January 7, 2025 • 20 mins
On the Tuesday January 7, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, kids, get in the car. We're gonna go
see fog Hat. It's one more thing, one more thing
before we get to finishing off the list of old
these classic rock has been acts that are going to
be touring in twenty twenty five. I got a couple
of other things.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
In which I would really like to briefly perform the
hit right off the top of my head of each
of the bands you name.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Wow, that's a good one right there, and I know
you can go yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Just right off the top of my head.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
A couple of things that happened while we were gone.
Did you see this? Elon offered Wikipedia a billion dollars
to change their name to Wikipedia.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh, what a strange bird is.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Apparently he did that a long time ago, like before
he was as big as he is now, and somebody
tweeted that out, like as a reminder of what a
crazy person is. He retweeted it and said, true offer
still stands.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh my god, that's funny, you know, at the risk
of of ending the mirth, I was reading again, one
of my favorite topics in the world is how potent
a force humor is. And I've got a quote around
here somewhere about how an unrighteous person or regime or
(01:36):
whatever cannot stand up to mockery. That's why they crush
it because it will bring them down. But a righteous
person who is correct and has the strength of morals
and whatever behind them, they can endure mockery and will
let it happen because they know they're right. And what
(01:59):
a great measure that is of do you trust what
you're saying? Do you believe what you're saying? Do you
believe what you are saying is true? Because if you do,
you will take mockery.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I don't know what era Elon Musk that was where
he made that offer to Wikipedia, but the fact that
he retweeted and said true offer still stands now that
he's like, you know, the co president runner, that's pretty funny.
One other thing before we get to the oldies groups
came across this on Twitter. Elon's thing. My oldest son
(02:32):
eight has discovered D's nuts jokes, and it's all he says. Now,
everything is D's nuts. He simply can't stop. I ask
where he heard that joke. He made me promise that
if he told me he wouldn't get in trouble. I agreed,
So he leans in and he whispers d's nuts.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Oh he is our most childish billionaire by a million miles.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That is a good joke.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Okay, well played, son.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So we went through on the radio show, which I
assume you're aware of that you're not listening to the
One More Thing podcast and don't know that Armstrong and
Getty do twenty hours a live radio every week that
you can also listen to and podcast form through One
More Thing. But on the radio we.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Talked about I'm strong Yeddy on demand.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What did I say?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
One more Thing, which is what we're doing now.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Right, completely different things. I mentioned a lot of the
groups that are touring someone might really like see like
ac DC, I'm all the Way the hell. I will
not go to see Ringo star in his all star band.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Probably we all Live in the Elas Marine.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Featuring members of the Beatles.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Song Wait a minute, give me a second? Oh, I've
got is a photographing all right?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Featuring members of Good Song. What do you mean I'm
not a Ringo guy?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Featuring members of Aerosmith, This Way, Electric Light Orchestra, Strange Magic, Well,
Interesting Choice, Toto toe the Line.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Their first hit, not going with Africa too obvious. Men
at hold the line, isn't it Sorry? I come from
a Lendown under.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, so go enjoy that. There's also Billy Joel.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I'm actually a fan of Colin James Hay as a songwriter. Sure,
the solo stuff is it's it's like better versions than
the men at work socks.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
But anyway, Billy Joel is touring for some reason with
Stevie Nicks.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I'm already tired of singing.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yes, okay, Sting and Rod Stewart.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Okay, I would have thought Sting is too big for
that sort of package. It's kind of a festival, though,
isn't it a moving festival?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Definitely? Rod Stewart's too big for it, isn't he still?
I don't know. He doesn't need be part of any package.
Rod Stewart did what a whole bunch of different artists
figured out over the last two decades. You're a big
deal back in the day, and you sing a whole
bunch of standards, and you put out albums as an
old man of you singing like classic standards, and you
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make another gazillion.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Dollars steer into nostalgia.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, exactly. James Taylor is going to be out there.
Rod Stewart on his own Heart, Elvis Costello, the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Of Day think. I'm going to see Elvis again on
this tour. Love him, love him Love. I watched him
hold an entire audience rapped every single second of the show.
Him and an acoustic guitar. Cool spectacular.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
The Eagles are going to continue to play at the Sphere.
I saw that it was awesome. Dead and Company are
playing at the Sphere. I would like to see Dead
in Company at the Sphere. I wonder what the the
video portion would be. I don't know. Santana, Joan jack.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Wait, wow, wow, Wow. These are some old people we're
talking about. Oh yes, Santana in particular Joan jet A,
Carlos Santana played at Woodstock Right.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
He was a baby John, he's a grown man, John forty.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Wow. Bruce Bringsty you know what I I honked this big.
I don't know if it's still available on Netflix. The
u CCR live at Albert Hall in Great Britain, and
like sometime around nineteen seventy when they're at the height
of their powers, mind blowing, tightest band that's ever played.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Wow, just great? Too bad? They came to hate each
other so much good because if they had all gotten
together and toured, they would have made so much money.
That's like, I can't believe the Eagles are printing money,
but they they. Don Felder, the guitar player from back
in the day on all your favorite songs. He and
them get along so bad that they Don Felder's out
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there doing his own I'm part of the Eagles thing
with somebody else you've never heard of, making you know,
one hundred dollars a night when he could be flying
around in a private jet. I mean, put your whatever
you're mad about, put it aside, and get on stage
and play the songs.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You idiots, well counterpoint, have integrity and don't profit from
evil people who wronged you.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Have you ever listened to because it's on YouTube when
Glenn Fry and Don Felder were challenging each other to
a fight during a song. Yes, it is so entertainer.
Don Don Felder is the guy with the double neck
guitar playing on you know, Hotel California or Life in
the fast Lane or whatever, standing there with Joe Walsh
and he and Glenn Fry lead singer. They're going back
and forth in their headsets during some Joe Walsh solo
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or something like that about it. I'll meet you at
the bus, you motherfucker. Oh yeah, come on a beat
your ass, you son of a bitch. I mean they are,
and that's why they can't ever be together.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, they hate each other.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Glenn Fry's dead, but maybe he can't even stand to
be around Glen Fry's son. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Now that's holding your grind.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Bruce Springsteen and East Band will be out there. They'll probably,
you know, be great.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I've just recently come to be able to listen to
Bruce again, and I listened to a couple of old
albums the other day because I just he's become such
a pain in the ask. I'm thinking after the smiting
of Kamala Harris, he'll shut up and play music now.
I hope.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm going the other direction on Springsteen. I just don't
even think I can ever enjoy him again. That book
and video that he and Barack Obama put out together,
Oh my god, I see it that. I see it
in bookstores all time.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh really, Oh that's why I can stand to listen.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Oh it's hard to take. Eric Clapton's touring now. If
you want to get long, a lecture is long about vaccines,
as the song Leila in between tunes, Go ahead and
enjoy Eric Clapton.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
From a guy who's a magical player but not exactly
an intellectual.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Giant and ninety. I mean he's not ninety, but he's eighty.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Roger Daltrey of the who Oh, ROGERO on their own
Bachman Turner Overdrive will be taking care of business April.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Block Roger Daltrey, love him a bt O, No, you're
kidding me. Roger perfect example, and I love him as
a musician. He's a really interesting guy. Uh just a
really a good human being in a lot of ways.
Not in some, but he and this is a lesson
for all of us. When he was at the height
of his income, he built a life assuming that would continue,
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and built himself a cost structure that's really difficult to maintain.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So here he is.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
He's well into his seventies. He's got to do shows
to pay the bills, and that's it's too bad. I
think he still enjoys playing, but his voice is so shot.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
My son would like to see bto He would love
that so I'll take Henry to that. Maybe if they
get close.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
There you go, Earth Wind and Fire is going to
be playing.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Do you remember.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Foreigners? Feel like it feels like the Last Time Tour.
That's a pretty good name.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I'll bet it sounds like last Time too.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
He Oh, it's Michael. My favorite was air supply Joe
earlier in the show.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yes, well, yes, they need an air supply on stage.
They've got the hose running under their nose. They're very old.
It's the point.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Styx is touring Grand Funk Railroad, Chicago, Cheap Trick America,
and I have no idea in any of these groups,
how many of there there might be the entire original band.
It might be one of them, it might be none
of them. I don't have any idea of But three
Dog Night John Oate solo, I'm not sure why i'd
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go see that.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
He's a good singer, songwriter, guitar player.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
If he's in my living room and there's nothing on TV,
I'll get out of my bedroom and go down and
listen to him for a little.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
You ever watched Chicago con from when their original league
guitarist Terry Cath was still alive. No, just as a musician,
not a good one. But as a musician they were
astounding as a band. I mean like jaw dropping good
back when having big boobs and shiny legs and four
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hundred backup dancers wasn't what brought people to a hall.
It was just music.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I just read the other day Jimmy Hendrix thought Terry
cath was the best guitar player on earth.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
He was his favorite guitarist.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He's a whale of a singer too.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But anyway, Toto, as I mentioned, along with menet Work
and Christopher Cross and Ate far down to paradise. At
least it's not for me. Burton Cummings.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We mentioned man.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Air supply the Beach Boys.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Cummings is opening for air supply.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The Beach Boys. If you're reliving your early sixties heyday
by going to see what's left of the Beach Boys,
please find God or I don't know, hand out food
and no folks home. Find something to do with your life.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
The Beach grandsons would be like in their sixties right
right heck yeah, or fifties certainly.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I mean, if you're a grown man in nineteen sixty two,
my dad sixty.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Two years later, Yeah, you're my dad.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well yeah, so your grandson's absolutely could be, you know,
on stage playing music.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Heck ya, Frankie Valley in the Four Seasons. Frankie Valley's
still alive.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh oh wait, wait, wait wait wait. There was a
video went viral late last year about a forgive me.
It's not his fault, it's his family's fault and the
people around him. A clearly senile, unable to sing Frankie
Valley being led up to a microphone, looking around, confusedly,
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kind of mounting along to what was obviously a backup track.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It was wow.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Now, maybe he was having a bad night like Joe
Biden did when he had a cold at that date.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It's probably similar. It's probably some nights it's okay, and
a lot of nights it's not.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh, it was sad. It was sad.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Wow, Oh what a night. The Righteous Brothers Tommy James
and the Chandells.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You better be righteous brothers because you're gonna meet Gus.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So there's the Happy Together tour featuring The Turtles, Bad Finger,
The Association, Jay and the Americans, the Vogues and the councils.
You gotta be an oldies fan. Woh wow, that is
a sad lineup. I know a lot of you don't
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have any idea who any of those groups are taken
from us. That is a sad lineup.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well, I just I guess I don't know. You've been
an accountant or school bus driver for the past thirty
five years and somebody says, hey, I'll give you ten
k to play a few shows. I'd say, when do
we start, right? But it's it's wow, I'm sorry, I'm
you brought me low with the costles.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
God. I introduced the association for a radio station in
the mid eighties and they were what would they be, Joe,
twenty years past their prime? Then fifteen at least?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, everyone knows it's early seventies soft rock.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Okay, so they're late sixties they were, they were there
were fifteen years past the prime. Anyway. It was sad then,
I mean the audience was sad. It was like five
bucks to get in in the middle of nowhere, small
town Kansas. What are they now? Me? I just can't
even imagine better known names. Leonard skinnerd is touring in
twenty twenty five my son have loved that still around.
(14:53):
I have no idea who's in Leonard skinnerd at this point. Yeah,
Zz Tops Elevation Tour.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
They got two out of three. It's not bad, uh
as all. And they got you know what, And I
can't decide if this is crass. It's show business for
God's sake. But they found a guy who looks just
like their original bass player passed away. Dusty Hill has
got the long beard and everything and sounds great.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Well, there are some groups there's just like a couple
of key people you have to have, Like the Eagles,
you gotta have Don Henley. I mean, if he so,
you can still pull it off. And it's like the
way Dead and Company is. You got Bob Weir up there,
and you put John Mayer next to him, It's it's fine.
I think with like zz Top, as long as you
got the Reverend up there, you're okay. You can pull
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it off. Marshall Tucker Band, Little Feet, Ozark, Mountain, Daredevil's
Graham nash Al Stewart, The Year of the Social Security
Check Well, Don McClain, Oh, Janice Ean Oldest.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Don mclelain, I don't know Janesee at seventeen was Don McLean.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I asked my watch, and my watch tells me he's
seventy nine. Okay, geneseean Alice Cooper, she's good. Gene Simmons
on his own now, the bass player from Kiss plays
and he doesn't sing, does he?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
He doesn't need the money?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
No, he really does money.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
He sings a handful of others.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
He really doesn't need the money. He's the richest one
of all of them, right because he became a T
shirt guy.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh, brilliant, brilliant businessman. Yeah, he sings. Uh, I want
a rock and roll all night.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Oh okay, I didn't know that. Yeah, boy, my friends
from junior High would kill me for not knowing that.
I wasn't into Kiss. My all my friends were super
indicate me neither.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I thought it was stupid.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Fog hat we mentioned. I think Kansas, the group Blue
Oyster Cult thirty eight Special Ace Freely, a different guy
from Kiss who apparently can't get along with Gene Simmons
so they can't play again.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Of amazing players, Kansas is underrated as just as musicians.
They were unbelo believable and probably still are.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
George Thoroughgood is bad to his very calcified bones.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He stopped touring for a week in nineteen eighty eight,
and that's the only time he's been off the road.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I'm going to save this one for last because they've
kind of become a big deal in like recent months
for some reason. Uh, Steve Miller band. Oh, my son
would love that. That. I will go too, and I
will take Henry to Steve Miller band. And I saw
him a couple of years ago on TV and it
was cool. He was still good and his band is
freaking amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
So I've told this story before, but when my daughter, Delaney,
who is now twenty five, was a freshman in college,
she texted me she said, Dad, you know it's a
great song, The Joker by the Steve.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
And I texted back, you damn right, sweetheart, you damn right.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It was interesting. I can remember when Henry heard that
from the first time. There's there's my son, my older
son who like only likes rap, has that on his playlist.
There are some songs that the first time everybody hears him,
it's like that freaking is awesome. That's one of them. Yes,
umm Iggy Pop, Southside Johnny Jefferson's Starship Wow, Rick Wakeman
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of Yes, Okay go if you want enjoy yourself, have
a good time. Who am I to tell you what
you should do again? A brilliant player? I'm sure whatever
it is, war Emerson, Lake and Palmer, would.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It save time to mention who's not touring.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
In? I wonder if there's some sort of there's a
combination of things going on here and then I can
stop instead of going through more of this. I suppose
God there's more Little River Band. I'll bet you I
know what happened Diana Ross, She's still alive, cool in
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the Gang, the Jacksons, as I mentioned, I saw them
on Rock in New Year's Eve, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson.
I just just popped into my head a couple of
things that are going on, and one of them is,
up until a couple of years ago, you still made
good money off the the fact that you're You know,
people would go out there and maybe buy your album
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if they just discovered Steve Miller band and thought I
want to hear the Steve Miller band. Now everybody streams everything.
You don't make any money. The only way you can
get any money out of your hits from back in
the day is to get out there on stage. It's
your only way to make money. That has to be
driving a lot of this. If you're the Little River Band,
you used to make really good money coming in on
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a yearly basis from singles, albums, whatever, perhaps reminiscing, but
now nothing, You make nothing. The only way you're gonna
make a cent is if you get out there on stage.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Was cool change at Little River Band?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
So yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
That's a great song. I will not apologize for that.
Smokey Robinson is going to turn eighty four this year
in a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
We live in an age of oldies. Our president's gonna
be eighty, our current president's eighty.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Sir, we'll want to pay money to see an eighty
four year old smoking Robinson. Oh well, if you enjoy it,
go enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I agree. Man. There's going to be a lot of
third empty Indian casinos outside of small towns in the
Midwest with a lot of these.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Acts, but going to see an ancient genue Ian warbling
at seventeen one, the title of her big hit was
at seventeen. She's now at seventy seven. Do you understand
the irony here?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You know, if you get obstructed view seats on these concerts,
chances are a destruxygen tank exactly. Well, I guess that's it.
Come on, kids, get in the car. We're gonna go
see fog Hat. It's one more thing, one more thing
before we get to finishing off the list of old
these classic rock has been acts that are going to
be touring in twenty twenty five. I got a couple
of other things.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
In which I would really like to briefly perform the
hit right off the top of my head of each
of the bands you name.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Wow, that's a good one right there, and I know
you can go yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Just right off the top of my head.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
A couple of things that happened while we were gone.
Did you see this? Elon offered Wikipedia a billion dollars
to change their name to Wikipedia.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh, what a strange bird is.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Apparently he did that a long time ago, like before
he was as big as he is now, and somebody
tweeted that out, like as a reminder of what a
crazy person is. He retweeted it and said, true offer
still stands.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh my god, that's funny, you know, at the risk
of of ending the mirth, I was reading again, one
of my favorite topics in the world is how potent
a force humor is. And I've got a quote around
here somewhere about how an unrighteous person or regime or
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whatever cannot stand up to mockery. That's why they crush
it because it will bring them down. But a righteous
person who is correct and has the strength of morals
and whatever behind them, they can endure mockery and will
let it happen because they know they're right. And what
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a great measure that is of do you trust what
you're saying? Do you believe what you're saying? Do you
believe what you are saying is true? Because if you do,
you will take mockery.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I don't know what era Elon Musk that was where
he made that offer to Wikipedia, but the fact that
he retweeted and said true offer still stands now that
he's like, you know, the co president runner, that's pretty funny.
One other thing before we get to the oldies groups
came across this on Twitter. Elon's thing. My oldest son
(02:32):
eight has discovered D's nuts jokes, and it's all he says. Now,
everything is D's nuts. He simply can't stop. I ask
where he heard that joke. He made me promise that
if he told me he wouldn't get in trouble. I agreed,
So he leans in and he whispers d's nuts.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Oh he is our most childish billionaire by a million miles.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That is a good joke.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Okay, well played, son.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So we went through on the radio show, which I
assume you're aware of that you're not listening to the
One More Thing podcast and don't know that Armstrong and
Getty do twenty hours a live radio every week that
you can also listen to and podcast form through One
More Thing. But on the radio we.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Talked about I'm strong Yeddy on demand.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What did I say?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
One more Thing, which is what we're doing now.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Right, completely different things. I mentioned a lot of the
groups that are touring someone might really like see like
ac DC, I'm all the Way the hell. I will
not go to see Ringo star in his all star band.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Probably we all Live in the Elas Marine.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Featuring members of the Beatles.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Song Wait a minute, give me a second? Oh, I've
got is a photographing all right?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Featuring members of Good Song. What do you mean I'm
not a Ringo guy?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Featuring members of Aerosmith, This Way, Electric Light Orchestra, Strange Magic, Well,
Interesting Choice, Toto toe the Line.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Their first hit, not going with Africa too obvious. Men
at hold the line, isn't it Sorry? I come from
a Lendown under.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, so go enjoy that. There's also Billy Joel.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I'm actually a fan of Colin James Hay as a songwriter. Sure,
the solo stuff is it's it's like better versions than
the men at work socks.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
But anyway, Billy Joel is touring for some reason with
Stevie Nicks.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I'm already tired of singing.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yes, okay, Sting and Rod Stewart.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Okay, I would have thought Sting is too big for
that sort of package. It's kind of a festival, though,
isn't it a moving festival?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Definitely? Rod Stewart's too big for it, isn't he still?
I don't know. He doesn't need be part of any package.
Rod Stewart did what a whole bunch of different artists
figured out over the last two decades. You're a big
deal back in the day, and you sing a whole
bunch of standards, and you put out albums as an
old man of you singing like classic standards, and you
(05:16):
make another gazillion.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Dollars steer into nostalgia.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, exactly. James Taylor is going to be out there.
Rod Stewart on his own Heart, Elvis Costello, the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Of Day think. I'm going to see Elvis again on
this tour. Love him, love him Love. I watched him
hold an entire audience rapped every single second of the show.
Him and an acoustic guitar. Cool spectacular.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
The Eagles are going to continue to play at the Sphere.
I saw that it was awesome. Dead and Company are
playing at the Sphere. I would like to see Dead
in Company at the Sphere. I wonder what the the
video portion would be. I don't know. Santana, Joan jack.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Wait, wow, wow, Wow. These are some old people we're
talking about. Oh yes, Santana in particular Joan jet A,
Carlos Santana played at Woodstock Right.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
He was a baby John, he's a grown man, John forty.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Wow. Bruce Bringsty you know what I I honked this big.
I don't know if it's still available on Netflix. The
u CCR live at Albert Hall in Great Britain, and
like sometime around nineteen seventy when they're at the height
of their powers, mind blowing, tightest band that's ever played.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Wow, just great? Too bad? They came to hate each
other so much good because if they had all gotten
together and toured, they would have made so much money.
That's like, I can't believe the Eagles are printing money,
but they they. Don Felder, the guitar player from back
in the day on all your favorite songs. He and
them get along so bad that they Don Felder's out
(06:56):
there doing his own I'm part of the Eagles thing
with somebody else you've never heard of, making you know,
one hundred dollars a night when he could be flying
around in a private jet. I mean, put your whatever
you're mad about, put it aside, and get on stage
and play the songs.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You idiots, well counterpoint, have integrity and don't profit from
evil people who wronged you.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Have you ever listened to because it's on YouTube when
Glenn Fry and Don Felder were challenging each other to
a fight during a song. Yes, it is so entertainer.
Don Don Felder is the guy with the double neck
guitar playing on you know, Hotel California or Life in
the fast Lane or whatever, standing there with Joe Walsh
and he and Glenn Fry lead singer. They're going back
and forth in their headsets during some Joe Walsh solo
(07:41):
or something like that about it. I'll meet you at
the bus, you motherfucker. Oh yeah, come on a beat
your ass, you son of a bitch. I mean they are,
and that's why they can't ever be together.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, they hate each other.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Glenn Fry's dead, but maybe he can't even stand to
be around Glen Fry's son. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Now that's holding your grind.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Bruce Springsteen and East Band will be out there. They'll probably,
you know, be great.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I've just recently come to be able to listen to
Bruce again, and I listened to a couple of old
albums the other day because I just he's become such
a pain in the ask. I'm thinking after the smiting
of Kamala Harris, he'll shut up and play music now.
I hope.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm going the other direction on Springsteen. I just don't
even think I can ever enjoy him again. That book
and video that he and Barack Obama put out together,
Oh my god, I see it that. I see it
in bookstores all time.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh really, Oh that's why I can stand to listen.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Oh it's hard to take. Eric Clapton's touring now. If
you want to get long, a lecture is long about vaccines,
as the song Leila in between tunes, Go ahead and
enjoy Eric Clapton.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
From a guy who's a magical player but not exactly
an intellectual.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Giant and ninety. I mean he's not ninety, but he's eighty.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Roger Daltrey of the who Oh, ROGERO on their own
Bachman Turner Overdrive will be taking care of business April.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Block Roger Daltrey, love him a bt O, No, you're
kidding me. Roger perfect example, and I love him as
a musician. He's a really interesting guy. Uh just a
really a good human being in a lot of ways.
Not in some, but he and this is a lesson
for all of us. When he was at the height
of his income, he built a life assuming that would continue,
(09:27):
and built himself a cost structure that's really difficult to maintain.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So here he is.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
He's well into his seventies. He's got to do shows
to pay the bills, and that's it's too bad. I
think he still enjoys playing, but his voice is so shot.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
My son would like to see bto He would love
that so I'll take Henry to that. Maybe if they
get close.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
There you go, Earth Wind and Fire is going to
be playing.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Do you remember.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Foreigners? Feel like it feels like the Last Time Tour.
That's a pretty good name.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I'll bet it sounds like last Time too.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
He Oh, it's Michael. My favorite was air supply Joe
earlier in the show.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yes, well, yes, they need an air supply on stage.
They've got the hose running under their nose. They're very old.
It's the point.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Styx is touring Grand Funk Railroad, Chicago, Cheap Trick America,
and I have no idea in any of these groups,
how many of there there might be the entire original band.
It might be one of them, it might be none
of them. I don't have any idea of But three
Dog Night John Oate solo, I'm not sure why i'd
(10:44):
go see that.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
He's a good singer, songwriter, guitar player.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
If he's in my living room and there's nothing on TV,
I'll get out of my bedroom and go down and
listen to him for a little.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
You ever watched Chicago con from when their original league
guitarist Terry Cath was still alive. No, just as a musician,
not a good one. But as a musician they were
astounding as a band. I mean like jaw dropping good
back when having big boobs and shiny legs and four
(11:18):
hundred backup dancers wasn't what brought people to a hall.
It was just music.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I just read the other day Jimmy Hendrix thought Terry
cath was the best guitar player on earth.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
He was his favorite guitarist.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He's a whale of a singer too.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But anyway, Toto, as I mentioned, along with menet Work
and Christopher Cross and Ate far down to paradise. At
least it's not for me. Burton Cummings.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We mentioned man.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Air supply the Beach Boys.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Cummings is opening for air supply.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The Beach Boys. If you're reliving your early sixties heyday
by going to see what's left of the Beach Boys,
please find God or I don't know, hand out food
and no folks home. Find something to do with your life.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
The Beach grandsons would be like in their sixties right
right heck yeah, or fifties certainly.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I mean, if you're a grown man in nineteen sixty two,
my dad sixty.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Two years later, Yeah, you're my dad.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well yeah, so your grandson's absolutely could be, you know,
on stage playing music.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Heck ya, Frankie Valley in the Four Seasons. Frankie Valley's
still alive.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh oh wait, wait, wait wait wait. There was a
video went viral late last year about a forgive me.
It's not his fault, it's his family's fault and the
people around him. A clearly senile, unable to sing Frankie
Valley being led up to a microphone, looking around, confusedly,
(13:01):
kind of mounting along to what was obviously a backup track.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It was wow.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Now, maybe he was having a bad night like Joe
Biden did when he had a cold at that date.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It's probably similar. It's probably some nights it's okay, and
a lot of nights it's not.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh, it was sad. It was sad.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Wow, Oh what a night. The Righteous Brothers Tommy James
and the Chandells.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You better be righteous brothers because you're gonna meet Gus.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So there's the Happy Together tour featuring The Turtles, Bad Finger,
The Association, Jay and the Americans, the Vogues and the councils.
You gotta be an oldies fan. Woh wow, that is
a sad lineup. I know a lot of you don't
(13:47):
have any idea who any of those groups are taken
from us. That is a sad lineup.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well, I just I guess I don't know. You've been
an accountant or school bus driver for the past thirty
five years and somebody says, hey, I'll give you ten
k to play a few shows. I'd say, when do
we start, right? But it's it's wow, I'm sorry, I'm
you brought me low with the costles.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
God. I introduced the association for a radio station in
the mid eighties and they were what would they be, Joe,
twenty years past their prime? Then fifteen at least?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, everyone knows it's early seventies soft rock.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Okay, so they're late sixties they were, they were there
were fifteen years past the prime. Anyway. It was sad then,
I mean the audience was sad. It was like five
bucks to get in in the middle of nowhere, small
town Kansas. What are they now? Me? I just can't
even imagine better known names. Leonard skinnerd is touring in
twenty twenty five my son have loved that still around.
(14:53):
I have no idea who's in Leonard skinnerd at this point. Yeah,
Zz Tops Elevation Tour.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
They got two out of three. It's not bad, uh
as all. And they got you know what, And I
can't decide if this is crass. It's show business for
God's sake. But they found a guy who looks just
like their original bass player passed away. Dusty Hill has
got the long beard and everything and sounds great.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Well, there are some groups there's just like a couple
of key people you have to have, Like the Eagles,
you gotta have Don Henley. I mean, if he so,
you can still pull it off. And it's like the
way Dead and Company is. You got Bob Weir up there,
and you put John Mayer next to him, It's it's fine.
I think with like zz Top, as long as you
got the Reverend up there, you're okay. You can pull
(15:38):
it off. Marshall Tucker Band, Little Feet, Ozark, Mountain, Daredevil's
Graham nash Al Stewart, The Year of the Social Security
Check Well, Don McClain, Oh, Janice Ean Oldest.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Don mclelain, I don't know Janesee at seventeen was Don McLean.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I asked my watch, and my watch tells me he's
seventy nine. Okay, geneseean Alice Cooper, she's good. Gene Simmons
on his own now, the bass player from Kiss plays
and he doesn't sing, does he?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
He doesn't need the money?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
No, he really does money.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
He sings a handful of others.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
He really doesn't need the money. He's the richest one
of all of them, right because he became a T
shirt guy.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh, brilliant, brilliant businessman. Yeah, he sings. Uh, I want
a rock and roll all night.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Oh okay, I didn't know that. Yeah, boy, my friends
from junior High would kill me for not knowing that.
I wasn't into Kiss. My all my friends were super
indicate me neither.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I thought it was stupid.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Fog hat we mentioned. I think Kansas, the group Blue
Oyster Cult thirty eight Special Ace Freely, a different guy
from Kiss who apparently can't get along with Gene Simmons
so they can't play again.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Of amazing players, Kansas is underrated as just as musicians.
They were unbelo believable and probably still are.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
George Thoroughgood is bad to his very calcified bones.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He stopped touring for a week in nineteen eighty eight,
and that's the only time he's been off the road.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I'm going to save this one for last because they've
kind of become a big deal in like recent months
for some reason. Uh, Steve Miller band. Oh, my son
would love that. That. I will go too, and I
will take Henry to Steve Miller band. And I saw
him a couple of years ago on TV and it
was cool. He was still good and his band is
freaking amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
So I've told this story before, but when my daughter, Delaney,
who is now twenty five, was a freshman in college,
she texted me she said, Dad, you know it's a
great song, The Joker by the Steve.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
And I texted back, you damn right, sweetheart, you damn right.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It was interesting. I can remember when Henry heard that
from the first time. There's there's my son, my older
son who like only likes rap, has that on his playlist.
There are some songs that the first time everybody hears him,
it's like that freaking is awesome. That's one of them. Yes,
umm Iggy Pop, Southside Johnny Jefferson's Starship Wow, Rick Wakeman
(18:06):
of Yes, Okay go if you want enjoy yourself, have
a good time. Who am I to tell you what
you should do again? A brilliant player? I'm sure whatever
it is, war Emerson, Lake and Palmer, would.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It save time to mention who's not touring.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
In? I wonder if there's some sort of there's a
combination of things going on here and then I can
stop instead of going through more of this. I suppose
God there's more Little River Band. I'll bet you I
know what happened Diana Ross, She's still alive, cool in
(18:42):
the Gang, the Jacksons, as I mentioned, I saw them
on Rock in New Year's Eve, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson.
I just just popped into my head a couple of
things that are going on, and one of them is,
up until a couple of years ago, you still made
good money off the the fact that you're You know,
people would go out there and maybe buy your album
(19:02):
if they just discovered Steve Miller band and thought I
want to hear the Steve Miller band. Now everybody streams everything.
You don't make any money. The only way you can
get any money out of your hits from back in
the day is to get out there on stage. It's
your only way to make money. That has to be
driving a lot of this. If you're the Little River Band,
you used to make really good money coming in on
(19:23):
a yearly basis from singles, albums, whatever, perhaps reminiscing, but
now nothing, You make nothing. The only way you're gonna
make a cent is if you get out there on stage.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Was cool change at Little River Band?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
So yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
That's a great song. I will not apologize for that.
Smokey Robinson is going to turn eighty four this year
in a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
We live in an age of oldies. Our president's gonna
be eighty, our current president's eighty.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Sir, we'll want to pay money to see an eighty
four year old smoking Robinson. Oh well, if you enjoy it,
go enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I agree. Man. There's going to be a lot of
third empty Indian casinos outside of small towns in the
Midwest with a lot of these.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Acts, but going to see an ancient genue Ian warbling
at seventeen one, the title of her big hit was
at seventeen. She's now at seventy seven. Do you understand
the irony here?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You know, if you get obstructed view seats on these concerts,
chances are a destruxygen tank exactly. Well, I guess that's it.
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