December 10, 2025 • 38 mins
An emotional, informative, and entertaining episode of the musical discussion podcast featuring significant passings, ticketing efforts, covers and tributes, and much more. Among those featured Raul Malo, Steve Cropper, Springsteen, The Voice Norway, David Byrne,Linda Rondstadt, and many more. Tune in and soak it up!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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And it's another edition of Danny and Tim's Music Scene.
(00:38):
My house is not a happy place over the last
couple of days because of the passing of Raoul Molow,
the primary songwriter lead singer of the Mavericks, who passed
away far too early at the age of sixty at
a very aggressive form of cancer. He originally was diagnosed
with prostate cancer a couple of years ago, but that
(00:59):
has spread into to another virulent kind of brain cancer
and he passes away. So we'll pay tribute to him.
We watched a tribute concert the other day from the
Ryman in Nashville, and many, many, many country and other
stars contributed to it and the Mavericks. The remaining members
of the Mavericks were up there. Anthony Mason from sixty
Minutes was the host. Steve Cropper also died. He got
(01:22):
to live to a more ripe old age of eighty four.
Best known as well. The backing band of Stax Records
was Booker t and the MG's but he did so
many more things for that. My wife went through the
process yesterday to be online right at the jump and
got very good seats for David Byrne next May fifth.
That's Starlight and I can't wait to look forward to that,
(01:44):
and always good to get Tim's reflections because he's seen
the Talking Heads and David Byrne many times. My wife
sent me a video actually from twenty twenty two yesterday
and it was by a Norwegian artist named Jorgan dull
Moe and it was a unbelievably different version of Dancing
(02:07):
in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen slow and he had
the judges crying and pounding their little light thing. It
was exactly it. It's Norway's the voice. It looks exactly
like the voice here. Anyway, he won that, he ended
up winning that year and this version is completely different
to the point when I played it for Timmy said,
I took a while to figure out what song it was,
(02:28):
and it just got me down to thinking that Bruce
Springsteen doesn't seem to have a lot of people cover
his songs, although famously maybe the first people's people's first
impression of him was Blinded by the Light by Manford
Man that was obviously a cover of his. So we'll
talk a little bit about that, and we've got some
other things to talk about, maybe the best interpreter cover
(02:51):
song artist ever, Linda Ronstadt, and a little nugget on
the way out that will put a sunshiny smile on
your face, I hope. Anyway. That's all part of Danny
and Tim's Music Scene, Arts and Lifestyle Wednesday, presented by
Strategic Partners, Inc.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
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After this, we're here with doctor brad Woodhell from Advanced
Sports and Family Chiropractic and Acupuncture. And one thing I
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Speaker 3 (03:20):
We have a Kid's Day the first Friday of every
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for them, movies, music, fun, gift bags, healthy treats, and
we want kids to learn about chiropractic and how to
stay well at an early age.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
It's part of their lifelong process of staying fit.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
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We're here with doctor Brad Woodell from Advanced Sports and
Family Chiropractic and Acupuncture. Staying active and being active is
part of a healthy lifestyle and something to make you happy,
but also maintaining the level of fitness so that you
can do it is important.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
We all want to perform better, whether we're ten moving
on to our next level of sports or whether we're
fifty wanting to maintain those sports. Staying in motion is
the key, but that motion isn't just the only part.
If our motion isn't balanced with our muscles, with our
joints and communicating through the nervous system, we are not
staying well. And that's where chiropractic can change your life.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
And you have all kinds of things here at the
clinics to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Lots of different touches and techniques, So if you're used
to traditional chiropractic, you are going to be amazed at
all the many different touches, techniques, therapies, and state of
the art equipment that helps you perform better.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Advanced Sports and Family Chiropractic and Acupuncture eight locations all
around the Kansas City area, so there's one near you
and you can stay fit, be fit, be happy, and
do all that at the eight locations of ASFCA.
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Speaker 2 (05:52):
Welcome back, and tragic news came on Tuesday, the passing
of rou Malo. They announced it Tuesday. He actually passed
away in the evening on Monday, just sixty years old
and the leader of the Mavericks. And we're lucky to
now know that we at least saw the Mavericks eight times,
and every time it was one of the most amazing
(06:15):
nights of your life. Basically like the prom and graduate,
high school, graduation and I don't know, a wedding all
rolled into one. And as Anthony Mason from sixty Minutes
put it, whenever I need an IV injection of joy,
I go to a Mavericks concert that will not happen anymore,
though maybe the other members will carry on. It's always
(06:37):
sad when this happens, but we talk about it as
we talk a lot of passings tim on this particular podcast.
But the music will live on. But age sixty is
far too young.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Yeah, and sixty feels like forty to me now right,
I mean, I'm not that far past it. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
And he just had so much life in him every
you know, like you said those shows were they were
just unrepentant mirth and joy and people you saw people
were there every show like like you and your wife.
It's some you know, people went back and went two
nights in a row. I know someone who saw them
three nights in Omaha and two nights here, like I
(07:19):
can't get enough of it, Like why would you turn
it down?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
You know?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
And and he was such he had so much charisma
and it's one of the most eminent voices ever.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Really talented. He wrote, he produced, he did everything, and.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
I had I probably saw him four or five times,
and I saw him solo once and talked to him
twice once for the solo tour when when when the
Mavericks come back together and just he was what you
think he would have been, just.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Really funny and warm and polite and a joy to
talk to.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
And you know, we've talked about this before, but when
you know people like this go away, they leave a
hole in your life. It's like something that you would
look forward to, like you know, having to really settle
down to the fact that I'll never see Tom Petty again,
because he was the guy I saw like twelve times,
and so there's this just absence and that this will
(08:17):
be another one of those.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
And it's way too young.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
And he has so much that he wanted to do,
no doubt, so much music to make and so many
live shows to do. But I've been listening to them
all morning and just it's it's almost painful, you know,
to hear that and remember time seeing them and.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Just eat glut of good music they put out.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
And I mean he and they were up there with
anybody as far as you know energy in a show, Springsteen,
you name it.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
It's they never wanted to quit. I remember, right. I
think they broke curfew at least.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Once when I saw them, because Frank is like to
turn it down and yeah, okay, we're walking to our
car in the parking.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Lot and they start up again. One more, right, one more?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Everybody wants one more, and we won't have one more.
But we were able to my wife together and I
once and then each of us separately twice got to
speak with where they used to do a thing in
Renaissance Records, and then he did one at a different
record store when he put out a solo album a
couple of years ago. And it's just a gracious man
(09:24):
and really enjoyable. In fact, I don't know if I've
mentioned this on this podcast, but my wife at one
point in time was trying to get a youth music
center started up, and she really went through the whole
process and trying to raise funding and put together a
plan and everything. And she just mentioned that at the
time to him and Eddie Perez, the guitarist, to her
(09:45):
at this thing, and they both said, well, if you
have a grand opening, we'll be there. And I believe
I believe it.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Oh yeah, sure, yeah he was. He's one of those
guys in the we'll.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Talk about David Byrne later, but who when they're on
stage and everyone at.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
The Mavericks show was just having the time of their life.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
But he looked and they looked especially proud that he
was having as much and more fun than anybody. Right,
this is where he wanted to be all the time,
and never took it for granted, never mailed it in.
It was just watching him and getting that energy from
him was just part of the enjoyment.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I'm sure it's available out there now. On Saturday night
we streamed there Danced the Night Away, a tribute concert
and commemorating Raoul, and he was supposed to be there,
but a couple of days before he is hospitalized and
obviously has passed.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We streamed it through something called nugs dot net. I
don't know if you can try to find it. I'm
sure you'll be able to find it. There's two nights.
Marty Stewart was there, Steve Earl, Patty Griffin, many many people.
The Mavericks played the whole time, and then other guests
would come up there and made very heartfelt comments to
the point where you really kind of knew that the
end was very close.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
And yes, but it was.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It was a great way to sort of celebrate. And
if you can find that show, it's a great It's
a great show for all the listeners out there if
you can find it in a great way. And we'll see,
we'll see if the Maveri it'd be there's no replacing
Raoul Malo and his voice and everything else, but the
songs are infectious and joyful, and we'll see what happens
in the future with him. And speaking of infectious and joyful,
(11:26):
many many songs that Steve Cropper was involved with are
infectious and joyful. And of course many people know him,
probably the best from the Blues Brothers movies. But he
was contributed to so many soul artists and wasn't really
a songwriter per se, but he would collaborate with all
of these writers and would get co writing credits, and
(11:49):
he never really pursued a solo career. One time, Keith
Richards was asked about Steve Crawford as Steve Cropper as
a player, and he said, oh, perfect, and that was right,
and that was it. So he passed away last week,
as I said, eighty four years old. So nice, good
run for Steve Cropper. An an iconic figure in the
(12:11):
world of music.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Yeah, this is when someone like this, guys, it's fit
two things for me.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
It opens me up to just the depth in the
vastness of their legend.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
And he was a legend.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
That's what people were a lot of musicians, you know,
of his statue were coming out and just saying just
an absolute legend. Leyland Squar had a really nice thing
to say about him. So that's those testimonials are are
one thing, and then I just find out stuff that
I didn't know about him. And the New York Times
rain a list of songs that he was either helped
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write or was involved in, and Green Onions was the
first one, and the writer says, his cropper makes the
song sees all the way through from his bitten off
chords in the intro to the taunting, jabbing solo at outro.
You know, there's lots of those. He co wrote. In
the Midnight Hour, the Wilson Pickett, he helped William Bell
(13:07):
and David Porter write with share what you Got to
Keep what you Need knocked on wood, so man semit Dave.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
He added to that the intro he.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
As a case told him like I need something, something
that's not here. So he had a zip o lighter.
He used it as a slide, and that's probably very memorable.
Intro and outro were written. He had was involved with
this reading sitting on the dock of the bay, just
more and more helping with you know, instrumentals or production
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or a lyric here in there or some kind of
chord progression. So he was just a high level genius
on all levels, like just there's nothing he couldn't do
or nothing he couldn't help improve. Shimiki Copeland wrote a
really nice tribute to him. He produced one of her records,
but everyone's account of him, membrance of him, which is glowing,
(14:01):
and it just burnished his legend for me because I
knew he was obviously well know and it was legendary
but even more than I.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Understood, right, really really amazing great stage pre presidence, too,
big guy, and it looked like he was having a
good time himself all the time and really really cool.
And it's great to be able to remember Steve Cropper
and have him as part of our musical legacy. And
obviously he got to be around a long time, but
(14:33):
longtime memories for everybody, I'm sure are all of the
music of Vince Giraldi around the Christmas time and Charlie
Brown's Christmas and basically we're talking to him before any
music that he wrote for any Charlie Brown stuff people
play as Christmas music, and he was just iconic. In
the sixtieth anniversary of Charlie Brown's Christmas being released was yesterday,
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and I mean the music just makes you happy and
it makes you feel like it's Christmas.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah, he really I think he filled.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Void or backing that we didn't know existed, because you
just hear even like I have the I have the
Christmas album, and I have a solo record of his
which has a Peanuts cartoon on it. So his connection
with them is just indelible.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
But it's just his his own compositions.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
And but like we were saying, you know before we
went on, it's you just hear him play in that
style and it just it feels like a Christmas song
or take remind you of Christmas or December or something.
So yeah, he was cast Your Faith to the Wind
as an instrumental he wrote that became a hit and
one of Grammy. It was one of the fact in
the time when they played instrumentals on top forty radio
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and songs like that. He had just such a subtle
and gentle way of bringing jazz to people like me
who didn't you know, weren't that literate in it, and
just apparently just the real gentle person. He died, really,
he died at forty seven. It was in February of
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nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
He was.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
During intermission of the show in Menlo Park, California. He
grew up around San Francisco. So yeah, I guess you
could say he died doing what he loved. Man forty seven,
So yeah, it's it's worth member remembering him and dig
into his short But what was a pretty brilliant career
and how he turned He turned one icon and one
(16:40):
you know, beloved American cultural thing, the Peanuts, into something
else and music, and I can't get too much of that,
of that soundtrack, it's the only Christmas music I play.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well. In twenty fifteen, they came out with another Peanuts
movie and I saw it and around that time, and
pianist named David Benoit did the piano for it, and
it's quite good and he knows how to play in
that style. And I saw him at the Fowley Theater
once and it was a fabulous show. So I guess
he's sort of the second generation Peanuts piano player and
(17:17):
a very very cool player. Also, his name is David
ben wah Well, A little bit of a melancholy first
segment of Arts and Lifestyle Wednesday with Danny and Tim's
music scene. Let's talk about some more upbeat stuff. Great
to pay tribute to these iconic musicians lost too young.
In the last two years, I have unfortunately discovered I
(17:41):
will never see Mark Knopfler again. He's still alive though,
that's good and making music, but just not on the road.
And now Raoul mollow passes at the age of sixty.
More coming up next, It's Arts and Lifestyle Wednesday was
added by a strategic Partners, Inc. And Danny and Tim's
music Scene. We're here with doctor Brad Woodell from Advanced
Sports and Family chirop Practic and Acupuncture. Staying active and
(18:02):
being active is part of a healthy lifestyle and something
to make you happy. But also maintaining the level of
fitness so that you can do it is important.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
We all want to perform better, whether we're ten moving
on to our next level of sports or whether we're
fifty wanting to maintain those sports. Staying in motion is
the key, but that motion isn't just the only part.
If our motion isn't balanced with our muscles, with our
joints and communicating through the nervous system, we are not
staying well. And that's where chiropractic can change your life.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
And you have all kinds of things here at the
clinics to do that.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Lots of different touches and techniques, So if you're used
to traditional chiropractic, you are going to be amazed at
all the many different touches, techniques, therapies, and state of
the art equipment that helps you perform better.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
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forward to working with you. Welcome back. Well these days,
if it's a popular artist you want to see and
you want to see him up close and personal, like
when to see Mark Knopfler or anybody you want to
get good seats to pretty much, you better find the
pre sale link and you better be there at ten
(21:07):
o'clock in the morning. And that's exactly what my wife
did yesterday. And even despite that, we are in the
third section at Starlight Theater. But it's a large venue,
well larger than David Byrne ordinarily play. So David Byrne
we will see and I will see for the first
time on May fifth at Starlight, and we did get
good seats. They're the standard issue what you'll get now.
(21:29):
You better if you're going to see somebody good, you're
going to pay one hundred and twenty five to one
hundred and fifty dollars. And that's what we did, and
I think it is going to be well worth it.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
There are no bad seats at Starlight right the perfect
outdoor venue. So I've sat in you know, the back
of the back section, and I've set up close, so yeah,
you're in for a tree. He's up there with my
favorite live performers. The first time I saw him was
happy to be on my birthday in two thousand and one,
(21:59):
was a Memorial Hall which held thirty three hundred. I
think there might have been barely a thousand people there.
He told everybody and that it was in the upper decks.
Come on down, you know, till the door.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Guys let him in.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Let's fill the floor, which he did, and it was
akin to a Maverick show. He he did not care
who wasn't there or whatever.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I just remember him doing a.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Cover of the Whitney Houston hit I Want to Dance
with Somebody. You can find that on video. It just
put me into a different orbit. Like I think, if
you see him on you know, it's not making sense.
He's he's he's just having me so much fun on
stage and not overdoing it. He's a little understated, but
(22:41):
and he's got so many great songs. Now I'm not
sure what I know someone who just saw him recently so,
but he's doing a lot of talking head stuff.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
It's a mix of stuff.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
The last time I saw him, he was with Saint Vincent,
Andy Clark, and because I put out a record together.
So this was at Grinders and he had the horn
section and it was the people I know who were there.
I mean, you mentioned that show ten or eleven years ago.
Are still talking about that show and just remember what
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joy it was? And he I talked to Saint Vincent.
She came here like a year or two after that,
and I talked to her about that tour, and she said,
he changed everything. He changed my attitude about live performance
and what it means to be a performer. And you know,
your duty as a live performer is to have fun,
but also you know you're there to entertain the audience.
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So he just sort of, she said, in a way,
rewrote her whole philosophy of live performance. And you know,
he he's famous for riding around Kansas City on his
bicycle on a bicycle and going to barbecues and just
walking in like.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Hey, you know, yeah, it's me, hate me. So I
just love everything about him.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I could interview him once and he was another guy
who who just made me, you know, admire him even
more because he was such a prince of a guy.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's really cool when that happens I mean some it
seems to me, you know, just a side reflection and
when we've done these and you've talked about people you've
talked to on the whole, it seems to have been
generally a good experience. Like I'd say, like I've heard
eighty five percent? Is that about writer? That too high?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
I would it's very rare. I would say ninety more
like it.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
The only the really bad one to have was lou
Reid because he didn't want to do it right and
I was going to back out and just say because
they kept rescheduling it and you got fifteen though you
got ten minutes, Like if he doesn't want to do it,
then just why bother? And we shouldn't have bothered it was.
It was grueling. I had like ten questions and by
a minute we've gone through him because he would be like,
(24:52):
I don't know, not really, I guess you know, oh jeez, that.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Was just awful.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
But oddly or maybe not, It's like a couple of
the smaller bands, you know, right that what was the
name of that band, a Black Revel motorcycle Club. Well
they just started goofing around like no respect. They were
passing the phone around I didn't know who I was
talking to. They were in the band, and so I
kept it going. I'm like, okay, a waste your time,
and then I didn't like the story. I did that twice.
(25:20):
The lead singer for Third Eye Blind was the same way,
like just playing with his dog, and I've heard that
so those of the two. But it's like the people
who need it the least typically respect it the most,
especially the Brits. I will say that one percent of
them are just respectful at least. Even beyond that, like
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Ian Anderson. I couldn't get him off the phone from
Jeff Hotel. He was going into I grow economics and
stuff because he was like, Okay, I don't think this
is going to make the story.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
But so yeah. But David Byrne was just.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
When it starts to feel like you're talking to a friend,
you know that when it's special, and that's what it
was like with him.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
That's really cool. Well, my wife has gotten into the habit,
which is a good habit for me, of if she
sees she spends far too much time on her phone,
by the way, but anyway, that's good for me because
she'll send me stuff every now and then and she
sent me a link in a musical moment which turned
out to be unbelievable yesterday as she found I don't
(26:23):
know what feed it came up on her whatever, but
she sent me a twenty twenty two performance on the
Norwegian version of the Voice by an artist named Jorgen
dal Mo, who actually would win the competition in twenty
twenty two. And it was a way slowed down, melancholy,
almost dark version of Bruce Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark,
(26:46):
which obviously is an upbeat, poppy tune the way he
does it with the video and bringing the girl on
stage and all that, and that is not at all
what this was. And the judges were just mean, they
were apoplectic in a good way. They're banging away at
this thing. The light goes on. I don't watch the voice,
so I don't know, but they were laughing then crying.
(27:09):
I played it for Tim. It was probably difficult to
get a great sense of it, but I completely you said,
I said, think Nick Drake Nick Cave version of it.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
But yeah, I mean he really brings out the sorrow
and the lyrics, because I know a guy saying I
want to change my clothes my hair, my face. You know,
he's dancing in the dark because he's got no one
to dance with. But the spring scenes it's so upbeat
and jaunty. The lyrics can get by you, right, So yeah,
it's that's one way to do a cover. It's completely deconstructed.
(27:43):
But he was it sounded like he was still faithful
to the melody. It was just it was like playing
a seventy eight or thirty three or something.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yes, yes, well, what's cool is that it's out there.
You should find it, folks. It's really really cool. It'll
be it'll make you sort of tear up. It's sad,
melancholy and gives you a completely different idea of what
was being written, actually, which made it almost seem a
little strange that Bruce decided to do it in the
way he did, which was kind of interesting, but it
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made me think that I, you know, Bruce Springsteen in
concert in the EA Street Ban are famous for, you know,
routinely doing several covers and different ones for each show.
Their shows are so long, but it's not like they
don't have enough material, but they do things that have
become iconic. And you know, Santa Claus is Coming to
(28:34):
Town just pops into my head right now in the
Christmas season. And of course there was one very famous
cover Blinded by the Light early in Bruce's career, which
probably a lot of people didn't know who Bruce Springsteen
was when that became a hit. But besides that, I
don't think it's I wonder what you know, Certain artists
to me seem like people just don't do it. Maybe
(28:57):
they figure it's not the kind of ground they want
to cover. But it seems to me like Bruce's songwriting
and everything else is almost in Dylan esque way, something
that could be interpreted like this guy did and differently
and covered interestingly.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Well, and also coincidentally, one of Manford Man's versus it
was Quinn the Eskimo, a Dylan's song. So yeah, I
mean it's it's I think you gotta be careful when
you do that, like tackling the Beatles, Like yes, why
bother write.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Although Earthman and fire Game and that was a hit.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
So so yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Like I mentioned.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
This before, Springsteen put out a live record with the
Sessions band has a horn section and he takes Blinded
by the Light and it almost sounds like a New
Orleans you know band, right.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
It's very very raw, upbeat, syncopated. It's like.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
I recognize it, well, I knew what it was, but
it didn't throw me like the cover you just play,
but completely refashions the song. It's really upbeat, really engaging,
and it's taken over my It's my favorite version of
that song.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
So Skeevehn he was like, all right, nobody else is
going to do that. I'll cover myself.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I'll cover myself and make it even better. Well, speaking
of covers, I don't even know if it's fair to
color it. Cover artist really is Linda Ronstadt, and she
just she's not a songwriter, has never, I don't think,
written a single song as far as I know, at
least not for public consumption, but has reinterpreted so many
(30:34):
songs in such a fantastic way, many songs that were
quite familiar in their original output, and one that probably
not quite as familiar to people. But it was a
great song when done by the Hollies was I Can't
Let Go. And she had a big hit with that,
and it's got the usual suspects on it. Russ Kunkle's
playing the drums and Nicolett Larson's background singer and Waddie
(30:57):
Walketel's on there, so she did this often. I heard
this song recently. I hadn't heard it in a long time.
Her version and made me go look up the Holly's version,
which is excellent, and it was early Hollies nineteen sixty six.
Graham Nash was still in the band then. So it's
a very very catchy tune and just makes you you
(31:17):
always there's never any reason not to get a reminder
of what a song smith. Linda Arnstadt is.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
Paula vocalist, not just male with female. She's excuse me,
she's in my top five. She and Karen Carpenter, I think,
are the voices that just absolutely clobber me. They're just
they're so perfect for the music they were doing. And
Christine but not too perfect, not too polished, and Linda
rossaid the Greatest Hits record is by far my favorite
(31:49):
greatest hits.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Album of any of anyone. It's just front to back.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
It's been Like you said, I consider cover art as
someone who does takes a hit and covers it. But
she she, you know, took songs that maybe weren't so
well known and made them her own and made them
hits because of the way that we're produced and the
way she sang them.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
And it's just a I mean, one of the prettiest
women in music.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Just and also I did talk to her once before
she came here for the only time I saw her,
and had the most interesting conversation. I have transcribed it
and I keep it on my phone. She talks about
music education, she talks about music in general, and how
there's there's music is being just discounted because there's it's everywhere.
It's some commercials, that's at stores. We almost don't have
(32:41):
the choice of when we hear music. And so she
was kind of like, I'm worried about it. That's why
people are paying so little for it. And so she's
really really smart and thoughtful, and I know she's going
through you know what happens when you get old, and
but yeah, she's she's a favorite, absolute favorite on many levels.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
In a similar vein, but really not the same. I
am has been told about here in this particular podcast,
not by nature the biggest fan of tribute bands, although
I know so many. When I've gone on the few
times i've actually done it, people have been professional and amazing, really,
but my wife is going to be out of town
(33:23):
last Friday, and I had an event early in the evening,
and like three days before, I went by the Aztec
Theater and it said on the marquee it says this
Friday night Aerosmith tribute in the bands called Arrows Myth Myth,
and so I gave them credit right there for an
interesting title, and so I went home, went online. There
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was a single seat right in the front row for
twenty bucks, so I bought it. And it was a
really great show. I mean, they did an excellent that
Stephen Tyler, he didn't quite have the moves, but he
sang very well. The guitar players probably were better than
Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, to be honest, and the
(34:08):
fans sort of reacted more, which was kind of disappointing
to the more ninety ish pop stuff that I don't
really like. But they actually played some deep stuff too.
I was impressed. I can recommend Arrows Myth if you
see them around.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
You know, there's I don't I know, there's some dissonance
in the music community about full of cover bands and
they're taking spots that original bands would have and taking
I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
I'm like, people go to hear the music they want.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
To hear, right, So people are changing my mind, that's
for sure.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Well, so there's a there's a band called Phone a Job,
which is a tucking Heads tribute. They are absolutely stone
cold perfect, like they've got everything down.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
So I've seen them a few times.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
But also my wife is say yes, yes, the Magnificent
they call themselves because there's a excuse me, there's a anyway,
there's a reason. It's a part of the Cure songs.
They're a pure tribute band, cover band. So she plays,
she does background vocals. She has a great voice, plays
glockenspiel and flute and tambourine and they do yeah it's
(35:18):
it's I'm going yeah, okay that record bar. Yeah, if
you love the Cure, they do it. Byron's the lead singer.
He's got Robert Smith's waist down pat. So it's fun.
It's always fun. I think my kids have my daughters
have done with me to watch a few times and
they might be able to do it this year, so
that's always a fun time.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Yeah, I'm down for knowing you're.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
Going to go to a show, hear music you like
and have loved for a while. I don't have any
problem with it. And people are making money up but
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, it is fine. And I think I'm softening. I
am softening over time, so you know, I think. I
also think that these bands have gotten way better. I mean,
I think the I think they just take it seriously.
It's not a caricature. It's it's a band obviously they
like or they wouldn't play the music. And it is.
(36:10):
And the more I think of it as tribute rather
than cover, I guess I'm I'm better for it.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
And to go out on the one, there's a there's
a really good Tom Petty cover or a tribute band
out there, but their name is called Heavy Petty.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Yes, really, that's the best you can Yeah, that's not
very good, but they're really good. They're really good everything.
They get it all down perfect.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
That's great. And a final silly note, I was driving
around the other day and the song I hadn't heard
in a long time called come on Down to My
Boat Baby came on and it's a very catchy, well done, well,
very well produced song, and it was by a band
called every mother's son. It was their only hit, number
six on the charts, and so I looked them up
(36:56):
on Wikipedia and I just got a smile out of this.
There it says genre sunshine Pop. I mean, if that
phrase doesn't make you smile, I don't know what will.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
Oh you think about it? The Archies were around back then. Yeah,
it's kind of that being of music where it is.
It's just it's bubble dummy, it's sweet, it's catchy. It's
almost like a commercial jingle echoes on for two minutes.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
I'm down for it. You know. They usually only have
one hit, but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yes, get yourself a dose a sunshine Pop when you're
not feeling very good. Tim always a pleasure to talk
about things melancholy and tributes and everything else, and always
appreciate it. Every other week and we'll talk to you
again in two weeks.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
That was good. Thanks Gnny.
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My house is not a happy place over the last
couple of days because of the passing of Raoul Molow,
the primary songwriter lead singer of the Mavericks, who passed
away far too early at the age of sixty at
a very aggressive form of cancer. He originally was diagnosed
with prostate cancer a couple of years ago, but that
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has spread into to another virulent kind of brain cancer
and he passes away. So we'll pay tribute to him.
We watched a tribute concert the other day from the
Ryman in Nashville, and many, many, many country and other
stars contributed to it and the Mavericks. The remaining members
of the Mavericks were up there. Anthony Mason from sixty
Minutes was the host. Steve Cropper also died. He got
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to live to a more ripe old age of eighty four.
Best known as well. The backing band of Stax Records
was Booker t and the MG's but he did so
many more things for that. My wife went through the
process yesterday to be online right at the jump and
got very good seats for David Byrne next May fifth.
That's Starlight and I can't wait to look forward to that,
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and always good to get Tim's reflections because he's seen
the Talking Heads and David Byrne many times. My wife
sent me a video actually from twenty twenty two yesterday
and it was by a Norwegian artist named Jorgan dull
Moe and it was a unbelievably different version of Dancing
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in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen slow and he had
the judges crying and pounding their little light thing. It
was exactly it. It's Norway's the voice. It looks exactly
like the voice here. Anyway, he won that, he ended
up winning that year and this version is completely different
to the point when I played it for Timmy said,
I took a while to figure out what song it was,
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and it just got me down to thinking that Bruce
Springsteen doesn't seem to have a lot of people cover
his songs, although famously maybe the first people's people's first
impression of him was Blinded by the Light by Manford
Man that was obviously a cover of his. So we'll
talk a little bit about that, and we've got some
other things to talk about, maybe the best interpreter cover
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the way out that will put a sunshiny smile on
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Welcome back, and tragic news came on Tuesday, the passing
of rou Malo. They announced it Tuesday. He actually passed
away in the evening on Monday, just sixty years old
and the leader of the Mavericks. And we're lucky to
now know that we at least saw the Mavericks eight times,
and every time it was one of the most amazing
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nights of your life. Basically like the prom and graduate,
high school, graduation and I don't know, a wedding all
rolled into one. And as Anthony Mason from sixty Minutes
put it, whenever I need an IV injection of joy,
I go to a Mavericks concert that will not happen anymore,
though maybe the other members will carry on. It's always
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sad when this happens, but we talk about it as
we talk a lot of passings tim on this particular podcast.
But the music will live on. But age sixty is
far too young.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Yeah, and sixty feels like forty to me now right,
I mean, I'm not that far past it. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
And he just had so much life in him every
you know, like you said those shows were they were
just unrepentant mirth and joy and people you saw people
were there every show like like you and your wife.
It's some you know, people went back and went two
nights in a row. I know someone who saw them
three nights in Omaha and two nights here, like I
(07:19):
can't get enough of it, Like why would you turn
it down?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
You know?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
And and he was such he had so much charisma
and it's one of the most eminent voices ever.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Really talented. He wrote, he produced, he did everything, and.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
I had I probably saw him four or five times,
and I saw him solo once and talked to him
twice once for the solo tour when when when the
Mavericks come back together and just he was what you
think he would have been, just.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Really funny and warm and polite and a joy to
talk to.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
And you know, we've talked about this before, but when
you know people like this go away, they leave a
hole in your life. It's like something that you would
look forward to, like you know, having to really settle
down to the fact that I'll never see Tom Petty again,
because he was the guy I saw like twelve times,
and so there's this just absence and that this will
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be another one of those.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
And it's way too young.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
And he has so much that he wanted to do,
no doubt, so much music to make and so many
live shows to do. But I've been listening to them
all morning and just it's it's almost painful, you know,
to hear that and remember time seeing them and.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Just eat glut of good music they put out.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
And I mean he and they were up there with
anybody as far as you know energy in a show, Springsteen,
you name it.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
It's they never wanted to quit. I remember, right. I
think they broke curfew at least.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Once when I saw them, because Frank is like to
turn it down and yeah, okay, we're walking to our
car in the parking.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Lot and they start up again. One more, right, one more?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Everybody wants one more, and we won't have one more.
But we were able to my wife together and I
once and then each of us separately twice got to
speak with where they used to do a thing in
Renaissance Records, and then he did one at a different
record store when he put out a solo album a
couple of years ago. And it's just a gracious man
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and really enjoyable. In fact, I don't know if I've
mentioned this on this podcast, but my wife at one
point in time was trying to get a youth music
center started up, and she really went through the whole
process and trying to raise funding and put together a
plan and everything. And she just mentioned that at the
time to him and Eddie Perez, the guitarist, to her
(09:45):
at this thing, and they both said, well, if you
have a grand opening, we'll be there. And I believe
I believe it.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Oh yeah, sure, yeah he was. He's one of those
guys in the we'll.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Talk about David Byrne later, but who when they're on
stage and everyone at.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
The Mavericks show was just having the time of their life.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
But he looked and they looked especially proud that he
was having as much and more fun than anybody. Right,
this is where he wanted to be all the time,
and never took it for granted, never mailed it in.
It was just watching him and getting that energy from
him was just part of the enjoyment.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I'm sure it's available out there now. On Saturday night
we streamed there Danced the Night Away, a tribute concert
and commemorating Raoul, and he was supposed to be there,
but a couple of days before he is hospitalized and
obviously has passed.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We streamed it through something called nugs dot net. I
don't know if you can try to find it. I'm
sure you'll be able to find it. There's two nights.
Marty Stewart was there, Steve Earl, Patty Griffin, many many people.
The Mavericks played the whole time, and then other guests
would come up there and made very heartfelt comments to
the point where you really kind of knew that the
end was very close.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
And yes, but it was.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It was a great way to sort of celebrate. And
if you can find that show, it's a great It's
a great show for all the listeners out there if
you can find it in a great way. And we'll see,
we'll see if the Maveri it'd be there's no replacing
Raoul Malo and his voice and everything else, but the
songs are infectious and joyful, and we'll see what happens
in the future with him. And speaking of infectious and joyful,
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many many songs that Steve Cropper was involved with are
infectious and joyful. And of course many people know him,
probably the best from the Blues Brothers movies. But he
was contributed to so many soul artists and wasn't really
a songwriter per se, but he would collaborate with all
of these writers and would get co writing credits, and
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he never really pursued a solo career. One time, Keith
Richards was asked about Steve Crawford as Steve Cropper as
a player, and he said, oh, perfect, and that was right,
and that was it. So he passed away last week,
as I said, eighty four years old. So nice, good
run for Steve Cropper. An an iconic figure in the
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world of music.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Yeah, this is when someone like this, guys, it's fit
two things for me.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
It opens me up to just the depth in the
vastness of their legend.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
And he was a legend.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
That's what people were a lot of musicians, you know,
of his statue were coming out and just saying just
an absolute legend. Leyland Squar had a really nice thing
to say about him. So that's those testimonials are are
one thing, and then I just find out stuff that
I didn't know about him. And the New York Times
rain a list of songs that he was either helped
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write or was involved in, and Green Onions was the
first one, and the writer says, his cropper makes the
song sees all the way through from his bitten off
chords in the intro to the taunting, jabbing solo at outro.
You know, there's lots of those. He co wrote. In
the Midnight Hour, the Wilson Pickett, he helped William Bell
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and David Porter write with share what you Got to
Keep what you Need knocked on wood, so man semit Dave.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
He added to that the intro he.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
As a case told him like I need something, something
that's not here. So he had a zip o lighter.
He used it as a slide, and that's probably very memorable.
Intro and outro were written. He had was involved with
this reading sitting on the dock of the bay, just
more and more helping with you know, instrumentals or production
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or a lyric here in there or some kind of
chord progression. So he was just a high level genius
on all levels, like just there's nothing he couldn't do
or nothing he couldn't help improve. Shimiki Copeland wrote a
really nice tribute to him. He produced one of her records,
but everyone's account of him, membrance of him, which is glowing,
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and it just burnished his legend for me because I
knew he was obviously well know and it was legendary
but even more than I.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Understood, right, really really amazing great stage pre presidence, too,
big guy, and it looked like he was having a
good time himself all the time and really really cool.
And it's great to be able to remember Steve Cropper
and have him as part of our musical legacy. And
obviously he got to be around a long time, but
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longtime memories for everybody, I'm sure are all of the
music of Vince Giraldi around the Christmas time and Charlie
Brown's Christmas and basically we're talking to him before any
music that he wrote for any Charlie Brown stuff people
play as Christmas music, and he was just iconic. In
the sixtieth anniversary of Charlie Brown's Christmas being released was yesterday,
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and I mean the music just makes you happy and
it makes you feel like it's Christmas.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah, he really I think he filled.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Void or backing that we didn't know existed, because you
just hear even like I have the I have the
Christmas album, and I have a solo record of his
which has a Peanuts cartoon on it. So his connection
with them is just indelible.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
But it's just his his own compositions.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
And but like we were saying, you know before we
went on, it's you just hear him play in that
style and it just it feels like a Christmas song
or take remind you of Christmas or December or something.
So yeah, he was cast Your Faith to the Wind
as an instrumental he wrote that became a hit and
one of Grammy. It was one of the fact in
the time when they played instrumentals on top forty radio
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and songs like that. He had just such a subtle
and gentle way of bringing jazz to people like me
who didn't you know, weren't that literate in it, and
just apparently just the real gentle person. He died, really,
he died at forty seven. It was in February of
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nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
He was.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
During intermission of the show in Menlo Park, California. He
grew up around San Francisco. So yeah, I guess you
could say he died doing what he loved. Man forty seven,
So yeah, it's it's worth member remembering him and dig
into his short But what was a pretty brilliant career
and how he turned He turned one icon and one
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you know, beloved American cultural thing, the Peanuts, into something
else and music, and I can't get too much of that,
of that soundtrack, it's the only Christmas music I play.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well. In twenty fifteen, they came out with another Peanuts
movie and I saw it and around that time, and
pianist named David Benoit did the piano for it, and
it's quite good and he knows how to play in
that style. And I saw him at the Fowley Theater
once and it was a fabulous show. So I guess
he's sort of the second generation Peanuts piano player and
(17:17):
a very very cool player. Also, his name is David
ben wah Well, A little bit of a melancholy first
segment of Arts and Lifestyle Wednesday with Danny and Tim's
music scene. Let's talk about some more upbeat stuff. Great
to pay tribute to these iconic musicians lost too young.
In the last two years, I have unfortunately discovered I
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will never see Mark Knopfler again. He's still alive though,
that's good and making music, but just not on the road.
And now Raoul mollow passes at the age of sixty.
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forward to working with you. Welcome back. Well these days,
if it's a popular artist you want to see and
you want to see him up close and personal, like
when to see Mark Knopfler or anybody you want to
get good seats to pretty much, you better find the
pre sale link and you better be there at ten
(21:07):
o'clock in the morning. And that's exactly what my wife
did yesterday. And even despite that, we are in the
third section at Starlight Theater. But it's a large venue,
well larger than David Byrne ordinarily play. So David Byrne
we will see and I will see for the first
time on May fifth at Starlight, and we did get
good seats. They're the standard issue what you'll get now.
(21:29):
You better if you're going to see somebody good, you're
going to pay one hundred and twenty five to one
hundred and fifty dollars. And that's what we did, and
I think it is going to be well worth it.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
There are no bad seats at Starlight right the perfect
outdoor venue. So I've sat in you know, the back
of the back section, and I've set up close, so yeah,
you're in for a tree. He's up there with my
favorite live performers. The first time I saw him was
happy to be on my birthday in two thousand and one,
(21:59):
was a Memorial Hall which held thirty three hundred. I
think there might have been barely a thousand people there.
He told everybody and that it was in the upper decks.
Come on down, you know, till the door.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Guys let him in.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Let's fill the floor, which he did, and it was
akin to a Maverick show. He he did not care
who wasn't there or whatever.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I just remember him doing a.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Cover of the Whitney Houston hit I Want to Dance
with Somebody. You can find that on video. It just
put me into a different orbit. Like I think, if
you see him on you know, it's not making sense.
He's he's he's just having me so much fun on
stage and not overdoing it. He's a little understated, but
(22:41):
and he's got so many great songs. Now I'm not
sure what I know someone who just saw him recently so,
but he's doing a lot of talking head stuff.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
It's a mix of stuff.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
The last time I saw him, he was with Saint Vincent,
Andy Clark, and because I put out a record together.
So this was at Grinders and he had the horn
section and it was the people I know who were there.
I mean, you mentioned that show ten or eleven years ago.
Are still talking about that show and just remember what
(23:16):
joy it was? And he I talked to Saint Vincent.
She came here like a year or two after that,
and I talked to her about that tour, and she said,
he changed everything. He changed my attitude about live performance
and what it means to be a performer. And you know,
your duty as a live performer is to have fun,
but also you know you're there to entertain the audience.
(23:39):
So he just sort of, she said, in a way,
rewrote her whole philosophy of live performance. And you know,
he he's famous for riding around Kansas City on his
bicycle on a bicycle and going to barbecues and just
walking in like.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Hey, you know, yeah, it's me, hate me. So I
just love everything about him.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I could interview him once and he was another guy
who who just made me, you know, admire him even
more because he was such a prince of a guy.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's really cool when that happens I mean some it
seems to me, you know, just a side reflection and
when we've done these and you've talked about people you've
talked to on the whole, it seems to have been
generally a good experience. Like I'd say, like I've heard
eighty five percent? Is that about writer? That too high?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
I would it's very rare. I would say ninety more
like it.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
The only the really bad one to have was lou
Reid because he didn't want to do it right and
I was going to back out and just say because
they kept rescheduling it and you got fifteen though you
got ten minutes, Like if he doesn't want to do it,
then just why bother? And we shouldn't have bothered it was.
It was grueling. I had like ten questions and by
a minute we've gone through him because he would be like,
(24:52):
I don't know, not really, I guess you know, oh jeez, that.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Was just awful.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
But oddly or maybe not, It's like a couple of
the smaller bands, you know, right that what was the
name of that band, a Black Revel motorcycle Club. Well
they just started goofing around like no respect. They were
passing the phone around I didn't know who I was
talking to. They were in the band, and so I
kept it going. I'm like, okay, a waste your time,
and then I didn't like the story. I did that twice.
(25:20):
The lead singer for Third Eye Blind was the same way,
like just playing with his dog, and I've heard that
so those of the two. But it's like the people
who need it the least typically respect it the most,
especially the Brits. I will say that one percent of
them are just respectful at least. Even beyond that, like
(25:41):
Ian Anderson. I couldn't get him off the phone from
Jeff Hotel. He was going into I grow economics and
stuff because he was like, Okay, I don't think this
is going to make the story.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
But so yeah. But David Byrne was just.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
When it starts to feel like you're talking to a friend,
you know that when it's special, and that's what it
was like with him.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
That's really cool. Well, my wife has gotten into the habit,
which is a good habit for me, of if she
sees she spends far too much time on her phone,
by the way, but anyway, that's good for me because
she'll send me stuff every now and then and she
sent me a link in a musical moment which turned
out to be unbelievable yesterday as she found I don't
(26:23):
know what feed it came up on her whatever, but
she sent me a twenty twenty two performance on the
Norwegian version of the Voice by an artist named Jorgen
dal Mo, who actually would win the competition in twenty
twenty two. And it was a way slowed down, melancholy,
almost dark version of Bruce Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark,
(26:46):
which obviously is an upbeat, poppy tune the way he
does it with the video and bringing the girl on
stage and all that, and that is not at all
what this was. And the judges were just mean, they
were apoplectic in a good way. They're banging away at
this thing. The light goes on. I don't watch the voice,
so I don't know, but they were laughing then crying.
(27:09):
I played it for Tim. It was probably difficult to
get a great sense of it, but I completely you said,
I said, think Nick Drake Nick Cave version of it.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
But yeah, I mean he really brings out the sorrow
and the lyrics, because I know a guy saying I
want to change my clothes my hair, my face. You know,
he's dancing in the dark because he's got no one
to dance with. But the spring scenes it's so upbeat
and jaunty. The lyrics can get by you, right, So yeah,
it's that's one way to do a cover. It's completely deconstructed.
(27:43):
But he was it sounded like he was still faithful
to the melody. It was just it was like playing
a seventy eight or thirty three or something.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yes, yes, well, what's cool is that it's out there.
You should find it, folks. It's really really cool. It'll
be it'll make you sort of tear up. It's sad,
melancholy and gives you a completely different idea of what
was being written, actually, which made it almost seem a
little strange that Bruce decided to do it in the
way he did, which was kind of interesting, but it
(28:14):
made me think that I, you know, Bruce Springsteen in
concert in the EA Street Ban are famous for, you know,
routinely doing several covers and different ones for each show.
Their shows are so long, but it's not like they
don't have enough material, but they do things that have
become iconic. And you know, Santa Claus is Coming to
(28:34):
Town just pops into my head right now in the
Christmas season. And of course there was one very famous
cover Blinded by the Light early in Bruce's career, which
probably a lot of people didn't know who Bruce Springsteen
was when that became a hit. But besides that, I
don't think it's I wonder what you know, Certain artists
to me seem like people just don't do it. Maybe
(28:57):
they figure it's not the kind of ground they want
to cover. But it seems to me like Bruce's songwriting
and everything else is almost in Dylan esque way, something
that could be interpreted like this guy did and differently
and covered interestingly.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Well, and also coincidentally, one of Manford Man's versus it
was Quinn the Eskimo, a Dylan's song. So yeah, I
mean it's it's I think you gotta be careful when
you do that, like tackling the Beatles, Like yes, why
bother write.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Although Earthman and fire Game and that was a hit.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
So so yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Like I mentioned.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
This before, Springsteen put out a live record with the
Sessions band has a horn section and he takes Blinded
by the Light and it almost sounds like a New
Orleans you know band, right.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
It's very very raw, upbeat, syncopated. It's like.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
I recognize it, well, I knew what it was, but
it didn't throw me like the cover you just play,
but completely refashions the song. It's really upbeat, really engaging,
and it's taken over my It's my favorite version of
that song.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
So Skeevehn he was like, all right, nobody else is
going to do that. I'll cover myself.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I'll cover myself and make it even better. Well, speaking
of covers, I don't even know if it's fair to
color it. Cover artist really is Linda Ronstadt, and she
just she's not a songwriter, has never, I don't think,
written a single song as far as I know, at
least not for public consumption, but has reinterpreted so many
(30:34):
songs in such a fantastic way, many songs that were
quite familiar in their original output, and one that probably
not quite as familiar to people. But it was a
great song when done by the Hollies was I Can't
Let Go. And she had a big hit with that,
and it's got the usual suspects on it. Russ Kunkle's
playing the drums and Nicolett Larson's background singer and Waddie
(30:57):
Walketel's on there, so she did this often. I heard
this song recently. I hadn't heard it in a long time.
Her version and made me go look up the Holly's version,
which is excellent, and it was early Hollies nineteen sixty six.
Graham Nash was still in the band then. So it's
a very very catchy tune and just makes you you
(31:17):
always there's never any reason not to get a reminder
of what a song smith. Linda Arnstadt is.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
Paula vocalist, not just male with female. She's excuse me,
she's in my top five. She and Karen Carpenter, I think,
are the voices that just absolutely clobber me. They're just
they're so perfect for the music they were doing. And
Christine but not too perfect, not too polished, and Linda
rossaid the Greatest Hits record is by far my favorite
(31:49):
greatest hits.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Album of any of anyone. It's just front to back.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
It's been Like you said, I consider cover art as
someone who does takes a hit and covers it. But
she she, you know, took songs that maybe weren't so
well known and made them her own and made them
hits because of the way that we're produced and the
way she sang them.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
And it's just a I mean, one of the prettiest
women in music.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Just and also I did talk to her once before
she came here for the only time I saw her,
and had the most interesting conversation. I have transcribed it
and I keep it on my phone. She talks about
music education, she talks about music in general, and how
there's there's music is being just discounted because there's it's everywhere.
It's some commercials, that's at stores. We almost don't have
(32:41):
the choice of when we hear music. And so she
was kind of like, I'm worried about it. That's why
people are paying so little for it. And so she's
really really smart and thoughtful, and I know she's going
through you know what happens when you get old, and
but yeah, she's she's a favorite, absolute favorite on many levels.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
In a similar vein, but really not the same. I
am has been told about here in this particular podcast,
not by nature the biggest fan of tribute bands, although
I know so many. When I've gone on the few
times i've actually done it, people have been professional and amazing, really,
but my wife is going to be out of town
(33:23):
last Friday, and I had an event early in the evening,
and like three days before, I went by the Aztec
Theater and it said on the marquee it says this
Friday night Aerosmith tribute in the bands called Arrows Myth Myth,
and so I gave them credit right there for an
interesting title, and so I went home, went online. There
(33:46):
was a single seat right in the front row for
twenty bucks, so I bought it. And it was a
really great show. I mean, they did an excellent that
Stephen Tyler, he didn't quite have the moves, but he
sang very well. The guitar players probably were better than
Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, to be honest, and the
(34:08):
fans sort of reacted more, which was kind of disappointing
to the more ninety ish pop stuff that I don't
really like. But they actually played some deep stuff too.
I was impressed. I can recommend Arrows Myth if you
see them around.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
You know, there's I don't I know, there's some dissonance
in the music community about full of cover bands and
they're taking spots that original bands would have and taking
I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
I'm like, people go to hear the music they want.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
To hear, right, So people are changing my mind, that's
for sure.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Well, so there's a there's a band called Phone a Job,
which is a tucking Heads tribute. They are absolutely stone
cold perfect, like they've got everything down.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
So I've seen them a few times.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
But also my wife is say yes, yes, the Magnificent
they call themselves because there's a excuse me, there's a anyway,
there's a reason. It's a part of the Cure songs.
They're a pure tribute band, cover band. So she plays,
she does background vocals. She has a great voice, plays
glockenspiel and flute and tambourine and they do yeah it's
(35:18):
it's I'm going yeah, okay that record bar. Yeah, if
you love the Cure, they do it. Byron's the lead singer.
He's got Robert Smith's waist down pat. So it's fun.
It's always fun. I think my kids have my daughters
have done with me to watch a few times and
they might be able to do it this year, so
that's always a fun time.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Yeah, I'm down for knowing you're.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
Going to go to a show, hear music you like
and have loved for a while. I don't have any
problem with it. And people are making money up but
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, it is fine. And I think I'm softening. I
am softening over time, so you know, I think. I
also think that these bands have gotten way better. I mean,
I think the I think they just take it seriously.
It's not a caricature. It's it's a band obviously they
like or they wouldn't play the music. And it is.
(36:10):
And the more I think of it as tribute rather
than cover, I guess I'm I'm better for it.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
And to go out on the one, there's a there's
a really good Tom Petty cover or a tribute band
out there, but their name is called Heavy Petty.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Yes, really, that's the best you can Yeah, that's not
very good, but they're really good. They're really good everything.
They get it all down perfect.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
That's great. And a final silly note, I was driving
around the other day and the song I hadn't heard
in a long time called come on Down to My
Boat Baby came on and it's a very catchy, well done, well,
very well produced song, and it was by a band
called every mother's son. It was their only hit, number
six on the charts, and so I looked them up
(36:56):
on Wikipedia and I just got a smile out of this.
There it says genre sunshine Pop. I mean, if that
phrase doesn't make you smile, I don't know what will.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
Oh you think about it? The Archies were around back then. Yeah,
it's kind of that being of music where it is.
It's just it's bubble dummy, it's sweet, it's catchy. It's
almost like a commercial jingle echoes on for two minutes.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
I'm down for it. You know. They usually only have
one hit, but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yes, get yourself a dose a sunshine Pop when you're
not feeling very good. Tim always a pleasure to talk
about things melancholy and tributes and everything else, and always
appreciate it. Every other week and we'll talk to you
again in two weeks.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
That was good. Thanks Gnny.
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