Nikolai Machiavelli, who how he outwitted his um his you know uh um opponents or whatever, the people trying to get to him, he faked his death and revised the whole plan to get around him.
56:58
SPEAKER_02: Um and then I just uh I just entered this one uh because um it's hilarious, but ODB's uh uh uh debut album was his welfare card.
57:14
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's funny.
57:15
SPEAKER_02: It was literally just his welfare card.
57:18
SPEAKER_02: Um and I had to mention that for that, but all right, guys.
57:22
SPEAKER_02: We're getting to the end of the episode.
57:24
SPEAKER_02: Uh we kind of I kind of figured this might go over a little bit, but it'll be right.
57:28
SPEAKER_02: I don't care at this point.
57:29
SPEAKER_02: We're going to what we're going to and when Bob said this, I still laugh when he says this.
57:35
SPEAKER_02: But he called it build a band.
57:37
SPEAKER_02: Build a band.
57:38
SPEAKER_02: Like he's gonna give you what he would consider the greatest band ever put together, and I'm gonna give you a hip-hop super group.
57:45
SPEAKER_01: And this is live or dead in their prime.
57:47
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't matter, they're in their prime.
57:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, live or dead.
57:50
SPEAKER_02: Just if if you could make it happen, it will happen.
57:54
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
57:55
SPEAKER_01: I thought this was your idea.
57:56
SPEAKER_01: I loved it.
57:57
SPEAKER_02: I thought about it because there have been attempts in many rock cases of supergroups.
58:04
SPEAKER_02: Um, Temple of the Dog famously was Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell, uh, and and uh basically the band of Audio Slave with uh with Eddie Vedder, but and hip hop has done it from time to time.
58:17
SPEAKER_02: Uh, there's actually uh an album coming out with Rock Him, Master Killer, and Corrupt from the Dog Pound from back in the day.
58:24
SPEAKER_02: They're making a little super group album that's getting ready to come out.
58:28
SPEAKER_02: So we thought I thought it would be cool to kind of talk about this.
58:31
SPEAKER_02: And with Bob being a former guitarist and in a band himself, he would have a good insight and me rapping.
58:36
SPEAKER_02: I figured we could build something pretty cool to end the show on.
58:39
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I think I think you may have had a more difficult time than I was guys.
58:43
SPEAKER_02: He's not like I was before we're recording.
58:46
SPEAKER_02: If if unfortunately, the part that we were talking about this wasn't video recording yet.
58:52
SPEAKER_02: I wish we could, because I was still sitting here coming up with ideas to try to get a really good one because I just it was tough.
58:59
SPEAKER_02: But let's hear your band.
59:01
SPEAKER_01: It was tough.
59:02
SPEAKER_01: I had mine kind of figured out pretty quick because I like what I like and I would like to hear what it would sound like.
59:09
SPEAKER_01: And I'll give you all my methods to my madness.
59:11
SPEAKER_01: On drums, I'm gonna have Phil Collins on drums.
59:15
SPEAKER_02: That is there's only one other drummer I I could think to that that, and that's John Bonham.
59:20
SPEAKER_02: And I don't even like Led Zeppelin.
59:22
SPEAKER_01: And I kid you not, you can see I'll show you in a minute.
59:25
SPEAKER_01: You can see where I scratched out Bonham.
59:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's no joke.
59:28
SPEAKER_02: I it's amazing how much I could not stand Led Zeppelin, but that Moby Dick fucking solo he does, oh on bass.
59:37
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna go Paul McCartney because he's multifaceted.
59:40
SPEAKER_02: And it's crazy because he couldn't read music.
59:42
SPEAKER_02: I know and was so good at instruments.
59:44
SPEAKER_02: I knew.
59:44
SPEAKER_02: That blows my mind.
59:46
SPEAKER_02: I know.
59:46
SPEAKER_02: That's a that's a that's a good pick.
59:48
SPEAKER_02: That's a good pick.
59:49
SPEAKER_01: But there's more.
59:50
SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'm I'm just I'm there's more picks, there's more racing.
59:53
SPEAKER_01: So on rhythm guitar, you can only imagine.
59:59
SPEAKER_01: I went with Hetfield on rhythm guitar.
1:00:01
SPEAKER_01: On lead guitar, I went with Clapton.
1:00:05
SPEAKER_01: Ooh, add some bluesy stuff.
1:00:07
SPEAKER_01: A little bit of bluesy stuff, but you got that neck.
1:00:10
SPEAKER_01: I know album, dude.
1:00:11
SPEAKER_01: I know.
1:00:12
SPEAKER_01: I want to hear this now.
1:00:13
SPEAKER_01: And my my vocals are gonna blow your mind.
1:00:17
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I can't wait to hear this.
1:00:21
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna go with Freddie Mercury on vocals.
1:00:24
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
1:00:25
SPEAKER_03: Right.
1:00:26
SPEAKER_03: I I'm not gonna lie, I did not see that.
1:00:28
SPEAKER_03: You did not see that, but wow, that could be an interesting fucking band.
1:00:34
SPEAKER_01: Because they can all play multiple different styles.
1:00:37
SPEAKER_01: But did you see what I did with who I picked?
1:00:39
SPEAKER_02: What, with Freddie Mercury?
1:00:41
SPEAKER_01: With all of them that I picked.
1:00:46
SPEAKER_02: Uh-uh.
1:00:46
SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm not putting it together, my bad.
1:00:49
SPEAKER_01: They all have had amazing vocal careers.
1:00:55
SPEAKER_01: They all can sing.
1:00:56
SPEAKER_02: Oh shit, Phil Collins can sing.
1:00:57
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
1:00:58
SPEAKER_02: Uh Paul McCartney.
1:00:59
SPEAKER_02: Which was probably why you got rid of Bonham, because he didn't do vocals.
1:01:03
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
1:01:03
SPEAKER_02: Holy shit, that's go you can really rotate.
1:01:06
SPEAKER_02: You could always have you could build a rap group because that's the same shit that I was going with.
1:01:13
SPEAKER_02: Was this is like, okay, who can bounce off of this person and do this?
1:01:16
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
1:01:16
SPEAKER_01: Who can grab the hook on this?
1:01:18
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
1:01:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's because all those guys, instrumentally speaking, and I also have Freddie Mercury down on piano too.
1:01:25
SPEAKER_01: Oh, dude, he was amazing.
1:01:26
SPEAKER_01: Or keys.
1:01:27
SPEAKER_01: But you can you can interchange vocally, you could flip-flop Hetfield and and Clapton on lead or rhythm.
1:01:35
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter.
1:01:36
SPEAKER_01: They can both sing.
1:01:37
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they can both enter, you know, it can interchange.
1:01:40
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
1:01:40
SPEAKER_01: And they can both play multiple different genres of rock music.
1:01:43
SPEAKER_01: Same thing with Paul McCartney.
1:01:45
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
1:01:45
SPEAKER_01: And he can also jump over and play piano.
1:01:49
SPEAKER_01: He can play guitar.
1:01:51
SPEAKER_01: I mean, he just does it, he does it all too.
1:01:54
SPEAKER_01: So that that was my rationale behind all of that.
1:01:57
SPEAKER_01: They can all do multiple different things, which that would make for a hell of a different kind of album.
1:02:03
SPEAKER_02: That would be intense.
1:02:05
SPEAKER_02: That's that's fucking gold.
1:02:07
SPEAKER_02: That's a good one, right?
1:02:08
SPEAKER_02: I did not think you know who I thought you were gonna say?
1:02:11
SPEAKER_02: Who's that?
1:02:12
SPEAKER_02: Cornell.
1:02:13
SPEAKER_02: Because he had one of the most diverse ranges out of any rock rock or grunge or any singer of all time.
1:02:20
SPEAKER_02: So, you know, I kind of thought maybe that, but Freddie, Freddie Mercury makes it so much more of a because he could do a little bit of yeah, like man, that's a good one.
1:02:30
SPEAKER_01: He had a little bit of grit in his voice.
1:02:32
SPEAKER_01: He could he could do like what a couple different octaves, right?
1:02:36
SPEAKER_01: He had the range again.
1:02:38
SPEAKER_01: If you need a little backup growl, that's what you got Hetfield for.
1:02:42
SPEAKER_01: So, I mean, it's yeah, I I put a little bit of thought into that.
1:02:45
SPEAKER_01: I figured that was gonna get you.
1:02:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's a good one.
1:02:48
SPEAKER_02: All right, guys, I'm gonna build my hip-hop super group.
1:02:51
SPEAKER_02: Now, I built a couple of these.
1:02:53
SPEAKER_02: I'm only gonna my thought was maybe get to two if we had time, but we don't.
1:02:58
SPEAKER_02: So I'm just gonna give my main one.
1:03:00
SPEAKER_02: But for this, I went I wanted storytelling, and every single one of these, and you'll know by the names, are insane storytellers.
1:03:09
SPEAKER_02: I needed lyrical ability.
1:03:11
SPEAKER_02: That's one thing that has always drawn me into hip-hop was lyrical ability.
1:03:16
SPEAKER_02: I'm talking metaphors, double entendres, uh-huh, schemes, just in and out, the way you can twist words.
1:03:23
SPEAKER_02: Right.
1:03:24
SPEAKER_02: Um, and I picked a producer.
1:03:27
SPEAKER_02: Now, this group is six deep, but they all play a role kind of like what you said.
1:03:34
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I'm gonna start off with the obvious for everybody that knows me.
1:03:37
SPEAKER_02: Yes, Eminem is in this group.
1:03:39
SPEAKER_02: I figured as much.
1:03:40
SPEAKER_02: I don't there are groups I would leave him out of, but not this one.
1:03:43
SPEAKER_02: This is this is the one.
1:03:45
SPEAKER_02: Um, he can do it all.
1:03:46
SPEAKER_02: Yep, he can chop, and and for you for for you you new hip-hop listeners, or a chopper is when you hear somebody rap fast, like your Tech Nines, like Buster Rhymes can do, like you've heard Eminem do before, like on Rap God.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, which I love that song.
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SPEAKER_02: My next is Jay-Z.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
1:04:04
SPEAKER_02: Because if we go back and listen to Renegade, you can see that they're good storytellers, their lyrical ability, and they can really um bounce back off of each other.
1:04:14
SPEAKER_02: Next is another obvious one.
1:04:16
SPEAKER_02: He's never done this guy's never done a song with Eminem, but he has done many with Jay-Z, and that's Scarface, which I've said is my favorite album of all time.
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SPEAKER_02: He is one of the best storytellers of all time because he takes it to an Alfred Hitchcock dark kind of place, which would really give a different tone to this group.
1:04:34
SPEAKER_02: Next, I went to an a newer one.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh, I'm gonna kind of go with like an an a newer uh cat here, but he's slowly becoming what people are thinking, one of the greatest hip hop artists of all time, and that's Kendrick Lamar.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
1:04:49
SPEAKER_02: Um, I don't know if you've really delved into him.
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SPEAKER_02: I've heard quite a few.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh guys, he's he he won a Pulitzer Prize for one of his albums.
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SPEAKER_02: Really?
1:04:58
SPEAKER_02: He literally constructed the album to where you can listen to it front front to back.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay, and it tells a story.
1:05:04
SPEAKER_02: Nice.
1:05:04
SPEAKER_02: And if you listen to it starting at the back and go to the front, it tells a different story.
1:05:09
SPEAKER_02: Different story, nice.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, and he won a Pulitzer Prize for that.
1:05:11
SPEAKER_02: Um that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_02: And and I I couldn't not have him in there.
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SPEAKER_02: He's had songs with uh Eminem, uh, and he's had I think a song with somebody else on my list, but I also had to add three snacks, Andre 3000 from Outcast.
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SPEAKER_02: Um he's top five.
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SPEAKER_02: Um they I I have said there's two hip-hop artists, in my opinion, that have never released bad albums, and that's Outcast.
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SPEAKER_02: All of their albums are good, and Scarface.
1:05:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, obviously, some are better than others, but none are bad.
1:05:41
SPEAKER_02: Um, and then I'm gonna I'm gonna round it out with an artist you may not be familiar with, but hip hop heads will know and has been around for and actually I take that back, you will know.
1:05:50
SPEAKER_02: Oh um, but not from where you think.
1:05:52
SPEAKER_02: Okay, and it's black thought, he's part of the roots, oh Fallon, okay, yeah, yeah.
1:05:58
SPEAKER_02: Um he's actually the a rapper in the roots, that's awesome, but he is one of the most technical and and just insane.
1:06:07
SPEAKER_02: And I think if you got Jay-Z, Eminem, Scarface, Kendrick, Andre Doreen Stacks, and Black Thought on the same album, yeah, that'd be awesome.
1:06:14
SPEAKER_02: I and and and real quick, it can either be double produced or one or the other.
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SPEAKER_02: Right.
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SPEAKER_02: Fortunately, this first producer passed away, um, but he was a very popular Midwest named Jay Dilla.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
1:06:28
SPEAKER_02: Um guys, look him up.
1:06:30
SPEAKER_02: He's an insane Midwest producer, but he was really, really, really good at sampling an old like funk and soul music and and stuff like that.
1:06:38
SPEAKER_02: But either him or DJ Premier.
1:06:40
SPEAKER_02: Premier is one of the greatest.
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SPEAKER_02: He was in Gang Star.
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SPEAKER_02: He's produced for almost every hip-hop artist, but that's kind of kind of where my super group is going for all my hip hop heads, uh, you know, that that hear this.
1:06:52
SPEAKER_02: Let me know what you think of my super group and how how it would stack up.
1:06:56
SPEAKER_01: I actually have a producer that I would have produced my super group.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, oh, I want to hear.
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SPEAKER_01: And it would probably have to be Rick Rubin.
1:07:03
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, for sure.
1:07:04
SPEAKER_01: Or, or because they're a little bit older, it would be a little bit older of a band, maybe even Bob Rock.
1:07:09
SPEAKER_02: That's a good one.
1:07:10
SPEAKER_01: You could pair him back up with Hetfield and Metallica, because he, you know.
1:07:14
SPEAKER_01: The Bob the Bob Rock era of Metallica was fine with me.
1:07:17
SPEAKER_01: I mean, they they did uh black album load reload, you know, all the way up to Saint Ugh.
1:07:23
SPEAKER_01: Saint Anger.
1:07:24
SPEAKER_01: Ugh.
1:07:25
SPEAKER_01: What a horrible Oh god.
1:07:27
SPEAKER_01: Talk about drums sounding like a trash can, Lydia.
1:07:32
SPEAKER_01: Miserable.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:07:34
SPEAKER_02: Well, I guess I guess it's it's time for for the the the part dear the the rift strike back to come to a close.
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SPEAKER_02: That's a good one.
1:07:45
SPEAKER_02: Oh, it was a great one.
1:07:47
SPEAKER_02: Um so with that, you know what time it is.
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SPEAKER_01: Lord Band.
1:07:52
SPEAKER_01: I I got a music one this time.
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SPEAKER_01: I was hoping.
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SPEAKER_01: Eric, why do you why do fish make good musicians?
1:08:04
SPEAKER_01: Because they know their scales.