Speaker 1: Hey, this is Jeff Levarr. You listen to Izzie Presley.
Those aren't pillows.
Speaker 2: Hi, this is Bobby Brown and welcome to another fucking podcast.
Speaker 1: We'll get out of people. Here's that.
Speaker 3: I'm forget.
Speaker 1: Van Halen was a part of Mike, You and least
of Judah. The Van Halen logo on our notebooks in
high school, along with the rolling stones. It's like the
mouth and you know, all the kiss logo. When it
switched over to Sammy Hagar, it became a different thing.
It was a different thing.
Speaker 4: It's a whole different pivot.
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't it wasn't a bad thing.
Speaker 4: No, no, it was a sham thing. All of Sham's lyrics
contain love. Yes, okay, why can't this be love? And
I ain't talking about love. We'll be right back with
more fighting after this.
Speaker 1: That's not a micropon in my pants. I'm just happy to.
Speaker 4: See your.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of Van Helen.
Speaker 1: Hello, Las Vegas, Hello world, Hello, my loyal minions. It
is good to see you, always good to be seen.
I'm Miszy Presley. I'm the host of the program that
is called another eff podcast. Welcome, Welcome to my humble abode.
Welcome to my humble little show. It's gonna be here
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to the YouTube. It's here anyways, it's good to see it,
good to be seen. I started a ship storm on
Sunday and no Saturday, and I figured it was time
to uh, because it's well, I mean the ship storm
is over, and I was going to a party. It
was a birthday party and a VAMPED celebration. And there's
a bunch of people that worked there and this dude
that was his birthday and they jammed, and there was
a food truck and I had to go for the
food truck because it was Donnie from Vamped, you know,
the the manager. And he has a new food truck
is Yo Dogs, and I had to try one of
his chili cheese dogs and I did and it was glorious.
And I'm driving there and I'm I'm like, God, I
need some van Halen in my life. And before I
get into that, most importantly, crack one for the working man.
Oh ah, there it is, God bless beer. Four years
ago today, we lost Jeff Lebar and go back. Listen
to the listen to the episodes, listen to his interviews.
I loved Jeff. He was a It's a great dude.
He was a funny dude and I miss him. He
was he was a good dude. So I hope you're
resting well. My friend cheers. Anyways, so I'm driving you
this party and we're going to talk about yesterday was
a red letter date in my history as well, because it,
as you heard from the intro, we have heard about
van Halen. We do know who van Halen is. And
this is a very van Halen heavy show because yesterday
it was today's Monday. The uh is it the fourteenth? Today?
I think it's the fourteenth? Is that math right? I
don't freaking know. I suppose I could just look at
my phone, but that's all the way, just a hair
out of reach. Or I could just look at look
at yes, it's the fourteenth, take a look at that.
July thirteenth, nineteen eighty eight was my very first big
boy show, my very first big boy concert, and that,
of course was van Halen Scorpions docin Metallica Kingdom Come
and that was called the Mosses of Rock, and that
was my very friend. I had seen shows, I had
seen bands before that. Uh, we're going to get into
all of that, but this this was my first big
boy show. But so I'm driving and I'm listening to
Fair Warning, and I'm regretting it. And I know, all
you Dave only bobos are losing your mind right now.
How could you regret listening to Fair Warning? That's sacred
ground that's hallowed ground, hollowed ground. I was. I came
to the conclusion that I wish I had brought fifty
one to fifty. I'm just letting you lose your mind.
I know you're just your your head is exploding and
you're wanting to turn this off right now. I wish
it was fifty one to fifty. I think fifty one
to fifty is a better record. Fair Warning, three fucking
solid ass songs. Three. Hear about it later, Main Street
and unchained is it mean Street? Yeah? The rest is
it's just not great. I'm sorry, it's just not a
great three. It's like I equated it too. And I
know all my a lot of my Van Halen Dave
only bobos or have lost their mind about this because
there was text conversations going on. There was name calling
at me. But I equate Fair Warning to Creatures of
the Night, and all the kiss cards are going to
get pissed off. But it's no secret Creatures of the
Night is not one of my favorite records for bangers
of songs and a lot of filler. It's not a
great record. Top to bottom. We've covered this, We've been there,
I've said this on multiple Kiss podcasts, well, the two
that I go on, Three Sides of the Coin, and
the number one Kiss podcast showed out love casts. And
that's the way I feel about Van Halen's Fair Warning. Now,
I know you're still yelling, You're you're still having a
hissy fit, You're you're you're calling me names, your whining, wanting,
You're you're you're telling me I'm stupid, you're saying I
have a vagina. I've heard it all. I've heard it
all because of this take, because of my thoughts on
Sam versus Dave and I love Dave, those first two
records are untouchable. I think Women and Children are Fair
Warning are not as good as everybody holds them up
to be, as you heard on the Christmas Summit that
we did few great songs on each one, and then
there's stuff that's not so great. I think nineteen eighty
four is better than both of them, but fifty top
to bottom is a better record. Let that sink in,
and I don't know, I don't know how more to
explain it. I don't know why you can't just accept that,
why you just cannot accept the facts of the matter
that nineteen eighty six, Van halen first record with Sammy Hagar.
I know you just screamed at the radio again or
at the YouTube. Sammy Hagar's first number one record, van
Halen's first number one record, solid ass album, top to bottom,
except for the Inside. We all know the Inside is
not a great song. And that's that's your throwaway that
is on fifty one fifty just a bunch of weird
fucking studio stuff. It's just that the only thing that
that sticks out to me in my head about the
inside is that's what's going down on the inside. And
at one point Sammy goes, Mike, Mike, what was that
shit you gave me last night? That's the only memorable
thing about the inside again, fair warning, three banger songs,
a bunch of filler, and yes, I hear you, Dave,
only Boba's yelling there's no filler on Dave Records. You're
You're wrong, You're wrong. I know you've knighted Dave. I
know you've brought him into sainthood. I know that you
think that because Diamond David Lee Roth, you think that
he is van Halen. That's really the fact of the matter.
But but that's that's not true. It's just that that
that stuff's better. Not necessarily, there is some Dave stuff
that is untouchable. I am not denying that Dave and
Sammy are apples and oranges. I get that you can't
compare eras like that. Well I can't. I just did.
You must get over your upduraate requlcitrants and open your
eyes and open your ear. And I know if you're
watching this on YouTube right now, you're looking behind my
head seeing Michael, Dave and Edward. It's a killer black
and white picture from Holland nineteen seventy eight or seventy nine,
one of the two. But if you love Sammy so much,
why why is it that Sammy? Because this is the
picture I was given. It's that simple. I mean, it's
not quantum physics. And then I started thinking, after you know,
a day of watching people lose their fucking minds, because
it's apparently the world revolves around Dave Era van Halen
like there is no other Era. There is no other
band allowed to ever utter the words van Halen, to
even be on any stage ever. I guess I don't
know if it's At first I thought is who's more sensitive.
Is it the Dave only Bobos because oh do they
hate the Sami apologists. That's another group too, but they're
not as bad as the Dave only bobos. Or At
first I thought, is it well, is it the Dave
only Bobos or is it the Ace Cult? Because being
a Kiss fan, being a Kiss trd, having an Ace
friendly tribute band, I know a lot of people that
would fall into the tard dumb and the Ace cult dumb.
But then talking to my close personal friend Zeus, who
was just on the show a couple of weeks ago,
he said, Nah, it's not the Ace Cult, it's the
footy pajama wearers. It's the Kiss can Do No wrong people.
Those ones that's who you put up against the Dave
only Bobo's. There is a lot of sensitivity going on there.
Those two groups are so sensitive. I'm trying to think
of the right way to say this. Those two groups
are so sensitive that I feel manly crying at the
end of many movies, or like when Zach and Kelly
break up outside of the Masquerade Ball because of that
douchebag Jeff, I'm a crier. We cover this in the Patreon.
There's a whole episode about me being a big pussy.
You should go listen to that. It's only five dollars
a month. Patreon dot com slash Real Lizzy Presley. You
can find that link anywhere you know, Real Lizzie Presley, Twitter, Instagram,
Facebook show page, another f podcast on Facebook or on
the website Izzypresley dot com, which I need to learn
how to how to update myself. So there's a lot
of sensitivity going on and I don't know how to
hand I don't I just don't know who's worse the
Dave Onies, the Dave only bobos, or the footy pajama
kissed tards. I mean, I am in the tard dumb,
but I'm not in the footy pajama wearing level. Why
is the light changing? Must be the ghost some bitches
back there. I know it's not him, but maybe he's
using the force or something. So that's something to pontter.
Leave your comments, let me know, let me know what
you think. Who is more sensitive, the Dave only Bobo's
or the footy pajama wearing kiss tarts. I would love
to hear what you guys have to say now before
we move on. I gotta goddamn, take a sip of beer.
I do have some stuff coming up. I was just
on the podcast with Don Jamison and Keith Roth that
is Cold Rock Strap, and basically they have musicians go
on there and talk about sports. It's fun because, as
a lot of you know, I was the sports and
music director for Rix magazine in the Weekly Buzz newspaper.
I did some writing for WBHR The Bear the website,
very little, just a couple of articles, but I had
the It's like, dude, I'm here, let me do something
because I enjoyed it and I do miss it. So
I'll post that link when that comes out. August twenty second.
August twentieth, I leave for the on the Blue Cruise,
which dis Nose embarks on the twenty second, flying overnight.
I get to Boston at eight am. I've never been
to Boston, so I'm getting there early. And maybe I
can go get some clam chowder, just so I can
say I had clam chowder in Boston. That would be
pretty damn cool. So there's that, and then we get
back on August twenty ninth. I fly straight back right
as I get off the boat, which reminds me I
need to book my flight back might be a good idea,
and I need the money to do that. Though. We'll
get there and I get back that night. Act my
Ace Freely tribute band see Kiss Tard, I Admit It,
Kiss trd Ace Cult Kiss TRD. We are opening up
for the Killer Dwarves at Backstage Bar and Billions here
in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada, and we are playing with
hold on, I gotta tell you who we're playing with.
Come on, just open you some bitch downloads. There is
the Oh there it is. It is the Killer Dwarfs
and probably gonna have Dunk and Russ on the show,
or one of them at least coming up very very soon.
Act Attribute Days Freely. That's my band right here at
Odds and Acting Human and one of those is actually
featuring Less Warner, the original drummer from the Cult. So
that is going to be a good time. I look
forward to seeing everybody there. And of course we talked
about the Kiss. It Always comes back.
Speaker 3: Dude, Can we just talk about Kiss?
Speaker 1: It always comes back to Kiss? The Kiss Cruise Landlocked
edition which is here in November, and there is a
unofficial Cosa Blanca pre party. Nothing to do with the
actual record label. Don't worry, that's just the name of it.
I am hosting it. That is on the Thursday, and
One Last Kiss is playing, the Bones are playing, and
then that weekend as the Kiss thing is going on.
If you're coming here for that, come over to the
place that we're having the Las Vegas Guitar Trade Show.
Hit it up Las Vegas Guitar Trade Show dot com
and come and join us. So yesterday, like I said,
a lot of Van Halen talk. Today, it's a lot
of Abdura ricalcitrance. Seriously, go sign up for the Patreon
listen to just just to listen to that episode of
me talking about why I Cry like a Bitch. Yesterday,
July thirteenth, nineteen eighty eight, it was the Monsters of
Rock Tour. Van Halen, Scorpions, Doctor Metallica, Kingdom come at
the Metro in Minneapolis, my first big boys show. Take
us for twenty five dollars. We were in row forty.
My mom waited in line to get us our tickets.
Eight of us went. I was a It was the
summer between freshman year of high school and sophomore year.
Obviously I had just gotten braces on, so my teeth
hurt like a motherfucker. I could barely eat. I was fifteen.
I wasn't drinking beer. Wasn't drinking goddamn beer. I mean
I am now. God beer is delicious. Thank God for beer.
M I remember when it was announced, I was freaking out.
But of course, you know, oh dude, they should take
this bed fucking Ruth Metallica, take them off, put kiss
on there and them fucking stupid kidshit. My mom waited
on to get our tickets. That this is back in
the day that this was pre internet, pre ticket Master,
so this would have been God. Did they go on
sale the year before, I don't know. I think it
was still cold when they went on sale. It was
probably during the winter. So my mom went to the
record store and I can't remember the name of it.
If if you're from Saint Cloud, you will remember it.
It was where Famous Dave's was. I mean, this is
years and years and years and the years before Famous
Dave would have been there, and the uh there was
the movie theater was over there. It was at the
Crossroads mall, but it wasn't in the mall. It was
across the parking lot. In the corner on third. Is
that thirty third? Nope, that's third. Stupid Saint Cloud shit
run through my head, stoked, excited what I had seen
of live music before this. So I went to a
Catholic school. I went to a started in second grade.
I went to public school kindergarten and first grade. Then
I went to a Catholic school called Saint Pete's. Saint Pete's.
After fourth grade you went to St. Paul's, Saint Peter's
and Paul's, but different locations. Elementary school, middle school five
through eight. St. Paul's which basically fed with the whole diocese.
They had all of these Catholic schools and they all
fed into Cathedral, which is the high school. And they
lost the state high school hockey tournament this year. Went
to the final year before they won, and I was
sitting on a boat in the Caribbean getting my updates,
and I was very, very excited. So all these fed
into Cathedral, and the cathedral also had a middle school
as well. They're junior high at least John the twenty third.
So because it's a private Catholic school, they have to
do a fundraiser every year. And as this is for
the whole thing, not just the high school. It's for
the grade schools and all that kind of stuff feeding
into the high school. And that was called Rock around
the Clock. And they would go to the ice arena
that my mom worked at, the MAC, the Municipal Athletic Complex,
and it would put on a show. Now, I'm sure
a lot of you have heard of familiar, at least
with the name Bobby Vu. You probably don't know any
of his music. The one song that sticks out in
my head is take Good Care of My Babby. So
Bobby was from Fargo, and Bobby got his big break
the night that Buddy Hally died. They were on their
way from Clearlake, Iowa, to Fargo to play and we
all know the story that faithful they get on the
jet crashed right outside of clear Lake. They didn't even
make it out of clear Lake. They needed somebody to
fill in so the show could go on. So Bobby
the filled in local boy, and Bobby got his big
break by being the guy that filled in for Buddy
Holly and Bobby eventually moved to Saint Cloud and he
sent his kids to Cathedral. Now Bobby helped put this
show on every year Bobby brought in because Bobby was
an artist in the sixties, so on the radio hits
in the sixties, and so Bobby put this show on.
I saw Jannon Dean, I saw it's Leslie Gore. It's
my party, and I'll cry if I I mean, I'm young,
I'm little while I'm seeing all these Uh, Chubby Checker,
I remember distinctly. It was like four. I still have
the shirt. Believe it or not. It doesn't fit obviously,
Chubby Checker. I'm up front, I'm right, I'm front and center.
Cheby's doing the twist. He pulls me up on stage.
I gotta do the twist a Chebby Checker. Bo Diddley
was it Bo Diddley? Who ever had the cigar box guitar?
I think that was Bo Diddley. So we said Dick
Clark hosted one year. So this at the age of fifteen,
these are the bands that I've seen my freshman year.
I tried to go to fucking see Kiss Crazy Nights tour.
My mom said only if my cousin Gary would take me.
He looked at me and said, nah, sorry, Brah, ain't happening.
He wasn't a kiss Man, God damn you great big
stack attack. There was also a chance to go see
the Martley Cruth Theater of Paint to her, but that
was no, fucking way, way too young then. So this
is what I am used to, which is still you
know somebody that that's that young, still badass, it's still cool,
it's still it's still something. I mean, I look back
on like I can't believe I was able to see
these artists at such a young age. So now we're
in the ear of the MTV, the Headbanger's Ball, the eighties,
glam rock is on top of the world, and Van
Halen is coming brand new record o U eight one
two just came out. They're bringing the Scorpions, They're bringing
Doc in, They're bringing this band I'd never heard of
called Metallica, and they're bringing this new up and coming
band just put out their first record called Kingdom Come.
And I know everybody complains about it they just led
Zeppelin wannabes. Well, everybody's a fucking led Zeppelin wannabe. Yes,
they do have moments where they sound like led Zeppelin,
but who doesn't, But then Slip Not doesn't. I'm sure
you can find a moment. I remember we get there.
It was a doors opened at noon for the Metrodome
where you get sucked in and when you leave you
get pushed out because of the air to keep that
roof up. And uh, I remember Kingdom Come came on
and it's so wild. I posted this on Sunday and
it is still getting liked, still getting retweeted, still comments.
See I just open it up again. They may have
a faster Pussycat did not play the La fucking show.
We were twenty rows from the stage. It was insane,
people ripping out season throwing them from above. See it's
just so I posted this. It's got and this is
right now. It's got one hundred and thirty five comments,
forty four retweets, eight hundred and thirty eight likes, twenty
seven thousand impressions, twenty seven thousand views. It's just people
keep commenting on it as fucking it shows how important this.
Here's another one. I was at Candlestick for this great chill.
Unfortunately my buddy broke his foot. Long story retweeted. I
remember these great shows mostly just not meticularly the sellouts
and settled down great show. Akron rubber Bulls so solidified
my love for scorpions and metallic one hundred degrees. On
the floor, they were using water canons to keep people
from overheating and passing out. I heard a lot. There's
a lot of stories about water cannons. Who's your Dome, Indianapolis?
All these acts were twenty five dollars. That was expensive
in nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, it's just the Kingdom the
Kingdome for me, of course, you got you know the
Sammy Haters, great Concert, Van Hill, Van Hall and Hagar
so so hell. Yeah, it was worth every fucking penny.
You see, it wasn't just a show man. It was
an effort lifestylence. That's funny. Here's a good one. The
ticket price is bro pre Ticketmaster, stand in line for hours,
make new friends. That was that. I'm so it sucks
that you kids in that younger generation didn't get to
experience that because it was something special. It really really was.
Was there in Dallas. Remember Metallica launch into Creeping Death.
The militia turned the seating area into general admission floor seats. Legendary.
I remember, so Kingdom Come was great. I think I
had the CD. I knew nothing about Metallica. I had
no I had heard the name. I didn't I've seen shirts,
not really realizing that actually I had heard them on
the radio. But it was, you know, the late night
Metal Shop show that I did. Nothing registered at that time,
and I remember they came on and I looked at
my buddy next to me, I go, what the fuck
is this? What the fuck is this? Wow? Not knowing
a goddamn song. They're playing nothing, nothing registered, Nothing sounded familiar.
They actually I pulled up this the typical set list.
Creeping Death. Oh god. They opened with Creeping Death. Oh
actually I did. One song was familiar. That was Sanitarium
because the MTV Monster's a Rock special. That was the
live clip that they played Creeping Death for whom the
Bell Tolls, Sanitarium, Harvester of Sorrow, Whiplash, Feed to Black,
Seeking to story Master, Last Caress, and My Evil and
Battery that was there. I gotta find I wish I
could find some video from that Metrome show. And it's
interesting that Creeping Death was typically the first song because
that is that's one of the moments that sticks out.
I remember thinking to myself and that breakdown part, Die Die,
Die Again. I looked at my buddy.
Speaker 3: We're gonna die, Die, die by mya. I'm still I'm
still in awe of what's going on. I'm still I
had never heard anything like this, never experienced thrash metal.
Speaker 1: That I know of. No, I didn't. I don't think
I had. Through the Bill Tooles, I had no idea sanitarium.
Oh I know this.
Speaker 3: One death Bosterio.
Speaker 1: No, No, I had no fucking idea. Then they play
Harvester Sorrow and this was. Now keep in mind, this
was before Justice for All came out. This was after Master.
This was after Garage Days because Garage Days was the
first thing they did with Jason. Because on the Master,
on the Puppets tour, as we all know, Cliff Burden
passed away, was killed. I should say so this I
think it was the September after this tour wrapped up,
is when Justice for All came out, And that would
have been September, so that would have been right right
around the Yeah, it was after school started. Now, after
this show, I went straight to the music store the
next day and bought Master Repuppets. I was, what the
holy fuck this is? This is my life has changed.
First day of school now keep in mind Catholic school,
everybody's wearing their fucking dressed to the tea first day
of school. We're dressing up. Everybody's dressing up. We're not
wearing church clothes. But we're walking tall, we're looking good.
I had a Metallica shirt on the one with the
skull with the things coming out of the skull. I
think it was a damage ink shirt. It was a
gift for my best friend's brother. Yeah, I'm not gonna worry.
You can have it. Well, it's pretty cool, and I
remember the looks that I got. Oh, fucking Metallica. What
the what's wrong? Who the fucking what's wrong with you?
Well two years later, everybody's wearing Metallica shirts. But you know,
God forbid, listen to me, God forbid. But that was
life changing. Metallica was life changing, especially when you see
a band and it's tougher nowadays with the internet. You know,
you can do some research, YadA YadA.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I suppose I could have went to the record
store and picked up a fucking Metallica, but it wouldn't
have been the same. It wouldn't have been the same
as experiencing it for the first time. Live with thousands
and thousands and thousands of people in a stadium in
downtown Minneapolis. Absolutely life changing. And Dawkin comes on and
as we've learned in the past years that Dawkin was
basically doing this tour for the money and then breaking up,
they had already basically broken up. I was like, all right,
let's go make this money, Let's do one more tour.
I mean, how can you go wrong with Van Halen
and Scorpions and this new band Metallica, well not new,
I mean they had been around, but you know, new
to a lot of the world, and this new Bank
Kingdom come and you know, you could tell they were
going through the motions they weren't. I remember George Lynch
playing with his back to the crowd. I didn't realize
that was a thing, but I enjoyed it. I loved
the Scorpions. I thought they were great. You know, they're
definitely dressing the era, but they were great. I was
very excited about seeing Scorpions and then Van Halen. I
was fucking blown away. I mean, how can you not
be blown away by Van fucking Halen? And I just
heard about seventeen one hundred Dave only Bobo's dude, Sammy though,
fuck off, it was awesome. It was awesome. Ou ate
one two tour. I remember Sammy climbing. It was a stadium,
so you had the huge, huge, huge rig, much like.
Speaker 5: Me climbing halfway up the fucking mains on the side
said the ladders during a talking about love and hanging off.
Speaker 1: The under the edge. We'll still look down that whole
fucking thing. I can lose my ass up here. Baby. Wow,
what a first show. I I don't know. I don't
know if it could ever be topped. Now I've seen
shows that, I mean have topped it. But being it
was my first big boy concert there, it was magical.
That that feeling, that rush of being there, being in
the same fucking place as Edward van Halen. Wow, and
you're fifteen years old, so you've never experienced this before.
You've never experienced the power of a live rock and
roll show, a live hard rock show. And then you
know with Metallica, a live heavy fucking metal show, pure power. Yeah,
I've cried at shows. First time I saw kissing makeup
third row Saint Paul that. Oh, that's another good topic
that's going to be coming up. Very very soon too.
So there's that. There you go. That's that's the story
of my first concert. That's the story of my first concert,
my experience with the nineteen eighty eight Monsters of Rock Tour.
Thank you, guys. We'll see you this week, probably Patreon folks.
It will be Thursday or Friday and the rest of
the world. You'll get it on Saturday with the commercials
us sorry about it. You don't pay, you don't get
commercial free. Anyways, we'll talk to you soon. And don't
forget what I lack in talent. I make up for
a cock. My name is Dizzy Presley. I'm the host
of the program. I say good day.