October 19, 2025 • 26 mins
A rush of tour news collides with ticket chaos, memories from Nassau in ’82, and why certain songs outlast the charts. We dig into supergroups, The Jam’s perfect demo, UK vs US tastes, and the small human moments that keep music personal.
• Rush 2026 reunion dates and presale chaos
• First Rush show memories at Nassau Coliseum
• The Jam’s Sound Affects and demo vs studio
• UK vs US charts and what sticks
• Motorhead, Simple Minds, Arcadia highlights
• Thunderstruck’s long fuse and video camera angle
• Smashing Pumpkins tour stories and Garbage opener
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SPEAKER_03 (00:34):
Hey everybody, this is Jim Boge, and you're
listening to Music in My Shoes.
That was Vic Thrill kicking offepisode 101.
That's 101 episodes, not to beconfused with 101 Dalmatians.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
(00:54):
So, Jimmy, I don't know if youheard, but Rush is coming on
tour.
They're reuniting in 2026, andthey are going to be playing
seven cities in North America.
SPEAKER_01 (01:08):
All of those in Canada?
SPEAKER_03 (01:10):
No, not all, but close, close.
Cleveland's one of them, sothat's pretty close to Canada.
They're doing Los Angeles,they're doing New York,
Cleveland, Toronto.
I don't remember, you know.
SPEAKER_01 (01:24):
Chicago, maybe.
SPEAKER_03 (01:25):
Yeah, Chicago's one of them.
So they're doing, they announcedthat they're going to do two
shows in New York and two showsin most of the cities.
And you can sign up, you know,for the pre-sale.
And, you know, I get signed up,and two days later, it's like,
oh, overwhelming demand.
(01:47):
We're going to add two moreshows to New York.
Not just New York, you know,other cities as well.
And I guess it's because howmany people signed up for the
pre-sale?
Well, my brother has a creditcard that is like a preferred
credit card.
So you can actually buy ticketsa day before the artist presale.
SPEAKER_01 (02:09):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (02:09):
And my brother goes on and he's like 269,000 people
ahead of him.
Oh.
And I'm saying to myself, notthat many people could possibly
have this credit card and wantto be going to see Rush.
Like it's uh to me, it's almostimpossible.
SPEAKER_01 (02:31):
What do you think?
Aaron Ross Powell I don't know.
I mean, I think a lot of Rushfans are older and probably have
credit cards and whatnot.
SPEAKER_03 (02:39):
So yeah, but it's this specific one.
You have to have this brand ofcredit card to get on.
And they sponsor a lot ofconcerts.
My brother was able to gettickets, you know, usually a day
before a lot of these pre-salesbecause of this particular card.
I think it might be the reasonthat he actually has it.
So he's kind of texting me.
(03:00):
So it's like 269,000, like 10minutes later, hey, it went
down.
I'm at 247,000 people ahead ofme.
SPEAKER_01 (03:08):
I mean, how how many people does the arena hold?
20,000?
Yeah.
You know, but it's four nights.
Fourteen nights.
SPEAKER_03 (03:16):
Yeah.
And it was insane.
But finally he got through.
He waited the whole thing.
It was probably 45 minutesbefore he got in, you know, to
the spot.
And you know, the ticket priceswere a little outrageous at that
point.
So he went on an aftermarket andfound tickets, like all the
(03:38):
prices were high, except thisone group of four tickets.
Pretty good seats on the secondlevel.
Like, you know, you're notbehind the stage.
It's pretty good.
It's pretty close.
And they're really much cheaperthan every other ticket.
And me, I'm always like, yeah,there's got to be something
(03:59):
about it, you know?
And so he starts to do it, andsure enough, it's verified, it's
this, and he bought them and gotthe confirmation, and you know,
everything's protected.
I can't believe we got tickets.
SPEAKER_01 (04:15):
They probably just popped up when he saw them.
You know, he was like the firstperson to see those.
Somebody bought extras,realized, oh, we got plans that
weekend or whatever, and thenthey just put them up for face
value or whatever plus fees.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_03 (04:28):
And we got them on July 28th, 2026.
I will be at Madison SquareGarden to see Rush.
SPEAKER_01 (04:34):
All right.
SPEAKER_03 (04:34):
And they have a new drummer, obviously.
But they have a female drummer,and and I don't remember what
her name is.
I I don't know anything abouther, but from what I've heard is
that we're really going to s besurprised to see her play.
And they're also talking aboutadding another musician or two
on stage.
You know, when bands get alittle bit older, they tend to,
(04:54):
you know, fill out the sound byadding some additional people.
SPEAKER_00 (04:58):
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (04:59):
So I'm kind of looking forward to seeing what
it's all about.
Uh first time I saw Rush wasDecember 1982 at the Nassau
Coliseum.
And I just thought it was supercool.
They had a like a big uh moviescreen behind them, and at one
point as they're playing a song,like the space shuttle is
(05:20):
getting ready to take off, andto see it on such a big screen,
it was just, you know, wow, thisis cool.
And then I saw them in 2007, uh,Jones Beach up in New York also.
I just was happening to be inNew York at the time they were
playing.
And so it was 25 years after thefirst time I saw them, and I saw
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them, and it was a good show,and that's 2007.
So now it's gonna be 19 yearslater when I go see them again.
SPEAKER_01 (05:50):
And so are you gonna go see them in like 2051 again?
SPEAKER_03 (05:53):
Uh I might.
They might actually you knowwhat?
That sounds like a good albumfor them to release in 2051, you
know?
SPEAKER_01 (06:00):
So see them in 2112.
SPEAKER_03 (06:03):
Th there you go.
I'm not sure I'll be around atthat time.
You know what?
I'm pretty sure I won't be.
But we can hope, but I don'tthink so.
So it reminds me, you know, itsaid that the Nassau Coliseum,
it reminds me of I think it was1980, and Blue Eyes to Colt and
(06:24):
Black Sabbath were touringtogether.
It was called the Black and BlueTour.
And there's actually a livevideo that came out and it's
recorded at the Coliseum, youknow.
Again, that's you know, rightdown the street from where I
grew up.
But the commercial for it wasjust unbelievable.
(06:46):
And I don't remember it exactlyhow it went, but it was
something, you know, like BlackSabbath and blue eyes to go at
the Nassau Coliseum.
SPEAKER_01 (06:58):
Yeah, it's like that guy, that voice that they had
for those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (07:03):
And it was just like I loved listening to the
commercial for it.
I just thought it was just socool.
Like, man, how does he do thatwith his voice?
And you know, I I practicedthere for a long time.
I mean, it's what, 45 yearslater, and here I'm still
talking about it.
But you know, I I don't know.
But they they made a live album.
(07:24):
I again, I don't know if it wasa live album.
I know it was a live video andit was recorded at the Nassau
Coliseum.
I don't know.
Just something that popped intomy mind and just makes me, you
know, reminisce about thingsfrom from days of old.
The black and blue.
The black and blue tour, yes.
So speaking of tours, um there'sa band called Drink the Sea
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that's going on tour.
And Peter Buck of REM, it seemslike I mention him quite often.
He's in the band, but there'salso members of like the
Screamin' Trees.
Uh I I can't remember everyonewho's in it, but they're coming
on tour in February 2026.
They're in, you know, herethey're playing at the 40 watt,
(08:10):
you know, they're playing in uhuh New York City, they're
playing, you know, a bunch ofplaces.
But I think it's kind of coolthere's a lot of new bands that
have, you know, people fromother bands where they've gotten
together.
And, you know, I talked aboutthe baseball project and and
minus five.
I know they've been around for along time, but just, you know,
they kind of take members andswitch them out, and Peter Buck
(08:34):
is b part of both of thosebands, and it's just kind of
interesting to see how musicgoes and through time and, you
know, how people get togetherand how they make something
work, because you think of ofpeople just one way, but then
when they're with a new singeror a different, you know, bass
player, all of a sudden theyhave a whole new style about
(08:57):
them.
Or sometimes they're really justkind of like a guy in the
background.
Like they don't have to havethat here I am kind of image.
Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_01 (09:09):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sometimes people have to play acertain role in one band, and
maybe they don't want to do thatin the next one.
SPEAKER_03 (09:16):
Yeah.
And, you know, again, we talkedabout the minus five and the
baseball project, which I saw afew weeks ago.
In the minus five, you havePeter Buck playing bass, and
then in the baseball project,Mike Mills then grabs that same
bass and plays bass, and Peternow moves the guitar.
And it's just, you know, kind ofcool.
(09:37):
So along those lines, I talkedabout recently how Peter Buck
had commented about my facebecause I didn't have the beard
anymore.
We talked about that.
Yeah.
And I had said to him, you know,had a shave, I had skin cancer,
and I'm not trying to draw thisout any longer, but uh another
quick fun story is a few daysafter Peter Buck had said, hey,
(10:00):
you had a great plastic surgeon,and you know, he had mentioned
to another band member, SteveWynne, look at his face, you
know, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I went for a checkup to myplastic surgeon.
He wanted to see how everythingwas, and I told him the story.
And, you know, he's laughing,he's smiling, and you know, he
thinks it's great.
He has a story he can tell hisfriends that Peter Buck of REM
(10:22):
commented on his work.
And so when my visit's over, hesays, All right, you know, I
won't need to see you anymore.
I said, okay, well, usually likethe doctor just gets up and
walks out of the room, but hedidn't.
And uh, you know, I get up and Istart walking to the front to
check out.
He's walking with me.
And I just found it a littlestrange because doctors usually
(10:45):
don't do that.
And we get to the checkout, andhe says to the lady, no charge
for him today.
I didn't have to pay my copaybecause I had a good Peter Buck
story.
SPEAKER_01 (10:55):
You were a rock star.
SPEAKER_03 (10:56):
I was a rock star that day.
I saved a little cash.
Hey, I'm not gonna complain.
But I thought it was kind ofcool because now I have another
story to tell about it.
Very cool.
So it goes.
Tick, tick, tick.
It's Minute with Jimmy.
SPEAKER_02 (11:16):
It's time for a minute with Jimmy, Minute with
Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for a minute withJimmy, Minute with Jimmy, Minute
with Jimmy.
SPEAKER_01 (11:26):
So The Jam put out an album in 1980, so that's been
uh 45 years ago, called SoundEffects.
And one interesting thing aboutthis is you know, sound effects
like sounds that you hear in aTV show or movie, those are E F
F E C T S, right?
This is sound effects with an A.
(11:47):
So effect is actually a verb.
So they're saying sound affectsyou, right?
So it's like a comment, soundeffects.
Anyway, that's got some somegood songs on it, including
Start, which is a little bitlike the Beatles Tax Man with
the the way that the bass linegoes.
And uh one of my favorite jamsongs, That's Entertainment.
(12:11):
Interesting thing about That'sEntertainment was the version
they released on this album wasyou know the normal studio
version.
When they went back to releasetheir greatest hits, they called
Snap, they went back to the demobecause they said the demo was
actually better than the versionthey released on the album.
And they could never recapturethat sound.
(12:33):
It was just like this onerecording they did, and the
guitar sounded extra kind ofscratchy in a good way, and you
know, it just had this tone toit that they didn't get on the
full studio recording.
SPEAKER_03 (12:48):
So, Jimmy, I did have Snap.
So I do have um that version ofThat's Entertainment.
That's entertainment, it it'snot one of my favorite jam
songs.
I would say it's in my top 250songs of all time.
Okay.
Absolutely love that song.
I think it's just really cool.
(13:10):
It's just kind of a little bitabout life and Yeah, a little
slice of life.
A little slice of life, kind ofthe sound effects around you.
You know?
The regular version, if youlisten to it, it has backwards
guitar very Beatles-esque laterin the song.
I mean, it sounds exactly likethey stole it from the Beatles.
SPEAKER_01 (13:32):
Aaron Ross Powell's a cool effect.
And um that's not there on thedemo.
So that's one thing about themain studio version that's
better.
But I think, you know, I agreewith Paul Weller and and the jam
that the demo version is better,other than that one part of it.
SPEAKER_03 (13:49):
Aaron Powell Yeah, the demo version is what I, you
know, I recorded on cassette offof album and listened to mostly.
But the one thing I really didlike about that regular version
is, you know, hearing the Beatleinfluence.
I just think that's super cool.
And it wasn't that long ago wetalked about when there was the
supergroup for the uh the helpalbum, the charity benefit, and
(14:11):
Paul Weller and Paul McCartneyand a bunch of other people did
come together.
So, you know, one day you'redoing a backwards guitar in
1980, and then 1995 you'regetting to actually play with
Paul McCartney of the Beatles.
That's a pretty cool thing.
Hey, that was a really goodminute with Jimmy.
My name was Jimmy.
Let's revisit some more music inmy shoes.
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Motorhead, Ace of Spades, thesingle.
It's released October 17th,1980.
It reached number 15 on the UKsingles chart.
SPEAKER_01 (14:45):
Oh, I thought you were gonna say U.S.
I'm like, no way.
SPEAKER_03 (14:48):
No, no.
And that's the thing, you know,I've mentioned this before.
The UK and the US as far asmusic, it's a just a whole
different world.
It's a you know, the Britishlisten to music differently than
than how we do.
I'm not saying it's better.
Not saying it's worse.
SPEAKER_01 (15:07):
I'm saying it's better.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_03 (15:08):
It's a it's a different way.
They like a song.
It doesn't have to be a certainkind of song.
It doesn't have to be that onlykids like it.
It doesn't have to be anythingother than a good song.
And if it's good, people willmake it number 15.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_01 (15:26):
Yeah.
I mean, not to go back to thejam, but I'm gonna do that.
That, you know, they had lots ofhits, like number one hits in
England.
And I don't even think theyscratched the charts.
Maybe Town Called Malice gotinto the top 40 or something in
the US, but that was it.
SPEAKER_03 (15:40):
Aaron Powell Yeah, and that was their last single
before they broke up.
But very good song.
I I do like Town Called Malice.
What was that?
In um late 82, I would say.
So Motorhead, again, number 15,Motorhead Lemmy.
Right.
I mean, you just you don't evenhave to say his last name, you
just say Lemmy.
The only card I need is the Aceof Spades.
(16:03):
The Ace of Spades.
SPEAKER_02 (16:04):
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03 (16:05):
Did you know for two years, because he hated playing
the song after a while, youknow, a lot of bands don't like
playing their songs.
He's like, this is not, youknow, this song doesn't define
us.
So for a number of years, Ithink it was about two years, he
sang Eight of Spades.
Nobody noticed, he said.
No, no one had any idea.
He was just he was just doingit.
(16:26):
But did you know that Lemmy wasa roadie for Jimi Hendrix?
SPEAKER_01 (16:30):
No, wow.
SPEAKER_03 (16:31):
Yes, he was.
You know, uh Lemmy did a bunchof that stuff when he was
younger, and you know, trying toget his way into the whole world
of music.
And I think he was with theband, what was it, Hawkwind, I
think that he played with.
Um just uh pretty cool life.
And, you know, towards the endof it, he spent a lot of time at
the Rainbow Room out there inLos Angeles, and you could find
(16:55):
him at the Lemmy seat, you know,he had his own seat at the bar,
just drinking, you know, hisdrink and enjoying life.
The Ace of Spades.
Or eight.
There you go.
Simple Minds, alive and kicking,WLIR, Screamer of the Week, the
second week of October 1985,reach number three on the
(17:16):
Billboard Hot 100, December28th, 1985.
You turn me on, you lift me up,and like the sweetest cup I'd
share with you, you lift me up,don't you ever stop, I'm here
with you.
I like that song a lot.
(17:37):
You know, it was probably theirfirst song after Don't You
Forget About Me.
Right.
Alive and Kicking, I I just likeit.
I could listen to that song overand over and over.
It's got a great drum beat, it'sgot great piano, you know,
listen to Jim sing.
I I I really like it.
Good song.
Yeah, real good song.
Arcadia, election day, W-L-I-R,Screamer of the Week, third week
(18:02):
of October, peaked at number sixon Billboard Hot 100, December
1985.
So Arcadia was kind of like a uma little splinter group from
Duran Duran, Simon LeBon, NickRhodes, Roger Taylor, they were
all in it.
And I like this song, ElectionDay.
(18:25):
I, you know, it's just one ofthose songs.
I can't tell you another songthat they did.
I know Election Day, but it hadthat kind of impact.
You know, it was a very sultrytype of song when they sang it.
And earlier in the year, DuranDuran actually had the song A
View to a Kill, which was fromthe James Bond movie.
SPEAKER_01 (18:46):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (18:47):
So if I'm correct, A View to a Kill, Grace Jones was
in.
In Election Day, she does aspoken word part in the song
because they met her through AView to a Kill, because they did
video for it and you know,really promoted it.
(19:07):
And I I think both the songs arereally good.
I really enjoy both of them.
ACDC, Thunderstruck.
You know the song.
Everybody knows the song,whether you know it or not.
This is one of those songs thatat sports events it's played.
Right.
It's everywhere.
People know it.
Reach number five on BillboardMainstream Rock Airplay, October
(19:30):
20th, 1990.
SPEAKER_01 (19:32):
Oh, I was gonna guess 95, 90.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (19:36):
35 years ago.
It's hard to believe sometimes.
SPEAKER_01 (19:39):
You know, the thing about Thunderstruck that's so
different than a lot of songs isit doesn't get to the chorus
where he says Thunderstruck forlike I want to say almost two
minutes.
Like it's way into the song.
It has a long intro and then areally long verse that he they
they kind of milk, you know, andthen it finally kicks in minute
(20:03):
and a half, two minutes into thesong.
SPEAKER_03 (20:05):
Yeah, you know, and it's a kick butt song for sure.
I really like that song.
Do you remember the video?
Because the video is one of thefirst that I remember.
I guess they put like a littlecamera on the guitar.
So as Angus is playing and kindof turning, it's turn like it
was a whole different view.
At that time, we didn't seethat.
(20:27):
That wasn't normal.
You always had the camerapointing at the person, not
right on the guitar as it'smoving.
SPEAKER_01 (20:33):
Aaron Powell Well, and you probably couldn't have a
small camera like that up untilthat time.
You know, cameras were huge, andthe that was probably just small
enough that you could put it onthe guitar.
SPEAKER_03 (20:43):
Aaron Ross Powell It worked.
I still remember it, you know?
And those are the things.
I think we remember thingsbecause they worked.
Or they didn't work, MillieVanilli.
And you know, just that's how weremember different things.
But I remember that video onlybecause they had that camera on
there.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be able totell you anything about it.
SPEAKER_01 (21:01):
It's like the aha video.
Everybody our age remembers thatvideo because it was so cool
with the animation, the drawing,and the mirror and everything.
Yeah.
My kids see that video, they'relike, what's the big deal?
SPEAKER_03 (21:14):
Because nobody had done it before.
In 1985, it was a big deal.
Yeah.
It really was.
Smashing Pumpkins Bullet withButterfly Wings, released
October 16, 1995, and peakedJanuary 6, 1996 on the Billboard
Hot 100.
It peaked at number 22 onJanuary 6, 1996, on the
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Billboard Hot 100.
The World is a Vampire.
I think the world can be avampire at times, and I think
this song is really cool.
Everything about the song iscool.
I think at that time in 1995,you know, it was a good year for
music, and you're gettingtowards the end of it, and it
was like a great song to comeout.
(21:58):
I think that Smashing Pumpkinskind of elevated themselves a
little bit from where they were.
They released that double album,what was it?
Um The Melancholy and InfiniteSadness.
I think that's what it was.
And 1979 was on there.
I mean, there's a ton of songsthat were on that album.
And it just was really cool.
(22:18):
I still really like that song.
Like I listened to it and it'slike, man, this song could come
out today.
SPEAKER_01 (22:24):
You know, I saw them back on that tour.
Um, the sound guy for SmashingPumpkins was looking to get into
the studio business, and he gotmy name and said, Hey, do you
want to go and sit with me inthe sound booth and maybe you
can introduce me to some peoplein the studio world?
And so I did.
(22:45):
But it was kind of fun.
I went to the the show at uh theOmni and sat in the sound booth.
SPEAKER_03 (22:51):
Very cool.
Yeah.
Who was the opener on that tour?
Do you remember?
Garbage.
They were great.
And that was the garbage album,I think, maybe.
Yeah, that had come across.
And I don't mean the garbagealbum.
That's not how I intended it tocome across, but the garbage
album.
SPEAKER_01 (23:09):
That had Stupid Girl and I'm Only Happy When It
Rains, and you know, some oftheir real signature songs.
SPEAKER_03 (23:15):
I'm Only Happy When It Rains is a great song.
I really like that song.
SPEAKER_01 (23:18):
I saw them on the bricks, I guess it was called,
in downtown Atlanta.
SPEAKER_03 (23:23):
99X used to do a thing.
SPEAKER_01 (23:25):
And and it rained, and they played that song.
Yeah.
And they were happy.
Were you happy?
Not really, but I mean, I washappy that it stopped raining,
honestly.
Like right around when theystarted playing it, the the rain
broke, or stopped, you know.
Do you say the rain broke if itstopped?
I don't know.
It sounded kind of literary, butanyway, the rain stopped, and a
(23:48):
lot of people had gone home, soit was, you know, kind of like
we had our own private show.
Got up kind of close and it wasfun.
SPEAKER_03 (23:55):
The rain broke.
Not my arm, but the rain broke.
SPEAKER_01 (23:59):
Wow.
Was that like that's totalpoetry, Jim?
SPEAKER_03 (24:03):
Well, thank you.
I've been working on it.
Something I put together.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
Is that a haiku?
Yeah.
Hey, watch what you call me.
Jimmy, I always enjoyed kind ofrevisiting the music.
You know, I only talk about themusic that generally that I
liked, that, you know, at somepoint made some sort of
impression on me, and then Iremember it for whatever reason.
(24:25):
But I'll tell you what I reallyliked is on the last episode,
episode 100, when we had thatlittle, you know, Stones versus
The Who and Prince versus Bowie,and you know, a listener had
sent that in.
And, you know, I've gotten somuch feedback at, you know, how
much this guy had to put into itand think about, you know, what
(24:47):
band against what band and whatsinger versus what singer.
And it's it's cool.
I mean, that was Robert, right?
That was Robert.
I really like when I get thefeedback from people and they're
talking about that.
And, you know, it makes themthink, all right, who would I
pick?
You know, what what would I say?
And you know, I like theengagement, you know.
(25:08):
So if people out there haveanything that, you know, they
think might be a cool topic totalk about, please feel free to
send it in, which you can do byreaching us at musicinmyshoes at
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That's it for episode 101 ofMusic in My Shoes.
(25:30):
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie,show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios, locatedright here in Atlanta, Georgia,
and Vic Thrill for our podcastmusic.
This is Jim Boj, and I hope youlearned something new or
remembered something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
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And again, it's not 101Dalmatians.
Hey everybody, this is Jim Boge, and you're
listening to Music in My Shoes.
That was Vic Thrill kicking offepisode 101.
That's 101 episodes, not to beconfused with 101 Dalmatians.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
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So, Jimmy, I don't know if youheard, but Rush is coming on
tour.
They're reuniting in 2026, andthey are going to be playing
seven cities in North America.
SPEAKER_01 (01:08):
All of those in Canada?
SPEAKER_03 (01:10):
No, not all, but close, close.
Cleveland's one of them, sothat's pretty close to Canada.
They're doing Los Angeles,they're doing New York,
Cleveland, Toronto.
I don't remember, you know.
SPEAKER_01 (01:24):
Chicago, maybe.
SPEAKER_03 (01:25):
Yeah, Chicago's one of them.
So they're doing, they announcedthat they're going to do two
shows in New York and two showsin most of the cities.
And you can sign up, you know,for the pre-sale.
And, you know, I get signed up,and two days later, it's like,
oh, overwhelming demand.
(01:47):
We're going to add two moreshows to New York.
Not just New York, you know,other cities as well.
And I guess it's because howmany people signed up for the
pre-sale?
Well, my brother has a creditcard that is like a preferred
credit card.
So you can actually buy ticketsa day before the artist presale.
SPEAKER_01 (02:09):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (02:09):
And my brother goes on and he's like 269,000 people
ahead of him.
Oh.
And I'm saying to myself, notthat many people could possibly
have this credit card and wantto be going to see Rush.
Like it's uh to me, it's almostimpossible.
SPEAKER_01 (02:31):
What do you think?
Aaron Ross Powell I don't know.
I mean, I think a lot of Rushfans are older and probably have
credit cards and whatnot.
SPEAKER_03 (02:39):
So yeah, but it's this specific one.
You have to have this brand ofcredit card to get on.
And they sponsor a lot ofconcerts.
My brother was able to gettickets, you know, usually a day
before a lot of these pre-salesbecause of this particular card.
I think it might be the reasonthat he actually has it.
So he's kind of texting me.
(03:00):
So it's like 269,000, like 10minutes later, hey, it went
down.
I'm at 247,000 people ahead ofme.
SPEAKER_01 (03:08):
I mean, how how many people does the arena hold?
20,000?
Yeah.
You know, but it's four nights.
Fourteen nights.
SPEAKER_03 (03:16):
Yeah.
And it was insane.
But finally he got through.
He waited the whole thing.
It was probably 45 minutesbefore he got in, you know, to
the spot.
And you know, the ticket priceswere a little outrageous at that
point.
So he went on an aftermarket andfound tickets, like all the
(03:38):
prices were high, except thisone group of four tickets.
Pretty good seats on the secondlevel.
Like, you know, you're notbehind the stage.
It's pretty good.
It's pretty close.
And they're really much cheaperthan every other ticket.
And me, I'm always like, yeah,there's got to be something
(03:59):
about it, you know?
And so he starts to do it, andsure enough, it's verified, it's
this, and he bought them and gotthe confirmation, and you know,
everything's protected.
I can't believe we got tickets.
SPEAKER_01 (04:15):
They probably just popped up when he saw them.
You know, he was like the firstperson to see those.
Somebody bought extras,realized, oh, we got plans that
weekend or whatever, and thenthey just put them up for face
value or whatever plus fees.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_03 (04:28):
And we got them on July 28th, 2026.
I will be at Madison SquareGarden to see Rush.
SPEAKER_01 (04:34):
All right.
SPEAKER_03 (04:34):
And they have a new drummer, obviously.
But they have a female drummer,and and I don't remember what
her name is.
I I don't know anything abouther, but from what I've heard is
that we're really going to s besurprised to see her play.
And they're also talking aboutadding another musician or two
on stage.
You know, when bands get alittle bit older, they tend to,
(04:54):
you know, fill out the sound byadding some additional people.
SPEAKER_00 (04:58):
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (04:59):
So I'm kind of looking forward to seeing what
it's all about.
Uh first time I saw Rush wasDecember 1982 at the Nassau
Coliseum.
And I just thought it was supercool.
They had a like a big uh moviescreen behind them, and at one
point as they're playing a song,like the space shuttle is
(05:20):
getting ready to take off, andto see it on such a big screen,
it was just, you know, wow, thisis cool.
And then I saw them in 2007, uh,Jones Beach up in New York also.
I just was happening to be inNew York at the time they were
playing.
And so it was 25 years after thefirst time I saw them, and I saw
(05:42):
them, and it was a good show,and that's 2007.
So now it's gonna be 19 yearslater when I go see them again.
SPEAKER_01 (05:50):
And so are you gonna go see them in like 2051 again?
SPEAKER_03 (05:53):
Uh I might.
They might actually you knowwhat?
That sounds like a good albumfor them to release in 2051, you
know?
SPEAKER_01 (06:00):
So see them in 2112.
SPEAKER_03 (06:03):
Th there you go.
I'm not sure I'll be around atthat time.
You know what?
I'm pretty sure I won't be.
But we can hope, but I don'tthink so.
So it reminds me, you know, itsaid that the Nassau Coliseum,
it reminds me of I think it was1980, and Blue Eyes to Colt and
(06:24):
Black Sabbath were touringtogether.
It was called the Black and BlueTour.
And there's actually a livevideo that came out and it's
recorded at the Coliseum, youknow.
Again, that's you know, rightdown the street from where I
grew up.
But the commercial for it wasjust unbelievable.
(06:46):
And I don't remember it exactlyhow it went, but it was
something, you know, like BlackSabbath and blue eyes to go at
the Nassau Coliseum.
SPEAKER_01 (06:58):
Yeah, it's like that guy, that voice that they had
for those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (07:03):
And it was just like I loved listening to the
commercial for it.
I just thought it was just socool.
Like, man, how does he do thatwith his voice?
And you know, I I practicedthere for a long time.
I mean, it's what, 45 yearslater, and here I'm still
talking about it.
But you know, I I don't know.
But they they made a live album.
(07:24):
I again, I don't know if it wasa live album.
I know it was a live video andit was recorded at the Nassau
Coliseum.
I don't know.
Just something that popped intomy mind and just makes me, you
know, reminisce about thingsfrom from days of old.
The black and blue.
The black and blue tour, yes.
So speaking of tours, um there'sa band called Drink the Sea
(07:49):
that's going on tour.
And Peter Buck of REM, it seemslike I mention him quite often.
He's in the band, but there'salso members of like the
Screamin' Trees.
Uh I I can't remember everyonewho's in it, but they're coming
on tour in February 2026.
They're in, you know, herethey're playing at the 40 watt,
(08:10):
you know, they're playing in uhuh New York City, they're
playing, you know, a bunch ofplaces.
But I think it's kind of coolthere's a lot of new bands that
have, you know, people fromother bands where they've gotten
together.
And, you know, I talked aboutthe baseball project and and
minus five.
I know they've been around for along time, but just, you know,
they kind of take members andswitch them out, and Peter Buck
(08:34):
is b part of both of thosebands, and it's just kind of
interesting to see how musicgoes and through time and, you
know, how people get togetherand how they make something
work, because you think of ofpeople just one way, but then
when they're with a new singeror a different, you know, bass
player, all of a sudden theyhave a whole new style about
(08:57):
them.
Or sometimes they're really justkind of like a guy in the
background.
Like they don't have to havethat here I am kind of image.
Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_01 (09:09):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sometimes people have to play acertain role in one band, and
maybe they don't want to do thatin the next one.
SPEAKER_03 (09:16):
Yeah.
And, you know, again, we talkedabout the minus five and the
baseball project, which I saw afew weeks ago.
In the minus five, you havePeter Buck playing bass, and
then in the baseball project,Mike Mills then grabs that same
bass and plays bass, and Peternow moves the guitar.
And it's just, you know, kind ofcool.
(09:37):
So along those lines, I talkedabout recently how Peter Buck
had commented about my facebecause I didn't have the beard
anymore.
We talked about that.
Yeah.
And I had said to him, you know,had a shave, I had skin cancer,
and I'm not trying to draw thisout any longer, but uh another
quick fun story is a few daysafter Peter Buck had said, hey,
(10:00):
you had a great plastic surgeon,and you know, he had mentioned
to another band member, SteveWynne, look at his face, you
know, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I went for a checkup to myplastic surgeon.
He wanted to see how everythingwas, and I told him the story.
And, you know, he's laughing,he's smiling, and you know, he
thinks it's great.
He has a story he can tell hisfriends that Peter Buck of REM
(10:22):
commented on his work.
And so when my visit's over, hesays, All right, you know, I
won't need to see you anymore.
I said, okay, well, usually likethe doctor just gets up and
walks out of the room, but hedidn't.
And uh, you know, I get up and Istart walking to the front to
check out.
He's walking with me.
And I just found it a littlestrange because doctors usually
(10:45):
don't do that.
And we get to the checkout, andhe says to the lady, no charge
for him today.
I didn't have to pay my copaybecause I had a good Peter Buck
story.
SPEAKER_01 (10:55):
You were a rock star.
SPEAKER_03 (10:56):
I was a rock star that day.
I saved a little cash.
Hey, I'm not gonna complain.
But I thought it was kind ofcool because now I have another
story to tell about it.
Very cool.
So it goes.
Tick, tick, tick.
It's Minute with Jimmy.
SPEAKER_02 (11:16):
It's time for a minute with Jimmy, Minute with
Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for a minute withJimmy, Minute with Jimmy, Minute
with Jimmy.
SPEAKER_01 (11:26):
So The Jam put out an album in 1980, so that's been
uh 45 years ago, called SoundEffects.
And one interesting thing aboutthis is you know, sound effects
like sounds that you hear in aTV show or movie, those are E F
F E C T S, right?
This is sound effects with an A.
(11:47):
So effect is actually a verb.
So they're saying sound affectsyou, right?
So it's like a comment, soundeffects.
Anyway, that's got some somegood songs on it, including
Start, which is a little bitlike the Beatles Tax Man with
the the way that the bass linegoes.
And uh one of my favorite jamsongs, That's Entertainment.
(12:11):
Interesting thing about That'sEntertainment was the version
they released on this album wasyou know the normal studio
version.
When they went back to releasetheir greatest hits, they called
Snap, they went back to the demobecause they said the demo was
actually better than the versionthey released on the album.
And they could never recapturethat sound.
(12:33):
It was just like this onerecording they did, and the
guitar sounded extra kind ofscratchy in a good way, and you
know, it just had this tone toit that they didn't get on the
full studio recording.
SPEAKER_03 (12:48):
So, Jimmy, I did have Snap.
So I do have um that version ofThat's Entertainment.
That's entertainment, it it'snot one of my favorite jam
songs.
I would say it's in my top 250songs of all time.
Okay.
Absolutely love that song.
I think it's just really cool.
(13:10):
It's just kind of a little bitabout life and Yeah, a little
slice of life.
A little slice of life, kind ofthe sound effects around you.
You know?
The regular version, if youlisten to it, it has backwards
guitar very Beatles-esque laterin the song.
I mean, it sounds exactly likethey stole it from the Beatles.
SPEAKER_01 (13:32):
Aaron Ross Powell's a cool effect.
And um that's not there on thedemo.
So that's one thing about themain studio version that's
better.
But I think, you know, I agreewith Paul Weller and and the jam
that the demo version is better,other than that one part of it.
SPEAKER_03 (13:49):
Aaron Powell Yeah, the demo version is what I, you
know, I recorded on cassette offof album and listened to mostly.
But the one thing I really didlike about that regular version
is, you know, hearing the Beatleinfluence.
I just think that's super cool.
And it wasn't that long ago wetalked about when there was the
supergroup for the uh the helpalbum, the charity benefit, and
(14:11):
Paul Weller and Paul McCartneyand a bunch of other people did
come together.
So, you know, one day you'redoing a backwards guitar in
1980, and then 1995 you'regetting to actually play with
Paul McCartney of the Beatles.
That's a pretty cool thing.
Hey, that was a really goodminute with Jimmy.
My name was Jimmy.
Let's revisit some more music inmy shoes.
(14:34):
Motorhead, Ace of Spades, thesingle.
It's released October 17th,1980.
It reached number 15 on the UKsingles chart.
SPEAKER_01 (14:45):
Oh, I thought you were gonna say U.S.
I'm like, no way.
SPEAKER_03 (14:48):
No, no.
And that's the thing, you know,I've mentioned this before.
The UK and the US as far asmusic, it's a just a whole
different world.
It's a you know, the Britishlisten to music differently than
than how we do.
I'm not saying it's better.
Not saying it's worse.
SPEAKER_01 (15:07):
I'm saying it's better.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_03 (15:08):
It's a it's a different way.
They like a song.
It doesn't have to be a certainkind of song.
It doesn't have to be that onlykids like it.
It doesn't have to be anythingother than a good song.
And if it's good, people willmake it number 15.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_01 (15:26):
Yeah.
I mean, not to go back to thejam, but I'm gonna do that.
That, you know, they had lots ofhits, like number one hits in
England.
And I don't even think theyscratched the charts.
Maybe Town Called Malice gotinto the top 40 or something in
the US, but that was it.
SPEAKER_03 (15:40):
Aaron Powell Yeah, and that was their last single
before they broke up.
But very good song.
I I do like Town Called Malice.
What was that?
In um late 82, I would say.
So Motorhead, again, number 15,Motorhead Lemmy.
Right.
I mean, you just you don't evenhave to say his last name, you
just say Lemmy.
The only card I need is the Aceof Spades.
(16:03):
The Ace of Spades.
SPEAKER_02 (16:04):
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03 (16:05):
Did you know for two years, because he hated playing
the song after a while, youknow, a lot of bands don't like
playing their songs.
He's like, this is not, youknow, this song doesn't define
us.
So for a number of years, Ithink it was about two years, he
sang Eight of Spades.
Nobody noticed, he said.
No, no one had any idea.
He was just he was just doingit.
(16:26):
But did you know that Lemmy wasa roadie for Jimi Hendrix?
SPEAKER_01 (16:30):
No, wow.
SPEAKER_03 (16:31):
Yes, he was.
You know, uh Lemmy did a bunchof that stuff when he was
younger, and you know, trying toget his way into the whole world
of music.
And I think he was with theband, what was it, Hawkwind, I
think that he played with.
Um just uh pretty cool life.
And, you know, towards the endof it, he spent a lot of time at
the Rainbow Room out there inLos Angeles, and you could find
(16:55):
him at the Lemmy seat, you know,he had his own seat at the bar,
just drinking, you know, hisdrink and enjoying life.
The Ace of Spades.
Or eight.
There you go.
Simple Minds, alive and kicking,WLIR, Screamer of the Week, the
second week of October 1985,reach number three on the
(17:16):
Billboard Hot 100, December28th, 1985.
You turn me on, you lift me up,and like the sweetest cup I'd
share with you, you lift me up,don't you ever stop, I'm here
with you.
I like that song a lot.
(17:37):
You know, it was probably theirfirst song after Don't You
Forget About Me.
Right.
Alive and Kicking, I I just likeit.
I could listen to that song overand over and over.
It's got a great drum beat, it'sgot great piano, you know,
listen to Jim sing.
I I I really like it.
Good song.
Yeah, real good song.
Arcadia, election day, W-L-I-R,Screamer of the Week, third week
(18:02):
of October, peaked at number sixon Billboard Hot 100, December
1985.
So Arcadia was kind of like a uma little splinter group from
Duran Duran, Simon LeBon, NickRhodes, Roger Taylor, they were
all in it.
And I like this song, ElectionDay.
(18:25):
I, you know, it's just one ofthose songs.
I can't tell you another songthat they did.
I know Election Day, but it hadthat kind of impact.
You know, it was a very sultrytype of song when they sang it.
And earlier in the year, DuranDuran actually had the song A
View to a Kill, which was fromthe James Bond movie.
SPEAKER_01 (18:46):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (18:47):
So if I'm correct, A View to a Kill, Grace Jones was
in.
In Election Day, she does aspoken word part in the song
because they met her through AView to a Kill, because they did
video for it and you know,really promoted it.
(19:07):
And I I think both the songs arereally good.
I really enjoy both of them.
ACDC, Thunderstruck.
You know the song.
Everybody knows the song,whether you know it or not.
This is one of those songs thatat sports events it's played.
Right.
It's everywhere.
People know it.
Reach number five on BillboardMainstream Rock Airplay, October
(19:30):
20th, 1990.
SPEAKER_01 (19:32):
Oh, I was gonna guess 95, 90.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (19:36):
35 years ago.
It's hard to believe sometimes.
SPEAKER_01 (19:39):
You know, the thing about Thunderstruck that's so
different than a lot of songs isit doesn't get to the chorus
where he says Thunderstruck forlike I want to say almost two
minutes.
Like it's way into the song.
It has a long intro and then areally long verse that he they
they kind of milk, you know, andthen it finally kicks in minute
(20:03):
and a half, two minutes into thesong.
SPEAKER_03 (20:05):
Yeah, you know, and it's a kick butt song for sure.
I really like that song.
Do you remember the video?
Because the video is one of thefirst that I remember.
I guess they put like a littlecamera on the guitar.
So as Angus is playing and kindof turning, it's turn like it
was a whole different view.
At that time, we didn't seethat.
(20:27):
That wasn't normal.
You always had the camerapointing at the person, not
right on the guitar as it'smoving.
SPEAKER_01 (20:33):
Aaron Powell Well, and you probably couldn't have a
small camera like that up untilthat time.
You know, cameras were huge, andthe that was probably just small
enough that you could put it onthe guitar.
SPEAKER_03 (20:43):
Aaron Ross Powell It worked.
I still remember it, you know?
And those are the things.
I think we remember thingsbecause they worked.
Or they didn't work, MillieVanilli.
And you know, just that's how weremember different things.
But I remember that video onlybecause they had that camera on
there.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be able totell you anything about it.
SPEAKER_01 (21:01):
It's like the aha video.
Everybody our age remembers thatvideo because it was so cool
with the animation, the drawing,and the mirror and everything.
Yeah.
My kids see that video, they'relike, what's the big deal?
SPEAKER_03 (21:14):
Because nobody had done it before.
In 1985, it was a big deal.
Yeah.
It really was.
Smashing Pumpkins Bullet withButterfly Wings, released
October 16, 1995, and peakedJanuary 6, 1996 on the Billboard
Hot 100.
It peaked at number 22 onJanuary 6, 1996, on the
(21:35):
Billboard Hot 100.
The World is a Vampire.
I think the world can be avampire at times, and I think
this song is really cool.
Everything about the song iscool.
I think at that time in 1995,you know, it was a good year for
music, and you're gettingtowards the end of it, and it
was like a great song to comeout.
(21:58):
I think that Smashing Pumpkinskind of elevated themselves a
little bit from where they were.
They released that double album,what was it?
Um The Melancholy and InfiniteSadness.
I think that's what it was.
And 1979 was on there.
I mean, there's a ton of songsthat were on that album.
And it just was really cool.
(22:18):
I still really like that song.
Like I listened to it and it'slike, man, this song could come
out today.
SPEAKER_01 (22:24):
You know, I saw them back on that tour.
Um, the sound guy for SmashingPumpkins was looking to get into
the studio business, and he gotmy name and said, Hey, do you
want to go and sit with me inthe sound booth and maybe you
can introduce me to some peoplein the studio world?
And so I did.
(22:45):
But it was kind of fun.
I went to the the show at uh theOmni and sat in the sound booth.
SPEAKER_03 (22:51):
Very cool.
Yeah.
Who was the opener on that tour?
Do you remember?
Garbage.
They were great.
And that was the garbage album,I think, maybe.
Yeah, that had come across.
And I don't mean the garbagealbum.
That's not how I intended it tocome across, but the garbage
album.
SPEAKER_01 (23:09):
That had Stupid Girl and I'm Only Happy When It
Rains, and you know, some oftheir real signature songs.
SPEAKER_03 (23:15):
I'm Only Happy When It Rains is a great song.
I really like that song.
SPEAKER_01 (23:18):
I saw them on the bricks, I guess it was called,
in downtown Atlanta.
SPEAKER_03 (23:23):
99X used to do a thing.
SPEAKER_01 (23:25):
And and it rained, and they played that song.
Yeah.
And they were happy.
Were you happy?
Not really, but I mean, I washappy that it stopped raining,
honestly.
Like right around when theystarted playing it, the the rain
broke, or stopped, you know.
Do you say the rain broke if itstopped?
I don't know.
It sounded kind of literary, butanyway, the rain stopped, and a
(23:48):
lot of people had gone home, soit was, you know, kind of like
we had our own private show.
Got up kind of close and it wasfun.
SPEAKER_03 (23:55):
The rain broke.
Not my arm, but the rain broke.
SPEAKER_01 (23:59):
Wow.
Was that like that's totalpoetry, Jim?
SPEAKER_03 (24:03):
Well, thank you.
I've been working on it.
Something I put together.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
Is that a haiku?
Yeah.
Hey, watch what you call me.
Jimmy, I always enjoyed kind ofrevisiting the music.
You know, I only talk about themusic that generally that I
liked, that, you know, at somepoint made some sort of
impression on me, and then Iremember it for whatever reason.
(24:25):
But I'll tell you what I reallyliked is on the last episode,
episode 100, when we had thatlittle, you know, Stones versus
The Who and Prince versus Bowie,and you know, a listener had
sent that in.
And, you know, I've gotten somuch feedback at, you know, how
much this guy had to put into itand think about, you know, what
(24:47):
band against what band and whatsinger versus what singer.
And it's it's cool.
I mean, that was Robert, right?
That was Robert.
I really like when I get thefeedback from people and they're
talking about that.
And, you know, it makes themthink, all right, who would I
pick?
You know, what what would I say?
And you know, I like theengagement, you know.
(25:08):
So if people out there haveanything that, you know, they
think might be a cool topic totalk about, please feel free to
send it in, which you can do byreaching us at musicinmyshoes at
gmail.com.
Please like and follow the Musicin My Shoes Facebook and
Instagram pages.
That's it for episode 101 ofMusic in My Shoes.
(25:30):
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie,show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios, locatedright here in Atlanta, Georgia,
and Vic Thrill for our podcastmusic.
This is Jim Boj, and I hope youlearned something new or
remembered something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
(25:51):
And again, it's not 101Dalmatians.
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