Toscano & Chang Have a Bad Attitude

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Tonight, let's meet Valentino, Valentino, how are you doing great?
Thanks for having me today? Allright, Valentino, you're ready to answer
some questions for our beautiful bachelorettes.I'm so excited to stun them out of
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rockets and technology is paramount. Heprides himself in being the chief custodial officer
and fills in once in a whilefor the barista. At times. He
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entrepreneur working for his own company.He claims to be the first one to
invent online swap meets. He attendsadult birthday parties dressed as Eric Estrada.
Meet Hank Jennings, Hank, howare you unc jam great today? And
it's great to be here. HopefullyI get a lucky Lunian maker my bride.
I also want to congratulate my twocontestant friends. Hello, fellas,

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But I'm going to beat the padsout of you, and I will probably
take my date to bed faster thanyou guys can put one to wear on.
We have some beautiful bachelorettes, meetSue and Zuki. What are you
gals looking for in a bachelor.I want a guy like super Ba and

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like Tan and Macho and lots oftattoos, Boss ten, Macho and tons
of tattoos. And Miss Zuki,well, I'm just so thankful to be
here tonight because I'm hoping to findthe one that can touch all my chakras
and just set me right. Oh, and touching chakras is our specialty here

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on the show. Well, wehave these bachelors, and you guys are
gonna be asking them two questions each, and at the end, you guys
are going to choose a lucky gentlemanto go out on a night with a
special prize brought to you by oursponsors. Sue, go ahead and take
it away, Bachelor number one.What has been your favorite thing that your
other partner has put in your mouth? Well, I'll take val one,

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Missus Valentino, and the favorite thingthat gets put into my mouth is probably
one of those nice long chocolate bananasthat we can split together, you know,
and I like having the extra chocolatefallen off either sides. It's that's
probably my favorite thing. Number two, same question, what is your favorite

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thing that your partner has put inyour mouth? Wow? You know we're
from the South and we eat literallyeverything from hey to freaking ham and we
you know, we make our ownham from you know, our pant had
my pet, my pet pig,Porky the other day, and name the
porky on purpose because you know,we knew we were going to eat him
on Thursday. We bought him onlike Monday. But you know we're eating

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Parky. We ate our horse Billy. You know, literally pretty much everything.
When it comes to the sail thatin corn of the cop I love
corn. And bachelor Number three,same question for you. I would have
to say, my dear leicious Jackson, that would be the of a jagee
because a tasty of but a jageecan go a long way, if you

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know what I'm saying. Missus Szuki, what about you and your question?
For all three bachelors, I wouldlike for each one of the bachelors to
please pretend that you're a fruit,and then I want you to tell me
what kind of fruits you are,and then tell me about what's the best
part of being that fruit. Bachelornumber one. If I could pretend to

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be any fruit, you would haveto be a pineapple, spiky on the
outside and nice and sour on theinside. The show. Bachelor number two,
Whale, we are, like Isaid, we're from sil just in
case you don't remember from me tellingyou earlier, because I tend to babble
and I just keep going and goingand going, you know. But maybe,
like baby and apple, I'm reallya hard shailed person on the outside,

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but on the inside, like what'sthat word, delicious or something like
that, Like everybody wants to tryme. I gay us, well at
least in the family, right,Hey, everybody wants to try me chill,
Bachelor number three. So I wouldhave to stay. I am like
Kiwi kind of smooth and round,kind of peach fuzzy to the touch.

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But once you bite into my juice, baby, there is no other delicacy
on the rocks or straight up,baby, my fruit is that of a
keywee. You can jump into myglass anytime, oh baby, in a

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nice sprintzer. Huh, Baby,I love a good keywee sprintzer in the
face. A little wetness never hurtnobody, Miss Sue your second question for
all three bachelors. If you couldpick an amusement park had abandoned me out,
which one would it be? Youknow, Sue, the amusement park
would be my amusement park. Girlfriend. My rides go on all day,

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all night, Baby, let's go. Bachelor number two, same question.
I can never afford anything of thoseI'm using me in the park of things
you're talking about out, so youprobably have to be the County Fire because
you pretty much do your own thingthere. And like I said earlier with
Parky, you can take on somesouvenirs that end up being dinner. So

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it's pretty cool either way for you. Bachelor number three, same question.
That would take you to nuts VeryFarm, because once you ride me Babies,
is no other ride you want toride. Baby. As a matter
of fact, I will go allthe way back to Disneyland and give you
an e ticket for ecstasy. Baby, Come on down to nuts Berry Farm

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and ride it, Baby, right, cow girl ride? Oh all right?
The two Lucky Bachelorette Sue and Zukiare going to make their decision on
who they want to choose. Thelucky winner will delight themselves in a wonderful
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do you choose to take on vacationBachelor number one? Will it be Bachelor
number two? Or will it beBachelor number three? I think I'm gonna
choose like number two because that's likemy lucky number. Also, I'm like
a veganism like advocate and like Parkydeserves to live, so I feel like

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I could change your life, sweetheart. Well, I reckon that's pretty freaking
cool if you ask me. ButI'm sorry, sweetie. Parky's day at
an item before I came here.But I got some more at home,
got Pinky and Jerry and Bailey Juniorand Stephanie. Missus. Zuki, who
do you choose to take your vacationtime with? Will it be Bachelor number
one, Bachelor number two or Bachelornumber three? Well, I guess since

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we already started planning the bar menu, it's gonna have to be Bachelor number
three. Bachelor number three it is. And just to let you ladies and
gentlemen know the grand prize is aweekend getaway at the Los Angeles Crystal Hotel
and Casino. That's right. Enjoyall the amenities of this grand resort near
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Oh. I love that. Hey, you think I could get a free
eight ball from me and my lady. From there, you will travel to
beauty to beautiful Venice Beach and enjoysome boardwalk strolling, ending the night on
the casino floor playing some blackjack.Have a great week, and we'll see
you next time on the dating game. Back All right, all you cats

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and kitties, Welcome back to Backto the Eighties, hosted by the ever
so gracious and the ever soul sophisticatedyet handsome comedic duel of Tuscano and Chang.
I am the Chang. I amjoined by my favorite Italian besides Chef

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Boyard. Everybody, give a roundof applause and a warm welcome to the
most macho Italian Mexican guy that Ihave ever met in my entire life.
Tuscano. Well, thank you,thank you, I appreciate it. Thank

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you. You're too kind. Canwe get a little bit louder? Call
you you people? I mean,that's right, you know, it's just
got to really angry with me.We have our audience in here and we
give them snacks or beverages, andsometimes they just don't bring the energy.
Sometimes they don't, you know,like they should be on command. When

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I say applause, they should applaud. Right. Let's see if I say
damn it louder. Yes, right, and that's how it should be.
Oh yeah, I'll give them around of applause now, Toscano. Tonight
we are going to go Imanu toImanu once again. But then again,

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this is what makes radio fun today. I chose alternative because it's um it's
a genre that although I did listento it quite a bit when I was
a kid, it's it's still itwas ahead of its time, and then
it lost some ground at some pointduring the nineties because in the nineties everything

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went down the drain at some point. Do you notice that everything went down
the drain in the nineties pretty muchwhen it came to blame pretty metal,
Well, yeah, I guess youcan. But I you know what,
I just blamed society. Yeah,I blame MTV. I blame I even
blame to a certain degree the waythey wanted to reinvent the wheel with rock

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when they went into grunge, andthey wanted to do something that ended up
being nothing, and then it endedup dying off, and then what came
out of that? You know what, bro, I hear where you're coming
from. But I actually have tosay, I think grunge was a rebirth
of rock and roll, hard rockas we knew it. Like I just

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stated, I blame MT birth andthey're pop Shenanigans and oh but you can't
blame them that much. Well,actually, remember you always say, what
was that video? Video killed theradio star? Right? Just like the
song that you love from the Buggles. However, I mean, come on,
there are so many bands that gotmore attention because of MTV during the

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only ten years that I liked it. They would have not even have been
heard if it wasn't for MTV.Now do you now? On my defense
here? I think bands got playedand got a lot of airplay because they
looked good. Everybody started performing fora camera or an audience or a Super
Bowl halftime show rather than the originalfeeling and the emotion of the music itself.

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And yes, I did say Iblame MTV because they polish it up.
Everybody had to look pretty. Butthen again, the music business went
ahead and wrote in on the cotailsof MTV and made the music business everything
that it should not be pretty andfor the for the eye only. What

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kind of satisfaction do we get withthe eye? We can get more listeners
and more viewers with eye content thanwe do with tell it. Therefore,
I think grunge kind of was thatillegitimate child that a teenage mother would have
to rock and roll. Grunge cameout and it kicked rock and roll in

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the ass. But I also blamedpretty metal. You know, bands like
Poison and Winger and Motley Crue,especially after Motley Crue went through some really
bad times where they got typical rocksthere as they got loaded, Vince Neil
went out, got hammered, killedthe guy from Hanoia Rocks while driving right.

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Uh, you know, it gotreally watered down, really sugarcoated.
Everybody went pretty. Everybody was goingfor the flowing hair, everybody was going
for the spandex and and and justthe look. The essence of the music
was dying, So I have todisagree with you and say grunge gave that
music rebirth. And then also wehad great bands that came on in in

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the grunge. We had bands likeSound Garden and Pearl Jam. We had
individuals like Kenny Wayne Shepherd who whocame out of the wings of a Steve
Ray Vaughan. So I kind ofthink grunge did rebirth music and kind of
brought it to another another forefront.I think it brought it to the door

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for a lot of other bands thatI think are really good. I think
it killed her, I said,I think it killed it. And you're
right in a sense of the prettyand the glam metal and all that.
You're right because you know, theywanted to cater to a different audience.
Because remember metal used to cater generallyas a rule of thumb, all right,

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you know, nobody said, okay, metal is only for guys.
But the major already the portion ofthe people that went to metal concerts and
listened to metal, the majority werenot women. They were guys. Back
then. Of course the women startedcoming. That's it's it's obvious. But
then MTV, the record labels theywanted, Yeah, they wanted bad boys,

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and they gave them the pretty boys, right, and whether you like
them or not, a lot ofit wasn't even the idea of the bands
you got. You gotta remember,I remember in an interview, and this
is not from a pretty boy band, this is Journey. I remember hearing
Steve, Steve Perry saying he hateddoing music videos. He absolutely hated it,

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but that was part of the contract. They had to do it.
They had no choice. And alot of these other bands, you know,
I don't know what happened behind thescenes. I sure tell you this
though, that any band that thatmade it during that ten year time right
of the eighties, they sure madea whole heck, a lot of them,
a lot of them money, andthey sure and they got that other

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part that was missing, which wasthe females back then. Right now.
You may have hated it. Icertainly wasn't in love with that whole movement,
you know. I hated the factthat they had to wear makeup and
they wore all these I mean tome, there was just clothes. Eat.
Why would you wear those clothes?Especially the Poison album cover where they're

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all wearing they all look like womenback then that was ridiculous to me.
Now I do like Poison, Ido like some of their songs, But
then I think that that was abig part of why music started. That
type of music started dying off,and then of course something has to come
up from that from the ashes,right, something has to come up,

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and here comes grunge and a fewof the bands. But where are they
now. I wanted to take amoment and remind you guys that during the
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Today, we have a very specialguest that we're interviewing that is from the
band from the eighties, Bad Attitude. So you want to stick around because
Brian Curtis from Bad Attitude is goingto be interviewed by the wondrous Tiscano and

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if you just joined us today,we are going to be talking about some
of the bands that made the eightiesgreat. In particular, I am going
to be talking about the alternative rockgenre. Good old Chang is going to

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be talking about his favorite genre.Also, if you do hear the songs
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You can take k Hits ninety twofive wherever you go and listen to the
absolute most enormous playlist of eighties music. That's right. See the majority of
radio stations FM radio stations here inthe United States, they do have catalogs
with over ten thousand songs. Butdo you ever hear ten thousand songs on
the radio? No? Do youhear a rotation of about sixty songs that

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lay the same the entire day andthey click on a little that's why FM
radio. Yeah, they click ona little button that says shuffle, and
it shuffles those same sixty songs overand over the entire day, not for
weeks, for months, and substationshere in La won't mention who care,

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will play the same exact songs foryears, to the point where people go,
really, that band had more thanone song, Yes, it did
well. Speaking to crap, itdidn't start off as crap, but the
very famous, the very famous koQFM and Los Angeles and w d R
E FM in New York. Theywere playing music from underground, independent and
noncommercial rock artists, oftenly referred toas alternative rock. It was a category

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of rock music that it emerged fromindependent underground music from the late seventies,
and it started becoming very, verypopular in the eighties thanks to radio stations
such as kr qw DR in NewYork. When these stations actually played music
but you wanted to hear something different, you'd go to one of these stations.
You'd hear something very very obscure,you know, you would go to

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it. I remember I used tolisten to K rock so much in the
very early eighties because halfway down theeighties something happened to K rock as well.
Yeah, then they became prepped too, and they became oh my good.
And today do you know of anyradio station that you would compare in
its richness, in its entertainment andits playlist to something of that of the

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eighties, because I don't know ofone, you know what, girls,
Seeing that I reside doubt here inCalifornia. I'm not going to disclose exactly
where I live, but there arefour epic rock radio stations that I listened
to daily, and these four stationskind of take me back to the days

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of k MET, k n A, C, K West and old k
LOS. But I do have tosay they do play some riveting music of
the past. They play some masskicking news stuff. So I gotta give
the radio stations that I listened todaily out here, I gotta give them
five thumbs up, even though Ionly have two hands. Unfortunately, my

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beloved home in Los Angeles, California. I see radio as as done as
a done deal. When I amin southern California. It's funny because I
miss I miss my hometown, butI miss when I am out there.
I miss the radio stations that Ilistened to out here where I reside.
Now it's odd, isn't that.But it's that vibe set, that electrical

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charge that radio kind of hits mycircuit board with. So I kind of
long for that wherever it's coming from. Let me kick this whole alternative genre
off, because nineteen eighty three producedthe fifth album of the Great Year of
This It was a good year.This was the fifth and final studio album

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by this English rock band that wasoften referred to as soft rock. It
was referred to as alternative, andit was also referred to as post punk
and new wave. So call themwhat you want. The Police album with
the Synchronicity album. This song theSynchronicity one their very first song from their

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album Synchronicity. This is the Police. You were back back to the eighties.
This is Chang of Tuscan win Changtonight. We are diving head first
into some of Tuscano and ice favoritegroups of different genres of a time and

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a place in radio history in theeighties. That was The Police with Synchronicity
of the self titled album, Agreat three piece band. I mean,
those guys just there was so muchjazz influence in that band. I thought
they were I thought they were aband that was ahead of their time.

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I think that's probably why they wereso short lived. Such a tremendous talent
with the three of them, withAndy Summers and Sting, Oh my god,
they were just insane. And Iremember catching them in Hollywood Park for
a small gig that they did there. Yea. And oddly enough, a

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good friend of mine met Stewart Copeland, the drummer of that band, on
several occasions and said, the guyis just like talking to your next door
Nay. But the one thing hedid notice he couldn't keep his hands still
right, so it always seemed likehe was always tapping on the drugs.
This album was great because it includedthe hit singles like Every Breath You Take
that was in that album, Kingof Pain and Wrapped Around Your Finger and

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Synchronicity two is all on this Theywere nominated for a total of five Awards,
including Album of the Year. Theywon three of those awards in nineteen
eighty four Grammy Awards. So thatis my first choice. My friend,
the Synchronicity from the Police. Well, I'm gonna have to hit you with,
of course, my favorite metal.I love the medal, and I'm

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not going to give you my mostfavorite band in any order. I'm just
gonna go ahead and skim over someof my favorite bands of the nineteen eighties,
and I've got I've gotta give itto you to this band right here,
another band out of England. Ithought one of the greatest, most
powerful bands beside Judas Priest, andthat band would be Iron May. Now

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Iron Maiden went through some transition earlyin the eighties. They gave the boot
to their original lead singer, PaulGano, and they hired up the great
talent as in everyone knows Bruce Dickinson, who also is a pilot and flies
them around in their own jet.I think Maiden kind of was like a

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touch of punk, a touch ofhardcore, riveting metal, but it did
have a lot of h I'd sayencyclopedia knowledge. A lot of their songs
had to do with ancient history.Uh, And I always was very intrigued
with that style of writing that SteveHarris would come up with. Some of

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the artwork is probably scary to aguy like you. You would think it's
satanic because it's Eddie who was acorpse. It absolutely especially when they say,
oh, my favorite part of theconcert is going to see Eddie.
Eddie lives bro Yeah, that's alittle bit too. This was me back
then before I actually knew anything aboutit. Too much for me now things
And I'm gonna have to say oneof my favorite albums of theirs back in

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the eighties is probably Run to theHills, a dual guitar band heavy on
the bass. Stevie Harris played thatbass almost like it was a guitar.
It's like playing lead guitar. Theband has gone through so many changes.
They now have three guitar players.I don't really understand why. I really
don't think they need that many.I think they could carry the chord is

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if they just went with your originallineup. Also, they got a new
drummer in Nico McBrain. He joinedthe band after their other drummer had some
drug problems, and then later onjoined a band called Trust, So I'm
gonna have to say off of thatalbum coming up next, and the song

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we are going to play is twentytwo Akeisha Avenue, So all you street
walkers and ladies of the evening getyour pumps on, because it's about to
get really rocked up on the legendaryhome of all eighties music. Ka,
it's not a two five know whatplace where we Alright, cats and kitties,

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you are back once again with Tascanoand Chang and we are feeling toasty
and warm? Are we not Tascanoon this chilly evening? We and Shoorn,
We sure are my friend wearing mybeanie and everything staying nice and toasty
in my little studio room here.It's gonna be great because I also want
to keep reminding you guys, ifyou just joined us, we were talking

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about alternative and metal and we're namingoff a few of the bands that made
our personal list of great songs fromthat era. Quick reminder. Further on
during the show, we're gonna beinterviewing Brian Curtis of Bad Attitudes, so
you don't want to miss that.Stick around. What was one of your
favorite maiden songs or do you evenhave a favorite? I do, actually,

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I actually like Run to the Hills. I mean, I love the
melody, I love the beat.Well, you know, it's a true
story. It's a political statement againstthe genocide of my fellow Native American ancestors
and how we were genocided pretty muchout of the United States and out of
California. I did not love that, actually, yes, as a matter

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of fact. Also there's another songthat I'm going to bring out later that
speaks of that for another band,but will wait until it's my turn to
capture the ears of the listeners withthe metal Gods. Well. Coming up
next is a band that once againfell into the at the end of the
era of I want to say Punk, and it was referred to as folk

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pomp. It was referred to asalternative, of course, and it was
also referred to as new wave.Now this following band still placed Ada still
Feels some pretty decent sized stadiums andcame up with their single from the album
The Head on the Door, bya band that our dear and most infamous

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Chang just cannot get enough of.He has their entire cure, he has
their entire collection. And when Isay that this is close to Me from
The Cure. Chang is just smiling. This is back to the eighties radio.
Here's the Cure went close to me. Oh God, I hate that

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band. That sucks back to theeighties radio. Close to Me by the
Cure. It was a song bythe English rock band of Course. The
Cure, that was released September nineteeneighty five, is their second and final
single from their sixth album, TheHead on the Door. Now this wasn't
particularly my favorite album from them.My favorite album was, of course,

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where they came up with their verynostalgic and very very played to death songs
like why Can't I Be You?And Just Like Heaven. The Cure was,
and I told you this before,it was the very first band that
I saw in concert at the LosAngeles Forum in nineteen eighty seven. Now,

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everything about that band makes my earsvomit for some unknown reason. I
mean the Cure. Really, theydon't cure me of anything. If anything,
they get me sick. You wantto know he looks like I would
have to agree. He may havea strong resemblance to the Little Puppet from

(33:42):
Saw Yes. However, Bro,you cannot deny this. The guy can
still sing. He hasn't lost hisvoice. He can play, and that
to me just it just speaks volumes. But as long as he can sing
and reach those notes, I'm allfor it. Okay, Oddly enough,
I really didn't consider what he doessinging. I consider it crying and whining.

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You know what, I'm gonna takeyou to front row to see the
Cure. When we come out ofthat concert, I'm gonna buy you the
Cure shirt. I'm gonna take somepictures and post them all over Facebook.
When I get carried out by thepolice for yelling volgarities at Robert Smith.

(34:28):
Yes, then you'll see the truestsence of what I think about that.
Either way, you're gonna have tolike give me some Bill Cosby drugs to
drag my ass to go see thatband anywhere. I wouldn't go see that
band if we went to see themat the Santa Fe Spring Swap. That's
well. See, I think here'sthe difference. I am one who enjoys

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all kinds of music in their totality, except for one particular genre that we
won't go into right now, becauseI just can't see certain certain genres.
I can't take but anyway, andyou, my friend, are a dick
hayter. Yes, as as amatter of fact, when it comes to
the Cure, I am king dickhater. I just hate that band.

(35:12):
Okay, what about it if Isaid depeche Mode hate them? Okay?
See, so you hate more thanNow I've got another classic, please,
band that I loved back in theeighties. Now this is a band that
I only cared for their EP GetYour Guns and their very first studio album.

(35:35):
Now this band, you've heard mesay it on many occasions, are
the Godfather's a pretty metal and thelead singer I've made so much fun Evince
mcmeil through the shows that we've beendoing her back to the eighties. But
I have to give it up toMotley Crue with the Live Wire album.

(35:58):
I think that was their best album. Pretty hard rock and pretty loud,
pretty chaotic. So you mean theytell me that you didn't enjoy them when
they sang Doctor, feel Good andgirls Girls Girls, No, No,
no, not at all, no, not at all. You know,
reasons, many reasons, many reasons. Because it was it was I'm gonna

(36:22):
go on, I'm gonna go onto live and say this it was girl
rock chick rock. Oh my god, now the now. The chang did
love the metal chicks. Don't getme wrong, I had my share of
those metal chicks because I was trulythe bad boy. It was never the
pretty boy. It was rock.You got to admit it. It was
rock. It wasn't your rock,but it was rock, and it was
hard rock. It was rock,and it was good Rod arguing the fact

(36:42):
it was good rock. It wasjust it was just not a rock band
that I particularly decided to go continueto see or put posters of a murderer
in my bedroom. Oh no,I would have ever put posters of them.
But I still enjoyed their music.But the song that I'm going to
encourage all my changsters gangsters out therelistening to us to hear at k hits

(37:04):
ninety two five. This is offthe self titled album Live Wire, and
this is one of Motley Crue's besttracks in the eighties. I'm giving it
to you straight. I want toScano to stop and listen to this,
and then coming up after that,I've got some rush. But everybody put
your ears, put your ears tothe gears, and Toscano can kiss my

(37:30):
rears. Here is Motley Crue withLive Wire, and you are with Toscano
with Chang. Back to the EightiesRadio. Welcome back to back to the
eighties. That was Motley Crue withLive Wire off of their self entitled album

(37:53):
back in nineteen eighty two. NowToscano in eighty two, you were only
ten years old. That is correct, That's right, I was already.
You were well seasoned, my friend, and many of these things. Probably
my hair was longer than the heightyou stood. It's probably eleven or twelve
back then. Probably. Thanks forjoining us here and back to the Eighties

(38:16):
Radio. We are here every singleFriday for our enjoyment and yours. We
thank you guys for taking your timeand time out of your day to listen
to us in our zaniness and ourwackiness. And remember that we do this
because we love the eighties. Welove everything that came out of the eighties
except for Richard Ramirez and other thanthat, oh yeah, and and Chang

(38:39):
of course may not like the refrigerator, Perry, But aside from that,
Aside from that, this is thegreatest eighties show extravaganza the world has ever
heard. After the eighties, Soand we're here going to tell us that
you heard better than me, andTuscanto are going to be driving to your

(39:00):
house and whooping some masks. That'sgood, guys, know who you are
with those thumbs down. Hey,you know what, Speaking of thumbs down,
I want to give a special shoutout to every listener on Pandora because
you guys on Pandora have made usour biggest percentage from any platform that plays
podcasts. So you guys are incredible. So we want to give you guys

(39:22):
a very special shout out, andwe want to return the favor. For
all those guys and gals giving usa special thumbs down, we want to
return that favor. So here itis put that where you best you best
know it goes. But thank youguys for listening to us. Thumbs up,

(39:43):
thumbs down. We love you anyway, Hey, sign language. Yes,
next group on my list is aband is a band that you know
what you're gonna like this group,But at one point, at one point
in the eighties, particularly in nineteeneighty seven, they were named biggest band
on Earth as well. And that'sno. You can definitely say this band

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is alternative rock, post punk,but This was an American rock band which
first appeared on their nineteen eighty sevenalbum Document And it was released as the
album's second single in November nineteen eightyseven, reaching number sixty nine in the
US Billboard Hunt one hundred. Butthis song was my favorite from this band.

(40:31):
The band had three letters R E. M. And It's the end
of the world as we know it, and you know what, and I
feel fine. This is back tothe eighties. That's great. Starts with
the NERD. First, you arelistening to back to the eighties radio.

(40:52):
That was r EM. It's theend of the world as we know it,
and of course we all feel fine. The track was known for a
quick line stream of consciousness. RantLead singer Michael Stipe claimed that the LB
references came from a dream that hehad when he found himself in a party
surrounded by famous people, all whoshared those initials. So there's a point

(41:15):
in the song where he starts mentioninga bunch of people with the initials LB,
Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Breschev, andLenny Bruce, etc. And it's
all because of a dream he had. I think, personally, this is
a band you like. I don'tknow. I get that feeling. No,
that you are correct. That isone band that I did like.

(41:37):
I thought Michael was an excellent songwriterand an excellent vocalist. I also thought
the guitar player his name escaped meat the present moment, but my god,
that guy could play just about anything, mandolin, the ukulele. I
mean, there's so many different stringsthat he brought into the band, and

(41:57):
some of their recordings, I meanmine blowing very similar to Tom Petty's a
guitar player, another individual that Ithought was mind blowing. As a matter
of fact, I think I thinkTom Petty's guitar player and r EM's guitar
player the same guy, or theyhave the same hair. At least.
I actually thought you were going tobring in the cure to this and say
that you thought their guitarists sounded closeto r EMS. No, I'm talking

(42:21):
about good bands, not crappy bands. I didn't mention the cure for us.
Okay, Now, this next bandis my number one favorite, the
metal band of all time. Itdoesn't matter matter wet year, and that
is the metal gods themselves, Judaspriest I have preached. I don't know

(42:44):
how many times about this band andwhat this band means to me on a
personal level, of this band,their music, their lyrics, their lead
singer, of their sound, theirenergy. It got me through some of
the toughest times as a young changBack in the eighties. I was doing
a lot of bad things, buta lot of ass kicking hard rock,

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great albums, Sin After Sin,Rock a Rolla Sad, Wings of Destiny,
Stained Glass. I mean the albumsthat they put out. Just I
own every Judas Priest album that hasever come out, even the ones that
were not too that's rock and rolling, you know what I mean. Like

(43:30):
I've got a turrible lover. Iwent to that tour. Wasn't one of
my favorites, you know, Rob, If you're listening, I'm sorry.
It got a little weird for me, but I still went and you guys
are still the metal gods now.This song that I am going to play
next is a song off of Screamingfor Vengeance. That was one of the

(43:51):
first concerts of that band that Iwent to go see, and I was
sold from that day on. Ithink I saw the Priest a total of
seven times in my life, includingthe US festival which I think they kicked
the crap out of everybody that playedat the us AT Festival. Now,
this song coming up is called Painand Pleasure, and I'm going with these

(44:15):
certain songs to get the feeling outof that young kind of sexual drive with
this song with Pain and Pleasure twentytwo Akisha Avenue from Maiden and Live Wire
from Motley Crue. So let's getit together. That's getting mettled up,
and let's crank on some Judas priestswith Pain and Pleasure off of the nineteen

(44:39):
eighty two album Screaming for Vengeance.You keep it locked and loaded to Tuscano
and Chang because we are back tothe eighties and you are getting rocked by
khids now at two five, Okay, welcome back to Back to the eighties

(45:07):
chang Here, Tuscano and Chang.We are shooting the breeze with the couple
of the great bands that we're talkingabout, both from the alternative rock genre
from mister Tuscano and some of mymetal classic favorites from me the chang Here
At Back to the Eighties. Australianrock band In Excess released their first single

(45:31):
from the nineteen eighty seven album kickLove. This band needs You Tonight from
Inaccess We come back. We're goingto talk a little bit about I've got
let you know you want to myguy. This is back to the eighties.
That was Needs You Tonight by inx As from the nineteen eighty seven

(45:52):
album Kick Now. This was oneof those songs that made them absolutely huge
in the United States. Of course, Let's also being played today in Excess,
another one of those bands. Itwas just ahead of his time.
You put that music today and itjust fits, man, it just fits.

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It's sad that that band had tomeet its demise the way to do
it did with the loss of lifeto Michael Hutchinson, that dynamic lead singer.
I mean, the dude was gorgeous, like he could probably have any
chick in the world back then.It was just very sad that the way
he passed away and the way thatband ended up having to leave the airwaves.

(46:36):
I know they did get another singerfor a while. I believe it
was on a TV show that theyfound this cap, but I don't think
I don't think it grew legs andcarried away too much. Right Well,
I mean, we've we've talked aboutthis a few times before. You know,
anytime you have a band that makesa mark and that becomes something,
especially bands like in Excess, andthis song in particular needs you tonight.

(47:00):
It was one of their last songsrecorded for their album, and it would
arguably become the band's signature song.And then you take out the take out
the singer, the front man,and then for you to bring in another
singer's what's going to happen. It'snothing but a recipe for disaster, because
people are always going to be comparing. I mean, very few bands,

(47:22):
very few bands that I know of, bro, And one of those that
I'm thinking of is Journey. Oneof those is very few bands that can
actually get a singer that wasn't theoriginal and is somewhat acceptable right in this
case, well, in this casewith you know Arnie Pineda of course mostly

(47:42):
yeah, he sings just like StevePerry. Then you get a band of
the stature and height of Queen,and then you put in this kid who
came out from talent content. They'regonna choose somebody who can sing. What
I'm saying is for you to becomewhat were It's it's not anymore you lost
that guy. People go see aJourney because they're so attached to the voice

(48:07):
of Steve Perry and they've got ourArnold Pinetta and now they've learned to accept
them. You know, if youhad Mark Martego with Queen, I bet
you, I bet you anything,Queen would be very close to what it
used to be. But I understand, well, you know how you feel

(48:30):
and how a lot about our listenersmay feel when a band that we favored
loses the lead singer and we getsomebody new. Right, it's just not
the same. Right. You know, when you're in a band, whether
you have four or five or sixindividuals, that band creates a sound because
everybody's chemistry is right at the sameplace when they're making that track. I

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think a band's chemistry always changes whena new member joins the band or another
member leaves that band, whether theypass away or they just leave, a
little bit of that original essence isgone. Another one of the bands that
did it in the past was Survivor, and he sounds very sounds very very

(49:15):
similar. So he was accepted andthe band Survivor was known as you know
as Survivor Survivors. The second bandthe second front man died of cancer.
The first one stopped because he couldn'tsing anymore. He's still alive, he
just can't sing anymore. It's likeForeigner. I mean, Foreigner got a
new lead singer and he sounds exactlylike the original lead singer. I mean,

(49:37):
it's hard to tell them apart.You could say the same with Sticks,
But all Sticks did was Tommy issinging and Dennis de Young left the
band. So it's very similar.But it's that point, like I made
earlier, is tue tue to thetouch. When a member leaves, a

(50:00):
part of that essence leaves with it. We're going to take a short little
break. This is back to theeighties Radio. When we come back,
Special guest Brian Curtis of Bad Attitude, stick around no if it's totally turbular,
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I detect a large amount of socialmedia usage in your life once. Hence,
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(51:52):
one and only back to the eightiesradio show. I'm Tiscono from Tisconowin shang
with us today as we just promise, we have Brian Curtis from the awesome
band Bad Attitude. Brian, thankyou so much for taking the time to
be with us here and back tothe eighties radio. Hey, it's my
pleasure, Mario, thanks for havingme. So let me ask you this,
Brian. Are you an introvert,so somebody who's really reserved and just

(52:15):
kind of shy, or were youalways the life of the party and extroverted?
You know, I'm definitely an extrovert, you know, the life of
the party, kind of the youknow, loud guy in the room.
I guess you could say, yeah, when was it that you knew that
you wanted to be a career entertainer? You know? Mario? I think
that would have to if I wereto think back, it's probably when I

(52:37):
before I was even a teenager,I saw Kiss on the Midnight Special.
I think It was like around nineteenseventy eight, right when they first got
started. When I saw that,I knew that's that's what I wanted to
do. You knew that's what youwanted to do. Yep. Every musician
is always asked, and I'm goingto ask you this one as well,

(52:57):
who their influence was. Now,you just mentioned Kiss. Was that what
influenced you or what motivated you tokick this all off? You know?
I think so seeing Kiss on stageand the energy and the fans and the
excitement that they had and what theybrought just really moved me. And you
know that that pretty much kicked offmy musical career absolutely. As you grow

(53:23):
in the musical career, do youremember what age it was when you started
your first band. I think Istarted my first band at like at age
thirteen, oh, very young.What instrument did you play back then?
Also? The guitar? I playedguitar, Yeah, I did, sure
did guitar. Was there a particularmusician from even before the rock days that

(53:44):
you really enjoyed or that maybe theyplayed at home that you really you know
that you really pretty much liked.Yeah, my dad. My dad played
guitar, and so I had accessto his guitar and amplifier and and microphone
and stuff like that. So youknow, it helped me get started in
my first band. So I hada couple of instruments and I was able

(54:06):
to have guys over at the houseand we kind of put together, you
know, our first garage band.Wow. Now when you recall those times,
let's take last year for COVID.During COVID, I know a lot
of people got very emotional, sentimentaland nostalgic for going back to better times.
Did that happen to you as well, because we know it happened to
us here because that's why we startedthis whole back to the eighty stuff.

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Yeah. You know, Mario,it was a really tough time because I'm
still playing out. I'm still playingmusic almost every weekend here in Austin,
and if things just came to ahalt, you know, they shut down
the bars, they shut down everything, and our calendars were full, and
it was it was really tough.You know, a lot a lot of

(54:51):
guys quit playing. We knew thatwe would get through this. And now
things are starting well, you know, things opened up for a while,
things are start to tighten back up. A little bit now, But um
we're out there playing and entertaining folks, and um, I wouldn't have it
any other way. I'm gonna gonnaplay and as long as I possibly can,
I love entertaining people. That's greatto hear. We need to be

(55:15):
entertained in times like this. Talkto us a little bit about now,
bad attitude. How did that allstart? Well, that's a really good
question. Also, you know,Um, I was out in Hollywood.
I went to the Musicians Institute tothe Guitar g I T Program, and
I was in a you know,I was in a couple of Hollywood rock
bands, and there was one particularband that I guess we'll we'll remain nameless,

(55:39):
let's say for now. And youknow, we had some disagreements about
some stupid band stuff and they endedup kicking me out of the band and
they said it was because I hada bad attitude. So basically, so
basically, I'm like, hey,you know what, I'm gonna show them,
And I formed my own band andcall it a bad attitude. Oh

(56:00):
yes, heavy metal, Hollywood expressgenre, somebody that fought the battle,
lived the light, sex, drugs, rock and roll, long hair,
Aquanette, when FM radio kicked ass, when Tower Records was the place.
Yea sunset Boulevard, brother, Sometimes, my friend, I can actually close

(56:24):
my eyes. I can sense andsmell everything about Hollywood Boulevard on a Saturday
night past nine o'clock. The cars, the traffic, the breeze at sunset
would let loose, the feel ofthe movement of the street, the lines
at ghazaries, the lines at theWhiskey, the lines at the Roxy,

(56:46):
the lines to get into the rainbowl. What changes described? I had no
idea because I was but a mereteen in the eighties. Well you just
described. He just described it perfect. Now is that what it was like
to the tea? Absolutely? Andwe were standing we were we were a
bunch of the guys standing out therehanding out tickets to our shows and demos,

(57:09):
and and we were out there doingit. Man, just like what
he just said. So now youmentioned that when you started bad Attitude,
it all came about because a certainunnamed band, will say, claimed that
you had a bad attitude. Wasthis, I hope it was challenge,

(57:30):
as I was gonna say. Wasthis a band that chang himself challenged to
a duel back in the eighties becausethey because Axel Rose flicked a cigarette at
his shoe. True story, truestory. I'm gonna leave those guys out
of this. Okay, all right, no problems. We're all buddies again.
Oh okay, when you formed BadAttitude. Do you remember exactly the

(57:52):
year it was? I think itwas nineteen eighty seven? Nine, great
year, great years. A matterof fact, that's my favorite year.
A lot of cool things happened ineighteen eighty seven. So you start the
band, did you immediately know whoyou were going to form the band with?
Oh? Yeah, absolutely, MarioUm I had met a drummer through

(58:13):
a friend, through you know,a mutual friend of mine. Um.
Like I said, I was goingto the Musician's Institute, So there was
a there was a buddy of minethat was a great guitar player. And
this a whole other story. Actually, before I moved to Hollywood, I
was playing in a top forty bandand we traveled. We traveled all over
the United States, and we wereup in Anchorage, Alaska playing Oh Wow.

(58:35):
And I met a guy up therenamed Lonnie Meade, and we ran
into each other at musicians Institute andHe's like hey, man, I remember
you from Anchorage, and so webecame buddies again and m and he played
guitar. He was great guitar player. So he was one of the original
members of Bad Attitude. Um Mydrummer Ian Flanders. He was a good

(58:57):
friend of mine that that I metprobably I think my second night in town
through another friend of mine. Wemet Frank Rich through through those same guys
are our bass player, and Imean it was just a you know,
we didn't even hold audition. Weknew right away that we had we had
the perfect four guys and it justclicked right from the very beginning. Joining

(59:19):
a band is like a band ofbrotherhood. It becomes like a gang a
scenario akick. You know, youbecome one with each other. And I
think that's because the souls connect musicallyemotionally, so you feel kinship like a
blood kind of personal bond relations.So when you break out in the band,

(59:42):
the music that you put out andthe image you portray is an expression
of what you guys feel as afamily. You're all on the same level.
You want to go full throttle,push it out there. And that's
why I always think the long hairedmetal connection is deep. Oh yeah,
absolutely. I mean we knew fromthe very first time that we had our

(01:00:04):
very first rehearsal, that that thatthis was gonna be something good. And
then you know, we rehearsed ourbutts off and our When we did our
first show and we saw the reactionfrom the fans, we knew that we
had something and we just and wejust went for it from there. It
was it was definitely definitely a brotherhood. Like you're saying, where was your
first show? The first The firstshow was at the Troubadour, nice beautiful

(01:00:29):
place, remember Doug Weston's true.Yeah, I mean you go in there
and it's like, when the lightsare on, it looks like the cheap
library with paneling. You know,when you have read all over you have
baseball bleachers. You feel where I'mgoing with this brand. But then at
night it's magnetic. The bar bringslife, the seating comes to life.

(01:00:50):
It's almost like you're in your ownneighborhood. Personal arena kind of gives you
the vibe of like being a livestand up comic or something of Simon and
Guardfuncle. It's you, the fakedbrick wall and all the people out there
just wanting to get into you andgrab that vibe. Right and if you
um and for the fans out there, if you go to YouTube and you

(01:01:15):
check and you and you put inbad attitude live at the Roxy, dude,
you're gonna you're gonna see some greatlive videos from that era. I
mean, we used to take allof our you know, all of our
tickets. Instead of selling our tickets, we would give them away to all
the hot chicks on the street.Yeah's assume that's how it works. Brother,

(01:01:37):
I was there, sona. Iused to go, hey, man,
give me a couple of tickets,man, and there would be they
look at me like, you're gonnacome in here and bash heads and get
chicks. Metal was all about theconnection female or male. Correct my brother,
Oh that's right. We would sellour tickets to the guys and give
them to the girls. Yes,you read bastards. And he sold meat
tickets because I was so damn hornyback there. In the Baby seven.

(01:02:00):
You talked a little bit before aboutfamily and how everybody became like a family.
Now, going back to the realfamily, did did family play a
role in you forming the band orgetting maybe the courage to go ahead and
start and remain you know, inwhat you wanted to do well, you
know, Mario, absolutely. Youknow, my family has always been very

(01:02:21):
supportive. My parents bought me myfirst guitar and amp. You know,
I was telling you that a minuteago about my dad playing guitar, and
they helped me along the way,of course, especially when I when I
when I first moved out to Hollywood, and uh, but I have to
say, you know, my wifehas been my biggest supporter. You know,
she's been with me since the BadAttitude days and she's always supported me.

(01:02:43):
She still comes to all my gigsevery weekend with me. You know,
she's definitely, she's definitely my biggestfan. And your first album is
called Bad Attitude as well, correct, that's it. So I heard a
song that now I'm, like Isaid before, I'm totally the opposite of
Chang in some things. And oneof those things I do, I do

(01:03:06):
love the ballads. And that's right. You have a song called what About
You Girl, which we're gonna hearit in a little while, and it's
it's a tract that is very reminiscentof the days. I feel that it
has a mix between uh, youknow, the poison. It's got a
little flavor of poison, a littleflavor of Motley Crue. It's got you

(01:03:28):
know, it's got the what Iwould call it's got the eighties flavor.
Okay, thank you, Yeah,you know what I mean. Now,
this is just the back end tomy actual question, the music that we
have today. How is it thata band from the eighties can bring back
that same melody, that same field, that same eighties flavor in twenty twenty

(01:03:52):
one. Can that be done?Well? You know, there's a lot
of good music that's still coming outtoday. But you know, yes,
I just don't think that they youknow, they just don't buy them like
like we did back in the eightiesanymore. I don't know, It's that's
a that's a really tough question,you know, like like Chang was saying,
you know, um, I don'twant to bash on new music,

(01:04:13):
because there's a lot of music outthere that I that I really do like.
But um, you know, I'mnot hearing anything like what like like
the Rat, the Dock and theMotley Crew, the attitude, the stuff
that we did back then. Itwas just a different time. You know.
I don't know if it would goover today if a new band did
it. I think that's why peoplewant to go back and hear and hear

(01:04:36):
what we did, you know,because they meant a lot of people missed
that time they were they weren't aroundthen, and to hear it now,
it's it's just not the same asas you know, as it was back
then. I guess you know,you meet a you meet a very good
point change. We've talked about thosemany many times that even you know,
a lot of our listeners, believeit or not, We've got like fifteen

(01:04:59):
percent of our listeners are under theage of thirty, and these are people
that have no idea what it wasto live in the eighties. They're hearing
this music and a lot of themusic and maybe you'll correct me if I'm
wrong, but a lot of themusic from the eighties is still relevant today,
both in lyrics also in music.You're listening to back to the eighties

(01:05:42):
so much times gone by, somuch needs to visit the womp sudden girl,
I can't get you out of myhead. Must heard you were a
sand listen see your bart all thoselony tears. She cried a boat I

(01:06:08):
broke your heart. If I cando it, a girl, I never
let you go. I may meeta tea walting. I need to know
what about girl? It's been alast time time. Do you want to

(01:06:34):
make a bat? Will you hungme tonight? What about you? Girl?
It's been a lot hard ride?Will you hold? Give me one

(01:07:00):
more chance? Let me try makeget right? I'm yours whoever? Girl?
Just want me to tonight? Giveme one more chance to put a
smile on your face and I'll bethere forever. Baby to feel that empty

(01:07:27):
place. If I can do it, aver, I never let you go.
I may get a team, won'tbeing. I need to know what
a bad girl? It can alove time? Do you want to make

(01:07:54):
it right? Will you hold metonight? A bad you? Girl?
It's a lot ride? Will youif I can do the girl? I

(01:08:28):
never left girl and amazing Jean,won't thing? I need to do?
What boding girl? It's been alot time? Do you want make you

(01:08:51):
right? Will you hung me tonight? What boding girl? It's love ride?
Will you talk about girl? It'sbeen a love time? Do you

(01:09:15):
want to make it bad? Forthe holy tonight? Back you girl?
It's been a love time. Ridewill you to never Girl Time Girl Tonight.

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This is one I'm only back tothe eighties. I'm Chiscano. We
are here with Brian Curtis from BadAttitude, and this is a track that
it has turned out to be myfavorite track from at least five or six
that I've heard so far. Talkto me a little bit about the ballad
that we just heard. Well,thanks a lot for the compliments there,
Mario, Um that could that songwas was written, you know, about

(01:10:29):
about an old girlfriend. But youknow, I mean, I guess you
can probably you can tell that justlyric that's I mean, that's what it's
all about. That's what inspires usto write a lot of these a lot
of these songs that we write asromance, heartache, good time. You
know you got songs about times attimes? Hey, Brian, you know

(01:10:50):
what surprises me. We don't getthat same feel for music today, Okay,
I'm not. This is my opinion. A lot of the lyrics were
not written by the bands themselves,and if they are, they've never lived
through them. And that is thepoint, you know, that is if
you look at the if you lookat the credits on a lot of songs,

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A lot of times people get recorddeals and you know they don't they're
not even the real song writer.I mean a lot a lot of people
can pull it off and you thinkthat they that they lived these experiences.
But uh, you know all thesongs that we wrote that I wrote,
those those were we wrote those songs, and then I wrote all those lyrics,
and that those are true experiences thatwe exactly those songs that you wrote

(01:11:36):
and the heart felt that came outwith you put those lyrics to music,
and all of you were on thesame page but living that same vibe and
that same feeling to whatever instrument youportrayed you, you know, with the
vocals, and you can all understandthat. You know, great songs and
good songs, memorable songs are alwaysthose of the true hearts. The more

(01:12:00):
you come from your own heart andyour own experience is going to captivate more
and more people in such a magnitudein a way that you are going to
be immortal forever. Every one ofour songs is it evolved from a true
story. There's a story behind everyone of our songs. You know,

(01:12:20):
We've got a song called I Won'tsettle for nothing less I won't settle for
second best. You know, we'vegot what about you girl, We've got
another one hanging on you know,I keep hanging onto your love. We've
got another one, and I'm justyou know, action, I want some
action. You know. Every songhas has a story behind it. You've

(01:12:42):
got songs like never Gonna Let YouGo. You've got songs like I'm the
Only One for you. These aresongs that we really like. I told
you in our LinkedIn brief conversation,it's stuff that we kind of need again.
And well, I hope so,and I hope they go out and
all they all they love our songsand they tell all their friends and let's

(01:13:03):
get this going. Let's let's bringthis music back. Like you guys said
this, these are songs that peoplearen't writing songs like this anymore. And
these are all, hey, ladies, these songs were all inspired by y'all.
So yeah, I mean there,you know, you look at the
icons that we grew up with,you know, and you look at the
family of rock and roll, andyou know it came from Great Britain,

(01:13:26):
it came from here, It camefrom there. We had eight great bands
like ACDC, loudness, the magnitudeof earthquake music that we as we sit
here and talk as one, themusic that we created from Hollywood in southern
California, of bands like Journey,the explosion of rock and roll, I
think was something greater than any typeof leadership that we've ever seen politically or

(01:13:53):
socially. It's an explosion of love, understanding, acceptance, and unify.
And I think if we all captivatedto where we were at in the eighties,
my brother, we would have amuch better world and a much better
country. That's that's some pretty heavystuff there, Chang. That's great.
That's that's you know, there wasa lot of truth to what you're saying

(01:14:14):
there. You know that those thosewere great times, and you know,
I wish you know, I wouldn'ttrade I wouldn't trade anything of what we
did. I have no regrets.We we we lived it, We did
it. Those were great times.Yes, So if time travel were possible,
okay, and you could go backto the eighties for a time,
what would you do? I woulddefinitely bang on some more record company doors

(01:14:39):
and you know, maybe just trya little bit harder. I guess,
you know, it's a really toughbusiness. You know, like I said
a second ago, we we wewe tried our best. We we we
we did it. We play somegreat shows and you know we have a
lot of great memories and you know, really guys, you know, well
have no regrets. Are you stillsinging with the band or what? So?

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Andy, what's going on with badattitude now? Well, you know,
I'm I'm still in touch with allthe with all the guys on Facebook
and everything. We're all, youknow, go back out. We're still
out in California. One guy's downin Houston, Lonnie's down in Houston.
I'm here in Austin. Um.We you know, we can get together.
I see those guys whenever I can, whenever I'm out in California.

(01:15:21):
And uh, but we you know, we haven't been doing any any concerts
or anything. But we're really excitedabout this. You know this uh lost
track of the eighties episode that's comingout and and being on your show of
course tonight, and uh, youknow, you never know what's gonna happen.
You know, things can get sparkedback up. We might end up
on one of those uh one ofthose rock cruises. You know, they

(01:15:44):
got the right right, Bran.On a side note, what's your favorite
song of all time? Do youhave a favorite? Oh, my goodness,
that's that's a tough question. Couldbe your own well, the rock
in Roll All Night Day, theLive that life. We of the eighties

(01:16:05):
did live that life. We waybeyond seventy eight when that track came out.
Brian, it's been great to haveyou on the show. I'm hoping
for the best. I really wantto see Bad Attitude make a tour around
southern California one of these days,because you can rest assure you'll have some

(01:16:27):
fans waiting to hear what Bad Attitudehas has in store. We would love
nothing more, you guys and allour fans out there would would love to
see that again. Just make surethat you that you look that when you're
when you're out there looking for BadAttitude, that you that you find the
right one. Because there's been acouple of there's been a couple of imitators

(01:16:47):
called themselves Bad Attitude since we werearound. So yeah, I've read the
stories, trust me. Yeah,yeah, you know what, Brian.
My wife, when I look inthe mirror, she's behind me. She's
referred to is bad attitude. Soevery now and then I'll break into one
of your attraction. She'll look atme. She was like, nah,
dude, nah, And I waslike, whoa hell, get the yaquinet

(01:17:08):
out and let's make this a party. Hey, Brian, do me a
favorite. Do you have information thatyou might want to give out for four
fans so they can go listen toyou? Check out Bad Attitude on Amazon
Music. We're on Spotify. Well, all of our songs are on You
are on YouTube. Like I said, if you just put in bad Attitude,

(01:17:29):
there's a lot of stuff that comesup. You know, there's meat
Loaf had a song called bad Attitude. Honeymoon Sweet had a song called Battitude.
But if you dig deep enough,look for our photo the four good
looking guys like you said Chang Iwas gay, you'd all be my bitches
and you'll, I think when youfind us, you'll know it's us.

(01:17:50):
Definitely, let's try to make ita plan. But in the meantime,
this is back to the eighties radio. You've heard Brian Curtis bad Attitude.
Hey, Brian, meddle up,brother, who welcome eties fans. I
have been expecting you. You nolonger need to listen to any other podcast.

(01:18:18):
You won't the eighties, don't you? The longing for it is swelling.
You now feel the memories coming toyou and listen to back to the
Eighties. Give in to nostalgia.With each passing moment, you make yourself

(01:18:45):
bar of an Eighties fan. Itis unavoidable. It is your destiny.
You don't know the power back tothe eighties. You like your childhood now

(01:19:09):
man, Now back to good,wholesome, politically correct entertainment. Oops,
wrong station. Now back to theeighties with Toscano and Chang. Welcome back
to Back to the Eighties Chang.Here of Toscano and Chang, we are

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going through a list of some ofour favorite artists back in the eighties.
I'm gonna hit you with this nextlead singer. He sang with a band
named Rainbow, which Rainbow had somany different singers between the seventies and the
eighties, I'd say probably at leastfour lead singers. This lead singer also

(01:19:51):
fronted Black Sabbath during the Heaven andHell and Mob Rules rain This individual went
out and started his own band andnamed it after his own name. I'm
talking about the late Great Rodney JamesDeal. You cannot go wrong with with

(01:20:12):
the cranking on anything from Deal.I remember when he debuted with the Rainbow
and he came out with the Manon the Silver Mountain. I mean,
my god, the way he justscreamed that thing. It was it was
almost like going to church for ahard rocker. Then when he came out
with Sabbath, I mean, henailed it. I've always kind of liked

(01:20:36):
the Deo Sabbath a little bit overthe Azzy Sabbath, but I do love
the Azzi Sabbath and a lot ofpraise because Sabbath is another band, like
Judas Priest, that started the footworkto create what we know is heavy metal.
But I thought Deal had a bettervocal range than Ozzy, but Ozzi

(01:21:00):
could play the harp. Now Dealsad that he passed away of cancer,
and he wasn't even really that old. I was very fortunate to meet Ronnie
James Deal and have a conversation withhim. When we were watching Tesla.
We went backstage and me and mybuddies from Wicked Relish got to sit back

(01:21:21):
there and we had a very longconversation with Dio and Tesla with Rudy Sarzo,
other other musicians. I'm not goingto give their names, but very
enlightening talking to Deal. A lotof people would think that, you know,
when he gave he gave the heavymetal horns, a lot of people
say that is a sign of thedevil, when it's not, in fact

(01:21:44):
at all a sign of the devil. It is a religious sign of that
his grandmother used to give him toward off evil spirits. Right, It's
an Italian thing. And I cantell you that first then, because my
dad used to do that all thetime. My grandparents used to do that
a time. That's from very verythat comes from old tradition in Italy.
You know, when they get likea bad look, you know, they

(01:22:06):
would they would call it the evileye. And if somebody looked at you
in a bad way, they gaveyou the evil lie. They would think
that, you know, that's badluck coming towards you, so they'd give
that horn sign in rebuke of thatevil lie. So traditions, But you're
right, absolutely right about that,and Deal, Oh my gosh, Dio

(01:22:27):
is one of my favorites. Ilove. I didn't like the album art
just because I was more a littlebit more on the religious side. So
it did. It did kind ofscare me in away some of their stuff.
But man, I couldn't. Icouldn't avoid Deal because Dio, to
me, his voice was just sopowerful, so attractive, and I love
Deal. Oh yeah. I sawDeal with Sabbath twice, and I saw

(01:22:50):
Deal twice on his solo tours.And I gotta say, probably the best
memory I have of to see Dealwas nineteen. I want to say eighty.
I want to say eighty four.I went with my best friend who
no longer is alive, Raymie Barrows. I God rest your soul, my

(01:23:12):
brother, I will see you again. We both went to that concert was
Raymie's birthday. We had front rowseats and we got all the way up
to the little barricade that was youknow, was right before the stage,
right before the stage with the guysin the yellow jackets, and I'll never
forget Me and my buddy were singingalong with Deal, and Deal pointed at

(01:23:34):
my best friend and he pointed athim. He did the fifth and then
he did the Devil Horns and Iwas I was just totally blown away.
And I looked at my buddy andI was like, hey, dude,
Deal Deal saw you. He youknow, you made eye contact with him,
and he was like, yeah,that was great. What do you
Why do you think that is?I said, because he's short and you're
short. You're probably the two shortestmothers in this whole place, so he

(01:23:58):
identified with you. But yeah,yeah, he was a great show man
to be there with my best friend, and then a couple of laters to
lose my best friend. Emotions.I get very emotional when I crank on
any kind of music from Deal.It takes me back to that time that
I got to spend with my bestfriend who's no longer here. But tonight,

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I am going to play a songnot from his solo project, but
from the number one album in nineteeneighty and that is Heaven in Hell,
and that is the soundtrack that Iam going to play. You are listening
to Ka Hits ninety two five,and you are on the hang with Toscano

(01:24:41):
and Chang. We are going totake it back to the Sabbath days with
Black Sabbath with Heaven and Hell withthe late grade Rodney James Deal right here
at KA Hits ninety two five.All right, Kats, you're back with

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Tascando and Chang. We are windingdown. Hopefully you guys enjoyed that interview
and you're enjoying the rock and rolland the list of some of our great
bands that we are bringing to you. Hopefully some of you are vibing in
the same way that we are thatmaybe these are some of the more favorite
bands that you also got a bigkick out of listening to. And you

(01:25:27):
know what. Hit us on ourFacebook page, hit us on our Instagram
page, hit us at back tothe Eighties, hit us at k Hits
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couple of your favorite songs from thatartist and we will play them on k

(01:25:50):
Hits ninety two five, because weat k Hits ninety two five want to
bring the listener in just as muchas me, Tusky and the rest of
the jos are bringing into music.Because we do what we do for you.
We would not be here talking ifit wasn't for you. So join
us. Let's make the radio stationone for the people. My next and

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final pick for this week is asong by the British new wave slash alternative
rock band Modern English, and itwas from their album After the Snow,
Modern English bringing You I Melt withYou only on Back to the Eighties Radio,

(01:26:44):
Back to the Eighties Radio. TheCi Siskanno from Tiscano and Chang from
their nineteen eighty two album After theSnow that was Modern English and I Melt
with You. It became the band'smost successful single, Chang largely in the
States, Yeah, largely here inthe US, and it was featured in
the film Alley Girl and on YourFavorite Channel and Mine MTV. It even

(01:27:06):
reached number seven on Billboard's Mainstream Rockchart. In nineteen eighty three, re
released and it reached number seventy sixon their Hot one hundred chart. Can
you Believe that? No, that'sa three striker for me? Strike number
one Billboard Rock Chart, Strike numbertwo. MTV liked Strike number three.

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Those guys looked like a bunch ofhigh school nerd whoosies. Stop hating,
Stop hating, Gosh. The band'svocalist Robbie Gray described England at that time
that the song was written Robbie andit was He said that it was England
was an oblique place due to anongoing economic downturn. He said, there

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was no money, there was nopower, you'd you'd be home with candles,
and you know, his fears ofof nuclear war inspired the song I
Melt with You. So that's prettygood. I mean, come on,
these these songs are from so manyyears you know, so many years ago,

(01:28:14):
and these these songs are super superpopular today. Especially what is that
in the background. I see inthe background you have a poster for Modern
English after this Snow what what?Signed? Signed by Robbie Gray. Yes,
as a matter of fact, yes, I stole it from my hairdresser.
I thought you were gonna see youstole it from my room. I

(01:28:38):
stole it from your room. Yourson gave it to me exactly. I
can't get rid of this woosey assposter. Okay, I'm going to slice
up another great metal track of mypast, another great favorite band of mine,
with another leading member that is nolonger with us, and a member
that I also met at the Rainbowduring my sta end up comedy rain and

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I'm talking about a motor head.I thought you're gonna say, pore let
me kill nister. What were yougonna say, I thought you're gonna say
poly Shore. Oh, poly Shoreis an ass and a weasel there,
I said it. And if anybodywants to tell him that I said that,
tell him I said that, andtell me he could find me right
here at Back to the Eighties,I was gonna say. And if anybody

(01:29:21):
wants to fight you for that,they're more than you'd be more than happy
to oblige. Oh man, youknow, if I could get poly Shore
on the corner of Sunset and justslap the crap out of him one time,
I mean, my god, Icould just die and go to heaven
the very next day. All right, who's your baddy? Who's your bad?
Now? Uh? This track isfrom motor Head Okay, and uh

(01:29:44):
oh, this is one of myfavorite tracks because this is exactly how I
used to feel when I was verychaotic and fearless as a young man.
This track is called killed by Deadright here at the one and Only Back
to the eighty radio show, andwe are cranking it live up here at
k hits ninety two five taking ithome with Motorheads. We are back to

(01:30:23):
back to the eighties radio Tuscano andchang right here for your listening pleasanter.
We are talking to Tuscanno with someof his most memorable I don't know if
they're his favorite, but most memorableacts of the alternative genre back in the
eighties, and I the Chang amslicing up everybody's ears with some metal of

(01:30:47):
the eighties, some of my favoritebands. Yes, I know you're probably
you're gonna be sitting there listening,going man, this is just like ear
candy, because I'm hitting you strongand Tuscano is hitting you saw Tascano is
kissing you on the cheek and Iam tonguing you with some kind of music.
That's what we are doing today.You are getting tongue banged by the

(01:31:11):
Chang and you are getting chair ofthis. Kisses, Kitty kisses from Scots
kiss kisses. It sounds like aWham song. We are careless kisses Taskano
and Chang is kind of like theCheech and Chong minus the marijuana for one
of us. Yeah, yeah,yeah, we're like they're long lost love

(01:31:34):
child. Yes, we're kind oflike i'd say Gen Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Yes, yes, without the money, without the money, that's all
we need, and without the alcoholicbaggage. Neither one of us are luscious.
Well you've been you've been listening tothe one and only back to the

(01:31:55):
eighties radio show Here, okay,HiT's ninety two five dot com. This
is the part of the show wherewe talk about what made us angry back
in the eighties. Only we've changedthe name, and in honor of the
most wondrous chang we now call themchangreis so chang What made you chingry in

(01:32:16):
the eighties? You know what mademe changry back in the eighties that I
could get a bag of chips andwhen I opened it, half the bag
was air and the other half waskIPS. You know what else got me
changry back in the eighties when somebodygoes, hey, have you ever tried
a donut hole? And I thoughtto myself, why are you calling it

(01:32:41):
the donut hole? It's a donutball, That's right, it is a
donut ball. Shouldn't it be calleddonut balls? You know what else gets
me changry back in the eighties wasthat I was carded more times in one
night than most people get carded inthe year. You know what else gets
me changry? Getting whistled at byAsian men who thought I was an Asian

(01:33:03):
young lady, and that ladies andgentlemen has been this week's chagres. If
you have something that made you angryor changry back in the eighties and you
want to share with Toscano and changHere, go ahead and send us a
note through our Facebook page, sendit to our messenger, and the following
week we'd be more than happy toread them out loud and give you a

(01:33:26):
shout out. In the meantime,I am Toskano wishing you a happy week,
get ready for Thanksgiving because there's alot to be thankful for and in
spite of some of the bad stuffthat goes around all around us in society,
have a great week, be safeand do something good because it comes
around chang Here. Before I releaseyou to another changtastic weekend, I want

(01:33:49):
you to remember to stay lifted andgifted. Remember we only have one life
to live, so go out thereand live it to the best of your
ability. Don't let no one getyou down, stand up for something bigger
than yourself, or stand up forsomebody that can't. I want to wish
you all a great weekend. Staysafe and sane. Please do not drink

(01:34:12):
and drive. We do not wantsomething to happen to you or put the
lives of others in jeopardy. Ibid you all an adios an aribace,
an asta la vista, an astamanyana, an asta lauego asaya nada.
And to all my homies and thebrios or lea

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