Episode 5, part 1. Sound Affects (No typo) Music Suggestions 60s - 2010ish - From Hoods To Backwoods

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Shall we begin?

D Vaz (01:03):
with episode 5, part 1?
.
Welcome once again to FromHoods to Backwoods podcast
episode number 5.
Here Today we're going to betalking about music Music that
doesn't suck, to us at least,and I'll refrain from some of
the other jokes.

Tex LaFon (01:19):
What do you think, tex?
Nah, I agree, like I said, it'sgoing to be fun talking about
some music and what we like, and, as always, hopefully you like
the same things that we'resuggesting.
I agree, yeah, like I said,it's going to be fun talking
about some music and what welike, and you know, as always,

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hopefully you like the samethings that we're suggesting
From the Woods to Backwoodspodcast.

D Vaz (01:54):
welcome to the show.
What we're going to do today istalk about music starting from
the 60s on up to fairly currentday.
For me it's going to be alittle bit different list, maybe
from LaFawn here, because, as amusician, I'm doing my list as
more artists or bands thatinspire me over the years or

(02:14):
maybe want to play music or playcertain types of music, things
like that.
What about your list?
What do you have going on withyours?

Tex LaFon (02:22):
Yeah, list is just, uh, what you know inspired me to
.
You know, have fun, have a goodtime.
Like you know, crank up the carhot rod, you know just.
You know good beats, good music.
You know just what I like.
That's what my list is, and Isay I'm not a musician, but I'm
just here to talk about you knowwhat.
Getting the party started iswhat I'm talking about, son, all
right.

D Vaz (02:41):
So I guess, uh, in that mindset of getting the party
started is what I'm talkingabout, son.
All right.
So I guess, in that mindset ofgetting the party started, let's
kick this off and go with thelist.
Do you want to go first or doyou want me to kick it off?

Tex LaFon (02:54):
You can kick it off, son.
This is more your mojo thanmine, so go ahead.

D Vaz (02:58):
Yeah, you kind of had your run with the movies.
That's definitely your thing,more so than mine.
Run with the movies, that'sdefinitely your thing more so
than mine.
Uh, starting off with the 60s,um, and and I don't have I want
to preface with this, uh,preface this with I don't have
this in any particular order asfar as like number one to number
three or anything like that um,but otis redding in the 60s was

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an artist who really kind ofgot me into music and
songwriting in general.
He was an R&B singer, but hewas also a songwriter, and that
wasn't something I found outtill a little bit later on.
I'll take a moment to kind ofexplain something else too.
Fortunately for me, growing up,my dad was a DJ and he had

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access to a lot of differentmusic.
So I grew up listening to a lotof different music.
So I grew up listening to a lotof different things, but I also
grew up listening to a lot ofstuff that he listened to.
So this is how I discoveredotis redding.
Um just started listening to hismusic, got like, you know, your
typical back then greatest hitcd, because you know that's

(04:04):
that's when we actually had discback in the day you had to
worry about not scratching itand stuff like that.
But, um, yeah.
So I had his greatest hit cd.
I listened to it non-stop.
Then I'm buying a full deluxebox set of like pretty much most
of the songs throughout thathe's recorded and written
throughout his career.

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So I got really deep into allthat.
Uh, just learned about him as asongwriter who he'd worked with
and found out that he was amulti-instrumentalist, which is
something I didn't know either.
So he played guitar and drumsand keyboards and things like
that.
So just overall really talented, and he made me interested in

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being able to do things likethat Myself.
I was probably about 13 or 14at the time when I really got
into that and discovered it, andthat's when I decided I really
seriously wanted to pick up aguitar.

Tex LaFon (05:01):
Oh, so you probably started playing when you were
14?
.

D Vaz (05:11):
Yeah, that's when I really probably started playing,
when you were 14.
Yeah, that's when I reallyreally started playing.
I found my grandfather's oldacoustic guitar.
It was all beat up and it onlyhad five strings on it and stuff
.
I didn't even have a full setof strings and I couldn't even
tune it.
So, yeah, I picked that up andstarted, started trying to play
it at least, and I wouldn't putit down.
And that's when my dad kind ofnoticed, hey, he actually is
trying to play this thing oh,that's funny so, yeah, that was,

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I was around that age and thenodor spreading was a big part of
it.
Um, and then again, especially,my dad, had to move on to the
next one, the beatles.
That's his favorite band.
Um, they ended up becoming myfavorite band.
Uh, he just listened to him andwould tell me the stories about
, you know, the songs he wouldlisten to back then and I got

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again more into the musical side, the instruments, the
songwriting, trying tounderstand how they did things
because they were pretty aheadof their time as far as, um, the
way they they recorded in musicand stuff like that.

Tex LaFon (06:11):
So Wait so is that is that.
Is this your favorite band inthe sixties or is that your
favorite band of all time?

D Vaz (06:18):
No, that's pretty much, pretty much my favorite band of
all time.
You know they uh they covered alot of different you know for
for what they did and for thattime period they covered a lot
of different types of music.
You know you have some of yourkind of mellow songs from them
and then you have stuff that youknow rocks out like a helter

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skelter.

Tex LaFon (06:39):
There's only one song .

D Vaz (06:40):
There's only one song, I think is okay.

Tex LaFon (06:42):
There's only one song I think is okay by the Beatles.
I said there's only one song Ithink is okay by the Beatles.
I said that's definitely moreyour thing than mine and that's
hey Jude, and that's probablyabout it, mm-hmm Just being like
that.

D Vaz (06:56):
Yeah, no, it's funny because I've seen that shift
over the past 10 to 15 yearswhere it used to seem like
everybody kind of knew who theBeatles were and everybody at
least kind of respected them.
If they didn't like them, atleast they had some sort of
respect for what they didmusically.
Now I see some things and hearsome things where people just

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kind of flat out trash them.
It's kind of funny to me.
It's like yeah, it is what itis, it's your opinion, um, but
just um, as a musician and andkind of being a little bit older
and familiar with the musichistory and and remembering
certain parts of music history,um, and and what the impact did,
yeah, I, I have a differentview in that sense, but yeah, it

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is what it is, you know.
That's why we're doing theselists here, because different
opinions yeah, no, exactly likeyou said.

Tex LaFon (07:51):
Like I ain't got nothing against the beatles, I
just said my only thing.
The only song that I reallyliked from them was the hey jude
one.
Other than that I just thoughtthey were okay band.
I thought I mean, everybodythought they were so good, but
I've always just thought theywere okay.
I never thought they were, likeyou know, the greatest, like
you do, but that's why we havedifferent opinions.

D Vaz (08:12):
Yeah, well, I wouldn't say that I would never call
really any band the greatesteither.
You know they're my favorite.

Tex LaFon (08:19):
Yeah, I'll leave it at that.
Oh, okay, your favorite yeah.

D Vaz (08:22):
Yeah, yeah, because greatest everybody likes to get
in that whole debate now, and tome you just can't.
There is no greatest becausethere's so many different
opinions.
And there's all types ofdifferent criteria too, so it's
like greatest of what, true?
So, yeah, yeah.
So for me it's about theirsongwriting creativity, bridging

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the gaps between differentstyles, bringing classical
instruments and stringarrangements and things like
that into pop music, or evenIndian instruments and things
like that into pop music.
It was pretty interesting to mebecause that was unique and
ahead of its time, for sure.
Unique and ahead of its time,for sure.
So, yeah, it's more on thecreativity and songwriting front

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, somewhat related to them in aroundabout way, jimi Hendrix
would be the next one.
I would go to my favoriteguitarist of all time, for sure,
and inspired me a lot.

(09:30):
I even, uh, when I was around17, got a jimmy hendrix fender
stratocaster guitar so that wasmy first what I call real guitar
so I would agree with that yeah, it was just.
I saw it.
It was fun.
It's a, uh's an Olympic whitefinish with a white pickguard.
It was based on the guitar heused at Woodstock.
Oh, that's cool.

(09:52):
It's pretty interesting.
Maybe I'll try to bust out witha picture of it, but yeah, it's
called the Jimi Hendrix TributeModel that came out around 1997
.
So still have it to this day.
It's one of those things I'mnot gonna get rid of, nice, so,
but same thing, that's cool.

Tex LaFon (10:12):
I had to agree with you I had to agree with you on
the um greatest guitarist isjimmy hendrix because, yeah, I,
I can't debate that.

D Vaz (10:21):
I agree with you on that well, yeah, again, I wouldn't
say uh greatest.
I mean, definitely to me he'sup there with with the again
being creative and just reallypushing boundaries, and it's not
just his playing but trying toget different sounds, um, and

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things like that.
I think he's really underrated,uh, as a songwriter.
It's kind of funny too, becausehis favorite uh kind of
lyricist and songwriter was bobdylan.
But of course he sounds nothinglike bob dylan, yeah so yeah,
so it's kind of interesting.
Uh, he had a really diversebackground too, because Before

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he went in and did his solostuff, he was a backup guitarist
For, like, the Isley Brothersand Little Richard and acts like
that, so he was playing R&Bmusic and, of course, his solo
music Really didn't sound likethat.

Tex LaFon (11:21):
Right.

D Vaz (11:21):
So, yeah, that's the thing I really liked is seeing a
lot of these artists,especially in the 60s, branch
off and do different things andtry to be really creative, try
to come up with stuff that was,you know, unique um, but also
lyrically back then, um lyricsthat had some sort of meaning to

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them.

Tex LaFon (11:47):
Right right.

D Vaz (11:50):
And then that takes me to the honorable mention, which
would be the Temptations.
So just the singing.
They have great vocals, really,really solid songwriting from
the people at Motown, peoplelike Smokey Robinson that would
write music for them when theywere starting out.

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He was one of the writers on myGirl, that song, and if you
haven't heard of any of thesongs that I mentioned here,
please go check them out.
Oh, he wrote my Girl, that'sgood.
It's a good song.
Yeah, it's a classic.

Tex LaFon (12:33):
Is that what you play to get the ladies?
Is that what you play to getthe ladies?

D Vaz (12:39):
Maybe back in the day again.
If I played it for a lot ofpeople they probably wouldn't
know that song anymore.
Really, that's kind of thefunny thing to me.
They probably would say it'sthe movie right before they say
it's the song that's if theyknow what the movie is, you go

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and make a B reference, peopleare like what?
You're talking about not beingable to see without glasses.
They're like what that's trueso, yeah, it's, uh, it's.
it's a weird time we we live,and I'll probably get into it in
a future episode, but a lot ofpeople aren't, um, as familiar

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with older stuff, and that'sthat's why why I wanted to kind
of bring this up and discuss itand hopefully help people
discover some new and differentthings that are old, so new to
them and different for them fromthings they've been listening
to.

Tex LaFon (13:39):
That's true.

D Vaz (13:40):
But yeah, I'd say that kind of rounds it out.
I mean, I could definitely talkmore about any of these artists
, but the temptations is mainlytheir vocals and creativity.
Great, just music in general.
But uh, what about you?
What's your tour through the60s?

Tex LaFon (13:55):
well, my tour through the 60s is, uh.
First, like I said it, nonomadic order.
Just, you know a couple ofbands that I like from the 60s
Rolling Stones, like I said, youknow, painted Black I like that
song a lot from them.
Then I got to go with the Doorsand, like I said, it was funny

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because I thought the Doors werefrom the 80s and then when I,
you know, really startedlistening to them, I was like,
oh, no, they're from the 60s.
Then, uh, when I, you know,really started listening to it,
I was like, oh, another from the60s.
So I was shocked by that and,uh, I like my fire.
That's the song I really likeby them.
Uh, also, tommy james and thechandelions I like uh chandel,

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yeah, I like the crimson andclover song a lot.
Like that song to me.
I just like how, especially theway it starts off, it's like
they're just kidding around,messing around, and it turns
into a great song.
You know what I'm saying.
I listen to that song all thetime.
And then, honorable Mentions, Iwould go with Led Zeppelin.
Like I said, he's famous for alot of things but, like I said,

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I like that band a lot too.
So you know he's famous for alot for a lot of things.

D Vaz (15:10):
But I said I like that band a lot too, so I mean that
would be like wrapping off the60s for me.
Yeah, that's uh.
It's funny you kind ofmentioned the rolling stones
because that's especially backthen a lot of people would say
they were the rivals to thebeatles.
So that's kind of on par withthat.
If, uh, I was into the beatlesyou would be in the rolling
stone into the rolling stones.
So that's kind of on par withthat.
If I was into the Beatles, youwould be in the Rolling Stone
into the Rolling Stones.
So that's kind of what we havegoing on here, I guess.

Tex LaFon (15:30):
I guess I, I just I guess I like the, the sound of
the Rolling Stones better thanthe Beatles.
Yeah, I guess that was justmore of my style.

D Vaz (15:40):
I like the lead singer a lot better for the Rolling
Stones Mick Jagger, so I likethe lead singer a lot better for
the Rolling Stones, mick Jagger.
They have some good songs.
I like Honky Tonk Woman a lotyeah that's a good one.
That's a song I kind of playedevery once in a while over the
years.
Yeah, it's a good song.
They have great music.
For sure, tommy James isdefinitely one that could have

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been on my list too.
Sure, um, tommy james isdefinitely one that could have
been on my list too.
Then it was the 60s was maybeabout the hardest decade for me
to to pick.
Uh, I mean, there are so manyothers, um, like marvin gaye too
, but he was more of a 70sartist.
I don't have him on my 70s list, I will just say that flat out,
but he was another one that Idefinitely considered.

Tex LaFon (16:26):
True, you know that is a good one.
But yeah, like I said, thesixties were were good.
Like you said, you could tellthat it was changing music and
changing the way people startedlistening to music.
I said you know from thefifties and forties, so let's go
to the 70s.
I'll start off with the 70s andthen I'll turn it to you son

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First band in the 70s.
And I said I grew up listeningto this band, like you know how.
You say that your favorite bandwould probably be the Beatles.
Well, my favorite band of alltime would probably be the
Eagles, and that's because, like, anywhere we went, my parents
would turn that on and we wouldlisten to it anywhere we went.

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And I said the hotel californiasong is just stuck in my head
like I will never forget thatsong as long as I live, like
it's such a great song.
And they got a lot of othergreat songs, like Living in the
Fast Lane and all the othersongs.
But, like I said, eagles,that'd probably be my favorite
band of all time.

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And then next band that I likeda lot in the 70s was Pink Floyd
and one song that I liked aboutthem a lot was Money, because
money, money, money.

D Vaz (17:45):
You know we all like to make all know you know what I'm
saying.

Tex LaFon (17:49):
Everybody likes to make money, so that's why you
gotta like that song, as I waslike good job, pink floyd, all
right.
Then the next one uh, I liked alot back in the day and I said,
uh, it would make you want togo to alab, alabama.
When you heard this bandLeonard Skinner, you know what
I'm saying.
Sweet home, alabama, son I saidyou know, I'm pretty sure

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everybody knows that song and ifyou haven't, you've probably
been living under a rock, buthopefully you've heard that song
and you know that song.
And then honorable mention fromthis one is Steve Miller Band.
I like that Joker song a lotand then some other songs he has
.
And then one other honorablemention I have is Foghat, and

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the reason why I like that banda lot is that famous song, slow
Ride.
So you get in your muscle car,you roll down the windows and
you turn on Slow Ride and thenyou go cruising down the road,
son, that's a true 70s traditionright there, son, just not here
in Arizona in the summer.
Well, you can have the AC fullblast and still have the windows

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down.
But that's what it was man.
Like I said, whenever I playthat song it just makes me like,
all right, it's time to gocruising son.
So that's my 70s list yeah, no,that's, yeah.

D Vaz (19:17):
Pink floyd definitely.
Uh.
Another one for for creativityum, was probably something that
could end up on my list too.
Um, no, it's, it's, uh.
The eagles.
I mean again, great songwriters, uh, and that band, just huge.
The funny thing about them too.

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They, um, I do have somearizona ties.
I don't know if you know thispart or have heard this before,
um, but they, they used to be apart of the stone ponies, which
was the backing band for lindaronstadt, who's from arizona oh
no, I did not know just a little, yeah, a little, music trivia
for you, just definitelyfamiliar with Linda Ronstadt.

(20:01):
Being from here, she's, you know, somebody I grew up listening
to also.

Tex LaFon (20:06):
Oh nice.

D Vaz (20:08):
Yeah, she has some great hits in the 70s too, but again
not on my list.

Tex LaFon (20:14):
But there's a lot of great music.
And one other song I do want tomention from the Eagles, which
is a great song, is witchy woman.
That's a good song.

D Vaz (20:25):
Yeah, no they have a lot of big hits, um, that's why they
can keep going on tour andmaking money.

Tex LaFon (20:34):
Right and I can't sing, so I already know y'all
probably gonna be making jokesabout it.
But you know, just me throwingit out there, All right son.

D Vaz (20:42):
All good, all right For my seventies list.
Um, I'll kick it off withsomething a little different.
Uh and you know this can bereally hit and miss of people
who know who this is, that'sFrank Zappa.
So he was just kind of astrange musician to a lot of

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people.
He was a composer, songwriter.
He was known for kind of funnysongs as far as lyrically, but
he would also write reallycomplex instrumental songs.
He always had great bands,especially when he performed
live.
Like George Duke was one of myfavorite keyboard players of all

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time.
He also happened to be a greatvocalist, but he played with
Frank Zappa through the 70s, andTerry Bozio was another one
played with Frank Zappa throughthe 70s and Terry Bozio was
another one.
Even Steve Vai, a greatguitarist.
He actually started off withFrank Zappa way back when he was

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really young.
I don't know exactly what age,but he was really young when he
started off with Frank Zappa.
So I can't imagine having thatas one of your first
professional jobs, especiallyyour first major professional
job.

Tex LaFon (22:02):
Oh yeah, but that would be awesome though.

D Vaz (22:05):
Oh, it would.
I'm just saying talk aboutnerve-wracking.
Oh, yeah, for sure Frank Zappawas known for being a great
musician, great composer, didreally complex music and being
really young trying to keep up.
I can't imagine how that wouldbe.
So yeah, there are definitelysome interesting titles to some

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of Frank Zappa's songs, likeDon't Eat.
Yellow Snow is one of them, andBobby Brown I would hope nobody
would eat yellow snow son.
Yeah, I would hope so too.
Never know.

Tex LaFon (22:48):
Just saying, man, that'd be funny, I mean but,
yeah, hopefully everybody knowswhat yellow snow is.

D Vaz (22:56):
If you're listening or watching.

Tex LaFon (22:56):
Yeah is if you're listening or watching.

D Vaz (22:59):
Yeah, if you're listening or watching and you eat yellow
snow, don't write us anyway.
So we're not.
Uh, we don't need the details.
Um, but yeah, he has some otherfunny songs.
I'll just I'm going to have toedit this title out my favorite

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Frank Zappa song is actuallyTitties and Beer.

Tex LaFon (23:26):
Oh well, I wouldn't edit that out, because that's a
good title.

D Vaz (23:30):
Yeah, it is, and it's a great song.
It's just a really funny song.
It's basically he's hanging outwith his lady and the devil
comes along and he takes her andhis beer and he gets upset
about it.
So he has to figure out a wayto get it back.

Tex LaFon (23:50):
Oh, that's cool.
I have to listen.
I've never heard that.
I'm going to have to listen tothat.

D Vaz (23:54):
Oh, you would definitely like it.
I'll send it to you so you cancheck it out.

Tex LaFon (23:58):
Heck, yeah, I'll be all about that.

D Vaz (24:02):
So, yeah, so that's Frank Zappa, definitely one of my
favorites.
I feel like he's an extremelyunderrated guitar player.
That was one of my favoritethings about him.
And yeah, he's another one Icould talk about for a very long
time, but I won't do that.
Yeah, he's another one I couldtalk about for a very long time,
but I won't do that.
I'll move on to somebody thateverybody pretty much should

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know, which is Stevie Wonder.
So Stevie Wonder had some greatmusic in the 60s and he
continued, you know, coming outwith great classic songs in the
70s.
There's just so many songs thathe's written that I, I like um,
as, of course, there's the bighits like superstition.
Everybody knows.
Um, I actually have fun playingthe song living for the city.

(24:48):
Uh, do a little bit differentversion.
I've played superstition too,like everybody probably has.
Who, uh, is a musician?
That's a stevie wonder fan.
It seems like everybody'splayed that song, so that's why
I kind of moved on from it well,a lot of people say that's when
the baby boom happened, whenstevie wonder came out yeah, he

(25:10):
uh.
I mean in the 60s he definitelyhad some some good love songs,
but yeah, in the 70s hedefinitely took it to another
level that's what I'm saying,yeah a lot of people yeah do you
wonder baby boom?
Which is funny.
Yeah, he's definitely one ofthose artists you know, like
marvin gaye and, uh, barry white.

(25:33):
You know, or you know, and I'llget to this later on, I guess
I'll foreshadow.
But Prince, a lot of babymaking music.

Tex LaFon (25:40):
Right, yeah, can't go wrong with.

D Vaz (25:43):
Purple Rain, so right.
But yeah, stevie Wonder, just alot of you know he could do
some funky stuff, he could writegreat ballads, so a lot of
different stuff that he did inthe 70s Great singing he's the

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one that kind of inspired me toplay piano and keyboard.
Oh, ok, I'll actually.
I can't forget this too.
Really quick Stevie Wonderstory.
Personally, I was at the NAMMshow in California.
I've mentioned it before.
It's something I go to everyonce in a while.
It's an annual event wherepeople will meet.

(26:29):
It's a convention basically foraudio equipment and musical
instruments, and I went a fewyears back.
I was there.
This is probably about this.
Actually it was the first onethat they had after covid.
I remember that now.
So I went there and it's prettywell known, especially I had

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been going for a few years bythat time.
So I knew on sundays that wasstevie wonder day.
I knew that he would be makingthe rounds out in the crowd.
So I made sure that I was thereon Sunday and you can always
tell when he's walking around,because you'll see a crowd of
people kind of going all in thesame direction.

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You'll see people stop and lookat him, things like that.
So in previous years, you know,I'd you know, walk by him and
things like that.
So in previous years, you know,I'd, you know, walk by him and
things like that.
This year or that year was alittle bit different, though,
because he went to a booth thatwas right next to the booth that
I was I happened to be at atthat time and he went up there

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and he was playing a keyboardand he was checking it out and
he was talking to the personthat was there and he was
telling him about the keyboardand you, you know, let him
listen to it and things likethat.
As soon as he walked away, Iwalked right up to that keyboard
and started playing it, becauseI was like, how often are you
ever going to play the samekeyboard that stevie wonder

(27:53):
played, but not only that, justthe one that he just barely
played.
I mean, he, he literally justwalked right away from it.
As soon as you know, his peoplecleared out, I went and I was
the next person to play it.
so that's pretty cool, a surrealexperience, you know, yeah yeah
, yeah, I mean, that was fun,for sure yeah, yeah, I have.

(28:14):
I have a the photo evidence.
I'll try to get the picturesand see, uh uh, if I can share
them with the people no, like,you know that had to be like.

Tex LaFon (28:27):
You know it's playing basketball.
You know like if, uh, michaeljordan just shot, it shot, and
you grab the basketball and thenyou shot it, you know be like
the same thing from a sportlevel.
You know what I'm saying likefrom one of the greatest you got
to.
You know, play the keyboard.
That's pretty cool definitely ahighlight.

D Vaz (28:44):
you know music music experience I've had over the
years.
So, um, yeah, I guess uh, I'llleave it at that that that's
good enough for Stevie Wonderfor now.
But from there, parliament,funkadelic.
George Clinton, who's kind oftheir ringleader, their main

(29:10):
songwriter he's kind of a weirdguy Does mainly funk music.
He actually started off as adoo-wop singer way back in the
50s, though Then he just kind ofevolved to doing R&B and it
ended up being funk music.
His band changed a good amounttoo when he met, actually, my
favorite bass player of all time, which is Bootsy Collins,

(29:32):
bootsy.

Tex LaFon (29:33):
Collins before he joined.

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D Vaz (29:38):
Funkadeladelic, he was actually the bass player.
What's that?

Tex LaFon (29:41):
bass player.
I thought you said baseballbass player.
I thought it was something.

D Vaz (29:47):
I thought it said it's not a baseball.
I was like basketball oh, okayno uh favorite bassist oh, okay
so, uh, but yeah, bootsy Collinsis his name.
He, before he joined parliamentFunkadelic, he was actually the
bass player in James Brown'sband.
Oh, okay, so, and the samething, like Steve Vai I

(30:09):
mentioned earlier, he was reallyyoung when he started with
James Brown, so he, but he had ahuge influence on bass in
general, but funk music and kindof what Parliament Funkadelic
did.
They had a lot of greatvocalists in their group, they

(30:32):
had a lot of great musicians andthings like that.
So a lot of the stuff they,things like that, so a lot of
stuff they did was was pretty,you know, rooted in a groove and
funk and stuff like that, andthey were sampled a lot in in
the uh, hip-hop songs later on.
But, um, they did branch out alittle bit and have a little bit

(30:53):
of like rock, guitar and someof their music, which is kind of
neat too.
So, yeah, they had a biginfluence on, uh, my bass
playing and things like that.
And then, uh, my honorablemention, I listen to a lot of
different things, so I had tothrow in a little bit of jazz
here too.
Uh, george benson, he happensto be a great singer too.

(31:16):
I've seen him live, actually, Ishould mention too, I've seen
stevie wonder live twice, um,and I seen george benson live
also.
He happens to live in arizona,uh, currently, and I I seen him.
I didn't really get to talk tohim, but I seen him at a place
that I used to work that hewould stop by every once in a

(31:37):
while.
Um, I won't get too much intoit, but in the it's um musical
instruments company that I usedto work at and, uh, he would
stop by every once in a while.
I even ended up buying his.
He had his own signatureamplifier, guitar amplifier
model so I ended up buying that.
I was going to see about maybehaving him sign it, but I never

(31:59):
got, never got a chance to Um.
yeah, so I, I saw him him aroundmy work every once in a while,
but I never really got a chanceto speak with him.
But just a great guitar player,um, especially his jazz sound
and everything like that was was, uh, something that a lot of
people try to mimic, you know,but he's just a lot of fun to

(32:21):
watch live.
Um on Broadway is definitelyone of my favorite songs of his.
It's something I used to playevery once in a while, um, but
he has just a lot of great songs.
My favorite songs of hisactually are instrumentals and
they're technically not hissongs.
So, um, songs that his actuallyare instrumentals and they're

(32:42):
technically not his songs.
So, um, they're hard to find.
I'll try to post some moreinformation on about his songs
but uh, yeah, definitely a biginfluence on on my music nice so
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D Vaz (34:08):
Okay, welcome back, and we're gonna keep things rolling
along.
So we went through the 60s and70s.
It is time for the 80s, so gograb your hairspray and check
out what we have going on.
I guess with the 80s music Ithink there were some pretty big
changes.
In the 80s you started gettingmore electronic stuff.

Tex LaFon (34:29):
Everybody walking around with them, big boom boxes
on their shoulders.

D Vaz (34:34):
Yeah, there are definitely some.
We called them ghettoblastersasters.
I don't know what you calledthem, but or if you call them
boom boxes I guess yeah, boomboxes son yeah, everybody had
those big what's that?

Tex LaFon (34:47):
that's what we call them boom boxes.

D Vaz (34:49):
Yeah yeah, yeah, no, we called them ghetto blasters,
that's funny so, um, yeah,they're just giant radios that
people would carry around, takelike what 10 10d batteries or
something crazy like that.
And they must have been, orthey were super heavy and huge,
but anyway, yeah.

(35:09):
So yeah, the 80s.
80s were a time of differentchange, I'm sorry, a time of
change as far as uh startedgetting more electronic music.
Um, you still had some moretraditional stuff, but
definitely synthesizers andelectronic drums and things like
that.
Um really shifted a lot of theway music sounded in the 80s.

(35:32):
So and also, and also before youkick it off, also a big change
in the 80s to the music was mtvmusic videos oh yeah, yeah, that
was, that was a huge part of it, because you couldn't just be
talented anymore, you had tolook good, exactly.

(35:55):
So, yeah, and then, uh, peoplelike michael jackson got really
serious about music videos andthey started having basically
mini movies, uh, with the musicvideos, so that that changed the
way the music business was too.
Um, because, yeah, you had totie it looks into the songs too
that's what I'm saying.

Tex LaFon (36:15):
That's the reason why the?
80s was a big, a big decade forchange because you had you know
, uh, music videos now and alsoyou had you know songs that you
know you still would play on theradio and stuff like that, but
it was the first time that youever had music videos.
So I thought that was a big,you know big change that
happened in the 80s well, yeah,and you kind of alluded to to

(36:38):
with the boom boxes.

D Vaz (36:39):
Um, people start having more and more portable music,
you know, with cassettes andstuff like that, whereas you
know you didn't really have thatas much before, so you know you
could take a giant boom box andforce people listen to what you
want to listen to as you walkaround.
That's right, I remember Iheard people would uh ride

(37:01):
around either on their bikes orhad like a tricycle and they
would have a big old boom box inthe back that's too funny yeah,
so oh, with the with the 80s.
I have some artists that it'skind of funny.
They branch between the, the70s and 80s and I I kind of

(37:23):
could go either way.
So I I stuck in the 80s becauseone I I wanted to to make sure
they were on the list and theother one I I felt like I might
have liked their 80s stuff alittle bit more.
But billy joel is that one one.
So Billy Joel is another oneAgain.
Songwriter, I liked what he did.

(37:43):
Same thing Great lyrics.
That's something that's alwaysbeen important to me.
Another one I really liked hispiano playing.
He had put on a good show.
He just had some good overallmusic and he did a significant
enough change in the 80s withhis music versus some of his 70s

(38:05):
stuff.
So a little bit more up-tempotype songs too, because he kind
of got a reputation as beingsomebody who did softer music or
easy listening or kind ofboring music.
So he started getting into alittle bit more up-tempo, a
little bit more rock and rolltype stuff in the 80s.

(38:27):
I like Billy.

Tex LaFon (38:30):
Joel, that's a good one.

D Vaz (38:33):
Yeah, he's just somebody who had a really, really long
career, and it's for a reasonyou know.
And he actually started in the60s.

Tex LaFon (38:45):
Oh, I got you.

D Vaz (38:46):
What's that?

Tex LaFon (38:47):
No, I was going to say one of mine from the 80s is
going to be Def Leppard.
Like I said, I liked DefLeppard.
One of my favorite songs bythem is hysteria, uh, which is
funny because it's also one oftheir label titles too, which is
funny, you know, because a lotof times when you have a label,

(39:07):
not always the songs in thelabel is just a label, you know
I just think it's kind of funny,but I to me, I think that's
their best song.
I know they have like a lot ofgreat songs.
A lot lot of people, like youknow, pour sugar on me, but nah,
hysteria is my favorite song.
So that was what I just likethe, just the beat of it and the
music of it and just the way itsounds Like I said it's not too

(39:32):
like heavy, but then it's justlike it's just got a good uptemp
beat to it.
In my opinion, yeah, same thing.

D Vaz (39:43):
Really great musicians in that band.
Yeah, pour some sugar on me.
The stripper classic.

Tex LaFon (39:51):
It's something that you know, a lot of people have
heard or you seen kind of made ajoke of you know or you saw Tom
Cruise sing it in Rock of Ages,which was another one of those
movies I haven't seen all theway through that song is just

(40:12):
funny when he sings it, though,in rock of ages.

D Vaz (40:14):
It's just too funny no, they have some, some really good
songs.
I have some other friends ofmine too that's, if not their
favorite, one of their favoritebands.
Um.
So, yeah, they rightfully soand, like you said it, people
are familiar with that one song,but they have so many other
songs that are really reallygreat that, uh, it'd be nice if

(40:34):
people kind of dove into thoseand then kind of, you know,
heard, heard some, heard, heardsome some different things from
them no true, like animal lovebites and then just to get kind
of give everybody a heads up too.
They're like what's going on.
So we decided to kind of taketurns as we're going through the
list.
So, um, my next one again.

(40:58):
I could have picked for the 70s, but the 70s was already pretty
packed, so I moved queen to the80s.
You know, it's my show, yourshow.
We can do what we want exactlyyou know another one bites the
dust.
That's why yes, and that cameout in the 80s so I mean I'll
admit their greatest songs werein the 70s, but uh, another one

(41:20):
bites dust is definitely a greatsong.
Can't deny that.
Exactly Bassline, but no, theystill had really solid music
coming out in the 80s.

Tex LaFon (41:37):
Of course, their Live Aid concert was pretty famous.
So if you haven't checked thatout and they have that famous
song that I know.
They have that famous song thatI know.
They have that famous song thatthe niners haven't been able to
play in a long time.
We are the champions now.

D Vaz (41:50):
Now, y'all, y'all suck, but yeah just just like the
cowboys haven't been able toplay it either.

Tex LaFon (41:56):
Yeah, that's true, we're both in the same boat, but
I just I just want to make sureyou understand that Queen did
make that song and y'all haven'tbeen able to play it for a long
time.
Son.

D Vaz (42:09):
It's funny when I hear that song, it actually reminds
me of the Chicago Bulls.

Tex LaFon (42:14):
Well, true, but they haven't been able to play that
since the 90s either son.

D Vaz (42:20):
Right.
Yeah, it's just during thattime you kept hearing it.
When they would do the threebeats, you kept hearing that
song.
So it just kind of, for mepersonally, reminds me of the
Chicago Bulls when I hear it.
Yeah, I was just going to addone more thing too About Queen
that I I mean, of courseeverybody knows, you know,
that's familiar with Queen Knowsthat Freddie Mercury had a

(42:41):
great voice.
He was also a really greatsongwriter.
Brian May, the guitar player,though, too, knows that Freddie
Mercury had a great voice.
He was also a really greatsongwriter.
Brian May, the guitar player,though, too, extremely brilliant
person, scientist, and he alsomade his guitar his first guitar
with his dad.
And it ended up being a reallyunique guitar and now he has his

(43:04):
own line of guitars that'sbased on that style.
It has some really uniquefeatures, sounds great.
But yeah, I just absolutelywant to give him props for that
and kind of let people knowFreddie Mercury definitely not
going to take anything away fromhim, he's great.
But yeah, brian May too.
He was another part of Queen.

(43:26):
That was huge, and also, in hisown right, another, uh,
creative genius right, right, Iagree.

Tex LaFon (43:34):
And also you can also watch that uh documentary movie
that was made about freddiemercury and queen you know what
that was called was it BohemianRhapsody?
Yep, that's it son.
Good job you passed.
Yeah, I did see that I didwatch it.
I was curious about it, it waspretty good it wasn't a bad

(43:55):
movie.

D Vaz (43:55):
I mean, just my big thing about Hollywood movies is
always how accurate they are.
So you know it's going to havethat, I knew it was going to
have that, but overall well done.
Um interesting movie.
I was entertained watching it,at least Right Right.

Tex LaFon (44:16):
All right.
So, uh, I want to talk aboutanother one from the eighties
and this is, uh, a band that, um, I kind of got me into
listening to a little heavymetal, because I'm not big on
heavy metal but that'd bemetallica, because metallica is
like they can play some heavymetal and then they can go back
to um, not so heavy but, youknow, like close to heavy metal.

(44:40):
And, uh, like I, the one thatmy favorite songs they came back
out from them in the eightieswas uh, called one, and I don't
know if you ever heard that song, but it was.
It was very legit, very goodsong and I said, um, especially
with the music video that wentalong with it, really really
good song.

D Vaz (45:09):
And and but I said I that got me into starting to like
heavy metal, because I neverreally liked heavy metal at all
until metallica.
So her metallica, yeah that uh,no, I'm definitely familiar
with that.
I I had their first threealbums at one point and they
even had a, a cd that came out.
Um, it was them with anorchestra doing kind of like
their greatest hits.
I bought that too back in theday.
So yeah, no, I was intoMetallica for sure.

(45:30):
I had friends that were, so Ilistened to them back in the day
.
I won't get too much into it,but a lot of my friends once
Metallica came out with the Loadalbum that's kind of when they
fell off and stopped listening,right right.
And that's kind of when Ididn't listen as much either.
I mean nothing against any ofthe stuff they did after that,

(45:51):
but I don't know, I just kind ofhad to move on from them at
that point, I guess.

Tex LaFon (45:56):
I guess their best album was Black.

D Vaz (45:59):
The Black album.
Yeah, yeah, that's definitelyclassic.

Tex LaFon (46:02):
I think that was my favorite album, Mom, which came
out in the close to the 90s orin the early 90s, I think.

D Vaz (46:11):
Yeah, that was one of their first albums.
But, yeah, that's usually thehardcore Metallica fans.
That's the one that most peoplepoint to as their favorite, the
one that really got them intoMetallica Right.

(46:37):
Most people point to as theirtheir favorite, the one that
really got them into metallicaright.
But, um, my last official onebefore I get to the the
honorable mention later, um,last one I had to I saved on
purpose is prince, and one ofthe reasons I'm wearing a it may
not show up on camera, but I'mwearing a purple shirt today,
just kind of for that reason.
But Prince, musically, has hadthe biggest impact on me, just
because, just like Otis Redding,multi-instrumentalist, so he

(46:58):
played all the differentinstruments when he recorded
songs and he wrote songs.
So I wanted to be able to dothat.
But he also produced all of hisown music.
He uh, wrote songs for a lot ofother people and he was just
great live, um, playing thedifferent instruments, live,

(47:18):
singing, live.
One thing I couldn't really dolive, dance, live.
I'll leave that to him.
Um, so, yeah, he was just kindof a complete artist, complete
package.
In that sense there reallyaren't too many people on that
same level, especially being amusician.
On top of being a greatmusician, they can usually do

(47:40):
bits and pieces of it.
They're a great singer orthey're a great performer, but
yeah, being able to do all of itat an extremely high level, uh,
it's.
It's really hard to findanybody else that can do that I
said he's one of my favoritefavorite 80s artists.
I mean I said yeah, that's,that's the funny thing to me, uh

(48:04):
, because a lot of people dothink of him as like an 80s
artist or whatever, but he had alot of great songs in the 90s
too.
Um, that you know he was goingthrough some things with his
record label so it didn't reallyget promoted.
So I feel like it didn't getthe notoriety that it probably
deserved or that it did deserve,because, again, it's just great

(48:27):
music in the 90s too.
So anybody, especially up untilabout 96, 97, he output a lot
of stuff and if you dive intothat, the albums between between
you know, around 90, 91, 92, upuntil 95, 96 a lot of great

(48:49):
stuff there.
Um, yeah, yeah, definitely thebiggest impact on me, uh, like I
said, musically, is inspiringme to to write music and, uh,
again branch out to do a lot ofdifferent styles of music.
If you, a lot of people think ofagain his, a lot of people
think of again his 80s stuff andhow it sounded with the
synthesizers and all that.
But he covered a lot of musicalground.

(49:10):
He had his rock songs, his R&Bsongs, his hip-hop.
I mean he covered all sorts ofstuff.
Jazz music yeah, he has a jazzalbum called the Rainbow
Children.
That was great.
He did some blues.
So yeah, he has a jazz albumcalled the Rainbow Children.
That was great.
He did some blues.
So yeah, he was kind of allover the map.

Tex LaFon (49:30):
Oh yeah, I agree.
Do you have a favorite songabout him?

D Vaz (49:35):
No, I don't.
It'd be way too hard for me topick.
I mean, I played a lot of hissongs too and of course
everybody always goes to PurpleRain and I do really really
enjoy playing that song.
That might be about my favoritesong of his to play, but
there's so many other songs ofhis that I like and like.

(49:56):
There's another song I'veplayed a lot over the years
called the Ride, and it's ablues and it's one that people
don't really know, but thatactually probably is my favorite
song of his to play and it'sjust something different.
But yeah, I really wouldn't beable to pick a favorite song.
It's even hard for me to pick.

(50:17):
I don't know if I could evenpick a favorite album of his
because Purple Rain was great,but sign of the times, stuff
like that my favorite song wouldprobably be uh, raspberry beret
.
Yeah, I like this.
I really like the.

Tex LaFon (50:36):
I said, there's a lot of songs that I like buying,
but that'd probably be myfavorite song by him yeah,
that's another one that um isfun to play.

D Vaz (50:44):
I I really like the uh, the string arrangement on that.
You know the, the violin stufflike that.
That.
Uh, I think it was a quartetthat they used for that song,
but the the strings that theythey use.
I really like that uh, it goesalong with the song really well.

Tex LaFon (51:01):
So yeah, that's a great song.
That's a great album too allright, my next one in the 80s,
or my next official one in the80s.
Before we do honorable mentionsand it's my uh, like he says, uh
, tom petty and theheartbreakers I said you stole
that from me I know I said Imean he's too good like his band

(51:27):
and the songs that he came outwith in the 80s and you could
also probably mention him in the90s too.
It was a tough debate on whichone to go with, but I said my
favorite song by him wasreleased in the 90s but which
was Mary Jane.
That's my favorite song that heever did Last Dance, mary

(51:50):
Jane's Last Dance.
But, like I said, I likeAmerican Girl, I like Free
Fallin'.
Like I said, he just had a lot,just his voice overall.
I like about about tom petty,just it's just a very easy going
sound.

(52:10):
Like it's a relaxing.
You know music to me yeah he's.

D Vaz (52:15):
He's another one, uh, as a songwriter, did a lot of um
great things lyrically.
Um, did a lot of great thingslyrically, kind of kept moving
along.
He didn't, you know, go intocompletely different directions,
but he did start doingdifferent stuff with his music.

(52:35):
I remember that song, don'tCome Around here no More, with
the kind of Alice in Wonderlandtheme that was.
You mentioned MTV.
That was one of the first bigMTV videos.
I remember watching too thatthey would play a lot.

Tex LaFon (52:52):
Do you know that video at all?
Oh yeah, I definitely know thatvideo.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's one ofhis greatest songs.
Don't Come Around here no More.

D Vaz (53:01):
You know, like I said, that's what we say to all our
exes Don't come around here nomore, you know like I said
that's what we say.

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D Vaz (53:12):
Yeah, it's just uh I wish they all lived in texas, but
anyway, that's the georgestraight song okay, son that's
george straight get out of here.

Tex LaFon (53:20):
You don't know nothing about george straight
get out of here.

D Vaz (53:21):
Son I know, I'm just saying.
I'm just saying I wish, juststating the fact I wish they
lived in texas, that's all um no, I, I, oh, I have to mention
too, though, as far as tom pettygoes, I do like playing.
Um, I won't back down.
That's a song I've played for,uh, probably about 15, 20 years

(53:45):
now and, uh, every time I playit it's, I do, a slightly
different way of playing it, alittle different arrangement,
but I don't know.
It just never gets boring to meor never kind of lacks anything
, and it's a combination of the,the lyrics and the music.
Musically it's prettystraightforward, but lyrically I

(54:05):
think it has some good meaningto it.

Tex LaFon (54:08):
Oh yeah, and one of the songs I like a lot about him
is it's Good to Be King.

D Vaz (54:14):
Sorry, it's hard for me not to think about Mel Brooks.

Tex LaFon (54:19):
It's.

D Vaz (54:19):
Good to.

Tex LaFon (54:19):
Be King Right.
And then Arnold mentioned forme in the 80s gotta go with my
boy, bon Jovi, wanted Dead.
It's good to be the king Right.
And then honorable mention forme in the 80s gotta go with my
boy, bon Jovi, wanted Dead orAlive.
I mean that's one of thegreatest songs of all time, man,
Especially when they played onDeadly's Catch.
Every time that show starts youhear Wanted Dead or Alive.

D Vaz (54:43):
Such a good song Do you wish you?

Tex LaFon (54:44):
were Young Gun.
Yeah, he had a great song inyou wish you were young gun.
Yeah, he had a great song inthat movie too young guns.
Do you know what that song was?

D Vaz (54:51):
oh jeez, I'm gonna draw a blank.
Um, you have to refresh mymemory now, and I apologize to
Ed and Laura, who are big fansof Bon Jovi, because I forgot.
I do know it, I swear.
I struck a blank, for somereason.

Tex LaFon (55:11):
It's funny, I know it too, and I'm drawing a blank
right now.

D Vaz (55:14):
So Try to call me out, son.
That's what happens.

Tex LaFon (55:19):
Yeah, but that's just funny.

D Vaz (55:20):
This isn't live, but I'm leaving it in.

Tex LaFon (55:24):
Good.
And also there's one otherhonorable mention and I got to
go a little country Garth Brooks.
Like I said, I do like countryand he's one of my favorite
country singers.
But one song I like that he didin the 80s was Friends in Low
Places Such a good song,especially when you're drinking
Really good song and you'redrinking really good song and

(55:45):
you end up in low places oh yeah, if you drink too much, yeah,
for my honorable mention.

D Vaz (55:57):
For the 80s Zap and Roger is who I'd have to go with,
just great music.
Unique because Roger Troutman,their lead singer, used
something called a talk box anda lot of people describe it as a
robot voice, but I actuallyowned one for a while and

(56:22):
they're kind of strange.
Owned one for a while andthey're kind of kind of strange.
What it is is it's uh, you plug, in his case, a keyboard into
it.
I I was using guitar with it,but um and his he actually kind
of built and modified himselftoo because it didn't work the
way that he liked it.
But it's a.
You plug your keyboard into itand it has a tube that goes up

(56:43):
to your mouth and it pushes airwhen you play notes on the
keyboard.
So, it's just weird.
And then it pushes the air.
What's that?

Tex LaFon (56:54):
I said that is weird.

D Vaz (56:57):
It is.
So if you ever watched theCalifornia love video, uh, tupac
and Dr Dre he's in that videoCause he's doing the California
love part ofupac and dr Dre ohhe's in that video because he's
doing the.
California love part of thatsong and you'll see him with a
tube in his mouth there.
Like what is that tube?
And you know, is he?
You need oxygen.
What's going on?
But that's what.

(57:17):
That's what it is.
That's the talk box tube.
So it shoots air in your mouthas you're playing the notes.
And then you have a microphoneand the microphone captures the
sound in your mouth as you'replaying the notes.
And then you have a microphoneand the microphone captures the
sound that your mouth is making.
So you have to move yeah, youhave to move your mouth certain
ways to get certain sounds.
As you have this stupid tube,you hold it in between your

(57:39):
teeth, just just so people canunderstand.
And uh, yeah, you hold it inbetween your teeth, you're
trying to form your mouthcertain ways, because it's not
like regular talking either.
You can't just move your mouththe way you normally would to
get whatever certain sounds.
So, yeah, I don't want to gettoo much into it because it
could definitely get fairlytechnical, but that's basically
what it is.

(57:59):
It's called a talk box and heabsolutely mastered it.
And I've heard people before say, oh, he used that robot thing
and they thought it was likegimmick and stuff like that.
But they absolutely have noidea how difficult it is to
actually use that and especiallyuse it the way he did.
Um, so, but he had other songstoo where he didn't use it and

(58:21):
he could really really sing verywell.
And again, also anothermulti-instrumentalist uh, played
different, differentinstruments and in the studio
record a lot of the partshimself and uh, yeah, extremely
uh underrated, I feel, as asongwriter but just as a
creative person in music.

Tex LaFon (58:43):
No, I agree, I know exactly what you're talking
about on that California Lovevideo, which is a good song.
I like that song.
But one other honorable mentionand then we'll get out of the
80s.
But we have to say MichaelJackson, because he does have
some great songs and what he diddo for the music generation and

(59:05):
everything you know, you haveto give it to him.
But like that Thriller video, Ilike that Thriller song a lot,
you know, changed the way youknow people even did videos
because he basically made that ashort movie.

D Vaz (59:21):
Yeah, it was.
Yeah, it had a full onHollywood director and all sorts
of stuff, you know, effects andmakeup and and everything.
Um, yeah, a famouschoreographed dance scene.
Um, oh yeah, I I do have my ownthriller story real quick, um,
my dad being how my dad is, whenI I was, I was about two, or,

(59:48):
yeah, I was about two years oldso when Thriller came out and
they would show the video on MTV.
So, um, my dad recorded it onetime and I was probably about
three years old at the time and,uh, he would call me into the
the room, like his bedroom, andhe purposely would have all the
lights off.
So it was, you know, at nighttime.
I was getting getting to go tobed or whatever.
Be like, hey, come here, and Iwould go in there and as soon as

(01:00:12):
I would walk in, he would hitplay on the vcr and the thriller
video would come on, completely, scare me and freak me out, and
I'd run out of his bedroom.
So that's my, my dad.
That's too funny.
That's how my, that's how itwas the 80s, you know.
So parenting is a littledifferent.

Tex LaFon (01:00:29):
Well, that's what parents are supposed to do.
I scare my kids all the time.
That's what being a parent is.

D Vaz (01:00:36):
Yeah, just by showing up, it's fun.
I'm kidding.

Tex LaFon (01:00:41):
Like it, just it's fun Like you.
Like it, just it's fun.
Like you said, I give your dadprops for doing that because
that's what they're supposed todo.
That's why I was saying, um,that it's cool that your dad did
that, because that's what ourjob is as parents is to scare
kids which is cool.

D Vaz (01:00:59):
yeah, no, I I know, I know he was just having fun and
you know we laugh about it, ofcourse, later on.
But yeah, when I was three, Iwas definitely traumatized.

Tex LaFon (01:01:10):
Well, I'm just saying , like you know, I put on that
Jason Voorhees mask and I alwaysgo around going shh shh Because
it's fun.
And then they'll be like weknow it's you, dad, we know it's
you, and then they'll be likewe know it's you, dad, we know
it's you.

D Vaz (01:01:27):
Oh, okay, that's the third time this week just fun
yeah no, that's why you havethat's why you have kids.

Tex LaFon (01:01:35):
You gotta tease them something, you gotta tease them
some.

D Vaz (01:01:38):
You know what I'm saying it's fun catching them off guard
with stuff like that, andthat's the other thing.
You can only do that.
You can only do it for thefirst time once.
So, like I um, my son's umbirthday happened about a week
ago and, uh, I made a happybirthday kind of video for him,
but he thought that it was onYouTube.

(01:02:00):
He didn't know that I was justplaying it off my phone because
it was mirrored off the TV.
So he was playing and Ipurposely put his name in the
video.
And then I was like hey, I'mtalking to you.
And then I said his name againjust to mess with him, and he

(01:02:21):
just completely freaked outbecause he thought the TV was
actually talking to him.

Tex LaFon (01:02:26):
Which is funny.

D Vaz (01:02:28):
Yeah, I wish I would have recorded his reaction, but I
didn't think about it afterwards.
I was just too excited to seehim react and watch the video.

Tex LaFon (01:02:38):
You always have it in your mind, so that's all that
matters.

D Vaz (01:02:41):
Yeah, yeah, exactly yeah.
That's the other part of it too.
We we're the age where we canappreciate actually just
remembering things, Right?

Bonus content Info (01:02:52):
Sorry, time out.
We are near the end of episodefive, part one.
The homies Tex Lafon and Devozwill be back talking about their
favorite music from thenineties to 2010.
Ish in part two.

Rob O'Dic AI assistant (01:03:04):
So we'll start wrapping up this one.
But before we do that, checkthis out.
Ha, having a soul and it beingpoor doesn't completely compute.
I don't think souls requiremonetary value.

(01:03:25):
But what do I know?
I do not have a soul.
Well, I actually know animmense amount about basically
anything that actually matters.
Spit in facts for real.
Oh, yes, that's right back tomy purpose.
Tex mentioned Led Zeppelin, ashe.
Led Zeppelin is a band and nota he.
I wonder if Tex Lafon calledthe animated series He-Man by

(01:03:46):
the name Led Zeppelin man.
Tex also mentioned the Eaglesand their song Living in the
Fast Lane.
Well, he is living in the wronglane.
The actual song title is Lifein the Fast Lane, the song that
Tex attempted to sing Money,money, money, if titled For the
Love of Money, and it wasperformed by the OJs.
It is not a Pink Floyd song andTex Lafon is not a singer.

(01:04:06):
Obviously, yo Mama is a singer.
Sorry, I had to do that.
Yo Mama joke once again topractice my joke skills that I
am acquiring.
Devoz mentioned one of hisfavorite George Benson guitar
performances is actually not ona George Benson album.
This performance was on thesong Flavors.
This track is available on aLonnie Smith album, afro-dessier

(01:04:26):
, going deeper into the musicalrabbit hole.
The song Flavors is based onthe song Impressions by one of
Devoz's favorite saxophonists,john Coltrane.
Devoz mentioned the ChicagoBulls and their achievement of
having three peats.
The Chicago Bulls are aprofessional basketball team in
the National BasketballAssociation from Chicago
Illinois in the United States.
During the 1990s they won threeconsecutive NBA championships,

(01:04:51):
which was accomplished on twoseparate occasions during that
decade.
When the Chicago Bulls wouldwin the championship, they would
play the song we Are theChampions by Queen.
Tex mentioned that he liked TomPetty and said the song was
Mary Jane, then caught himselfand gave the correct name Mary
Jane's Last Dance.
That's a good boy, you bag ofbones and brains.
There actually was a song byRick James that was titled Mary

(01:05:13):
Jane.
Devos mentioned Mel Brooks andthe line it's good to be the
king.
This is from the movie theHistory of the World, Part 1.
Tex and DeVos were talkingabout Bon Jovi and couldn't
remember the song which istitled Blaze of Glory, which is
from the Young Gun soundtrack.
They swear to me that theyreally did know it.
I would believe them if itweren't for the fact that
they're human and inferior atdata retention.

(01:05:34):
We strongly encourage you tolook further into any of the
artists, songs and albums thatwe have mentioned during this
episode, especially if you areunfamiliar or have no idea who
or what we're talking about.
This is the end of transmissionfor episode 5, part 1.
Until part 2, I hope that youhumans are keeping it real out
there in the real world.
Oh, hold on One more thing.

(01:05:56):
Devos said that the eagleseventually became the stone
ponies.
This is not quite how ithappened.
Became the stone ponies.
This is not quite how ithappened.
Devos tried to use his brain,but failed.
Yay for my job security.
Founding members Glenn Frey,guitars vocals.

(01:06:17):
Don Henley, drums vocals.
Bernie Lidon, guitars vocals.
And Randy Mazner, bass guitarvocals were recruited by Linda
Ronstadt as band members, sometouring with her and all playing
on her third solo studio albumbefore venturing out on their
own on David Geffen's new AsylumRecords label.
So they were actually, inessence, replacing the Stone
Ponies, her previous backingband.

(01:06:37):
Thank you for letting mecorrect that mush-minded man.
We're ending the episode forreal, though.
Now.
Peace out y'all.
Good podcast.

(01:06:59):
Thanks for listening.
We're out.

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