We revisit the significance of June 6th, exploring both the historical gravity of D-Day and the rich tapestry of music history that has unfolded on this date across the decades.
• Honoring D-Day (1944) with stories of the 160,000 Allied troops who stormed Normandy's beaches
• Recounting Private John Steele's remarkable story of survival, hanging from a church steeple while pretending to be dead as Nazis patrolled below
• Visiting Pegasus Bridge, the first bridge liberated in France, and the nearby house where a young girl served Allied forces
• Commemorating musicians lost on June 6th across the years, including Jim Seals, Dr. John, and Billy Preston
• Exploring major music moments like The Beatles' first Abbey Road session (1962) and the Rolling Stones' release of "Satisfaction" (1965)
• Celebrating Steve Vai's birthday and his story of auditioning for Frank Zappa's band with an "impossible" guitar challenge
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
well, here we are once again, my friends.
It is your daily Pats Peepspodcast.
Whether or not you listen to itdaily, that's up to you.
I'll just keep doing it, though, but if you are listening, even
once in a while, thank you forthat I appreciate it.
Happy Friday, june, the 6th2025.
What a beautiful day If you'recelebrating your birthday today.
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Happy birthday to you.
And on this Friday, as I take alook at my studio, well, I'm
actually.
I always say, take a look at mystudio windows, but I'm not
looking at my studio windowsthis morning.
I'm concluding my week.
Out here on the back porch iswhat I'm doing.
It's so beautiful.
The wind is, the breeze is sortof calmed down, so it's very
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still out here this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
There's not even any cars going by nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
There's no trains, it's very peaceful, beautiful
Little squirrels playing aroundout there in the grass right
there in front of me.
Anyhow, hope you're doing wellon this Friday.
My name is Pat Walsh.
I'm the host of the Pat WalshRadio Show on KPK in Sacramento,
93.1 FM, 1530 AM.
This, the Pat's Peeps podcast,is just an extension of that.
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But today I just you know whattoday, yesterday, I kind of look
, I kind of uh, you know what Ihad.
Aaron Rodgers I talked aboutwas, which was big news, and the
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you know whole political thing.
I went on.
I always need to cleanse mypalate after doing some
political things.
So no politics today.
I know I know no politics.
Sometimes people want politics,other people don't.
Whatever, I can only do what Ifeel like doing on my podcast
and this morning.
You know what hit me Today isgoing to be very light.
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I took some notes here.
I did some research.
Be very light.
I took some notes here.
I did some research, alwaysdoing my research anyhow, and I
thought you know what, I'm gonnakeep it totally light.
If anyone listens to my radioshow if you do, thank you if you
listen to my pat's peeps, youknow that.
You know I'm always going togravitate towards music because
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it's the universal language, itmakes me feel good, it's sort of
stress-free.
I like that Yesterday do youthink you're a covert white
supremacist?
That was not stress-free.
So I need to again on June the6th.
You know, maybe we keep itlight.
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You know I'm always going totalk about music, but I do want
to say one thing.
Okay, before I get into themusic, and then I'll keep it
light, what is June 6th?
June 6th, 1944, marks D Day.
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As soon as I say I'm going tokeep it light, I'm going to
start with this and then I'llget into the lighter part.
But I cannot go through a Fridaypodcast on June the 6th, and
then play all the fun stuffwithout first saluting the
incredibly brave men who stormedthe beaches of Normandy in
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France during World War II, thelargest seaborne invasion in
history.
When the Allied troops landedon the beaches of Normandy,
france, part of the OperationOverlord, which, of course, as
you probably know, if you knowhistory, aimed to break through
the German defenses in WesternEurope, ultimately led to the
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liberation of France and thedefeat of Nazi Germany.
Now, honestly, it changed mylife.
Going to the beaches ofNormandy in France with the Pats
Peeps group and conservativetours Peeves group and
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conservative tours.
It changed my life.
Learning about that and seeingthat and seeing the German
bunkers and actually standing inthese German bunkers and
looking at Omaha Beach, and wetoured all the beaches, all of
them, they're at Normandy, allof them, they're at Normandy.
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But to know what those youngmen went through, to see
mulberries and figure out whatthat was, and caissons and
Rupert dolls, and going toPointe du Hoc and seeing the
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craters at the English Channel,learning about these men who
bravely had to climb thesecliffs to come up to the
backside of the Nazis, to flankthem and to defeat the Nazis
there at the beaches, which isunbelievable 160,000 Allied
troops landed on the beaches ofNormandy, which is a 50-mile
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stretch of coastline there, andsignificant casualties.
D-day landings resulted in asignificant number of casualties
on both sides Over 4,400 Alliedtroops killed on that day alone
.
But it is considered theturning point in World War II,
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which marked the beginning ofthe end for Nazi Germany.
Learning about Private Steele, aparent trooper who hung from
the church.
You know who's hanging there byhis parachute while the Nazis
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are standing below himpatrolling the town, are
standing below him patrollingthe town, and he's up there
terrified.
What is the name of that church, by the way?
Wow, I just noticed he died onmy birthday when I was nine
years old.
Oh my gosh, I always Iapologize if I mispronounce any
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of this, but St Mary Gless.
And again I always I apologizeif I mispronounce any of this,
but St Mary Gless, and again Imay have mispronounced that.
Standing inside that church, itwas like I felt the Lord
himself inside of that church.
You could feel the history.
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The night before D-Day, on June6th, american soldiers of the
82nd Airborne parachuting intothe area west of this church in
successive waves, the town hadbeen the target of this aerial
attack, during which a strayincendiary bomb had set fire to
a house east of town, the townsquare there, the church bell.
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They rang the church bell toalert the town to the emergency.
The townspeople turned out inlarge numbers, forming a bucket
brigade, and it was supervised,if I could speak, by members of
the German garrison.
By 1 am town square was welllit, filled with German soldiers
, villagers, with two planeloads of paratroopers from the
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1st and 2nd Battalions, the505th Parachute Infantry
Regiment were dropped in error,directly over this village.
In error, directly over thisvillage.
Obviously, the paratrooperswere now easy targets and
Private Steele was one of thefew not killed.
He was actually wounded in thefoot by a burst and his
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parachute caught in one of thepinnacles of the church.
This church is amazing to seeit in person.
These pinnacles all around thechurch, they're oh wow.
I can't even begin to describewhat it looks like.
But he catches his parachute onone of the pinnacles of the
church tower.
So here he is, hanging on theside of the church, and he hung
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there limply two hourspretending to be dead, and then
the Germans took him prisonerand then he escaped four hours
later Rejoined his division whenthe US troops of the 505th 3rd
Battalion attacked the village.
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They captured 30 Germans,killed another 11, and he was
awarded the Bronze Star forvalor, the Purple Heart, for
being wounded in combat.
He survives the ordeal and youknow he continued to visit that
town throughout his life.
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He was an honorary citizen ofSt Mary Iglesias Again, the name
of the church and I'm so sorryif I mispronounced that.
He also there's a tavern therewhich this, john Steele, stands
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adjacent to this squaremaintains his legacy through
photographs, letters, articles.
And he died of throat cancer onmy birthday, may 16th 1969.
I'm never going to forget that.
I didn't realize that.
Yeah, wow, yeah, they have thatairborne museum where that's
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commemorated.
When you see that.
And then again, on D-Day, youknow, pegasus Bridge we visited
Pegasus Bridge and PegasusBridge was the first bridge
liberated in France.
On that day, the house at theend of Pegasus Bridge, which we
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also visited, was the firsthouse, first home, liberated in
France and we were there and weactually had lunch at that home.
This lady who works there isnow in her 90s, or she was at
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that time as I understood it.
She served as a little girl,served tea or sandwiches to some
of the allied forces, serve teaor sandwiches to some of the
Allied forces.
And now she hears she is in her90s still serving food to
people when they come and visit.
But this happened on the nightof June, the 5th 1944.
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A force of 181 men, led byMajor John Howard, took off from
southern England in six horsegliders, these Horsa gliders,
airplane gliders, to capture thePegasus Bridge Horsa Bridge a
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few hundred yards to the east,over the Orne River.
That force, composed of DCompany, reinforced with two
platoons of B Company, 2ndBattalion, oxford and Bucks Lake
Light Infantry, 20 sappers ofthe Royal Engineers 249 Field
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Company Airborne Glider PilotRegiment, the men of that
regiment.
The object of the action?
To prevent the German armorfrom crossing the bridges and
attacking the eastern flank ofthe landing Sword Beach and to
prevent the British 6th AirborneDivision from being cut off.
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So anyhow, here I am sayingit's going to be a light podcast
, but you know what?
There's no way hear that trainin the background that I can go
on June 6th without mentioningthat it's D-Day.
It was an amazing thing to bethere and to see Pegasus Bridge
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and to see all of that.
Anyhow, moving on to thelighter part of the show.
I thought you know what A lotof things happen in music on
this day, june 6th, in musichistory.
Maybe this will give me a chanceto use my epic open music this
month, this day, not this month.
See, I already blew it, let mestart.
Over there we go, my epic.
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Over there we go, my epic music.
Here we go.
This day in music history.
On Pat's Peeps 277.
D-day.
Is that pretty epic, huh, it'spretty long, though.
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I've already ran out of stuffto say.
I've run out of things to saythank you, thank you so much.
All right, so this day, thisday in music history.
Okay, that's, that's where I'mcoming from today, because
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there's a lot of cool stuff thathappened, and let's start with.
You know what?
Some of it's cool, but otherthings are tragic.
You know we lost some greatartists on this day as well.
So important things happened.
Let me rephrase that Some greatthings, some sad things.
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Overall, some important things,beginning Jim Seals.
Jim Seals of the duo Seals andCrofts died at the age of 80.
This song always stands out.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
See the curtains hanging in the window in the
evening on a Friday night.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Of course they did these nice laid-back 70s songs
Summer Breeze, diamond Girlwhich was later covered by the
Isley Brothers.
More to come on the IsleysSummer Breeze makes me feel fine
blowing through the jasmine inmy mind.
Between 1972 and 1976, sealsand Crofts.
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They had a run of five goldalbums.
Makes me feel fine.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Glowing in the news of Jasmine in my mind.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Culminated in a double platinum greatest hits
collection, jim Seals 2022,passing away Also on this day.
On this day in music history,june the 6th.
I always loved doing this onein karaoke.
Always loved the song.
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Dr John what an artist.
But he was so much more thanjust this.
Right place, wrong time.
But this has always been one ofmy top 40 favorites time, but
this has always been one of mytop 40 favorites.
Dr John, who combined blues,pop, jazz, boogie-woogie and
rock and roll.
He passed away at the age of 77after suffering a heart attack.
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Malcolm John Rebenak was hisreal name Started his career in
the 50s, when he becameprominent as a pianist and a
singer on the New Orleans musicscene.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
But it must have been the wrong time, my head is in a
bad place, but I'm having sucha good time I've been running.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
He worked with the Rolling Stones.
He worked with the RollingStones.
He worked with Carly Simon.
He worked with Neil Diamond.
He worked with Ringo Starr thegood doctor did.
He worked with Eric Clapton,bob Seger and Joe Walsh and,
like I say, he's one of myfavorites to do in karaoke.
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Also in 2017, the 1969 Sight ofWoodstock Music Festival was
officially recognized for itsplace in history when Andrew
Cuomo announced that BethelwoodCenter for the Arts had been
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placed on the National Registerof Historic Places.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
This does not mean I don't love you, I do.
That's forever, baby, yes andfor always.
I am yours, you are mine, youare what you are, you make it
hard.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Also, on this day in history in 2015, ronnie Gilbert,
who was a member of theinfluential 1950s folk quartet
the Weavers, passed away at theage of 88.
At the height of theirpopularity, the quartet sold
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millions of records.
That was during the folk musiccraze that they were partly
responsible for.
By the way, they're most oftenremembered for, on Top of Old
Smoky, Kiss is Sweeter.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Than Wine and this one.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
June, the 6th in history, music history in 2012,.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Adam Clayton of U2, his former personal assistant
and housekeeper went on trialaccused of stealing almost 3
million euros from the U2 bassplayer.
Carol Hawkins from Dublinpleaded not guilty at Dublin
Circuit Criminal Court to 181counts of theft.
She was accused of stealingmoney from two of Clayton's bank
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accounts over a four-yearperiod from 2004 to 08.
Such a nasty lady girl.
All these eyes are heavily Alsoon this day looking back in
rock history.
Marvin Isley, 2010, theyoungest member of the R&B band
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the Isley Brothers, passed away56 years old.
Marvin Isley was the group'sbass player.
He stopped performing in 1996due to complications from
diabetes, including the loss ofhis legs Meanwhile In 2006.
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I always liked this one BillyPreston 2006, 2006.
I always liked this one BillyPreston, 2006.
He dies of kidney failure,billy did.
This guy played, of course, notjust his great solo music, but
was a big part of the RollingStones, a big part of the
Beatles.
Grammy award-winning keyboardplayer Collaborated with some of
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the other greats in the musicindustry besides the Beatles and
the Stones Little Richard, natKing Cole, ray Charles, george
Harrison, elton John, ericClapton, bob Dylan.
I remember this song growing upSpace Race.
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He had Out of Space and SpaceRace.
Then he had some other greathits going around circles,
nothing From Nothing.
What a great guy Played with.
Bob Dylan.
Preston is among thosesometimes known as, like I said,
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the fifth Beatle Could be aRolling Stone as well.
He befriended the Beatles in 62, joined the Get Back Sessions
in January 1969, and at onepoint John Lennon proposed the
idea of having Billy Prestonactually join the band.
Other news from June 6th inrock history In 2005, john
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Bonham, the Led Zeppelin drummer, was voted number one in
Classic Rock Magazine's 50Greatest Drummers in their rock
listing.
In rock, I should say ListingMoby Dick, this song as Bottom's
defining moment.
During live sets with Zeppelin,his drum solo Moby Dick would
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often last for half an hour.
Woo would often last for a halfan hour.
Whoo, I mean as much as I loveBonham.
A half-hour drum solo,fatiguing at best.
But I'm a huge fan.
And, by the way, he regularlyfeatured the use of his bare
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hands in his drum solos.
Yeah, he'd go into those barehand things.
Pretty amazing.
2003,.
Dave Robery, keyboard playerwith the Animals, dave Robery
died at 62.
Replaced Alan Price who left in65.
The Animals had the 1964 UK andUS number one single House of
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the Rising Sun, but they weremore than that.
I love this one Skypilot, thisis a good one.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I wish I would someday hear what I see.
I'm dressed in these rags.
I'll be disabled someday Hearwhat I say.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I'm on the ride.
The servant no more time tospend.
How about in 2003?
How about?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
that.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Heartless crew.
A high court judge in Londonruled that rap lyrics.
This cracks me up.
Rap lyrics should be treated asa foreign language.
You tell me what he's sayingright there, I don't know.
Rap lyrics should be treated asa foreign language.
You tell me what he's sayingright there, I don't know.
He admitted that he was unsureof the meaning of shizzle my
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nizzle and mish mish man.
I say what is this?
Mish mish man?
Shizzle my nizzle?
That's a bad accent.
The court battle was over acopyright issue between Antel
Mob and the Heartless Crew, whowould use the lyrics on a remix.
Uh-huh, exactly right Now.
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I have to admit I don't knowthis next song.
I don't know Baz Luhrmann.
I don't know anything aboutthis other than he's an
Australian filmmaker I had tolook that up Baz Luhrmann, who
goes to number one on a UKsingles chart on June 6th of 99
with this song that I have noclue what it is, other than it
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is called a number one song on aUK chart.
What are they doing?
This is called Everybody's Freeto Wear Sunscreen.
Let's listen together.
Maybe you know this, I don't.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 99, wear
sunscreen.
What If I could offer you onlyone tip for the future?
Sunscreen would be it.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
This can't be number one.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been
proved by scientists, whereasthe rest of my advice has no
basis more reliable than my ownmeandering experience.
I will dispense this advice now.
Here we go.
There's the music.
Enjoy the power and beauty ofyour youth.
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Never mind.
You will not understand thepower and beauty of your youth
until they've faded.
It's an American accent too thepower and beauty of your youth
until they've faded.
It's an American accent too.
In 20 years, you look back atphotos of yourself and recall,
in a way you can't grasp, howmuch possibility lay before you
and how fabulous you reallylooked.
I've never heard this you arenot as fat as you imagine.
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Don't worry about the future orworry, but know that worrying
is as effective as trying tosolve an algebra equation by
chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your lifeare apt to be things that never
crossed.
Your worried mind Kind ofblindsides you at 4 pm on some
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idle Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I'm going to have to play this on my show.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Do one thing every day that scares you Sing.
Don't be reckless with otherpeople's hearts.
Don't put up with people whoare reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time onjealousy.
Sometimes you're ahead,sometimes you're behind.
The race is long and in the end, tony, with yourself.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You know, this reminds me of.
This reminds me of you Are aFluke of the Universe by the
National Lampoon Radio Hour Very, very similar.
I got to play that on my showtonight.
That is wacky.
I've never heard this.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults.
Are you serious?
That is wacky.
I've never heard this.
Remember compliments youreceive, forget the insults.
Are you serious?
If you see me doing this, tellme how.
Keep your old love letters.
Throw away your old bankstatements.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They had to be copying.
They had to be copying NationalLampoon Radio Hour.
I wasn't planning on playingthis, but listen to this.
This is National Lampoon RadioHour.
I wasn't planning on playingthis, but listen to this.
This is National Lampoon RadioHour.
Let me fast forward.
Okay, listen to this.
I'll fast forward until the guystarts talking.
He talks too and gives advice,just like the last song.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Go placidly amid the noise and waste and remember
what comfort there may be Inowning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of
sleep.
Rotate your tires.
Speak glowingly of thosegreater than yourself and heed
well their advice, even thoughthey be turkeys.
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Know what to kiss and when.
Consider that two wrongs nevermake a right, but that three do.
Wherever possible, put peopleon hold.
Be comforted that, in the faceof all aridity and
disillusionment and despite thechanging fortunes of time, there
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is always a big future incomputer maintenance.
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That just opened my eyes to this song.
Buzz Lerman Must play that onmy show In 1987, to this song
Buzz Lerman Must play that on myshow.
In 1987, whitney Houston hadher second UK number one single
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with I Wanna Dance with Somebodywho Loves Me.
Reached number one in over adozen other countries, won a
Grammy Award for the best femalepop vocal performance 1988.
Yeah, I wanna dance withsomebody, with somebody who
loves me.
In 1987, michael Jackson.
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This Day in Music, june 6th1987, michael Jackson announced
he was breaking all ties withthe Jehovah's Witnesses.
Jackson had been raised as aJehovah's Witness.
Jackson had been raised as aJehovah's Witness and he would
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don disguises and go door todoor with the Watchtower message
in cities where he wasperforming.
How about that, you know?
Ah, dang it.
Who's at the door, honey?
I don't know, dear, it lookslike some people from the
Jehovah's Witness Hee hee, howyou doing, hi, yeah, the word
of's Witness.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Hi how you doing Hi.
Hear the word of the Lord.
Today you have a couple ofminutes for me.
Yeah, I'd like that.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Starts moonwalking on your porch.
Can you come to our?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
We're having a big convention.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I got no time for this.
I'm watching bowling.
Wow, that is cool.
I mean he shows up at your door, Michael Jackson.
He shows up at your door,Michael Jackson.
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There's a story you got to tellpeople.
1982, Tom Petty, Crosby, Stillsand Nash Bob Dylan.
Who's coming up a lot on todayin this day in history Stevie
Wonder, Stevie Nicks, JacksonBrown appearing at the Rose Bowl
in Pasadena 85,000 peoplewatching a six-hour peace Sunday
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.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
And we have a dream anti-nuclear concert.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Dylan was joined on stage by Joan Baez, did a duet
on her Blowing in the Wind, orwith this Blowing in the Wind,
with God on her side.
The show is partly broadcast onABC TV's Entertainment Tonight
program the same day.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
You take it to the high.
The waiting is the highestpoint.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Moving ahead to 1979.
June 6th of 79.
Still my favorite record by DefLeppard.
By the way, Iron Dry Doesn'thave all the hits, but it rocks
the best to me.
Def Leppard played at Crook'sWorking Man's Club in Sheffield.
Doesn't have all the hits, butit rocks the best to me.
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Def Leppard played at Crook'sWorking Man's Club in Sheffield.
The gig was reviewed in the UKMusic Paper Sounds and it led to
a recording contract withPhonogram Records for these
young guys.
They were very young when theydid this.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I dig this.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I like the way it builds right here.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Rock steady, still shaking.
I'm ready for good taking.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
So make your move now .
Make me Get ready for a bigthing.
Let it roll, let it roll, letit go, let it go.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
You got to let it roll, let great rocker up to the
next song.
So we'll just take a second tomention that this is Pat's Peeps
277.
Way change of directions here,boy, you wouldn't want to mix
that last song with this one ona radio station.
The tune-out factor would beenormous.
We talked about Whitney Houstonearlier.
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Of course she did one of DollyParton's songs, this one.
In 1974, rca Records released IWill Always Love you by Dolly
Parton, the second single fromher 13th solo studio album,
jolene, recorded on June 13th of73.
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The singer wrote the song forher one-time partner and her
mentor, porter Wagner the greatPorter Wagner for whom she was
professionally splitting with atthe time.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I am taking with me Goodbye at the time.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
In 1971, john and Yoko, who was absolutely,
astonishingly, ridiculouslystupid in this performance, as
she always was.
I'm sorry, she was horrible,Absolutely horrible.
Look at the video of this ifyou want.
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Look at John Lennon and thegreat Chuck Berry playing
together with Yoko screaminglike a banshee.
It's just ridiculous.
In 1971, john and Yoko jamslive on stage with Frank Zappa.
This is at the Fillmore East inNew York.
You know I'm a huge Zappa guy.
Love Lennon too, but I'm aZappa guy.
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Some of the recordings werereleased in 1972 on John
Lennon's third post-Beatlesalbum Sometime in New York City,
which is trash to say thatthat's a John Lennon album.
Here's Frank Zappa explaining.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
During the performance, when Lennon was on
stage with Yoko, we played oneof my songs called King Kong
Great song, by the way, and thedeal that was made, jean-luc
Ponti, on the electric violin,on that one according to the
usage of the tapes.
Sorry to interrupt you, frank,and the deal that was made
according to the usage of thetapes was he got to use the
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tapes for his purpose, I got touse the tapes for my purpose.
He released part of thatperformance on an album called
Sometime in New York and changedthe name of the song King Kong
to Jam Rag and gave himself andYoko writing and publishing
credit on the song.
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Now, obviously, this song has amelody and chord changes.
Somebody did write it and itwas not them.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
So whoops, that's why I love Frank.
Meanwhile, in 1970, sid Barrett.
Sid Barrett played his firstgig since leaving Pink Floyd at
the Extravaganza 70 at London'sOlympia Hall, england, backed by
a band that included his oldfriend Floyd guitarist David
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Gilmour.
Barrett baffled the audienceand his musicians when he
abruptly took off his guitarduring the fourth number and
just walked off stage.
You know, last night I wastalking about was it yesterday?
Last night, I do believe, on myradio show.
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I was talking about the timethat Sid Barrett, after being on
drugs for so long and how hechanged so much, walked into the
studio when Pink Floyd wasrecording and they could not
believe what they were seeing.
He was the founder of the band.
They didn't even know who theguy was.
They were wondering who is thisguy?
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They were recording the 1975classic album, wish you Were
here, which much of the materialwas all about Sid Barrett
losing his mind.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
My memory is that I came into the studio and there
was this guy standing there in agabardine raincoat, a large
bloke, and I had no idea who itwas.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
And, surprisingly, no one's saying who's that person,
what's he doing?
Wandering around all our gearin the studio and then him
coming into the control room andstanding around.
How remarkable how long it wasbefore anyone actually woke up.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Finally, I think it was David who said Nick, do you
recognise him?
And I looked and I think Ieither shrugged my shoulders or
at some point Dave put me out tomy misery and said it's it.
And we just stood there or satthere and just were
shell-shocked basically, andthen until somebody thought
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something to say to him, andthen we were all unbelievably
shocked at his appearance.
Speaker 5 (39:42):
I mean, I didn't recognise him, I didn't know it
was him, but it was prettypretty affecting really.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
I mean Roger and Dave cried.
Speaker 7 (39:55):
You know this slim, elegant, if bedraggled and dazed
person that I'd last seen hadturned rather balloon-shaped and
had no eyebrows and not muchhair.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
There is the photograph of him in the studio
at the Turbin and if you lookedat Sid in early 67, Sid, then it
was so different.
Speaker 7 (40:35):
He was a great loss and you know the he was a great
loss and you know, imaginingwhat he would have gone on to do
is speculating on that, if youlike.
He could have become so great.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
And of course they wrote that song Shine On you,
crazy Diamond, wish you Werehere about Sid Barrett.
Meanwhile, in 1969, elton Johnreleases his debut album Empty
Sky in the UK, released January75 in the US.
Skyline Pigeon is the bestknown song from this album is
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the best-known song from thisalbum.
It's the only one which heinfrequently performs as part of
his live shows.
He doesn't play anything elseoff of this Weird thing about
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that.
It starts off with aharpsichord.
Don't hear many Elton John singor start off with a harpsichord
or utilize a harpsichord.
Let me loose from your handsPat's Peeps 277.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Let me fly to distant lands, over green fields, trees
and mountains, flowers andforest fountains.
Home along the lanes of theskyway.
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For this dark and lonely roomProjects a shadow.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Meanwhile, in 1966, that I've been crying Over you,
crying over you.
Roy Orbison's first wife,claudette, said so long.
She was killed when a truckpulled out of a side road and
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collided with a motorbike thatshe and her husband were riding
on in Gallatin, texas.
She was just 25.
Crying crying.
It's hard to understand, but thetouch of your hand Can start me
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crying In 1965, one of theiconic rock and roll songs was
released I can't Get noSatisfaction.
Rolling Stones Went in the US,released a single in the US on
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this day, gave the band theirfirst number one hit in the UK,
where it was released in 66 inAugust.
The song initially played onlyon pirate radio stations because
its lyrics were considered toosexually suggestive.
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I can't get no.
I can't get no when I'm drivingin my car, when I'm on the net,
Cause on the radio who'stelling me more I know About
something.
Someday we'll have to talkabout that fuzz tone guitar and
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how that came about.
My imagination I can't get no,I know't know.
In 1962, the first Beatlesrecording session took place at
Abbey Road Studios.
This group this is June 6th1962.
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The group recorded four tracks,one of which was Love Me.
Do Love, love me.
Do you know I love you?
I'll always be true.
So please love me, do.
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For this the four musicians,john, george, paul and Ringo
were paid.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
You know, I love you.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
I'll always be true.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Hold on Please love me do $12.07 apiece.
$12.07 apiece, by the way, theywent on to do pretty well, I do
believe.
Let's jump to this day onbirthdays.
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Rock and roll birthdays on thisday, june 6th 1960, what a
great year to be born.
Love that year to be born.
What a guitar player Steve Vai.
Earlier, we were talking aboutFrank Zappa, so Steve Vai, who
is known to be one of theworld's greatest rock guitar
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players, american guitarist,he's a composer, he's a singer,
he's a songwriter, he's aproducer, played with David Lee
Roth, whitesnake, mary J Blige,spinal Tap, ozzy, but I like him
best with Frank Zappa.
We just heard from FrankTalking about Lennon and Yoko.
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Here is Steve Vai talking aboutFrank.
And this is Steve Vai.
Who again is this phenomenalguitarist known as one of the
best.
Here he is talking about goingto audition for Frank Zappa's
band, and Frank Zappa ismeticulous.
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He is known as a perfectionistwhen it comes to his music.
If you are a drug addict, youwon't be in his band.
If you cannot play complexmusic, you will not be in
Frank's band, says Steve Vai.
Speaker 5 (46:51):
Oh my God, when I went down actually to play
during the rehearsal I thoughtthis is crazy 20 years old and
auditioning for Frank Zappa.
This is ridiculous.
But I went down, he told me tolearn all these songs and of
course he pulled all these songsthat I didn't know and he was.
So you should ask Vinny becauseVinny was there how brutal he
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was on me.
I couldn't even believe it.
He made it so difficult.
There's one thing and I knowthis isn't necessarily a Frank
interview, but I'll tell you thestory.
It's great.
This is during my audition.
He says you know, and Frankwould play these things on the
guitar and he had a certaintechnique, but he wasn't like a
shredder or anything like that,you know, and he'd play
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something.
Because I play that and I gookay, and I play, and he goes
okay, now play it in 7-8.
I say okay, and I play it in 7.
He goes Okay, now play itreggae 7-8.
Okay, and I, and I do it.
He goes okay, now add this note.
Okay, and I do it Playingreggae 7-8, and I'm adding these
notes.
He's okay, add this note.
And it was impossible.
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It just was physicallyimpossible, not just for me but
for anybody.
You know.
I said oh, I can't do thatbecause I hear Linda Ronstadt is
looking for a guitar player.
Impossible, that is great, it'san impossible thing, you know.
And at the end of the rehearsaland just other things too, you
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know.
But at the end of the rehearsalI went up to him I said thanks
for inviting me.
I'm really sorry, I'm going togo home.
Now he goes, you're in the band.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
I mean no disrespect to Linda Ronstadt, by the way.
Love Linda Ronstadt, but stillit's a different thing.
So here's what I want to endwith today.
After all that man, I'veenjoyed this.
Honestly, I might have to dothis more often this day in
music, I love this.
Hey, if you're listening tothis, tell me on my radio show
tonight, if you would, what youthink of this format here, where
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I do, because this is one of mylonger podcasts.
Of course we did cover D-Day,thank God.
So let's go back to Steve Vaitalking about Frank Zappa
auditioning him.
So he joins the band.
Now he becomes with Frank Zappawho, again, you know me, I'm a
Frank freak.
I love this man.
He's genius, he's way out there, but he is so extremely
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talented.
Here he is with Steve Vai andthey're on stage.
He releases this thing calledGuitar Shut up and play your
guitar.
Guitar, son of.
Shut up and play your guitar.
That's Frank's sense of ofhumor.
So you have to have thatcertain sense of humor to be
part of Frank's band, beyondjust being talented.
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So Frank referred to Steve ashis stunt guitarist, so I want
to play a little something foryou from the album guitar Frank
Zappa double cd set and whatyou're going to hear are two of
the most phenomenal, because Iput frank up there along with
steve I in the top 10 guitar,great rock and roll guitarist,
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the great rock guitarist.
Here they are together andyou're going to hear this the
differences between frank andbetween steve, and you can
understand when you listen tothis for a couple of minutes or
a couple of seconds, whatever wecan get away with.
Yeah, I don't own the rights tothis.
I'm trying to educate.
Whatever Don't hassle me, notyou them, whoever they are.
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You can hear how he would beconsidered a stunt guitarist in
the background.
He's making these crazy sounds.
So, without further ado, herethey are together.
Check this out.
I'll crank this up in my car.
Listen to the drumming TerryBozzio.
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I believe that's Bozzio onthere.
I could be wrong, but ChadWackerman, I'm not sure I'm
hearing Steve Vai in my left ear.
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Frank in the right ear, stevein the left ear.
That's Frank coming out thefront.
Now again, I understand youhave to be a guitar aficionado,
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like some of you might be going.
Oh my God, I couldn't listen tothis for more than a few
seconds and I get that Whatever,but I love it.
Listen to the bass.
Frank is in my right ear.
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I'm going to leave it rightthere and say thank you, man.
I can't wait for my radio showtonight.
I'm amped up.
Today.
It's a Friday, the sun isshining, I'm feeling good.
Hope you.
It's a Friday, the sun isshining, I'm feeling good.
Hope you're feeling good aswell.
Listen to that.
I think I may just do a FrankZappa podcast one day, the whole
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thing, frank.
Maybe if I had already donethat, I'll do another one.
Whatever, thank you, god bless.
Have a happy Friday.
Have a happy weekend.
Thanks for listening Pat'sPeeps Podcast.
See you on the radio.
well, here we are once again, my friends.
It is your daily Pats Peepspodcast.
Whether or not you listen to itdaily, that's up to you.
I'll just keep doing it, though, but if you are listening, even
once in a while, thank you forthat I appreciate it.
Happy Friday, june, the 6th2025.
What a beautiful day If you'recelebrating your birthday today.
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Happy birthday to you.
And on this Friday, as I take alook at my studio, well, I'm
actually.
I always say, take a look at mystudio windows, but I'm not
looking at my studio windowsthis morning.
I'm concluding my week.
Out here on the back porch iswhat I'm doing.
It's so beautiful.
The wind is, the breeze is sortof calmed down, so it's very
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still out here this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
There's not even any cars going by nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
There's no trains, it's very peaceful, beautiful
Little squirrels playing aroundout there in the grass right
there in front of me.
Anyhow, hope you're doing wellon this Friday.
My name is Pat Walsh.
I'm the host of the Pat WalshRadio Show on KPK in Sacramento,
93.1 FM, 1530 AM.
This, the Pat's Peeps podcast,is just an extension of that.
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And again, here we are at 277peeps.
Okay, so I'm going to keepgoing and I'm going to keep
encouraging you and asking youso politely that, if you are
listening, the only thing I askis if you'll go to our Pats
Peeps businesses and please itmeans so much to them and to me
(01:56):
just go to patspeepscom.
Please do that and check outthe businesses and check out all
the deals.
And we're adding to that listof businesses all the time.
We have new types of businessesthat are coming in.
We'll tell you about.
But today I just you know whattoday, yesterday, I kind of look
, I kind of uh, you know what Ihad.
Aaron Rodgers I talked aboutwas, which was big news, and the
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you know whole political thing.
I went on.
I always need to cleanse mypalate after doing some
political things.
So no politics today.
I know I know no politics.
Sometimes people want politics,other people don't.
Whatever, I can only do what Ifeel like doing on my podcast
and this morning.
You know what hit me Today isgoing to be very light.
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I took some notes here.
I did some research.
Be very light.
I took some notes here.
I did some research, alwaysdoing my research anyhow, and I
thought you know what, I'm gonnakeep it totally light.
If anyone listens to my radioshow if you do, thank you if you
listen to my pat's peeps, youknow that.
You know I'm always going togravitate towards music because
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it's the universal language, itmakes me feel good, it's sort of
stress-free.
I like that Yesterday do youthink you're a covert white
supremacist?
That was not stress-free.
So I need to again on June the6th.
You know, maybe we keep itlight.
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You know I'm always going totalk about music, but I do want
to say one thing.
Okay, before I get into themusic, and then I'll keep it
light, what is June 6th?
June 6th, 1944, marks D Day.
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As soon as I say I'm going tokeep it light, I'm going to
start with this and then I'llget into the lighter part.
But I cannot go through a Fridaypodcast on June the 6th, and
then play all the fun stuffwithout first saluting the
incredibly brave men who stormedthe beaches of Normandy in
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France during World War II, thelargest seaborne invasion in
history.
When the Allied troops landedon the beaches of Normandy,
france, part of the OperationOverlord, which, of course, as
you probably know, if you knowhistory, aimed to break through
the German defenses in WesternEurope, ultimately led to the
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liberation of France and thedefeat of Nazi Germany.
Now, honestly, it changed mylife.
Going to the beaches ofNormandy in France with the Pats
Peeps group and conservativetours Peeves group and
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conservative tours.
It changed my life.
Learning about that and seeingthat and seeing the German
bunkers and actually standing inthese German bunkers and
looking at Omaha Beach, and wetoured all the beaches, all of
them, they're at Normandy, allof them, they're at Normandy.
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But to know what those youngmen went through, to see
mulberries and figure out whatthat was, and caissons and
Rupert dolls, and going toPointe du Hoc and seeing the
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craters at the English Channel,learning about these men who
bravely had to climb thesecliffs to come up to the
backside of the Nazis, to flankthem and to defeat the Nazis
there at the beaches, which isunbelievable 160,000 Allied
troops landed on the beaches ofNormandy, which is a 50-mile
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stretch of coastline there, andsignificant casualties.
D-day landings resulted in asignificant number of casualties
on both sides Over 4,400 Alliedtroops killed on that day alone
.
But it is considered theturning point in World War II,
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which marked the beginning ofthe end for Nazi Germany.
Learning about Private Steele, aparent trooper who hung from
the church.
You know who's hanging there byhis parachute while the Nazis
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are standing below himpatrolling the town, are
standing below him patrollingthe town, and he's up there
terrified.
What is the name of that church, by the way?
Wow, I just noticed he died onmy birthday when I was nine
years old.
Oh my gosh, I always Iapologize if I mispronounce any
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of this, but St Mary Gless.
And again I always I apologizeif I mispronounce any of this,
but St Mary Gless, and again Imay have mispronounced that.
Standing inside that church, itwas like I felt the Lord
himself inside of that church.
You could feel the history.
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The night before D-Day, on June6th, american soldiers of the
82nd Airborne parachuting intothe area west of this church in
successive waves, the town hadbeen the target of this aerial
attack, during which a strayincendiary bomb had set fire to
a house east of town, the townsquare there, the church bell.
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They rang the church bell toalert the town to the emergency.
The townspeople turned out inlarge numbers, forming a bucket
brigade, and it was supervised,if I could speak, by members of
the German garrison.
By 1 am town square was welllit, filled with German soldiers
, villagers, with two planeloads of paratroopers from the
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1st and 2nd Battalions, the505th Parachute Infantry
Regiment were dropped in error,directly over this village.
In error, directly over thisvillage.
Obviously, the paratrooperswere now easy targets and
Private Steele was one of thefew not killed.
He was actually wounded in thefoot by a burst and his
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parachute caught in one of thepinnacles of the church.
This church is amazing to seeit in person.
These pinnacles all around thechurch, they're oh wow.
I can't even begin to describewhat it looks like.
But he catches his parachute onone of the pinnacles of the
church tower.
So here he is, hanging on theside of the church, and he hung
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there limply two hourspretending to be dead, and then
the Germans took him prisonerand then he escaped four hours
later Rejoined his division whenthe US troops of the 505th 3rd
Battalion attacked the village.
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They captured 30 Germans,killed another 11, and he was
awarded the Bronze Star forvalor, the Purple Heart, for
being wounded in combat.
He survives the ordeal and youknow he continued to visit that
town throughout his life.
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He was an honorary citizen ofSt Mary Iglesias Again, the name
of the church and I'm so sorryif I mispronounced that.
He also there's a tavern therewhich this, john Steele, stands
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adjacent to this squaremaintains his legacy through
photographs, letters, articles.
And he died of throat cancer onmy birthday, may 16th 1969.
I'm never going to forget that.
I didn't realize that.
Yeah, wow, yeah, they have thatairborne museum where that's
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commemorated.
When you see that.
And then again, on D-Day, youknow, pegasus Bridge we visited
Pegasus Bridge and PegasusBridge was the first bridge
liberated in France.
On that day, the house at theend of Pegasus Bridge, which we
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also visited, was the firsthouse, first home, liberated in
France and we were there and weactually had lunch at that home.
This lady who works there isnow in her 90s, or she was at
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that time as I understood it.
She served as a little girl,served tea or sandwiches to some
of the allied forces, serve teaor sandwiches to some of the
Allied forces.
And now she hears she is in her90s still serving food to
people when they come and visit.
But this happened on the nightof June, the 5th 1944.
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A force of 181 men, led byMajor John Howard, took off from
southern England in six horsegliders, these Horsa gliders,
airplane gliders, to capture thePegasus Bridge Horsa Bridge a
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few hundred yards to the east,over the Orne River.
That force, composed of DCompany, reinforced with two
platoons of B Company, 2ndBattalion, oxford and Bucks Lake
Light Infantry, 20 sappers ofthe Royal Engineers 249 Field
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Company Airborne Glider PilotRegiment, the men of that
regiment.
The object of the action?
To prevent the German armorfrom crossing the bridges and
attacking the eastern flank ofthe landing Sword Beach and to
prevent the British 6th AirborneDivision from being cut off.
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So anyhow, here I am sayingit's going to be a light podcast
, but you know what?
There's no way hear that trainin the background that I can go
on June 6th without mentioningthat it's D-Day.
It was an amazing thing to bethere and to see Pegasus Bridge
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and to see all of that.
Anyhow, moving on to thelighter part of the show.
I thought you know what A lotof things happen in music on
this day, june 6th, in musichistory.
Maybe this will give me a chanceto use my epic open music this
month, this day, not this month.
See, I already blew it, let mestart.
Over there we go, my epic.
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Over there we go, my epic music.
Here we go.
This day in music history.
On Pat's Peeps 277.
D-day.
Is that pretty epic, huh, it'spretty long, though.
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I've already ran out of stuffto say.
I've run out of things to saythank you, thank you so much.
All right, so this day, thisday in music history.
Okay, that's, that's where I'mcoming from today, because
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there's a lot of cool stuff thathappened, and let's start with.
You know what?
Some of it's cool, but otherthings are tragic.
You know we lost some greatartists on this day as well.
So important things happened.
Let me rephrase that Some greatthings, some sad things.
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Overall, some important things,beginning Jim Seals.
Jim Seals of the duo Seals andCrofts died at the age of 80.
This song always stands out.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
See the curtains hanging in the window in the
evening on a Friday night.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Of course they did these nice laid-back 70s songs
Summer Breeze, diamond Girlwhich was later covered by the
Isley Brothers.
More to come on the IsleysSummer Breeze makes me feel fine
blowing through the jasmine inmy mind.
Between 1972 and 1976, sealsand Crofts.
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They had a run of five goldalbums.
Makes me feel fine.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Glowing in the news of Jasmine in my mind.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Culminated in a double platinum greatest hits
collection, jim Seals 2022,passing away Also on this day.
On this day in music history,june the 6th.
I always loved doing this onein karaoke.
Always loved the song.
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Dr John what an artist.
But he was so much more thanjust this.
Right place, wrong time.
But this has always been one ofmy top 40 favorites time, but
this has always been one of mytop 40 favorites.
Dr John, who combined blues,pop, jazz, boogie-woogie and
rock and roll.
He passed away at the age of 77after suffering a heart attack.
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Malcolm John Rebenak was hisreal name Started his career in
the 50s, when he becameprominent as a pianist and a
singer on the New Orleans musicscene.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
But it must have been the wrong time, my head is in a
bad place, but I'm having sucha good time I've been running.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
He worked with the Rolling Stones.
He worked with the RollingStones.
He worked with Carly Simon.
He worked with Neil Diamond.
He worked with Ringo Starr thegood doctor did.
He worked with Eric Clapton,bob Seger and Joe Walsh and,
like I say, he's one of myfavorites to do in karaoke.
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Also in 2017, the 1969 Sight ofWoodstock Music Festival was
officially recognized for itsplace in history when Andrew
Cuomo announced that BethelwoodCenter for the Arts had been
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placed on the National Registerof Historic Places.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
This does not mean I don't love you, I do.
That's forever, baby, yes andfor always.
I am yours, you are mine, youare what you are, you make it
hard.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Also, on this day in history in 2015, ronnie Gilbert,
who was a member of theinfluential 1950s folk quartet
the Weavers, passed away at theage of 88.
At the height of theirpopularity, the quartet sold
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millions of records.
That was during the folk musiccraze that they were partly
responsible for.
By the way, they're most oftenremembered for, on Top of Old
Smoky, Kiss is Sweeter.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Than Wine and this one.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
June, the 6th in history, music history in 2012,.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Adam Clayton of U2, his former personal assistant
and housekeeper went on trialaccused of stealing almost 3
million euros from the U2 bassplayer.
Carol Hawkins from Dublinpleaded not guilty at Dublin
Circuit Criminal Court to 181counts of theft.
She was accused of stealingmoney from two of Clayton's bank
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accounts over a four-yearperiod from 2004 to 08.
Such a nasty lady girl.
All these eyes are heavily Alsoon this day looking back in
rock history.
Marvin Isley, 2010, theyoungest member of the R&B band
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the Isley Brothers, passed away56 years old.
Marvin Isley was the group'sbass player.
He stopped performing in 1996due to complications from
diabetes, including the loss ofhis legs Meanwhile In 2006.
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I always liked this one BillyPreston 2006, 2006.
I always liked this one BillyPreston, 2006.
He dies of kidney failure,billy did.
This guy played, of course, notjust his great solo music, but
was a big part of the RollingStones, a big part of the
Beatles.
Grammy award-winning keyboardplayer Collaborated with some of
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the other greats in the musicindustry besides the Beatles and
the Stones Little Richard, natKing Cole, ray Charles, george
Harrison, elton John, ericClapton, bob Dylan.
I remember this song growing upSpace Race.
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He had Out of Space and SpaceRace.
Then he had some other greathits going around circles,
nothing From Nothing.
What a great guy Played with.
Bob Dylan.
Preston is among thosesometimes known as, like I said,
(22:26):
the fifth Beatle Could be aRolling Stone as well.
He befriended the Beatles in 62, joined the Get Back Sessions
in January 1969, and at onepoint John Lennon proposed the
idea of having Billy Prestonactually join the band.
Other news from June 6th inrock history In 2005, john
(22:55):
Bonham, the Led Zeppelin drummer, was voted number one in
Classic Rock Magazine's 50Greatest Drummers in their rock
listing.
In rock, I should say ListingMoby Dick, this song as Bottom's
defining moment.
During live sets with Zeppelin,his drum solo Moby Dick would
(23:17):
often last for half an hour.
Woo would often last for a halfan hour.
Whoo, I mean as much as I loveBonham.
A half-hour drum solo,fatiguing at best.
But I'm a huge fan.
And, by the way, he regularlyfeatured the use of his bare
(23:41):
hands in his drum solos.
Yeah, he'd go into those barehand things.
Pretty amazing.
2003,.
Dave Robery, keyboard playerwith the Animals, dave Robery
died at 62.
Replaced Alan Price who left in65.
The Animals had the 1964 UK andUS number one single House of
(24:05):
the Rising Sun, but they weremore than that.
I love this one Skypilot, thisis a good one.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I wish I would someday hear what I see.
I'm dressed in these rags.
I'll be disabled someday Hearwhat I say.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I'm on the ride.
The servant no more time tospend.
How about in 2003?
How about?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
that.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Heartless crew.
A high court judge in Londonruled that rap lyrics.
This cracks me up.
Rap lyrics should be treated asa foreign language.
You tell me what he's sayingright there, I don't know.
Rap lyrics should be treated asa foreign language.
You tell me what he's sayingright there, I don't know.
He admitted that he was unsureof the meaning of shizzle my
(25:11):
nizzle and mish mish man.
I say what is this?
Mish mish man?
Shizzle my nizzle?
That's a bad accent.
The court battle was over acopyright issue between Antel
Mob and the Heartless Crew, whowould use the lyrics on a remix.
Uh-huh, exactly right Now.
(25:39):
I have to admit I don't knowthis next song.
I don't know Baz Luhrmann.
I don't know anything aboutthis other than he's an
Australian filmmaker I had tolook that up Baz Luhrmann, who
goes to number one on a UKsingles chart on June 6th of 99
with this song that I have noclue what it is, other than it
(26:03):
is called a number one song on aUK chart.
What are they doing?
This is called Everybody's Freeto Wear Sunscreen.
Let's listen together.
Maybe you know this, I don't.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 99, wear
sunscreen.
What If I could offer you onlyone tip for the future?
Sunscreen would be it.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
This can't be number one.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been
proved by scientists, whereasthe rest of my advice has no
basis more reliable than my ownmeandering experience.
I will dispense this advice now.
Here we go.
There's the music.
Enjoy the power and beauty ofyour youth.
(26:52):
Never mind.
You will not understand thepower and beauty of your youth
until they've faded.
It's an American accent too thepower and beauty of your youth
until they've faded.
It's an American accent too.
In 20 years, you look back atphotos of yourself and recall,
in a way you can't grasp, howmuch possibility lay before you
and how fabulous you reallylooked.
I've never heard this you arenot as fat as you imagine.
(27:13):
Don't worry about the future orworry, but know that worrying
is as effective as trying tosolve an algebra equation by
chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your lifeare apt to be things that never
crossed.
Your worried mind Kind ofblindsides you at 4 pm on some
(27:35):
idle Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I'm going to have to play this on my show.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Do one thing every day that scares you Sing.
Don't be reckless with otherpeople's hearts.
Don't put up with people whoare reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time onjealousy.
Sometimes you're ahead,sometimes you're behind.
The race is long and in the end, tony, with yourself.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You know, this reminds me of.
This reminds me of you Are aFluke of the Universe by the
National Lampoon Radio Hour Very, very similar.
I got to play that on my showtonight.
That is wacky.
I've never heard this.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults.
Are you serious?
That is wacky.
I've never heard this.
Remember compliments youreceive, forget the insults.
Are you serious?
If you see me doing this, tellme how.
Keep your old love letters.
Throw away your old bankstatements.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They had to be copying.
They had to be copying NationalLampoon Radio Hour.
I wasn't planning on playingthis, but listen to this.
This is National Lampoon RadioHour.
I wasn't planning on playingthis, but listen to this.
This is National Lampoon RadioHour.
Let me fast forward.
Okay, listen to this.
I'll fast forward until the guystarts talking.
He talks too and gives advice,just like the last song.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Go placidly amid the noise and waste and remember
what comfort there may be Inowning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of
sleep.
Rotate your tires.
Speak glowingly of thosegreater than yourself and heed
well their advice, even thoughthey be turkeys.
(29:24):
Know what to kiss and when.
Consider that two wrongs nevermake a right, but that three do.
Wherever possible, put peopleon hold.
Be comforted that, in the faceof all aridity and
disillusionment and despite thechanging fortunes of time, there
(29:45):
is always a big future incomputer maintenance.
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That just opened my eyes to this song.
Buzz Lerman Must play that onmy show In 1987, to this song
Buzz Lerman Must play that on myshow.
In 1987, whitney Houston hadher second UK number one single
(30:16):
with I Wanna Dance with Somebodywho Loves Me.
Reached number one in over adozen other countries, won a
Grammy Award for the best femalepop vocal performance 1988.
Yeah, I wanna dance withsomebody, with somebody who
loves me.
In 1987, michael Jackson.
(30:41):
This Day in Music, june 6th1987, michael Jackson announced
he was breaking all ties withthe Jehovah's Witnesses.
Jackson had been raised as aJehovah's Witness.
Jackson had been raised as aJehovah's Witness and he would
(31:04):
don disguises and go door todoor with the Watchtower message
in cities where he wasperforming.
How about that, you know?
Ah, dang it.
Who's at the door, honey?
I don't know, dear, it lookslike some people from the
Jehovah's Witness Hee hee, howyou doing, hi, yeah, the word
of's Witness.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Hi how you doing Hi.
Hear the word of the Lord.
Today you have a couple ofminutes for me.
Yeah, I'd like that.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Starts moonwalking on your porch.
Can you come to our?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
We're having a big convention.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I got no time for this.
I'm watching bowling.
Wow, that is cool.
I mean he shows up at your door, Michael Jackson.
He shows up at your door,Michael Jackson.
(32:05):
There's a story you got to tellpeople.
1982, Tom Petty, Crosby, Stillsand Nash Bob Dylan.
Who's coming up a lot on todayin this day in history Stevie
Wonder, Stevie Nicks, JacksonBrown appearing at the Rose Bowl
in Pasadena 85,000 peoplewatching a six-hour peace Sunday
(32:28):
.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
And we have a dream anti-nuclear concert.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Dylan was joined on stage by Joan Baez, did a duet
on her Blowing in the Wind, orwith this Blowing in the Wind,
with God on her side.
The show is partly broadcast onABC TV's Entertainment Tonight
program the same day.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
You take it to the high.
The waiting is the highestpoint.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Moving ahead to 1979.
June 6th of 79.
Still my favorite record by DefLeppard.
By the way, Iron Dry Doesn'thave all the hits, but it rocks
the best to me.
Def Leppard played at Crook'sWorking Man's Club in Sheffield.
Doesn't have all the hits, butit rocks the best to me.
(33:20):
Def Leppard played at Crook'sWorking Man's Club in Sheffield.
The gig was reviewed in the UKMusic Paper Sounds and it led to
a recording contract withPhonogram Records for these
young guys.
They were very young when theydid this.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I dig this.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I like the way it builds right here.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Rock steady, still shaking.
I'm ready for good taking.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
So make your move now .
Make me Get ready for a bigthing.
Let it roll, let it roll, letit go, let it go.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
You got to let it roll, let great rocker up to the
next song.
So we'll just take a second tomention that this is Pat's Peeps
277.
Way change of directions here,boy, you wouldn't want to mix
that last song with this one ona radio station.
The tune-out factor would beenormous.
We talked about Whitney Houstonearlier.
(34:43):
Of course she did one of DollyParton's songs, this one.
In 1974, rca Records released IWill Always Love you by Dolly
Parton, the second single fromher 13th solo studio album,
jolene, recorded on June 13th of73.
(35:05):
The singer wrote the song forher one-time partner and her
mentor, porter Wagner the greatPorter Wagner for whom she was
professionally splitting with atthe time.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I am taking with me Goodbye at the time.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
In 1971, john and Yoko, who was absolutely,
astonishingly, ridiculouslystupid in this performance, as
she always was.
I'm sorry, she was horrible,Absolutely horrible.
Look at the video of this ifyou want.
(35:44):
Look at John Lennon and thegreat Chuck Berry playing
together with Yoko screaminglike a banshee.
It's just ridiculous.
In 1971, john and Yoko jamslive on stage with Frank Zappa.
This is at the Fillmore East inNew York.
You know I'm a huge Zappa guy.
Love Lennon too, but I'm aZappa guy.
(36:08):
Some of the recordings werereleased in 1972 on John
Lennon's third post-Beatlesalbum Sometime in New York City,
which is trash to say thatthat's a John Lennon album.
Here's Frank Zappa explaining.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
During the performance, when Lennon was on
stage with Yoko, we played oneof my songs called King Kong
Great song, by the way, and thedeal that was made, jean-luc
Ponti, on the electric violin,on that one according to the
usage of the tapes.
Sorry to interrupt you, frank,and the deal that was made
according to the usage of thetapes was he got to use the
(36:39):
tapes for his purpose, I got touse the tapes for my purpose.
He released part of thatperformance on an album called
Sometime in New York and changedthe name of the song King Kong
to Jam Rag and gave himself andYoko writing and publishing
credit on the song.
(37:00):
Now, obviously, this song has amelody and chord changes.
Somebody did write it and itwas not them.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
So whoops, that's why I love Frank.
Meanwhile, in 1970, sid Barrett.
Sid Barrett played his firstgig since leaving Pink Floyd at
the Extravaganza 70 at London'sOlympia Hall, england, backed by
a band that included his oldfriend Floyd guitarist David
(37:37):
Gilmour.
Barrett baffled the audienceand his musicians when he
abruptly took off his guitarduring the fourth number and
just walked off stage.
You know, last night I wastalking about was it yesterday?
Last night, I do believe, on myradio show.
(38:03):
I was talking about the timethat Sid Barrett, after being on
drugs for so long and how hechanged so much, walked into the
studio when Pink Floyd wasrecording and they could not
believe what they were seeing.
He was the founder of the band.
They didn't even know who theguy was.
They were wondering who is thisguy?
(38:24):
They were recording the 1975classic album, wish you Were
here, which much of the materialwas all about Sid Barrett
losing his mind.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
My memory is that I came into the studio and there
was this guy standing there in agabardine raincoat, a large
bloke, and I had no idea who itwas.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
And, surprisingly, no one's saying who's that person,
what's he doing?
Wandering around all our gearin the studio and then him
coming into the control room andstanding around.
How remarkable how long it wasbefore anyone actually woke up.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Finally, I think it was David who said Nick, do you
recognise him?
And I looked and I think Ieither shrugged my shoulders or
at some point Dave put me out tomy misery and said it's it.
And we just stood there or satthere and just were
shell-shocked basically, andthen until somebody thought
(39:32):
something to say to him, andthen we were all unbelievably
shocked at his appearance.
Speaker 5 (39:42):
I mean, I didn't recognise him, I didn't know it
was him, but it was prettypretty affecting really.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
I mean Roger and Dave cried.
Speaker 7 (39:55):
You know this slim, elegant, if bedraggled and dazed
person that I'd last seen hadturned rather balloon-shaped and
had no eyebrows and not muchhair.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
There is the photograph of him in the studio
at the Turbin and if you lookedat Sid in early 67, Sid, then it
was so different.
Speaker 7 (40:35):
He was a great loss and you know the he was a great
loss and you know, imaginingwhat he would have gone on to do
is speculating on that, if youlike.
He could have become so great.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
And of course they wrote that song Shine On you,
crazy Diamond, wish you Werehere about Sid Barrett.
Meanwhile, in 1969, elton Johnreleases his debut album Empty
Sky in the UK, released January75 in the US.
Skyline Pigeon is the bestknown song from this album is
(41:18):
the best-known song from thisalbum.
It's the only one which heinfrequently performs as part of
his live shows.
He doesn't play anything elseoff of this Weird thing about
(41:39):
that.
It starts off with aharpsichord.
Don't hear many Elton John singor start off with a harpsichord
or utilize a harpsichord.
Let me loose from your handsPat's Peeps 277.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Let me fly to distant lands, over green fields, trees
and mountains, flowers andforest fountains.
Home along the lanes of theskyway.
(42:15):
For this dark and lonely roomProjects a shadow.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Meanwhile, in 1966, that I've been crying Over you,
crying over you.
Roy Orbison's first wife,claudette, said so long.
She was killed when a truckpulled out of a side road and
(42:47):
collided with a motorbike thatshe and her husband were riding
on in Gallatin, texas.
She was just 25.
Crying crying.
It's hard to understand, but thetouch of your hand Can start me
(43:09):
crying In 1965, one of theiconic rock and roll songs was
released I can't Get noSatisfaction.
Rolling Stones Went in the US,released a single in the US on
(43:31):
this day, gave the band theirfirst number one hit in the UK,
where it was released in 66 inAugust.
The song initially played onlyon pirate radio stations because
its lyrics were considered toosexually suggestive.
(43:51):
I can't get no.
I can't get no when I'm drivingin my car, when I'm on the net,
Cause on the radio who'stelling me more I know About
something.
Someday we'll have to talkabout that fuzz tone guitar and
(44:13):
how that came about.
My imagination I can't get no,I know't know.
In 1962, the first Beatlesrecording session took place at
Abbey Road Studios.
This group this is June 6th1962.
(44:37):
The group recorded four tracks,one of which was Love Me.
Do Love, love me.
Do you know I love you?
I'll always be true.
So please love me, do.
(44:58):
For this the four musicians,john, george, paul and Ringo
were paid.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
You know, I love you.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
I'll always be true.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Hold on Please love me do $12.07 apiece.
$12.07 apiece, by the way, theywent on to do pretty well, I do
believe.
Let's jump to this day onbirthdays.
(45:36):
Rock and roll birthdays on thisday, june 6th 1960, what a
great year to be born.
Love that year to be born.
What a guitar player Steve Vai.
Earlier, we were talking aboutFrank Zappa, so Steve Vai, who
is known to be one of theworld's greatest rock guitar
(45:58):
players, american guitarist,he's a composer, he's a singer,
he's a songwriter, he's aproducer, played with David Lee
Roth, whitesnake, mary J Blige,spinal Tap, ozzy, but I like him
best with Frank Zappa.
We just heard from FrankTalking about Lennon and Yoko.
(46:18):
Here is Steve Vai talking aboutFrank.
And this is Steve Vai.
Who again is this phenomenalguitarist known as one of the
best.
Here he is talking about goingto audition for Frank Zappa's
band, and Frank Zappa ismeticulous.
(46:38):
He is known as a perfectionistwhen it comes to his music.
If you are a drug addict, youwon't be in his band.
If you cannot play complexmusic, you will not be in
Frank's band, says Steve Vai.
Speaker 5 (46:51):
Oh my God, when I went down actually to play
during the rehearsal I thoughtthis is crazy 20 years old and
auditioning for Frank Zappa.
This is ridiculous.
But I went down, he told me tolearn all these songs and of
course he pulled all these songsthat I didn't know and he was.
So you should ask Vinny becauseVinny was there how brutal he
(47:13):
was on me.
I couldn't even believe it.
He made it so difficult.
There's one thing and I knowthis isn't necessarily a Frank
interview, but I'll tell you thestory.
It's great.
This is during my audition.
He says you know, and Frankwould play these things on the
guitar and he had a certaintechnique, but he wasn't like a
shredder or anything like that,you know, and he'd play
(47:33):
something.
Because I play that and I gookay, and I play, and he goes
okay, now play it in 7-8.
I say okay, and I play it in 7.
He goes Okay, now play itreggae 7-8.
Okay, and I, and I do it.
He goes okay, now add this note.
Okay, and I do it Playingreggae 7-8, and I'm adding these
notes.
He's okay, add this note.
And it was impossible.
(47:54):
It just was physicallyimpossible, not just for me but
for anybody.
You know.
I said oh, I can't do thatbecause I hear Linda Ronstadt is
looking for a guitar player.
Impossible, that is great, it'san impossible thing, you know.
And at the end of the rehearsaland just other things too, you
(48:18):
know.
But at the end of the rehearsalI went up to him I said thanks
for inviting me.
I'm really sorry, I'm going togo home.
Now he goes, you're in the band.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
I mean no disrespect to Linda Ronstadt, by the way.
Love Linda Ronstadt, but stillit's a different thing.
So here's what I want to endwith today.
After all that man, I'veenjoyed this.
Honestly, I might have to dothis more often this day in
music, I love this.
Hey, if you're listening tothis, tell me on my radio show
tonight, if you would, what youthink of this format here, where
(48:52):
I do, because this is one of mylonger podcasts.
Of course we did cover D-Day,thank God.
So let's go back to Steve Vaitalking about Frank Zappa
auditioning him.
So he joins the band.
Now he becomes with Frank Zappawho, again, you know me, I'm a
Frank freak.
I love this man.
He's genius, he's way out there, but he is so extremely
(49:15):
talented.
Here he is with Steve Vai andthey're on stage.
He releases this thing calledGuitar Shut up and play your
guitar.
Guitar, son of.
Shut up and play your guitar.
That's Frank's sense of ofhumor.
So you have to have thatcertain sense of humor to be
part of Frank's band, beyondjust being talented.
(49:36):
So Frank referred to Steve ashis stunt guitarist, so I want
to play a little something foryou from the album guitar Frank
Zappa double cd set and whatyou're going to hear are two of
the most phenomenal, because Iput frank up there along with
steve I in the top 10 guitar,great rock and roll guitarist,
(50:00):
the great rock guitarist.
Here they are together andyou're going to hear this the
differences between frank andbetween steve, and you can
understand when you listen tothis for a couple of minutes or
a couple of seconds, whatever wecan get away with.
Yeah, I don't own the rights tothis.
I'm trying to educate.
Whatever Don't hassle me, notyou them, whoever they are.
(50:22):
You can hear how he would beconsidered a stunt guitarist in
the background.
He's making these crazy sounds.
So, without further ado, herethey are together.
Check this out.
I'll crank this up in my car.
Listen to the drumming TerryBozzio.
(51:02):
I believe that's Bozzio onthere.
I could be wrong, but ChadWackerman, I'm not sure I'm
hearing Steve Vai in my left ear.
(51:26):
Frank in the right ear, stevein the left ear.
That's Frank coming out thefront.
Now again, I understand youhave to be a guitar aficionado,
(51:50):
like some of you might be going.
Oh my God, I couldn't listen tothis for more than a few
seconds and I get that Whatever,but I love it.
Listen to the bass.
Frank is in my right ear.
(52:24):
I'm going to leave it rightthere and say thank you, man.
I can't wait for my radio showtonight.
I'm amped up.
Today.
It's a Friday, the sun isshining, I'm feeling good.
Hope you.
It's a Friday, the sun isshining, I'm feeling good.
Hope you're feeling good aswell.
Listen to that.
I think I may just do a FrankZappa podcast one day, the whole
(52:47):
thing, frank.
Maybe if I had already donethat, I'll do another one.
Whatever, thank you, god bless.
Have a happy Friday.
Have a happy weekend.
Thanks for listening Pat'sPeeps Podcast.
See you on the radio.
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