July 7, 2025 • 29 mins
Can the melodies woven into our lives really steer the course of our personal and automotive journeys? Embark on an evocative exploration of music's role in our experiences, especially when intertwined with the roar of an engine.
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This past weekend was kind of a sad one for
me.
After over 50 years, the Prince of Darkness
was retiring and I had to think to myself
as I sat there for 10 hours watching the
entire Back to the Beginning concert for
Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath to end
their careers, to basically say a final
goodbye to Ozzy Osbourne.
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I sat there and I thought to myself this
has made such an impact on my life.
Music is such an impact to your life.
It's essentially the soundtrack that plays
in the background.
Whether you like it or not, music is there
and is part of everything.
Now, what does that have to do with the
automotive industry?
Everything.
Music is every part of your life.
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It plays in the background, it's front and
center, like it was with that concert.
And for me, watching Ozzy sing his last
song ever to people right in front of me,
watching him tear up as he sang Mama, I'm
Coming Home, made me cry.
Yeah, one of the few times in my life as an
adult that I've cried I can only think of a
handful but music did that to me.
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It caused a major emotion and today, on
AutoLooks, we're going to take a look at
how music and cars go together.
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So, like I said in the beginning, back to
the beginning.
Yeah, I am a true metalhead at heart.
I've always listened to metal Hell.
My first concert was going to see Black
Sabbath in the early 90s.
I was about eight years old when my dad
took us to go see Black Sabbath and there
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was another band that opened up for them
that when their lead singer passed away a
few years ago, it hit me hard, not just
because it was around Christmas time, but
because he made such an impact, not only on
myself but to music and to help somebody in
the music industry get through.
That was Lemmy Killmister of Motorhead.
Yeah, he helped Dave Grohl get through Kurt
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Combain death.
So, thinking about it when Lemmy was there,
and seeing Dave Grohl come up and talk
about Lemmy Killmister at his funeral, I'm
like what's going on?
Dave had a lot to say because Lemmy got him
through and that's what music does to us.
It plays a vital part of our lives.
Now, if you're one of those people that
could just go for a drive in your car or
even work all day without any music in the
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background, I don't know.
That's kind of crazy to me.
In the back of my mind, I always think
those people are a little bit nuts because,
seriously, how do you not listen to
anything in the background?
I get it if you're working in the middle of
a shop.
It's loud, it's crazy.
But even still, in all the jobs I've ever
had, music has played a vital role Working
in a warehouse, working in a shop, being a
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driver to now working in an office.
Music has always been there.
And even in my own house I put the radio on,
even when I'm not here all day.
I used to do that for my dog.
Well, unfortunately my dog has left, but
it's something there.
When I come home and there's no music in my
house, I think it's weird.
It's like what?
This isn't home.
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It's a silent building.
It feels like it's an abandoned.
And that's what music does to us it brings
us together.
And if you sat there watching the Back to
the Beginning concert, you saw tons and
tons of different people out in that
audience.
You know, from true metalheads fully done
up, to the next person wearing a polo shirt
and khaki shorts, to somebody with pink
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hair, to somebody just dressed in a Miss
Piggy costume.
Yeah, I thought that was kind of funny.
But everyone came together for one sole
purpose Music brought us together.
And music is also part of the automotive
industry.
It brings all of us together.
Kind of think about it.
We've had music in automobiles nearly since
the beginning.
Ever since we found a way to get radios
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into the automobile, we have had music and
we've tried to play music.
And from the radio we actually at one point
in time made a portable record player.
You can plug into your car.
Unfortunately, too many potholes in that
throw your record player off and you can
damage so many needles.
It would get too expensive and it was big
and it's bulky.
But then comes the 8-track tape giving us
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the ability to listen to songs.
Sure, it was only eight songs, but the
8-track had an amazing feature with it it
allowed us to choose what song we wanted to
play at each time.
There are only eight specific tracks there,
but we can listen to each one whenever we
wanted.
Now the cassette eventually caused the
demise of the 8-track in an automobile, and
it really wasn't until the cassette came
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out into the automotive industry that music
started playing more of a vital role.
Now let's take a step back.
Music, like we said, has always been there.
We've always had radio and automobiles,
going all the way back to the teen years
when radios first were introduced to the
automobile.
It gave us the ability to listen to music
wherever we were.
As long as the radio transmission was able
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to find us, we can listen to music in our
automobile.
That long, boring drive would go by a lot
quicker with music, and specific types of
music made you feel specific ways.
Now we'll get into that a little bit later
on.
Right now we're kind of focusing on music
in our car.
So you have to remember, with that we can
have the radio, we can have news.
So during the days of like Bonnie and Clyde,
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now Capone, you know they put out warrants
for people within that area.
Watch out for this.
You know, special announcement you could
put it on the radio.
Hell, you can create shows on the radio.
How about the War of the Worlds?
Yeah, the War of the Worlds scared tons of
people, even though it was just all made up.
But it was on the radio and it sounded
super realistic.
But it brought us together.
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It caused chaos and confusion but with some
people people it created a great story and
a great thing about music back in those
days is those were the early days of car
chases.
And you know, going back to my favorite
show and this comes up a lot is the
simpsons is when grandpa and homer are out
selling the special tonic I love tonic.
I see you're a man that looks like he needs
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to please his wife.
You know that one and they leave the small
little hick town.
He's like, oh, they didn't start chasing us
until you put on that music.
Oh right, he turns it off and it's like the
banjo, it's chase music from back in the
early days of the automobile.
We had chase music, music that made us feel
like we needed to go fast, and that's what
music does to us.
There are specific types of music.
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The louder it gets, it might make us more
aggressive, it might make us want to drive
faster.
You know, mellow music just makes us want
to chill and cruise.
You know I have CDs for all of this.
I have cruising CDs, I have racing CDs, I
have driving CDs and I have chill CDs.
Trust me, putting one of my trance CDs on
while I'm driving is the worst thing,
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because that could put me to sleep.
That's not something you need and that's
one of those things you need to learn.
You can't have specific types of music in
vehicles, but everybody has their own
select taste.
But in the 1950s, rock and roll became more
prevalent in automobiles.
So we're moving away from the classical
music and country music of the past.
We were now getting into rock and roll in
the 1950s and if you listen to some of our
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previous podcasts about car cult movies,
our cover from that one is prominently
displayed in this work of art by a young
director and a very young actor at the time,
Mr. George Lucas and Mr. Harrison Ford.
Yeah, I'm talking about American Graffiti.
That movie showcases early automotive life
people cruising up and down the street,
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whether it was in a muscle car, a chop-top
lowrider or even just that white
Thunderbird with that beautiful woman that
Richard Dreyfuss character was looking for
the whole night.
We just wanted to cruise up and down the
strip.
You got to remember this is the early days
of television, and TV went off the air at
specific times and you could just go down.
You were able to drive a car and go for a
cruise down on Main Street.
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You know, like Bob Segar said, down on Main
Street, go for a cruise.
The music that brought all the people
together as people put their windows down
and start cranking the tunes.
Got to remember this is the 50s.
We can't choose what music we're listening
to, but we can still cruise to a radio
station with music that we all love and
when our specific song comes on, cruise to
a radio station with music that we all love.
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And when our specific song comes on, we
crank it and roll down the window so
everybody can hear it.
And as we roll up next to somebody maybe
they didn't know that that song's on the
radio and they're like, hey, that's a great
song.
And you start talking and then they say,
hey, you want to go get a burger or
something.
Go chit chat Brings people together.
They have a car full of girls and a car
full of guys and this one song could just
bring them together.
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You just jump out of your friend's car and
jump into the girl's car because they love
that specific type of music and you made a
connection.
At that short window, at that red light
Music did that.
It brought us together.
We were able to cruise up and down the
streets.
Now, to remember, these are the early days
of the automobile industry, where street
racing was still allowed and police were
still out in full force trying to stop us
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from listening to our music as loud as we
want, because you know that's a no-no and
there's specific groups out there that
didn't like our loud music.
Rock and roll was the music of the devil,
but we didn't care, we cranked it.
And if you're beside somebody who's got the
country cranked and you're listening to
rock and roll, they crank theirs even
higher.
So they don't even have to listen to your
music.
You crank yours higher and eventually
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somebody would either yell at the other
person or just roll up their windows
because it's like I don't want to listen to
their crap, I want to listen to my music
and that creates the disconnect between us.
But maybe, just maybe, one of those people
takes a listen for a split second and
realizes the music in the other car is
pretty good.
I like that song.
Who's that?
What does Hank Williams?
Wow, I never realized.
I like country huh, and you can be
introduced to new music.
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For myself and my generation, the
introduction of all kinds of different
types of music and new bands came from a
college student in California and Napster
oh yeah, file sharing.
Now, one of my favorite bands of all time
Metallica hated it, seriously hated it.
Lars created the biggest fight in the music
industry against Napster to take them down
because they were distributing our music
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for free.
They were stealing it and giving it to
everyone else.
Meanwhile, they got their musical start
from Lars making mixed tapes of all the
great bands he knew of back in Europe and
distributing them to all the kids in the
San Francisco Bay Area when they were
partying.
Essentially, he was doing the same thing.
Napster was on a different format because
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he was doing it in cassettes.
Now again, if you're not making money for
it, it's not a business.
Well, Napster wasn't making a business out
of it.
He can make money off of advertising, which
creates profit off of what was happening,
and I kind of get both sides of that story.
So you know we're not going to really get
into that.
But as we move from the 50s into the 60s
and 70s, by the 70s, like I said, we're
getting into 8 tracks and right at the end
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we're starting into the early days of the
cassette and mixtapes.
And in the 80s we get our cassettes and
with cassettes we can now record music at
home and cruise around with a dedicated set
list of all of our favorite songs as loud
as we want.
If we want to go for a cruise we don't have
to rely on the radio playing the songs we
want, because by that time maybe your
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favorite song wouldn't play on the radio.
Maybe you were listening to music that
never gets played.
Maybe, because it's the 1980s, you were
listening to Black Sabbath, to Metallica,
to Judas Priest, to Megadeth, to ACDC, or,
unless it's late night, like serious late
night, and you live in a big enough city
that it has a dedicated heavy metal or hard
rock station, you can't listen to that in
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my hometown.
Unless I was listening to the radio our
general rock station after 11 pm.
I wouldn't even get stuff like that, like
I'd hear, disturbed down with the sickness
after 11 o'clock at night.
It really sucks because I wanted to listen
to it during the day, but it's not a
daytime general song, so I can create a
cassette with our favorite songs on it and
cruise in the middle of the day.
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You can bring your music down to the beach,
you know, open up the back doors of your
awesome customized van, this amazing stereo
system, and blast your music at the beach.
Sure, you're going to piss some people off,
but you know what.
It's your music.
You made the choice and they make the
choice to stay there.
Remember, we're all people on this earth
and we all make our own choices and we
don't have to make everyone else around us
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have the same choices as us.
And that's the problem.
A lot with society today is because
everybody thinks that everybody else has to
think that way.
No, there's things called independent
thinking and, as humans, music is the stuff
that gives us all of our independent
identities.
All of our independent identities.
Like I said, for myself, I'm a big heavy
metal fan, but you look at my music at home
and I got stuff from funk, dance, jazz,
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swing and jive, blues, Celtic classical
music, classics from the early 50s, you
know, pop, rhythm and blues, reggae, hip
hop, rap.
I have it all.
Tons and tons of music and my massive CD
collection.
Yes, I still collect CDs and I have a
pretty big collection of records and
cassette tapes as well.
I have all kinds of different formats of
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music and you see, from the 80s into the
late 80s and into the early 90s, CDs gave
us something else.
CDs allowed us to go back to what 8-tracks
originally gave us, to allow us to go to
the specific songs that we wanted.
But the problem with CDs is we couldn't
make our own custom CDs in the early days.
We actually had to wait until that amazing
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program of Napster came out and CD burners
in our computers allowed us to rip music.
I have a massive stack of custom CDs I made
while I was in college, all full of music
for all different things.
You know, I got the pop ones.
I got my end of the year greatest hits of
all the new music.
I got heavy metal CDs.
I got rock CDs.
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I got classics from the fifties.
I got music with songs about high school,
songs about California, songs about heaven
and hell.
I got love songs, I got power songs, I got
techno, I got trance, I got hip hop, I got
cruising the streets and I got love songs.
I got power songs, I got techno, I got
trance, I got hip hop, I got cruising the
streets and I got racing the streets All
music that creates a specific ambiance.
Now we got that ability to change our music
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in our vehicles as we cruise.
Cassettes were great because, you know, it
allowed us to listen to all kinds of music
and make our own music.
And if you really want to think about the
ambiance of music and how it affects us
with driving, just go and watch the movie
Baby Driver.
The kid has to have specific songs For when
he's in a chase, when he's being chased,
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when he's cruising around.
That's a perfect example of what we're
talking about in this podcast Baby Driver.
He literally just wanted music and he
needed to drown out the background noise.
You know the hum of the drum.
It just needs to drown it out, right?
That's all it was.
So if you really want to see a part of this,
just go and watch the movie Baby Driver.
I originally started out when I was seven
years old, in 1989, making a greatest hits
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at the end of every year from you know all
kinds of new CDs and that that we bought
throughout the year I would make a
compilation tape called Good Mix and I did
that for over 20 years.
I actually had to stop doing that because I
started getting into making CDs.
But I had to get out of that because all of
the audio protection on it made it harder
and harder to get music and rip music to
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make my end of year CDs and eventually, you
know, with having kids, I just kind of gave
up on it.
Over 20 years I made my own mix of great
songs that I loved and, like I said in
college, I made all those special CDs.
The first one I made was actually one of
the first custom tapes that I specifically
made.
I went out and got all kinds of CDs to make
this ultimate tape of cruising song, you
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know, like Radar, love, green Onions, hell,
even the song And You by Edwin, Got the Life
by Korn, like songs that make you want to
go fast or cruise the streets, the best
songs for driving to.
But no, I don't have the actual best song,
one of the best songs of all time that
people say they love to sing and listen to
in their car is by none other than a
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Canadian artist, Brian Adams, summer of 69.
Oh yeah, they can get anybody singing and
tons of people say that's a perfect song
for a road trip.
And it is.
But you see, when I used to go out in my
old days like everyone else you go cruise
at nighttime I wanted my music and if I'm
just cruising downtown, nice and slow, I
want to put my windows down and I want
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something with good bass.
You know, back in those days, you know, put
a little Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem and NWA
on, and rap and hip-hop was great music for
cruising around the streets.
Come on, still.
Dray to this day is the ultimate cruising
song.
For myself it gives me that feel of I just
want to be in a 64 impala lowrider cruising
around downtown with my friends, just have
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that song blaring for everybody to hear,
because, man, it's just the ultimate song
for cruising.
And yeah, I got to give a shout out to Dr.
Dre and Snoop Dogg for that.
You have to remember like I sat and watched
the entire back to the beginning for Ozzy
Osbourne, because he's a prince of darkness
and heavy metal is such a big part of my
life and yet I'm still listening to Dr. Dre
and Snoop when I'm cruising around.
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Come the summertime, when I have to put my
windows down on my vehicle, I start getting
into music like that, a lot more bass.
So I get into my techno phase.
You know, listen to Daft Punk or Darude or
you know even Eiffel 65 from back in the
day, good bass, pumping music that can get
people dancing, keep people moving.
But then I also have my cruising songs and
like one of my favorite songs on there is
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it's from the early days of trey, from NWA,
and you probably know what song it is.
Yeah, we're gonna say it.
Fuck the police.
Okay, my greatest story about cruising
around with this once is I had that song
blaring on my stereo as I'm sitting at a
traffic light and a cop comes up next to me.
Now most people thinking it's like oh shit,
you know my windows are down.
This thing's cranked to like 30 in my car
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so everyone around can hear me.
My back window is bouncing around, my
mirror on my front windshield is literally.
I could see the whole thing shaking.
Everybody can hear and feel my music and
the cop just puts his window down, looks at
me and goes excuse me the good nods, like
you know, puts his window up, goes to the
cop station.
I'm like, okay, cool, he knows cool music,
he likes it.
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Maybe he took down on my plate but I never
got a ticket or anything.
But maybe that officer liked that song,
grew up loving that song, even though they
became a cop.
They understood what that song was about.
It basically wasn't about trying to beat up
the police or rising up against them.
It was basically calling them out for their
inactions against people, specific group of
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people at that point in time, but literally
treating them like garbage when they didn't
do anything.
It was a statement and a lot of music does
that Cruising around.
You want cool stuff like that Now, from
there late at night, just like everyone
else.
Back in the old days, everyone went out
racing right.
Go out street racing.
Well, not everyone in the world.
I know some people who think it's stupid
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and dumb, but those are not car-related
people.
Those are people who think a car is made to
go from point A to point B.
That is it.
Also the same people that drive around in
an automobile with no music on too.
So psycho, no, um.
So I had music to go racing to and it was
either, you know, high endurance, speed
metal or techno.
Because, seriously, techno music is really
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good for racing and I had the game Tokyo
extreme racer for my dream cast and I,
literally I found a way to rip those songs
and put them on my original cruising tape
so I could listen to them and they were
amazing.
It was techno.
But still Go back and listen to Fast and
Furious Tokyo Drift.
Slash is part of a techno song in that
Technically dance music, mustang Nismo.
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That's Slash with the guitar, but it's
still synthesized and created music on a
computer in the background.
And yet when you hear that, you could see
that car and it just makes you want to see
the light.
Like there's this specific slipknot songs I
used to keep.
Um, I can't remember what the name of the
album is off the top of my head right now,
but the one with vermilion on it, uh,
there's one of the songs on that cd I used
to use as my ultimate street racing scene.
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I used to be able to put the song on and
has such a long intro that the light would
almost change at the perfect moment when
I'm like go yeah, and you just hit it and
take off.
I had powerful music like that.
Hell, I even get my son pumped up when he
goes go-kart racing with specific music
like this.
I'm like what music makes you feel powerful
and want to get out there and race?
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What gives you that adrenaline and drive?
For some people it might be pop music, for
others it might be blues, for myself it's
heavy metal.
I don't know about you but like you know,
being a metalhead, I can't get all riled up,
pumped up for a good race by listening to
like Backstreet Boys or Taylor Swift.
Okay, no, no, that doesn't get me riled up,
even though it's talking about some of
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these breakups and you know being pissed
off at people.
But no, I need powerful music, I need
Slipknot, I need Judas Priest, I need
Metallica's Master of Puppets.
You want the ultimate racing CD, the
ultimate workout CD, master of Puppets?
Hell for myself.
Back in the day when I used to go to the
gym, my workout CD was Killadelphia by Lamb
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of God, their special live one from
Philadelphia, the Killadelphia album.
And I really wasn't into a lot of death
metal, black metal back in those days, but
Lamb of God I kind of got into and I saw
them live in concert before they opened up
for Pantera Well, not like the full Pantera,
Zakk Wylde Pantera that exists now, but I
learned that their music is just as
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powerful.
Live, and that's what music does, and like
when you're out cruising around, it gives
you all those different feelings.
You can have just your standard background
music, you know, listen to cool, you know
rock and roll.
As you're cruising around, you get your low
rider hip-hop and rap.
As you cruise in the streets, fast and slow,
cruising for some ladies well, myself, you
know, back in the day, cruising for some
ladies you get your metal, you get your
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rock.
I remember hearing from my, my uncle when
Hotel California came out.
When that song came on the radio, when
people were cruising around downtown
Sudbury, anybody who liked rock and roll,
that song was cranked and that's all you
can hear downtown.
For the entire duration of that song was
hotel California blaring from everyone's
radio.
When it was done, some people would go and
park and Just chit-chat.
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Oh, I never knew you loved that song.
You know, brought these people together.
Music does that and, like this past weekend
in my home city, it was one of our biggest
music festivals as well and it's not like
all the music that I love, but it still
brings all kinds of people together and
when we put that music into our automobiles
it could bring people together.
You could pick up friends, drive them
around and they can learn about new music
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they never heard about.
It can bring back old memories.
For me, if I had a million dollars, it
brings back the memory of the year my mom
literally walked out on us.
I can go back and see myself just hanging
out with my uncle and my cousin because my
uncle wanted to take care of my dad and
make sure he was all good, with somebody
literally just walking out on us.
That song does that to me and that song
comes on the radio.
I can feel it.
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I can feel it.
It creates emotion and a memory.
That's what music does.
That's what Black Sabbath and Ozzy did for
me.
I cried at Mama.
I'm Coming Home.
Even though I don't sing that song anymore
because I don't talk to my mom, I still
tear up because that song played a big
memory of my life.
My best friend who moved out to Calgary
years and years ago.
We were big fans of Ozzy and Black Sabbath
together and it brought us together.
It brought back old memories.
One of those songs comes on the radio when
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I'm cruising around in town and I might
just crank it and sing along to it, and
that's the other thing that music brings.
You can be sitting in your car, not
realizing that your windows are down, and
you could be singing in the top of your
lungs to your favorite song.
People might give you a stare, some people
might clap, some people might put up their
windows because they want to hear you sing
and other people might just say, hey, that
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was great.
Or maybe they look over and go you've got
an amazing voice.
The automobile and music go together.
Music isn't just made for listening to in a
vehicle, it's not made for promoting
vehicles.
Music is made for specific purposes of
vehicles.
There are some songs out there that give us
that feeling.
Songs about specific cars, songs about
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specific roads.
Hell, summer of 69 is about a guy reliving
his past.
His greatest summer Now, funny thing for
myself is my greatest summer of my life was
the summer of 1999.
So when I sing that song I sing the summer
of 99.
You know, the last great summer of my life,
with all of my childhood friends.
Some of them I never saw again since then,
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some of them we lost touch with, but that
summer was the last great summer.
It's not a song about driving, it's not a
song about racing, but when it's in the car,
everybody sings along to it and everybody
has their own emotion that goes with it.
Music is part of the automotive industry.
We all love it.
We all love to listen to music in our
vehicles, unless you're one of those weird,
crazy people.
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We all have our own tastes.
Not everybody will go out, and one specific
way you could find out about everybody's
different taste while they're driving is
the video game Grand Theft Auto.
Because listen to all the different radio
stations they put in there.
They have the dance, they have the, have
the rock, they have the rap, they even have
classical stations.
They don't have a metal station.
Kind of pisses me off.
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Really need a metal station for grand theft
auto 6.
You listen in Rockstar metal station.
We want black sabbath, we want Ozzy, we
want lamb of god.
Come on, you reach out to some of those
guys and make a metal station for grand
theft auto 6, because someone like me, you
know, I kind of want that.
The rock station kind of gave some of it to
us with Guns N' Roses, but we want a little
bit more.
But like cruising around.
What's it like when you get an NWA song and
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you're cruising around?
Even on Grand Theft Auto, you're playing a
video game, driving a song, and it gives
you a completely different perspective of
driving.
It's standard, just background music, but a
specific song comes on.
You go a little bit faster.
You'd be crazy, do donuts, hell.
You might want to just get out on the
highway and go as fast as possible, and
songs do that for you.
The embodiment of our soul.
They bring something out in us.
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Music is just a part of the automobile.
Now I get it like professional racers and
all that out there.
We really don't get to listen to music as
we race, but some of us, if you really want
to get us into the zone, we'll listen to
music before we go out to the track To have
that song playing in our memory bank as
we're racing.
When our greatest foe passes us, we put
that song on to get back into the zone to
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catch up and win.
Music does that, and with so many different
genres of music, whatever music you love is
the right music for you.
You could tell me that someone like Taylor
Swift is the biggest thing in the world.
They sell out like crazy.
But when Black Sabbath stated that they
wanted to do their final concert, 16
minutes is all it took to sell out 40,000
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seats.
That tells me one thing there's a lot of
metalheads out there still.
Every musical genre can sell out.
Steve McCoy can sell out for techno
stadiums, metallica could sell out for
heavy metal, taylor Swift can sell out for
pop and pop country.
They all give us this feeling.
They're all the different embodiment of
different parts of us, and when we listen
to them in our car, it gives us a relaxed
state, it makes us happy, it makes us
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forget about everything else and we can
just focus on driving.
Because that's why we need the background
music and the right background music for
the specific time when your favorite song
comes on the radio when you're driving, you
can get lost in it.
It puts you in a relaxed state and you can
drive properly.
Things don't bother you as much because
that's the music you love, and all kinds of
different types of music do that for
everyone else.
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Myself, like I said, went back to the
beginning and watched Ozzy's last show.
I teared up, I cried, I laughed, I got
annoyed and I loved it.
10 hours on the couch watching the whole
thing, but it was well worth it.
It's not for everybody, but to see it.
How many people out there watch the Taylor
Swift show online because they couldn't
make it to the show?
How many of them will sing and belt it out
in their car?
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After a hard day, you have a shit day, you
put music on, go for a drive.
Driving calms you down and the song calms
you down, and the two of them work together
to make you better.
So music, it's not just something in the
background, it's something that goes
together with driving.
If we learn one thing from having a radio
in our car is that music and cars go
together just like butter and bread,
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spaghetti and meatball, you know, and
things like that.
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Trust me, my dad learned so many different
bands and even got into a few different
bands because of my brother and I putting
music on on our long trips.
My dad learned about the Tea Party and
Metallica all because of my brother and I.
He got into those bands and he liked their
music.
Hell, he's even able to say the Nirvana is
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a generational band, like the Beatles, and
there's specific songs that still make him
feel like he's got to go a little bit
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So, like us, share us, comment about us,
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strap yourself in for this one emotional
ride.
The music in your car is going to take you
on.
Bye.
This past weekend was kind of a sad one for
me.
After over 50 years, the Prince of Darkness
was retiring and I had to think to myself
as I sat there for 10 hours watching the
entire Back to the Beginning concert for
Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath to end
their careers, to basically say a final
goodbye to Ozzy Osbourne.
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I sat there and I thought to myself this
has made such an impact on my life.
Music is such an impact to your life.
It's essentially the soundtrack that plays
in the background.
Whether you like it or not, music is there
and is part of everything.
Now, what does that have to do with the
automotive industry?
Everything.
Music is every part of your life.
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It plays in the background, it's front and
center, like it was with that concert.
And for me, watching Ozzy sing his last
song ever to people right in front of me,
watching him tear up as he sang Mama, I'm
Coming Home, made me cry.
Yeah, one of the few times in my life as an
adult that I've cried I can only think of a
handful but music did that to me.
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It caused a major emotion and today, on
AutoLooks, we're going to take a look at
how music and cars go together.
Welcome back to the AutoLooks podcast.
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So, like I said in the beginning, back to
the beginning.
Yeah, I am a true metalhead at heart.
I've always listened to metal Hell.
My first concert was going to see Black
Sabbath in the early 90s.
I was about eight years old when my dad
took us to go see Black Sabbath and there
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was another band that opened up for them
that when their lead singer passed away a
few years ago, it hit me hard, not just
because it was around Christmas time, but
because he made such an impact, not only on
myself but to music and to help somebody in
the music industry get through.
That was Lemmy Killmister of Motorhead.
Yeah, he helped Dave Grohl get through Kurt
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Combain death.
So, thinking about it when Lemmy was there,
and seeing Dave Grohl come up and talk
about Lemmy Killmister at his funeral, I'm
like what's going on?
Dave had a lot to say because Lemmy got him
through and that's what music does to us.
It plays a vital part of our lives.
Now, if you're one of those people that
could just go for a drive in your car or
even work all day without any music in the
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background, I don't know.
That's kind of crazy to me.
In the back of my mind, I always think
those people are a little bit nuts because,
seriously, how do you not listen to
anything in the background?
I get it if you're working in the middle of
a shop.
It's loud, it's crazy.
But even still, in all the jobs I've ever
had, music has played a vital role Working
in a warehouse, working in a shop, being a
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driver to now working in an office.
Music has always been there.
And even in my own house I put the radio on,
even when I'm not here all day.
I used to do that for my dog.
Well, unfortunately my dog has left, but
it's something there.
When I come home and there's no music in my
house, I think it's weird.
It's like what?
This isn't home.
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It's a silent building.
It feels like it's an abandoned.
And that's what music does to us it brings
us together.
And if you sat there watching the Back to
the Beginning concert, you saw tons and
tons of different people out in that
audience.
You know, from true metalheads fully done
up, to the next person wearing a polo shirt
and khaki shorts, to somebody with pink
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hair, to somebody just dressed in a Miss
Piggy costume.
Yeah, I thought that was kind of funny.
But everyone came together for one sole
purpose Music brought us together.
And music is also part of the automotive
industry.
It brings all of us together.
Kind of think about it.
We've had music in automobiles nearly since
the beginning.
Ever since we found a way to get radios
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into the automobile, we have had music and
we've tried to play music.
And from the radio we actually at one point
in time made a portable record player.
You can plug into your car.
Unfortunately, too many potholes in that
throw your record player off and you can
damage so many needles.
It would get too expensive and it was big
and it's bulky.
But then comes the 8-track tape giving us
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the ability to listen to songs.
Sure, it was only eight songs, but the
8-track had an amazing feature with it it
allowed us to choose what song we wanted to
play at each time.
There are only eight specific tracks there,
but we can listen to each one whenever we
wanted.
Now the cassette eventually caused the
demise of the 8-track in an automobile, and
it really wasn't until the cassette came
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out into the automotive industry that music
started playing more of a vital role.
Now let's take a step back.
Music, like we said, has always been there.
We've always had radio and automobiles,
going all the way back to the teen years
when radios first were introduced to the
automobile.
It gave us the ability to listen to music
wherever we were.
As long as the radio transmission was able
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to find us, we can listen to music in our
automobile.
That long, boring drive would go by a lot
quicker with music, and specific types of
music made you feel specific ways.
Now we'll get into that a little bit later
on.
Right now we're kind of focusing on music
in our car.
So you have to remember, with that we can
have the radio, we can have news.
So during the days of like Bonnie and Clyde,
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now Capone, you know they put out warrants
for people within that area.
Watch out for this.
You know, special announcement you could
put it on the radio.
Hell, you can create shows on the radio.
How about the War of the Worlds?
Yeah, the War of the Worlds scared tons of
people, even though it was just all made up.
But it was on the radio and it sounded
super realistic.
But it brought us together.
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It caused chaos and confusion but with some
people people it created a great story and
a great thing about music back in those
days is those were the early days of car
chases.
And you know, going back to my favorite
show and this comes up a lot is the
simpsons is when grandpa and homer are out
selling the special tonic I love tonic.
I see you're a man that looks like he needs
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to please his wife.
You know that one and they leave the small
little hick town.
He's like, oh, they didn't start chasing us
until you put on that music.
Oh right, he turns it off and it's like the
banjo, it's chase music from back in the
early days of the automobile.
We had chase music, music that made us feel
like we needed to go fast, and that's what
music does to us.
There are specific types of music.
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The louder it gets, it might make us more
aggressive, it might make us want to drive
faster.
You know, mellow music just makes us want
to chill and cruise.
You know I have CDs for all of this.
I have cruising CDs, I have racing CDs, I
have driving CDs and I have chill CDs.
Trust me, putting one of my trance CDs on
while I'm driving is the worst thing,
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because that could put me to sleep.
That's not something you need and that's
one of those things you need to learn.
You can't have specific types of music in
vehicles, but everybody has their own
select taste.
But in the 1950s, rock and roll became more
prevalent in automobiles.
So we're moving away from the classical
music and country music of the past.
We were now getting into rock and roll in
the 1950s and if you listen to some of our
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previous podcasts about car cult movies,
our cover from that one is prominently
displayed in this work of art by a young
director and a very young actor at the time,
Mr. George Lucas and Mr. Harrison Ford.
Yeah, I'm talking about American Graffiti.
That movie showcases early automotive life
people cruising up and down the street,
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whether it was in a muscle car, a chop-top
lowrider or even just that white
Thunderbird with that beautiful woman that
Richard Dreyfuss character was looking for
the whole night.
We just wanted to cruise up and down the
strip.
You got to remember this is the early days
of television, and TV went off the air at
specific times and you could just go down.
You were able to drive a car and go for a
cruise down on Main Street.
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You know, like Bob Segar said, down on Main
Street, go for a cruise.
The music that brought all the people
together as people put their windows down
and start cranking the tunes.
Got to remember this is the 50s.
We can't choose what music we're listening
to, but we can still cruise to a radio
station with music that we all love and
when our specific song comes on, cruise to
a radio station with music that we all love.
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And when our specific song comes on, we
crank it and roll down the window so
everybody can hear it.
And as we roll up next to somebody maybe
they didn't know that that song's on the
radio and they're like, hey, that's a great
song.
And you start talking and then they say,
hey, you want to go get a burger or
something.
Go chit chat Brings people together.
They have a car full of girls and a car
full of guys and this one song could just
bring them together.
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You just jump out of your friend's car and
jump into the girl's car because they love
that specific type of music and you made a
connection.
At that short window, at that red light
Music did that.
It brought us together.
We were able to cruise up and down the
streets.
Now, to remember, these are the early days
of the automobile industry, where street
racing was still allowed and police were
still out in full force trying to stop us
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from listening to our music as loud as we
want, because you know that's a no-no and
there's specific groups out there that
didn't like our loud music.
Rock and roll was the music of the devil,
but we didn't care, we cranked it.
And if you're beside somebody who's got the
country cranked and you're listening to
rock and roll, they crank theirs even
higher.
So they don't even have to listen to your
music.
You crank yours higher and eventually
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somebody would either yell at the other
person or just roll up their windows
because it's like I don't want to listen to
their crap, I want to listen to my music
and that creates the disconnect between us.
But maybe, just maybe, one of those people
takes a listen for a split second and
realizes the music in the other car is
pretty good.
I like that song.
Who's that?
What does Hank Williams?
Wow, I never realized.
I like country huh, and you can be
introduced to new music.
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For myself and my generation, the
introduction of all kinds of different
types of music and new bands came from a
college student in California and Napster
oh yeah, file sharing.
Now, one of my favorite bands of all time
Metallica hated it, seriously hated it.
Lars created the biggest fight in the music
industry against Napster to take them down
because they were distributing our music
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for free.
They were stealing it and giving it to
everyone else.
Meanwhile, they got their musical start
from Lars making mixed tapes of all the
great bands he knew of back in Europe and
distributing them to all the kids in the
San Francisco Bay Area when they were
partying.
Essentially, he was doing the same thing.
Napster was on a different format because
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he was doing it in cassettes.
Now again, if you're not making money for
it, it's not a business.
Well, Napster wasn't making a business out
of it.
He can make money off of advertising, which
creates profit off of what was happening,
and I kind of get both sides of that story.
So you know we're not going to really get
into that.
But as we move from the 50s into the 60s
and 70s, by the 70s, like I said, we're
getting into 8 tracks and right at the end
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we're starting into the early days of the
cassette and mixtapes.
And in the 80s we get our cassettes and
with cassettes we can now record music at
home and cruise around with a dedicated set
list of all of our favorite songs as loud
as we want.
If we want to go for a cruise we don't have
to rely on the radio playing the songs we
want, because by that time maybe your
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favorite song wouldn't play on the radio.
Maybe you were listening to music that
never gets played.
Maybe, because it's the 1980s, you were
listening to Black Sabbath, to Metallica,
to Judas Priest, to Megadeth, to ACDC, or,
unless it's late night, like serious late
night, and you live in a big enough city
that it has a dedicated heavy metal or hard
rock station, you can't listen to that in
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my hometown.
Unless I was listening to the radio our
general rock station after 11 pm.
I wouldn't even get stuff like that, like
I'd hear, disturbed down with the sickness
after 11 o'clock at night.
It really sucks because I wanted to listen
to it during the day, but it's not a
daytime general song, so I can create a
cassette with our favorite songs on it and
cruise in the middle of the day.
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You can bring your music down to the beach,
you know, open up the back doors of your
awesome customized van, this amazing stereo
system, and blast your music at the beach.
Sure, you're going to piss some people off,
but you know what.
It's your music.
You made the choice and they make the
choice to stay there.
Remember, we're all people on this earth
and we all make our own choices and we
don't have to make everyone else around us
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have the same choices as us.
And that's the problem.
A lot with society today is because
everybody thinks that everybody else has to
think that way.
No, there's things called independent
thinking and, as humans, music is the stuff
that gives us all of our independent
identities.
All of our independent identities.
Like I said, for myself, I'm a big heavy
metal fan, but you look at my music at home
and I got stuff from funk, dance, jazz,
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swing and jive, blues, Celtic classical
music, classics from the early 50s, you
know, pop, rhythm and blues, reggae, hip
hop, rap.
I have it all.
Tons and tons of music and my massive CD
collection.
Yes, I still collect CDs and I have a
pretty big collection of records and
cassette tapes as well.
I have all kinds of different formats of
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music and you see, from the 80s into the
late 80s and into the early 90s, CDs gave
us something else.
CDs allowed us to go back to what 8-tracks
originally gave us, to allow us to go to
the specific songs that we wanted.
But the problem with CDs is we couldn't
make our own custom CDs in the early days.
We actually had to wait until that amazing
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program of Napster came out and CD burners
in our computers allowed us to rip music.
I have a massive stack of custom CDs I made
while I was in college, all full of music
for all different things.
You know, I got the pop ones.
I got my end of the year greatest hits of
all the new music.
I got heavy metal CDs.
I got rock CDs.
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I got classics from the fifties.
I got music with songs about high school,
songs about California, songs about heaven
and hell.
I got love songs, I got power songs, I got
techno, I got trance, I got hip hop, I got
cruising the streets and I got love songs.
I got power songs, I got techno, I got
trance, I got hip hop, I got cruising the
streets and I got racing the streets All
music that creates a specific ambiance.
Now we got that ability to change our music
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in our vehicles as we cruise.
Cassettes were great because, you know, it
allowed us to listen to all kinds of music
and make our own music.
And if you really want to think about the
ambiance of music and how it affects us
with driving, just go and watch the movie
Baby Driver.
The kid has to have specific songs For when
he's in a chase, when he's being chased,
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when he's cruising around.
That's a perfect example of what we're
talking about in this podcast Baby Driver.
He literally just wanted music and he
needed to drown out the background noise.
You know the hum of the drum.
It just needs to drown it out, right?
That's all it was.
So if you really want to see a part of this,
just go and watch the movie Baby Driver.
I originally started out when I was seven
years old, in 1989, making a greatest hits
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at the end of every year from you know all
kinds of new CDs and that that we bought
throughout the year I would make a
compilation tape called Good Mix and I did
that for over 20 years.
I actually had to stop doing that because I
started getting into making CDs.
But I had to get out of that because all of
the audio protection on it made it harder
and harder to get music and rip music to
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make my end of year CDs and eventually, you
know, with having kids, I just kind of gave
up on it.
Over 20 years I made my own mix of great
songs that I loved and, like I said in
college, I made all those special CDs.
The first one I made was actually one of
the first custom tapes that I specifically
made.
I went out and got all kinds of CDs to make
this ultimate tape of cruising song, you
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know, like Radar, love, green Onions, hell,
even the song And You by Edwin, Got the Life
by Korn, like songs that make you want to
go fast or cruise the streets, the best
songs for driving to.
But no, I don't have the actual best song,
one of the best songs of all time that
people say they love to sing and listen to
in their car is by none other than a
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Canadian artist, Brian Adams, summer of 69.
Oh yeah, they can get anybody singing and
tons of people say that's a perfect song
for a road trip.
And it is.
But you see, when I used to go out in my
old days like everyone else you go cruise
at nighttime I wanted my music and if I'm
just cruising downtown, nice and slow, I
want to put my windows down and I want
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something with good bass.
You know, back in those days, you know, put
a little Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem and NWA
on, and rap and hip-hop was great music for
cruising around the streets.
Come on, still.
Dray to this day is the ultimate cruising
song.
For myself it gives me that feel of I just
want to be in a 64 impala lowrider cruising
around downtown with my friends, just have
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that song blaring for everybody to hear,
because, man, it's just the ultimate song
for cruising.
And yeah, I got to give a shout out to Dr.
Dre and Snoop Dogg for that.
You have to remember like I sat and watched
the entire back to the beginning for Ozzy
Osbourne, because he's a prince of darkness
and heavy metal is such a big part of my
life and yet I'm still listening to Dr. Dre
and Snoop when I'm cruising around.
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Come the summertime, when I have to put my
windows down on my vehicle, I start getting
into music like that, a lot more bass.
So I get into my techno phase.
You know, listen to Daft Punk or Darude or
you know even Eiffel 65 from back in the
day, good bass, pumping music that can get
people dancing, keep people moving.
But then I also have my cruising songs and
like one of my favorite songs on there is
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it's from the early days of trey, from NWA,
and you probably know what song it is.
Yeah, we're gonna say it.
Fuck the police.
Okay, my greatest story about cruising
around with this once is I had that song
blaring on my stereo as I'm sitting at a
traffic light and a cop comes up next to me.
Now most people thinking it's like oh shit,
you know my windows are down.
This thing's cranked to like 30 in my car
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so everyone around can hear me.
My back window is bouncing around, my
mirror on my front windshield is literally.
I could see the whole thing shaking.
Everybody can hear and feel my music and
the cop just puts his window down, looks at
me and goes excuse me the good nods, like
you know, puts his window up, goes to the
cop station.
I'm like, okay, cool, he knows cool music,
he likes it.
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Maybe he took down on my plate but I never
got a ticket or anything.
But maybe that officer liked that song,
grew up loving that song, even though they
became a cop.
They understood what that song was about.
It basically wasn't about trying to beat up
the police or rising up against them.
It was basically calling them out for their
inactions against people, specific group of
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people at that point in time, but literally
treating them like garbage when they didn't
do anything.
It was a statement and a lot of music does
that Cruising around.
You want cool stuff like that Now, from
there late at night, just like everyone
else.
Back in the old days, everyone went out
racing right.
Go out street racing.
Well, not everyone in the world.
I know some people who think it's stupid
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and dumb, but those are not car-related
people.
Those are people who think a car is made to
go from point A to point B.
That is it.
Also the same people that drive around in
an automobile with no music on too.
So psycho, no, um.
So I had music to go racing to and it was
either, you know, high endurance, speed
metal or techno.
Because, seriously, techno music is really
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good for racing and I had the game Tokyo
extreme racer for my dream cast and I,
literally I found a way to rip those songs
and put them on my original cruising tape
so I could listen to them and they were
amazing.
It was techno.
But still Go back and listen to Fast and
Furious Tokyo Drift.
Slash is part of a techno song in that
Technically dance music, mustang Nismo.
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That's Slash with the guitar, but it's
still synthesized and created music on a
computer in the background.
And yet when you hear that, you could see
that car and it just makes you want to see
the light.
Like there's this specific slipknot songs I
used to keep.
Um, I can't remember what the name of the
album is off the top of my head right now,
but the one with vermilion on it, uh,
there's one of the songs on that cd I used
to use as my ultimate street racing scene.
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I used to be able to put the song on and
has such a long intro that the light would
almost change at the perfect moment when
I'm like go yeah, and you just hit it and
take off.
I had powerful music like that.
Hell, I even get my son pumped up when he
goes go-kart racing with specific music
like this.
I'm like what music makes you feel powerful
and want to get out there and race?
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What gives you that adrenaline and drive?
For some people it might be pop music, for
others it might be blues, for myself it's
heavy metal.
I don't know about you but like you know,
being a metalhead, I can't get all riled up,
pumped up for a good race by listening to
like Backstreet Boys or Taylor Swift.
Okay, no, no, that doesn't get me riled up,
even though it's talking about some of
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these breakups and you know being pissed
off at people.
But no, I need powerful music, I need
Slipknot, I need Judas Priest, I need
Metallica's Master of Puppets.
You want the ultimate racing CD, the
ultimate workout CD, master of Puppets?
Hell for myself.
Back in the day when I used to go to the
gym, my workout CD was Killadelphia by Lamb
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of God, their special live one from
Philadelphia, the Killadelphia album.
And I really wasn't into a lot of death
metal, black metal back in those days, but
Lamb of God I kind of got into and I saw
them live in concert before they opened up
for Pantera Well, not like the full Pantera,
Zakk Wylde Pantera that exists now, but I
learned that their music is just as
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powerful.
Live, and that's what music does, and like
when you're out cruising around, it gives
you all those different feelings.
You can have just your standard background
music, you know, listen to cool, you know
rock and roll.
As you're cruising around, you get your low
rider hip-hop and rap.
As you cruise in the streets, fast and slow,
cruising for some ladies well, myself, you
know, back in the day, cruising for some
ladies you get your metal, you get your
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rock.
I remember hearing from my, my uncle when
Hotel California came out.
When that song came on the radio, when
people were cruising around downtown
Sudbury, anybody who liked rock and roll,
that song was cranked and that's all you
can hear downtown.
For the entire duration of that song was
hotel California blaring from everyone's
radio.
When it was done, some people would go and
park and Just chit-chat.
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Oh, I never knew you loved that song.
You know, brought these people together.
Music does that and, like this past weekend
in my home city, it was one of our biggest
music festivals as well and it's not like
all the music that I love, but it still
brings all kinds of people together and
when we put that music into our automobiles
it could bring people together.
You could pick up friends, drive them
around and they can learn about new music
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they never heard about.
It can bring back old memories.
For me, if I had a million dollars, it
brings back the memory of the year my mom
literally walked out on us.
I can go back and see myself just hanging
out with my uncle and my cousin because my
uncle wanted to take care of my dad and
make sure he was all good, with somebody
literally just walking out on us.
That song does that to me and that song
comes on the radio.
I can feel it.
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I can feel it.
It creates emotion and a memory.
That's what music does.
That's what Black Sabbath and Ozzy did for
me.
I cried at Mama.
I'm Coming Home.
Even though I don't sing that song anymore
because I don't talk to my mom, I still
tear up because that song played a big
memory of my life.
My best friend who moved out to Calgary
years and years ago.
We were big fans of Ozzy and Black Sabbath
together and it brought us together.
It brought back old memories.
One of those songs comes on the radio when
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I'm cruising around in town and I might
just crank it and sing along to it, and
that's the other thing that music brings.
You can be sitting in your car, not
realizing that your windows are down, and
you could be singing in the top of your
lungs to your favorite song.
People might give you a stare, some people
might clap, some people might put up their
windows because they want to hear you sing
and other people might just say, hey, that
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was great.
Or maybe they look over and go you've got
an amazing voice.
The automobile and music go together.
Music isn't just made for listening to in a
vehicle, it's not made for promoting
vehicles.
Music is made for specific purposes of
vehicles.
There are some songs out there that give us
that feeling.
Songs about specific cars, songs about
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specific roads.
Hell, summer of 69 is about a guy reliving
his past.
His greatest summer Now, funny thing for
myself is my greatest summer of my life was
the summer of 1999.
So when I sing that song I sing the summer
of 99.
You know, the last great summer of my life,
with all of my childhood friends.
Some of them I never saw again since then,
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some of them we lost touch with, but that
summer was the last great summer.
It's not a song about driving, it's not a
song about racing, but when it's in the car,
everybody sings along to it and everybody
has their own emotion that goes with it.
Music is part of the automotive industry.
We all love it.
We all love to listen to music in our
vehicles, unless you're one of those weird,
crazy people.
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We all have our own tastes.
Not everybody will go out, and one specific
way you could find out about everybody's
different taste while they're driving is
the video game Grand Theft Auto.
Because listen to all the different radio
stations they put in there.
They have the dance, they have the, have
the rock, they have the rap, they even have
classical stations.
They don't have a metal station.
Kind of pisses me off.
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Really need a metal station for grand theft
auto 6.
You listen in Rockstar metal station.
We want black sabbath, we want Ozzy, we
want lamb of god.
Come on, you reach out to some of those
guys and make a metal station for grand
theft auto 6, because someone like me, you
know, I kind of want that.
The rock station kind of gave some of it to
us with Guns N' Roses, but we want a little
bit more.
But like cruising around.
What's it like when you get an NWA song and
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you're cruising around?
Even on Grand Theft Auto, you're playing a
video game, driving a song, and it gives
you a completely different perspective of
driving.
It's standard, just background music, but a
specific song comes on.
You go a little bit faster.
You'd be crazy, do donuts, hell.
You might want to just get out on the
highway and go as fast as possible, and
songs do that for you.
The embodiment of our soul.
They bring something out in us.
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Music is just a part of the automobile.
Now I get it like professional racers and
all that out there.
We really don't get to listen to music as
we race, but some of us, if you really want
to get us into the zone, we'll listen to
music before we go out to the track To have
that song playing in our memory bank as
we're racing.
When our greatest foe passes us, we put
that song on to get back into the zone to
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catch up and win.
Music does that, and with so many different
genres of music, whatever music you love is
the right music for you.
You could tell me that someone like Taylor
Swift is the biggest thing in the world.
They sell out like crazy.
But when Black Sabbath stated that they
wanted to do their final concert, 16
minutes is all it took to sell out 40,000
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seats.
That tells me one thing there's a lot of
metalheads out there still.
Every musical genre can sell out.
Steve McCoy can sell out for techno
stadiums, metallica could sell out for
heavy metal, taylor Swift can sell out for
pop and pop country.
They all give us this feeling.
They're all the different embodiment of
different parts of us, and when we listen
to them in our car, it gives us a relaxed
state, it makes us happy, it makes us
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forget about everything else and we can
just focus on driving.
Because that's why we need the background
music and the right background music for
the specific time when your favorite song
comes on the radio when you're driving, you
can get lost in it.
It puts you in a relaxed state and you can
drive properly.
Things don't bother you as much because
that's the music you love, and all kinds of
different types of music do that for
everyone else.
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Myself, like I said, went back to the
beginning and watched Ozzy's last show.
I teared up, I cried, I laughed, I got
annoyed and I loved it.
10 hours on the couch watching the whole
thing, but it was well worth it.
It's not for everybody, but to see it.
How many people out there watch the Taylor
Swift show online because they couldn't
make it to the show?
How many of them will sing and belt it out
in their car?
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After a hard day, you have a shit day, you
put music on, go for a drive.
Driving calms you down and the song calms
you down, and the two of them work together
to make you better.
So music, it's not just something in the
background, it's something that goes
together with driving.
If we learn one thing from having a radio
in our car is that music and cars go
together just like butter and bread,
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spaghetti and meatball, you know, and
things like that.
Anything you say, music is all right.
So if you like this podcast, please like or
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No-transcript.
Trust me, my dad learned so many different
bands and even got into a few different
bands because of my brother and I putting
music on on our long trips.
My dad learned about the Tea Party and
Metallica all because of my brother and I.
He got into those bands and he liked their
music.
Hell, he's even able to say the Nirvana is
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a generational band, like the Beatles, and
there's specific songs that still make him
feel like he's got to go a little bit
faster.
So, like us, share us, comment about us,
follow us to find out more, because we're
going to be doing some more podcasts about
the musical industry and how it affects the
automobile industry, like cruising culture,
songs about cars, songs about streets,
songs race too.
We got these podcasts all in the back
burner and eventually going to be coming
out over the next few seasons, so stay
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tuned and keep us there.
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Read some of the reviews, check out some of
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So for myself, Everett Jay, the host and
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strap yourself in for this one emotional
ride.
The music in your car is going to take you
on.
Bye.
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