December 10, 2025 • 54 mins
Aging Rock Legends Exposed: From Rod Stewart's Earworms to Gene Simmons' Royalty Rant! Dive into a hilarious takedown of rock icons like Rod Stewart, Frankie Valli, and David Lee Roth as Opie and Ron Berman roast their aging antics and question if it's time to hang up the mic—revealing shocking stories of elder abuse on tour and surprising music industry secrets. Discover why Gene Simmons is battling Congress for artist royalties, plus a wild ranking of America's greatest rock bands that might shatter your favorites. Uncover the raw, irreverent truths that keep classic rock alive (or barely breathing) and why these legends still hook us despite the controversies.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Need the one complain and oh my god, I've been.
First off, welcome to the Opie Radio Podcast. I've been.
I've been. Oh my god, I got hiccups and everything,
(00:31):
and I'm just by myself. I uh, around the way.
It will be here in a second. But I've been.
I've been harming Rod Stewart, Rod Stewart, do you think
I'm sexy? For the last hour? Dan need the one complaining?
And the reason is is because uh, this clip is
(00:55):
going viral as we speak. Rod Stewart is uh, Oh,
by god, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta
put him in the Hall of fame of of our
great singers getting a little too old. Check this out,
my goddam.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Outside and.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Sup Jesus, what what is happening to our rocky cut
(01:53):
behind and the one complaint?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And oh my god, that will get stuck in your head?
Oh sure with that, I said, good morning to Jmr
Three sixth night? How are you? What's going on?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Leo?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
God? What of mine? Got? Scott Watson up the river?
How are you? Scottie boy? This is not a replay? Kyle,
Hell no, hell to the No, good morning, Ron the Wader.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
What's y morning. Everybody, Morning, everybody, what's going on? What's
going on?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And get picked up?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Sex, come sugar, no.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Need a one complaining. How are you, Ronnie? Boy?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I feel good, man, I feel good.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
I'm a morning person, so I'm a morning person, so
this is perfect for me.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Sure I'm a morning person too. And uh and I
learned last night that if you call someone ron Ron,
that means you're friends. And I was like, oh my god,
I call Ron Berman Ron the waiter, Ron Ron, So
I think we're officially friends, Ron Ron.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
We're like, yeah, that's at this point, whoa, whoa, whoa?
You heard what I said?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I heard? Yeah, I heard you. Do you wanna you wanna?
Did you? Did you see the Rod Stewart video I
just played. No, Oh my god, this is Rod Stewart
in twenty twenty five. Our singers, our singers are getting old.
You You had to have seen the Frankie Valley videos
by now right. Yeah, he's like in his nineties and
(03:27):
they just push him on stage and and they play
his songs and then he sort of lip syncs and
he moves around the stage very slowly. It's it's elder
abuse at this point. Whoever whoever. Frankie Valley doesn't have
family that loves him because they push him out on
the stage to keep the money rolling in.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Who's the country singer who had like Alzheimer's and this
family was doing that?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Oh, Travis, is it the country singer?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Glenn Campbell?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Glenn Campbell, Glenn, Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Who didn't do they They kept putting him out, They
put him on a seat. He was to get the lyrics.
The daughter would come over with brutin his ear. Yeah,
that's elder abuse.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Well they were breaking it in there.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
You go, this guy come on, speaking of forget speaking
of old you know who's going on tour and they're like,
he shouldn't because he's going to ruin his image because
his voice is gone.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's too late. He already did. We're talking about David
Lee Roth, aren't we. Oh yeah, your fellow Jewish. I
don't know your all family? Again, how did you know?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
I was talking about the jew boy because he's also
in the Singer Hall of Fame of singers that are
too old to be doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I was trying to find I was trying to find
a video of him singing. It is brutal, It is brutal.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
There's a there's a video of him singing and he's
he's just like Vince Neil.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
He's not saying he's.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Like wow, Wow, He's like just to the to then.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
There's no words.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
The latest is Rod Stewart. It's not as bad as
Frankie Valley and David Lee Roth, but man if it
doesn't get caught in your skull, uh, especially when he sings,
uh need the one campaign and watch this really fast Roddie.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Good down.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Outside the dot each other.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
The one complaining said.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Son, I've watched this video.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I'm not joking twenty to twenty five times this morning
as I was getting ready. That's why I'm hyper. That's
why because he's over pronouncing when he says rain and
then he's like, hey, the one complain.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
And he's doing the robot and it theeter glued to
the to the stage.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
You know, when people try to say they try, they'll
they'll keep trying, Ronnie, ron I get it. But how
people when people try to say you I just I
just go and watch some of these videos that go
shut your mouth. That's what sucks.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
How old is Rod Stewart?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I mean, to be fair, he's gotta be man. I
was a kid when I discovered Rod Stewart, and I'm
not a kid.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
In seventies, early eighties, I would.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Go ready for this. I didn't look it up. I'm
gonna go seventy seven. I'm gonna go seventy seven for
Rod Stewart. Give me one second.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
However, seventy seven. If that's the case.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
He looks fucking good and he can still kind of sing.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
He just can't move fair enough, man, Rod Stewart is
Oh damn.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
He's eighty, right, I hope I eighty.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
He looks great, by the way.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Fair enough. You got a great on a curve. I mean,
but it's just fun. It's an earworm. Now, Need the
one complain?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
And he's still got the fucking here though at eighty
years old. He's got that fucking blonde, spiky rock and
roll here.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You think it's his hair? Ron, do you think it's
his hair?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
It's all about the hair.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It's all about the hair. I don't know if he's
got the hair, got the here you think he's got
the hair? Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
But there you go.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's how we start today. Need the one complain and
oh my god, I love it. I love it Ron.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
If you think hold what's the song? If you think
of sexye and you ought my body? Come on, baby,
let me know, Let me know, baby. You speaking of
aging musicians, all right, Gene Simmons from.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I was in a good boom Ron. Now I don't
call you Ron Ron anymore. Now I just call you
Ron Mattter.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
You don't like me, bring it up other Jewish musicians.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I Hateing Simmons. Why he was on the show. He's
a pompous ass, He's a narcissist, he's he's a garbage.
He walks into a room and goes, ah, God, you
guys are so lucky to have my presence right now.
I hate the guy. And your music has sucked. I
liked it when I was twelve, and then I discovered
(08:47):
led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Oh my god, you your
bubblegum pop and you think you're some fucking rock genius?
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Uh? What are they categorize like glam rock? Is that
what this is?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Dude? He was on the show once and uh, you know, uh,
I think it was Danny. Danny was making a little
noise one of our guys, right, just making some noise
because We're running a huge radio show, so this action
in the studio and you you know, as a as
a you know uh that if you're on Opien Anthony,
there's gonna be a lot of energy around you. You
just you avoid all that because they're setting up stuff,
(09:23):
they're giving us show prep, they're working their asses off
behind the scenes. We always had a great step and
Jean Simmons couldn't take it and and shushed Danny. And
then he.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Put his hand, he put his hand on Danny's hand
to shush him in the middle of his uh spectacular
interview on the Opia and Anthony show.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh I hate the guy. Why do you bring him up?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Rod? It's the wait.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Wait, sorry, you got me going. Sorry sorry sorry one
one one name didn't be going in the morning. Today's
Steene Simmons. You see, you see what he said about
as Freely. He's free He just died. His family still
has tears pouring out of their fucking eyes, right yeah,
Jeene Simmons had to, Oh, he just had to. This
was the time to basically say say that, you know,
(10:11):
Ace Freely caused his own demise, you know, basically talking
about his lifestyle and this and that and and that
polite Eddie Trunk, who I like. I go way back
with Eddie Trunk. Eddie, you should have went all in
because Eddie was not happy about you know, the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yeah, I mean, first of all, it's just bad taste.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I mean, you want to bad mouth somebody and the
body's literally still warm.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
It he just passed away.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So ron it's your show for sec because I realized
I didn't plug my my MacBook in, so I'm gonna
be right over there, so be careful with what you say.
But I'll be back in like fifteen seconds. I just
got to plug the sid or we're gonna run out
of energy.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Yeah, we're waiting for you to leave so we can
actually have a show only alone. Everybody. Welcome to the
Ronnie Show. Welcome to the The Ronnie Sterling Berman Show.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Background.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I told you a second going the show was getting good.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Leo Gunn Rod was great with Jeff Beck. Everything after sucks.
Oh damn well, he wasn't faces he was in the band.
Faces were small faces. Faces small faces.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Would face is considered like a supergroup.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I guess I don't know. I just never liked Jeff Beck.
Just twiddling about on a stupid guitar. He's a genius,
is he? I couldn't name one fucking song.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Everyone I know who's like a music snob, right, they
love to throw out the Jeff Beck.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I get it. They're good at playing their instrument.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
They love to throw that name out.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Here's something it had. It happened to Jimmy Page too,
back in the day. If you have to drag a
singer along with you, right, yeah, does your band broke up,
You're not You're not a genius anymore. I saw Jimmy
Page in Rochester. He came on and he had to
he had to find a young stud that sort of
(12:17):
looked like Robert Plant to scream those high notes. And
if he didn't have that guy, he would just be
on that stage fiddling about.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Well, didn't he? He?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
He had sort of like a resurrection with with the
with the Black Crows, Right.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
He did some did he do Black crowse stuff? I
think so. I don't know. Jimmy Page has never stopped working.
He's always teaming up with somebody because he has to
team up with someone. That's my point. He needs the
vocalist Jeff Beck. You go and see Jeff Beck You're like, oh,
oh wow, yeah, great, another guitar piece. Oh this is
oh yeah, this is oh wow.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Well look what Joe Perry. Joe Perry formed Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Vampires, all right, right, and name one song.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
None.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
I don't know one fucking song. All I know is
Hollywood Vampires. By the way, the name comes from that
used to be a drinking social club back in the.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Heyday of Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
They were called Hollywood Vampires, all right, Jack Nicholson and
all them, and they would, you know, they would drink
to four or five in the morning and they would
call themselves Hollywood Vampires. The current Hollywood Vampires is Alice Cooper, Yeah,
Johnny Depp, yeah, uh, Joe Perry, yeah. I believe Chris
(13:36):
Robinson is fronting the band at the moment. And one
of the founding members's brothers. There's two brothers who founded
Stone Temple.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Pilots, the Delayo brother Delo Brothers. One of the one
of the Delayo brothers is also in the band. That's
a good that's a good lineup.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You know, more guys that sit around on a stage
waiting for a fucking lead singer. They're they're handicapped. These
guys are handicapped with out the lead singer. Hey, by
the way, have you seen what Elton John looks like
these days?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
He looks like Billy Jean King.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah, he looks like an old fucking handicapped lesbian. He
looks like his doppel ganger is Billy Jean King.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I can't tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I can't even do by the little stupid bit anymore
because you just hit it out of the pack. Rad
just hit it out of the pack over the green Monster.
I was all I was gonna say, and it's it's
gonna be. Look lower your expectations. He walks around like
he's trying to find a fucking bathroom all the time. Now,
like he's holding in a good one.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
If you put Elton by the way, So I used
to live near Billy Jean Billy g you'd live near
Billy Jan King. Actually she lives on the Upper West Side,
so I would see her quite a bit. And she
always wore like those sports track suits.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Put out on John, her sports tracks. You know you're
not gonna tell the different.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
And you got it. Just leave it there, you killed,
all right? Listen to me what he got on this
Gene Simmons.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
All so you can appreciate this because you're a radio guy.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
So Gene Simmons went on Capitol Hill yesterday. By the way,
he was already there because he kiss got inducted into the.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
What the Kennedy Center Honors whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Kennedy Center Honors, where Trump was the host.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
For the first time ever. Donald Trump decided, I'll be
the host.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So he studied.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Johnny consent tapes and he picked the nominees. Right hold on,
So who the hell was it?
Speaker 5 (15:49):
It was Gene Simmons, Gloria Gayner.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Remember her glory gainer is uh I will by Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I think he put her in just to have some color,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh damn, why'd you say that? Man?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Because everyone else's good old white boys? Okay, George straight.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Pro nominated him good old country boy, all right, a
guy named Sylvester Stallone.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
It's like a blast from the past.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
That's like, what year is this?
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yes, that's what I'm saying. It's all the action heroes.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Well you know what, Ron need the one complain? Then
no one's complaining.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Oh and oh and the guy from Trump's favorite musical.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
What do you think Trump's favorite musical on Broadways?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Oh? My gosh, guy.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Who's starting that musical also got inducted.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I had a springtime for Hitler line.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
But I'll say the name. Let's see you can get
the broad Michael Kross.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Phantom of the Opera.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Oh that's his favorite, Donald Trump's favorite.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Here's the cost of the opera. I saw it. I
thought it was horrible.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's December tenth, twenty twenty five, and I officially have
to say I hate I hate Donald Trump because he
likes Phantom of the Opera.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
We just lost all our vas.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I know I'll bring him back because I got a
montage of Trump yelling at female reporters that that. That
is also making me laugh this morning.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
But piggy, little piggy, let me in. He loves that phrase.
He loves calling women little piggy. And he calls Rosie
o'donald big piggy.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
This is where it confused people. Donald Trump is such
a dick, and it makes me fucking laugh. By aunt,
He's such sick.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
We have a president who called female reporters little piggies.
I mean, Jesus Christ, it's a.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Serious side of that. And this is what really pisses
me off. And this is why I'm obviously not working
for a big corporation because I I can't take it.
Like if I'm the female reporter, right and and he's
he's scolding me and making me look like a fool
in front of the everybody else that's reporting, I wouldn't
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sit there and take it. I would. I would. I
would act up so bad. I would obviously lose my
job because the company would be like, oh my god,
you can't do that. But then I would be a
viral sensation. I would be a hero. These women sit there,
he berates them, and they just take it. That's the
part of the whole thing that really frustrates me that
they don't speak out. Why don't you think they speak out?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Well, hold on, she was on Air Force one, so
she's it's not like she can go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
No no, no, no, no, Ron, Ron Bron. Sorry, I'm
interrupting you because you're one hundred percent right with that.
But what about the ones in the oval office? He
does it all the time.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Yes, he does it everywhere, and right, you're a hundred
percent right. Can you imagine one of these female parts,
they'll excuse me, don't you.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Ever call me that again.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
How dare you she would be famous?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
How bad do you want that job? You see the video,
Like as soon as Trump is done, his handlers start
yelling and screaming for everyone to leave. You're you're just cattle,
and you're just garbage to the UH, to the White
House and the administration. As soon as the thing is over,
they come in. They come in like you know at
(19:33):
the end of a concert, where they come in and
want you out of the fucking room immediately. That's what
they do to those reporters. They treat them like garbage.
They have to sit outside in the cold waiting for,
you know, their opportunity to go in the Oval office
and maybe ask the president a question, why would you?
Speaker 6 (19:50):
If he doesn't like and if he doesn't like the question,
it's fake news. He literally yesterday he didn't like the question,
and he turned to whoever was beside him, ABC fake news,
ABC fake news, little piggy, Little piggy.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Ron I got a montage. I put this together. Uh,
there's longer pieces of this out there. I'm not trying
to say, but I I put my own headed on
this to make it move a little faster. So here's
Trump just insulting all female reporters in this In this case,
let me finish. I said you are the worst.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
You with Bloomberg, right, you are the worst. I don't
know why they even have you.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Listen, be quiet, listen. You don't listen.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
You never listening.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's why you're second grade. It's not the question that
I mind, it's your attitude. I think you are a
terrible reporter.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
You're a terrible person and a terrible reporter. Who you
are with? Who as fake news? ABC fake news, one
of the worst, one of the worst in the business.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Let me tell you you should be embarrassed asking that question.
They're giving us a free jet.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Medical professionals have one noctually.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Not Your CNN effect.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Is go ahead.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Let me just tell you and NBC fake news, which
is one of the worst, and.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
CNN New York Times are all bad.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
They're sick.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
There's something wrong with them.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Do you know what? You should be praising those people instead?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
If we're you with looks fake not. Unfortunately, nobody watches.
Is anybody watching CNN? No, there's I haven't seen it
a long time.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Some of your supporters are wary of is you as
getting involved in another or in all, do.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
You ever ask a positive question?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
As I would figure it was ABC fake news that
would ask that question.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
One of the worst.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I'm in the travel pool, but I'm with NBC News
NBC NBC fake news, NBC is one of the worst.
File Well, I don't want to talk about it because
fake news like you.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You're a terrible reporter, and fake news like you, they
just keep reading.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Dude, he's he's Donald copy.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
He's the worst bully, right, like if you had a
bully in high school, Like, that's him.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Right, it's the bully.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Look.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I laughed because he's such a dick. It's entertaining to me.
But also it's you know, it's there's nothing impressive when
you go after a woman. There's just simply nothing impressive
about that. If you want to do that, whatever, but
don't think you're looking like a tough guy going after
a woman. Also, I'm really fast around because I have
(22:34):
to address this. We're getting we're getting we're getting new
people all the time. The numbers are starting to move
a little, a little in the right direction. So I
don't blame someone like Patrick. He goes hey, ope, Biden
handlers did the same, even worse.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
I understand that they're all they're all pieces of ship.
I understand not taking sides here.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I understand you're obviously very new to this. We we
took some really good shots Biden over the years. I
understand how all this works. But Trump is now the president,
and I'm talking more about the reports in general, and
what a crappy job they have. They wait out in
the cold, They finally are called into the Oval office,
you know, two hours when a scheduled press conference is.
(23:17):
They get to ask their question. Trump errates you, and
then Trump's handlers in this case, and it used to
be Biden's handlers, they come in and they sweep the
room and they literally push you out the door, immediately
back into the cold. And I don't understand why a
female reporter or any reporter would would take that garbage
from Trump, especially when it really isn't a bad question,
(23:39):
It's not an outrageous question.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
If you had a female reporter articulate her response by saying,
I've worked my entire life to get to this point
and I've overcome this, and for you to denigrate me
like that, stame on you. If you said it the
right way, she would be a goddamn viral superstar.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I got all the talk shows on the view.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
The job's not worth it. Serious jobs, Okay, anyway back
to this, Gene Simmons, Sorry.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Hold on, let's get some let's get some background information.
You come from the radio world, so people realize, Yes,
when when you if you're an artist and your song
gets played on the radio, they don't get a penny.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Is that true?
Speaker 6 (24:32):
No, So artists don't get royalties when every time a
radio station plays plays a song.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Right, No, they get money and they for a long time.
I'm telling you.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Hold on, why do you think Gene Simmons is on
Capitol Hill yesterday?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
He's maybe he's trying to get a better deal for
the artists. No, radio stations over the years had to
pay a ship ton of money to play artists on radio.
Am I getting this wrong?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
You're getting it one hundred percent wrong?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
But what do you mean one hundred percent?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Elvis Presley Well never received a fucking penny from any
song played on the radio. Gene Simmons went on Capitol
Hill yesterday in front of a Senate subcommittee, testifying before
a Senate Judiciary subcommittee about the American music Fairness Act.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Hey bill, now listen.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Bill, a bill that would require AMFM radio stations to
pay artists and labels when their music is played, and
the unfair practice where radio stations profit from music without
paying the artist. Gene Simmons kiss, have never received a
penny for any music ever played on the radio. Frank
(25:55):
Sinatra has never received a penny from any music played
on the radio.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Baba streisand Jean Kelly right, So this is it. So
this is what the bill would do.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
It would require AMFM radio stations to pay royalties to artists.
It would treat a MFM radio radios similar to digital
streaming services.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
And here's another one. This is a big one.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Pay royalties when American arts are played on foreign radio stations. Well, essentially,
Gene Simmons is saying he kiss, every fucking artist has
lost out on millions and millions and millions of dollars. Nope,
because the radio stations are taking all the profit. What
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are your thoughts on this, mister radio man.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Well, I'm reading up on this, and actually I am
kind of surprised. But it has a long, complicated history
of paying artists over the years. I'm gonna have to
do a deeper dive into this, but basically, back in
the day, okay, listen, the times have changed obviously, so
I know serious XM pays a boatload of money to
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artists to play their shit, including comedians, although the comedians
bitch and complained that they should be getting more money
every time they play a track from their comedy CDs.
So that has been happening in satellite radio for sure.
I know they've paid out like hundreds of millions of
dollars to make sure artists are getting paid when they
spin their their songs and their content. Here's where Gene
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Simmons should go screw Okay, there was a time that
artists and record companies were trying to get their artists
on the big radio stations because if they could get
the song on the radio station, that song would be
a hit. All the kids back in the day, the
teenagers would be flocking to the record stores and buying
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the record and that's how they were making their money.
So they knew if they could get on the radio
back in the day, that it was gold. It was
gold for the record.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Hold on, when you say back in the day, I
remember like watching movies, like movie genres about this and
like the guy would like go to local radio stations
with with the single, say hey man, can you play it?
I'll give you fifty bucks? Y. Is that how it worked?
You would go from local radio station to local radio station.
Is there any way you can play my you know,
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my A and B side?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
So this is a little complicated, but hear me out. Yes,
that was called payola plugola, And then they had they
had to shut that shit down because like radio companies,
the program directors, the music directors, they were getting trips,
they were getting drugs, they were getting girls just to
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play records on costations. Was a massive problem in the industry. Really,
as far as Gene Simmons goes and kiss, Geene Simmons
is full of it because back in the day when
he was putting out you know, those hits, he was
making stupid money because they were playing those songs on
the radio. If they don't play those songs on the
radio back of the day, you wouldn't be sitting here
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talking about Gene Simmons. But with that said, the times
have changed and it's not as valuable to get your
your your song or your or your record played on
a radio.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Station. Hold on you trying to say they didn't get royalties,
but the fact that their music was played on the
radio station increase album sales.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Dude, I come from this business where I remember I
was just I was just a schmuck coming up in
the business, and the record guys would be just waiting
online outside the program director's office, begging to get their
song on the on the on the radio, and they
would make all sorts of fucking deals to like, if
you play our band, let's say, we will make sure
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they come to Rochester right and play show just for
your radio station. We will make sure the lead singer
because no one wants to talk to the rest of
the band in general. Usually we'll make sure the lead
singers on all your top shows. And they were making
fucking stupid money with those deals.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Hold on, so this really happened to you. People would
offer you, not me, no.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
The payoll and the plug. All was before my time,
but they were still being sneaky about it because there
was there were legal ways where all a sudden they're like,
hey man, this is a stupid example, obviously, but let's
say you two, hey man, if you play YouTube's latest single,
this is a terrible example. But whatever we will give you,
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we will give you five tickets and five pairs of tickets,
let's say, and five trips to see you two in Dublin.
And that was all legal. There's money behind that. And
now the U two song right is being played every
fucking two hours on your your your radio station and
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uh and everyone's happy because now the radio station could
promote the ship out of the fact that you get
a chance to go see you two in doublet So
Geene Simmons is full shit. He knows back in the day,
was he getting an actual check for the radio stations. No,
but he knows how much money he was making because
his songs were played on the radio.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Well, they weren't getting royalties.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
But the the other benefit if your if your song
being played a lot is album sales and concert ticket sales.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
I suppose right, yes, yes, what was I gonna say?
Damn it?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Okay? John Quartz nine ninety nine, This guy fucking rocks.
John has been supporting me for years and actually we
went from you know, casual. He's now a fucking friend
of mine. He just gave his nine ninety nine. Young
Blood and Aerosmith have a great collaboration.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Hold on a second. First of all, is young Blood English?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I don't know, don't know young Blood. I'm not gonna.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Spink the's English.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
And I think young Blood and Steven Tyler or young
Blood and Aerosmith collaborated on a song and it's now
young Blood's first top ten hit in America.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Nice.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
I don't know who this young Blood is, but I
guess he's a he's a rock star.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Alright, listen to me though, only.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Wait, wait, opie, when you're talking about bands wanting to play, hey, can.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
You play our music?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (32:31):
That did happen to you? And you kind of.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Ft up which one? Oh godsmack, godsmack.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
They fucking do you threw the fucking thing.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
You threw their demo out the window like an asshole,
like a fucking once again self sabotage, fucking asshole you
thought to be funny.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Now it's called littering. The fucking Indians on the side
crying because you're littering.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
You know, my dear friend and for a while, my
closest friend. And then he moved to La which just sucks.
I'm like, really, I get people move, but you got
to move the furthest away from me possible. But we're
still uh, we're still little friends, you know, but we
just don't get to see each other that much. And
uh over twenty years later, because he was in the
car that day, we still laugh our asses off over that.
(33:13):
And the fact is, I'll say it again, I became
a huge Godsmack fan and I had their first CD
in my hand. All I had to do was play
it on the big time Opie and Anthony show up
there in Boston, and we would have we would have
been known as the ones that discovered God's Back. But
I decided to go for the joke and throw it
out the window into the river.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, how that go? You went for the slapstick?
I saw it.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
It went wonderfully.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
I saw considered. Huh high energy do their fucking high
energy rock and roll?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I love them. I love them, so listen. I just
want to wrap up the Gene Simmons thing. I like.
I liked the concept of the good, the bad and
the ugly for real. I don't like Gene Simmons, I don't,
but now I gotta be fair. He is looking out
for the current day, you know, artists. But I mean
he was, he was, you know, he misrepresented exactly. You
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know the problem at hand. But you know now it
is about the streaming services, and all these streaming services
pay the artists some money every time their ship is played.
So it's time for radio stations to follow that business
model and go all in with that. So I have
a question.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
I have a question.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Oh, first of all, well, so here's the question. Let's
say the American Music Fair de sac passes.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Yeah, I'm really naive to this.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Let's say your song gets played on the radio. Now,
how much would they get?
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Oh it's pennies, dude, that I'm saying it's pennies, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, but it starts adding up. It's just you know,
it's pennies. It's pennies.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
But what are you talking like, like, oh, it's seven
cents ten cents?
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Like is how it works?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Literally, pennies ten cents is not pennies literally pennies.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Three four cents per song.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
It's really it's pennies. So you got Yeah, but you
got to remember if you're if you're a band that's
coming up now, which is stupid because we talked about
this recently too. There's no fucking rock bands anymore. But
if you're a rock band coming up now, a lot
of these guys are making stupid money on YouTube, you
know now, Like I I love the Black Keys, love them,
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and they just they just put out an album a
few months back, right, Yeah, I just go on YouTube
and listen to it. And they're and they're monetized because
every time you're playing a YouTube video, you get a
few a few bucks and and there's millions of views
just you know, adding up for these guys. So they're
making money off YouTube. They're making money off serious ExM.
(35:51):
They're making money off the Spotify and all the other
streaming apps, and it's all pennies. But the pennies start
adding up if you add up all the all the services.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Wait a minute, I mean I listen to Spotify definitely
what I work out when I'm on the train. Are
you telling me like every time I hear like I
play some class of rock like Bad Company, Yeah, from Spotify,
they get a few pennies, oh god yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Now or.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Yes yes, oh, because that's not a radio station, that's
the streaming service.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
So to be fair to Gene Simmons, you know, I'll
say it again, although he misrepresented because he knows damn
well how how valuable having a kiss song on the
radio back in the day. Was that that just having
the song of the radio, you were making millions. Because
now you're becoming popular. Now you can sell out your
concerts across America, you can sell your merch. People are
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running to the store and getting the albums.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Well, they're buying that, they're buying the album which was
also like essentially artwork back in the day, like the
cover albums are. And also they're buying the merch, right,
they're buying the T shirts.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
But I'll tell you so the radio stations are. It
looks like it's they're catching up. But I do want
to like do more of a deep dive because I
feel like I feel like the record companies were paying
out to artists. But I'm not sure anymore.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
But here's and I have another question.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
So but let me just finish this stort important. So
now Gene Simmons babbling about this trying to get artists
paid and trying to get the radio stations to pay
for the content and and the spins of your songs, right,
that's gonna crush regular radio even more. They can't afford nothing.
These radio stations aren't worth ship. I know, I know
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a guy. He's a he's a decent friend of mine.
He's got a he's got a handful of radio stations,
you know, media market. I'll say his name, Tim Sabian,
trying to dump his radio stations for years, for years,
they used to be so valuable. Now that now he's
gonna make pennies on the dollar when he sells his
his radio stations.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
But get ahead, Rod, Sorry if this, if this passes,
does that mean every song played the radio station has
to pay pennies on every song?
Speaker 5 (38:09):
It sounds like they could be bank corrupted. For Christ's sakes.
That adds up.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, it's gonna add up. But like I said, it's
happening everywhere else, and I guess radio stations are behind behind.
Let me go to Leo Gunn. He just gave us
five dollars. You rule, Leo young Blood sang black Sabbage
changes at Ozzie's final UK show. Oh okay. Ozzie told
them he has to conquer American next backstage before dying
two weeks later. Damn, I right, So I guess.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
He did take advice because he tamed up with I mean,
arguably maybe one of America's greatest fucking rock bands, Aerosmith.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
No, they're always, They're always. They've been known as the
greatest American rock band forever.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Absolutely, and young Blood is now breaking into the American
market with Arrowsmith.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
He's got a top ten hit. Have you ever heard
of the guy singing? No?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
I already said I don't. Maybe I do. I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna check that out later today too. That's why
I love doing this shit, because you get there turned
onto stuff. So I will absolutely check out changes my question, Yes.
Speaker 6 (39:13):
How much like Gene Simmons says, the radio stations are
making all the profit? Are they making a big profit
by not paying out royalties?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
I mean, they do the radio.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Stations to make a profit.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
I don't get it, dude, We're kind of going around
in circles no offense. Like I said, there was a time,
there was a time that the artists benefited the rock
the rock bands benefited. They both were benefiting from having
the music on the station. Okay, I think what Gene
Simmons is talking about now is it's way out of
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fucking balance. Yeah, But the problem is these radio stations
are fucking broke broke, so I don't know where this
money is gonna come from. In the end, it's gonna
be tough, but good for Geen saying it's for sticking
up for the artists, even though I don't like the guy. Hey, uh,
you're ready for the Top American rock bands.
Speaker 5 (40:07):
Top American rock bands.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
I don't think there's an order here.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Hey, just quickly before we move on.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
I want an order though, because there's some killer bands
on this list.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Yeah, hey, just quickly before we move on. With Gene Simmons,
do you know that Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley's kids
formed a band? I did Stanley Simmons and it sounds
like a vacuum cleaner. Stanley Simmons sounds like a fucking
vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
But are they good?
Speaker 5 (40:35):
Though?
Speaker 1 (40:36):
They sound like a law firm.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
So it's Evan stan Evan Stanley and Nick Simmons, O
sons of Uh Paul and John Okay formed a band
called Stanley Simmons and they have Their first song was
called Body Down.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
It sounds like to be Stills a Nash. Oh all right,
it's one hundred percent. You will go Oh, that's Cribby
still as the Nash very very harm hum you know,
crib naph.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
Are no for they're they're they're harmonizing, right, it's very harmonizing,
and it's very when bodied down, it's it's about the
like the Indian gurus, the Chakras.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
All right, very cool, listen to me. I was a
little distracted because I'm trying to find the top American
rock bands. I did hear you the run sixteenth place, Metallica.
I'm trying to get to the top ten, but I
just scrolled past Metallic at sixteenth, the Ramones fifteenth. Uh
you think, Arison, it's going to be the number one.
This is a pretty good list. It's a it's it's
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a respectful uh site. Nirvana fourteenth place. That's a little high,
All men, brothers, what of my thirteenth place? Slide Sli
in the family Stone twelfth place? Steely Steely.
Speaker 5 (42:01):
Classic.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
It's the greatest brunch band ever. What it's the greatest
brunch band. Like when you're going out the brunch, you
gotta have it's Steely Dan. It's it's the best music
for brunch music.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
There you go, all right, hold.
Speaker 6 (42:16):
On, why why did they name the band Steely Dan.
What is a Steely Dan.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
It's a sex toy.
Speaker 6 (42:23):
Rod the Dodo. They named their band after a fucking
Dodo and.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
We did the Chevy. Chase was the original drummer when
they were playing in college. Okay, right, so uh here's
the top ten. All right, tenth place, greatest American rock band.
Simon and Gotham Golf.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
Paul Simon's my second cousin.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
I don't believe it, but all right, number nine the Eagles.
There's a viral video about the Eagles because they played
that sphea out there in Vegas. Yeah, and people are
complaining because they were barely moving on the stage. They
were barely moving.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
Uh yeah uh.
Speaker 6 (43:02):
And do they still tour or they're just doing the
redidut because when they tore the tickets to like a
thousand dollars each.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
If you're just tuning this in, I was in such
a good mood. I'm playing Rod Stewart at eighty years
old talking about me the one complain And now I'm
in a bad mood because you brought up Gene Simmons
and now I have to talk about the stupid Eagles. God,
they were overrated in my book. They were so their songs.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
Were boring, you know, they were country music band.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Really, I don't mind country music, though, I don't mind it.
Eighth place, Rim. Wow, someone's trying to be cool with
their list. And I used to like the Rim These
are the greatest American rock bander.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
You're putting Rim over the Eagles, Get the.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Fuck out over Metallica? Right, No over Nirvana? Well, Nirvana
didn't have enough songs, all right. Seventh place A band
I fucking love and and and they sing one of
my favorite songs of all time Tramp Talking Heads. One
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of the greatest songs ever written is this must be
the place off stop making Sense. It's one of the
greatest in my catalog. It's one of the greatest songs
ever ever written.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Sixth place.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
Who was the lead singer of the Talking Heads? David Byrne.
That's it? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Writers on the Storm.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
Fucking Jim Morrison. Yeah? Absolutely? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Into this house? We're born into this world.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Now you want to talk about a cool fucking rock.
Speaker 4 (44:44):
Star bum bum.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Writers on the Storm, Oh, I love the Doors, God
love me two times away.
Speaker 6 (44:58):
This is the end, my friend, This is the end. Dude,
Jim Morrison, what quintessential? If you if God said this
is what a rockstart should look like and sound like,
it's Jim Morrison.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (45:12):
And Valcolma should have got the fucking oscar.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (45:16):
Absolutely. Valcolmer was sensational in that.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
There you go. Yeah, ron I got bad news for you.
Top rock bands, Top American rock bands. That's the number
one in here. H Well, the Doors were six.
Speaker 5 (45:31):
Okay, so here's the top five.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
I got bad news for you, Ronnie. Your boys are
in fifth place. Your boys are in fifth place. Some
lists have Arrowsmith as the greatest American rock band, but
on this list they're in fifth place. Who beat Arrowsmith?
Who beat the Doors? We'll tell you after these messages?
Speaker 6 (45:57):
Oh I can I guess? Can I guess the top five?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Of course, Ronnie?
Speaker 5 (46:01):
Of course I bet you. I bet your letter Skyndard's
up there.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
All right? Let me look, all right, let me look,
let me look, let me look.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
No Rynard, Skinnyard, what are you fucking kidding me?
Speaker 1 (46:16):
I don't even know where they are in the list.
I'd have to scroll all the way back the other way.
I don't feel like doing that right now. Ronnie ron No,
you want another guests greatest American rock bands? Who beats Aerosmith?
Who's in fifth place?
Speaker 5 (46:30):
You got?
Speaker 6 (46:30):
I mean you got the Cauz, you got Boston.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Nope and Nope.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
It can't be an individual riot, can't be like Elvis Presley.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
I got a hint for you. One of the greatest
rock lyrics of all time. I said this recently. Ready,
here's your hint. Chase, send down to who Do Dare? Chase,
send down to who Do Dare? It's one of the
greatest rock lyrics of all time.
Speaker 8 (47:00):
Chase and down to who Do Dare? Which is a spirit,
a spirit in the woods. That's what who Do is?
It's part of the culture of the South, Oh rad
Ran Chase, who do there?
Speaker 5 (47:19):
Wait? Ye, man, it's right. The tip my tongue.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Leads things from northern California, but he made believe he
was from the South. I couldn't make it more obvious
to you.
Speaker 5 (47:29):
I'm having trouble because your voice is so bad.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
And down to who do There? Born on the.
Speaker 5 (47:38):
Bye you John Created's clear Water Revival.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
They're in fourth place. They beat your boys?
Speaker 5 (47:48):
Really?
Speaker 6 (47:49):
Yeah, I don't think yeah right, I'm sorry. Cci on
your Home of Rock and Roll.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Number three, I think, well this, Wow, this would be
a good discussion. Number three beats out Arrowsmith. Let me
think about it.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
I guess van Halen. Van Halen's in third. I think
I think they had a better run than Arrowsmith in general.
Number two is a huge surprise, but respect respect greatest
American rock bands. Uh, the runner up is Tom Petty
and the Hot Breaker is.
Speaker 5 (48:30):
Right Number one? Who the fuck is number one? Did
Bob Dylan have a band? Or is he solo?
Speaker 1 (48:38):
No, no, it's not nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 5 (48:43):
Give me ahead.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Well, well, uh uh, you know they had an asshole father.
That's a good hint. They had an asshole father.
Speaker 5 (48:56):
Five mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
The father hit one of the guys so hard. I
think he lost his hearing in one ear.
Speaker 4 (49:09):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
A lot of critics say they came out with Made Sorry,
Made the greatest album of all time. I don't agree
with that. I hated the album in general. As far
as an album.
Speaker 5 (49:21):
Goes, it's more hints.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
They're from the West Coast. There's a bunch of brothers
in the band.
Speaker 5 (49:41):
I mean, I thought Leonard Skinner would be up there
because they're all.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
You don't know what. It's the Beach Boys, Ron, it's
everyone else got in the chat. I can't sit here
and let you guess for the next twenty minutes. It's
the Beach Boys. I'm trying to find Skinner on the list. Man.
I thought Ars Smith was the raised American rock band
of all time, but we learned today that is not
the truth. Guns and Roses seventeenth place, because people were
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asking about the Guns easy top, eighteenth place. I'm trying
to find the skinhead the Birds. Jesus, the Birds in
nineteenth place. Oh there it is okay, perfect. Leonard Skinner
was in twentieth place.
Speaker 5 (50:19):
Where was Guns and Roses.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
Seventeen It looked like, really, yeah, that's kind of stupid. Well, no,
it's not stupid because some of these bands they fell short,
like Guns and Roses needed one more insane album and
they would have been way up on the list. Right,
You didn't have to agree with that.
Speaker 5 (50:37):
They had. They had us your illusion to one, use
your illusion two.
Speaker 6 (50:42):
And then it took actul Rose about a decade and
a half to put out Chinese democracy, remember that, which
was kind of a fucking big dud.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
But one of the greatest albums ever recorded is Appetite
for Destruction. Oh, I mean, good god.
Speaker 6 (50:58):
When that album came out late late eighties, right, Welcome
to the Jungle, dude, it just it. It stopped you
in your tracks.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
Good god. Yeah, but that's a.
Speaker 6 (51:09):
Fucking raw, fucking just raw, naked, aggressive, aggressive rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
What about mister Brownstone, Sweet Child, old Mine, sweet Child?
Speaker 5 (51:26):
Oh mind?
Speaker 1 (51:28):
You know? Uh you know who was the inspiration for
Sweet Chi Old Mine? What I think actual was? Uh man,
I'm pulling this info out of my ass right now
because I might get it wrong. Actual Rose was married
briefly to one of the Everly brothers daughters. I think
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that's how the story goes, and that's where sweet Child
Old Mine come from comes from.
Speaker 6 (51:56):
There's there's the beginning of a Guns N' Roses song,
whill you hear the go going like you hear her
like having sex?
Speaker 4 (52:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (52:04):
Do you know the story behind that?
Speaker 1 (52:06):
It's real sex.
Speaker 5 (52:08):
No, it's real sex.
Speaker 6 (52:09):
She's really moaning and it's and it's Axel Rose banging.
Speaker 5 (52:15):
Uh the other uh duf mccagan's girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (52:21):
Oh no, Steven Adler, remember the drummer Steven Adler.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Yeah, Steven Adler was a that was.
Speaker 5 (52:27):
Steven Adler's girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (52:29):
Really, Axl Rose was cheating on Steven Adlis. Steven Adams's girlfriend,
A Road cheated on her, all right, he cheated on
her and that's her moaning. And and they and they
had it recorded and they decided to use it in
the album. And then Stephen Steven Adler got kicked out
of the band because he did so many.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
Yeah he was. Yeah, he used to come on the
opening Anthony show from time time. He was really all right,
So sweet child though mine inspired by Axel's girlfriend. Okay,
I got it right, Ern Everley, daughter of Don Everley,
and his own childhood memories. So there you go. I got,
I got. I got a fun music question too, or
(53:11):
a fun fact. Yeah, you know, in the beginning of
rock saying the police, so that you know that diabolical
laugh that Sting does, right, Yeah, they were doing a
take of the song I Love Stupid Shit like this.
They're doing a take of the song, right, and they're
rolling tape and Sting backs up and sits on the
(53:33):
keyboard by accident, and and and was like, oh, I'm
an idiot and starts laughing. Like, oh god, what, I'm
an idiot. We'll just we'll just try it again. And
the producer of that at the time, whoever the fuck
he was, goes, no, man, that was awesome. We're leaving
it in the song.
Speaker 5 (53:48):
There was a mistake, right.
Speaker 1 (53:51):
I love when there are mistakes that work out all right, Roun,
I'm going I'm going now you look bored. I'm going
Ron Berman on all the socials. I'm moving on.
Speaker 5 (54:03):
You want to do it quickly. I have a nice.
Speaker 6 (54:05):
Little list of the deadliest animals that kill humans.
Speaker 5 (54:12):
On the next Dopey Radio Pip Tomorrow,
Need the one complain and oh my god, I've been.
First off, welcome to the Opie Radio Podcast. I've been.
I've been. Oh my god, I got hiccups and everything,
(00:31):
and I'm just by myself. I uh, around the way.
It will be here in a second. But I've been.
I've been harming Rod Stewart, Rod Stewart, do you think
I'm sexy? For the last hour? Dan need the one complaining?
And the reason is is because uh, this clip is
(00:55):
going viral as we speak. Rod Stewart is uh, Oh,
by god, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta
put him in the Hall of fame of of our
great singers getting a little too old. Check this out,
my goddam.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Outside and.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Sup Jesus, what what is happening to our rocky cut
(01:53):
behind and the one complaint?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And oh my god, that will get stuck in your head?
Oh sure with that, I said, good morning to Jmr
Three sixth night? How are you? What's going on?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Leo?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
God? What of mine? Got? Scott Watson up the river?
How are you? Scottie boy? This is not a replay? Kyle,
Hell no, hell to the No, good morning, Ron the Wader.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
What's y morning. Everybody, Morning, everybody, what's going on? What's
going on?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And get picked up?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Sex, come sugar, no.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Need a one complaining. How are you, Ronnie? Boy?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I feel good, man, I feel good.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
I'm a morning person, so I'm a morning person, so
this is perfect for me.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Sure I'm a morning person too. And uh and I
learned last night that if you call someone ron Ron,
that means you're friends. And I was like, oh my god,
I call Ron Berman Ron the waiter, Ron Ron, So
I think we're officially friends, Ron Ron.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
We're like, yeah, that's at this point, whoa, whoa, whoa?
You heard what I said?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I heard? Yeah, I heard you. Do you wanna you wanna?
Did you? Did you see the Rod Stewart video I
just played. No, Oh my god, this is Rod Stewart
in twenty twenty five. Our singers, our singers are getting old.
You You had to have seen the Frankie Valley videos
by now right. Yeah, he's like in his nineties and
(03:27):
they just push him on stage and and they play
his songs and then he sort of lip syncs and
he moves around the stage very slowly. It's it's elder
abuse at this point. Whoever whoever. Frankie Valley doesn't have
family that loves him because they push him out on
the stage to keep the money rolling in.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Who's the country singer who had like Alzheimer's and this
family was doing that?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Oh, Travis, is it the country singer?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Glenn Campbell?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Glenn Campbell, Glenn, Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Who didn't do they They kept putting him out, They
put him on a seat. He was to get the lyrics.
The daughter would come over with brutin his ear. Yeah,
that's elder abuse.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Well they were breaking it in there.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
You go, this guy come on, speaking of forget speaking
of old you know who's going on tour and they're like,
he shouldn't because he's going to ruin his image because
his voice is gone.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's too late. He already did. We're talking about David
Lee Roth, aren't we. Oh yeah, your fellow Jewish. I
don't know your all family? Again, how did you know?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
I was talking about the jew boy because he's also
in the Singer Hall of Fame of singers that are
too old to be doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I was trying to find I was trying to find
a video of him singing. It is brutal, It is brutal.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
There's a there's a video of him singing and he's
he's just like Vince Neil.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
He's not saying he's.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Like wow, Wow, He's like just to the to then.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
There's no words.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
The latest is Rod Stewart. It's not as bad as
Frankie Valley and David Lee Roth, but man if it
doesn't get caught in your skull, uh, especially when he sings,
uh need the one campaign and watch this really fast Roddie.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Good down.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Outside the dot each other.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
The one complaining said.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Son, I've watched this video.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I'm not joking twenty to twenty five times this morning
as I was getting ready. That's why I'm hyper. That's
why because he's over pronouncing when he says rain and
then he's like, hey, the one complain.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
And he's doing the robot and it theeter glued to
the to the stage.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
You know, when people try to say they try, they'll
they'll keep trying, Ronnie, ron I get it. But how
people when people try to say you I just I
just go and watch some of these videos that go
shut your mouth. That's what sucks.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
How old is Rod Stewart?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I mean, to be fair, he's gotta be man. I
was a kid when I discovered Rod Stewart, and I'm
not a kid.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
In seventies, early eighties, I would.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Go ready for this. I didn't look it up. I'm
gonna go seventy seven. I'm gonna go seventy seven for
Rod Stewart. Give me one second.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
However, seventy seven. If that's the case.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
He looks fucking good and he can still kind of sing.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
He just can't move fair enough, man, Rod Stewart is
Oh damn.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
He's eighty, right, I hope I eighty.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
He looks great, by the way.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Fair enough. You got a great on a curve. I mean,
but it's just fun. It's an earworm. Now, Need the
one complain?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
And he's still got the fucking here though at eighty
years old. He's got that fucking blonde, spiky rock and
roll here.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You think it's his hair? Ron, do you think it's
his hair?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
It's all about the hair.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It's all about the hair. I don't know if he's
got the hair, got the here you think he's got
the hair? Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
But there you go.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's how we start today. Need the one complain and
oh my god, I love it. I love it Ron.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
If you think hold what's the song? If you think
of sexye and you ought my body? Come on, baby,
let me know, Let me know, baby. You speaking of
aging musicians, all right, Gene Simmons from.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I was in a good boom Ron. Now I don't
call you Ron Ron anymore. Now I just call you
Ron Mattter.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
You don't like me, bring it up other Jewish musicians.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I Hateing Simmons. Why he was on the show. He's
a pompous ass, He's a narcissist, he's he's a garbage.
He walks into a room and goes, ah, God, you
guys are so lucky to have my presence right now.
I hate the guy. And your music has sucked. I
liked it when I was twelve, and then I discovered
(08:47):
led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Oh my god, you your
bubblegum pop and you think you're some fucking rock genius?
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Uh? What are they categorize like glam rock? Is that
what this is?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Dude? He was on the show once and uh, you know, uh,
I think it was Danny. Danny was making a little
noise one of our guys, right, just making some noise
because We're running a huge radio show, so this action
in the studio and you you know, as a as
a you know uh that if you're on Opien Anthony,
there's gonna be a lot of energy around you. You
just you avoid all that because they're setting up stuff,
(09:23):
they're giving us show prep, they're working their asses off
behind the scenes. We always had a great step and
Jean Simmons couldn't take it and and shushed Danny. And
then he.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Put his hand, he put his hand on Danny's hand
to shush him in the middle of his uh spectacular
interview on the Opia and Anthony show.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh I hate the guy. Why do you bring him up?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Rod? It's the wait.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Wait, sorry, you got me going. Sorry sorry sorry one
one one name didn't be going in the morning. Today's
Steene Simmons. You see, you see what he said about
as Freely. He's free He just died. His family still
has tears pouring out of their fucking eyes, right yeah,
Jeene Simmons had to, Oh, he just had to. This
was the time to basically say say that, you know,
(10:11):
Ace Freely caused his own demise, you know, basically talking
about his lifestyle and this and that and and that
polite Eddie Trunk, who I like. I go way back
with Eddie Trunk. Eddie, you should have went all in
because Eddie was not happy about you know, the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yeah, I mean, first of all, it's just bad taste.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I mean, you want to bad mouth somebody and the
body's literally still warm.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
It he just passed away.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So ron it's your show for sec because I realized
I didn't plug my my MacBook in, so I'm gonna
be right over there, so be careful with what you say.
But I'll be back in like fifteen seconds. I just
got to plug the sid or we're gonna run out
of energy.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Yeah, we're waiting for you to leave so we can
actually have a show only alone. Everybody. Welcome to the
Ronnie Show. Welcome to the The Ronnie Sterling Berman Show.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Background.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I told you a second going the show was getting good.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Leo Gunn Rod was great with Jeff Beck. Everything after sucks.
Oh damn well, he wasn't faces he was in the band.
Faces were small faces. Faces small faces.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Would face is considered like a supergroup.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I guess I don't know. I just never liked Jeff Beck.
Just twiddling about on a stupid guitar. He's a genius,
is he? I couldn't name one fucking song.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Everyone I know who's like a music snob, right, they
love to throw out the Jeff Beck.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I get it. They're good at playing their instrument.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
They love to throw that name out.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Here's something it had. It happened to Jimmy Page too,
back in the day. If you have to drag a
singer along with you, right, yeah, does your band broke up,
You're not You're not a genius anymore. I saw Jimmy
Page in Rochester. He came on and he had to
he had to find a young stud that sort of
(12:17):
looked like Robert Plant to scream those high notes. And
if he didn't have that guy, he would just be
on that stage fiddling about.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Well, didn't he? He?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
He had sort of like a resurrection with with the
with the Black Crows, Right.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
He did some did he do Black crowse stuff? I
think so. I don't know. Jimmy Page has never stopped working.
He's always teaming up with somebody because he has to
team up with someone. That's my point. He needs the
vocalist Jeff Beck. You go and see Jeff Beck You're like, oh,
oh wow, yeah, great, another guitar piece. Oh this is
oh yeah, this is oh wow.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Well look what Joe Perry. Joe Perry formed Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Vampires, all right, right, and name one song.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
None.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
I don't know one fucking song. All I know is
Hollywood Vampires. By the way, the name comes from that
used to be a drinking social club back in the.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Heyday of Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
They were called Hollywood Vampires, all right, Jack Nicholson and
all them, and they would, you know, they would drink
to four or five in the morning and they would
call themselves Hollywood Vampires. The current Hollywood Vampires is Alice Cooper, Yeah,
Johnny Depp, yeah, uh, Joe Perry, yeah. I believe Chris
(13:36):
Robinson is fronting the band at the moment. And one
of the founding members's brothers. There's two brothers who founded
Stone Temple.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Pilots, the Delayo brother Delo Brothers. One of the one
of the Delayo brothers is also in the band. That's
a good that's a good lineup.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You know, more guys that sit around on a stage
waiting for a fucking lead singer. They're they're handicapped. These
guys are handicapped with out the lead singer. Hey, by
the way, have you seen what Elton John looks like
these days?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
He looks like Billy Jean King.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah, he looks like an old fucking handicapped lesbian. He
looks like his doppel ganger is Billy Jean King.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I can't tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I can't even do by the little stupid bit anymore
because you just hit it out of the pack. Rad
just hit it out of the pack over the green Monster.
I was all I was gonna say, and it's it's
gonna be. Look lower your expectations. He walks around like
he's trying to find a fucking bathroom all the time. Now,
like he's holding in a good one.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
If you put Elton by the way, So I used
to live near Billy Jean Billy g you'd live near
Billy Jan King. Actually she lives on the Upper West Side,
so I would see her quite a bit. And she
always wore like those sports track suits.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Put out on John, her sports tracks. You know you're
not gonna tell the different.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
And you got it. Just leave it there, you killed,
all right? Listen to me what he got on this
Gene Simmons.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
All so you can appreciate this because you're a radio guy.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
So Gene Simmons went on Capitol Hill yesterday. By the way,
he was already there because he kiss got inducted into the.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
What the Kennedy Center Honors whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Kennedy Center Honors, where Trump was the host.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
For the first time ever. Donald Trump decided, I'll be
the host.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So he studied.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Johnny consent tapes and he picked the nominees. Right hold on,
So who the hell was it?
Speaker 5 (15:49):
It was Gene Simmons, Gloria Gayner.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Remember her glory gainer is uh I will by Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I think he put her in just to have some color,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh damn, why'd you say that? Man?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Because everyone else's good old white boys? Okay, George straight.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Pro nominated him good old country boy, all right, a
guy named Sylvester Stallone.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
It's like a blast from the past.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
That's like, what year is this?
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yes, that's what I'm saying. It's all the action heroes.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Well you know what, Ron need the one complain? Then
no one's complaining.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Oh and oh and the guy from Trump's favorite musical.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
What do you think Trump's favorite musical on Broadways?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Oh? My gosh, guy.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Who's starting that musical also got inducted.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I had a springtime for Hitler line.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
But I'll say the name. Let's see you can get
the broad Michael Kross.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Phantom of the Opera.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Oh that's his favorite, Donald Trump's favorite.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Here's the cost of the opera. I saw it. I
thought it was horrible.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's December tenth, twenty twenty five, and I officially have
to say I hate I hate Donald Trump because he
likes Phantom of the Opera.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
We just lost all our vas.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I know I'll bring him back because I got a
montage of Trump yelling at female reporters that that. That
is also making me laugh this morning.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
But piggy, little piggy, let me in. He loves that phrase.
He loves calling women little piggy. And he calls Rosie
o'donald big piggy.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
This is where it confused people. Donald Trump is such
a dick, and it makes me fucking laugh. By aunt,
He's such sick.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
We have a president who called female reporters little piggies.
I mean, Jesus Christ, it's a.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Serious side of that. And this is what really pisses
me off. And this is why I'm obviously not working
for a big corporation because I I can't take it.
Like if I'm the female reporter, right and and he's
he's scolding me and making me look like a fool
in front of the everybody else that's reporting, I wouldn't
(18:19):
sit there and take it. I would. I would. I
would act up so bad. I would obviously lose my
job because the company would be like, oh my god,
you can't do that. But then I would be a
viral sensation. I would be a hero. These women sit there,
he berates them, and they just take it. That's the
part of the whole thing that really frustrates me that
they don't speak out. Why don't you think they speak out?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Well, hold on, she was on Air Force one, so
she's it's not like she can go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
No no, no, no, no, Ron, Ron Bron. Sorry, I'm
interrupting you because you're one hundred percent right with that.
But what about the ones in the oval office? He
does it all the time.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Yes, he does it everywhere, and right, you're a hundred
percent right. Can you imagine one of these female parts,
they'll excuse me, don't you.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Ever call me that again.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
How dare you she would be famous?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
How bad do you want that job? You see the video,
Like as soon as Trump is done, his handlers start
yelling and screaming for everyone to leave. You're you're just cattle,
and you're just garbage to the UH, to the White
House and the administration. As soon as the thing is over,
they come in. They come in like you know at
(19:33):
the end of a concert, where they come in and
want you out of the fucking room immediately. That's what
they do to those reporters. They treat them like garbage.
They have to sit outside in the cold waiting for,
you know, their opportunity to go in the Oval office
and maybe ask the president a question, why would you?
Speaker 6 (19:50):
If he doesn't like and if he doesn't like the question,
it's fake news. He literally yesterday he didn't like the question,
and he turned to whoever was beside him, ABC fake news,
ABC fake news, little piggy, Little piggy.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Ron I got a montage. I put this together. Uh,
there's longer pieces of this out there. I'm not trying
to say, but I I put my own headed on
this to make it move a little faster. So here's
Trump just insulting all female reporters in this In this case,
let me finish. I said you are the worst.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
You with Bloomberg, right, you are the worst. I don't
know why they even have you.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Listen, be quiet, listen. You don't listen.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
You never listening.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's why you're second grade. It's not the question that
I mind, it's your attitude. I think you are a
terrible reporter.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
You're a terrible person and a terrible reporter. Who you
are with? Who as fake news? ABC fake news, one
of the worst, one of the worst in the business.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Let me tell you you should be embarrassed asking that question.
They're giving us a free jet.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Medical professionals have one noctually.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Not Your CNN effect.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Is go ahead.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Let me just tell you and NBC fake news, which
is one of the worst, and.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
CNN New York Times are all bad.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
They're sick.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
There's something wrong with them.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Do you know what? You should be praising those people instead?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
If we're you with looks fake not. Unfortunately, nobody watches.
Is anybody watching CNN? No, there's I haven't seen it
a long time.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Some of your supporters are wary of is you as
getting involved in another or in all, do.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
You ever ask a positive question?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
As I would figure it was ABC fake news that
would ask that question.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
One of the worst.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I'm in the travel pool, but I'm with NBC News
NBC NBC fake news, NBC is one of the worst.
File Well, I don't want to talk about it because
fake news like you.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You're a terrible reporter, and fake news like you, they
just keep reading.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Dude, he's he's Donald copy.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
He's the worst bully, right, like if you had a
bully in high school, Like, that's him.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Right, it's the bully.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Look.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I laughed because he's such a dick. It's entertaining to me.
But also it's you know, it's there's nothing impressive when
you go after a woman. There's just simply nothing impressive
about that. If you want to do that, whatever, but
don't think you're looking like a tough guy going after
a woman. Also, I'm really fast around because I have
(22:34):
to address this. We're getting we're getting we're getting new
people all the time. The numbers are starting to move
a little, a little in the right direction. So I
don't blame someone like Patrick. He goes hey, ope, Biden
handlers did the same, even worse.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
I understand that they're all they're all pieces of ship.
I understand not taking sides here.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I understand you're obviously very new to this. We we
took some really good shots Biden over the years. I
understand how all this works. But Trump is now the president,
and I'm talking more about the reports in general, and
what a crappy job they have. They wait out in
the cold, They finally are called into the Oval office,
you know, two hours when a scheduled press conference is.
(23:17):
They get to ask their question. Trump errates you, and
then Trump's handlers in this case, and it used to
be Biden's handlers, they come in and they sweep the
room and they literally push you out the door, immediately
back into the cold. And I don't understand why a
female reporter or any reporter would would take that garbage
from Trump, especially when it really isn't a bad question,
(23:39):
It's not an outrageous question.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
If you had a female reporter articulate her response by saying,
I've worked my entire life to get to this point
and I've overcome this, and for you to denigrate me
like that, stame on you. If you said it the
right way, she would be a goddamn viral superstar.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I got all the talk shows on the view.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
The job's not worth it. Serious jobs, Okay, anyway back
to this, Gene Simmons, Sorry.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Hold on, let's get some let's get some background information.
You come from the radio world, so people realize, Yes,
when when you if you're an artist and your song
gets played on the radio, they don't get a penny.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Is that true?
Speaker 6 (24:32):
No, So artists don't get royalties when every time a
radio station plays plays a song.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Right, No, they get money and they for a long time.
I'm telling you.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Hold on, why do you think Gene Simmons is on
Capitol Hill yesterday?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
He's maybe he's trying to get a better deal for
the artists. No, radio stations over the years had to
pay a ship ton of money to play artists on radio.
Am I getting this wrong?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
You're getting it one hundred percent wrong?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
But what do you mean one hundred percent?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Elvis Presley Well never received a fucking penny from any
song played on the radio. Gene Simmons went on Capitol
Hill yesterday in front of a Senate subcommittee, testifying before
a Senate Judiciary subcommittee about the American music Fairness Act.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Hey bill, now listen.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Bill, a bill that would require AMFM radio stations to
pay artists and labels when their music is played, and
the unfair practice where radio stations profit from music without
paying the artist. Gene Simmons kiss, have never received a
penny for any music ever played on the radio. Frank
(25:55):
Sinatra has never received a penny from any music played
on the radio.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Baba streisand Jean Kelly right, So this is it. So
this is what the bill would do.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
It would require AMFM radio stations to pay royalties to artists.
It would treat a MFM radio radios similar to digital
streaming services.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
And here's another one. This is a big one.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Pay royalties when American arts are played on foreign radio stations. Well, essentially,
Gene Simmons is saying he kiss, every fucking artist has
lost out on millions and millions and millions of dollars. Nope,
because the radio stations are taking all the profit. What
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are your thoughts on this, mister radio man.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Well, I'm reading up on this, and actually I am
kind of surprised. But it has a long, complicated history
of paying artists over the years. I'm gonna have to
do a deeper dive into this, but basically, back in
the day, okay, listen, the times have changed obviously, so
I know serious XM pays a boatload of money to
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artists to play their shit, including comedians, although the comedians
bitch and complained that they should be getting more money
every time they play a track from their comedy CDs.
So that has been happening in satellite radio for sure.
I know they've paid out like hundreds of millions of
dollars to make sure artists are getting paid when they
spin their their songs and their content. Here's where Gene
(27:38):
Simmons should go screw Okay, there was a time that
artists and record companies were trying to get their artists
on the big radio stations because if they could get
the song on the radio station, that song would be
a hit. All the kids back in the day, the
teenagers would be flocking to the record stores and buying
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the record and that's how they were making their money.
So they knew if they could get on the radio
back in the day, that it was gold. It was
gold for the record.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Hold on, when you say back in the day, I
remember like watching movies, like movie genres about this and
like the guy would like go to local radio stations
with with the single, say hey man, can you play it?
I'll give you fifty bucks? Y. Is that how it worked?
You would go from local radio station to local radio station.
Is there any way you can play my you know,
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my A and B side?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
So this is a little complicated, but hear me out. Yes,
that was called payola plugola, And then they had they
had to shut that shit down because like radio companies,
the program directors, the music directors, they were getting trips,
they were getting drugs, they were getting girls just to
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play records on costations. Was a massive problem in the industry. Really,
as far as Gene Simmons goes and kiss, Geene Simmons
is full of it because back in the day when
he was putting out you know, those hits, he was
making stupid money because they were playing those songs on
the radio. If they don't play those songs on the
radio back of the day, you wouldn't be sitting here
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talking about Gene Simmons. But with that said, the times
have changed and it's not as valuable to get your
your your song or your or your record played on
a radio.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Station. Hold on you trying to say they didn't get royalties,
but the fact that their music was played on the
radio station increase album sales.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Dude, I come from this business where I remember I
was just I was just a schmuck coming up in
the business, and the record guys would be just waiting
online outside the program director's office, begging to get their
song on the on the on the radio, and they
would make all sorts of fucking deals to like, if
you play our band, let's say, we will make sure
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they come to Rochester right and play show just for
your radio station. We will make sure the lead singer
because no one wants to talk to the rest of
the band in general. Usually we'll make sure the lead
singers on all your top shows. And they were making
fucking stupid money with those deals.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Hold on, so this really happened to you. People would
offer you, not me, no.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
The payoll and the plug. All was before my time,
but they were still being sneaky about it because there
was there were legal ways where all a sudden they're like,
hey man, this is a stupid example, obviously, but let's
say you two, hey man, if you play YouTube's latest single,
this is a terrible example. But whatever we will give you,
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we will give you five tickets and five pairs of tickets,
let's say, and five trips to see you two in Dublin.
And that was all legal. There's money behind that. And
now the U two song right is being played every
fucking two hours on your your your radio station and
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uh and everyone's happy because now the radio station could
promote the ship out of the fact that you get
a chance to go see you two in doublet So
Geene Simmons is full shit. He knows back in the day,
was he getting an actual check for the radio stations. No,
but he knows how much money he was making because
his songs were played on the radio.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Well, they weren't getting royalties.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
But the the other benefit if your if your song
being played a lot is album sales and concert ticket sales.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
I suppose right, yes, yes, what was I gonna say?
Damn it?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Okay? John Quartz nine ninety nine, This guy fucking rocks.
John has been supporting me for years and actually we
went from you know, casual. He's now a fucking friend
of mine. He just gave his nine ninety nine. Young
Blood and Aerosmith have a great collaboration.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Hold on a second. First of all, is young Blood English?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I don't know, don't know young Blood. I'm not gonna.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Spink the's English.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
And I think young Blood and Steven Tyler or young
Blood and Aerosmith collaborated on a song and it's now
young Blood's first top ten hit in America.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Nice.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
I don't know who this young Blood is, but I
guess he's a he's a rock star.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Alright, listen to me though, only.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Wait, wait, opie, when you're talking about bands wanting to play, hey, can.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
You play our music?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (32:31):
That did happen to you? And you kind of.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Ft up which one? Oh godsmack, godsmack.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
They fucking do you threw the fucking thing.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
You threw their demo out the window like an asshole,
like a fucking once again self sabotage, fucking asshole you
thought to be funny.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Now it's called littering. The fucking Indians on the side
crying because you're littering.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
You know, my dear friend and for a while, my
closest friend. And then he moved to La which just sucks.
I'm like, really, I get people move, but you got
to move the furthest away from me possible. But we're
still uh, we're still little friends, you know, but we
just don't get to see each other that much. And
uh over twenty years later, because he was in the
car that day, we still laugh our asses off over that.
(33:13):
And the fact is, I'll say it again, I became
a huge Godsmack fan and I had their first CD
in my hand. All I had to do was play
it on the big time Opie and Anthony show up
there in Boston, and we would have we would have
been known as the ones that discovered God's Back. But
I decided to go for the joke and throw it
out the window into the river.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, how that go? You went for the slapstick?
I saw it.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
It went wonderfully.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
I saw considered. Huh high energy do their fucking high
energy rock and roll?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I love them. I love them, so listen. I just
want to wrap up the Gene Simmons thing. I like.
I liked the concept of the good, the bad and
the ugly for real. I don't like Gene Simmons, I don't,
but now I gotta be fair. He is looking out
for the current day, you know, artists. But I mean
he was, he was, you know, he misrepresented exactly. You
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know the problem at hand. But you know now it
is about the streaming services, and all these streaming services
pay the artists some money every time their ship is played.
So it's time for radio stations to follow that business
model and go all in with that. So I have
a question.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
I have a question.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Oh, first of all, well, so here's the question. Let's
say the American Music Fair de sac passes.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Yeah, I'm really naive to this.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Let's say your song gets played on the radio. Now,
how much would they get?
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Oh it's pennies, dude, that I'm saying it's pennies, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, but it starts adding up. It's just you know,
it's pennies. It's pennies.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
But what are you talking like, like, oh, it's seven
cents ten cents?
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Like is how it works?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Literally, pennies ten cents is not pennies literally pennies.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Three four cents per song.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
It's really it's pennies. So you got Yeah, but you
got to remember if you're if you're a band that's
coming up now, which is stupid because we talked about
this recently too. There's no fucking rock bands anymore. But
if you're a rock band coming up now, a lot
of these guys are making stupid money on YouTube, you
know now, Like I I love the Black Keys, love them,
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and they just they just put out an album a
few months back, right, Yeah, I just go on YouTube
and listen to it. And they're and they're monetized because
every time you're playing a YouTube video, you get a
few a few bucks and and there's millions of views
just you know, adding up for these guys. So they're
making money off YouTube. They're making money off serious ExM.
(35:51):
They're making money off the Spotify and all the other
streaming apps, and it's all pennies. But the pennies start
adding up if you add up all the all the services.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Wait a minute, I mean I listen to Spotify definitely
what I work out when I'm on the train. Are
you telling me like every time I hear like I
play some class of rock like Bad Company, Yeah, from Spotify,
they get a few pennies, oh god yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Now or.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Yes yes, oh, because that's not a radio station, that's
the streaming service.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
So to be fair to Gene Simmons, you know, I'll
say it again, although he misrepresented because he knows damn
well how how valuable having a kiss song on the
radio back in the day. Was that that just having
the song of the radio, you were making millions. Because
now you're becoming popular. Now you can sell out your
concerts across America, you can sell your merch. People are
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running to the store and getting the albums.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Well, they're buying that, they're buying the album which was
also like essentially artwork back in the day, like the
cover albums are. And also they're buying the merch, right,
they're buying the T shirts.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
But I'll tell you so the radio stations are. It
looks like it's they're catching up. But I do want
to like do more of a deep dive because I
feel like I feel like the record companies were paying
out to artists. But I'm not sure anymore.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
But here's and I have another question.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
So but let me just finish this stort important. So
now Gene Simmons babbling about this trying to get artists
paid and trying to get the radio stations to pay
for the content and and the spins of your songs, right,
that's gonna crush regular radio even more. They can't afford nothing.
These radio stations aren't worth ship. I know, I know
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a guy. He's a he's a decent friend of mine.
He's got a he's got a handful of radio stations,
you know, media market. I'll say his name, Tim Sabian,
trying to dump his radio stations for years, for years,
they used to be so valuable. Now that now he's
gonna make pennies on the dollar when he sells his
his radio stations.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
But get ahead, Rod, Sorry if this, if this passes,
does that mean every song played the radio station has
to pay pennies on every song?
Speaker 5 (38:09):
It sounds like they could be bank corrupted. For Christ's sakes.
That adds up.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, it's gonna add up. But like I said, it's
happening everywhere else, and I guess radio stations are behind behind.
Let me go to Leo Gunn. He just gave us
five dollars. You rule, Leo young Blood sang black Sabbage
changes at Ozzie's final UK show. Oh okay. Ozzie told
them he has to conquer American next backstage before dying
two weeks later. Damn, I right, So I guess.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
He did take advice because he tamed up with I mean,
arguably maybe one of America's greatest fucking rock bands, Aerosmith.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
No, they're always, They're always. They've been known as the
greatest American rock band forever.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Absolutely, and young Blood is now breaking into the American
market with Arrowsmith.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
He's got a top ten hit. Have you ever heard
of the guy singing? No?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
I already said I don't. Maybe I do. I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna check that out later today too. That's why
I love doing this shit, because you get there turned
onto stuff. So I will absolutely check out changes my question, Yes.
Speaker 6 (39:13):
How much like Gene Simmons says, the radio stations are
making all the profit? Are they making a big profit
by not paying out royalties?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
I mean, they do the radio.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Stations to make a profit.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
I don't get it, dude, We're kind of going around
in circles no offense. Like I said, there was a time,
there was a time that the artists benefited the rock
the rock bands benefited. They both were benefiting from having
the music on the station. Okay, I think what Gene
Simmons is talking about now is it's way out of
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fucking balance. Yeah, But the problem is these radio stations
are fucking broke broke, so I don't know where this
money is gonna come from. In the end, it's gonna
be tough, but good for Geen saying it's for sticking
up for the artists, even though I don't like the guy. Hey, uh,
you're ready for the Top American rock bands.
Speaker 5 (40:07):
Top American rock bands.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
I don't think there's an order here.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Hey, just quickly before we move on.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
I want an order though, because there's some killer bands
on this list.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Yeah, hey, just quickly before we move on. With Gene Simmons,
do you know that Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley's kids
formed a band? I did Stanley Simmons and it sounds
like a vacuum cleaner. Stanley Simmons sounds like a fucking
vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
But are they good?
Speaker 5 (40:35):
Though?
Speaker 1 (40:36):
They sound like a law firm.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
So it's Evan stan Evan Stanley and Nick Simmons, O
sons of Uh Paul and John Okay formed a band
called Stanley Simmons and they have Their first song was
called Body Down.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
It sounds like to be Stills a Nash. Oh all right,
it's one hundred percent. You will go Oh, that's Cribby
still as the Nash very very harm hum you know,
crib naph.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
Are no for they're they're they're harmonizing, right, it's very harmonizing,
and it's very when bodied down, it's it's about the
like the Indian gurus, the Chakras.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
All right, very cool, listen to me. I was a
little distracted because I'm trying to find the top American
rock bands. I did hear you the run sixteenth place, Metallica.
I'm trying to get to the top ten, but I
just scrolled past Metallic at sixteenth, the Ramones fifteenth. Uh
you think, Arison, it's going to be the number one.
This is a pretty good list. It's a it's it's
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a respectful uh site. Nirvana fourteenth place. That's a little high,
All men, brothers, what of my thirteenth place? Slide Sli
in the family Stone twelfth place? Steely Steely.
Speaker 5 (42:01):
Classic.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
It's the greatest brunch band ever. What it's the greatest
brunch band. Like when you're going out the brunch, you
gotta have it's Steely Dan. It's it's the best music
for brunch music.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
There you go, all right, hold.
Speaker 6 (42:16):
On, why why did they name the band Steely Dan.
What is a Steely Dan.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
It's a sex toy.
Speaker 6 (42:23):
Rod the Dodo. They named their band after a fucking
Dodo and.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
We did the Chevy. Chase was the original drummer when
they were playing in college. Okay, right, so uh here's
the top ten. All right, tenth place, greatest American rock band.
Simon and Gotham Golf.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
Paul Simon's my second cousin.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
I don't believe it, but all right, number nine the Eagles.
There's a viral video about the Eagles because they played
that sphea out there in Vegas. Yeah, and people are
complaining because they were barely moving on the stage. They
were barely moving.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
Uh yeah uh.
Speaker 6 (43:02):
And do they still tour or they're just doing the
redidut because when they tore the tickets to like a
thousand dollars each.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
If you're just tuning this in, I was in such
a good mood. I'm playing Rod Stewart at eighty years
old talking about me the one complain And now I'm
in a bad mood because you brought up Gene Simmons
and now I have to talk about the stupid Eagles. God,
they were overrated in my book. They were so their songs.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
Were boring, you know, they were country music band.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Really, I don't mind country music, though, I don't mind it.
Eighth place, Rim. Wow, someone's trying to be cool with
their list. And I used to like the Rim These
are the greatest American rock bander.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
You're putting Rim over the Eagles, Get the.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Fuck out over Metallica? Right, No over Nirvana? Well, Nirvana
didn't have enough songs, all right. Seventh place A band
I fucking love and and and they sing one of
my favorite songs of all time Tramp Talking Heads. One
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of the greatest songs ever written is this must be
the place off stop making Sense. It's one of the
greatest in my catalog. It's one of the greatest songs
ever ever written.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Sixth place.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
Who was the lead singer of the Talking Heads? David Byrne.
That's it? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Writers on the Storm.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
Fucking Jim Morrison. Yeah? Absolutely? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Into this house? We're born into this world.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Now you want to talk about a cool fucking rock.
Speaker 4 (44:44):
Star bum bum.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Writers on the Storm, Oh, I love the Doors, God
love me two times away.
Speaker 6 (44:58):
This is the end, my friend, This is the end. Dude,
Jim Morrison, what quintessential? If you if God said this
is what a rockstart should look like and sound like,
it's Jim Morrison.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (45:12):
And Valcolma should have got the fucking oscar.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (45:16):
Absolutely. Valcolmer was sensational in that.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
There you go. Yeah, ron I got bad news for you.
Top rock bands, Top American rock bands. That's the number
one in here. H Well, the Doors were six.
Speaker 5 (45:31):
Okay, so here's the top five.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
I got bad news for you, Ronnie. Your boys are
in fifth place. Your boys are in fifth place. Some
lists have Arrowsmith as the greatest American rock band, but
on this list they're in fifth place. Who beat Arrowsmith?
Who beat the Doors? We'll tell you after these messages?
Speaker 6 (45:57):
Oh I can I guess? Can I guess the top five?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Of course, Ronnie?
Speaker 5 (46:01):
Of course I bet you. I bet your letter Skyndard's
up there.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
All right? Let me look, all right, let me look,
let me look, let me look.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
No Rynard, Skinnyard, what are you fucking kidding me?
Speaker 1 (46:16):
I don't even know where they are in the list.
I'd have to scroll all the way back the other way.
I don't feel like doing that right now. Ronnie ron No,
you want another guests greatest American rock bands? Who beats Aerosmith?
Who's in fifth place?
Speaker 5 (46:30):
You got?
Speaker 6 (46:30):
I mean you got the Cauz, you got Boston.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Nope and Nope.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
It can't be an individual riot, can't be like Elvis Presley.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
I got a hint for you. One of the greatest
rock lyrics of all time. I said this recently. Ready,
here's your hint. Chase, send down to who Do Dare? Chase,
send down to who Do Dare? It's one of the
greatest rock lyrics of all time.
Speaker 8 (47:00):
Chase and down to who Do Dare? Which is a spirit,
a spirit in the woods. That's what who Do is?
It's part of the culture of the South, Oh rad
Ran Chase, who do there?
Speaker 5 (47:19):
Wait? Ye, man, it's right. The tip my tongue.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Leads things from northern California, but he made believe he
was from the South. I couldn't make it more obvious
to you.
Speaker 5 (47:29):
I'm having trouble because your voice is so bad.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
And down to who do There? Born on the.
Speaker 5 (47:38):
Bye you John Created's clear Water Revival.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
They're in fourth place. They beat your boys?
Speaker 5 (47:48):
Really?
Speaker 6 (47:49):
Yeah, I don't think yeah right, I'm sorry. Cci on
your Home of Rock and Roll.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Number three, I think, well this, Wow, this would be
a good discussion. Number three beats out Arrowsmith. Let me
think about it.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
I guess van Halen. Van Halen's in third. I think
I think they had a better run than Arrowsmith in general.
Number two is a huge surprise, but respect respect greatest
American rock bands. Uh, the runner up is Tom Petty
and the Hot Breaker is.
Speaker 5 (48:30):
Right Number one? Who the fuck is number one? Did
Bob Dylan have a band? Or is he solo?
Speaker 1 (48:38):
No, no, it's not nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 5 (48:43):
Give me ahead.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Well, well, uh uh, you know they had an asshole father.
That's a good hint. They had an asshole father.
Speaker 5 (48:56):
Five mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
The father hit one of the guys so hard. I
think he lost his hearing in one ear.
Speaker 4 (49:09):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
A lot of critics say they came out with Made Sorry,
Made the greatest album of all time. I don't agree
with that. I hated the album in general. As far
as an album.
Speaker 5 (49:21):
Goes, it's more hints.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
They're from the West Coast. There's a bunch of brothers
in the band.
Speaker 5 (49:41):
I mean, I thought Leonard Skinner would be up there
because they're all.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
You don't know what. It's the Beach Boys, Ron, it's
everyone else got in the chat. I can't sit here
and let you guess for the next twenty minutes. It's
the Beach Boys. I'm trying to find Skinner on the list. Man.
I thought Ars Smith was the raised American rock band
of all time, but we learned today that is not
the truth. Guns and Roses seventeenth place, because people were
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asking about the Guns easy top, eighteenth place. I'm trying
to find the skinhead the Birds. Jesus, the Birds in
nineteenth place. Oh there it is okay, perfect. Leonard Skinner
was in twentieth place.
Speaker 5 (50:19):
Where was Guns and Roses.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
Seventeen It looked like, really, yeah, that's kind of stupid. Well, no,
it's not stupid because some of these bands they fell short,
like Guns and Roses needed one more insane album and
they would have been way up on the list. Right,
You didn't have to agree with that.
Speaker 5 (50:37):
They had. They had us your illusion to one, use
your illusion two.
Speaker 6 (50:42):
And then it took actul Rose about a decade and
a half to put out Chinese democracy, remember that, which
was kind of a fucking big dud.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
But one of the greatest albums ever recorded is Appetite
for Destruction. Oh, I mean, good god.
Speaker 6 (50:58):
When that album came out late late eighties, right, Welcome
to the Jungle, dude, it just it. It stopped you
in your tracks.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
Good god. Yeah, but that's a.
Speaker 6 (51:09):
Fucking raw, fucking just raw, naked, aggressive, aggressive rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
What about mister Brownstone, Sweet Child, old Mine, sweet Child?
Speaker 5 (51:26):
Oh mind?
Speaker 1 (51:28):
You know? Uh you know who was the inspiration for
Sweet Chi Old Mine? What I think actual was? Uh man,
I'm pulling this info out of my ass right now
because I might get it wrong. Actual Rose was married
briefly to one of the Everly brothers daughters. I think
(51:51):
that's how the story goes, and that's where sweet Child
Old Mine come from comes from.
Speaker 6 (51:56):
There's there's the beginning of a Guns N' Roses song,
whill you hear the go going like you hear her
like having sex?
Speaker 4 (52:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (52:04):
Do you know the story behind that?
Speaker 1 (52:06):
It's real sex.
Speaker 5 (52:08):
No, it's real sex.
Speaker 6 (52:09):
She's really moaning and it's and it's Axel Rose banging.
Speaker 5 (52:15):
Uh the other uh duf mccagan's girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (52:21):
Oh no, Steven Adler, remember the drummer Steven Adler.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Yeah, Steven Adler was a that was.
Speaker 5 (52:27):
Steven Adler's girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (52:29):
Really, Axl Rose was cheating on Steven Adlis. Steven Adams's girlfriend,
A Road cheated on her, all right, he cheated on
her and that's her moaning. And and they and they
had it recorded and they decided to use it in
the album. And then Stephen Steven Adler got kicked out
of the band because he did so many.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
Yeah he was. Yeah, he used to come on the
opening Anthony show from time time. He was really all right,
So sweet child though mine inspired by Axel's girlfriend. Okay,
I got it right, Ern Everley, daughter of Don Everley,
and his own childhood memories. So there you go. I got,
I got. I got a fun music question too, or
(53:11):
a fun fact. Yeah, you know, in the beginning of
rock saying the police, so that you know that diabolical
laugh that Sting does, right, Yeah, they were doing a
take of the song I Love Stupid Shit like this.
They're doing a take of the song, right, and they're
rolling tape and Sting backs up and sits on the
(53:33):
keyboard by accident, and and and was like, oh, I'm
an idiot and starts laughing. Like, oh god, what, I'm
an idiot. We'll just we'll just try it again. And
the producer of that at the time, whoever the fuck
he was, goes, no, man, that was awesome. We're leaving
it in the song.
Speaker 5 (53:48):
There was a mistake, right.
Speaker 1 (53:51):
I love when there are mistakes that work out all right, Roun,
I'm going I'm going now you look bored. I'm going
Ron Berman on all the socials. I'm moving on.
Speaker 5 (54:03):
You want to do it quickly. I have a nice.
Speaker 6 (54:05):
Little list of the deadliest animals that kill humans.
Speaker 5 (54:12):
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