October 22, 2025 • 42 mins
Common Man Hour 1 --Dead List --Peek at the Purple --NFL Tier Rankings --ROK TOK
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nougats.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Andy Reid calls them nuggies and.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
He ate them all after filming that state.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Farm Commercial Celtics.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
That's Comma's main focus in regard to flop, sweat and
tears shows. Yes, will be cut down by Nico Medbed
and his roster of Division two talents on a Monday
eating next April, while wondering why Jim Nance was offering
everyone his necktie. Nicks Rosen claimed to have named his
cat Stevie after the former Fleetwood Max singer, but there's
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no chance he could name even one Fleetwood Max song.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Seventy six ers, six Raptors.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Launt oh and one toront Oh and two thunders. Jay
Ferguson bought the team and relocated them to that island.
He sings about Trailblazers sitting six feet above the ground
on a hydraulic jacket and Portland Midas muffler shop after
getting their catalytic.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Converter stolen by some low level losers.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yes, Common can't look at their name without pronouncing every
secs as a Z for the next six hours until
BBP and Potato Bag him induced to stop balls.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's just a male version of a cow Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Their name also describes the attitude and approach the employee
on the basketball court. Pistoo have become obsolete and a
relic of the past with the advent of electric vehicles
being produced in Detroit, tas just one k away from
being the packers Bucks standing perfectly still in the middle
of a desolate county road memory mesmerized by headlights as
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a fifty five one hundred pounds Chevy Silverado barrels torn
it at sixty miles per hour. Warriors suffering from PTSD
Clipper inoperable because Corey Cove used them trying to shave
his neck beard. Lakers they play in the land of
twenty two lakes. SuDS Common created two from his loins,
while Larry Mondela Guy fathered a half dozen kids in
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a never ending quest just to have won kigs. There
was a big protest last week and comprised of people
who said they couldn't play this season.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Hawks.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
How Meat Sauce responds to, Hey, someone left some blue
shoes in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Do you know who? Those are?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Hornets killed by their violent homicidal relatives, the murder hornets.
He how my roofer buddy Poncho pronounces the ward hint
the word hint magic. During a street magic stunt gone wrong,
David Blaine inadvertently made their entire roster disappear.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Wizards.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
The most famous one is Merlin, which incidentally is the
name of the app common use to identify nearby bird calls.
Mavericks traded Luca ended up getting a.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Flag, a surrender flag.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Rocket Houston, we have a problem, chrily circling the tent
of an oblivious dolt of a nature lover who, for
the time being a snacking on an aromatic bag.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Of trail mix.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Helicans cited by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources for
fishing without a license spurs. The only victor on their
team will be the name of their twenty twenty four
first round drafter.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
They're all dead to see you.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The season starts tonight. Here we go. All we can
hope for tenneby. If I had the Genie's lamp and
I rubbed it, and the Genie popped out and said, Master,
your wish is my command, and I had three wishes,
my first wish would.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Have three more wishes that I have five, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
The next one would be that Anthony Edwards gets enough
sleep every night, because that's the only thing separating Anthony
Edwards in the Minnesota Timberwolves when winning the NBA Championship.
I read it, I saw it. We talked about it yesterday.
If he gets enough sleep, he's been encouraged to get
nine to ten hours.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
He said, who wha, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
whoa whoa.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Wait a minute, let's start at seven or eight, and
we'll gravitate toward nine to ten Tennaby, if he doesn't
start getting nine to ten hours of.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Sleep, we have no chance. Wonderful montage.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It sounds like we figured out yesterday why he's not
getting enough sleep. Oh, he's questionable for the game today
with back spasms. He got back his sh is, he
can't sleep.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Where was I? I didn't even golf today? How did
I miss that?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
One?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Did that news break?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Was that last night? Fish Wrap? The injury port yesterday?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They said he's questionable for today.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Can we just like start the show over and forget
about only at the beginning?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I wonder if back spasms has anything to do with sleep,
or if he has backspasms because he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Have one of those sleep number beds or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Can't afford it, CANi for a while.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
You don't think he would. He's making.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
He's making a lot of money, a lot of money.
A lot of people say he's got a lot of money.
So well, there we go getting responses you would expect
Tennabe to the montage can't wait to see the Timbrols
back in action. Great montage one that just said dead
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list with two exclamation marks. Could you please send my
condolences to tend to be for the amount of sneaker
squeaking he had to endure to make that montage. All
I heard, the entirety of the montage was sneakers squeaking
in the heart of it basketball season. He's excited there
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were sneakers squeaking. Ah, the sneakers squeaking. I never think
about it until you brought it up. You ruined basketball
for me because I never thought about it. Now I
hear it well, because it just blends in when you watch.
It's sort of like I have.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Tonight as is it different than tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Is? I think you're gonna come with something that wasn't
too bad. Tonights is a ringing in your ears, and
my ear started ringing like a fire alarm. What lyric
is that from Tennebe You'll never get It's rock and
roll hoochie. Rick Darrenger wrote it, Brian know that, Brian okle,
know that my ears started ringing like a fire alarm.
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And I used to never think about it, and I
generally don't. But if I'm sitting like in the evening,
when everybody else has gone to bed and I'm reading,
then I think about the ringing in my ears, and
I can't stop thinking about it. And so when I
watch basketball now all I think about is the squeaking
the sneakers. Thanks for ruining it for me. I blame you,
but I'll get over it. You know, all you have
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to do mute the TV right or just to watch. Well,
that's that's that's probably the approach I take that. Yeah,
that is the approach I'll probably take tonight. I don't
know if we have a programming predicament, but I think
you know where I'm going. I thought, well, we should
do this as an inner program thing. I'm going to
give you a list of television shows and then we'll
just old ones.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Obviously that's the only ones I'm familiar with, just.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The theme songs, and then we can just pick a
different one for each time we do it, so instead
of always being it was Rockford Files forever, then it
was Gilligan's Island and Deuce and I did watch gilligan
Island and again us Our favorite episode is the pilot episode,
the very first one, when they think that the Headhunters
the Marubi are on the island. It's yeah, I know,
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it's really it's really not to be honest, it's not
a very good show, but it's just what we watched
when it was all we had when we were kids.
So we watched that last night. But maybe we'll mix
it up with some other other another television show. This
one says, thanks for reading my text on the air.
(07:32):
Here's another Antenna has really outdone himself this time.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
This one says, another wool season starting.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, there's that I had to explain the dead list
to a couple of the sales. Gal you stumbled upon
that we were in the bake breakroom. You always come
to the breakroom at eleven fifty two like clockwork to
fill up your water bottle and then take over four
Nordo and you heard me trying to explain to them
about the dead list and and they said, what do
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you play at the.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
End of the season.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I said, well, we play Sad Eyes And they didn't
know why. Try to explain it, well, because the team's
always lose, And then you have to mention it's a
breakup song, really what it is? Yeah, but yeah, I'm
what season well, and let's let's say the Wolves get
to the Western Conference playoffs again. That'll end sometime in.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Early June, so in early June, ely June. Yeah, and
in the last two years.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, tune in in early June and you'll hear Sad
Eyes more than lightly.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Right. Well, for the other team, you might hear in
mid April.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh, this one says top three dead lists of all time.
Well done, young man. I felt like I did put
a lot into the dead list there. I worked on
that until late in the night. That's why I didn't
get much sleep. It's not because I just like to
stay up all night long, stay up all night to
get lucky, stay up all night to get lucky, stay.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Up to write the dead list.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I stayed up.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Late to write the dead list, and I do feel
like that was probably one of my very best.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
We'll break, We'll come back.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Brian Oka, twelve thirty with Rock Talk, No Rosie today
he's doing a surgical procedure, but.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We got plenty to get to. Included.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I think we might talk about the quarterback controversy, and
I'll bring up the same points I've been bringing up
day after day after day. Actually, I read an interesting
story from an NFL observer who kind of thinks the
same way I do.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
In regards to the Vikings quarterback situation.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
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We're not going to get into the quarterback now. I'll
talk about that a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
That's this that it's a meaty segment that I found
on a uh you know, every every every single uh
sports sports borts is your whole life to sports website.
They they take deep dives into everything, and uh, somebody
for cbssports dot Com took a deep dive into the
Viking quarterback situations.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It's it's really nothing really groundbreaking, but it.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Just seems like it's I always like to see what
the view of the local teams is from the outside.
You know, we we know what we think where we
follow the team every day.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
We live here.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
We know what Bursuch things, and Lieber and Alec Lewis
and and everybody else that writes locally, Ben Gasoline Kramer, Craig, everybody, right,
we know we know what they think. I always like
to see what people from the outside that might not
be quite as close to the situation think. We'll take
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be the backup. We think Aaron Jones will play, right,
he's softing.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
We're not sure.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
He's eligible to play, okay, so he was limited at
practice yesterday.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
He was limited, So whether it plays or not remains
to be seen. Here's another cbssports dot com bit tennabee.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I love these we looked at this one before. This
is my favorite of you.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Know, we always have the power rankings.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
King, where's the power this is? They've done this before.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
NFL tier rankings, and not the kind that flow from
your eyes after an hood rankings lost. NFL Tier rankings
for all thirty two teams. They have different categories, one
of them ten to be draft preparations. In other word,
they're already they're already starting to prepare for the upcoming
draft in twenty twenty six. To the fringe, to the
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inner circle draft preparations Tennaby, this probably makes sense. Tell
me if you think all these teams should be included,
or if any of them have an outside chance. Brown's, Cardinals, Dolphins, Giants, Jets, Raiders, Saints,
and Titans.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
They all have two and five records or worse.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I would say I'm not ready to put the Giant
if I was going to take a team that could
emerge from that group, but probably the New York Giants
just because Jackson Dart. The team has played differently since
Jackson Dart took over. Obviously a horrific loss the way
they lost in Denver, but.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
They'll have a different kicker this week. Graham Gano I
think comes back, and the kid that missed the two
extra points from Ireland, he's out.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
The rest of those teams are all battling for number
one pick in the draft next year.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Here are the fringe tennaby.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
This thirteen team bucket is the largest tier by far,
comprising in almost half the league. It's full of okay
teams with some major flaws at like to prevent them
from being true contenders.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
They're not quite.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Ready for the draft just yet, but also shouldn't be
selling playoff tickets and definitely shouldn't be making hotel reservations.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
In the Bay Area for Super Bowl LX.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Those teams include.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Bears, Bengals, Broncos, Chargers, Commanders, Cowboys, Falcons, Jaguars, Panthers, Ravens, Steelers,
Texans wait for it soon to be Big Game World champion,
Minnesota Vikings the fringe Wow, not ready to mail it
in quite yet, but it's looking it's looking more bleak
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than it is.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Let's a b word, bleak than bright. It's looking more
bleak than.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Bright, booming, bountiful.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yeah, And you know what is interesting about this list
is because a number of these teams tend to be.
Just a week or two ago you were thinking, whoa,
they might want to make hotel reservations, right, Broncos Chargers
were both winning football games. Of Broncos defense seemed like
one of They seem like the closest thing to the
eighty five Bears we've seen since the eighty five Bears.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Chargers started out the season three and a howl about
the Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
They were four and one at one point, Steelers they
were FORIGN one.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
They lost last week.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Commanders they were in the NFC Championship Game last year.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And then the Ravens. We know what you know.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
There were those that thought the Ravens would represent the
AFC in the big game, and I think a lot
of us had high hopes for the Vikings are all
in the fringe.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Thing surprised me a little bit. I mean, the Denver
Broncos are currently leading the AFC West and if the
season ended the day, and I know it doesn't, but
if the season end of the day, they are tied
with the Patriots for the second best record in the FC,
they'd be the three seed technically on tiebreaker.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
And they've won four in a row so Denver being
ian and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Pittsburgh's on top of THEFC North and the way that
division's going, as long as Lamar Jackson's hurt, nobody's threatening
Pittsburgh in that division. I know they just had a
bad loss Cincy, but that surprising me a little bit
because both those teams are going to be playoff teams.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
What do you think of the Vikings? Do you think
that's where they I think I can see them being
in that range.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Are you ready for Tier two? The outer circle? These
teams are probably top contenders, but there's maybe just one
thing that holds us back from placing them among the elite.
They give an example, forty nine ers are.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
In this list. Yeah, it's the injuries.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
How long can they keep doing what they're doing without
their top guys. They'll get healthier on offense, but Nick
Bosa and Fred Warner ain't coming back. Defensive coordinator Robert
Salah is I we say it sure has Mela sala
has made it work so far, but can that continue?
Along with the forty nine ers, ten to me Buccaneers, Colts, Eagles, Packers, Patriots, Seahawks,
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and then you.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Have Chief Lions.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
The circle Bill's Chiefs, Lions Rams rams.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It's interesting. It's controversial as well, but that's what we're about.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
It's the middle name of the program.
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Speaker 2 (19:01):
For rock Talk with Brian oak Well. Hi, good to
see you, Good to see you too this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yah.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, we talk about this often.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You've now been been deemed or dubbed the grum reaper,
because so good, Well, what has happened? I think people
understand they don't need a real long explanation. A lot
of the musicians and bands you and I grew up with,
either they're usually a little older to us, because when
we were growing up and you were ten, twelve, thirteen,
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fourteen years old, they were probably ten years older, right, and.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
They were in rock bands and we loved them.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
And now they're getting to be in their seventies, eighties
and even nineties, and they're starting to pass away.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Well, and it's nice to celebrate these incredible and storied
careers and you know, give one last great mention and
pay tribute to eulogize some of these really incredible individuals.
But it's also a stark reminder that every one of us,
our number, our minutes are numbered, and it's important to
live your life in a way that do you recognize
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you're not going to live forever.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I texted you over the weekend. I think it wasn't
said Ace Frehley died.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You said you saw that.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And then I come to find out he'd actually died
like a week.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Or two ago. To the announcement was delayed. I didn't
know that.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
That's what I thought I saw.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Okay, well, I believe you, I just I was not
aware of that.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Ace Frehley, lead guitarist and co founder of the rock
band Kissed, has died at age seventy four.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
And the only reinformation I really found out about it
was complications from a fall. He's been in ill health
on and off for many years. Apparently recently it was
as bad as it's been. And then I don't know
what those complications were. They didn't really divulge too much information,
but you know, we always hear about it. Falls are
dangerous for the elderly, and especially if you're in firm
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or frail. You know, it doesn't seem very far to
the ground, but it can be real far. So yeah,
unfortunately that costume his life.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
She inspired a generation of guitarists performing Kisses first nine albums.
He Dieday. Now it says it was Thursday. I guess
maybe the recent fall. He'd been hanging around a while,
but anyway, right, His family released a statement saying that
obviously they're devastated and heartbroken. Stanley, Paul Stanley, and Gene
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Simmons to the surviving members of the band issued a
joint statement and said they were devastated.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
They said he was an essential.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And irreplaceable rock soldier during some of the most formative
foundational chapters of the band and its history. He is
will always be part of Kisses legacy, all those who
loved him, including our fans around the world. And because
he left Kiss for a while then came back.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
A couple different times.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Yeah, he left after that first initial gigantic run in
the seventies. He left in the early eighties, and then
he was gone for a while, and then they got
back together in the nineties and he was part of
that as well, and then with the band again for
a few more years, and then not with the band,
and they had other people playing there. But I mean this,
we're talking about the space you know everybody and Kiss
had funny makeup and wild, crazy kabuki inspired makeup, and
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his character was the Spaceman or the space ace.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
And I'm not were you a Chris a Kiss guy? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Well here's the thing, so kind of deeply a Kiss
plays a very important role in my sort of evolution
of rock fandom.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But I'm a probably medium Kiss fan.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
You know, they weren't the most brilliant band in the world,
but super I mean, this might be the pinnacle of
the band that you don't have to like, but you
have to respect because they invented the spectacle of arena rock.
There were certainly artists and people who were able to
play to that level of crowd before them, but nobody
ever did it like them and brought this to a
whole new sort of multi media spectacle with trapees and
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unbelievable pyrotechnics and incredible visuals. My very first major rock
concert was Kiss, and I didn't know anything about Kiss,
didn't know who they were. I was an eleven year
old grown up in Coon Rapids and I was sitting
watching TV with my dad and a commercial on TV
for their show for their upcoming concert that was going
to be at the old met Stadium, and I didn't
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know what they were. And suddenly there were flames and
there were people in these incredible outfits and blood was
spitting and it was just I looked at it, and
eleven year old me had zero context for it, but
I knew immediately that I was interested, and I turned
around and asked my dad, I'm like, can we go
to that? And my dad, who had settled into the
life of a father but had been pretty wild times
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in his past.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
He's like, yeah, I think.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
We can, and so he got us a couple of tickets,
and so in nineteen seventy nine I went and saw
the Kiss Dynasty Tour, not their greatest era, but still
a massive kiss show.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Judas Priest opened up.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
But again, I'm eleven years old, and so I have
no context for this, but it very much helped fan
the flames of my already deep love of rock and
roll at that young age, pre pubescent. But I'd never
been to anything like that and didn't know spectacle. It's
one of the reasons that I continue to go to
live shows to this day. I don't expect them to
be kiss but I'm all, he's looking for that feeling
I got on that particular night.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I never ever got into the kiss thing, the costume,
he stated that, pyrotechnics and such and all that. That
never did anything for me. Not to say, like you say,
you don't have to like them, you have to respect them.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I just played an.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Important role in the evolution of the live experience. The
albums are fine, you know, they're not terrible, but they're
certainly not great.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I want to rock and roll, right, that's the signature
one absolutely a party every day.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Well, and the one song by Kiss that I just
loved is one that you just would never think a
band like that would do, and that would be the
song Beth.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Well, and that's Peter Chris, that's their drummer. Yeah, and
he it was one of the that was the biggest
one he ever sang on. And No, it's an absolute
love ballad from a band that normally is about rock
and rolling all night and partying every day.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
And the song was basically, for those that haven't heard it,
it's it's a ballad. Yeah, And it was very soft
and beautiful and about he's singing about being in a
band and say, Beth, I'll get back to when I can.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
But me and the boys are playing right exactly.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
No, it's about that loneliness on the road when you're
not just enjoying the fruits of being a rock star,
but there's someone waiting for you at home that you
actually love, you know, Ace Frehley.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
So again, I.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Don't go super deep on Kiss, but I have several
friends that go very deep and to a person every
single person's favorite member of the band is Ace Frehley
because he's widely recognized as the most sort of serious
musician or talented musician in the band and of the
back in the nineteen seventy eight and one of the
most indulgent moves in rock history. They put out the
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Milestone series, where ever all four members each got a
solo record, and now those are really collectible and they've
got interlocking posters if you find the originals. But the
Ace Frayley one is widely recognized as the single best
of any of those Milestone releases.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
One last bit of it. I'm obsessed with Beth.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Not her, but y yeah, the song.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
It's a great song when they played it in concert
because if you've listened to the record version has played
on the radio, there's strings and everything.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
They just had all that stuff recorded and.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
He would just sing, so the band didn't even participate
in the song, right, he would just sing it with
with I saw the same thing when Gary Wright did
dream Weaver with you saw It with Me.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
All Star saw it during.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Uh Hippie Fest over at the Zoo, or the same
thing with all those space sounds and dream Weaver. It's
it's just all at it like a cassette, not to set.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
But you know it's all pre record, just pre recording.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
That's that's that's the way we do it now.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
One other before we unless you have a couple of
things we want to do rock rank But yeah, I
know I had one other thing. This was a death
in music and I'd never heard of this person before.
This was a few weeks ago by to say have
you ever heard of Sonny Curtis.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Sonny Curtis does not ring a bell for me.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
He wrote the song I Fought the Law, Oh yeah, yeah,
which was a massive ship yeah, huge talk about mailbox money.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
And covered by everybody increasing the mailbox money. No, it's
a it's a staple, absolutely, I know that song.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
But the and he was a memory of the Crickets
with Buddy Holly and the Crickets. Well, what I found
interesting is just how diverse these people can be with songs.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
He wrote I Fought the Law.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
He also wrote the theme song of the Mary Tylent
Moore show, What Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
So here's a guy that's right, that's what says that.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Sonny Krakow, a vinted rock and roller who wrote the
raw classic I Fought the Law imposed the enduring question
who can turn the world on with her smile? As
the writer crooner of the theme song to the Mary
Tyler Moore.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Show died at age eighty eight. He's a rock and
roll of.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Fame who can take a nothing day and suddenly make
it all seem worthwhile.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I'll find that that's I just find that interesting that
he does.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
He was a.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Vintage rock and roller, uh huh. But then he wrote
a TV theme song that most people from that era
would record.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
But it speaks to the talent of a musician and
certainly in this case, particularly a songwriter, in that they're
not wedded to one genre. They know, they know a
turn of phrase when they hear it, they know a
good melody when they hear it, and they can write
just about anything that is. I love fun facts. Doing
what I've done for a living and being a music head,
I live for fun facts. And that is my first
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fun fact of the day, and I will I'm tucking
that one away.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Now.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
So here's another fun fact that I was not aware of.
This is indeed true. It's from Bratton Brian Kavan.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Text line it says Beth was Peter Chris's mother. It's weird,
so I don't know. Oh, maybe maybe he was singing
to his mother.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
I mean, because that's not the vibe you get off
the song. But I guess if you depending on interpretation, yeah,
that guess that makes sense. It could very well be
that that's not the way I've always thought of it
for however long I've known that song many many many years.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
People are asking all they ask questions every week, and
sometimes I don't get to them.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
So let's just get to these real question.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, this one says officially my fourth
time asking this Queen's of the Stone Age fan. Yeah,
favorite album is rated R. Can we ask Brian Oak
what his favorite album is?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
This is a tough one because depending on my mood,
Queens of the Stone Age has something for everyone. Rated
R is that was their coming out party. That was
the rubber soul to the one I'm gonna pick, which
I consider their revolver, and that would be Songs for
the Deaf.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
The album that came out right.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Afterwards features Mark Lanigan on a bunch of vocals and
really some of the rawst rifts in their entire catalog.
That said, to whoever our emailer is right there, My
favorite song by Queens comes off RATEDAR, the album he picked.
I'm assuming he but the album that they picked, and
that's the lost art of keeping a secret. So no
Rated R is as good as anything in their catalog.
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I'm cool with that, But for me, it's definitely songs
for the Best.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
What's mister Oaks take on Stone Temple Pilot's fan not
a fan.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Scott Wiland, the lead singer, was such a troubled individual,
problems with drugs and mental health, and he was just
always such a wreck. And I had a chance to
interview those guys a couple times, and he was basically
non responsive because he just there was. He had fro
himself with the rigors of touring, how popular the band was,
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constant drug use, which ultimately, as we know, took his
life right here in Minneapolis on a tour bus when
he was playing with Velvet Revolver. The band themselves, though
they're undeniable, you know, they're great. They went from that
debut album Core, which had a much grindier, rougher rock
sound to it, and then sort of turned into these
not ballad eers, but they were an alternative mainstay, like
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they were to alternative music what Train was like to
adult contemporary. And they were just staples. They had hit
after hit. They were very good at what they did.
I like them, then, you know, I don't love them,
but yeah, i'd like Stone Taple Pilots a lot common.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
It is incorrect about Beth.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
The song was about his wife, originally named Beck, but
Jean Simmons told him to change it.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
To Beth, Oh because Beck might not it might be
a little too familiar. Yeah, well, it's something about more
of a male name. I guess I suppose.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Thinking about Jeff Beck is what he says.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
I don't know if yeah, we could have gone with Becca,
but it would be a different song then yes.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
So again, sometimes you get information about songs and they're incorrect.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
So I don't know which one's right there are I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Can you ask ol his thoughts on the rock band
Geese I saw out in this past weekend in Saint Paul.
Excellent show from a young band. Lucky to see them
in such a small pack venue.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
I've not heard of them so they've played at the
Amsterdam and the only reason I know that is. I
also work part time at a record store mil City
Sound and Hopkins, which, by the way, for collectors, brilliant,
brilliant destination. But someone came in there and asked me
because I get I can't tell you the number of
people who come in like love you on rock Talk,
but the someone came in and asked me if I
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saw the Geese show last night, and I'm like, who's Geese?
I've literally never heard of them, So that led into
me doing kind of a deep dive there while I
was at work. And they are another one of these
bands that are, you know, freakishly well respected among their fans,
and there's absolutely something happening there. What that is, I
don't know, but I don't think the Amsterdam, I think
was completely packed. And I don't think you'll get to
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see him in a place that size again, at least
for the time being, because they seem to be on
an ascending path. But I know next to nothing about him,
but everybody who I've heard talk about him, which is
now two people deeply, deeply love them.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
One last text message before we do Rock Rank, Rock Rank,
it says, and I did see this because I texted
you this Sam Rivers, bass player for Limp Biscuit, passed
away a few days what age forty eight?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, wait, way too, do we all?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I did not see it. It was the last time
I read a story about it was right away. And basically,
you know how they always say, no cause of death
is not released yet, do we.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Know and what we do? But we don't really know everything.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
We know that he had a cardiac arrest and when
they found him he was non responsive as a result
of that cardiac arrest. What leads up to that and
what presaged that I have zero idea. Limp Biscuit was,
as they say in the biz, a little after my time,
something you can relate to now. I was around, but
I was doing sort of the more the mainstream alternative
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stuff that was happening. That was sort of my first
fury into radio when that was going down, And that
New Metal thing was more of a ninety three X
kind of situation, And so while they were still under
the same umbrella, the new Metal was very different than
sort of the alternati alternative I was.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Peddling at the time. And Limp Biscuit was fine.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
They were fun, but you know, I mean, we're not
talking about important lyrics or interesting songs. We are talking
about a band that is fun to party too, and
you know, basically spoke to the angst of young people
when they landed. Just one of those days is an
all time staple and will always be revered by a
certain age group in this country because it was. It
was very much an anthem to teen frustration and just
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life with frustration. You know, when you're angsty and you're
that age, somebody comes along and articulates it for you beautifully,
and that song becomes part of your canon.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Tennabe rock rock rock n rock right rock rank rock.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Rock run rock right all right, OK, maybe the most
cliche of all rock rank questions. Hit me Oak, what
is your top five albums of all time?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Now? See this one?
Speaker 5 (34:20):
And when so Antennabee told me about this, I got
back to him like, we sure we don't want to
narrow that down to an.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Era or a genre or whatever that in future rock rank.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
I appreciate it, but it's just yeah, I mean, so
this is literally just my personal top five albums of
all time.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
That's what we want. And again, a week from now.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
We could ask this question and there might be a
couple changes in there, right this is one of those
that's always changing. But as it stands right now, the
five records, and i'd use the criteria, what do I
go back to the most, even if there are new records?
I love things I'm into a little more right now.
This is over the course of my life. What are
the albums that I will always go back to and
always speak to me. I never get tired of them.
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There are no songs you skip on them. Coming in
at number five is a nineteen sixty seven release from
the super group Cream Disraeli Gears. It's the cover, first
of all, might be the single greatest album cover in
rock history, with all the crazy day glow colors and
you can't get more psychedelic than that, and it was
designed by the legendary album designer Hypnosis. But inside you've
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got this blues influenced rock and roll. But it was
an explosion. It's the only Clapton I really love, and
it's it's just so good.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
The songs are written well, they're imaginative.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
This is sort of peak British theater psychedelic heavy rock
of the late sixties and Disraeli Gears.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It's great.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
All the way every British album in that era has
one clunker on it, you know, one Sarah Silly goofy
sing song song, and they've got that there. But it's
just it's to me, it's a perfect record, and I
listened to it all the time. Number four, Number four
is American and came out about ten years after the
record we just talked about. They hailed from New York
and this record hit me at a time in my
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life where not only did I find the lead singer
rather fetching again, this would have been the same year
I was eleven years old when I found this band. Yeah,
Baby Blondie, Parallel Lines is number four for me all time,
and they have other great records, but that was my
entree really, and the number of times while I'm sitting
there in the family room basement playing the Atari twenty
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six hundred Pitfall. If memory serves that I just put
that there, You're welcome. If I put that, I'd put
that Parallel Lines on and just flipped it back and
forth and back for hours at a time. And I
still every time I put it on, the whole thing
holds up. I'm absolutely in love with it. Number three
Number three Minnesota. This would not make it on many
other people's top one hundred list, but the legendary Minnesota
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band Hohosker Duo back in the eighties, we were Seattle
before Seattle was Seattle, right. We had prints, we had
the Replacements, We had sol Asylum in their early phase
before their nineties glory. And we also had what is
idly recognized as one of the greatest rock bands or
most influential rock bands in the eighties and nineties, and
that would be Whosker Do. And they have put out
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a string of incredible albums, but they put out a
landmark double album band which for a hardcore band in
the mid eighties on a really cool label like SST,
this was unheard of. You don't do a concept double album.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
They did.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
And this record more than any other, and I don't
I say this without qualification. This record more than any other,
changed what I thought I knew about music, what I
came to expect from music, and what I've really always
loved about music. It coalesced in a way I'd never
heard anything like them before. And although they influenced hundreds,
if not thoundreds, hundreds if not thousands, of other bands
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and artists. There still hasn't been anybody quite like Whosker Doo.
Soo's Narkade, their epic epic double album is number three.
Fun to say, who's it is that they got the
little umlounce over both.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Use Hoosker Doo. How about number two? Number two?
Speaker 5 (37:59):
A band that's very near and dear to both of
our hearts, and that would be The Cars. Candyo by
the Cars is and again I can hear arguments that
their first debut album is even better because it is
it's perfect. But Candyo again, maybe it just hit me
at the right time. Maybe that cover by Antonio Vargas
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might have held my attention a little bit as I
was starting to understand more.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
About the world around me. But it's just so well
constructed to me.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
They're the perfect new wave band because lots of new
wave and this again it speaks to when we all
grow up right and when we come into our own musically,
and when new wave was happening, it was either very
heavy synthesizers, which I love, or very much almost post
punk kind.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Of guitar stuff.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
The Cars not only melded both of these beautifully, but
they cranked out top ten hits left and right for
more than seven eight years.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
They're just they're so good.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
The two lead singers, everybody in the band knows exactly
what their role is. I just think they're one of
the great America even though they're one of the worst
live bands I've ever seen, maybe the most boring live
band I've ever seen. Them as a songwriting and a
songmaking crafting unit are just among my very favorites.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
And Candyos my number two album of all time, Number.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
One White album, No Well, so I've got this whole
list of also rans and honorable mentions.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
The White album is right there atop that. It almost
made it.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
But for me, and I've said it many times, he's
my favorite of all time.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
But where do you pick?
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Because he's been so many different characters, He's done so
much at all of it very interesting and at a
high level and inventive and influential. For me, it's hunky Dory.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Now. The most recognizable album in his catalog.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
Is absolutely Ziggy Starred Us and the Spiders from Mars,
And before that he was experimenting with all these styles.
He had hit with Space Oddity, but then couldn't quite
get his groove back, and he put out The Man
Who Sold the World, which is really kind of a
heavy rock record. And then he came up right before
Ziggy starred us with the nineteen seventy one album Hunky Dory,
and it is a showcase of changes. Is on a
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perfect song it is, I mean, and then that's your
the thesis statement on that record. That's the song everyone
knows is changes. But Queen Bitch is on there. Song
for Andy Warhol or Andy Warhol, song for Bob Dylan
is on there, The Kook's is on there.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Fill your Heart.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
It's just it's got as many different styles as there
are songs. He's excellent at all of them. Every one
of the songs on there matters. And I just I
can't think of an album that remains as satisfying and
does as much for me as David Bowie's Unky Dory.
I genuinely believe, as a cohesive unit, it's the greatest
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rock record of all time.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Mine five would be.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
And I don't know if they're necessarily in this order
go on, but I would go Carr's debut album Excellent.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
I would go with Steely Dan's Asia. Yeah, And I
can't argue with that.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
I would go with.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the movie also perfect.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
I think I would also go with this is going
to be out there a little bit.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I mean, what's your favorite? It's personal, what's my favorite? Well,
just because I don't know, I have to think about more.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
I was a huge at your Winter, Johnny Winter, their
live album Roadwork, I think a spectacular and then my
favorite album of all times and Beatles Let It.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Be Well, and then we talked about it that Let.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
It Be is probably on the bottom of the list
of most people, and for a number of different reels
reasons that I could expound on at another time.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
But the music's playing, is time to go. It's time
to go to my list. That's too bad. I would
have loved we don't have time for your list.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Blue Group from Wheezer, Yeah, the.
Speaker 5 (41:40):
Album, the Green album, the Red album.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
What's it called, what's the one that's got red in it? Uh?
Red album? Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
You have a podcast I do. It's called the Brian
Oak Show Podcast. And earlier just yesterday, in fact, today's
podcast that came out today features Greg Norton of Whoskerdoo
as They've got this amazing box set coming out in
early November on Numero Group, documenting one of the greatest
concerts the band ever played. The Brian Oakshow podcast is
available on the free iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
We'll see you next Wednesday. See you then, that's Brian
Oakinrock Talk with Rock Rank.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
We'll take up, break, come back, five, three, four, next
ten to be correct.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yes, It's time for you. Official Minnesota Timberwolves prediction
Nougats.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Andy Reid calls them nuggies and.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
He ate them all after filming that state.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Farm Commercial Celtics.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
That's Comma's main focus in regard to flop, sweat and
tears shows. Yes, will be cut down by Nico Medbed
and his roster of Division two talents on a Monday
eating next April, while wondering why Jim Nance was offering
everyone his necktie. Nicks Rosen claimed to have named his
cat Stevie after the former Fleetwood Max singer, but there's
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no chance he could name even one Fleetwood Max song.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Seventy six ers, six Raptors.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Launt oh and one toront Oh and two thunders. Jay
Ferguson bought the team and relocated them to that island.
He sings about Trailblazers sitting six feet above the ground
on a hydraulic jacket and Portland Midas muffler shop after
getting their catalytic.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Converter stolen by some low level losers.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yes, Common can't look at their name without pronouncing every
secs as a Z for the next six hours until
BBP and Potato Bag him induced to stop balls.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's just a male version of a cow Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Their name also describes the attitude and approach the employee
on the basketball court. Pistoo have become obsolete and a
relic of the past with the advent of electric vehicles
being produced in Detroit, tas just one k away from
being the packers Bucks standing perfectly still in the middle
of a desolate county road memory mesmerized by headlights as
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a fifty five one hundred pounds Chevy Silverado barrels torn
it at sixty miles per hour. Warriors suffering from PTSD
Clipper inoperable because Corey Cove used them trying to shave
his neck beard. Lakers they play in the land of
twenty two lakes. SuDS Common created two from his loins,
while Larry Mondela Guy fathered a half dozen kids in
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a never ending quest just to have won kigs. There
was a big protest last week and comprised of people
who said they couldn't play this season.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Hawks.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
How Meat Sauce responds to, Hey, someone left some blue
shoes in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Do you know who? Those are?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Hornets killed by their violent homicidal relatives, the murder hornets.
He how my roofer buddy Poncho pronounces the ward hint
the word hint magic. During a street magic stunt gone wrong,
David Blaine inadvertently made their entire roster disappear.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Wizards.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
The most famous one is Merlin, which incidentally is the
name of the app common use to identify nearby bird calls.
Mavericks traded Luca ended up getting a.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Flag, a surrender flag.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Rocket Houston, we have a problem, chrily circling the tent
of an oblivious dolt of a nature lover who, for
the time being a snacking on an aromatic bag.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Of trail mix.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Helicans cited by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources for
fishing without a license spurs. The only victor on their
team will be the name of their twenty twenty four
first round drafter.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
They're all dead to see you.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The season starts tonight. Here we go. All we can
hope for tenneby. If I had the Genie's lamp and
I rubbed it, and the Genie popped out and said, Master,
your wish is my command, and I had three wishes,
my first wish would.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Have three more wishes that I have five, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
The next one would be that Anthony Edwards gets enough
sleep every night, because that's the only thing separating Anthony
Edwards in the Minnesota Timberwolves when winning the NBA Championship.
I read it, I saw it. We talked about it yesterday.
If he gets enough sleep, he's been encouraged to get
nine to ten hours.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
He said, who wha, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
whoa whoa.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Wait a minute, let's start at seven or eight, and
we'll gravitate toward nine to ten Tennaby, if he doesn't
start getting nine to ten hours of.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Sleep, we have no chance. Wonderful montage.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It sounds like we figured out yesterday why he's not
getting enough sleep. Oh, he's questionable for the game today
with back spasms. He got back his sh is, he
can't sleep.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Where was I? I didn't even golf today? How did
I miss that?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
One?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Did that news break?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Was that last night? Fish Wrap? The injury port yesterday?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They said he's questionable for today.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Can we just like start the show over and forget
about only at the beginning?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I wonder if back spasms has anything to do with sleep,
or if he has backspasms because he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Have one of those sleep number beds or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Can't afford it, CANi for a while.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
You don't think he would. He's making.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
He's making a lot of money, a lot of money.
A lot of people say he's got a lot of money.
So well, there we go getting responses you would expect
Tennabe to the montage can't wait to see the Timbrols
back in action. Great montage one that just said dead
(05:00):
list with two exclamation marks. Could you please send my
condolences to tend to be for the amount of sneaker
squeaking he had to endure to make that montage. All
I heard, the entirety of the montage was sneakers squeaking
in the heart of it basketball season. He's excited there
(05:22):
were sneakers squeaking. Ah, the sneakers squeaking. I never think
about it until you brought it up. You ruined basketball
for me because I never thought about it. Now I
hear it well, because it just blends in when you watch.
It's sort of like I have.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Tonight as is it different than tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Is? I think you're gonna come with something that wasn't
too bad. Tonights is a ringing in your ears, and
my ear started ringing like a fire alarm. What lyric
is that from Tennebe You'll never get It's rock and
roll hoochie. Rick Darrenger wrote it, Brian know that, Brian okle,
know that my ears started ringing like a fire alarm.
(06:05):
And I used to never think about it, and I
generally don't. But if I'm sitting like in the evening,
when everybody else has gone to bed and I'm reading,
then I think about the ringing in my ears, and
I can't stop thinking about it. And so when I
watch basketball now all I think about is the squeaking
the sneakers. Thanks for ruining it for me. I blame you,
but I'll get over it. You know, all you have
(06:26):
to do mute the TV right or just to watch. Well,
that's that's that's probably the approach I take that. Yeah,
that is the approach I'll probably take tonight. I don't
know if we have a programming predicament, but I think
you know where I'm going. I thought, well, we should
do this as an inner program thing. I'm going to
give you a list of television shows and then we'll
just old ones.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Obviously that's the only ones I'm familiar with, just.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The theme songs, and then we can just pick a
different one for each time we do it, so instead
of always being it was Rockford Files forever, then it
was Gilligan's Island and Deuce and I did watch gilligan
Island and again us Our favorite episode is the pilot episode,
the very first one, when they think that the Headhunters
the Marubi are on the island. It's yeah, I know,
(07:11):
it's really it's really not to be honest, it's not
a very good show, but it's just what we watched
when it was all we had when we were kids.
So we watched that last night. But maybe we'll mix
it up with some other other another television show. This
one says, thanks for reading my text on the air.
(07:32):
Here's another Antenna has really outdone himself this time.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
This one says, another wool season starting.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, there's that I had to explain the dead list
to a couple of the sales. Gal you stumbled upon
that we were in the bake breakroom. You always come
to the breakroom at eleven fifty two like clockwork to
fill up your water bottle and then take over four
Nordo and you heard me trying to explain to them
about the dead list and and they said, what do
(08:00):
you play at the.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
End of the season.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I said, well, we play Sad Eyes And they didn't
know why. Try to explain it, well, because the team's
always lose, And then you have to mention it's a
breakup song, really what it is? Yeah, but yeah, I'm
what season well, and let's let's say the Wolves get
to the Western Conference playoffs again. That'll end sometime in.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Early June, so in early June, ely June. Yeah, and
in the last two years.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, tune in in early June and you'll hear Sad
Eyes more than lightly.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Right. Well, for the other team, you might hear in
mid April.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh, this one says top three dead lists of all time.
Well done, young man. I felt like I did put
a lot into the dead list there. I worked on
that until late in the night. That's why I didn't
get much sleep. It's not because I just like to
stay up all night long, stay up all night to
get lucky, stay up all night to get lucky, stay.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Up to write the dead list.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I stayed up.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Late to write the dead list, and I do feel
like that was probably one of my very best.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
We'll break, We'll come back.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Brian Oka, twelve thirty with Rock Talk, No Rosie today
he's doing a surgical procedure, but.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We got plenty to get to. Included.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I think we might talk about the quarterback controversy, and
I'll bring up the same points I've been bringing up
day after day after day. Actually, I read an interesting
story from an NFL observer who kind of thinks the
same way I do.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
In regards to the Vikings quarterback situation.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
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Speaker 2 (11:58):
We're not going to get into the quarterback now. I'll
talk about that a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
That's this that it's a meaty segment that I found
on a uh you know, every every every single uh
sports sports borts is your whole life to sports website.
They they take deep dives into everything, and uh, somebody
for cbssports dot Com took a deep dive into the
Viking quarterback situations.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It's it's really nothing really groundbreaking, but it.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Just seems like it's I always like to see what
the view of the local teams is from the outside.
You know, we we know what we think where we
follow the team every day.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
We live here.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
We know what Bursuch things, and Lieber and Alec Lewis
and and everybody else that writes locally, Ben Gasoline Kramer, Craig, everybody, right,
we know we know what they think. I always like
to see what people from the outside that might not
be quite as close to the situation think. We'll take
a look at that a little bit later. Uh be
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announced yesterday. McCarthy will be the emergency quarterback. Brosmer will
be the backup. We think Aaron Jones will play, right,
he's softing.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
We're not sure.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
He's eligible to play, okay, so he was limited at
practice yesterday.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
He was limited, So whether it plays or not remains
to be seen. Here's another cbssports dot com bit tennabee.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I love these we looked at this one before. This
is my favorite of you.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Know, we always have the power rankings.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
King, where's the power this is? They've done this before.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
NFL tier rankings, and not the kind that flow from
your eyes after an hood rankings lost. NFL Tier rankings
for all thirty two teams. They have different categories, one
of them ten to be draft preparations. In other word,
they're already they're already starting to prepare for the upcoming
draft in twenty twenty six. To the fringe, to the
(14:01):
inner circle draft preparations Tennaby, this probably makes sense. Tell
me if you think all these teams should be included,
or if any of them have an outside chance. Brown's, Cardinals, Dolphins, Giants, Jets, Raiders, Saints,
and Titans.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
They all have two and five records or worse.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I would say I'm not ready to put the Giant
if I was going to take a team that could
emerge from that group, but probably the New York Giants
just because Jackson Dart. The team has played differently since
Jackson Dart took over. Obviously a horrific loss the way
they lost in Denver, but.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
They'll have a different kicker this week. Graham Gano I
think comes back, and the kid that missed the two
extra points from Ireland, he's out.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
The rest of those teams are all battling for number
one pick in the draft next year.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Here are the fringe tennaby.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
This thirteen team bucket is the largest tier by far,
comprising in almost half the league. It's full of okay
teams with some major flaws at like to prevent them
from being true contenders.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
They're not quite.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Ready for the draft just yet, but also shouldn't be
selling playoff tickets and definitely shouldn't be making hotel reservations.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
In the Bay Area for Super Bowl LX.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Those teams include.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Bears, Bengals, Broncos, Chargers, Commanders, Cowboys, Falcons, Jaguars, Panthers, Ravens, Steelers,
Texans wait for it soon to be Big Game World champion,
Minnesota Vikings the fringe Wow, not ready to mail it
in quite yet, but it's looking it's looking more bleak
(15:35):
than it is.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Let's a b word, bleak than bright. It's looking more
bleak than.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Bright, booming, bountiful.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yeah, And you know what is interesting about this list
is because a number of these teams tend to be.
Just a week or two ago you were thinking, whoa,
they might want to make hotel reservations, right, Broncos Chargers
were both winning football games. Of Broncos defense seemed like
one of They seem like the closest thing to the
eighty five Bears we've seen since the eighty five Bears.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Chargers started out the season three and a howl about
the Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
They were four and one at one point, Steelers they
were FORIGN one.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
They lost last week.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Commanders they were in the NFC Championship Game last year.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And then the Ravens. We know what you know.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
There were those that thought the Ravens would represent the
AFC in the big game, and I think a lot
of us had high hopes for the Vikings are all
in the fringe.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Thing surprised me a little bit. I mean, the Denver
Broncos are currently leading the AFC West and if the
season ended the day, and I know it doesn't, but
if the season end of the day, they are tied
with the Patriots for the second best record in the FC,
they'd be the three seed technically on tiebreaker.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
And they've won four in a row so Denver being
ian and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Pittsburgh's on top of THEFC North and the way that
division's going, as long as Lamar Jackson's hurt, nobody's threatening
Pittsburgh in that division. I know they just had a
bad loss Cincy, but that surprising me a little bit
because both those teams are going to be playoff teams.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
What do you think of the Vikings? Do you think
that's where they I think I can see them being
in that range.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Are you ready for Tier two? The outer circle? These
teams are probably top contenders, but there's maybe just one
thing that holds us back from placing them among the elite.
They give an example, forty nine ers are.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
In this list. Yeah, it's the injuries.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
How long can they keep doing what they're doing without
their top guys. They'll get healthier on offense, but Nick
Bosa and Fred Warner ain't coming back. Defensive coordinator Robert
Salah is I we say it sure has Mela sala
has made it work so far, but can that continue?
Along with the forty nine ers, ten to me Buccaneers, Colts, Eagles, Packers, Patriots, Seahawks,
(17:56):
and then you.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Have Chief Lions.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
The circle Bill's Chiefs, Lions Rams rams.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It's interesting. It's controversial as well, but that's what we're about.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
It's the middle name of the program.
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Speaker 3 (18:55):
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Speaker 2 (19:01):
For rock Talk with Brian oak Well. Hi, good to
see you, Good to see you too this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yah.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, we talk about this often.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You've now been been deemed or dubbed the grum reaper,
because so good, Well, what has happened? I think people
understand they don't need a real long explanation. A lot
of the musicians and bands you and I grew up with,
either they're usually a little older to us, because when
we were growing up and you were ten, twelve, thirteen,
(19:30):
fourteen years old, they were probably ten years older, right, and.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
They were in rock bands and we loved them.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
And now they're getting to be in their seventies, eighties
and even nineties, and they're starting to pass away.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Well, and it's nice to celebrate these incredible and storied
careers and you know, give one last great mention and
pay tribute to eulogize some of these really incredible individuals.
But it's also a stark reminder that every one of us,
our number, our minutes are numbered, and it's important to
live your life in a way that do you recognize
(20:01):
you're not going to live forever.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I texted you over the weekend. I think it wasn't
said Ace Frehley died.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You said you saw that.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And then I come to find out he'd actually died
like a week.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Or two ago. To the announcement was delayed. I didn't
know that.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
That's what I thought I saw.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Okay, well, I believe you, I just I was not
aware of that.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Ace Frehley, lead guitarist and co founder of the rock
band Kissed, has died at age seventy four.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
And the only reinformation I really found out about it
was complications from a fall. He's been in ill health
on and off for many years. Apparently recently it was
as bad as it's been. And then I don't know
what those complications were. They didn't really divulge too much information,
but you know, we always hear about it. Falls are
dangerous for the elderly, and especially if you're in firm
(20:49):
or frail. You know, it doesn't seem very far to
the ground, but it can be real far. So yeah,
unfortunately that costume his life.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
She inspired a generation of guitarists performing Kisses first nine albums.
He Dieday. Now it says it was Thursday. I guess
maybe the recent fall. He'd been hanging around a while,
but anyway, right, His family released a statement saying that
obviously they're devastated and heartbroken. Stanley, Paul Stanley, and Gene
(21:17):
Simmons to the surviving members of the band issued a
joint statement and said they were devastated.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
They said he was an essential.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And irreplaceable rock soldier during some of the most formative
foundational chapters of the band and its history. He is
will always be part of Kisses legacy, all those who
loved him, including our fans around the world. And because
he left Kiss for a while then came back.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
A couple different times.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Yeah, he left after that first initial gigantic run in
the seventies. He left in the early eighties, and then
he was gone for a while, and then they got
back together in the nineties and he was part of
that as well, and then with the band again for
a few more years, and then not with the band,
and they had other people playing there. But I mean this,
we're talking about the space you know everybody and Kiss
had funny makeup and wild, crazy kabuki inspired makeup, and
(22:05):
his character was the Spaceman or the space ace.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
And I'm not were you a Chris a Kiss guy? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Well here's the thing, so kind of deeply a Kiss
plays a very important role in my sort of evolution
of rock fandom.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But I'm a probably medium Kiss fan.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
You know, they weren't the most brilliant band in the world,
but super I mean, this might be the pinnacle of
the band that you don't have to like, but you
have to respect because they invented the spectacle of arena rock.
There were certainly artists and people who were able to
play to that level of crowd before them, but nobody
ever did it like them and brought this to a
whole new sort of multi media spectacle with trapees and
(22:45):
unbelievable pyrotechnics and incredible visuals. My very first major rock
concert was Kiss, and I didn't know anything about Kiss,
didn't know who they were. I was an eleven year
old grown up in Coon Rapids and I was sitting
watching TV with my dad and a commercial on TV
for their show for their upcoming concert that was going
to be at the old met Stadium, and I didn't
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know what they were. And suddenly there were flames and
there were people in these incredible outfits and blood was
spitting and it was just I looked at it, and
eleven year old me had zero context for it, but
I knew immediately that I was interested, and I turned
around and asked my dad, I'm like, can we go
to that? And my dad, who had settled into the
life of a father but had been pretty wild times
(23:27):
in his past.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
He's like, yeah, I think.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
We can, and so he got us a couple of tickets,
and so in nineteen seventy nine I went and saw
the Kiss Dynasty Tour, not their greatest era, but still
a massive kiss show.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Judas Priest opened up.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
But again, I'm eleven years old, and so I have
no context for this, but it very much helped fan
the flames of my already deep love of rock and
roll at that young age, pre pubescent. But I'd never
been to anything like that and didn't know spectacle. It's
one of the reasons that I continue to go to
live shows to this day. I don't expect them to
be kiss but I'm all, he's looking for that feeling
I got on that particular night.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I never ever got into the kiss thing, the costume,
he stated that, pyrotechnics and such and all that. That
never did anything for me. Not to say, like you say,
you don't have to like them, you have to respect them.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I just played an.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Important role in the evolution of the live experience. The
albums are fine, you know, they're not terrible, but they're
certainly not great.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I want to rock and roll, right, that's the signature
one absolutely a party every day.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Well, and the one song by Kiss that I just
loved is one that you just would never think a
band like that would do, and that would be the
song Beth.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Well, and that's Peter Chris, that's their drummer. Yeah, and
he it was one of the that was the biggest
one he ever sang on. And No, it's an absolute
love ballad from a band that normally is about rock
and rolling all night and partying every day.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
And the song was basically, for those that haven't heard it,
it's it's a ballad. Yeah, And it was very soft
and beautiful and about he's singing about being in a
band and say, Beth, I'll get back to when I can.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
But me and the boys are playing right exactly.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
No, it's about that loneliness on the road when you're
not just enjoying the fruits of being a rock star,
but there's someone waiting for you at home that you
actually love, you know, Ace Frehley.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
So again, I.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Don't go super deep on Kiss, but I have several
friends that go very deep and to a person every
single person's favorite member of the band is Ace Frehley
because he's widely recognized as the most sort of serious
musician or talented musician in the band and of the
back in the nineteen seventy eight and one of the
most indulgent moves in rock history. They put out the
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Milestone series, where ever all four members each got a
solo record, and now those are really collectible and they've
got interlocking posters if you find the originals. But the
Ace Frayley one is widely recognized as the single best
of any of those Milestone releases.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
One last bit of it. I'm obsessed with Beth.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Not her, but y yeah, the song.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
It's a great song when they played it in concert
because if you've listened to the record version has played
on the radio, there's strings and everything.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
They just had all that stuff recorded and.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
He would just sing, so the band didn't even participate
in the song, right, he would just sing it with
with I saw the same thing when Gary Wright did
dream Weaver with you saw It with Me.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
All Star saw it during.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Uh Hippie Fest over at the Zoo, or the same
thing with all those space sounds and dream Weaver. It's
it's just all at it like a cassette, not to set.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
But you know it's all pre record, just pre recording.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
That's that's that's the way we do it now.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
One other before we unless you have a couple of
things we want to do rock rank But yeah, I
know I had one other thing. This was a death
in music and I'd never heard of this person before.
This was a few weeks ago by to say have
you ever heard of Sonny Curtis.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Sonny Curtis does not ring a bell for me.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
He wrote the song I Fought the Law, Oh yeah, yeah,
which was a massive ship yeah, huge talk about mailbox money.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
And covered by everybody increasing the mailbox money. No, it's
a it's a staple, absolutely, I know that song.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
But the and he was a memory of the Crickets
with Buddy Holly and the Crickets. Well, what I found
interesting is just how diverse these people can be with songs.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
He wrote I Fought the Law.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
He also wrote the theme song of the Mary Tylent
Moore show, What Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
So here's a guy that's right, that's what says that.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Sonny Krakow, a vinted rock and roller who wrote the
raw classic I Fought the Law imposed the enduring question
who can turn the world on with her smile? As
the writer crooner of the theme song to the Mary
Tyler Moore.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Show died at age eighty eight. He's a rock and
roll of.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Fame who can take a nothing day and suddenly make
it all seem worthwhile.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I'll find that that's I just find that interesting that
he does.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
He was a.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Vintage rock and roller, uh huh. But then he wrote
a TV theme song that most people from that era
would record.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
But it speaks to the talent of a musician and
certainly in this case, particularly a songwriter, in that they're
not wedded to one genre. They know, they know a
turn of phrase when they hear it, they know a
good melody when they hear it, and they can write
just about anything that is. I love fun facts. Doing
what I've done for a living and being a music head,
I live for fun facts. And that is my first
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fun fact of the day, and I will I'm tucking
that one away.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Now.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
So here's another fun fact that I was not aware of.
This is indeed true. It's from Bratton Brian Kavan.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Text line it says Beth was Peter Chris's mother. It's weird,
so I don't know. Oh, maybe maybe he was singing
to his mother.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
I mean, because that's not the vibe you get off
the song. But I guess if you depending on interpretation, yeah,
that guess that makes sense. It could very well be
that that's not the way I've always thought of it
for however long I've known that song many many many years.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
People are asking all they ask questions every week, and
sometimes I don't get to them.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
So let's just get to these real question.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, this one says officially my fourth
time asking this Queen's of the Stone Age fan. Yeah,
favorite album is rated R. Can we ask Brian Oak
what his favorite album is?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
This is a tough one because depending on my mood,
Queens of the Stone Age has something for everyone. Rated
R is that was their coming out party. That was
the rubber soul to the one I'm gonna pick, which
I consider their revolver, and that would be Songs for
the Deaf.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
The album that came out right.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Afterwards features Mark Lanigan on a bunch of vocals and
really some of the rawst rifts in their entire catalog.
That said, to whoever our emailer is right there, My
favorite song by Queens comes off RATEDAR, the album he picked.
I'm assuming he but the album that they picked, and
that's the lost art of keeping a secret. So no
Rated R is as good as anything in their catalog.
(29:36):
I'm cool with that, But for me, it's definitely songs
for the Best.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
What's mister Oaks take on Stone Temple Pilot's fan not
a fan.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Scott Wiland, the lead singer, was such a troubled individual,
problems with drugs and mental health, and he was just
always such a wreck. And I had a chance to
interview those guys a couple times, and he was basically
non responsive because he just there was. He had fro
himself with the rigors of touring, how popular the band was,
(30:04):
constant drug use, which ultimately, as we know, took his
life right here in Minneapolis on a tour bus when
he was playing with Velvet Revolver. The band themselves, though
they're undeniable, you know, they're great. They went from that
debut album Core, which had a much grindier, rougher rock
sound to it, and then sort of turned into these
not ballad eers, but they were an alternative mainstay, like
(30:28):
they were to alternative music what Train was like to
adult contemporary. And they were just staples. They had hit
after hit. They were very good at what they did.
I like them, then, you know, I don't love them,
but yeah, i'd like Stone Taple Pilots a lot common.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
It is incorrect about Beth.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
The song was about his wife, originally named Beck, but
Jean Simmons told him to change it.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
To Beth, Oh because Beck might not it might be
a little too familiar. Yeah, well, it's something about more
of a male name. I guess I suppose.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Thinking about Jeff Beck is what he says.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
I don't know if yeah, we could have gone with Becca,
but it would be a different song then yes.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
So again, sometimes you get information about songs and they're incorrect.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
So I don't know which one's right there are I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Can you ask ol his thoughts on the rock band
Geese I saw out in this past weekend in Saint Paul.
Excellent show from a young band. Lucky to see them
in such a small pack venue.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
I've not heard of them so they've played at the
Amsterdam and the only reason I know that is. I
also work part time at a record store mil City
Sound and Hopkins, which, by the way, for collectors, brilliant,
brilliant destination. But someone came in there and asked me
because I get I can't tell you the number of
people who come in like love you on rock Talk,
but the someone came in and asked me if I
(31:46):
saw the Geese show last night, and I'm like, who's Geese?
I've literally never heard of them, So that led into
me doing kind of a deep dive there while I
was at work. And they are another one of these
bands that are, you know, freakishly well respected among their fans,
and there's absolutely something happening there. What that is, I
don't know, but I don't think the Amsterdam, I think
was completely packed. And I don't think you'll get to
(32:08):
see him in a place that size again, at least
for the time being, because they seem to be on
an ascending path. But I know next to nothing about him,
but everybody who I've heard talk about him, which is
now two people deeply, deeply love them.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
One last text message before we do Rock Rank, Rock Rank,
it says, and I did see this because I texted
you this Sam Rivers, bass player for Limp Biscuit, passed
away a few days what age forty eight?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, wait, way too, do we all?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I did not see it. It was the last time
I read a story about it was right away. And basically,
you know how they always say, no cause of death
is not released yet, do we.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Know and what we do? But we don't really know everything.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
We know that he had a cardiac arrest and when
they found him he was non responsive as a result
of that cardiac arrest. What leads up to that and
what presaged that I have zero idea. Limp Biscuit was,
as they say in the biz, a little after my time,
something you can relate to now. I was around, but
I was doing sort of the more the mainstream alternative
(33:09):
stuff that was happening. That was sort of my first
fury into radio when that was going down, And that
New Metal thing was more of a ninety three X
kind of situation, And so while they were still under
the same umbrella, the new Metal was very different than
sort of the alternati alternative I was.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Peddling at the time. And Limp Biscuit was fine.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
They were fun, but you know, I mean, we're not
talking about important lyrics or interesting songs. We are talking
about a band that is fun to party too, and
you know, basically spoke to the angst of young people
when they landed. Just one of those days is an
all time staple and will always be revered by a
certain age group in this country because it was. It
was very much an anthem to teen frustration and just
(33:51):
life with frustration. You know, when you're angsty and you're
that age, somebody comes along and articulates it for you beautifully,
and that song becomes part of your canon.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Tennabe rock rock rock n rock right rock rank rock.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Rock run rock right all right, OK, maybe the most
cliche of all rock rank questions. Hit me Oak, what
is your top five albums of all time?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Now? See this one?
Speaker 5 (34:20):
And when so Antennabee told me about this, I got
back to him like, we sure we don't want to
narrow that down to an.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Era or a genre or whatever that in future rock rank.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
I appreciate it, but it's just yeah, I mean, so
this is literally just my personal top five albums of
all time.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
That's what we want. And again, a week from now.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
We could ask this question and there might be a
couple changes in there, right this is one of those
that's always changing. But as it stands right now, the
five records, and i'd use the criteria, what do I
go back to the most, even if there are new records?
I love things I'm into a little more right now.
This is over the course of my life. What are
the albums that I will always go back to and
always speak to me. I never get tired of them.
(34:59):
There are no songs you skip on them. Coming in
at number five is a nineteen sixty seven release from
the super group Cream Disraeli Gears. It's the cover, first
of all, might be the single greatest album cover in
rock history, with all the crazy day glow colors and
you can't get more psychedelic than that, and it was
designed by the legendary album designer Hypnosis. But inside you've
(35:23):
got this blues influenced rock and roll. But it was
an explosion. It's the only Clapton I really love, and
it's it's just so good.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
The songs are written well, they're imaginative.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
This is sort of peak British theater psychedelic heavy rock
of the late sixties and Disraeli Gears.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It's great.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
All the way every British album in that era has
one clunker on it, you know, one Sarah Silly goofy
sing song song, and they've got that there. But it's
just it's to me, it's a perfect record, and I
listened to it all the time. Number four, Number four
is American and came out about ten years after the
record we just talked about. They hailed from New York
and this record hit me at a time in my
(36:04):
life where not only did I find the lead singer
rather fetching again, this would have been the same year
I was eleven years old when I found this band. Yeah,
Baby Blondie, Parallel Lines is number four for me all time,
and they have other great records, but that was my
entree really, and the number of times while I'm sitting
there in the family room basement playing the Atari twenty
(36:24):
six hundred Pitfall. If memory serves that I just put
that there, You're welcome. If I put that, I'd put
that Parallel Lines on and just flipped it back and
forth and back for hours at a time. And I
still every time I put it on, the whole thing
holds up. I'm absolutely in love with it. Number three
Number three Minnesota. This would not make it on many
other people's top one hundred list, but the legendary Minnesota
(36:47):
band Hohosker Duo back in the eighties, we were Seattle
before Seattle was Seattle, right. We had prints, we had
the Replacements, We had sol Asylum in their early phase
before their nineties glory. And we also had what is
idly recognized as one of the greatest rock bands or
most influential rock bands in the eighties and nineties, and
that would be Whosker Do. And they have put out
(37:09):
a string of incredible albums, but they put out a
landmark double album band which for a hardcore band in
the mid eighties on a really cool label like SST,
this was unheard of. You don't do a concept double album.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
They did.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
And this record more than any other, and I don't
I say this without qualification. This record more than any other,
changed what I thought I knew about music, what I
came to expect from music, and what I've really always
loved about music. It coalesced in a way I'd never
heard anything like them before. And although they influenced hundreds,
if not thoundreds, hundreds if not thousands, of other bands
(37:45):
and artists. There still hasn't been anybody quite like Whosker Doo.
Soo's Narkade, their epic epic double album is number three.
Fun to say, who's it is that they got the
little umlounce over both.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Use Hoosker Doo. How about number two? Number two?
Speaker 5 (37:59):
A band that's very near and dear to both of
our hearts, and that would be The Cars. Candyo by
the Cars is and again I can hear arguments that
their first debut album is even better because it is
it's perfect. But Candyo again, maybe it just hit me
at the right time. Maybe that cover by Antonio Vargas
(38:20):
might have held my attention a little bit as I
was starting to understand more.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
About the world around me. But it's just so well
constructed to me.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
They're the perfect new wave band because lots of new
wave and this again it speaks to when we all
grow up right and when we come into our own musically,
and when new wave was happening, it was either very
heavy synthesizers, which I love, or very much almost post
punk kind.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Of guitar stuff.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
The Cars not only melded both of these beautifully, but
they cranked out top ten hits left and right for
more than seven eight years.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
They're just they're so good.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
The two lead singers, everybody in the band knows exactly
what their role is. I just think they're one of
the great America even though they're one of the worst
live bands I've ever seen, maybe the most boring live
band I've ever seen. Them as a songwriting and a
songmaking crafting unit are just among my very favorites.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
And Candyos my number two album of all time, Number.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
One White album, No Well, so I've got this whole
list of also rans and honorable mentions.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
The White album is right there atop that. It almost
made it.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
But for me, and I've said it many times, he's
my favorite of all time.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
But where do you pick?
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Because he's been so many different characters, He's done so
much at all of it very interesting and at a
high level and inventive and influential. For me, it's hunky Dory.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Now. The most recognizable album in his catalog.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
Is absolutely Ziggy Starred Us and the Spiders from Mars,
And before that he was experimenting with all these styles.
He had hit with Space Oddity, but then couldn't quite
get his groove back, and he put out The Man
Who Sold the World, which is really kind of a
heavy rock record. And then he came up right before
Ziggy starred us with the nineteen seventy one album Hunky Dory,
and it is a showcase of changes. Is on a
(40:00):
perfect song it is, I mean, and then that's your
the thesis statement on that record. That's the song everyone
knows is changes. But Queen Bitch is on there. Song
for Andy Warhol or Andy Warhol, song for Bob Dylan
is on there, The Kook's is on there.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Fill your Heart.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
It's just it's got as many different styles as there
are songs. He's excellent at all of them. Every one
of the songs on there matters. And I just I
can't think of an album that remains as satisfying and
does as much for me as David Bowie's Unky Dory.
I genuinely believe, as a cohesive unit, it's the greatest
(40:38):
rock record of all time.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Mine five would be.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
And I don't know if they're necessarily in this order
go on, but I would go Carr's debut album Excellent.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
I would go with Steely Dan's Asia. Yeah, And I
can't argue with that.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
I would go with.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the movie also perfect.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
I think I would also go with this is going
to be out there a little bit.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I mean, what's your favorite? It's personal, what's my favorite? Well,
just because I don't know, I have to think about more.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
I was a huge at your Winter, Johnny Winter, their
live album Roadwork, I think a spectacular and then my
favorite album of all times and Beatles Let It.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Be Well, and then we talked about it that Let.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
It Be is probably on the bottom of the list
of most people, and for a number of different reels
reasons that I could expound on at another time.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
But the music's playing, is time to go. It's time
to go to my list. That's too bad. I would
have loved we don't have time for your list.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Blue Group from Wheezer, Yeah, the.
Speaker 5 (41:40):
Album, the Green album, the Red album.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
What's it called, what's the one that's got red in it? Uh?
Red album? Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
You have a podcast I do. It's called the Brian
Oak Show Podcast. And earlier just yesterday, in fact, today's
podcast that came out today features Greg Norton of Whoskerdoo
as They've got this amazing box set coming out in
early November on Numero Group, documenting one of the greatest
concerts the band ever played. The Brian Oakshow podcast is
available on the free iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
We'll see you next Wednesday. See you then, that's Brian
Oakinrock Talk with Rock Rank.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
We'll take up, break, come back, five, three, four, next
ten to be correct.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
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