December 26, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the wzlex catcheslaw dot Com studios. This is your
home for the Chuck Nolan Morning Show and Boston's Classic Rock.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We are one hundred point seven w ZLX, Boston.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
The Chuck Nolan Morning Show on Boston's Classic Rock one
hundred point seven w ZLX. I'm studying right now for
research purposes. Sydney Sweeney's beautiful dress. Did you look at
your search inter search history, That's what it was. Eric,
this is at the Variety events. Well, it's a beautiful sheer,
(00:46):
silver floor length Christian Cowen. Everybody was talking about this.
She broke the internet, she really did. I mean you
could see everything, which was the whole point of course. Yes,
And you know what, why not let her talent shine
because as far as being an actress, well, she was
(01:10):
good in White Lotus, she was creating White Lotus. She's
not like a terrible actress. She's not like she's not
a great actress. I mean, you know, I'm not saying
she's like, you know, she's not Meryl Streep, but she's
not bad, you said, you said yourself. She was good
and white loaded, she was. I watched that rom com
she had on Netflix with what's his face? That Glenn Powell.
(01:30):
She was pretty good in that. I didn't see that.
It was pretty well the fact that you have real breasts, yes,
but yeah, her talent is getting overshadowed by her other talent.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well, she's getting a lot of criticism too because of
the nature of the event that she was attending, which
was a woman's empowerment event.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, and she's people like, so, yeah, but showing off
your isn't she showing that she's empowered, that she has
the courage to do this. She's basically standing there naked. Yeah,
pretty much. So many boob fifteen Jamie Lee Curtis came
up to her and did the you know, take her
(02:06):
by the hand, step back, whispered something in her ear,
which got everybody uh buzzing because Jamie Lee Curtis back
in the day, back in the eighties, eighting places that
seen when she takes her wig off, We've all seen it.
She was Sidney Sweeney like back in the day. Better actress,
(02:27):
but way better actress. Yes, I see what you're saying there.
Sharon Stone, who was famous for crossing and uncrossing her legs, Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, I think we're gonna we're gonna reduce it to that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well, that's how she became famous. What else is there?
Total recall? Nice, It was great, total recall. She was
nobody knew who she was at that point, but then
when she crossed and uncrossed her legs, she became a superstar. Yes,
sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do with the uh,
(03:00):
the mailman for months it's leaning in. Oh that's right,
that was newman. Yes, yeah, that's right. So here's what
Sharon Stone had to say.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
It's okay to use what mama gave you. It's really fine.
You know, it's hard to be hot, and I think
we all know that, and it's really okay to use
every bit of hotness you have right here, right now and.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Go for whatever that is, because everybody.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Has their own certain kind of hotness, their own certain thing,
and you're supposed to go for that, because who are
you not to be beautiful? You know who you are
is in an accident.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
All right?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I agree with her, Yes, go for your strength and
use it now while you.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Can but Sharry Stone like went toe to toe with
de Niro and Casino Like, she's an incredible actress. Yeah,
he's not just showing it off.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Incredible actress. She's good. Oh dude, when was the last
time watched Casino again? I have watched it several times.
She get nominated for an Academy Award. She did. Yes,
I didn't know. That whole movie is basically about that
about her. Yeah, she's like, I mean, she's the second lead,
really more than I think Joe pesh.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I ne I'd get him off on there. Look at anyway,
we started talking about a de Niro movie. Just your
eyes are bugging out.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's the only thing that's going to get me to
stop talking about Sydney Sweeney's rack. It's a de Niro movie,
and that, folks.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Tells you everything you need to know about Silvery.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I applaud Sydney sween I do too, way to go, flaw.
Why you have it?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
You go? Girl?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You're doing when you don't?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
All?
Speaker 7 (04:40):
Right?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
One?
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Two check check Just check it in on my buddy.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's time to check in.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Chuck on Boston's Classic Rock one hundred point.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Seven w z LX our check in today is what
is the greatest opening to a class said rock song?
Could be a guitar riff, could be keyboards, could be drums,
could be vocals. What hits you right between the eyes?
What is a great start to a song? Let's go
around the room here and get ours? Shall I start? Yes, Chuck,
(05:15):
I love this one. I've said it before. Okay, this
is one of the greatest openings for a song of
all time, so great. At one point in the z
Lex vehicle, this was our horn. So if you've got
in our way, you would hear Oh can't you hear
me knocking? The few times I got a chance to
drive that van, I would abuse this. That was the
(05:37):
horn and people were startled because it was really loud.
You know who else loves that song? Martin Scorsese? Oh, yes,
very true. All right, that's that's mine. Who do we
want to go to now?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I think we should go to Tyler next? Okay, because
you guys didn't really give me a lot of time
to prepare, and I'm really gonna throw off the formula
here and you're.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Probably not gonna like it. It's gotta be some yacht
rock thing. No, it's out a format but I don't care.
Was it Britney Spears or something? All right, you want
me to go clearly, mine's a dead give aid. It's
gonna be van Halen, right of course, but there's a
story behind it. So David Lee Roth leaves van Halen.
I'm going up. I'm a huge van Halen fan. This
guy Sammy Hagar's in the band. I'm like, what is
this gonna sound like? Whole new album, whole new sound,
(06:23):
whole new band. And then the beginning of the album,
fifty one fifty starts out just like this, Hello, babe,
that is awesome. I'm like, oh, maybe this one suck
after all? That is such a cool opening. I always
(06:44):
love that. Yes, And that's how he would set fifty
one fifty tour. He would start out all the concerts
like that too. God yeah, yeah, all right, Well what's yours?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Murr?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Well, since I only had moments to decide, we had
to go out of format a little bit. But I
decided on.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Wait, when you say format go on out a little bit,
how much of a little bit would you say?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I guess it depends on how adjacent you consider metal toy.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
To a classical metals close. This is rock. Yeah, I
thought you were gonna go like end Sync or something.
Who is it like Iron Maiden something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Oh no, it's not old school metal. It's more new
school metal. It's Memphis May Fire. It's a song called Paralyzed, Right.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I thought I just got punched in the side of
the head. You're awake though, No?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Is that the ballad off the album Chance.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
King?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You know the third single usually is the ballad?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah, at the beginning, a lot of stuff in a
second Maddy kicked him with the vocals, Mattie mullins, Memphis
May Fire.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Here we go, something about Rice Crispies.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
If you ever see me tracking out to the Worcester Palladium,
it's to see an act like this.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Okay, this is this is my news, all right. I
don't think we fully appreciate it. Could you go back
to the begin ending of that again, because this is
all about the greatest openings to a song. So if
I could hear the start of that again.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
And right.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Every days of Vicious Cycle and the cycle repeat on repeat,
stuck on repeat, Okay, sounds about right. I got it.
I can't understood that. I can't believe you got that
I know, I know, it's pretty good. I just heard.
I just heard the dog barking.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
You guys are all very lead. The greatest rock and
roll intro of all time.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It's so regal. That's a fan the grand lusion? Did
he really? Did he really? Go with the why not?
And then it gets very dramatic. That's a great song.
Welcome crowd, Come on, smoke laser beams. I was just
(09:05):
a young lad, but I went on a party bus
to the Cape Cod Colisseum to see them on this tour.
That's amazing. It's the first time in my life I
ever experienced the thick heaviness of party bus puke smell brutal,
any weed mixed in the company must have been so
used to doing this because they had metal trash cans
(09:26):
down the aisle of the busy. Gross. Gross, That poor guy,
that poor sweet old man. Now the check in with
Chuck Classic Rock w z LX. It's all about the music.
(09:50):
We've done some cool things like if you with the
Big Star for the Red Sox, you're coming up, the
bat will be your walk up song. What is the
greatest song to start a concert with? Did that too? Guys?
Do all these great ideas. Today we're doing the greatest
opening to a classic rock song, a song that starts
with just oh so good guitar, riff, keyboards, vocals, whatever
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it takes, doesn't matter. Six one, seven, nine point seven.
You can leave us a talk back on the free
iHeartRadio app. Kevin from Abington, How are.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
You good, Chuck?
Speaker 10 (10:24):
How are you buddy?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Excellent? Going into the weekend here? What is that song
that just hits you right between the eyes?
Speaker 10 (10:31):
Well, first of all, I gotta agree with Tyler, that's awesome,
but also somebody get me a doctor Man.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Entire album Van Haalin two got weekend so good? Yeah,
come on man, he doesn't Oh, I don't like that anymore.
He doesn't know, No, he doesn't. That's a good one. Kevin,
thank you? All right, all right, let's go to Curtis.
Curtis from Hamilton. How are you?
Speaker 10 (11:10):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (11:12):
I'm good?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
What's your song?
Speaker 10 (11:15):
My song would be war Pigs from from Alsie?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh, war Pigs from Ozzie. He changed his mind? Were terrible?
The last secon said a different one before.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
A good changed my mind.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
This is kind of dropping down from the back of
the stage. The upside down Crucifix. Have you seen my
bunk Satan Rock Satan. Let's go to Mike, Mike from
(11:49):
woos The was to the City, the Seven Hills, the
Paris of the eighties. Yes, how are you money? Good morning? Excellent?
Speaker 9 (11:59):
Mine is.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
I'd say it would be uh the opening riffs on
Stranglehold and then when the drums kicking.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yes, Oh, this is a great I love it as
you guys did a lot classic driving songs too.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
It's just long enough to get you going into your ride.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
As qualifies as that too. I agree with you. It's
gonna go with the drums kicking in.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Oh, yeah, that's the drums kicking.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Oh. This song just defines the seventies, doesn't it. It really does.
And it's eight minutes long too. It's dazed to confuse
when it comes in that movie. Oh, let's go to
Joe in Norton. Joe, how you doing?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
But how are you good?
Speaker 10 (12:46):
I also had uh ted Nugent, but I got more,
so I would have to say my second one would
be dire Straits money for Nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Your biggest song Mark Nuffler's so good Wildly. I got
a chance to see them do this at the Ore
Film Place. Went bananas when he started playing that. I
(13:14):
saw them at the Providence Civic Center on this tour,
the Money for the Brothers in Arms tour. Yeah, I
think it was at the Civic Center. That was really cool,
so good, such a great band. So when they start
this song live, it's the I want my yeah while
you hit the high notes for impressive sangond bands. Ernie
(13:36):
in the car, Happy Friday.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Hey, Happy Friday. Hey, your listener is gonna get tired
of listening to me because I wanted to take it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I'm hanging up on Ernie. You're done. No, he's got
a good one. I like his what you saw.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
No, I was gonna say y y z, but but
I'm starting to think more like working man.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
He's got all set to go. I'm gonna kill you all.
And now everybody's changing their menu. You know, I was
going out order the steak, but I think you'll have
the chicken parm and it's nothing like it. One year
from now, we're going to see them live title rate
(14:19):
start to a song town eleven months ago. God, that's cool.
Lloyd from Waltham, how are you Lloyd? Good? Excellent? I
like you, Lloyd. I like you, Lloyd, what's your song?
Bad Company?
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Sky Love?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You start off, you start off with a lightning strike
and go into this tooth. Are you allowed to listen
to this without smoking weed? God? It's just such a great.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
That company when you get guys don't play and you
guys don't play enough bad confidence.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Lloyd making a comment, Harry, all right, Yeah, they got
a groove man, They're another band. They define the seventies
Bad Company in their prime. God, God, unbelievable, so many songs, unbelievable.
Let's go to John and Lemonster. How you doing John?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
How you doing today?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Excellent? About yourself?
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Good? Lloyd Liotender from Portland.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
He's the best.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
From Tim bucktoo, to Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine for that matter.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
For that matter, how about Mean Street by Van Halen?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Stop it you can do that? Oh, come on, you're
teasing me. Now here it comes. Wait for what happened?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Right?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You waiting for it? Yes? This is my ring tone
by the way, coming up, of course it is imagine
hearing that you stopping shop. I just rocking out in
the Third Island Wegmans. The man was a magician, for
(16:28):
God's sake, Like that is the Greatest truck go to four.
All right, hang on here? What the hell is that?
I believe it's the Duke of Madness? How are you? Duke?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
What's up?
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Chucky Baby?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You got no job?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
You ain't got nothing to do.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
I'm like, good.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Jobs, just what we needed on a Friday. Here we
got grass and high tides forever. It's another great driving song.
Really is what's it? Final?
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Can I put something? Chuck?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Can you?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
What?
Speaker 9 (17:09):
Can I plug something?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We're having a car show? Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Guys own guitar.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
They both teach at Berkeley. They're playing at the Eagles
and framing him tonight. Two guys in friends. It's a
spectacular show. Seven thirty to ten thirty. Come on down
the Eagles and Bubba Bronz Eddy's pizza right there, Right,
let's go.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I saw these guys play this at watch you Si.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Mount That sounds about right, mountains did.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It was like their fall fest. Actually he was really cool.
I remember they had it set up outside and the
crowd went out and upped the mountain. It was a
big crowd. Girl, Wow, want chuston Mountain?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Now back to the check in with Hucks.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Rock seven w Z LX, what are you? What is
the greatest opening to a classic rock song? Could be
drums because he guitar, could be vocals, whatever, what just
when you hear that, you just go right to the
follow turn that thing up. Johnny from Worcester, good morning?
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Are you doing this? Fawning guys?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
All right? How you doing? Oh?
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Mine would be first to shut out to my cousin
Johnny Sewa, who's the biggest Pats fan. But what fires
up Foxboro Stadium? Crazy train?
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Ozzie?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yes, remember when Ozzie came out of the helmet. That's
so cool. He didn't come out of the hell. Nobody
knew he was there, and he came out and did
this at Foxborough. Oh, that is such a great opening
to a song. I love that. We've got Sean and Ipswich.
(19:08):
How are you Sean?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Good morning ladies and gentlemen and Tyler I uh, I
would like to throw over the Hills by the led
Zeppelin out there.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Nice.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
You could just play that on repeat. You don't even
need the song.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I agree. This is a great acoustic opening to a song.
And the thing about it is Jimmy Page pulls you in. Oh,
it's an acoustic song. This is really nice and then
he just rips into the electric guitar. So good. I
like that. Incredible. We've got Lindsay and Newton. How are you, Lindsay,
(19:53):
I'm good? How are you good? Thank you? Friday? What's
that song that grabs?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I had many to choose some, so many songs in
my head, but one of my favorites is Iggy Popped
the Passengers. Interesting, it's the Friday Fields.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Have you seen a photo of Biggie recently? I respect me,
I respect the man. He's kept his shirt off. That's
how I felt when I saw him. Oh, it's like
the turkey's done. You should take that out. Jeff from Wilmington,
(20:41):
how are you?
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I'm great, guys.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
I'm just back from my lovely Los Angeles vacation. Listening
on the app the last few days.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
But I'm back and you're the guy that was at
Redondo Beach right correct? Yeah, okay, I feel like we
were on vacation with you. Yeah, you can get me
some though.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
You could have come. It was great weather, great weather,
but I was gonna go Van Halen, but it's been
a little van Halen heavy this morning. So how about
a band I'm going to see tomorrow night. You guys
play the song all the time, cheap trick surrender Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
With mister bun E Carlos with the drum roll to
get us in. Rick Nielsen a legend. It's a great song.
Where are they playing tomorrow night?
Speaker 10 (21:27):
They are playing at the Lynn Auditorium, a great little
old venue.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
That's a cool place. See Carter's actually going to that show,
of course he is. Yeah, he is a miss show.
Say how to Carter for us? Let's get a couple
of talkbacks in here too. Hey, this is Mark from Pawtucket.
I think the best intro is Youth Gone Wild by
skid Row. Check it out. Wow, Sebastian Bach whipping the
(22:02):
hair around. He's an angry dude. Then, well that's why
he's not with the band anymore. He's really angry, screaming
at people online. He's nuts.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
First song, first Zeppelin album, Good Times, Bad Times.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yes, absolutely stop it now. Damn it's iconic. Just makes
you think of that, uh, that documentary Becoming led Zep.
You love that documentary, dude. There's so much raw, live
(22:39):
on never before seen concert footage in that documentary. If
you like Zepp, and you have to watch. Would you
call it unbridled? I would call it unbridled.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Good morning, z Lex Crew.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
The song that I would pick would have to be
got a thunder by Kiss.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It's not the.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Phrase of all Kiss songs. It's kind of a deep cut,
isn't it. Yeah, most Kiss fans don't talk about the hits.
We'll talk about the deep stuff I enjoy. You're playing
this so very helpful. Thank you, Gene. Do we owe
you some money for playing that? Well, we'll talk about
it after that. All right.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
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Speaker 2 (23:34):
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One week from today is the fiftieth anniversary of the
cargo ship the Edmund Fitzgerald, leaving the port in Superior,
Wisconsin with a load of iron ore twenty six thousand
tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty. It's been
a lot of confusion about what happened that day.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Andrew Jory, isn't it the one they did the song.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
About Edmund Fitzgerald.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I love Edmund Fitzgerald's voice.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
No, Gorton Lightfoot was the singer. Edmund Fitzgerald was the ship.
You could fit fifteen people in that bathroom. I think
Gorton like, what was the boat? Yeah? And it was
rammed by the cat Steve. We just want to get
the facts straight. Twenty six thousand tons of taconite pellets
on board that ship.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Okay, what is that grade iron ore?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Low grade iron ore? I did look that up. I
didn't know that offhand. And the winds of November came
early tyler Yep, the main hatchway gave in. It's terrible.
I hate when that happens. Crew of twenty nine awful
rest in peace, very very famous, famous shipwreck in this country.
(25:07):
Gordon Lightfoot wrote this song about it.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
You can't get lyrics like this anymore. When supper time came,
the old cook came on deck, saying, fellas, it's too
rough to feed you. At seven pm, a main hatchway
caves in. He said, fellas, it's been good to know you.
There is somebody here amongst us who had never heard
this song before in their lives. Can't believe.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Let's take a wild guess who that could have been
because this show, this song was celebrated ad nauseum on
my old show.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
So it wasn't me, Tyler. Do you know who would
that be? I think a real man would not know
his song? Oh my god, what's your man? It's Gordon Lightfoot,
for God's sake. Yeah, one of the greatest. He's my god.
All right, I'm done, Chuck, I'm done. I'll see you tomorrow.
(25:59):
I can't believe you just said that. You want to
talk about songwriter, Let's talk to me about Eddie Van.
This is one of those songs. Guys should listen to me.
This is one of the greatest karaoke songs of all time. No,
you can't do karaoke. I mean I know now that
I'm hearing it. Now that i'm hearing it, I know it.
But when you said the song in title, I was like, wait,
which one is that? It's such a tale? Who cares?
Speaker 5 (26:21):
There were great story songs that don't really exist anymore,
Like next.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Week a week from today. You know what light is
a tale? I'm not listening to that. Thousands of people
are going to turn out to the Split Rock Lighthouse
and they're going to read off the names of those
twenty nine men. Are you gonna go? And the lighthouse
will be turned on? If it's such a big deal,
you're gonna be. It's not gonna be a dry eye.
There is Chuck asking us to broadcast live from the
Split Rock.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Can you imagine that would be something.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
That's a very somber thing. By the way, I mean
in real life, they take it very serious.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
They take it very serious. I must say they don't
have they devastated twenty nine people passed away. That's awful. Yes,
But you can't give me crap for not caring about
Gordon Lightfoot. I'm giving you crap about the fact that
you had no idea what this song problems. I could
care less Jesus, Gordon Lightfoot, come on, what are we
doing here?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
One of the fun things I ever heard, though, was
a radio interviewer interviewed a historian about it, but all
of his questions were in the style of the song. Yes,
so he's sang the questions until the interview was like,
I'm done.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I mean, this is such a classic song. This is
like I don't like country music, but I know, uh,
you know, Jesus take the wheel. I don't know what
you want me to say. This song sucks. This is
a lame ass song. I would say Gordon Lakes turned
the minutes to Gordon Lightfoot a bigger artist than Rush
(27:40):
in Canada?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Wow?
Speaker 9 (27:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Probably? Yeah? Probably? Really is Gordon Lightfoot gonna do three
nights and Onto in Toronto because he passed away? Would
he would? He have? No? Possibly in his heyday he
could have done. You want to try and convince me
that Gordon Lightfoot is bigger than Rush? You asked, There's
no way. I think there was an error where he
(28:03):
might have been. When Gordon at about Zena, he was
bigger than Ross. Yeah, for sure. The rest of the
week off. I don't know that you're so angry because
I think it's ridiculous that you'd think ridiculous not knowing
Gordon Lightfoot. But Gordon Lightfoot Magic was six point seven
(28:23):
listening to Gordon Lightfoot. It's about American history.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Okay, all right, let's take Tyler to Lake Superior and
we'll take him on the tour.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Okay, I'm the one that not you. I'm just dumbfounded
by this whole conversation. Just that this song, even if
you don't like the song, you have to know the
song now that I'm hearing it. Yeah, I've heard it before.
But when you said artisan title, I just was saying, wait,
what song is that? Some wimpy seventy song people died?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Songwriter wrote a song walking people died, actual event, It's
just the song stakes, Tyler.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Come on, your take is like you know you don't
want wedding pictures forever with the black eye?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Like, are you kidding me? All right, got a full
minute left.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
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Speaker 4 (29:24):
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Speaker 2 (29:30):
Does anyone know where the Love of God goes? When
the waves turn the minutes to hour, The searchers all
say they'd have made Whitefish Bay if they put fifteen
more miles behind her? Can you can you give me
a pillow and a blanket? I'd need a nap? No,
this is perfect napping music. You can't use my electric blanket.
One week from today, the fiftieth anniversary of the tragedy
(29:51):
that is the edit. Fitzchaerir awful the chipwa it's the
big leag Getsony. Okay, we all respect the song. Some
of us like it. You don't have to like it.
But it's a bit of history. I respect that part
of it. He took a very strong stand. Well, I
just I'm not a Gordon light forgot. This folky, wimpy
(30:14):
seventies stuff isn't my thing.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
It's guys.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
You have no feelings. Oh stop it, I do too.
He is like in the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame,
statues of Gordon Lightfoot all over the place every province.
Congratulations to him. Some people have some feelings about what
you said about I wasn't saying anything about. See this
is where everybody's wrong. I'm not ragging on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Don't backpedal now, I'm Lightfoot. This is wimpy ass folk country,
(30:42):
wimpy music from the seventies. I love the talkbacks that
we get on the free iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Chuck Daniel Pelosi, can you please pick up silas pacifier
off the floor and put it back in his mouth.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
We have to disinfect it first. All the respect in
the world for the people that were on that ship
and their families and the trouble that they went through,
the reaction. My god, are you running for office, Gordon Lightfoot?
I'm not having it. Chris from Oxbridge, Good morning, Good morning.
You have something to say to time.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Yeah, man, you know, first off, have some respect for
yel there's punk and second you've you've you've got about
the networth and the recognition of his clip toenails.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Man.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
Thank you, you know, look at the whole picture.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Brother, Okay, I will all right, Thank you, Chris, thank you.
Greatest songwriters of all time. Oh my god. The words
in a musty old hall in Detroit. They prayed in
the Maritime Sailor's Cathedral. The church bell chimed till it
rang twenty nine times for each man of the Edmond
Fitzgerald I got a question for you, Chuck. When you
like when you your wife was the way you were
chilling in the hot tub. You're in there, you had
(32:03):
your drink. Yes, you're having a great time. How much
Gordon Lightfoot did you listen to.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
If Gordon comes on during the mix, you stick with it.
You know what, I would share a hot tub with Gordon.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
You can't even say it. You can't even say Alex
from Duxbury good morning, Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Tyler clearly knows this rock, that's no question. But if
you're a true music fan, you gotta know some adjacent
songs as well. I mean, doesn't really know Edmond Fitzgerald.
Has he ever heard of Angel from Montgomery or Switchita Line?
Many people just know these songs version.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I know a lot of music outside of my main genre.
I'm just not a Gordon Lightfoot. But how could you
go your lifetime without hearing this? I told you now
that I hear it. I know it, but I didn't
know when you said it because it's not in my
It's not in my meanstay, it's not in my catalog.
It's more than Lightfoot.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
He's afraid to go there because he knows if you
listen to the lyrics, he's gonna start crying.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
He won't stop. You're an emotional man. It's gonna all
come out. Hey. I just recently started listening to a
lot of yacht rock. Baby steps, okay, baby steps, give me,
give me time. Do you get punched? Did he say, Taylor?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Taylor?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Do you get punched in the face a lot when
you go to bas This crowd is just that I
didn't know that we have such a huge Gordon Lightfoot
out there. He's a Canadian treasure. I'm sure he is. Yeah,
good for him. He used to like the show.
Speaker 9 (33:40):
If you don't leave, I'm not gonna listen. You don't
like dam Gerald light Foot.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
You need to move on, all right.
Speaker 10 (33:49):
I'm a real man listening to that.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
All I gotta go there, Damn, I gotta get off
the show.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
You're a threat to the show.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Mandatory that a talk show has to have one tool, bad.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Tool, big All right, I'm gonna go to you. I'm
gonna learn everything there is to know about Gordon Lightfoot.
We'll come back to my own, you know, and then
you'll be better man for it. Okay, I'm sure there's
one positive one, right, yeah, Tyler.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
Gordon Whifer had eighteen top ten hitching can on the
Canadian charts.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Rush zero, oh wow, and Rush had a million great songs.
Gordon Lightfoot zero. Your opinion though, you know you're messing
with powers. You don't even understand that's true.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Man, you're picking Gordon Lightfoot over Rush. We got a
minute and thirteen left in the song, just saying he's huge.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Good.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, that's great. It doesn't mean I have to like them,
all right. I don't want you to leave the show,
because if you left the show, we wouldn't be more.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
In the morning that Chuck.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
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hundred point seven w ZLX. I'm studying right now for
research purposes. Sydney Sweeney's beautiful dress. Did you look at
your search inter search history, That's what it was. Eric,
this is at the Variety events. Well, it's a beautiful sheer,
(00:46):
silver floor length Christian Cowen. Everybody was talking about this.
She broke the internet, she really did. I mean you
could see everything, which was the whole point of course. Yes,
And you know what, why not let her talent shine
because as far as being an actress, well, she was
(01:10):
good in White Lotus, she was creating White Lotus. She's
not like a terrible actress. She's not like she's not
a great actress. I mean, you know, I'm not saying
she's like, you know, she's not Meryl Streep, but she's
not bad, you said, you said yourself. She was good
and white loaded, she was. I watched that rom com
she had on Netflix with what's his face? That Glenn Powell.
(01:30):
She was pretty good in that. I didn't see that.
It was pretty well the fact that you have real breasts, yes,
but yeah, her talent is getting overshadowed by her other talent.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well, she's getting a lot of criticism too because of
the nature of the event that she was attending, which
was a woman's empowerment event.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, and she's people like, so, yeah, but showing off
your isn't she showing that she's empowered, that she has
the courage to do this. She's basically standing there naked. Yeah,
pretty much. So many boob fifteen Jamie Lee Curtis came
up to her and did the you know, take her
(02:06):
by the hand, step back, whispered something in her ear,
which got everybody uh buzzing because Jamie Lee Curtis back
in the day, back in the eighties, eighting places that
seen when she takes her wig off, We've all seen it.
She was Sidney Sweeney like back in the day. Better actress,
(02:27):
but way better actress. Yes, I see what you're saying there.
Sharon Stone, who was famous for crossing and uncrossing her legs, Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, I think we're gonna we're gonna reduce it to that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well, that's how she became famous. What else is there?
Total recall? Nice, It was great, total recall. She was
nobody knew who she was at that point, but then
when she crossed and uncrossed her legs, she became a superstar. Yes,
sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do with the uh,
(03:00):
the mailman for months it's leaning in. Oh that's right,
that was newman. Yes, yeah, that's right. So here's what
Sharon Stone had to say.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
It's okay to use what mama gave you. It's really fine.
You know, it's hard to be hot, and I think
we all know that, and it's really okay to use
every bit of hotness you have right here, right now and.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Go for whatever that is, because everybody.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Has their own certain kind of hotness, their own certain thing,
and you're supposed to go for that, because who are
you not to be beautiful? You know who you are
is in an accident.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
All right?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I agree with her, Yes, go for your strength and
use it now while you.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Can but Sharry Stone like went toe to toe with
de Niro and Casino Like, she's an incredible actress. Yeah,
he's not just showing it off.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Incredible actress. She's good. Oh dude, when was the last
time watched Casino again? I have watched it several times.
She get nominated for an Academy Award. She did. Yes,
I didn't know. That whole movie is basically about that
about her. Yeah, she's like, I mean, she's the second lead,
really more than I think Joe pesh.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I ne I'd get him off on there. Look at anyway,
we started talking about a de Niro movie. Just your
eyes are bugging out.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's the only thing that's going to get me to
stop talking about Sydney Sweeney's rack. It's a de Niro movie,
and that, folks.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Tells you everything you need to know about Silvery.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I applaud Sydney sween I do too, way to go, flaw.
Why you have it?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
You go? Girl?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You're doing when you don't?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
All?
Speaker 7 (04:40):
Right?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
One?
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Two check check Just check it in on my buddy.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's time to check in.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Chuck on Boston's Classic Rock one hundred point.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Seven w z LX our check in today is what
is the greatest opening to a class said rock song?
Could be a guitar riff, could be keyboards, could be drums,
could be vocals. What hits you right between the eyes?
What is a great start to a song? Let's go
around the room here and get ours? Shall I start? Yes, Chuck,
(05:15):
I love this one. I've said it before. Okay, this
is one of the greatest openings for a song of
all time, so great. At one point in the z
Lex vehicle, this was our horn. So if you've got
in our way, you would hear Oh can't you hear
me knocking? The few times I got a chance to
drive that van, I would abuse this. That was the
(05:37):
horn and people were startled because it was really loud.
You know who else loves that song? Martin Scorsese? Oh, yes,
very true. All right, that's that's mine. Who do we
want to go to now?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I think we should go to Tyler next? Okay, because
you guys didn't really give me a lot of time
to prepare, and I'm really gonna throw off the formula
here and you're.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Probably not gonna like it. It's gotta be some yacht
rock thing. No, it's out a format but I don't care.
Was it Britney Spears or something? All right, you want
me to go clearly, mine's a dead give aid. It's
gonna be van Halen, right of course, but there's a
story behind it. So David Lee Roth leaves van Halen.
I'm going up. I'm a huge van Halen fan. This
guy Sammy Hagar's in the band. I'm like, what is
this gonna sound like? Whole new album, whole new sound,
(06:23):
whole new band. And then the beginning of the album,
fifty one fifty starts out just like this, Hello, babe,
that is awesome. I'm like, oh, maybe this one suck
after all? That is such a cool opening. I always
(06:44):
love that. Yes, And that's how he would set fifty
one fifty tour. He would start out all the concerts
like that too. God yeah, yeah, all right, Well what's yours?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Murr?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Well, since I only had moments to decide, we had
to go out of format a little bit. But I
decided on.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Wait, when you say format go on out a little bit,
how much of a little bit would you say?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I guess it depends on how adjacent you consider metal toy.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
To a classical metals close. This is rock. Yeah, I
thought you were gonna go like end Sync or something.
Who is it like Iron Maiden something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Oh no, it's not old school metal. It's more new
school metal. It's Memphis May Fire. It's a song called Paralyzed, Right.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I thought I just got punched in the side of
the head. You're awake though, No?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Is that the ballad off the album Chance.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
King?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You know the third single usually is the ballad?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah, at the beginning, a lot of stuff in a
second Maddy kicked him with the vocals, Mattie mullins, Memphis
May Fire.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Here we go, something about Rice Crispies.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
If you ever see me tracking out to the Worcester Palladium,
it's to see an act like this.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Okay, this is this is my news, all right. I
don't think we fully appreciate it. Could you go back
to the begin ending of that again, because this is
all about the greatest openings to a song. So if
I could hear the start of that again.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
And right.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Every days of Vicious Cycle and the cycle repeat on repeat,
stuck on repeat, Okay, sounds about right. I got it.
I can't understood that. I can't believe you got that
I know, I know, it's pretty good. I just heard.
I just heard the dog barking.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
You guys are all very lead. The greatest rock and
roll intro of all time.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It's so regal. That's a fan the grand lusion? Did
he really? Did he really? Go with the why not?
And then it gets very dramatic. That's a great song.
Welcome crowd, Come on, smoke laser beams. I was just
(09:05):
a young lad, but I went on a party bus
to the Cape Cod Colisseum to see them on this tour.
That's amazing. It's the first time in my life I
ever experienced the thick heaviness of party bus puke smell brutal,
any weed mixed in the company must have been so
used to doing this because they had metal trash cans
(09:26):
down the aisle of the busy. Gross. Gross, That poor guy,
that poor sweet old man. Now the check in with
Chuck Classic Rock w z LX. It's all about the music.
(09:50):
We've done some cool things like if you with the
Big Star for the Red Sox, you're coming up, the
bat will be your walk up song. What is the
greatest song to start a concert with? Did that too? Guys?
Do all these great ideas. Today we're doing the greatest
opening to a classic rock song, a song that starts
with just oh so good guitar, riff, keyboards, vocals, whatever
(10:13):
it takes, doesn't matter. Six one, seven, nine point seven.
You can leave us a talk back on the free
iHeartRadio app. Kevin from Abington, How are.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
You good, Chuck?
Speaker 10 (10:24):
How are you buddy?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Excellent? Going into the weekend here? What is that song
that just hits you right between the eyes?
Speaker 10 (10:31):
Well, first of all, I gotta agree with Tyler, that's awesome,
but also somebody get me a doctor Man.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Entire album Van Haalin two got weekend so good? Yeah,
come on man, he doesn't Oh, I don't like that anymore.
He doesn't know, No, he doesn't. That's a good one. Kevin,
thank you? All right, all right, let's go to Curtis.
Curtis from Hamilton. How are you?
Speaker 10 (11:10):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (11:12):
I'm good?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
What's your song?
Speaker 10 (11:15):
My song would be war Pigs from from Alsie?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh, war Pigs from Ozzie. He changed his mind? Were terrible?
The last secon said a different one before.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
A good changed my mind.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
This is kind of dropping down from the back of
the stage. The upside down Crucifix. Have you seen my
bunk Satan Rock Satan. Let's go to Mike, Mike from
(11:49):
woos The was to the City, the Seven Hills, the
Paris of the eighties. Yes, how are you money? Good morning? Excellent?
Speaker 9 (11:59):
Mine is.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
I'd say it would be uh the opening riffs on
Stranglehold and then when the drums kicking.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yes, Oh, this is a great I love it as
you guys did a lot classic driving songs too.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
It's just long enough to get you going into your ride.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
As qualifies as that too. I agree with you. It's
gonna go with the drums kicking in.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Oh, yeah, that's the drums kicking.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Oh. This song just defines the seventies, doesn't it. It really does.
And it's eight minutes long too. It's dazed to confuse
when it comes in that movie. Oh, let's go to
Joe in Norton. Joe, how you doing?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
But how are you good?
Speaker 10 (12:46):
I also had uh ted Nugent, but I got more,
so I would have to say my second one would
be dire Straits money for Nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Your biggest song Mark Nuffler's so good Wildly. I got
a chance to see them do this at the Ore
Film Place. Went bananas when he started playing that. I
(13:14):
saw them at the Providence Civic Center on this tour,
the Money for the Brothers in Arms tour. Yeah, I
think it was at the Civic Center. That was really cool,
so good, such a great band. So when they start
this song live, it's the I want my yeah while
you hit the high notes for impressive sangond bands. Ernie
(13:36):
in the car, Happy Friday.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Hey, Happy Friday. Hey, your listener is gonna get tired
of listening to me because I wanted to take it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I'm hanging up on Ernie. You're done. No, he's got
a good one. I like his what you saw.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
No, I was gonna say y y z, but but
I'm starting to think more like working man.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
He's got all set to go. I'm gonna kill you all.
And now everybody's changing their menu. You know, I was
going out order the steak, but I think you'll have
the chicken parm and it's nothing like it. One year
from now, we're going to see them live title rate
(14:19):
start to a song town eleven months ago. God, that's cool.
Lloyd from Waltham, how are you Lloyd? Good? Excellent? I
like you, Lloyd. I like you, Lloyd, what's your song?
Bad Company?
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Sky Love?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You start off, you start off with a lightning strike
and go into this tooth. Are you allowed to listen
to this without smoking weed? God? It's just such a great.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
That company when you get guys don't play and you
guys don't play enough bad confidence.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Lloyd making a comment, Harry, all right, Yeah, they got
a groove man, They're another band. They define the seventies
Bad Company in their prime. God, God, unbelievable, so many songs, unbelievable.
Let's go to John and Lemonster. How you doing John?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
How you doing today?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Excellent? About yourself?
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Good? Lloyd Liotender from Portland.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
He's the best.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
From Tim bucktoo, to Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine for that matter.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
For that matter, how about Mean Street by Van Halen?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Stop it you can do that? Oh, come on, you're
teasing me. Now here it comes. Wait for what happened?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Right?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You waiting for it? Yes? This is my ring tone
by the way, coming up, of course it is imagine
hearing that you stopping shop. I just rocking out in
the Third Island Wegmans. The man was a magician, for
(16:28):
God's sake, Like that is the Greatest truck go to four.
All right, hang on here? What the hell is that?
I believe it's the Duke of Madness? How are you? Duke?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
What's up?
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Chucky Baby?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You got no job?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
You ain't got nothing to do.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
I'm like, good.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Jobs, just what we needed on a Friday. Here we
got grass and high tides forever. It's another great driving song.
Really is what's it? Final?
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Can I put something? Chuck?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Can you?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
What?
Speaker 9 (17:09):
Can I plug something?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We're having a car show? Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Guys own guitar.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
They both teach at Berkeley. They're playing at the Eagles
and framing him tonight. Two guys in friends. It's a
spectacular show. Seven thirty to ten thirty. Come on down
the Eagles and Bubba Bronz Eddy's pizza right there, Right,
let's go.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I saw these guys play this at watch you Si.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Mount That sounds about right, mountains did.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It was like their fall fest. Actually he was really cool.
I remember they had it set up outside and the
crowd went out and upped the mountain. It was a
big crowd. Girl, Wow, want chuston Mountain?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Now back to the check in with Hucks.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Rock seven w Z LX, what are you? What is
the greatest opening to a classic rock song? Could be
drums because he guitar, could be vocals, whatever, what just
when you hear that, you just go right to the
follow turn that thing up. Johnny from Worcester, good morning?
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Are you doing this? Fawning guys?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
All right? How you doing? Oh?
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Mine would be first to shut out to my cousin
Johnny Sewa, who's the biggest Pats fan. But what fires
up Foxboro Stadium? Crazy train?
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Ozzie?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yes, remember when Ozzie came out of the helmet. That's
so cool. He didn't come out of the hell. Nobody
knew he was there, and he came out and did
this at Foxborough. Oh, that is such a great opening
to a song. I love that. We've got Sean and Ipswich.
(19:08):
How are you Sean?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Good morning ladies and gentlemen and Tyler I uh, I
would like to throw over the Hills by the led
Zeppelin out there.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Nice.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
You could just play that on repeat. You don't even
need the song.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I agree. This is a great acoustic opening to a song.
And the thing about it is Jimmy Page pulls you in. Oh,
it's an acoustic song. This is really nice and then
he just rips into the electric guitar. So good. I
like that. Incredible. We've got Lindsay and Newton. How are you, Lindsay,
(19:53):
I'm good? How are you good? Thank you? Friday? What's
that song that grabs?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I had many to choose some, so many songs in
my head, but one of my favorites is Iggy Popped
the Passengers. Interesting, it's the Friday Fields.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Have you seen a photo of Biggie recently? I respect me,
I respect the man. He's kept his shirt off. That's
how I felt when I saw him. Oh, it's like
the turkey's done. You should take that out. Jeff from Wilmington,
(20:41):
how are you?
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I'm great, guys.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
I'm just back from my lovely Los Angeles vacation. Listening
on the app the last few days.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
But I'm back and you're the guy that was at
Redondo Beach right correct? Yeah, okay, I feel like we
were on vacation with you. Yeah, you can get me
some though.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
You could have come. It was great weather, great weather,
but I was gonna go Van Halen, but it's been
a little van Halen heavy this morning. So how about
a band I'm going to see tomorrow night. You guys
play the song all the time, cheap trick surrender Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
With mister bun E Carlos with the drum roll to
get us in. Rick Nielsen a legend. It's a great song.
Where are they playing tomorrow night?
Speaker 10 (21:27):
They are playing at the Lynn Auditorium, a great little
old venue.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
That's a cool place. See Carter's actually going to that show,
of course he is. Yeah, he is a miss show.
Say how to Carter for us? Let's get a couple
of talkbacks in here too. Hey, this is Mark from Pawtucket.
I think the best intro is Youth Gone Wild by
skid Row. Check it out. Wow, Sebastian Bach whipping the
(22:02):
hair around. He's an angry dude. Then, well that's why
he's not with the band anymore. He's really angry, screaming
at people online. He's nuts.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
First song, first Zeppelin album, Good Times, Bad Times.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yes, absolutely stop it now. Damn it's iconic. Just makes
you think of that, uh, that documentary Becoming led Zep.
You love that documentary, dude. There's so much raw, live
(22:39):
on never before seen concert footage in that documentary. If
you like Zepp, and you have to watch. Would you
call it unbridled? I would call it unbridled.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Good morning, z Lex Crew.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
The song that I would pick would have to be
got a thunder by Kiss.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It's not the.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Phrase of all Kiss songs. It's kind of a deep cut,
isn't it. Yeah, most Kiss fans don't talk about the hits.
We'll talk about the deep stuff I enjoy. You're playing
this so very helpful. Thank you, Gene. Do we owe
you some money for playing that? Well, we'll talk about
it after that. All right.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
From the WZLX catcheslaw dot com studios, this is your
home for the Chuck Nolan Morning Show and Boston's Classic Rock.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
We are one hundred point seven w ZLX, Boston.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
It's the check No.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
One Morning show on Boston's Classic Rock one hundred point
seven w ZLX.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And everywhere else on the free iHeartRadio app. Don't forget
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Speaker 2 (23:53):
One week from today is the fiftieth anniversary of the
cargo ship the Edmund Fitzgerald, leaving the port in Superior,
Wisconsin with a load of iron ore twenty six thousand
tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty. It's been
a lot of confusion about what happened that day.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Andrew Jory, isn't it the one they did the song.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
About Edmund Fitzgerald.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I love Edmund Fitzgerald's voice.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
No, Gorton Lightfoot was the singer. Edmund Fitzgerald was the ship.
You could fit fifteen people in that bathroom. I think
Gorton like, what was the boat? Yeah? And it was
rammed by the cat Steve. We just want to get
the facts straight. Twenty six thousand tons of taconite pellets
on board that ship.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Okay, what is that grade iron ore?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Low grade iron ore? I did look that up. I
didn't know that offhand. And the winds of November came
early tyler Yep, the main hatchway gave in. It's terrible.
I hate when that happens. Crew of twenty nine awful
rest in peace, very very famous, famous shipwreck in this country.
(25:07):
Gordon Lightfoot wrote this song about it.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
You can't get lyrics like this anymore. When supper time came,
the old cook came on deck, saying, fellas, it's too
rough to feed you. At seven pm, a main hatchway
caves in. He said, fellas, it's been good to know you.
There is somebody here amongst us who had never heard
this song before in their lives. Can't believe.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Let's take a wild guess who that could have been
because this show, this song was celebrated ad nauseum on
my old show.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
So it wasn't me, Tyler. Do you know who would
that be? I think a real man would not know
his song? Oh my god, what's your man? It's Gordon Lightfoot,
for God's sake. Yeah, one of the greatest. He's my god.
All right, I'm done, Chuck, I'm done. I'll see you tomorrow.
(25:59):
I can't believe you just said that. You want to
talk about songwriter, Let's talk to me about Eddie Van.
This is one of those songs. Guys should listen to me.
This is one of the greatest karaoke songs of all time. No,
you can't do karaoke. I mean I know now that
I'm hearing it. Now that i'm hearing it, I know it.
But when you said the song in title, I was like, wait,
which one is that? It's such a tale? Who cares?
Speaker 5 (26:21):
There were great story songs that don't really exist anymore,
Like next.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Week a week from today. You know what light is
a tale? I'm not listening to that. Thousands of people
are going to turn out to the Split Rock Lighthouse
and they're going to read off the names of those
twenty nine men. Are you gonna go? And the lighthouse
will be turned on? If it's such a big deal,
you're gonna be. It's not gonna be a dry eye.
There is Chuck asking us to broadcast live from the
Split Rock.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Can you imagine that would be something.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
That's a very somber thing. By the way, I mean
in real life, they take it very serious.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
They take it very serious. I must say they don't
have they devastated twenty nine people passed away. That's awful. Yes,
But you can't give me crap for not caring about
Gordon Lightfoot. I'm giving you crap about the fact that
you had no idea what this song problems. I could
care less Jesus, Gordon Lightfoot, come on, what are we
doing here?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
One of the fun things I ever heard, though, was
a radio interviewer interviewed a historian about it, but all
of his questions were in the style of the song. Yes,
so he's sang the questions until the interview was like,
I'm done.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I mean, this is such a classic song. This is
like I don't like country music, but I know, uh,
you know, Jesus take the wheel. I don't know what
you want me to say. This song sucks. This is
a lame ass song. I would say Gordon Lakes turned
the minutes to Gordon Lightfoot a bigger artist than Rush
(27:40):
in Canada?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Wow?
Speaker 9 (27:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Probably? Yeah? Probably? Really is Gordon Lightfoot gonna do three
nights and Onto in Toronto because he passed away? Would
he would? He have? No? Possibly in his heyday he
could have done. You want to try and convince me
that Gordon Lightfoot is bigger than Rush? You asked, There's
no way. I think there was an error where he
(28:03):
might have been. When Gordon at about Zena, he was
bigger than Ross. Yeah, for sure. The rest of the
week off. I don't know that you're so angry because
I think it's ridiculous that you'd think ridiculous not knowing
Gordon Lightfoot. But Gordon Lightfoot Magic was six point seven
(28:23):
listening to Gordon Lightfoot. It's about American history.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Okay, all right, let's take Tyler to Lake Superior and
we'll take him on the tour.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Okay, I'm the one that not you. I'm just dumbfounded
by this whole conversation. Just that this song, even if
you don't like the song, you have to know the
song now that I'm hearing it. Yeah, I've heard it before.
But when you said artisan title, I just was saying, wait,
what song is that? Some wimpy seventy song people died?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Songwriter wrote a song walking people died, actual event, It's
just the song stakes, Tyler.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Come on, your take is like you know you don't
want wedding pictures forever with the black eye?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Like, are you kidding me? All right, got a full
minute left.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
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Speaker 4 (29:24):
Right here seven wzlx Bostin's classic rock.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Does anyone know where the Love of God goes? When
the waves turn the minutes to hour, The searchers all
say they'd have made Whitefish Bay if they put fifteen
more miles behind her? Can you can you give me
a pillow and a blanket? I'd need a nap? No,
this is perfect napping music. You can't use my electric blanket.
One week from today, the fiftieth anniversary of the tragedy
(29:51):
that is the edit. Fitzchaerir awful the chipwa it's the
big leag Getsony. Okay, we all respect the song. Some
of us like it. You don't have to like it.
But it's a bit of history. I respect that part
of it. He took a very strong stand. Well, I
just I'm not a Gordon light forgot. This folky, wimpy
(30:14):
seventies stuff isn't my thing.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
It's guys.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
You have no feelings. Oh stop it, I do too.
He is like in the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame,
statues of Gordon Lightfoot all over the place every province.
Congratulations to him. Some people have some feelings about what
you said about I wasn't saying anything about. See this
is where everybody's wrong. I'm not ragging on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Don't backpedal now, I'm Lightfoot. This is wimpy ass folk country,
(30:42):
wimpy music from the seventies. I love the talkbacks that
we get on the free iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Chuck Daniel Pelosi, can you please pick up silas pacifier
off the floor and put it back in his mouth.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
We have to disinfect it first. All the respect in
the world for the people that were on that ship
and their families and the trouble that they went through,
the reaction. My god, are you running for office, Gordon Lightfoot?
I'm not having it. Chris from Oxbridge, Good morning, Good morning.
You have something to say to time.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Yeah, man, you know, first off, have some respect for
yel there's punk and second you've you've you've got about
the networth and the recognition of his clip toenails.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Man.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
Thank you, you know, look at the whole picture.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Brother, Okay, I will all right, Thank you, Chris, thank you.
Greatest songwriters of all time. Oh my god. The words
in a musty old hall in Detroit. They prayed in
the Maritime Sailor's Cathedral. The church bell chimed till it
rang twenty nine times for each man of the Edmond
Fitzgerald I got a question for you, Chuck. When you
like when you your wife was the way you were
chilling in the hot tub. You're in there, you had
(32:03):
your drink. Yes, you're having a great time. How much
Gordon Lightfoot did you listen to.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
If Gordon comes on during the mix, you stick with it.
You know what, I would share a hot tub with Gordon.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
You can't even say it. You can't even say Alex
from Duxbury good morning, Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Tyler clearly knows this rock, that's no question. But if
you're a true music fan, you gotta know some adjacent
songs as well. I mean, doesn't really know Edmond Fitzgerald.
Has he ever heard of Angel from Montgomery or Switchita Line?
Many people just know these songs version.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I know a lot of music outside of my main genre.
I'm just not a Gordon Lightfoot. But how could you
go your lifetime without hearing this? I told you now
that I hear it. I know it, but I didn't
know when you said it because it's not in my
It's not in my meanstay, it's not in my catalog.
It's more than Lightfoot.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
He's afraid to go there because he knows if you
listen to the lyrics, he's gonna start crying.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
He won't stop. You're an emotional man. It's gonna all
come out. Hey. I just recently started listening to a
lot of yacht rock. Baby steps, okay, baby steps, give me,
give me time. Do you get punched? Did he say, Taylor?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Taylor?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Do you get punched in the face a lot when
you go to bas This crowd is just that I
didn't know that we have such a huge Gordon Lightfoot
out there. He's a Canadian treasure. I'm sure he is. Yeah,
good for him. He used to like the show.
Speaker 9 (33:40):
If you don't leave, I'm not gonna listen. You don't
like dam Gerald light Foot.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
You need to move on, all right.
Speaker 10 (33:49):
I'm a real man listening to that.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
All I gotta go there, Damn, I gotta get off
the show.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
You're a threat to the show.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Mandatory that a talk show has to have one tool, bad.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Tool, big All right, I'm gonna go to you. I'm
gonna learn everything there is to know about Gordon Lightfoot.
We'll come back to my own, you know, and then
you'll be better man for it. Okay, I'm sure there's
one positive one, right, yeah, Tyler.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
Gordon Whifer had eighteen top ten hitching can on the
Canadian charts.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Rush zero, oh wow, and Rush had a million great songs.
Gordon Lightfoot zero. Your opinion though, you know you're messing
with powers. You don't even understand that's true.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Man, you're picking Gordon Lightfoot over Rush. We got a
minute and thirteen left in the song, just saying he's huge.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Good.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, that's great. It doesn't mean I have to like them,
all right. I don't want you to leave the show,
because if you left the show, we wouldn't be more.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
In the morning that Chuck.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Dollan Morning Show. We turns Monday Wei a real good time.
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