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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, this is Buzznight Tho, host of the Taken a
Walk podcast, and welcome to another edition of This.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Week music History. The week of April the twenty eighth.
Let's wander over to the music history desk to musician, podcaster,
music fan, purveyor of all things music theyor of all
things music.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
History, Harry Jacobs, purveyor like a guy selling sausages on
the street in downtown Boston, at the common right at
the card out there, and you're popular and ready to
rock and roll alright. April twenty eighth, nineteen sixty six,
the Beatles began recording Paperback Writer. This continues our tradition
of every single week of the year there was something
(00:48):
related to the Beatles and Beatles history. And also in
this week in nineteen seventy they released Let It Be
in the UK, So big, big week for the Beatles.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I have a feeling they'll be more on this particular
episode with the Beatles.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I think you're right. This is also an interesting one.
Nineteen sixty seven, Muhammad al Li had been drafted and
he refused his induction into the US Army.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
This is a big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
He claimed exemption as a conscientious objector based on religious
beliefs as a member of the Nation of Islam. He
appeared at the induction and it happened in Houston. He
refused to step forward when his name was called, and
he ended up getting arrested, and it was a big ordeal.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Consequences were severe.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Right, early, badass move, huge badass move.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
He got banned from the New York State Athletic Commission,
so they suspended him from boxing. They took away his license,
they stripped that heavyweight title at that point, and then
other boxing commissions followed and he was convicted of draft
evasion on June twenty twentieth and sentenced to five years
(02:03):
in prison as a result.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What a remarkable human being, right.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Absolutely, And by the way, while he was on appeal,
he was able to fight professionally. By the way, he
was between twenty five and twenty nine years old during
that period of time, so he was really.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
At his pride.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, he was, You got that right. The next day,
April twenty ninth. In nineteen seventy six, Bruce Springsteen jumped
over the fence at Graceland attempting to meet Elvis Presley.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Remember this story, I do remember it.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Do you think there's a little bit of writer's embellishment
with this story.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I wondered about this, you know, I don't know. I mean, listen,
here's the deal. There's a couple of things that happened
around this that.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Had me a little bit puzzled.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
In October of seventy five, he was on the cover
of Time and Newsweak. He was a big deal, like
no one in the history of those magazines appeared on
the cover, certainly from an entertainment perspective. At the same time,
I mean, Newsweek didn't talk to each other. They didn't
know they were both putting Bruce on the cover. So
that had happened in October, so November, December, January, February, March, April.
(03:09):
Six months later, in the middle of the boorn to
run tour. After the show in Memphis, he and Stevie
get a brainstorm at three am and decide to hop
Defense because they want to meet Elvis.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
They want to meet their peer.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So they saw the light on in the house, they
hopped Defense and they're intercepted by a security guard. And
the way Bruce tells it, and this may be the
embellishment where you're getting that Bruce said, is Elvis home
stage is on you now? Buss, Well, listen.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
A great story can be a great story at the beginning,
and then just that little tweak of something can supercharge
it and propel it to that next level.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I don't. I love the story, so I prefer to
believe it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But it just I just wonder sometimes how story where
he's become legends.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Bruce is a storyteller. Bruce has ben Zellen to him,
bellis we know this? Yeah, nineteen seventy seven, led Zeppelin
broke the record at the Pontiac Silver Dome, drawing seventy
six and twenty nine fans to that show.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And can you think about people that you know, maybe
we know from that area. Yeah, maybe have that ticket
stub as a source of memory and inspiration from that
moment to be fascinating to talk to someone about that.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I need you to reach out to our old friend
and famous radio consultant, Fred Jacobs to see if he
was there, because all right, I think in nineteen eighty
he was programming Riff.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
The legendary Wrif.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So I'd like to know if Fred was at the
at the Silver Dome for that.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That would be a pretty incredible little thing for us
to do to you know, trace back a moment like
that music history, get two of the three people that
we either know or discover, and then do a little
panel discussion with him.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Listen, I vote for Fred Jacobs to be on the
first episode of whatever we do with that. Okay, good.
I can't tell you how many times I've said to people, Oh, yeah,
he's my uncle.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
He's my uncle. No relationship.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
By the way, April thirtieth, the Alman Brothers released Eat
a Peach in nineteen seventy two. Great tracks on that album,
Right Blue Sky, One Way.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Out, a lot of.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You know, there was trouble at that time, obviously too,
right Dwayne. In the middle of the recording of that album,
Dwayne got killed motorcycle accident.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah, so parts.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Of the album were recorded without Dwayne being alive. Right
Blue Sky in One Way Out were done while he
was alive, and then they used his tracks for Ain't
Wasting Time No More and Melissa They were done after
his death with him obviously, So that was kind of
an interesting deal.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Some of my favorites and I remember listening to the
station that I would get to work at, WNWFM and
the morning guy back in those days when Eat a
Peach and that that era when stuff came out.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Dave Herman was the guy's name. Dave used to do
a little seven to ten in the morning benchmark. He
played Blue Sky every morning at seven ten e rees
during the summer.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, it wasn't cool.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Little thing that became his little signature. That's interesting the
thought that the album was named Eat a Peach because
Dwayne had a collision on his motorcycle with a peach truck.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
True or false?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I don't know. Let's go. I say probably true.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
You want to phone a friend? Is that your final answer?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
There are cash or prizes on the line, Derek Ferraros
in Vegas. If you're right, user has to pay the check.
So you think you say that I just need to
get this on record because you've paid every time. But
you say it's true, Dwayne Almond colliding with the peach
truck and that's why they called it Eat a Peach.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Oh, I say true?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Okay, buzz yeah, all right, let's.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Say what happens that's incorrect. Survey says it is long okay,
collided with a construction truck. Ah, all right, And it
was just the whole kind of peach thing. So I'll
still buy dinner anyway. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Listen, I love you for that.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
We can we talk, by the way about Ferraros for
just a minute, where legendary Vegas place. Not long ago,
you were out here for the National Association of Broadcasters
meeting the collection of executives, and you and I have
this routine where we eat it. Ferraros. It's a legendary
Vegas place. I've eaten there for the twenty five years.
I've been here. Every time you're here, you find your
(07:56):
way there. Generally it's us. We walked in on the
Sunday night of the NAB. Listen, I've been here twenty
five years. I'm a Boston guy. I like go in
places where people know me and they know my name.
But we walked into three different people from that restaurant
that all looked at you and didn't just say hello.
They shook your hand and said, oh, mister Knight, welcome back.
(08:19):
I'm like it was one.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It was like you paid people in advance to go.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I'm walking in with this Vegas guy, and I need
you to make sure you address me by name and
shake my hand and welcome me back.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
The King's greeting terribly aggravating, ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And it didn't stop there. The waiter at the tables like, oh,
mister Knight, welcome back. I'm like, got the shit are
you shitting me with this? And then we get all
the way through dinner and the guy who owns the restaurant,
the guy who gets to carry the thermometer in his
sleeve pocket and a white shirt, walks out and fist
(08:54):
bumps me. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's a very healthy moment
for you.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
And I was a win on that.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
But by the way, one of the guys did tell
us that he knows you and knows your name because
you emailed him basically every day leading up to it.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
For some reason or another.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I don't know what the story was with that, but
maybe pleading for recognition. I don't know if this was
the attention seeking behavior.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
There's a gap bit somewhere, you know, apparently being locked
in a closet does not have benefits.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
May first, Elvis married Priscilla here in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Big big deal. She was able to rein him in.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Was at one of those cheesy, you know, wedding Panels Is.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You know, I don't know. I would imagine it was
probably at the Hilton.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
That would have been my guest. I don't know the
answer to that.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
But the Hilton was his kind of home away from
Holmes sure while he played here, So I would imagine
that the Hilton did something for him. The Hilton's now
the Westgate. It's still there, still looks on the outside
exactly like it did, but but that happened one that way.
On the inside too exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I'll say it's rough, it's rough.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
They upgraded it a bit though, So Yeah. In nineteen
seventy one, Stones released Sticky Fingers, the album with the zipper,
a working zipper remember that, Oh yeah, absolutely on the cover.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That'll get your attention, yes it will, well not your attention, no,
but you know, ladies or whatever, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
In nineteen sixty five, Bob Dylan performed his first concert
using electric instruments. Did that at the Royal Albert Hall
in London, and that was a big deal, right. His
label and his you know, everyone around him wanted him
to continue to play acoustically and he began to experiment
(10:45):
with electric you know, management basically fighting with him about
playing electric versus playing the music that people want to
hear acoustically.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
There is some cool new Dylan information that's that's out
on this next you know, extended tour that he's even
a rough and rowdy tour or whatever it's it's called.
I think it's pretty interesting. So Bob for quite a
few years has.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Not been playing guitar.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
He's he's he's just been playing keyboard.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And I mean this honestly, this could be ten years
that he's stopped playing guitar, at least in concert. And
I'm led to believe it's due to some some issue
with you know, a hand or you know, something that
limits him in terms of the playing.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Apparently he's playing a song two, you know, playing some guitar.
So he's playing been playing.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Places like Sious City, Iowa, and Cedar Rapids in places
like that. But there's excitement in the Dylan fan base
because Bob is back playing some guitar.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
He has just just cheated while we were while you
were talking, he has arthritis and tendonitis, and that would
explain his lack of desire or ability to play. Yep,
he's bad playing.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Some always hires great musicians, you know, I heard a
story about G. E. Smith, and I want.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
To say, I wonder if did Nils Lofgren play I
know Nils played with Neil, but I think that Nil's
played with Dylan at some point. He may have. I'm
not sure about that. But you know who's on this
tour now?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Also, do you remember the great drummer Anton Figg who's
Letterman Letterman?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh? Yeah, Oh that's all right, he's drumming.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I remember the story that whoever it was G. Smith
or Nils or someone saying they had to learn one
hundred and sixty five songs before.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
They went out.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You know, guy's got to play fifteen during the night,
but they've got to know one hundred and sixty five
in case he gets a hair across his ass about
a certain You know, hey, I want to play Hurricane, right?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Can we do it?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
April thirty, at nineteen seventy five, the Vietnam War ended
with the fall of Saigon. A big day and a
war that, like most accomplished nothing for anybody.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
So yeah, episode sad Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
May second, nineteen sixty four, Beles did camp Buy Me
Love That It reached number one in the US. Third
consecutive chart topper for them. Springsteen released Darkness in seventy eight,
and in seventy two The Stones started their tour in
support of Exile on Main Street. They essentially fled the
(13:44):
UK because there were tax exiles, like, I guess just.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Tax cheats or tax frauds. I guess.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I don't know what that means, tax exile, like I
don't want to pay taxes.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
So I'm going to split.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, I think I'm not sure. But you know, knowing the.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Stones, maybe they didn't know at that moment exactly what
the do was either. Maybe they left it to some
crazy accountant, right, because I can't imagine they're obsessing about
doing their taxes.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
No, no, I can't. You know. The band all went
to different places.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Keith ended up renting a villa in the French Riviera.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I don't know if you know this story, but.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
In the basement is where they recorded Exile. They used
the mobile truck outside. Basically they ran everything outside. But
in the basement of that villa that Keith had rented
are tunnels leading outside of that villa, and the Nazis
used it during their.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Invasion of France.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It's insane, and that was in that that was in
that villa. But an unbelievable album, think about it, Tumbling Dice, Happy,
Sweet Virginia.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Just to name a few from that Monster.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
One of my favorites for sure. May third, nineteen sixty nine,
Hendrix was arrested at the Toronto International Airport for possession
of narcotics.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Surprise, surprise, Jimmy, what are you doing man?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I know, I mean, I know. Crazy.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Fleetwood Mac released their self titled album with Lindsey and
Stevie and James Brown was born in nineteen thirty three.
Speaking of crazy artists and drugs, James Brown and boys.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Was he rough on his band members with the whole
finding thing or what?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I think?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That still amazes me.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
How he just he would not allow for them to
miss a note, and he.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Charged they had to pay him.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
He fined them if really, if they missed the note
or did something that was outside of the musical scheme,
he wanted.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
His fifty dollars whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Why yeah, the tax for the wrong note tax.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
James Brown tough to work for and he ended up
in you know, crashing and burning, like he set a
hotel room on fire and you know, all beat up
his wife and just you know awful.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, but a legendary performer. Did you ever get a
chance to see him play?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
No, And by the time I was really interested, it was,
you know, living in America time for him on the road,
and that was just not a good time to see him.
I would love to have seen him in the sixties,
but I was, you know, just a young man. You
would have been able to see him because you were
like twenty and back in the sixties and you know,
you could have gone to a show testing twenty two
(16:32):
this working, this thing working. May fourth, nineteen seventy, the
National Guard fired on protesters at Kent State and this
inspired the classic Neil Young song.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Which song was this buzz Ohio? There you go?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, one time hitchhiking back from school at the University
of Dayton and Dayton, Ohio, back to Connecticut for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
On the way back hitchhiking. Did you really hitchhike from Dayton,
Ohio to Connecticut?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yes, sir, and uh, but we got stuck in Kent
State because of a big snowstorm, so we had a
we had to cool our heels for a day and
a half and Ken State.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Interesting, Holy crap, hitchhiking from Dayton to How long did
that take you, like snowhal or something?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I don't know, four days, Yeah, ridiculous. I don't think
I ever told my parents too.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
They didn't.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
They never questioned, like how you got homelick, but you know,
how'd you get home?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Bus?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I got a ride from some friends. There you go.
In nineteen seventy six, Bob Dylan released Desire in the UK.
Hurricane is one of my favorite songs. The story of
Ruben Carter, the boxer accused of murder that allegedly didn't do.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It right, and Bob, uh, you know, put himself out
there for something he believed.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Took up, took up the yeah, bought the police.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
In nineteen ninety six, the final original lineup of the
ramones I Guess played their last concert The Palace in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I never played again after that.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Well in that form was because they did take shape
with other people whose last name became Ramone who were
not originals, so they Yeah, it probably was other forms
that they played, but that was the one, the last one.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And that's this week, well, Harry's.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It was a very colorful week and thanks for giving
it to us for this week in music history, and
thanks to all of you for listening to the taket
a Walk podcast. We are available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
and part of the iHeart podcast network.
Hi, this is Buzznight Tho, host of the Taken a
Walk podcast, and welcome to another edition of This.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Week music History. The week of April the twenty eighth.
Let's wander over to the music history desk to musician, podcaster,
music fan, purveyor of all things music theyor of all
things music.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
History, Harry Jacobs, purveyor like a guy selling sausages on
the street in downtown Boston, at the common right at
the card out there, and you're popular and ready to
rock and roll alright. April twenty eighth, nineteen sixty six,
the Beatles began recording Paperback Writer. This continues our tradition
of every single week of the year there was something
(00:48):
related to the Beatles and Beatles history. And also in
this week in nineteen seventy they released Let It Be
in the UK, So big, big week for the Beatles.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I have a feeling they'll be more on this particular
episode with the Beatles.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I think you're right. This is also an interesting one.
Nineteen sixty seven, Muhammad al Li had been drafted and
he refused his induction into the US Army.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
This is a big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
He claimed exemption as a conscientious objector based on religious
beliefs as a member of the Nation of Islam. He
appeared at the induction and it happened in Houston. He
refused to step forward when his name was called, and
he ended up getting arrested, and it was a big ordeal.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Consequences were severe.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Right, early, badass move, huge badass move.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
He got banned from the New York State Athletic Commission,
so they suspended him from boxing. They took away his license,
they stripped that heavyweight title at that point, and then
other boxing commissions followed and he was convicted of draft
evasion on June twenty twentieth and sentenced to five years
(02:03):
in prison as a result.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What a remarkable human being, right.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Absolutely, And by the way, while he was on appeal,
he was able to fight professionally. By the way, he
was between twenty five and twenty nine years old during
that period of time, so he was really.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
At his pride.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, he was, You got that right. The next day,
April twenty ninth. In nineteen seventy six, Bruce Springsteen jumped
over the fence at Graceland attempting to meet Elvis Presley.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Remember this story, I do remember it.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Do you think there's a little bit of writer's embellishment
with this story.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I wondered about this, you know, I don't know. I mean, listen,
here's the deal. There's a couple of things that happened
around this that.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Had me a little bit puzzled.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
In October of seventy five, he was on the cover
of Time and Newsweak. He was a big deal, like
no one in the history of those magazines appeared on
the cover, certainly from an entertainment perspective. At the same time,
I mean, Newsweek didn't talk to each other. They didn't
know they were both putting Bruce on the cover. So
that had happened in October, so November, December, January, February, March, April.
(03:09):
Six months later, in the middle of the boorn to
run tour. After the show in Memphis, he and Stevie
get a brainstorm at three am and decide to hop
Defense because they want to meet Elvis.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
They want to meet their peer.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So they saw the light on in the house, they
hopped Defense and they're intercepted by a security guard. And
the way Bruce tells it, and this may be the
embellishment where you're getting that Bruce said, is Elvis home
stage is on you now? Buss, Well, listen.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
A great story can be a great story at the beginning,
and then just that little tweak of something can supercharge
it and propel it to that next level.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I don't. I love the story, so I prefer to
believe it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But it just I just wonder sometimes how story where
he's become legends.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Bruce is a storyteller. Bruce has ben Zellen to him,
bellis we know this? Yeah, nineteen seventy seven, led Zeppelin
broke the record at the Pontiac Silver Dome, drawing seventy
six and twenty nine fans to that show.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And can you think about people that you know, maybe
we know from that area. Yeah, maybe have that ticket
stub as a source of memory and inspiration from that
moment to be fascinating to talk to someone about that.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I need you to reach out to our old friend
and famous radio consultant, Fred Jacobs to see if he
was there, because all right, I think in nineteen eighty
he was programming Riff.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
The legendary Wrif.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So I'd like to know if Fred was at the
at the Silver Dome for that.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That would be a pretty incredible little thing for us
to do to you know, trace back a moment like
that music history, get two of the three people that
we either know or discover, and then do a little
panel discussion with him.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Listen, I vote for Fred Jacobs to be on the
first episode of whatever we do with that. Okay, good.
I can't tell you how many times I've said to people, Oh, yeah,
he's my uncle.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
He's my uncle. No relationship.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
By the way, April thirtieth, the Alman Brothers released Eat
a Peach in nineteen seventy two. Great tracks on that album,
Right Blue Sky, One Way.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Out, a lot of.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You know, there was trouble at that time, obviously too,
right Dwayne. In the middle of the recording of that album,
Dwayne got killed motorcycle accident.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah, so parts.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Of the album were recorded without Dwayne being alive. Right
Blue Sky in One Way Out were done while he
was alive, and then they used his tracks for Ain't
Wasting Time No More and Melissa They were done after
his death with him obviously, So that was kind of
an interesting deal.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Some of my favorites and I remember listening to the
station that I would get to work at, WNWFM and
the morning guy back in those days when Eat a
Peach and that that era when stuff came out.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Dave Herman was the guy's name. Dave used to do
a little seven to ten in the morning benchmark. He
played Blue Sky every morning at seven ten e rees
during the summer.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, it wasn't cool.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Little thing that became his little signature. That's interesting the
thought that the album was named Eat a Peach because
Dwayne had a collision on his motorcycle with a peach truck.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
True or false?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I don't know. Let's go. I say probably true.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
You want to phone a friend? Is that your final answer?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
There are cash or prizes on the line, Derek Ferraros
in Vegas. If you're right, user has to pay the check.
So you think you say that I just need to
get this on record because you've paid every time. But
you say it's true, Dwayne Almond colliding with the peach
truck and that's why they called it Eat a Peach.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Oh, I say true?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Okay, buzz yeah, all right, let's.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Say what happens that's incorrect. Survey says it is long okay,
collided with a construction truck. Ah, all right, And it
was just the whole kind of peach thing. So I'll
still buy dinner anyway. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Listen, I love you for that.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
We can we talk, by the way about Ferraros for
just a minute, where legendary Vegas place. Not long ago,
you were out here for the National Association of Broadcasters
meeting the collection of executives, and you and I have
this routine where we eat it. Ferraros. It's a legendary
Vegas place. I've eaten there for the twenty five years.
I've been here. Every time you're here, you find your
(07:56):
way there. Generally it's us. We walked in on the
Sunday night of the NAB. Listen, I've been here twenty
five years. I'm a Boston guy. I like go in
places where people know me and they know my name.
But we walked into three different people from that restaurant
that all looked at you and didn't just say hello.
They shook your hand and said, oh, mister Knight, welcome back.
(08:19):
I'm like it was one.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It was like you paid people in advance to go.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I'm walking in with this Vegas guy, and I need
you to make sure you address me by name and
shake my hand and welcome me back.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
The King's greeting terribly aggravating, ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And it didn't stop there. The waiter at the tables like, oh,
mister Knight, welcome back. I'm like, got the shit are
you shitting me with this? And then we get all
the way through dinner and the guy who owns the restaurant,
the guy who gets to carry the thermometer in his
sleeve pocket and a white shirt, walks out and fist
(08:54):
bumps me. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's a very healthy moment
for you.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
And I was a win on that.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
But by the way, one of the guys did tell
us that he knows you and knows your name because
you emailed him basically every day leading up to it.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
For some reason or another.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I don't know what the story was with that, but
maybe pleading for recognition. I don't know if this was
the attention seeking behavior.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
There's a gap bit somewhere, you know, apparently being locked
in a closet does not have benefits.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
May first, Elvis married Priscilla here in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Big big deal. She was able to rein him in.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Was at one of those cheesy, you know, wedding Panels Is.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You know, I don't know. I would imagine it was
probably at the Hilton.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
That would have been my guest. I don't know the
answer to that.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
But the Hilton was his kind of home away from
Holmes sure while he played here, So I would imagine
that the Hilton did something for him. The Hilton's now
the Westgate. It's still there, still looks on the outside
exactly like it did, but but that happened one that way.
On the inside too exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I'll say it's rough, it's rough.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
They upgraded it a bit though, So Yeah. In nineteen
seventy one, Stones released Sticky Fingers, the album with the zipper,
a working zipper remember that, Oh yeah, absolutely on the cover.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That'll get your attention, yes it will, well not your attention, no,
but you know, ladies or whatever, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
In nineteen sixty five, Bob Dylan performed his first concert
using electric instruments. Did that at the Royal Albert Hall
in London, and that was a big deal, right. His
label and his you know, everyone around him wanted him
to continue to play acoustically and he began to experiment
(10:45):
with electric you know, management basically fighting with him about
playing electric versus playing the music that people want to
hear acoustically.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
There is some cool new Dylan information that's that's out
on this next you know, extended tour that he's even
a rough and rowdy tour or whatever it's it's called.
I think it's pretty interesting. So Bob for quite a
few years has.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Not been playing guitar.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
He's he's he's just been playing keyboard.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And I mean this honestly, this could be ten years
that he's stopped playing guitar, at least in concert. And
I'm led to believe it's due to some some issue
with you know, a hand or you know, something that
limits him in terms of the playing.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Apparently he's playing a song two, you know, playing some guitar.
So he's playing been playing.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Places like Sious City, Iowa, and Cedar Rapids in places
like that. But there's excitement in the Dylan fan base
because Bob is back playing some guitar.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
He has just just cheated while we were while you
were talking, he has arthritis and tendonitis, and that would
explain his lack of desire or ability to play. Yep,
he's bad playing.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Some always hires great musicians, you know, I heard a
story about G. E. Smith, and I want.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
To say, I wonder if did Nils Lofgren play I
know Nils played with Neil, but I think that Nil's
played with Dylan at some point. He may have. I'm
not sure about that. But you know who's on this
tour now?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Also, do you remember the great drummer Anton Figg who's
Letterman Letterman?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh? Yeah, Oh that's all right, he's drumming.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I remember the story that whoever it was G. Smith
or Nils or someone saying they had to learn one
hundred and sixty five songs before.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
They went out.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You know, guy's got to play fifteen during the night,
but they've got to know one hundred and sixty five
in case he gets a hair across his ass about
a certain You know, hey, I want to play Hurricane, right?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Can we do it?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
April thirty, at nineteen seventy five, the Vietnam War ended
with the fall of Saigon. A big day and a
war that, like most accomplished nothing for anybody.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
So yeah, episode sad Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
May second, nineteen sixty four, Beles did camp Buy Me
Love That It reached number one in the US. Third
consecutive chart topper for them. Springsteen released Darkness in seventy eight,
and in seventy two The Stones started their tour in
support of Exile on Main Street. They essentially fled the
(13:44):
UK because there were tax exiles, like, I guess just.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Tax cheats or tax frauds. I guess.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I don't know what that means, tax exile, like I
don't want to pay taxes.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
So I'm going to split.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, I think I'm not sure. But you know, knowing the.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Stones, maybe they didn't know at that moment exactly what
the do was either. Maybe they left it to some
crazy accountant, right, because I can't imagine they're obsessing about
doing their taxes.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
No, no, I can't. You know. The band all went
to different places.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Keith ended up renting a villa in the French Riviera.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I don't know if you know this story, but.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
In the basement is where they recorded Exile. They used
the mobile truck outside. Basically they ran everything outside. But
in the basement of that villa that Keith had rented
are tunnels leading outside of that villa, and the Nazis
used it during their.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Invasion of France.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It's insane, and that was in that that was in
that villa. But an unbelievable album, think about it, Tumbling Dice, Happy,
Sweet Virginia.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Just to name a few from that Monster.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
One of my favorites for sure. May third, nineteen sixty nine,
Hendrix was arrested at the Toronto International Airport for possession
of narcotics.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Surprise, surprise, Jimmy, what are you doing man?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I know, I mean, I know. Crazy.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Fleetwood Mac released their self titled album with Lindsey and
Stevie and James Brown was born in nineteen thirty three.
Speaking of crazy artists and drugs, James Brown and boys.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Was he rough on his band members with the whole
finding thing or what?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I think?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That still amazes me.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
How he just he would not allow for them to
miss a note, and he.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Charged they had to pay him.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
He fined them if really, if they missed the note
or did something that was outside of the musical scheme,
he wanted.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
His fifty dollars whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Why yeah, the tax for the wrong note tax.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
James Brown tough to work for and he ended up
in you know, crashing and burning, like he set a
hotel room on fire and you know, all beat up
his wife and just you know awful.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, but a legendary performer. Did you ever get a
chance to see him play?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
No, And by the time I was really interested, it was,
you know, living in America time for him on the road,
and that was just not a good time to see him.
I would love to have seen him in the sixties,
but I was, you know, just a young man. You
would have been able to see him because you were
like twenty and back in the sixties and you know,
you could have gone to a show testing twenty two
(16:32):
this working, this thing working. May fourth, nineteen seventy, the
National Guard fired on protesters at Kent State and this
inspired the classic Neil Young song.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Which song was this buzz Ohio? There you go?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, one time hitchhiking back from school at the University
of Dayton and Dayton, Ohio, back to Connecticut for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
On the way back hitchhiking. Did you really hitchhike from Dayton,
Ohio to Connecticut?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yes, sir, and uh, but we got stuck in Kent
State because of a big snowstorm, so we had a
we had to cool our heels for a day and
a half and Ken State.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Interesting, Holy crap, hitchhiking from Dayton to How long did
that take you, like snowhal or something?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I don't know, four days, Yeah, ridiculous. I don't think
I ever told my parents too.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
They didn't.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
They never questioned, like how you got homelick, but you know,
how'd you get home?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Bus?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I got a ride from some friends. There you go.
In nineteen seventy six, Bob Dylan released Desire in the UK.
Hurricane is one of my favorite songs. The story of
Ruben Carter, the boxer accused of murder that allegedly didn't do.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It right, and Bob, uh, you know, put himself out
there for something he believed.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Took up, took up the yeah, bought the police.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
In nineteen ninety six, the final original lineup of the
ramones I Guess played their last concert The Palace in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I never played again after that.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Well in that form was because they did take shape
with other people whose last name became Ramone who were
not originals, so they Yeah, it probably was other forms
that they played, but that was the one, the last one.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And that's this week, well, Harry's.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It was a very colorful week and thanks for giving
it to us for this week in music history, and
thanks to all of you for listening to the taket
a Walk podcast. We are available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
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