September 14, 2025 • 30 mins
We remember Jimi Hendrix's final performances and lasting legacy as arguably the greatest guitarist of all time. From his final show in Germany where fans booed him for weather delays to his breakthrough at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, we trace the trajectory of this revolutionary musician.
• Examining Hendrix's final days, including his last performance at the Love and Peace Festival in Germany on September 6, 1970
• Breaking down Hendrix's iconic Monterey Pop Festival performance where he set his guitar on fire
• Analyzing Hendrix's discography, including his debut album "Are You Experienced" and its lasting impact
• Comparing guitar rankings from Rolling Stone and Consequence that both place Hendrix at #1
• Discussing what made Hendrix's guitar playing revolutionary, including his mastery of feedback
• Looking back at hit TV Shows; Get Smart and The Golden Girls
• Highlighting David Bowie's "Fame" and John Lennon's contribution to the track
• Exploring the 1995 charity album "Help" that was recorded, mixed and released in just five days
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
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 a big thrill kickingoff episode 96.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
So, jimmy, I'm here inLevittown, new York,
(00:50):
broadcasting from New York.
Once again, you are at the homestudio, arcade, 160 Studios,
that is, and Atlanta, ga.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Doing well.
How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm doing good.
It's always good to talk to youand be able to do this long
distance and not miss an episodeand just kind of have a little
bit of fun.
And then, for those of you athome, when we do this, instead
of looking at Jimmy in thestudio, I'm looking at him on a
screen and it's definitelydifferent from the normal way we
do it, but it's always good tosee Jimmy's smiling face.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's always good to see Jim and Jim's mom's house.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, thank you, and of course she is not here.
I make sure she's not aroundwhen we're trying to do this,
but maybe one time I'll have hercome on.
Maybe we'll do that one time.
That'd be fun.
Yeah, so three episodes ago Ispoke about the 1970 Isle of
Wight Festival in England, oneof my favorite festivals to
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listen to.
I talked about that in depth.
Well, Jimi Hendrix, who wasscheduled to play August 30th,
actually played the earlymorning hours of August 31st.
He was dead 18 days later atthe age of 27.
Cause of death was asphyxiafrom choking on his own, vomit
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after overdosing on sleepingpills that he had taken from his
girlfriend.
September 6th 1970 was thefinal show his band played.
It was at the Love and PeaceFestival in Germany and it was
kind of billed as Jimi Hendrix.
Some billed it as Jimi Hendrix,Some billed it as the Jimi
(02:31):
Hendrix Experience, but it waskind of a combination of a
couple of different incarnationsof Jimi Hendrix's bands.
It was not the original band.
They're the headliners forSaturday night of this three-day
festival, but they have theseterrible downpours and they're
having electrical issues to thepoint where nobody wants to plug
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anything in because they'reafraid they might get
electrocuted.
The festival grounds are like amud fest and theyimmy hendrix
is going to play the next dayand when they come on stage the
crowd starts booing them.
Can you imagine?
No, that's crazy.
(03:14):
That is absolutely.
Yeah, it's crazy.
It's insane that they would boojimmy hendrix because he didn't
play the night before becauseof the weather.
First thing Jimmy says to themI don't give a if you boo, as
long as you boo and key youmothers.
And then they went into a songand pretty quickly everything
(03:38):
was forgotten.
They did Killing Floor andeverybody just kind of started
jamming and getting into thegroove.
They ended up the show withVoodoo Child's Slight Return.
And then you know what?
I still can't believe that theywould boo Jimmy.
I would just be excited thatthey finally are playing.
It's not like they canceled,they just couldn't play because
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of the torrential rain.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, german fans, you know they wanted their Jimi
Hendrix the night before.
So September 16th, jimi joinedEric Burden who had been with
the Animals.
He had a new band, war.
He joins them on stage atRonnie Scott's Jazz Club in
London.
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Less than 48 hours later he wasgoneimmy hendrix is kind of
funny, you know he's americanbut to get popular he had to go
over to uh, the uk, over toengland, to really form a, you
know, a following.
So he's popular there, not wellknown here, and he gets on the
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Monterey Pop Festival, bill, andthat was in June, I believe,
1967.
And if you think about thatfestival, you had the Mamas and
the Papas, you had theAssociation, you had a lot of
different types of bands but noreal rock bands.
The only two really off the topof my head, uh, you know what,
(05:09):
I know big brother and theholding company.
Uh, they played, but bands likethe who and jimmy hendrix where
it's kind of like that notchabove type rock and roll, if
that makes sense.
They were really the only bandsthere and they were probably
the two least known bands.
And I'll tell you what peopleknew who Jimi Hendrix was by the
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time the day was done.
He played so loud and if youever watch the Monterey Pop
Festival, they have video of it,a documentary, a film,
documentary, a film.
You could see people's reactionto him playing and the reaction
to the way he's dressed and youknow just the whole thing about
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him and people are like man,this is so different.
This isn't like what you knowlove and peace and groovy man.
It's a whole different thing.
It was.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, like we said, he was way ahead of his time, so
1967, you know he was playingreally heavy rock for back then.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Oh yeah, definitely, without a doubt.
So, as a matter of fact, at theend of his performance he takes
his guitar, places it down onthe the stage and he gets, gets
some like butane lighter fluid.
You know, people used to haveto put butane I think it is
(06:30):
Jimmy inside of lighters so thatthey could smoke cigarettes.
Do you know what I'm talkingabout?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, Lighter fluid.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
So before you could buy the throwaway ones I guess
disposable you had to actuallyput the lighter fluid in it.
And he had a little can of thelighter fluid and he pours it on
his guitar, takes a match andsets his guitar on fire.
And there's this really iconicphoto taken by a 17 year old kid
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, where the guitar's on theground, the flames are coming up
and Jimmy kind of raises hishands like he's trying to get
the flames to come higher, andit's a really cool photo.
Jimmy then picks the guitar upand then just starts to beat you
know the garbage out of it onthe stage and it breaks and
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pieces start.
You know, going into the crowdhe's throwing it.
I actually saw part of thatguitar at a thing at MoMA, the
Museum of Modern Art here in NewYork, back in 2019.
And they had a display casewith part of the guitar and they
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had that picture that that17-year-old took and it was
really cool to be able to seethat part of music history.
For sure, it is outtakes, buthe only released four albums in
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his lifetime and three of themwere the Jimi Hendrix Experience
and one was a live album asJimi Hendrix and the Band of
Gypsies.
So Jimi Hendrix Experience wasNoel Redding on bass, mitch
Mitchell on drums and the Bandof Gypsies was Billy Cox on bass
and buddy miles on drums and areally different kind of feel
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and sound to the bands.
So, are you experienced?
Came out a month before theMonterey pop festival in 67,
jimmy.
These are some of the songs onit.
This is the U?
S.
You know this is another one ofthose albums where they have
the U?
S version and they have the UKversion.
Purple ha know this is anotherone of those albums where they
have the US version and theyhave the UK version.
Purple Haze, manic Depression.
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Hey Joe, may this Be Love.
The Wind Cries, mary Fire.
Foxy Lady, are you Experienced?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, it's like a greatest hits.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Isn't it?
It really is like a greatesthits.
I mean that is a fantasticalbum.
Axis Bold as Love came out inDecember 67.
And then the final ElectricLadyland was released in October
1968.
And that had songs like have youEver Been to Electric Ladyland,
Crosstown Traffic, Voodoo ChildBurning of the Midnight L
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midnight lamp all along thewatchtower and then voodoo child
slight return, which is afantastic song.
That's one of my favorite jimmyhendrix songs.
I mean just so cool and so manypeople have actually covered
that.
So four members of Traffic, theband Traffic, Steve Winwood and
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Dave Mason played on a fewsongs.
Jack Cassidy of JeffersonAirplane played bass on a song
and Brian Jones of the RollingStones played percussion on All
Along the Watchtower the BobDylan cover that Jimi Hendrix
did, that jimmy hendrix did.
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And what's funny is people thatdidn't like folk music, that
weren't into bob dylan, did notknow all along the watchtower
was a bob dylan song and theythought it was jimmy hendrix and
then they find out that no, bobactually wrote this, you know,
years ago.
And it's kind of cool forpeople to be like, oh, wow, wow,
maybe this is a good song,Maybe this guy's better than I
think, Maybe you know.
So I think this kind of openedup some doors for people to
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start appreciating Bob Dylan.
In 1969, the US released a bestof titled Smash Hits.
I had that on cassette and Ithink that's how me and most of
my friends we had the smash hitsthat we listened to and that
was our introduction to JimiHendrix.
You know, be able to listen.
You know from front to back,Hands down.
(10:53):
I think Jimi Hendrix is one ofthe best guitarists of all time,
For sure yeah.
Rolling Stone's magazine's listof the 250 greatest guitarists
of all time.
Number five Jeff Beck.
Number 28 is David Gilmour.
I would put David Gilmour overJeff Beck.
(11:14):
That's my own personal opinion.
I like David Gilmour more thanI like Jeff Beck.
I know he was in the Yardbirds.
I know he did a lot of solowork and did a lot of cool
things.
They have him at number five.
Number four Eddie Van Halen.
Number three Jimmy Page.
Number two Chuck Berry.
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Number one Jimi Hendrix.
Now I got to say I'm reallyglad that they have Chuck Berry,
because maybe he didn't do themost, you know, crazy things
like some of these other peopledid, but man, for the time he
did some things that were supercool and made the guitar a super
cool instrument to play andadding the duck walk while he
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was playing it and everybody.
You know how many times have wetalked about how many bands
have done covers of Chuck Berrysongs?
Oh, yeah People just loved it,you know.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And Chuck Berry.
Like you said, he kind of wasthe pioneer of the electric
guitar.
Like Elvis played a type ofelectric guitar, but it was
really a glorified acousticguitar.
You know people played it theway that you would play an
acoustic guitar guitar.
You know people played it theway that you would play an
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acoustic guitar.
And and chuck barry uh, heincorporated jazz riffs that he
had learned and kind of uh,changed them up to create that
signature riff that you hear ina lot of chuck barry songs.
That was actually something hehad learned from a, from a jazz
riff, and then he startedplaying it with two strings at a
time instead of a single stringrun and the world changed and
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everybody's been ripping thatriff off for the last 75 years.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Chuck Berry.
You know I can hear it all thetime.
So Consequence had the 100 bestguitarist of all time a list
that came out a couple of monthsago, I believe it was, and at
number five they had Prince.
Number four, chuck Berry.
Number three, tony Iommi ofBlack Sabbath.
Number two, eddie Van Halen.
Number one, jimi Hendrix.
So two lists, jimi Hendrix,number one.
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So before I go into my lastlist, one of the things about
Jimi Hendrix to me I know heused the wah-wah pedal and he
experimented with feedback, butin a way how to make it melodic
and make it like a sound thatwas part of what was going on.
It wasn't part of the art noisekind of what I call at times
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for some other bands.
He really tried to make it partof the song and then you know,
when he was in a certain part ofit, just be able to play his
way right out of that feedbackor right out of everything.
What are your thoughts on that,jim?
Because you're a guitarist, youknow better than I.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, I think the best guitar players, they don't
just play the guitar, they playthe amp, they play the air in
the room.
They're getting feedback,whether it's what you consider
feedback or just the vibe that'scoming off their amplifier and
that's informing the way thatthey play and and they're kind
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of, you know, working that ampalong with what they're doing
with their fingers.
So, yeah, yeah, he was a masterof that.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Definitely, definitely.
I couldn't have said that anybetter.
That's why I went to you, jimmy.
Thank you, you're welcome.
So the last list.
I have those first two lists soI can clarify those are the
best guitarists of, like anygenre.
Okay, this is just the 10 bestguitarists of Guns N' Roses.
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Number nine Jeff Beck.
Number eight Alex Lifeson ofRush.
Number seven Richie Blackmoreof Deep Purple.
Now, this really took me bysurprise, with Richie Blackmore
making it up to number seven.
I guess somebody liked RitchieBlackmore a lot, because I'm not
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saying he's bad guitarist, buthe's nowhere at number seven.
You cannot tell me that.
You can't even tell me JeffBeck's not better than man and
I'm not a huge Jeff Beck fan.
Number six David Gilmore, pinkFloyd.
Number five Eric Clapton.
Four Eddie Van Halen.
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Three Jimmy Page of LedZeppelin.
Number two Jimi Hendrix.
Oh, so number one again.
I don't think this person is abad guitarist.
I like their guitar work.
I don't think they're numberone.
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I don't think they're numberone.
I don't think they're number 10.
I don't think they're 20.
I'm not sure where, but BrianMay of Queen, oh come on.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You know, he's a guy that worked the technology for
sure.
He had a very signature soundand we've talked about that, but
putting him above all thoseother guys, that's, that's rough
I agree with you, jimmy.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
There's no way that I would do that, and I know
people love queen.
I am not saying anything aboutthe band queen.
I'm not saying anything abouthis guitar playing.
He was perfect for queen.
He Right, he's not better thanJimi Hendrix.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
No, in no way.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
This is why Jimi Hendrix had manic depression,
because he looked into thefuture at a list that said Brian
May of Queen, a band that's noteven around is going to be
ranked higher than you.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Poor Jimi.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yet Smart premiered September 18th 1965, went off
the air in May of 1970.
Short run on televisionstarring Dot Adams as Agent 86,
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maxwell Smartara felden as agent99 and edward platt as the
chief.
Now this is another one ofthose tv songs, tv themes, that
you know, even though it doesn'thave words.
You know, everybody kind ofknows.
Don't done on, you know, andjust like how the whole thing
goes.
And you know he's driving inhis car and elevators are
closing.
And you know, I think everybodyknows this song.
They worked for control, if youremember, which was a secret us
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counter intelligence agency,which is funnier to me today as
an adult than when I waswatching reruns as a kid and
they took on Chaos, k-a-o-s, theInternational Organization of
Evil, and you know it hadeverything from the shoe phone
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where they literally had likeblack.
You know business shoes.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Rotary dial phone inside of his shoe.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, I mean, it was just crazy.
The cone of silence that theyhad, where they never wanted to
hear him, never worked.
They couldn't hear each other.
Sometimes how it is when we'retrying to get set up for the
podcast and, and I'm here in11th town, sometimes I feel like
it is the the cone of silencefor us as well.
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But do you remember some of thecatchphrases, jimmy?
Sorry about that, chief.
You know, whenever somethingwent wrong, missed it by that
much?
Yep, it's the old blah, blah,blah trick.
You know?
He would be like oh, it's theold.
You know, yeah, banana and uh,whatever trick.
Well, yeah, which was?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
used in beverly hills cop, it's the old banana and
whatever trick.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well, yeah, which was ?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
used in Beverly Hills Cop.
It's the old banana in thetailpipe trick.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yes, it was Don't tell me.
And then someone tells himsomething and then he says I
asked you not to tell me that,like those are the catchphrases
that would happen all the time.
And get smart.
I really enjoyed that, you know.
I know he went on.
He did the voice of inspectorgadget.
Um, was it?
Um?
(19:31):
Matthew Broderick was in thatmovie also, wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, I mean he played inspector gadget later.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Wait, so wait, hold on.
But was inspector gadget like acartoon?
And then Matthew Broderick dida different one.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Am I mixing them together?
I think you're mixing themtogether.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Oh, sorry about that, chief, thank you for being a
friend, travel down the road andback again.
Your heart is true You're a paland a confidant.
The Golden Girls premieredSeptember 14thth 1985.
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Everybody knows that song.
Jimmy, I'm sure you even knowthat song I do.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, I mean it was a song in the 70s years before it
was used on the golden girlswas it really oh?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
yeah, thank you for being a friend, yeah I never
heard it, only heard it throughthe golden girls I learned
something new here on Music inmy Shoes.
Was it a hit on the radio atall?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978.
It's by Andrew Gold.
You know Andrew Gold, really.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
The name sounds familiar, but I do not remember
the song other than the GoldenGirls, it sounds familiar.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I don't know if I really know any of his songs,
but I did find out that he alsowrote the theme to mad about you
, the 1990s uh sitcom that wason.
You know must see tv along withfriends yeah he wrote that
theme song uh paul reiser paulreiser, yeah yes, yes, I watched
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that show.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I did like that show also yeah, it was all right, it
was must see tv to me it was.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I mean, it wasn't exactly friends in seinfeld, but
it did the trick there you go.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
So betty white played rose, nylan, beatrice arthur,
dorothy.
Betty White played Rose, nyland, beatrice Arthur, dorothy
Zbornak, rue McClanahan, blancheDevereaux and Estelle Getty,
sophia Petrillo and she wasDorothy's mom on the show and
it's kind of like, I think, if Iremember correctly, blanche has
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a home in Miamiami and then oneof their husbands dies, I think
rose's husband dies, so shemoves in and dorothy gets a
divorce, so she moves in and, uh, I think the retirement home
that sofia was in burnt down andso she was going to come in
(22:05):
just until she went to a newplace, but then she just ends up
staying.
All seven seasons the show wason.
Yeah, the mom sophia, she wasborn in sicily and a lot of the
episodes would deal with her.
You know, reminiscing about thedays of yore.
Oh, we'll be using that twoepisodes in a row.
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I think it is now Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Nice, it's a new catchphrase.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
That is, that's what all the kids are going to be
saying in the days of yore.
But it's kind of cool bringingup these things about Sicily and
it would be funny aboutdifferent things and kind of
talking about what marriage waslike back in the super old days,
because remember, they'reportraying older women in the
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1980s and they're talking aboutmany moons before that.
But the show was fun.
It was always something youcould watch.
But the show was fun.
It was always something youcould watch.
Usually one of them made a baddecision or got in trouble or
was trying to hide somethingfrom the others.
That was generally kind of thepremise.
I think Blanche was always inlove with a new dude or
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something.
Hey, it wasn't too bad.
May 1992, the show went off theair.
Let's revisit some more musicin my shoes.
David Bowie, young Americansingle.
It peaked at number 28 on theBillboard Hot 100 May 10th 1975.
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Then Fame was released June 2nd, 75.
Peaked at number one onBillboard Hot 100, september
20th.
And John Lennon played acousticguitar and was backing vocals
on this song.
So when David Bowie goes fame,john Lennon says it, but he says
it kind of in like a highervoice and if you listen to it,
you know most people don't knowJohn Lennon's on the song, but
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when you listen to it you'relike, oh yeah, that's John
Lennon.
The way John Lennon sounded inthe mid-70s early to mid-70s, as
his voice changed from becominga Beatle.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I never knew that.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yes, take a listen to it and you'll be like, oh yeah,
it sounds just like him, wow,so it's kind of cool.
We talked last year about howhe did Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds.
He recorded that with EltonJohn in 1974.
And then, you know, he played afew songs with Elton John
Thanksgiving 74, and here in 75,he's on a number one song with
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David Bowie.
It's just super cool to be ableto, you know, know, mix around
with some people that you likeand to have some fantastic
results.
Yeah, september 9th 1995, analbum help, a charity album for
war child by various artistscame out.
And one thing that I reallythink is super cool about this
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you know I heard a lot about itbefore it came out and I was
looking forward to it is thatthey recorded it all on
September 4th 1995, 20 songsActually there was more than 20
songs.
Everybody had to record theirown song and they had to ship it
.
It got mixed on September 5thand September 9th it was out in
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the stores.
It was this super quick, you'rein it or you're not in it.
There's no.
Hey, on September 8th I gotthis and you've missed the boat.
Real strict, you got to hiteverything, but it had songs
like Oasis and Friends doingFade Away, the Stone Roses Love
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Spreads, which was a re-recordedversion.
Any of the songs that I'mmentioning are re-recorded
versions if they're not a newsong for them.
Radiohead did Lucky, whichshowed up on OK Computer a few
years later.
Sinead O'Connor Ode to Billy Joe.
It is an excellent version Ifyou ever get an opportunity to
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listen to her sing that.
Manic Street Preachers.
Raindrops Keep Falling on myHead.
We talked about that earlierthis year.
The Smokin' Mojo filters didcome, come together and it
included Paul McCartney, paulWeller of the Jam, noel
Gallagher of Oasis and a fewother people.
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It is super cool to be able tohear that song.
It's a pretty cool album.
It's got a bunch of Britishbands Not for everybody.
I really like it.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
What's it called?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Help it's it called.
If you get a chance, help.
It's a charity album for WarChild.
So War Child, they were doingthings for Bosnia at the time,
different countries that youknow were war torn.
That's what it is.
It's pretty cool.
I think you would like it,jimmy.
I'll check it out, but I knowwhat else you would like jimmy
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tick, tick, tick.
It's minute with jimmy.
It's time for a minute withjimmy.
Minute with jimmy.
Minute with jimmy.
It's time for a minute withjimmy.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Minute with jimmy so we talked about, uh, chuck berry
a minute ago, and one of thepeople that ripped off chuck
berry's licks in a very, youknow, admiring way was steve
jones of the sex pistols.
Steve jones started out as thesinger of a group that later
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became sex pistols.
He was too nervous to be thesinger, so they did one gig and
he's like I need to do somethingelse.
They said, well, here's a learnhow to play this.
And he just hold himself up andhe learned how to play guitar
in a matter of like a week orsomething.
And in fact, when they wentinto the studio to record their
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only album nevermind thebollocks, here's the sex pistols
.
Steve Jones had only beenplaying guitar for one year, so
he of course started out playing, like you know, rhythm guitar,
but then he he was the onlyguitar player in the band.
He needed to play some leadsand he would play Chuck Berry
riffs in his own way, and itreally became kind of a punk
(28:14):
rock staple to uh to use thoseChuck Berry riffs.
Steve Jones broke his wrist andthey've had to cancel all their
North American dates they had,including the one that I was
planning to attend at the CBGBfestival in New York later this
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month.
So I hope Steve Jones feelsbetter soon and I look forward
to seeing them in concert oncehe recovers.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yes, jimmy, I was going to go to that show as well
.
I'm kind of bummed out aboutthat.
It definitely would have beenfun, especially in the setting
that the festival was going tobe in, but we will have to catch
them at another point.
Speaking of the Sex Pistols, Idid see this thing the other day
where you can get a Sid Viciousbass.
It's a replica bass.
You know how musicians,guitarists, bass players,
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drummers, they'll have, you know, like replica stuff come out
and you could buy it.
Well, they have this bass andit doesn't have any input things
so that you can plug in an ampor anything.
I was a joke, but I was justlaughing because, you know, sid
Vicious really didn't play thebass.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Oh, that's perfect.
I cracked up, yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I thought it was funny as heck.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
He did play the bass, just really poorly.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, he would have been better to just shut it down
.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Apparently there was a gig it may even have been the
show they played in atlanta inearly 1978 that steve jones just
walked over to sid's side ofthe stage and just unplugged his
bass I would believe it.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
He had the look, he just did not have the skills he
had the look for sure, poor kidhey, but you know what?
jimmy here has the look andjimmy here has the skills.
My name is j Jimmy hey.
Unfortunately, that's all wehave for this episode of Music
of my Shoes.
If you want, you can reach usat musicofmyshoes at gmailcom.
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Please like and follow theMusic of my Shoes Facebook and
Instagram pages.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios located inAtlanta, georgia, and Vic Thrill
for our podcast music.
This is Jim Boge, coming to youfrom Levittown, new York, and I
hope you learned something newor remembered something old.
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We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
I'll let you go.
I'll let you go.
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 a big thrill kickingoff episode 96.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
So, jimmy, I'm here inLevittown, new York,
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broadcasting from New York.
Once again, you are at the homestudio, arcade, 160 Studios,
that is, and Atlanta, ga.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Doing well.
How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm doing good.
It's always good to talk to youand be able to do this long
distance and not miss an episodeand just kind of have a little
bit of fun.
And then, for those of you athome, when we do this, instead
of looking at Jimmy in thestudio, I'm looking at him on a
screen and it's definitelydifferent from the normal way we
do it, but it's always good tosee Jimmy's smiling face.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's always good to see Jim and Jim's mom's house.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, thank you, and of course she is not here.
I make sure she's not aroundwhen we're trying to do this,
but maybe one time I'll have hercome on.
Maybe we'll do that one time.
That'd be fun.
Yeah, so three episodes ago Ispoke about the 1970 Isle of
Wight Festival in England, oneof my favorite festivals to
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listen to.
I talked about that in depth.
Well, Jimi Hendrix, who wasscheduled to play August 30th,
actually played the earlymorning hours of August 31st.
He was dead 18 days later atthe age of 27.
Cause of death was asphyxiafrom choking on his own, vomit
(02:09):
after overdosing on sleepingpills that he had taken from his
girlfriend.
September 6th 1970 was thefinal show his band played.
It was at the Love and PeaceFestival in Germany and it was
kind of billed as Jimi Hendrix.
Some billed it as Jimi Hendrix,Some billed it as the Jimi
(02:31):
Hendrix Experience, but it waskind of a combination of a
couple of different incarnationsof Jimi Hendrix's bands.
It was not the original band.
They're the headliners forSaturday night of this three-day
festival, but they have theseterrible downpours and they're
having electrical issues to thepoint where nobody wants to plug
(02:54):
anything in because they'reafraid they might get
electrocuted.
The festival grounds are like amud fest and theyimmy hendrix
is going to play the next dayand when they come on stage the
crowd starts booing them.
Can you imagine?
No, that's crazy.
(03:14):
That is absolutely.
Yeah, it's crazy.
It's insane that they would boojimmy hendrix because he didn't
play the night before becauseof the weather.
First thing Jimmy says to themI don't give a if you boo, as
long as you boo and key youmothers.
And then they went into a songand pretty quickly everything
(03:38):
was forgotten.
They did Killing Floor andeverybody just kind of started
jamming and getting into thegroove.
They ended up the show withVoodoo Child's Slight Return.
And then you know what?
I still can't believe that theywould boo Jimmy.
I would just be excited thatthey finally are playing.
It's not like they canceled,they just couldn't play because
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of the torrential rain.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, german fans, you know they wanted their Jimi
Hendrix the night before.
So September 16th, jimi joinedEric Burden who had been with
the Animals.
He had a new band, war.
He joins them on stage atRonnie Scott's Jazz Club in
London.
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Less than 48 hours later he wasgoneimmy hendrix is kind of
funny, you know he's americanbut to get popular he had to go
over to uh, the uk, over toengland, to really form a, you
know, a following.
So he's popular there, not wellknown here, and he gets on the
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Monterey Pop Festival, bill, andthat was in June, I believe,
1967.
And if you think about thatfestival, you had the Mamas and
the Papas, you had theAssociation, you had a lot of
different types of bands but noreal rock bands.
The only two really off the topof my head, uh, you know what,
(05:09):
I know big brother and theholding company.
Uh, they played, but bands likethe who and jimmy hendrix where
it's kind of like that notchabove type rock and roll, if
that makes sense.
They were really the only bandsthere and they were probably
the two least known bands.
And I'll tell you what peopleknew who Jimi Hendrix was by the
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time the day was done.
He played so loud and if youever watch the Monterey Pop
Festival, they have video of it,a documentary, a film,
documentary, a film.
You could see people's reactionto him playing and the reaction
to the way he's dressed and youknow just the whole thing about
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him and people are like man,this is so different.
This isn't like what you knowlove and peace and groovy man.
It's a whole different thing.
It was.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, like we said, he was way ahead of his time, so
1967, you know he was playingreally heavy rock for back then.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Oh yeah, definitely, without a doubt.
So, as a matter of fact, at theend of his performance he takes
his guitar, places it down onthe the stage and he gets, gets
some like butane lighter fluid.
You know, people used to haveto put butane I think it is
(06:30):
Jimmy inside of lighters so thatthey could smoke cigarettes.
Do you know what I'm talkingabout?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, Lighter fluid.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
So before you could buy the throwaway ones I guess
disposable you had to actuallyput the lighter fluid in it.
And he had a little can of thelighter fluid and he pours it on
his guitar, takes a match andsets his guitar on fire.
And there's this really iconicphoto taken by a 17 year old kid
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, where the guitar's on theground, the flames are coming up
and Jimmy kind of raises hishands like he's trying to get
the flames to come higher, andit's a really cool photo.
Jimmy then picks the guitar upand then just starts to beat you
know the garbage out of it onthe stage and it breaks and
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pieces start.
You know, going into the crowdhe's throwing it.
I actually saw part of thatguitar at a thing at MoMA, the
Museum of Modern Art here in NewYork, back in 2019.
And they had a display casewith part of the guitar and they
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had that picture that that17-year-old took and it was
really cool to be able to seethat part of music history.
For sure, it is outtakes, buthe only released four albums in
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his lifetime and three of themwere the Jimi Hendrix Experience
and one was a live album asJimi Hendrix and the Band of
Gypsies.
So Jimi Hendrix Experience wasNoel Redding on bass, mitch
Mitchell on drums and the Bandof Gypsies was Billy Cox on bass
and buddy miles on drums and areally different kind of feel
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and sound to the bands.
So, are you experienced?
Came out a month before theMonterey pop festival in 67,
jimmy.
These are some of the songs onit.
This is the U?
S.
You know this is another one ofthose albums where they have
the U?
S version and they have the UKversion.
Purple ha know this is anotherone of those albums where they
have the US version and theyhave the UK version.
Purple Haze, manic Depression.
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Hey Joe, may this Be Love.
The Wind Cries, mary Fire.
Foxy Lady, are you Experienced?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, it's like a greatest hits.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Isn't it?
It really is like a greatesthits.
I mean that is a fantasticalbum.
Axis Bold as Love came out inDecember 67.
And then the final ElectricLadyland was released in October
1968.
And that had songs like have youEver Been to Electric Ladyland,
Crosstown Traffic, Voodoo ChildBurning of the Midnight L
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midnight lamp all along thewatchtower and then voodoo child
slight return, which is afantastic song.
That's one of my favorite jimmyhendrix songs.
I mean just so cool and so manypeople have actually covered
that.
So four members of Traffic, theband Traffic, Steve Winwood and
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Dave Mason played on a fewsongs.
Jack Cassidy of JeffersonAirplane played bass on a song
and Brian Jones of the RollingStones played percussion on All
Along the Watchtower the BobDylan cover that Jimi Hendrix
did, that jimmy hendrix did.
(10:08):
And what's funny is people thatdidn't like folk music, that
weren't into bob dylan, did notknow all along the watchtower
was a bob dylan song and theythought it was jimmy hendrix and
then they find out that no, bobactually wrote this, you know,
years ago.
And it's kind of cool forpeople to be like, oh, wow, wow,
maybe this is a good song,Maybe this guy's better than I
think, Maybe you know.
So I think this kind of openedup some doors for people to
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start appreciating Bob Dylan.
In 1969, the US released a bestof titled Smash Hits.
I had that on cassette and Ithink that's how me and most of
my friends we had the smash hitsthat we listened to and that
was our introduction to JimiHendrix.
You know, be able to listen.
You know from front to back,Hands down.
(10:53):
I think Jimi Hendrix is one ofthe best guitarists of all time,
For sure yeah.
Rolling Stone's magazine's listof the 250 greatest guitarists
of all time.
Number five Jeff Beck.
Number 28 is David Gilmour.
I would put David Gilmour overJeff Beck.
(11:14):
That's my own personal opinion.
I like David Gilmour more thanI like Jeff Beck.
I know he was in the Yardbirds.
I know he did a lot of solowork and did a lot of cool
things.
They have him at number five.
Number four Eddie Van Halen.
Number three Jimmy Page.
Number two Chuck Berry.
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Number one Jimi Hendrix.
Now I got to say I'm reallyglad that they have Chuck Berry,
because maybe he didn't do themost, you know, crazy things
like some of these other peopledid, but man, for the time he
did some things that were supercool and made the guitar a super
cool instrument to play andadding the duck walk while he
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was playing it and everybody.
You know how many times have wetalked about how many bands
have done covers of Chuck Berrysongs?
Oh, yeah People just loved it,you know.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And Chuck Berry.
Like you said, he kind of wasthe pioneer of the electric
guitar.
Like Elvis played a type ofelectric guitar, but it was
really a glorified acousticguitar.
You know people played it theway that you would play an
acoustic guitar guitar.
You know people played it theway that you would play an
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acoustic guitar.
And and chuck barry uh, heincorporated jazz riffs that he
had learned and kind of uh,changed them up to create that
signature riff that you hear ina lot of chuck barry songs.
That was actually something hehad learned from a, from a jazz
riff, and then he startedplaying it with two strings at a
time instead of a single stringrun and the world changed and
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everybody's been ripping thatriff off for the last 75 years.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Chuck Berry.
You know I can hear it all thetime.
So Consequence had the 100 bestguitarist of all time a list
that came out a couple of monthsago, I believe it was, and at
number five they had Prince.
Number four, chuck Berry.
Number three, tony Iommi ofBlack Sabbath.
Number two, eddie Van Halen.
Number one, jimi Hendrix.
So two lists, jimi Hendrix,number one.
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So before I go into my lastlist, one of the things about
Jimi Hendrix to me I know heused the wah-wah pedal and he
experimented with feedback, butin a way how to make it melodic
and make it like a sound thatwas part of what was going on.
It wasn't part of the art noisekind of what I call at times
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for some other bands.
He really tried to make it partof the song and then you know,
when he was in a certain part ofit, just be able to play his
way right out of that feedbackor right out of everything.
What are your thoughts on that,jim?
Because you're a guitarist, youknow better than I.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, I think the best guitar players, they don't
just play the guitar, they playthe amp, they play the air in
the room.
They're getting feedback,whether it's what you consider
feedback or just the vibe that'scoming off their amplifier and
that's informing the way thatthey play and and they're kind
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of, you know, working that ampalong with what they're doing
with their fingers.
So, yeah, yeah, he was a masterof that.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Definitely, definitely.
I couldn't have said that anybetter.
That's why I went to you, jimmy.
Thank you, you're welcome.
So the last list.
I have those first two lists soI can clarify those are the
best guitarists of, like anygenre.
Okay, this is just the 10 bestguitarists of Guns N' Roses.
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Number nine Jeff Beck.
Number eight Alex Lifeson ofRush.
Number seven Richie Blackmoreof Deep Purple.
Now, this really took me bysurprise, with Richie Blackmore
making it up to number seven.
I guess somebody liked RitchieBlackmore a lot, because I'm not
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saying he's bad guitarist, buthe's nowhere at number seven.
You cannot tell me that.
You can't even tell me JeffBeck's not better than man and
I'm not a huge Jeff Beck fan.
Number six David Gilmore, pinkFloyd.
Number five Eric Clapton.
Four Eddie Van Halen.
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Three Jimmy Page of LedZeppelin.
Number two Jimi Hendrix.
Oh, so number one again.
I don't think this person is abad guitarist.
I like their guitar work.
I don't think they're numberone.
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I don't think they're numberone.
I don't think they're number 10.
I don't think they're 20.
I'm not sure where, but BrianMay of Queen, oh come on.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You know, he's a guy that worked the technology for
sure.
He had a very signature soundand we've talked about that, but
putting him above all thoseother guys, that's, that's rough
I agree with you, jimmy.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
There's no way that I would do that, and I know
people love queen.
I am not saying anything aboutthe band queen.
I'm not saying anything abouthis guitar playing.
He was perfect for queen.
He Right, he's not better thanJimi Hendrix.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
No, in no way.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
This is why Jimi Hendrix had manic depression,
because he looked into thefuture at a list that said Brian
May of Queen, a band that's noteven around is going to be
ranked higher than you.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Poor Jimi.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yet Smart premiered September 18th 1965, went off
the air in May of 1970.
Short run on televisionstarring Dot Adams as Agent 86,
(17:33):
maxwell Smartara felden as agent99 and edward platt as the
chief.
Now this is another one ofthose tv songs, tv themes, that
you know, even though it doesn'thave words.
You know, everybody kind ofknows.
Don't done on, you know, andjust like how the whole thing
goes.
And you know he's driving inhis car and elevators are
closing.
And you know, I think everybodyknows this song.
They worked for control, if youremember, which was a secret us
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counter intelligence agency,which is funnier to me today as
an adult than when I waswatching reruns as a kid and
they took on Chaos, k-a-o-s, theInternational Organization of
Evil, and you know it hadeverything from the shoe phone
(18:16):
where they literally had likeblack.
You know business shoes.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Rotary dial phone inside of his shoe.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, I mean, it was just crazy.
The cone of silence that theyhad, where they never wanted to
hear him, never worked.
They couldn't hear each other.
Sometimes how it is when we'retrying to get set up for the
podcast and, and I'm here in11th town, sometimes I feel like
it is the the cone of silencefor us as well.
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But do you remember some of thecatchphrases, jimmy?
Sorry about that, chief.
You know, whenever somethingwent wrong, missed it by that
much?
Yep, it's the old blah, blah,blah trick.
You know?
He would be like oh, it's theold.
You know, yeah, banana and uh,whatever trick.
Well, yeah, which was?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
used in beverly hills cop, it's the old banana and
whatever trick.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well, yeah, which was ?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
used in Beverly Hills Cop.
It's the old banana in thetailpipe trick.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yes, it was Don't tell me.
And then someone tells himsomething and then he says I
asked you not to tell me that,like those are the catchphrases
that would happen all the time.
And get smart.
I really enjoyed that, you know.
I know he went on.
He did the voice of inspectorgadget.
Um, was it?
Um?
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Matthew Broderick was in thatmovie also, wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, I mean he played inspector gadget later.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Wait, so wait, hold on.
But was inspector gadget like acartoon?
And then Matthew Broderick dida different one.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Am I mixing them together?
I think you're mixing themtogether.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Oh, sorry about that, chief, thank you for being a
friend, travel down the road andback again.
Your heart is true You're a paland a confidant.
The Golden Girls premieredSeptember 14thth 1985.
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Everybody knows that song.
Jimmy, I'm sure you even knowthat song I do.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, I mean it was a song in the 70s years before it
was used on the golden girlswas it really oh?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
yeah, thank you for being a friend, yeah I never
heard it, only heard it throughthe golden girls I learned
something new here on Music inmy Shoes.
Was it a hit on the radio atall?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978.
It's by Andrew Gold.
You know Andrew Gold, really.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
The name sounds familiar, but I do not remember
the song other than the GoldenGirls, it sounds familiar.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I don't know if I really know any of his songs,
but I did find out that he alsowrote the theme to mad about you
, the 1990s uh sitcom that wason.
You know must see tv along withfriends yeah he wrote that
theme song uh paul reiser paulreiser, yeah yes, yes, I watched
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that show.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I did like that show also yeah, it was all right, it
was must see tv to me it was.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I mean, it wasn't exactly friends in seinfeld, but
it did the trick there you go.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
So betty white played rose, nylan, beatrice arthur,
dorothy.
Betty White played Rose, nyland, beatrice Arthur, dorothy
Zbornak, rue McClanahan, blancheDevereaux and Estelle Getty,
sophia Petrillo and she wasDorothy's mom on the show and
it's kind of like, I think, if Iremember correctly, blanche has
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a home in Miamiami and then oneof their husbands dies, I think
rose's husband dies, so shemoves in and dorothy gets a
divorce, so she moves in and, uh, I think the retirement home
that sofia was in burnt down andso she was going to come in
(22:05):
just until she went to a newplace, but then she just ends up
staying.
All seven seasons the show wason.
Yeah, the mom sophia, she wasborn in sicily and a lot of the
episodes would deal with her.
You know, reminiscing about thedays of yore.
Oh, we'll be using that twoepisodes in a row.
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I think it is now Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Nice, it's a new catchphrase.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
That is, that's what all the kids are going to be
saying in the days of yore.
But it's kind of cool bringingup these things about Sicily and
it would be funny aboutdifferent things and kind of
talking about what marriage waslike back in the super old days,
because remember, they'reportraying older women in the
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1980s and they're talking aboutmany moons before that.
But the show was fun.
It was always something youcould watch.
But the show was fun.
It was always something youcould watch.
Usually one of them made a baddecision or got in trouble or
was trying to hide somethingfrom the others.
That was generally kind of thepremise.
I think Blanche was always inlove with a new dude or
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something.
Hey, it wasn't too bad.
May 1992, the show went off theair.
Let's revisit some more musicin my shoes.
David Bowie, young Americansingle.
It peaked at number 28 on theBillboard Hot 100 May 10th 1975.
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Then Fame was released June 2nd, 75.
Peaked at number one onBillboard Hot 100, september
20th.
And John Lennon played acousticguitar and was backing vocals
on this song.
So when David Bowie goes fame,john Lennon says it, but he says
it kind of in like a highervoice and if you listen to it,
you know most people don't knowJohn Lennon's on the song, but
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when you listen to it you'relike, oh yeah, that's John
Lennon.
The way John Lennon sounded inthe mid-70s early to mid-70s, as
his voice changed from becominga Beatle.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I never knew that.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yes, take a listen to it and you'll be like, oh yeah,
it sounds just like him, wow,so it's kind of cool.
We talked last year about howhe did Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds.
He recorded that with EltonJohn in 1974.
And then, you know, he played afew songs with Elton John
Thanksgiving 74, and here in 75,he's on a number one song with
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David Bowie.
It's just super cool to be ableto, you know, know, mix around
with some people that you likeand to have some fantastic
results.
Yeah, september 9th 1995, analbum help, a charity album for
war child by various artistscame out.
And one thing that I reallythink is super cool about this
(25:01):
you know I heard a lot about itbefore it came out and I was
looking forward to it is thatthey recorded it all on
September 4th 1995, 20 songsActually there was more than 20
songs.
Everybody had to record theirown song and they had to ship it
.
It got mixed on September 5thand September 9th it was out in
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the stores.
It was this super quick, you'rein it or you're not in it.
There's no.
Hey, on September 8th I gotthis and you've missed the boat.
Real strict, you got to hiteverything, but it had songs
like Oasis and Friends doingFade Away, the Stone Roses Love
(25:45):
Spreads, which was a re-recordedversion.
Any of the songs that I'mmentioning are re-recorded
versions if they're not a newsong for them.
Radiohead did Lucky, whichshowed up on OK Computer a few
years later.
Sinead O'Connor Ode to Billy Joe.
It is an excellent version Ifyou ever get an opportunity to
(26:06):
listen to her sing that.
Manic Street Preachers.
Raindrops Keep Falling on myHead.
We talked about that earlierthis year.
The Smokin' Mojo filters didcome, come together and it
included Paul McCartney, paulWeller of the Jam, noel
Gallagher of Oasis and a fewother people.
(26:30):
It is super cool to be able tohear that song.
It's a pretty cool album.
It's got a bunch of Britishbands Not for everybody.
I really like it.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
What's it called?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Help it's it called.
If you get a chance, help.
It's a charity album for WarChild.
So War Child, they were doingthings for Bosnia at the time,
different countries that youknow were war torn.
That's what it is.
It's pretty cool.
I think you would like it,jimmy.
I'll check it out, but I knowwhat else you would like jimmy
(27:02):
tick, tick, tick.
It's minute with jimmy.
It's time for a minute withjimmy.
Minute with jimmy.
Minute with jimmy.
It's time for a minute withjimmy.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Minute with jimmy so we talked about, uh, chuck berry
a minute ago, and one of thepeople that ripped off chuck
berry's licks in a very, youknow, admiring way was steve
jones of the sex pistols.
Steve jones started out as thesinger of a group that later
(27:31):
became sex pistols.
He was too nervous to be thesinger, so they did one gig and
he's like I need to do somethingelse.
They said, well, here's a learnhow to play this.
And he just hold himself up andhe learned how to play guitar
in a matter of like a week orsomething.
And in fact, when they wentinto the studio to record their
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only album nevermind thebollocks, here's the sex pistols
.
Steve Jones had only beenplaying guitar for one year, so
he of course started out playing, like you know, rhythm guitar,
but then he he was the onlyguitar player in the band.
He needed to play some leadsand he would play Chuck Berry
riffs in his own way, and itreally became kind of a punk
(28:14):
rock staple to uh to use thoseChuck Berry riffs.
Steve Jones broke his wrist andthey've had to cancel all their
North American dates they had,including the one that I was
planning to attend at the CBGBfestival in New York later this
(28:34):
month.
So I hope Steve Jones feelsbetter soon and I look forward
to seeing them in concert oncehe recovers.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yes, jimmy, I was going to go to that show as well
.
I'm kind of bummed out aboutthat.
It definitely would have beenfun, especially in the setting
that the festival was going tobe in, but we will have to catch
them at another point.
Speaking of the Sex Pistols, Idid see this thing the other day
where you can get a Sid Viciousbass.
It's a replica bass.
You know how musicians,guitarists, bass players,
(29:07):
drummers, they'll have, you know, like replica stuff come out
and you could buy it.
Well, they have this bass andit doesn't have any input things
so that you can plug in an ampor anything.
I was a joke, but I was justlaughing because, you know, sid
Vicious really didn't play thebass.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Oh, that's perfect.
I cracked up, yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I thought it was funny as heck.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
He did play the bass, just really poorly.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, he would have been better to just shut it down
.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Apparently there was a gig it may even have been the
show they played in atlanta inearly 1978 that steve jones just
walked over to sid's side ofthe stage and just unplugged his
bass I would believe it.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
He had the look, he just did not have the skills he
had the look for sure, poor kidhey, but you know what?
jimmy here has the look andjimmy here has the skills.
My name is j Jimmy hey.
Unfortunately, that's all wehave for this episode of Music
of my Shoes.
If you want, you can reach usat musicofmyshoes at gmailcom.
(30:08):
Please like and follow theMusic of my Shoes Facebook and
Instagram pages.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios located inAtlanta, georgia, and Vic Thrill
for our podcast music.
This is Jim Boge, coming to youfrom Levittown, new York, and I
hope you learned something newor remembered something old.
(30:29):
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
I'll let you go.
I'll let you go.
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