Latest / O'Brien & Doug / O'Brien & Doug S5:E17 [March 10, 2022 Greatest Rock Reunions & Comebacks]
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- 0:00SPEAKER_03: The O'Brien and Doug Podcast is brought to you in part by MojurMultimedia.com.
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- 0:06SPEAKER_03: The rich brother in Westfield Lane.
- 0:08SPEAKER_03: Doug's cutting left.
- 0:16SPEAKER_02: This yo yo this is the O'Brien and Doug podcast.
- 0:22SPEAKER_00: Why don't you be down in the basement with your little friend?
- 0:29SPEAKER_03: Welcome to the O'Brien and Doug Podcast.
- 0:31SPEAKER_03: I'm O'Brien.
- 0:32SPEAKER_03: I'm Doug.
- 0:33SPEAKER_03: It is uh season five, episode 17.
- 0:43SPEAKER_03: You know, as a 50-year-old, almost almost 50 year old.
- 0:46SPEAKER_03: Both of us are almost 50 year olds.
- 0:48SPEAKER_03: That's a creepy song.
- 0:49SPEAKER_08: I'm closer to it than you are.
- 0:50SPEAKER_08: Yeah, that's true.
- 0:51SPEAKER_04: Like you like days away.
- 0:55SPEAKER_04: You're the 50 this year?
- 0:57SPEAKER_04: Yeah, dude.
- 0:58SPEAKER_04: I thought it was 49.
- 0:59SPEAKER_04: No, that makes sense.
- 1:00SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
- 1:01SPEAKER_04: You're 50 this year.
- 1:02SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:02SPEAKER_03: Oh, we gotta do something.
- 1:04SPEAKER_03: We gotta do something big.
- 1:06SPEAKER_08: Exactly two months from today.
- 1:08SPEAKER_03: We gotta do something big.
- 1:10SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 1:10SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:11SPEAKER_08: Like a podcast.
- 1:12SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:13SPEAKER_03: With a party and a cake or something.
- 1:17SPEAKER_03: Wow, those are loud.
- 1:19SPEAKER_03: Those are really good microphones.
- 1:20SPEAKER_08: These are really good, man.
- 1:22SPEAKER_03: Are you hungry?
- 1:22SPEAKER_03: Are you just digesting?
- 1:24SPEAKER_08: No, I haven't eaten yet.
- 1:27SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we gotta do something big for your 50th.
- 1:30SPEAKER_03: I don't know what, but we gotta do something.
- 1:34SPEAKER_08: Well, you know.
- 1:36SPEAKER_08: It's not every day you turn 50.
- 1:38SPEAKER_03: Well, what I started to say is that that song 17 by Winger.
- 1:42SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 1:42SPEAKER_03: That's creepy.
- 1:43SPEAKER_08: Well, it it was creepy then.
- 1:45SPEAKER_03: Well, no, because we were 17.
- 1:47SPEAKER_08: Well, yeah.
- 1:49SPEAKER_03: You know?
- 1:49SPEAKER_03: As we got older, it got a little I don't I bet you they don't do you think they do that song in concert?
- 1:57SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 1:58SPEAKER_03: You would think that they would have to because it's one of their big hits.
- 2:01SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:02SPEAKER_03: But as we're we're almost 50, he's gotta be almost 60.
- 2:06SPEAKER_08: Well yeah.
- 2:08SPEAKER_03: Singing that song at 60 years old, that's kind of I don't know.
- 2:13SPEAKER_08: It's morally ambiguous.
- 2:16SPEAKER_08: Is it?
- 2:17SPEAKER_08: That's just a song.
- 2:18SPEAKER_08: True.
- 2:19SPEAKER_03: It's not a uh Daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me.
- 2:22SPEAKER_08: Come on.
- 2:24SPEAKER_03: Well, even when he wrote it, it was Right.
- 2:26SPEAKER_08: I know you know, but Yeah.
- 2:28SPEAKER_08: I don't know.
- 2:29SPEAKER_03: I don't either.
- 2:30SPEAKER_03: I don't this is what this isn't what we were planning on talking about today, but that's okay.
- 2:33SPEAKER_03: Well that's the way this podcast works.
- 2:35SPEAKER_08: We just we just we just go along the the highway and it's like it's like when you travel down Route One along the coast.
- 2:45SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 2:46SPEAKER_08: And you just see these like roadside stands and you stop and oh, they're they're selling, you know, you know, crack.
- 2:54SPEAKER_08: Or, you know, oh look, there's you know, uh, you know, Teddy Roosevelt's uh, you know, you know, his driver's license, or you know, you know, it's just you know, they just sell weird stuff along the side of the road, especially during the summer during tourist season.
- 3:11SPEAKER_09: Right.
- 3:12SPEAKER_08: That's what this podcast is.
- 3:13SPEAKER_08: It's a ride down Route 1 in Maine along the coast during tourist season.
- 3:18SPEAKER_08: You never know what's gonna happen.
- 3:19SPEAKER_03: And you can count all the pot stores.
- 3:21SPEAKER_08: Yeah, well, I would I could do that just by driving downtown.
- 3:25SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 3:25SPEAKER_08: We have got like eight, eight, nine now, or something like that like that.
- 3:29SPEAKER_08: They just keep popping up all the place, and I'm like And it's not just here because I've been traveling.
- 3:34SPEAKER_03: No, it's everywhere.
- 3:35SPEAKER_03: I've been traveling and it's all over the place.
- 3:38SPEAKER_08: Oh, yeah, it's huge now.
- 3:39SPEAKER_03: Ever since it was.
- 3:40SPEAKER_08: I keep seeing these ads on uh Facebook, I say.
- 3:43SPEAKER_08: It's got like the state of Maine, and it's got a pot plant that's like you can't bring it in and you can't take it out.
- 3:51SPEAKER_08: Oh, is that how it works?
- 3:54SPEAKER_08: Wow, thanks for that.
- 3:56SPEAKER_04: But you can have it here.
- 3:58SPEAKER_08: Yeah, apparently.
- 3:59SPEAKER_08: I mean, you just as long as you're in the state and you buy it in the state, it's good to go.
- 4:04SPEAKER_03: Smoke it.
- 4:05SPEAKER_08: Smoke it if you smoke it or eat it or put it on your cereal or whatever they do with it.
- 4:10SPEAKER_03: Go for it.
- 4:10SPEAKER_03: Speaking of traveling, uh, I did some more traveling this weekend.
- 4:14SPEAKER_03: Um, had some more basketball games.
- 4:16SPEAKER_03: We had um um our sixth grader this time.
- 4:20SPEAKER_03: Um we went down Saturday for a tournament, uh, played two games, they won them both.
- 4:26SPEAKER_03: And then Sunday, I couldn't go down because I had to take my eighth grader to a tournament in the opposite direction up in the valley.
- 4:34SPEAKER_08: Oh, yeah.
- 4:34SPEAKER_03: So my wife uh took the sixth grader down to the tournament and they finished up and they ended up winning the whole championship.
- 4:42SPEAKER_03: They won the whole tournament.
- 4:43SPEAKER_06: Cool.
- 4:43SPEAKER_03: Yeah, congratulations.
- 4:44SPEAKER_03: It was cool.
- 4:45SPEAKER_03: Um, and my eighth grader um I went up to the valley and they played two games and won them both.
- 4:52SPEAKER_03: So it it wasn't really a tournament, it was a round robin, but still, um they won both the games.
- 4:57SPEAKER_08: So that was You ever wonder why they came up with that name?
- 4:59SPEAKER_03: Round Robin?
- 5:00SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
- 5:01SPEAKER_03: No, I I I yeah.
- 5:02SPEAKER_08: I never It makes no sense.
- 5:04SPEAKER_08: It has nothing to do with sports.
- 5:06SPEAKER_08: Right.
- 5:07SPEAKER_08: It's like a fat bird.
- 5:09SPEAKER_08: I don't get it.
- 5:10SPEAKER_08: Where does it where did it come from?
- 5:13SPEAKER_08: Um I'm gonna I will give I will give any listener fifty bucks if you can explain to me what a round where the term round robin comes from.
- 5:22SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna uh philosophize.
- 5:25SPEAKER_03: Is that right?
- 5:26SPEAKER_03: Is that a word?
- 5:27SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 5:27SPEAKER_08: You're talking to me, dude.
- 5:28SPEAKER_08: I just make up words all the time.
- 5:30SPEAKER_03: So Robin goes around eating um like a yard eating.
- 5:35SPEAKER_03: You're not I'm not giving you fifty bucks.
- 5:37SPEAKER_03: And gets fatter and then goes over and then keeps keeps eating and and then goes over here and keeps eating.
- 5:43SPEAKER_03: Not on my gets it gets fatter and fatter.
- 5:45SPEAKER_03: So each team goes and they they pick off a team and then they go to the next team and they pick off that team, and then they No, by your logic, the team has to eat the other team.
- 5:54SPEAKER_03: And not only that.
- 5:55SPEAKER_08: So now we have an alive type situation, you know, soccer teams in the Andes.
- 5:59SPEAKER_03: Not only that, uh it doesn't make any sense because that would be a tournament.
- 6:03SPEAKER_03: This is just so picking off teams and then moving on.
- 6:07SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 6:07SPEAKER_03: That's that's a tournament.
- 6:08SPEAKER_03: A round robin isn't a tournament.
- 6:09SPEAKER_03: A round robin is just a series of games, right?
- 6:13SPEAKER_03: As far I think.
- 6:14SPEAKER_08: I don't know, man.
- 6:14SPEAKER_08: That's what I that's why I'm confused.
- 6:16SPEAKER_03: Because there was no championship.
- 6:17SPEAKER_03: There was no like there's no one no one crowned the winner.
- 6:21SPEAKER_08: Match mar uh March Madness kind of thing.
- 6:23SPEAKER_08: Right.
- 6:23SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 6:28SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
- 6:29SPEAKER_08: But where where where why did this it why is it called around Robin?
- 6:33SPEAKER_03: I don't understand.
- 6:33SPEAKER_03: Are we gonna look it up or are we gonna wait and see if anybody actually kind of figures it out?
- 6:38SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 6:38SPEAKER_08: I'm not giving by the way, I'm not giving any money.
- 6:41SPEAKER_08: So if you're gonna do it.
- 6:43SPEAKER_08: Yeah, yeah, I'm not giving.
- 6:45SPEAKER_03: I don't blame you.
- 6:46SPEAKER_08: I am going to But it would be nice to see how many people are actually listening.
- 6:50SPEAKER_08: They'd be like, hey, dog's giving away money.
- 6:53unknown: Yeah.
- 6:54SPEAKER_08: Free money.
- 6:55SPEAKER_06: Free money.
- 6:57SPEAKER_03: I keep spelling round.
- 6:59SPEAKER_06: Show me money.
- 7:02SPEAKER_03: Uh let's see.
- 7:05SPEAKER_03: There we go.
- 7:06SPEAKER_03: Google.
- 7:07SPEAKER_03: Oh, that was my belly.
- 7:08SPEAKER_03: Did you hear that?
- 7:08SPEAKER_08: Yeah, I heard that.
- 7:09SPEAKER_08: What is going on with her?
- 7:10SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 7:11SPEAKER_03: A uh a round robin is a tournament.
- 7:13SPEAKER_03: Oh, it is a tournament, in which each competitor plays in turn against every other.
- 7:17SPEAKER_03: Which isn't necessarily well, they called it a round robin uh on Sunday, but no, it didn't they only played two teams.
- 7:28SPEAKER_08: Yeah, so it's not really a round robin then.
- 7:30SPEAKER_03: Uh a round robin tournament is a competition in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn, and round robin contrasts with an elimination tournament in which participants are eliminated after a certain number of losses.
- 7:44SPEAKER_03: I don't know, sure.
- 7:45SPEAKER_03: Let's say hey, let me Google this.
- 7:47SPEAKER_08: How did the name round robin Where did where did the name the term round robin come from?
- 7:54SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 7:55SPEAKER_08: Tell us, Google.
- 7:57SPEAKER_08: Tell us now.
- 7:58SPEAKER_03: Actually, let me do that.
- 8:00SPEAKER_03: Where did the term round robin come from?
- 8:03SPEAKER_00: Here's an answer from Wikipedia.org.
- 8:05SPEAKER_00: The term round robin is derived from the French term rouben, meaning ribbon.
- 8:09SPEAKER_03: That didn't help me at all.
- 8:11SPEAKER_08: Thanks a bunch, Google.
- 8:14SPEAKER_08: You suck.
- 8:15SPEAKER_08: Oh, was that Siri?
- 8:16SPEAKER_08: That was Siri.
- 8:17SPEAKER_03: That was Siri.
- 8:17SPEAKER_03: That was my Irish accent.
- 8:18SPEAKER_08: Thanks a bunch, Siri.
- 8:20SPEAKER_03: That was my Irish Siri.
- 8:21SPEAKER_08: Yeah, it's a really terrible Irish accent, by the way.
- 8:23SPEAKER_08: It was actually.
- 8:24SPEAKER_08: But that's okay.
- 8:25SPEAKER_03: She's not real.
- 8:26SPEAKER_03: She's usually better than that.
- 8:28SPEAKER_08: Uh well, it wasn't a you know unusual question.
- 8:32SPEAKER_03: Kind of a weird question.
- 8:33SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 8:33SPEAKER_08: Especially for a musical podcast.
- 8:35SPEAKER_08: Is that what this is?
- 8:37SPEAKER_03: No.
- 8:38SPEAKER_08: We don't know what it is.
- 8:39SPEAKER_08: It's just a Seinfeld podcast.
- 8:41SPEAKER_03: Two idiots sitting in a basement talking is what it is.
- 8:44SPEAKER_03: Pretty much, yeah.
- 8:44SPEAKER_03: Pretty much.
- 8:45SPEAKER_03: We just happen to like music.
- 8:46SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 8:47SPEAKER_08: And we record it.
- 8:48SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 8:49SPEAKER_08: See, people think that you know we're just making this up for the podcast, but this is normally how our conversations go.
- 8:56unknown: Right.
- 8:56SPEAKER_03: We just happen to have a microphone in front of us.
- 8:58SPEAKER_08: Yeah, we're just recording it, that's all.
- 9:00SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 9:00SPEAKER_08: This is what usually happens.
- 9:01SPEAKER_08: If anybody that's hung out with us knows this is what happened this is the con this is the direction our conversation is going.
- 9:09SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 9:09SPEAKER_08: You never know.
- 9:11SPEAKER_08: It just Okay.
- 9:14SPEAKER_03: I did want to talk about um something in particular.
- 9:19SPEAKER_03: Um, because I read.
- 9:21SPEAKER_03: I know you're not a huge country fan.
- 9:23SPEAKER_03: You like country music.
- 9:25SPEAKER_03: You like country music, but you're not a huge I do.
- 9:27SPEAKER_08: I'm not a huge country fan, but I don't like country music.
- 9:29SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 9:29SPEAKER_03: And I asked you if you'd heard of this band, and this is one of my favorite bands uh from the 90s, actually.
- 9:35SPEAKER_03: Let me see if I can pick, I'll pick a song that you you might know.
- 9:39SPEAKER_03: So they had a a string of hits and uh some some pretty good success in the 90s, and then they broke up.
- 9:49SPEAKER_03: And we were talking about this.
- 9:52SPEAKER_03: The the lead singer and bass player is Terry McBride, and he went on and became just this humongously successful songwriter.
- 10:00SPEAKER_03: Wrote almost I mean, wrote a bunch of hits for like Brooks and Dunn and and uh whatnot.
- 10:08SPEAKER_03: And the drummer became Vince Gill's drummer, and the guitar player, I'm sure, did something really creative.
- 10:14SPEAKER_03: Or maybe he just took a break, I don't know, he didn't have to work.
- 10:17SPEAKER_03: Um maybe he wrote songs, I don't know.
- 10:19SPEAKER_03: Could be but uh when you come back.
- 10:23SPEAKER_03: They were one of my favorite bands because they were um very vocal like uh harmonies, real good harmonies, and great songwriters, and just uh great band.
- 10:35SPEAKER_03: Anyway, they're reuniting after like 30 years.
- 10:38SPEAKER_03: Oh, cool.
- 10:39SPEAKER_03: Uh so this is one of their big hits.
- 10:58SPEAKER_03: The name of the band is McBride and the Ride.
- 11:01SPEAKER_03: And so they just announced that they're they're actually they're on tour right now.
- 11:06SPEAKER_03: They're they're rehearsing and and going out on tour.
- 11:10SPEAKER_03: Uh they did some like test dates at some small clubs.
- 11:16SPEAKER_03: And uh now they're working on a new album.
- 11:18SPEAKER_03: Oh, well.
- 11:19SPEAKER_03: And this is just these girl, these guys they don't have to work.
- 11:22SPEAKER_03: Um, they're very um well taken care of.
- 11:26SPEAKER_03: Um but if you're a creative person, you know, you want to do what you love.
- 11:31SPEAKER_08: Sure, absolutely.
- 11:33SPEAKER_03: So I think if Vince Gill, Vince Gill's on tour with the Eagles, yeah.
- 11:37SPEAKER_03: Um playing with them, so I think if he went out on his own solo tour, I think the drummer for McBride and the Ride would probably go with him.
- 11:44SPEAKER_03: His name is Billy Thomas, and Ray Herndon is the guitar player.
- 11:49SPEAKER_03: Um anyway, great band.
- 11:52SPEAKER_03: And they were going back on a tour, and it got me thinking, um best reunions.
- 12:00SPEAKER_03: Um and I think you would have to I mentioned the Eagles, you would have to like include the Eagles on that list.
- 12:07SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah.
- 12:08SPEAKER_03: Right?
- 12:08SPEAKER_03: Because they broke up and then they said they wouldn't get back together until Hell froze over.
- 12:12SPEAKER_08: Yep.
- 12:13SPEAKER_03: And they did.
- 12:14SPEAKER_03: Hell free didn't freeze over, but they they Well, we don't know, we weren't there.
- 12:18SPEAKER_03: True.
- 12:18SPEAKER_03: But they had a very successful reunion and are still going now, even though they've lost a few members.
- 12:26SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 12:26SPEAKER_08: Um so uh can you think we had a good uh band reunion.
- 12:33SPEAKER_03: We did?
- 12:33SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 12:35SPEAKER_08: Remember when Shane moved away?
- 12:37SPEAKER_03: This is true.
- 12:38SPEAKER_03: I've I guess I never and you joined another band.
- 12:41SPEAKER_03: That's uh I never even thought about that.
- 12:43SPEAKER_03: Because we never officially broke up.
- 12:44SPEAKER_08: No, we never broke up, but right.
- 12:47SPEAKER_08: We did side projects.
- 12:48SPEAKER_08: Well, you did a side project.
- 12:50SPEAKER_08: Shane Shane, yeah, well, he was in a couple bands down there, wasn't he?
- 12:54SPEAKER_08: I was the only one who didn't have a band.
- 12:56SPEAKER_08: I didn't do a side project.
- 12:58SPEAKER_03: Have you ever told that story?
- 13:01SPEAKER_03: I don't think so.
- 13:02SPEAKER_03: Well, since we're talking about reunions, let's do that real quick.
- 13:05SPEAKER_03: So um Shane moved to Portland, the Portland area, um in like ninety-eight.
- 13:17SPEAKER_08: It began with a nine.
- 13:20SPEAKER_03: It was either ninety-eight or ninety-nine.
- 13:22SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so I don't remember which one it was.
- 13:23SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 13:24SPEAKER_03: So our little bar band, Common Crossing, took a break, and um I joined because I joined uh the Rock Docs in 2001.
- 13:32SPEAKER_08: Okay, yep.
- 13:34SPEAKER_08: So because you and I made an album in 2000.
- 13:37SPEAKER_03: We made two.
- 13:39SPEAKER_03: Did we?
- 13:39SPEAKER_03: Well, we did Burning Daylight.
- 13:40SPEAKER_03: That was a big one.
- 13:41SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's right.
- 13:41SPEAKER_08: And then we did Ben and the Baby Blue Band.
- 13:43SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 13:44SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 13:44SPEAKER_03: And that was just us here in the basement just putting songs together.
- 13:47SPEAKER_03: Well, not this basement.
- 13:48SPEAKER_03: Well, part of it was basically part of it was in this part of the second album was in this basement.
- 13:51SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 13:51SPEAKER_03: And these were the demo albums that we've been playing songs from.
- 13:54SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 13:54SPEAKER_03: And whenever we say Shane's not part of that, that's because Doug and I did them.
- 13:58SPEAKER_07: Right.
- 13:58SPEAKER_03: Um, so yeah, so we did those, and then I joined the rock docs, and I mean Doug used we still hung out, but we weren't doing anything musically.
- 14:10SPEAKER_03: No.
- 14:11SPEAKER_03: And then I was in the rock docks, gosh, I put out two we put out two albums with the rock docks.
- 14:16SPEAKER_03: I was in the rock docks eight years.
- 14:19SPEAKER_03: I think eight years.
- 14:21SPEAKER_03: Because I well, because I yeah, because I j I joined in 2001 and I got out in 2009.
- 14:27SPEAKER_03: So yeah, that makes sense.
- 14:29SPEAKER_03: Um But it was the uh it was probably 2008, I think.
- 14:35SPEAKER_03: If I'm if I'm maybe even two thousand seven.
- 14:38SPEAKER_03: I don't remember.
- 14:39SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 14:40SPEAKER_03: That I started doing solo acoustic shows.
- 14:42SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 14:42SPEAKER_03: Uh restaurants and things like that, and um so I would play, just me, play, play acoustically, and you came to one of them.
- 14:55SPEAKER_08: And I was at uh Crows Nest.
- 14:57SPEAKER_03: It was at uh was it slopes at the time?
- 15:00SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 15:00SPEAKER_03: I think it was slopes.
- 15:01SPEAKER_03: I thought it was Crows Nest at the time.
- 15:02SPEAKER_03: No time.
- 15:02SPEAKER_03: I think it was Slopes.
- 15:03SPEAKER_03: And uh yeah, because I played in the corner.
- 15:06SPEAKER_03: It was slopes.
- 15:07SPEAKER_03: Um anyway, you came to that you in the corner.
- 15:10unknown: Yeah.
- 15:11SPEAKER_03: That's me and the spotlight.
- 15:12SPEAKER_08: That's you in the spotlight.
- 15:13SPEAKER_03: Losing my religion.
- 15:15SPEAKER_03: Um so I said, Doug, come on up here and harmonize with me.
- 15:19SPEAKER_03: Right?
- 15:20SPEAKER_03: I I think that's the way it happened.
- 15:21SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 15:23SPEAKER_03: I don't know, man.
- 15:24SPEAKER_03: Because all those solo shows, you know, it's like I I'm playing, but nobody's really listening.
- 15:29SPEAKER_03: They're having their own conversations.
- 15:30SPEAKER_03: Gee, where have we been then?
- 15:33SPEAKER_03: We love playing so unusual.
- 15:35SPEAKER_03: We love playing at these places, but sometimes it's like, you know what?
- 15:38SPEAKER_03: Just turn on a radio because you're obviously well we were It sounds like last Friday night.
- 15:43SPEAKER_03: Well, I was just gonna say, we were playing we were playing a show last Friday night, and there was a great crowd there.
- 15:48SPEAKER_03: It was packed.
- 15:49SPEAKER_03: And uh I said uh we we turned at each other and said, boys, you know, uh they're missing a great show.
- 15:55SPEAKER_03: They are, they were, man.
- 15:56SPEAKER_03: Because nobody was paying attention to the show.
- 15:58SPEAKER_08: I mean, we we we we I mean there was wrong lyrics.
- 16:02SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah.
- 16:03SPEAKER_08: There was, you know, there was uh how do I put this blue lyrics?
- 16:12SPEAKER_03: There were blue lyrics, yep.
- 16:14SPEAKER_08: Um at one point you did a song and then immediately did it over again.
- 16:21SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 16:21SPEAKER_08: The whole song nobody noticed crap.
- 16:25SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 16:25SPEAKER_03: Because I was just trying to kill time.
- 16:26SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 16:27SPEAKER_03: I was like, let's get this over with.
- 16:28SPEAKER_03: I'm just gonna do this song again.
- 16:29SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 16:30SPEAKER_08: Literally, and nobody noticed.
- 16:32SPEAKER_08: Nobody said boo.
- 16:33SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 16:33SPEAKER_03: It was the completely over their heads.
- 16:35SPEAKER_03: We just gone.
- 16:36SPEAKER_03: And that's hard to play.
- 16:37SPEAKER_03: It's hard to play those.
- 16:38SPEAKER_03: Luckily, we have each other.
- 16:40SPEAKER_03: Uh because every time whenever I play a solo show, I I don't have any fun because I don't have my I call you my security blanket.
- 16:47SPEAKER_03: And because we like to have a good time.
- 16:50SPEAKER_03: And I enjoy those shows because we're having fun.
- 16:53SPEAKER_03: And it's an it is annoying that nobody's listening.
- 16:56SPEAKER_08: Um but well, these people just don't want to have fun.
- 17:00SPEAKER_03: Well, you know, they have and and and I appreciate the venue for hiring us and and getting the chance to play.
- 17:06SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
- 17:07SPEAKER_03: But sometimes it's just like turn on a radio, and you know, because it would have been the exact same thing.
- 17:11SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it would have been the same thing.
- 17:13SPEAKER_03: Um, and maybe that's a that's because maybe that's on us.
- 17:16SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 17:16SPEAKER_03: I thought we were pretty entertaining.
- 17:18SPEAKER_08: But well we are, but nobody was paying any attention to us.
- 17:20SPEAKER_03: So you came up and sang uh sang some harmonies on some original stuff and some other stuff that we we used to do.
- 17:28SPEAKER_03: Um and I can't I think someone came up to us.
- 17:33SPEAKER_03: I think it wasn't it was that night, I think, someone came up to us and said, Would you guys come play our garage and our play in our garage?
- 17:40SPEAKER_03: Because this is great, you know, you guys harmonizing and doing just come play at we have a garage party.
- 17:44SPEAKER_03: Come play in our garage party.
- 17:46SPEAKER_03: So we're like, okay.
- 17:48SPEAKER_03: So we went to their house and and they had a I mean they had um b uh uh food platters and I mean it was all it was like it was a party.
- 17:58SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was a party, yeah.
- 17:59SPEAKER_03: It was in the garage.
- 18:00SPEAKER_03: And and we played our acoustic show, and they loved it.
- 18:03SPEAKER_03: I mean, they uh really ate it up, and then somebody at that party said, Well, come play my garage.
- 18:09SPEAKER_03: So we ended up doing that like circuit.
- 18:11SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we did it.
- 18:12SPEAKER_03: We did a garage tour.
- 18:13SPEAKER_03: We did a garage tour, and actually we a couple of them we did.
- 18:16SPEAKER_03: I was on acoustic guitar and you were on drums.
- 18:19SPEAKER_03: We didn't have a bass player, we just yeah, we just played that way.
- 18:22SPEAKER_03: Yep, and it went over like gangbusters.
- 18:24SPEAKER_08: We were the black keys before the black keys were black keys.
- 18:27SPEAKER_08: Exactly.
- 18:27SPEAKER_08: Stop.
- 18:28SPEAKER_03: Um, and then uh Shane got wind of it, and he's like, Well, you know, I could I could make a trip up once a month.
- 18:36SPEAKER_08: That is a dead-on Shane impersonation.
- 18:39SPEAKER_08: No.
- 18:46SPEAKER_06: Hi, I'm Shane.
- 18:47SPEAKER_06: I play bass and I and I teach college.
- 18:50SPEAKER_06: And I work at a hospital.
- 18:52SPEAKER_06: Well, you know.
- 18:54SPEAKER_06: Hey everybody.
- 18:56SPEAKER_03: You're right, that was really bad.
- 18:59SPEAKER_06: But uh he's I just wish Shane could really talk like that.
- 19:06SPEAKER_06: Because everybody would be like, oh, why are you guys making fun of Shane?
- 19:08SPEAKER_06: Then Shane comes like, hey, we're looking at what we're gonna talk about.
- 19:14SPEAKER_06: Everybody would be like, oh, MG.
- 19:18SPEAKER_03: So Shane decided that uh he was gonna try and uh and come up once a month so we could get some bar gigs.
- 19:26SPEAKER_03: So we bought all new equipment, yeah, bought a PA, bought a trailer.
- 19:30SPEAKER_08: Um we bought a real PA.
- 19:31SPEAKER_03: Like a yeah, yeah.
- 19:33SPEAKER_08: Not the one we started with.
- 19:35SPEAKER_08: Holy crap.
- 19:36SPEAKER_08: How we ever played with that.
- 19:37SPEAKER_03: We had no idea what we were doing.
- 19:38SPEAKER_03: We plugged the guitar.
- 19:39SPEAKER_03: Oh, really?
- 19:40SPEAKER_03: I plugged the guitar into a guitar processor and then plugged that directly into the PA.
- 19:45SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 19:45SPEAKER_03: Shane plugged his bass directly into the PA.
- 19:48SPEAKER_08: I think the vocals were directly into the PA also.
- 19:50SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 19:51SPEAKER_03: Um there was yeah, and it was only a four-channel PA.
- 19:53SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 19:54SPEAKER_03: That friggin' thing.
- 19:56SPEAKER_03: I still have it.
- 19:57SPEAKER_03: I still have it.
- 19:57SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
- 19:58SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
- 19:59SPEAKER_03: Um and uh but yeah, we bought all new equipment and we we reunited, you know, technically.
- 20:05SPEAKER_03: So yeah, that's that's a reunion story.
- 20:07SPEAKER_08: See, there we go.
- 20:08SPEAKER_03: Um Socket Eagles.
- 20:10SPEAKER_03: And uh by the way, uh we should mention, because we're recording this on Tuesday the eighth.
- 20:17SPEAKER_03: Um and mm St.
- 20:19SPEAKER_03: Patrick's Day is coming up.
- 20:20SPEAKER_03: Yes, next week.
- 20:21SPEAKER_03: Next week.
- 20:23SPEAKER_03: And uh we are playing the Irish Shetra Pub.
- 20:25SPEAKER_03: Irish Shetter Pub.
- 20:26SPEAKER_03: We had to take Did we take two years off?
- 20:29SPEAKER_08: Well, we were supposed to play in 2020 and that didn't happen.
- 20:31SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 20:32SPEAKER_08: And didn't do anything in 2021.
- 20:34SPEAKER_03: So we took a year off.
- 20:35SPEAKER_03: No, wait.
- 20:36SPEAKER_03: Two years.
- 20:36SPEAKER_03: Yeah, two years.
- 20:37SPEAKER_03: So we haven't been back there in two years.
- 20:39SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 20:39SPEAKER_03: So this will be fun.
- 20:40SPEAKER_03: And Shane is Shane is coming up.
- 20:42SPEAKER_03: Oh, he is coming up.
- 20:43SPEAKER_03: I think so.
- 20:43SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 20:44SPEAKER_03: He said he was gonna try to, so um I had them I had them bill us as Common Crossing.
- 20:49SPEAKER_03: So hopefully it's it hopefully he makes it.
- 20:52SPEAKER_08: Be better, or he's out of the band.
- 20:53SPEAKER_08: Right.
- 20:54SPEAKER_03: I agree.
- 20:55SPEAKER_03: Well, what do you mean about the band?
- 21:01SPEAKER_08: The Shane impersonation brought to you by the Irish setter.
- 21:07SPEAKER_08: No, he doesn't really sound like that.
- 21:09SPEAKER_03: No, he doesn't.
- 21:09SPEAKER_08: You guys he's been on the show before, you guys know.
- 21:11SPEAKER_03: Yeah, of course.
- 21:12SPEAKER_08: If you don't, just go back and listen.
- 21:14SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 21:15SPEAKER_03: Okay, so we uh we actually found a list of uh reunions in modern music.
- 21:22SPEAKER_08: Thank you, India.
- 21:23SPEAKER_03: Rolling Stone.
- 21:25SPEAKER_08: Apparently it's the only place you can find it is Rolling Stone India.
- 21:30SPEAKER_08: Not sure why.
- 21:32SPEAKER_08: Probably because there's a billion of 'em.
- 21:35SPEAKER_08: That explains that.
- 21:36SPEAKER_03: I just think of that joke Shane usually tells.
- 21:39SPEAKER_08: Ecortical.
- 21:40SPEAKER_08: Ecortical.
- 21:43SPEAKER_08: Sorry.
- 21:45SPEAKER_08: Okay, so this is from Rolling Stone India.
- 21:48SPEAKER_08: Ten biggest reunions in rock history.
- 21:52SPEAKER_03: Which is also subjective, but yeah, but you know.
- 21:55SPEAKER_03: Well, unless it's like uh unless it's like like grossing, like money.
- 22:00SPEAKER_08: I don't know.
- 22:00SPEAKER_08: I this doesn't really it doesn't really say what the criteria are.
- 22:04SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 22:05SPEAKER_08: But it just and it's not in any order.
- 22:07SPEAKER_08: Like number one or the first one they list is Iron Maiden.
- 22:11SPEAKER_08: I had no idea they had a reunion.
- 22:13SPEAKER_03: I I didn't even know they broke up.
- 22:15SPEAKER_08: See, that's it.
- 22:16SPEAKER_08: See, that that's why we have this.
- 22:18SPEAKER_08: Following the seminal 1992 release, Fear of the Dark, which was the last studio album to feature vocalist Bruce Dickinson, the Blaze Bailey era was not kind to Iron Maiden with the X Factor and Virtual 11.
- 22:35SPEAKER_08: I think is the name of the album.
- 22:36SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I don't know.
- 22:37SPEAKER_08: And it wasn't long before Steve Harris and Company were reconciling with Dickinson and guitarist Adrienne Smith.
- 22:42SPEAKER_08: So apparently Adrian Smith left too.
- 22:44SPEAKER_08: The resulting 1999 Ed Hunter Taurus on Maiden, along with guitarist Janet Gers, who had been filling in for Smith during his hiatus, played 28 Cities followed by successful, their Huxley inspired come back album, Brave New World.
- 23:02SPEAKER_08: Would you call that a reunion though?
- 23:04SPEAKER_08: Because they didn't go away.
- 23:06SPEAKER_08: Well, no, they didn't really go away, but I mean the the lineup was different because it you know Bruce Dickinson kinda is that band.
- 23:13SPEAKER_03: I agree.
- 23:14SPEAKER_03: But what I'm saying is that would be like But they were still going.
- 23:19SPEAKER_08: They didn't like break up and Right, they were still going.
- 23:22SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 23:23SPEAKER_03: So it was I guess it I guess it was Well, I it was a reunion of that lineup.
- 23:28SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 23:29SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 23:29SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 23:30SPEAKER_03: I'll go with that.
- 23:31SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 23:31SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 23:32SPEAKER_03: What else?
- 23:32SPEAKER_08: Uh Black Sabbath.
- 23:34SPEAKER_03: Well, that was a reunion.
- 23:35SPEAKER_08: Yep.
- 23:35SPEAKER_08: Sabbath saw a great deal of squabbles and lineup changes before the original Never Say Die lineup, minus drummer Bill Ward.
- 23:42SPEAKER_08: Apparently some sort of diva.
- 23:44SPEAKER_03: Yeah, apparently, according to that.
- 23:46SPEAKER_08: Uh finally reunion reunited for 2013's 13.
- 23:50SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 23:51SPEAKER_08: Before they announced their second comeback LP, and before Frontman Ozzie Osborne called it off, choosing to focus on their farewell tour the end.
- 23:58SPEAKER_08: Although Ozzy was fired from the band in April 1979, Sabbath did a number of one-off reunions between 1985 and 1992, from which two of their 1997 performances at Birmingham NEC made it onto the 1998 live album reunion.
- 24:16SPEAKER_03: Did you hear that Black Sabbath album, 13?
- 24:19SPEAKER_03: I haven't.
- 24:19SPEAKER_03: Do you?
- 24:20SPEAKER_03: What do you think?
- 24:20SPEAKER_03: It's pretty good.
- 24:21SPEAKER_03: Yeah?
- 24:21SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 24:22SPEAKER_03: I've only heard one song that they released to radio.
- 24:25SPEAKER_03: I I haven't heard the whole album.
- 24:26SPEAKER_08: I mean, it's it's typical Sabbath.
- 24:27SPEAKER_08: I mean it's nothing, you know, it's nothing groundbreaking or anything, but it was good.
- 24:31SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 24:31SPEAKER_08: I liked it.
- 24:32SPEAKER_08: Cool.
- 24:32SPEAKER_03: What else?
- 24:33SPEAKER_08: Uh Judas Priest.
- 24:34SPEAKER_04: Who I had no idea.
- 24:36SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I see.
- 24:37SPEAKER_04: I don't know if I call that a reunion.
- 24:38SPEAKER_03: Well, I mean, they they had Ripper Owens uh repla replace Rob Halford, and he went and formed Halford.
- 24:43SPEAKER_03: And then I guess Halford came back, and I guess that's a reunion, right?
- 24:48SPEAKER_08: That's pretty much you just summed it right up there.
- 24:50SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 24:50SPEAKER_08: With the exception of their drummer, Judas Priest has been one of the most relatively more stable bands throughout the years.
- 24:56SPEAKER_08: Following frontman Rob Halford's departure, 1992, the heavy metal legends powered through with Tim Ripper Owens.
- 25:03SPEAKER_03: Except that now KK Downing is out.
- 25:06SPEAKER_08: Doesn't mention anything about him.
- 25:08SPEAKER_03: And um they got another they got a younger guitar player in there now.
- 25:14SPEAKER_04: Oh really?
- 25:14SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 25:15SPEAKER_04: I didn't know that.
- 25:16SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 25:16SPEAKER_03: They were actually they were going to go out uh because the guitar player that they got to replace KK Downing got sick or something.
- 25:28SPEAKER_03: Or something happened, I don't remember what was.
- 25:30SPEAKER_03: And they were they were gonna about to go out as a as a one guitar band.
- 25:35SPEAKER_03: And like later they're they had the tour all set up and then they they pulled the plug because people were like, who are you kidding?
- 25:42SPEAKER_03: You can't go out as a one guitar band.
- 25:44SPEAKER_04: You're cheating as priest.
- 25:46SPEAKER_04: Well, that's true, yeah.
- 25:46SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
- 25:47SPEAKER_08: Kinda have to happen.
- 25:48SPEAKER_08: Yeah, yeah.
- 25:49SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 25:50SPEAKER_08: Uh Led Zeppelin.
- 25:51SPEAKER_03: Yes, I would.
- 25:52SPEAKER_08: Original Led Zeppel lineup.
- 25:54SPEAKER_03: I would consider that a reunion for sure.
- 25:56SPEAKER_08: Uh stuck it out over 12 years and eight studio albums, but finally parted ways after Bonham's death in 1980.
- 26:02SPEAKER_08: It was only in 2007 that Paige, Plant, and Jones, along with Bonham's son Jason, also a drummer, no, came together for a one-off mega show in London's O2 Arena.
- 26:13SPEAKER_08: Although rumors of a full-blown tour ran thick at the time, they were dismissed later in 2009, and fans had to settle for the O2 Arena concert film celebration day that later released in 2012.
- 26:26SPEAKER_03: But I think that was the perfect way to do it.
- 26:28SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
- 26:28SPEAKER_03: I think you do a one-off, you record it, and you release that as like a tribute or in memoriam or you know, whatever, as a celebration of the band and of their fans and everything, and you don't go on tour.
- 26:39SPEAKER_03: You don't.
- 26:40SPEAKER_03: You don't there's no money grab there.
- 26:42SPEAKER_03: You know, I think that was a perfect way to do it.
- 26:44SPEAKER_03: Brilliant.
- 26:44SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 26:45SPEAKER_03: Pink Floyd.
- 26:47SPEAKER_03: Reunion?
- 26:49SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, you know, because Roger Waters.
- 26:51SPEAKER_03: Did they reunited with Roger Waters, right?
- 26:54SPEAKER_03: Because he left uh because he's a douche.
- 26:58SPEAKER_03: No.
- 26:59SPEAKER_03: Um and then Roger Waters.
- 27:01SPEAKER_03: And then they've been offered millions and millions and millions of dollars over the years to get the whole band back together.
- 27:06SPEAKER_03: And then they did a they did a a tour or something.
- 27:11SPEAKER_03: Maybe it was a maybe it was just one concert, I don't remember.
- 27:13SPEAKER_03: But it was a benefit.
- 27:14SPEAKER_03: Right?
- 27:15SPEAKER_03: Am I right?
- 27:16SPEAKER_08: I don't know, because you're all over the place.
- 27:18SPEAKER_03: Okay, you go ahead and read it.
- 27:20SPEAKER_03: Go ahead.
- 27:22SPEAKER_08: I was like, what's he talking about?
- 27:25SPEAKER_08: What is it?
- 27:26SPEAKER_08: Okay.
- 27:26SPEAKER_08: 2012's live eight performance marked another iconic one-off as the surviving members of Rock Legends Pink Floyd reunited on stage to play the Benefit concert at London's O2 Arena.
- 27:38SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 27:39SPEAKER_08: The surreal performance that included classics comfortably numb outside the wall marked the second time that Nick Mason, David Gilmore, and Roger Waters had played together in the last 30 years.
- 27:49SPEAKER_08: And the third time the former bandmates reunited since Waters left the band after the original Wall Tour 1981.
- 27:56SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 27:56SPEAKER_03: So I figured it was a live aid, so I knew it was a benefit.
- 27:59SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 27:59SPEAKER_03: Which was a live eight, which was a a celebration of the original live aid, I believe, right?
- 28:05SPEAKER_08: Sounds right.
- 28:06SPEAKER_03: Either either a celebration or there was a there was a need to do another one.
- 28:10SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 28:11SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 28:11SPEAKER_03: Or something like that.
- 28:12SPEAKER_08: Yeah, because I don't think they cured hunger.
- 28:14SPEAKER_03: No, I don't think so either.
- 28:16SPEAKER_08: Pretty sure.
- 28:19SPEAKER_08: Wait, let me think back.
- 28:20SPEAKER_08: Nope.
- 28:21SPEAKER_08: Nope, they didn't do it.
- 28:23SPEAKER_08: It's a good try.
- 28:24SPEAKER_08: I mean, I can give them a attaboy and a punch in the shoulder for a college try.
- 28:28SPEAKER_04: Good for you guys.
- 28:30SPEAKER_03: I think they made a difference.
- 28:32SPEAKER_08: Oh, yeah, they definitely made a difference.
- 28:34SPEAKER_08: At least waved awareness and you know, you know.
- 28:37unknown: Didn't do anything.
- 28:39SPEAKER_08: Uh, okay, so the Eagles.
- 28:43SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 28:43SPEAKER_08: Following the public meltdown between vocalist guitarist Don Felder and Glenn Fry, which almost went physical, which we've talked about.
- 28:49SPEAKER_03: Yes, we have.
- 28:50SPEAKER_08: The Eagles went off the radar with frontman Don Henley, claiming that the band would reunite when Hell Freezes Over.
- 28:55SPEAKER_08: But it all but all it took was a collaboration with country superstar Travis Tritt for the former Eagles to come together once and more on Take It Easy.
- 29:04SPEAKER_08: What followed was the Eagles aptly named Hell Freezes Over 1994.
- 29:08SPEAKER_08: Reunion tour that continued over the next two years, a levered track, live album, and four singles.
- 29:14SPEAKER_03: So yep.
- 29:15SPEAKER_03: And the and the the live version from Hell Freezes Over of Hotel California is really, really cool.
- 29:22SPEAKER_03: It is actually did it like a uh like a Spanish guitar type thing.
- 29:25SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was good.
- 29:26SPEAKER_03: It was good.
- 29:26SPEAKER_08: I think that's when Joe Walsh was sober too.
- 29:29SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 29:30SPEAKER_08: So uh the police.
- 29:33SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they've been after they've been offered millions and millions of dollars over the years to reunite as well, and they always said no, and I think they did it one for one tour, right?
- 29:43SPEAKER_08: Well, uh following failed efforts in 1986 to release a studio album that guitarist Andy Summers felt was an empty exercise and was doomed from the outset.
- 29:53SPEAKER_08: So positive.
- 29:56SPEAKER_08: English rockers, the police effectively disbanded and focused on their solo careers.
- 30:00SPEAKER_08: It was only 20 years later that reunion rumors once more, which ultimately materialized in the police reunion tour across 2007 and 2008, which also marked the 30th anniversary of the band's hit signal, Roxanne.
- 30:14SPEAKER_08: And although it did not produce any new material, the police reunion tour spanned an astounding 151 concerts and grossed 362 million dollars.
- 30:25SPEAKER_03: That's what I was just gonna say.
- 30:26SPEAKER_03: It was a money grab.
- 30:26SPEAKER_08: It was big time money grab.
- 30:28SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 30:28SPEAKER_08: Aerosmith.
- 30:29SPEAKER_03: Because they hated each other.
- 30:30SPEAKER_03: Well, though they didn't hate each other, but they they were they loved each other like brothers.
- 30:34SPEAKER_08: Yeah, but they fought like brothers.
- 30:35SPEAKER_03: They fought like brothers, too, yeah.
- 30:37SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 30:37SPEAKER_08: Um Aerosmith.
- 30:39SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 30:39SPEAKER_08: After guitarist Joe Perry and Brad Whitford briefly left Aerosmith and the Lurch during 1979 to 1984, things did not seem too bright for the legendary hard rockers with Rocker in a Hard Place failing to match up to their previous track record.
- 30:53SPEAKER_08: However, not long after each of the band members cleaned up their act and sobered up, Aerosmith kicked off their large release, largely, largely successful 1984 back in the Saddle Reunion Tour, which led to the live release Classics Live 2 and eight more studio releases till the date.
- 31:11SPEAKER_03: Permanent Vacation was their their like comeback.
- 31:14SPEAKER_08: Yeah, that was one with Love in an Elevator.
- 31:17SPEAKER_03: Nope.
- 31:18SPEAKER_03: You sure?
- 31:18SPEAKER_03: Yep, I'm sure.
- 31:19SPEAKER_08: Okay.
- 31:20SPEAKER_03: No.
- 31:20SPEAKER_03: Um it was the one with Dude Looks Like a Lady.
- 31:22SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's the Evator was on that one, too.
- 31:25SPEAKER_03: Nope.
- 31:25SPEAKER_03: Was it?
- 31:25SPEAKER_03: No, that was on Was that on Pump?
- 31:27SPEAKER_03: It was on Pump.
- 31:28SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
- 31:28SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 31:29SPEAKER_03: But yeah, Ragdoll, uh, Dude Looks Like a Lady, Angel.
- 31:32SPEAKER_03: Angel, yeah.
- 31:33SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 31:34SPEAKER_03: Um there was another couple of them.
- 31:36SPEAKER_03: I can't remember what they were.
- 31:37SPEAKER_03: But yeah, that was their comeback, basically.
- 31:41SPEAKER_08: Uh The Who.
- 31:43SPEAKER_08: The Who.
- 31:44SPEAKER_08: Yeah, in the face of vocalist, guitarist Peach Townsend's plaguing self-doubt and the band's drawing flack for Kenny Jones' drumming style differing from Keith Moon's original eccentricities.
- 31:58SPEAKER_08: That's an understatement.
- 32:00SPEAKER_08: The Who signed off with their 1982 farewell tour, but later came together for a number of one-offs that included 1985's Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium.
- 32:09SPEAKER_09: Yep.
- 32:09SPEAKER_08: And later in 1996, a revival of the rock opera Quadrafinia.
- 32:13SPEAKER_09: Yep.
- 32:13SPEAKER_08: And with the surviving numbers Pete Townsend, Roger Daltrey, and John Entwistle.
- 32:19SPEAKER_08: Joined by a number of guest musicians at Hyde Park.
- 32:22SPEAKER_08: Cool.
- 32:23SPEAKER_08: Kiss.
- 32:25SPEAKER_03: Well, yeah.
- 32:25SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
- 32:27SPEAKER_03: Because they so obviously Peter Chris and Ace Freely were fired.
- 32:32SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 32:33SPEAKER_03: And they were replaced by originally Eric Carr and Bruce Kulich.
- 32:38SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 32:38SPEAKER_03: And then Eric Carr died, and they got Eric Singer.
- 32:42SPEAKER_09: Yep.
- 32:43SPEAKER_03: And and then they, you know, ran out of popularity and money.
- 32:47SPEAKER_03: So they needed to do something big.
- 32:49SPEAKER_08: So they got So that's when they went without the makeup, right?
- 32:52SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 32:53SPEAKER_03: Well well they did that before.
- 32:54SPEAKER_03: Bruce Kulick was without the make makeup.
- 32:57SPEAKER_03: And then um they they it was a it was a publicity song.
- 33:01SPEAKER_03: I mean they're geniuses.
- 33:02SPEAKER_03: They really are marketing geniuses.
- 33:04SPEAKER_03: Um they did uh an unplugged thing, I think, with the original band.
- 33:09SPEAKER_03: First, that was the first reunion.
- 33:12SPEAKER_03: Uh they brought Peter Chris out and Ace out, and they did a couple songs with them.
- 33:17SPEAKER_03: And then I think that I think when they first went back to the makeup, it was the original band.
- 33:24SPEAKER_03: So I think that was the reunion that they're talking about.
- 33:26SPEAKER_03: And I'm I'm I'm just making I'm this is off the top of my head, so you tell me, I mean, what it says in that article.
- 33:32SPEAKER_08: But uh a few years before Kiss were inducted in the Hollywood Qual Fame, and had a film partially based on them, and even inspired the Demon.
- 33:44SPEAKER_08: Some sort of wrestler, I guess.
- 33:47SPEAKER_08: Anyway, the American hard rockers were battling internal tensions and lineup changes, but finally reunited to play the 38th annual Grammy Awards in 1996.
- 33:58SPEAKER_08: Uh this is a this is a quote from Tupac.
- 34:04SPEAKER_08: You know how the Grammys used to be all straight-looking folks with suits?
- 34:08SPEAKER_08: Said rapper Tupac introducing the band who made their sign Comeback in Signature Love Gun era attire.
- 34:15SPEAKER_08: Everybody looking tired, no surprises.
- 34:17SPEAKER_08: We tired of that.
- 34:18SPEAKER_08: We need something different, something new.
- 34:20SPEAKER_08: We need to shock the people, so let's shock the people.
- 34:23SPEAKER_03: I remember that, and then they walked out in their makeup.
- 34:25SPEAKER_08: Yep.
- 34:26SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 34:26SPEAKER_03: And that's all that's the whole That's the whole the whole article.
- 34:30SPEAKER_08: Thank you, Rolling Stone India.
- 34:33SPEAKER_03: Did we miss any?
- 34:35SPEAKER_03: Oh, there's probably a ton of them.
- 34:36SPEAKER_03: Reunions?
- 34:37SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 34:37SPEAKER_08: Um probably well, I mean I mean, there's a lot of uh think of Van Halen.
- 34:42SPEAKER_08: Yeah, Van Halen.
- 34:43SPEAKER_03: We haven't talked about that.
- 34:44SPEAKER_03: So Sammy replaced uh Roth and then was fired.
- 34:48SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 34:49SPEAKER_03: They got Gary Sharon, and then they they went back to Sammy in 2004, which was miserable.
- 34:56SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 34:57SPEAKER_03: It was for a tour, but they it was a reunion of the of the Van Hagar era, and then Sammy said, I'm done.
- 35:05SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, I'm not going back to that until Ed cleans up his act, because he was in he was in pretty bad shape.
- 35:09SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
- 35:10SPEAKER_03: And um then they got Roth.
- 35:12SPEAKER_03: He cle Eddie cleaned up, yeah, and and then they got Roth.
- 35:14SPEAKER_03: So that was that was a reunion.
- 35:16SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 35:16SPEAKER_03: And and a successful one at that, I would say, because they released an album which was is a highly underrated album.
- 35:22SPEAKER_03: Another kind of truth or different different kind of truth.
- 35:24SPEAKER_03: I think it's underrated.
- 35:25SPEAKER_03: I mean, I yes, it's when when it first came out, I remember we had the radio show.
- 35:30SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 35:31SPEAKER_03: And I wasn't sold on it yet.
- 35:33SPEAKER_08: And I was wearing Five Two was not the greatest signal.
- 35:37SPEAKER_08: Yeah, I don't think so either.
- 35:38SPEAKER_08: Single to release from that album, I don't think.
- 35:41SPEAKER_03: And we actually talked about the fact that they took a bunch of old material and and reworked it.
- 35:46SPEAKER_03: Like She's a Woman is an old, old song.
- 35:48SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
- 35:48SPEAKER_03: Um But after spending some time with it and actually reading the lyrics, Roth was a pretty decent lyricist.
- 35:58SPEAKER_03: Um when you you forget about forget about like Panama and stuff like that, but like on on that album, if you look at the lyrics for uh the album A Different Kind of Truth, they're pretty d badass.
- 36:11SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 36:11SPEAKER_08: Um I think he had time to mature and maybe you know, work on his songwriting.
- 36:15SPEAKER_08: Maybe.
- 36:16SPEAKER_08: I think his solo career had a lot to do with that.
- 36:18SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 36:18SPEAKER_08: You know.
- 36:19SPEAKER_03: But I do think it's an underrated Van Halen album.
- 36:21SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 36:22SPEAKER_03: Um and it was a great comeback album, I thought.
- 36:25SPEAKER_03: I thought they should have done another one, but yeah.
- 36:28SPEAKER_08: You know, but that's uh um that's never gonna happen.
- 36:32SPEAKER_08: Right.
- 36:33SPEAKER_08: We're done.
- 36:34SPEAKER_03: So uh in the same vein, we were talking about reunions.
- 36:38SPEAKER_03: Uh here's one that we m I guess we kind of missed.
- 36:41SPEAKER_03: Uh because they've done it a couple times.
- 36:43SPEAKER_03: Genesis.
- 36:45SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
- 36:45SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 36:46SPEAKER_03: Right?
- 36:46SPEAKER_03: Because they they reunited for a tour.
- 36:49SPEAKER_03: Uh well, they broke up in like the nineties officially.
- 36:52SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 36:53SPEAKER_03: Because Phil Collins had his solo career in the 80s, but he also was with Genesis.
- 36:58SPEAKER_08: Yeah, he was doing both.
- 36:59SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 36:59SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 37:00SPEAKER_03: And then in the 90s, they did like was it?
- 37:03SPEAKER_03: Uh We Can't Dance.
- 37:06SPEAKER_04: I don't remember.
- 37:07SPEAKER_04: Ah, can't dance.
- 37:08SPEAKER_03: Um but he did the kind of the same thing, but then he said, I'm done with Genesis.
- 37:13SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 37:14SPEAKER_03: And I think it was in like oh five, 2005, that they reunited for a tour.
- 37:22SPEAKER_03: Something like that.
- 37:23SPEAKER_03: And then Phil Collins had all kinds of health problems.
- 37:26SPEAKER_03: And then and then they've reunited reunited again.
- 37:30SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 37:30SPEAKER_03: And they're touring now, or or they have been this this past year.
- 37:36SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 37:36SPEAKER_03: Or something until COVID.
- 37:38SPEAKER_03: I mean, COVID has put some stops to some of them, but yeah.
- 37:41SPEAKER_03: Uh that's definitely a reunion.
- 37:42SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
- 37:43SPEAKER_03: Um the Doobie Brothers Um are on tour right now.
- 37:48SPEAKER_03: These are tours that that are happening in uh 2021, 2022.
- 37:52SPEAKER_03: So the uh Genesis, uh the Doobie Brothers, uh coming up this summer, they're on tour.
- 38:00SPEAKER_03: Um Black Crows are back together.
- 38:04SPEAKER_03: Wow.
- 38:04SPEAKER_03: Um, because I had that brotherly spat.
- 38:07SPEAKER_08: Right.
- 38:08SPEAKER_08: Umasis.
- 38:11SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 38:11SPEAKER_03: Blondie is back together.
- 38:13SPEAKER_08: Really?
- 38:14SPEAKER_08: Yep.
- 38:14SPEAKER_03: Blondie is is touring.
- 38:16SPEAKER_03: Uh doing a U UK tour in the spring of this year.
- 38:20SPEAKER_03: Um, Queen and um Adam Lambert.
- 38:24SPEAKER_03: I don't think they ever broke up, but they're touring this year.
- 38:26SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
- 38:27SPEAKER_03: Um the you know they've been sell they were celebrating like uh I didn't realize that Adam Lambert had been with Queen that long.
- 38:38SPEAKER_03: At least ten years.
- 38:39SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 38:40SPEAKER_03: Um well ever since he won that, didn't he win like uh America's got a well he didn't he didn't it was Or was second place Yeah American Idol that's what did he yeah he was second place I think yeah Yeah he's got a powerhouse voice I'm not sure I like it with Queen.
- 38:55SPEAKER_08: I mean he does a good job No yeah I mean yeah for what it is you know ABBA What is going on with American Idol winners?
- 39:01SPEAKER_08: They just disappear.
- 39:02SPEAKER_08: Yeah they win the show and then they just go.
- 39:04SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it doesn't have it doesn't ever since like Clay Aiken.
- 39:07SPEAKER_03: Yep, it doesn't have the the staying power.
- 39:08SPEAKER_03: Actually he didn't even win.
- 39:09SPEAKER_03: The staying power that it used to.
- 39:11SPEAKER_08: Nah, because it's everybody's tired of it.
- 39:13SPEAKER_03: And then you got the voice and the this and then Well also we're not really paying we're not really paying attention because they do have like the winners of the voice do have uh budding music careers.
- 39:27SPEAKER_03: Um but they're but they're we don't hear about them uh as much, I don't think.
- 39:32SPEAKER_03: Because we don't listen to the radio very much.
- 39:34SPEAKER_03: You know, because I think country radio plays like um Gabby Barrett.
- 39:40SPEAKER_03: She won the voice or was second place on the voice a couple years ago, and she's got a couple huge hits on country radio.
- 39:48SPEAKER_03: So I think it's happening, it's just not as as you know Well, because you know, everybody's tired of it.
- 39:54SPEAKER_03: Um ABBA is back together.
- 39:57SPEAKER_08: I heard that, yeah.
- 39:57SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they put out a new album, right?
- 39:59SPEAKER_08: And that's when we were talking about it.
- 40:01SPEAKER_03: And they have a London residency um May through October 20 of this year.
- 40:07SPEAKER_08: Robert Plant now is that that's a good gig to have.
- 40:12SPEAKER_08: Yeah, because you really don't have to tour.
- 40:14SPEAKER_08: People come to you.
- 40:15SPEAKER_08: You don't you don't have to go to them.
- 40:17SPEAKER_03: And it sounds awesome, but it's also uh it uh the uh traditionally it's the mark of the end of your career.
- 40:29SPEAKER_03: True.
- 40:30SPEAKER_03: But because but I mean Def Leppard has done it.
- 40:33SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they did a residency in Vegas, and they're still going strong.
- 40:36SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 40:36SPEAKER_03: I mean, they're still touring the world.
- 40:38SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 40:38SPEAKER_08: Um you don't have to do it forever, but you you can do it for a while and just play and people come to you and you don't have to tour, you can like stay in one place.
- 40:46SPEAKER_03: And it makes a buttload of money.
- 40:49SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you know.
- 40:50SPEAKER_03: So it's actually pretty brilliant.
- 40:51SPEAKER_03: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.
- 40:53SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I like Alison Krause.
- 40:54SPEAKER_03: I do too.
- 40:55SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 40:56SPEAKER_03: So those are all um kind of reunions or comebacks that are actually touring this year.
- 41:01SPEAKER_03: So God comeback.
- 41:02SPEAKER_03: I've been here for years.
- 41:04SPEAKER_03: Um so I thought that was I thought that was pretty cool.
- 41:08SPEAKER_03: I don't have a common crossing song of the week.
- 41:12SPEAKER_03: I actually went through some of them.
- 41:14SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
- 41:14SPEAKER_03: Um, but uh I couldn't find any that we haven't featured yet.
- 41:18SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
- 41:19SPEAKER_03: That's right.
- 41:19SPEAKER_03: I didn't I didn't spend a lot of time, but I I did listen to a few of them.
- 41:22SPEAKER_08: Yeah, no worries.
- 41:23SPEAKER_08: So um we'll surprise everybody when we get back to it, and they'll be like, whoa, I forgot about this.
- 41:28SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 41:29SPEAKER_03: We could start, you know, going back through them.
- 41:32SPEAKER_03: Whenever.
- 41:34SPEAKER_03: We'll do what we want.
- 41:35SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 41:36SPEAKER_03: So uh I guess we'll take a break.
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- 42:47SPEAKER_03: And my cousin Larry.
- 42:56SPEAKER_07: I didn't broke every day That was really loud.
- 43:00SPEAKER_07: I know I get the control of the moment of my voice.
- 43:05SPEAKER_03: I can watch.
- 43:09SPEAKER_03: Actually, say something.
- 43:10SPEAKER_03: Let's see if I can pick you up.
- 43:11unknown: Okay.
- 43:11unknown: Go find it.
- 43:15SPEAKER_06: Nobody says, There we go.
- 43:16SPEAKER_03: There we go.
- 43:18SPEAKER_03: Uh it is time to climb the wall of tunes, everybody's favorites.
- 43:22SPEAKER_03: So uh go ahead without uh further ado, Doug, I want you to uh cover your eyes.
- 43:26SPEAKER_08: Roger that Milly Vanilli Chili Willy.
- 43:28SPEAKER_08: Alright.
- 43:29SPEAKER_08: Cover them good.
- 43:30SPEAKER_05: Okay, okay Are you covering them?
- 43:34SPEAKER_05: I'm covering them! Alright, I'm going to uh I'm going to stand up and grab one you might get this.
- 43:48SPEAKER_03: Oh, I almost fell out of my chair.
- 43:51SPEAKER_08: Well, I wouldn't know that would you?
- 43:52SPEAKER_03: You might get this.
- 43:53SPEAKER_03: Okay, I'm I I've got one.
- 43:55SPEAKER_05: You good?
- 43:55SPEAKER_05: I'm good.
- 43:57SPEAKER_05: You might get it, you might not.
- 44:00SPEAKER_05: I guess we'll have to wait and say, won't we?
- 44:02SPEAKER_05: I guess so.
- 44:03SPEAKER_05: Are you ready?
- 44:04SPEAKER_05: Um yeah, I wanna go back.
- 44:06SPEAKER_05: We gotta say the magic words.
- 44:07SPEAKER_03: Oh yes.
- 44:08SPEAKER_03: Um let the guessing begin.
- 44:12SPEAKER_08: And it's official.
- 44:13SPEAKER_08: Alright.
- 44:16SPEAKER_08: Is it rock band or is it a solo artist?
- 44:20SPEAKER_03: Is it a rock band or a solo artist?
- 44:23SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 44:24SPEAKER_03: It's a band.
- 44:25SPEAKER_03: It's not a rock band.
- 44:27SPEAKER_08: Oh, it's not a rock band.
- 44:28SPEAKER_08: It's not a rock band.
- 44:29SPEAKER_08: See, I was trying to put two questions in one.
- 44:32SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 44:33SPEAKER_08: So what kind of band is it?
- 44:35SPEAKER_03: It's a country band.
- 44:36SPEAKER_07: I'm out.
- 44:38SPEAKER_07: I think you may know this band.
- 44:40SPEAKER_07: I'm done.
- 44:41SPEAKER_07: Call it.
- 44:42SPEAKER_07: No.
- 44:42SPEAKER_07: He's done.
- 44:43SPEAKER_07: No, you may know it.
- 44:44SPEAKER_07: Stick a fork at him and take the thermometer out of his butt.
- 44:47SPEAKER_07: He's done.
- 44:49SPEAKER_08: Um so it's a country band.
- 44:52SPEAKER_03: It is.
- 44:53SPEAKER_03: Not contraband.
- 44:54SPEAKER_03: Country band.
- 44:55SPEAKER_08: Country band.
- 44:56SPEAKER_08: Here's contraband, contraband.
- 44:59SPEAKER_08: That's fun to say.
- 45:00SPEAKER_08: Contraband, country band.
- 45:02SPEAKER_08: That'd be a good name for a band.
- 45:03SPEAKER_08: What is that?
- 45:04SPEAKER_08: Contraband.
- 45:05SPEAKER_08: Well, I know.
- 45:06SPEAKER_08: Kind of play the kind of music you play, Cuban.
- 45:12SPEAKER_04: Because that's contraband.
- 45:14SPEAKER_04: Isn't that the name of a Velvet Revolver album?
- 45:16SPEAKER_04: What?
- 45:16SPEAKER_04: Contraband.
- 45:17SPEAKER_08: Oh yeah, that's right.
- 45:17SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
- 45:18SPEAKER_08: The first one, I think.
- 45:19SPEAKER_08: Yep.
- 45:20SPEAKER_08: Cool.
- 45:21SPEAKER_04: Alright, so country band.
- 45:23SPEAKER_04: Um actually, isn't it a it's a band, it's also a rock band from the 80s, isn't it?
- 45:27SPEAKER_03: A contraband.
- 45:28SPEAKER_03: Contraband?
- 45:28SPEAKER_03: Could be.
- 45:29SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 45:29SPEAKER_03: Anyway, go ahead.
- 45:31SPEAKER_08: Um height of popularity.
- 45:33SPEAKER_03: Um 90s.
- 45:35SPEAKER_08: 90s.
- 45:36SPEAKER_08: Um male lead singer?
- 45:38SPEAKER_08: Yep.
- 45:38SPEAKER_08: Female?
- 45:39SPEAKER_08: Male?
- 45:39SPEAKER_04: Yep.
- 45:41SPEAKER_08: Uh how many members in this?
- 45:46SPEAKER_04: Five?
- 45:47SPEAKER_04: Five?
- 45:48SPEAKER_04: Four or five.
- 45:49SPEAKER_08: Okay.
- 45:51unknown: One, two, three.
- 45:53SPEAKER_08: Is it Sawyer Burr?
- 45:57SPEAKER_08: Is it really?
- 46:03SPEAKER_08: How did you do that?
- 46:04SPEAKER_08: I don't know.
- 46:05SPEAKER_08: It was it was the first country band popular.
- 46:08SPEAKER_08: Well, I mean, they were popular back in the 80s, back when they were on Star Search.
- 46:11SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 46:11SPEAKER_03: They did, yes.
- 46:12SPEAKER_03: That's what that's where they got, but they're, I think the height of their popularity was Oh yeah, they got way big in the 90s.
- 46:17SPEAKER_08: Wait a minute, this isn't that.
- 46:20SPEAKER_03: This is a video.
- 46:20SPEAKER_03: I play I played these songs from from YouTube.
- 46:23SPEAKER_03: Hold on a second.
- 46:29SPEAKER_03: Mark Miller is the lead singer.
- 46:33SPEAKER_03: He was known for his uh frontman qualities.
- 46:37SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he's dancing.
- 46:38SPEAKER_08: Yeah, he was kind of a rock type frontman.
- 46:41SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he was, yeah, he he I mean he would not stop moving.
- 46:44SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 46:50SPEAKER_03: He had a unique voice, too.
- 46:51SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 46:52SPEAKER_03: I say had.
- 46:52SPEAKER_03: They're still around.
- 46:53SPEAKER_08: They're still around.
- 46:55SPEAKER_03: Um lot of hits for these guys.
- 46:58SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 46:58SPEAKER_03: Um, but you're right, they did, they got their they won Star Search in the 80s, and uh I think they had- I mean, they were so good that Ed McMahon dropped his tumbler of Scotch.
- 47:09SPEAKER_08: You know, he was just like, he was just flabbergasted.
- 47:12SPEAKER_03: So um they had uh, but some girls do.
- 47:18SPEAKER_03: There's that one.
- 47:18SPEAKER_03: Um we've covered a Sawyer Brown song.
- 47:21SPEAKER_03: Uh we did race his own, right?
- 47:23SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 47:24SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 47:25SPEAKER_03: Um I like let's see.
- 47:29SPEAKER_03: Well uh here here's that one, actually.
- 47:32SPEAKER_03: Since uh since you mentioned it.
- 47:34SPEAKER_03: It's also actually uh an old George Jones song.
- 47:36SPEAKER_03: Is it?
- 47:37SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 47:39SPEAKER_01: No, you ought to.
- 47:40SPEAKER_01: You're right as well as anyone around here.
- 47:48SPEAKER_02: I feel the as well enough, cooling deep inside like my heart's gonna be great.
- 47:58SPEAKER_03: Just gotta you gotta hear the chorus.
- 48:15SPEAKER_03: Fun stuff, man, and just really cool.
- 48:19SPEAKER_08: This is another song we should bring back.
- 48:20SPEAKER_08: I I agree.
- 48:22SPEAKER_03: I agree.
- 48:23SPEAKER_03: Um another.
- 48:26SPEAKER_03: They did have a lot of songs that were Yeah, there's that one.
- 48:32SPEAKER_03: I want to play that one.
- 48:33SPEAKER_03: But they had a lot were that were um poignant.
- 48:38SPEAKER_03: Like this one.
- 48:39SPEAKER_03: It's called The Walk.
- 48:41SPEAKER_03: I don't know if you've ever heard it.
- 48:42SPEAKER_03: You ever heard The Walk?
- 48:48SPEAKER_02: Cool in my hair.
- 48:56SPEAKER_03: So one thing I love about country music is the stories.
- 48:58SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 48:59SPEAKER_03: And this one is it's it's on the walk.
- 49:08SPEAKER_03: Taking his kid to the school bus.
- 49:10SPEAKER_03: Or his his dad's taking him to the school bus.
- 49:38SPEAKER_03: So he's walking with his dad, and his dad's saying, you know, I I've been on I've been in your shoes.
- 49:44SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 49:44SPEAKER_03: You're going to school, you're nervous, blah blah blah blah.
- 49:47SPEAKER_03: And then I think it's his wedding.
- 49:54SPEAKER_02: Set my mind to go.
- 49:59SPEAKER_03: 18.
- 50:00SPEAKER_03: So he's leaving.
- 50:01SPEAKER_03: Leaving home.
- 50:02SPEAKER_03: I've I've been in your shoes, blah blah blah blah.
- 50:04SPEAKER_03: And then I think I think the another verse is he's getting married, and you know, he's nervous.
- 50:12SPEAKER_03: I think at the end, one of them's dying or something.
- 50:16SPEAKER_03: Oh, actually.
- 50:18SPEAKER_03: I think it's actually Jesus who's talking to the dad.
- 50:22SPEAKER_03: Because the dad's old and he's dying.
- 50:24SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 50:24SPEAKER_03: And Jesus takes his hand and says, you know, have it in your shoes.
- 50:29SPEAKER_03: Um just I mean, it's good storytelling.
- 50:31SPEAKER_03: It's good.
- 50:32SPEAKER_03: It's good songwriting.
- 50:33SPEAKER_03: That's what's missing from country music, you know.
- 50:35SPEAKER_03: I totally agree.
- 50:36SPEAKER_03: The the you know, the storytelling is well, I shouldn't say has gone away.
- 50:44SPEAKER_03: Because there's great storytelling going on right now.
- 50:47SPEAKER_03: It's just radio is not playing them because it doesn't sell.
- 50:52SPEAKER_03: Radio sucks, but right now it does.
- 50:54SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
- 50:56SPEAKER_03: Um this one I really love.
- 50:58SPEAKER_03: You probably haven't heard this one.
- 51:00SPEAKER_03: Um This is a a sad song, but a real song.
- 51:06SPEAKER_03: Uh like a real sad song?
- 51:09SPEAKER_03: Well, it's just it's called All These Years, and it's about a relationship, it's about uh an infidelity.
- 51:16SPEAKER_03: But it was kind of out of character for Sawyer Brown, because they're a party band.
- 51:20SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 51:21SPEAKER_03: Um I think it was written by Mac McInally, who's an amazing uh songwriter and guitar player for Jimmy Buffett, actually.
- 51:31SPEAKER_02: But this is uh delightfulity, and more than one man can provide Could not be home till after five.
- 51:58SPEAKER_02: He turned on the lights and turned them off again, said Carter.
- 52:06SPEAKER_02: Is it the one thing he could say?
- 52:14SPEAKER_02: Where have I been?
- 52:16SPEAKER_03: This is what I mean by real.
- 52:18SPEAKER_02: Based in real life, to work in home again.
- 52:23SPEAKER_03: But not to end on a depressing note, because I mean that's but it's just great songwriting, and they're they're a great um uh type band.
- 52:33SPEAKER_03: Here's it, here's one from the 80s um from their Star Search days.
- 52:43SPEAKER_03: Step at step.
- 52:45SPEAKER_03: I gotta remember this one.
- 52:46SPEAKER_03: This is the this is the one that got Mark Miller.
- 52:49SPEAKER_03: I mean he dances across the stage, man.
- 52:52SPEAKER_03: He has got so much energy still to this day.
- 53:20SPEAKER_03: Uh a lot of hits, um, especially in the 90s, like I said, they haven't been doing uh much lately.
- 53:27SPEAKER_03: Mark Miller is now a producer.
- 53:29SPEAKER_03: Um so he produces a lot of up-and-coming acts.
- 53:34SPEAKER_03: One, two, three, four.
- 53:35SPEAKER_03: There are five guys in the band.
- 53:36SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 53:37SPEAKER_03: Um so what was the album that you picked, though?
- 53:40SPEAKER_03: Oh, I'm sorry.
- 53:41SPEAKER_03: Um, it was Greatest Hits.
- 53:44SPEAKER_03: Oh, that was 1990 to 1995.
- 53:47SPEAKER_03: If you can you can release an album of Greatest Hits that spans five years, that's saying something.
- 53:54SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 53:55SPEAKER_03: Um I Don't Believe in Goodbye.
- 53:58SPEAKER_03: That that's a good song.
- 53:59SPEAKER_03: Cafe on the Corner, The Boys and Me.
- 54:02SPEAKER_03: Um Dirt Road.
- 54:04SPEAKER_03: Thank God for you.
- 54:05SPEAKER_03: Thank Mama for the cooking, Daddy for the Whooping, The Devil for the Trouble that I get into.
- 54:10SPEAKER_03: I got to give credit where credit was due.
- 54:13SPEAKER_03: I thank the bank for the money, thank God for you.
- 54:17SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 54:18SPEAKER_07: It's a list song.
- 54:19SPEAKER_03: It is a list song, yeah.
- 54:21SPEAKER_03: But um, very cool.
- 54:22SPEAKER_03: I think uh I'm not gonna say underrated because I think they got a lot of acclaim when they were around.
- 54:28SPEAKER_08: No, yeah.
- 54:29SPEAKER_08: I think they you know they've they've gotten what they've deserved.
- 54:31SPEAKER_03: Um and I think And I mean that in a good way.
- 54:33SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they they still tour, but obviously they're older now and and they don't tour as much.
- 54:38SPEAKER_03: It's like Diamond Rio.
- 54:39SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 54:39SPEAKER_03: Diamond Rio does does stuff in in you know, every once in a while.
- 54:42SPEAKER_08: Are they still together?
- 54:43SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 54:43SPEAKER_03: Wow.
- 54:44SPEAKER_03: Um but they don't uh again, they're not doing much.
- 54:47SPEAKER_03: Um they're they're they're touring and they're they have their fans and they treat their fans well, just like Sawyer Brown.
- 54:53SPEAKER_03: And um and there's but they're still making music, so I think that's that says a lot, and that's that's cool.
- 54:59SPEAKER_03: So Sawyer Brown, the greatest hits, 1990 to 1995, that is the Wall of Tunes album of the week.
- 55:08SPEAKER_03: I think it was a big thing.
- 55:09SPEAKER_08: You know, I got that country band faster than I do most of the.
- 55:13SPEAKER_03: You did, and it surprised me.
- 55:14SPEAKER_03: I knew you were gonna get it because I knew you I know you know Sawyer Brown.
- 55:17SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but I didn't know you were gonna get it that quick.
- 55:19SPEAKER_03: Well it literally just popped into my head.
- 55:21SPEAKER_03: Well, when you say 90s country band, male lead singer, what how Little Texas, Diamond Rio, I wasn't even thinking of WrestleMania.
- 55:33SPEAKER_03: Sawyer Brown was the first one to do it.
- 55:34SPEAKER_03: Sawyer Brown, yeah.
- 55:35SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yep.
- 55:36SPEAKER_03: But yeah, no, that's that's cool.
- 55:38SPEAKER_08: Um and we had talked about I remember watching them on Star Search when I was a kid.
- 55:42SPEAKER_08: Yep, me too.
- 55:43SPEAKER_08: I remember watching that.
- 55:44SPEAKER_08: Yep.
- 55:44SPEAKER_03: So uh and they had a uh their original guitar player left.
- 55:48SPEAKER_03: And uh in the 90s they got this an a new guitar player named Cameron.
- 55:53SPEAKER_03: I can't remember his last name.
- 55:55SPEAKER_03: And then um Cameron Crow.
- 55:56SPEAKER_03: No, it wasn't Cameron Crow.
- 55:58SPEAKER_03: And then and then he left, and then they got another another young guitar player who they have uh who they have now.
- 56:04SPEAKER_03: So um the but other than the guitar player, they're all the original members.
- 56:08SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
- 56:09SPEAKER_03: Yep, so it's pretty cool.
- 56:11SPEAKER_03: Um so yeah, we talked about doing uh some more 90s country stuff too at one point, just because it would be fun to do.
- 56:19SPEAKER_03: Um so maybe that'll happen.
- 56:21SPEAKER_03: Bemo and the Gandhi Dancers.
- 56:22SPEAKER_03: Bemo and the Gandhi Dancers.
- 56:24SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 56:24SPEAKER_03: Are we we're not really going with that title?
- 56:26SPEAKER_08: Uh yeah, we are.
- 56:28SPEAKER_08: How freaking awesome is that anybody else got a band called the Gandhi Dancer?
- 56:33SPEAKER_08: Put your hand up in there.
- 56:34SPEAKER_08: Can I see it?
- 56:35SPEAKER_08: What it nobody?
- 56:37SPEAKER_08: Nobody has a band called Gandhi Dancers?
- 56:39SPEAKER_08: Yeah, you all suck.
- 56:41SPEAKER_08: We got this.
- 56:42SPEAKER_03: Because we were gonna it wasn't we can't call it Common Crossing, really.
- 56:45SPEAKER_08: No, because we it was just it's just gonna be it's just gonna be a fun nineties country country.
- 56:54SPEAKER_03: What did I uh I actually came up with a list of some songs.
- 56:56SPEAKER_03: See if you recognize any of these songs.
- 56:58SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 56:58SPEAKER_03: Because um I thought, you know, when we talked about it, we were actually fairly serious.
- 57:06SPEAKER_03: Well, we still are.
- 57:06SPEAKER_08: I mean it's just it's just a matter of doing it.
- 57:09SPEAKER_03: Uh let's see.
- 57:11SPEAKER_03: Country covers.
- 57:12SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 57:13SPEAKER_03: Um you tell me if you think any of these I had 32.
- 57:17SPEAKER_03: Uh well, actually, not 32, but I had I started to name songs, and then I started to name artists that we could do.
- 57:25SPEAKER_03: So I'll I'll name the the songs first that I have.
- 57:28SPEAKER_03: And there's only five.
- 57:30SPEAKER_03: But there are 32 artists.
- 57:33SPEAKER_03: Uh actually, no, those are 90s country.
- 57:36SPEAKER_03: Hold on.
- 57:37SPEAKER_03: There are 25 90s country artists.
- 57:41SPEAKER_03: So here are the songs.
- 57:43SPEAKER_03: Uh Clint Black Summer's Coming.
- 57:46SPEAKER_03: You've heard that song?
- 57:47SPEAKER_03: I know Clint Black.
- 57:48SPEAKER_03: Nothing honored that'll get coming.
- 57:50SPEAKER_03: Like an eating coming.
- 57:52SPEAKER_08: Oh no, yeah, I do know that.
- 57:53SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
- 57:54SPEAKER_03: Um Marty Stewart Tempted.
- 57:56SPEAKER_08: Ah, yeah.
- 57:57SPEAKER_03: Um Neon Moon, Brooks and Dunn.
- 57:59unknown: I love Neon Moon.
- 58:00SPEAKER_03: Me too.
- 58:00SPEAKER_03: That's a good song.
- 58:01SPEAKER_03: Uh Fast as You, Dwight Yokan, we already do that.
- 58:03SPEAKER_03: We do that one already.
- 58:04SPEAKER_03: Um we've been talking about doing this, but I don't know we ever got around to it.
- 58:08SPEAKER_03: But Trouble by uh actually it's T-R-O-U-B-L-E by Travis Tritt.
- 58:12SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 58:13SPEAKER_03: No, we never got around to that.
- 58:14SPEAKER_03: That would be a Barn Burner.
- 58:15SPEAKER_03: I got Little Texas listed.
- 58:16SPEAKER_03: We already do God Blessed Texas.
- 58:18SPEAKER_03: Diamond Rio, the Mavericks, Garth Brooks, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Joe Diffie, Alan Jackson, Tracy Bird, Job McKeith, Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, Mark Chestnut, Shannon Dohr, Colin Ray, uh David Lee Murphy, which which we did we did do uh Dust on a bottle.
- 58:36SPEAKER_08: Yeah, yeah, we did.
- 58:38SPEAKER_08: We did that with Mike.
- 58:39SPEAKER_03: Did we?
- 58:40SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 58:41SPEAKER_03: We also did it with uh Joko.
- 58:43SPEAKER_03: Did we?
- 58:43SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because we uh I remember doing it at a I remember doing it at uh a gig at the armory in Fort Fairfield.
- 58:52SPEAKER_03: A ro a ro Rotary show.
- 58:53SPEAKER_03: Oh we did we did God Bless Texas, we did Old Alabama.
- 58:57SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I remember doing that.
- 58:58SPEAKER_03: And we did I don't remember doing Dust on the Bottle.
- 59:00SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we did.
- 59:01SPEAKER_08: I don't remember that one.
- 59:02SPEAKER_03: Um let's see, Sammy Kershaw.
- 59:04SPEAKER_08: Oh yeah, I was playing songs on my drums.
- 59:07SPEAKER_03: Sammy Kershaw.
- 59:08SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 59:08SPEAKER_03: Um Clay Walker and Aaron Tippen.
- 59:13SPEAKER_03: Those are the those are the artists I had listed.
- 59:15SPEAKER_03: I'm sure there's a lot more, but uh that was just like I was listing them off the top of my head.
- 59:19SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
- 59:20SPEAKER_03: But uh what was that song by Aaron Tippen?
- 59:22SPEAKER_03: Um The Rain, nothing wrong with the radio.
- 59:26SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, or something like that.
- 59:29SPEAKER_03: So I mean that B Mo and the Gandhi Dancers, though.
- 59:33SPEAKER_03: Hey, nobody's gonna steal it.
- 59:35SPEAKER_08: Would it be uh how about just the Gandhi dancers?
- 59:38SPEAKER_08: That's fine too.
- 59:39SPEAKER_08: I just thought Bemo and the Gandhi Dancers was really cool.
- 59:42SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 59:42SPEAKER_08: I mean Shane came up with the Gandhi Dancers anyway.
- 59:45SPEAKER_03: Right, and we uh we established what a Gandhi Dancer is, right?
- 59:47SPEAKER_08: Yeah, I can't remember exactly.
- 59:48SPEAKER_03: It's something about a railroad.
- 59:49SPEAKER_03: Hold on, hold on a second.
- 59:51SPEAKER_03: Uh I'll tell you exactly.
- 59:52SPEAKER_03: Something about building railroads.
- 59:54SPEAKER_03: He he mentioned it, and we're like, I've never heard that term before ever.
- 59:58SPEAKER_03: Um Shane's good at that.
- 1:00:01SPEAKER_03: Coming up with Gandy Dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers in the United States, more formerly referred to as section hands, who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines.
- 1:00:16SPEAKER_03: The British equivalent of the term Gandy Dancer are navy from navigator.
- 1:00:23SPEAKER_03: Originally builders of canals or inland navigations for builders uh of railway lines and plate layer for workers employed to So Gandy Dancer, yeah.
- 1:00:34SPEAKER_03: Uh let me look and see if there is a band.
- 1:00:40SPEAKER_08: I bet there isn't.
- 1:00:43SPEAKER_08: Doesn't look like it.
- 1:00:45SPEAKER_08: There you go.
- 1:00:49SPEAKER_08: Demo in the Gandhi Dancers.
- 1:00:54SPEAKER_08: Come into a place near you.
- 1:00:57SPEAKER_07: Playing 90s country.
- 1:00:59SPEAKER_08: Playing 90s country.
- 1:01:01SPEAKER_03: That'll be fun.
- 1:01:02SPEAKER_03: That'll be fun.
- 1:01:02SPEAKER_08: It's gonna be fun.
- 1:01:03SPEAKER_08: It's gonna be awesome, man.
- 1:01:05SPEAKER_03: Alright, that's uh season five, episode seventeen in the books.
- 1:01:10SPEAKER_08: Our 94th episode.
- 1:01:12SPEAKER_03: Right, it's just crazy.
- 1:01:14SPEAKER_08: Six more and we're not we gotta do something special for the hundreds.
- 1:01:17SPEAKER_08: Yeah, we keep saying that.
- 1:01:18SPEAKER_08: We don't know where we're gonna do that.
- 1:01:19SPEAKER_08: Well, we haven't.
- 1:01:20SPEAKER_08: I think we should have like pie.
- 1:01:22SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 1:01:23SPEAKER_03: Can we do that for every episode from now until then?
- 1:01:27SPEAKER_08: Well, I can't it's gotta be sugar free pie.
- 1:01:29SPEAKER_03: We can I can figure out a way out a way to do that.
- 1:01:31SPEAKER_08: Is there such a thing as sugar-free pie?
- 1:01:33SPEAKER_08: I don't know.
- 1:01:34unknown: We should find out.
- 1:01:37SPEAKER_03: You can't so sugar substitute?
- 1:01:39SPEAKER_03: You can't even have that, huh?
- 1:01:41SPEAKER_08: Nobody said I couldn't.
- 1:01:46SPEAKER_03: We'll figure it out.
- 1:01:47SPEAKER_03: It doesn't have to be pie.
- 1:01:48SPEAKER_03: We can we'll we'll we'll have some sort of celebration.
- 1:01:51SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 1:01:51SPEAKER_08: Sugar-free there's sugar-free ice cream, isn't there?
- 1:01:54SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:01:54SPEAKER_08: Yeah, see, there we go.
- 1:01:55SPEAKER_03: I think there's sugar-free everything.
- 1:01:56SPEAKER_03: It's just a matter of doesn't find it.
- 1:01:58SPEAKER_03: Does it taste any good?
- 1:01:59SPEAKER_08: Well, everything sugar-free I've tried since I found out is actually pretty good.
- 1:02:05SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:02:05SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 1:02:06SPEAKER_08: I don't miss I don't miss sugar at all.
- 1:02:08SPEAKER_08: To be honest with you.
- 1:02:09SPEAKER_03: I gotta get off sugar, for sure.
- 1:02:11SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:02:13SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 1:02:14SPEAKER_03: So until next week.
- 1:02:18SPEAKER_03: I'm sweet and he's sour.
- 1:02:27SPEAKER_08: It's a number thirty-one.
- 1:02:38SPEAKER_08: That should be an album.
- 1:02:39SPEAKER_08: Number thirty-one.
- 1:02:40SPEAKER_04: What is the number thirty one?
- 1:02:42SPEAKER_08: It's a sweet and sour O'Brien and Doug.
- 1:02:48SPEAKER_08: It's a bar drink now.
- 1:02:49SPEAKER_04: A bar drink?
- 1:02:50SPEAKER_08: No, bar drink.
- 1:02:51SPEAKER_08: Oh, bar drink.
- 1:02:52SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 1:02:52SPEAKER_08: You should be like, ah, I'll take a I'll take a number 31.
- 1:02:56SPEAKER_08: What is it?
- 1:02:57SPEAKER_08: It's an O'Brien and Doug.
- 1:03:00SPEAKER_06: What's in it?
- 1:03:01SPEAKER_06: Well, it's got Jameson and uh Mountain Dew.
- 1:03:06SPEAKER_08: Sugar-free Mountain Dew.
- 1:03:07SPEAKER_08: Sugar-free Mountain Dew.
- 1:03:09SPEAKER_08: And an umbrella.
- 1:03:10SPEAKER_08: Not one of those little Mai Thai ones, it's an actual large umbrella.
- 1:03:15SPEAKER_06: Comes with an umbrella.
- 1:03:17SPEAKER_06: Because as soon as you're drinking, you're gonna be like.
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