July 7, 2025 • 5 mins
What happens when a jazz trio is handed a rock anthem they’ve never heard—and told to make it swing in one take?In this wildly entertaining and musically rich episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive headfirst into one of the internet’s most fascinating musical rabbit holes: musicians reacting to—and reinterpreting—iconic songs they’ve never heard before.Skin introduces the crew to Musora, a platform that challenges elite musicians to recreate legendary tracks without ever hearing the original. The highlight? A jazz trio transforms Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” into a smoky, soulful jam—live, in one take. The reactions are priceless.If you love music, laughter, and the occasional deep dive into the weird corners of the internet, this episode is for you. Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with your favorite music nerd or jazz-curious friend. And don’t forget to check out Musora for more mind-blowing musical moments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
It is The Bin and Skin Show ninety seven point
one The Eagle. We've been talking about this, we'll talk
about it all day long. If you would like to
donate and help with what is going on in Kirk County,
you can donate to the Kerk County Flood Relief Fund
at Community Foundation dot net. Again, that's community Foundation dot net.
Your money will go to the right place. iHeart is
(00:23):
in full support of this, all of our iHeart stations,
so I know a lot of people have big hearts
and want to help out.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We think that's the way to do it. But right
now it's time for.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
This track, another edition of things. Skin is tracking.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I want to talk about one of my favorite things
that I see on the internet. And I see a
lot of videos like this, and they're basically musical explorations,
Like there's a lot of different ways that this will
kind of manifest. There's these guys that take old hip
hop samples and then they play you how the tracks
were constructed, or they'll go back and they'll go to
the original files, the original tape reels, and they'll say,
(01:05):
all right, here's uh, you know whatever, here's more than
a feeling by Boston and they'll solo every single track
and you can go back and hear all of it.
And that's a really cool trend and it's a fun
rabbit hole to go down, go down in if you're
a big music head. But my other thing that I
love is there something called Mussra. Have you guys ever
(01:25):
seen or heard of this? No, all right, I first
saw it. What they did is they took the drummer
from the kind of the Prague indie band at the
Drive in y'all, y'all have heard of them. Yeah, they're
they're incredible musicians. And their drummer was this like female
drummer from France and she was young, so they played
(01:46):
her Limelight by Rush, but they didn't play her the drums.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And she had never heard it. She had never heard it,
so they're like, what would you do on this for drums, And.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
They had the tracks with the drums removed, and she
listens to it and then plays it and she's incredible,
like she almost made a lot of the same decisions.
And then when they played her what Neil Peart did,
she was like freaking out, like, oh my god, this
is amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But it's a really fun thing to do.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So here's an episode I found that I thought that
our Eagle listeners would like, and I'm gonna play this,
and I skipped ahead, and I want to see how
quickly you guys can guess this. Basically, what they did
is they found a jazz trio, so you have keys,
bass and drums, and they played them a rock song
that we play all the time here on the Eagle,
(02:35):
and they're like, all right, here it is for the
first time. You can rehearse a couple of times and
then we're gonna record it, and you have to get
it in one take. You have to do a jazz
version of this song. So this isn't the drummer one now, okay, okay, okay, okay,
but this time, so you assume these jazz musicians don't
know this rock song, okay, so I'm gonna play it now.
In jazz music, you have this thing called the head
(02:56):
and it's basically the main melody and a lot of
songs they'll play it off the top and that's why
it's called the head and then they go and do it.
I skipped that part of the song because I think
you guys would know it. So I'm just gonna pick
it up right with the rhythm and see if you
guys how I think you'll figure it out pretty quickly.
But here's a song that we played the normal version
on the Eagle all the time as a jazz trio.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh wow, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Okay, black Hole, yess wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I'm gonna play the very beginning of what they came
up with, and you tell me if you would have gotten.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It if I had to jumped in right there all right,
here we go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's easier.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Although we know it already so I don't really know,
but I feel like that's right ahead.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You can kind of tell.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
So the the fun part of it is when they
get the people in the studio and they hear something
for the first time because they don't know, and it's like,
have they heard the song? And the bass player was like, yeah,
I know Sound Garden. I don't really care for him.
He's like, but this was kind of fun. But it's
just a really cool thing if you're a music nerd.
(04:47):
It's called Mussura U s O R A. And I
cannot recommend the one enough Rush Limelight with the drummer
from at the Drive in like that will give you chills.
It's so fun too, because a lot of young people
don't know these older songs. Yeah, to hear these incredible musicians,
I love I love that when you like a lot of.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know, you've seen these videos on social media. They
show young kids listening to songs for the first time
and when they love them. Yeah, it's awesome watching their expressions.
It's so cool. It's so cool. All right, good stuff.
There's things skinn Is track coming up next in the
Hollywood Shuffle. How did Jurassic Park do in the box office?
We'll discuss Don't Go Anywhere. That's next.
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
It is The Bin and Skin Show ninety seven point
one The Eagle. We've been talking about this, we'll talk
about it all day long. If you would like to
donate and help with what is going on in Kirk County,
you can donate to the Kerk County Flood Relief Fund
at Community Foundation dot net. Again, that's community Foundation dot net.
Your money will go to the right place. iHeart is
(00:23):
in full support of this, all of our iHeart stations,
so I know a lot of people have big hearts
and want to help out.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We think that's the way to do it. But right
now it's time for.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
This track, another edition of things. Skin is tracking.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I want to talk about one of my favorite things
that I see on the internet. And I see a
lot of videos like this, and they're basically musical explorations,
Like there's a lot of different ways that this will
kind of manifest. There's these guys that take old hip
hop samples and then they play you how the tracks
were constructed, or they'll go back and they'll go to
the original files, the original tape reels, and they'll say,
(01:05):
all right, here's uh, you know whatever, here's more than
a feeling by Boston and they'll solo every single track
and you can go back and hear all of it.
And that's a really cool trend and it's a fun
rabbit hole to go down, go down in if you're
a big music head. But my other thing that I
love is there something called Mussra. Have you guys ever
(01:25):
seen or heard of this? No, all right, I first
saw it. What they did is they took the drummer
from the kind of the Prague indie band at the
Drive in y'all, y'all have heard of them. Yeah, they're
they're incredible musicians. And their drummer was this like female
drummer from France and she was young, so they played
(01:46):
her Limelight by Rush, but they didn't play her the drums.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And she had never heard it. She had never heard it,
so they're like, what would you do on this for drums, And.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
They had the tracks with the drums removed, and she
listens to it and then plays it and she's incredible,
like she almost made a lot of the same decisions.
And then when they played her what Neil Peart did,
she was like freaking out, like, oh my god, this
is amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But it's a really fun thing to do.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So here's an episode I found that I thought that
our Eagle listeners would like, and I'm gonna play this,
and I skipped ahead, and I want to see how
quickly you guys can guess this. Basically, what they did
is they found a jazz trio, so you have keys,
bass and drums, and they played them a rock song
that we play all the time here on the Eagle,
(02:35):
and they're like, all right, here it is for the
first time. You can rehearse a couple of times and
then we're gonna record it, and you have to get
it in one take. You have to do a jazz
version of this song. So this isn't the drummer one now, okay, okay, okay, okay,
but this time, so you assume these jazz musicians don't
know this rock song, okay, so I'm gonna play it now.
In jazz music, you have this thing called the head
(02:56):
and it's basically the main melody and a lot of
songs they'll play it off the top and that's why
it's called the head and then they go and do it.
I skipped that part of the song because I think
you guys would know it. So I'm just gonna pick
it up right with the rhythm and see if you
guys how I think you'll figure it out pretty quickly.
But here's a song that we played the normal version
on the Eagle all the time as a jazz trio.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh wow, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Okay, black Hole, yess wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I'm gonna play the very beginning of what they came
up with, and you tell me if you would have gotten.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It if I had to jumped in right there all right,
here we go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's easier.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Although we know it already so I don't really know,
but I feel like that's right ahead.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You can kind of tell.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
So the the fun part of it is when they
get the people in the studio and they hear something
for the first time because they don't know, and it's like,
have they heard the song? And the bass player was like, yeah,
I know Sound Garden. I don't really care for him.
He's like, but this was kind of fun. But it's
just a really cool thing if you're a music nerd.
(04:47):
It's called Mussura U s O R A. And I
cannot recommend the one enough Rush Limelight with the drummer
from at the Drive in like that will give you chills.
It's so fun too, because a lot of young people
don't know these older songs. Yeah, to hear these incredible musicians,
I love I love that when you like a lot of.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know, you've seen these videos on social media. They
show young kids listening to songs for the first time
and when they love them. Yeah, it's awesome watching their expressions.
It's so cool. It's so cool. All right, good stuff.
There's things skinn Is track coming up next in the
Hollywood Shuffle. How did Jurassic Park do in the box office?
We'll discuss Don't Go Anywhere. That's next.
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