March 30, 2025 • 30 mins
Ever had a concert experience so powerful it stays with you for decades? Those magical nights when the music and memories fuse together to create something truly unforgettable? That's what we're exploring in this deeply nostalgic journey through legendary concert moments.
We kick things off with spontaneous concert adventures from the pre-internet era. Remember when buying tickets meant physically going to a record store and getting whatever seats they handed you? Jim recounts how an impulse decision led to witnessing U2's iconic ‘The Unforgettable Fire’ tour at Madison Square Garden in 1985, while Jimmy shares his technique for sneaking into better seats at Atlanta's Omni arena.
The narrative shifts to one of rock's most celebrated collaborations - the night jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis joined the Grateful Dead at Nassau Coliseum in 1990. What began as one song invitation turned into an entire set of improvisation that produced some of the Dead's most transcendent music.
We then travel to spring 1995 for a poignant look at Jerry Garcia's final tour. Despite his weakened voice, these Atlanta and Tampa shows represent the last opportunity I had to see the legendary guitarist before his untimely death.
The episode isn't just concert tales - it's filled with fascinating musical connections across generations. From The Who's power chords on "I Can't Explain" to Billy Bragg borrowing Simon & Garfunkel's lyrics, we trace the lineage of influence that keeps music in constant conversation with itself.
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
He's got the feeling and it's out there growing.
Hey everybody, this is Jim Bogeand you're listening to Music
In my Shoes.
That was Vic Thrill kicking offepisode 72.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
So, jimmy, april 1st 1985.
(00:53):
I get home from work in my 71Buick Skylark Nice and my
brother and I decide we're goingto go to the mall and see if
there's any tickets left to seeU2 at the NASA Coliseum two
nights later, april 3rd 1985.
You know, tickets used to be awhole different process.
(01:15):
Like you used to go somewhereand you'd yeah, like a record
store that had a ticket mastermachine or something.
And you were at the mercy ofthem.
You said I wanted two tickets.
You got what they gave you.
They handed you somethingCorrect and you were at the
mercy of them.
You said I wanted two tickets.
They handed you something.
You didn't know exactly whereit was.
Sometimes they had a littlebook.
I don't know if they did thatby you.
(01:35):
They had like a little book andthey would show you like a
little plan of the seatingdiagram, but really you were at
the mercy of the ticket.
I think ours at the time wascalled Ticketron maybe Ticketron
yeah.
The Ticketron gods of where youwere going to end up.
So we went again.
(01:56):
You couldn't order online.
There was no online in 1985.
All right, you could order froma scalper.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I mean you could get online right.
You could get behind the personin front of you.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
As they say in New York.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
They do say that, in New York they do say that.
But now it is in line.
Yeah, like I'm going skating,yeah, something like that.
So we go up to this place andwe buy tickets and I have to be
honest with you, it's a Monday.
(02:29):
I got paid on Friday, got paidevery week back then and I'm out
of money.
I used all my money thatweekend.
It was a great weekend, okay,sounds like it.
No idea what I did, but it wasa great weekend because I had no
money left.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So we buy two tickets .
We're about to walk away andthe girl that sells us the
tickets is like hey, by the way,I have two tickets to tonight's
show at Madison Square Garden.
They're my personal tickets.
I can't go because I'm workinghere.
So I'm like why didn't you tellus that in the first place
(03:12):
After you bought them?
After, I'm like I have no money.
I just spent all my money.
All I had was however much itcost to get the one ticket for
me to go to the show.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, 10 bucks or something.
It was more than that.
Fifteen maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, I was going to say it was probably fifteen, I
don't remember exactly and sheshows us and it's like hey,
these tickets are better, we cansee better, we're closer, we're
lower than we're going to be atthe Coliseum.
You know my brother's kind oflike yeah, we just spent our
money.
But it really was, I spent mymoney.
(03:48):
My brother didn't spend all hismoney.
I don't even think my brotherworked.
Yet my brother buys the ticketsfor us.
And now we're on our way.
We're going to go to MadisonSquare Garden, we're on Long
Island, but we told my mother wewere running up, we'd be back
in a few minutes, we'd be readyfor dinner.
We get home, we run in.
We're like we got to eat asquick as we can.
(04:10):
We got to get the train so wecan go to New York City.
We got to get to Madison SquareGarden.
She's like you told me you'regoing to the Coliseum two nights
from now.
We got tickets for that also butwe just got tickets for the
garden.
We're going there.
We drive down to the Hicksvilletrain station, we get on the
LIRR, we're going to PennStation, which Penn Station is
(04:31):
right underneath Madison SquareGarden, so you can go right
upstairs, right up to your showand see whatever it is.
And it was the UnforgettableFire Tour, just like what I
talked about seeing back indecember when I went to see them
at radio city yeah, radio city,and you know again some of the
(04:53):
songs they played 11 o'clock,tiktok.
I will follow seconds.
Two hearts beat as one newyear's day, october.
You plus the songs that werefrom the Unforgettable Fire,
gloria, 40.
They ended with 40.
What a great song that is.
(05:13):
And again, we talked about thiswhen we talked about the
December show.
I mean, those are just someclassic songs.
That's like a really good show.
You wish you could go to thatshow today and, you know, listen
to it and watch it and justenjoy it, because that was a
really good time for them.
(05:34):
So the song Bad, which I wasn'tthrilled with on the album I've
talked about that before itabsolutely sounded great because
I guess from playing it,playing it, playing it, it just
was freaking awesome.
It really was.
So three and a half monthslater, U2 plays Live Aid, july
(05:57):
of 1985.
Yeah, their performance of Bad.
The TV camera pans the crowd anda person holds up a shirt or a
towel and it says Madison SquareGarden, april 1st 1985.
And I was like, I was at thatshow and every time, like all my
(06:20):
friends, we all recorded it onVHS.
Every time that was on, nomatter where I was, I'd always
stop it and rewind it so I couldtell everybody I was at that
show, not Live Aid, I was at theMadison Square Garden show that
this person had some.
It was crazy this shirt, towel,thing, I don't know what it is
(06:41):
so much that I was so excited toshare it with everybody 40
years later about how excited Iwas about it.
Yeah, but I know you saw U2 in85.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I did.
Yeah, that was at the Omni inAtlanta and we had similarly
bought tickets at TurtlesRecords here in Atlanta and you
get what you get and they werenosebleed seats and my buddy,
andy Jordan, and I decided, well, what, what happens?
(07:10):
Cause there was called likeaisle 101.
I think that you would go downand that's how you got to the
floor.
You couldn't get there fromeverywhere, you could only get
there from the end, like you'relooking at the stage from far
away, you know, like under thebasketball hoop type area.
And we were like what happensif we just go and we show him,
start to show him our ticketsfrom the nosebleeds and then we
(07:33):
just run?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That was not your game plan.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That was our game plan, and so we both did it.
We were like, well, we can'tboth like do it one after each
other.
We needed to do it at the sametime.
So whichever one of us wentfirst started to show the ticket
.
We both just took off, and sothe guy's choice was either he
has to chase after us and theneverybody's going to run the
gate, or he has to just kind ofthrow his hands up and say, oh,
(08:01):
they got through.
And I don't know if he had awalkie talkie or whatever, but
we darted down an aisle.
We were in like the 13th rowand ended up.
You know, these poor people inthe in the middle, let us in,
let us crowd into their aisle.
That we didn't pay for, and itwas an incredible show,
unforgettable.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, you meddling kids Unforgettable.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
No pun intended.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
There you go.
So question you're a prettytall person.
Were you this tall at thatpoint in time?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
85, I was probably pretty close.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I was probably 6'2", 6'3".
It's not easy for you to hidein a crowd.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
No, exactly, the guy probably could have found me if
he really wanted to.
But he also didn't want toadmit to his boss that some guys
ran past him, so maybe he justforget it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I believe that.
I definitely believe thatthat's a good story, but it was
a great tour, wasn't it Did?
You ever see them after that.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I did.
I saw Joshua Tree and then Isaw a lot of the show, like
every time they've come in thiscentury.
I've seen them in Atlanta but Ikind of missed a lot of the 90s
.
The Zoot TV tour I didn't go to.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Awesome.
I saw Zoot TV.
I saw it at the georgia dome.
It was the first show at thegeorgia dome and they didn't
have the sound all going theright way.
But I saw him a couple weekslater, legion field in
birmingham and it was fantastic.
There I actually had uh fieldtickets and it was a blast there
(09:42):
had a great time at that show.
So, talking about the NassauColiseum, here on March 29th
1990, the Grateful Dead play theNassau Coliseum and Bramford
Marsalis sits in with them andit's probably, in my opinion,
(10:03):
probably one of the bestcollaborations the Grateful Dead
ever did on stage and they werearound for 30 years.
They had, you know, over 100different people sit in with
them and and Branford.
When you listen to it, it isjust amazing.
It adds such a differentdynamic to the band.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And he's a trumpet player, right.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Saxophone.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh okay, Saxophone player Wynton plays trumpet,
maybe he might yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I'm not sure who plays, except I know what
Branford does because he waswith the Grateful.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Dead.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
But bassist Phil Lesh invited Branantford to
accompany them on one song andhe comes out.
He plays on this song calledBird Song and it's fantastic.
And they only played one moresong after that and then they
had a break.
They do a little intermission.
They have two sets to theirshows and he's kind of like hey
(11:02):
man, that was fantastic, I had abreak.
you know they they do like alittle intermission.
They have two sets to theirshows and he's kind of like, hey
, man, that was fantastic, had agreat time.
Like no, you can't go anywhere.
That that was great, you got tocome out and play the whole
second set.
It's like I don't even know thesongs you know.
But that's the one thing withthe grateful dead.
You know they go off into thesejams and they go into these
different things.
I think for a jazz person it'smuch easier to be able to do
(11:25):
that free form and that flow andkind of get into it.
Because now you had JerryGarcia on guitar doing lead and
then Brantford would play andthen back to Jerry.
Like it was an exciting thingfor all of them and you know
it's a legendary show.
35 years later it's really coolto listen to it Again.
(11:49):
The dynamic of Brantford withthem, it's just cool.
Like songs you never would think, hey, we need to have a
saxophone on this.
You would never in a millionyears think it.
But it's like now I can'timagine it not being on there.
You know Really good and youcan listen to it.
It's on an album.
It's called Wake Up to Find Out.
(12:09):
So if anybody out there wantsto listen to it, check it out.
You know, jazz meets rock, rockmeets jazz and again, freeform
music, I think, at its best Likeit's just because he never even
heard the songs, he's justgoing along with it.
So if you get a chance, pleasegive it a listen.
(12:32):
Let us know what you thought.
Staying with the Grateful Dead.
I saw the Grateful Dead at theOmni, where Jimmy saw you too.
I saw the Grateful Dead at theOmni March 26th, march 27th and
March 30th 1995.
The Omni being here in Atlanta,and I went to three of the four
shows, and five years after theawesomeness of Spring 90 that I
(12:57):
just talked about, it was alittle bit different.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Spring 90.
Okay, that about it was alittle bit different.
Spring 90.
Okay, that was the GratefulDead show.
That was with Branford Marsalis.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The whole Spring 90 was a great time for them.
But five years later Jerry'svoice got kind of weaker, his
guitar playing wasn't as good.
He was probably extremelyunhealthy at that point, but it
was still the Grateful Dead, itwas still Jerry Garcia.
I mean, I've been listening tothese three shows the last
couple of days and it's stilllike I wish I could go.
(13:33):
Even with a weak voice, evenwith that, you know, not able to
do everything he could do onthe guitar at one point, not
able to do everything he coulddo on the guitar at one point,
it's still enough for me.
I mean, it is just so good.
So the first show Ramble onRose, me and my uncle Big River.
You know I could go on with allthe songs, but some great songs
(13:57):
.
Second night, I took a guy tohis first Grateful Dead show and
the highlight of the night isan 18 minute version of Sugary
and I really thought that Jerrygave it everything that he had.
It sounded so good and at onepoint the song is kind of ending
and it's like all of a suddenit's like nah, I'm not ready to
(14:18):
finish, and then he just goeslike back into the song and the
band was kind of like ready toyou know, segue into something
else and boom, they're back, youknow, and it is really good,
especially with it being 1995,to hear a song that that, that's
that good, loved it, loved it.
Uh, they did soads playing inthe band, uncle John's band,
(14:41):
days Between Sugar, magnolia.
Now, bob Weir sounded fantastic.
He still had his voice Soundedgreat on the 95 tour.
I didn't go to night three butI made it to the final night in
Atlanta, night four, and Jerry'svoice definitely seemed to be a
bit weak after multiple shows.
They played Touch of Gray, goodMorning, schoolgirl, friend of
(15:07):
the Devil, loose Lucy.
Phil Lesh was on vocals forBroken Arrow, you know Alabama
Getaway, and then they opened upthe second set by tuning into
the Beer Barrel, polka, and thenwent to China, cat Sunflower
and, I Know you Rider, I meanjust a ton of great songs over
(15:29):
the three nights that I wasthere.
So there's actually a story,jimmy, about night two and the
story is as I told you, I took aguy for the first time and the
part of town he lived in, he'slike hey, can we take the train
from the Buckhead station?
And I'm like yeah, yeah, that'sfine, I didn't really want to
(15:52):
do it.
I didn't live anywhere nearthere, but this was going to be
his first time.
I just wanted it to be a coolnight.
So you know, we meet over atBuckhead, take the train and
after the show.
So I went to three nights.
Let me let me just uh prefaceall this with I couldn't afford
(16:21):
to to go and to buy food at thearena every night and and buy a
Coke or an adult beverage.
I had a child that was not anewborn but a toddler.
I really had to watch my moneyand it was already enough buying
tickets to three shows, nevermind trying to eat and drink and
be merry at all these things.
So this night I don't buyanything at the show because I'm
(16:46):
like I can't, I can't do it.
Show ends.
We take the train back toBuckhead, like I mentioned, I
get in my car and I'm driving inthe road that's in front of the
governor's mansion.
Here they have a roadblock andmost people would say you didn't
drink, you didn't do anything.
What are you worried about?
(17:06):
My tag was expired.
Oh, no, okay, so my tag wasexpired and I'm like big deal.
And it is a big deal, okay, andthey always say where did you
come from?
They always ask you whereyou're coming from and I wanted
to say, oh man, I came from theGrateful Dead show and I'm like
(17:27):
this is not going to go.
Well, no, all right.
So I'm like thinking what am Igoing to do?
You know, hey, you know, blah,blah, blah, blah, and it looks
like it's every third car.
They're stopping and they'reletting the other two go.
And I look and I'm like I'm thethird car I'm getting stopped,
(17:48):
my tag is expired.
Okay, I don't know whatpossessed the guy in front of me
, but he decides to make aU-turn and you can't just make a
U-turn.
The road is pretty small.
He like turns, backs up, turnsand then goes, and then the
police have their lights on.
The police are literally rightthere.
(18:09):
And that was my break, becauseI just went, you just went, I
just went.
That was like me at the U2concert it was like you at the
U2 concert and I just went and Iwas like, oh my Lord.
I was like, yeah, my tag isexpired and I just came from the
(18:29):
Grateful Dead show at the Omniand I didn't even drink.
I mean I couldn't afford it.
I swear, you know.
Yeah, it just wasn't going toend up well until the idiot in
front of me made it end up wellfor me by doing that.
Just absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
You know, it's like they say every zebra in the pack
doesn't have to be faster thanthe lion, they just have to be
faster than the zebra next tothem.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
That is correct.
Yeah, I like that, jimmy.
So to end up on the GratefulDead, april 7th 1995, I went
down to Tampa and the final showthat I ever saw, the Grateful
Dead with Jerry Garcia.
So it's 30 years ago last nightof the spring tour and Black
(19:16):
Crows open up for them, and itwas at the old Tampa Stadium,
which Chris Berman from ESPNwould call the big sombrero.
Do you know what I'm talkingabout?
If you looked at the stadium itlooked like a sombrero hat that
he would call it the bigsombrero.
And seeing the Grateful Dead,you know I had only seen them
(19:39):
indoors, I had never seen themoutdoors and it was the first
time seeing them outdoors and Ijust felt so far away from them
and I just felt kind of detachedfrom the whole thing.
Well, I'm glad I went.
It's definitely not one of myfavorite shows.
The Black Crowes opening up wascool, you know.
That was definitely, you know,fun.
(20:00):
The experience was fun.
You know, I had a buddy inOrlando.
He let us stay at his place andyou know, you never know when
you're going to go to a show andit's the last time that you see
a band.
So I actually bought the TampaTribune that day just to kind of
read.
I like to do that when I go toa different city and it has on
(20:25):
the front it was a Friday.
It has on the front page oflike the weekend section, it has
the Grateful Dead Steely.
You know the steely face,everybody knows the Grateful
Dead Steely face.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Oh, that's what that's called.
Yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
That I'm wearing on my shirt right now.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Why do they call it a steely face?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yes, it's the steely face.
It's a skull.
Yeah, it's the steely face.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
So it has the lines on it that say their heads have
more than a touch of gray After30 years.
The Grateful Dead come to TampaStadium tonight and I have that
framed and it's in my basementand I think it's one of the
coolest pieces of memorabiliathat I have, because it's not
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something that everybody has.
You had to buy the paper andyou had to say, yeah, I want to
hang this up, but it's also thelast show I went to.
It's got a cool little tagline.
So you know, it's just areminder of that last time
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getting to see and hear Jerry,and I'm glad that I had those
moments 30 years ago, since theyplayed with them.
Let's revisit some great musicfrom the past and to get a start
, at April 3rd 1965, the who ICan't Explain peaks at number 93
(21:52):
on the Billboard Hot 100.
It's the first who single touse the band name, because I
think they were called the HighNumbers, if I'm not mistaken,
before that, oh yeah.
So they had released a single.
It didn't do that well, and youremember some of the lines
dizzy in the head and I'mfeeling blue, the things you've
said.
Well, maybe they're true.
Power chords, get the songstarted.
(22:15):
I'm a chord, you know.
I don't know if junkie is theword, but I I love power chords
I just really do, and they'rekind of staccato.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You know it's a tight little chords he's hitting.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's just very impactful yeah, and it reminds
me of the kinks yeah you knowall day and all the night.
I think it's very similar.
It's a a song that when PeteTownsend he was 18.
He was close to 19 when heactually wrote the song.
But it's just really, reallycool and I think those type of
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chords they were very popular inthe 60s.
I think it was easy for bandsto be able to build something
off of that.
Yeah, so got a feeling insideCan't explain.
Hey, I can't explain.
But you know, what I canexplain Is that on April 5th
1975, tangled Up in Blue by BobDylan peaks at number 31 on the
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Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Now it's a song covered by manybands over the years.
The Grateful Dead played it somany times.
Jerry Garcia would do it solo,but my favorite version is from
the bootleg series Volume 5,live 1975, the Rolling Thunder
(23:33):
Review.
That's an album name.
Right there, jimmy, that's awhole album name.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That's the whole album name.
That's the whole album name.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
All right, yes, but it's a live performance from
Boston Music Hall on November21st 1975.
Just Bob, a guitar, a harmonicaand his voice, and it is just
so good.
I mean really, really good.
Let's move up 10 years now, tospring 1985.
(23:59):
I'm driving my 71 Buick Skylark.
I'm driving to work and I havea tape that I made, a cassette
tape.
You know, for people that don'thave cassettes or don't know
about cassettes, he had a tape,what do you mean?
He had scotch tape.
So you know, just trying tomake sure that I'm explaining
(24:21):
everything, but it was acassette tape that I made off
the radio of WLIR 92.7.
And Joan Jett and the BlackArts Cherry Bomb the dance mix,
the extended version, followedby Kirstie McCall, a New England
, the extended version.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Now let's back up for a second.
I thought that Cherry Bomb wasthe Runaways.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
So Cherry Bomb was the Runaways which Joan Jett was
in.
Right, she did not sing thevocals on Cherry Bomb, ah, and
it was from 1976.
They supposedly wrote that songbecause the song that they were
going to audition with theyweren't really good at it.
(25:08):
So they really wrote this songquick because I think Joan kind
of had some of the guitar andmaybe Lita Ford had some of the
guitar ready and boom, they wereable to bust this out and use
this song as an audition.
How cool.
So Joan Jett released it,re-released it or released it,
like I said, a cover of theRunaways in 1985.
(25:29):
And you know, it's really coolthe extended version and then,
when it goes right into this, anew england, which is also a
cover of billy bragg's 1983 song, which I absolutely love that.
I love that it is a great, greatsong and that song came out.
I was 17 when billy bragg cameout with that.
(25:50):
I mean just fantastic, like you, can you know, be like wow.
This song makes an impact on me.
But last episode we spoke aboutRush's nod to Simon and
Garfunkel's the Sound of Silence.
Well, billy Bragg gave his ownnod to Simon and Garfunkel with
(26:10):
the opening lines exactly thesame as Simon and Garfunkel's
leaves that are green.
I was 21 years when I wrotethis song.
I'm 22 now, but I won't be forlong.
I think that's just so coolthat we have back-to-back
episodes of two different bandsgiving nods to Simon and
(26:34):
Garfunkel for songs that are onthe same album from the same
year.
I just think that's cool.
And again, I was 17 when BillyBraggs came out and I'm like, oh
man, 21.
That's four years from now.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
That's so old man yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
You know, I'm 28.
No, I'm not 28 now.
I wish I was 28 now.
I'm 58 now and it's like itseems so long ago.
It almost seems comical aboutthinking oh, four years till 21,
.
Five years till 22.
Wow, years were longer backthen.
Yeah, I think so.
(27:11):
I definitely think so.
But you know what, speaking oflonger, according to my watch,
it's Minute with Jimmy, it'stime for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy, minute withJimmy.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy, minute withJimmy.
All right, I had thought aboutsaying something different in
this Minute with Jimmy, but thenyou brought up a story that
made me think about this.
In 1985, april 1985, when I wentto the Omni to see you two on
the unforgettable fire tour, Iwent to the train station in
atlanta.
I went to the brookhaven trainstation, which is barely
anything to it.
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There's an escalator going up,an escalator going down and a
platform to catch the train.
So I came in there.
I had my dad's old raincoat on,which is like a trench coat,
and I had a beer in each pocket.
I was planning on maybedrinking on the train or
something.
I don't know what my plan was.
But this dude came in rightbehind me and he tapped me on
the shoulder and flashed a badgeand he said come here.
(28:07):
And he took me behind one ofthose big gray columns that they
have and you know buildingslike that and he's like what's
in your pockets?
And I said, uh, beers.
And he's like you need to pourthose beers out you didn't even
try and hide it and then he saysuh, how much money do you have
on you?
what I had 20, because I wasgonna buy a t-shirt.
I'm like 20.
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He's like that's gonna cost youthat 20.
So I gave him the 20 and I wentback to my friends and they
were like where were you?
And I said well, I almost gotarrested, there was a cop.
And I explained it to friendsand they were like where were
you?
And I said well, I almost gotarrested, there was a cop.
And I explained it to them andthey were like that wasn't a cop
, you just got mugged.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I'm not sure why I'm laughing.
I should not be laughing thatyou got mugged.
Oh my God, it was a prettyclever trick.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I mean, the guy just saw a mark.
He was like, yeah, that kid, Ican get whatever he's got out of
him.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Were you able to tell the beer was in your pockets, I
guess?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
so I mean it was probably swaying, you know.
Oh, mm-hmm.
Wow, yeah, I mean it was.
But yeah, as soon as the guygot my money he went down that
escalator and he was out ofthere.
He wasn't patrolling thestation or anything, he was,
yeah.
So that's what happened.
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That's A Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
A Minute with Jimmy, and that's the long arm of the
law working in strange andmysterious ways.
Well, listen, if you want tocontact us about that issue that
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That's it for Episode 72 ofMusic in my Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios located herein Atlanta, Georgia, and Vic
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Thrill for the podcast music.
This is Jim Bosch, and I hopeyou learned something new or
remembered something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
Thank you.
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
He's got the feeling and it's out there growing.
Hey everybody, this is Jim Bogeand you're listening to Music
In my Shoes.
That was Vic Thrill kicking offepisode 72.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
So, jimmy, april 1st 1985.
(00:53):
I get home from work in my 71Buick Skylark Nice and my
brother and I decide we're goingto go to the mall and see if
there's any tickets left to seeU2 at the NASA Coliseum two
nights later, april 3rd 1985.
You know, tickets used to be awhole different process.
(01:15):
Like you used to go somewhereand you'd yeah, like a record
store that had a ticket mastermachine or something.
And you were at the mercy ofthem.
You said I wanted two tickets.
You got what they gave you.
They handed you somethingCorrect and you were at the
mercy of them.
You said I wanted two tickets.
They handed you something.
You didn't know exactly whereit was.
Sometimes they had a littlebook.
I don't know if they did thatby you.
(01:35):
They had like a little book andthey would show you like a
little plan of the seatingdiagram, but really you were at
the mercy of the ticket.
I think ours at the time wascalled Ticketron maybe Ticketron
yeah.
The Ticketron gods of where youwere going to end up.
So we went again.
(01:56):
You couldn't order online.
There was no online in 1985.
All right, you could order froma scalper.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I mean you could get online right.
You could get behind the personin front of you.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
As they say in New York.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
They do say that, in New York they do say that.
But now it is in line.
Yeah, like I'm going skating,yeah, something like that.
So we go up to this place andwe buy tickets and I have to be
honest with you, it's a Monday.
(02:29):
I got paid on Friday, got paidevery week back then and I'm out
of money.
I used all my money thatweekend.
It was a great weekend, okay,sounds like it.
No idea what I did, but it wasa great weekend because I had no
money left.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So we buy two tickets .
We're about to walk away andthe girl that sells us the
tickets is like hey, by the way,I have two tickets to tonight's
show at Madison Square Garden.
They're my personal tickets.
I can't go because I'm workinghere.
So I'm like why didn't you tellus that in the first place
(03:12):
After you bought them?
After, I'm like I have no money.
I just spent all my money.
All I had was however much itcost to get the one ticket for
me to go to the show.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, 10 bucks or something.
It was more than that.
Fifteen maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, I was going to say it was probably fifteen, I
don't remember exactly and sheshows us and it's like hey,
these tickets are better, we cansee better, we're closer, we're
lower than we're going to be atthe Coliseum.
You know my brother's kind oflike yeah, we just spent our
money.
But it really was, I spent mymoney.
(03:48):
My brother didn't spend all hismoney.
I don't even think my brotherworked.
Yet my brother buys the ticketsfor us.
And now we're on our way.
We're going to go to MadisonSquare Garden, we're on Long
Island, but we told my mother wewere running up, we'd be back
in a few minutes, we'd be readyfor dinner.
We get home, we run in.
We're like we got to eat asquick as we can.
(04:10):
We got to get the train so wecan go to New York City.
We got to get to Madison SquareGarden.
She's like you told me you'regoing to the Coliseum two nights
from now.
We got tickets for that also butwe just got tickets for the
garden.
We're going there.
We drive down to the Hicksvilletrain station, we get on the
LIRR, we're going to PennStation, which Penn Station is
(04:31):
right underneath Madison SquareGarden, so you can go right
upstairs, right up to your showand see whatever it is.
And it was the UnforgettableFire Tour, just like what I
talked about seeing back indecember when I went to see them
at radio city yeah, radio city,and you know again some of the
(04:53):
songs they played 11 o'clock,tiktok.
I will follow seconds.
Two hearts beat as one newyear's day, october.
You plus the songs that werefrom the Unforgettable Fire,
gloria, 40.
They ended with 40.
What a great song that is.
(05:13):
And again, we talked about thiswhen we talked about the
December show.
I mean, those are just someclassic songs.
That's like a really good show.
You wish you could go to thatshow today and, you know, listen
to it and watch it and justenjoy it, because that was a
really good time for them.
(05:34):
So the song Bad, which I wasn'tthrilled with on the album I've
talked about that before itabsolutely sounded great because
I guess from playing it,playing it, playing it, it just
was freaking awesome.
It really was.
So three and a half monthslater, U2 plays Live Aid, july
(05:57):
of 1985.
Yeah, their performance of Bad.
The TV camera pans the crowd anda person holds up a shirt or a
towel and it says Madison SquareGarden, april 1st 1985.
And I was like, I was at thatshow and every time, like all my
(06:20):
friends, we all recorded it onVHS.
Every time that was on, nomatter where I was, I'd always
stop it and rewind it so I couldtell everybody I was at that
show, not Live Aid, I was at theMadison Square Garden show that
this person had some.
It was crazy this shirt, towel,thing, I don't know what it is
(06:41):
so much that I was so excited toshare it with everybody 40
years later about how excited Iwas about it.
Yeah, but I know you saw U2 in85.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I did.
Yeah, that was at the Omni inAtlanta and we had similarly
bought tickets at TurtlesRecords here in Atlanta and you
get what you get and they werenosebleed seats and my buddy,
andy Jordan, and I decided, well, what, what happens?
(07:10):
Cause there was called likeaisle 101.
I think that you would go downand that's how you got to the
floor.
You couldn't get there fromeverywhere, you could only get
there from the end, like you'relooking at the stage from far
away, you know, like under thebasketball hoop type area.
And we were like what happensif we just go and we show him,
start to show him our ticketsfrom the nosebleeds and then we
(07:33):
just run?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That was not your game plan.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That was our game plan, and so we both did it.
We were like, well, we can'tboth like do it one after each
other.
We needed to do it at the sametime.
So whichever one of us wentfirst started to show the ticket
.
We both just took off, and sothe guy's choice was either he
has to chase after us and theneverybody's going to run the
gate, or he has to just kind ofthrow his hands up and say, oh,
(08:01):
they got through.
And I don't know if he had awalkie talkie or whatever, but
we darted down an aisle.
We were in like the 13th rowand ended up.
You know, these poor people inthe in the middle, let us in,
let us crowd into their aisle.
That we didn't pay for, and itwas an incredible show,
unforgettable.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, you meddling kids Unforgettable.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
No pun intended.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
There you go.
So question you're a prettytall person.
Were you this tall at thatpoint in time?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
85, I was probably pretty close.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I was probably 6'2", 6'3".
It's not easy for you to hidein a crowd.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
No, exactly, the guy probably could have found me if
he really wanted to.
But he also didn't want toadmit to his boss that some guys
ran past him, so maybe he justforget it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I believe that.
I definitely believe thatthat's a good story, but it was
a great tour, wasn't it Did?
You ever see them after that.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I did.
I saw Joshua Tree and then Isaw a lot of the show, like
every time they've come in thiscentury.
I've seen them in Atlanta but Ikind of missed a lot of the 90s
.
The Zoot TV tour I didn't go to.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Awesome.
I saw Zoot TV.
I saw it at the georgia dome.
It was the first show at thegeorgia dome and they didn't
have the sound all going theright way.
But I saw him a couple weekslater, legion field in
birmingham and it was fantastic.
There I actually had uh fieldtickets and it was a blast there
(09:42):
had a great time at that show.
So, talking about the NassauColiseum, here on March 29th
1990, the Grateful Dead play theNassau Coliseum and Bramford
Marsalis sits in with them andit's probably, in my opinion,
(10:03):
probably one of the bestcollaborations the Grateful Dead
ever did on stage and they werearound for 30 years.
They had, you know, over 100different people sit in with
them and and Branford.
When you listen to it, it isjust amazing.
It adds such a differentdynamic to the band.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And he's a trumpet player, right.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Saxophone.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh okay, Saxophone player Wynton plays trumpet,
maybe he might yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I'm not sure who plays, except I know what
Branford does because he waswith the Grateful.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Dead.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
But bassist Phil Lesh invited Branantford to
accompany them on one song andhe comes out.
He plays on this song calledBird Song and it's fantastic.
And they only played one moresong after that and then they
had a break.
They do a little intermission.
They have two sets to theirshows and he's kind of like hey
(11:02):
man, that was fantastic, I had abreak.
you know they they do like alittle intermission.
They have two sets to theirshows and he's kind of like, hey
, man, that was fantastic, had agreat time.
Like no, you can't go anywhere.
That that was great, you got tocome out and play the whole
second set.
It's like I don't even know thesongs you know.
But that's the one thing withthe grateful dead.
You know they go off into thesejams and they go into these
different things.
I think for a jazz person it'smuch easier to be able to do
(11:25):
that free form and that flow andkind of get into it.
Because now you had JerryGarcia on guitar doing lead and
then Brantford would play andthen back to Jerry.
Like it was an exciting thingfor all of them and you know
it's a legendary show.
35 years later it's really coolto listen to it Again.
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The dynamic of Brantford withthem, it's just cool.
Like songs you never would think, hey, we need to have a
saxophone on this.
You would never in a millionyears think it.
But it's like now I can'timagine it not being on there.
You know Really good and youcan listen to it.
It's on an album.
It's called Wake Up to Find Out.
(12:09):
So if anybody out there wantsto listen to it, check it out.
You know, jazz meets rock, rockmeets jazz and again, freeform
music, I think, at its best Likeit's just because he never even
heard the songs, he's justgoing along with it.
So if you get a chance, pleasegive it a listen.
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Let us know what you thought.
Staying with the Grateful Dead.
I saw the Grateful Dead at theOmni, where Jimmy saw you too.
I saw the Grateful Dead at theOmni March 26th, march 27th and
March 30th 1995.
The Omni being here in Atlanta,and I went to three of the four
shows, and five years after theawesomeness of Spring 90 that I
(12:57):
just talked about, it was alittle bit different.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Spring 90.
Okay, that about it was alittle bit different.
Spring 90.
Okay, that was the GratefulDead show.
That was with Branford Marsalis.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The whole Spring 90 was a great time for them.
But five years later Jerry'svoice got kind of weaker, his
guitar playing wasn't as good.
He was probably extremelyunhealthy at that point, but it
was still the Grateful Dead, itwas still Jerry Garcia.
I mean, I've been listening tothese three shows the last
couple of days and it's stilllike I wish I could go.
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Even with a weak voice, evenwith that, you know, not able to
do everything he could do onthe guitar at one point, not
able to do everything he coulddo on the guitar at one point,
it's still enough for me.
I mean, it is just so good.
So the first show Ramble onRose, me and my uncle Big River.
You know I could go on with allthe songs, but some great songs
(13:57):
.
Second night, I took a guy tohis first Grateful Dead show and
the highlight of the night isan 18 minute version of Sugary
and I really thought that Jerrygave it everything that he had.
It sounded so good and at onepoint the song is kind of ending
and it's like all of a suddenit's like nah, I'm not ready to
(14:18):
finish, and then he just goeslike back into the song and the
band was kind of like ready toyou know, segue into something
else and boom, they're back, youknow, and it is really good,
especially with it being 1995,to hear a song that that, that's
that good, loved it, loved it.
Uh, they did soads playing inthe band, uncle John's band,
(14:41):
days Between Sugar, magnolia.
Now, bob Weir sounded fantastic.
He still had his voice Soundedgreat on the 95 tour.
I didn't go to night three butI made it to the final night in
Atlanta, night four, and Jerry'svoice definitely seemed to be a
bit weak after multiple shows.
They played Touch of Gray, goodMorning, schoolgirl, friend of
(15:07):
the Devil, loose Lucy.
Phil Lesh was on vocals forBroken Arrow, you know Alabama
Getaway, and then they opened upthe second set by tuning into
the Beer Barrel, polka, and thenwent to China, cat Sunflower
and, I Know you Rider, I meanjust a ton of great songs over
(15:29):
the three nights that I wasthere.
So there's actually a story,jimmy, about night two and the
story is as I told you, I took aguy for the first time and the
part of town he lived in, he'slike hey, can we take the train
from the Buckhead station?
And I'm like yeah, yeah, that'sfine, I didn't really want to
(15:52):
do it.
I didn't live anywhere nearthere, but this was going to be
his first time.
I just wanted it to be a coolnight.
So you know, we meet over atBuckhead, take the train and
after the show.
So I went to three nights.
Let me let me just uh prefaceall this with I couldn't afford
(16:21):
to to go and to buy food at thearena every night and and buy a
Coke or an adult beverage.
I had a child that was not anewborn but a toddler.
I really had to watch my moneyand it was already enough buying
tickets to three shows, nevermind trying to eat and drink and
be merry at all these things.
So this night I don't buyanything at the show because I'm
(16:46):
like I can't, I can't do it.
Show ends.
We take the train back toBuckhead, like I mentioned, I
get in my car and I'm driving inthe road that's in front of the
governor's mansion.
Here they have a roadblock andmost people would say you didn't
drink, you didn't do anything.
What are you worried about?
(17:06):
My tag was expired.
Oh, no, okay, so my tag wasexpired and I'm like big deal.
And it is a big deal, okay, andthey always say where did you
come from?
They always ask you whereyou're coming from and I wanted
to say, oh man, I came from theGrateful Dead show and I'm like
(17:27):
this is not going to go.
Well, no, all right.
So I'm like thinking what am Igoing to do?
You know, hey, you know, blah,blah, blah, blah, and it looks
like it's every third car.
They're stopping and they'reletting the other two go.
And I look and I'm like I'm thethird car I'm getting stopped,
(17:48):
my tag is expired.
Okay, I don't know whatpossessed the guy in front of me
, but he decides to make aU-turn and you can't just make a
U-turn.
The road is pretty small.
He like turns, backs up, turnsand then goes, and then the
police have their lights on.
The police are literally rightthere.
(18:09):
And that was my break, becauseI just went, you just went, I
just went.
That was like me at the U2concert it was like you at the
U2 concert and I just went and Iwas like, oh my Lord.
I was like, yeah, my tag isexpired and I just came from the
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Grateful Dead show at the Omniand I didn't even drink.
I mean I couldn't afford it.
I swear, you know.
Yeah, it just wasn't going toend up well until the idiot in
front of me made it end up wellfor me by doing that.
Just absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
You know, it's like they say every zebra in the pack
doesn't have to be faster thanthe lion, they just have to be
faster than the zebra next tothem.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
That is correct.
Yeah, I like that, jimmy.
So to end up on the GratefulDead, april 7th 1995, I went
down to Tampa and the final showthat I ever saw, the Grateful
Dead with Jerry Garcia.
So it's 30 years ago last nightof the spring tour and Black
(19:16):
Crows open up for them, and itwas at the old Tampa Stadium,
which Chris Berman from ESPNwould call the big sombrero.
Do you know what I'm talkingabout?
If you looked at the stadium itlooked like a sombrero hat that
he would call it the bigsombrero.
And seeing the Grateful Dead,you know I had only seen them
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indoors, I had never seen themoutdoors and it was the first
time seeing them outdoors and Ijust felt so far away from them
and I just felt kind of detachedfrom the whole thing.
Well, I'm glad I went.
It's definitely not one of myfavorite shows.
The Black Crowes opening up wascool, you know.
That was definitely, you know,fun.
(20:00):
The experience was fun.
You know, I had a buddy inOrlando.
He let us stay at his place andyou know, you never know when
you're going to go to a show andit's the last time that you see
a band.
So I actually bought the TampaTribune that day just to kind of
read.
I like to do that when I go toa different city and it has on
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the front it was a Friday.
It has on the front page oflike the weekend section, it has
the Grateful Dead Steely.
You know the steely face,everybody knows the Grateful
Dead Steely face.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Oh, that's what that's called.
Yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
That I'm wearing on my shirt right now.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Why do they call it a steely face?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yes, it's the steely face.
It's a skull.
Yeah, it's the steely face.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
So it has the lines on it that say their heads have
more than a touch of gray After30 years.
The Grateful Dead come to TampaStadium tonight and I have that
framed and it's in my basementand I think it's one of the
coolest pieces of memorabiliathat I have, because it's not
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something that everybody has.
You had to buy the paper andyou had to say, yeah, I want to
hang this up, but it's also thelast show I went to.
It's got a cool little tagline.
So you know, it's just areminder of that last time
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getting to see and hear Jerry,and I'm glad that I had those
moments 30 years ago, since theyplayed with them.
Let's revisit some great musicfrom the past and to get a start
, at April 3rd 1965, the who ICan't Explain peaks at number 93
(21:52):
on the Billboard Hot 100.
It's the first who single touse the band name, because I
think they were called the HighNumbers, if I'm not mistaken,
before that, oh yeah.
So they had released a single.
It didn't do that well, and youremember some of the lines
dizzy in the head and I'mfeeling blue, the things you've
said.
Well, maybe they're true.
Power chords, get the songstarted.
(22:15):
I'm a chord, you know.
I don't know if junkie is theword, but I I love power chords
I just really do, and they'rekind of staccato.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You know it's a tight little chords he's hitting.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's just very impactful yeah, and it reminds
me of the kinks yeah you knowall day and all the night.
I think it's very similar.
It's a a song that when PeteTownsend he was 18.
He was close to 19 when heactually wrote the song.
But it's just really, reallycool and I think those type of
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chords they were very popular inthe 60s.
I think it was easy for bandsto be able to build something
off of that.
Yeah, so got a feeling insideCan't explain.
Hey, I can't explain.
But you know, what I canexplain Is that on April 5th
1975, tangled Up in Blue by BobDylan peaks at number 31 on the
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Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Now it's a song covered by manybands over the years.
The Grateful Dead played it somany times.
Jerry Garcia would do it solo,but my favorite version is from
the bootleg series Volume 5,live 1975, the Rolling Thunder
(23:33):
Review.
That's an album name.
Right there, jimmy, that's awhole album name.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That's the whole album name.
That's the whole album name.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
All right, yes, but it's a live performance from
Boston Music Hall on November21st 1975.
Just Bob, a guitar, a harmonicaand his voice, and it is just
so good.
I mean really, really good.
Let's move up 10 years now, tospring 1985.
(23:59):
I'm driving my 71 Buick Skylark.
I'm driving to work and I havea tape that I made, a cassette
tape.
You know, for people that don'thave cassettes or don't know
about cassettes, he had a tape,what do you mean?
He had scotch tape.
So you know, just trying tomake sure that I'm explaining
(24:21):
everything, but it was acassette tape that I made off
the radio of WLIR 92.7.
And Joan Jett and the BlackArts Cherry Bomb the dance mix,
the extended version, followedby Kirstie McCall, a New England
, the extended version.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Now let's back up for a second.
I thought that Cherry Bomb wasthe Runaways.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
So Cherry Bomb was the Runaways which Joan Jett was
in.
Right, she did not sing thevocals on Cherry Bomb, ah, and
it was from 1976.
They supposedly wrote that songbecause the song that they were
going to audition with theyweren't really good at it.
(25:08):
So they really wrote this songquick because I think Joan kind
of had some of the guitar andmaybe Lita Ford had some of the
guitar ready and boom, they wereable to bust this out and use
this song as an audition.
How cool.
So Joan Jett released it,re-released it or released it,
like I said, a cover of theRunaways in 1985.
(25:29):
And you know, it's really coolthe extended version and then,
when it goes right into this, anew england, which is also a
cover of billy bragg's 1983 song, which I absolutely love that.
I love that it is a great, greatsong and that song came out.
I was 17 when billy bragg cameout with that.
(25:50):
I mean just fantastic, like you, can you know, be like wow.
This song makes an impact on me.
But last episode we spoke aboutRush's nod to Simon and
Garfunkel's the Sound of Silence.
Well, billy Bragg gave his ownnod to Simon and Garfunkel with
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the opening lines exactly thesame as Simon and Garfunkel's
leaves that are green.
I was 21 years when I wrotethis song.
I'm 22 now, but I won't be forlong.
I think that's just so coolthat we have back-to-back
episodes of two different bandsgiving nods to Simon and
(26:34):
Garfunkel for songs that are onthe same album from the same
year.
I just think that's cool.
And again, I was 17 when BillyBraggs came out and I'm like, oh
man, 21.
That's four years from now.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
That's so old man yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
You know, I'm 28.
No, I'm not 28 now.
I wish I was 28 now.
I'm 58 now and it's like itseems so long ago.
It almost seems comical aboutthinking oh, four years till 21,
.
Five years till 22.
Wow, years were longer backthen.
Yeah, I think so.
(27:11):
I definitely think so.
But you know what, speaking oflonger, according to my watch,
it's Minute with Jimmy, it'stime for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy, minute withJimmy.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy, minute withJimmy.
All right, I had thought aboutsaying something different in
this Minute with Jimmy, but thenyou brought up a story that
made me think about this.
In 1985, april 1985, when I wentto the Omni to see you two on
the unforgettable fire tour, Iwent to the train station in
atlanta.
I went to the brookhaven trainstation, which is barely
anything to it.
(27:45):
There's an escalator going up,an escalator going down and a
platform to catch the train.
So I came in there.
I had my dad's old raincoat on,which is like a trench coat,
and I had a beer in each pocket.
I was planning on maybedrinking on the train or
something.
I don't know what my plan was.
But this dude came in rightbehind me and he tapped me on
the shoulder and flashed a badgeand he said come here.
(28:07):
And he took me behind one ofthose big gray columns that they
have and you know buildingslike that and he's like what's
in your pockets?
And I said, uh, beers.
And he's like you need to pourthose beers out you didn't even
try and hide it and then he saysuh, how much money do you have
on you?
what I had 20, because I wasgonna buy a t-shirt.
I'm like 20.
(28:28):
He's like that's gonna cost youthat 20.
So I gave him the 20 and I wentback to my friends and they
were like where were you?
And I said well, I almost gotarrested, there was a cop.
And I explained it to friendsand they were like where were
you?
And I said well, I almost gotarrested, there was a cop.
And I explained it to them andthey were like that wasn't a cop
, you just got mugged.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I'm not sure why I'm laughing.
I should not be laughing thatyou got mugged.
Oh my God, it was a prettyclever trick.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I mean, the guy just saw a mark.
He was like, yeah, that kid, Ican get whatever he's got out of
him.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Were you able to tell the beer was in your pockets, I
guess?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
so I mean it was probably swaying, you know.
Oh, mm-hmm.
Wow, yeah, I mean it was.
But yeah, as soon as the guygot my money he went down that
escalator and he was out ofthere.
He wasn't patrolling thestation or anything, he was,
yeah.
So that's what happened.
(29:23):
That's A Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
A Minute with Jimmy, and that's the long arm of the
law working in strange andmysterious ways.
Well, listen, if you want tocontact us about that issue that
Jimmy had that night, you canat musicinmyshoes at gmailcom.
Please like and follow theMusic in my Shoes Facebook and
Instagram pages.
(29:46):
Feel free to share the podcastwith your friends on social
media.
For those of you who alreadyhave, I say it all the time, it
is appreciated.
That's it for Episode 72 ofMusic in my Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios located herein Atlanta, Georgia, and Vic
(30:06):
Thrill for the podcast music.
This is Jim Bosch, and I hopeyou learned something new or
remembered something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
Thank you.
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