August 24, 2025 • 34 mins
Journey back to the summer of 1970 as we explore the legendary Isle of Wight Festival, where music lovers converged on a small island off England's southern coast for five days of extraordinary performances. What makes this festival particularly special is how well it was documented – allowing us to experience these historic performances through recordings and film footage decades later.
From Chicago's early hits to The Who's powerful performance of "Tommy," the festival showcased artists at pivotal moments in their careers. Jim Morrison's haunting performance with The Doors stands as one of his final shows. Meanwhile, Miles Davis demonstrated how jazz could captivate rock audiences, and Jimi Hendrix delivered unforgettable performances just weeks before his death.
We'll also transport you to the 1995 HORDE Festival in Atlanta, a touring concert series that helped bands like The Black Crowes and Blues Traveler reach larger audiences by combining their fan bases.
Along the way, we explore summer hits that defined their eras – from KC and the Sunshine Band's disco anthem "Get Down Tonight" to The Kings' double-hit "This Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide." We'll also examine how The Cure's 1985 album "Head on the Door" marked their transition to mainstream success with its distinctive sound.
These weren't just concerts – they were cultural touchstones that helped define musical movements and create the shared experiences that bind music fans together. Join us as we celebrate the festivals, songs, and albums that shaped rock history and continue to influence how we experience music today.
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
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 93.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
On episode 40, 10 days inAugust 69, I spoke about
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Woodstock.
Well, here we are a year laterwith the Isle of Wight Festival
that took place August 26th tothe 30th, 1970.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, isle of Wight is an island located just a few
miles off the coast of mainlandEngland.
It's south of England, forthose of you who don't know
where it is.
And I got to be honest, I hadno idea until I looked it up.
I didn't know where it was.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I didn't know either.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
But I wanted to kind of get a geographical location
so that I could, in my mind,picture where all these fine
artists were going to be playing.
Some say as many as 600,000 to700,000 people were there, wow.
Some say it was less than that.
And it's kind of funny that youcan never tell how many people
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are really at a show.
Like, what do they do?
Do they look at pictures?
And they're like, oh, let mecount.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I mean, did they take attendance, did they have
tickets?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
They had tickets.
But it's just kind of like, youknow, all of a sudden people
just start showing up and it'sjust kind of bizarre that they
just don't know how many.
Right, it's true, you know,it's very, very strange.
It's an island, so you had toget on a ferry to go across the
water.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well, they could probably tell from the ferry
logs then.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, but for some reason there's no like official.
This is what it was.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
How far off are the numbers?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Some say six to 700,000.
The promoters say only half ofthat.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh, that's a big difference.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But it's actually in the Guinness Book of Records, so
it's kind of bizarre when youlook at it that way.
So day one, august 26th.
So even before I get into that,let me just say there are some
festivals, music things that tome are just super cool things.
We've talked about Woodstock.
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We've talked about Live Aid.
There is the Us Festival atsome point we'll talk about.
There is the concert forBangladesh that we'll talk about
, you know, in the near futureand that was put on by George
Harrison with his friends andthat was probably the first big
you know festival where theywere trying to do something for
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charity.
I think the Isle of WightFestival in 1970 is amazing A
lot of fantastic artists, butyou can also watch and listen to
it, so it's something that iseasily accessible to people to
be able to see what it was allabout, and that's what I think
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is super cool.
There's a lot of other greatfestivals that have happened,
but there's barely any pictures,there's barely any recordings,
and it's tough to tell aboutthose.
So I get excited when you havesomething that you can listen to
or see and get a feel for whatit was like that August 1970.
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All right, On the Isle of Wight.
So day one, August 26, includeda set by Chris Christopherson.
It didn't go well.
He got booed off the stage.
Oh wow, that's horrible.
The sound wasn't working.
They did have some sound issues.
Sound wasn't working well.
And then he had a song Blame iton the Stones, and the crowd
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thought he was talking about theRolling Stones.
And he wasn't and it was wasjust it got out of control and
anyway he gets booed off thestage.
Day two, August 27th, hadSupertramp touring for their
debut album and Terry Reed wasamong the performers.
Terry Reed just died recently,on August 4th 2025.
(04:43):
And Jimmy Page actually wantedhim to be the lead singer of Led
Zeppelin.
They didn't have a name yet,but they were coming together
with this band and that was hisfirst choice to be in the band.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I wonder, how that would have been.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Very different, I think.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Very different.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He turned it down.
And then Richie Blackmorewanted him to front Deep Purple
oh, and he turned that down also.
I mean, those are some prettygood bands there that people
want you to come be part of.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But they probably were just starting at the time
right know about Deep Purple.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I know that you know.
For Led Zeppelin it was beforethey had a name.
It was when Jimmy Page was juststarting to put together a band
that would become Led Zeppelin.
So yeah, it's kind of crazy.
Day three August 28th foundbands such as Procol, Harum and
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Chicago playing and Chicago didBeginnings.
Does Anybody Really Know whatTime it Is?
Make Me Smile, color my World25 or 624.
I mean those are some reallyreally good songs.
I mean I love that earlyChicago sound that they had.
Man, they were some really goodsongs.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I didn't realize they were that old either 1970, they
already had those songs out,huh.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it?
It's really crazy when youthink about it.
Day four, August 29th 1970,opened up with John Sebastian,
formerly of the Love andSpoonful, and he did some songs
like Do you Believe in Magic,which was the big Love and
Spoonful song.
His guitarist from the Love andSpoonful just shows up and
(06:26):
sends a note to the stage.
It's like, hey, I want to comeup and play.
And he played a few songs withJohn Sebastian.
It was kind of crazy, Like howdo you just end up at the Isle
of Wight?
I'm like, yeah, I got my guitarwith me.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I'm ready to play.
I guess he figured John wouldbe amenable to it, huh.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, and he was.
He also did Daydream RainbowsAll Over you Blues.
I love that song.
I talked about it when wetalked about Woodstock.
It's a song I had never heardof until I heard the recordings
of Woodstock.
Just a fantastic song.
I really like it.
It there was Joni Mitchell andTiny Tim.
Do you remember Tiny Tim?
Yeah the guy with I don't knowwhat kind of voice you would
call it, you know it was veryaffected, right yeah?
(07:16):
I mean, it wasn't like it was agood voice.
It's not like I don't want tosay he was singing falsetto when
it was, it was kind of was,though, right.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
It was kind of, but it's like a novelty act.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yes, a novelty act.
That would be a great way toput it.
The jazz trumpeter, or is ittrumpeteer, Jimmy?
I?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
say trumpeter.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
All right.
So you know what we're going tostay with.
The jazz trumpeter.
I kind of like that.
I think I want to write a movienow.
Jazz trumpeter, I like it.
So the jazz trumpeter, milesDavis, surprised people by
playing the festival.
Oh cool.
Earlier in the year he wasactually on some bills, did some
shows with Neil Young, steveMiller, the Grateful Dead and
(08:02):
the audiences.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You know they kind of dug it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It was something that was different.
Different and here he was atthe Isle of Wight and kind of
what his thought process was isto take the audience far but to
know when, to not go too far,where they were going to lose
their interest, okay, and thenbring it back, and so the
audience loved it.
(08:23):
It was great.
If you get a chance, check itout, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, I want to.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Back to the other bands.
10 years after Emerson Lake andPalmer played their second show
ever at the Isle of Wight, kindof like Crosby, stills, nash
and Young played their secondshow ever at Woodstock.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Festival was being filmed for a movie.
So by this time they're like,hey, we got to have, you know,
filming.
You know we're going to makedocumentaries, we're going to
make films.
You know Woodstock theyreleased a triple album.
They released the Woodstockmovie, you know.
They came out in 1970.
So everyone was prepared.
This is how you make moneyforever, because as long as
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people buy, the money comes in.
So they had spotlights thatwere on the bands so that when
they were filming you could seemore clearly than being in the
dark.
That was until the Doors tookthe stage around 2 am.
(09:25):
Jim Morrison refused to havethe spotlights on and wouldn't
play if the spotlights weregoing to be on.
They compromised by having onered spotlight.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Which, if you watch it, comes out more orangey.
It's like a reddish-orange, Iguess, kind of like the sun.
Maybe that would be a goodexplanation of it.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And it's really cool if you watch some of the other
acts and then you watch thedoors.
At times you're listening toJim R, the stage is dark,
there's some flash photographygoing off and and you'll see,
like these, you know, oh, likestrobes.
Yes, and it's really cool, jimMorrison.
(10:13):
He basically kept his eyesclosed and sang, but he didn't
move that much.
It wasn't like the old JimArson that was prancing around
the stage and antics of allkinds.
He sounded really good.
It was a very, very differenttype of show for the band and
(10:35):
they acknowledged it after theshow that even they were kind of
surprised by the way it went,but ultimately he sounded really
good.
It after the show that eventhey were kind of surprised by
the the way it went, butultimately he sounded really
good.
If you listen to, um, therecordings, they probably
released them about seven yearsago.
It's short but it's good.
And they put, you know, someclassic songs backdoor man break
on through when the music'sover ship of fools Fools,
(10:59):
roadhouse Blues, light my Fireand the End.
That's a pretty good show there.
That's a good set, you know.
So, speaking of the End, theDoors only played three more
shows with Jim Morrison onvocals and the last one was
December 12, 1970 in New Orleans.
Jim Morrison died seven monthslater in Paris, france.
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So a great show.
I know the New Orleans show wasnot a good show.
Oh, so it was the last goodshow.
Yes, I don't know.
I think he played a night inDallas.
I think he did an early showand a late show.
I'm not really sure how thosewent, but I know the last show
didn't go well.
So, you know, the fact thatthey filmed this and they got
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the sound makes it kind ofspecial.
So the who performed the albumTommy and a bunch of other songs
.
So the who by this time hadbeen playing, you know, the rock
opera Tommy.
You know, for close to twoyears they had been touring
nonstop with it and they reallywere doing a fantastic job with
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it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
This is one of the most listened to CD I say CD
most streamed albums on my phonethat I have.
I listen to the who at the Isleof Wight all the time.
It's just fantastic, greatsound.
You know just they came a longway from Woodstock and I love
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Woodstock.
I talked about the who atWoodstock how you know
impressionable it was on me, butby playing it nonstop at the
Isle of Wight it's really coolto listen to.
It really really is good.
Day four ended with Sly and theFamily Stone and then day five
starts up, august 30th 1970.
(12:52):
This is the final day.
Chris Christopherson tried itagain and this time it went well
, without sound issues.
The crowd clapped and theyenjoyed it well, without sound
issues.
The crowd clapped and you knowthey enjoyed it did he play that
uh stone song?
I don't think he did.
Uh, I'm not sure, but I don'tthink he did.
So free did their classic songall right now with paul rogers
(13:15):
on vocal.
So talking about a band thatyou didn't realize was that old,
I didn't realize you know like,it just didn't ring in my head
that 1970,.
You know they had a classicsong, all right now?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, because that song you were still hearing that
song in the mid to late 70s.
Yeah, it was, you know, allover.
You know people would beplaying it on the radio and on
their boom boxes and stuff.
It was very much a 70s song.
You don't think of it as a1970s song.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I actually thought it was Bad Company for a long time
when I was a kid, to be honest.
Because it's got the same kindof sound you know.
Yeah.
So Donovan, the Moody Blues,jethro Tull, jimi Hendrix, joan
Baez and Leonard Cohen followed.
Leonard Cohen was someone thatwas not of the norm, that played
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a bunch of rock festivals orrock shows that again kind of
like Miles Davis.
He did things differently butaudiences liked it.
You know they didn't want toomuch of it, but it was just very
interesting the whole LeonardCohen thing.
He actually hooked up withJanis Joplin at the Chelsea
(14:31):
Hotel at one time.
They were both staying thereand it's kind of cool because
you can actually read hisinterpretation of you know how
the day and night went, you canread hers and it's funny putting
them both together and you knowthat's the way it was.
So Richie Havens, who opened upWoodstock, was the final
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performer at the 1970 Isle ofWight Festival.
How cool is that Played a bunchof the same songs that he had
played at Woodstock.
So again, you can get this, youcan stream it, you can buy the
album, cds, whatever it is ofmost of this show Ritchie Havens
.
I don't think you can.
I think you can find it on theInternet from an audience member
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that recorded it.
But it's really cool to go backand listen to all the different
things.
The Moody Blues I listened tothe Moody Blues, a bunch from
Isle of Wight.
I listened to the who that Imentioned.
I have Jimi Hendrix, you know abunch of them.
And then there's also an album,message to Love.
The Isle of Wight Festival.
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That's kind of got a bunch ofthe different bands that played
and maybe one or two songs andyou know you kind of get that
feel for what was happening backthen.
One of those shows, the bandsyou know they were supposed to
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play that day and the bandsplayed until they were done,
which meant the last bands likeSly and the Family Stone, and
you know other bands wereplaying as the sun was getting
ready to come up or sometimesalready up, and you don't find
things like that today.
It's a whole different.
You know ball game as far aswhere concerts and festivals go,
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that must have been a cool time.
So, jimmy, this past weekend Iflew up to New York and at the
Atlanta airport, for the firsttime ever, my flight was
canceled.
It was the last flight of thenight.
They rebooked me for themorning and when you get
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rebooked they're saying, hey,you can get a hotel voucher, or
if you want a refund but youcan't do it at the counter,
you've got to go back to thefront of the airport.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And the trains don't run when it's that late, right.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It's late, the trains don't run, they stop.
It's far to walk.
So we thought we were going tobe boarding and they actually
had the people that went in thewheelchairs that needed some
extra assistance already linedup and ready to go.
And when they made thisannouncement and said that if
you want a refund or a hotelvoucher, you've got to go to the
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front of the airport.
We're at Terminal E.
The airport, we're at TerminalE.
We're really far away.
Again, the trains don't run allthe time.
I could not believe it, butabout six of the 12 people that
were in the wheelchair thingsget up and start to run so that
they can go get their voucher,their refund, whatever it is.
(17:38):
Yeah, I'm not joking.
Seriously, some people did that.
I actually saw one of them thenext day walking around no
assistance whatsoever.
He sat two rows in front of me.
Just, it was unbelievable.
There are people that need theassistance and that's what it's
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there for.
Yeah, there are people thatdon't need it.
I met six of them.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So you slept at the airport.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I did sleep at the airport.
It was very not fun.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Did the flight go out in the morning?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It did go out in the morning, but by the time I got
to New York I was absolutelyexhausted.
But I promised my mother Iwould take her food shopping.
So I did.
You're a good son.
Thanks, jimmy.
August 27th 1995, the HordeFestival at the Lakewood
Amphitheater here in Atlanta,georgia.
Black Crows, blues Traveler,ziggy Marley there was a bunch
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of other bands, I just didn'tmake it in time Wilco played,
morphine played, I think theurban shake dancers.
Remember urban shake dancers.
They played, I don't rememberoff the top of my head who else
did so.
Horde stands for horizons ofrock developing everywhere and
it started in 1992.
John popper from Blues Travelerand the Blues Traveler guys
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came up with this idea that allthese big shows happen in the
summertime but bands like BluesTraveler you know they only have
like 2,000 fans in a city thisis their words and that they
have to play indoors and theycan't do stuff.
So they decided why don't weget some of our friends together
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and if we all go on tourtogether and if we all bring
2,000 people, we can playoutdoor amphitheaters.
The first festival had Fish,blues Traveler, widespread Panic
, spin Doctors and Colonel BruceHampton and the Aquarium Rescue
(19:44):
Unit and they brought a ton offans together and it's kind of
like the emergence of the nextgeneration of jam bands, because
people who didn't knowWidespread Panic but like Phish
all of a sudden got introducedto them.
Widespread panic, but like fishall of a sudden got introduced
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to them.
And people who like bluestraveler but didn't know any of
the others all of a sudden likeoh wow, and you know colonel
bruce hampton and the aquariumrescue unit, which most people
didn't know but are legends herein atlanta.
A lot of people got toexperience them and what's cool
about them is that band membersJimmy Herring went on in 2006 to
become the guitarist forWidespread Panic and bassist
(20:29):
Oteel Burbridge went on to playfor the Allman Brothers band
from 1997 to 2014.
And the Allman Brothers theyretired at that time.
2015, he joins Den and Companyand he's been with them ever
since.
And he's done a bunch of otherprojects and stuff, but Oteel
got his big break, his big startwith Colonel Bruce Hampton here
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in Atlanta.
So back to the 95 HordeFestival, the Black Crows I had
seen about four and a halfmonths earlier.
I talked about seeing them openfor the Grateful Dead in Tampa,
florida.
They played Could I have Beenso Blind Seeing Things?
Jealous Again, remedy.
And they did a cover of theAllman Brothers band Statesboro
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Blues, which was really cool.
I was really like when theystarted playing I was like, is
this Statesboro Blues?
It was really cool, did a greatjob.
And they did Rolling Stones'Happy kind of a song that
they've played, you know,throughout the years, very
different from the Tampa show.
The set list was very different, just a whole different vibe.
Everything was just.
And it's only four and a halfmonths in between each of the
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shows.
Blues Travelers, you know theydid the crowd favorites, hook,
run Around a bunch of songs.
They did a cover of War'sLowrider.
They did the Star SpangledBanner.
You know, just make it cool.
You know Ziggy Marley, theusual Tomorrow People Power to
Move Ya, and of course you know,always doing his dad's covers
(21:59):
of Get Up, stand Up and Couldyou Be Loved?
You know, I think it was a coolconcept at the right time that
a bunch of people needed One.
The musicians needed it, asJohn Popper said, about being
able to play to a biggeraudience and be able to expand
their audiences, but I thinkthat fans needed it.
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There was just something atthat time that was kind of
missing and you got to hear allthese different bands and be
part of something that you couldthen start to oh, let me buy
this album, let me look intothis, let me check this out.
Oh, let me go see them now whenthey're doing their own show,
and I think it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And Jerry Garcia died right, yes, so I mean a lot of
dead fans were kind of lookingfor who to follow next and this
was a great way to crosspollinate a lot of those people.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, and it was because you know you have
widespread panic.
You have fish.
You know those two bands, rightthere you have.
They have a lot of followersand none of them are the
Grateful Dead and none of themtry to be the Grateful Dead.
They all try and do their ownthing, but they are jam bands.
There's no question about that.
And you're right, people werelooking for something.
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You know, when the first onestarted in 92, jerry Garcia was
still alive.
But by the time I went in in1995, jerry Garcia had just died
.
And you know it's like what arewe going to do next?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I remember that a lot of people were really kind of
trying to figure out you knowwhat's next.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And the guy from Blues Traveler came up with a
solution.
Hey, let's revisit some moremusic in my shoes Now, going
from jam bands to KC and theSunshine Band Get Down Tonight
peaked at number one onBillboard Hot 100, august 30th
1975.
I love the opening of this song, the band's instruments playing
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one note bomb and then the dudeon the guitar playing like
super fast, almost like a guitarsolo, at the beginning of the
song.
And baby, baby, let's gettogether, honey, honey, me and
you and do the things.
Ah, do the things that we liketo do.
(24:21):
Those are some true spokenwords there, jimmy.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, that's deep.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It was a great beat and even if you didn't want to
dance that's the one thingPeople that didn't like the song
, they didn't want to dance,they didn't want to do it their
foot was like tapping on thefloor.
You know, it always made melaugh that that would happen.
It was the first number one forthe band on the Hot 100.
It was also number one on thesecharts the Billboard Hot Soul
(24:50):
Singles, cashbox Top 100, recordWorld Singles but it only made
it to number six on thebillboard hot disco singles and
that just cracks me up.
Oh weird, isn't it?
I thought you would think thesame casey never considered the
band a disco band.
(25:11):
He always considered it like ar&b band or a funk band, but
never a disco band.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Um, sorry casey, you're a disco band.
Yes, hey, if we You're a discoband.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yes, hey, if we move a little bit here into the
summer 80, blotto they had asong called I Want to Be a
Lifeguard Selling shoes anotherloser working in a shopping mall
.
It's a novelty song.
But not a novelty song.
It's sung from the perspectiveof a guy selling shoes at the
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mall and dreaming of being alifeguard.
I want an ocean and somesunscreen lotion.
Take me to the beach with athousand pretty girls in reach.
I mean, with words like that,you know, you want to be a
lifeguard.
It's really funny how a songthat's just kind of a drop in
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the bucket of all the songs thathave happened in the world and
that have been created, you knowit just stays with me.
I mean, I think about this songand it's like, oh hey, and
sometime in 2025, in the summer,I want to make sure I talk
about this song and the videowas actually on the first day of
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MTV in August of 1981.
It actually made the firstvideos, but I don't think many
people actually saw it.
I want to be a lifeguard.
I want to guard your life.
I want to be a lifeguard.
Hardly any clothes, sandbetween my toes, white stuff on
(26:43):
my nose alright let's move on tothe late summer of 1980.
A Canadian band, the Kings,released the single.
This beat goes on, switching toglide.
It's actually two songs andit's one right into the other
and they had released one ofthem at first and it didn't do
(27:04):
so well and I remember hearingit.
At first I didn't thinkanything about it, but when they
put them together it was justlike man, this is really good.
I like this.
You know, I have lots offriends that I can ding at any
time, can mobilize some laughswith just one call.
Like a bunch of lunatics, we'llact till way past dawn.
(27:28):
Sure, we'll be rocking till ourstrength is gone.
Yeah, this beat goes on Withwords like that man, that's
fantastic.
With words like that man,that's fantastic.
Debuted on the Billboard Hot100 August 23, 1980.
Reached number 43 on December13.
Again, it's a fun song.
(27:48):
I can't imagine it separated.
It just didn't work.
But when you put them bothtogether it's just like this
summer anthem where you're justlike boom.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It's like a Reese's peanut butter cup.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Maybe that might be a good way to put it together.
Nothing matters but the weekendfrom a Tuesday point of view.
Like a kettle in the kitchen, Ifeel the steam begin to brew,
switching to glide.
Jimmy, I think every Tuesday Ithink of those words In my head.
(28:21):
I'll be like it's Tuesday andI'm like nothing matters but the
weekend from a Tuesday point ofview.
I think that all the time, 45years later, I'm still thinking
that I mean Loverboy was workingfor the weekend.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That's better lyrics.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
There you go.
You know, I think right nowit's tick, tick, tick.
Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Minute with Jimmy alright the Cure Head on the
Door.
The Head on the Door came outin August 1985.
Do you like this record?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I love this record.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, and it was a cool change for the Cure.
I feel like the earlier albumswere a little more organic and
this one they were using moreelectronic sounds, more
sequenced drums that kind of hada little more of that New Order
kind of sound, more keyboardsthat just had unusual sounds.
(29:26):
And of course it starts outwith the hit song In Between
Days, which I still love, thatsong.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
And it also has another hit among Cure fans
close to me.
But it has some other reallygreat songs on it.
A Kyoto song, the Baby Screams.
A Night Like this, it's a greatrecord.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Isn't Push on that album.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Push is on that album .
Speaker 1 (29:53):
yeah, Push is a fantastic song as well.
A Night Like this.
For a long time that was one ofmy favorite Cure songs.
I just love that song.
I like the way that they do theinstrument part of the song.
It seems like it's going up.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I don't know all the words.
Yeah, it's building.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
It's building and stuff.
I just think it's super cool.
I love the album.
I agree with you.
I think that that was the firstalbum that people really got
exposed to the Cure where theywere comfortable with saying I
like the Cure Because, again,the earlier stuff that was
something people didn't like, Iliked it.
But this here really opened itup to a much bigger audience.
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But this here really opened itup to a much bigger audience.
You know, most of those songsyou just talked about were
played on wlir, often a lot.
But you know, some of the songsmade it to other types of radio
stations and got to be playedso that people could hear it.
After this album, standing onthe beach, the singles, I think
that came out in 86, if I'm notmistaken.
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That was the album that thenexploded.
The cure in my opinion it didbecause it had songs from this
album, as well as songs prior,that people could now say, oh
yeah, I like the cure yeah, likekind of curated ones from the
earlier albums.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
It's's like okay, you guys will like these.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
And they were singles , I guess.
So it made sense that thosewere probably the most
accessible songs for people.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, good choice, jimmy.
I agree with you on that.
Minute with Jimmy Thanks.
Minute with Jimmy Staying in1985, the WLIR Screamer of the
Week first week of September,screamin' Tribesmen Date with a
Vampire.
I don't know any other songs bythis band, but this song is
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like do you know this song,jimmy?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
So it starts off with a piano playing like spooky
Halloween type sound, and thenall of a sudden it's bass, drums
and like a heavy guitar andit's just a really cool song.
It really is.
I don't know where she comesfrom.
She just wouldn't say but we'regoing down to the graveyard at
the finish of the day with wordslike that and I know I say
stuff like that but those wordscatch me.
That makes me want to just likewow Australian band.
(32:22):
It's just been in my head for40 years.
I mean, I like it.
It's another song that's on myphone that I listen to.
It's pretty cool.
She dresses up in black andwears a red rose in her hair.
I know she is a demon, butsomehow I just don't care.
I've got a date with a vampiregirl tonight.
(32:43):
It's a rocker, jimmy.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
All right, I'll look it up.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
If it had different words, maybe it would have been
more popular.
Maybe if it was calledsomething else, when you just
listen to the music, I thinkthat you'll really get it.
I think that you'll like it,without a doubt.
So if you want to comment onanything that we spoke about
during the show today, you canreach us at musicinmyshoes at
gmailcom.
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That's it for episode 93 ofMusic In my Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios located righthere in my Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios, locatedright here in Atlanta, georgia,
and Vic Thrill for our podcastmusic.
This is, jim, and I hope youlearned something new or
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remember something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
Yeah, this beat goes on.
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
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 93.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
On episode 40, 10 days inAugust 69, I spoke about
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Woodstock.
Well, here we are a year laterwith the Isle of Wight Festival
that took place August 26th tothe 30th, 1970.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, isle of Wight is an island located just a few
miles off the coast of mainlandEngland.
It's south of England, forthose of you who don't know
where it is.
And I got to be honest, I hadno idea until I looked it up.
I didn't know where it was.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I didn't know either.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
But I wanted to kind of get a geographical location
so that I could, in my mind,picture where all these fine
artists were going to be playing.
Some say as many as 600,000 to700,000 people were there, wow.
Some say it was less than that.
And it's kind of funny that youcan never tell how many people
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are really at a show.
Like, what do they do?
Do they look at pictures?
And they're like, oh, let mecount.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I mean, did they take attendance, did they have
tickets?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
They had tickets.
But it's just kind of like, youknow, all of a sudden people
just start showing up and it'sjust kind of bizarre that they
just don't know how many.
Right, it's true, you know,it's very, very strange.
It's an island, so you had toget on a ferry to go across the
water.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well, they could probably tell from the ferry
logs then.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, but for some reason there's no like official.
This is what it was.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
How far off are the numbers?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Some say six to 700,000.
The promoters say only half ofthat.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh, that's a big difference.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But it's actually in the Guinness Book of Records, so
it's kind of bizarre when youlook at it that way.
So day one, august 26th.
So even before I get into that,let me just say there are some
festivals, music things that tome are just super cool things.
We've talked about Woodstock.
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We've talked about Live Aid.
There is the Us Festival atsome point we'll talk about.
There is the concert forBangladesh that we'll talk about
, you know, in the near futureand that was put on by George
Harrison with his friends andthat was probably the first big
you know festival where theywere trying to do something for
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charity.
I think the Isle of WightFestival in 1970 is amazing A
lot of fantastic artists, butyou can also watch and listen to
it, so it's something that iseasily accessible to people to
be able to see what it was allabout, and that's what I think
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is super cool.
There's a lot of other greatfestivals that have happened,
but there's barely any pictures,there's barely any recordings,
and it's tough to tell aboutthose.
So I get excited when you havesomething that you can listen to
or see and get a feel for whatit was like that August 1970.
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All right, On the Isle of Wight.
So day one, August 26, includeda set by Chris Christopherson.
It didn't go well.
He got booed off the stage.
Oh wow, that's horrible.
The sound wasn't working.
They did have some sound issues.
Sound wasn't working well.
And then he had a song Blame iton the Stones, and the crowd
(04:19):
thought he was talking about theRolling Stones.
And he wasn't and it was wasjust it got out of control and
anyway he gets booed off thestage.
Day two, August 27th, hadSupertramp touring for their
debut album and Terry Reed wasamong the performers.
Terry Reed just died recently,on August 4th 2025.
(04:43):
And Jimmy Page actually wantedhim to be the lead singer of Led
Zeppelin.
They didn't have a name yet,but they were coming together
with this band and that was hisfirst choice to be in the band.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I wonder, how that would have been.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Very different, I think.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Very different.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He turned it down.
And then Richie Blackmorewanted him to front Deep Purple
oh, and he turned that down also.
I mean, those are some prettygood bands there that people
want you to come be part of.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But they probably were just starting at the time
right know about Deep Purple.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I know that you know.
For Led Zeppelin it was beforethey had a name.
It was when Jimmy Page was juststarting to put together a band
that would become Led Zeppelin.
So yeah, it's kind of crazy.
Day three August 28th foundbands such as Procol, Harum and
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Chicago playing and Chicago didBeginnings.
Does Anybody Really Know whatTime it Is?
Make Me Smile, color my World25 or 624.
I mean those are some reallyreally good songs.
I mean I love that earlyChicago sound that they had.
Man, they were some really goodsongs.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I didn't realize they were that old either 1970, they
already had those songs out,huh.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it?
It's really crazy when youthink about it.
Day four, August 29th 1970,opened up with John Sebastian,
formerly of the Love andSpoonful, and he did some songs
like Do you Believe in Magic,which was the big Love and
Spoonful song.
His guitarist from the Love andSpoonful just shows up and
(06:26):
sends a note to the stage.
It's like, hey, I want to comeup and play.
And he played a few songs withJohn Sebastian.
It was kind of crazy, Like howdo you just end up at the Isle
of Wight?
I'm like, yeah, I got my guitarwith me.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I'm ready to play.
I guess he figured John wouldbe amenable to it, huh.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, and he was.
He also did Daydream RainbowsAll Over you Blues.
I love that song.
I talked about it when wetalked about Woodstock.
It's a song I had never heardof until I heard the recordings
of Woodstock.
Just a fantastic song.
I really like it.
It there was Joni Mitchell andTiny Tim.
Do you remember Tiny Tim?
Yeah the guy with I don't knowwhat kind of voice you would
call it, you know it was veryaffected, right yeah?
(07:16):
I mean, it wasn't like it was agood voice.
It's not like I don't want tosay he was singing falsetto when
it was, it was kind of was,though, right.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
It was kind of, but it's like a novelty act.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yes, a novelty act.
That would be a great way toput it.
The jazz trumpeter, or is ittrumpeteer, Jimmy?
I?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
say trumpeter.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
All right.
So you know what we're going tostay with.
The jazz trumpeter.
I kind of like that.
I think I want to write a movienow.
Jazz trumpeter, I like it.
So the jazz trumpeter, milesDavis, surprised people by
playing the festival.
Oh cool.
Earlier in the year he wasactually on some bills, did some
shows with Neil Young, steveMiller, the Grateful Dead and
(08:02):
the audiences.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You know they kind of dug it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It was something that was different.
Different and here he was atthe Isle of Wight and kind of
what his thought process was isto take the audience far but to
know when, to not go too far,where they were going to lose
their interest, okay, and thenbring it back, and so the
audience loved it.
(08:23):
It was great.
If you get a chance, check itout, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, I want to.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Back to the other bands.
10 years after Emerson Lake andPalmer played their second show
ever at the Isle of Wight, kindof like Crosby, stills, nash
and Young played their secondshow ever at Woodstock.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Festival was being filmed for a movie.
So by this time they're like,hey, we got to have, you know,
filming.
You know we're going to makedocumentaries, we're going to
make films.
You know Woodstock theyreleased a triple album.
They released the Woodstockmovie, you know.
They came out in 1970.
So everyone was prepared.
This is how you make moneyforever, because as long as
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people buy, the money comes in.
So they had spotlights thatwere on the bands so that when
they were filming you could seemore clearly than being in the
dark.
That was until the Doors tookthe stage around 2 am.
(09:25):
Jim Morrison refused to havethe spotlights on and wouldn't
play if the spotlights weregoing to be on.
They compromised by having onered spotlight.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Which, if you watch it, comes out more orangey.
It's like a reddish-orange, Iguess, kind of like the sun.
Maybe that would be a goodexplanation of it.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And it's really cool if you watch some of the other
acts and then you watch thedoors.
At times you're listening toJim R, the stage is dark,
there's some flash photographygoing off and and you'll see,
like these, you know, oh, likestrobes.
Yes, and it's really cool, jimMorrison.
(10:13):
He basically kept his eyesclosed and sang, but he didn't
move that much.
It wasn't like the old JimArson that was prancing around
the stage and antics of allkinds.
He sounded really good.
It was a very, very differenttype of show for the band and
(10:35):
they acknowledged it after theshow that even they were kind of
surprised by the way it went,but ultimately he sounded really
good.
It after the show that eventhey were kind of surprised by
the the way it went, butultimately he sounded really
good.
If you listen to, um, therecordings, they probably
released them about seven yearsago.
It's short but it's good.
And they put, you know, someclassic songs backdoor man break
on through when the music'sover ship of fools Fools,
(10:59):
roadhouse Blues, light my Fireand the End.
That's a pretty good show there.
That's a good set, you know.
So, speaking of the End, theDoors only played three more
shows with Jim Morrison onvocals and the last one was
December 12, 1970 in New Orleans.
Jim Morrison died seven monthslater in Paris, france.
(11:23):
So a great show.
I know the New Orleans show wasnot a good show.
Oh, so it was the last goodshow.
Yes, I don't know.
I think he played a night inDallas.
I think he did an early showand a late show.
I'm not really sure how thosewent, but I know the last show
didn't go well.
So, you know, the fact thatthey filmed this and they got
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the sound makes it kind ofspecial.
So the who performed the albumTommy and a bunch of other songs
.
So the who by this time hadbeen playing, you know, the rock
opera Tommy.
You know, for close to twoyears they had been touring
nonstop with it and they reallywere doing a fantastic job with
(12:10):
it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
This is one of the most listened to CD I say CD
most streamed albums on my phonethat I have.
I listen to the who at the Isleof Wight all the time.
It's just fantastic, greatsound.
You know just they came a longway from Woodstock and I love
(12:31):
Woodstock.
I talked about the who atWoodstock how you know
impressionable it was on me, butby playing it nonstop at the
Isle of Wight it's really coolto listen to.
It really really is good.
Day four ended with Sly and theFamily Stone and then day five
starts up, august 30th 1970.
(12:52):
This is the final day.
Chris Christopherson tried itagain and this time it went well
, without sound issues.
The crowd clapped and theyenjoyed it well, without sound
issues.
The crowd clapped and you knowthey enjoyed it did he play that
uh stone song?
I don't think he did.
Uh, I'm not sure, but I don'tthink he did.
So free did their classic songall right now with paul rogers
(13:15):
on vocal.
So talking about a band thatyou didn't realize was that old,
I didn't realize you know like,it just didn't ring in my head
that 1970,.
You know they had a classicsong, all right now?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, because that song you were still hearing that
song in the mid to late 70s.
Yeah, it was, you know, allover.
You know people would beplaying it on the radio and on
their boom boxes and stuff.
It was very much a 70s song.
You don't think of it as a1970s song.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I actually thought it was Bad Company for a long time
when I was a kid, to be honest.
Because it's got the same kindof sound you know.
Yeah.
So Donovan, the Moody Blues,jethro Tull, jimi Hendrix, joan
Baez and Leonard Cohen followed.
Leonard Cohen was someone thatwas not of the norm, that played
(14:09):
a bunch of rock festivals orrock shows that again kind of
like Miles Davis.
He did things differently butaudiences liked it.
You know they didn't want toomuch of it, but it was just very
interesting the whole LeonardCohen thing.
He actually hooked up withJanis Joplin at the Chelsea
(14:31):
Hotel at one time.
They were both staying thereand it's kind of cool because
you can actually read hisinterpretation of you know how
the day and night went, you canread hers and it's funny putting
them both together and you knowthat's the way it was.
So Richie Havens, who opened upWoodstock, was the final
(14:55):
performer at the 1970 Isle ofWight Festival.
How cool is that Played a bunchof the same songs that he had
played at Woodstock.
So again, you can get this, youcan stream it, you can buy the
album, cds, whatever it is ofmost of this show Ritchie Havens
.
I don't think you can.
I think you can find it on theInternet from an audience member
(15:19):
that recorded it.
But it's really cool to go backand listen to all the different
things.
The Moody Blues I listened tothe Moody Blues, a bunch from
Isle of Wight.
I listened to the who that Imentioned.
I have Jimi Hendrix, you know abunch of them.
And then there's also an album,message to Love.
The Isle of Wight Festival.
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That's kind of got a bunch ofthe different bands that played
and maybe one or two songs andyou know you kind of get that
feel for what was happening backthen.
One of those shows, the bandsyou know they were supposed to
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play that day and the bandsplayed until they were done,
which meant the last bands likeSly and the Family Stone, and
you know other bands wereplaying as the sun was getting
ready to come up or sometimesalready up, and you don't find
things like that today.
It's a whole different.
You know ball game as far aswhere concerts and festivals go,
(16:23):
that must have been a cool time.
So, jimmy, this past weekend Iflew up to New York and at the
Atlanta airport, for the firsttime ever, my flight was
canceled.
It was the last flight of thenight.
They rebooked me for themorning and when you get
(16:43):
rebooked they're saying, hey,you can get a hotel voucher, or
if you want a refund but youcan't do it at the counter,
you've got to go back to thefront of the airport.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And the trains don't run when it's that late, right.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It's late, the trains don't run, they stop.
It's far to walk.
So we thought we were going tobe boarding and they actually
had the people that went in thewheelchairs that needed some
extra assistance already linedup and ready to go.
And when they made thisannouncement and said that if
you want a refund or a hotelvoucher, you've got to go to the
(17:15):
front of the airport.
We're at Terminal E.
The airport, we're at TerminalE.
We're really far away.
Again, the trains don't run allthe time.
I could not believe it, butabout six of the 12 people that
were in the wheelchair thingsget up and start to run so that
they can go get their voucher,their refund, whatever it is.
(17:38):
Yeah, I'm not joking.
Seriously, some people did that.
I actually saw one of them thenext day walking around no
assistance whatsoever.
He sat two rows in front of me.
Just, it was unbelievable.
There are people that need theassistance and that's what it's
(17:59):
there for.
Yeah, there are people thatdon't need it.
I met six of them.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So you slept at the airport.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I did sleep at the airport.
It was very not fun.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Did the flight go out in the morning?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It did go out in the morning, but by the time I got
to New York I was absolutelyexhausted.
But I promised my mother Iwould take her food shopping.
So I did.
You're a good son.
Thanks, jimmy.
August 27th 1995, the HordeFestival at the Lakewood
Amphitheater here in Atlanta,georgia.
Black Crows, blues Traveler,ziggy Marley there was a bunch
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of other bands, I just didn'tmake it in time Wilco played,
morphine played, I think theurban shake dancers.
Remember urban shake dancers.
They played, I don't rememberoff the top of my head who else
did so.
Horde stands for horizons ofrock developing everywhere and
it started in 1992.
John popper from Blues Travelerand the Blues Traveler guys
(19:02):
came up with this idea that allthese big shows happen in the
summertime but bands like BluesTraveler you know they only have
like 2,000 fans in a city thisis their words and that they
have to play indoors and theycan't do stuff.
So they decided why don't weget some of our friends together
(19:24):
and if we all go on tourtogether and if we all bring
2,000 people, we can playoutdoor amphitheaters.
The first festival had Fish,blues Traveler, widespread Panic
, spin Doctors and Colonel BruceHampton and the Aquarium Rescue
(19:44):
Unit and they brought a ton offans together and it's kind of
like the emergence of the nextgeneration of jam bands, because
people who didn't knowWidespread Panic but like Phish
all of a sudden got introducedto them.
Widespread panic, but like fishall of a sudden got introduced
(20:04):
to them.
And people who like bluestraveler but didn't know any of
the others all of a sudden likeoh wow, and you know colonel
bruce hampton and the aquariumrescue unit, which most people
didn't know but are legends herein atlanta.
A lot of people got toexperience them and what's cool
about them is that band membersJimmy Herring went on in 2006 to
become the guitarist forWidespread Panic and bassist
(20:29):
Oteel Burbridge went on to playfor the Allman Brothers band
from 1997 to 2014.
And the Allman Brothers theyretired at that time.
2015, he joins Den and Companyand he's been with them ever
since.
And he's done a bunch of otherprojects and stuff, but Oteel
got his big break, his big startwith Colonel Bruce Hampton here
(20:52):
in Atlanta.
So back to the 95 HordeFestival, the Black Crows I had
seen about four and a halfmonths earlier.
I talked about seeing them openfor the Grateful Dead in Tampa,
florida.
They played Could I have Beenso Blind Seeing Things?
Jealous Again, remedy.
And they did a cover of theAllman Brothers band Statesboro
(21:14):
Blues, which was really cool.
I was really like when theystarted playing I was like, is
this Statesboro Blues?
It was really cool, did a greatjob.
And they did Rolling Stones'Happy kind of a song that
they've played, you know,throughout the years, very
different from the Tampa show.
The set list was very different, just a whole different vibe.
Everything was just.
And it's only four and a halfmonths in between each of the
(21:37):
shows.
Blues Travelers, you know theydid the crowd favorites, hook,
run Around a bunch of songs.
They did a cover of War'sLowrider.
They did the Star SpangledBanner.
You know, just make it cool.
You know Ziggy Marley, theusual Tomorrow People Power to
Move Ya, and of course you know,always doing his dad's covers
(21:59):
of Get Up, stand Up and Couldyou Be Loved?
You know, I think it was a coolconcept at the right time that
a bunch of people needed One.
The musicians needed it, asJohn Popper said, about being
able to play to a biggeraudience and be able to expand
their audiences, but I thinkthat fans needed it.
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There was just something atthat time that was kind of
missing and you got to hear allthese different bands and be
part of something that you couldthen start to oh, let me buy
this album, let me look intothis, let me check this out.
Oh, let me go see them now whenthey're doing their own show,
and I think it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And Jerry Garcia died right, yes, so I mean a lot of
dead fans were kind of lookingfor who to follow next and this
was a great way to crosspollinate a lot of those people.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, and it was because you know you have
widespread panic.
You have fish.
You know those two bands, rightthere you have.
They have a lot of followersand none of them are the
Grateful Dead and none of themtry to be the Grateful Dead.
They all try and do their ownthing, but they are jam bands.
There's no question about that.
And you're right, people werelooking for something.
(23:14):
You know, when the first onestarted in 92, jerry Garcia was
still alive.
But by the time I went in in1995, jerry Garcia had just died
.
And you know it's like what arewe going to do next?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I remember that a lot of people were really kind of
trying to figure out you knowwhat's next.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And the guy from Blues Traveler came up with a
solution.
Hey, let's revisit some moremusic in my shoes Now, going
from jam bands to KC and theSunshine Band Get Down Tonight
peaked at number one onBillboard Hot 100, august 30th
1975.
I love the opening of this song, the band's instruments playing
(23:59):
one note bomb and then the dudeon the guitar playing like
super fast, almost like a guitarsolo, at the beginning of the
song.
And baby, baby, let's gettogether, honey, honey, me and
you and do the things.
Ah, do the things that we liketo do.
(24:21):
Those are some true spokenwords there, jimmy.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, that's deep.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It was a great beat and even if you didn't want to
dance that's the one thingPeople that didn't like the song
, they didn't want to dance,they didn't want to do it their
foot was like tapping on thefloor.
You know, it always made melaugh that that would happen.
It was the first number one forthe band on the Hot 100.
It was also number one on thesecharts the Billboard Hot Soul
(24:50):
Singles, cashbox Top 100, recordWorld Singles but it only made
it to number six on thebillboard hot disco singles and
that just cracks me up.
Oh weird, isn't it?
I thought you would think thesame casey never considered the
band a disco band.
(25:11):
He always considered it like ar&b band or a funk band, but
never a disco band.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Um, sorry casey, you're a disco band.
Yes, hey, if we You're a discoband.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yes, hey, if we move a little bit here into the
summer 80, blotto they had asong called I Want to Be a
Lifeguard Selling shoes anotherloser working in a shopping mall
.
It's a novelty song.
But not a novelty song.
It's sung from the perspectiveof a guy selling shoes at the
(25:40):
mall and dreaming of being alifeguard.
I want an ocean and somesunscreen lotion.
Take me to the beach with athousand pretty girls in reach.
I mean, with words like that,you know, you want to be a
lifeguard.
It's really funny how a songthat's just kind of a drop in
(26:01):
the bucket of all the songs thathave happened in the world and
that have been created, you knowit just stays with me.
I mean, I think about this songand it's like, oh hey, and
sometime in 2025, in the summer,I want to make sure I talk
about this song and the videowas actually on the first day of
(26:22):
MTV in August of 1981.
It actually made the firstvideos, but I don't think many
people actually saw it.
I want to be a lifeguard.
I want to guard your life.
I want to be a lifeguard.
Hardly any clothes, sandbetween my toes, white stuff on
(26:43):
my nose alright let's move on tothe late summer of 1980.
A Canadian band, the Kings,released the single.
This beat goes on, switching toglide.
It's actually two songs andit's one right into the other
and they had released one ofthem at first and it didn't do
(27:04):
so well and I remember hearingit.
At first I didn't thinkanything about it, but when they
put them together it was justlike man, this is really good.
I like this.
You know, I have lots offriends that I can ding at any
time, can mobilize some laughswith just one call.
Like a bunch of lunatics, we'llact till way past dawn.
(27:28):
Sure, we'll be rocking till ourstrength is gone.
Yeah, this beat goes on Withwords like that man, that's
fantastic.
With words like that man,that's fantastic.
Debuted on the Billboard Hot100 August 23, 1980.
Reached number 43 on December13.
Again, it's a fun song.
(27:48):
I can't imagine it separated.
It just didn't work.
But when you put them bothtogether it's just like this
summer anthem where you're justlike boom.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It's like a Reese's peanut butter cup.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Maybe that might be a good way to put it together.
Nothing matters but the weekendfrom a Tuesday point of view.
Like a kettle in the kitchen, Ifeel the steam begin to brew,
switching to glide.
Jimmy, I think every Tuesday Ithink of those words In my head.
(28:21):
I'll be like it's Tuesday andI'm like nothing matters but the
weekend from a Tuesday point ofview.
I think that all the time, 45years later, I'm still thinking
that I mean Loverboy was workingfor the weekend.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That's better lyrics.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
There you go.
You know, I think right nowit's tick, tick, tick.
Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Minute with Jimmy alright the Cure Head on the
Door.
The Head on the Door came outin August 1985.
Do you like this record?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I love this record.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, and it was a cool change for the Cure.
I feel like the earlier albumswere a little more organic and
this one they were using moreelectronic sounds, more
sequenced drums that kind of hada little more of that New Order
kind of sound, more keyboardsthat just had unusual sounds.
(29:26):
And of course it starts outwith the hit song In Between
Days, which I still love, thatsong.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
And it also has another hit among Cure fans
close to me.
But it has some other reallygreat songs on it.
A Kyoto song, the Baby Screams.
A Night Like this, it's a greatrecord.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Isn't Push on that album.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Push is on that album .
Speaker 1 (29:53):
yeah, Push is a fantastic song as well.
A Night Like this.
For a long time that was one ofmy favorite Cure songs.
I just love that song.
I like the way that they do theinstrument part of the song.
It seems like it's going up.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I don't know all the words.
Yeah, it's building.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
It's building and stuff.
I just think it's super cool.
I love the album.
I agree with you.
I think that that was the firstalbum that people really got
exposed to the Cure where theywere comfortable with saying I
like the Cure Because, again,the earlier stuff that was
something people didn't like, Iliked it.
But this here really opened itup to a much bigger audience.
(30:39):
But this here really opened itup to a much bigger audience.
You know, most of those songsyou just talked about were
played on wlir, often a lot.
But you know, some of the songsmade it to other types of radio
stations and got to be playedso that people could hear it.
After this album, standing onthe beach, the singles, I think
that came out in 86, if I'm notmistaken.
(31:01):
That was the album that thenexploded.
The cure in my opinion it didbecause it had songs from this
album, as well as songs prior,that people could now say, oh
yeah, I like the cure yeah, likekind of curated ones from the
earlier albums.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
It's's like okay, you guys will like these.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
And they were singles , I guess.
So it made sense that thosewere probably the most
accessible songs for people.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, good choice, jimmy.
I agree with you on that.
Minute with Jimmy Thanks.
Minute with Jimmy Staying in1985, the WLIR Screamer of the
Week first week of September,screamin' Tribesmen Date with a
Vampire.
I don't know any other songs bythis band, but this song is
(31:47):
like do you know this song,jimmy?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
So it starts off with a piano playing like spooky
Halloween type sound, and thenall of a sudden it's bass, drums
and like a heavy guitar andit's just a really cool song.
It really is.
I don't know where she comesfrom.
She just wouldn't say but we'regoing down to the graveyard at
the finish of the day with wordslike that and I know I say
stuff like that but those wordscatch me.
That makes me want to just likewow Australian band.
(32:22):
It's just been in my head for40 years.
I mean, I like it.
It's another song that's on myphone that I listen to.
It's pretty cool.
She dresses up in black andwears a red rose in her hair.
I know she is a demon, butsomehow I just don't care.
I've got a date with a vampiregirl tonight.
(32:43):
It's a rocker, jimmy.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
All right, I'll look it up.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
If it had different words, maybe it would have been
more popular.
Maybe if it was calledsomething else, when you just
listen to the music, I thinkthat you'll really get it.
I think that you'll like it,without a doubt.
So if you want to comment onanything that we spoke about
during the show today, you canreach us at musicinmyshoes at
gmailcom.
(33:08):
Please like and follow theMusic In my Shoes Facebook and
Instagram pages.
That's it for episode 93 ofMusic In my Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios located righthere in my Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios, locatedright here in Atlanta, georgia,
and Vic Thrill for our podcastmusic.
This is, jim, and I hope youlearned something new or
(33:30):
remember something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
Yeah, this beat goes on.
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