Friday 4: Most Underrated Bands

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh yeah, I'm gonna be at the io, say firs.
Still gotta do some fair stuff. Still hung out with
a few percherons today. It wasn't the same. I also
was just kind of like whew, just like, uh, I
needed to eat, I needed to get caffeine, and I also,
you want to know something else, The caffeine isn't working
as well. It's not working as well, my man, I

(00:20):
need like what about one of those B twelves, Like
maybe I need a B twelve.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hm, right, yeah, it's not working as well. Maybe just
are you just extra tired or what's going on?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, I mean I just think it's just a lot,
you know, Like I have no problem and uh, I
don't know. I just have like this thing about the
different locations. I think is in not seeing my wife
and my dogs and having some normalcy, Like every day
is just a little bit crazy and different, which is fine.
It feels kind of like summer camp, to be honest
with you, It's just I'm at the end of that

(00:51):
and I'm just kind of like ready for you ever
go on a vacation and like you've been on the vacation,
You're busy the whole time and then by the end
of the vacation, it's like the perfect time for you
to be like, I'm actually ready to go back home. Absolutely,
I have that, you know, and that's the sign of
a good trip. That's a sign of a good vacation.
The problem I have is I just have to get
through three more hours of live radio and like have
that energy and be ready to go, you know what

(01:12):
I'm saying. Fired up. I also went and saw the
Pork Tornadoes. My guys in the Pork Tornadoes, which is
an awesome cover band. They're about as fun of a
party band as you possibly could have. They perform all
over the place. I saw them in April. They were
in Omaha to slow Down as well. I think they're
coming back later this year. They make the rounds around

(01:33):
the state of Iowan into eastern Nebraska a lot of
times throughout the year. Saw them at the Iosa Fair
last night at one of the free stages, and it's
just always a party, man, Like you just never know
what song's coming next, you know. I think there was
a range there where they did something like they did
a Taylor Swift song into an in sync song into

(01:54):
Coolio and Gangster's Paradise into Phil Collins and in the
Air Tonight like it was just like bang bang bang.
The played something like they did a mashup of Maroon
five Harder to Breathe, and then in the middle they
put it they did a verse in a chorus of
genuine pony you know pony.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Okay, yeah, yeah, you want.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
It, ride in my pony, my saddle. Yeah, that's a
that's what's going on. And it was. It's great. Apparently
those two songs have like the same chord progression. You
wouldn't think that, and then they mashed them together, like oh,
that's awesome. Anyway, I had a great time. My voice
kind of hurts because I was screaming the whole time.

(02:43):
Look at me, you know what I'm saying, Like, I'm
just self. It's a self destruction, that's what it is.
It's me being just uh, it's just me being irresponsible,
That's what it is. Does that makes sense? What do
you want? What do you do? What do you want
from me? Anyway? You had an idea for a Friday,
for today, Let's go ahead and like just kind of
get into this and yeah, so this this was birthed

(03:09):
a little bit out of you discovering a band that
I was familiar with, and I'm actually, you know, they're
not I'm not like a huge fan, but they have
a couple of really awesome songs that I like. And
they're called Asia. They're from the eighties. And I introduced
you to them by you said only Time Will Tell
in a segment a couple of days ago or something,
and I sang the chorus of that, and you were like,

(03:29):
what the heck was that? And I said, it's a
song by a band named Asia called Only Time Will Tell. Yeah,
and it's apparently changed your life.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, it certainly changed this week. I I had never
even heard of them before, and never heard of it. Well, okay,
that's a little strong. I think i'd probably heard of them,
but it hadn't really hadn't really, you know, scraped the
surface of of my of my knowledge of them. I mean,
I don't know how to put it, but basically, they
were they were not a band i'd really ever listen to,
to listen to, you know, maybe their songs had been

(03:57):
on before, and.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
I right, but you didn't search Asia to like throw
them on a playlist.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, And I heard that song and I really like
the way it starts, and then I like, I like
some other parts in it too, and I think it's
kind of a unique song. And I've listened to some
of their other stuff and it's like not really grabbing me,
but but it just it kind of led me to
an interesting idea for a topic, which would be basically,
what are those four bands? This is? This is the

(04:22):
Friday for for the hipsters?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Hipsters? Yeah, we're kind of You and me are both
kind of hipsters anyway, right.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I'm a bit of a reformed hipster. That's that's at
least the way I'd like to look at it.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
But formed history.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Reformed hipster, Yeah, I don't really honestly, I feel like
to be a hipster you have to feel like your opinions,
specifically music, are somehow more important than other people's. And
I'm the opposite of that. I think music is an
art form that is so subjective, you know, and it is.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Right like different strokes for different folks, yes, you know, Yeah,
it just kind of depends on because I guess part
of that is so the question is underrated, right, Like,
let's just lay that out there. The most underrated bands,
right right? However, is there parameters that we can put
on this because if I told you, like, one of

(05:13):
the underrated bands that I like is Panic at the Disco,
but by any measurement, they are too popular to really be.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Underrated, you'd, I mean, you'd think so. They've had a
lot of.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Hits exactly, But my angle on that would be well
before they got megapopular in the mid twenty tens, in
late twenty tens, they were actually an incredibly solid musical
band before that, and nobody paid as much attention until
you know, they kind of changed their sound and got

(05:43):
onto pop radio and blew up, you know what I'm saying.
So they were underrated for a time, and I don't
think the good stuff they made, the best stuff they
made is listen to or people don't even know it's there.
But it's actually, like probably stupid to put them in
a most underrated cat right, because how can somebody that
successful actually be underrated?

Speaker 2 (06:04):
I see what you mean, and I'm looking at my list,
and I think that there are I would say it's
pretty split between there's a couple on here that are
just genuinely underrated bands, and then there's a couple where
I just personally feel like they just haven't had their
do although they are pretty well known.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, And is this a thing where what I don't
want us to get situated is talking about bands like
everybody's just pulling artists that nobody's heard of, you know
what I'm saying, right, I.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Think it will turn into that to some extent.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
And it's just like, hey, you should listen to this
band that nobody's heard of. And I don't think that's
where we want to go either. So do we need to, like,
is there a certain minimum fame level that we need
to have in our back pocket before we start throwing
these out here? I'll get your list because you're going
to be the list that we all kind of build
our own list around. Does that make sense.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
As far as like the parameters?

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, I want to see where you're at on it,
And I don't know, I kind of I don't want
to pick artists that people have at least heard of,
but also artists that I think have never gotten the
do that I think they probably should have. Sure that
makes sense, So go ahead, I have some time here,
go ahead and give us your list. Okay, this is

(07:15):
most underrated bands ever My like are Okay, sorry rock music.
Are we genre specific specific on this underrated rock bands?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
I think it's bands in general.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, okay, all right, all right, fire away.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
So my four there's going to be a couple on
here that there's probably plenty who say like underrated. You know,
they might disagree, but I have my reasons for all
of them. Number one is Pixies. The band the Pixies.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, they're famous enough.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
They're pretty famous, but I think that they're one of
those bands that have they don't really cross at least
I wouldn't think they crossed the mind of people who
think of like one of the greatest bands of like
the eighties nineties. They're kind of they're kind of like
the late eighties early nineties. They're in the zeitgeis, but
they're probably like the tenth band down in the playlist
that you know, Spotify or YouTube music will pull out.

(08:06):
It's it's a band that has gone on for a
long time. They have a lot of big hits. Where
is My Man? Where Is My Mind is what a
lot of people are familiar with. Also, Here Comes Your
Man is another big one. Uh, if you had a
whole bunch of other hits and I put them on
this list. A big reason why is because and I
just literally realized I need to add a different person
to this list. Okay, hold on a second, Oh while

(08:28):
I'm while I'm talking here, whoa, I'm gonna have to
kick somebody off. I have five now, okay, hold on, boy. Anyways,
the Pixies. Pixies are on the list because why because
a lot of great They're kind of like have you
ever heard of the the a comedian's favorite comedian that
that like insider you.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, Like your favorite basketball
player's favorite player is a guy like Derek White who
is really unsung, might not be the sexiest guy, but
he actually is like other players just love to like
a lot of current NBA players. Look at Paul George,
for instance.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Like if you look at the Wikipedia guy exactly yeah,
if you look at the Wikipedia of the Pixies, you
look at the bands that they heavily influenced, Nirvana, Radiohead,
the Smashing Pumpkins, Wheezer, Like those are big bands, all
bigger than the Pixies, but those bands all have said yeah,
we basically are were widely influenced by the Pixies. So

(09:22):
that's why they're on the list. I don't think they
get their due, and they influenced a lot of great music.
Another one on my list here is a band that,
because of a death in the band, never really got
to have their long moment in the sun, but in
a very short period of time, just a couple of years,
they had a bunch of hits. Would be the Gin Blossoms. Okay,
that's also pretty similar era.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Right.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah. Some people might say, who that band who had
the song hey Jealousy? But I guarantee you you've heard
of more than just Hey Jealousy. You've heard of Alison
Road as a song. If you went back and listened
to it about you'd be like, Okay, I know about
this one. How about another one? Found out about you?
Found out about you as a and there's.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Gonna be there's gonna be a lot of singing in
this show from now on. I think yeah, I think so.
So I put the Jim Blossoms on there because it's
a band that somebody in the band died and they
just disbanded as a group, but in a very short
period of time had a whole bunch of hits and
probably would have been a lot bigger if they would
have been able to stay around for longer. So now

(10:23):
I have to kick somebody off my list. Okay, I'm
kicking off Alice in chains Rip. How are they underrated?

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Exactly? That's the That was the one I thought I
was gonna get guff for, and I put them underrated
because Lane Staley was the lead singer who basically faded
into obscurity because he was having some issues with drug addiction,
and so they they kind of faded away whenever they
were reaching their peak. They have had a bunch of
hits and they are currently still a band with a

(10:49):
new lead singer, but they're not the same without Lane Staley.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, go ahead and boot them.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, come on, Lane Staley Jerry Cantrell one of the
greatest duels of all time. So they're not on the list.
But here's the two others that are Another one here
is Ween Okay, Ween w e E n Okay. If
you're a SpongeBob fan like you are, Emory, you have
heard of them because they did the song Ocean man Ah.
That's Ween.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Okay, that's a weird thing.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
This is a perfect band because you're gonna be like, wait,
I haven't heard of them, and I'm gonna say, oh,
yes you have, because they have had a very long
catalog of very like good songs. In my humble opinion,
Transdermal Celebration is one of my favorites. Tried and True
is my personal favorite of theirs. They kind of broke
through in the early nineties with that alt grunge, kind
of weird wacko sound. It's a song called Push the

(11:35):
Little Davy Daisies, Okay, and they've just They're one of
those bands that have had a whole bunch of different
albums over a long period of time. You never know
which direction they're going with the music, and they're a
very accomplished musicians.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
So is that for did I count for? Or are
we still?

Speaker 2 (11:51):
I kicked off? Allis in chains? That was?

Speaker 1 (11:52):
That was honorable mention account. Okay.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Number four is one of my very personal favorites. He's
top three favorites of all time personally. And it's hilarious
because one day I was watching VH one and they
put his song Loser on their one Hit Wonder category
and I abot laughed myself into oblivion because this guy
has had music for four decades and it's so good,
and he's one of the most talented musicians out there.

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And I put him in in the band category because
he does play with a reoccurring same group of musicians.
Ok it's Beck Okay. Yeah, he had his hit ninety
four Loser, but he's had so many other hits, so
many other songs that have scratched the surface, and so
many albums. He won a Grammy just a handful of
years ago.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, he's not the one. I wonder is a bad
way to describe him. And I think a lot of
artists he also falls into the thing. A lot of
artists like him. A lot of artists are like, oh, yeah,
I am. I like listening to his music. His music
is music I listen to intentionally. Yeah, And that's a
great compliment for somebody who's in the industry. So real quick,
what's your.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Four pixies, Jin, Blossoms, Ween, and Beck.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Interesting? I got four. We'll get yours as well. If
you got underrated musical artists, specifically Banns, you can go
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Speaker 2 (13:17):
Four most underrated bands in your own humble opinion, So
you know, it's kind of based on how you feel
about them, you know. But I uh, the ones that
I had were the Pixies, Gin, Blossoms, Ween, and Beck.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, so pretty deep cuts there. Pixies I think are
pretty notable, but I got I got four that are
probably a little bit more there might be more awareness
around them. I'm gonna start with a classic rock band
that certainly is on radio all the time, but I
think they're underrated because nobody really gives them their due.
Is one of the great classic rock bands ever, and

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that's Blue Oyster Cult. Blue Oyster Cult has a ton
of big hits. They're known mostly for Don't Fear the Reaper.
They kind of got a new life after the SNL
Mar cow Bell bit, but Burning for You is probably
I think even a better song than that one. I
absolutely Am in Love with Godzilla is another just kind

(14:13):
of like deeper cut tune that they've had, and they
rock hard. It's good like late seventies, early eighties style
classic rock, and I just even though they're on the
radio a lot, when you're on a classic rock format
and you hear them and they pop up in classic
rock playlists frequently, I just don't think they get much
like Pixies, They kind of get lost in the shuffle

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of the bands within their era, and I think that's
ridiculous because I think they should be one of the
headliners of the classic rock of that era. Another band
that I think they may be properly readied to some
but it's Toto. Toto is I think as underrated as
any band ever because the musicianship that they had, because
it was mostly like studio musician level guys like Guy's

(14:58):
just incredible at the craft, kind of getting together and deciding,
you know, let's write some songs and put some stuff together.
And they ended up writing bangers like hold the Line,
like Africa, which I know many people see as you know,
an iconic song for its time. Rosanna is another good
one that you're gonna be heard on classic rock radio
all over the place. Toto is, I think an awesome

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band and needs to be put more into the forefront
of their era as well as far as a couple
of bands that are a little bit more modern into
the nineties. How about Placebo. Hm, we play a Placebo
song or have played a Police Cebo song as one
of my intros, just like we also have used Toto
as one of my intros. But Placebo is a like

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you think of alternative music, they pretty much are that.
They kind of had some punk, They've kind of had
some you know, like slow jammy type. They high energy
as well. I don't know how else to describe them
except just alternative rock music. And you know, some of
their styles, some of the stuff that they had done,
some of the stunts that they pulled back in the

(16:03):
nineties to get noticed back in the UK where they're from,
certainly was a little bit probably you could be frowned
upon in these days if somebody were trying to do that.
But the music is what I'm talking about, and they
are really talented and I love a ton of their
songs spanning over twenty twenty five years. A really solid
band and really good live, like incredible live to be

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honest with you. And then another really great band is
Cohedon Cambria, And we also have used Cohed and Cambria
on this show. And I mean again musicianship very progressive.
They kind of remind me of a modern day Rush
in a way. Now Rush is properly right, and I
think people it's hard to say Rush is underrated because
of how high on a pedestal. A lot of people
put those guys as individual musicians, but also in the

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catalog of their music. But cod and Cambria reminds me
very much so of Rush in the way that they
construct their songs, but also in the way they can
play them. The arrangements really just a journey when you
listen to their music and live again, they make a
huge impact for the people that see them live. They
say they will go see them live every single time

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they're around, and they will have a great time. It's
the best concerts they've ever been to. Cohedon Cambria. So
my list, Blue Oyster, Cult, Toto, Placebo, and Coheed and
Cambria the most underrated bands on my list? What are
the most underrated bands? To you? If you like music,
there are an artist or two that you just feel
like he does not get the same kind of love
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Speaker 1 (17:44):
What do you got? Hello? Hello, Brian, waiting for you, buddy,
what's up?

Speaker 4 (17:50):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (17:52):
I have to say my list would be Blues Traveler.
They got such a lot of airplay back in the
early nineties that there's much more of their music beyond
you know, run around and hook. The next one that
I would have to say is probably the band Oh Yeah.
They think everybody's heard the music, but they're just spectacular.

(18:15):
Another one that I would have to say that everybody
seems to know, but nobody can really say many of
their songs as Jeff throw toll m hmm.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Sean here there, there, there there.

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Yeah, exactly there. And then one might be bending the rules.
It's a person, but he's had everybody knows them for
Warwolves of London, warren Zevon, but just got a slew
of great music and I don't think enough people appreciate.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
What he did.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Oh there you go. Now this is a list where
I could. I have heard of or listened to three
of the four, and then the fourth one is just
completely out of nowhere, something for me to look into. Brian,
thanks so much for calling in and listening to us today.
You have a good Yeah you too. All right back
to the phones. Four oh two, five, five, eight, eleven ten.
Mark's there, Mark, welcome to the show today. What do
you got for me? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (19:04):
How you doing?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
I'm great? Mark? What is up with you today?

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Do you hear me?

Speaker 7 (19:09):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (19:09):
Sir, Hey, I really don't have four, but I've got one, okay,
And I want to say Sticks because they're still not
even in the Hall of Fame, and a's a hell
a lot of bands into the Hall of Fame. I
don't even think they belong there.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, so this is a good one. It's hard for
me to say they're underrated because how many just bangers
songs that they have. But you're right, they just don't
get respected in the same way, right, I mean, they
have so many great tunes. We play some Sticks when
we come back from our show as well. I mean
I have a lot of similar taste to a lot
of you guys, and I mean for me, I just

(19:46):
it's hard for me to imagine. But at the same time,
it took Rush until what like four or five years
ago for them to get in kissed it and get
into the last handful of years. I don't even know
how they're making these decisions over there.

Speaker 6 (19:56):
Ah, I think I'm five of its politics. But anyway,
they that album, oh, I can't think of the name
of it. Their album Paradise Theater. That is a hell
of an album. Yeah, you can listen to that on
on eleven. Yeah, it's eleven whole album.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, And that's the thing. There's a lot of good
That was like the peak of you know, those guys
working together. Because it didn't always they didn't always get along,
but those guys like Tommy Shaw and j Y James
Young and Dennis D. Young, when they were on the
same page, it was magic. Man. They they made some
incredible music. Thanks for the call, Mark, that's some good stuff.

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Thank you for listening to us.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
They have a great weekend.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
You and yeah you too. Four, two, five, five, eight, eleven,
ten is the number if you want to be a
part of our show today. Some of the emails that
I'm getting here, Chris says, little feet Now I have
heard a lot of people say Little Feet and they're
you know, they're old classic rock band, but another band
that musicians love. And he goes on and says the

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favorite of a lot of the set and eighties musicians.
There's something about that. It's I don't know if deep
cut is like the way to put it, considering that
there's you know that many you know, I guess places
or people that have incredible musical artists that have the
ability to get that hit or that great album that

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takes them into the stratosphere. And there's something about a
band like Little Feet specifically where they didn't maybe achieve
the same kind of fame, but other people who are
musicians helped well by the way they talked about how
influential they were. Made people go backwards and be like, hey,
you know what, if Little Feet was good enough for

(21:42):
all these people, maybe they're good enough for me. And
I've talked to several people who have that classic rock
taste and says Little Feet just does not get the
love that they probably deserve, especially considering how important they
are historically. Phone line still open four, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten.
We got Dale online, Dale, you got some underrated bands
for me.

Speaker 7 (22:02):
Yes, like to start off with Joe Cocker m he
didn't do many originals, but he did do a lot
of covers and I thought he was pretty durn good.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Sure.

Speaker 7 (22:15):
By second one would be Otis Redding. His career ended abruptly.
I think he could have been a great position, but
sitting at the docor the Bay, I think it's a classic.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Sure.

Speaker 7 (22:31):
And then I would say the Cars, Yes, when their
first album and I don't know, probably three fourths of
their singles.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Were hit Oh yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 7 (22:44):
And the last one I think the one of the
grandfathers of heavy rock would be Jimmy Hendricks.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah. And Hendrix is an interesting one too, because much
like some of the other guys on your list, they're
like reading, you know, just not along and career to
have I think the kind of catalog that probably was coming.
But still, you want to talk about a guy that's
just universally respected for the talent that he had and
also the influence that he had on guitarists for the

(23:13):
next fifty years and counting. He's definitely somebody who probably
couldn't get enough praise. To be completely honest, Dale appreciate
the call that's a great list. Thanks for listening to
us today. Thank you, Yeah you too. The Cars is
a good one, Matt, you got you got a Cars song?
You got a good Cars song that you like.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
I'm blanking on him right now.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
You don't know the Cars all right? New Asia for
you The Cars. There are a couple of incredible tunes
that are so there's a lot of synth. There's a
lot of synth, but it's great. Just what I needed
is probably the one that you'll recognize when you start
hearing it. Uh, But I think Moving in Stereo is
another one which I just absolutely love. It just screams

(23:56):
early eighties. Let's Go is another one. If you like ballads,
popular ballads, Drive is one that really can get to you.
It's a good slow dance song with your honey, dig
into some cars man like. My My favorite band is
the Killers. The Cars are a huge influence for the Killers,
huge influence for them. So there there's another band for you.

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five five eight eleven ten, News Radio eleven ten, Kfab.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Emrie's songer on news radio eleven ten.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Kfab Matt, I got a couple of things for you here.
Uh the we'll get to the phone line momentarily. But
Brett asks, does air supply count? Does air supply count?
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Well, i'd have to look up Tommy hits they have.
If that's a little out of my wheelhouse, they're a
little before my time.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, I think I think there. I would call them
probably underrated if you like their music. I don't think
they're big enough to be like, No, that doesn't count.
I think I think, Brett, I think air supply counts.
I'm gonna go ahead and say they can fall in
the underrated category. There's not quite big enough. All right,
So back to the phones. Four two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten, and Dave's on the line. Dave, how's it going?

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What's going on?

Speaker 8 (25:21):
Emory? It's doing good. John may Hall and the Blues Breakers, Okay, okay,
well you need to look them up. In the recent
death of John Mayol, one of the best concerts ever
was at the Civic Auditorium by them. It was in
the smaller venue. I don't recall the name of that theater,

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but it's not in the main oh. Okay, okay, okay.
Also Jamie Brockett led into the USS Titanic.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (25:52):
Now, you talk to some older guys like me, and
there's a lot of us out there still. That late
night FM radio would come on out of his little
rock Arkansas ka a y, and that was the song
for everyone the so get your pencil paper out. It
was Legends of the USS Titanic, a comedy okay by
Jamie Brockett. You'll enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Okay, Do you have any more for me? I'm good, Thanks, Hey, Dave,
that's good. Interesting. I've never heard of these people. Okay,
sounds good, thank you. I also want to be able
to learn, you know, like I if there are people
like that, like like what he just mentioned Jamie Brockett.

Speaker 8 (26:29):
There.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
You know, that's the kind of thing I like doing
these exercises for because you get kind of turned on
to stuff that you might otherwise not have learned or
not have heard. I love that. Charles is on a
phone line four two, five, five, eight to eleven ten
and Hello, Charles, how's it going?

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Hey? Good asking them listening to you when I can
on my way home from work.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
I got a couple of here. There's I think Jeff back.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Want Jeff Beck from Uh It's.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
You've Always Been? Won't like by? Everybody's played on different groups?

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, isn't isn't he an Electric Light orchestra?

Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, yeah, I like them. I think they're underrated too.
That's a good one.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Oh yeah. Another one is Vanilla Fudge.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yes, yes, now we're talking psychedelic late sixties. Yes, let's
go there.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
And you know how many bands have have got their
sound from different Vanilla Fudge songs?

Speaker 8 (27:30):
A lot?

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, okay, and here's another one for Matt and anybody
else that hasn't listened to a lot of Vanilla Fudge,
The full like seven and a half minute overture essentially
of their cover of You Keep Me Hanging On. They
probably recorded that in like sixty seven or sixty eight.
That thing's a trip. That thing's a trip. I mean,
you got to listen to that in its entirety. Don't

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listen to the radio ed I listen to the full version.
It is something else, man.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah. Another one is is Peter Green?

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Is that?

Speaker 7 (28:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Peter Green the original elite singer Fleetwood Mac Huh.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
Well, he's the one who put the band together originally
in their and their mantra was just blues.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah right, yeah, he predates he predates
Buckingham And and Knicks coming in for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yeah. Hey, And if you want to, if you want
something to watch, if you haven't heard about it, have
you ever heard of Don Kirchner's rock concert?

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah? Does that? Was he not the he did that
in the early seventies. I think I watched a couple
of like Joe Walsh and the Eagles ones.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
It was about a tin between him and the Midnight Special.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, yeah, which.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Was the other one. They both ran about ten years,
from about nineteen seventy three seventy four to the like
eighty three four. But people want to see what some
of the popular bands used to look like. Some of
those videos are really really good. Some of them are
really funny. Yeah, because they had not you know, they
didn't have music. Also, they also had comedians and stuff

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like that. But if people want to check out bands
they were coming up or getting real popular, that's a
good place the YouTube's got all the videos born.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Sure, Yeah, I'm down with it.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah, that was MTV before MTV because all those shows
were live, right like mid night one o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, that would explain the midnight special. Yeah, that's some
good stuff. Hey, Charles, this was great. Thanks so much
for calling us and giving us your list today. Yes, sir,
all right, that's that's good. Hey, Matt, have you listened
to Vanilla Fudge before I have?

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, I mean I I okay, you want to know
how I learned about them? So, my dad's a big
classic rock guy because he worked at the classic rock
radio station when I was growing up, and you know,
he's he's like a behind the scenes guy. But you know,
like we got to take a bunch of CDs and
stuff like from there and take them home and like
listen to them because they you know, everything could have
been automated and whatnot as long as we brought them back.

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So I learned about a lot of different bands like
Grand Funk, Railroad and Styx is another good one that
I kind of got really introduced to through that way.
Vanilla Fudge nowhere to be found. I didn't know about
Vanilla Fudge till I was like twenty eight years old,
and I was I went on like a road trip
with my wife and we went to Cleveland to the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and they had a
room where they were playing like old music videos from

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that era, and that one came on, and I mean
they didn't make like high quality music videos usually in
the late sixties, but the psychedelic colors in the way
they were rocking out, the like loudness of like the tune.
I was like, I'm in love with that band? Who
is that? And it showed at the bottom it was
Vanilla Fudge, And I've been into them ever since. Very psychedelic.

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It is so different. It's so hard to explain because
they are just so like I think they were a
lot heavier for a lot of their contemporaries, but there's
something about the way that they performed, the way they
were into the music. I think they were way ahead
of their time, just so much further ahead of their
time than anybody else ever was, and so incredibly sixties.

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I mean, you want to talk about a zeitgeispan If
you showed somebody that and said it, you know, hey,
pinpoint a spot in time where that probably was what
people looked like or what people would have sounded like.
I think those were. You would it looked like it
was like, yeah, drop me in the you know, late sixties.
They sounded like something from probably the late seventies early eighties,

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as heavy in as advanced as they probably were, and
nobody talks about them. Vanilla Fudge, I'm jealous of that one.
That's a great underrated band for sure. Anyway, thanks to YouTube,
you can go and find a bunch of this stuff
and even see the music video I'm talking about of
Vanilla Fudge playing that seven plus minute long overture of
their cover of You Keep Me Hanging On, which I

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highly recommend. Right now, it's three fifty. If you got
underrated bands, if you got underrated musical artists, you want
to share with us. So we're doing that today, having
some fun on a Friday. Call us at four oh
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your ideas. You also email Emory at kfab dot com.
That's E. M. E. R. Y at kfab dot com.
And we got plenty more for you as we were

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all along. Matt Case Amory Songer with you on a
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