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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, This is blas Night and welcome to the Taking
a Walk Podcast. Another look at this week in music
history for the week of July the fourteenth, and we
go right away over to the music history desk to
the one and only Harry Jacobs. Hello, Harry, Well.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's pleasure to be here. I am I am, I
don't I don't need to remind you. I am the
music mave and I am the king of the history Desk.
I am a number. I can't even remember all the
names you've given me, but i'm.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Something the purveyor of music history.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
There you go. Yeah, let's get off with a bang. Here.
July fourteenth through the twentieth is the week we're covering.
Nineteen sixty seven. On July fourteenth, to who began their
first major US tour. They opened for Herman's Hermits. They
did that in Portland, Oregon. And you know, I can't
explain was that the big track from which.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Album, Meaty, Beady, big in Bouncy.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Just giving you a chance, you know, a couple times
in the month of July to actually say those words
altogether in one sentence. Meati, beaty, big in Bouncy. But
that's where the who started their first tour of the
US with Herman's Hermits and a big day for them.
This is a surprising one. It's kind of fitting that
we go from the who who had a reputation. Keith
Moon had a reputation of trashing hotel rooms. Pete Townsend
(01:19):
had a reputation of smashing guitars. In nineteen seventy three,
probably before Pete Townsend ever smaster's first guitar, the Everly
Brothers split up during a performance at knots Berry Farm,
of all places, in California. Phil Everley got pissed, smashed
the guitar and walked off stage, and that led to
a breakup of that little duo for ten years. Did
(01:42):
you know if Phil Everly had it in him?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I didn't know, And it occurs to me. I wonder
if a special musician who was part of the Everly
Brothers touring band, who you encountered with some of his
let's just say, difficult tantrums and may he rest in peace,
(02:08):
I wonder if he was part of them at that moment.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Do you know who I'm speaking of? Are you talking
about Warren Zevon, Yes, Sir, Warren Zyvon was part of
the Everly Brothers.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I believe, so we can look it up as we're
speaking right now. He was I believe he was part
of the touring band.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Wow, isn't that interesting Warren Zevon. What Buzz is referring
to is that we did a show with Warren Zevon,
not to speak ill of the dead, no, an iconic figure,
for sure, iconic figure, But we did a show with
him at the Hatshell in Boston. And what was interesting
about Warren is that, you know, in nineteen whatever this was,
ninety four, ninety five, whatever year it was that we
(02:46):
did this show, Warren Zevon was juicing. At that time.
There weren't many people that we knew in the world
that were juicing fresh vegetables. And he came with his
own blender, wanted was very specific about what he wanted.
We went, you had to go to Whole Foods or
traders or whatever it was back in that day, get
him a whole bunch of vegetables. Yet he chained smoked
(03:09):
cigarettes from the time he showed up at the venue
for sound check at like ten o'clock in the morning
through the end of the show, Chain smoked like it
was his job. Would only eat vegetables and chain smoke cigarettes,
and he was a relentless paint of my ass. Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Zevon toured with the Everly Brothers for a couple of
years in the early seventies, serving as their keyboard player,
band leader, and musical coordinator.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You know, multi talented guy, played guitar. We saw him
play a lot of guitar when we did the show
with him, but also a keyboard player. I did not
know that he was part of the Everly Brothers. Good
information here on this Week in music history. Nineteen forty five.
July fourteenth was the day that Jim Gordon was born.
Who is Jim Gordon, you might ask. He was a
(03:55):
session drummer, a guy who was sought after, part of
like the Wrecking Crew in that group, was on Pet
Sounds with the Beach Boys and served as a as
a journeyman drummer for a lot of people. Was also
part of a famous band with Eric Clapton.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, Derek and the Domino's got writing credit on On
Laila And it's really one of the most tragic stories
in certainly any history, not just music history, because of his.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Voices that he heard through his through his life.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
In his head, he would he would kill his mother
and then would be in prison slash, you know, the
mental hospital for the rest of his life.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Died there.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
There's a tremendous book written by Joel Selvin. Joel was
on the podcast talking about the book about Jim Gordon,
and he goes into great detail about his career, his
his turbulence, his brilliance shines through in the book, and
also the darkness, you know, it's the wrong term, shines through,
(05:04):
but the darkness comes through.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I don't think there's anything wrong with the term darkness.
He Jim suffered from schizophrenia, and this was just at
a time where mental illness and mental health really wasn't
spoken about. What's interesting is he never spoke about it, right.
He's a guy who lived with the voices in his
head and worked, you know, was working with Eric Clapton,
(05:27):
was working with Brian Wilson, was working with so many
hundreds of other people in Los Angeles, and never spoke
about it. He just thought, this is my lot in life.
I'm going to hear these voices. And ultimately the voices,
you know, caused him to turn and he had a
break and as you mentioned, it ended tragically and then
you know he died in prison at seventy seven years old.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, it's a terrible story, but his musical legacy will
live on.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah. There are certain songs buzz that you you can
guess that song in one note. And on July fifteenth,
nineteen sixty five, one of those songs was released. It
was Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone. It starts with
that snare drum hit and then the band kicks in.
I got to feel like, if you were to play
that song, pull it up on your phone, I would
(06:17):
know it in one beat.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh yeah, it sounds good to this day, of course.
And when I think of that song, I think of
the great work of Massachusetts current current resident, the great
Al Cooper part of that, that whole arrangement there, and
(06:42):
you know, just a song that jumps out out of
the speakers to this day, certainly one of Bob's great moments.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
To Dylan fans and non Dylan fans. I watched the
movie the bio Pick or the biopic, however you want
to say it. I always get corrected. I always say
one of my one of the ways I pronounce it's
always wrong, So I'll give it both ways. But the movie,
the movie with Timothy Chlamy. I watched it with a
group of guys. Most of them weren't real Dylan fans,
(07:09):
but they were curious to see it. And when that
song comes on during the movie, everybody's tapping their feet.
I look around the room and immediately they knew what
it was, and you know, it's it's just a great, familiar, classic,
epic song. And it was a long song. It was
six minutes. Songs weren't six minutes a lot of them
in those days.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And when you're seeing Bob, you know, perform it live,
I don't care if it's now or in the past.
I don't care if it's one of Bob's great performances
or when Bob is off. When that line comes around,
how does it feel? Everybody would just, you know, hold
the hands up, and it's just it's wonderful, great sing along.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
In nineteen seventy eight, The Stones Some Girls reached number
one on the Billboard Top two hundred. You and I
have had this discussion about Some Girls, I say at
one point, and I guess I still stand by it.
I think it was the last great Stones album. They've
had some very good album since then. Boy, there are
ten songs on that album, maybe eight of them or
(08:11):
nine of them are songs you would put on a
playlist and have no problem listening to, and that to
me stands out as one of their great albums of
all time. Miss You Drove Me a little crazy at
the time, Beast a Burden because they sounded disco, but
it really was progressive.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
A great one, and so many of the songs still
stand up to this day.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Absolutely. In nineteen eighty nine, Tom Petty in a way
pulled to Bruce Springsteen where he kind of left the band.
He left the Heartbreakers behind for a minute recorded Full
Moon Fever, his first solo album, and he did a
great job. Free Falling came out of that. Think about
free Falling in the Tom Cruise Jerry Maguire movie where
(08:54):
he was driving. You know, he's in the car singing
free Falling at the top of his lungs. Running down
a Dream was on that iconic lick from Mike Campbell
at the beginning the open e string. But it's one
of my favorite licks to play on the guitar because
it's very simple, it's just one note all the way
down the neck of the guitar. It's simple, it's raucous,
(09:14):
it's fun running down the Dream and free falling on
full moved fever.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
And I dare say Running Down the Dream one of
the greatest driving songs of all time for sure as well.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Absolutely nineteen fifty six, on July fifteenth, Joe Satriani was born.
I never paid much attention to Joe over the years,
really never at all, and then I saw him with
Sammy Hagar a couple months ago here in Vegas, and
I was so over the top impressed with his playing,
(09:47):
running through those van Halen songs like he wrote him.
He's every bit as good as Eddie van Halen was.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
In my opinion, I think he's a guitar sabant, I
really do.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Oh you remember his song, by the way that got
some album rock airplay.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
The one I remember was called Satch's Boogie.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Now I don't remember that was that in mid the
nineties at some point check it out. Yeah, I will.
I'll definitely do that. July sixteenth. I'm not speaking of
songs with a drum beat, one note at the beginning
you can guess. Love and Spoonful released Summer in the City,
and that's one that had a beat at the beginning,
just one single drum beat, and then the song starts
(10:29):
a fantastic song, and that was just all about summertime
in the city.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, it sounds good.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It's you know, when the summer finally breaks, at least
back East, you know, when you go from spring right
into the summer.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's great to crank that one up. I love it.
That was one of those songs on the radio that
every summer we would pull it and bring it into
rotation on the radio station I was working at at
the time, Like you know, Memorial Day weekend, that song
got played and it stayed right through the weekends or
right through the summer.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I think I might go listen to it later.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I like it. I like the idea. Nineteen eighty three,
July sixteenth, the Police's Synchronicity hit number one on the
Billboard two hundred Every Breath You Take. I mean a
number of songs on that, but Every Breath You Take
was the big song on that. A lot of other
great songs walking in Your Footsteps Synchronicity on that as well.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I was a fan of the synchronicity that song in particular.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
A diverse group of songs. When you think about the
difference between every breath you take and synchronicity and then
walking in your footstep footsteps, those are songs that with
any other band would probably end up on three different
albums at different times in their musical career, and these
all ended up on the same album. It just showed
great diversity by the police music. Yeah agree. In nineteen
(11:46):
eighty one, Harry Chapin passed away on July sixteenth, known
famously for Cats in the Cradle, died in a car accident.
You know, I've got two Harry Chapin stories, If I may,
you may. One of the the first was the line
Harry keep the change from the song Taxi, where Harry
(12:07):
Chapin is the taxi driver and this passenger, Sue, was
an old girlfriend. He picks up this girlfriend and I
think in New York City and realizes midway through the
ride that his girlfriend, Sue is in the back of
the car. She says, how are you, Harry, How are
you Sue. The end of the ride, she gives him
(12:28):
twenty dollars for a two fifty fare and what does
she say.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
To him, Harry, keep the change.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I went to high school with a guy who used
to say to me, Harry, keep the change. I'd be
walking down the hallway and say, hey, Harry, keep the change.
I never knew what it meant. He had a car accident,
a fatal car accident during high school. It's tragic, and
a day or two after he passed away, for the
first time I heard that song. He would always say
it to me and I said, I don't know that song.
(12:56):
He would say, find it. It's Taxi by Harry Chapin.
Find it, and it found me a couple of days
after his death. That's sweet. Crazy. July seventeenth, nineteen sixty eight,
Yellow Submarine, the animated Beatles film, came out. Normally we
do a Beatles story, and I think this is epic.
That's epic. It's all great. I love the Beatles. I
(13:18):
did not love Yellow Submarine. Song was song was good,
but that animated film, the cartoon, I just I wasn't
digging it.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I think I just appreciated it.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
In the classic case of brand extension, they're like the
freaking Beatles, and then they're like, Okay, well, let's delve
into like, you know, animated films there. So I liked
it just for the you know, experimentation part. But you know,
as far as Beatle movies, oh, it would be my
third favorite.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yes, okay, your third favorite, right out of the three.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah. Nineteen seventy five, Ringos star, speaking of the Beatles,
divorced Maureene Cox. This apparently had to do with his
you know, this turbulent post Beatles period that he went through.
I think the Beatles breakup was was hard on everyone
except John, right is. I think John, arguably, John probably
(14:13):
drove it, and you know the rest of them I
think weren't done.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
My opinion, Yeah, I think maybe.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I look, I think when you're in the limelight and
then suddenly you're trying to figure out your next steps
like they were, that I think maybe there was some
of that insecurity. But I think also Ringo needed to
you know, make some changes in his life at that point,
and you know, bless him, he sure did to this.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Day of a Yeah, we have a I know a guy,
got a guy who knows a guy. His name is
Wayne Lebau, lives in framing him and he is a
basically a professional road manager. He works with Bruce Springsteen
primarily he I saw him when Sammy Hagar was here
not long ago. But the other guy he works with
every time he goes out as Ringo Star, and he
(15:02):
he can't say enough about what a gentleman and how
great it is to work for Ringo Star. I believe it.
I do believe it. Yeah, Ringo's just a happy dude,
and Wayne loves working for him. It's one of those
stories I enjoy hearing. I'll always say, when I see him,
tell me about Ringo, Tell me about Ringo and he
always smiles. So July eighteenth, nineteen seventy Floyd performed at
(15:24):
London's Hyde Park, joined by Roy Harper. And this was
an album at the time called Adam Heart Mother. Is
This Ring a Bell with You? I didn't know anything
about that album.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I barely did. I must say. I must say.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That the earliest of Floyd was kind of over my head,
for no better way of putting it. It was you know,
it was not mainstream. It was it was them, I think, certainly,
thinking back even to the Cid Barrett side of things,
you know, it was heavily influenced by a bunch of
(16:04):
I don't know accelerants maybe, but no, did not know
that album for sure, And I'm sure there's someone who
will debate us and.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Say, you idiot, I know that album, and I.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Say, bring it on, Sid Barrett. Speaking of mental health, yes,
you know issues. Boy, that poor guy was just torture.
I know, I know awful. Nineteen eighty, Billy Joel's Glasshouses
came out. It hit number one. You know, it was
out before obviously July eighteenth, but it hit the Billboard
(16:35):
Top two hundred on the eighteenth at number one. The
big song was still rock and roll to me, but
I loved you maybe right, I love sometimes a fantasy.
Those were songs that rocked. And I liked the album
cover right. Oh yeah, me too. I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
And I got the opportunity right before COVID to see
Billy at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston perform at
the walden Woods benefit. And it was it was so fantastic.
It was so wonderful, so much fun.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
You know every song right, He's one of those guys where,
no matter how you feel about him musically, like I
can hear just the way you are or she's always
a woman, the songs that were slower or you may
be right, or the songs that rock and go. Boy
his body of music and when you see it live,
it's something else. I know.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I want to see that.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
There's a new documentary coming out on HBO about Billy.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh, I'll be interested. You know a lot of these
are coming out. Have you, By the way, have you
seen the Springsteen trailer yet for Deliver Me from Nowhere
is the name? No, The trailer is amazing. It's a
dark movie about him, the making of Nebraska where he
was alone. You know, Bruce Point told a story I
(18:02):
think maybe during growing up in the early days when
he was playing live. He would say, and when I
was a kid, I had a hole in my floor
and it was supposed to be an event for gas
for heat, and he said it was just opened down
in my kitchen and my father would yell up to
my room and say, turn down to goddamn guitar. Well,
that story is in the trailer where John Landau is
(18:26):
explaining to someone listening when Bruce was a kid, he
had a hole in his floor, And what he's doing
with this album is he is he's a floor repair man.
He's fixing the hole in his floor. And I think
that's pretty you know, as a Bruce Big Bruce fan,
I just I found that very interesting to hear that
come up in the movie trailer because I knew this
was wow, that's wild. The nineteenth of July, rather in
(18:50):
nineteen sixty nine, Honky Tonk Woman was released that hit
number one in the US on the UK charts. Raucous
great another great drive, right, oh, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
And you know, I think that band, you know, is
going to have a little bit of a run in
music history.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
If you yeah, they are. If you have never seen
the Rolling Stones. It's expensive to do it now, but
if you've never seen the Rolling Stones, they've never sounded
better than they have now. This was a band that
sounded like hell in the seventies. Lost. Yeah, they figured.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Out how to kind of, you know, enhance the weak spots.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You know what it this was it's production value, and
they learned how to play together. Yeah right. They never
did that very well in the seventies, and around nineteen
eighty one eighty two, in that in that period of time,
they started to really sound good. And they still sound good,
you know, forty years later, as far as I'm concerned,
nineteen eighty seven, July nineteenth, Springsteen played at the Berlin
(19:52):
Wall basically is East Berlin and this was a monster show.
One hundred and sixty thousand people. I believe it's his
biggest crowd date at that point in eighty seven, either
the end of the USA tour or during the Tunnel
I think it was during the Tunnel of Love tour
because that started in January of eighty seven, now that
I think about it.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Must have been as a Ruckus event.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I'm sure. In The last event for the week is
July twentieth, nineteen sixty eight, Iron Butterflies in Agatta DaVita
was released. Seventeen minute song just unheard of, still unheard
of to this day. It's got seventeen minutes. You can hear,
you know, you know, eight pop songs right now in
seventeen minutes.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
A rough listen.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
But as you said one time when we were talking
about it, you can envision it in certain movie soundtracks,
you know, in the right moment, having a perfect you know,
placement there, just because it would it would it would fit.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
You know, there was a movie prior to the Silence
of the Lambs coming Out was the original Hannibal Lecter
movie and it had a couple of people of note.
Brian Cox, the actor who was in Succession, played Hannibal
Lecter in that movie. And I can't think it will
(21:16):
I can't remember his name, but he played grisom on CSI,
famous television actor. He played one of the doctors that
was looking at Hannibal Lecter. But during that movie, which
I think they did a really good job of sharing
that and telling that story, when one of the people
goes off the rails in that movie, there's all this
(21:39):
flashing light and darkness and in a God of DaVita
is playing in the background, and that to me is
like perfect serial killer crazy man. Lights are flash and
in a Godadavita comes out. It's just a complete breakout.
When that happens. I need to go into the fetal
position right now. It's creepy. Find it. I'll find before
(22:00):
we all text you about it. Anyway. That's the week
in Music History for the week ending July twentieth.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Well, thank you, Harry Jacobs.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
A head spinning week, I would say, and we love
going over weeks like that, these weeks in music history,
and thanks for checking it.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Out on the Taking a Walk podcast
Hi, This is blas Night and welcome to the Taking
a Walk Podcast. Another look at this week in music
history for the week of July the fourteenth, and we
go right away over to the music history desk to
the one and only Harry Jacobs. Hello, Harry, Well.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's pleasure to be here. I am I am, I
don't I don't need to remind you. I am the
music mave and I am the king of the history Desk.
I am a number. I can't even remember all the
names you've given me, but i'm.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Something the purveyor of music history.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
There you go. Yeah, let's get off with a bang. Here.
July fourteenth through the twentieth is the week we're covering.
Nineteen sixty seven. On July fourteenth, to who began their
first major US tour. They opened for Herman's Hermits. They
did that in Portland, Oregon. And you know, I can't
explain was that the big track from which.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Album, Meaty, Beady, big in Bouncy.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Just giving you a chance, you know, a couple times
in the month of July to actually say those words
altogether in one sentence. Meati, beaty, big in Bouncy. But
that's where the who started their first tour of the
US with Herman's Hermits and a big day for them.
This is a surprising one. It's kind of fitting that
we go from the who who had a reputation. Keith
Moon had a reputation of trashing hotel rooms. Pete Townsend
(01:19):
had a reputation of smashing guitars. In nineteen seventy three,
probably before Pete Townsend ever smaster's first guitar, the Everly
Brothers split up during a performance at knots Berry Farm,
of all places, in California. Phil Everley got pissed, smashed
the guitar and walked off stage, and that led to
a breakup of that little duo for ten years. Did
(01:42):
you know if Phil Everly had it in him?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I didn't know, And it occurs to me. I wonder
if a special musician who was part of the Everly
Brothers touring band, who you encountered with some of his
let's just say, difficult tantrums and may he rest in peace,
(02:08):
I wonder if he was part of them at that moment.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Do you know who I'm speaking of? Are you talking
about Warren Zevon, Yes, Sir, Warren Zyvon was part of
the Everly Brothers.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I believe, so we can look it up as we're
speaking right now. He was I believe he was part
of the touring band.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Wow, isn't that interesting Warren Zevon. What Buzz is referring
to is that we did a show with Warren Zevon,
not to speak ill of the dead, no, an iconic figure,
for sure, iconic figure, But we did a show with
him at the Hatshell in Boston. And what was interesting
about Warren is that, you know, in nineteen whatever this was,
ninety four, ninety five, whatever year it was that we
(02:46):
did this show, Warren Zevon was juicing. At that time.
There weren't many people that we knew in the world
that were juicing fresh vegetables. And he came with his
own blender, wanted was very specific about what he wanted.
We went, you had to go to Whole Foods or
traders or whatever it was back in that day, get
him a whole bunch of vegetables. Yet he chained smoked
(03:09):
cigarettes from the time he showed up at the venue
for sound check at like ten o'clock in the morning
through the end of the show, Chain smoked like it
was his job. Would only eat vegetables and chain smoke cigarettes,
and he was a relentless paint of my ass. Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Zevon toured with the Everly Brothers for a couple of
years in the early seventies, serving as their keyboard player,
band leader, and musical coordinator.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You know, multi talented guy, played guitar. We saw him
play a lot of guitar when we did the show
with him, but also a keyboard player. I did not
know that he was part of the Everly Brothers. Good
information here on this Week in music history. Nineteen forty five.
July fourteenth was the day that Jim Gordon was born.
Who is Jim Gordon, you might ask. He was a
(03:55):
session drummer, a guy who was sought after, part of
like the Wrecking Crew in that group, was on Pet
Sounds with the Beach Boys and served as a as
a journeyman drummer for a lot of people. Was also
part of a famous band with Eric Clapton.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, Derek and the Domino's got writing credit on On
Laila And it's really one of the most tragic stories
in certainly any history, not just music history, because of his.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Voices that he heard through his through his life.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
In his head, he would he would kill his mother
and then would be in prison slash, you know, the
mental hospital for the rest of his life.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Died there.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
There's a tremendous book written by Joel Selvin. Joel was
on the podcast talking about the book about Jim Gordon,
and he goes into great detail about his career, his
his turbulence, his brilliance shines through in the book, and
also the darkness, you know, it's the wrong term, shines through,
(05:04):
but the darkness comes through.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I don't think there's anything wrong with the term darkness.
He Jim suffered from schizophrenia, and this was just at
a time where mental illness and mental health really wasn't
spoken about. What's interesting is he never spoke about it, right.
He's a guy who lived with the voices in his
head and worked, you know, was working with Eric Clapton,
(05:27):
was working with Brian Wilson, was working with so many
hundreds of other people in Los Angeles, and never spoke
about it. He just thought, this is my lot in life.
I'm going to hear these voices. And ultimately the voices,
you know, caused him to turn and he had a
break and as you mentioned, it ended tragically and then
you know he died in prison at seventy seven years old.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, it's a terrible story, but his musical legacy will
live on.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah. There are certain songs buzz that you you can
guess that song in one note. And on July fifteenth,
nineteen sixty five, one of those songs was released. It
was Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone. It starts with
that snare drum hit and then the band kicks in.
I got to feel like, if you were to play
that song, pull it up on your phone, I would
(06:17):
know it in one beat.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh yeah, it sounds good to this day, of course.
And when I think of that song, I think of
the great work of Massachusetts current current resident, the great
Al Cooper part of that, that whole arrangement there, and
(06:42):
you know, just a song that jumps out out of
the speakers to this day, certainly one of Bob's great moments.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
To Dylan fans and non Dylan fans. I watched the
movie the bio Pick or the biopic, however you want
to say it. I always get corrected. I always say
one of my one of the ways I pronounce it's
always wrong, So I'll give it both ways. But the movie,
the movie with Timothy Chlamy. I watched it with a
group of guys. Most of them weren't real Dylan fans,
(07:09):
but they were curious to see it. And when that
song comes on during the movie, everybody's tapping their feet.
I look around the room and immediately they knew what
it was, and you know, it's it's just a great, familiar, classic,
epic song. And it was a long song. It was
six minutes. Songs weren't six minutes a lot of them
in those days.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And when you're seeing Bob, you know, perform it live,
I don't care if it's now or in the past.
I don't care if it's one of Bob's great performances
or when Bob is off. When that line comes around,
how does it feel? Everybody would just, you know, hold
the hands up, and it's just it's wonderful, great sing along.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
In nineteen seventy eight, The Stones Some Girls reached number
one on the Billboard Top two hundred. You and I
have had this discussion about Some Girls, I say at
one point, and I guess I still stand by it.
I think it was the last great Stones album. They've
had some very good album since then. Boy, there are
ten songs on that album, maybe eight of them or
(08:11):
nine of them are songs you would put on a
playlist and have no problem listening to, and that to
me stands out as one of their great albums of
all time. Miss You Drove Me a little crazy at
the time, Beast a Burden because they sounded disco, but
it really was progressive.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
A great one, and so many of the songs still
stand up to this day.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Absolutely. In nineteen eighty nine, Tom Petty in a way
pulled to Bruce Springsteen where he kind of left the band.
He left the Heartbreakers behind for a minute recorded Full
Moon Fever, his first solo album, and he did a
great job. Free Falling came out of that. Think about
free Falling in the Tom Cruise Jerry Maguire movie where
(08:54):
he was driving. You know, he's in the car singing
free Falling at the top of his lungs. Running down
a Dream was on that iconic lick from Mike Campbell
at the beginning the open e string. But it's one
of my favorite licks to play on the guitar because
it's very simple, it's just one note all the way
down the neck of the guitar. It's simple, it's raucous,
(09:14):
it's fun running down the Dream and free falling on
full moved fever.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
And I dare say Running Down the Dream one of
the greatest driving songs of all time for sure as well.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Absolutely nineteen fifty six, on July fifteenth, Joe Satriani was born.
I never paid much attention to Joe over the years,
really never at all, and then I saw him with
Sammy Hagar a couple months ago here in Vegas, and
I was so over the top impressed with his playing,
(09:47):
running through those van Halen songs like he wrote him.
He's every bit as good as Eddie van Halen was.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
In my opinion, I think he's a guitar sabant, I
really do.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Oh you remember his song, by the way that got
some album rock airplay.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
The one I remember was called Satch's Boogie.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Now I don't remember that was that in mid the
nineties at some point check it out. Yeah, I will.
I'll definitely do that. July sixteenth. I'm not speaking of
songs with a drum beat, one note at the beginning
you can guess. Love and Spoonful released Summer in the City,
and that's one that had a beat at the beginning,
just one single drum beat, and then the song starts
(10:29):
a fantastic song, and that was just all about summertime
in the city.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, it sounds good.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It's you know, when the summer finally breaks, at least
back East, you know, when you go from spring right
into the summer.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's great to crank that one up. I love it.
That was one of those songs on the radio that
every summer we would pull it and bring it into
rotation on the radio station I was working at at
the time, Like you know, Memorial Day weekend, that song
got played and it stayed right through the weekends or
right through the summer.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I think I might go listen to it later.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I like it. I like the idea. Nineteen eighty three,
July sixteenth, the Police's Synchronicity hit number one on the
Billboard two hundred Every Breath You Take. I mean a
number of songs on that, but Every Breath You Take
was the big song on that. A lot of other
great songs walking in Your Footsteps Synchronicity on that as well.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I was a fan of the synchronicity that song in particular.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
A diverse group of songs. When you think about the
difference between every breath you take and synchronicity and then
walking in your footstep footsteps, those are songs that with
any other band would probably end up on three different
albums at different times in their musical career, and these
all ended up on the same album. It just showed
great diversity by the police music. Yeah agree. In nineteen
(11:46):
eighty one, Harry Chapin passed away on July sixteenth, known
famously for Cats in the Cradle, died in a car accident.
You know, I've got two Harry Chapin stories, If I may,
you may. One of the the first was the line
Harry keep the change from the song Taxi, where Harry
(12:07):
Chapin is the taxi driver and this passenger, Sue, was
an old girlfriend. He picks up this girlfriend and I
think in New York City and realizes midway through the
ride that his girlfriend, Sue is in the back of
the car. She says, how are you, Harry, How are
you Sue. The end of the ride, she gives him
(12:28):
twenty dollars for a two fifty fare and what does
she say.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
To him, Harry, keep the change.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I went to high school with a guy who used
to say to me, Harry, keep the change. I'd be
walking down the hallway and say, hey, Harry, keep the change.
I never knew what it meant. He had a car accident,
a fatal car accident during high school. It's tragic, and
a day or two after he passed away, for the
first time I heard that song. He would always say
it to me and I said, I don't know that song.
(12:56):
He would say, find it. It's Taxi by Harry Chapin.
Find it, and it found me a couple of days
after his death. That's sweet. Crazy. July seventeenth, nineteen sixty eight,
Yellow Submarine, the animated Beatles film, came out. Normally we
do a Beatles story, and I think this is epic.
That's epic. It's all great. I love the Beatles. I
(13:18):
did not love Yellow Submarine. Song was song was good,
but that animated film, the cartoon, I just I wasn't
digging it.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I think I just appreciated it.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
In the classic case of brand extension, they're like the
freaking Beatles, and then they're like, Okay, well, let's delve
into like, you know, animated films there. So I liked
it just for the you know, experimentation part. But you know,
as far as Beatle movies, oh, it would be my
third favorite.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yes, okay, your third favorite, right out of the three.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah. Nineteen seventy five, Ringos star, speaking of the Beatles,
divorced Maureene Cox. This apparently had to do with his
you know, this turbulent post Beatles period that he went through.
I think the Beatles breakup was was hard on everyone
except John, right is. I think John, arguably, John probably
(14:13):
drove it, and you know the rest of them I
think weren't done.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
My opinion, Yeah, I think maybe.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I look, I think when you're in the limelight and
then suddenly you're trying to figure out your next steps
like they were, that I think maybe there was some
of that insecurity. But I think also Ringo needed to
you know, make some changes in his life at that point,
and you know, bless him, he sure did to this.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Day of a Yeah, we have a I know a guy,
got a guy who knows a guy. His name is
Wayne Lebau, lives in framing him and he is a
basically a professional road manager. He works with Bruce Springsteen
primarily he I saw him when Sammy Hagar was here
not long ago. But the other guy he works with
every time he goes out as Ringo Star, and he
(15:02):
he can't say enough about what a gentleman and how
great it is to work for Ringo Star. I believe it.
I do believe it. Yeah, Ringo's just a happy dude,
and Wayne loves working for him. It's one of those
stories I enjoy hearing. I'll always say, when I see him,
tell me about Ringo, Tell me about Ringo and he
always smiles. So July eighteenth, nineteen seventy Floyd performed at
(15:24):
London's Hyde Park, joined by Roy Harper. And this was
an album at the time called Adam Heart Mother. Is
This Ring a Bell with You? I didn't know anything
about that album.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I barely did. I must say. I must say.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That the earliest of Floyd was kind of over my head,
for no better way of putting it. It was you know,
it was not mainstream. It was it was them, I think, certainly,
thinking back even to the Cid Barrett side of things,
you know, it was heavily influenced by a bunch of
(16:04):
I don't know accelerants maybe, but no, did not know
that album for sure, And I'm sure there's someone who
will debate us and.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Say, you idiot, I know that album, and I.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Say, bring it on, Sid Barrett. Speaking of mental health, yes,
you know issues. Boy, that poor guy was just torture.
I know, I know awful. Nineteen eighty, Billy Joel's Glasshouses
came out. It hit number one. You know, it was
out before obviously July eighteenth, but it hit the Billboard
(16:35):
Top two hundred on the eighteenth at number one. The
big song was still rock and roll to me, but
I loved you maybe right, I love sometimes a fantasy.
Those were songs that rocked. And I liked the album
cover right. Oh yeah, me too. I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
And I got the opportunity right before COVID to see
Billy at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston perform at
the walden Woods benefit. And it was it was so fantastic.
It was so wonderful, so much fun.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
You know every song right, He's one of those guys where,
no matter how you feel about him musically, like I
can hear just the way you are or she's always
a woman, the songs that were slower or you may
be right, or the songs that rock and go. Boy
his body of music and when you see it live,
it's something else. I know.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I want to see that.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
There's a new documentary coming out on HBO about Billy.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh, I'll be interested. You know a lot of these
are coming out. Have you, By the way, have you
seen the Springsteen trailer yet for Deliver Me from Nowhere
is the name? No, The trailer is amazing. It's a
dark movie about him, the making of Nebraska where he
was alone. You know, Bruce Point told a story I
(18:02):
think maybe during growing up in the early days when
he was playing live. He would say, and when I
was a kid, I had a hole in my floor
and it was supposed to be an event for gas
for heat, and he said it was just opened down
in my kitchen and my father would yell up to
my room and say, turn down to goddamn guitar. Well,
that story is in the trailer where John Landau is
(18:26):
explaining to someone listening when Bruce was a kid, he
had a hole in his floor, And what he's doing
with this album is he is he's a floor repair man.
He's fixing the hole in his floor. And I think
that's pretty you know, as a Bruce Big Bruce fan,
I just I found that very interesting to hear that
come up in the movie trailer because I knew this
was wow, that's wild. The nineteenth of July, rather in
(18:50):
nineteen sixty nine, Honky Tonk Woman was released that hit
number one in the US on the UK charts. Raucous
great another great drive, right, oh, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
And you know, I think that band, you know, is
going to have a little bit of a run in
music history.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
If you yeah, they are. If you have never seen
the Rolling Stones. It's expensive to do it now, but
if you've never seen the Rolling Stones, they've never sounded
better than they have now. This was a band that
sounded like hell in the seventies. Lost. Yeah, they figured.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Out how to kind of, you know, enhance the weak spots.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You know what it this was it's production value, and
they learned how to play together. Yeah right. They never
did that very well in the seventies, and around nineteen
eighty one eighty two, in that in that period of time,
they started to really sound good. And they still sound good,
you know, forty years later, as far as I'm concerned,
nineteen eighty seven, July nineteenth, Springsteen played at the Berlin
(19:52):
Wall basically is East Berlin and this was a monster show.
One hundred and sixty thousand people. I believe it's his
biggest crowd date at that point in eighty seven, either
the end of the USA tour or during the Tunnel
I think it was during the Tunnel of Love tour
because that started in January of eighty seven, now that
I think about it.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Must have been as a Ruckus event.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I'm sure. In The last event for the week is
July twentieth, nineteen sixty eight, Iron Butterflies in Agatta DaVita
was released. Seventeen minute song just unheard of, still unheard
of to this day. It's got seventeen minutes. You can hear,
you know, you know, eight pop songs right now in
seventeen minutes.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
A rough listen.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
But as you said one time when we were talking
about it, you can envision it in certain movie soundtracks,
you know, in the right moment, having a perfect you know,
placement there, just because it would it would it would fit.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
You know, there was a movie prior to the Silence
of the Lambs coming Out was the original Hannibal Lecter
movie and it had a couple of people of note.
Brian Cox, the actor who was in Succession, played Hannibal
Lecter in that movie. And I can't think it will
(21:16):
I can't remember his name, but he played grisom on CSI,
famous television actor. He played one of the doctors that
was looking at Hannibal Lecter. But during that movie, which
I think they did a really good job of sharing
that and telling that story, when one of the people
goes off the rails in that movie, there's all this
(21:39):
flashing light and darkness and in a God of DaVita
is playing in the background, and that to me is
like perfect serial killer crazy man. Lights are flash and
in a Godadavita comes out. It's just a complete breakout.
When that happens. I need to go into the fetal
position right now. It's creepy. Find it. I'll find before
(22:00):
we all text you about it. Anyway. That's the week
in Music History for the week ending July twentieth.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Well, thank you, Harry Jacobs.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
A head spinning week, I would say, and we love
going over weeks like that, these weeks in music history,
and thanks for checking it.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
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