December 22, 2025 • 42 mins
Musical Journey Through the Final Week of December: This Week in Music History
As the calendar year draws to a close, the week of December 22nd through December 28th stands as a powerful reminder that music history never sleeps—not even during the holidays. In this captivating episode of “This Week in Music History,” hosts Buzz Knight and Harry Jacobs take listeners on an extraordinary journey through decades of musical milestones, tragic losses, and triumphant achievements that have shaped the soundtrack of our lives.
The conversation opens with a poignant reflection on the end of another year of exploring music’s rich tapestry. Buzz muses on how, despite covering similar calendar dates year after year, they continue to uncover new stories and perspectives. “When you think about it, you would think, well, if you do it year after year, you’re going to be talking about the same things,” Buzz observes. “And the truth is, we continue to uncover new and different things.” This sentiment perfectly captures the infinite depth of music history and the endless stories waiting to be told.
The Clash’s Revolutionary Voice Falls Silent
December 22nd marks the anniversary of one of punk rock’s most devastating losses—the death of Joe Strummer in 2002. Born John Meller, the Clash frontman passed away from pneumonia at a time when his influence on music and culture was still reverberating through generations of artists. The Clash represented more than just a band; they were a political and social force that challenged conventions and inspired countless musicians to use their platform for more than entertainment. Strummer’s legacy as a voice for the disenfranchised and his commitment to authentic, passionate rock and roll continues to inspire artists today.
A Candle in the Wind That Lost Its Luster
The hosts touch on Elton John’s iconic “Candle in the Wind,” originally written about Marilyn Monroe in 1967. While the song initially resonated as a beautiful tribute, its later reworking for Princess Diana’s funeral created what Buzz describes as “overkill.” The constant repetition following Diana’s tragic death in 1997 caused the song to lose some of its original emotional impact for many listeners. This phenomenon speaks to how even the most beautiful pieces of music can become dulled through overexposure, demonstrating the delicate balance between honoring memory and respecting the power of restraint.
Cheap Trick’s Complex Family Dynamics
A fascinating deep dive into the internal dynamics of Cheap Trick reveals the complicated nature of band relationships and business structures. Rick Nielsen, the legendary guitar player known for his collection of hundreds of guitars—including his famous five-neck Hamer guitar—represents the performative and creative heart of Cheap Trick. The band’s 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction marked a peak moment, but beneath the surface lay complex tensions.
The departure of bassist Bunny Carlos and the subsequent addition of Rick Nielsen’s son, Dax, initially appeared to follow the pattern of other famous rock family transitions, like Michael Anthony’s replacement by Wolfgang Van Halen in Van Halen. However, the reality proved far more nuanced. Buzz’s research uncovered ongoing strife within the band, though Carlos remains part of the Cheap Trick corporation—a business structure similar to Journey’s arrangement with Steve Perry. This setup ensures that founding members maintain ownership stakes even when they’re no longer actively touring, though it can also create lasting tension and legal complications.
The hosts explore the darker side of band politics, touching on stories of sabotage and ego clashes. There are tales of Journey band members allegedly pulling on Steve Perry’s microphone cord during performances to make him trip—petty acts of revenge that reveal the intense pressures and personalities at play in successful rock bands. Yet they also note that time can heal wounds, pointing to Perry and Neal Schon’s apparently warm relationship at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, despite whatever conflicts may have existed in their past.
The Therapeutic Approach: A New Model for Band Longevity
In a refreshing counterpoint to tales of band dysfunction, Buzz shares insights from his conversation with The Head and the Heart on his “Music Saved Me” podcast. This indie pop alternative band has taken an innovative approach to managing interpersonal relationships: group therapy. Band members openly discuss how they’ve used professional counseling to navigate the challenges of creative collaboration, life on the road, and the inevitable conflicts that arise when passionate artists work togeth
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
We'll look who's in the room. The master of music. Mayhem.
He suddenly appears.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I come bearing Mayhem. My gift is Mayhem. He comes
out of nowhere. He appears.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Welcome to the Taking a Walk Podcast to look at
music history for the week of December the twenty second.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What a year it's been. Welcome Harry Jacobs.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It is the end of the year. This is the
last episode of the year. You know, I think we
covered a lot of ground this year.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mean we really you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It's one of those things that when you think about it,
you would think, well, if you do it year after year,
you're going to be talking about the same things. And
the truth is, we continue to uncover new and different things.
As I look at what we're going to talk about
this week, I've got a couple of great examples of that,
and it continues to be a fun in the exciting
thing to do. And I bring the Mayhem.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Do any of those have anything to do I don't
know why I'm singling this band out, but it just
came to me. Do any of those moments of music
history have anything to do with depeche Mode?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Absolutely not. Okay, let the record show, no disrespect for them.
I'm not really mocking them. It just came to me
in a sense of whimsy. As much as I am,
you've put me in charge, including titling me. I don't
know that I would know the pest song Depeche Mode
song if it came on the radio right now. I
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don't think I can identify one. I mean I probably
might go, oh, I know that song. I didn't realize
who it was. I was never into that, that kind
of new wavy thing, and especially with them, for whatever reason,
it's just never caught my attention, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But we're not here to disparage a musical movement. We're
here to go through the week of December twenty second.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Or potential guests on the Take in a Walk podcast
more specifically cisely my friend December twenty second. Joe Strummer
from The Clash passed away in two thousand and two.
His real name was John Meller. He was fifty. He
died young, and you know he died He died taking
a walk.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh my god? Yeah, how eerie? Is that?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
What a way to go with his dogs with him.
He had a heart attack. He had the big one.
As Fred Sanford might say, and he allegedly had some
not allegedly, but apparently had some sort of a congenital
heart defect, which is called intro. I want to get
this right. Intramural coronary artery issue is what he had.
(02:43):
And that's where a major artery grows inside the heart muscle.
And it's so rare. There were only one hundred deaths
in fifty years prior to Joe Strummer's death.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
It's a crazy way to go, so certainly is, especially
with the name of the show.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, right, taking a Walk. Joe Stummer died taking a
Walk in nineteen seventy three. Good Bye Yellow Brick Road
started it. It's two week run at number one in
the UK. A bunch of great tracks on that Candle
in the Wind probably my least favorite Candle in the Wind.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I think at the time it was it was to
me a great record, but I think once everything happened
with Princess Diana and that version came out, it was
just to overkill, right, and hearing that song over and
over and over again just it lost its lust with me.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
You did say lust and lust? It's lust. Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I had a little hiccup. I just dated a protein
bar before we started, so kind of hiccup. But no,
my lust is still there. But Kle and the Wind
lost its luster with me when the Princess Diana.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Version of it came out.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Understood Benny and the Jets Funeral for a Friend, Benny
legendary song. That's a great song to hear in a bar.
Everyone starts popping their heads and tapping their feet.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Funeral for a Friend. Can't argue with that?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh that is That's an epic song, you know, a
loutch of great tracks. Nineteen forty nine, Maurice and Robin
Gibb were born the Beg's twin brothers. Big Day as
a Beg's fan, Big day in Beg's history. On this day,
I will be celebrating with a Beg's cake and probably
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listening to Saturday Night Fever. You know me, I do
know you? Okay, here's one of those things. The next
topic of discussion is Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick. It's
his birthday on December twenty second. I've been curious for
some time about what happened in that band with Bunny Carlos,
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so I want to talk about that I did some research.
I have some information. I recognize Rick on his birthday.
Legendary guitar player. The band was obviously nominated and brought
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in
twenty sixteen. He is obsessed with guitars. He owns hundreds
of guitars. He has one that's become very famous, Hamer guitar,
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five neck guitar, which he actually plays relentlessly, throws picks
out during the show shows he does with the band.
And you know, he's an interesting cat, very different offstage
than on stage. On stage, He's it's what they call performative,
(05:41):
I guess is the kind way to say it. You know,
the act, the Rick Nielsen act.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But he's a.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Methodical and very smart guy when you listen to him
talk well.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And so what's your suspicion on the Bunny Carlos departure?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I thought, because Dax Nielsen, who was Rick's son, is
now playing for the band, I thought this must have
been like a Michael Anthony, Eddie van Halen Wolfgang van
Halen situation where maybe Rick said, you know what, it's
time for my son to step in, and would he
actually kicked Bunny Carlos out of the band, and I
(06:18):
started to do some legwork and realized that there was
a strife in that band. It still exists today and
Bunny Carlos, as much as he's not on tour with
that band, it's still a situation like Steve Perry with Journey,
where Bunny Carlos is still part of the Cheap Trick corporation.
There was an issue that prevented Bunny Carlos in twenty
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ten from stopping touring with the band.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You know, there were.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Strife the relationships, I think a bunch of things. It's
like what can happen in a relationship. One thing happens,
and then another and another, and then you know something,
there's a straw that the camel's back, and you know,
Bunny Carlos end up suing Rick and Cheap Trick at
one point. There were creative issues, there were business issues,
(07:10):
and you know it, it got to the point where
they replaced him in twenty ten, and they never really
announced his departure from the band. It was just Dak
stepping in. And that's because Bunny Carlos is still part
of Cheap Trick. Technically, we just don't see him.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, maybe that was part of the whole settlement too. Okay,
we're gonna, you know, allow you to still be part
of the corporation and any royalties, and you know, our
part of the deal is giving that to you, and
you're part of the deal. Is you just kind of
went away. I'd be curious to know. You know, it's
(07:49):
kind of a it's like the mob discussion. I mean,
it's a bit like the Mob.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, yeah, really, it is like you you're always part
of this. You can't go it's it's it's Hell's Angels Mob,
any of those, any of those clubs, if you will.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And I'd be.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Curious to know how many bands are set up like
that right as corporation, so if someone leaves, they still
maintain some level of ownership. I've only heard about it.
Journey was the only thing I knew about because of
how much energy seems to be behind Steve Perry coming
back to join the band, and at some point that
story came out that he was still part of the corporation.
(08:29):
So with Cheap Trick, it's interesting, and that's that's one
where there was an ugly end with with Journey, there
was no ugly end. You know, Steve just was ready
to move on, and Neil has been anxious to get
him back in the band.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He won't do it all right, But I heard back
with the journey Piece that there was so much hatred
for Steve Perry back in the day that when his
microphone cord was somehow available for or a roadie or
another band member to get a hold of as he
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was singing, that they would try to sway the chord,
enabling him to trip while he was in the middle
of his performance.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh gosh, So I remember.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I don't know if that's true, but I remember hearing that,
And so it makes you think that, you know, there's
a lot of high school in these bands basically over
the years. You know, there's so much time together, there's
so much on the road, there's so much ego. It
probably all this stuff happens, probably more than we even
(09:41):
ever find out about.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
You know, sabotage. It's like you know, hutting. You know,
in a way this.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Is over dramatized, but it's like cutting a brake line,
you know, someone's car. It's like, we're going to do
something to sabotage you, to make you that's right.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Look bad to look bad.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to look into the thing with
with Journey because you know they were at the Hall
of Fame together, right, everything looks good Steve, Steve and
Neil speak very highly of each other.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But who knows.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I mean, at the time, it could have been you know,
he's listen, he's a lead singer, didn't play an instrument.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Probably ego involved how Bed. Over time they're like, jeez,
I really couldn't stand him during that period, but I'm
not even sure why.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You know, it's like, you know Dennisty Young and Styx.
You know, you listen to Tommy Shaw's description of that
situation to me, is is great. It's like being married
and sharing a kid with someone. When it was the description,
I thought, well, is that brilliant. It was like he
and he was married to Dennisty Young and the songs
of other great music were their kids, and so they
(10:51):
have shared custody. He's like, you know, you have to
co parent, but you don't want to deal with that person.
You don't want that person over at Thanksgiving, you don't
want to been holidays and all of that. And and
that may be an example too of this but you know,
we're talking about tons and tons of ego, which makes.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Me think about this band that we had them on
Taking a Walk and had them on Music Saved Me.
I don't know if you've heard of them, Harry, but
they're a great sort of indie pop alternative band. They're
called The Head and the Heart, and they've been together
a long time and they've had members who have left
and some new members that have come in.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
They're a delightful band. Individually, they're delightful, but they admit
in the conversation, particularly on the Music Saved Me episode,
that unabashedly they talk about the fact that as a
band they have gone through therapy and they continue to
go through therapy. So you wonder if they're onto something
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in terms of how to deal with the strife of
you know, creativity in the road.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
But you know, and how many bands could have eliminated
a lot of the heartache if they went through therapy.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
You know, it's an interesting, interesting thing to think about,
and and when you do think about how deeply personal
the music itself is to these folks and the artists
that are even if it's not you know, even if
it's a drummer or a bass player. It's still your
piece of that performance of that song.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
You left your heart out there, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It doesn't go away, right. This is your perspective on
not your perspective, but your your gift.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
You're forever out there.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, yeah, you don't get you don't get to put
the toothpaste back in the tube, you don't get to
unring the bell. Right, So it doesn't surprise me to
hear that. You know, there's going to be strife your
perspect still are they still they still admit that they are.
That's still part of them dealing with, you know, the
rigors of the road. It's it's probably a healthy way
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to deal with things versus letting the shit hit the fan, right,
as they say. Right in twenty fourteen, let's move on
to this date, December twenty second. In twenty fourteen, Joe
Cocker passed away at seventy. Seventy used to seem so old.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And now you know.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Me at sixty and you almost seventy. You know, just
probably months or a year or two away from seventy,
doesn't seem that old, doesn't, H? Go ahead, speak h,
It really doesn't. Yeah, So Choe Cocker at seventy. He
(13:45):
you know, he had his battles over the years, but again,
you know, against seventy, it just doesn't seem that old
right now.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well, he certainly didn't take care of himself, so no,
he did not.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
His performances were expressive and explosive. You know, the John
Belushi imitation of Joe Cocker was so spot on and
so great. You know, he did it for Joe. It
was very funny.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I saw Joe Cocker open for the Jefferson Airplane at
the film or East Oh did you really? Yeah? What
year was that? Sixty nine?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I think the first the breakthrough for him was with
a little help from my friends.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, it was that first album Yeah, which I think
was one of the first or second albums I ever bought.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
As well.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
That song ended up going on to be the theme
for the TV show The Wonder Years. And then I
think that the song that was his biggest hit was
that due at from an Officer and a Gentleman up
where we Belong?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
And you know, I remember I loved that Jennifer Warrens
was that Jennifer.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Exactly right, exactly right, your pop See you're in touch
with pop music and I'm in Touch with Myself.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
In nineteen it.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Was of our prom theme Dherty High School and Worcester,
mass nineteen eighty two. But an Officer and Gentlemen, What
a great movie that was, Richard Gear, Lou Gossip, I
got nowhere else to go, right, what a movie that was.
Lou Gossipp was frightening in that and Gear was great.
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So but that's you know, Joe Cocker, you know, really
known for a lot of things, but those were the
two big ones up where we belonged with Jennifer Warrens
and his cover of Help from My Friends. So nineteen
seventy nine. The last number one record of the year
in nineteen seventy nine was Escape a Pina Colatta saw
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oh Ye, one of the worst songs of all time.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That tortured me because it was a point in time
where I don't know why, I don't know who, but
it was on the playlist that I ninety five there
in Connecticut, and yeah, I don't know, I don't know,
I don't know who to blame.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I don't know if I'm to blame, I'm not sure.
But it was part of the mix there and it
stuck out like a freaking sort thumb. Yeah, whoa what
at all? This? Let's move on.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
December twenty third is Eddie Vedder's birthday. Born in nineteen
sixty four. He you know, what a what a good dude.
He seems like you know to me.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
He he's a guy with an appreciation for those that
have come before him, which is like, no, it's like
Dave Grohl in a way, right, They're very similar like that.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Eddie's a huge Springsteen fan, was a huge Tom Petti fan.
He's never shy about playing other people's music. And you know,
he is just a guy who who gives a ship
and he's present. He and Neil Young their version of
rocking in the free world, I mean really kind of
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made him famous in a way in those circles. And
his version of anything he's done by the Who but
Love Rain or Me is legendary.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
He just belts it out anything he covered, anything he covers,
I think it's great. The Waiting, his version of the
Waiting with the Heartbreakers is amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I like the one too from the Bear that he
did the cover of the English Beat song Save it
for later.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
You know, I have not seen the Bear.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, you know, obviously he's a he's an important person
to us and had a very good year this year, right.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I just like how they twist up the soundtracks for
that that that show, and how You'll find something and
you go, wait a minute, that sounds like Eddie Vedder
doing the English beat, and and then the way that
they intersperse it is brilliant on the show. But yeah,
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Eddie Vedder strikes me as someone that when we're going
to look back further, we're going to say, that's somebody
that aged very gracefully.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
In in terms of his next chapters of life. Yeah,
and their music, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I I've never seen them because I, you know, I
tend to be someone who likes to in general hear
the stuff I know and pro Jim you know, it's
famous for playing for going deep in shows. But but
there's not really anything. I can't justify that in my
in my own crazy mind, because when I hear him
sing something, I'm always captivated by it, you know, whatever
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whatever the it is. He did a did you watch
the show Bad Monkey with Vince Vaughn.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I tried to and did not didn't stick with it,
And I love Vince Vaughan. It's a very good show.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
And that show the soundtrack was was great sound Yeah,
all covers of Tom Petty songs. And you know you
had Larkin Poel who did a gray version of Running
Down a Dream. Yeah, just a barn burner. But there's
a version of Room with the Top, the Tom Petty
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song on there. That's the first song on the soundtrack
and it's Eddie and his version of Room at the
Top is so beautiful. I mean, he really is. Just
you know, he's got a gift. Oh yeah, he's like
Neil Young in a way to me with what his
voice does. Sure, so I'm a big fan. But December
twenty third, nineteen sixty four Eddie Vedder's birthday. In nineteen
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sixty four, Brian Wilson, head Up Breakdown, had a mental
health episode while on tour with the Beach Boys. They
were out at Christmas time and Glenn Campbell stepped in
to actually fill in for him, and you know, I'm
reminded of Glenn. I was never a big country music
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fan when I was a young man, and when he
passed away, I started to see all these tributes everywhere,
and I had no idea what a legend. He really was,
not just with country music, but as a guitar player.
He was a guy that, you know, the more I
looked into him, the more I realized there was nothing
he couldn't do.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
He was like Roy Clark.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
We don't associate country music often with really amazing guitar players,
and there are some amazing guitar players in country music.
And of course we're talking about time now. With those
two examples, I gave you Roy Clark and Glenn Campbell.
But Glenn Campbell was a part of the Beach Boys
before joining them in sixty four because he was in
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the Wrecking Crew. So he was part of this group
of guys, all men and one woman that would play
on the soundtrack of not the soundtrack, but play on
all these albums with you know, with different folks, the
Monkeys and the Beach Boys. He was on Sinatra sessions
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and Elvis movie soundtracks, and he played on I think
he played on a couple of Phil Spector soundtracks as well.
But really really great guitar player. So, but Brian Wilson
had his breakdown at sixty four and Glenn Campbell, we're
kind of far off off the topic.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
There.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
But but Brian had had an awful mental health episode,
and you know this, I think this is around the
time where he decided he didn't want to tour with
the Beach Boys. He wanted to focus on the music.
He wanted to focus on the production aspect of it,
and didn't want to be on the He wasn't built
for it, you know, he was he was built for
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writing and singing, wasn't really built for the touring and
fame aspect of it.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
And sadly it was only the beginning of his real
severe health issues really, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, and his you know, listen, We've talked about this
a lot. This is a you know, he was in
an abusive relationship at home. You know, his father's was
like you know, Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson, Jackson's father. I mean,
this was the guy who was you know, who had issues,
who was abusing his his kids emotionally.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
And that's the toll that kind of abuse takes. So
in two thousand and seven, on December twenty third, the
Police were named the highest earning tour of that year.
And of course this was kind of long after the breakup.
This was the reunion in two thousand and seven. But
they you know, it was thirty years after the band
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inception and their first reunion in twenty four to twenty
five years at that point. And I saw that, I
saw that tour. They were here in Vegas. They did
a show, did one hundred and fifty plus shows around
the world, and they made about three almost four hundred
million dollars that year.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Not a bad little payday. No. You ever get a
chance to see them in their heyday or on the reunion.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Not on the reunion, but in the heyday, and I
saw him a number of times, and so I sting
solo as well, and great shows, you know, just solid,
you know, beginning to end.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Great catalog, great experience for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
In two thousand and two, Sir Paul McCartney was granted
his own coat of Arms by the College of Arms.
I cannot answer any questions for you about the coat
of Arms or the College of Arms, anyone listening. You
got to do that research on your own. I started
to go down the rabbit hole and I thought, I
just means nothing to me, But it's Paul McCartney. It's
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another reward for Paul McCartney, who we love that's right.
In nineteen sixty seven, Elton John and Bernie Toppen met
for the first time, and this was the beginning of
a relationship that has lasted at this point fifty eight
(24:28):
years or something along those lines. I was told there
be no math today. And I was born in sixty
six and I'm going to be sixty, so fifty nine years.
You were told there was going to be no math, right.
I was told there be no math when I woke up.
Will there be math today? Will there'll be no math?
I was told, Ma, there will be I answered that question.
I asked that question. Every day, math today or no math?
(24:48):
Every day should be a potentially no math day. But
it just doesn't work that way. Yeah, I prefer no
math or to have my phone nearby. In twenty twenty, West,
the lead singer and guitarist from Mountain, passed away of
a heart attack. This was, you know, sad passing. I
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didn't know much about Mountain beyond Mississippi, Queen.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You theme from an Imaginary Western was the other day? Yeah,
all right.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Did we play that song ever at ZLX or did you?
I would imagine in your career you played it somewhere,
but I don't remember. It doesn't even ring a bell
with me.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I think it showed up on the t of A
to Z on wnwfm's A to Z Gotcha all Right?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
So obscure They covered some obscure stuff on those lists.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Nineteen eighty eight, December twenty fourth, Christmas Eve, Nirvana began
recording Bleach, their debut album, and About a Girl was
probably the biggest song on that album.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Fun time to start recording, right.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I'm looking at that. I was looking at this as
I was getting prepared, and I thought, why do you
start something on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah? And why not? I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
In nineteen sixty five, Rubber Soul was number one All
Worlds come back to the Beatles and number one somehow.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
And in seventy six, Hotel California spent the first of
eight weeks at the top of the charts that inside
the top two hundred. The album was on and off.
They weren't eight consecutive weeks, but Hotel California was up there.
It was an important album that came out around the
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end of the year in nineteen seventy six, so legendary album.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
The rest is history that is it.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
December twenty fifth, Christmas Day, James Brown died of pneumonia,
and we can talk about James just an amazing artist
who tragically went off the rails, kind of all tying
back out to mental health and drug use or abuse.
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I just get done watching the Eddie Murphy documentary called
Being Eddie, which I thought was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Me too. He's so articulate.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
He loves he loves Eddie though he does and that's okay, right,
there's a healthy you know, he says that. He says, I,
you know, I love myself, I you know, And but
it's one of those things where you When I heard
I thought, well, that's a ridiculous thing to say. Could
I ever get away with saying that? And I thought no,
he says it very well. I don't think he said
(27:44):
anything that was out of place or was wrong, right,
I mean, the guy's you know, he's a stunt.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
It's a great documentary, and your reference point is him
playing James Brown.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, and the conversation that he talks about in the
dressing room with Chris Rock and I think Dave Chappelle
where they I can't use the word, but they're you know,
Eddie is describing this conversation he had with James Brown
and James Brown's wife and and them not believing that
Eddie actually had a million dollars. And James Brown says, essentially,
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any man of color that has a million dollars needs
to pick up the phone, call the bank and go
get it and bury it in his yard because you
know the government's gonna take it, right and and and
Eddie said, well, why, you know, why would I bury
it in my backyard. The government could take my land.
He said, yeah, but they won't know where it's buried, right.
(28:41):
Javed Brown was just out of his mind. And you
know a little plug for the Eddie doc. Watch it
if you're a fan of m especially the way it ends.
Oh yeable, Absolutely, it's great. By the way, James didn't
trust anyone, Obviously, the statement I just relayed and that
we heard in the documentary self explanatory. He didn't trust anyone.
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He lost money, tons of bad business deals. And you know,
he had a bad run. Hugely talented guy, but he
made some he made some bad decisions and he let
himself on fire, and he was a bad drug user,
and he struggled it's unfortunate because his talent was amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Oh yeah, I mean just what a persona too, absolutely
what a leader of a band?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I'm not sure it was the best for him to
have the finding process that he had his band members,
but yet he wanted to get the most out of them,
so that was his way of making sure that he did.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
He always wanted his money on the fines.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
He held his hand out in the middle of the
sh show at the end of the show.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
He wanted that money.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
What Buzz is referring to is if someone in the
band made a mistake, whatever that mistake may be, there
would be It's like a swear jar. Oh yeah, right,
you know you you had to put your money in
and or or you were you were out. He was
meticulous in how he wanted things done, for sure, and
you know, it is what it did. I don't know
that I ever would have survived working for him, but
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any of us would. But but he did what he did.
Nineteen eighty two, David Bowie and Crosby had the number
one hit in the United Kingdom with Peace on Earth
and The Little Drummer Boy. Kind of an interesting pairing
those two so great yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Great. So it was bold as Bowie always was.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And you know the song when it would come out
this time of year and be played, Oh yeah, to
this day still sounds odd, but absolutely it was.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
It was Bowie doing what he wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Nineteen ninety five, Dean Martin died, half of Martin and
Lewis with Jerry Lewis. I remember when you know Jerry
Lewis died. He was kind of a neighbor. He lived
a couple miles up the road, and I remember it
was sad. There were all these little yellow and black
signs on light poles near where I live, and up
and down Eastern Avenue in Henderson here outside of Las Vegas.
(31:20):
Jerry Lewis estate sale at the house. You could go
to the house. That's crazy at any rate. He was
a partner of the legendary Dean Martin, who, as I
understand it, played a drunk, never really drank.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
A lot, as legend would have it. As they say,
that's right, allegedly, as legend would have it. Allegedly, that's
not true. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Nineteen seventy December twenty sixth, My Sweet Lord began a
four week run at number one one of the sweetest
songs of all time. In my opinion, he was the
first beatle to have a number one song after the
Beals broke out No Great Song, Great Great Song nineteen
eighty one. Ac DC ran for three weeks at number one.
(32:07):
For those about to rock, I remember road tripping from
Worcester to the Providence and Civic Center. We sat in
the ninth row, the cannons that went off, and the
big bell that was there. I mean it was it
was still to this day was the loudest thing I've
ever experienced, and I will never forget it for as
(32:29):
long as I lived. I was an ac DC nutt.
I was sixteen or seventeen years old or something, sixteen
years bill probably.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
At the time. Did you wear the shorts like they
did the angus is shorts? No, No, I didn't. But
would you consider that now?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That would be a ridiculous look for me right now,
No more ridiculous than Angus looks now seventy wearing it.
It's not what we would call a flattering look.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
At all. I can't you know, There's been a.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Bunch of stuff, you know, social media is just the
worst for these poor guys that are out there doing it,
but there's you know, isolated stuff of his singing, you know,
background or playing, And well, I want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
That because because I uh had specific commentary from a
bunch of different people locally.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
And then you know elsewhere nationally that saw a c
DC on this last round of shows and absolutely just
like loved it and had no problem with it.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Now, granted, these were big stadium shows, so you don't
really see the warts, but they loved the experience. And
then after that show, those shows, or after they're off
the road, then this stuff starts surfacing to really expose
it as not being that great musically. And I don't
(33:54):
know what to believe, you know, because I know these
people who went to the show spent money, spent real
money to go on there. They didn't get free tickets
like we used to doing radio. They spent money and
that was an experience.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
That was there one or two shows that they would
go to every year, and they absolutely loved it.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
So I don't know what to believe at this point.
First of all, a night out at a concert is
an ordeal. That's a couple hundred bucks anyway, right without dinner, right,
just the tickets alone, never mind parking and you know,
maybe buying a shirt or a couple of drinks or whatever.
It's an expensive ordeal. Number one. Number two, addressing your
(34:33):
issue directly, we are in a place and a time
in our world where people just cannot shut the f up. Honestly,
I mean, we are in a place where if someone
is having some success, there is no shortage of people
lurking around the corner laying in wait if you will
(34:56):
to cut them down right. I mean, I'm a I
would love to have seen ac DC, but I wasn't
going to pay three hundred bucks a ticket to go
down to the MGM and fuss with parking in the
strip and in all of that for a decent seat.
The video I saw of the show and I you know,
(35:16):
I literally, I mean I follow them. I after that
first show, I was looking on social media for you know,
for YouTube or for Instagram for clips to see how
they sounded and what they look like. And listen there
you know, they're seventy years old. Plus what did you
think Angus Young is going to look like? He's not
going to look like when we saw him on on
for those about the rock or you know, what do
(35:39):
you think you're gonna get You're gonna get a guy
who's you know, who's older. It's not as bad as
Frankie Valley, right, but it's not Angus nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Have you seen, by the way, have we seen the
Frankie Valley stuff? Yeah? I have.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I think he should adopt the shorts that that Angus.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Those shorts he.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Needs to retire one where I go, Okay, you got
a point. But back to ac DC. There's no shortage
of people trying to cut people down. I mean they're
doing shows, They're doing huge stadium shows and the music
sounds good and people love it, so yeah, why not
give them a break?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
The canceled culture needs to go away, needs to be canceled.
In sixty eight, led Zepp went on their first tour
in the US. They were support for Vanilla Fudge and Spirit.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Isn't that crazy you think about that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
It is crazy, insane really when you think about it
and what they became. December twenty sixth is also Boxing
Day in the UK, and I really I never paid attention.
I never really dug into it, but Boxing Day is
kind of interesting. The origins are that it comes out
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of wealthy families. It came out of wealthy families in
the United Kingdom that it was the day after Christmas
where they would literally box up gifts and leftovers and
money for their servants and trades people and postman. And
it's something that's still recognized today. It's it's it's the
(37:17):
biggest shopping day of the year in the United Kingdom.
It's bigger than Black Friday is here, and you know,
it's a it's a big deal. I was curious about
it and it did a little research. I'm ready for
the I'm ready for the test.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
You know, when I thought you said Boxing Day, I
thought you were going to go back to your you know,
your Tyson days, you know, taking boxing lessons from them.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Yeah, no, this is this is the holiday Boxing Day.
Nothing to do with Mike Tyson. There you go.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
A couple more stories for the week. December twenty seventh's
got while and passed away a couple of days after
Christmas in twenty fifteen, a sad day for him and
his family and the stp fans, just a bad day.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
And Queen this is interesting. There's a little Queen info.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I didn't know they get their first number one album
Night at the Opera in nineteen seventy five and Bohemian
Rhapsody and You're My Best Friend are on that The
album was reported to be, at the time of the
most expensive album ever done.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
And they took the title. Here's what I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
They took the title from the Marx Brothers movie A
Night at the Opera.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Oh there you Go.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
And they did it again with the follow up, which
was A Day at the Races. I had no idea
There you Go that they were Marx Brothers fans. I
have a new appreciation for Queen There you Go. In
sixty nine, led Zeppelin two knocked Abbey Road out of
the number one spot the number one Billboard album chart,
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and Double Fantasy began its eight week run at number one.
You know, I I went back to listen to Last
Weeks This Week in Music History on Monday, November eighth,
and you know, I was thinking about John Lennon and
then realized, you know that how big you know, Double
(39:15):
Fantasy ended up becoming obviously as a result, and literally
a week later it began eight weeks at number one.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
This week. Great great work, great music. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Mark Knopfler's birthday in nineteen fifty two, and just a
couple more things. December twenty eighth, Beatles White Album hit
number one in sixty eight. This was an interesting album
because it wasn't titled the White Album. It think about this,
It was there I want to let me just get
this right album number nine, and it was just titled
the Beatles, but it was named by all of us
(39:51):
fans the White Album. Have you gotten the White Album yet?
The White Album appears nowhere on that album at all.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Little is she going to call? Yeah, you're just gonna
call it that.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
And in nineteen eighty three, on this day, and this
is kind of an ironic thing, one of two members
of the Beach Boys that were actual surfers, Dennis Wilson,
drowned on this day, right, Brian and Carl. Carl was
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the only I think that that Dennis and Carl were
the only two members that actually surfed and were strong swimmers.
And Wilson, Dennis Wilson actually was diving off the back
of a friend's boat to grab something that had fallen
into the water and never never came back up. Yeah,
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that's crazy. In marine at del Rey, which is a
beautiful place and.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
With that sad story.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
That's the week ending December twenty eighth, This week of
music History.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
It's quite a week. You would think around the holidays
it cools down, but it doesn't. There's always things happening.
There's always Mayhem.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Yeah, and again, you know, a couple of weeks ago,
I said to you, we're getting to that point where
I was thinking, maybe we rerun something from last year
or the year.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
You know what I mean, We've run something else.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
And then as I began to do the research again,
I found different stuff to talk about.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
And next week is the same thing.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
The week of New Year's, the week between Christmas and
New Year's there's a lot of stuff to talk about
that I didn't realize.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
We never found last. As long as we don't go
disco heavy listen, I am the master of music Mayhem.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
I am the curator of content for this week in
music History.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Need I go on?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
I can go James Brown on this if you want.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
You don't know, finds necessary.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
The curator of content. There might be something disco. We'll
figure it out. I'll tease you. We're going to talk
Bo Diddley and we're gonna talk Jimmy Hendrix. A little
bit during the week of the twenty ninth of January fourth,
next week.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
On this Week in Music History. All right, well, thank
you Giorgio Marauder, and
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Thank you Master of Music Mayhem, Harry Jacobs, and thanks
to all of you for listening to this Week and
Music History for the week of December to twenty second
We'll look who's in the room. The master of music. Mayhem.
He suddenly appears.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I come bearing Mayhem. My gift is Mayhem. He comes
out of nowhere. He appears.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Welcome to the Taking a Walk Podcast to look at
music history for the week of December the twenty second.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What a year it's been. Welcome Harry Jacobs.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It is the end of the year. This is the
last episode of the year. You know, I think we
covered a lot of ground this year.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mean we really you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It's one of those things that when you think about it,
you would think, well, if you do it year after year,
you're going to be talking about the same things. And
the truth is, we continue to uncover new and different things.
As I look at what we're going to talk about
this week, I've got a couple of great examples of that,
and it continues to be a fun in the exciting
thing to do. And I bring the Mayhem.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Do any of those have anything to do I don't
know why I'm singling this band out, but it just
came to me. Do any of those moments of music
history have anything to do with depeche Mode?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Absolutely not. Okay, let the record show, no disrespect for them.
I'm not really mocking them. It just came to me
in a sense of whimsy. As much as I am,
you've put me in charge, including titling me. I don't
know that I would know the pest song Depeche Mode
song if it came on the radio right now. I
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don't think I can identify one. I mean I probably
might go, oh, I know that song. I didn't realize
who it was. I was never into that, that kind
of new wavy thing, and especially with them, for whatever reason,
it's just never caught my attention, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But we're not here to disparage a musical movement. We're
here to go through the week of December twenty second.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Or potential guests on the Take in a Walk podcast
more specifically cisely my friend December twenty second. Joe Strummer
from The Clash passed away in two thousand and two.
His real name was John Meller. He was fifty. He
died young, and you know he died He died taking
a walk.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh my god? Yeah, how eerie? Is that?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
What a way to go with his dogs with him.
He had a heart attack. He had the big one.
As Fred Sanford might say, and he allegedly had some
not allegedly, but apparently had some sort of a congenital
heart defect, which is called intro. I want to get
this right. Intramural coronary artery issue is what he had.
(02:43):
And that's where a major artery grows inside the heart muscle.
And it's so rare. There were only one hundred deaths
in fifty years prior to Joe Strummer's death.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
It's a crazy way to go, so certainly is, especially
with the name of the show.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, right, taking a Walk. Joe Stummer died taking a
Walk in nineteen seventy three. Good Bye Yellow Brick Road
started it. It's two week run at number one in
the UK. A bunch of great tracks on that Candle
in the Wind probably my least favorite Candle in the Wind.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I think at the time it was it was to
me a great record, but I think once everything happened
with Princess Diana and that version came out, it was
just to overkill, right, and hearing that song over and
over and over again just it lost its lust with me.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
You did say lust and lust? It's lust. Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I had a little hiccup. I just dated a protein
bar before we started, so kind of hiccup. But no,
my lust is still there. But Kle and the Wind
lost its luster with me when the Princess Diana.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Version of it came out.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Understood Benny and the Jets Funeral for a Friend, Benny
legendary song. That's a great song to hear in a bar.
Everyone starts popping their heads and tapping their feet.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Funeral for a Friend. Can't argue with that?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh that is That's an epic song, you know, a
loutch of great tracks. Nineteen forty nine, Maurice and Robin
Gibb were born the Beg's twin brothers. Big Day as
a Beg's fan, Big day in Beg's history. On this day,
I will be celebrating with a Beg's cake and probably
(04:34):
listening to Saturday Night Fever. You know me, I do
know you? Okay, here's one of those things. The next
topic of discussion is Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick. It's
his birthday on December twenty second. I've been curious for
some time about what happened in that band with Bunny Carlos,
(04:56):
so I want to talk about that I did some research.
I have some information. I recognize Rick on his birthday.
Legendary guitar player. The band was obviously nominated and brought
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in
twenty sixteen. He is obsessed with guitars. He owns hundreds
of guitars. He has one that's become very famous, Hamer guitar,
(05:21):
five neck guitar, which he actually plays relentlessly, throws picks
out during the show shows he does with the band.
And you know, he's an interesting cat, very different offstage
than on stage. On stage, He's it's what they call performative,
(05:41):
I guess is the kind way to say it. You know,
the act, the Rick Nielsen act.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But he's a.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Methodical and very smart guy when you listen to him
talk well.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And so what's your suspicion on the Bunny Carlos departure?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I thought, because Dax Nielsen, who was Rick's son, is
now playing for the band, I thought this must have
been like a Michael Anthony, Eddie van Halen Wolfgang van
Halen situation where maybe Rick said, you know what, it's
time for my son to step in, and would he
actually kicked Bunny Carlos out of the band, and I
(06:18):
started to do some legwork and realized that there was
a strife in that band. It still exists today and
Bunny Carlos, as much as he's not on tour with
that band, it's still a situation like Steve Perry with Journey,
where Bunny Carlos is still part of the Cheap Trick corporation.
There was an issue that prevented Bunny Carlos in twenty
(06:43):
ten from stopping touring with the band.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You know, there were.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Strife the relationships, I think a bunch of things. It's
like what can happen in a relationship. One thing happens,
and then another and another, and then you know something,
there's a straw that the camel's back, and you know,
Bunny Carlos end up suing Rick and Cheap Trick at
one point. There were creative issues, there were business issues,
(07:10):
and you know it, it got to the point where
they replaced him in twenty ten, and they never really
announced his departure from the band. It was just Dak
stepping in. And that's because Bunny Carlos is still part
of Cheap Trick. Technically, we just don't see him.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, maybe that was part of the whole settlement too. Okay,
we're gonna, you know, allow you to still be part
of the corporation and any royalties, and you know, our
part of the deal is giving that to you, and
you're part of the deal. Is you just kind of
went away. I'd be curious to know. You know, it's
(07:49):
kind of a it's like the mob discussion. I mean,
it's a bit like the Mob.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, yeah, really, it is like you you're always part
of this. You can't go it's it's it's Hell's Angels Mob,
any of those, any of those clubs, if you will.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And I'd be.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Curious to know how many bands are set up like
that right as corporation, so if someone leaves, they still
maintain some level of ownership. I've only heard about it.
Journey was the only thing I knew about because of
how much energy seems to be behind Steve Perry coming
back to join the band, and at some point that
story came out that he was still part of the corporation.
(08:29):
So with Cheap Trick, it's interesting, and that's that's one
where there was an ugly end with with Journey, there
was no ugly end. You know, Steve just was ready
to move on, and Neil has been anxious to get
him back in the band.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He won't do it all right, But I heard back
with the journey Piece that there was so much hatred
for Steve Perry back in the day that when his
microphone cord was somehow available for or a roadie or
another band member to get a hold of as he
(09:05):
was singing, that they would try to sway the chord,
enabling him to trip while he was in the middle
of his performance.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh gosh, So I remember.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I don't know if that's true, but I remember hearing that,
And so it makes you think that, you know, there's
a lot of high school in these bands basically over
the years. You know, there's so much time together, there's
so much on the road, there's so much ego. It
probably all this stuff happens, probably more than we even
(09:41):
ever find out about.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
You know, sabotage. It's like you know, hutting. You know,
in a way this.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Is over dramatized, but it's like cutting a brake line,
you know, someone's car. It's like, we're going to do
something to sabotage you, to make you that's right.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Look bad to look bad.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to look into the thing with
with Journey because you know they were at the Hall
of Fame together, right, everything looks good Steve, Steve and
Neil speak very highly of each other.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But who knows.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I mean, at the time, it could have been you know,
he's listen, he's a lead singer, didn't play an instrument.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Probably ego involved how Bed. Over time they're like, jeez,
I really couldn't stand him during that period, but I'm
not even sure why.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You know, it's like, you know Dennisty Young and Styx.
You know, you listen to Tommy Shaw's description of that
situation to me, is is great. It's like being married
and sharing a kid with someone. When it was the description,
I thought, well, is that brilliant. It was like he
and he was married to Dennisty Young and the songs
of other great music were their kids, and so they
(10:51):
have shared custody. He's like, you know, you have to
co parent, but you don't want to deal with that person.
You don't want that person over at Thanksgiving, you don't
want to been holidays and all of that. And and
that may be an example too of this but you know,
we're talking about tons and tons of ego, which makes.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Me think about this band that we had them on
Taking a Walk and had them on Music Saved Me.
I don't know if you've heard of them, Harry, but
they're a great sort of indie pop alternative band. They're
called The Head and the Heart, and they've been together
a long time and they've had members who have left
and some new members that have come in.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
They're a delightful band. Individually, they're delightful, but they admit
in the conversation, particularly on the Music Saved Me episode,
that unabashedly they talk about the fact that as a
band they have gone through therapy and they continue to
go through therapy. So you wonder if they're onto something
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in terms of how to deal with the strife of
you know, creativity in the road.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
But you know, and how many bands could have eliminated
a lot of the heartache if they went through therapy.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
You know, it's an interesting, interesting thing to think about,
and and when you do think about how deeply personal
the music itself is to these folks and the artists
that are even if it's not you know, even if
it's a drummer or a bass player. It's still your
piece of that performance of that song.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
You left your heart out there, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It doesn't go away, right. This is your perspective on
not your perspective, but your your gift.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
You're forever out there.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, yeah, you don't get you don't get to put
the toothpaste back in the tube, you don't get to
unring the bell. Right, So it doesn't surprise me to
hear that. You know, there's going to be strife your
perspect still are they still they still admit that they are.
That's still part of them dealing with, you know, the
rigors of the road. It's it's probably a healthy way
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to deal with things versus letting the shit hit the fan, right,
as they say. Right in twenty fourteen, let's move on
to this date, December twenty second. In twenty fourteen, Joe
Cocker passed away at seventy. Seventy used to seem so old.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And now you know.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Me at sixty and you almost seventy. You know, just
probably months or a year or two away from seventy,
doesn't seem that old, doesn't, H? Go ahead, speak h,
It really doesn't. Yeah, So Choe Cocker at seventy. He
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you know, he had his battles over the years, but again,
you know, against seventy, it just doesn't seem that old
right now.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well, he certainly didn't take care of himself, so no,
he did not.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
His performances were expressive and explosive. You know, the John
Belushi imitation of Joe Cocker was so spot on and
so great. You know, he did it for Joe. It
was very funny.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I saw Joe Cocker open for the Jefferson Airplane at
the film or East Oh did you really? Yeah? What
year was that? Sixty nine?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I think the first the breakthrough for him was with
a little help from my friends.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, it was that first album Yeah, which I think
was one of the first or second albums I ever bought.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
As well.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
That song ended up going on to be the theme
for the TV show The Wonder Years. And then I
think that the song that was his biggest hit was
that due at from an Officer and a Gentleman up
where we Belong?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
And you know, I remember I loved that Jennifer Warrens
was that Jennifer.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Exactly right, exactly right, your pop See you're in touch
with pop music and I'm in Touch with Myself.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
In nineteen it.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Was of our prom theme Dherty High School and Worcester,
mass nineteen eighty two. But an Officer and Gentlemen, What
a great movie that was, Richard Gear, Lou Gossip, I
got nowhere else to go, right, what a movie that was.
Lou Gossipp was frightening in that and Gear was great.
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So but that's you know, Joe Cocker, you know, really
known for a lot of things, but those were the
two big ones up where we belonged with Jennifer Warrens
and his cover of Help from My Friends. So nineteen
seventy nine. The last number one record of the year
in nineteen seventy nine was Escape a Pina Colatta saw
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oh Ye, one of the worst songs of all time.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That tortured me because it was a point in time
where I don't know why, I don't know who, but
it was on the playlist that I ninety five there
in Connecticut, and yeah, I don't know, I don't know,
I don't know who to blame.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I don't know if I'm to blame, I'm not sure.
But it was part of the mix there and it
stuck out like a freaking sort thumb. Yeah, whoa what
at all? This? Let's move on.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
December twenty third is Eddie Vedder's birthday. Born in nineteen
sixty four. He you know, what a what a good dude.
He seems like you know to me.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
He he's a guy with an appreciation for those that
have come before him, which is like, no, it's like
Dave Grohl in a way, right, They're very similar like that.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Eddie's a huge Springsteen fan, was a huge Tom Petti fan.
He's never shy about playing other people's music. And you know,
he is just a guy who who gives a ship
and he's present. He and Neil Young their version of
rocking in the free world, I mean really kind of
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made him famous in a way in those circles. And
his version of anything he's done by the Who but
Love Rain or Me is legendary.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
He just belts it out anything he covered, anything he covers,
I think it's great. The Waiting, his version of the
Waiting with the Heartbreakers is amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I like the one too from the Bear that he
did the cover of the English Beat song Save it
for later.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
You know, I have not seen the Bear.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, you know, obviously he's a he's an important person
to us and had a very good year this year, right.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I just like how they twist up the soundtracks for
that that that show, and how You'll find something and
you go, wait a minute, that sounds like Eddie Vedder
doing the English beat, and and then the way that
they intersperse it is brilliant on the show. But yeah,
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Eddie Vedder strikes me as someone that when we're going
to look back further, we're going to say, that's somebody
that aged very gracefully.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
In in terms of his next chapters of life. Yeah,
and their music, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I I've never seen them because I, you know, I
tend to be someone who likes to in general hear
the stuff I know and pro Jim you know, it's
famous for playing for going deep in shows. But but
there's not really anything. I can't justify that in my
in my own crazy mind, because when I hear him
sing something, I'm always captivated by it, you know, whatever
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whatever the it is. He did a did you watch
the show Bad Monkey with Vince Vaughn.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I tried to and did not didn't stick with it,
And I love Vince Vaughan. It's a very good show.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
And that show the soundtrack was was great sound Yeah,
all covers of Tom Petty songs. And you know you
had Larkin Poel who did a gray version of Running
Down a Dream. Yeah, just a barn burner. But there's
a version of Room with the Top, the Tom Petty
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song on there. That's the first song on the soundtrack
and it's Eddie and his version of Room at the
Top is so beautiful. I mean, he really is. Just
you know, he's got a gift. Oh yeah, he's like
Neil Young in a way to me with what his
voice does. Sure, so I'm a big fan. But December
twenty third, nineteen sixty four Eddie Vedder's birthday. In nineteen
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sixty four, Brian Wilson, head Up Breakdown, had a mental
health episode while on tour with the Beach Boys. They
were out at Christmas time and Glenn Campbell stepped in
to actually fill in for him, and you know, I'm
reminded of Glenn. I was never a big country music
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fan when I was a young man, and when he
passed away, I started to see all these tributes everywhere,
and I had no idea what a legend. He really was,
not just with country music, but as a guitar player.
He was a guy that, you know, the more I
looked into him, the more I realized there was nothing
he couldn't do.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
He was like Roy Clark.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
We don't associate country music often with really amazing guitar players,
and there are some amazing guitar players in country music.
And of course we're talking about time now. With those
two examples, I gave you Roy Clark and Glenn Campbell.
But Glenn Campbell was a part of the Beach Boys
before joining them in sixty four because he was in
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the Wrecking Crew. So he was part of this group
of guys, all men and one woman that would play
on the soundtrack of not the soundtrack, but play on
all these albums with you know, with different folks, the
Monkeys and the Beach Boys. He was on Sinatra sessions
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and Elvis movie soundtracks, and he played on I think
he played on a couple of Phil Spector soundtracks as well.
But really really great guitar player. So, but Brian Wilson
had his breakdown at sixty four and Glenn Campbell, we're
kind of far off off the topic.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
There.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
But but Brian had had an awful mental health episode,
and you know this, I think this is around the
time where he decided he didn't want to tour with
the Beach Boys. He wanted to focus on the music.
He wanted to focus on the production aspect of it,
and didn't want to be on the He wasn't built
for it, you know, he was he was built for
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writing and singing, wasn't really built for the touring and
fame aspect of it.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
And sadly it was only the beginning of his real
severe health issues really, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, and his you know, listen, We've talked about this
a lot. This is a you know, he was in
an abusive relationship at home. You know, his father's was
like you know, Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson, Jackson's father. I mean,
this was the guy who was you know, who had issues,
who was abusing his his kids emotionally.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
And that's the toll that kind of abuse takes. So
in two thousand and seven, on December twenty third, the
Police were named the highest earning tour of that year.
And of course this was kind of long after the breakup.
This was the reunion in two thousand and seven. But
they you know, it was thirty years after the band
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inception and their first reunion in twenty four to twenty
five years at that point. And I saw that, I
saw that tour. They were here in Vegas. They did
a show, did one hundred and fifty plus shows around
the world, and they made about three almost four hundred
million dollars that year.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Not a bad little payday. No. You ever get a
chance to see them in their heyday or on the reunion.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Not on the reunion, but in the heyday, and I
saw him a number of times, and so I sting
solo as well, and great shows, you know, just solid,
you know, beginning to end.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Great catalog, great experience for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
In two thousand and two, Sir Paul McCartney was granted
his own coat of Arms by the College of Arms.
I cannot answer any questions for you about the coat
of Arms or the College of Arms, anyone listening. You
got to do that research on your own. I started
to go down the rabbit hole and I thought, I
just means nothing to me, But it's Paul McCartney. It's
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another reward for Paul McCartney, who we love that's right.
In nineteen sixty seven, Elton John and Bernie Toppen met
for the first time, and this was the beginning of
a relationship that has lasted at this point fifty eight
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years or something along those lines. I was told there
be no math today. And I was born in sixty
six and I'm going to be sixty, so fifty nine years.
You were told there was going to be no math, right.
I was told there be no math when I woke up.
Will there be math today? Will there'll be no math?
I was told, Ma, there will be I answered that question.
I asked that question. Every day, math today or no math?
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Every day should be a potentially no math day. But
it just doesn't work that way. Yeah, I prefer no
math or to have my phone nearby. In twenty twenty, West,
the lead singer and guitarist from Mountain, passed away of
a heart attack. This was, you know, sad passing. I
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didn't know much about Mountain beyond Mississippi, Queen.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You theme from an Imaginary Western was the other day? Yeah,
all right.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Did we play that song ever at ZLX or did you?
I would imagine in your career you played it somewhere,
but I don't remember. It doesn't even ring a bell
with me.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I think it showed up on the t of A
to Z on wnwfm's A to Z Gotcha all Right?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
So obscure They covered some obscure stuff on those lists.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Nineteen eighty eight, December twenty fourth, Christmas Eve, Nirvana began
recording Bleach, their debut album, and About a Girl was
probably the biggest song on that album.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Fun time to start recording, right.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I'm looking at that. I was looking at this as
I was getting prepared, and I thought, why do you
start something on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah? And why not? I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
In nineteen sixty five, Rubber Soul was number one All
Worlds come back to the Beatles and number one somehow.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
And in seventy six, Hotel California spent the first of
eight weeks at the top of the charts that inside
the top two hundred. The album was on and off.
They weren't eight consecutive weeks, but Hotel California was up there.
It was an important album that came out around the
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end of the year in nineteen seventy six, so legendary album.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
The rest is history that is it.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
December twenty fifth, Christmas Day, James Brown died of pneumonia,
and we can talk about James just an amazing artist
who tragically went off the rails, kind of all tying
back out to mental health and drug use or abuse.
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I just get done watching the Eddie Murphy documentary called
Being Eddie, which I thought was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Me too. He's so articulate.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
He loves he loves Eddie though he does and that's okay, right,
there's a healthy you know, he says that. He says, I,
you know, I love myself, I you know, And but
it's one of those things where you When I heard
I thought, well, that's a ridiculous thing to say. Could
I ever get away with saying that? And I thought no,
he says it very well. I don't think he said
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anything that was out of place or was wrong, right,
I mean, the guy's you know, he's a stunt.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
It's a great documentary, and your reference point is him
playing James Brown.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, and the conversation that he talks about in the
dressing room with Chris Rock and I think Dave Chappelle
where they I can't use the word, but they're you know,
Eddie is describing this conversation he had with James Brown
and James Brown's wife and and them not believing that
Eddie actually had a million dollars. And James Brown says, essentially,
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any man of color that has a million dollars needs
to pick up the phone, call the bank and go
get it and bury it in his yard because you
know the government's gonna take it, right and and and
Eddie said, well, why, you know, why would I bury
it in my backyard. The government could take my land.
He said, yeah, but they won't know where it's buried, right.
(28:41):
Javed Brown was just out of his mind. And you
know a little plug for the Eddie doc. Watch it
if you're a fan of m especially the way it ends.
Oh yeable, Absolutely, it's great. By the way, James didn't
trust anyone, Obviously, the statement I just relayed and that
we heard in the documentary self explanatory. He didn't trust anyone.
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He lost money, tons of bad business deals. And you know,
he had a bad run. Hugely talented guy, but he
made some he made some bad decisions and he let
himself on fire, and he was a bad drug user,
and he struggled it's unfortunate because his talent was amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Oh yeah, I mean just what a persona too, absolutely
what a leader of a band?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I'm not sure it was the best for him to
have the finding process that he had his band members,
but yet he wanted to get the most out of them,
so that was his way of making sure that he did.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
He always wanted his money on the fines.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
He held his hand out in the middle of the
sh show at the end of the show.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
He wanted that money.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
What Buzz is referring to is if someone in the
band made a mistake, whatever that mistake may be, there
would be It's like a swear jar. Oh yeah, right,
you know you you had to put your money in
and or or you were you were out. He was
meticulous in how he wanted things done, for sure, and
you know, it is what it did. I don't know
that I ever would have survived working for him, but
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any of us would. But but he did what he did.
Nineteen eighty two, David Bowie and Crosby had the number
one hit in the United Kingdom with Peace on Earth
and The Little Drummer Boy. Kind of an interesting pairing
those two so great yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Great. So it was bold as Bowie always was.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And you know the song when it would come out
this time of year and be played, Oh yeah, to
this day still sounds odd, but absolutely it was.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
It was Bowie doing what he wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Nineteen ninety five, Dean Martin died, half of Martin and
Lewis with Jerry Lewis. I remember when you know Jerry
Lewis died. He was kind of a neighbor. He lived
a couple miles up the road, and I remember it
was sad. There were all these little yellow and black
signs on light poles near where I live, and up
and down Eastern Avenue in Henderson here outside of Las Vegas.
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Jerry Lewis estate sale at the house. You could go
to the house. That's crazy at any rate. He was
a partner of the legendary Dean Martin, who, as I
understand it, played a drunk, never really drank.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
A lot, as legend would have it. As they say,
that's right, allegedly, as legend would have it. Allegedly, that's
not true. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Nineteen seventy December twenty sixth, My Sweet Lord began a
four week run at number one one of the sweetest
songs of all time. In my opinion, he was the
first beatle to have a number one song after the
Beals broke out No Great Song, Great Great Song nineteen
eighty one. Ac DC ran for three weeks at number one.
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For those about to rock, I remember road tripping from
Worcester to the Providence and Civic Center. We sat in
the ninth row, the cannons that went off, and the
big bell that was there. I mean it was it
was still to this day was the loudest thing I've
ever experienced, and I will never forget it for as
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long as I lived. I was an ac DC nutt.
I was sixteen or seventeen years old or something, sixteen
years bill probably.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
At the time. Did you wear the shorts like they
did the angus is shorts? No, No, I didn't. But
would you consider that now?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That would be a ridiculous look for me right now,
No more ridiculous than Angus looks now seventy wearing it.
It's not what we would call a flattering look.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
At all. I can't you know, There's been a.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Bunch of stuff, you know, social media is just the
worst for these poor guys that are out there doing it,
but there's you know, isolated stuff of his singing, you know,
background or playing, And well, I want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
That because because I uh had specific commentary from a
bunch of different people locally.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
And then you know elsewhere nationally that saw a c
DC on this last round of shows and absolutely just
like loved it and had no problem with it.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Now, granted, these were big stadium shows, so you don't
really see the warts, but they loved the experience. And
then after that show, those shows, or after they're off
the road, then this stuff starts surfacing to really expose
it as not being that great musically. And I don't
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know what to believe, you know, because I know these
people who went to the show spent money, spent real
money to go on there. They didn't get free tickets
like we used to doing radio. They spent money and
that was an experience.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
That was there one or two shows that they would
go to every year, and they absolutely loved it.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
So I don't know what to believe at this point.
First of all, a night out at a concert is
an ordeal. That's a couple hundred bucks anyway, right without dinner, right,
just the tickets alone, never mind parking and you know,
maybe buying a shirt or a couple of drinks or whatever.
It's an expensive ordeal. Number one. Number two, addressing your
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issue directly, we are in a place and a time
in our world where people just cannot shut the f up. Honestly,
I mean, we are in a place where if someone
is having some success, there is no shortage of people
lurking around the corner laying in wait if you will
(34:56):
to cut them down right. I mean, I'm a I
would love to have seen ac DC, but I wasn't
going to pay three hundred bucks a ticket to go
down to the MGM and fuss with parking in the
strip and in all of that for a decent seat.
The video I saw of the show and I you know,
(35:16):
I literally, I mean I follow them. I after that
first show, I was looking on social media for you know,
for YouTube or for Instagram for clips to see how
they sounded and what they look like. And listen there
you know, they're seventy years old. Plus what did you
think Angus Young is going to look like? He's not
going to look like when we saw him on on
for those about the rock or you know, what do
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you think you're gonna get You're gonna get a guy
who's you know, who's older. It's not as bad as
Frankie Valley, right, but it's not Angus nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Have you seen, by the way, have we seen the
Frankie Valley stuff? Yeah? I have.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I think he should adopt the shorts that that Angus.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Those shorts he.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Needs to retire one where I go, Okay, you got
a point. But back to ac DC. There's no shortage
of people trying to cut people down. I mean they're
doing shows, They're doing huge stadium shows and the music
sounds good and people love it, so yeah, why not
give them a break?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
The canceled culture needs to go away, needs to be canceled.
In sixty eight, led Zepp went on their first tour
in the US. They were support for Vanilla Fudge and Spirit.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Isn't that crazy you think about that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
It is crazy, insane really when you think about it
and what they became. December twenty sixth is also Boxing
Day in the UK, and I really I never paid attention.
I never really dug into it, but Boxing Day is
kind of interesting. The origins are that it comes out
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of wealthy families. It came out of wealthy families in
the United Kingdom that it was the day after Christmas
where they would literally box up gifts and leftovers and
money for their servants and trades people and postman. And
it's something that's still recognized today. It's it's it's the
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biggest shopping day of the year in the United Kingdom.
It's bigger than Black Friday is here, and you know,
it's a it's a big deal. I was curious about
it and it did a little research. I'm ready for
the I'm ready for the test.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
You know, when I thought you said Boxing Day, I
thought you were going to go back to your you know,
your Tyson days, you know, taking boxing lessons from them.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Yeah, no, this is this is the holiday Boxing Day.
Nothing to do with Mike Tyson. There you go.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
A couple more stories for the week. December twenty seventh's
got while and passed away a couple of days after
Christmas in twenty fifteen, a sad day for him and
his family and the stp fans, just a bad day.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
And Queen this is interesting. There's a little Queen info.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I didn't know they get their first number one album
Night at the Opera in nineteen seventy five and Bohemian
Rhapsody and You're My Best Friend are on that The
album was reported to be, at the time of the
most expensive album ever done.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
And they took the title. Here's what I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
They took the title from the Marx Brothers movie A
Night at the Opera.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Oh there you Go.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
And they did it again with the follow up, which
was A Day at the Races. I had no idea
There you Go that they were Marx Brothers fans. I
have a new appreciation for Queen There you Go. In
sixty nine, led Zeppelin two knocked Abbey Road out of
the number one spot the number one Billboard album chart,
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and Double Fantasy began its eight week run at number one.
You know, I I went back to listen to Last
Weeks This Week in Music History on Monday, November eighth,
and you know, I was thinking about John Lennon and
then realized, you know that how big you know, Double
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Fantasy ended up becoming obviously as a result, and literally
a week later it began eight weeks at number one.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
This week. Great great work, great music. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Mark Knopfler's birthday in nineteen fifty two, and just a
couple more things. December twenty eighth, Beatles White Album hit
number one in sixty eight. This was an interesting album
because it wasn't titled the White Album. It think about this,
It was there I want to let me just get
this right album number nine, and it was just titled
the Beatles, but it was named by all of us
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fans the White Album. Have you gotten the White Album yet?
The White Album appears nowhere on that album at all.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Little is she going to call? Yeah, you're just gonna
call it that.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
And in nineteen eighty three, on this day, and this
is kind of an ironic thing, one of two members
of the Beach Boys that were actual surfers, Dennis Wilson,
drowned on this day, right, Brian and Carl. Carl was
(40:25):
the only I think that that Dennis and Carl were
the only two members that actually surfed and were strong swimmers.
And Wilson, Dennis Wilson actually was diving off the back
of a friend's boat to grab something that had fallen
into the water and never never came back up. Yeah,
(40:46):
that's crazy. In marine at del Rey, which is a
beautiful place and.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
With that sad story.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
That's the week ending December twenty eighth, This week of
music History.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
It's quite a week. You would think around the holidays
it cools down, but it doesn't. There's always things happening.
There's always Mayhem.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Yeah, and again, you know, a couple of weeks ago,
I said to you, we're getting to that point where
I was thinking, maybe we rerun something from last year
or the year.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
You know what I mean, We've run something else.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
And then as I began to do the research again,
I found different stuff to talk about.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
And next week is the same thing.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
The week of New Year's, the week between Christmas and
New Year's there's a lot of stuff to talk about
that I didn't realize.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
We never found last. As long as we don't go
disco heavy listen, I am the master of music Mayhem.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
I am the curator of content for this week in
music History.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Need I go on?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
I can go James Brown on this if you want.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
You don't know, finds necessary.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
The curator of content. There might be something disco. We'll
figure it out. I'll tease you. We're going to talk
Bo Diddley and we're gonna talk Jimmy Hendrix. A little
bit during the week of the twenty ninth of January fourth,
next week.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
On this Week in Music History. All right, well, thank
you Giorgio Marauder, and
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Thank you Master of Music Mayhem, Harry Jacobs, and thanks
to all of you for listening to this Week and
Music History for the week of December to twenty second
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