September 1, 2025 • 16 mins
Join @thebuzzknight and @theharryjacobs for another look at this week in music history. Our loyal listener and friend Justin of Cheese Shop fame often wonders if there is ever a week in music history that doesn't include The Beatles. We wonder the same thing.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I am Buzznight, the host of the Take on a
Walk podcast, and welcome to another edition of This Week
in Music History. This is for the week of September
one to the seventh. I turned to my left. Wait
a minute, no, I turned to my right. No oh,
I steer straight ahead. There he is at the music
history desk, Harry Jacobs.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, Harry, nice to see you again. It's like a
like a video. Hokey pokey. It is your left foot,
your left foot out. I don't think I hurt my
neck by doing that, thankfully. And one of our loyal
listeners to this, Justin of the infamous Cheese Shop and Conquered.
(00:47):
He said, maybe you can do a This Week in
Music History without something from the Beatles, But I don't
know if that's possible. But anyway, I think what you're
gonna do is you're gonna send me his address and
I'm gonna come out there when I come to Boston,
and Justin I chat and over a piece of cheese.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I think that would be good.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I actually think if I could talk him into being
a guest some time on it, it would be pretty amusing.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
But anyway, all right, all.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Right, let's rock and roll September one through the seventh,
nineteen fifty three. On September one, Buddy Holly and Bob
Montgomery auditioned for KDAV Radio, landing a slot as the
Bob and Buddy Show. Did you know that Buddy was
a jock? I didn't know that at all at all.
That's what we call for those of you that are
(01:33):
non radio people, that the jock was short for a
disc jockey, so we would call him jock, like it
was a jock that's doing this shift, that shift or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Buddy Holly was a jock. Had no clue. I did
not know that.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Also on September first, nineteen fifty five, Alan Freed, another
famous DJ, well not and well, I don't think Buddy
was famous as a DJ, but DJ Allen Freed's first
anniversary rock and roll party kicked off in Brooklyn with
Chuck Berry and Tony Bennett. How about that for a bill,
Chuck Berry and Tony Bennett.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I didn't realize going back then that they even had
the strange bills because we would, you know, grow to
see that later on in years at you know, coliseums
and stuff that had strange ordered, you know, lineups.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
But that's a crazy one. Yeah, that's that is a
crazy one.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
September one, in nineteen fifty six, nineteen year old Jerry
Lee Lewis played for Sun Record Staff with some early demos,
and he set the stage for his rock and roll starting.
Jerry a fantastic musician entertainer. The moral compass was slightly
(02:48):
out of calibration. The killer, right, yeah, and the killer
who liked his women younger than they should have been,
and I think married his cousin if I'm correct.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I wonder if this partially why when I worked at
the w n W in the era that I did,
Dennis Elsis gave me the nickname.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Killer. It was Bob Killer Cossack.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And my mother, listening in Stanford, Connecticut, who knew I
had this other dual identity of buzz Night. She said
to me, I don't like that nickname the killer. You're
not a killer.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I wonder if she was associating it in the raw
sense of a killer, or she was not wanting me
affiliated with the image of a Jerry Lee Lewis.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, it's a good It's a fair question. I wonder
how she would answer that. I do have two questions,
so related to the Bob Killer Cossack name. Yes, is
this is this the first time you've spoken on a
broadcast about using a radio name that buzz Night is
a radio name, as we would say, I.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Don't believe it's the first time. No.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I think I shared this with my former boss and
friend Mark Chernoff, actually at a walk in Central Park,
because he is still to this day. If I call Mark,
he says, hey, what's going on, Bob?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Interesting? So that leads to my next question. You've known
Chernoff for a long time. At home, your lovely wife,
does she refer to you as Bob or buzz? You?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Hey? Hey? You you or that one blockhead? Right?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's not an answer, Buss. What does she call you?
To call you Bob or Buss? It's no one thing.
It depends on the moment.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It depends which of the hairy eyeballs I deserve from her.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Well, that's what I was going to ask. That's the
next question is going to turn into therapi's like doctor Phil.
So if she's if she's, if she's passed, do you
get like Robert?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Do you get that, uh, it's happened? That was more
from my mom.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I don't want to get into weird you know, mother syndrome.
I'm going to conclude this episode quickly.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
We're only on the first day, so I just didn't
I just didn't show it. But your wife will sometimes
call you Buzz or Bob, begrudgingly both. I've known you
since nineteen eighty six. I've never known anyone that called
you anything but Buzz, so hearing thinking about you as
Bob is foreign to me.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
It's fortun to me too. Yeah, Hey, Justin from the
cheese shop.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Guess what happened on this day on September first in
nineteen sixty seven, my brother after Brian Epstein's death, the
manager Brian Epstein. This sparked Paul McCartney's idea for Magical
Mystery Tour two number two.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
We could cut this out so Justin doesn't have to
hear that.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
If you want to know, staying in and I like
Brie by the way. Nineteen seventy seven, despite internal tensions,
the Beach Boys performed a huge free concert at Central Park,
drawing over.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
One hundred and fifty thousand people.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
This would be the kind of thing if you were
to be sitting around, like if I told my mother
because she loves the Beach Boys. If I said, Mom,
you know, on this day in nineteen seventy seven, the
Beach Boys played a concert with over one hundred and
fifty thousand people, she would say, is that one of
the biggest Harry? Is that one of the biggest crowds ever?
I would say, no, Mom, it's not the biggest crowds ever.
Certainly not at Central Park either. They've had some doozies there.
(06:36):
They sure have good, good crowd.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, speaking a doozy, I gotta mention this. I don't
know if you heard about this.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
They had a memorial ceremony for Brian Wilson recently, and
I don't know if you heard about the Mike Love
portion of that ceremony.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But Mike Love gets up.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
There and instead of paying tribute to this is in
Rolling Stone, instead of paying tribute to Brian's legacy, he
spent the time basically justifying all of the songs that
he wrote that he says he did not get credit.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
For anyone that I'm gonna you may get Mike Love
as a guest at some point.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I'm not sure about that, but you know, I guess
I guess I would take him on. But oh my god,
what an icky experience that must have been.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
What, you know, what kind of what kind of person
you have to be to do that? Someone's funeral messed up?
The guy's gone, you know, and they had stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
There was legal stuff that had been going on, you know,
prior to Brian's death and everything like that. So this
wasn't something brand new, but the fact that he chose
to supposedly air it out at that event was kind
of like, you know, so you.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Don't think you're gonna end up with Mike Love at
any point in time, because I do have something to say, Yeah,
I don't, and I'll tell you why, because.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I turned him down many years ago when I had
my first interview ever that I did, which was with
I was given a choice. I was writing for a
local Dayton, Ohio music newspaper and it was a way
to get free tickets, and they said to me, Okay,
who do you want to go out and cover this
(08:30):
particular Saturday. You have two choices. One is you can
cover the Beach Boys and you can go interview Mike Love,
or you can go to see the great saxophone player
Dexter Gordon and interview him so I just said, please,
not even a question. I'm going to see Dexter. So
(08:52):
I kind of feel like, as fate would have it,
I'm not meant for him and he's not meant for me.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
With that being said, the late Bob.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Rivers and I went to see the Beach Boys because
he has a friend that plays drums for the Beach Boys.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
This guy's reminds me.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Of of Animal from the Muppets. He played the drums
basically standing up like he's on a high stool, and
he was making funny faces and he literally was a
just an animal. But I went with Bob Rivers, you know,
before he passed, and it was, you know, musically, it
was great and there were some amazing moments, but Mike,
(09:32):
it is time for Mike Love to retire. That it
was I love so much of their music and it
was wonderful to hear, but by the end of the.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Night it was bad. Time to go.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, listen, nineteen seventy nine, We're still on the first day,
nineteen seventy nine, September one. We're just blabbing like a
couple of flapp epotamuses. Nineteen seventy nine, Debbie Harry who
was not only a singer but an actress, signed with
Chris Records. That's that's what that album was with Heart
of Glass on it. That I remember that, the blue
and white label Christmas.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And she just bought a home in Woodbury, Connecticut. Not Waterbury,
but Woodbury, Connecticut. You love telling that story. I know
I haven't told the story yet. I have not told
the story. Can I tell the story?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Do we have? I mean, we're just flapping our asses off.
Save Can I save it again? She'll come up? All right,
there'll be a reason, trust me. Remember the adage leave
them wanting more, Harry justin when I come for cheese.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I'm going to share the story between about Woodbury and
Waterbury with you and you'll get a giggle out of that.
September second, nineteen sixty five, James Brown, Booker T and
the MG's and the Kinks talk about a Crazy Bill
are on TV's Shindig with James Brown performing Papa's Got
a brand new bag, probably a pretty good one.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Love one. Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You know, I don't get this information much And look,
I really I call the sources. I got a message
back from a bunch of different sources about September fourth.
The message is no major classic rock pop culture events
happened on September fourth, so we skip, we go to
the fifth.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Kind of daunting. Okay, it's very strange. I haven't and
we've been we started.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Doing this in November or something, almost a year, coming
up on a year. Yeah, I've never I've never gotten
a goose egg. September fifth, nineteen seventy. Janis Joplin reveals
me and Bobby McGhee during the final recording sessions that
she would had she ended up passing away a month after.
And you know what a song that is. And when
(11:42):
you when you hear a woman that has a raspy
voice belt that one out, I mean, no one does
it like Janis, but man, what a what a what
a great song that is?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
The Christopherson versions not bad either, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
September sixth, nineteen sixty eight, or Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce,
collectively known as Cream, launched their farewell tour in the US.
This was a you know, a big supergroup, you know
at the time, and I'm sure it was a.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Good show to see. You were too young to have
seen that.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, never, I mean loved their music from the beginning,
but never had a chance to see them. Only saw
Clapton a couple of times in the later years.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But yeah, last story for the week September seventh, nineteen
seventy eight.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
If you choose to.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Not hear the Waterbury Woodbury story today. Last story for
the week September seventh, nineteen seventy eight. Keith Moon passed
away at thirty two in London. Thoughts on Keith Moon,
I got some thoughts I want to hear yours. First, Well,
I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We were shocked when it happened, but then when you
really reflected in what you.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Knew about him and his lifestyle, yougo, I'm not that shocked.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Uh So there was that, and then the band in general,
and certainly Keith in particular.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I mean, were they not.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
In the the in those times, the definition of debauchery
and rock and roll.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
They they were the guys that destroyed the hotel rooms.
They were all of that.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, Saturday Night Live did a skit someone playing Keith
Moon kicking, you know, throwing TV's out the window and
acting like an It was him, right, he was the
Pete Townsend never really was crazy. Roger Delter never destroyed anything.
Keith Moon.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
They were they had.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Their craziness the other boys, but but Keith was the
one who was the driver of craziness.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
And so yeah, I remember, you know, the early deaths
in our life cycle, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Of music figures are weird to reflect on now because
I think our memories change over time of their music
and also of their passing and the way that they passed,
you know. Yeah, and that one, I mean, that was
like that was a big, big moment, you know, in
history to you know, to witness his passing and you know,
(14:26):
in terms of the way you know, things were reported
like that.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Then I watched a Netflix so that was on Netflix about.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
The making of one of their albums. I can't remember
what it was at.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
This point, but Roger Dalter was sitting at the at
the desk, the mixer, and he was talking about how
Keith played, and he said, in the history of drummers,
I've never seen anyone or heard anyone that plays like him.
In particular, be because he played along with Roger Daltrey.
(15:04):
Instead of being a percussionist and being underneath him, he
literally played along. He said, listen to listen to me
sing he would just he isolated the tracks.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh wow, so it was just Roger and Keith.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And I thought, oh, and you know, I'm a little
bit of a musical guy. And I thought I never
even never even noticed that about Keith. But he played,
he played along with Roger.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Wow, that's pretty fascinating.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
This day in nineteen seventy eight, September seventh, Keith Moon
passes away. And with that, I want to greet everybody
in Waterbury and Woodbury. Thank you for listening out there.
And that's this week in music history. I'll have a
story for all of you down the road.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I would say, a head spinning week in music history.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I need to recover.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
But first of all, before I recover, I say thanks
to Harry Jacobs, and I say thank you for listening to.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Taking a Walk podcast. We are available wherever you get
your podcasts.
I am Buzznight, the host of the Take on a
Walk podcast, and welcome to another edition of This Week
in Music History. This is for the week of September
one to the seventh. I turned to my left. Wait
a minute, no, I turned to my right. No oh,
I steer straight ahead. There he is at the music
history desk, Harry Jacobs.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, Harry, nice to see you again. It's like a
like a video. Hokey pokey. It is your left foot,
your left foot out. I don't think I hurt my
neck by doing that, thankfully. And one of our loyal
listeners to this, Justin of the infamous Cheese Shop and Conquered.
(00:47):
He said, maybe you can do a This Week in
Music History without something from the Beatles, But I don't
know if that's possible. But anyway, I think what you're
gonna do is you're gonna send me his address and
I'm gonna come out there when I come to Boston,
and Justin I chat and over a piece of cheese.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I think that would be good.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I actually think if I could talk him into being
a guest some time on it, it would be pretty amusing.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
But anyway, all right, all.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Right, let's rock and roll September one through the seventh,
nineteen fifty three. On September one, Buddy Holly and Bob
Montgomery auditioned for KDAV Radio, landing a slot as the
Bob and Buddy Show. Did you know that Buddy was
a jock? I didn't know that at all at all.
That's what we call for those of you that are
(01:33):
non radio people, that the jock was short for a
disc jockey, so we would call him jock, like it
was a jock that's doing this shift, that shift or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Buddy Holly was a jock. Had no clue. I did
not know that.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Also on September first, nineteen fifty five, Alan Freed, another
famous DJ, well not and well, I don't think Buddy
was famous as a DJ, but DJ Allen Freed's first
anniversary rock and roll party kicked off in Brooklyn with
Chuck Berry and Tony Bennett. How about that for a bill,
Chuck Berry and Tony Bennett.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I didn't realize going back then that they even had
the strange bills because we would, you know, grow to
see that later on in years at you know, coliseums
and stuff that had strange ordered, you know, lineups.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
But that's a crazy one. Yeah, that's that is a
crazy one.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
September one, in nineteen fifty six, nineteen year old Jerry
Lee Lewis played for Sun Record Staff with some early demos,
and he set the stage for his rock and roll starting.
Jerry a fantastic musician entertainer. The moral compass was slightly
(02:48):
out of calibration. The killer, right, yeah, and the killer
who liked his women younger than they should have been,
and I think married his cousin if I'm correct.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I wonder if this partially why when I worked at
the w n W in the era that I did,
Dennis Elsis gave me the nickname.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Killer. It was Bob Killer Cossack.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And my mother, listening in Stanford, Connecticut, who knew I
had this other dual identity of buzz Night. She said
to me, I don't like that nickname the killer. You're
not a killer.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I wonder if she was associating it in the raw
sense of a killer, or she was not wanting me
affiliated with the image of a Jerry Lee Lewis.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, it's a good It's a fair question. I wonder
how she would answer that. I do have two questions,
so related to the Bob Killer Cossack name. Yes, is
this is this the first time you've spoken on a
broadcast about using a radio name that buzz Night is
a radio name, as we would say, I.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Don't believe it's the first time. No.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I think I shared this with my former boss and
friend Mark Chernoff, actually at a walk in Central Park,
because he is still to this day. If I call Mark,
he says, hey, what's going on, Bob?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Interesting? So that leads to my next question. You've known
Chernoff for a long time. At home, your lovely wife,
does she refer to you as Bob or buzz? You?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Hey? Hey? You you or that one blockhead? Right?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's not an answer, Buss. What does she call you?
To call you Bob or Buss? It's no one thing.
It depends on the moment.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It depends which of the hairy eyeballs I deserve from her.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Well, that's what I was going to ask. That's the
next question is going to turn into therapi's like doctor Phil.
So if she's if she's, if she's passed, do you
get like Robert?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Do you get that, uh, it's happened? That was more
from my mom.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I don't want to get into weird you know, mother syndrome.
I'm going to conclude this episode quickly.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
We're only on the first day, so I just didn't
I just didn't show it. But your wife will sometimes
call you Buzz or Bob, begrudgingly both. I've known you
since nineteen eighty six. I've never known anyone that called
you anything but Buzz, so hearing thinking about you as
Bob is foreign to me.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
It's fortun to me too. Yeah, Hey, Justin from the
cheese shop.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Guess what happened on this day on September first in
nineteen sixty seven, my brother after Brian Epstein's death, the
manager Brian Epstein. This sparked Paul McCartney's idea for Magical
Mystery Tour two number two.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
We could cut this out so Justin doesn't have to
hear that.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
If you want to know, staying in and I like
Brie by the way. Nineteen seventy seven, despite internal tensions,
the Beach Boys performed a huge free concert at Central Park,
drawing over.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
One hundred and fifty thousand people.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
This would be the kind of thing if you were
to be sitting around, like if I told my mother
because she loves the Beach Boys. If I said, Mom,
you know, on this day in nineteen seventy seven, the
Beach Boys played a concert with over one hundred and
fifty thousand people, she would say, is that one of
the biggest Harry? Is that one of the biggest crowds ever?
I would say, no, Mom, it's not the biggest crowds ever.
Certainly not at Central Park either. They've had some doozies there.
(06:36):
They sure have good, good crowd.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, speaking a doozy, I gotta mention this. I don't
know if you heard about this.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
They had a memorial ceremony for Brian Wilson recently, and
I don't know if you heard about the Mike Love
portion of that ceremony.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But Mike Love gets up.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
There and instead of paying tribute to this is in
Rolling Stone, instead of paying tribute to Brian's legacy, he
spent the time basically justifying all of the songs that
he wrote that he says he did not get credit.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
For anyone that I'm gonna you may get Mike Love
as a guest at some point.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I'm not sure about that, but you know, I guess
I guess I would take him on. But oh my god,
what an icky experience that must have been.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
What, you know, what kind of what kind of person
you have to be to do that? Someone's funeral messed up?
The guy's gone, you know, and they had stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
There was legal stuff that had been going on, you know,
prior to Brian's death and everything like that. So this
wasn't something brand new, but the fact that he chose
to supposedly air it out at that event was kind
of like, you know, so you.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Don't think you're gonna end up with Mike Love at
any point in time, because I do have something to say, Yeah,
I don't, and I'll tell you why, because.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I turned him down many years ago when I had
my first interview ever that I did, which was with
I was given a choice. I was writing for a
local Dayton, Ohio music newspaper and it was a way
to get free tickets, and they said to me, Okay,
who do you want to go out and cover this
(08:30):
particular Saturday. You have two choices. One is you can
cover the Beach Boys and you can go interview Mike Love,
or you can go to see the great saxophone player
Dexter Gordon and interview him so I just said, please,
not even a question. I'm going to see Dexter. So
(08:52):
I kind of feel like, as fate would have it,
I'm not meant for him and he's not meant for me.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
With that being said, the late Bob.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Rivers and I went to see the Beach Boys because
he has a friend that plays drums for the Beach Boys.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
This guy's reminds me.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Of of Animal from the Muppets. He played the drums
basically standing up like he's on a high stool, and
he was making funny faces and he literally was a
just an animal. But I went with Bob Rivers, you know,
before he passed, and it was, you know, musically, it
was great and there were some amazing moments, but Mike,
(09:32):
it is time for Mike Love to retire. That it
was I love so much of their music and it
was wonderful to hear, but by the end of the.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Night it was bad. Time to go.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, listen, nineteen seventy nine, We're still on the first day,
nineteen seventy nine, September one. We're just blabbing like a
couple of flapp epotamuses. Nineteen seventy nine, Debbie Harry who
was not only a singer but an actress, signed with
Chris Records. That's that's what that album was with Heart
of Glass on it. That I remember that, the blue
and white label Christmas.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And she just bought a home in Woodbury, Connecticut. Not Waterbury,
but Woodbury, Connecticut. You love telling that story. I know
I haven't told the story yet. I have not told
the story. Can I tell the story?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Do we have? I mean, we're just flapping our asses off.
Save Can I save it again? She'll come up? All right,
there'll be a reason, trust me. Remember the adage leave
them wanting more, Harry justin when I come for cheese.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I'm going to share the story between about Woodbury and
Waterbury with you and you'll get a giggle out of that.
September second, nineteen sixty five, James Brown, Booker T and
the MG's and the Kinks talk about a Crazy Bill
are on TV's Shindig with James Brown performing Papa's Got
a brand new bag, probably a pretty good one.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Love one. Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You know, I don't get this information much And look,
I really I call the sources. I got a message
back from a bunch of different sources about September fourth.
The message is no major classic rock pop culture events
happened on September fourth, so we skip, we go to
the fifth.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Kind of daunting. Okay, it's very strange. I haven't and
we've been we started.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Doing this in November or something, almost a year, coming
up on a year. Yeah, I've never I've never gotten
a goose egg. September fifth, nineteen seventy. Janis Joplin reveals
me and Bobby McGhee during the final recording sessions that
she would had she ended up passing away a month after.
And you know what a song that is. And when
(11:42):
you when you hear a woman that has a raspy
voice belt that one out, I mean, no one does
it like Janis, but man, what a what a what
a great song that is?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
The Christopherson versions not bad either, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
September sixth, nineteen sixty eight, or Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce,
collectively known as Cream, launched their farewell tour in the US.
This was a you know, a big supergroup, you know
at the time, and I'm sure it was a.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Good show to see. You were too young to have
seen that.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, never, I mean loved their music from the beginning,
but never had a chance to see them. Only saw
Clapton a couple of times in the later years.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But yeah, last story for the week September seventh, nineteen
seventy eight.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
If you choose to.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Not hear the Waterbury Woodbury story today. Last story for
the week September seventh, nineteen seventy eight. Keith Moon passed
away at thirty two in London. Thoughts on Keith Moon,
I got some thoughts I want to hear yours. First, Well,
I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We were shocked when it happened, but then when you
really reflected in what you.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Knew about him and his lifestyle, yougo, I'm not that shocked.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Uh So there was that, and then the band in general,
and certainly Keith in particular.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I mean, were they not.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
In the the in those times, the definition of debauchery
and rock and roll.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
They they were the guys that destroyed the hotel rooms.
They were all of that.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, Saturday Night Live did a skit someone playing Keith
Moon kicking, you know, throwing TV's out the window and
acting like an It was him, right, he was the
Pete Townsend never really was crazy. Roger Delter never destroyed anything.
Keith Moon.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
They were they had.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Their craziness the other boys, but but Keith was the
one who was the driver of craziness.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
And so yeah, I remember, you know, the early deaths
in our life cycle, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Of music figures are weird to reflect on now because
I think our memories change over time of their music
and also of their passing and the way that they passed,
you know. Yeah, and that one, I mean, that was
like that was a big, big moment, you know, in
history to you know, to witness his passing and you know,
(14:26):
in terms of the way you know, things were reported
like that.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Then I watched a Netflix so that was on Netflix about.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
The making of one of their albums. I can't remember
what it was at.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
This point, but Roger Dalter was sitting at the at
the desk, the mixer, and he was talking about how
Keith played, and he said, in the history of drummers,
I've never seen anyone or heard anyone that plays like him.
In particular, be because he played along with Roger Daltrey.
(15:04):
Instead of being a percussionist and being underneath him, he
literally played along. He said, listen to listen to me
sing he would just he isolated the tracks.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh wow, so it was just Roger and Keith.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And I thought, oh, and you know, I'm a little
bit of a musical guy. And I thought I never
even never even noticed that about Keith. But he played,
he played along with Roger.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Wow, that's pretty fascinating.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
This day in nineteen seventy eight, September seventh, Keith Moon
passes away. And with that, I want to greet everybody
in Waterbury and Woodbury. Thank you for listening out there.
And that's this week in music history. I'll have a
story for all of you down the road.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I would say, a head spinning week in music history.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I need to recover.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
But first of all, before I recover, I say thanks
to Harry Jacobs, and I say thank you for listening to.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Taking a Walk podcast. We are available wherever you get
your podcasts.
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