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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Quinny Cantara picks one on six friend of the program.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That's right, and not because he's the president for Entertainment
Enterprises and iHeartMedia. Because he's on the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Foundation, he's the chairman. It's John Syke
schonnected his.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Own how are you?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Oh, yes, my hometown is connected New York, Phoenix Avenue.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A schoolmate of doctor John's. Actually right, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
John Cooper was the guy who when I went to Syracuse,
when I was at the New House School together with John,
who had a real job. We were all working in
college radio. He actually had a job at a station
in Utica and got paid where like he gets paid
for doing it. So that was and he was my
neighbor a block away too, So I've known John almost
(00:43):
my whole life.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Yeah, he said, you guys used to go to huck
Finn together.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's adorable.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
So all these places like that. But I love that town.
I love Schenectady. I used to. I used to try
to get a job at the WRGB, the station there
Channel six nights, to hang out and wait for the
news director to walk up a parking lot. I think
he didn't like that I kind of snuck up on him.
But hey, that's that's show biz. I've got a.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
First job, you've got a jam, your foot in the
in the doors, it's the way. So we're talking to
John Sykes, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame Foundation rock and Roll in Duction Ceremony Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
John. I love that it's live.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It's a different show now, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
There's nothing that replaces live. We all know. Obviously it's
from sports. You know, who wants to watch a tape
a sports game, But the same thing with music. You
want to kind of be there and not miss it.
And that's what now going live on Disney Plus can
do for this. Because I've been hearing about the next
day and waiting for a tape replay. You can watch
it as it happened around the world. So it's going
(01:39):
to start at eight pm Eastern and runs about four hours,
and then it will run as the best of on
ABC on January one, the night of New Year's not
New Year's Eve but now Ye's night. But this just
this Saturday. It'll all be there live.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Well, I mean I can see Mick Fleet, but Fleet
would getting up there and saying something controversial and what
are we doing with this bad company presentation? Well?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Bad company, uh has been I've been trying to get
into the hall for a long time because before I
was chairman, I was on the nominating committee. And I
think Paul Rodgers has one of the greatest voices in
music from Free and of course backcoming to Raups and
the rest of the band. And there's some surprises.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Are there surprises on who's going to induct the White Stripes?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That hasn't been announced, right or has it?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
It has not, But if you look at the list
of presenters that we sent you, I'll bet you could
get okay, all right, suppressibly it's he. He would be
the guy to do the White Stripes, all.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Right, I think I know who. I think I know
who that is?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
All right?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Beautiful?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Am I reading that Jim Carrey is going to be there?
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I did read that Jim Carrey is going to be there.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That is exciting.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I'll give you a hint. Jim Carrey loves Sound Garden,
that's all say.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Okay, all right, I think it's a it's a funny
looking guy that's going to bring on Jack White, right,
the shows fellas.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
There, there you go. It's not just Jack White. This
is the white stripe, right.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Jack and Jack. Jack and Meg will be there.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Well, Jack will be there. I'm not sure if Meg
will be Meg is very very much of a recluse
right now. She doesn't really go out a lot and
I mean healthy, fine, great, but just but Jack will
be there. And wait until you see who's going to
perform to my song to a different artist. It will
blow your mind.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This is what we're waiting for, right, this is the
thing we got.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
We got Jerry Gantreill from Alison Chains, Pearl Jam and
Mike McCready, Brandy Carlisle all performing Sound Garden.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean, it's amazing rock.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony coming up on Saturday.
We're talking to the chairman of the Rock Foundation, John Sykes.
Here's connected his own John Sykes, who personally like you know,
just as a fan, who are you excited to see John?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Oh? It's it's so hard. They're all like they're all
your children, even though they're older than I am. But
I mean legends, Yeah, they're all legends and I've connected
to all of them. I mean, i mean, I just
think that I always I remember when I was in
college radio and and got the first Bad Company Acetate
that the record comes hanging out? Didn't you have an album? Cover?
(04:07):
Is just the vinyls? And I was so excited when
I heard them. But listen, we grew up with Joe
Cocker and Chubby Checkers. Sydney Laufer broke the barrier for
women in rock, and you've got Outcasts, redefined hip hop sound.
Garden sound on white stripes is genius. So and but
also if you remember the other awards that we're giving away,
the musical excellence you've got You've got Warren zvon who
(04:31):
changed I mean, what an incredible art is that great
sarcasm and created a whole sound for southern California. Salt
and Pepper the first female rock group to win a Grammy.
And if you love rock and roll, Nicky Hopkins played
on all those great Rolling Stones records, Whose Who records?
He was a piano player, and Mick Jagger is in
(04:52):
the testimonial tape for him on Saturday. He was one
of the great session players of all time.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Who are going to be watching the Rock and Roll
in Fame induction I will tell you this. I think
last week it was twenty three years since Zevon played Letterman,
and Letterman gave him the whole show.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Do you remember that day?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah? Yeah, and then he gave Letterman his guitar.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I did not realize that that is cool?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Right, well, you watch that guitar will be on stage
on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Your buddy, Your buddy's with Bob Pittman. You helped start MDV.
Bob Pittman and a guy who runs the runs the
runs the business.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Can you ask him if they're planning on doing AI
DJs anytime soon?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
No, we're not.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
We are not good.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
We're not we are not. And yeah, Bob and I
even partners from since our MTV days, right so we
started in our twenties. But no, we're not. No talent
on iHeart only really we are. We're in the business
of human beings.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Yes, real quickly, because people may ask.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Chubby Checker has decided he doesn't want to go because
you guys took too long to nominate him or to
put him in.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Well, though, the real story is he has a he
has a he has a contrary, he's playing in Santa
Barbara that night. He is in a paid concert. We uh,
you know we sometimes these bands have dates, you know,
performance dates, so they can't be there.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Go on, you buy that, John, I don't know if
I buy that.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
But there's also a guy being inducted named Lenny Warnerker.
You may not know his name, but he ran Warner
Brothers A and R for years and he's the one
who had Ted Templeman, who produced obviously all those Van
Halen records.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Right, And that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Always love talking. He will be watching you on Saturday night.
John Sykes, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame Foundation, Thanks for the time.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Thanks John, Thanks guys, thank you very much. I's connected.
I love it.
It's Quinny Cantara picks one on six friend of the program.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That's right, and not because he's the president for Entertainment
Enterprises and iHeartMedia. Because he's on the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Foundation, he's the chairman. It's John Syke
schonnected his.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Own how are you?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Oh, yes, my hometown is connected New York, Phoenix Avenue.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A schoolmate of doctor John's. Actually right, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
John Cooper was the guy who when I went to Syracuse,
when I was at the New House School together with John,
who had a real job. We were all working in
college radio. He actually had a job at a station
in Utica and got paid where like he gets paid
for doing it. So that was and he was my
neighbor a block away too, So I've known John almost
(00:43):
my whole life.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Yeah, he said, you guys used to go to huck
Finn together.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's adorable.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
So all these places like that. But I love that town.
I love Schenectady. I used to. I used to try
to get a job at the WRGB, the station there
Channel six nights, to hang out and wait for the
news director to walk up a parking lot. I think
he didn't like that I kind of snuck up on him.
But hey, that's that's show biz. I've got a.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
First job, you've got a jam, your foot in the
in the doors, it's the way. So we're talking to
John Sykes, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame Foundation rock and Roll in Duction Ceremony Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
John. I love that it's live.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It's a different show now, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
There's nothing that replaces live. We all know. Obviously it's
from sports. You know, who wants to watch a tape
a sports game, But the same thing with music. You
want to kind of be there and not miss it.
And that's what now going live on Disney Plus can
do for this. Because I've been hearing about the next
day and waiting for a tape replay. You can watch
it as it happened around the world. So it's going
(01:39):
to start at eight pm Eastern and runs about four hours,
and then it will run as the best of on
ABC on January one, the night of New Year's not
New Year's Eve but now Ye's night. But this just
this Saturday. It'll all be there live.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Well, I mean I can see Mick Fleet, but Fleet
would getting up there and saying something controversial and what
are we doing with this bad company presentation? Well?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Bad company, uh has been I've been trying to get
into the hall for a long time because before I
was chairman, I was on the nominating committee. And I
think Paul Rodgers has one of the greatest voices in
music from Free and of course backcoming to Raups and
the rest of the band. And there's some surprises.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Are there surprises on who's going to induct the White Stripes?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That hasn't been announced, right or has it?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
It has not, But if you look at the list
of presenters that we sent you, I'll bet you could
get okay, all right, suppressibly it's he. He would be
the guy to do the White Stripes, all.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Right, I think I know who. I think I know
who that is?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
All right?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Beautiful?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Am I reading that Jim Carrey is going to be there?
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I did read that Jim Carrey is going to be there.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That is exciting.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I'll give you a hint. Jim Carrey loves Sound Garden,
that's all say.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Okay, all right, I think it's a it's a funny
looking guy that's going to bring on Jack White, right,
the shows fellas.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
There, there you go. It's not just Jack White. This
is the white stripe, right.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Jack and Jack. Jack and Meg will be there.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Well, Jack will be there. I'm not sure if Meg
will be Meg is very very much of a recluse
right now. She doesn't really go out a lot and
I mean healthy, fine, great, but just but Jack will
be there. And wait until you see who's going to
perform to my song to a different artist. It will
blow your mind.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This is what we're waiting for, right, this is the
thing we got.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
We got Jerry Gantreill from Alison Chains, Pearl Jam and
Mike McCready, Brandy Carlisle all performing Sound Garden.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean, it's amazing rock.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony coming up on Saturday.
We're talking to the chairman of the Rock Foundation, John Sykes.
Here's connected his own John Sykes, who personally like you know,
just as a fan, who are you excited to see John?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Oh? It's it's so hard. They're all like they're all
your children, even though they're older than I am. But
I mean legends, Yeah, they're all legends and I've connected
to all of them. I mean, i mean, I just
think that I always I remember when I was in
college radio and and got the first Bad Company Acetate
that the record comes hanging out? Didn't you have an album? Cover?
(04:07):
Is just the vinyls? And I was so excited when
I heard them. But listen, we grew up with Joe
Cocker and Chubby Checkers. Sydney Laufer broke the barrier for
women in rock, and you've got Outcasts, redefined hip hop sound.
Garden sound on white stripes is genius. So and but
also if you remember the other awards that we're giving away,
the musical excellence you've got You've got Warren zvon who
(04:31):
changed I mean, what an incredible art is that great
sarcasm and created a whole sound for southern California. Salt
and Pepper the first female rock group to win a Grammy.
And if you love rock and roll, Nicky Hopkins played
on all those great Rolling Stones records, Whose Who records?
He was a piano player, and Mick Jagger is in
(04:52):
the testimonial tape for him on Saturday. He was one
of the great session players of all time.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Who are going to be watching the Rock and Roll
in Fame induction I will tell you this. I think
last week it was twenty three years since Zevon played Letterman,
and Letterman gave him the whole show.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Do you remember that day?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah? Yeah, and then he gave Letterman his guitar.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I did not realize that that is cool?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Right, well, you watch that guitar will be on stage
on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Your buddy, Your buddy's with Bob Pittman. You helped start MDV.
Bob Pittman and a guy who runs the runs the
runs the business.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Can you ask him if they're planning on doing AI
DJs anytime soon?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
No, we're not.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
We are not good.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
We're not we are not. And yeah, Bob and I
even partners from since our MTV days, right so we
started in our twenties. But no, we're not. No talent
on iHeart only really we are. We're in the business
of human beings.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Yes, real quickly, because people may ask.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Chubby Checker has decided he doesn't want to go because
you guys took too long to nominate him or to
put him in.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Well, though, the real story is he has a he
has a he has a contrary, he's playing in Santa
Barbara that night. He is in a paid concert. We uh,
you know we sometimes these bands have dates, you know,
performance dates, so they can't be there.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Go on, you buy that, John, I don't know if
I buy that.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
But there's also a guy being inducted named Lenny Warnerker.
You may not know his name, but he ran Warner
Brothers A and R for years and he's the one
who had Ted Templeman, who produced obviously all those Van
Halen records.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Right, And that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Always love talking. He will be watching you on Saturday night.
John Sykes, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame Foundation, Thanks for the time.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Thanks John, Thanks guys, thank you very much. I's connected.
I love it.
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