July 6, 2025 • 32 mins
Rock music's evolution unfolds through fascinating personal stories and historic milestones in this nostalgic journey across seven decades of American music. From Bill Haley's groundbreaking "Rock Around the Clock" hitting #1 in 1955, we travel through time exploring the authentic connections between fans and artists before security barriers existed.
The conversation weaves through the 40th anniversary of "Back to the Future." We explore how the movie's iconic "Johnny B. Goode" scene serves as both plot device and tribute to Chuck Berry's profound influence on rock music, creating a perfect time-travel metaphor that resonates even today.
Our musical journey continues with firsthand accounts from Athens' vibrant music scene at AthFest, where affordable wristbands unlock access to emerging talent with deep local connections. We share highlights from performances by T. Hardy Morris, The Bad Ends, Slightly Famous Somebodies, and Elijah Johnston, capturing the community spirit that makes regional music festivals so special.
The episode celebrates additional music milestones including the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" hitting #1 sixty years ago with its revolutionary fuzz tone, Dave Grohl's remarkable one-man-band approach on the first Foo Fighters album, and U2's contribution to the Batman Forever soundtrack. These stories illustrate how music transcends time, connecting generations through shared cultural touchpoints that continue to influence how we experience music today. Whether you're a longtime fan or discovering these classics for the first time, you'll gain a deeper appreciation for the stories behind the songs that shaped American musical history.
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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 86.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
Bill Haley and his Comets RockAround the Clock becomes the
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first rock and roll song toreach number one on Billboard's
pop charts on July 9thbillboards pop charts on July
9th 1955.
That's fantastic.
One, two, three o'clock, fouro'clock rock.
That's 70 years ago, jimmyRight.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, I mean it's crazy and it's like before
Elvis's that's Right, mama right, that's All Right, mama.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, and and you know it's funny because I'm not
saying it's the first rock songyou know the first is always
tough.
What is the first?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
of anything of anything.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You know it, was it I ?
What I think?
Rocket 88 or?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
something like that, to say rocket 88 that's from
like 1949.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
you know what you know?
Was it big joe turner, or wasit?
Was it Ike Turner, or you knowwhoever?
Uh-huh, big Mama, somebody,they say.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Big Maybel.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yes, that's it.
That's it.
You know who?
I don't know.
I really don't know the answerto that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well, it's all just.
You know, a made-up name formusic and people were making
music like that for years and itjust gradually started to get
named and then people went backand said which one was the first
one.
Well, there wasn't really afirst one.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Right, but there was a first number one rock and roll
song and that is not a debate.
So on a side note, back in 1957, my father saw Bill Haley and
the Comets at Valley Arena inHolyoke, massachusetts.
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He was 15 years old and heremembers him and two of his
friends going to the show, a guynamed Chip and a guy named
Dizzy, because in the 50s thatwas kind of the names that
people would have, dizzy andChip.
You know it almost sounds likemy three sons here it does.
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And after the show one of themsays let's go backstage.
And it was different back then.
There wasn't security, therewas nothing.
And it was different back then.
There wasn't security, therewas nothing.
And they just kind of walkedoff of the floor of the arena
and opened some doors and theysee a room that's got a star on
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it that says Bill Haley.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
So, yeah, that was their clue.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That was the clue.
And my dad knocks on the doorand Bill Haley answers.
They're like hey, can we getsome autographs?
He invites them in.
That's fantastic, yeah.
And he says they were thereabout 10 minutes and they had
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their forearms signed.
They had long-sleeved shirts onand I didn't ask him why, you
know, was it wintertime or Idon't know but they rolled up
their sleeves and he signedtheir forearms.
And then somehow my dad seemedto notice a pack of cigarettes.
All right, this is 1957, allright, the 50s were much
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different than what they aretoday.
People had no idea that smokingwas bad for you then.
No, it was just a normal thingthat everybody did, I think.
And he says to Bill Haley,let's switch cigarettes and you
autograph one of them for me.
You know, he took one of BillHaley's cigarettes and Bill
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Haley wrote his name on it.
And he took two pieces ofstring and hung it from like
each end of the cigarette andhad it on the wall of his
bedroom and he could look at it.
And you know, bill haley, so Isaid to him, how long did it
take before you smoked it?
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Because you knew there's no wayit was going to last.
And he said it was about sevenor eight months later that he
finally had to smoke it.
He was out and he could notwait and he said it was kind of
stale so it burnt really quick,he said.
But I think it's a really coolstory.
You know, bill Haley and theComets rock Around the Clock.
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It was the original theme songfor Happy Days, I think about
the first season or so, and thenI think they used it for the
ending theme sometimes.
You know, I don't rememberexactly Great song.
I like it.
I like a lot of the 50s stuff.
We've talked about it multipletimes on the show.
You know, growing up I heardtons of songs from the 50s and
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the 60s and over and over enoughto be able to sing them and you
could understand the words, sothat you didn't have to look
them up the way you do today tofigure out what people are
saying.
This is true, not that youcould have looked it up back in
the day, but it could have beenin like the newspaper or
something.
Yes, there you go.
But yeah, I think that's areally cool story.
I like when you know we cantalk about something and then
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there's some sort of connectionwith it.
So my dad saw Bill Haley andthe Comets and got to meet him
after the show.
He just kept saying it's notlike today.
No security.
You just walked right up andyou knocked on the door.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And he got two autographs and he washed one of
them off and smoked the otherone.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, he said it was about three days before he
washed his arm.
I did ask him that.
He said it was about three daysand so, yeah, they didn't last.
They did not last.
So 40 years ago, on July 3rd1985, one of my favorite movies
was released Back to the Future.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Great movie.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You've seen it.
Yes, all right, I was a littleconcerned.
I didn't know.
You know I was thinking aboutthis and I kind of said to
somebody oh, I'm thinking about,talking about Back to the
Future and the first thing theysaid do you think Jimmy's seen
it?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Come on, guys, Back to the Future.
And the first thing they saiddo you think Jimmy's seen it?
Come on, guys, Back to theFuture's in a totally different
category than the Goonies.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Both released in 1985 , 40 years ago.
Yeah so, michael J Fox, martyMcFly, christopher Lloyd as Doc
Brown, leah Thompson as Lorrainepart of the movie she's a 1955
teenager and the other partshe's Marty's mom and you know
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it's just bizarre at timeswatching.
You know the different sceneswith her and what part she's
playing.
Crispin Glover as George McFly,which was Marty's dad.
You know part of the movie he'sa 1955 teenager.
Like I said, the other parthe's Marty's dad.
And you can't forget BiffTannen as both a 1955 teenager
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and George McFly's boss as anadult Movie starts in 1985, and
it's, like you know, with, witha delorean car being a time
machine built by doc and it'spowered by plutonium that doc
stole from some terrorist.
And then marty's in the deloreantrying to get away and he
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reaches 88 miles per hour.
And then the time travelbecomes Marty's reality as he
ends up in the town of HillValley, which was the town that
he lived in, but it was onNovember 5th 1955.
Right, and who knows, maybeBill Haley and the Comets were
getting ready to rock around theclock.
(08:21):
We don't know, but you know,jimmy, did you know Marty McFly
was originally played by EricStoltz?
No, yes, they actually did fiveweeks of filming, but yes,
seriously.
So Eric Stoltz was the kid inmask.
I love that movie.
I saw that movie in the movietheaters.
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I want to say it came out 84,85 as well.
He was in some kind ofwonderful.
He was in a ton of movies thatyou know we could probably sit
here.
I think he was in Pulp Fiction,wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
He was.
He was in that one brief scenewhere Uma Thurman ODs, I believe
, and then he also had a bitpart in Fast Times at Ridgemont
High.
He was one of the stonerfriends of Spicoli.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yes, and wasn't the dude from ER?
Oh yeah, anthony Edwards wasthe other one, Anthony Edwards.
He was in it also.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
yes, yeah, you got some pretty good acting chops on
those three stoner guys SeanPenn, eric Stoltz and Anthony
Edwards.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yes, yes, I forgot about that.
So while he's a good actor Imean we just named a bunch of
stuff he was in he just wasn'tthe type that they were looking
for.
They needed someone that wasmore aloof, kind of like Michael
J Fox, kind of the character heplayed on Family Ties.
They were looking more for that, and so they had to get rid of
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Eric Stoltz and they broughtMichael J Fox in.
I keep wanting to say, theybrought in Marty McFly, but
Marty McFly was played by bothof them.
Huey Lewis and the News play thetheme song the Power of Love.
And I can't forget the bigmusic scene where Biff's friends
, you know, they lock Marty inthe trunk of the band that's
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playing at the Enchantment Underthe Sea dance and which happens
to be November 12th 1955, andthe guitarist cuts his hand.
I think maybe they were usinglike a screwdriver or something
to open up the trunk and hecan't play.
And now Marty is going to playthe guitar and Marty is going to
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play the guitar.
And it's just crazy becauseit's Marvin Berry and the
Starlighters who's the band andthey're playing Earth Angel.
And as they're playing EarthAngel, marty has like a picture
of his brothers and sisters,brother and sister.
He only had one brother andsister.
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And because George and Lorrainehaven't kissed, now they're
fading away from the picture.
And now he's kind of losing allhis strength and falling down.
And all of a sudden they kissand then, boom, they show up on
the picture and Marty McFlystands right up and is just
playing the chords.
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I mean, I just think that'scool it was very cool.
Especially for 1985.
I thought it was really cool.
You know technology or whateveryou want to call it, what they
were able to do.
I liked it.
And then bust into a rock andJohnny be good.
Marvin Berry calls his cousin,chuck, on a payphone and he says
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something like you know the newsound you've been looking for.
And he holds the phone up andMarvin says, listen to this, as
he's doing.
Johnny B Goode and Marty McFlyis like doing the Chuck Berry
duck walk and you know all theChuck Berry stuff and I
personally think it's a greattribute to Chuck Berry and you
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know, kind of like the reach ofhis influence that in 1985
they're making this film about1955 and though, even though
Chuck Berry didn't have thatsong out for a couple of years
later, that's the song that theychose, that's what they wanted
to represent kind of the times,and I think it's fantastic, I
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think it's a great tribute.
I truly, truly do.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Well, it's a really good guitar song is one thing
about it that a lot of 50s musiclike Elvis's music it was big
on kind of an acoustic guitar oryou know, an acoustic electric
sounding guitar nothing, nothingtoo brash sounding, and a lot
of other 50s music was just morevocally centered and Chuck
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Berry's music was always reallyguitar forward, which was
similar to the way things wereby the 80s, that everything was
about guitars.
So that was a great song forthem to do and have Marty be
able to play the guitar solosand then gradually segue into
playing like Van Halen guitarsolos that everybody wasn't
ready for.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Right, right, and you know me personally, while music
is not a competition, I wouldput Chuck Berry on first before
I put Elvis on.
And listening to you know hisguitar riffs, his words, it just
was super cool.
It was super cool still in 1985, and it's still super cool to
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me in 2025.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, people are still using his licks.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You know stealing where they can, you know, I mean
, it's the ultimate flatterywhen you can do something like
that.
So Michael J Fox didn'tactually sing the song Johnny Be
Good.
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
No, I figured that you know he probably didn't, but
it's good to know.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Mark Campbell of Jack Mack and the Heart Attack did
the singing.
And on a side note, jack Mackand the Heart Attack had just
finished playing a song inAtlanta on July 27th 1996, when
the Olympic Park bombing tookplace, which I actually had just
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stepped out of the park whenthat had happened.
That's another story foranother day.
But it just shows you what asmall world it is that the
person singing for Marty McFlyin 1985 then also is at the same
place I was at in 1996.
So Back to the Future is agreat comedy.
Film stands the test of time.
I could watch it a hundredtimes.
I'm sure I have.
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We actually watched Back to thethree in a row how you were
just all over.
You were going back in time,forward in time, sideways in
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time.
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I love those movies.
I especially like one and two.
I think.
One is just probably on myall-time top ten movies and two
was a really great sequel.
3 was like okay, yeah, you guysfinished the trilogy and you
went back to the Old West, butit didn't stand up to the other
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two in my opinion.
But it was nice.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You know what they say, we're going back to the
future.
So recently Jimmy and I, alongwith Jimmy's family, some
friends, we went to a musicfestival here Well, not here,
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we're in Atlanta, but weactually went down the road a
ways.
In Athens, georgia, we went toAthFest and it's a musical
festival where it's not likethese big, huge names but a lot
of artists that might have aconnection first to Athens and
it was super cool, both indoorshows, outdoor shows.
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Outdoor was during the day,indoor was at night, outdoor
shows were free and then theindoor shows it was $30.
For what was it?
Three days, Jimmy Right, yeah,yeah, I mean so it's a steal,
it's a great deal.
We had a meal.
I'm just on a rhyme there.
I just thought I needed to dosomething like that, but I just
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thought it was super cool.
I mean, Jimmy, I know you'vegone, you know multiple times
your thoughts on it.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, it's so fun and I love that it's.
You know, they make itaffordable so anybody can go.
You can just go to the outdoorstages if you want, and it's all
free, but if you want to getthe club crawl pass, that's so
fun to do because you might justwant to go catch a few songs of
this person or just go see oneset at this one venue and then
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go to another place and you canbounce around four or five
different places in a night andjust your little wristband gets
you in and, like you said, it's30 bucks for the whole weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
And you can't beat it .
Some of the bands that I like THardy Morris I thought they did
a fantastic cover of Keep OnRockin' in the Free World, the
Neil Young song Loved it, and itseemed as they were playing, as
T Hardy Morris was playing, andeach song it seemed like there
was another person coming onstage and by the end of the show
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the stage was packed withpeople playing and I loved it.
I just liked that.
Hey, let's do this, let's trythis.
You know, I think when you'redoing this type of setting, you
don't have to worry aboutpleasing anybody, like people
are just happy to be there.
And a ton of people are therethat have never even heard you
and it was just cool watchingwhat they were doing.
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Slightly famous somebodies.
They have a bunch of peoplethat are slightly famous in
their own way, whether they play, you know, in another band or
they've been a producer or theyhave acted.
You know they all havesomething that they've done.
They were a lot of fun.
I really enjoyed seeing them.
They all have something thatthey've done.
They were a lot of fun, Ireally enjoyed seeing them.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
The Bad Ends, which is Mike Mantioni from 5'8".
Speaker 2 (18:27):
From 5'8" His band, you know.
I thought they did a reallygood job.
It was good seeing them play.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
And Bill Barry from REM got up and played a song
with them.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yes, he did.
What was some of the bands youliked?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Well, yeah, I liked T Hardy Morris with him.
Yes, he did.
What was, uh, some of the bandsyou liked, well, I, yeah, I
like t hardy morris.
I I really liked um hefner wereprobably my favorites and we
saw them on on saturday nightthey played.
They headlined at the 40 watt.
They kind of have a differentsound, you know.
They're uh like we talked about.
I think some of their stuff isa little more up my alley.
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What I was expecting as far asum kind of indie rock and then
some of it it's a little moreAmericana sounding with layered
vocals and stuff, and that wasgreat too.
But it was kind of surprisingto see that that same band
played all that stuff.
Um also really liked ElijahJohnston.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh, yes, I did, I did as well.
And in all honesty, out of allof the bands that we saw, now we
didn't see all the same bands.
I know you know you went yourseparate ways at times, I went
my separate ways, but we did seea lot of the same bands.
I thought that that band well,that guy he packed the place at
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the 40 Watt and people were justinto it.
I think he had a real solidaudience there.
He did, yeah, and you met someof the parents of one of the
people yes, guy playing bass metthe parents and it was funny
because we have some commonpeople that we know and it was
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just kind of strange how it allworked out, but it was a fun
time.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Another band that was good was Polar Waves.
That was fans of the showRobert and Kathy's friend that's
the band leader there thatworks at Chuck's in Athens and I
thought they were going to begood, but they were really good.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, I was surprised at how well he sounded.
I mean, he sounded really good.
I mentioned to you he sounded alittle bit like Gavin Rossdale
on some songs of Bush.
For those of you asking whothat is, I love their cover of
Love Buzz.
I thought Love Buzz by Nirvana,I thought it was fantastic and
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I've not heard a lot of coversof it but I liked it it's good
to like things.
It is good to like things, andyou know what else, jimmy.
I'll tell you what else I like.
I was at Truist Park recentlyand Truist Park is where the
Atlanta Braves play their homebaseball games.
Got to see a New York Mets atAtlanta Braves and one of my
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favorite things to do is thatwhen the away team comes up to
bat, the organist will play asong, and you got to kind of
guess what it is relating tothat player.
Now, they don't do it with thehome players, they just do it
with the guests, right?
So Francisco Lindor firstbatter he comes up and the first
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time he's up he plays Candyman.
And now I like, when you have aballpark that has an organist,
I just think that's super cool.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, Lindor Chocolates.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Lindor Chocolates Candyman by Sammy Davis Jr.
And then the second time he'sup, he plays the Oompa Oompa
from you know Willy Wonka andthe Chocolate Factory.
It's just cool, you know.
Brandon Nimmo so kind of did atakeoff of Bingo Was His Name-O,
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because it was N-I-M-M-O, youknow.
So it took me a minute tofigure that one out.
Juan Soto, so let's kind of setthe thing here.
Juan Soto just signed thebiggest contract I think in
sports, for over $700 millionfor 15 years.
The first time he came up onOregon, the guy played You're so
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Vain by Carly Simon.
The second time was the DarthVader theme and then the third
time was Take the Money and Runby Steve Villarvan.
I was just laughing.
Pete Alonso, here Comes PeterCottontail Starling Marte,
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
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Tyrone Taylor, theme from AndyGriffith for Andy and Opie
Taylor Right.
Francisco Alvarez Sitting onthe Dock of the Bay by Otis
Redding, which is about SanFrancisco and San Francisco.
Be Sure to Wear Flowers in yourHair.
By Scott McKenzie.
And it's cool listening to iton organ.
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You know it's not the regularsong, it's organ.
This dude's playing it.
It's fun.
And then the last one I havehere is Ronnie Mauricio, the
Ronettes with Be my Baby, leadsinger Ronnie Spector.
It was fun.
I had a lot of fun listening tothe Mets Lost, but it was fun
trying to figure out what thosesongs were.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
So when the Braves are not playing at home and it's
college baseball season, thatsame organist goes up to Athens
and he plays the Georgia homegames Really, and he does the
same thing with the player names.
So it's fun.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh, wow, that is cool .
Yeah, I like that.
Let's revisit some more goodmusic.
Rolling Stone's Satisfactionpeaked at number one on
Billboard Hot 100, july 10th1965, 60 years ago.
One of the greatest riffs ofall time.
In 2021, it ranked number 31 onRolling Stone Magazine's the
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500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
And the sound that we know whenit starts off Gibson Maestro
FZ-1 fuzz tone.
Have you ever used one of those, jimmy?
I have not.
Have you used any sort of those, jimmy?
I have not.
Have you used any sort of fuzzbox?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Okay, well, that's the one.
And by the end of the year Ithink it was the number one
seller, because everyone wantedto be the Rolling Stones.
Tick, tick, tick.
It's Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for a minute withJimmy.
Minute with.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Jimmy minute with Jimmy.
It's time for a minute withJimmy, minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
I'm going to talk a little bitabout a tour that my band, the
Violets, did back in 1990.
We called it Tour 90.
And we had played around thesoutheast a little bit.
We mainly stayed in Athens,georgia and Atlanta but we had
gone and done a show here andthere in other towns.
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But we said let's go out forlike a week and a half and just
play all over.
So we went to Pensacola,florida and Charleston, south
Carolina, columbia, southCarolina, johnson City,
tennessee.
That was the best, because whenwe went to Greenville, south
Carolina, the club had beenboarded up by the fire marshal.
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We never found out exactly why,but we couldn't play there.
So we drove to Johnson City anextra day early and we met all
these cool people at the placethat we were going to play the
next night and they brought abunch of people out the next
night to see us and we ended upgoing back there multiple times.
But you know it was a reallyfun tour.
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I think we might've made it toRaleigh on that same one and we
also met a band when we wereplaying in Charleston called the
Insurgents, and that's the guythat we still put out records
with.
He still owns a record store inDC now, bill Daly.
So yeah, so it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I bet it was.
So.
How long did it take you tocome up with the tour name of
Tour 90?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I think we bounced a few things around and you know,
89 felt a little bit last year,if you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
You asked, you asked.
Oh, my lord, I bet that was I.
Seriously I bet that was a lotof fun and going to a club and
it's boarded up wow so you haveto be glad that you didn't play
there, right well, the band thathad played there the final
night.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
It was still on their marquee it said national
people's gang.
Have you ever heard of thatband?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Never.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
They were around in 1990, apparently.
But so we decided we wouldrearrange the letters on their
marquee to really show the clubthat they weren't nice to us by
not calling us to say, hey,don't bother driving to town
because we got boarded up by thefire marshal.
So we wanted to put somethingon that marquee out of those
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letters from national people'sgang.
And you really can't come upwith anything, uh, clever or
offensive out of those lettersvery well.
So we just ended up puttingpoop up onto up onto the marquee
I had a million things gothrough my mind.
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That was not one of them.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Oh, Wow, Wow, you got me with that one.
That was A Minute with Jimmy, AMinute with Jimmy.
On July 4th 1995, the FooFighters released their debut
self-titled album.
Dave Grohl was the drummer forNirvana and after Kurt Cobain's
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suicide in April 1994, he wastrying to figure out where he
was going to go next.
What direction is he, you know?
Is he going to become a drummerfor another band?
What is he going to do?
Become a drummer for anotherband, what is he going to do?
And he ends up doing this albumwhere he plays all the
instruments except for one song.
He does everything himself andit's an album that I think is
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just absolutely fantastic.
I struggle with a lot of albumsthat people do by themselves
because it's their one vision.
That's it.
And I think that sometimes youneed someone else to say to you
that doesn't sound good or youknow that is not the right base
for this.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Or just come up with another idea that you wouldn't
have come up with.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Right.
And I think when you listen tothis album you know for the most
part I don't think you thinkthat at all, you think that it's
an actual band, because Ireally think he did a great job
with all of the instruments.
If you sit and listen to eachindividual instrument you're
like, yeah, this makes sense,this goes together.
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He had the guy from the AfghanWhigs did a guitar part on
Ecstatic, the song Ecstatic, butthat was it.
Everything else was from him.
And you know Paul McCartney, hedid a solo album 1980.
It's not very good album 1980.
It's not very good.
It had all of his vision ofwhat he wanted and nobody else.
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And you know we talked about ita little bit coming up.
The live version is much betterwhen you have this band Wings
doing it than when you listen tothe studio version.
That was just his.
I love Paul McCartney but Ijust think this album was
fantastic.
I really really do.
This Is A Call was released toradio in June 1995.
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There's I'll Stick Around ForAll the Cows.
And Big Me is probably, youknow, known for the video where
it's poking fun at the Mentoscommercial, and do you remember
that video?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Oh, yeah, okay yeah, that's the song Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yes, that's the song that it came from.
I just think it's cool, I thinkit's a really good album and to
think that here, 30 years later, foo Fighters are still around.
They actually became a bandonce.
They started touring with uhmike watt in 1995 and then he
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started pulling members in andthen that's how they became a
real band.
But that first album, it's allhim.
I just can't say enough aboutit.
I really can't.
You two, hold me, thrill me,kiss me.
You Too, hold Me, thrill Me,kiss Me, kill Me.
I love the album title and ittakes a lot for me to remember
the order it goes Hold Me,thrill Me, Kiss Me, kill Me.
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Like I would always sing it indifferent orders.
I could never remember it, butit peaked at number 16 on
Billboard Hot 100 July 15, 1995.
It's from the Batman Foreversoundtrack.
It's got a cool guitar riffintro, it's got cool guitar
throughout the song and then acool string arrangement to end
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the song.
And I just think that U2, youknow this was a cool rock song
that they hadn't had out in awhile and it was really good to
hear it after some of the stuffthat they had been putting out,
you know, the past few years,really enjoyed it.
Oh no, don't be shy, you don'thave to go blind.
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Hold me, thrill me, kiss me,kill me.
And before you do that, you canreach us at musicinmyshoes at
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gmailcom.
Kiss me, kill me.
Episode 86 of Music in my Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
RK160 Studios located here inAtlanta, georgia, and Vic Thrill
for our podcast music.
This is Jim Boge, and I hopeyou learned something new or
remembered something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
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Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
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 86.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
Bill Haley and his Comets RockAround the Clock becomes the
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first rock and roll song toreach number one on Billboard's
pop charts on July 9thbillboards pop charts on July
9th 1955.
That's fantastic.
One, two, three o'clock, fouro'clock rock.
That's 70 years ago, jimmyRight.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, I mean it's crazy and it's like before
Elvis's that's Right, mama right, that's All Right, mama.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, and and you know it's funny because I'm not
saying it's the first rock songyou know the first is always
tough.
What is the first?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
of anything of anything.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You know it, was it I ?
What I think?
Rocket 88 or?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
something like that, to say rocket 88 that's from
like 1949.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
you know what you know?
Was it big joe turner, or wasit?
Was it Ike Turner, or you knowwhoever?
Uh-huh, big Mama, somebody,they say.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Big Maybel.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yes, that's it.
That's it.
You know who?
I don't know.
I really don't know the answerto that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well, it's all just.
You know, a made-up name formusic and people were making
music like that for years and itjust gradually started to get
named and then people went backand said which one was the first
one.
Well, there wasn't really afirst one.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Right, but there was a first number one rock and roll
song and that is not a debate.
So on a side note, back in 1957, my father saw Bill Haley and
the Comets at Valley Arena inHolyoke, massachusetts.
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He was 15 years old and heremembers him and two of his
friends going to the show, a guynamed Chip and a guy named
Dizzy, because in the 50s thatwas kind of the names that
people would have, dizzy andChip.
You know it almost sounds likemy three sons here it does.
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And after the show one of themsays let's go backstage.
And it was different back then.
There wasn't security, therewas nothing.
And it was different back then.
There wasn't security, therewas nothing.
And they just kind of walkedoff of the floor of the arena
and opened some doors and theysee a room that's got a star on
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it that says Bill Haley.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
So, yeah, that was their clue.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That was the clue.
And my dad knocks on the doorand Bill Haley answers.
They're like hey, can we getsome autographs?
He invites them in.
That's fantastic, yeah.
And he says they were thereabout 10 minutes and they had
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their forearms signed.
They had long-sleeved shirts onand I didn't ask him why, you
know, was it wintertime or Idon't know but they rolled up
their sleeves and he signedtheir forearms.
And then somehow my dad seemedto notice a pack of cigarettes.
All right, this is 1957, allright, the 50s were much
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different than what they aretoday.
People had no idea that smokingwas bad for you then.
No, it was just a normal thingthat everybody did, I think.
And he says to Bill Haley,let's switch cigarettes and you
autograph one of them for me.
You know, he took one of BillHaley's cigarettes and Bill
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Haley wrote his name on it.
And he took two pieces ofstring and hung it from like
each end of the cigarette andhad it on the wall of his
bedroom and he could look at it.
And you know, bill haley, so Isaid to him, how long did it
take before you smoked it?
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Because you knew there's no wayit was going to last.
And he said it was about sevenor eight months later that he
finally had to smoke it.
He was out and he could notwait and he said it was kind of
stale so it burnt really quick,he said.
But I think it's a really coolstory.
You know, bill Haley and theComets rock Around the Clock.
(05:02):
It was the original theme songfor Happy Days, I think about
the first season or so, and thenI think they used it for the
ending theme sometimes.
You know, I don't rememberexactly Great song.
I like it.
I like a lot of the 50s stuff.
We've talked about it multipletimes on the show.
You know, growing up I heardtons of songs from the 50s and
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the 60s and over and over enoughto be able to sing them and you
could understand the words, sothat you didn't have to look
them up the way you do today tofigure out what people are
saying.
This is true, not that youcould have looked it up back in
the day, but it could have beenin like the newspaper or
something.
Yes, there you go.
But yeah, I think that's areally cool story.
I like when you know we cantalk about something and then
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there's some sort of connectionwith it.
So my dad saw Bill Haley andthe Comets and got to meet him
after the show.
He just kept saying it's notlike today.
No security.
You just walked right up andyou knocked on the door.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And he got two autographs and he washed one of
them off and smoked the otherone.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, he said it was about three days before he
washed his arm.
I did ask him that.
He said it was about three daysand so, yeah, they didn't last.
They did not last.
So 40 years ago, on July 3rd1985, one of my favorite movies
was released Back to the Future.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Great movie.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You've seen it.
Yes, all right, I was a littleconcerned.
I didn't know.
You know I was thinking aboutthis and I kind of said to
somebody oh, I'm thinking about,talking about Back to the
Future and the first thing theysaid do you think Jimmy's seen
it?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Come on, guys, Back to the Future.
And the first thing they saiddo you think Jimmy's seen it?
Come on, guys, Back to theFuture's in a totally different
category than the Goonies.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Both released in 1985 , 40 years ago.
Yeah so, michael J Fox, martyMcFly, christopher Lloyd as Doc
Brown, leah Thompson as Lorrainepart of the movie she's a 1955
teenager and the other partshe's Marty's mom and you know
(07:12):
it's just bizarre at timeswatching.
You know the different sceneswith her and what part she's
playing.
Crispin Glover as George McFly,which was Marty's dad.
You know part of the movie he'sa 1955 teenager.
Like I said, the other parthe's Marty's dad.
And you can't forget BiffTannen as both a 1955 teenager
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and George McFly's boss as anadult Movie starts in 1985, and
it's, like you know, with, witha delorean car being a time
machine built by doc and it'spowered by plutonium that doc
stole from some terrorist.
And then marty's in the deloreantrying to get away and he
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reaches 88 miles per hour.
And then the time travelbecomes Marty's reality as he
ends up in the town of HillValley, which was the town that
he lived in, but it was onNovember 5th 1955.
Right, and who knows, maybeBill Haley and the Comets were
getting ready to rock around theclock.
(08:21):
We don't know, but you know,jimmy, did you know Marty McFly
was originally played by EricStoltz?
No, yes, they actually did fiveweeks of filming, but yes,
seriously.
So Eric Stoltz was the kid inmask.
I love that movie.
I saw that movie in the movietheaters.
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I want to say it came out 84,85 as well.
He was in some kind ofwonderful.
He was in a ton of movies thatyou know we could probably sit
here.
I think he was in Pulp Fiction,wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
He was.
He was in that one brief scenewhere Uma Thurman ODs, I believe
, and then he also had a bitpart in Fast Times at Ridgemont
High.
He was one of the stonerfriends of Spicoli.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yes, and wasn't the dude from ER?
Oh yeah, anthony Edwards wasthe other one, Anthony Edwards.
He was in it also.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
yes, yeah, you got some pretty good acting chops on
those three stoner guys SeanPenn, eric Stoltz and Anthony
Edwards.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yes, yes, I forgot about that.
So while he's a good actor Imean we just named a bunch of
stuff he was in he just wasn'tthe type that they were looking
for.
They needed someone that wasmore aloof, kind of like Michael
J Fox, kind of the character heplayed on Family Ties.
They were looking more for that, and so they had to get rid of
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Eric Stoltz and they broughtMichael J Fox in.
I keep wanting to say, theybrought in Marty McFly, but
Marty McFly was played by bothof them.
Huey Lewis and the News play thetheme song the Power of Love.
And I can't forget the bigmusic scene where Biff's friends
, you know, they lock Marty inthe trunk of the band that's
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playing at the Enchantment Underthe Sea dance and which happens
to be November 12th 1955, andthe guitarist cuts his hand.
I think maybe they were usinglike a screwdriver or something
to open up the trunk and hecan't play.
And now Marty is going to playthe guitar and Marty is going to
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play the guitar.
And it's just crazy becauseit's Marvin Berry and the
Starlighters who's the band andthey're playing Earth Angel.
And as they're playing EarthAngel, marty has like a picture
of his brothers and sisters,brother and sister.
He only had one brother andsister.
(11:02):
And because George and Lorrainehaven't kissed, now they're
fading away from the picture.
And now he's kind of losing allhis strength and falling down.
And all of a sudden they kissand then, boom, they show up on
the picture and Marty McFlystands right up and is just
playing the chords.
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I mean, I just think that'scool it was very cool.
Especially for 1985.
I thought it was really cool.
You know technology or whateveryou want to call it, what they
were able to do.
I liked it.
And then bust into a rock andJohnny be good.
Marvin Berry calls his cousin,chuck, on a payphone and he says
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something like you know the newsound you've been looking for.
And he holds the phone up andMarvin says, listen to this, as
he's doing.
Johnny B Goode and Marty McFlyis like doing the Chuck Berry
duck walk and you know all theChuck Berry stuff and I
personally think it's a greattribute to Chuck Berry and you
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know, kind of like the reach ofhis influence that in 1985
they're making this film about1955 and though, even though
Chuck Berry didn't have thatsong out for a couple of years
later, that's the song that theychose, that's what they wanted
to represent kind of the times,and I think it's fantastic, I
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think it's a great tribute.
I truly, truly do.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Well, it's a really good guitar song is one thing
about it that a lot of 50s musiclike Elvis's music it was big
on kind of an acoustic guitar oryou know, an acoustic electric
sounding guitar nothing, nothingtoo brash sounding, and a lot
of other 50s music was just morevocally centered and Chuck
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Berry's music was always reallyguitar forward, which was
similar to the way things wereby the 80s, that everything was
about guitars.
So that was a great song forthem to do and have Marty be
able to play the guitar solosand then gradually segue into
playing like Van Halen guitarsolos that everybody wasn't
ready for.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Right, right, and you know me personally, while music
is not a competition, I wouldput Chuck Berry on first before
I put Elvis on.
And listening to you know hisguitar riffs, his words, it just
was super cool.
It was super cool still in 1985, and it's still super cool to
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me in 2025.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, people are still using his licks.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You know stealing where they can, you know, I mean
, it's the ultimate flatterywhen you can do something like
that.
So Michael J Fox didn'tactually sing the song Johnny Be
Good.
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
No, I figured that you know he probably didn't, but
it's good to know.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Mark Campbell of Jack Mack and the Heart Attack did
the singing.
And on a side note, jack Mackand the Heart Attack had just
finished playing a song inAtlanta on July 27th 1996, when
the Olympic Park bombing tookplace, which I actually had just
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stepped out of the park whenthat had happened.
That's another story foranother day.
But it just shows you what asmall world it is that the
person singing for Marty McFlyin 1985 then also is at the same
place I was at in 1996.
So Back to the Future is agreat comedy.
Film stands the test of time.
I could watch it a hundredtimes.
I'm sure I have.
(14:45):
We actually watched Back to thethree in a row how you were
just all over.
You were going back in time,forward in time, sideways in
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time.
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I love those movies.
I especially like one and two.
I think.
One is just probably on myall-time top ten movies and two
was a really great sequel.
3 was like okay, yeah, you guysfinished the trilogy and you
went back to the Old West, butit didn't stand up to the other
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two in my opinion.
But it was nice.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You know what they say, we're going back to the
future.
So recently Jimmy and I, alongwith Jimmy's family, some
friends, we went to a musicfestival here Well, not here,
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we're in Atlanta, but weactually went down the road a
ways.
In Athens, georgia, we went toAthFest and it's a musical
festival where it's not likethese big, huge names but a lot
of artists that might have aconnection first to Athens and
it was super cool, both indoorshows, outdoor shows.
(16:18):
Outdoor was during the day,indoor was at night, outdoor
shows were free and then theindoor shows it was $30.
For what was it?
Three days, Jimmy Right, yeah,yeah, I mean so it's a steal,
it's a great deal.
We had a meal.
I'm just on a rhyme there.
I just thought I needed to dosomething like that, but I just
(16:40):
thought it was super cool.
I mean, Jimmy, I know you'vegone, you know multiple times
your thoughts on it.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, it's so fun and I love that it's.
You know, they make itaffordable so anybody can go.
You can just go to the outdoorstages if you want, and it's all
free, but if you want to getthe club crawl pass, that's so
fun to do because you might justwant to go catch a few songs of
this person or just go see oneset at this one venue and then
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go to another place and you canbounce around four or five
different places in a night andjust your little wristband gets
you in and, like you said, it's30 bucks for the whole weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
And you can't beat it .
Some of the bands that I like THardy Morris I thought they did
a fantastic cover of Keep OnRockin' in the Free World, the
Neil Young song Loved it, and itseemed as they were playing, as
T Hardy Morris was playing, andeach song it seemed like there
was another person coming onstage and by the end of the show
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the stage was packed withpeople playing and I loved it.
I just liked that.
Hey, let's do this, let's trythis.
You know, I think when you'redoing this type of setting, you
don't have to worry aboutpleasing anybody, like people
are just happy to be there.
And a ton of people are therethat have never even heard you
and it was just cool watchingwhat they were doing.
(18:01):
Slightly famous somebodies.
They have a bunch of peoplethat are slightly famous in
their own way, whether they play, you know, in another band or
they've been a producer or theyhave acted.
You know they all havesomething that they've done.
They were a lot of fun.
I really enjoyed seeing them.
They all have something thatthey've done.
They were a lot of fun, Ireally enjoyed seeing them.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
The Bad Ends, which is Mike Mantioni from 5'8".
Speaker 2 (18:27):
From 5'8" His band, you know.
I thought they did a reallygood job.
It was good seeing them play.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
And Bill Barry from REM got up and played a song
with them.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yes, he did.
What was some of the bands youliked?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Well, yeah, I liked T Hardy Morris with him.
Yes, he did.
What was, uh, some of the bandsyou liked, well, I, yeah, I
like t hardy morris.
I I really liked um hefner wereprobably my favorites and we
saw them on on saturday nightthey played.
They headlined at the 40 watt.
They kind of have a differentsound, you know.
They're uh like we talked about.
I think some of their stuff isa little more up my alley.
(19:03):
What I was expecting as far asum kind of indie rock and then
some of it it's a little moreAmericana sounding with layered
vocals and stuff, and that wasgreat too.
But it was kind of surprisingto see that that same band
played all that stuff.
Um also really liked ElijahJohnston.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh, yes, I did, I did as well.
And in all honesty, out of allof the bands that we saw, now we
didn't see all the same bands.
I know you know you went yourseparate ways at times, I went
my separate ways, but we did seea lot of the same bands.
I thought that that band well,that guy he packed the place at
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the 40 Watt and people were justinto it.
I think he had a real solidaudience there.
He did, yeah, and you met someof the parents of one of the
people yes, guy playing bass metthe parents and it was funny
because we have some commonpeople that we know and it was
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just kind of strange how it allworked out, but it was a fun
time.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Another band that was good was Polar Waves.
That was fans of the showRobert and Kathy's friend that's
the band leader there thatworks at Chuck's in Athens and I
thought they were going to begood, but they were really good.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, I was surprised at how well he sounded.
I mean, he sounded really good.
I mentioned to you he sounded alittle bit like Gavin Rossdale
on some songs of Bush.
For those of you asking whothat is, I love their cover of
Love Buzz.
I thought Love Buzz by Nirvana,I thought it was fantastic and
(20:47):
I've not heard a lot of coversof it but I liked it it's good
to like things.
It is good to like things, andyou know what else, jimmy.
I'll tell you what else I like.
I was at Truist Park recentlyand Truist Park is where the
Atlanta Braves play their homebaseball games.
Got to see a New York Mets atAtlanta Braves and one of my
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favorite things to do is thatwhen the away team comes up to
bat, the organist will play asong, and you got to kind of
guess what it is relating tothat player.
Now, they don't do it with thehome players, they just do it
with the guests, right?
So Francisco Lindor firstbatter he comes up and the first
(21:33):
time he's up he plays Candyman.
And now I like, when you have aballpark that has an organist,
I just think that's super cool.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, Lindor Chocolates.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Lindor Chocolates Candyman by Sammy Davis Jr.
And then the second time he'sup, he plays the Oompa Oompa
from you know Willy Wonka andthe Chocolate Factory.
It's just cool, you know.
Brandon Nimmo so kind of did atakeoff of Bingo Was His Name-O,
(22:05):
because it was N-I-M-M-O, youknow.
So it took me a minute tofigure that one out.
Juan Soto, so let's kind of setthe thing here.
Juan Soto just signed thebiggest contract I think in
sports, for over $700 millionfor 15 years.
The first time he came up onOregon, the guy played You're so
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Vain by Carly Simon.
The second time was the DarthVader theme and then the third
time was Take the Money and Runby Steve Villarvan.
I was just laughing.
Pete Alonso, here Comes PeterCottontail Starling Marte,
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
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Tyrone Taylor, theme from AndyGriffith for Andy and Opie
Taylor Right.
Francisco Alvarez Sitting onthe Dock of the Bay by Otis
Redding, which is about SanFrancisco and San Francisco.
Be Sure to Wear Flowers in yourHair.
By Scott McKenzie.
And it's cool listening to iton organ.
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You know it's not the regularsong, it's organ.
This dude's playing it.
It's fun.
And then the last one I havehere is Ronnie Mauricio, the
Ronettes with Be my Baby, leadsinger Ronnie Spector.
It was fun.
I had a lot of fun listening tothe Mets Lost, but it was fun
trying to figure out what thosesongs were.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
So when the Braves are not playing at home and it's
college baseball season, thatsame organist goes up to Athens
and he plays the Georgia homegames Really, and he does the
same thing with the player names.
So it's fun.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh, wow, that is cool .
Yeah, I like that.
Let's revisit some more goodmusic.
Rolling Stone's Satisfactionpeaked at number one on
Billboard Hot 100, july 10th1965, 60 years ago.
One of the greatest riffs ofall time.
In 2021, it ranked number 31 onRolling Stone Magazine's the
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500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
And the sound that we know whenit starts off Gibson Maestro
FZ-1 fuzz tone.
Have you ever used one of those, jimmy?
I have not.
Have you used any sort of those, jimmy?
I have not.
Have you used any sort of fuzzbox?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Okay, well, that's the one.
And by the end of the year Ithink it was the number one
seller, because everyone wantedto be the Rolling Stones.
Tick, tick, tick.
It's Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for a minute withJimmy.
Minute with.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Jimmy minute with Jimmy.
It's time for a minute withJimmy, minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
I'm going to talk a little bitabout a tour that my band, the
Violets, did back in 1990.
We called it Tour 90.
And we had played around thesoutheast a little bit.
We mainly stayed in Athens,georgia and Atlanta but we had
gone and done a show here andthere in other towns.
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But we said let's go out forlike a week and a half and just
play all over.
So we went to Pensacola,florida and Charleston, south
Carolina, columbia, southCarolina, johnson City,
tennessee.
That was the best, because whenwe went to Greenville, south
Carolina, the club had beenboarded up by the fire marshal.
(25:25):
We never found out exactly why,but we couldn't play there.
So we drove to Johnson City anextra day early and we met all
these cool people at the placethat we were going to play the
next night and they brought abunch of people out the next
night to see us and we ended upgoing back there multiple times.
But you know it was a reallyfun tour.
(25:46):
I think we might've made it toRaleigh on that same one and we
also met a band when we wereplaying in Charleston called the
Insurgents, and that's the guythat we still put out records
with.
He still owns a record store inDC now, bill Daly.
So yeah, so it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I bet it was.
So.
How long did it take you tocome up with the tour name of
Tour 90?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I think we bounced a few things around and you know,
89 felt a little bit last year,if you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
You asked, you asked.
Oh, my lord, I bet that was I.
Seriously I bet that was a lotof fun and going to a club and
it's boarded up wow so you haveto be glad that you didn't play
there, right well, the band thathad played there the final
night.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
It was still on their marquee it said national
people's gang.
Have you ever heard of thatband?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Never.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
They were around in 1990, apparently.
But so we decided we wouldrearrange the letters on their
marquee to really show the clubthat they weren't nice to us by
not calling us to say, hey,don't bother driving to town
because we got boarded up by thefire marshal.
So we wanted to put somethingon that marquee out of those
(27:02):
letters from national people'sgang.
And you really can't come upwith anything, uh, clever or
offensive out of those lettersvery well.
So we just ended up puttingpoop up onto up onto the marquee
I had a million things gothrough my mind.
(27:25):
That was not one of them.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Oh, Wow, Wow, you got me with that one.
That was A Minute with Jimmy, AMinute with Jimmy.
On July 4th 1995, the FooFighters released their debut
self-titled album.
Dave Grohl was the drummer forNirvana and after Kurt Cobain's
(27:49):
suicide in April 1994, he wastrying to figure out where he
was going to go next.
What direction is he, you know?
Is he going to become a drummerfor another band?
What is he going to do?
Become a drummer for anotherband, what is he going to do?
And he ends up doing this albumwhere he plays all the
instruments except for one song.
He does everything himself andit's an album that I think is
(28:17):
just absolutely fantastic.
I struggle with a lot of albumsthat people do by themselves
because it's their one vision.
That's it.
And I think that sometimes youneed someone else to say to you
that doesn't sound good or youknow that is not the right base
for this.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Or just come up with another idea that you wouldn't
have come up with.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Right.
And I think when you listen tothis album you know for the most
part I don't think you thinkthat at all, you think that it's
an actual band, because Ireally think he did a great job
with all of the instruments.
If you sit and listen to eachindividual instrument you're
like, yeah, this makes sense,this goes together.
(29:01):
He had the guy from the AfghanWhigs did a guitar part on
Ecstatic, the song Ecstatic, butthat was it.
Everything else was from him.
And you know Paul McCartney, hedid a solo album 1980.
It's not very good album 1980.
It's not very good.
It had all of his vision ofwhat he wanted and nobody else.
(29:24):
And you know we talked about ita little bit coming up.
The live version is much betterwhen you have this band Wings
doing it than when you listen tothe studio version.
That was just his.
I love Paul McCartney but Ijust think this album was
fantastic.
I really really do.
This Is A Call was released toradio in June 1995.
(29:48):
There's I'll Stick Around ForAll the Cows.
And Big Me is probably, youknow, known for the video where
it's poking fun at the Mentoscommercial, and do you remember
that video?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Oh, yeah, okay yeah, that's the song Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yes, that's the song that it came from.
I just think it's cool, I thinkit's a really good album and to
think that here, 30 years later, foo Fighters are still around.
They actually became a bandonce.
They started touring with uhmike watt in 1995 and then he
(30:28):
started pulling members in andthen that's how they became a
real band.
But that first album, it's allhim.
I just can't say enough aboutit.
I really can't.
You two, hold me, thrill me,kiss me.
You Too, hold Me, thrill Me,kiss Me, kill Me.
I love the album title and ittakes a lot for me to remember
the order it goes Hold Me,thrill Me, Kiss Me, kill Me.
(30:50):
Like I would always sing it indifferent orders.
I could never remember it, butit peaked at number 16 on
Billboard Hot 100 July 15, 1995.
It's from the Batman Foreversoundtrack.
It's got a cool guitar riffintro, it's got cool guitar
throughout the song and then acool string arrangement to end
(31:13):
the song.
And I just think that U2, youknow this was a cool rock song
that they hadn't had out in awhile and it was really good to
hear it after some of the stuffthat they had been putting out,
you know, the past few years,really enjoyed it.
Oh no, don't be shy, you don'thave to go blind.
(31:34):
Hold me, thrill me, kiss me,kill me.
And before you do that, you canreach us at musicinmyshoes at
(31:56):
gmailcom.
Kiss me, kill me.
Episode 86 of Music in my Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
RK160 Studios located here inAtlanta, georgia, and Vic Thrill
for our podcast music.
This is Jim Boge, and I hopeyou learned something new or
remembered something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
(32:16):
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
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