THE DVE POWER BALLAD CHALLENGE

Randy, Abby, Tad, and Mike host the 2026 DVE Power Ballad Challenge judged by Mark Madden, Reb Beach, and Jon Belan!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ernie and iHeartRadio Station guaranteed Human Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Why don't you point five?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
It's the DAVY Morning Show Pittsburgh power Ballad Challenge live
to tape from the studios of iHeartRadio here in Scenic Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
And couldn't be happier to have our finalist on board
in the Pittsburgh Power Ballad Challenge with the song where
Things Used to Be? kJ Devlin is here one of
our finalists. That's here for Kevin. Yeah, the ode to
Ben Kevin.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yurig is here. Give it up for Kevin.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
And back for the third time in the Pittsburgh power
Ballad Challenge with his song The Ballad of the Pittsburgh
power Ballad Year. Frank Montleone Lake gentleman, He's the Buffalo
Bills of.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
The Pittsburgh power Ballad Challenge.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
But now how this is gonna go tonight We're gonna
get to meet all three of these guys a little
more in depth, of course. I am joined on my
left by Tad Whistle.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
From the DV Morning Show, Miss Abby Prisoner.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
And the one and only Mike Prisuda.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Okay, now they along with.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Myself will be peppering the contestants with questions, but they
will be judged by our esteemed panel of celebrity judges.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
So what do you say, folks? Are you ready to
meet your celebrity judges?

Speaker 5 (01:32):
Huh?

Speaker 6 (01:35):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:35):
First off, he's a veteran of the Pittsburgh music scene,
currently the lead singer of the band Geen the Werewolf,
and they have a brand new single out right now.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Which is it being played on DVE yet?

Speaker 4 (01:44):
It should be Ladies and gentleman John Ballen from Team
the Werewolf. John, this is your first time judging a
Pittsburgh power Ballad challenge. Now, you've sang your share of
power ballads through the years, particularly in Red Beach's band,
where you do a few more covers.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Geenea whrewof does a lot of original music.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
But what do you think it is about a power
ballad that makes it special to you?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
What's the hook for you?

Speaker 7 (02:10):
I think that you have to have the voice that
gets up there. You can't really sing a low, low voice.
You know, you have to have the strong that well,
should you say strong when you sing?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
You know, you have to have a lot of that.
You have to and and I think it's a lot
about melody too. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:25):
I think it's got to be pretty but sappy, so
not poppy pretty but.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Sappy pretty so pretty sappy, pretty sappy. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
So what you're saying, basically, it's got to have a
mixture of the vocal historyonics along with the beautiful melody
to puk you in a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
That's perfect, perfect mix right there.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Dynamics too, right, well, you know nobody more dynamic than
our second celebrity judge, ladies and gentlemen from my brother
Station one oh five ninety X, the one and only
double m Mark Madden. Let's hear it from Mark, Mark Boy.
We couldn't be happier than to have you back once again.
This here, it's always a pleasure.

Speaker 8 (03:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Who's the guy who's back a third time? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (03:07):
Okay, let me let me just say I think that
the power ballot has ruined the rock genre and that's
why we wanted you to be here tonight. Because except
of course, Abiol backed me up when this UFOs loved
love that is it and reb stuff with winger okay
and Home Sweet Home.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
So those those are all acceptable to you, Yes, yes, absolutely,
and nothing in the in the past few years has
broken through with you. Not last year's winner or the
year before take a chance on the Parkway or the
Kenny Pickett song Steal My Quarterback one.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I don't remember what I said on my show a
couple hours ago. It was brilliant. Anyways, Mark Madden, let's
your liar. You're a liar and last, but.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Not least, the most qualified judge we could ever hope
to land for an event like this from the White
Snake a winger. He's Pittsburgh's own rep. Beach ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Thank you. Yeah, you know I claim you as the
Pittsburgh a little more. Butler cannyis right, but like, uh, what,
I grew up in Fox Chapel. Well, but where do
you live now? Oh? I live in Oakmont. Oh.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Oh, you enjoyed the bakery. We are thrilled to have
you here as always Red And last year you were
telling us about the story.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
When you hung out with Bob Dylan. Yes, why you
want me to tell it again? No, but he was
here last night and night I thought maybe you guys
got together.

Speaker 10 (04:39):
I don't know what he used to call me, wammy bar.
So it'd be great if I went there and he
said it is whammy barh. But no, I didn't even
know he was in town. I went to see King
Zax a couple of days ago, though, Well, how was that?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
That was amazing? Yeah, my favorite band. Well what do
you think about the state of live music right now?

Speaker 10 (04:56):
I think it's doing, you know, it's I heard from
the grapevine that this smaller venues aren't doing as well
now as the arenas are doing.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
But I know that.

Speaker 10 (05:08):
Everyone I know loves to go to a live show,
you know. And I'll go to a live show just
to see live music. I don't even care what kind
of music it is. I just love to see a
band up there playing.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Well, you know you last year also did this great
sort of tutorial for us, and you brought your guitar,
and I was hoping maybe once again you could regale
us okay with your chops, let's hear for Red Beach
getting up to play guitar. Rah, you're got a private
concept for Red Beach now, Uh, I might want to
coach your the singer of the Red Beach band to

(05:38):
come out here in a second as well. But if
you could just throw a few licks at us of
what like a typical power ballad like riff that you
might hear at the beginning in some of those crying
like little runs that the guitarists do at the beginning
of the power ballads. Yeah, like the one that the

(06:01):
tear drop kind of riffs that come out, you know, perfect.

(06:27):
Now do you agree with John's assessment? Would you add
anything to what makes up a great power ballad?

Speaker 10 (06:35):
I can, you know, I agree with him when he
was saying, And it was very interesting because I've never
been asked that, Oh, well, I'll let him mike here. Yeah,
I've never been asked that question. But Home Sweet Home
is one of my favorite ones, by the way, and
Miles Away was a really good song for us. But
I know what Mark was saying that in the eighties
sometimes bands would come out with too many ballads, like

(06:57):
night Ranger was getting known as like a ballad band.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, and Winger.

Speaker 10 (07:01):
You know, Miles Away was our biggest single, but we
kind of stopped selling records for a little bit there
because people were, oh, it's another power ballad band. So
at the time it kind of was not as rock,
you know, because everyone was doing it Death Leopard. But
now power ballads just.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
You know, it's like yacht rock like that, like it's
come all the way back around. But what you've told
us before about like how when you know Beavis and
Butt had made fun of Winger, How like you know, Kip,
you guys knew that.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Like this is it. We're kind of screwed.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
But what what was he thinking about this push towards
power ballads in the genre? You know, because all of
the sort of metal bands at that time were trying
to put whether it was The Scorpions doing Still Loving
You or Poison doing every Rows, those were the ones
getting airplay.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Those are the ones.

Speaker 10 (07:50):
And on our second album, in the Heart of the Young,
they wanted miles Away to be our first single, and
we had to rush in and write a couple of
rock songs, easy Come, Easy Go and an Good Enough
in about an hour. We wrote both those songs because
we didn't want our first single to be a ballad
and uh and they were both hits, which was great.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
But it's true you needed.

Speaker 10 (08:11):
That power ballad in the eighties to have your big,
you know, worldwide hit.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Well with your the solo project, you have the Red
Beach band, John Bellen is your vocalist. Do you think
maybe we could hear a little bit of a maybe
a winger power ballad?

Speaker 2 (08:27):
What do you say? Here we go John Bellen on.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Vocals, just like a verse in a chorus for us.
And this will set the stage where our power ballad,
Pittsburgh power Ballad beers here.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
So what's one? Which one are you gonna do? Miles away? Okay,
here you go.

Speaker 11 (08:48):
You're so.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
As 'unwalking, no.

Speaker 12 (08:57):
LUNs go mine and I have no shoot.

Speaker 13 (09:02):
Shot.

Speaker 14 (09:04):
I'm sun times.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
She'll swallen.

Speaker 12 (09:14):
Child hope y'all.

Speaker 15 (09:16):
Sitting moon back? Do not just get away? And Monday.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
What we have?

Speaker 15 (09:34):
Just swell your moones?

Speaker 5 (09:38):
You mos?

Speaker 16 (09:40):
Yeah, yeah, John Bellen with Red Beachs a little miles away.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Therefore you setting the stage with the Pittsburgh power Ballad Challenge.
And soon we're gonna find out whether it's kJ Devlin,
Kevin Yuri or Frank mottleone crowned.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
The winner of this Pittsburgh power Ballad Challenge.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
We'll meet kJ Devlin when we return here on why don't.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Two point five dve?

Speaker 4 (10:06):
It's the Pittsburgh power Ballad Challenge on the DV Morning Show. Okay,
the Morning Show, Hi attop the hill here in Bridgeville
at the iHeartRadio Studios. It's the Pittsburgh Power Ballad Challenge

(10:26):
with the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
I got a little feedback here. I want to move
my microphone back a little bit and you're gonna get
a little feedback into rock and roll show. And that's
what this is.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
And I want to welcome our first contestant to the
stage right now in the Pittsburgh Power Ballad Challenge Finals,
finalist number one, who.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Wrote the song where Things Used to Be? Let's hear
it for.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
kJ, Devlin ladies and Gentlemenkay, okay, where Things used to Be? Now,
I'm gonna hand it over to my cohorts here in
the DV Morning Show to ask you a couple of questions.
First thing I want to ask you, though, are you nervous?

Speaker 2 (11:02):
kJ? Just the right amount? Yeah? Is this your normal
stage attire? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Actually yeah, that's what you wear on stage most of
the time. Got your shades on, your little tank top,
got like Pac McAfee thing going on there?

Speaker 17 (11:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (11:17):
Okay, and the stash. He's looking cool. Tad got questions
for kJ?

Speaker 2 (11:22):
I do kJ? First off?

Speaker 17 (11:23):
Loved the song I found myself driving around this weekend
what things used to be. I was earwormed by it.
I'm curious about the inspiration. Is there a business that
you saw while you were driving or the inspiration for
the song something that is no longer where it used
to be?

Speaker 18 (11:40):
Oh my gosh, that's I mean, that was really the
the crux of the origin of the song. I mean,
all the references are in the song.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
I mean, you're putting me on the spot. I don't know.

Speaker 17 (11:56):
I don't know if there was the one that stuck
out as the catalyst.

Speaker 18 (12:02):
The way that the way that people talk about when
Froggy's was downtown.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, I I as.

Speaker 18 (12:07):
I'm admittedly a bit too young to have experienced that,
but I do. I do yearn for that, the way
that people.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Talk You yearn to get gasoline port in your drink
and then drive home because that's what everyone did. All right,
Thank you, tad Abby kJ.

Speaker 19 (12:25):
This song was submitted under the name Marsupial Mayhem. But
you're here performing as a solo artist. Is this your
first foray into the world of being a solo artist?
And is it ripping the band apart?

Speaker 18 (12:37):
It is not our are It's not what I hear
my my my co songwriter actually just became a dad
on Friday or else you would be here with me,
but uh no.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
I would. I would.

Speaker 18 (12:50):
I would say I've you know, judging judging by my
character and personality, I've been a solo artist more often
than I've actually been with people. Actually it's my co
writer Jonathan who kicked me out of our first band.
So but we've and but we've managed to recover and
make songs like where things used to be.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
So wow, they're still friends. Yeah, it's called Crosby, Stills
and Nash type stuff.

Speaker 20 (13:12):
You know.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Mike Persuda, you have a question for for kJ I.

Speaker 21 (13:17):
Do I've got a couple? Actually, First, we've been doing
this a while now. We've heard injuries pounded and pounded
and pounded into our brains.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
But you guys came up with house come.

Speaker 21 (13:30):
Which I don't think anybody else has used.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
In any entry ever.

Speaker 21 (13:34):
I remember that one from hanging out and Beaver Counting
when I was a little kid.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
What is your history with house come? No, So that's
I'll credit that to John.

Speaker 18 (13:43):
I honestly, if you if you if you grow up
around Pittsburgh enough, you know, uh grew up here, went
to school here and stayed here. You're you're gonna hear
it if you hang out with the people of a
variety of ages, let's say.

Speaker 21 (13:56):
And second question, house come you guys turned it into
a love.

Speaker 18 (13:59):
Song, if there, if there is one, if there's anywhere
to describe Pittsburgh at his love.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
All right, well then there you go.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Oh god, hey, it's it's power ballot. It's supposed to
be Mushy Mark. It's supposed to be Mushy Mark's heart
grew two times big. Well, actually it's done that for
the long reasons.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
The technical term is enlarged. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
Uh, anyways, you know, uh, kJ, since you're here, you know,
of course we always like to give the behind the
music that the the folks at the d VE television
studios do for you guys.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
And here's the the preview.

Speaker 19 (14:36):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
And people can of course go.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
To DV dot com and see the full hour long
behind the music when they want to.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
But here is kJ Devlin behind the music.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
Welcome back to Behind the Music with kJ Devlin, Past
and Furious. Devlin's love of Pittsburgh's past quickly became an
issue with his bandmates and his first band, the yesterdays,
when clashes with co band leader Rich Sizzula over song.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Content reached its boiling point.

Speaker 17 (15:05):
Gad Dev's was super inspired by Rick Seabeck's documentary Things
It Ain't There Anymore because the VHS tape was stuck
in the vcar at his mom's house and it's the
only thing you could watch. He got the idea to
do parody songs using Seaback's name, like Baby Comes Seedback
or Thick as a Rick. I thought he was joking,
but then one night he ripped into Seaback in the
saddle at a gig Rhythm Heights, and I just figured, okay,

(15:28):
we could all do well to stop sniffing as much
airplane glue.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
It was around then the Devlin's preoccupation with the past
started affecting the band's live performances.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
We were booked at light up night and he was
nowhere to be fine.

Speaker 17 (15:39):
Then finally we spotted him on Standwich, standing underneath where
the Max and Irma's burgermark he used to be, and
he was h well.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Frankly it was.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Erect Kj's fiance Janet philip Kowski describes even more troubling
encounters with his fixation with Pittsburgh's past.

Speaker 19 (15:57):
He couldn't perform unless I dressed up like a care
from Hills. He had a replica of the Kaufman's clock
over the headboard. Let's just say that caused more than
a few bumps on the head But also he insisted
on calling me Sophie.

Speaker 12 (16:10):
I was like, whatever's gonna make.

Speaker 15 (16:12):
You wrap this up?

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Tiger, I'm working for a shift tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
It was clear to everyone Kj's love of Pittsburgh's past
had morphed into a descent into madness.

Speaker 17 (16:21):
He kept wanting to drive with the old donut chops
and Bieber that used to be a church where the
nuns made piogi used to raise money for Polish ladies
with rickets during the depression or something like that. I
was like, kJ, what does this have to do with
the music? And he looked at me and just say
call me rick and you must trust me. And finally
I was like, okay, that's enough, mister Miaggi. Why don't
you go wax the cough? And I quit and joined

(16:43):
my cousin Pete's Uriah Heap cover band. We recalled Uriah
Carry and not for nothing. But they're still talking about
our nineteen ninety seven said at the Fayette County four
Age Festage Bud Murphy's.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
Devlin's music career fizzle. The offers to perform in his
Seaback Team cover band dried up and he was just
fond it until Janet came home one day with a plan.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
I was like, Hunt, why don't you just be yourself?
The world already has a seedback and put.

Speaker 19 (17:08):
All that weird sexual energy you have for things that
aren't here anymore into a song for the DVE power
Ballad Challenge, and he was like, you really think I
could win?

Speaker 2 (17:19):
And I was like, I know you can.

Speaker 19 (17:22):
Of course, I would have said anything to not have
to get back in that sex swing wearing a dingbat's
waitress outfit anymore.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
kJ took Janet's words to heart, and the rest is
Pittsburgh power Ballad History, sun and right.

Speaker 15 (17:43):
And so.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
When he come back on behind the music, kJ Devlin
suffers a head injury that could forever derail his ability
to remember where things used to be.

Speaker 17 (17:56):
He ran into sea back during an open Streets Pittsburgh
and a words were exchanged. Rick put him in a
choke hol kJ slumped to the ground and hit his
head and nuh.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Ever since saying I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Hey doesn't know
where it used to be anymore.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Well, there you go, kJ, that sounds what a what
a rough go that must be for you and hopefully
you're recovering from that the head trauma that Rick Cbeck
inflicted upon you. We're gonna take a break and are
you ready to perform the song when we come back.
kJ Devlin performing Where Things Used to Be on the
Pittsburgh Power Violent Challenge one O two point.

Speaker 20 (18:34):
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Speaker 16 (18:46):
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Speaker 20 (18:48):
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Speaker 4 (19:08):
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Devlin is here to perform the first of our three
finalists in the Power Ballot Challenge tonight. It is where
Things used to Be? kJ are you ready to go,
Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for kJ Devlin.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
Return to.

Speaker 23 (19:40):
A home.

Speaker 12 (19:47):
We had Maxine and eating I scream.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
And the ground.

Speaker 8 (20:02):
I'm taking it back to.

Speaker 12 (20:06):
Yester dv Shine and ride and a green tree.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
I want to go back to where.

Speaker 6 (20:21):
We could come back, go back.

Speaker 24 (20:25):
When the where returned, to know when where we are
we be under the pru start to can you sipling

(20:46):
god on Way or the child of West New Park
and where we like allday.

Speaker 6 (20:57):
Not taking it back to a city.

Speaker 12 (21:03):
That is that all side I will have back to.

Speaker 8 (21:14):
City.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
We can go back and go back to.

Speaker 25 (21:22):
Long the like whole reels for above, Captain down as free.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
On City, sid the.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
All we're here, we get.

Speaker 12 (21:43):
It back to day City, bang.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
That down center Retreat.

Speaker 12 (21:56):
I'm gonna go back to back.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
All right, let's hear kJ got a right. All right,
let's go to the judges.

Speaker 4 (22:38):
John Bellen, let's start with you, gena werewolf vocalist John Bellen.

Speaker 7 (22:42):
Man, I'll tell you what right off the bat, uh
the harmonies. In the beginning, I was like, okay, here
we go. Uh, and then you really belted it out
Like I said, I thought the perfect combination is the
harmonies and the high vocals man and a key change, dude,
And and I thought on all the song structure was awesome.
So you got a bridge in there. You should have
said in the bridge something about the bridges, but hey, oh.

Speaker 12 (23:08):
That's just me.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yeah, all right, well deduct two points. All right, Mark Madden, Well,
I can.

Speaker 9 (23:14):
Honestly say that's the best vocal performance I've ever heard
from someone who looks like Freddie Mercury Gone to Seed.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
I think it had that.

Speaker 9 (23:26):
Power ballad vibe, the backup vocals.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Very strong, sing along chorus, very strong. The lyrics I.

Speaker 9 (23:35):
Loved in Pittsburgh references out the ying Yang. No stone
was left unturned in that regard. And I thought the
mix was reminiscent when Phil Spector worked with the Ramones,
except nobody got killed.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well there you go. That's good.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
And lastly nobody got killed right, fair enough. Lastly, the
one on only Red Beach Reb what do you think?

Speaker 2 (23:58):
I thought it was great.

Speaker 10 (23:59):
I liked you made eye contact with us, the judges
and the wonderful DJs and the people.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
I'd love it if you would wear like a shirt
over that.

Speaker 12 (24:13):
I've gotten.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, but you know, I thought you did a really
good job.

Speaker 10 (24:18):
I also like the lyrics very clever and that is
a typical power ballad from the eighties.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Nice job. All right, there you go, kJ Devlin stick around.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
Up next contested number two, Kevin you are will join
us with the ode to Ben as we continue with
the Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Power Bowel Challenge on DV.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
Were a ballid Challenge Contested number two with the song
oh to Ben. Let's hear it for Kevin Uric ladies
and gentleman Cavin. How are you, buddy?

Speaker 5 (24:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:59):
You got your you got your big Ben jersey on
right now? Uh now? How long have you been playing
music since I was like fifteen?

Speaker 8 (25:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:07):
And you have? You played in a lot of bands
around town? Oh yeah, yeah. What's your Detroit?

Speaker 4 (25:13):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (25:13):
In Detroit as well. And you're a Steelers fan even
though you came from Detroit. I tried to convert, but
they suck so bad it's hard to like. Now they're good,
but the Lions back then?

Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yeah right, okay, Well, let me let me pass it
along here to the other members of the DV Morning Show.
I want to ask you about you and your and
your history, and in particular, the song oh de Ben,
Todd Whistle.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
What do you you got for Kevin? Kevin?

Speaker 17 (25:33):
I'm glad you're here to perform this song for all
of us, but don't you think there's someone else who
should perform the song.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
For ladies and gentlemen?

Speaker 12 (25:41):
Bear?

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Oh now he's not here. Sorry.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
I wish you was made me too. You could have
got Brian Saint Pierre. I could have got the guy
who told Yeah, right, Kevin?

Speaker 17 (25:59):
Did you consider memorializing any of the others dealers like
Heinz Ward or Mike Schnack's here that you not?

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Okay? You don't know how much Snack was do you?
I don't know. He was the longest long snapper that
ever long minus two Abby. Do you have any questions
for for Kevin?

Speaker 25 (26:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (26:21):
Do?

Speaker 6 (26:22):
Kevin?

Speaker 19 (26:22):
If you were to win the contest, you'd be performing
ahead of Motley Cruz. So have you thought about what
to do if that situation presents itself to really elevate
the live performance of to Bean Wow?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah? Can we get Ben there? That would elevate the
live performance. I sort of took the wind out of
the room with the fake I regret it. I'm sorry.
I actually thought he was gonna come in you had me.

Speaker 23 (26:49):
Got him, Mike Persuda, I'm a lyrics guy, and you
reference your despair at the ceiling being a non losing
season just in general, how fired up for you?

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Mike McCarthy's the coach. Now it's time for a change.
That's good to see that we're heading in a different direction.
And that's all you have for him. You don't think
Ben could still play, do you? He's not that old?
He said so in the song. It says it right
there in the song. All right, Well, you know later

(27:23):
at DVE dot com.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
Of course, you'll be able to see the full episode
of Behind the Music on Kevin Yurig, but here's a
preview for you now. Welcome back to Behind the Music
Kevin Yurig, the Big Ben Ballad Deer. In two thousand
and four, Kevin and his wife Donna went out for
lunch at their favorite South Hill spot, Chee Cheese. What

(27:46):
would happen next would set in motion a chain of
events that would forever change the course of Pittsburgh power ballads.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
And I still remember his order this day.

Speaker 19 (27:55):
It was as usual, beef Jimmy Chonga with extra green
onions and a bowl of green onions.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
On a side.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
We had no way of knowing that Doodo disease was
waiting for him.

Speaker 19 (28:05):
Thankfully, os is there a pound lunch margaritas before work.
But it affected Kevin in a way nobody could have predicted.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Doctors called it Jimmy choga induced disassociative amnesia or cheetah.
Doctor Franklin Wounds from upmc mercy explains, so.

Speaker 17 (28:24):
There's a rare sect of people with a genetic trait
that when they contract hepatitis, it freezes the brain's ability
to create new memories. They're forever stuck in that moment. Now,
for Kevin, the doodoo disease froze him in two thousand
and four, which would be a glorious thing for me
because in two thousand and four my wife hadn't left
me for Mike Tomzack.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yet. Pull it together, Franklin, pull it together.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
Like a caveman. Kevin was frozen in two thousand and
four Pittsburgh. He still wears affliction shirts.

Speaker 19 (28:55):
He keeps tuning into HBO on Sundays, wondering where the
sopranos is or.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
How come Sally Wiggins been on vacation for so long?

Speaker 19 (29:03):
What happened to Matt Layer or stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Every Sunday I have to hear stuff like why.

Speaker 6 (29:08):
Don't they give it?

Speaker 2 (29:09):
The betis on a goal line? What's coward doing?

Speaker 4 (29:12):
But then Kevin's Jimmy Changa induced disassociative amnesia advanced in
a way that narrowed his focus in songwriting around just
one man.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Doctor Untz explains why what.

Speaker 17 (29:25):
Happens to the brain when the green onion DODO disease
advances at this stage of Cheetah is the psyche searches
for his safe space, a source of comfort that provides
a feeling of safety. For Kevin, that safe space is
two thousand and four Big Ben Roethlisberger. Now, for instance,
if I were to have this advanced stage of Cheetah,
my safe space might be my ex wife Carol before

(29:48):
she left me. But no matter how many green onions
I eat, I just keep thinking Mike Tom's act really
Mike freaking Tom's act.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
So it was no surprise when he emerged from his
home studio with his submission for this year's DVE Power
Ballot Challenge.

Speaker 19 (30:05):
He likes to listen to DVE because the playlist hasn't
changed in thirty years.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
I mean no friends, no, no, we like it that way. Anyhow,
we heard about the contest and.

Speaker 19 (30:15):
He was like, honey, you're never gonna believe what I
And I was like, oh, you wrote a song about
big Ben.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
And he was like, yeah, how'd you guess? And I said,
because my life is a living hell.

Speaker 19 (30:42):
At this stage of his disease, he thinks big Ben
is the answer to all life's problems now for everything.
In May, I was like, honey, you can't vote big
Ben for school board president and he was like, if
you can run away from Dorrell's sons, he.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Can run for school board. And after a while, let's
just give up, you know, because his whole.

Speaker 12 (31:01):
Life is about Big Ben.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
And that's why I left them for Mike Tomsack. What
is so special about Mike Tomzack?

Speaker 20 (31:09):
My god?

Speaker 4 (31:09):
When we come back on Behind the Music, Kevin gets
a reality check when he runs into Big Ben at
the Giant Eagle in Wexford.

Speaker 19 (31:17):
He just kept saying he's too fat, that ain't his
face and I tried to explain they had to glue
another face autumn after the motorcycle accident two thousand and six,
but he just said, what's two years from now? And
he shook his head and he went and bought a
bushel of green onions.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Mike Tomzach, Mike tom Zach, that's all next on behind
the music.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
All right there you're Kevin. Uh boy, that had to
be a what a tough affliction you've overcome.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
When we come back from this commercial break, you will
hear the ode to Ben, the second submission in our
finals here for the Pittsburgh power Ballad Challenge.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
As we continue on on the DD.

Speaker 12 (31:58):
Morning Show.

Speaker 26 (32:07):
And the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
We're back live to take.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
The TV Morning Show Pittsburgh parbal Challenge, and it's contestant
number two, Kevin urg with his song Oh to Ben.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Kevin, are you ready? I am? Are you nervous?

Speaker 9 (32:22):
No?

Speaker 4 (32:23):
Do you feel like maybe you have that parasite that's
giving everyone explosive diarrhea?

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yes? Yeah, you did have to go.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
To the bathroom before this, Okay, all right, I was
a little worried. All right, See if you can make
it through three minutes without exploding.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Ladies and gentlemen, Oh to Ben, Here is Kevin Urig.
Let's hear it.

Speaker 27 (32:52):
When we walk the Thursday that he left us, realize nothing.

Speaker 8 (33:05):
Say splay our wrongs.

Speaker 28 (33:12):
And superb hos, nothing more than and non losing season.

Speaker 8 (33:18):
Do you miss Suspen because we should?

Speaker 12 (33:22):
You miss human? Please come back Big Ben.

Speaker 15 (33:31):
You're not even really that old.

Speaker 28 (33:36):
Please come back bea Ben if Molly can still, please
come back, Big Man.

Speaker 5 (33:48):
He's a man.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
We love until TV time it.

Speaker 22 (33:56):
Bad watlest from the dock a warms the sad, still
honestly together to town Stewards.

Speaker 8 (34:18):
Please come back, Big Band.

Speaker 29 (34:21):
Do not even really that old? Please come back, Big Bend.
Raleigh sell Ron, please come.

Speaker 30 (34:35):
Back, Big Band. He's the old band. Lug a chither
jewey die a bad lug a children jeewey.

Speaker 14 (34:53):
Die be fa.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
What'd you think, Kad? What'd you think?

Speaker 17 (35:05):
Awesome job, dude, great live performance, better than the recording.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
I agree, better than the recording. You're a live performer, sir.
What do you think?

Speaker 19 (35:14):
Trip?

Speaker 2 (35:15):
You know he's just he's soap and I go, yeah,
a little, yeah, I get it.

Speaker 21 (35:20):
I was driving. You know it was really well performed.
You perform much better than you interview Couz.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
You're a gamer like Ben. Yeah, that's right, exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Let's go to the judges now for the scoring. Let's
start with John Bellen from Jean the wherewof John.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, Hey, started off with piano, can't go wrong with there.

Speaker 7 (35:38):
I think that one of the things I liked a
lot was rather than concerning yourself with stage presence and
so much schmoozing. No no, no, you used your hands
a lot, which I think is a normal function when
you're trying to sing really really good.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
And I think you did that.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
That was great, all right on, all right, reb beach,
reb rebel. What do you think of Kevin Yurk's performance, Oh, Joe.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
I thought it was a good hook.

Speaker 6 (36:03):
I like Big Ben.

Speaker 10 (36:05):
I was like, hey, I'm singing that already, Len, That's
stuck in my head. That's pretty cool. I love Big Ben,
So you know, takes a lot of courage to get
up there, and you sang in tune, so that was
important for me.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Sounded fine, sounded good. All right, there you go. All right.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Lastly, Mark, Matt and Mark, what did you think of
Kevin Yurik's performance of O de Ben.

Speaker 9 (36:33):
I don't know where Aaron's throw in, but I do
know he's not Ben. I thought it was I thought
it was terrific.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
I love the.

Speaker 9 (36:42):
Crescendo in the vocals, which is very important in power
ballas in fact, I thought the vocals were really strong
all the way through and the live performance was terrific.
I do want to say, for the record, I don't
believe Ben misses us, and I do believe he's too old.
I also want to say that this that this uh

(37:03):
No losing season streak, that's Ben's streak. I would like
to have heard that mentioned in the song. It's not
the coach who dares not speak.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
His name, but he hasn't played the last five years
of that's a streak. And I've made up my mind.
Tomlin wasted ten years time. I loved it. It was great.
I like the jersey. Everything about this was tremendous. All Right,
there you go, pretty good.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Nice shop, Kevin hight stick around our last contestant, Frank Mottleyone.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Hopes the third times the chart.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
When we continue with the DV morning show Pittsburgh Poberl
challenge on TV.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
When you make her, don't you rup?

Speaker 6 (38:18):
Who do you think? Does he look like me?

Speaker 5 (38:25):
Do you do?

Speaker 12 (38:29):
I say that is going on? Do you think twice?
Just touch you see.

Speaker 15 (38:40):
Bad?

Speaker 5 (38:47):
When do you.

Speaker 12 (38:51):
Delet?

Speaker 8 (38:55):
Are you?

Speaker 16 (38:55):
Why?

Speaker 31 (38:56):
Will Oh?

Speaker 12 (38:58):
I said?

Speaker 2 (38:59):
If you.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
Come out.

Speaker 16 (39:05):
The lessons, Nay justice yet.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
The sad.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
When you play here, we walk up.

Speaker 15 (40:31):
It can't be.

Speaker 6 (40:34):
It's me bad.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
Oh all that.

Speaker 12 (40:54):
By?

Speaker 15 (41:13):
Its not time.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
Die by, Die bies, die.

Speaker 12 (42:55):
Fast.

Speaker 26 (43:22):
Chad Tyson turns your car into a sonic playground at
every weekday afternoon He's got a reloaded cut from the
DVE Morning Show Sports and a workforce commercial free rock
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Speaker 19 (43:39):
Hey friends, it's abby and think about the last time
you actually had your carpets cleaned because vacuuming.

Speaker 5 (43:46):
Oh Edward, do.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
Live to take hi top that big hill on the
Bridgeville exit at the.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
iHeart Radio Studios.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Here with the DV morning shows Pittsburgh Power, Wild Childs
and please welcome to the stage our third and final
performer Tonight finalist for the second time he has submitted
the last three years he has lost the first two.
Will the third time be the charm for Frank Montleone,

(44:13):
Ladies and gentlemen. Frank, how are you, buddy? I gotta
I gotta tell you. I admire your pluck, your stick, touitiveness.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Anything else better to do? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (44:27):
I mean you just keep going for it, and you
came up with another gem this year and made the finals.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Were you surprised you made the finals? I was, yeah,
did you? Because your songs will to be honestly like,
you're like, you're you're a.

Speaker 4 (44:40):
Little mean towards Dve, like because you kind of feel
like you deserved it already and we haven't.

Speaker 12 (44:46):
Given it to you.

Speaker 32 (44:47):
Well, it came off poorly.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
No, No, I mean, look, you made the finals. It
was good enough to make the finals. Let's uh I
want to Yeah, Okay, we'll bleep it if you want.
Ok Yeah, I'm in trouble now.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
I mean, don't do it all the time, Jake, You'll
be bleeping, you know, bleeping like NonStop.

Speaker 9 (45:07):
I'm not going to do it at all because I
have more class than that. Oh you don't, Okay, Tad,
What have you got for Frank?

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Frank?

Speaker 17 (45:19):
I just want to say I have tremendous respect for you,
especially given that you look like the Unibomber's nephew.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
You very much.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
Talk about the I know, sometimes you need to make
a song. You have to, you have to make tough cuts.

Speaker 17 (45:32):
So talk about the creative decision to cut the verse
where you just read Randy's address and license plate over
and over.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Because that must have been hard.

Speaker 32 (45:41):
Well, I ran it past legal, okay, and they said
it was a bad idea.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Okay, smart Yeah, Abby, Frank.

Speaker 19 (45:50):
This song being your third submission into the contest, it's
by far your most haunting, dark submission, finally tapping into
your anger as an artist. But my question is how
mad at us are you? And is it mostly aimed
at Randy?

Speaker 12 (46:06):
Well, you know what.

Speaker 32 (46:08):
So after the first time I lost to the Parkway song, Yeah,
I had some PTSD that was get violently ill going
on the Parkway.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Luckily I lived north of the city.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
So yeah, that was Mike Bruno's song, take a chance
on the Parkway. You can get us in Carnegie. My
GPS said maybe.

Speaker 32 (46:24):
And then last year was the Tomlinism song and then
he ended up leaving. So I started spiraling downhill, fell
in with a pack of Furris.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
It was nuts.

Speaker 32 (46:33):
And I hit rock bottom. I standing in John Eagle
and I had a bottle of hunts ketchup. I was
about to buy it, and I thought about Randy. I
thought about the Kabucky Brothers. Yeah, you know, and I said,
you know what, I can be the Pittsburgh power BALLOK
Ballad King, I said, let me give you this thing.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
A shot, and he helped pull me out of it.
Oh there you go. See I was an inspiration. Yeah,
I'm not going to win the comedy contest. I can
tell you that. Thanks Mary f that was necessary, Mike.
You know, I'm impressed with the relentlessness. I really am.

Speaker 21 (47:05):
And I was gonna ask you if you had to
take your driver's test like seven or eight times, or
if there was a woman that you have been asking
out for fifteen years and has never given you the
time of day, or if you still buy lottery tickets.
But when Tad mentioned the unibomber thing, I got to
ask you if your buddy's the guy here with the
Michigan leg tattoo, because you know where the unibomber went

(47:26):
to school.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Don't you go, miss That's right, I went to Penn State.
Oh or shit? Yeah, thanks Glad. You can make this
about Michigan, Mike, that was was waiting.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
Well, you know what, He's already been featured once before,
but the continuation of Frank Montleones behind the music in
its entirety. He'll be on DV dot com for you
to check out later on today, but here's a little.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Preview for you.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
Welcome back to Behind the Music with Frank Montleone, the
two time loser. Frank's well documented foray into Pittsburgh power
ballad songwriting began with his celebrated song Beth Not That
One and Every Breath You Take style song about stalking
the star of Kennywood Memories Beth's Nodgrass. His agent, Frankie

(48:18):
Bumps Pompinsano, remembers what a.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
Joke that was.

Speaker 17 (48:22):
He lost out to that douche slap who sang a
song about getting off in Grnegy.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Big deal?

Speaker 17 (48:27):
What's so special about getting off in Garnegy? There's a
Robin tug on every corner of main Street. Everybody's getting
off in Kananaghy.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
He was robbed.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
Having come so close to power ballad glory, Frank tried
again in twenty twenty five with his second submission, Don't Blink,
a clever ode to Steelers coach Mike Tomlin's most famous Tomlinisms.
This time, he failed to even make the finals, where
eventual winner would be Noah Goyse's Kenny pick A tribute
steal My QB one.

Speaker 17 (48:58):
Oh DV really screwed him on that one. His song
Don't Blink was the best of the lot. He just
picked the wrong tomlinism as the title. He should have
named it Paint the Bard Red. Don't Blink sounds like
a love song from an optometrist, but it was poetry.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
He was rob Now a two time loser, Frank consulted
the only person who he really trusted, the court mandated
psychiatrist from his conviction on two counts of stalking Beth's
nodgrass doctor Kathleen Fagnelli.

Speaker 33 (49:26):
So I encouraged him to use his obsessive compulsions and
channel them into a song about his obsessions, specifically the
obsession with winning the DVE power Ballad contest, and that
maybe he could even win the grand prize, which would
in turn allow him to get me VIP backstage tickets
from Motley Crue and Tesla. Because, at the risk of

(49:49):
revealing too much, in nineteen eighty seven, I got throat
Wartz from Frankie Hannon backstage at Icy Light Amphitheater, and
there's a few things I'd like her.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
So so Frank dug into the death of his soul
and emerged from his home studio with his creepiest entry yet,
The Ballad of a Pittsburgh Power Balladier. A minor key
tinged ranting from a madman at the end of his rope, desperate, unhinged,
and haunting.

Speaker 12 (50:19):
This is a ballad?

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Are you kidding me? Frank cracked into rarefied air. Here
he went from going fatal attraction on.

Speaker 17 (50:33):
Some Kennywood broad to go in full private pile on
an entire radio station.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
And what's he up against? Another song about a quarterback?

Speaker 17 (50:41):
And uh hey, remember when our town was full of
cheesy crap that made us all look like rubes.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Oh that's a fun song, I tell you. He was robbed.
The contest hasn't even happened yet, but then, mark my words,
he's gonna get robbed. When we come back.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
On Behind the Music, Frank's court appointed therapist reconsiders her
diet diagnosis.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Upon reflection, Actually it might have been just peace, not
Frankie Hannon. Which one has an appendix? Scar that's all
next on Behind the Music. Yeah, there you go, Frank monleyone.
You can see that all tonight on DV dot com.

Speaker 4 (51:14):
When we come back is a performance of the Ballad
of the Pittsburgh Power Ballad Here that's coming up next
year on the DV morning shows Pittsburgh Power Boweled Challenge.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Bonus. That's bonus. Enter it now at DVE dot Com.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
W dv E Pittsburgh and iHeartRadio Station Guaranteed Human.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
All right, we're back.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
You are alive to take the last contestant in our
Pittsburgh Power Bowad Challenge. It is three time entrant, two
time finalists Frank Montleone here to sing the ballad of
the Pittsburgh power Ballad Here.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Frank, are you ready? Yes, ready as all everyth It
took a while for you to say so. So I'm glad,
I asked. I'm not taking nap. Let's hear it for Frank.
Give my nice round of pause.

Speaker 12 (52:22):
Hit it.

Speaker 8 (52:38):
Yeah, Oh you should.

Speaker 6 (52:49):
I sing about the word put in a.

Speaker 8 (52:53):
Mind many.

Speaker 11 (53:04):
To mention his birthday, Mama, the power of my coched
mo my near p kill.

Speaker 5 (53:24):
The mon.

Speaker 14 (53:30):
Bible ballet case, my my mother just want my.

Speaker 6 (53:41):
Let's see this thing, try to.

Speaker 8 (53:46):
Exclame song.

Speaker 15 (53:48):
I rops ballet.

Speaker 25 (53:58):
Balling for about the time that rhydl Simon lost its
mind and Steve the walking he the pro.

Speaker 6 (54:22):
She has myne even single though. If I write a
south this boot.

Speaker 12 (54:39):
Right and kiss your rest.

Speaker 14 (54:46):
I'm a water jeple bing.

Speaker 6 (54:54):
Chi were tracing my s.

Speaker 12 (55:02):
Bad.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Yeah, let's hear it for prying Kad. What did you think?
What do you think?

Speaker 17 (55:29):
Tremendous? Another one that I think was the live performance
is better than recording. It's a nice job, Abby. What's
your take?

Speaker 19 (55:36):
I just wanted to point out to the listening audience
that whenever he was making lines about kissing our ass,
he was pointing at us.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
And I still have the.

Speaker 19 (55:42):
Yardstick in my car to make sure he stays way
far away from me.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Mike, I think it was tremendous.

Speaker 21 (55:48):
I'm glad I'm not judging because I think all three
of these were tremendous.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
You got to get full marks for the title.

Speaker 21 (55:54):
It's the best title, and you are the Pittsburgh power
Balladeer plural because you're a repeat offender.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
Man.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
All right, let's go to our judges, our panel of
judges from Jeane the Werewolf vocalist John Bellen, John, what
did you think?

Speaker 7 (56:09):
I think that you probably get a lot of points
for actually being the guy on the ballad this time.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
The other guys, what would we have they weren't them.
You're not supposed to say that. Man, ah, okay, start over,
to start over starting. I thought it was wonderful.

Speaker 4 (56:26):
No, all right, let's go to our All right, let's
go to our panel of judges. John Bellin from Gene
the Werewolf.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
I thought it was really good. I like the arrangement.

Speaker 7 (56:33):
I thought it was like kind of you could tell
that you were scorned over the past two times, and
it was like kind of like a it sounds like
he sat in the dark and cried a little bit
and be like, you know what, this is going to
be the one. I think that I think that it
was really good. I think that you really are showing
that you really really want to sing in a side
pop up tent next to Motley Crue.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 10 (56:56):
Rep Beach, the one and only Rep Beach a legend. Well, yes,
thank you, Randy Rebel. That's what David covered called rebel dotting.
But no, I first thing that caught me was I've
only known one other singer in my lifetime who wears

(57:17):
work boots, and that's John Bellen, the guy sitting in
my right, you know, and that's his kind of look,
you know, So so there's some points for that, you know,
because I always thought that was cool. I like how
you said one O two point five d V and
the song. I thought that was really smart, especially you
were looking at them with a big smile.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
You know.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
It was sad though. It was kind of a sad song.

Speaker 10 (57:42):
Yeah, I guess a ballad of rock power ballads supposed
to be sad, you know, but you.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
See, either way, there's sad ones, there's happy ones.

Speaker 10 (57:53):
Yeah, definitely wasn't uplifting, but you seemed kind of sad.
And now I'm sad, but it's like you.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Did a good job.

Speaker 4 (58:01):
That's what art is supposed to do. Move you Mark
where you moved Mark Madden from one nine?

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Ye? Well yeah, but not in the way you think.

Speaker 9 (58:12):
To go back to what John Bellen said, I kind
of wish I was in a dark place crying a
little right now. Frank, you told us we should trust
You told us you did a song about the process
and then showed why we just shouldn't trust the process.
I mean Kenny Pickett, the Kenny Pickett song went last year.

(58:34):
I think that's good because that'll be Kenny's last win ever.
But but Frank, I gotta tell you if I can
sing again, rap, should I sing again?

Speaker 2 (58:42):
Well, you'll be better than him. I'll tell you it
was really out of tune. This could be the last time.
This could be the last time, for sure, the last time.

Speaker 4 (58:56):
I do know. All right, Well, rough score for the judges.
There for you, Frank, Sorry to do this, you know,
hopefully a miracle will happen for you.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
You never know.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
Let's hear for Frank leone another great entry stick around.
When we come back, the judges will tally their scores
and will announce the winner and hear the winning song
performed one more time as we crown this year's Pittsburgh
Power Ballad Challenge winner.

Speaker 34 (59:24):
Next on DVD, Tell.

Speaker 12 (59:40):
Seconds says is the.

Speaker 26 (59:54):
This is Randy Bellman and the DV Morning Show and
we're back.

Speaker 12 (01:00:00):
Morning Show.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
Pittsburgh power Ballot Challenge and it's time to reveal the
winner of this year's Pittsburgh power Ballot Challenge. But first,
Tad Whistle, I want to ask you, Tad, your thoughts
on our three contestants and their performances tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Man.

Speaker 17 (01:00:17):
I know that we had talked to Mark in a
meeting before this, and he's like, Man, I really hope
somebody sucks, and I don't think that happened today unfortunately
for all.

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
Sure, I thought they were all very good. Yes, I
think no one sucked. There you go, and that's my
seal of approval, not one suck.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Wow. Yes, Abby, we.

Speaker 12 (01:00:40):
Had it all today.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
We had nostalgia, we had Steelers, and we had stalking.

Speaker 19 (01:00:45):
So I don't know what else we could want for
a power ballot challenge. But everybody did an excellent job,
and all of the vocals I thought came across very
well live, and you all submitted great recordings too, so
that says something.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
So congratulations Mike Persuda. I grew with Ted.

Speaker 21 (01:00:59):
I don't think anybody sucked, and I think it's got
to be hard to sing these songs.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
You're you're counting on harmony and accompaniment and a.

Speaker 21 (01:01:06):
Whole lot of other stuff, and these guys are out
here just by themselves. I thought everybody did a fantastic job.
Thanks to all you guys.

Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
Yeah, our panel of judge is John Ballin from Gene
the Werewolf. You have a brand new single out tell
us about what Gene the Werewolf's got going on.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
We just released a brand new single with a video.
It's called never giving Up. We have Frank Montleone take
that never giving Up. I never thought about that.

Speaker 7 (01:01:30):
Yeah, got lots of shows coming up this summer, including
one with the Clarks at Faye County Fair on August first.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
So yeah, good stuff, good deal. And what did you
think of your first Pittsburgh Power Bowel Challenge? I was
honored to be here.

Speaker 7 (01:01:46):
I think that's just only a proof that Pittsburgh has
some great talent, no matter what the subject.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
And I commend all of you. It was great.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
And also I want to thank and say that we
never take for granted how awesome it is that Reb
Beach is willing to do this with us every year.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Please give a nice time to pass the Red Beach.
Thank you guys.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
He is overqualified beyond belief. And it's very sweet of
you to come here and have fun and give and
actually I think a lot of times you give some
very instructive feedback to people like you shouldn't sing anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
Well, now I feel bad.

Speaker 10 (01:02:20):
It was Mark was saying, Reb you gotta like, you know,
come on, you be a little bit have some You
did you did?

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Come on right?

Speaker 10 (01:02:28):
You even come in You're like, oh, that's it, right?
Can you tell him I did come out? You just
sang a little bit out of tune, that's all. Like
this is group you tell him, reb reb What do
you got going on this summer? What's going on? I'm
actually doing a gig with John Bellen at South Park
September third. Their concert series they do, they're outdoors, bring

(01:02:49):
the family, you know, fourth this September fourth. Sorry, rehearsal
is September third, Friday, and I got the bass player
from Dawkin is going to be playing no way, just
doing all eighties hits. It's just gonna be the biggest
hits of the eighties out of.

Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
South Park, out in South So for the Friday night
of Memorial Day weekend, that's correct, probably or Labor Day weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
That's what I meant too. Yes, Red Beach.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear for the one on the
Red Beats and finally special thanks to Mark Madden.

Speaker 9 (01:03:17):
Mark Well, if I made any of the contestants feel bad,
I apologize. I was bullied as a child, and that's
always a convenient excuse to use. And I'm working through
some things. Do I miss Whitesnake me too? Pal, but
for very different reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
And I missed. I missed DC, my hero. You just
show me a.

Speaker 9 (01:03:39):
Text decent I felt I felt left out.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
David covered all you mean.

Speaker 9 (01:03:43):
Yes, that's who d c PC to close friends like
well Reb and uh and uh we gotta get now
he's not gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Okay, that's it what I enjoy. I know it's harus Chisholm. No,
no it's not.

Speaker 9 (01:04:02):
And I'm mad that Tad stole my line about the
son of the Uni bomb or whatever it was.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
And no, no, you just got it first, you didn't
steal it. But no, this was great. I had a
great time, and thank you for having me. Thanks to
Mark Man. Let's hear from marky.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
Okay, here's how it wound down, And once again, thanks
to all three of you. Thanks so much to the
three finals in order who perform tonight, kJ Devlin, Kevin
Yurig and Frank Montleone and coming in in third place
tonight the Pittsburgh power Ballad deer ladies and gentlemen, Frank Montleone, rank,

(01:04:38):
thank you so much, thanks for entering once again.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
You are the Buffalo Bills. You can say you got
something to say on your way out. I'd rather be
a buffalo building Cleveland Brown.

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
There you go, all right, oh yeah, okay, and now
it's down to brass tacks.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
I never understood what that man. I guess that's under
the carpet or something. I at any rate, And now
the moment you've all been waiting for.

Speaker 4 (01:05:06):
The winner of this year's Pittsburgh Power Ballad Challenge, Ladies
and gentlemen, kJ Devlin where things used to be, Kevin
Muricks runner up. We have some lovely partying gifts for you. Kevin,
thank you so much. Appreciate you owned to Big Ben

(01:05:28):
second place and kJ is our winner this year. His
band Marsupial Mayhem, also a former entrance PAROCHI of Love
in the year two thousand, the very first Pittsburgh Power
Ballot Challenge we ever had. And you are the winner
of this year's Pittsburgh Power Bawl Challenge. In Abby that
means he gets to do some pretty cool stuff.

Speaker 19 (01:05:49):
You got the Grand Pride live performance of your song
at West Banco Premium Club located at the Pavilionettes Starlink
that will be before Motley Crue on July seventeenth. You
get VIP Park Lounge access for your family and friends.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
And of course you're hooked up with tickets to the show.

Speaker 19 (01:06:04):
It's also going to get a five hundred dollars visa
gift card courtesy of bet Park's Online Casino in Sportsbook,
which we had amazing sponsors this year, which included bet
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Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
All right, thanks to all of our sponsors and Size
here hanging out with us here tonight too. So here
you go if you can't make it out to the
Post Gazette pavilion to see him.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
What's it called?

Speaker 9 (01:06:30):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
Start right? Sorry? I don't know post.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
Hey, that fits with your song man? Yeah good, I
was doing thematic consistency, folks. Here he is performing his
grand prize winning Pittsburgh power ballad. It's kJ Devlin where
things used to be. Let's hear it for the wearer.

Speaker 6 (01:06:53):
Hurt, where us.

Speaker 24 (01:07:02):
City passed home, the Pisa hunts We turned into her
and see we had Max anormous burger marquee a hunted
downtown and the eating ice cream from the helmet and
the ground.

Speaker 31 (01:07:22):
Row not taking it back to Easius DVD, Shine and
Rid It's a green tree, How long ago?

Speaker 12 (01:07:39):
Back to.

Speaker 8 (01:07:42):
City.

Speaker 6 (01:07:43):
We could go back and we could go back to when.

Speaker 5 (01:07:52):
You wish.

Speaker 6 (01:07:53):
We could return to the wheel.

Speaker 24 (01:07:56):
We meet me under the cons of stars, Colls and
Cannywood signs. When did un for the child in a
Westview Park whereby right this sty.

Speaker 8 (01:08:20):
I'm taking a back too.

Speaker 24 (01:08:22):
Bad, syd don't he's BADCALLI.

Speaker 6 (01:08:33):
I want to go back to.

Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
Story.

Speaker 6 (01:08:39):
We could go back and go back to Man.

Speaker 12 (01:08:46):
The night whole col was forced the.

Speaker 6 (01:08:49):
Clove captain down at three red.

Speaker 12 (01:08:54):
And see said the thumb.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah, b oh shred.

Speaker 12 (01:09:11):
May win.

Speaker 6 (01:09:13):
The Man Outsider read, I'm gonna do missing. We go back,
go back.

Speaker 13 (01:09:29):
Listen, let's hear it for kJ Devin, the winner of
this year's Pittsburgh Power By Challenge.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
One A two point man. The people from Pittsburgh winn.

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Speaker 4 (01:10:17):
All right, we are back on top of that big
hill on the Bridgeville exit, the iHeartRadio Studios, the DV
Morning Shows. Pittsburgh Power Ballot Challenge comes to an end,
and I want to thank all three of our contestants.
Frank Montleone, Yes, all right, Kevin Yurig, Let's hear it
for Kevin, and this year's winner, kJ Devlin, Let's.

Speaker 5 (01:10:41):
Hear it for Abby.

Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
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Speaker 19 (01:10:49):
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Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
All right side? Do you want to get up and
sing anything?

Speaker 4 (01:11:05):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Okay, Mark Madden. I want to thank all of our judges.
Mark Madden from one oh five nine The X Mark,
Thank you you are the best. John Bellen from Jeane
the Werewolf John once again.

Speaker 7 (01:11:20):
The new song it's called Never Giving Up. It's out everywhere,
streaming everywhere now right on.

Speaker 4 (01:11:26):
And of course the Legend the Absolute Shredder from White
Snake to Winger to Bridgeville.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
Tonight, Ladies and gentlemen, Pittsburgh z Owe rev pea, thank
you guys. Great to be here once again.

Speaker 4 (01:11:45):
Reb You're gonna be playing with John Bellen on vocals
September fourth.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
And it's great. The great band, set list, great everyday,
white Snake, doc and winger you name it pretty much. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:11:59):
Well and free that is a free show is part
of the Alleghany County Summer Concert Series.

Speaker 10 (01:12:03):
Absolutely, and it's gonna be a beautiful day. I've already
seen the weind Okay, well, then that's great. We'll all
plan to do that. Uh, Frank, I'll start with you.
Any lessons learned this year? This is your third time.
You made it to the finals two out of the
three tries, and you have now lost three times. I
gotta get somebody else to sing, Okay, that is you're
the song yes exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
I'm a songwriter. You're a songwriter, yes, a terrible singer,
but a great songwriter. You're half right, so that's something.

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
Kevin, Kevin Urig the ode to Big Ben.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
Kevin, what's your takeaway from tonight's performance?

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
I had a blast. It is good to be here.
I want to shout out to my band Nine Sundays.
When when's ninth Sundays playing again? Oh jeez, that's a
good question. Sunday, September. Every night Sunday we play looking
for some gigs every Sunday? Are your jurglesky? Okay? Awesome?
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
Make sure you check out nine Sundays and of course
our winner ladies and gentlemen, kJ dad like with the band,
uh may Marsupial Mayhem?

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
What is the meaning of that name?

Speaker 18 (01:13:12):
That was just two random words thrown out? I think
when we were in eighth grade and you you hung
onto it.

Speaker 17 (01:13:19):
Thanks for being honest about it. We don't need to
inscribe a big Yeah, it was cat youer.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
Than their original name, throwing monkeys at each other. Thanks
for that, Mike, you know, reb he took your advice
and put the shirt on.

Speaker 6 (01:13:38):
That's what I was saying.

Speaker 34 (01:13:39):
It looks way better.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
You know, you got a new look man. Yeah, it
looks looks great. You got a grunge thing. Thank you.
There you go? All right?

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
Is Marsupial Mayhem Blue doing any gigs or are you
just a recording outfit as of now?

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
You know, I suppose we'll see what happens in the future. Okay.
And and if people want to book you, where should
they go to the zoo?

Speaker 5 (01:13:56):
Or what.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
West take them to the zoo.

Speaker 18 (01:14:02):
This accreditation is going in and out these days, so
we don't we don't.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
We don't even know how to work with them.

Speaker 4 (01:14:07):
So all right, Well, are you nervous about performing in
front of the big crowd out there?

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
It's starlake in the VIP tent. I think I think
this was more nerve wrecking. This was more nerve wrecking,
thinks so yes, wait, yeah, you wait exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:14:21):
All right, Well, congratulations once again. Let's hear for all
three of our contestants to congratulations. Hey, take Devlin the
winner of this year's Pittsburgh power Ballot Challenge on behalf
of Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Persuda, Abby Christner and Tad Whistle.

Speaker 4 (01:14:34):
I'm Randy Bauman and this has been the dB Morning
Shoe Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
Power Ballad Challenge on one two point five. I'm finished.
You stay classy, Pittsburgh. Don't touch your face.

Speaker 6 (01:14:50):
Hey got him to Pittsburgh, O Day Berby.

Speaker 12 (01:14:52):
But now you guys call me Ronald?

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
Would you not eat my pants?

Speaker 34 (01:14:55):
Ronald?

Speaker 8 (01:14:55):
A normal?

Speaker 14 (01:14:59):
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Speaker 12 (01:15:17):
I'm gone to get drunk. I'm going to get late.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
I'm going to be late on Monday.

Speaker 12 (01:15:23):
See you're on like a donuts.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
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