What makes a commercial jingle stick in our minds for decades? Why do some performing artists feel compelled to subject paying audiences to lengthy, self-indulgent rants? And what exactly makes a truly great band name? These questions and more find their home in episode 325 of the Pat's Peeps podcast.
We begin by diving into the world of unforgettable commercial jingles that have survived in our collective memory for half a century. From the Frito Bandito (voiced by the legendary Mel Blanc) to the serene imagery of Ham's Beer's "Land of Sky Blue Waters" campaign, these marketing earworms transcend mere advertising to become cultural touchstones. Along the way, we examine how our perceptions of these characters have evolved through modern lenses while acknowledging their undeniable creative impact.
The conversation takes a shocking turn when we uncover a 1960s Geritol commercial that defies belief – featuring a husband pointing a gun at his disheveled wife's head to illustrate the dangers of "iron-poor tired blood." This jaw-dropping artifact serves as a stark reminder of how dramatically advertising standards and gender representations have evolved.
Musicians who talk too much become our next focus, as we share frustrating concert experiences where artists like Counting Crows' Adam Duritz and Van Halen's David Lee Roth subjected audiences to extended monologues instead of music. The notorious Kanye West Sacramento show – where he performed just three songs before launching into a 16-minute rant and abandoning the concert – stands as perhaps the most egregious example of artistic self-indulgence.
The episode wraps with a creative brainstorming session for band names ranging from "Unit 99" to "Evil Hasselhoff," before exploring the fascinating origin story behind the Bee Gees' hauntingly beautiful 1968 hit "I Started a Joke."
Whether you're a nostalgia buff, music lover, or simply enjoy conversations that weave together pop culture, personal stories, and societal reflection, this episode offers a rich tapestry of entertainment that will leave you humming those jingles long after you've finished listening.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to the Pats Peeps podcast.
We're at number 325.
That is a good ring to it, forwhatever reason.
325.
That is a good ring to it forwhatever reason.
325 podcasts so glad to haveyou a part of it, patspeepscom.
Hey, it's a Wednesday already.
(00:36):
Looking out the studio windowsof the beautiful foothills of
Northern California, it'sanother hot day.
Not as hot as it's been, Idon't know, maybe in the 90s.
I've been outside a little bittoday, but it doesn't seem as
hot as it has been.
So that's the good news.
Wherever you are, wherever youare listening right now maybe
(00:58):
you're in your car right now,driving I get a lot of people to
say that you know what I get alot of people.
By the way, I'm the host of thePat Wall Show on KFPK Radio in
Sacramento and it was so nice.
7 to 10 pm, monday throughFriday.
Did I already say 93.1 FM and1530 AM.
But it's really nice when youget little videos of people who
(01:25):
you know are sitting there in aparking lot in one case waiting
for something, I can't recallwhat, but they're listening to
your show, you know, and theytake a little video of them
listening to your show andsaying Pat, I had to go to this
place tonight and I was waitingfor the and I was laughing so
hard.
Oh my gosh, I love that.
(01:45):
Thank you, linda.
Thank you, I had someone else,sherry, last night.
Sherry, check her out.
The Red Eye Riff Ride on KVMRin Nevada City, grass Valley
(02:06):
Community Radio, and she's alistener to my show.
I listen to her show now, butapparently I had her laughing
with some of the commentaryregarding the split up of Heinz
and Kraft and who was going toget custody of Velveeta, because
you know that's the parentcompany.
And so we did custody ofVelveeta Because you know that's
(02:27):
the parent company.
And so we did a little Velveetaand reminisced about some
products that I haven't seen ina long time, haven't even heard
of in a long time, things likeremember Underwood Deviled Ham
or Chef Boyardee, rememberBeefaroni, remember the little
(02:49):
kids would come running.
Yeah, there's so many greatcommercials that they must have
been good because they stand thetest of time.
They're very memorable.
I mean, who doesn't rememberand who doesn't love the?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
you know the Frito Bandito, I heard, you want to be
a Frito Bandito, like me?
You do.
Then you must sing the Banditosong.
Let's sing together.
You just follow the bouncingFritos corn chips bag.
Ay, ay, ay, ay.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I cannot believe that some people thought this was
racist.
Come on, this is racist.
It's just a cartoon.
It's like Speedy Gonzales.
Oh, speedy Gonzales is racistBecause it's depicting a Mexican
character.
Well, there's a lot of whitecharacters.
There's a lot of gangster-typecharacters, italian-looking guys
(03:44):
.
They're always gangsters.
You could see them ashillbillies, right?
You see the long-bearded guysin Looney Tunes, hillbillies.
Believe me, there's not oneperson, including me growing up,
that saw this commercial, whothought any less of a Mexican.
We loved it.
The Frito Bandido corn chipsong.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I am the Frito Bandido.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I love Fritos corn chips.
I love them, I do, I love.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Fritos corn chips.
I'll get them from you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Oh, I am the Frito Bandido.
Give me Fritos corn chips, andI'll be your friend.
Am the Frito Bandito.
Give me Frito's corn chips, andI'll be your friend, the Frito
Bandito.
You must not offend Now boysand girls.
You are Frito Banditos too.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Even he said you must not offend.
Sing the.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Frito Bandito song and you'll look like a funky
Frito's corn chips.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That's right, and you know what that is.
Isn't that Mel Blanc?
Isn't that Mel Blanc?
Isn't that Mel Blanc doing thevoice Nice?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Munch, munch, munchy, munchy, fritos conch.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's Mel Blanc.
You know what else I loved?
Oh well, you can't have thatwhy?
It's one of the most memorablecommercials, in my estimation,
of all time.
I still love it.
It's one of my very favoritecommercials.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Like I said this is the land of sky, blue waters,
land of cool and chant.
Listen.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Remember the Ham's Bear.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Love it From the land of sky, blue waters, from the
land of pines, lofty balsams,comes the beer refreshing.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Hams, the beer refreshing, mmm.
Hams, yes, yes, from the landof sky blue waters to you comes
hams.
Yes, yes, from the land of skyblue waters to you comes hams.
The beer, refreshing as thecrisp, cool land it's brooded.
The beer that captures for youthe wonderful refreshment of
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this enchanted Northland Hams,hams, mmm, mmm Hams, crisp,
clean, cut to the taste,refreshing Hits of lakes and
sunset breezes.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Dance and sparkle in each glass full.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Hams that bear refreshing.
Hams that bear refreshing.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Hams Still a beloved commercial.
I love it.
You know what I remember too.
As a kid they would try to tiein the astronauts.
You know all the Apollomissions and the mission to go
to the moon, and then, of course, when they landed on the moon.
But suddenly Tang became likethe drink of the astronauts even
(06:45):
aliens, if you recall.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Well, we're all in of orange-flavored Tang.
Golly, the grape flavor's gonetoo.
Listen, why don't I go to theEarth and get some more?
Yeah, I could trade them somerocks Rocks For an instant
breakfast drink with morevitamin C than orange juice.
Sure, I'll be right back.
What is that you see anyway?
Well, I'm back.
He got both orange and grapeflavored tangs For a bag of
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rocks.
Sometimes I wonder if there'sintelligent life on that planet.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I used to love.
You know, I'm just rememberingback on a lot of these I
remember you'd be watching.
I swear in my mind.
I know there was the regular TVcommercials, but I think
somehow they kind of tied it inwith Lawrence Welk.
You know, some of us, when wewere kids, you had to watch
Lawrence Welk.
I think that was on a Sundaynight because, you know, maybe
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your granny was visiting, yourgrandparents were in town from
Canoga Park or whatever you know, and and your parents, they
were already going to tune inand it seemed like the longest
hour of the week for tv.
For me as a kid, like, oh no,but we watched it, you know, and
we watched it as a family.
I didn't, anyhow, but you know,and again, it just maybe I have
(08:01):
this couple of memories mixedup, but I remember Geritol used
to be, didn't Geritol used to bepart of the Lawrence Welker?
No, my wife I don't know howshe does it Remember those
commercials?
I swear I do.
(08:31):
Oh, the guy comes home from work.
His wife's got the curlers inher hair with a spatula.
He's shocked by the state ofthe kitchen Complete disarray.
She shrugs it off.
He pulls out his gun.
That's right, my friends, goback and watch for yourself A
(08:56):
1960s commercial.
This is the real thing.
Look this up.
This is, without a doubt, oneof the single worst commercials
that you could possibly everproduce or see.
In my opinion.
We're only halfway through thecommercial right now.
(09:20):
So here's the synopsis.
You can find it.
Look it on YouTube.
Geritol 60s commercial.
I had to bring this to yourattention to show you how much
things have changed over theyears.
Now this man is coming homefrom work.
I just described kind of whatwas going on.
(09:40):
He comes home from work.
The wife has got a spatula inher hand, she's got curlers in
her hair, she's completelydisheveled.
She's in a like a robe becauseyou know the men were at work
and apparently the women were athome in a robe, with curlers in
their hair, with a spatula andslippers.
(10:05):
So he comes in and he looks inthe kitchen and, much to his
dismay, the kitchen is incomplete and utter disarray.
They look at each other.
She shrugs it off.
This is theater of the mind,but it's also true.
(10:27):
He reaches into his suit pocketand he pulls out a huge pistol
and he points it directly at herhead, right at her forehead,
(10:47):
and he pulls the trigger this isthe music playing behind it
Pulls a trigger and it's rightup at her forehead and a banner
comes out Isn't that funny?
(11:08):
Comes out of the gun.
This gun has to be at least afoot long, if not longer.
And the sign, the little banner, says Iron-Poor Tired Blood
Question mark With a bottle ofGeritol.
(11:28):
Honestly, that is appalling andI remember that you know, and I
guess at one point in time Idon't know, maybe people didn't
even question it, I was toolittle, but it is shocking again
.
This is a 45 second commercial.
(11:50):
We're only 23 seconds into it.
Let's finish up Now.
He's pulled the trigger rightin her face.
Later and again.
Listen to the music.
It's like either happy-go-luckyor, I don't know, spy music.
I'm not sure what's going onthere, but it certainly doesn't
fit any of the horrific thingsthat are going on in this little
(12:11):
commercial Geritol commercial.
So it says later Now, here, theguy's going to come home again.
He's taking off his hat andopening the door.
He looks over the kitchen'sspotless, spotless.
My friends, Check with yourdoctor.
Now she's got a rose in herteeth and an evening gown on
(12:32):
with not pearls but some kind ofa necklace and she's gazing at
him.
Yeah, here we go.
Now he's happy.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Now he doesn't have to pull out a gun and if you're
tired because of iron poor blood, Geritol can help you feel
stronger fast.
Maybe not this fast, but fast.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Oh my God, Pat's Peeps 325.
Can you imagine that they satin a room and someone came up
with that concept?
That is shocking.
Again, geritol 60s commercial.
That's all you got to look foron YouTube to see what I'm even
(13:23):
talking about.
But there's a lot more, yeah,but there's a lot more.
Yeah.
A friend of mine went to see theCounting Crows recently and she
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said that it was the worstconcert that she had ever been
to.
Worst concert, I'm not going tosay where, but suffice it to
say they did not have a goodtime at this particular concert
for a variety of reasons, andone of the reasons was the
insufferable comments.
(14:05):
Adam, who is the singer for theCounting Crows?
What's his name?
I might have to Google that.
I'm forgetting his name, butanyhow, he goes on these rants.
By the way, I have a goodCounting Crows story beyond this
.
Adam Duritz, counting Crows.
(14:27):
Apparently they weren't thatgreat.
Sorry, counting Crows.
I mean whatever.
I'm not going to say one thingor another, how I really feel
about Counting Crows, but theydidn't like the concert.
Well, it was so boring and theguy wouldn't shut up.
So I was kind of lookingthrough some of this stuff and
(14:48):
boy oh boy, and this hashappened to me before when I go
to a concert and I'm never happyabout it.
We'll discuss it here on Pat'sPeeps 325.
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(15:12):
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So apparently he here is adamduritz of the crows.
By the way, I go to see.
One time my brother and I in 92,we went to see George Clinton
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and the P-Funk All-Stars, theBlack Crows and Bob Dylan
together.
Now there's an eclectic mix fora concert and I got another
eclectic mix I'll tell you aboutin a moment.
So we're at this concert atLaguna Seca and after the Black
Crows finish, the Black Crowsbaby.
(15:55):
We are huge Black Crows fansand they freaking rocked the
joint man.
They rocked it when they weredone.
It was still humming when theywalked off stage.
You want to talk about a micdrop?
This was a double mic dropbecause they, like I say they,
(16:16):
walk off stage.
It's still humming andapparently all I could think of
is this is a local person in themedia, local weatherman, chris
Morgan, that doesn't knowanything about this band, but
they're there because someoneasked them and I'm not trying to
shame anyone.
I introduce bands I have thehonor of.
Hey, stop that, what was that?
(16:37):
Now, I have the honor of doingthat once in a while and I love
doing it.
But there's that commercial.
From what is it?
Southwest Airlines, wanna GetAway?
This was one of those Wanna GetAway moments.
As I divert from my originalstory here, my point I was going
to get to Anyhow.
She comes out, she goes and thething's still on man and she's.
(16:59):
Ah, let's hear it again.
How about those counting crowsrather than black crows?
And I remember Chris Robinsonof the Black Crows, who already
has a temper, temper, or did.
At that time he came flying outon that stage and grabbed that
mic from her.
That's the mother black crowsand he threw that mic down on
(17:23):
the stage and it startedvibrating.
You know, humming again, man,feedback, and I mean it.
Just I couldn't believe it.
So every time I think ofCounting Crows, for whatever
reason, I think of that story.
So, anyhow, back to theoriginal point, which is here
they are, the Counting Crows.
Someone said they didn't likethem, they're boring, blah, blah
(17:43):
, blah.
Here they are.
This is at the here's at acasino I'm not going to say
which one it is and this is justAdam Duritz just going on and
on insufferably about the otherband at the show, the opening
band in Security, security.
As if you want to sit at aconcert and listen to this, I'm
(18:09):
glad to see all of you.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
I really got to get the club.
This has been a weird night.
I'm really sorry.
I imagine a lot of you came tosee the Gasolini play.
They are one of the best bandson the planet.
I love them dearly.
They are one of my favoritegroups of musicians that have
ever existed and I'm so sorry ifyou're disappointed about that
(18:39):
and I do not blame you.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Can I get me Orgy Dome?
Speaker 7 (18:42):
You know, we play a lot of casinos and not all of
them are the greatest places.
I will say this Freebird Ireally like this place Freebird.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh God, it is a fantastic hotel.
Uh-huh, it's a number ofdinners.
Yeah, exactly, it's a weirdthing about when you play games,
oh God.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Sometimes it's hard with security.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Not everybody wants to stop troublesome people.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Uh-huh, you know, brian ran into a thing.
Yeah, they have rules hereabout kids and I don't blame
them it makes perfect sense.
Jeez, what a buzz kill oh, theygotta keep their, what a mood
important, but the way theytalked to him just escalated it
and escalated it, and escalatedit.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
This goes on for five freaking minutes.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
I don't think they could stand to stay and play.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Oh yeah, Shut up.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Anybody had that intention.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, shut up.
I can't even.
You know what.
It's hard for me to even makethe point.
I am so annoyed by that.
I am so annoyed I wasn't evenat the concert and I'm annoyed.
Patch Peeps 325.
Very annoyed, you know.
I remember this happened.
I took my brother in 2012.
I took my brother to Oakland tothe arena, and I took him to
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see another odd combination fora concert.
It was Kool and the Gangopening up for Van Halen True
story.
So we're going to see Van Halen, so we go to this concert and I
like Kool and the Gang.
I like their pre-commercialstuff more, their funky before
they got more commercialized,being honest with you.
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So, van Halen, you want to gothere and rock, but nope, nope,
nope, nope, not on this tour.
No, because David Lee Rothsey,the front man Mr Front man from
the late 70s when his bandkicked ash, here he is.
He's got a bog down for sevenand a half minutes of talking
(20:55):
about his I don't know herdingdogs or whatever His other side
of life outside of music, which,at that point in time, I don't
give a rip.
Diamond Dave, I don't careabout the dogs.
(21:15):
I love dogs, but I'm here tosay here's some freaking rock
man.
But here he goes, gotta hear itand show a slideshow.
He's gotta have a slideshow,him.
As if this isn't annoyingenough, you know it's a big
(21:37):
build-up, something's going tohappen.
Ice cream man or something.
These are my dogs, uh-huh.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Thank God for dogs, or you'd never get that new
smell out of the pickup truck.
Anybody have dogs here wholikes?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
dogs?
No, we don't have dogs.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Family Alba.
This is Mikey.
Mikey is a sheep specialist.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Oh, dear, god.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I do own three pickup trucks there is no.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You know, when I decided to do this on my podcast
, I was even wondering if Icould do it.
I truly get so annoyed by this.
I mean and this isn't even thepolitical stuff like Roger
Waters, oh God, talk aboutinsufferable.
Yeah, here we go, david.
I won't play much more of thisbecause it's hard, but this is
true.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
And the other dog that I trial with is Benny.
Benny is a cattle specialist.
It's been described to me thatwhen I first started this as a
kid, when I first started this,my senior coach told me Daveave,
sheep are like cheerleaders canyou imagine I gotta give it to
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sammy hagar.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Whatever your thoughts are on van halen,
whether you're a dave guy,whether you're a sammy guy,
whether you're, whether you're afan of both I think both had
great songs, incredible songsoverall, and both had some songs
where I just kind of went no,come on, you're better than that
, all right, but I'm a Van Halenfan.
(23:20):
That's why we were there, butthis is truly insufferable, and
not why I'm at a concert.
I don't care and I love dogs.
Stop it already.
The worst of the worst, though,is and on my radio show.
(23:42):
Ever since this happened in mytown of Sacramento, when this
loser back in 2016, november19th sorry, you might feel
different I can't stand it Everytime I mention I won't do it
here, but every time I mentionthis guy's name on my show, if
it does happen to come up, ifit's a big, if all you hear is
(24:07):
the crowd boo, all I have to dois say the name Kanye West and
the crowd boos on my show Alwayshave, always will.
If I am forced Well, not forced,but compelled, for whatever
reason, to bring up his name,and here's one of the main
reasons.
Going back to my hometown ofSacramento, where fans God knows
(24:28):
how much they overpaid for thistrash already.
But here he is.
He does barely three songs andgoes on this extended rant.
I'm not going to force you tolisten to all, but I just want
to give you an example.
Barely three songs before hesaid you know what I'm out of of
here.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
I got nothing else for you hey, hey, you know what
it is, though, because, hey, Ilove drake, I love cali, but
they set that song up, bro.
And let me tell you somethingmtv, fuck you, you, once again,
as always, I'm on my chump shittonight.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Trigger warning trigger trigger hey you know me.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
I went down seven years of my life of
motherfuckers hating me forsaying Beyonce had the best
video.
Can I get in the Orgy Dome?
Is the Orgy Dome open?
Hello, hey, baby, it's rock androll tonight.
Y'all might be experiencing alot of pop shit, but the vibes
(25:35):
is back.
The prodigal son, king Cudi,has returned.
The vibes is back.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
The vibes is back Prodigal.
He's such a.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
I know it's going to be a lot of conversations after
tonight.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Oh, yeah, yeah, Yep, we're doing it now.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
I love you.
I know you got killers in Miami.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Please, Matt, send them at my head.
Can you imagine sitting throughthis?
Guess how long this goes on.
This is what.
This is what.
16 minutes, it goes on.
15, 16 minutes, whatever.
It's absolutely incredible.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
I just want to have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Really, how about playing some music?
Shoddy, shoddy, shoddy.
Goodbye, kanye, bye-bye.
I'm sitting here thinking aboutband names.
Anyone ever try to come up witha band name?
You ever do that like you'resitting around or you're having
(26:39):
a conversation with someone.
I don't know why.
I always say sitting around,I'm just sitting around.
Yep, you're just sitting aroundhere, but you're talking with
someone.
You're having a conversationwith someone.
I don't know why I always saysitting around, I'm just sitting
around.
Yep, you're just sitting aroundhere, but you're talking with
someone.
You're thinking, or you seesomething on TV and you go oh,
that'd be a cool band name.
You ever do that, I do that,some people do that, I do that
Guilty as charged, and I'll jotthem down, because I'm in a band
(27:01):
we don't have a name.
It's like dog names.
Anytime I come up with a cooldog name, because one of these
days I'll have a dog again,he'll have a cool name.
All my dogs do At least I thinkthey do.
So I'm sitting here trying tocome up with band names and for
(27:24):
me I love it, but it's like okay, am I crazy or is this cool?
You want to hear some of them?
Here's some of them.
I've been writing these downtoday, I've been working on the
playlist, so just to give youthe concept.
You know what the music weplayed.
I really noticed this yesterday, but it makes sense, I guess,
and we're going to expand fromthis.
But basically, if I were goingto describe the band that I am
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the band with no name, there's aname right there.
We're rock, but we are rock.
Like if I were shufflingthrough my record collection
from when I was probablyanywhere from 17 to 30 years old
, you would find these albums inthere UFO, I think I've
(28:08):
mentioned some of these.
You know STP was that.
Well, that came later.
You know Pat Travers, thinLizzy you know there's just rock
that I grew up with and theother guys in the band grew up
with.
We all have these albums.
So with that in mind, we arepretty hard rock from the 70s
(28:29):
sort of stuff, if that makes anysense.
So we're not going to givemyself a fluffy name of some
kind.
So here's some of my examples.
Tell me what you think.
If anyone listens and you callmy show, I'll start with one.
I thought you know what.
I've played this for you on oneof my podcasts.
It was a show on KPK in the 50scalled Unit 99, where they do
(28:54):
the original cop show where theyput the tape recorder in a cop
car and they go about saccharine.
It was like the prototype firstcops ever on TV or radio and
they did it on KFPK.
It was called Unit 99.
I thought that'd be a cool bandname, unit 99, and being the
singer in the band and workingthere, I thought, heck, I have a
(29:17):
little affiliation, obviouslybecause I work at KFPK.
So that's one Unit 99.
I'll go through these.
When I was a kid there was awrestler.
Now I've looked all these up tosee if these actually exist in
terms of, you know, is there aband with this name already?
I didn't find one.
Anyone remember HaystacksCalhoun?
I like that one, HaystacksCalhoun.
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I had a cousin.
Well, he was a cousin in law, Iguess you might say he was a
first cousin's husband.
He was in a wheelchair.
In the early 70's I got to knowhim in Salem Oregon and he
drove a 56 Bel Air and he had athrottle like a hand throttle in
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that thing.
I'd never seen anything likethat, you know, and I always
thought he had the coolest nameever Johnny Slaughter, ever
since I was 12, I thought, man,that's an awesome name, johnny
Slaughter.
But then you know, if you callyourself Johnny Slaughter, then
everyone's going to thinksomeone in the band's name is
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Johnny Slaughter.
So that's another one.
Here's one from the 60s, justbecause it's the Fuzz.
Remember that used to be thename for the police, the Fuzz.
Hey, we're of a generation,we're not that old.
That was a generation ahead ofus.
But there's one for you, theFuzz.
I came up with this thing theother day.
I came up with this thing theother day, came up with this
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rendering.
It was kind of by accident.
It was Mickey Mouse and he hada pistol in each hand and he's
walking down the street and he'sgot these classic old Mickey.
He was so cool looking but Ithought, gee, it's cool, but
he's got guns, whatever.
And it was called and forwhatever.
Popped in my head Mickey TwoGun, whatever.
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And it was called and and forwhatever.
Popped in my head mickey twoguns.
I thought that's a cool name.
Someone called what are we?
What were we talking about?
I do like mickey two guns, bythe way.
Um, and unit 99.
I like all of these when I comeup with them, but maybe they're
crazy, so you don't know.
Someone brought this uprecently and I went.
That's a good name for a band,because if you were around then
you remember these screamingyellow zonkers.
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That's a cool name.
Here is a mixture of a formerAmerican icon with a.
I don't know if the other guy'sAmerican or not, but this one
popped in my head one day.
So we'll go a mixture of EvilKnievel and David Hasselhoff.
We'll go with Evil Hasselhoff.
Come on, come on.
(31:48):
Where's my buttons at?
Where are my buttons?
There we go, there we go.
Thank you, evil Hasselhoff.
Thank you very much.
I was watching the coverage ofthe Burning man and apparently
there's people out there thathelp the people at the Burning
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man organize or whatever calledthe Black Rock Rangers.
Now, I like that name.
Maybe that's more bluegrassy, Idon't know, but it's still cool
.
Black Rock Rangers.
How about this one?
I like the name, but I don'tlike what it represents, but yet
it's a cool name.
How about this one?
The Smash and Grabs?
Ah, what do you think?
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The Smash and Grabs?
Huh, here's one, completelymade up out of nothing.
Gravelfish If you have a, ifthey all suck, tell me, if you
find one that you go.
That's pretty good.
What's Gravel?
Gravel fish?
I don't know, I just like thename.
How about the dead eye dicks?
Hmm, think about that, myfriends dead eye dicks.
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Is that the response I waslooking for?
You know, I was looking forthis.
Thank you, man.
Thank you, man, pulled thisrecord off the shelf.
It it's a rare one.
This one is so rare, so rare.
Hey, now, this one is so rareas I pull it out of the record
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sleeve.
I hope I didn't do this onealready.
I don't think I did.
I'm starting to question myself.
This one is so rare that the oneside is completely blank.
The label is just white andthere's no.
If you put the needle on thisvinyl, it's not going to do
anything except go back.
It's going to just go to theend.
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And I'm looking at that recordon that side and in the very end
where the needle is supposed togo off, the end, when the song
is over, it goes on that littleshiny part before the needle
lifts up and goes back to home,right, and I can see in there
where it says you have to turnthe record a certain way.
It says manufactured.
It's scratched in there.
It almost looks like it'sscratched in there, manufactured
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by Specialty Records, and thenit says Backplate.
So that's how rare this 45 is.
Right here it's got a radiostation sticker on there that
says 1968.
It's got another one that says4030, and then a yellow little
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sticker that says 497.
But it's on Atlantic RecordingStudios label 68-C-14795-2,.
Blah, blah, blah.
But it literally was typed onby someone on the label.
It's just it's not printed byAtlantic Records.
That part is, but it just saysthe name of the record and the
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artist and the record label nameunderneath.
Just typing, someone typed thislabel and stuck it on this
record to rush it out to theradio stations as quickly as
possible.
Song came and it came out.
Here we are, 1968, from analbum called Idea, released as a
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single in December of that yearin the United States.
It was the last of thisartist's single to be featured
to feature Vince Maloney'sguitar work.
He left the band in earlyDecember after this particular
song was released as a singleWas not released as a single in
the UK.
They had a version released,another version released on
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Polydor.
Anyhow, the B-side is a songcalled Kilburn Towers, except in
France where Swan Song was theB-side.
So this song was written by,let's just say, two brothers and
produced by the artist, thegroup, along with Robert
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Stigwood, and the songs for theIdea album were completed in
June of that year and this songwas the last song on the album
to be recorded.
And according to one member ofthis group, the melancholy well,
the melody of this songmelancholic melody was inspired
(36:11):
by oh you know, I did do thisone before.
I remember doing this onebefore.
For you, this is probably thefirst time I've repeated, but I
just remember this fact.
Yeah, that's okay.
Maybe some of you didn't hearit.
According to one of the membersof this group, this melancholic
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sound, the melody, was inspiredby the sounds of on board an
airplane.
The melody, he said, was whathe heard aboard the British
Airways Vickers Viscount, abouta hundred miles from Essen.
It was one of those oldfour-engine prop planes that
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seemed to kind of drone thepassengers into sort of a
hypnotic trance, he said.
But this was different.
The droning, after a while,appeared to take the form of a
tune which then mysteriouslysounded like a church choir.
So he decides, you know what?
We're going to talk to thepilot.
We asked him to land in thenearest village and there, in a
(37:15):
very small pub.
He says we finished the lyrics.
Well, actually he said itwasn't a village, it was a city
and it really wasn't a pub, itwas a hotel.
And oh yeah, they didn't forcethe pilot to land in a field,
but he didn't want to ruin hisgreat story and yeah, so this
did very well.
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I mean, this was a very I reallyliked this era of music by them
.
They had some good little gemsback then before they became the
biggest thing on the planet,number one in Australia, brazil,
canada, denmark, new ZealandDid well around the world.
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For sure We'll put it on theturntable.
It's the Bee Gees.
Sure we'll put it on theturntable.
It's the Bee Gees.
I Started a Joke 1968.
Pat's Peeps 325.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Happy Wednesday to ya .
I started a joke, bitch,started the whole world crying,
but I didn't see that the jokewas on me.
Oh no, I started to cry, whichstarted the whole world laughing
(38:52):
.
Oh, if I'd only seen that thejoke was on me.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Thank you for listening Fast.
Peeps 325.
Have a beautiful day and we'llsee you on the radio.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
I laid my hands over my eyes and I fell out of bed,
hurting my head From things thatI said.
Welcome to the Pats Peeps podcast.
We're at number 325.
That is a good ring to it, forwhatever reason.
325.
That is a good ring to it forwhatever reason.
325 podcasts so glad to haveyou a part of it, patspeepscom.
Hey, it's a Wednesday already.
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Looking out the studio windowsof the beautiful foothills of
Northern California, it'sanother hot day.
Not as hot as it's been, Idon't know, maybe in the 90s.
I've been outside a little bittoday, but it doesn't seem as
hot as it has been.
So that's the good news.
Wherever you are, wherever youare listening right now maybe
(00:58):
you're in your car right now,driving I get a lot of people to
say that you know what I get alot of people.
By the way, I'm the host of thePat Wall Show on KFPK Radio in
Sacramento and it was so nice.
7 to 10 pm, monday throughFriday.
Did I already say 93.1 FM and1530 AM.
But it's really nice when youget little videos of people who
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you know are sitting there in aparking lot in one case waiting
for something, I can't recallwhat, but they're listening to
your show, you know, and theytake a little video of them
listening to your show andsaying Pat, I had to go to this
place tonight and I was waitingfor the and I was laughing so
hard.
Oh my gosh, I love that.
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Thank you, linda.
Thank you, I had someone else,sherry, last night.
Sherry, check her out.
The Red Eye Riff Ride on KVMRin Nevada City, grass Valley
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Community Radio, and she's alistener to my show.
I listen to her show now, butapparently I had her laughing
with some of the commentaryregarding the split up of Heinz
and Kraft and who was going toget custody of Velveeta, because
you know that's the parentcompany.
And so we did custody ofVelveeta Because you know that's
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the parent company.
And so we did a little Velveetaand reminisced about some
products that I haven't seen ina long time, haven't even heard
of in a long time, things likeremember Underwood Deviled Ham
or Chef Boyardee, rememberBeefaroni, remember the little
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kids would come running.
Yeah, there's so many greatcommercials that they must have
been good because they stand thetest of time.
They're very memorable.
I mean, who doesn't rememberand who doesn't love the?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
you know the Frito Bandito, I heard, you want to be
a Frito Bandito, like me?
You do.
Then you must sing the Banditosong.
Let's sing together.
You just follow the bouncingFritos corn chips bag.
Ay, ay, ay, ay.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I cannot believe that some people thought this was
racist.
Come on, this is racist.
It's just a cartoon.
It's like Speedy Gonzales.
Oh, speedy Gonzales is racistBecause it's depicting a Mexican
character.
Well, there's a lot of whitecharacters.
There's a lot of gangster-typecharacters, italian-looking guys
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.
They're always gangsters.
You could see them ashillbillies, right?
You see the long-bearded guysin Looney Tunes, hillbillies.
Believe me, there's not oneperson, including me growing up,
that saw this commercial, whothought any less of a Mexican.
We loved it.
The Frito Bandido corn chipsong.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I am the Frito Bandido.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I love Fritos corn chips.
I love them, I do, I love.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Fritos corn chips.
I'll get them from you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Oh, I am the Frito Bandido.
Give me Fritos corn chips, andI'll be your friend.
Am the Frito Bandito.
Give me Frito's corn chips, andI'll be your friend, the Frito
Bandito.
You must not offend Now boysand girls.
You are Frito Banditos too.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Even he said you must not offend.
Sing the.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Frito Bandito song and you'll look like a funky
Frito's corn chips.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That's right, and you know what that is.
Isn't that Mel Blanc?
Isn't that Mel Blanc?
Isn't that Mel Blanc doing thevoice Nice?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Munch, munch, munchy, munchy, fritos conch.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's Mel Blanc.
You know what else I loved?
Oh well, you can't have thatwhy?
It's one of the most memorablecommercials, in my estimation,
of all time.
I still love it.
It's one of my very favoritecommercials.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Like I said this is the land of sky, blue waters,
land of cool and chant.
Listen.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Remember the Ham's Bear.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Love it From the land of sky, blue waters, from the
land of pines, lofty balsams,comes the beer refreshing.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Hams, the beer refreshing, mmm.
Hams, yes, yes, from the landof sky blue waters to you comes
hams.
Yes, yes, from the land of skyblue waters to you comes hams.
The beer, refreshing as thecrisp, cool land it's brooded.
The beer that captures for youthe wonderful refreshment of
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this enchanted Northland Hams,hams, mmm, mmm Hams, crisp,
clean, cut to the taste,refreshing Hits of lakes and
sunset breezes.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Dance and sparkle in each glass full.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Hams that bear refreshing.
Hams that bear refreshing.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Hams Still a beloved commercial.
I love it.
You know what I remember too.
As a kid they would try to tiein the astronauts.
You know all the Apollomissions and the mission to go
to the moon, and then, of course, when they landed on the moon.
But suddenly Tang became likethe drink of the astronauts even
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aliens, if you recall.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Well, we're all in of orange-flavored Tang.
Golly, the grape flavor's gonetoo.
Listen, why don't I go to theEarth and get some more?
Yeah, I could trade them somerocks Rocks For an instant
breakfast drink with morevitamin C than orange juice.
Sure, I'll be right back.
What is that you see anyway?
Well, I'm back.
He got both orange and grapeflavored tangs For a bag of
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rocks.
Sometimes I wonder if there'sintelligent life on that planet.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I used to love.
You know, I'm just rememberingback on a lot of these I
remember you'd be watching.
I swear in my mind.
I know there was the regular TVcommercials, but I think
somehow they kind of tied it inwith Lawrence Welk.
You know, some of us, when wewere kids, you had to watch
Lawrence Welk.
I think that was on a Sundaynight because, you know, maybe
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your granny was visiting, yourgrandparents were in town from
Canoga Park or whatever you know, and and your parents, they
were already going to tune inand it seemed like the longest
hour of the week for tv.
For me as a kid, like, oh no,but we watched it, you know, and
we watched it as a family.
I didn't, anyhow, but you know,and again, it just maybe I have
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this couple of memories mixedup, but I remember Geritol used
to be, didn't Geritol used to bepart of the Lawrence Welker?
No, my wife I don't know howshe does it Remember those
commercials?
I swear I do.
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Oh, the guy comes home from work.
His wife's got the curlers inher hair with a spatula.
He's shocked by the state ofthe kitchen Complete disarray.
She shrugs it off.
He pulls out his gun.
That's right, my friends, goback and watch for yourself A
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1960s commercial.
This is the real thing.
Look this up.
This is, without a doubt, oneof the single worst commercials
that you could possibly everproduce or see.
In my opinion.
We're only halfway through thecommercial right now.
(09:20):
So here's the synopsis.
You can find it.
Look it on YouTube.
Geritol 60s commercial.
I had to bring this to yourattention to show you how much
things have changed over theyears.
Now this man is coming homefrom work.
I just described kind of whatwas going on.
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He comes home from work.
The wife has got a spatula inher hand, she's got curlers in
her hair, she's completelydisheveled.
She's in a like a robe becauseyou know the men were at work
and apparently the women were athome in a robe, with curlers in
their hair, with a spatula andslippers.
(10:05):
So he comes in and he looks inthe kitchen and, much to his
dismay, the kitchen is incomplete and utter disarray.
They look at each other.
She shrugs it off.
This is theater of the mind,but it's also true.
(10:27):
He reaches into his suit pocketand he pulls out a huge pistol
and he points it directly at herhead, right at her forehead,
(10:47):
and he pulls the trigger this isthe music playing behind it
Pulls a trigger and it's rightup at her forehead and a banner
comes out Isn't that funny?
(11:08):
Comes out of the gun.
This gun has to be at least afoot long, if not longer.
And the sign, the little banner, says Iron-Poor Tired Blood
Question mark With a bottle ofGeritol.
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Honestly, that is appalling andI remember that you know, and I
guess at one point in time Idon't know, maybe people didn't
even question it, I was toolittle, but it is shocking again
.
This is a 45 second commercial.
(11:50):
We're only 23 seconds into it.
Let's finish up Now.
He's pulled the trigger rightin her face.
Later and again.
Listen to the music.
It's like either happy-go-luckyor, I don't know, spy music.
I'm not sure what's going onthere, but it certainly doesn't
fit any of the horrific thingsthat are going on in this little
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commercial Geritol commercial.
So it says later Now, here, theguy's going to come home again.
He's taking off his hat andopening the door.
He looks over the kitchen'sspotless, spotless.
My friends, Check with yourdoctor.
Now she's got a rose in herteeth and an evening gown on
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with not pearls but some kind ofa necklace and she's gazing at
him.
Yeah, here we go.
Now he's happy.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Now he doesn't have to pull out a gun and if you're
tired because of iron poor blood, Geritol can help you feel
stronger fast.
Maybe not this fast, but fast.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Oh my God, Pat's Peeps 325.
Can you imagine that they satin a room and someone came up
with that concept?
That is shocking.
Again, geritol 60s commercial.
That's all you got to look foron YouTube to see what I'm even
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talking about.
But there's a lot more, yeah,but there's a lot more.
Yeah.
A friend of mine went to see theCounting Crows recently and she
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said that it was the worstconcert that she had ever been
to.
Worst concert, I'm not going tosay where, but suffice it to
say they did not have a goodtime at this particular concert
for a variety of reasons, andone of the reasons was the
insufferable comments.
(14:05):
Adam, who is the singer for theCounting Crows?
What's his name?
I might have to Google that.
I'm forgetting his name, butanyhow, he goes on these rants.
By the way, I have a goodCounting Crows story beyond this
.
Adam Duritz, counting Crows.
(14:27):
Apparently they weren't thatgreat.
Sorry, counting Crows.
I mean whatever.
I'm not going to say one thingor another, how I really feel
about Counting Crows, but theydidn't like the concert.
Well, it was so boring and theguy wouldn't shut up.
So I was kind of lookingthrough some of this stuff and
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boy oh boy, and this hashappened to me before when I go
to a concert and I'm never happyabout it.
We'll discuss it here on Pat'sPeeps 325.
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So apparently he here is adamduritz of the crows.
By the way, I go to see.
One time my brother and I in 92,we went to see George Clinton
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and the P-Funk All-Stars, theBlack Crows and Bob Dylan
together.
Now there's an eclectic mix fora concert and I got another
eclectic mix I'll tell you aboutin a moment.
So we're at this concert atLaguna Seca and after the Black
Crows finish, the Black Crowsbaby.
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We are huge Black Crows fansand they freaking rocked the
joint man.
They rocked it when they weredone.
It was still humming when theywalked off stage.
You want to talk about a micdrop?
This was a double mic dropbecause they, like I say they,
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walk off stage.
It's still humming andapparently all I could think of
is this is a local person in themedia, local weatherman, chris
Morgan, that doesn't knowanything about this band, but
they're there because someoneasked them and I'm not trying to
shame anyone.
I introduce bands I have thehonor of.
Hey, stop that, what was that?
(16:37):
Now, I have the honor of doingthat once in a while and I love
doing it.
But there's that commercial.
From what is it?
Southwest Airlines, wanna GetAway?
This was one of those Wanna GetAway moments.
As I divert from my originalstory here, my point I was going
to get to Anyhow.
She comes out, she goes and thething's still on man and she's.
(16:59):
Ah, let's hear it again.
How about those counting crowsrather than black crows?
And I remember Chris Robinsonof the Black Crows, who already
has a temper, temper, or did.
At that time he came flying outon that stage and grabbed that
mic from her.
That's the mother black crowsand he threw that mic down on
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the stage and it startedvibrating.
You know, humming again, man,feedback, and I mean it.
Just I couldn't believe it.
So every time I think ofCounting Crows, for whatever
reason, I think of that story.
So, anyhow, back to theoriginal point, which is here
they are, the Counting Crows.
Someone said they didn't likethem, they're boring, blah, blah
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, blah.
Here they are.
This is at the here's at acasino I'm not going to say
which one it is and this is justAdam Duritz just going on and
on insufferably about the otherband at the show, the opening
band in Security, security.
As if you want to sit at aconcert and listen to this, I'm
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glad to see all of you.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
I really got to get the club.
This has been a weird night.
I'm really sorry.
I imagine a lot of you came tosee the Gasolini play.
They are one of the best bandson the planet.
I love them dearly.
They are one of my favoritegroups of musicians that have
ever existed and I'm so sorry ifyou're disappointed about that
(18:39):
and I do not blame you.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Can I get me Orgy Dome?
Speaker 7 (18:42):
You know, we play a lot of casinos and not all of
them are the greatest places.
I will say this Freebird Ireally like this place Freebird.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh God, it is a fantastic hotel.
Uh-huh, it's a number ofdinners.
Yeah, exactly, it's a weirdthing about when you play games,
oh God.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Sometimes it's hard with security.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Not everybody wants to stop troublesome people.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Uh-huh, you know, brian ran into a thing.
Yeah, they have rules hereabout kids and I don't blame
them it makes perfect sense.
Jeez, what a buzz kill oh, theygotta keep their, what a mood
important, but the way theytalked to him just escalated it
and escalated it, and escalatedit.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
This goes on for five freaking minutes.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
I don't think they could stand to stay and play.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Oh yeah, Shut up.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Anybody had that intention.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, shut up.
I can't even.
You know what.
It's hard for me to even makethe point.
I am so annoyed by that.
I am so annoyed I wasn't evenat the concert and I'm annoyed.
Patch Peeps 325.
Very annoyed, you know.
I remember this happened.
I took my brother in 2012.
I took my brother to Oakland tothe arena, and I took him to
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see another odd combination fora concert.
It was Kool and the Gangopening up for Van Halen True
story.
So we're going to see Van Halen, so we go to this concert and I
like Kool and the Gang.
I like their pre-commercialstuff more, their funky before
they got more commercialized,being honest with you.
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So, van Halen, you want to gothere and rock, but nope, nope,
nope, nope, not on this tour.
No, because David Lee Rothsey,the front man Mr Front man from
the late 70s when his bandkicked ash, here he is.
He's got a bog down for sevenand a half minutes of talking
(20:55):
about his I don't know herdingdogs or whatever His other side
of life outside of music, which,at that point in time, I don't
give a rip.
Diamond Dave, I don't careabout the dogs.
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I love dogs, but I'm here tosay here's some freaking rock
man.
But here he goes, gotta hear itand show a slideshow.
He's gotta have a slideshow,him.
As if this isn't annoyingenough, you know it's a big
(21:37):
build-up, something's going tohappen.
Ice cream man or something.
These are my dogs, uh-huh.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Thank God for dogs, or you'd never get that new
smell out of the pickup truck.
Anybody have dogs here wholikes?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
dogs?
No, we don't have dogs.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Family Alba.
This is Mikey.
Mikey is a sheep specialist.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Oh, dear, god.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I do own three pickup trucks there is no.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You know, when I decided to do this on my podcast
, I was even wondering if Icould do it.
I truly get so annoyed by this.
I mean and this isn't even thepolitical stuff like Roger
Waters, oh God, talk aboutinsufferable.
Yeah, here we go, david.
I won't play much more of thisbecause it's hard, but this is
true.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
And the other dog that I trial with is Benny.
Benny is a cattle specialist.
It's been described to me thatwhen I first started this as a
kid, when I first started this,my senior coach told me Daveave,
sheep are like cheerleaders canyou imagine I gotta give it to
(22:55):
sammy hagar.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Whatever your thoughts are on van halen,
whether you're a dave guy,whether you're a sammy guy,
whether you're, whether you're afan of both I think both had
great songs, incredible songsoverall, and both had some songs
where I just kind of went no,come on, you're better than that
, all right, but I'm a Van Halenfan.
(23:20):
That's why we were there, butthis is truly insufferable, and
not why I'm at a concert.
I don't care and I love dogs.
Stop it already.
The worst of the worst, though,is and on my radio show.
(23:42):
Ever since this happened in mytown of Sacramento, when this
loser back in 2016, november19th sorry, you might feel
different I can't stand it Everytime I mention I won't do it
here, but every time I mentionthis guy's name on my show, if
it does happen to come up, ifit's a big, if all you hear is
(24:07):
the crowd boo, all I have to dois say the name Kanye West and
the crowd boos on my show Alwayshave, always will.
If I am forced Well, not forced,but compelled, for whatever
reason, to bring up his name,and here's one of the main
reasons.
Going back to my hometown ofSacramento, where fans God knows
(24:28):
how much they overpaid for thistrash already.
But here he is.
He does barely three songs andgoes on this extended rant.
I'm not going to force you tolisten to all, but I just want
to give you an example.
Barely three songs before hesaid you know what I'm out of of
here.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
I got nothing else for you hey, hey, you know what
it is, though, because, hey, Ilove drake, I love cali, but
they set that song up, bro.
And let me tell you somethingmtv, fuck you, you, once again,
as always, I'm on my chump shittonight.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Trigger warning trigger trigger hey you know me.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
I went down seven years of my life of
motherfuckers hating me forsaying Beyonce had the best
video.
Can I get in the Orgy Dome?
Is the Orgy Dome open?
Hello, hey, baby, it's rock androll tonight.
Y'all might be experiencing alot of pop shit, but the vibes
(25:35):
is back.
The prodigal son, king Cudi,has returned.
The vibes is back.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
The vibes is back Prodigal.
He's such a.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
I know it's going to be a lot of conversations after
tonight.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Oh, yeah, yeah, Yep, we're doing it now.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
I love you.
I know you got killers in Miami.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Please, Matt, send them at my head.
Can you imagine sitting throughthis?
Guess how long this goes on.
This is what.
This is what.
16 minutes, it goes on.
15, 16 minutes, whatever.
It's absolutely incredible.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
I just want to have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Really, how about playing some music?
Shoddy, shoddy, shoddy.
Goodbye, kanye, bye-bye.
I'm sitting here thinking aboutband names.
Anyone ever try to come up witha band name?
You ever do that like you'resitting around or you're having
(26:39):
a conversation with someone.
I don't know why.
I always say sitting around,I'm just sitting around.
Yep, you're just sitting aroundhere, but you're talking with
someone.
You're having a conversationwith someone.
I don't know why I always saysitting around, I'm just sitting
around.
Yep, you're just sitting aroundhere, but you're talking with
someone.
You're thinking, or you seesomething on TV and you go oh,
that'd be a cool band name.
You ever do that, I do that,some people do that, I do that
Guilty as charged, and I'll jotthem down, because I'm in a band
(27:01):
we don't have a name.
It's like dog names.
Anytime I come up with a cooldog name, because one of these
days I'll have a dog again,he'll have a cool name.
All my dogs do At least I thinkthey do.
So I'm sitting here trying tocome up with band names and for
(27:24):
me I love it, but it's like okay, am I crazy or is this cool?
You want to hear some of them?
Here's some of them.
I've been writing these downtoday, I've been working on the
playlist, so just to give youthe concept.
You know what the music weplayed.
I really noticed this yesterday, but it makes sense, I guess,
and we're going to expand fromthis.
But basically, if I were goingto describe the band that I am
(27:47):
the band with no name, there's aname right there.
We're rock, but we are rock.
Like if I were shufflingthrough my record collection
from when I was probablyanywhere from 17 to 30 years old
, you would find these albums inthere UFO, I think I've
(28:08):
mentioned some of these.
You know STP was that.
Well, that came later.
You know Pat Travers, thinLizzy you know there's just rock
that I grew up with and theother guys in the band grew up
with.
We all have these albums.
So with that in mind, we arepretty hard rock from the 70s
(28:29):
sort of stuff, if that makes anysense.
So we're not going to givemyself a fluffy name of some
kind.
So here's some of my examples.
Tell me what you think.
If anyone listens and you callmy show, I'll start with one.
I thought you know what.
I've played this for you on oneof my podcasts.
It was a show on KPK in the 50scalled Unit 99, where they do
(28:54):
the original cop show where theyput the tape recorder in a cop
car and they go about saccharine.
It was like the prototype firstcops ever on TV or radio and
they did it on KFPK.
It was called Unit 99.
I thought that'd be a cool bandname, unit 99, and being the
singer in the band and workingthere, I thought, heck, I have a
(29:17):
little affiliation, obviouslybecause I work at KFPK.
So that's one Unit 99.
I'll go through these.
When I was a kid there was awrestler.
Now I've looked all these up tosee if these actually exist in
terms of, you know, is there aband with this name already?
I didn't find one.
Anyone remember HaystacksCalhoun?
I like that one, HaystacksCalhoun.
(29:42):
I had a cousin.
Well, he was a cousin in law, Iguess you might say he was a
first cousin's husband.
He was in a wheelchair.
In the early 70's I got to knowhim in Salem Oregon and he
drove a 56 Bel Air and he had athrottle like a hand throttle in
(30:02):
that thing.
I'd never seen anything likethat, you know, and I always
thought he had the coolest nameever Johnny Slaughter, ever
since I was 12, I thought, man,that's an awesome name, johnny
Slaughter.
But then you know, if you callyourself Johnny Slaughter, then
everyone's going to thinksomeone in the band's name is
(30:23):
Johnny Slaughter.
So that's another one.
Here's one from the 60s, justbecause it's the Fuzz.
Remember that used to be thename for the police, the Fuzz.
Hey, we're of a generation,we're not that old.
That was a generation ahead ofus.
But there's one for you, theFuzz.
I came up with this thing theother day.
I came up with this thing theother day, came up with this
(30:44):
rendering.
It was kind of by accident.
It was Mickey Mouse and he hada pistol in each hand and he's
walking down the street and he'sgot these classic old Mickey.
He was so cool looking but Ithought, gee, it's cool, but
he's got guns, whatever.
And it was called and forwhatever.
Popped in my head Mickey TwoGun, whatever.
(31:05):
And it was called and and forwhatever.
Popped in my head mickey twoguns.
I thought that's a cool name.
Someone called what are we?
What were we talking about?
I do like mickey two guns, bythe way.
Um, and unit 99.
I like all of these when I comeup with them, but maybe they're
crazy, so you don't know.
Someone brought this uprecently and I went.
That's a good name for a band,because if you were around then
you remember these screamingyellow zonkers.
(31:27):
That's a cool name.
Here is a mixture of a formerAmerican icon with a.
I don't know if the other guy'sAmerican or not, but this one
popped in my head one day.
So we'll go a mixture of EvilKnievel and David Hasselhoff.
We'll go with Evil Hasselhoff.
Come on, come on.
(31:48):
Where's my buttons at?
Where are my buttons?
There we go, there we go.
Thank you, evil Hasselhoff.
Thank you very much.
I was watching the coverage ofthe Burning man and apparently
there's people out there thathelp the people at the Burning
(32:09):
man organize or whatever calledthe Black Rock Rangers.
Now, I like that name.
Maybe that's more bluegrassy, Idon't know, but it's still cool
.
Black Rock Rangers.
How about this one?
I like the name, but I don'tlike what it represents, but yet
it's a cool name.
How about this one?
The Smash and Grabs?
Ah, what do you think?
(32:29):
The Smash and Grabs?
Huh, here's one, completelymade up out of nothing.
Gravelfish If you have a, ifthey all suck, tell me, if you
find one that you go.
That's pretty good.
What's Gravel?
Gravel fish?
I don't know, I just like thename.
How about the dead eye dicks?
Hmm, think about that, myfriends dead eye dicks.
(32:52):
Is that the response I waslooking for?
You know, I was looking forthis.
Thank you, man.
Thank you, man, pulled thisrecord off the shelf.
It it's a rare one.
This one is so rare, so rare.
Hey, now, this one is so rareas I pull it out of the record
(33:14):
sleeve.
I hope I didn't do this onealready.
I don't think I did.
I'm starting to question myself.
This one is so rare that the oneside is completely blank.
The label is just white andthere's no.
If you put the needle on thisvinyl, it's not going to do
anything except go back.
It's going to just go to theend.
(33:36):
And I'm looking at that recordon that side and in the very end
where the needle is supposed togo off, the end, when the song
is over, it goes on that littleshiny part before the needle
lifts up and goes back to home,right, and I can see in there
where it says you have to turnthe record a certain way.
It says manufactured.
It's scratched in there.
It almost looks like it'sscratched in there, manufactured
(33:58):
by Specialty Records, and thenit says Backplate.
So that's how rare this 45 is.
Right here it's got a radiostation sticker on there that
says 1968.
It's got another one that says4030, and then a yellow little
(34:19):
sticker that says 497.
But it's on Atlantic RecordingStudios label 68-C-14795-2,.
Blah, blah, blah.
But it literally was typed onby someone on the label.
It's just it's not printed byAtlantic Records.
That part is, but it just saysthe name of the record and the
(34:42):
artist and the record label nameunderneath.
Just typing, someone typed thislabel and stuck it on this
record to rush it out to theradio stations as quickly as
possible.
Song came and it came out.
Here we are, 1968, from analbum called Idea, released as a
(35:04):
single in December of that yearin the United States.
It was the last of thisartist's single to be featured
to feature Vince Maloney'sguitar work.
He left the band in earlyDecember after this particular
song was released as a singleWas not released as a single in
the UK.
They had a version released,another version released on
(35:26):
Polydor.
Anyhow, the B-side is a songcalled Kilburn Towers, except in
France where Swan Song was theB-side.
So this song was written by,let's just say, two brothers and
produced by the artist, thegroup, along with Robert
(35:48):
Stigwood, and the songs for theIdea album were completed in
June of that year and this songwas the last song on the album
to be recorded.
And according to one member ofthis group, the melancholy well,
the melody of this songmelancholic melody was inspired
(36:11):
by oh you know, I did do thisone before.
I remember doing this onebefore.
For you, this is probably thefirst time I've repeated, but I
just remember this fact.
Yeah, that's okay.
Maybe some of you didn't hearit.
According to one of the membersof this group, this melancholic
(36:31):
sound, the melody, was inspiredby the sounds of on board an
airplane.
The melody, he said, was whathe heard aboard the British
Airways Vickers Viscount, abouta hundred miles from Essen.
It was one of those oldfour-engine prop planes that
(36:52):
seemed to kind of drone thepassengers into sort of a
hypnotic trance, he said.
But this was different.
The droning, after a while,appeared to take the form of a
tune which then mysteriouslysounded like a church choir.
So he decides, you know what?
We're going to talk to thepilot.
We asked him to land in thenearest village and there, in a
(37:15):
very small pub.
He says we finished the lyrics.
Well, actually he said itwasn't a village, it was a city
and it really wasn't a pub, itwas a hotel.
And oh yeah, they didn't forcethe pilot to land in a field,
but he didn't want to ruin hisgreat story and yeah, so this
did very well.
(37:36):
I mean, this was a very I reallyliked this era of music by them
.
They had some good little gemsback then before they became the
biggest thing on the planet,number one in Australia, brazil,
canada, denmark, new ZealandDid well around the world.
(37:58):
For sure We'll put it on theturntable.
It's the Bee Gees.
Sure we'll put it on theturntable.
It's the Bee Gees.
I Started a Joke 1968.
Pat's Peeps 325.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Happy Wednesday to ya .
I started a joke, bitch,started the whole world crying,
but I didn't see that the jokewas on me.
Oh no, I started to cry, whichstarted the whole world laughing
(38:52):
.
Oh, if I'd only seen that thejoke was on me.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Thank you for listening Fast.
Peeps 325.
Have a beautiful day and we'llsee you on the radio.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
I laid my hands over my eyes and I fell out of bed,
hurting my head From things thatI said.
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