February 10, 2025 • 11 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm Buzznight, the host of the Taken o Walk podcast,
and here's another look at this week in music history
for the week of February tenth, and we go over
to the music history desk to musicologist, radio historian, radio legend,
media executive. What else can I pile on to your resume?
(00:24):
Harry Jacobs Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I appreciate the kind words and the musicologist. I kind
of like that. That's my favorite. And that's what we're
doing right because we're fans of music. That's it. The
week of February tenth kind of a kind of a
neat week. Some fun things to talk about. You know,
Alex van Halen's book just came out in October, and
it was this week in nineteen seventy eight that the
(00:49):
first Van Halen album came out. Remember hearing Eruption or
You Really Got Me? Remember how powerful that was to
hear Eddie van Halen ripping through You Really Got Me?
Those opening chords of that song, the way that they
did it.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, they just burst down the scene and it just
was just like we hadn't really heard anything really like this.
This was something that kind of took us all on
a real ride and you know, through various generations of
the band, they continued to do that, you know, easily.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I love a half a dozen of those songs, if
not more. Shame now that he's gone and Van Halen
is probably done, you know, forever at this point. Yep.
In two thousand and eight, the fiftieth Annual Grammy Awards happened.
Amy Winehouse won five of them, including Best New Artists
and Record of the Year for Rehab. I always love
(01:45):
the Rehab. That's a song, Boy, that's a song.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
We did not comprehend all of her amazing talent until
she left us Earth, and we also, I think didn't
really understand and the depth of her darkness either.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
She was a troubled individual. There's no question the opioids
got their hook into her. And that rarely finishes well,
It really has a rarely has a really good ending.
There's a handful of people that you know that did
it at that level, that recovered. You know, Robert Downey's
got a good story, right, remember the horror stories, right,
(02:26):
you know, climbing into someone else's bed, in someone else's house,
and the craziness he did, and he got straight and
on the straight and narrow but then you you know,
you see Amy and she's the rule versus the exception.
It would seem right unfortunately, so yep. In nineteen sixty three,
February eleventh, the Beatles recorded Please Please Me, and it
(02:50):
was a one day session. It lasted ten hours at
Abbey Road Studios. Incredible ten hours of those boys driving
each other crazy, for sure. Twenty twelve, Whitney Houston passed
away in Beverly Hills. Speaking of torture, right, a lot
of torture there. Yeah, did you ever watch the reality
show with her and Bobby Brown? I did not. Oh,
(03:13):
this was, you know, right around the time I'm assuming
right after the Osborne's. I don't know where we are
chronologically with that, but that was a shit show. She
was another one. I mean it kind of goes hand
in hand with this Amy Winehouse conversation out about drugs
and just a sad, sad story from an unbelieve another
(03:36):
unbelievably talented singer and woman. Did you stay close? I mean,
you've been a rock guy your entire career, you know, musically,
and now since taking a walk and music Save Me,
you know, you're branching out the country. You're dealing with pop,
you're dealing with rap, You're dealing with all kinds of
different music. Have you been a guy that's been out
(03:58):
of that rock realm. I've known each other for forty years.
I've never asked you that question. Do you enjoy Did
you enjoy you know, Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse and pop?
Do you appreciate it? Tell me talk to me about it?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yes, and more so in later years, as the work
I would do for radio companies would expand beyond rock,
so I had to buy the nature of that as well.
I had to understand, you know, pop or just different genres,
never forgetting that pop actually is short for popular, which
(04:37):
is always interesting to come around and talk about. But
I had to branch out, and you know, it's it's
fun to do that, especially when there's music that can
kind of, you know, once again in a moment, just
you know, be that guilty pleasure.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You know. At the end of twenty twenty four, I
think the last week of the year, you re ran
your top five guests on taking a Walk, and I
went through that list blindly. Generally, we know what we're
going to talk about when we when we talk and
(05:15):
and I was so curious to see what you had,
what you had picked, And Carlos Santana was on that
that list and in two thousand, on February twelfth, he
won eight Grammy Awards for Supernatural. This is a perfect
example of someone getting a whole another life and a
whole nother audience. It's almost like the lives that Aerosmith
(05:40):
has had in terms of, you know, different iterations of
their music and you know, pre MTV, MTV, you know,
their breakup, all this stuff. Santana was, you know, a
classic rock artist that didn't have a lot of mainstream
exposure at that time. Certainly, you know, there were some
(06:01):
hits that got radio play, pop pop music, but this
album was unbelievable. Whole bunch of guest singers, I think, uh.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Rob Thomas from Matchbox twenty yeah, and Carlos is still,
you know, reimagining things in the way that he creates
these days. You know, we had on Music Saved Me
and on a Future Taking a Walk, Darryl run dmc McDaniels,
and Darryl and Carlos teamed up on this latest album
(06:35):
of Carlos's on some Music as well. So it's so
admirable that a guy is still curious.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
He still you.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Know, bends the genres a bit along the way and
still is experimenting.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And and for those of you that are fans of
you know, Run DMC and Darryl just you know, a
quick shameless plug. Our other podcast Music Saved Me and
Taking Away Walk both feature time with him. There are
recent releases and if you haven't checked them out, check
them out. Linn Hoffin did an amazing job with him
(07:10):
and you, as always with Carlos. Were you on zoom
with him? Did you actually? Yeah? See all right, tell
me about a fanboy moment. Tell me about that.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's just the wildest thing when because it came together
very quickly. It was the last minute, come together thing.
They're promoting tour dates for Live Nation, and it's just
surreal when you sign on and there you see the
legend himself right before your very eyes. You know, it's
(07:47):
just it's surreal. I can't put it any other way.
So I ultimately have to contain my fanboy noess, but
I can't contain it all Harry, you know that.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, it's and then when you got some one like him,
it was just you know, a monster, It's it's amazing.
Nineteen seventy. February thirteenth, Black Sabbath released. Black Sabbath, often
regarded as the first real heavy metal album Paranoid and
iron Man.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I don't think back then we understood how significant it
was when it came out. I think it was it
was just different because of it. You know, it's hard,
and you know the heavy metal side and everything. But
when you really reflect on that one, for you know,
the core songs in particular, which are staples of you know,
(08:39):
rock radio, classic rock radio, it is really awesome to
this day to see what Black Sabbath did and was
all about.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
There are these comparisons to you know, satanic and cults
and craziness. You know that people concocted about Black Sabbath
back then and for years then. Right oh, in two
thousand and five, Ray Charles won five Grammys and at
that point in two thousand and five, Ray Charles had
passed away, so he received those Grammys posthumously.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Always rather see them when they're alive, get them, That's
all I'll say on that.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You know, one of my favorite Beatles songs, All you
Need Is Love. February fourteenth, nineteen seventy two, John and
Yoko felt that all they needed was love and decided
to spend their week long stay in and Bet the
Presidential Suite the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel promoting world peace.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Pretty badass move if you think about it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Huge, huge move, huge move. I mean it's listen, it's
right up there with Bob Rivers staying on the radio
for ninety days when the Baltimore Orioles were losing. I
look at those two things similarly. That's right, it's a moment. Yeah,
there you go. I'll leave you with two more things here.
February sixteenth, Quickly, Sergeant Pepper's won four Grammy Awards, including
(09:58):
Album of the Year. It was the first rock album
to win Album of the Year.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I would have to say, my opinion, number one album
of all time.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You're not going to get a disagreement from me at all.
And this album set people like Brian Wilson and Phil Spector,
who we talked about in the last week's episode. This
set guys like that that were the geniuses that kind
of looked at themselves as competing with each other, you know,
at that time, and this set that world, especially Brian
(10:34):
Wilson on his side when Sergeant Pepper's came out, and
I agree, probably the best album, best rock album of
all time. Yep, quick last topic for this week in
music history. Also on February sixteenth, Ike Turner was incarcerated
for cocaine possession. Where can get another troubling chapter in
(10:58):
the life of Ike Turner. I cannot, for the life
of me think of a kind thing to say, so
I'm going to listen to my mother and what she
used to say, which was, if you don't have anything
nice to say, Harry, say nothing at all, And I'll
leave you with a final thought on Ike Turner. Talented,
but ugh, the ick It's just the ick factor is
(11:23):
high heavy ick factor.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Well, Harry, thanks for wrapping up another week in music
history the week of February tenth, and thanks for checking
out the Taking a Walk podcast. We are part of
the iHeart Podcast Network and available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Buzznight, the host of the Taken o Walk podcast,
and here's another look at this week in music history
for the week of February tenth, and we go over
to the music history desk to musicologist, radio historian, radio legend,
media executive. What else can I pile on to your resume?
(00:24):
Harry Jacobs Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I appreciate the kind words and the musicologist. I kind
of like that. That's my favorite. And that's what we're
doing right because we're fans of music. That's it. The
week of February tenth kind of a kind of a
neat week. Some fun things to talk about. You know,
Alex van Halen's book just came out in October, and
it was this week in nineteen seventy eight that the
(00:49):
first Van Halen album came out. Remember hearing Eruption or
You Really Got Me? Remember how powerful that was to
hear Eddie van Halen ripping through You Really Got Me?
Those opening chords of that song, the way that they
did it.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, they just burst down the scene and it just
was just like we hadn't really heard anything really like this.
This was something that kind of took us all on
a real ride and you know, through various generations of
the band, they continued to do that, you know, easily.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I love a half a dozen of those songs, if
not more. Shame now that he's gone and Van Halen
is probably done, you know, forever at this point. Yep.
In two thousand and eight, the fiftieth Annual Grammy Awards happened.
Amy Winehouse won five of them, including Best New Artists
and Record of the Year for Rehab. I always love
(01:45):
the Rehab. That's a song, Boy, that's a song.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
We did not comprehend all of her amazing talent until
she left us Earth, and we also, I think didn't
really understand and the depth of her darkness either.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
She was a troubled individual. There's no question the opioids
got their hook into her. And that rarely finishes well,
It really has a rarely has a really good ending.
There's a handful of people that you know that did
it at that level, that recovered. You know, Robert Downey's
got a good story, right, remember the horror stories, right,
(02:26):
you know, climbing into someone else's bed, in someone else's house,
and the craziness he did, and he got straight and
on the straight and narrow but then you you know,
you see Amy and she's the rule versus the exception.
It would seem right unfortunately, so yep. In nineteen sixty three,
February eleventh, the Beatles recorded Please Please Me, and it
(02:50):
was a one day session. It lasted ten hours at
Abbey Road Studios. Incredible ten hours of those boys driving
each other crazy, for sure. Twenty twelve, Whitney Houston passed
away in Beverly Hills. Speaking of torture, right, a lot
of torture there. Yeah, did you ever watch the reality
show with her and Bobby Brown? I did not. Oh,
(03:13):
this was, you know, right around the time I'm assuming
right after the Osborne's. I don't know where we are
chronologically with that, but that was a shit show. She
was another one. I mean it kind of goes hand
in hand with this Amy Winehouse conversation out about drugs
and just a sad, sad story from an unbelieve another
(03:36):
unbelievably talented singer and woman. Did you stay close? I mean,
you've been a rock guy your entire career, you know, musically,
and now since taking a walk and music Save Me,
you know, you're branching out the country. You're dealing with pop,
you're dealing with rap, You're dealing with all kinds of
different music. Have you been a guy that's been out
(03:58):
of that rock realm. I've known each other for forty years.
I've never asked you that question. Do you enjoy Did
you enjoy you know, Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse and pop?
Do you appreciate it? Tell me talk to me about it?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yes, and more so in later years, as the work
I would do for radio companies would expand beyond rock,
so I had to buy the nature of that as well.
I had to understand, you know, pop or just different genres,
never forgetting that pop actually is short for popular, which
(04:37):
is always interesting to come around and talk about. But
I had to branch out, and you know, it's it's
fun to do that, especially when there's music that can
kind of, you know, once again in a moment, just
you know, be that guilty pleasure.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You know. At the end of twenty twenty four, I
think the last week of the year, you re ran
your top five guests on taking a Walk, and I
went through that list blindly. Generally, we know what we're
going to talk about when we when we talk and
(05:15):
and I was so curious to see what you had,
what you had picked, And Carlos Santana was on that
that list and in two thousand, on February twelfth, he
won eight Grammy Awards for Supernatural. This is a perfect
example of someone getting a whole another life and a
whole nother audience. It's almost like the lives that Aerosmith
(05:40):
has had in terms of, you know, different iterations of
their music and you know, pre MTV, MTV, you know,
their breakup, all this stuff. Santana was, you know, a
classic rock artist that didn't have a lot of mainstream
exposure at that time. Certainly, you know, there were some
(06:01):
hits that got radio play, pop pop music, but this
album was unbelievable. Whole bunch of guest singers, I think, uh.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Rob Thomas from Matchbox twenty yeah, and Carlos is still,
you know, reimagining things in the way that he creates
these days. You know, we had on Music Saved Me
and on a Future Taking a Walk, Darryl run dmc McDaniels,
and Darryl and Carlos teamed up on this latest album
(06:35):
of Carlos's on some Music as well. So it's so
admirable that a guy is still curious.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
He still you.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Know, bends the genres a bit along the way and
still is experimenting.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And and for those of you that are fans of
you know, Run DMC and Darryl just you know, a
quick shameless plug. Our other podcast Music Saved Me and
Taking Away Walk both feature time with him. There are
recent releases and if you haven't checked them out, check
them out. Linn Hoffin did an amazing job with him
(07:10):
and you, as always with Carlos. Were you on zoom
with him? Did you actually? Yeah? See all right, tell
me about a fanboy moment. Tell me about that.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's just the wildest thing when because it came together
very quickly. It was the last minute, come together thing.
They're promoting tour dates for Live Nation, and it's just
surreal when you sign on and there you see the
legend himself right before your very eyes. You know, it's
(07:47):
just it's surreal. I can't put it any other way.
So I ultimately have to contain my fanboy noess, but
I can't contain it all Harry, you know that.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, it's and then when you got some one like him,
it was just you know, a monster, It's it's amazing.
Nineteen seventy. February thirteenth, Black Sabbath released. Black Sabbath, often
regarded as the first real heavy metal album Paranoid and
iron Man.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I don't think back then we understood how significant it
was when it came out. I think it was it
was just different because of it. You know, it's hard,
and you know the heavy metal side and everything. But
when you really reflect on that one, for you know,
the core songs in particular, which are staples of you know,
(08:39):
rock radio, classic rock radio, it is really awesome to
this day to see what Black Sabbath did and was
all about.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
There are these comparisons to you know, satanic and cults
and craziness. You know that people concocted about Black Sabbath
back then and for years then. Right oh, in two
thousand and five, Ray Charles won five Grammys and at
that point in two thousand and five, Ray Charles had
passed away, so he received those Grammys posthumously.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Always rather see them when they're alive, get them, That's
all I'll say on that.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You know, one of my favorite Beatles songs, All you
Need Is Love. February fourteenth, nineteen seventy two, John and
Yoko felt that all they needed was love and decided
to spend their week long stay in and Bet the
Presidential Suite the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel promoting world peace.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Pretty badass move if you think about it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Huge, huge move, huge move. I mean it's listen, it's
right up there with Bob Rivers staying on the radio
for ninety days when the Baltimore Orioles were losing. I
look at those two things similarly. That's right, it's a moment. Yeah,
there you go. I'll leave you with two more things here.
February sixteenth, Quickly, Sergeant Pepper's won four Grammy Awards, including
(09:58):
Album of the Year. It was the first rock album
to win Album of the Year.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I would have to say, my opinion, number one album
of all time.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You're not going to get a disagreement from me at all.
And this album set people like Brian Wilson and Phil Spector,
who we talked about in the last week's episode. This
set guys like that that were the geniuses that kind
of looked at themselves as competing with each other, you know,
at that time, and this set that world, especially Brian
(10:34):
Wilson on his side when Sergeant Pepper's came out, and
I agree, probably the best album, best rock album of
all time. Yep, quick last topic for this week in
music history. Also on February sixteenth, Ike Turner was incarcerated
for cocaine possession. Where can get another troubling chapter in
(10:58):
the life of Ike Turner. I cannot, for the life
of me think of a kind thing to say, so
I'm going to listen to my mother and what she
used to say, which was, if you don't have anything
nice to say, Harry, say nothing at all, And I'll
leave you with a final thought on Ike Turner. Talented,
but ugh, the ick It's just the ick factor is
(11:23):
high heavy ick factor.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Well, Harry, thanks for wrapping up another week in music
history the week of February tenth, and thanks for checking
out the Taking a Walk podcast. We are part of
the iHeart Podcast Network and available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
Host
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