June 25, 2025 • 56 mins
From the Acme Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin. It was the year that the Iran Hostage Crisis began, the Susan B. Anthony dollar was introduced, Disco was demolished at Comisky Park in Chicago. Aliens, The Warriors and Life of Brian were on the big screen, and we bought brand new vinyl from The Scorpions, Van Halen, April Wine, and Kansas, It was the year that was,1979.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The following program is brought to you in living color.
Some go into the barrow e sound.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Somebody tell me that said.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Please that son my God, it's God.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I see God. We will provide the brand design.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
We didn't say it'd be good.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
It's one hour of radio anarchy broadcasting for the ACNE
Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Where the hell is Mayville? Then it rocked.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
It's been bottled up way too long.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Welcome to Don's basement.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Something has a connock to count a buck can cancers, girl.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
We can lock to the start, So come us a
(02:23):
post cost breaking L three.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It was their eighth studio album, The Light Great Miles
Good went on the vocals say for wine and I
liked a rock And hello there, how are you welcome
back in? I'm Don Clark. Thank you so much for
coming down and hanging out with us once again. Down
here in Don Spaceman brought the way Back Machine out
of the closet, dialed up the year nineteen seventy nine,
and thanks to your suggestions, we've got some songs from
(05:06):
that year. I haven't seen the light of day in
a long long time. Anybody had a new album in
seventy nine, called life for the taking. This is give
me some water. Welcome to Don's basement.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I'll never understood. I want to start for losing man
number one son goes bad for.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Cards with the devil's past that he got your sixsome
with four balls.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Never understand, then took the money from the rich man's man.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Give me the water.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Up, shut up, man, a skimbo water.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Give me sorter water. Chi man grew up so fast
standing by being the best one day. So your water man,
take your brother's head. I'll be running with you anyway.
(06:11):
So we will laid in the nothing like five hundred
desert's hand.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
So when they the puzzy got us puts the sharp
boys gets his man in some water.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Dad on the skin boarding cool cool water, little little water.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Oh jeez, but just getting this hand. Had not just
suspense this blest can but long I've got no boots around.
Shouldn't have not when I've been with that big god.
(07:03):
Hurry out, give it some water, because Jilli Dan will
get that skiboader to water.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Kids. Shoot, see that long white broke hang from the
Hamar street. Take the restless hearts, tie my hands and
go to my body. Then I'll find a free let
me down like a man. No one understands that. Let
me pray out of all man pray smack that horse
and the ass for my last thing. Guess brother claim
(07:46):
sake give me some water?
Speaker 8 (07:50):
Was shut a man on that skinboat good water, give
it water, give it the water. Shot up, shut up.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Because this.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Brian cuts a vintage rocks and selected by the basement
dwelt there, this is John's basement.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
What everything side.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Again?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Got to take it at?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Let me out how you finish.
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Slady side, because I don't know how it means to be.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Siding well my my.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Love e.
Speaker 11 (10:03):
Having his undy money.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Loving all ways.
Speaker 12 (10:46):
Starting right, I know, so how would you can't as.
Speaker 11 (11:10):
Loving his unname mom.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
My love loving his n name more.
Speaker 13 (11:32):
Way, welcome steps sides, I give you a last stop.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
To take it as.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So I would take us a low.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Basally made my snow.
Speaker 11 (12:57):
Don't mean you sund the mon I mean you Sun motioning.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Child.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
In my lists of favorite album covers, that's in the
top one. Scorpions from Love Drive and Loving You Sunday Morning.
Guitarist Gary Moore was with these guys in seventy four
and seventy seven, but this was the only time that
he stayed around long enough to record a whole album,
and then he left. He said, I'll just take the check,
thank you very much. The album is Black Rose, a
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rock legend. This is thin Lizzie and waiting for an
alibi in Don's basement, and what he.
Speaker 14 (14:43):
Takes he gives for what he's got, and what he's
got he says he has not stole from anyone.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's not that he don't tell me that evens melt you.
It's just deeps.
Speaker 14 (15:02):
But you know somethingful ring more an elebat an waiting
for an labad on an alabi.
Speaker 15 (15:31):
Valentino's in a posewat but he's called his money all
that else, but cannot be I just want another cigarette,
says to help him to Vulghetti's.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
About the strick.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's not that he as.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Much alreable that he lost.
Speaker 15 (15:49):
Just looking touch it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Jumps this careful so much, and you know that it
is wrong.
Speaker 14 (15:56):
Ring for an elaba, just the kitchen, wait for an
ella bad anlaba to see.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I told you I told.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Wa for another.
Speaker 14 (16:37):
Bids the kitchen, wait for an alibi analaba to see
I told you.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Wait for anotherabad. We were another Bata.
Speaker 16 (17:44):
You know that feeling when you hear a song you
haven't heard in years. Dude, you feel that way all
the time. Vintage rock from Don'spacement.
Speaker 17 (18:11):
What first time let out say you down and out?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
And I had no doubts about you.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Made it.
Speaker 17 (18:26):
Since I've come to know you, I ain't got no doubts.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
What it's about.
Speaker 18 (18:37):
Me.
Speaker 17 (18:40):
We're going out tonight. She's gonna change me right.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
We've got all old. She was my love and.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
We're going to head bird.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Well.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
The second time that I saw it, boy, you really improved.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I was really moved.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
How I wanted you.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I'm not connatch door to see your though tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Because I need some more. I what you've got.
Speaker 17 (19:28):
Me? Man, We're going out tonight. She's gonna change me right.
S We've got out so shall with my love.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
We're going hey, say anything to get your mom to
love me, cause you know why I am.
Speaker 13 (20:15):
Anyways, you come calm.
Speaker 17 (20:20):
These are gonna say please if you want it, because
I want your soul.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I'm never gonna let you go.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
He bad, No, where's gonna have tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
She's gonna che night shut. We've got out so much.
Speaker 17 (20:50):
She look ahead and coming whip on a bad she's
not sh.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Starting.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
He's an official basement dweller, unofficially John Waite and the
Babies and the title cut from head First got the
way Back machine dialed up for the year nineteen seventy nine,
the year that the Basement was invaded by Australia. That's
up next. I'm Don Clark. Welcome to Don's Basement.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
The music with the Walkman.
Speaker 18 (22:11):
The Sony Walkman is a tiny stereo cassette player with
truly incredible sound. You put on a Walkman and see
the world in a whole new light. The Walkman from Sony,
the one and only.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
This classic rock.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
There's village, then there's this place.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Show take.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
This is John's Basement.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I've ain't around the world. I've seen a milliam nows.
I didn't one on the head down one, My ladyship God,
she's still starting line as we are. My she's doing nothing.
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Started last night, just at walking down the street wearing
that's just a time. Nothing down. I'm not a boy now,
no guy, about time your dous cot look down, I'm
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down a llow rasy kind of b see the river,
look down kind of liddle. She's like a metag to
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the fang should be the bastard life. Should we start
stopping love a ta alves and you can't stop You're
not going to stop A right time us talk of
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their law. Don't love two days? You haven't got any fold?
No God about time, doesn't should had a bastard boxes
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A to my soul Now it's my lady, No good God,
(25:40):
don't coming back to happy.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
In nineteen seventy nine there was an invasion from Australia.
Down in the basement. We had that the new album
from ACDC, from Highway to Hell and the girls got rhythm.
Then going through the import rack, we found these guys,
the Angels, later known as Angels City. This is the
title cut from No Exit in Down's Basement.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
The Secrets Disappear.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Is a waste.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Jesuits Ye fell up ice wi the damn Hi know way,
don't ever reveal your plan. Look down at your blood
stained hands. No wie spoke I make should say to
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you by name.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
The Silken Loope, I know you're wanta le mail and
no way it says.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I know You're gonna be maail. You know it says
lock you up.
Speaker 19 (27:50):
Standing behind closed doors gearing up, No hiding place anymore? No,
what is that anymore?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
You know I know where you are. We've been a
little this before. I know you're gonna be bay know
it says, I know you're gonna be bay with a.
(28:26):
It says I know you're gonna be bad with tho.
It says, I know you're gonna be bad. You know,
it says Alibi. Hi didn't be.
Speaker 19 (29:26):
Hide closed doors? Yeah, no, I didn't listen anymore. No,
I didn't listen anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
And that waiting, just why you are? We been throll
this before. I know I ought to be No less
you're good? No less bout about that? No, no, no,
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that's says the side the last. That's this is by.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Ten years of hanging out in the basement, and still
no one has explained why there is a parking meter
down here.
Speaker 16 (32:40):
They were pretty sure Schmiddy had something to do with it.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah yeah, walk in Don's basement.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Well I didn't have a.
Speaker 20 (32:47):
Little trouble long and I'm giving it to cap the
My baby just walked out the dolls, she said, this
town forever. It ain't the first time.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Me man, baby, I'm on me the last.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I'm gonna get the bars round, do some dreaking fast.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Because she's gone God.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I don't know I about heaven.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I don't know if I'm said she's gone.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
God, I don't know him about crying. I don't know
im about that.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I'm leaving.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Well, I'm gonna miss you loving.
Speaker 15 (33:42):
And you perfume and you smile.
Speaker 21 (33:48):
I'm gonna miss you stealing on my booze and talking
all the wow. I'm gonna miss you cleaning around the
hole and heaven with my blue.
Speaker 22 (34:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I think I can get myself amazed and take her.
Speaker 23 (34:06):
On a rootin't the first? Tell mewhere man won't be
the last.
Speaker 17 (34:19):
I'm better get the bars round to afterricking fast.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Suppose she's gone gone.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
No, I don't know if I'm happy.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
I don't know if I'm said she's gone.
Speaker 13 (34:39):
I don't know about crap.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I don't know if I'm not. I'm living it ain't
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the mast very mad lost me the last.
Speaker 23 (35:08):
I'm gonna get the ball now, don't suspecting face, but
she's born.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I don't know my baby, said she. I don't know
my crap.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I don't know about that having.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Gone.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I don't know in my fading I'm keeping up together,
but she.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Discsselation Angels, the new album from Bad Company in seventy nine,
and Gone, Gone Gone. In April of seventy nine, these
guys are doing a show in Spokane, Washington, when David
Lee Roth collapses on stage. Later, the doctor tells him, hell,
you got to slow down a little bit, right. It's
like shoveling snow in a blizzard. You just can't keep up.
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Van Halen had a new album, Van Halen two. This
is someone get me a doctor in Don's basement.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
You man a follow me? My mealing?
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Time's been shocking. Oh nothing, nay man, I can't walk.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Somebody got the doctor? Somebody the doctor? Why glad over my?
Speaker 3 (37:24):
I smiled down? Who got you.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
A maid? I say, my fy somebody? Yeah my somebody?
Oh we shot.
Speaker 16 (39:02):
He may be older, but he did see some great
bands and for less than ten bucks a ticket.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
This is Don's basement.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Who's taking time out?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
We taking shopping out?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Well thoughts, he got nothing news.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
I'll find enough excuse stuff now you and will understand it's.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Just bad news. Wa lay you jam rock man, chop
out black. Now to the game, lay you chan rock
mirror you can't have to snip out d ja.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Ja played from there. We got so can't wait for
day to gays. We've got something from street. Now come
up to child.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
We cannot with two wing brought up to stop too
mal shots in the night.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
She gons so far out to stay hide, I'll lay.
Speaker 22 (40:22):
You can't rock me up, man, Come up back now
to re game. Won't lay you can rock me out
men to get enough to stock out order chase clean
out here.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
There's no we could buy child game out here. There's
no way you could buy child in the game.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Who take you someme out? Who take a shot out?
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Were the boys?
Speaker 22 (42:08):
He got nothing lose. I'm cling no, mouth's gonna stop now.
You wouldn't want to stand.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
It's just bad news. Away.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
You can't rock me off fair, Come up back out
to anything away.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
You can't rock me out head.
Speaker 24 (42:28):
You can't have to start a worry way can't play
somebody today?
Speaker 22 (42:37):
Smith got something in the setting out here, there's no.
Speaker 24 (42:44):
Keep by jolly let me. You can't pay somebody today.
Smith got son in the setting.
Speaker 5 (42:56):
There is no.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Keep by your.
Speaker 4 (43:05):
UFO released their live album Strangers in the Night in
seventy nine. There's only you can rock me. Well, let's
see nineteen seventy nine and a new home was going
for just over seventy one thousand dollars. Gallon of gas
was eighty six cents. AMC had a new car that
they fashioned after a fish tank, called the Pacer, that
went for thirty one hundred dollars. Or you could take
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eight ninety nine, go down to eighteen twelve Overture and
pick up a new album from Kansas. Their album was Monolith.
This is away from you in Don's basement.
Speaker 25 (43:43):
You still think I'm not what I would love to be,
got a bed right around.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
It was no hard to me.
Speaker 25 (43:55):
Was a time in my life when I was shot enough.
You get table with think you make a seat me
while the beating is high, and the sides meet me
at the top of the stop where the colors fat.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Wellmost be a world of the same.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
We got to take me away from me.
Speaker 25 (44:34):
Left give my part, would let me one hundred and sixteen.
All this distant one makes it hard to me. You
and I were supposed to have some war.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Bore help me that the feeling we said home.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Set me you have. Besides that, the sides side at
the top of the side. Then the cover slide down.
When I'm walking the wall up the side that exactly
the way, and then they get a return to I mean, dis.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
See not the gissing your hair, HOLLI clean.
Speaker 10 (46:12):
I don't know ever miss it with you as ago,
and I'll return to my places.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Do not let you know stick me. You have beauty
high that besides spit me at the top of the
stop where the color fluck. But I'm busting away. I'm
just bad that.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
They can take you away way from you, that they
can take me.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Now.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
This is the official radio show of the Maker's Mark Distillery.
They don't actually know that. We just kind of said that,
but they would be proud of that if they knew
how much of this stuff we were drinking.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Welcome to Down's basement.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
I ain't got a hard storm. I'm butting more.
Speaker 26 (48:16):
Not the mother you know you mean the thing said,
I'm gonna one the part of my gas.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Don't as night gazing. Get it right the.
Speaker 26 (48:35):
Den mother, I don't wanna die it down. Don't need
to reason on the hap you around if time you
want away, don't be surprised.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
But as you says, no, that's night. Just chancing. It
is right there.
Speaker 14 (49:02):
I do when I'm there, and my own mother love,
I said, I don't I do them and my own.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
Father love got a hard.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
You have left me a mot of my own good
sounding the whole. I don't think that would ever.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
Ask the mind. I'm fighting to keep myself. I'm dem
never need my No.
Speaker 13 (50:41):
You seem to see the light any night.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
Now the.
Speaker 16 (51:49):
Music you grew up with, the music you grew up with,
this is John's basement.
Speaker 17 (52:02):
Very Summer said, you know, stop cigarettes and mistakes.
Speaker 14 (52:16):
That showed Stover dead, not say concern.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
That is it to forget about me?
Speaker 2 (52:28):
We're taking not anything seeing me?
Speaker 3 (52:35):
How you can guess that fat to be badly see.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
I got a word said it was meant to says.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
It's to forget about me.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
Maybe in a glue your episode job people you didn't
like me sometime because parts the fast. That's like talking lass.
(53:46):
I shouldn't known that little to the last guy, such
a tranquil fast can let yourself tag people believe you
(54:13):
may so charge boss can like your some tab people
believe big like you so like yourself. Tab like your Sofa.
Speaker 4 (54:59):
A brand new album from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
in seventy nine from Damn the Torpedoes, there's even the Losers. Okay,
real quick, I've got a piece of business to take
care of. One of our basement dwellers, Greg Smith and
his brother Tony. They are celebrating a legacy, the one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Maybelle Limestone. Thank you so much,
guys for allowing Don's Basement Tapes to be a part
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of the celebration. Your families and your parents very proud
of what you've done with their company. Congratulations, guys, there
you go, putting the wraps on the Wayback Machine nineteen
seventy nine. Thank you to all the stations, including WYML
ninety nine point nine FM in Chicago, our flagship station.
Thank you, Joe and Jeff the Great ninety eight WMDC,
MAYVL Wisconsin, and all the stations. Thanks to the iHeartRadio
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Network and Amazon Music for taking Don's Basement Tapes worldwide.
Thank you to mister Lee Peak, he is the voice
of Don's Basement, and a great big thank you to
you for coming down here each and every week and
hanging out on the basement. I'm Don Clark. Peace
The following program is brought to you in living color.
Some go into the barrow e sound.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Somebody tell me that said.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Please that son my God, it's God.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I see God. We will provide the brand design.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
We didn't say it'd be good.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
It's one hour of radio anarchy broadcasting for the ACNE
Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Where the hell is Mayville? Then it rocked.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
It's been bottled up way too long.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Welcome to Don's basement.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Something has a connock to count a buck can cancers, girl.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
We can lock to the start, So come us a
(02:23):
post cost breaking L three.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It was their eighth studio album, The Light Great Miles
Good went on the vocals say for wine and I
liked a rock And hello there, how are you welcome
back in? I'm Don Clark. Thank you so much for
coming down and hanging out with us once again. Down
here in Don Spaceman brought the way Back Machine out
of the closet, dialed up the year nineteen seventy nine,
and thanks to your suggestions, we've got some songs from
(05:06):
that year. I haven't seen the light of day in
a long long time. Anybody had a new album in
seventy nine, called life for the taking. This is give
me some water. Welcome to Don's basement.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I'll never understood. I want to start for losing man
number one son goes bad for.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Cards with the devil's past that he got your sixsome
with four balls.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Never understand, then took the money from the rich man's man.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Give me the water.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Up, shut up, man, a skimbo water.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Give me sorter water. Chi man grew up so fast
standing by being the best one day. So your water man,
take your brother's head. I'll be running with you anyway.
(06:11):
So we will laid in the nothing like five hundred
desert's hand.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
So when they the puzzy got us puts the sharp
boys gets his man in some water.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Dad on the skin boarding cool cool water, little little water.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Oh jeez, but just getting this hand. Had not just
suspense this blest can but long I've got no boots around.
Shouldn't have not when I've been with that big god.
(07:03):
Hurry out, give it some water, because Jilli Dan will
get that skiboader to water.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Kids. Shoot, see that long white broke hang from the
Hamar street. Take the restless hearts, tie my hands and
go to my body. Then I'll find a free let
me down like a man. No one understands that. Let
me pray out of all man pray smack that horse
and the ass for my last thing. Guess brother claim
(07:46):
sake give me some water?
Speaker 8 (07:50):
Was shut a man on that skinboat good water, give
it water, give it the water. Shot up, shut up.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Because this.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Brian cuts a vintage rocks and selected by the basement
dwelt there, this is John's basement.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
What everything side.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Again?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Got to take it at?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Let me out how you finish.
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Slady side, because I don't know how it means to be.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Siding well my my.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Love e.
Speaker 11 (10:03):
Having his undy money.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Loving all ways.
Speaker 12 (10:46):
Starting right, I know, so how would you can't as.
Speaker 11 (11:10):
Loving his unname mom.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
My love loving his n name more.
Speaker 13 (11:32):
Way, welcome steps sides, I give you a last stop.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
To take it as.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So I would take us a low.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Basally made my snow.
Speaker 11 (12:57):
Don't mean you sund the mon I mean you Sun motioning.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Child.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
In my lists of favorite album covers, that's in the
top one. Scorpions from Love Drive and Loving You Sunday Morning.
Guitarist Gary Moore was with these guys in seventy four
and seventy seven, but this was the only time that
he stayed around long enough to record a whole album,
and then he left. He said, I'll just take the check,
thank you very much. The album is Black Rose, a
(14:34):
rock legend. This is thin Lizzie and waiting for an
alibi in Don's basement, and what he.
Speaker 14 (14:43):
Takes he gives for what he's got, and what he's
got he says he has not stole from anyone.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's not that he don't tell me that evens melt you.
It's just deeps.
Speaker 14 (15:02):
But you know somethingful ring more an elebat an waiting
for an labad on an alabi.
Speaker 15 (15:31):
Valentino's in a posewat but he's called his money all
that else, but cannot be I just want another cigarette,
says to help him to Vulghetti's.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
About the strick.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's not that he as.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Much alreable that he lost.
Speaker 15 (15:49):
Just looking touch it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Jumps this careful so much, and you know that it
is wrong.
Speaker 14 (15:56):
Ring for an elaba, just the kitchen, wait for an
ella bad anlaba to see.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I told you I told.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Wa for another.
Speaker 14 (16:37):
Bids the kitchen, wait for an alibi analaba to see
I told you.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Wait for anotherabad. We were another Bata.
Speaker 16 (17:44):
You know that feeling when you hear a song you
haven't heard in years. Dude, you feel that way all
the time. Vintage rock from Don'spacement.
Speaker 17 (18:11):
What first time let out say you down and out?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
And I had no doubts about you.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Made it.
Speaker 17 (18:26):
Since I've come to know you, I ain't got no doubts.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
What it's about.
Speaker 18 (18:37):
Me.
Speaker 17 (18:40):
We're going out tonight. She's gonna change me right.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
We've got all old. She was my love and.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
We're going to head bird.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Well.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
The second time that I saw it, boy, you really improved.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I was really moved.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
How I wanted you.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I'm not connatch door to see your though tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Because I need some more. I what you've got.
Speaker 17 (19:28):
Me? Man, We're going out tonight. She's gonna change me right.
S We've got out so shall with my love.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
We're going hey, say anything to get your mom to
love me, cause you know why I am.
Speaker 13 (20:15):
Anyways, you come calm.
Speaker 17 (20:20):
These are gonna say please if you want it, because
I want your soul.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I'm never gonna let you go.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
He bad, No, where's gonna have tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
She's gonna che night shut. We've got out so much.
Speaker 17 (20:50):
She look ahead and coming whip on a bad she's
not sh.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Starting.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
He's an official basement dweller, unofficially John Waite and the
Babies and the title cut from head First got the
way Back machine dialed up for the year nineteen seventy nine,
the year that the Basement was invaded by Australia. That's
up next. I'm Don Clark. Welcome to Don's Basement.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
The music with the Walkman.
Speaker 18 (22:11):
The Sony Walkman is a tiny stereo cassette player with
truly incredible sound. You put on a Walkman and see
the world in a whole new light. The Walkman from Sony,
the one and only.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
This classic rock.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
There's village, then there's this place.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Show take.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
This is John's Basement.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I've ain't around the world. I've seen a milliam nows.
I didn't one on the head down one, My ladyship God,
she's still starting line as we are. My she's doing nothing.
(23:24):
Started last night, just at walking down the street wearing
that's just a time. Nothing down. I'm not a boy now,
no guy, about time your dous cot look down, I'm
(23:49):
down a llow rasy kind of b see the river,
look down kind of liddle. She's like a metag to
(24:09):
the fang should be the bastard life. Should we start
stopping love a ta alves and you can't stop You're
not going to stop A right time us talk of
(24:30):
their law. Don't love two days? You haven't got any fold?
No God about time, doesn't should had a bastard boxes
(24:58):
A to my soul Now it's my lady, No good God,
(25:40):
don't coming back to happy.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
In nineteen seventy nine there was an invasion from Australia.
Down in the basement. We had that the new album
from ACDC, from Highway to Hell and the girls got rhythm.
Then going through the import rack, we found these guys,
the Angels, later known as Angels City. This is the
title cut from No Exit in Down's Basement.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
The Secrets Disappear.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Is a waste.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Jesuits Ye fell up ice wi the damn Hi know way,
don't ever reveal your plan. Look down at your blood
stained hands. No wie spoke I make should say to
(27:25):
you by name.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
The Silken Loope, I know you're wanta le mail and
no way it says.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I know You're gonna be maail. You know it says
lock you up.
Speaker 19 (27:50):
Standing behind closed doors gearing up, No hiding place anymore? No,
what is that anymore?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
You know I know where you are. We've been a
little this before. I know you're gonna be bay know
it says, I know you're gonna be bay with a.
(28:26):
It says I know you're gonna be bad with tho.
It says, I know you're gonna be bad. You know,
it says Alibi. Hi didn't be.
Speaker 19 (29:26):
Hide closed doors? Yeah, no, I didn't listen anymore. No,
I didn't listen anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
And that waiting, just why you are? We been throll
this before. I know I ought to be No less
you're good? No less bout about that? No, no, no,
(31:24):
that's says the side the last. That's this is by.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Ten years of hanging out in the basement, and still
no one has explained why there is a parking meter
down here.
Speaker 16 (32:40):
They were pretty sure Schmiddy had something to do with it.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah yeah, walk in Don's basement.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Well I didn't have a.
Speaker 20 (32:47):
Little trouble long and I'm giving it to cap the
My baby just walked out the dolls, she said, this
town forever. It ain't the first time.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Me man, baby, I'm on me the last.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I'm gonna get the bars round, do some dreaking fast.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Because she's gone God.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I don't know I about heaven.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I don't know if I'm said she's gone.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
God, I don't know him about crying. I don't know
im about that.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I'm leaving.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Well, I'm gonna miss you loving.
Speaker 15 (33:42):
And you perfume and you smile.
Speaker 21 (33:48):
I'm gonna miss you stealing on my booze and talking
all the wow. I'm gonna miss you cleaning around the
hole and heaven with my blue.
Speaker 22 (34:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I think I can get myself amazed and take her.
Speaker 23 (34:06):
On a rootin't the first? Tell mewhere man won't be
the last.
Speaker 17 (34:19):
I'm better get the bars round to afterricking fast.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Suppose she's gone gone.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
No, I don't know if I'm happy.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
I don't know if I'm said she's gone.
Speaker 13 (34:39):
I don't know about crap.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I don't know if I'm not. I'm living it ain't
(35:01):
the mast very mad lost me the last.
Speaker 23 (35:08):
I'm gonna get the ball now, don't suspecting face, but
she's born.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I don't know my baby, said she. I don't know
my crap.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I don't know about that having.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Gone.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I don't know in my fading I'm keeping up together,
but she.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Discsselation Angels, the new album from Bad Company in seventy nine,
and Gone, Gone Gone. In April of seventy nine, these
guys are doing a show in Spokane, Washington, when David
Lee Roth collapses on stage. Later, the doctor tells him, hell,
you got to slow down a little bit, right. It's
like shoveling snow in a blizzard. You just can't keep up.
(36:26):
Van Halen had a new album, Van Halen two. This
is someone get me a doctor in Don's basement.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
You man a follow me? My mealing?
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Time's been shocking. Oh nothing, nay man, I can't walk.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Somebody got the doctor? Somebody the doctor? Why glad over my?
Speaker 3 (37:24):
I smiled down? Who got you.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
A maid? I say, my fy somebody? Yeah my somebody?
Oh we shot.
Speaker 16 (39:02):
He may be older, but he did see some great
bands and for less than ten bucks a ticket.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
This is Don's basement.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Who's taking time out?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
We taking shopping out?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Well thoughts, he got nothing news.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
I'll find enough excuse stuff now you and will understand it's.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Just bad news. Wa lay you jam rock man, chop
out black. Now to the game, lay you chan rock
mirror you can't have to snip out d ja.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Ja played from there. We got so can't wait for
day to gays. We've got something from street. Now come
up to child.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
We cannot with two wing brought up to stop too
mal shots in the night.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
She gons so far out to stay hide, I'll lay.
Speaker 22 (40:22):
You can't rock me up, man, Come up back now
to re game. Won't lay you can rock me out
men to get enough to stock out order chase clean
out here.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
There's no we could buy child game out here. There's
no way you could buy child in the game.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Who take you someme out? Who take a shot out?
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Were the boys?
Speaker 22 (42:08):
He got nothing lose. I'm cling no, mouth's gonna stop now.
You wouldn't want to stand.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
It's just bad news. Away.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
You can't rock me off fair, Come up back out
to anything away.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
You can't rock me out head.
Speaker 24 (42:28):
You can't have to start a worry way can't play
somebody today?
Speaker 22 (42:37):
Smith got something in the setting out here, there's no.
Speaker 24 (42:44):
Keep by jolly let me. You can't pay somebody today.
Smith got son in the setting.
Speaker 5 (42:56):
There is no.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Keep by your.
Speaker 4 (43:05):
UFO released their live album Strangers in the Night in
seventy nine. There's only you can rock me. Well, let's
see nineteen seventy nine and a new home was going
for just over seventy one thousand dollars. Gallon of gas
was eighty six cents. AMC had a new car that
they fashioned after a fish tank, called the Pacer, that
went for thirty one hundred dollars. Or you could take
(43:27):
eight ninety nine, go down to eighteen twelve Overture and
pick up a new album from Kansas. Their album was Monolith.
This is away from you in Don's basement.
Speaker 25 (43:43):
You still think I'm not what I would love to be,
got a bed right around.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
It was no hard to me.
Speaker 25 (43:55):
Was a time in my life when I was shot enough.
You get table with think you make a seat me
while the beating is high, and the sides meet me
at the top of the stop where the colors fat.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Wellmost be a world of the same.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
We got to take me away from me.
Speaker 25 (44:34):
Left give my part, would let me one hundred and sixteen.
All this distant one makes it hard to me. You
and I were supposed to have some war.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Bore help me that the feeling we said home.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Set me you have. Besides that, the sides side at
the top of the side. Then the cover slide down.
When I'm walking the wall up the side that exactly
the way, and then they get a return to I mean, dis.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
See not the gissing your hair, HOLLI clean.
Speaker 10 (46:12):
I don't know ever miss it with you as ago,
and I'll return to my places.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Do not let you know stick me. You have beauty
high that besides spit me at the top of the
stop where the color fluck. But I'm busting away. I'm
just bad that.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
They can take you away way from you, that they
can take me.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Now.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
This is the official radio show of the Maker's Mark Distillery.
They don't actually know that. We just kind of said that,
but they would be proud of that if they knew
how much of this stuff we were drinking.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Welcome to Down's basement.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
I ain't got a hard storm. I'm butting more.
Speaker 26 (48:16):
Not the mother you know you mean the thing said,
I'm gonna one the part of my gas.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Don't as night gazing. Get it right the.
Speaker 26 (48:35):
Den mother, I don't wanna die it down. Don't need
to reason on the hap you around if time you
want away, don't be surprised.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
But as you says, no, that's night. Just chancing. It
is right there.
Speaker 14 (49:02):
I do when I'm there, and my own mother love,
I said, I don't I do them and my own.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
Father love got a hard.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
You have left me a mot of my own good
sounding the whole. I don't think that would ever.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
Ask the mind. I'm fighting to keep myself. I'm dem
never need my No.
Speaker 13 (50:41):
You seem to see the light any night.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
Now the.
Speaker 16 (51:49):
Music you grew up with, the music you grew up with,
this is John's basement.
Speaker 17 (52:02):
Very Summer said, you know, stop cigarettes and mistakes.
Speaker 14 (52:16):
That showed Stover dead, not say concern.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
That is it to forget about me?
Speaker 2 (52:28):
We're taking not anything seeing me?
Speaker 3 (52:35):
How you can guess that fat to be badly see.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
I got a word said it was meant to says.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
It's to forget about me.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
Maybe in a glue your episode job people you didn't
like me sometime because parts the fast. That's like talking lass.
(53:46):
I shouldn't known that little to the last guy, such
a tranquil fast can let yourself tag people believe you
(54:13):
may so charge boss can like your some tab people
believe big like you so like yourself. Tab like your Sofa.
Speaker 4 (54:59):
A brand new album from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
in seventy nine from Damn the Torpedoes, there's even the Losers. Okay,
real quick, I've got a piece of business to take
care of. One of our basement dwellers, Greg Smith and
his brother Tony. They are celebrating a legacy, the one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Maybelle Limestone. Thank you so much,
guys for allowing Don's Basement Tapes to be a part
(55:20):
of the celebration. Your families and your parents very proud
of what you've done with their company. Congratulations, guys, there
you go, putting the wraps on the Wayback Machine nineteen
seventy nine. Thank you to all the stations, including WYML
ninety nine point nine FM in Chicago, our flagship station.
Thank you, Joe and Jeff the Great ninety eight WMDC,
MAYVL Wisconsin, and all the stations. Thanks to the iHeartRadio
(55:43):
Network and Amazon Music for taking Don's Basement Tapes worldwide.
Thank you to mister Lee Peak, he is the voice
of Don's Basement, and a great big thank you to
you for coming down here each and every week and
hanging out on the basement. I'm Don Clark. Peace
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