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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Well, I'm buzznight and welcome one and all to the
Taking a Walk podcast. And this is an addition that
we love to do called this Week in Music History.
And for that feature, I turn right to the music
history desk. He's got volumes of plate paper there with
(00:25):
information on music history, and it looks like a couple
of sandwich wrappers there. Also, welcome Harry Jacobs to this
Week in Music History. And this has for the week
of September twenty second to September twenty eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Sorry to interrupt you.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You know, the first introduction that you made when I
joined and I heard the thing say now recording was
far greater than what you just said. Like, first of all,
I don't need carbs, I don't need sandwiches. Number two,
you were like, there he is, he lives, and he
the one and the only. It was like some Michael
(01:03):
Buffer boxing introduction. And now I'm a guy with a
bunch of sandwich wrappers and paper like some lunatic.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's right. So Albert Einstein of Classic Rock, thanks.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well, maybe Bob will our fearless audio wizard. Maybe he'll
decide to use some of the clips from the opening
and he'll feel that's better. But right now we're in
the moment and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, truly.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You You, as my mother would say when I was
a kid, You're quite a chama. That's me all right.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
September twenty second through the twenty eighth. The twenty fourth
is when Fleetwood Mac released Tusk in seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
This was the follow up to Rumors. This was a
big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I think I'm not sure where you are in terms of,
you know, fan level of Fleetwood Mac, but to me,
this was a fantastic album, you know, double out right huge,
huge deal for for for them to do that. They
come right out of rumors and they go to they
(02:08):
go to a double album. That's their their choice on
this one, but a bunch of great songs, Sisters of
the Moon.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Tusk was great, of course, over and over, was there?
Think about me? Was there?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I'm gonna stop you. I'm gonna stop you right there.
I was doing everything I can to to hold.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Back, but that urge that I have.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Is going to speak loudly and proudly.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Listen. I think when that came.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Out that was viewed, especially considering of the album that
it followed that was viewed as a should have been
a one album rather than a double album. And maybe
some of it over time is living on in history
and finding new audiences, like the three songs that you
(03:01):
first you know, led with there. Yeah, but in that time,
and I don't know what the charts would show or
you know, the sales picture of it, but it was
viewed as my god, you guys didn't need to do
two albums unless it was something that was part of
the contractual piece they were, you know, grinding through. But
(03:27):
I remember it a little bit differently, I.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Guess, so you weren't. You weren't really in favor of
what they did.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That was a move that was done probably contractually, and
that was what it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It felt like it was all a reach.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Interesting, Yeah, but once again, I'm up for rediscovering Sisters
of the Moon as an example. I think I saw
Stevie Nicks perform that during her run recently, you know,
a video of it. So I'll give the fact that
some of this deserves maybe another look. Tusk was kind
of viewed as novelty. You know, they had the marching
(04:05):
band thing that was.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Part of the USC band.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, so that was kind of viewed as like, Okay,
that's good once in a while.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You know, it had its life.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That was probably the biggest song off of it, I
would guess, you know, chart position wise, but sometimes you know,
the hype leading up to a release, especially with the
band as big as they were then, and then there's
a little bit of a letdown. Sometimes years later, those
songs do stand up differently. So I will go back
and give some of those a listen.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I think history will be far kinder in your mind
after you go through and listen. I mean Tusk. To me,
Tusk was a great song. I realized it was different
in the USC marching But think about the you know,
the Beatles. You know, would I hire a marching band
and would have made it sound great? You know, they
did some stuff that was irreverent and different. I mean,
(04:56):
I wasn't a Fleetwood mac nutt I just I really
enjoyed a handful of tracks from the album, and I
thought it was really neat and creative.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And you know, that's that's my piece on Tusk. And
to listen tough to follow up from rumors, that's my point. Yeah,
almost almost impossible.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Probably September twenty fifth, John Bonham passed away nineteen eighty
and obviously the band was never the same. You know,
they really disbanded for all intents and purposes. You know,
Page and Plant got together a couple of times, they
got together and you know, played at Live Aid.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
They had that show in.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
London at the two with Jason Bonham playing drums and man,
he's a hard hitter, right, it was really great to
see that. But the band arguably was never the same.
And it's interesting because so many bands go on. I mean,
think about it. The who played the night after John
Edmissele died. I know, right, yeah, it was here hard
(05:58):
He died at the hard Rock down the road from
where I am.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So listen, there are there are.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You know, as they see in the auto business is
an ass for every seat, right, everyone's got a different
play and what to do and all that. And this
was the right move for them to not continue. Would
have been great to see him continue, but they didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, it proves the fragility too of bands, you know
that that oh it's not as easy for some to
just kind of plug and play. That there's a little
bit more at the core. And I actually in the
beginning hoped for you know, more from you know, a
second round of the band, and there were various little,
(06:38):
you know, iterations, but in the long run, I'm glad
that it went that way.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Interesting, you know, there was no you know, that period
of time had two I mean, we had many amazing drummers.
But think about Keith Moon and John Bond in terms
of their playing style and how hard those guys play, right,
I mean, they were just they were a different breed.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Fierce Charlie.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Charlie Watts is not John Bonham, that's right, so at
any rate, John Bonham, nineteen eighty September twenty fifth. On
September twenty sixth, this is for Jason at the cheese shop.
Beatles were less Devy Road, Justine.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
He's gonna he's gonna send you a smelly piece of cheese.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
For calling him the wrong name. That's fantastic. September twenty sixth.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
The Beatles released Abby Road in nineteen sixty nine, and
again another one, and you can there's probably no debating this,
but that's you know, another one, an epic album that
probably you know, best in class.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Right, Oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Do we need to do we need to go through
that track list at all. I mean, there's come together,
Oh Darlin Maxwell, Silver Hammers, I Want You, You Never
Give You Money, Puss's Garden, Here comes the Sun, Golden Slumbers.
She came in through the bathroom window. How about that
version of Golden Slumbers with Steven Tyler at the Kennedy Center.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh, pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I like the poppy year side
of that. It isn't my favorite, but all the stuff that,
you know, the the tracks that run into each other.
I could listen to you know, I Want You and
Golden Slumbers and carry that weight. I could listen to
that and crank it up any any old time and
(08:35):
love it.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
She came in through the bathroom window, Golden Slumbers, carry
that weight.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
In the end. Oh, it's amazing. That's how it ends.
It's amazing. It's a masterpiece, it sure is.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And on this day take that justin, Yeah, justin, send
me the bree September twenty eighth, Stevie Wonder released songs
in the Kia Life on this date, nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Six album Oh Man, Every song Did you ever see Him?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Unfortunately, never live No, never Live? Only you know TV
performances that he still to this day blows me away.
But never saw him live.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
He I saw him at the Centrum in Wooster and
he played in the round, which I thought was really interesting.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And and you know he bangs the guy who bangs
out his hints. Right when you think about.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
That album, A couple of great ones, Sir Duke and
I Wish, among others.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But I think he's truly a genius. Yeah, I would
agree with that.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I boy, I loved I Wish and Sir Duke. Both
of those were great songs to me. Isn't She Lovely?
Was on that you know as well? And I try to.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Say, back to the days of of what you know,
rock radio I was associated with, it was it was
pretty refreshing to think about it then and think about
things now. Necessarily, how he was welcomed. Stevie's music was
welcomed on all formats. He was not format excluded, at
(10:19):
least in that period of time. Now, once his songs
became bigger pop songs on you know, Top forty or
adult contemporary stations, then a rock station.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Would be less likely to play it.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But back back then, playing it like I could hold
my hand up and say I played that when I
was a current, it was it was welcomed in the format,
and that was pretty refreshing.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, it's kind of neat to me. You know, I
didn't realize they were playing it on rock radio. Would
imagine Superstition got played and all that. But that's that's
an interesting take on on that as well. With Stevie Wonder,
and as you said, he's still still going, still still playing,
still still doing this thing.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You want to go down a fun rabbit hole, just
like you know, start going through all of his all
of his albums, you know, early, you know, middle of
the career and go deep into some of it and
find you know, Living for the City as an example, Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Gosh is that right? And New York City just like
I pictured a skyscrapers and everything. Just just masterful. Just
a big fan really, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Can can you think of others maybe beyond Steve Wynwood
who had a career when they were kids, think about like,
for once in my life in those early motown Stevie
Wonder songs. He's had a couple of different lives in
a way, career wise, you know, he went from that
poppy kind of motown banging out the hits, Barry Gordy
(11:58):
product of that, you know, that time, and then he
ends up you know with you know I wish and
songs in the Kya Life, I mean, all of it,
and just an interesting trajectory his career has taken. You know,
we watched him, you know you did because you're you know,
old is dirt. But I you know, I'm just aware
(12:19):
of his history because I am a historian. A lot
of papers on my desk and sandwich rappers spress.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, so yeah, thanks.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Anyway, on that happy note, we're going to wrap up
this week.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
September twenty second through the twenty eighth.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Oh a tremendous week, Harry Jacobs, and next time I'll
be kinder.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
In the introduction, I promise you we can A fella
can only hope.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
All right, well, and thank you to all of you
find people for checking out The Ticket a Walk podcast
and this episode of This Week in Music History for
the week of September the twenty second through September the
twenty eighth, and we are part of the iHeart Podcast
Network
Well, I'm buzznight and welcome one and all to the
Taking a Walk podcast. And this is an addition that
we love to do called this Week in Music History.
And for that feature, I turn right to the music
history desk. He's got volumes of plate paper there with
(00:25):
information on music history, and it looks like a couple
of sandwich wrappers there. Also, welcome Harry Jacobs to this
Week in Music History. And this has for the week
of September twenty second to September twenty eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Sorry to interrupt you.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You know, the first introduction that you made when I
joined and I heard the thing say now recording was
far greater than what you just said. Like, first of all,
I don't need carbs, I don't need sandwiches. Number two,
you were like, there he is, he lives, and he
the one and the only. It was like some Michael
(01:03):
Buffer boxing introduction. And now I'm a guy with a
bunch of sandwich wrappers and paper like some lunatic.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's right. So Albert Einstein of Classic Rock, thanks.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well, maybe Bob will our fearless audio wizard. Maybe he'll
decide to use some of the clips from the opening
and he'll feel that's better. But right now we're in
the moment and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, truly.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You You, as my mother would say when I was
a kid, You're quite a chama. That's me all right.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
September twenty second through the twenty eighth. The twenty fourth
is when Fleetwood Mac released Tusk in seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
This was the follow up to Rumors. This was a
big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I think I'm not sure where you are in terms of,
you know, fan level of Fleetwood Mac, but to me,
this was a fantastic album, you know, double out right huge,
huge deal for for for them to do that. They
come right out of rumors and they go to they
(02:08):
go to a double album. That's their their choice on
this one, but a bunch of great songs, Sisters of
the Moon.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Tusk was great, of course, over and over, was there?
Think about me? Was there?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I'm gonna stop you. I'm gonna stop you right there.
I was doing everything I can to to hold.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Back, but that urge that I have.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Is going to speak loudly and proudly.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Listen. I think when that came.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Out that was viewed, especially considering of the album that
it followed that was viewed as a should have been
a one album rather than a double album. And maybe
some of it over time is living on in history
and finding new audiences, like the three songs that you
(03:01):
first you know, led with there. Yeah, but in that time,
and I don't know what the charts would show or
you know, the sales picture of it, but it was
viewed as my god, you guys didn't need to do
two albums unless it was something that was part of
the contractual piece they were, you know, grinding through. But
(03:27):
I remember it a little bit differently, I.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Guess, so you weren't. You weren't really in favor of
what they did.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That was a move that was done probably contractually, and
that was what it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It felt like it was all a reach.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Interesting, Yeah, but once again, I'm up for rediscovering Sisters
of the Moon as an example. I think I saw
Stevie Nicks perform that during her run recently, you know,
a video of it. So I'll give the fact that
some of this deserves maybe another look. Tusk was kind
of viewed as novelty. You know, they had the marching
(04:05):
band thing that was.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Part of the USC band.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, so that was kind of viewed as like, Okay,
that's good once in a while.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You know, it had its life.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That was probably the biggest song off of it, I
would guess, you know, chart position wise, but sometimes you know,
the hype leading up to a release, especially with the
band as big as they were then, and then there's
a little bit of a letdown. Sometimes years later, those
songs do stand up differently. So I will go back
and give some of those a listen.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I think history will be far kinder in your mind
after you go through and listen. I mean Tusk. To me,
Tusk was a great song. I realized it was different
in the USC marching But think about the you know,
the Beatles. You know, would I hire a marching band
and would have made it sound great? You know, they
did some stuff that was irreverent and different. I mean,
(04:56):
I wasn't a Fleetwood mac nutt I just I really
enjoyed a handful of tracks from the album, and I
thought it was really neat and creative.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And you know, that's that's my piece on Tusk. And
to listen tough to follow up from rumors, that's my point. Yeah,
almost almost impossible.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Probably September twenty fifth, John Bonham passed away nineteen eighty
and obviously the band was never the same. You know,
they really disbanded for all intents and purposes. You know,
Page and Plant got together a couple of times, they
got together and you know, played at Live Aid.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
They had that show in.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
London at the two with Jason Bonham playing drums and man,
he's a hard hitter, right, it was really great to
see that. But the band arguably was never the same.
And it's interesting because so many bands go on. I mean,
think about it. The who played the night after John
Edmissele died. I know, right, yeah, it was here hard
(05:58):
He died at the hard Rock down the road from
where I am.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So listen, there are there are.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You know, as they see in the auto business is
an ass for every seat, right, everyone's got a different
play and what to do and all that. And this
was the right move for them to not continue. Would
have been great to see him continue, but they didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, it proves the fragility too of bands, you know
that that oh it's not as easy for some to
just kind of plug and play. That there's a little
bit more at the core. And I actually in the
beginning hoped for you know, more from you know, a
second round of the band, and there were various little,
(06:38):
you know, iterations, but in the long run, I'm glad
that it went that way.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Interesting, you know, there was no you know, that period
of time had two I mean, we had many amazing drummers.
But think about Keith Moon and John Bond in terms
of their playing style and how hard those guys play, right,
I mean, they were just they were a different breed.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Fierce Charlie.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Charlie Watts is not John Bonham, that's right, so at
any rate, John Bonham, nineteen eighty September twenty fifth. On
September twenty sixth, this is for Jason at the cheese shop.
Beatles were less Devy Road, Justine.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
He's gonna he's gonna send you a smelly piece of cheese.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
For calling him the wrong name. That's fantastic. September twenty sixth.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
The Beatles released Abby Road in nineteen sixty nine, and
again another one, and you can there's probably no debating this,
but that's you know, another one, an epic album that
probably you know, best in class.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Right, Oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Do we need to do we need to go through
that track list at all. I mean, there's come together,
Oh Darlin Maxwell, Silver Hammers, I Want You, You Never
Give You Money, Puss's Garden, Here comes the Sun, Golden Slumbers.
She came in through the bathroom window. How about that
version of Golden Slumbers with Steven Tyler at the Kennedy Center.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh, pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I like the poppy year side
of that. It isn't my favorite, but all the stuff that,
you know, the the tracks that run into each other.
I could listen to you know, I Want You and
Golden Slumbers and carry that weight. I could listen to
that and crank it up any any old time and
(08:35):
love it.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
She came in through the bathroom window, Golden Slumbers, carry
that weight.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
In the end. Oh, it's amazing. That's how it ends.
It's amazing. It's a masterpiece, it sure is.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And on this day take that justin, Yeah, justin, send
me the bree September twenty eighth, Stevie Wonder released songs
in the Kia Life on this date, nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Six album Oh Man, Every song Did you ever see Him?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Unfortunately, never live No, never Live? Only you know TV
performances that he still to this day blows me away.
But never saw him live.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
He I saw him at the Centrum in Wooster and
he played in the round, which I thought was really interesting.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And and you know he bangs the guy who bangs
out his hints. Right when you think about.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
That album, A couple of great ones, Sir Duke and
I Wish, among others.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But I think he's truly a genius. Yeah, I would
agree with that.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I boy, I loved I Wish and Sir Duke. Both
of those were great songs to me. Isn't She Lovely?
Was on that you know as well? And I try to.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Say, back to the days of of what you know,
rock radio I was associated with, it was it was
pretty refreshing to think about it then and think about
things now. Necessarily, how he was welcomed. Stevie's music was
welcomed on all formats. He was not format excluded, at
(10:19):
least in that period of time. Now, once his songs
became bigger pop songs on you know, Top forty or
adult contemporary stations, then a rock station.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Would be less likely to play it.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But back back then, playing it like I could hold
my hand up and say I played that when I
was a current, it was it was welcomed in the format,
and that was pretty refreshing.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, it's kind of neat to me. You know, I
didn't realize they were playing it on rock radio. Would
imagine Superstition got played and all that. But that's that's
an interesting take on on that as well. With Stevie Wonder,
and as you said, he's still still going, still still playing,
still still doing this thing.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You want to go down a fun rabbit hole, just
like you know, start going through all of his all
of his albums, you know, early, you know, middle of
the career and go deep into some of it and
find you know, Living for the City as an example, Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Gosh is that right? And New York City just like
I pictured a skyscrapers and everything. Just just masterful. Just
a big fan really, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Can can you think of others maybe beyond Steve Wynwood
who had a career when they were kids, think about like,
for once in my life in those early motown Stevie
Wonder songs. He's had a couple of different lives in
a way, career wise, you know, he went from that
poppy kind of motown banging out the hits, Barry Gordy
(11:58):
product of that, you know, that time, and then he
ends up you know with you know I wish and
songs in the Kya Life, I mean, all of it,
and just an interesting trajectory his career has taken. You know,
we watched him, you know you did because you're you know,
old is dirt. But I you know, I'm just aware
(12:19):
of his history because I am a historian. A lot
of papers on my desk and sandwich rappers spress.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, so yeah, thanks.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Anyway, on that happy note, we're going to wrap up
this week.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
September twenty second through the twenty eighth.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Oh a tremendous week, Harry Jacobs, and next time I'll
be kinder.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
In the introduction, I promise you we can A fella
can only hope.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
All right, well, and thank you to all of you
find people for checking out The Ticket a Walk podcast
and this episode of This Week in Music History for
the week of September the twenty second through September the
twenty eighth, and we are part of the iHeart Podcast
Network
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