December 24, 2025 • 38 mins
It was Christmas Eve, and Bradley wanted to know all about your traditions! Listen to him talk about everything Christmas related! From your favorite movies to your favorite dishes to prepare. Bradley also wanted to know: Are you a fan of Yankee Swaps and how do you play? Do you have a real tree or a fake one, and how long do you keep it up? Do you wrap your gifts or is it just a big toy store under the tree – do you remove the price tags? What’s in the stockings these days, and how does it differ from yesteryear? What do you do with the Christmas cards after the holiday? How far do you travel and who are you visiting – are you happy about it, or is it a drag? Bradley welcomed all to join him for some good old-fashioned WBZ family Christmas fun!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you al g for the news. Bradley Jay in
for Dan Ray tonight on night Side. And it's a
Christmas open house, and so far it's a lot. It
is a lot of fun. I'm going to talk to
Sharon and Lee. No, I'm going to talk to Lee
and Sharon. Hi. Lee, how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Bradley? How are you? I miss you, especially on that
nighttime radio. Are they ever going to bring that back?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know, it was pretty pretty tough on me. I
was I wasn't getting much sleep, I was getting overweight.
So this is much better.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Oh, I know it's better for you a lot. But
insomnias are having a terrible time.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You'll manage, you'll manage.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
There's nothing to listen to.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Its talk about Chris, Christmas stuff. Christmas.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah, no, I want to marry Christmas to everybody and
especially people that are alone. Tonight. You know it's it's
did you hear Mark? What did Mark say?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I think you were. You might have heard. Mark is
all alone is People are mean to him. They take
his stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Oh god, yeah, well you can't get Yeah, well I
thought I'm just happy. I'm not in pain. You know,
I'm not in pain.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
See that, Mark, Mark's probably still listening. See here's leone Sharon.
She's happy, she's not in pain.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I'm not in pain. I get plenty, I get all
the food I need. I got a couple of dogs here.
You know what kind of dogs I've got. Well, one
is a poodle shit, so she's going to be seventeen
next month if she makes it that she's high maintenance.
And then I've got a little stray I picked up
that's actually fifty percent minipin, twenty five percent toy poodle
(01:51):
and about twenty five percent bea shan with three point
five percent peak and eese mixed. And she's the cutest
little thing. She was astray and no one claimed her,
so I grabbed her and I had lost another dog,
you know, not too long.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Seem like that added up to more than one hundred percent.
Maybe my math was wrong. You said fifty twenty five,
twenty five.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
And three fifty. It was like twenty three and twenty
three and three point five. Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That would be quite something to have a dog that
was more than one hundred per dog.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Very no, no, she's adorable. She's like a nine ten
pounds dog. She's just adorable. And she'll be two and much.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
May I ask you a question, sure Christmas? What did
you used to get in your stocking? And I'm asking
this to everyone. I wonder if what Boomer's got in
their stockings is different than what people getting this stocking. Now,
if somebody's a parent and has to load oh or.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Oh my gosh, excuse me.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Maybe no, I have spend a fortune. I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But even on the what about the stocking? What goes
in the stocking?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Hard drive? Hard drive?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I remember, you know, I don't, I don't. I know
there was a stocking, but it would be socks or
I don't know, gum or something stupid like that.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
It was.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
It wasn't anything big.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Socks in a sock.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Okay, yeah, yeah, new socks and gum.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And see that was back when people.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Dirt. Now I'm older than dirt, so you know, I now.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Everybody has everything they want, so it's really hard. Back then,
a new pair of socks were said, Wow, these are
going to be good with my green rubber boots that
I wear out into the winter.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Oh, and I'm worried about Glenn. Has Glenn checked in lately?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't know. Last time I talked to Glenn here
on w BZ, he was very down. He was very
it was down. I hope that. I hope the Christmas
season has not brought him down further.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I hope it really is hard for people alone. I mean,
I've gotten accustomed to it, you know, Like I said,
you've got to be happy and in pain, You're got
to be happy. You get food, enough food, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
And yeah, by the way, by the way, Mark, who
was the first color with Glenn, of whom Sharon to
whom Sharon, excuse me, Lee refers, is blind, by the way.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Mark, so Mark is blind too.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
No, but Mark was complaining, and I just want to say, hey, dude,
you're not blind.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I know. I oh, thank god. I love to get
new eyeglasses, you know, So you don't.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You don't want to be blind, because you then you
wouldn't be able to get glasses high fashion glasses.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, I love getting new glass I.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Mean, I have news for you. You could still get the
glasses if it was for fashion.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, no, it's true. Well, I wish
they would bring me back that nighttime talk radio.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I'm super happy. Wouldn't have it any other way. And
I really appreciate your call.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
You take care of Lee, and yeah, well I miss
you guys. Thank you. I look forward to when you
cover you know, all right, take your happy holidays. Everybody,
Thank you on behalf of everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Thank you Lee. Hmm, okay, this is a lot of fun.
I love interacting with you. When you're on WBZ. You're
not alone, you know, like sometimes when I'm working and
I don't have anybody at home, But when I'm here working,
I feel like I'm with a big group of friendly people.
(05:53):
And before we go to break, I do want to
ask you again and maybe give you some ideas. Where
do you get the Christmas spirit? We did have Jake say,
Christmas tree lighting ceremony. That is a good idea. And
I'm not a huge church going person. I'm fascinated by theology.
I'm extremely interested in theology, and so I'd have no shame.
(06:19):
I don't have any compunction about saying church is a
really good place to go to get the Christmas spirit.
And let's see what are the other places? Oh yeah, hotel,
hotels at Christmas really nice hotels. Instead of buying a
bunch of presents, you could take your family to a
(06:41):
nice hotel. Because presents are expensive, right, Some presents I
understand cost more than fifty dollars and that so you
add those all up, right, how many people in your family, say,
say there's ten people in your semi extended family. If
everybody's putting a other one hundred bucks, that's a thousand bucks.
(07:04):
That's two really nice hotel rooms, and you know, with nice,
beautiful Christmas decoration, pretty Christmas spirity. I went to. I
did have a recent birthday and it was a trifecta
of a birthday. Did not intended to turn out this way,
but it gave me the Christmas spirit. That's why I
(07:24):
bring it up. I went to a very nice, big
old hotel up in New Hampshire, Hugh. It had huge
fireplaces that were going all night long, big giant Christmas
trees with big giant decorations, and it was extremely Christmasy.
(07:45):
And of course the white mountains were off in the
distance and it was snow that probably eighteen inches of
snow there. So that is another place to get the
Christmas spirit in the future. If you're thinking of something
different and tired of messing around with the old. What
should I get? Billy? What should I get? Bobby? Just
(08:08):
have a family meeting and say I would like to
do this, and when somebody holds out, you got you
gotta lobby for it because it's pretty cool. Everybody goes up,
hangs out, very safe, no driving, and it's very Christmasy.
So how nice hotel is another place to get the
Christmas spirit? Church tree lighting? And do you and does
(08:32):
anyone else have any ideas? Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty give me a shout. It's WBZ.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Greetings, my friends, and welcome to a well a Christmas
open house here on night Side by the Jay for Dan.
Anything you want to talk about doesn't even have to
be about Christmas. I mean, if it's an open house
at someone's house, you're a lot to talk about anything.
You don't need to talk about Christmas. So if you
have wanted to chat with me or any host at WBZ,
(09:09):
and maybe there's been a guess that wasn't addressing a
topic that you wanted to talk about, this is a
good chance to check in, and it's good practice. This
is a perfect practice time. I know how hard it
is to call in. It's I know many of you
want to call in, but you're a little bit no,
(09:29):
you're a lot afraid. I wish there were a better
word than afraid, but I couldn't think of it. You're hesitant,
you are afraid. It's I know because even after being
on the radio for decades, I one time called a
talk radio show and I was afraid. It's strange, but
(09:51):
the first time you do it, you realize, oh, this
is great. I've got a new hobby. I've got a
new community. That's what you'll have. If you can get
over that hesitation about calling, you will have a community
and you will have a voice. This is particularly important
(10:11):
that people might people like Dolly and Quincy. Hi, Dolly
and Quincy, I know you live alone. I think you
used to. And Dolly's not afraid to call when she's up,
so she has a community and a voice. And if
you're alone, instant community, as Mark knows. Mark called Mark
(10:35):
from He said in Massachusetts. You got a community now, Mark,
And hopefully next time you call, you'll have accrued a
couple of positive things as you climb up out of
your sad hold. You're in on this Christmas, this Christmas Eve,
but we feel bad for you. Good news is you
did get a towel. You got a towel for Christmas.
(10:57):
It bums them out, Uh, I have there are so
many Christmas topics. I have a quickie, A quickie. No, actually,
let's go to Kevin and Sharon. Then I will tell
you my most embarrassing Christmas story when it is big
(11:17):
time embarrassing. So Kevin and Sharon, how do you do?
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Good, good evening, Bradley, Merry Christmas, Christmas, and welcome back
to the airwaves.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
I've always felt that you were the most affable talk
show host personally, very personable talk show hosts I have
ever heard. Ah, well, thank you you Morgan White. I
think I think you were slightly more affable personally. But
Morgan of course has a storehouse of memories and nostalgia.
That's formidable service you will on the air as well
(11:53):
as on which you run as well.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I've tried to stump him and I cannot stump him.
It's just discussed thing how much he knows and I don't.
It's almost like a trick. How's it possible that he
knows all that stuff? But he does? It's real, It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
And that brings us to the next topic, which is,
I know you were at WBCN disc jockey, so you
have a storehouse of musical information. Yes, And here's my
question for you. To the movie in nineteen sixty six
starring Lawrence Oliviery and care Deliver before two thousand and
(12:31):
one of Space Odyssey as well as the Hardest of
the Hot Carolinley, the end of the movie was Bunny
Lake is Missing. And in that movie, in one scene
they say, as well as on the soundtrack where there's
four or five tracks, there was a group, a British
invasion rock group playing music on a bar, on a
(12:54):
TV screen in a bar. And my question for you
is what is the identity of that long ago musical group.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
This is like the world's hardest musical question ever.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
I don't I have a T shirt with Bunny Lake
is Missing on it because I like this musical group so.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Much Bunny Lake is Missing? Can you give me any hints? Hints?
Speaker 6 (13:19):
My man, it's a British invasion group kind of They
shared some members eventually with the Kinks, but they're not
the Kinks, all.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Right, I'll say oooo shits. If I say what I
was gonna say, I would have embarrassed myself because I
don't think they had any members with the Kinks. I'm
gonna I'm gonna say, I don't know. Are you willing
to give me another uh shot? And does anybody else
know this? Maybe maybe you shouldn't tell me at the end.
(13:53):
Maybe I don't think anyone's going to get this though,
but anyway, give me another hint.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
It was led by the musical director and leader, although
there were two songwriters. A bass player was a songwriter
and a great one, but it was led by a
keyboardist who played organ and electric piano.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Man, I'm going to give up. I'm giving up giving up.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Yes, Zombies, Oh you stumped me and I want to add.
The soundtrack to this movie had a song written by
the bass player of the Zombies, Chris White. Remember you
It was the name of it. It's the first rock
song that I know of. It's written in Wall's time
three four time.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
If you know that, you must know lots of other
rock and roll stuff too.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Right, I do. I closed you up to night that
we'll redied. If you recall years ago run Sunday Night,
I think at the time and when we died, I
called you up and we spoke. We talked about the
Velvet Underground and Nico and Moti gre what a great debut.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know, how do you feel about lout me? This
is open house, so we can talk about whatever. I
have mixed feelings about who I have mixed feelings about
lou Reed to tell you the truth?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Well I do too. I think his his works Going
Underground is inassailable. Some of his solo material is absolutely superb.
In fact, a lot of it is, but some of
it stinks so and he was crazy. I mean, the
guy was really kind of like he was perverse in
a lot of ways. And only he put out a
record called Metal Machine means Yes, and all it was
(15:30):
was noise, electronic noise, and he did it just to
spite his record company so he could do some really
strange things. So brilliant.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But I mean I interviewed him once and I made
a mistake. Well, I asked him, yeah, and uh, he
was on the occasion of David Bowie's birthday. I think
or wedding, and and he had he had an altercation
with Bowie at some point. Oh yeah, and I like,
like not just it was a pretty severe altercation as
(16:01):
I understand it. Let's say I read this and and
I can't remember exactly where I read it, but I
asked him, I was kind.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Of a nasty guy. And he at one point he
got training in the martial arts, not because he was
just interested in physical fitness, but because he wanted to
beat people up who ticked them off.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Are you sure about that? What are you positive about that?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
He had he had expertise in the martial arts. So anyway,
during the bank I read, I read that in the
biography that came out of him around around some years back,
about him, I just I got to get going. In
one second. I want to leave you with one more thing.
You mentioned that your father had a stereo system, right, yeah,
all right, this will amuse you, I hope. My parents
(16:46):
were from Ireland and they really had no clue about
anything to do with stereo or music system. So the
first couple of record players we had were just that
tabletop record players with five pound tone arms. All the
records we have a play on them, were destroyed by
those five pound tone on right. Well, we had one
record player and the motor died on it, so we
bought a second one, and this one had a detachable speaker,
(17:09):
but it was still just a five pound tone on
cheap record player. But I got the brilliant idea to
take a cardboard box and take the speaker from the
first record player, which motor had died, put it in
the cardboard box, and using some extra wire to hook
that up to the second record player. And now you
know what. I thought I had stereo, but of course
(17:30):
I didn't because both speakers were identical. It came out
of them. I was only twelve years old sound. But
I did put wood grain contact on the box that
I made to impress everybody with the fact that it
looked like an actual stereo speaker.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
So what do you do now? And was that a
harbringer of what you became?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
In a way, Yes, because I do a lot of
speaker building and messing around with stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That is cool. That's a you say you have to
go now? Is that true? What you said you had
to leave?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Well, unless you're have any other questions.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I well know I wanted to finish my Lou read story.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
So anyway, I'm interviewing him on WBCNS, as you mentioned,
and I saved this question for the end, and the
question was, Hey, Lou, why did you get in that
you know, kerfuffle with David Bowie? And man, he went
off the deep end. That's why, that's why an interview
should always save that kind of question for the end.
(18:31):
He said, why would you ask me that question on
this day? But well, he went nuts.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Well, did you ever read the interview, the ambush interview
or the confrontational interviews, the Western bangs? No, the lack
of critic question of bangs conducted with him. Oh, I'll
tell you what the name it is. It's called It's
called what if Now praise famous Death Dwarves, And it's hoarious.
(18:57):
It's the funniest article I've ever read about. And he
walks up and it was at the height of Lou's
weird period. He was he was keeping company with someone
named Rachel. And I won't go win to any more
details than that, okay.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
And there's one other thing about Lou that irritates me.
About Lou, he said, I believe I remember reading that
he had said, really, Bet, you know mean things about
Frank Zappa, And I don't care if you don't like
Frank Zappa's music. You don't have to go in the
press and dis this somebody like that. I thought, lou
that's not cool. So that kind of dropped him down
(19:34):
a notch. But of course, you know there there there
are some of his songs that are so far and
way up there in the pantheon of rock greatness that
you know, you gotta you gotta give him his due.
I got a break now, So Kevin.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Just let me say one more thing. Yes, we got's
a great album. And just because somebody is a brilliant
musician doesn't mean they have to be a nice person.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Well can you can you like a musician who's Can
you be a fan of a person who's not? That's
a good question a nice person if there's something really mean,
I can't. I can't. Another time, in an interview with
Jane Simmons, he was not very nice to me, and
after that, for me, it's like bye bye. I'm also
(20:20):
said with you, Jean and all your and your cohorts.
By now, I'm not the kind of guy that can
be a big fan of somebody who's a musician that
I don't personally.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Like, well, I think I know why because you're a nice,
affable guy and.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
We come full circle. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it.
Take care, bye, Kevin. This is great, great fun on
a on an open house, a Christmas Eve open house
here on w b Z.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
If you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w
b Z, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
And it's a blast to be here with you together
kind of in this open house, this w b Z
Christmas night Side open house. Now, this is for folks
who you know, I want to hear about all your
your wonderful family times you've had together tonight. However, there
are many people who are who do not have families,
And for those folks, I invite you to call and
(21:17):
have a community as well. I would ask this, rather
than give me a litany of how bad things are,
try to find a couple of good things. Then we'll
go to Patrese in Medway. He Patrise, how are you.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I'm okay, good. Well, I'm kind of far away from home.
I'm living in Redway. It's it's a like a rehab center.
And I'm originally from Needham Massachusetts, and I had a
beautiful Victorian announce in Needam that I grew up in Yep,
(21:58):
And we had to sell it because my mother's house
throway in and we had to sell it.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
And that was twelve years ago and you've been living
living with that pain ever since. So you're in ab.
You're in a rehab place, is it?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Yeah? And it's not a good one.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Oh no, what are you going to do? You have?
What are you going to do? You're in a bad
rehab place. You don't like on Christmas Eve at anything.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
My son live in need him and he's coming. He
kicks me out all the time.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
He kicks you out.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Huh did you say he kicks you out?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
No, he kicks me up. I'm sorry. I have I
have dentures and I had them.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
So he picks you up. Okay. So you have a family.
You have some family. See that's a good positive thing.
So many people have had have lost their house for
this reason. That reason. You're not alone in that and
you have a warm roof over your head and you
have a relative that picks you up.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Yeah, my son, he's my health careful.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
There you go. You're not of the sidewalk you know,
covering in blankets, getting kicked by passers by. If you're
in a rehab place, it's probably you know, eating it's warm.
And also I would just hope that you could try
to take stock of the good things. I know you
(23:33):
don't want to be there. I get it, but.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
If you know, it's okay. For now, I'm looking to
the room, back to one that's in needle, like this
hospital expanded and need them. And there's a and there's
a rehab place called bar would and it literally would
take my son from his apartment. It's like a ten
minute walk.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Well that's great. Now you have seen something.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Yeah, it takes too long to get here.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Patrice, you have something to look forward to. I appreciate that.
And now we're going to go.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
He's picking me up tomorrow for all. And I and
Priscilla Kennedy is my friend from Newtonville. And she calls, well,
there you.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Go, so merry Christmas.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
She called you all the time. She told me to
call you, and I well, I'm glad you did call it. Yeah.
Used to listen to w b Z a long time ago,
like when they had Jordan's rich On and Larry Glick. Yeah,
let's going way back as.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You were a glick. Nick, I really got.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
To move on to Nick and I and I love Trevia.
So Jordan Rich I want a pen.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
All right, Well, good for you, and have fun tomorrow
with your son. You appreciate it. Now it's Matt in Michigan. Hi, Matt,
how are you?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Oh fine? Bradley good? Uh you? You know you were
bringing the subject about, you know, Christmas and things like that.
The one thing it's hard nowadays to have things the
way they were when you were younger, because myself, for example,
(25:20):
I just came back at four point thirty this afternoon,
flew in from North Carolina. I visited one of my daughters.
She lives out there with her husband and their pets.
And before I left for the airport this morning, I
told her and she would remember this because it was
about the time that she was born, and you know,
(25:43):
we'd have the family over. I had two other kids,
and you know, my brothers would be over and their
little kids. And the one thing about Christmas Eve that
I love. It's a simple thing. But we live in
the subdivision and if you looked out the back window
from the kitchen, we had a two lane road over
(26:06):
there and there would be no traffic. And to me,
that was the only day of the year that it
would be like that. It wasn't a heavily travel road,
but you know, occasionally you'd see a card two and
that night you could continue to look out that window
and there would be no traffic because everybody was where
(26:28):
I don't want to say where they're supposed to be,
but you know, Christmas Eve being in a family night, No,
there was the families and there's no traffic on the road.
I just thought that was a neat thing.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Well, you know, kind of. It's similar to that in
the city. And that's why I went on weekends where
everybody goes away. I like to stay here because it's
pretty deserted. It's quite quiet on the streets, like tonight
when I go tonight, when I go home, it'll be
super quiet. I'm guessing, so I have a Q Yeah,
(27:00):
you know people, yeah, sure. People in Europe think of
the United States as just one monolith, one big thing,
that we're all the same. They don't get how different
the different parts of the country are. And you seem
like you spent some time down in North Carolina. It is,
Is it how different is it? Is it like living
in another country.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
There North Carolina? No, No, I was just there in
August the visit them, so second time in four months.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
People think about everything differently than they do up in Massachusetts,
I don't think. So.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
We we went out to a restaurant, an Indian restaurant
on what's is uh Wednesday, Monday, I think there was.
We went out for lunch and there was a good
crowd in there and we talked to a few people,
and you know, there's people. I don't think there's any difference.
She used to live in Oregon. She lives in Oregon
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before the movie Back to North Carolina. So I went
up to visit them. So yeah, uh, you know. And
and another thing that was different. I remember when I
was a teenager, even before then, on Good Friday, my
mom was really strict about this. She says, you know,
you say in the house, you know, we contemplate or
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pray or whatever. And there was all the radio stations
were all religious, and you know, most people were at
Homo Burn Church. And it's not the same anymore. You know,
there's businesses glore that are open on Good Friday between
twelve and three.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
So it's it's it's just a different setting.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Do you have children?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
I'm glad to ask you this question. You remember what
you used to get in your stucking when you were
a kid. Do you put the same stuff in the
stocking for you your kids or did you? Or is
it different now? What do you put in there?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
I was I was better to my kids than my
father was to me. Nothing we got and me and
my no, we never had stocking and we get we
get like one small gift and that was it. My
father was pretty tight with the buck.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I gotta say, So, did you feel cheated or was
that just the way it was? Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, honestly I felt things should have been a little
bit better. You know, we didn't grow up in a
uh a rich uh environment. Our neighborhood. It was a
very working class area. I grew up in the city
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of Detroit, and you know it was it was a
highly ethnic It was a Polish Ukrainian type area and
none of those people were overly wealthy.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
But okay, you put in your kids or what did you?
I don't know how old they are stocking?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Oh they're all grown now? Yeah, I got would you
have thirty three year old. I'll tell you just whatever
whatever was the big thing at the time, Like, uh,
you know, when my son was small, he was into
you know, Super Mario and things like that. I'm I'm
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going way back in the early nineties, I guess, okay,
but you know, a little little video games and things
like that. Whatever was hot at the time, that's what
we you know, we give them and the girls. I
had had two daughters, so you know you got girl toys.
So so thanks for calling in.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
You're calling all the way from Michigan, right.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah, oh yeah, I've called before. I spoke to you
years ago when you were at midnight. Well, if I could,
let me just ask you one more question. Of course,
I've always wondered this, and a lot of times I
call him the Morgan Show, and when he has a
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person that wants this big music. You know about hype,
can you think of anything offhand that was heped and
exceeded the height? You know, a lot of times though
hype up a certain uh you know, person or group
(31:46):
or thing, and it's always a disappointment. But can you
name me one thing that exceeded far exceeded the hype?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah? Probably I'm sure that it took so long to
record docs Oude of the Moon by Pink Floyd. They
had a lot of hype about it. But whatever the
hype was, it had to have exceeded the hype because
it was just such a monstrous piece of work that
meant so much to so many for so long, and
it still sounds unbelievable. So there's no way that did
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not live up to whatever hype was there.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
By the way, pardon, how about the Meatles? The Beatles,
they exceeded the hype, you know, the hype of an
Ed Celler than everybody was talking about it. Beatles are
coming to the United States. So do you think they exceeded.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
The show itself? The shows they did in the United
States were more about being there because you couldn't hear anything. However,
the band itself for their career, yes they exceeded. They
went way beyond when anyone ever could have possibly expected. Absolutely, so, yes,
they exceeded the hype.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I agree. I agree. Uh still to this day, you know,
they're still talk talking reverence, even my other group. So anyway,
I let you go. I appreciate the time, and uh,
have a nice Christmas.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Absolutely nice doc to Michigan, thank you and goodbye. We
spoke about Christmas stockings prairie briefly. I want to give
you what was in my stockings, generally, stuff like this.
You know, I'm a grown I'm a grown up boomer.
I'm a boomer cusp. Anyway, always on the bottom of
course of being orange, right, doesn't isn't that the case
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with everyone? By the way, these were hand knit stockings,
hand knit by my grandmother Ruth or Grammy, and they
had our names and our birthdays on them and I
still have them. So they were stretching. It wasn't like
this felt stuff you could cram a lot in there.
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So we all had our own specific special one made
handmade by Grammy. And in the bottom would be the
big bloomp of on orange, and then there would be
things like pencils, erasers, and slinkies. I can't imagine that
that was not a big stalking stuff for a lot
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of folks. A slinky. What else is in there? Oh,
I can't remember. No, no dart guns or anything like.
I couldn't fit that in there, but it's slinky was
in there. So how about you? What do you remember
about the contents of your Christmas stalking back when you
were a kid. More in the Christmas open House here
(34:38):
on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
That's right, it's Night Side with Dan Ray. Bradley Jay
for Dan, like to have you give me a shout
and join me for our w b Z Christmas house party.
That's what I like to call it. Think of it
as a house party. People just show up. Oh no,
actually not house party, but open house. That's what I
wanted to call it. Open house. House party is a
(35:08):
Jay Giles thing. So it's an open house meaning you
can call it's kind of like a cross between house
party and open lines. Get it open house. So whatever
you want to talk about is fine. I have many
a guest lined up for this stretch where dance off
(35:28):
one movie Jim Sullivan, Boston, Boston Globe music writer for
a long time. He still writes for other things, and
one thing we're going to be going through with him.
We're going to have a big debate, and I think
I think it's the twenty ninth, just as by manner
(35:51):
of promotion here for what's coming up. He's going to
come in and I have a beef with the Green
Day because people say they're punk, they're a punk band,
and I don't think so. I don't know why it
irritates me so much, but I've gone online and asked
(36:12):
the question define punk rock, define it, and some people
say it's just an attitude. No, it's a lot more
than an attitude. Someone else said, I just know when
I hear it. No, that doesn't count. I need parameters
by which I can judge bands as to whether or
not they're punk. So I can decide for once and
(36:32):
for all if Green Day is a punk band. And
you might think that's kind of random, but I will
tell you this, probably the best hour I ever had
on wb Z was debating over what a power ballad
was and whether these various bands were power ballads. So
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when he comes on, we are going to I'm gonna
give my definition, which has been well thought out and
written down, is very specific. For example, I feel I
feel that it has to come from a particular time period.
That's one reason Green Day can't be punk, because they're
not from that time. Another reason is that punk songs
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by depth, they were short. That was part of the
definition of punk. Green Day has a song that's eleven
minutes and forty seven seconds long, called Jesus of Suburbia
not punk at all, And there are a bunch of
other stuff. Billie Joe. It takes more than a little
dark eyeliner to be punk, your punk style, punk truck.
(37:37):
So I'm going to have this debate with Jim. But
we're also going to do is go down this list
of Ah, there's a list of top one hundred punk bands.
We're going to go through them with you to decide
what about this band is that really a punk band?
Believe it or not. The band Blink one eighty two
is on that band on that list? Can you believe it?
(38:01):
My god, that all credibility for that list goes right
out the window. So that'll be on the I believe
it's the twenty ninth, and he'll be in No, he's
he will be with us. He's always very good. And
so maybe you went home. If you do me a
(38:22):
favor and if you're a music person, and let's face it,
punk rock is boomer age music. So it's not like
this is not for you. Let's take a break now
in WBZ
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you al g for the news. Bradley Jay in
for Dan Ray tonight on night Side. And it's a
Christmas open house, and so far it's a lot. It
is a lot of fun. I'm going to talk to
Sharon and Lee. No, I'm going to talk to Lee
and Sharon. Hi. Lee, how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Bradley? How are you? I miss you, especially on that
nighttime radio. Are they ever going to bring that back?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know, it was pretty pretty tough on me. I
was I wasn't getting much sleep, I was getting overweight.
So this is much better.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Oh, I know it's better for you a lot. But
insomnias are having a terrible time.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You'll manage, you'll manage.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
There's nothing to listen to.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Its talk about Chris, Christmas stuff. Christmas.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah, no, I want to marry Christmas to everybody and
especially people that are alone. Tonight. You know it's it's
did you hear Mark? What did Mark say?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I think you were. You might have heard. Mark is
all alone is People are mean to him. They take
his stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Oh god, yeah, well you can't get Yeah, well I
thought I'm just happy. I'm not in pain. You know,
I'm not in pain.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
See that, Mark, Mark's probably still listening. See here's leone Sharon.
She's happy, she's not in pain.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I'm not in pain. I get plenty, I get all
the food I need. I got a couple of dogs here.
You know what kind of dogs I've got. Well, one
is a poodle shit, so she's going to be seventeen
next month if she makes it that she's high maintenance.
And then I've got a little stray I picked up
that's actually fifty percent minipin, twenty five percent toy poodle
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and about twenty five percent bea shan with three point
five percent peak and eese mixed. And she's the cutest
little thing. She was astray and no one claimed her,
so I grabbed her and I had lost another dog,
you know, not too long.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Seem like that added up to more than one hundred percent.
Maybe my math was wrong. You said fifty twenty five,
twenty five.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
And three fifty. It was like twenty three and twenty
three and three point five. Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That would be quite something to have a dog that
was more than one hundred per dog.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Very no, no, she's adorable. She's like a nine ten
pounds dog. She's just adorable. And she'll be two and much.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
May I ask you a question, sure Christmas? What did
you used to get in your stocking? And I'm asking
this to everyone. I wonder if what Boomer's got in
their stockings is different than what people getting this stocking. Now,
if somebody's a parent and has to load oh or.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Oh my gosh, excuse me.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Maybe no, I have spend a fortune. I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But even on the what about the stocking? What goes
in the stocking?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Hard drive? Hard drive?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I remember, you know, I don't, I don't. I know
there was a stocking, but it would be socks or
I don't know, gum or something stupid like that.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
It was.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
It wasn't anything big.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Socks in a sock.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Okay, yeah, yeah, new socks and gum.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And see that was back when people.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Dirt. Now I'm older than dirt, so you know, I now.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Everybody has everything they want, so it's really hard. Back then,
a new pair of socks were said, Wow, these are
going to be good with my green rubber boots that
I wear out into the winter.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Oh, and I'm worried about Glenn. Has Glenn checked in lately?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't know. Last time I talked to Glenn here
on w BZ, he was very down. He was very
it was down. I hope that. I hope the Christmas
season has not brought him down further.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I hope it really is hard for people alone. I mean,
I've gotten accustomed to it, you know, Like I said,
you've got to be happy and in pain, You're got
to be happy. You get food, enough food, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
And yeah, by the way, by the way, Mark, who
was the first color with Glenn, of whom Sharon to
whom Sharon, excuse me, Lee refers, is blind, by the way.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Mark, so Mark is blind too.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
No, but Mark was complaining, and I just want to say, hey, dude,
you're not blind.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I know. I oh, thank god. I love to get
new eyeglasses, you know, So you don't.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You don't want to be blind, because you then you
wouldn't be able to get glasses high fashion glasses.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, I love getting new glass I.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Mean, I have news for you. You could still get the
glasses if it was for fashion.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, no, it's true. Well, I wish
they would bring me back that nighttime talk radio.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I'm super happy. Wouldn't have it any other way. And
I really appreciate your call.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
You take care of Lee, and yeah, well I miss
you guys. Thank you. I look forward to when you
cover you know, all right, take your happy holidays. Everybody,
Thank you on behalf of everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Thank you Lee. Hmm, okay, this is a lot of fun.
I love interacting with you. When you're on WBZ. You're
not alone, you know, like sometimes when I'm working and
I don't have anybody at home, But when I'm here working,
I feel like I'm with a big group of friendly people.
(05:53):
And before we go to break, I do want to
ask you again and maybe give you some ideas. Where
do you get the Christmas spirit? We did have Jake say,
Christmas tree lighting ceremony. That is a good idea. And
I'm not a huge church going person. I'm fascinated by theology.
I'm extremely interested in theology, and so I'd have no shame.
(06:19):
I don't have any compunction about saying church is a
really good place to go to get the Christmas spirit.
And let's see what are the other places? Oh yeah, hotel,
hotels at Christmas really nice hotels. Instead of buying a
bunch of presents, you could take your family to a
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nice hotel. Because presents are expensive, right, Some presents I
understand cost more than fifty dollars and that so you
add those all up, right, how many people in your family, say,
say there's ten people in your semi extended family. If
everybody's putting a other one hundred bucks, that's a thousand bucks.
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That's two really nice hotel rooms, and you know, with nice,
beautiful Christmas decoration, pretty Christmas spirity. I went to. I
did have a recent birthday and it was a trifecta
of a birthday. Did not intended to turn out this way,
but it gave me the Christmas spirit. That's why I
(07:24):
bring it up. I went to a very nice, big
old hotel up in New Hampshire, Hugh. It had huge
fireplaces that were going all night long, big giant Christmas
trees with big giant decorations, and it was extremely Christmasy.
(07:45):
And of course the white mountains were off in the
distance and it was snow that probably eighteen inches of
snow there. So that is another place to get the
Christmas spirit in the future. If you're thinking of something
different and tired of messing around with the old. What
should I get? Billy? What should I get? Bobby? Just
(08:08):
have a family meeting and say I would like to
do this, and when somebody holds out, you got you
gotta lobby for it because it's pretty cool. Everybody goes up,
hangs out, very safe, no driving, and it's very Christmasy.
So how nice hotel is another place to get the
Christmas spirit? Church tree lighting? And do you and does
(08:32):
anyone else have any ideas? Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty give me a shout. It's WBZ.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Greetings, my friends, and welcome to a well a Christmas
open house here on night Side by the Jay for Dan.
Anything you want to talk about doesn't even have to
be about Christmas. I mean, if it's an open house
at someone's house, you're a lot to talk about anything.
You don't need to talk about Christmas. So if you
have wanted to chat with me or any host at WBZ,
(09:09):
and maybe there's been a guess that wasn't addressing a
topic that you wanted to talk about, this is a
good chance to check in, and it's good practice. This
is a perfect practice time. I know how hard it
is to call in. It's I know many of you
want to call in, but you're a little bit no,
(09:29):
you're a lot afraid. I wish there were a better
word than afraid, but I couldn't think of it. You're hesitant,
you are afraid. It's I know because even after being
on the radio for decades, I one time called a
talk radio show and I was afraid. It's strange, but
(09:51):
the first time you do it, you realize, oh, this
is great. I've got a new hobby. I've got a
new community. That's what you'll have. If you can get
over that hesitation about calling, you will have a community
and you will have a voice. This is particularly important
(10:11):
that people might people like Dolly and Quincy. Hi, Dolly
and Quincy, I know you live alone. I think you
used to. And Dolly's not afraid to call when she's up,
so she has a community and a voice. And if
you're alone, instant community, as Mark knows. Mark called Mark
(10:35):
from He said in Massachusetts. You got a community now, Mark,
And hopefully next time you call, you'll have accrued a
couple of positive things as you climb up out of
your sad hold. You're in on this Christmas, this Christmas Eve,
but we feel bad for you. Good news is you
did get a towel. You got a towel for Christmas.
(10:57):
It bums them out, Uh, I have there are so
many Christmas topics. I have a quickie, A quickie. No, actually,
let's go to Kevin and Sharon. Then I will tell
you my most embarrassing Christmas story when it is big
(11:17):
time embarrassing. So Kevin and Sharon, how do you do?
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Good, good evening, Bradley, Merry Christmas, Christmas, and welcome back
to the airwaves.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
I've always felt that you were the most affable talk
show host personally, very personable talk show hosts I have
ever heard. Ah, well, thank you you Morgan White. I
think I think you were slightly more affable personally. But
Morgan of course has a storehouse of memories and nostalgia.
That's formidable service you will on the air as well
(11:53):
as on which you run as well.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I've tried to stump him and I cannot stump him.
It's just discussed thing how much he knows and I don't.
It's almost like a trick. How's it possible that he
knows all that stuff? But he does? It's real, It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
And that brings us to the next topic, which is,
I know you were at WBCN disc jockey, so you
have a storehouse of musical information. Yes, And here's my
question for you. To the movie in nineteen sixty six
starring Lawrence Oliviery and care Deliver before two thousand and
(12:31):
one of Space Odyssey as well as the Hardest of
the Hot Carolinley, the end of the movie was Bunny
Lake is Missing. And in that movie, in one scene
they say, as well as on the soundtrack where there's
four or five tracks, there was a group, a British
invasion rock group playing music on a bar, on a
(12:54):
TV screen in a bar. And my question for you
is what is the identity of that long ago musical group.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
This is like the world's hardest musical question ever.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
I don't I have a T shirt with Bunny Lake
is Missing on it because I like this musical group so.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Much Bunny Lake is Missing? Can you give me any hints? Hints?
Speaker 6 (13:19):
My man, it's a British invasion group kind of They
shared some members eventually with the Kinks, but they're not
the Kinks, all.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Right, I'll say oooo shits. If I say what I
was gonna say, I would have embarrassed myself because I
don't think they had any members with the Kinks. I'm
gonna I'm gonna say, I don't know. Are you willing
to give me another uh shot? And does anybody else
know this? Maybe maybe you shouldn't tell me at the end.
(13:53):
Maybe I don't think anyone's going to get this though,
but anyway, give me another hint.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
It was led by the musical director and leader, although
there were two songwriters. A bass player was a songwriter
and a great one, but it was led by a
keyboardist who played organ and electric piano.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Man, I'm going to give up. I'm giving up giving up.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Yes, Zombies, Oh you stumped me and I want to add.
The soundtrack to this movie had a song written by
the bass player of the Zombies, Chris White. Remember you
It was the name of it. It's the first rock
song that I know of. It's written in Wall's time
three four time.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
If you know that, you must know lots of other
rock and roll stuff too.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Right, I do. I closed you up to night that
we'll redied. If you recall years ago run Sunday Night,
I think at the time and when we died, I
called you up and we spoke. We talked about the
Velvet Underground and Nico and Moti gre what a great debut.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know, how do you feel about lout me? This
is open house, so we can talk about whatever. I
have mixed feelings about who I have mixed feelings about
lou Reed to tell you the truth?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Well I do too. I think his his works Going
Underground is inassailable. Some of his solo material is absolutely superb.
In fact, a lot of it is, but some of
it stinks so and he was crazy. I mean, the
guy was really kind of like he was perverse in
a lot of ways. And only he put out a
record called Metal Machine means Yes, and all it was
(15:30):
was noise, electronic noise, and he did it just to
spite his record company so he could do some really
strange things. So brilliant.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But I mean I interviewed him once and I made
a mistake. Well, I asked him, yeah, and uh, he
was on the occasion of David Bowie's birthday. I think
or wedding, and and he had he had an altercation
with Bowie at some point. Oh yeah, and I like,
like not just it was a pretty severe altercation as
(16:01):
I understand it. Let's say I read this and and
I can't remember exactly where I read it, but I
asked him, I was kind.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Of a nasty guy. And he at one point he
got training in the martial arts, not because he was
just interested in physical fitness, but because he wanted to
beat people up who ticked them off.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Are you sure about that? What are you positive about that?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
He had he had expertise in the martial arts. So anyway,
during the bank I read, I read that in the
biography that came out of him around around some years back,
about him, I just I got to get going. In
one second. I want to leave you with one more thing.
You mentioned that your father had a stereo system, right, yeah,
all right, this will amuse you, I hope. My parents
(16:46):
were from Ireland and they really had no clue about
anything to do with stereo or music system. So the
first couple of record players we had were just that
tabletop record players with five pound tone arms. All the
records we have a play on them, were destroyed by
those five pound tone on right. Well, we had one
record player and the motor died on it, so we
bought a second one, and this one had a detachable speaker,
(17:09):
but it was still just a five pound tone on
cheap record player. But I got the brilliant idea to
take a cardboard box and take the speaker from the
first record player, which motor had died, put it in
the cardboard box, and using some extra wire to hook
that up to the second record player. And now you
know what. I thought I had stereo, but of course
(17:30):
I didn't because both speakers were identical. It came out
of them. I was only twelve years old sound. But
I did put wood grain contact on the box that
I made to impress everybody with the fact that it
looked like an actual stereo speaker.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
So what do you do now? And was that a
harbringer of what you became?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
In a way, Yes, because I do a lot of
speaker building and messing around with stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That is cool. That's a you say you have to
go now? Is that true? What you said you had
to leave?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Well, unless you're have any other questions.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I well know I wanted to finish my Lou read story.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
So anyway, I'm interviewing him on WBCNS, as you mentioned,
and I saved this question for the end, and the
question was, Hey, Lou, why did you get in that
you know, kerfuffle with David Bowie? And man, he went
off the deep end. That's why, that's why an interview
should always save that kind of question for the end.
(18:31):
He said, why would you ask me that question on
this day? But well, he went nuts.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Well, did you ever read the interview, the ambush interview
or the confrontational interviews, the Western bangs? No, the lack
of critic question of bangs conducted with him. Oh, I'll
tell you what the name it is. It's called It's
called what if Now praise famous Death Dwarves, And it's hoarious.
(18:57):
It's the funniest article I've ever read about. And he
walks up and it was at the height of Lou's
weird period. He was he was keeping company with someone
named Rachel. And I won't go win to any more
details than that, okay.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
And there's one other thing about Lou that irritates me.
About Lou, he said, I believe I remember reading that
he had said, really, Bet, you know mean things about
Frank Zappa, And I don't care if you don't like
Frank Zappa's music. You don't have to go in the
press and dis this somebody like that. I thought, lou
that's not cool. So that kind of dropped him down
(19:34):
a notch. But of course, you know there there there
are some of his songs that are so far and
way up there in the pantheon of rock greatness that
you know, you gotta you gotta give him his due.
I got a break now, So Kevin.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Just let me say one more thing. Yes, we got's
a great album. And just because somebody is a brilliant
musician doesn't mean they have to be a nice person.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Well can you can you like a musician who's Can
you be a fan of a person who's not? That's
a good question a nice person if there's something really mean,
I can't. I can't. Another time, in an interview with
Jane Simmons, he was not very nice to me, and
after that, for me, it's like bye bye. I'm also
(20:20):
said with you, Jean and all your and your cohorts.
By now, I'm not the kind of guy that can
be a big fan of somebody who's a musician that
I don't personally.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Like, well, I think I know why because you're a nice,
affable guy and.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
We come full circle. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it.
Take care, bye, Kevin. This is great, great fun on
a on an open house, a Christmas Eve open house
here on w b Z.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
If you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w
b Z, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
And it's a blast to be here with you together
kind of in this open house, this w b Z
Christmas night Side open house. Now, this is for folks
who you know, I want to hear about all your
your wonderful family times you've had together tonight. However, there
are many people who are who do not have families,
And for those folks, I invite you to call and
(21:17):
have a community as well. I would ask this, rather
than give me a litany of how bad things are,
try to find a couple of good things. Then we'll
go to Patrese in Medway. He Patrise, how are you.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I'm okay, good. Well, I'm kind of far away from home.
I'm living in Redway. It's it's a like a rehab center.
And I'm originally from Needham Massachusetts, and I had a
beautiful Victorian announce in Needam that I grew up in Yep,
(21:58):
And we had to sell it because my mother's house
throway in and we had to sell it.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
And that was twelve years ago and you've been living
living with that pain ever since. So you're in ab.
You're in a rehab place, is it?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Yeah? And it's not a good one.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Oh no, what are you going to do? You have?
What are you going to do? You're in a bad
rehab place. You don't like on Christmas Eve at anything.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
My son live in need him and he's coming. He
kicks me out all the time.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
He kicks you out.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Huh did you say he kicks you out?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
No, he kicks me up. I'm sorry. I have I
have dentures and I had them.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
So he picks you up. Okay. So you have a family.
You have some family. See that's a good positive thing.
So many people have had have lost their house for
this reason. That reason. You're not alone in that and
you have a warm roof over your head and you
have a relative that picks you up.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Yeah, my son, he's my health careful.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
There you go. You're not of the sidewalk you know,
covering in blankets, getting kicked by passers by. If you're
in a rehab place, it's probably you know, eating it's warm.
And also I would just hope that you could try
to take stock of the good things. I know you
(23:33):
don't want to be there. I get it, but.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
If you know, it's okay. For now, I'm looking to
the room, back to one that's in needle, like this
hospital expanded and need them. And there's a and there's
a rehab place called bar would and it literally would
take my son from his apartment. It's like a ten
minute walk.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Well that's great. Now you have seen something.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Yeah, it takes too long to get here.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Patrice, you have something to look forward to. I appreciate that.
And now we're going to go.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
He's picking me up tomorrow for all. And I and
Priscilla Kennedy is my friend from Newtonville. And she calls, well,
there you.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Go, so merry Christmas.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
She called you all the time. She told me to
call you, and I well, I'm glad you did call it. Yeah.
Used to listen to w b Z a long time ago,
like when they had Jordan's rich On and Larry Glick. Yeah,
let's going way back as.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You were a glick. Nick, I really got.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
To move on to Nick and I and I love Trevia.
So Jordan Rich I want a pen.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
All right, Well, good for you, and have fun tomorrow
with your son. You appreciate it. Now it's Matt in Michigan. Hi, Matt,
how are you?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Oh fine? Bradley good? Uh you? You know you were
bringing the subject about, you know, Christmas and things like that.
The one thing it's hard nowadays to have things the
way they were when you were younger, because myself, for example,
(25:20):
I just came back at four point thirty this afternoon,
flew in from North Carolina. I visited one of my daughters.
She lives out there with her husband and their pets.
And before I left for the airport this morning, I
told her and she would remember this because it was
about the time that she was born, and you know,
(25:43):
we'd have the family over. I had two other kids,
and you know, my brothers would be over and their
little kids. And the one thing about Christmas Eve that
I love. It's a simple thing. But we live in
the subdivision and if you looked out the back window
from the kitchen, we had a two lane road over
(26:06):
there and there would be no traffic. And to me,
that was the only day of the year that it
would be like that. It wasn't a heavily travel road,
but you know, occasionally you'd see a card two and
that night you could continue to look out that window
and there would be no traffic because everybody was where
(26:28):
I don't want to say where they're supposed to be,
but you know, Christmas Eve being in a family night, No,
there was the families and there's no traffic on the road.
I just thought that was a neat thing.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Well, you know, kind of. It's similar to that in
the city. And that's why I went on weekends where
everybody goes away. I like to stay here because it's
pretty deserted. It's quite quiet on the streets, like tonight
when I go tonight, when I go home, it'll be
super quiet. I'm guessing, so I have a Q Yeah,
(27:00):
you know people, yeah, sure. People in Europe think of
the United States as just one monolith, one big thing,
that we're all the same. They don't get how different
the different parts of the country are. And you seem
like you spent some time down in North Carolina. It is,
Is it how different is it? Is it like living
in another country.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
There North Carolina? No, No, I was just there in
August the visit them, so second time in four months.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
People think about everything differently than they do up in Massachusetts,
I don't think. So.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
We we went out to a restaurant, an Indian restaurant
on what's is uh Wednesday, Monday, I think there was.
We went out for lunch and there was a good
crowd in there and we talked to a few people,
and you know, there's people. I don't think there's any difference.
She used to live in Oregon. She lives in Oregon
(27:59):
before the movie Back to North Carolina. So I went
up to visit them. So yeah, uh, you know. And
and another thing that was different. I remember when I
was a teenager, even before then, on Good Friday, my
mom was really strict about this. She says, you know,
you say in the house, you know, we contemplate or
(28:23):
pray or whatever. And there was all the radio stations
were all religious, and you know, most people were at
Homo Burn Church. And it's not the same anymore. You know,
there's businesses glore that are open on Good Friday between
twelve and three.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
So it's it's it's just a different setting.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Do you have children?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
I'm glad to ask you this question. You remember what
you used to get in your stucking when you were
a kid. Do you put the same stuff in the
stocking for you your kids or did you? Or is
it different now? What do you put in there?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
I was I was better to my kids than my
father was to me. Nothing we got and me and
my no, we never had stocking and we get we
get like one small gift and that was it. My
father was pretty tight with the buck.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I gotta say, So, did you feel cheated or was
that just the way it was? Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, honestly I felt things should have been a little
bit better. You know, we didn't grow up in a
uh a rich uh environment. Our neighborhood. It was a
very working class area. I grew up in the city
(29:59):
of Detroit, and you know it was it was a
highly ethnic It was a Polish Ukrainian type area and
none of those people were overly wealthy.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
But okay, you put in your kids or what did you?
I don't know how old they are stocking?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Oh they're all grown now? Yeah, I got would you
have thirty three year old. I'll tell you just whatever
whatever was the big thing at the time, Like, uh,
you know, when my son was small, he was into
you know, Super Mario and things like that. I'm I'm
(30:41):
going way back in the early nineties, I guess, okay,
but you know, a little little video games and things
like that. Whatever was hot at the time, that's what
we you know, we give them and the girls. I
had had two daughters, so you know you got girl toys.
So so thanks for calling in.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
You're calling all the way from Michigan, right.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah, oh yeah, I've called before. I spoke to you
years ago when you were at midnight. Well, if I could,
let me just ask you one more question. Of course,
I've always wondered this, and a lot of times I
call him the Morgan Show, and when he has a
(31:24):
person that wants this big music. You know about hype,
can you think of anything offhand that was heped and
exceeded the height? You know, a lot of times though
hype up a certain uh you know, person or group
(31:46):
or thing, and it's always a disappointment. But can you
name me one thing that exceeded far exceeded the hype?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah? Probably I'm sure that it took so long to
record docs Oude of the Moon by Pink Floyd. They
had a lot of hype about it. But whatever the
hype was, it had to have exceeded the hype because
it was just such a monstrous piece of work that
meant so much to so many for so long, and
it still sounds unbelievable. So there's no way that did
(32:17):
not live up to whatever hype was there.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
By the way, pardon, how about the Meatles? The Beatles,
they exceeded the hype, you know, the hype of an
Ed Celler than everybody was talking about it. Beatles are
coming to the United States. So do you think they exceeded.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
The show itself? The shows they did in the United
States were more about being there because you couldn't hear anything. However,
the band itself for their career, yes they exceeded. They
went way beyond when anyone ever could have possibly expected. Absolutely, so, yes,
they exceeded the hype.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I agree. I agree. Uh still to this day, you know,
they're still talk talking reverence, even my other group. So anyway,
I let you go. I appreciate the time, and uh,
have a nice Christmas.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Absolutely nice doc to Michigan, thank you and goodbye. We
spoke about Christmas stockings prairie briefly. I want to give
you what was in my stockings, generally, stuff like this.
You know, I'm a grown I'm a grown up boomer.
I'm a boomer cusp. Anyway, always on the bottom of
course of being orange, right, doesn't isn't that the case
(33:33):
with everyone? By the way, these were hand knit stockings,
hand knit by my grandmother Ruth or Grammy, and they
had our names and our birthdays on them and I
still have them. So they were stretching. It wasn't like
this felt stuff you could cram a lot in there.
(33:56):
So we all had our own specific special one made
handmade by Grammy. And in the bottom would be the
big bloomp of on orange, and then there would be
things like pencils, erasers, and slinkies. I can't imagine that
that was not a big stalking stuff for a lot
(34:16):
of folks. A slinky. What else is in there? Oh,
I can't remember. No, no dart guns or anything like.
I couldn't fit that in there, but it's slinky was
in there. So how about you? What do you remember
about the contents of your Christmas stalking back when you
were a kid. More in the Christmas open House here
(34:38):
on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
That's right, it's Night Side with Dan Ray. Bradley Jay
for Dan, like to have you give me a shout
and join me for our w b Z Christmas house party.
That's what I like to call it. Think of it
as a house party. People just show up. Oh no,
actually not house party, but open house. That's what I
wanted to call it. Open house. House party is a
(35:08):
Jay Giles thing. So it's an open house meaning you
can call it's kind of like a cross between house
party and open lines. Get it open house. So whatever
you want to talk about is fine. I have many
a guest lined up for this stretch where dance off
(35:28):
one movie Jim Sullivan, Boston, Boston Globe music writer for
a long time. He still writes for other things, and
one thing we're going to be going through with him.
We're going to have a big debate, and I think
I think it's the twenty ninth, just as by manner
(35:51):
of promotion here for what's coming up. He's going to
come in and I have a beef with the Green
Day because people say they're punk, they're a punk band,
and I don't think so. I don't know why it
irritates me so much, but I've gone online and asked
(36:12):
the question define punk rock, define it, and some people
say it's just an attitude. No, it's a lot more
than an attitude. Someone else said, I just know when
I hear it. No, that doesn't count. I need parameters
by which I can judge bands as to whether or
not they're punk. So I can decide for once and
(36:32):
for all if Green Day is a punk band. And
you might think that's kind of random, but I will
tell you this, probably the best hour I ever had
on wb Z was debating over what a power ballad
was and whether these various bands were power ballads. So
(36:53):
when he comes on, we are going to I'm gonna
give my definition, which has been well thought out and
written down, is very specific. For example, I feel I
feel that it has to come from a particular time period.
That's one reason Green Day can't be punk, because they're
not from that time. Another reason is that punk songs
(37:15):
by depth, they were short. That was part of the
definition of punk. Green Day has a song that's eleven
minutes and forty seven seconds long, called Jesus of Suburbia
not punk at all, And there are a bunch of
other stuff. Billie Joe. It takes more than a little
dark eyeliner to be punk, your punk style, punk truck.
(37:37):
So I'm going to have this debate with Jim. But
we're also going to do is go down this list
of Ah, there's a list of top one hundred punk bands.
We're going to go through them with you to decide
what about this band is that really a punk band?
Believe it or not. The band Blink one eighty two
is on that band on that list? Can you believe it?
(38:01):
My god, that all credibility for that list goes right
out the window. So that'll be on the I believe
it's the twenty ninth, and he'll be in No, he's
he will be with us. He's always very good. And
so maybe you went home. If you do me a
(38:22):
favor and if you're a music person, and let's face it,
punk rock is boomer age music. So it's not like
this is not for you. Let's take a break now
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