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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hey now, Hey now and
welcome to the painkiller
experience.
True stories of music mischiefand much more.
Well, it's episode one.
It's 1111 it's better than stayand it's Monday for Christ's
sake.
So there's all sorts of stuffgoing on.
So Fasten your seatbelt and getready for a fun ride.
We'll be right back.
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Once again, welcome to theincubator experience podcast.
On today's episode, we're goingto have, what's that word, the
big story and the record of theday.
Now get ready for the big story.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Before we jump into
the big story, I believe I need
to give a little bit of a formalintroduction about who I am and
why I'm doing this podcast.
My name's David and I'm a bigmusic fan and I've been a big
music head since I was a youngkid, so I thought I'd do a
podcast about music and some ofthe other things that go along
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with my life, such as mischiefand poor judgment and all the
other things that create funstories.
My real introduction to musicwas my grandparents' house
because my pap Paul played thebanjo and it was fascinating to
sit on the porch kind of infront of his rocking chair as he
played and watch him, you know,use his fingers on the fret
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board and using the finger picksand everything.
And it was just reallyfascinating to watch him.
And then of course, growing upin the South, everybody that I
knew watched T hall on Saturdaynights where you could catch Roy
Clark and buck Owens, you know,and they had a bunch of really
amazing guests.
So know he's really musicallyproficient.
People would come on everySaturday night and then yet the
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other variety shows such as theGlen Campbell show and Johnny
Cash and Sony and share.
So there's a lot of music in theearly seventies that really
turned me on to music and theentertainment value in the
entertainment and the smilesthat people get.
You know, it's just an amazingthing.
You know, music is such a commonlanguage that people can talk
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about and people don't have tounderstand each other as far as
actual language.
You know, you can get peoplefrom all over the world and you
put on music and you see peopletap their feet and you see
people smile and you see peoplein our act in some form or
fashion through dance or otherinterpretive type stuff.
So for me, music is so ingrainedin my system.
It's so in my heart and so in mysoul that I can't imagine the,
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you know, the world withoutmusic would be a very boring
place and I can't imagine thatit would ever come to that
because really almost anythingcan produce music.
And from there it's justendless.
So I'm a huge music fan.
Like I said, I've been going toconcerts 1977 when I was six
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years old and I really recommendpeople going out and catching
live music and supporting localbands and local artists because
they're the guys that arestruggling every single night of
the week.
So I really want to put it outthere, support your local
artists, support your nationalartists, but go out and catch
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some music.
It will make you feel better andit helps, you know, cover the
bills for some guys that are onthe road, sweating it out every
night.
You know, another reason Iwanted to do a podcast is
because there seems to be a lotof pain in this world.
And if I can bring a little bitof humor to someone just for a
little while during the day,then that sounds good to me.
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And I've served my purposebecause this is equally a music
site as well as, um, some funnystories and some entertaining,
you know, topics and so forth.
So I really hope you'll enjoylistening to my podcast and come
back each time and I hope youcan share it with some of your
friends.
I'm on Facebook at the[inaudible] experience and
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that'll kind of lead you to therest of the social media
platforms if you care to shareit with others.
I'm also, I'll be on all themajor hosting for podcast
shortly, so I hope you can pluginto your iTunes or whatever the
case and listen there.
Thank you for coming today.
And here is the big story.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Today's big story is
about really three of my musical
influences from the verybeginning.
Now whether you guys know it ornot, if you are a child of the
70s you remember the Sesamestreet pinball machine, you know
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the one, the kind of psychedelicone that said one, two, three,
four, five,(678) 910-1112 well,what you might not know is
that's the point are sisters andyou know, not only the imagery
of all the stuff going on withthe pinball machine, but it is a
funky song.
A highly recommend checking itout.
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I'm sure you can find it onYouTube and any number of
places, but checkout the Sesamestreet pinball song.
To me that was like one of thosethings that really kind of put a
rocket launcher in myfascination for different types
of music.
But you know, Sesame street wasvery innovative.
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It was innovative on so manylevels, but it had some really
cool music.
So you know, one of my musicalinfluences, believe it or not,
with Sesame street electriccompany and you know those types
of TV shows mostly on publictelevision.
And it was the music and I lovedit.
I loved all the different music,whether it was that or whatever.
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That was a huge influence.
So that's chalk up Sesame streetand specifically the pinball
machines song as one of theinfluences.
My second two big musicinfluences from when I was
young, actually it came in at atie between the Beatles and
Elvis Presley.
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Now my fountain, my fascinationwith Elvis started when I was
really little and I rememberwatching Elvis movies because
they came on TV.
And I guess my first impressionwith Elvis was he's like a good
looking guy.
He could sing, he could talk toall the pretty ladies and he
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could fight, you know, and hehad a cool factor that was like
an 11 out of 10 so Elvis did itfor me right away.
And you know, he came out withthat special before anybody.
He was kind of like larger andolder and he had the rhinestone
suit.
And all that kind of stuff.
But you know, I used to get likeVaseline and get like a little
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glob of it and put it in my hairand slick it back to where it
was altered greasy, put like abeach towel with a safety pin
around my neck and run aroundthe house singing hound dog like
over and over until my parentsare like going completely
fucking crazy.
So like Elvis really did it.
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I was like, Elvis is the man.
Um, I want to be like, Oh Elvis.
So that would be my secondbiggest influence.
Now tied and equally importantwould be the Beatles.
Now, I didn't know much aboutthe Beatles, but I went over to
a friend's house for a sleepover when I was about, you know,
six, seven years old.
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And I remember his dad had thealbum meet the Beatles with, I
want to hold your hand.
And I saw her standing there andall those songs.
And so next thing I know, I meanI'm all about the Beatles and I
really, really just had my mindblown by that record.
I'll love their sound.
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I love everything about them.
I liked the way they weredressed.
I like their hairdos, theBeatles, like everyone else, you
know, just had their mind blown.
I mean really, I mean, so yeah,Elvis and the Beatles and those
would be a tie for number two asfar as my early musical
influences.
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Last but not least, if I was tocite my third biggest musical
influence, it's really my firstbiggest musical influence.
And that was my general electricclock radio that was next to my
bed when I was really little.
Um, I moved out of a crib intotwin beds with rails and then
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when I got a little older orthey took the rails off, so I
had the big boy bed next to mybed was this G clock radio about
the size of a shoe box.
And it was like, you know, ifyou wanted the alarm to wake you
up, it was either a buzzer orthe radio.
And the buzzer was really scary.
I mean, it was really damn loud.
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So like I always wanted theradio and I had it on the rock
radio station and one morning, Idon't know, it was like the
second the alarm went off, whichwas the radio, the song light,
my fire came on.
And I'm not talking about theradio edit, like the little
short version.
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I'm talking about the longversion and I'm sitting there in
bed, you know, and my mom'strying to get me to come down
for breakfast and I'm listeningto the song and I'm just
mesmerized and I don't knowreally how to handle it cause
I'd never quite heard anythingquite like that.
I mean, my record collectionconsists of like Peter and the
Wolf Dumbo, the elephant and allthese other Disney classic
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records that everybody had inthe 70s so the doors really
weren't on my, you know, on mymind at that point.
But here it is, I'm listening toit like you have Jim Morrison's,
you know, deep voice, RaymondZurich's keyboards, which are
impeccable and perfect and justkiller, you know, and that
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guitar, that sounds justinterweaving kind of stuff, you
know?
And just great sound.
So I don't know anything aboutit.
I just know I love it.
Well, my step grandmother cameto town about a week or so later
and she wanted to take me toWoolworth's to the lunch counter
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to have lunch and all that andto get a toy because they had
this upstairs with a lot ofstuff.
But then you went down theescalator and or the toys and
whatnot and other items.
So after lunch we went down tolook at toys, but I looked
across the room and I noticedthere was a big record section
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and I was like, eh, so you know,I went over to this guy and I
was like, excuse me, I'm lookingfor, come on baby light my fire.
And he was like, well, what'sthat?
And I was like, yeah, I'mlooking for, come on baby light
my fire, I don't know that song.
And he was like, ah, I light myfire the doors.
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And I was like, eh, I don'tknow.
So we go over to the D sectionand the records and he's like a
little, a little, you know, hestarts flipping through
everything.
And pulls out the doors firstalbum.
And you know, I didn't reallyknow what to think about it
other than say yes cause I hadto kind of assume he knew what
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he talking about and mygrandmothers were whatever.
Step grandmother kind of lookedat me with this kind of, you
know, what the hell are youdoing?
Look.
And it was kind of on theobjection right at the
beginning, but I kind of talkedher into it and you know, said
I'd taken home and listened toit and I was really excited.
So she agreed.
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And you know, here I am sixyears old and buying the doors
first album.
Well I took it home and quickly,you know, put a slit in the
cellophane and pulled it out andstuck it on my Mickey mouse
record player, which albeit is apiece of crap, but I didn't care
man.
I got that glove tan and put itover and dropped it down on the
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first song.
Break on through.
Mind you and I listen to all ofit now.
Uh, I'll have to say at sixyears old when the song, the end
came on, I was ratherfrightened.
I mean to say the least.
I thought that was a creepysong.
It was linked the, and forwhatever reason, I would not
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listen to that song.
However, when I had a play dateor a friend over whatever and
things were getting stale orsomething, you know, we weren't
getting along.
I would go and put on the end,not just because I wanted it to
end, but usually that wouldprompt a phone call to their
parents to come pick them upanyway cause they were creeped
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out by it too.
So no, the GE amazing clockradio turned me on to led
Zepplin the doors.
I remember hearing the gratefuldead and all these other bands
that I would never hearotherwise.
You know, Jimmy Hendrix, JaniceJoplin, Oh, the 60s and early
seventies bands that just kickedass, you know, heard black
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Sabbath.
And I was like, you know, that'spretty muddy.
You know, it's heavy, murky,crazy, you know, stuff.
Um, but as a kid it reallyfascinated me because really,
like I said, I had limitedopportunities at my house.
I heard Frank Sinatra, which Ithought was boring, John Denver,
however I like, um, and alsoheard Neil diamond and I like
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some of his songs too, but itwasn't like rock radio where you
heard a lot of stuff from allover the place.
So that was a big deal to me.
And I'm really happy that I grewup in the 70s and experienced
some of the best music ever fromthe sixties and seventies and a
lot from the 50s as well.
So yeah, those are my three biginfluences.
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I mean the GE radio expandedeverything and I look forward to
experiencing more as the timegoes on.
And now it's time for the word
Speaker 4 (14:31):
well, the day of the
day of the day, the day,
Speaker 3 (14:39):
right?
Everybody, it's time for theangular experience.
Word of the day.
Now how this works is we startalphabetically of course, with a
letter a.
And what I do is I'll give you adefinition, a word, and the
first three people that hearthis and know the answer, they
can go on the Facebook site atthe incubator experience like my
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page.
And then direct message me theanswer in the first three people
that get it right will beshipped.
A special incubator experienceprize, which will consist of
this week is an ink EULAR patch.
So it's something that could goon a, um, piece of clothing or a
tote bag.
But it's this really cool.
So on iron on patch.
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Um, so what we're going to do isI'm going to give the definition
of the first amazing word of theday and that's, see if you can
figure it out.
And again, this begins with theletter a.
The definition is a heavy,usually steel faced iron block
on which metal is shaped as byhand hammering.
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Um, this is something that wileE coyote would like to drop on
the Roadrunners head if you'reold enough to remember that.
So don't forget if you know theanswer, get on the incubator
experience on Facebook and giveme the answer via direct
message.
And if you're in the top threeit'd be a prize winner of the
day.
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And now we're going to talkabout the record of the day.
Today's record of the day is theself titled album by led Zepplin
.
This album was recorded inSeptember and October of 1968 at
Olympic studios in London.
Jimmy page was a key player inthe Yardbirds and as that band
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dissolved and he decided to dosomething a little different, he
took on John Paul Jones, whoplays bass John Bonham on drums
and a new singer on the scene.
Robert plant on vocals.
The sessions took place beforethe group had secured a
recording contract and were paidfor directly and took 36 hours
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in less than 2000 pounds tocomplete.
It was self produced by Jimmypage, the groups, founder,
leader and guitarists.
Some of the standout songs onthe album, it would be days and
confused.
Babe, I'm gonna leave you.
Good times, bad times.
Communication breakdown and mypersonal favorite.
How many more times.
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That's a powerful album, guys.
I really enjoy it a lot.
I highly recommend, if youhaven't put on led Zepplin one
the first album recently orever, go ahead and get it, put
it on.
You're going to love it.
So tune in next time to therecord of the day,
Speaker 5 (17:35):
we're going to always
have something new and fresh for
you to explore and hopefullyenjoy.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
That will conclude
today's incubator experience
podcast.
Stay grateful and help someonesmile if you can.