April 23, 2025 • 56 mins
From the Acme Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin. He was a master of his craft. One of the finest Producers of Vintage Rock. This week, we salute the man and his library of work, with deep tracks of from Journey, Alice Cooper, Ian Hunter, Queen and more.
Farewell and Adieu to Roy Thomas Baker. Rest in Peace.
Farewell and Adieu to Roy Thomas Baker. Rest in Peace.
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The following program is brought to you in living color.
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Go to the borrow.
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It sounds please that so.
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My God, it's God, I say God.
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We will provide.
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The grand design.
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We didn't say it'd be good.
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It's one hour of Radio Anarchy broadcasting for the ACNE
Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin.
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Where the hell is Mayville? Then it rocked. It's been
bottled up way too long.
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Welcome to Don's basement.
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What you call my phone? Stuffed his pipe and Kenny.
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B dandle on his knee. Don't feel the foodle town.
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Waiting bol good company.
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Take care of those who can your own and keep
good company soon my crew, and happy to my very
good friends in Man Play your game with Sally Jay,
the girl from number four.
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Very soon my back. I want to keep the company
hoever be good company.
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Now.
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Marriage is an institute.
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Use insure.
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My wife and I need and nothing.
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More all my friends. By a year I and my disappeared.
But this same love I odor flourished in my humble trade.
My reputation grew when found my waking up. By when
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my time was through the ward of all my efforts
my own limited company, I hardly noticed.
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Sally as we parted, I was never really anyone.
Speaker 10 (03:12):
Now my mold, I love my bye, but no one's dead.
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Under wrong and listen all my life in sanity.
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Take care of those you come wrong.
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Keep good company. Oh.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
It was at that point on that album that we
were about to be introduced to something that we had
never heard before, that was orchestrated by a guy that
many people had never heard of before unless you were
really into reading liner notes on albums, that you found
out the name Roy Thomas Baker. And Hello there, how
a Ario, Welcome back in. I'm Don Clark. Thanks so
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much for coming down and hanging out with us once
again down here in Don's basement. A little bit of
a different show this time around, as we salute the
work that Roy Thomas Baker did not only as an engineer,
but as a brilliant producer for so many albums, and
we're going to be reaching back and grabbing a lot
of those as we move along. Roy got started in
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England at Decker Records. He was an engineer, did a
lot of work with the Stones and the Who back
in the day. Eventually he found himself in the studio
with a new band. They were getting ready to put
together an album that was released in nineteen seventy and
it was the sound of that album that you would
hear time and time again on the work that Roy
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Thomas Baker did. The album was Fire and Water. The
band was free, This is all right now, and I
welcome you to Don's basement.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
Then she's invested, smile and.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
How about.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
What's your name?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Made Meco sec the same that.
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He did Let's move before the raid the.
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Bucket house, Oh no baby line now, oh no baby.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Now?
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I took a horn mappess watching Living on her face?
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She said, look, what's your name? Baby?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Why are you trying to b s? I said, stop,
don't go to bed, don't you la?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
She said, lor lordabout.
Speaker 15 (07:01):
No, you don't let me laugh.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Oh no, it is all lie now, ah mad babes all.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Mad now, dear so right now.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
The ba let me tell you all about it now.
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Took her home to Moppies, watching Live and love on
her face. She said, look, what's your game?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Are you telling?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Couty in shape?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I said, slow, slow, don't know the bad? Don't you
think the love and list? She said, love love the bad?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Now it's not technique around, Oh babies, now, Oh right now,
babies nice Oh in the.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Together House, and.
Speaker 16 (10:49):
He was one of the defining producers for the vintage
rock of Journey, Cheap Trick, Queen and more. Remembering Roy
Thomas Baker on Don's Basement tapes, collars do move you.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I may get hard on the making then what you want.
You got to do what you said.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Don't be afraid of driving Nail in the wood and.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
The model and tis hope your.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Mother, your other just don'ts you never thought that.
Speaker 17 (11:40):
You come up, raise haven't take it, raise hard data, raise.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Hadn't take it? Ray ar da da da ta rich
how you're taken com the cat when you go over
and nom then by omens on you can.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
You made your sisters? Who are your heads in the
You can't live eathy for life stood still. You can
be baking the baking chap.
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But when you know your rich n take it.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Rason death to take rachon, You take Rachel to take.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Rach how to take it.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Don't have to make it slack.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Don't have to be against so, don't have to make
it so, don't have to make it so rast take.
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Richon, don't take care rich hon't take it rachon don't
take it, Oh, my lad Rich.
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Hon't take it.
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Do.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
He would eventually go back into the studio to produce
their one on one album, but that particular cut was
off of the heavy metal soundtrack that Roy Thomas Baker produced,
Cheap Trick and reach Out. Roy Thomas Baker also started
working with some progressive rock bands, and this was one
of them. This particular cut is off of their live
album This is Life in the Air Rage. The band
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is Bebop Deluxe in Spaceman.
Speaker 19 (15:34):
If the stars throughout the bars that served a bitter drink.
Morman smiles at me.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
His wife. She gives a secret listen, impatient said to
me my story I unfold. See that face is changed
to let's call them up.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Losing war used to me a boy and my heart
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was young, unsupple.
Speaker 19 (16:36):
Then now it's stony cold moon and a good use
of world is not like yourspital from somewhere long ago.
I was knowing, but I must enough feel so.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
You can re age of the life I didn't allowed
to go back to my time. I thy amage all
aproach you're saying, I thy amage the pang you must
to stay.
Speaker 20 (17:31):
I think the average, crushing it way until I amage,
So I wassen this God.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I'm really amrange for the options of n dry image,
coming up, Woman, the Robo.
Speaker 16 (17:52):
Cry, from Free to Alice Cooper Journey to Queen. He
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left his fingerprints on every album he produced, remembering Roy
Thomas Baker on Don's Basement tape.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Do you record.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
We Were Again?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
The way? So you think that it's all all that
and you know it's gone to stay up the stone?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And where.
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Does the sunshine every days?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Dica? The things you say?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Nothing? You told me that Sup will leave and because
we can.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Go along, squeario.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
But though you think that it's all old and you
know it's gone stay at the stone? Where does the
sun shine every day? Yes, it's the lord of that
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that you scorn. I have let the love of my love. No,
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it's a lot of that.
Speaker 15 (20:47):
Not die the spot the love I have, it's a
lot of that, says the everything.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
It's a hell and you know it's gone, stay the storm?
Where does the sun shine read?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Sorry? Shot it's on.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
And you know it's gone to stay.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
The storm?
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Where does the sun shotcap shots?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
The sum shine?
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Happy?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
It's journey off the Evolution album man, do your recall
as we remember Roy Thomas Baker. This guy was the
frontman for Rainbow for the Difficult to Cure, Straight between
the Eyes and Bent out of Shape albums, and in
nineteen eighty five he wanted to branch out and do
his first solo album called Rescue You. And when he
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needed a producer, he knew who to call. This is
joe Lynn Turner and prelude and endlessly in Don's Basement.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yea, love.
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You, ave you.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And we will be.
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Love and listening.
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Along with loving you and listening, girl, I want you
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to you at ever think of dreaming and give you.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Wisby about me.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Except you to fall and then was felt so much
in your own to me, I will always have me.
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W let speak, can just say oh and lease all time,
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feel how to time.
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To time.
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For it. We will find a loveless me always love
you and let me jealousy.
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It's a good fell way.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
SNA dream what says sings thing you lots of jam
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from less says say must.
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Remembering Roy Thomas Baker and Don's Basement Cakes, I'm a.
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Clone in that fine I'm going.
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I'm your doctor on the line. You take evasion another day.
Speaker 10 (26:45):
I'm all the LONESO.
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Clones, allow.
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Allowad.
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We destroyed the government, we destroyed time nor.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
More problems on the way, Andrew doctor, you don't need
your kind.
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The other ones and the ones to the boys, wrong ones.
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And all the long, so long, We're all clothes.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
All the one in all the one in.
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Six a heaven problems but just the two storstatus.
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Why long be here and fright so loud.
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I just wanted to b theself.
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I just wanted to sell.
Speaker 19 (27:51):
I just wanted to sell myself.
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Be the self.
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I'm all the lone, so all, we all, we destroyed it,
coming and destroy time.
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Lots on the way, I dotor, we don't kind the.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
Boys crowns.
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I'm all the lone, so we all.
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We're all clothes, all one in world, all O.
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One and one.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I'm all the lone, so we all.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
We're all clothes, all our one and one no long,
all our one and one, no all.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
It's off of his fifth studio album called Flush. The
Fashion and Clones were All and There's Alice Cooper. The
album produced by Roy Thomas Baker, who also did one
of the greatest rock soundtracks ever, We had a cut earlier,
gotta go back and grab one more. We're gonna do
that next. I'm Don Clark. Welcome to Don's Basement.
Speaker 22 (29:20):
Columbia Pictures presents heavy Metal. A trip beyond the future,
to a universe you've ever seen before. A universe of mystery,
a universe of passionate fantasies, a universe of terrifying evil,
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a universe a magic kit of heavy metal, a step
beyond science fiction.
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This classic rock, this vintage rock co then there's this place,
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this is John's.
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Basement about.
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And they all boys and so bad taste understand the rising.
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Heavy Now.
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That she's as balls bout the bouts times.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Can you can say? So's we.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Man there now Urricane the ras a stage, they get
some fire to command. Song Cavy Sime Sabby stand of
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Stands a Night Cabby Sad.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
One of the greatest rock soundtracks produced by Roy Thomas
are Sammy Hagar and Heavy Metal. We are saluting Roy
Thomas Baker, who passed away this week. And when you
talk about bands that he was producing, there two that
come to mind. Queen and this little band out of Boston.
He produced their debut album, Also Candio Shake It Up
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and this album I came out in nineteen eighty from Panorama.
Here are the cars and touch and go in Don's basement.
Speaker 11 (34:26):
Oh what's gone? What's that's such?
Speaker 5 (35:06):
You're start.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Some rights like us down the knights. Then said, it's
not schad down, it's that chat down.
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A light.
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Right like night.
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In your head, knock on the floors, go to.
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Book.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
It's a no sor.
Speaker 10 (36:14):
Son right disciple myself.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Not that said.
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This kind of shack.
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That's shattic bell a.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
B is that dress does the juice.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
Does say.
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Almost stupid things.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
That just b.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
I do nor so.
Speaker 10 (37:56):
So just like a bot show. Then you said, start jack,
I'm God, Jacky Belt.
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Star Sha.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
That is jack Belllo shack and.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
That is Jacky Belt.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Start shall.
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That is Josh do joh.
Speaker 16 (39:04):
He was one of the defining producers for the vintage
rock of Journey Cheap Trick, Queen and Moore, remembering Roy
Thomas Baker on Don's Basement tapes.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Dudes.
Speaker 24 (39:26):
To love you your duty, sweet, You got the your duty, Sweet,
your back.
Speaker 18 (40:05):
When you build back and call, you've got a home, captain,
damnster Hall.
Speaker 10 (40:12):
If you like a car out yet.
Speaker 18 (40:17):
We are a hunting that's a true we are cloth
follow leg girls. You're duty sweeping your mind, You're wind,
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You've got the losing your shoes.
Speaker 25 (40:51):
And stock kidding s you will mean a wild out here.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
You luck and God, we've got a whome cap time star.
Hello you dirty sweeping, My good.
Speaker 9 (41:20):
God, what you do this?
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Sweet?
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Back to back?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Doty sweet.
Speaker 10 (41:49):
Yeah, you dance with the books and its dance. Take
a chance.
Speaker 25 (41:56):
Understanding your dirty sweeping you Managatanga.
Speaker 6 (43:28):
Oh I bet there's some great stories when that song
was recorded in the studio, Rick Wakeman on the keyboards
and Flow and Eddie from the Turtles on the background
vocal with t Rex and Bangagong. A song that was
engineered by Roy Thomas Baker. And when you want to
talk about some of his finest work, you have to
hear it from the man himself. And we're going to
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do that in just a bit right now. Ian Hunter
spend most of his time as the lead singer for
Mott the Hoopel. Eventually he branched out on his own
and for his third solo album, an album that was
not released in the United States, he had this cut.
Eventually it would be re recorded with a new title,
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but on the Overnight Angels album, an album that was
never released in the States. It went by the original
title England Rock Series, Ian Hunter and Don's Basement.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Enogy lock a couch and mother knows, but she don't care.
Speaker 5 (45:14):
She got to words too.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
It's never a kid tiphony of he and the Restless people.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
How the little kids.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Going in among the skids are going.
Speaker 10 (45:27):
Mount England Rocks, American.
Speaker 5 (45:30):
Dreams, food and change.
Speaker 9 (45:32):
He's going back in.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
FRISI drag, I got somebody's no more want to how
even just something frying don do?
Speaker 5 (45:52):
He was a miller, I answer.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
England Moss and it's fine.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Wit not.
Speaker 16 (47:08):
Roy Thomas Baker on producing Bohemian Rhapsody.
Speaker 21 (47:12):
Brian's very good at this. I mean, you give him
like a guitar project and he would take it over
and he would come back with this like you know,
finding for a little you know, vignette, you can call
it that, and he would he would do that, and
it would and things like this solo.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
You know.
Speaker 21 (47:31):
I think it was Freddie who said, lot, you know,
just come back with something, and he worked it all
out and he came in and he came back with
with with what ended up being the solo. So if
when you listen to the piano tracks, you can just
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about here some of the drums in the background. Because
it was all done in one room, it wasn't done
in a separate room. We put covers over the piano
to try and deadened down the sound of the other instruments.
But the bass, you can hear the bass in the background.
You can hear the drums, the drums. Then this is
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the drums on their own. Okay, this this is the
little galileo section, which is between high vocal from Roger
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and log from Freddie.
Speaker 18 (48:35):
So this is.
Speaker 21 (48:37):
Roger's track first. Also, now you're about to hear the
opper section only the vocals, no backing track at all.
Speaker 10 (48:50):
Easy Come, easy go?
Speaker 11 (48:52):
Will you let me go?
Speaker 21 (48:56):
John volunteered not to sing because I don't think he
liked his own vocals. Wasn't going to get an argument
from any of us, including the band. So basically it
was the three guys it was. It was Freddie, Brian
and Roger who would sing?
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Is this the real life?
Speaker 5 (49:11):
Is this just fantasy?
Speaker 2 (49:14):
Calling a lad's side.
Speaker 10 (49:17):
To escape from reality?
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Open your Eris you come to this skysis, I'm just a.
Speaker 26 (49:36):
Lie because I'm easy come, easy go, a little high,
little low any way the wind blows doesn't really bad to.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Me.
Speaker 27 (50:02):
Mama just killed her, then put a gun against his,
pulled my trigger.
Speaker 5 (50:13):
Now he's day.
Speaker 10 (50:16):
Mama life.
Speaker 5 (50:19):
It just begun.
Speaker 10 (50:22):
The enough done, it's.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
Mama. Didn't need to make you cry if I'm not
batch against this time.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Jerry, Jerry, it.
Speaker 10 (50:48):
Doesn't really matter.
Speaker 5 (51:01):
Tool.
Speaker 19 (51:04):
My time is cold, said, she must jud fast by
body's pinching of the tide.
Speaker 11 (51:15):
Goodbye, everybody, I've not to go, gotta.
Speaker 5 (51:22):
Lie behind.
Speaker 2 (51:36):
One of.
Speaker 11 (51:39):
Some sunwish san never big bought.
Speaker 5 (52:13):
I see a little silhoue to.
Speaker 28 (52:15):
Of the man, got a moose moosh, Will you do
the bad dogs?
Speaker 5 (52:20):
My name the name CALLI.
Speaker 11 (52:31):
And nobody loves me?
Speaker 28 (52:33):
Just a from the bars, and it's like conspons the.
Speaker 11 (52:38):
City, Easy comes, easy go.
Speaker 5 (52:42):
Will you let me go?
Speaker 28 (52:43):
This mall laugh We will not at you go, They
still laughing, Will not at you go, they still laughing,
Will not that you got you got.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
Me? Let me go. There's a devil baside.
Speaker 28 (53:09):
O.
Speaker 10 (53:22):
Thank you it's still me.
Speaker 2 (53:28):
Still thank you met this.
Speaker 4 (54:00):
M hm.
Speaker 5 (54:22):
Candy Watchets.
Speaker 10 (54:25):
Nothing really bad, nothing really bad.
Speaker 6 (54:55):
It's an album that's been over explained and in some
cases some cuts overplayed. But when you sit down and
listen to him a night at the Opera from start
to finish, you realize what you've got in your hands.
It truly is a modern day masterpiece orchestrated by one
of the greatest producers of all time, Roy Thomas Baker,
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who we lost this week, and we are very proud
to be able to salute him on this episode of
Don Spaceman Tapes. We want to thank all the radio
stations up and down the dial to take the time
to run our show each week, including our flagship station
ninety nine point nine FM WYML ANDWYML dot us in Chicago.
Thank you, Joe and Jeff the Great ninety eight WMDC Mayville, Wisconsin,
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Buddy Guy and everybody a Buddy Guy Radio in Chicago,
and all the stations. Thanks to the iHeartRadio Network, iHeart
Podcast Channel, and Amazon Music forgetting the word out about
Don Spaceman Tapes. Thanks to mister Lee Peek, the voice
of Don Spasement, and thank you so much for coming
down here each week and hanging out in the basement.
We appreciate it. I'm Don Clark, Peace
The following program is brought to you in living color.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Go to the borrow.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It sounds please that so.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
My God, it's God, I say God.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We will provide.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
The grand design.
Speaker 6 (00:29):
We didn't say it'd be good.
Speaker 7 (00:33):
It's one hour of Radio Anarchy broadcasting for the ACNE
Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin.
Speaker 8 (00:41):
Where the hell is Mayville? Then it rocked. It's been
bottled up way too long.
Speaker 9 (00:48):
Welcome to Don's basement.
Speaker 10 (00:56):
What you call my phone? Stuffed his pipe and Kenny.
Speaker 11 (01:02):
B dandle on his knee. Don't feel the foodle town.
Speaker 10 (01:07):
Waiting bol good company.
Speaker 12 (01:15):
Take care of those who can your own and keep
good company soon my crew, and happy to my very
good friends in Man Play your game with Sally Jay,
the girl from number four.
Speaker 13 (01:31):
Very soon my back. I want to keep the company
hoever be good company.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Now.
Speaker 11 (01:57):
Marriage is an institute.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Use insure.
Speaker 10 (02:02):
My wife and I need and nothing.
Speaker 13 (02:05):
More all my friends. By a year I and my disappeared.
But this same love I odor flourished in my humble trade.
My reputation grew when found my waking up. By when
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my time was through the ward of all my efforts
my own limited company, I hardly noticed.
Speaker 14 (02:51):
Sally as we parted, I was never really anyone.
Speaker 10 (03:12):
Now my mold, I love my bye, but no one's dead.
Speaker 13 (03:17):
Under wrong and listen all my life in sanity.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Take care of those you come wrong.
Speaker 10 (03:26):
Keep good company. Oh.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
It was at that point on that album that we
were about to be introduced to something that we had
never heard before, that was orchestrated by a guy that
many people had never heard of before unless you were
really into reading liner notes on albums, that you found
out the name Roy Thomas Baker. And Hello there, how
a Ario, Welcome back in. I'm Don Clark. Thanks so
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much for coming down and hanging out with us once
again down here in Don's basement. A little bit of
a different show this time around, as we salute the
work that Roy Thomas Baker did not only as an engineer,
but as a brilliant producer for so many albums, and
we're going to be reaching back and grabbing a lot
of those as we move along. Roy got started in
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England at Decker Records. He was an engineer, did a
lot of work with the Stones and the Who back
in the day. Eventually he found himself in the studio
with a new band. They were getting ready to put
together an album that was released in nineteen seventy and
it was the sound of that album that you would
hear time and time again on the work that Roy
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Thomas Baker did. The album was Fire and Water. The
band was free, This is all right now, and I
welcome you to Don's basement.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
Then she's invested, smile and.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
How about.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
What's your name?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Made Meco sec the same that.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
He did Let's move before the raid the.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Bucket house, Oh no baby line now, oh no baby.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Now?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
I took a horn mappess watching Living on her face?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
She said, look, what's your name? Baby?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Why are you trying to b s? I said, stop,
don't go to bed, don't you la?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
She said, lor lordabout.
Speaker 15 (07:01):
No, you don't let me laugh.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Oh no, it is all lie now, ah mad babes all.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Mad now, dear so right now.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
The ba let me tell you all about it now.
(09:10):
Took her home to Moppies, watching Live and love on
her face. She said, look, what's your game?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Are you telling?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Couty in shape?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I said, slow, slow, don't know the bad? Don't you
think the love and list? She said, love love the bad?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Now it's not technique around, Oh babies, now, Oh right now,
babies nice Oh in the.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Together House, and.
Speaker 16 (10:49):
He was one of the defining producers for the vintage
rock of Journey, Cheap Trick, Queen and more. Remembering Roy
Thomas Baker on Don's Basement tapes, collars do move you.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I may get hard on the making then what you want.
You got to do what you said.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Don't be afraid of driving Nail in the wood and.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
The model and tis hope your.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Mother, your other just don'ts you never thought that.
Speaker 17 (11:40):
You come up, raise haven't take it, raise hard data, raise.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Hadn't take it? Ray ar da da da ta rich
how you're taken com the cat when you go over
and nom then by omens on you can.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
You made your sisters? Who are your heads in the
You can't live eathy for life stood still. You can
be baking the baking chap.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
But when you know your rich n take it.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Rason death to take rachon, You take Rachel to take.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Rach how to take it.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Don't have to make it slack.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Don't have to be against so, don't have to make
it so, don't have to make it so rast take.
Speaker 17 (13:31):
Richon, don't take care rich hon't take it rachon don't
take it, Oh, my lad Rich.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Hon't take it.
Speaker 18 (13:52):
Do.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
He would eventually go back into the studio to produce
their one on one album, but that particular cut was
off of the heavy metal soundtrack that Roy Thomas Baker produced,
Cheap Trick and reach Out. Roy Thomas Baker also started
working with some progressive rock bands, and this was one
of them. This particular cut is off of their live
album This is Life in the Air Rage. The band
(14:45):
is Bebop Deluxe in Spaceman.
Speaker 19 (15:34):
If the stars throughout the bars that served a bitter drink.
Morman smiles at me.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
His wife. She gives a secret listen, impatient said to
me my story I unfold. See that face is changed
to let's call them up.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Losing war used to me a boy and my heart
(16:35):
was young, unsupple.
Speaker 19 (16:36):
Then now it's stony cold moon and a good use
of world is not like yourspital from somewhere long ago.
I was knowing, but I must enough feel so.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
You can re age of the life I didn't allowed
to go back to my time. I thy amage all
aproach you're saying, I thy amage the pang you must
to stay.
Speaker 20 (17:31):
I think the average, crushing it way until I amage,
So I wassen this God.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I'm really amrange for the options of n dry image,
coming up, Woman, the Robo.
Speaker 16 (17:52):
Cry, from Free to Alice Cooper Journey to Queen. He
(18:34):
left his fingerprints on every album he produced, remembering Roy
Thomas Baker on Don's Basement tape.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Do you record.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
We Were Again?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
The way? So you think that it's all all that
and you know it's gone to stay up the stone?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And where.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Does the sunshine every days?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Dica? The things you say?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Nothing? You told me that Sup will leave and because
we can.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Go along, squeario.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
But though you think that it's all old and you
know it's gone stay at the stone? Where does the
sun shine every day? Yes, it's the lord of that
(19:57):
that you scorn. I have let the love of my love. No,
(20:43):
it's a lot of that.
Speaker 15 (20:47):
Not die the spot the love I have, it's a
lot of that, says the everything.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
It's a hell and you know it's gone, stay the storm?
Where does the sun shine read?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Sorry? Shot it's on.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
And you know it's gone to stay.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
The storm?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Where does the sun shotcap shots?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
The sum shine?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Happy?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
It's journey off the Evolution album man, do your recall
as we remember Roy Thomas Baker. This guy was the
frontman for Rainbow for the Difficult to Cure, Straight between
the Eyes and Bent out of Shape albums, and in
nineteen eighty five he wanted to branch out and do
his first solo album called Rescue You. And when he
(22:00):
needed a producer, he knew who to call. This is
joe Lynn Turner and prelude and endlessly in Don's Basement.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yea, love.
Speaker 21 (22:13):
You, ave you.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And we will be.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Love and listening.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Along with loving you and listening, girl, I want you
(23:06):
to you at ever think of dreaming and give you.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Wisby about me.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Except you to fall and then was felt so much
in your own to me, I will always have me.
(23:48):
W let speak, can just say oh and lease all time,
(24:13):
feel how to time.
Speaker 22 (24:16):
To time.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
For it. We will find a loveless me always love
you and let me jealousy.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
It's a good fell way.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
SNA dream what says sings thing you lots of jam
(25:33):
from less says say must.
Speaker 16 (26:18):
Remembering Roy Thomas Baker and Don's Basement Cakes, I'm a.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
Clone in that fine I'm going.
Speaker 11 (26:37):
I'm your doctor on the line. You take evasion another day.
Speaker 10 (26:45):
I'm all the LONESO.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Clones, allow.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Allowad.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
We destroyed the government, we destroyed time nor.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
More problems on the way, Andrew doctor, you don't need
your kind.
Speaker 10 (27:12):
The other ones and the ones to the boys, wrong ones.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
And all the long, so long, We're all clothes.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
All the one in all the one in.
Speaker 13 (27:32):
Six a heaven problems but just the two storstatus.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Why long be here and fright so loud.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
I just wanted to b theself.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I just wanted to sell.
Speaker 19 (27:51):
I just wanted to sell myself.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Be the self.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I'm all the lone, so all, we all, we destroyed it,
coming and destroy time.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Lots on the way, I dotor, we don't kind the.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
Boys crowns.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I'm all the lone, so we all.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
We're all clothes, all one in world, all O.
Speaker 23 (28:35):
One and one.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I'm all the lone, so we all.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
We're all clothes, all our one and one no long,
all our one and one, no all.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
It's off of his fifth studio album called Flush. The
Fashion and Clones were All and There's Alice Cooper. The
album produced by Roy Thomas Baker, who also did one
of the greatest rock soundtracks ever, We had a cut earlier,
gotta go back and grab one more. We're gonna do
that next. I'm Don Clark. Welcome to Don's Basement.
Speaker 22 (29:20):
Columbia Pictures presents heavy Metal. A trip beyond the future,
to a universe you've ever seen before. A universe of mystery,
a universe of passionate fantasies, a universe of terrifying evil,
(29:41):
a universe a magic kit of heavy metal, a step
beyond science fiction.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
This classic rock, this vintage rock co then there's this place,
(30:11):
this is John's.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
Basement about.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
And they all boys and so bad taste understand the rising.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Heavy Now.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
That she's as balls bout the bouts times.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Can you can say? So's we.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Man there now Urricane the ras a stage, they get
some fire to command. Song Cavy Sime Sabby stand of
(32:30):
Stands a Night Cabby Sad.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
One of the greatest rock soundtracks produced by Roy Thomas
are Sammy Hagar and Heavy Metal. We are saluting Roy
Thomas Baker, who passed away this week. And when you
talk about bands that he was producing, there two that
come to mind. Queen and this little band out of Boston.
He produced their debut album, Also Candio Shake It Up
(34:19):
and this album I came out in nineteen eighty from Panorama.
Here are the cars and touch and go in Don's basement.
Speaker 11 (34:26):
Oh what's gone? What's that's such?
Speaker 5 (35:06):
You're start.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Some rights like us down the knights. Then said, it's
not schad down, it's that chat down.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
A light.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Right like night.
Speaker 23 (35:43):
In your head, knock on the floors, go to.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Book.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
It's a no sor.
Speaker 10 (36:14):
Son right disciple myself.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Not that said.
Speaker 11 (36:23):
This kind of shack.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
That's shattic bell a.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
B is that dress does the juice.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
Does say.
Speaker 11 (37:32):
Almost stupid things.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
That just b.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
I do nor so.
Speaker 10 (37:56):
So just like a bot show. Then you said, start jack,
I'm God, Jacky Belt.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Star Sha.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
That is jack Belllo shack and.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
That is Jacky Belt.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Start shall.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
That is Josh do joh.
Speaker 16 (39:04):
He was one of the defining producers for the vintage
rock of Journey Cheap Trick, Queen and Moore, remembering Roy
Thomas Baker on Don's Basement tapes.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Dudes.
Speaker 24 (39:26):
To love you your duty, sweet, You got the your duty, Sweet,
your back.
Speaker 18 (40:05):
When you build back and call, you've got a home, captain,
damnster Hall.
Speaker 10 (40:12):
If you like a car out yet.
Speaker 18 (40:17):
We are a hunting that's a true we are cloth
follow leg girls. You're duty sweeping your mind, You're wind,
(40:49):
You've got the losing your shoes.
Speaker 25 (40:51):
And stock kidding s you will mean a wild out here.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
You luck and God, we've got a whome cap time star.
Hello you dirty sweeping, My good.
Speaker 9 (41:20):
God, what you do this?
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Sweet?
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Back to back?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Doty sweet.
Speaker 10 (41:49):
Yeah, you dance with the books and its dance. Take
a chance.
Speaker 25 (41:56):
Understanding your dirty sweeping you Managatanga.
Speaker 6 (43:28):
Oh I bet there's some great stories when that song
was recorded in the studio, Rick Wakeman on the keyboards
and Flow and Eddie from the Turtles on the background
vocal with t Rex and Bangagong. A song that was
engineered by Roy Thomas Baker. And when you want to
talk about some of his finest work, you have to
hear it from the man himself. And we're going to
(43:49):
do that in just a bit right now. Ian Hunter
spend most of his time as the lead singer for
Mott the Hoopel. Eventually he branched out on his own
and for his third solo album, an album that was
not released in the United States, he had this cut.
Eventually it would be re recorded with a new title,
(44:10):
but on the Overnight Angels album, an album that was
never released in the States. It went by the original
title England Rock Series, Ian Hunter and Don's Basement.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Enogy lock a couch and mother knows, but she don't care.
Speaker 5 (45:14):
She got to words too.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
It's never a kid tiphony of he and the Restless people.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
How the little kids.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Going in among the skids are going.
Speaker 10 (45:27):
Mount England Rocks, American.
Speaker 5 (45:30):
Dreams, food and change.
Speaker 9 (45:32):
He's going back in.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
FRISI drag, I got somebody's no more want to how
even just something frying don do?
Speaker 5 (45:52):
He was a miller, I answer.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
England Moss and it's fine.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Wit not.
Speaker 16 (47:08):
Roy Thomas Baker on producing Bohemian Rhapsody.
Speaker 21 (47:12):
Brian's very good at this. I mean, you give him
like a guitar project and he would take it over
and he would come back with this like you know,
finding for a little you know, vignette, you can call
it that, and he would he would do that, and
it would and things like this solo.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
You know.
Speaker 21 (47:31):
I think it was Freddie who said, lot, you know,
just come back with something, and he worked it all
out and he came in and he came back with
with with what ended up being the solo. So if
when you listen to the piano tracks, you can just
(47:51):
about here some of the drums in the background. Because
it was all done in one room, it wasn't done
in a separate room. We put covers over the piano
to try and deadened down the sound of the other instruments.
But the bass, you can hear the bass in the background.
You can hear the drums, the drums. Then this is
(48:13):
the drums on their own. Okay, this this is the
little galileo section, which is between high vocal from Roger
(48:33):
and log from Freddie.
Speaker 18 (48:35):
So this is.
Speaker 21 (48:37):
Roger's track first. Also, now you're about to hear the
opper section only the vocals, no backing track at all.
Speaker 10 (48:50):
Easy Come, easy go?
Speaker 11 (48:52):
Will you let me go?
Speaker 21 (48:56):
John volunteered not to sing because I don't think he
liked his own vocals. Wasn't going to get an argument
from any of us, including the band. So basically it
was the three guys it was. It was Freddie, Brian
and Roger who would sing?
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Is this the real life?
Speaker 5 (49:11):
Is this just fantasy?
Speaker 2 (49:14):
Calling a lad's side.
Speaker 10 (49:17):
To escape from reality?
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Open your Eris you come to this skysis, I'm just a.
Speaker 26 (49:36):
Lie because I'm easy come, easy go, a little high,
little low any way the wind blows doesn't really bad to.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Me.
Speaker 27 (50:02):
Mama just killed her, then put a gun against his,
pulled my trigger.
Speaker 5 (50:13):
Now he's day.
Speaker 10 (50:16):
Mama life.
Speaker 5 (50:19):
It just begun.
Speaker 10 (50:22):
The enough done, it's.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
Mama. Didn't need to make you cry if I'm not
batch against this time.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Jerry, Jerry, it.
Speaker 10 (50:48):
Doesn't really matter.
Speaker 5 (51:01):
Tool.
Speaker 19 (51:04):
My time is cold, said, she must jud fast by
body's pinching of the tide.
Speaker 11 (51:15):
Goodbye, everybody, I've not to go, gotta.
Speaker 5 (51:22):
Lie behind.
Speaker 2 (51:36):
One of.
Speaker 11 (51:39):
Some sunwish san never big bought.
Speaker 5 (52:13):
I see a little silhoue to.
Speaker 28 (52:15):
Of the man, got a moose moosh, Will you do
the bad dogs?
Speaker 5 (52:20):
My name the name CALLI.
Speaker 11 (52:31):
And nobody loves me?
Speaker 28 (52:33):
Just a from the bars, and it's like conspons the.
Speaker 11 (52:38):
City, Easy comes, easy go.
Speaker 5 (52:42):
Will you let me go?
Speaker 28 (52:43):
This mall laugh We will not at you go, They
still laughing, Will not at you go, they still laughing,
Will not that you got you got.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
Me? Let me go. There's a devil baside.
Speaker 28 (53:09):
O.
Speaker 10 (53:22):
Thank you it's still me.
Speaker 2 (53:28):
Still thank you met this.
Speaker 4 (54:00):
M hm.
Speaker 5 (54:22):
Candy Watchets.
Speaker 10 (54:25):
Nothing really bad, nothing really bad.
Speaker 6 (54:55):
It's an album that's been over explained and in some
cases some cuts overplayed. But when you sit down and
listen to him a night at the Opera from start
to finish, you realize what you've got in your hands.
It truly is a modern day masterpiece orchestrated by one
of the greatest producers of all time, Roy Thomas Baker,
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who we lost this week, and we are very proud
to be able to salute him on this episode of
Don Spaceman Tapes. We want to thank all the radio
stations up and down the dial to take the time
to run our show each week, including our flagship station
ninety nine point nine FM WYML ANDWYML dot us in Chicago.
Thank you, Joe and Jeff the Great ninety eight WMDC Mayville, Wisconsin,
(55:37):
Buddy Guy and everybody a Buddy Guy Radio in Chicago,
and all the stations. Thanks to the iHeartRadio Network, iHeart
Podcast Channel, and Amazon Music forgetting the word out about
Don Spaceman Tapes. Thanks to mister Lee Peek, the voice
of Don Spasement, and thank you so much for coming
down here each week and hanging out in the basement.
We appreciate it. I'm Don Clark, Peace
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