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a music show. We have a gang of people, so
let me stop unintroducing them. Ook huh, girls, you've been
feeling his so called.
Speaker 4: Vibe for a week, the much overrated vibe.
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Speaker 4: Hello Baby, Hello Max, Hello, everybody, Welcome to the show.
How's everybody feeling all right? Feeling all right? There's a
good song? Who did that song?
Speaker 1: Free?
Speaker 4: That's one version? Feeling all right? Not feeling too good?
Mass man, I should know that anyway, Yeah he did.
Speaker 1: Everyone. If you need one more traffic, yeah, you need
one more, you know, one more track for the album
you record?
Speaker 4: That feeling great?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? They want?
Speaker 4: How about them Celtics last night?
Speaker 1: The Celtics. Yeah, well we're recording this on St. Patrick's Day.
Speaker 4: People ask the people from out of town, say, why
do you pronounce the name of your basketball team Celtics.
Speaker 1: Like an s? Sound like the proper way to say
it's a good question, I know. Anyway, one, thanks for
being here, welcome your music. Fictionado they can use that
word fact.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at the top one hundred Billboard chart that
was just released the other day of the most of
the best mainstream rock songs. What what what what does
mainstream mean? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, let's introduce it. Someone here will tell us. Yeah.
Also and uh mobile studio with us is producer, engineer,
technical advise, a be murderer, Uncle, wow, the kiddies, pal
howe now though, Hello, mac Hey, one, one hey, everybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's funny every time I walk in here every Tuesday
night and I say hi to back and then I,
you know, I don't see one one during the week usually,
but I usually go into the disaster of a week
I've had and tell him everything's gone wrong, and he
kind of just looks, shakes his head and goes, wow, okay,
I'm listening to every word he has to say.
Speaker 4: I'm doing stuff, look up wires.
Speaker 5: And things together. That's bad, that's happened, and oh wow,
yeah okay.
Speaker 1: And at some point he says, okay, our hours up.
I think I think he's gonna start charging with like
a therapy, you know, like.
Speaker 6: You know, h man arrive.
Speaker 1: So, uh, well, what's the the update on the bees.
I haven't had a chance to go over and check
it out. Yeah, forty thousand of them about twenty feet
away from you. You don't want to go walk over
and see what's happening.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm letting, I'm letting nature take its course at
this point. I'm going to let the snow melt and
see what goes on.
Speaker 1: They're dead. Why don't you just say forty thousand?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm I'm anticipating I'll be buying two packages of bees. Yeah, okay,
it's been a rough winter. Yeah, okay, not your fault,
no anyway, okay. Also with us is a security chief,
International security chief, Willie Club Willie.
Speaker 1: How are you Mac?
Speaker 7: I'm doing fine. How you doing?
Speaker 1: We'll see right? Excellent so far? Did you go to
the parade as.
Speaker 7: You know, it's a big day, yeah, green, so it's
been a very lucky day for us.
Speaker 1: Did you go to the parade where you went on
the one million that went to South Boston?
Speaker 7: No, I haven't been to the parade in many years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably good. That's why that's a why his choice.
Where did everybody park? Where did they park? Where do
they know? Where they take the tea? Where would they stand?
Where would they wow? Anyway? Anyway, thank you Willie for
joining us. Also with us up there in North Carolina. No,
down there in North Carolina. The best one of the
Carolina is a good friend getting in position. Susan Kay,
super fan, Susan Kay. She's working hard right now.
Speaker 4: She's working right now.
Speaker 1: But thanks for joining us. The blonde with the covette. Also,
the pecking is going to get strange right now. Also
with us is a good friend Kim Shay up there
in Edmonton, Canada. Kim, Let's let's clamp for him, simply
because he's Canadian. Yeah, no weather reason.
Speaker 6: We're hanging in here for sure.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 8: How are you doing some somehow or another. We're doing great.
Everybody looks great tonight. Everybody energized. I think the sun
is spitting out some good juice, so testosterone levels are
high and I'm feeling energized.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. Last week toll.
Speaker 4: First, when I take a line from a Wang Chung,
we all remember Wang Chung. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody
have fun tonight.
Speaker 6: Good tune.
Speaker 1: As their back there. Yeah, they faded after that. I
saw Wang chung you did after after one song? What
did they play?
Speaker 4: Uh? It's they had a couple of covers. They get
a couple of top dance tunes uh oh and a
song from uh to Live and Die in l A.
Speaker 1: That's really Oh that paid the bills anyway, So Kim,
thanks for drinking you. You revealed last week, pleasure. You
revealed last week that you were a male model at
one point, right, Well, you know, we try, No, okay.
Speaker 6: It was fun.
Speaker 8: It was like more for an entertainment factor on myself,
and okay, I think it had gone anywhere.
Speaker 6: I think I would have scared the hell out of me.
Speaker 1: So huh, like taking.
Speaker 6: Pictures of you because you're supposed to be good lucking
it sounds like a little bit.
Speaker 8: It's like a little bit over the top for me.
I'm a pretty humble guy. I wouldn't say ever, I
would say those words to myself.
Speaker 6: So well, let's just keep it real, right.
Speaker 1: Right, did you get in direction and get a coke
problem too?
Speaker 6: Well, that's the other thing. No, one never did.
Speaker 1: No, never thought that would get a big laugh. Probably
not Okay, all right, let's move on also with us,
and we're going to clap him too, he's not and
we'll get a clatform area. Pete Felcony, Yeah, chairman of
the Colney.
Speaker 4: Hey Pete, good to see it.
Speaker 1: Pete. How you doing pistat to be back? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Now you're down in your abode. Where are you down
the southeastern Massachusetts right close to central Massachusetts. I'm directly
between Boston and Worcester, mass Oh okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Boston is about twenty three to the twenty three to
the east and Worcester is about twenty one to the west.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, I love Worcester.
Speaker 4: You do two ninety get off at the Worcester Centrum.
Oh yeah, yeah, do my work get out.
Speaker 1: So, Pete. So just tell us about your network. Now,
it's mostly up in Maine, now, right, is that it?
We have? We have three radio stations in Maine.
Speaker 2: Yes, two of them are uh, sort of rented out
at the moment that someone else run.
Speaker 1: We own them, but someone else run them. And then
we run one.
Speaker 2: A little further in southern Maine, just about ten miles
west of Kenny Bunkport.
Speaker 1: Mate. Oh wow, wow, we're all the rich people though.
Speaker 4: Interesting those are all fms.
Speaker 1: Good match their combination AM and FM. Yes, okay, yeah,
very cool. So Pete, we were commenting before we went
on the year that you had the voice. You have
the best radio voice like ever. You're on all of
our ads and I've asked you this a million times.
You did not go to school for that. This that
developed as you made your way through the radio businesses.
I think so just kind of picked it up.
Speaker 2: I mean, I worked with guys that had, you know,
unbelievable pipes in my career, and maybe that was the
way to, you know, kind of emulate what they were.
Speaker 1: Doing right right. But you know, it makes us all
the rest of us sound really bad. Is there some
way into stought? His voice? It's a robot.
Speaker 4: The sound was a sound effects.
Speaker 1: But make him hold one. Okay, thank you Pete for
joining us. We appreciate it, my pleasure. Also with us.
Also with us is a good friend Barry winning a
ka dribbles the clown. Let's clap for him. You know why.
We'll think of a reason. I'll text it to you.
Oh boy, Mary, how are you all right?
Speaker 3: Who could complain him? Up here in New Hampshire hopefully
watching this snow go away.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, don't worry about it. So Barry is
such a music and a beetle trivia guy. Really yeah
that during the pandemic, we he and I had a
beetle trivia runoff, okay, in which Lois Lane, who was
a mutual friend. Let's say, I came up with some
really difficult beatle questions, you know, not like what's Ringo's
real name or anything like that, you know stuff that
you know you if you're really into your know. And
we we were tied thirty thirty. It was it was.
It was blood thirsty, it really was. We're tied thirty
of thirty.
Speaker 4: There was ten bucks in each other.
Speaker 1: It was my question and our power went out. Okay,
And to this day he calls fix. Yeah, I was
outside pulling the main that was ala. I was involved. Okay,
all right, So Barry, thanks for dreamings.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to go to our friend of Oz
who was done in Mexico. Mister Dawson, mister Dawson, Hi, guys,
we call you that, mister Dawson.
Speaker 9: Dawson boyd. My first name is Dawson.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh, cool. Okay, all right, great. I was going
to say senior Dawson, but that'd be so anyway, Dawson. Okay,
So you're going to join us with the music? Are
you good at? Are you a music hit like Chimmis? Yeah?
Speaker 9: I I played on and off in rock bands. Was
pretty much most of my life. Wow, amateur and professional
and more recent years I just get together with old
rockers like myself and and jam and do that sort
of thing.
Speaker 10: When we lived in Arizona, there was there was a
group of us went together once a week for three
four hours and it was more structured and we we
did some concerts around the Yuma area.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what what did you play? By the way,
what was your guitar?
Speaker 9: And I sing really badly?
Speaker 1: Really a most legata players do. Sing badly, is.
Speaker 10: Like my My bass player used to say when I
would when I would sing harmony, he turned to me
and say, you like that better than singing?
Speaker 9: Do you?
Speaker 1: Bass plays? Always? Wise guy in the band over here?
Speaker 9: Cruelty? Cruelty?
Speaker 1: You know how bass play is? Uh? Well, what's the joke?
All right, it's to get the joke. What the bass
players used for a birth control? What the bass players
use for birth control. That's their personalities. Alright, listening also
joining us, what do you play bass? As a good
friend Barbara with I'm gonna clamp for her too because
she's she's an international singer songwriter. Right, Hello, boys and girl.
Speaker 4: Did you go to the oscars the other night?
Speaker 1: Were you there?
Speaker 2: Didn't know?
Speaker 11: It was not?
Speaker 1: Oh no, okay, all right? Where are you right now?
You're in Paris at this moment?
Speaker 11: I'm in Madison, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, beautiful.
Speaker 4: Madison almost Paris, beautiful college in the close to parents,
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Well, lots of schools, yep. Lots of healthcare, yeah, lots
of taxis.
Speaker 1: Ya, lots of this week, lots of hippies. Well, there's
a there's a did you hear this heat wave is
going to hit the midst of the country and it's
kind of go up to one hundred degrees in some
of these places.
Speaker 12: It's supposed to be seventy here by Saturday.
Speaker 1: So that's weird for up there at this time of year.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Three feet yeah, yeah? Yeah? Oh well, okay, so anyway we're.
Speaker 8: There today, heat waves coming your way, trust me. But
is it's here already and it's in the north, so
it's coming your way.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, coming from Edmonton.
Speaker 6: Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: All right, anyway, okay, so we're going to talk about
music tonight. We're just going to throw around, you know,
just different stuff. And I just thought that we would
start off by I'm sure everyone here has been to
a live rock concert, you know, popular music coming to whatever.
So this just real quick about what's your worst experience,
what's the best band you saw and the worst band
you saw? And I'll just start it off real quick.
Remember being called simple Minds. Remember that I saw Oh yeah, okay,
they were opening for the Pretender Pretender's because the lead
singer simple Minds was marys Chrissy hind Right. We saw
them one time when the Pretenders were at the top
of their you know, their game. They had a lot
of MTV hits and everything. Simple Minds came out and
they're awful. I can't tell you how bad they were.
I mean it was I don't know, I can't describe it.
It's it was like a wall.
Speaker 4: Of When I saw them, they were kind of a punky,
the kind of they were a little bit poorer. Then
they weren't smooth and with the don't You Forget About
Me song, and they weren't smooth like that that it
just came out that's rough.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well they were just bad. And maybe it's the maybe
it's the sound, I'm sure, but they just couldn't play.
And maybe they were forced on, not forced on this
tool because she was the you know, she was running it.
The Pretenders were great, they were always really good live.
But anyway, yees, so I start off with that one,
what's your worst?
Speaker 4: My worst?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Uh? Simple?
Speaker 4: I saw the Monkeys?
Speaker 1: Oh did you see the Monkeys? Really?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not saying it's the worst band. I'm
just saying that it was the least entertaining because when
they hit Boston Garden, Jimmy Hendrix was touring with them. Yeah, right,
but unbeknownst to me, and I got this ticket like
in my hand with my first girlfriend. It's like three
dollars and fifty cents of it. This is way back
and the Monkeys some local band and that was it. Okay, Yeah,
and they didn't say lights her up? And I'm going
what happened to Hendrix? I read in the Boston Globe
go Ahead that Hendricks had left that tour like a
few days ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he took I think he played maybe three or
four eight and you go, what am I doing here?
And the monkeys?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I wasn't totally disappointed at the monkeys,
but they didn't They had a band was a monkey.
Speaker 1: They had a banded back of them. They had a band.
Speaker 4: Allegedly, I don't know, but it looked like they were
playing their instruments at that time.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how the Wrecking Crew get exposed because
someone you'll follow Peter talk around a Time magazine reporter
for a day and he shows up at the studio
when the Wrecking Crew is renking cruise. These studio musicians
in the lav we tied about all the time. That
recorded like everything, I mean, every hit you know, they
probably recorded it and instead of the real band recording it.
And he came in, he said, I'm just here to sing,
and the reporter is there and they reported on the
Wrecking Crew, and that kind of exposed the Monkeys as
not being able to play their own instruments. That show
is only on for two years. I mean, when you
think of it, it's still around when people know what
it is, but they're rolling on for two years, which.
Speaker 4: I don't really recall who held it against the Monkey's
for not playing their own intments. It wasn't entirely not
playing their own instments from the very very beginning that
was true, but they really but by the time they
was already a professional professional Mike Medsmiths.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think anyone held it against him. I think, yeah,
back then that floated. They had the TV show and
all the little kiddies loved him and it was yah.
Speaker 1: I mean it was a dual thing because they had
hit records and they had a hit TV show, and
you know, how do that happened? You know, but it
did affect them, and it affected their sales. And what
happened was that then they said they had this Dawn
Krishna was their manager, okay, and and you know he
was a guy who was a manager for a lot
of people. But he he put them together and he said,
just you know, basically, do what I tell you, you know,
and sing and you know, pretend like you can play
and stuff like that. And then they get in a
big fight with them, a big financial thing. He paid
them off and then he started the Achies which the
said just as many hits the as were a cartoon band,
and he said, I did it because they didn't talk back.
They did what they were told me shut up, Yeah right,
and made them money. So well, I'll throw it to
you if you must have seen some really doggy band somewhere.
Speaker 5: One of the probably the worst I've seen was it
was a band called the Dresden Dolls and they actually
won the BCN Rock and Roll Roun.
Speaker 3: They did. Really.
Speaker 5: I've seen them quite a few times and I my
niece was really into them and I would go with
her and I've never heard they were They were pretty.
I mean, I didn't dislike them. I actually got into
some of the music. But we went into one show
in Boston and where we were sitting is right where
the stage lights were burning right into our retinas. They
were aiming massive lightness and you couldn't get away from them,
and you couldn't see because you would being blinded by
the light. And that explains.
Speaker 1: The Dresden Doll bumpa stickma, there you go.
Speaker 5: Or another real quick was a I got dragged to
a show that uh Cyndy Lauper was headlining, Wow, and
it had a lot of interesting the other shows with her. Yes,
and on one side of the stage they actually had
a tent week could go in and be made into
a drag queen. Oh cool. Yeah, And my niece is
sitting there going, God, go in there, and I'm like,
what are you crazy? Go ahead, So you went in?
What happened?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 5: I'm like, did you see me driving home after this
and get pulled over by the cops and I mean,
and a drag queen.
Speaker 1: I'm like, not happening. It's not going to be the
first time the cops sees it, I know, but me
the first time I was involved.
Speaker 4: But all right, dolls, oh wow, I mean, I have
all got pars and it's still they're still playing that
from Boston formed in two thousand.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Okay, so let's just do it to camp just
for the hell of it. The worst the worst class
you ever saw.
Speaker 8: I think when I was thinking about that, and I'm like, man,
there's not too many you.
Speaker 6: Know that are bad, right? Some are? I mean I was.
Speaker 8: I think I mentioned yes, but that was only because
they got kind of stopped at the border and couldn't
make it here.
Speaker 6: But we were all pretty ticked.
Speaker 1: Off, so they didn't play at all.
Speaker 6: I think, no, they didn't come and play.
Speaker 8: So it was kind of like and we were looking
forward to it, that was going to be a but whatever.
I think that the Stampeders back in the day, Alberta
had its first like weekend outdoor concert in the Central
in Central Alberta and it was.
Speaker 6: A gong show.
Speaker 8: And I can remember the Stampeters playing there and it was.
Speaker 6: Just get out of here, and I please leave. I can't.
I couldn't leave quick enough. But you know, I think
that's probably both.
Speaker 8: But there was other factors to the other than the
music that caused it to be so crappy.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm going to go to Pete because
Pete has probably seen welcome and all of us put together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean scores and being in the business, the
radio business seen you know, one hundred shows. My very
first show and Dawson and Kim can relate to this.
The first show I ever saw. I skipped my junior
prom to see the Guess Who? Yeah, excellent this year maybe,
And so my first one show was the Guess Who.
My last show, which was what a year and a
half ago, The Rolling Stones, Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I can't say the best show because I've seen so
many of them and some great, great shows, But one
that that I didn't particularly care for was E l O.
Speaker 1: And that's because they were so loud. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They ever came out of a concert where my head
was ringing like all night and yeah, the next day
they were just so loud.
Speaker 1: What year was that? What year was that? Would you say, pete?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: That would have been late the late seventies, early okay,
when they yeah, when they were hitting, Yeah, when they
were hit yep. Yeah, wow, Okay, that's interesting. Yeah, because
all they were was a rock band, and they would
like the three stringplayers from the London philhar Monic or something.
They would, yeah, a tool with them, you know, and
so they basically put live stream music onto rock and
roll music. It was good. Their songs are great. Yeah,
it would have been great if it wasn't it wasn't
so loud. Yeah, very lucky.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you have have you or anybody you know
Warren ear plus it shows took.
Speaker 1: Concert I never have. I've seen people wearing them, but
I never did.
Speaker 4: I didn't either.
Speaker 1: What's the point though, Well, I know it's because it's
so loud.
Speaker 5: My hearing is my hearing now was junk, and it
would be that much worse even if the outdoor concerts
and new report. Yeah right, they're so loud outdoors. I'll
put your plugs in, especially if it's a band I'm
not crazy about. I'm not going to destroy my act.
Speaker 4: The union that I was in, I had to give
you ear plugs for every six o'clock boom. Coffee over there,
ear plugs over here?
Speaker 1: Wow, interest.
Speaker 4: And you don't have to wear them, yes, you just
you have them sealed in the plastic.
Speaker 1: Let me throw this the club. So I'm going to
ask club the same question. He's going to say Fabian
was bad or.
Speaker 7: You know. Growing up, you know, I was big into
rock and I still am today.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, But as far as rock.
Speaker 7: Concerts, when I was younger, we spent a lot of
time at clubs, dance clubs, so we listened to a
lot of local bands. So that's what I did instead
of rock concerts. But as I got older, I got
into other things. For example, the worst concert I ever
went to for a popular singer was Celine Dion in
Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: First of all, he's in Las Vegas. Second, he goes
at Seasons.
Speaker 7: She had her own show at that time, and she
got out there. You know, we spent imagine how much
money you spent for one of those. But I remember
going out there and there was a group of us
and she was like boored.
Speaker 1: She was like a robot.
Speaker 7: She went out on the stage, didn't interact at all
with the audience, sang the songs.
Speaker 1: Just like a robot.
Speaker 7: So obviously that was the most disappointing because of her
way she was. Even her sound wasn't that good, and
she was still fairly good at that time.
Speaker 4: Some health issues, uh that.
Speaker 7: This was before that, and her husband was still alive
and she had just gotten the gig at Caesars. So
I think she had a big head of something and
didn't want to overdo it. But but anyways, my favorite
concert was Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 1: Wow you saw Franks.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: We we went to his concert at the Music Hall,
believe it or not in Boston, and.
Speaker 1: Great place to see him, Jesus really.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I'll tell you, near the end of his time,
but he still had it. Ye really felt we got
our money's worth with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: So as far as my faves, you know, those are
the two again, you know, the rock stuff. Loved all that,
but never really invested in going to rock concerts. I
love listening to it, but yeah, yeah, more like you know,
my other favorite one for years was this Will Put
You to Sleep Johnny Mathis. When I met my wife.
That was our first date at Blintstrops and w j.
Speaker 4: Oh, sure he was every years village called it right, Yeah, yeah,
no is a separate place it was, Yeah, the village was.
Speaker 7: More near Dorchester.
Speaker 1: I think that was wow.
Speaker 7: Anyways, that was the kind of style that that I like,
particularly going out with the ladies. And sure, you know,
a little different type of thing, but so I felt
the more professionals I I like.
Speaker 1: Petta say.
Speaker 7: I saw Johnny Mathis one other time at the Villages
in Florida about seven years ago, and he was about
eighty years old.
Speaker 1: That was awful, It was painful.
Speaker 7: Then he was pissed off because we didn't he didn't
ever sell out, so he was complaining to his producer
or over there an audi term and like you go
to in a in a movie theater. Yeah, and he
got there in an attitude and wow, but anyways, I
love music. I love concerts, but never got to take
in too many of the rock concert things.
Speaker 1: You know. The comedian Shacky Green, Shaky Green. Okay, did
you ever hear the story how Frank Sainata saved his life?
So Shakey says that TV. He's a comedian, right, Yeah,
he was in Vegas and three guys are beating the
hell out of him, and Frank said, that's enough. Think
about it. Anyway, that went over like a I thought
that laugh apparently, but not anyway. We'll sweeten that up
later maybe, So Barry Winning, we'll go to you, and
then we'll go to NASA, and then we'll go to Barbara. Barry,
what's get to everybody?
Speaker 4: The show will be over.
Speaker 1: That's was going. That's the whole idea.
Speaker 3: All right, So this isn't actually a band. This is
a singer. We saw I don't know about ten years
or so, we saw Leon Redbone up here. So Leon
Redbone had this mysterious background. Nobody knew where he came from,
nobody knew how old he was. But I can tell
you the night I saw him, everyone knew he was crabby.
He was unhappy with the sound, which he constantly bitched
about between each song, and at some point you let
things go because well, he's supposed to be entertaining people.
So you know, I liked it. I liked his records,
but I had no use for him as an entertainer.
Speaker 1: He was a guy. He did a beer commercial years ago.
He has a very low voice, always were pining glasses
and the white suit, and had on a funny songs.
I guess wow, Leanne Redbone interesting, okay.
Speaker 3: Right under the bus he goes Mac.
Speaker 1: Really okay, all right, wow l Dawson, please tell us
your worst.
Speaker 10: I was, and it was a few of my henchmen
in Vancouver back in nineteen eighty and we decided on
a whim just to go to the Pacific Colisseum and
see Fluwood Mac. And the warm up band was some
guy I've never heard of before, and he was he
was very good, but the crowd was so rude they
kept booing him and chanting, stomp on their feet, bring
on Fleetwood Mac. And it turns out later that this
warm up guy was Christopher Cross. Oh really yeah, and
he was he was very good. Fleetwood Mac were I
think probably the peak of their anger at each other.
There between their furlandering and uh, all of that, and
they were promoting their album Tusk. The sound was so
after hearing Christopher Cross sounding it's coming up from a
very expensive stereo, went to fluid Mac sounding like a
bunch of guys who had never played live before in
their lives. The bass was just a rumbling mess. The
drums were not crisp and clean, and uh.
Speaker 9: I guess we're disappointment.
Speaker 10: I've seen a lot of worst bands, but that was
the most disappointed because I expected much more from a
band with their rich history.
Speaker 4: Especially coming off of Rumors which was huge.
Speaker 1: So like you would think you would have the best
sound in the world.
Speaker 4: The best producer, they had the best everybody.
Speaker 1: Wow. Interesting and then CHRISTA Cross he goes on to
win Grammys and big because he had of his uh.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was the year that he won Best Album.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Songs of the Mute. He put a lot of
song in movies, which is you know the Pathway to
Gold for sure. Wow.
Speaker 9: He did the theme song from Arthur.
Speaker 1: Yeah a yeah. Yeah, So Barbara, we save you, philosoph
because you probably have a lot he doesn't know anything
about music.
Speaker 12: No, No, I'm well, first of all, I've had that
Christopher Cross treatment.
Speaker 11: When I opened for Chuck Berry. Chuck, Yeah, they didn't
want to see me. They really didn't want to see me.
Speaker 1: Let's put out in context. She opened for Chuck Berry. Okay,
so Chuck, you met Chuck. You know Chuck. You're a
friend of Chuck's.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, we're really good friend.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 12: No, I opened up farm and all I want to
see was but you know, I haven't had a lot
of bad experiences, but two come to mind, especially after
this Sleean Deon story. Yes, but the first one was
Jerry Jeff Walker.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he was sorry writer.
Speaker 12: And sometime in the seventies, who can remember exactly when,
and in Austin, and I was me and the band
were opening for him in the last Gonzo band, And
I don't know how he even got on stage. He
was so drunk.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, that kind of wow.
Speaker 4: He was in a band called Circus Maximus. He was Yeah,
that was a good that was a good record.
Speaker 1: He he did he write Uh he didn't write bo Django,
did he Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yes he did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, I mean that's that's that's just an iconic song.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: He was the guy, he was.
Speaker 12: So drunk he could barely even sit on the chair
much listening. It was very just very embarrassing. But the
other one, like the Celine Dion thing, was a couple
of years ago. I went to a Diana Crawl concert
in Elvis. Wife, yeah, and I love her, I loved
her for years, and it was the same thing.
Speaker 11: She came out, she didn't talk.
Speaker 12: To us, really really, he was bored the song. And
there's nothing worse, Well, it could be worse, but when
you have really great players, yep, who are just bored
to tears and don't really care and don't have any passion,
and you know, right at one one.
Speaker 11: Hour and fifty nine minutes, just.
Speaker 1: Got up and left. Yeah. Well, you know, I've always
I've always wanted this question, and I keep wondering it
is that? So if you have a band, let's say,
let's take the Rolling Stones for an example. Okay, do
they like the song Satisfaction? Do you know what I mean?
Are they just so f and sick of playing it?
That you know? But but yet they come out We
saw him. That was going to be my best content
I've ever seen was The Stones in ninety twenty nineteen.
Wherever we went, yeah, because the enthusiasm. They can't be
faking that enthusiasm because you know, they run them down.
They're reading Roganized, run them down the stage and playing
and singing, and you say, can you fake that for
a song?
Speaker 4: What's good? Yeah, that's what's good about satisfaction. It's a
great encore.
Speaker 10: You never lose your enthusiasm for kicking money to the
bank and a wheelbarrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's true. Wow. Yeah, but so Bob, it just
real quick. So didn't Chuck Berry give you CPR or something?
Didn't you faint in front of him or something? What
was that story?
Speaker 11: No? No, I was.
Speaker 12: I was doing a little yoga in the dressing room, okay,
and he came and he looked at me, he goes
you okay, so.
Speaker 4: He gave your mouth to mouth anyway just in case.
Speaker 12: No, you know, he had that scam going on where
in the contract they had a very specific kind of
amplifier and was too bamp like something really hard to find.
Speaker 11: And then he hires right the people in town, local
the band every town.
Speaker 12: He hires the band because he doesn't know Chuck Berry's
songs and generally the promoters can't get the amp and
so they substitute something they think is good and that
gives him out.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 12: And he did this at this show where he said,
you've broken the contract. And if I don't see however
much dollars sitting on the amp when I go out
to play, I'm going to walk right around and walk
out the door.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was Chuck, so he would Bruce Springsteen writes,
talks about it your way back when he they hired
him to back up check Berry and you know this
is before you get famous and all the other is
you know Chuck Berry songs. Yeah, you know. So Chuck
comes in, no playlist, nothing, It drives up in his car,
you know, five minutes before the show's supposed to stop,
put the guitar, run and goes out and plays and go, Chuck,
what's on? Yeah? You know them?
Speaker 3: You know what key? Oh? You know?
Speaker 4: You know and just what we don't even bother tell
him the key. They just got to hear it, okay,
And you know why Chuck witions you know what key
it is?
Speaker 1: You know why he went to prison? Shall we talk
about it?
Speaker 11: Why was a good friend?
Speaker 1: Though? Tell me why was laughing? He knows the story
because Chuck had a problem where he would put cameras
in women's bathrooms and.
Speaker 11: It was one of my friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and take videos and pictures and so on. And
then when they arrested him, he had like a five
hour tape that he had recorded that he had edited himself,
and there was like four thousand people on it. You know,
just at the moment, at the moment, at the moment,
maybe could you know, maybe they'll release it.
Speaker 5: Tina Turner was supposed to be another one who she
wanted to get paid cash up front, and she put
it in her purse and the purse was alongside her.
Speaker 1: She didn't know that was Aretha Franklin story. I'm glad
it wasn't.
Speaker 4: Tina was one of the best consert ices.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it was all right, Yeah, private dance Tina Turner.
I did meet at a at a reception that they had,
and she was the nicest person, really, came and sat
next to each one of us. There were about twenty
radio guys there. Wow, she made a point to come
sit next to each one of us and have a
little conversation.
Speaker 1: That's all you got to do really in a way, right,
just to be nice. That was great, But the Aretha
Franklin thing. Yeah, she she.
Speaker 2: I was sitting next to the promoter of the show
we were and we were in like the first to
second row, and she walked out with this giant pocketbook
and put it right on the top of the piano.
Speaker 1: And I love it.
Speaker 2: There's the money I just gave her about twenty minutes ago.
She never let it leave her sight because she'd gotten
ripped off.
Speaker 1: Been ripped off for years, probably was full of cubic
dollars that stayed with her. Yeah, wow, that was That's crazy.
So allright, so should we go round again or should
we take a break out. I'm looking at you. Let's
go around again, go around again? Okay, all right, so
I'll just start. Really we went around to everybody, right,
and Susan's working, so I will just say, you know
the best for me, it really is one A and
one B. When we saw the stones with it eighteen
or nineteen down to the Jealous Stadium.
Speaker 4: Just before well just at the beginning of the pandemic,
it must have been nineteen. Then maybe I could swing
nineteen ye.
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't have gone, but one one talked me
into it, that Donna Gillette they had a postponed for
a couple of months and we wind up going and
we had it was a really crazy time that night,
you know, for other reasons, but I just want to
see if the hype was real. That was it, you know,
because they've been around for so long and it just
seemed like a lot of hype and stuff and they
just started playing. I turned into one one twenty seconds
in said they're great, great, and they had a great
sound system, you know what I mean. Everything was just wow,
this is the They were just really, really, really good.
Charlie Charlie was still there last tour. You felt it
right off the beginning. They were really good. I could
not fault them for anything. They were just very good.
The second one was I saw The Who John and
Twistle's last tour were down in Great Woods, and I
was dragged to that too because someone said, you know,
it's the Who, but they get a one section they
get into the keyboard guy, and I think it was
like the Who Show, or you know, I thought it
was more of a great But they were great. They
were They were fantastic. They really were. And Zach Zach
Starker was the drummer just in the way they worked
the crowd was just, you know what, the difference. They'd
come out and they you know what's his name? The
two of them went out Townsend and robbed the Altrey
come out and they would sing behind blue Eyes and
halfway is in the band would had snuck out onto
the stage. The lights were down and when they hit that,
the whole you know, the lights come on, they're playing,
girls are lifting their shirts and it was insane. It
was insane. Yeah, So they were really good just for show,
just for show, they were fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, really were. You know, a lot goes into that
those performances like that, especially those those bits where you
really want to get the crowd involved and it's yep,
it's it's it's it's show business. Let's face it, it's music,
it's rock and roll, it's show business. It's the whole works.
And I don't know if the who maps the maps
their show out like the Rolling Stones do.
Speaker 1: I think they're both the same. When I saw them,
they were just they knew the highs and the lows perfectly,
you know, And yeah they were they were. I was
just both of those bands, you know, were just so
really good and good and and you didn't feel cheated,
you didn't feel you know, you just felt like it
was a real, a real huge experience. Or was for me.
Speaker 4: Now when I saw the Rolling Stones and work the
show for Steel Wheels and Voodoo Lounge, you had this
enormous stage right at the fifty yard line, going all
the way back into the end zone and taking up
the whole width of the of the at the theater.
Speaker 1: Why do it small?
Speaker 4: You got to take up some space, Yeah, oh yeah, okay,
you gotta you gotta be able to work, work the crowd,
work the show, use use the tunes to pick up
the pace. And yeah, Mick Jagger does that. Yeah, he's
occupies every square into that stage. And the other guy's
kind of warned around a little bit too, but not
as much as Mick. You nobody can pick up with Mick.
Speaker 1: Well, he's the he's the ultimate rock front guy, you know.
I mean, when when you go to see him, you can't,
you know, you can't take your eyes off him. You
just say that about actresses, but you know, he's he's
always in motion. He's he knows how to keep it going.
You know, was that the was that the tour that
you licked Keith's guitar, then you lick his guitar.
Speaker 4: I didn't lock it. I was just carrying on. I
was told you spoke least two guitars for Keith give
up to stage right, whereas the guitar teckers up there. Yeah, okay.
Did you know what I didn't do is wash my
hands for a week? That I believe and all? Did
you have a great content you went to You're gonna?
Are you going with your was that?
Speaker 1: Are you? What's your best? Wanting? Your besconsin.
Speaker 4: Her name has come up a lot to Tina Turner
as because after Ko before private Dancer tour at the
after Right up in Portland, Maine. If you have the
name of that auditorium up there, Yeah, yeah, answer.
Speaker 1: Well, she was a big MTV star. I know it's
really strange, but you know, after Ike left it was
just her. She was huge. And you know who they
backup being talking about a trivia question. Wow, it was
a British band. I'll bet you I can't remember the
name they did, Fix The Fix. Yeah, The Fix was
a British new wave band and they turned out to
be for a back.
Speaker 4: Well, two guys were guitar players, which was playing.
Speaker 1: But what's the connect? Where's the connection there?
Speaker 4: They met? They met in the recording studio one time.
She was cutting some tracks from another album, and I
think they were able to know how the musicians cross
paths and right, yeah, studios.
Speaker 1: But I hate to say, there wasn't any black American
unbelievable musicians that would take that gig, you know. Anyway? Yeah, interesting,
al what was your best one?
Speaker 5: My best would be my first and it was total
happens stance. I was in high school.
Speaker 1: Okay, this wasn't This isn't your first sex experience before? Okay?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: The next question depends on how.
Speaker 5: Line the show. I was in high school. There were
a lot of University of Lowell students renting houses around
my house. So I had twenty big brothers and sisters
who whenever I needed drugs or alcohol, our motorcycle to use.
So anyway one of them gets thrown out of our
high school. He was selling tickets to a concert coming
up at the University of Lowe and there was a
general admission sitting on the floor in nineteen seventy one.
It was Jethro Tull and they were just doing the
Akrol tour. Oh really yeah, yeah, cool?
Speaker 1: And I sat.
Speaker 5: In my homeroom. I mean, they were probably five towns
around us. People wanted tickets. The guy that got thrown
out of school, who lived across the street from me,
he gave me one hundred tickets and said, we'll get
the word out. You've got them, you know. And I
would go into my homeroom for like the next week
and they'd be twenty people out in the hallway looking
for me. And they thought the teacher thought I was
a drug dealer or something. So I'm selling tickets and
I didn't make a dime, you know, so that they
gave me two tickets as my reward. And so when
I went, we walked into the gym. They brought us
right to the front and we sat.
Speaker 1: Fifteen feet from the stay down.
Speaker 5: And he came down and when the show started and
answers and walked out alone with a small three legged stool,
sat down, picked up his flute and started doing My God,
really yeah, I was I could have I could have,
like you almost touched her, yeah, And it was when
the band kicked in, like you said, he threw the
flute up in the air, he kicked the stool out
into the audience, which flew by. Yeah okay, and when
the lights come on he was standing there holding the
flute above his head and the place went crazy.
Speaker 1: It was it was like a religious moment. They were
a great live I saw them four or five times.
Speaker 4: Everybody I know that just thinks about Aqua Lung and
uh yeah, good record, great great record.
Speaker 1: I just real, real, real, real, real, real quick. So
we went to go see them, and this this is
nineteen seventy the Music Hall in Boston and the opening
act was t Rex, right, so we had heard of them,
but you know, we're with it to see jeth Hotels
the aqualong To. So we go in and the guy
comes out and says, h sorry, t Rex had passport problems.
You can't get out of England. So we're going to
have this band on the first time they've ever played
in America, mat the Hoopo right, So we go, wha
hope these guys come out and they are in you know,
the platform shoes and a glam like you and freaking believe.
Ian Hunt was the keyboard player and Mick Ronson was
the guitar player, and they come on the work with
Davie Right, David Bowie's protegees. Basically, thanks Ameunt. They had
like they had to hit out all the young dudes.
They had another song.
Speaker 4: They did it better than Bowie did, right, and then the.
Speaker 1: Rest of them they played, you know, maybe four or
five other songs, and the place goes nuts. The place
goes nuts, and they go and they they say thanks, thanks,
and they make them come out for another run. Corps.
This is when you played two shows a night. The
music okay, and the guy comes out and he says,
we don't know any more songs, you know, I mean,
this is we haven't been together that long. So he
played like three or four Elvis songs, which was really crazy.
The band goes up, pulls his Fa fisa agen off
the stage and brings it into the crowd. The cops
come in. John Garabedian is trying.
Speaker 4: To everybody remember that name, Pete and John Garabedian.
Speaker 1: Finally they clear. It was almost like a riot, and
in the answering is out, he's pissed right and just
goes you know, if your kids don't clear, we're you know,
clear the front, we're gonna leave and stuff. So finally cleared,
he comes out and they play aqualong beginning to end
no perfect perfect, and afterwards he goes per second number,
boom boom.
Speaker 4: Speaking of second number, You've got to go back a
couple of records to the album called stand Up, which
had an amazing the vinyl has an amazing stand up
graphical cardboard thing that pops up when you open the gate.
Speaker 1: You were so bluesy back then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, follow up a benefit benefit This was stand Up. Great,
great records. I smoked more weed with those records going unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I just don't listen to this anyway. Okay, So Pete,
I'm going to go to you. What was your best? Pete? Pete?
Speaker 2: I again, so many shows. I don't know that I
can I can pick one that How about your favorite?
Speaker 1: Though? I mean, you just I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean I got some stories connected with a couple
of shows because I was lucky to a lot of
these shows were compliments of the of the record company.
Speaker 1: And uh it was ahead of an A C. D
C show up in Portland.
Speaker 2: The record guy says to me, listen, we're gonna go
to dinner before the show, and we got somebody from
the band that that's going to be joining us. And
let's see, the lead singer is Angus Young? Is that
who the he's the guitar player.
Speaker 1: He's the lead singer of the guitar player. Angus was
the guitar player. They had a they had original singer,
Bon Scott died. Yeah, bon Scott was the original singer.
And then they get that guy, the little guy with.
Speaker 2: He hat the all the time yally go ahead. He
went to dinner with the record guy and I and
and the guy from the band and his wife and
two little kids, and it was a very nice, mellow,
laid back and you know, had a great time. And
we had to get back because they had to do
the show. And he comes out and the same guy
that I was just sitting with having it just a
normal conversation, you know, is screaming. Not the persona that
that we got out of him while we were at dinner.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just you know how it is, you know,
Brian Brian Johnson, Yeah, yeah, he has that voice that
he could. Yeah, he sings it very very high and
crackly in a way. But talking about a huge band,
I mean, those guys are the think of the richest
guys in Australia. I don't know that I can pick
out one in particular. I mean, the.
Speaker 2: Most recent show I told you guys was The Rolling
Stones about a year and a half ago, and and
that was a great show.
Speaker 1: And I don't know whether it's because I hadn't been
to a show.
Speaker 2: In a while, or I'm a fan or what, but
that definitely was one of the better shows.
Speaker 1: Well when you saw when your friend jumped up on
the stage when Jimmy hen was playing, remember that, shy
did you tell that quick? That was back?
Speaker 2: That was about nineteen sixty eight or so. This guy
that we hung around with all summer, his parents were away,
so he had his house open and we were there
every day and it was party, party, party, and.
Speaker 1: What a bad idea? Go ahead? Became our leader, you know,
he was he was.
Speaker 2: So so everybody thought he was so cool and everything.
So we go to see Jimmy Hendrix is playing in
Framingham at the Carousel, which was a big tent that
they put up in a gravel pit.
Speaker 1: A kid shows there and we didn't have tickets.
Speaker 2: We sat on the hill outside the tent so we
could at least hear the music. Well, when Jimmy came on,
we all kind of stormed the tent and stood up
behind the back row. And this guy, this guy that
we called our leader, all of a sudden jumps out,
runs down the aisle, up onto the stage, puts his
hands out and goes play fire Jimmy, and Jimmy goes,
you got it, brother slaps his hands and then breaks.
Speaker 1: Into you know, dude, and.
Speaker 2: We're like, he is, He's got that's our leader all summer.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. He actually telling Jimmy what to do. Yeah, yeah, yep.
I just saw this the other day. Something pointed it.
That was when you see pictures of Hendricks before he
starts a song, he counts down the frets on his
guitar to see if he's playing in the right key.
You ever seen that? I mean I saw it, you know,
and he's going he doesn't know what key he's playing.
And this guy is an unbelievable guitar player. So anyway,
so why don't we take a break now, okay, because
we have a little technical thing. You're listening to a
music show here on mc maloney's musical X Files. On
the Distant Thunder Radio Network. We'll take a quick break.
We're here with the gang, and we'll be right back
after this. Hey everyone, we're here with Chris Billi is
senior producer and engineer at the very famous Bristol Recruiting
Studios in Boston. Hey Chris, Hey Mac. Now, Bristol's got
this program that's always fascinating to me. Now, let me
see if I got this right. You can take something
as simple as someone singing into their phone and turned
it into a fully produced song. Is that right?
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's pretty much it. You send us your demo,
could be a ben, could be you and a guitar.
Speaker 13: We'll build it up.
Speaker 14: We'll work on the vocals, add instruments, maybe bring in
some session players, whatever it takes to make it sound finished, professional,
like something you'd actually hear on Spotify.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the cool thing is you don't even have
to go to Boston to do it right.
Speaker 13: Nope, it's all virtual.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 14: We trade files, jump on Zoom and build it together
lay by layer, kind of like baking, and just keep
adding the good stuff until it's right.
Speaker 1: Well that's nice, but what about the cost.
Speaker 14: It really depends on the project. But we talk everything
through before we start. It's meant to be accessible no
matter what kind of music you're doing, rock, pop, even musicals.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, you've done musicals.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, we've done musicals.
Speaker 1: Really okay, well, I love it. So if someone's got
a demo and wants to take it to the next level,
what should they do?
Speaker 14: Just head the Bristol Studios dot com and look for recording.
Speaker 13: We'd love to hear what you're working on.
Speaker 9: Mm hmmm, slumber what slumber?
Speaker 6: Hey, sister?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, welcome back to maclaloney's mid treks Now show
Here in the distant Thunder Radio Network. This is maclhoney. Well,
what a show we have a few tonight. It's actually
mclaloney's musical X Files. We're doing the Whole Music show tonight.
We've got a real gang of people and I'm going
to very very quick thing introduce them girls one one
this year.
Speaker 4: Girls. Hello, everybody, welcome back to the show. We have
a good time kind of rambling a lot tonight though.
Really he must be the beer.
Speaker 1: More than usual. Yeah, okay in the Gilson g Gils
club is here club? How are you? Yeah?
Speaker 7: This is one of my faves. I love music shows.
Speaker 1: We do too. Also with us is Susan Kay, Susan
k down there in North Carolina off the job. How
are you, Susan.
Speaker 15: I'm relieved.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 9: I'm happy to be here. It's nice to see everybody.
Speaker 1: Good to see you.
Speaker 4: Nice to see you, Susan.
Speaker 1: You're a music head too, aren't you. Who's your favorite band?
What's your favorite band? So?
Speaker 15: My favorite?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 15: I loved Stevie ray Vaughn who passed.
Speaker 1: Oh well, oh yeah yeah it was great.
Speaker 15: But currently so I'm fond of Matchbox twenty. That's a
newer band.
Speaker 1: Really okay, all right, okay, but you can still stay.
Speaker 15: On the dire straight Streets were great?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw them live, man, they were they were
really really good live Dia Straits. What jazz did you
think of them?
Speaker 15: Who's sang on Leanders? Sitting outside?
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 15: I don't know who was that in the summertime?
Speaker 1: Uh? In the know? You got me on that one,
Johnny Mathis, do you back in Avondale?
Speaker 15: Oh it's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean who talks about Abendale these days?
Speaker 1: We could do a whole show, don't you don't really?
Speaker 4: People talking about body stuff?
Speaker 15: One of my favorites. But I like Stevie ray Vaughn,
Billy Idol, things like that.
Speaker 1: It's it's a miss miss Mash Susan.
Speaker 4: You know I met Tevie Ravon right. I told you
that story. Stop, I'll tell you some other time. I
don't want to hog the show. There was, met him,
talk to him a month later. Was killed the Wisconsin Yeah,
and I worked the show.
Speaker 1: I was worked. I showed him about three months before
he died.
Speaker 4: He was empowering the Passion tour. Joe Cocker and Steve
ray Vaughan were co headlining.
Speaker 1: He could play the guitar, Like you say, he wasn't
that old, he said, how goosebumps just thinking about Yeah,
he was really good right, still listening to it.
Speaker 15: I I just something about him. He's so unique.
Speaker 1: I love Steve Berry Bonds also with us is checking
his latest and pooling right now. As Kitties fell out.
Speaker 5: I back at one one and everyone well, I just
happened to look up there is a c D available
of the first concert.
Speaker 1: I went to shut the playlist and you know you're
getting a piece of that too.
Speaker 5: It's sixteen. I might buy I might buy the CD
or that Yeah, they were a good bit and Jeff
Hotel was excellently.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: I was in the cars. I wasn't like I didn't
have stereos in them, all right, I would unhooked them.
I remember that you.
Speaker 1: Got to set the webbers behind your head three inches.
What differences? You're not going to hear anything but the
howl webers.
Speaker 4: I upgraded my AM stereo Mustang AM only Mustang to
a Craig Pioneer f M with eight track.
Speaker 1: Wow under dash.
Speaker 4: That was the beauty I wish I had that.
Speaker 1: I used to used to ride around with my transits
to radio uptim. Yeah, also with US is Kim? Say
up there in Edmonton, Kim?
Speaker 3: How are you doing?
Speaker 6: Folks?
Speaker 1: Everything?
Speaker 6: Glad to be here for track one? One track?
Speaker 4: I had a few of them. The guy who invented
the plane.
Speaker 6: I was talking to his Sunday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the sun is insane. But anyway, the the
eight track was when you listen to engineers, they said
that was actually the best sounding because the tape was
the widest, you know, when they went down the cassettes.
The only so.
Speaker 4: Much the eight track format, well, the continuous loop architecture
of the cartridge was big in radio stations right feet
the station, the station I worked in in Conchor, Newhampshire
WXL had a cotton machine, robotic cylindrical thing yep that
we the playlist was was was triggered by a tape,
a real the real tape would run and trigger these
two machines and play one of the cottridges in this
drum of like about six contridge. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the early automation. We had the same
thing on an AM station the falcony head of the
huge falcony entertainment infire. But like when we were up
x X, I mean what was what did was that
the computer play? Because that would play all all twenty
four hours a day. We were in the building where
no one was there allegedly, So was was that all
just on computer at that point? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Today it's all on a PC. You know, you just
have to uh, you know, program the thing in a
way it goes.
Speaker 1: So when you had those but the big tapes, how
would you know, I mean, would they obviously have a
playlist and would you with the DJ TUK live.
Speaker 2: In between those songs. It depends, but yes you could.
But the carousel, the car carousel.
Speaker 1: Thing that one one was talking about.
Speaker 2: Obviously, we had one actually at that station where that
you guys were at Exeter. Uh, the AM station downstairs
used to have one of those. And the thing would
just uh it was programmed in through a computer and
it would pick it would turn the carousel had two
tech carousels, and turn them around to pick the.
Speaker 1: Tape car throughs that it wanted to play. Yeah, wow, yeah, yeah,
I know.
Speaker 5: At the place up in Exeter, we were in a
small studio on the side and there was the main
studio that had all of the equipment running and it
was a radio station running six feet away from us.
And you know, you'd walk in there sometimes and just look.
You know, you don't touch anything because God forbid. Yeah
touch something, you destroy it, or you know, you shut
the radio station down. But it'd be weird to go
in there. Yeah, it was very impressive to walk in
and you'd see the thing clicking and doing anything. They
could hear it. It was inserting commercials. The person was
saying what's coming next, It would do the song, it
would do a commercial and there was nobody in the building.
Speaker 1: You think you think there was at least two people there.
It was weird to be up there at night and
by yourself, which I you know, did many times, and
it was like there was a whole gang of people
next door and there's no one in there. In fact,
I always thought there was. You'd see like shadows and
stuff and that creepy place.
Speaker 4: And he showed me one time to sell the fun
out of being a djil.
Speaker 5: How to shut but the monitors that were in the studio,
like the whole building, you could hear the station. But
he showed me one time how to turn down those
speakers because there were times when it would play commercials
and they would be loud and the other stuff was
coming from somewhere else or whatever. They say, Well, if
those are too loud, just come in here and turn
these two faders down. And I'm like, I'm scared to
touch the thing. I was afraid to go into that room.
Speaker 1: Anyway. Let me get the deuce. I'm just going to
win to just go a good friend Dawson down there
in Mexico. Dawson, how are you.
Speaker 9: I'm doing fine.
Speaker 10: And this kind of a cooler day here today, but
been getting around third degree today it's like twenty five,
so it's.
Speaker 9: A little cooler.
Speaker 10: Anyway, I did get back to our subject. I've seen
quite a few concerts that I loved, but one stands
head and shoulders above the rest went Al Stewart.
Speaker 1: Al Stuart.
Speaker 10: Yeah, playing in a very very small club in Ebonton.
Speaker 9: He had his full life nine piece band.
Speaker 10: His longtime collaborator Peter Wood, who co wrote Here of
the Cat was playing piano, and it was maybe maybe
two hundred and fifty people in the club. And not
only was the musicianship immaculate and the sound perfect, he is,
without a doubt, the best rock on tour, extraordinary. Between songs,
he told histories of songs. It was personable. He was
just really a very easy person to like a lot.
Speaker 1: Yes Scotch. You know when he started out, he was
he lived in a like a hostel, like a youth
hostel in London, you know that that kind of catered
to artists and stuff like that. In His roommate was
Paul Simon.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I remember that story.
Speaker 1: They knew each other and in a way I don't know,
I mean they both wrote kind of hysterical songs and everything.
But great player, and he always had a lot of
really good musicians with him. Too. Al Stewart was always
really good.
Speaker 10: The story about Paul Simon. Many years later, al Stewart
would say how he really learned about the work involved
in writing music from listening to Paul Simon work.
Speaker 9: All night long. Yes, yeahs and on the other side
of the very thin wall.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah. Yeah, it's like the Eagles had the same story,
because the Eagles were Linda Ronstad's backup band. Okay, so
she got them like a home in la I suppose
in Laurel Canyon now at this point, and they said,
and she said, don't worry, there's a guy in the basement,
but yeah, he'll be fine, you know, And and all
he would play the same song for weeks and weeks
and finally said, we're going to get out and talk
to this guy. Right, and it was Jackson Brown. He's
playing back to my Eyes, you know. Wasn't that greater
musicians where you just play it over and over and
over and over until they told him to stop. But anyway, yeah, okay,
that's cool. You know, Dawnson looks a little bit like
Phil Collins, don't you think so? A little bit?
Speaker 10: I guess I'll pick that as a as a compliment
my rapidly expanding forehead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right. It never hit the symbols. Phil
Collins never hits the symbols anyway, but we have them here.
So Barry, I'm going to go to you only because
you're one I can see right now? What was your
best one? Your your your favorite performance is not your own?
Now someone else have band?
Speaker 3: Okay, well, thanks to Dawson, I'm going to go with
a band that was playing in a smaller venue. Not
everybody knows New Jersey's the Smithereens.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah I do, I do.
Speaker 3: But they put on a really nice show.
Speaker 1: A girl like here yep and.
Speaker 3: Uh with a girl like you, blood and roses behind
the Walls of Sleep.
Speaker 1: They're a powerful band. Yeah, very possible.
Speaker 3: And I got them. I got to see them in
twenty eleven and they they wrote a song called Sorry,
which was also really good. But my favorite part was
after the concert they were talking around the merch table
and Jim Babcheck, the guitarist, had a couple of kids
in college, and that's what we were talking about.
Speaker 13: Huh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I have a I have a whole bunch
of their albums. They were my favorites yep.
Speaker 1: Kind of beatleish, loud, beatleish ish ish. You know they
were good.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, also very influenced by The Who as well.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. A lot of good power chords. Yeah, a
lot of power chords exactly.
Speaker 4: I worked one of their shows at the University of
New Hampshire, of all places in my yu and h
there were nobodies back then.
Speaker 1: So yeah, right, kind of go to So, Susan, what's
your did you tell us your worst concert? Get Susan?
Is that that cat? Is that? Then?
Speaker 15: I haven't seen her all day?
Speaker 1: That particular cat is a friend of the show, friend
of lake is attracted my voice. And there's a joke
in this somewhere, But I'm not going to see. What's
the worst You've ever seen? Susan? Is there any so I.
Speaker 16: Can tell you a funny story of the worst I've
never seen? So I paid three hundred and three dollars
like thirty years ago to be in like the seventh
row to see Sting when I was in Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 1: Ding Okay, yep, go ahead.
Speaker 16: The day of the concert he canceled, which I only
heard when because.
Speaker 3: I happened to hear it on the radio.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 15: And the next day on the front page of the
Miami Herald, they had his picture and they wrote stink.
Speaker 1: Wow he he yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean he's.
Speaker 4: A interpretation of the song fields of Gold.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Gives me goosebumps.
Speaker 1: He didn't write then, Yeah, he didn't write Fields a goal.
I mean, he's a good songwriter, good bass player. The
Police were a great band. Superman. I'm reading Andy Summer's
book now and it's crazy, but you know, he's someone
who has the rockstar ego, you know, and the band
Huh did you see him in June Terrible? Yeah, he
was in Frankenstein. He was in a Frankistan, which was awful.
I was rooting for the freaking monster. He was terrible, terrible, terrible.
He's not an actor, but he's written some great songs.
He's a I think he's a great bass player. A
lot of people don't think he's that good, but you know,
the great and concent. I saw them in concert. I
saw them and the Go Gos open from them. Go
Gos are actually pretty good for you know, this is
the early eighties. But yes, thing but he definitely has
that attitude. There's no doubt about it. You know, I'm
just gonna throw it to Pete for saying, Pete, who's
the worst celebrity you ever marked? The celebrity that really
rubbed you the wrong way? And I don't mean that physical,
I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2: A backstage thing that wasn't very pleasant was with the
zz Top.
Speaker 1: Those guys were not really yeah, I remember it.
Speaker 2: They were not very friendly, weren't really happy to meet anybody.
Speaker 1: And they have the beards and everything. They have the
beards and then and then.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, they just they just seemed
like they were in pain to have people come backstage.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe they were, but you know how they shouted off.
You know, the zz Top started off faking as if
they were the uh, what's what's the British the zombies.
So they claimed that they were the zombies and they
did a tour as if they were the zombies, and
they spoken bad English accents and stuff, and then they
got their own recording contract the check.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 1: I was just going to say.
Speaker 2: Another guy that showed his bad mood. I don't know
if you remember the artist Adam Ant Oh my god, yes,
Well he was doing a show up in Portland. It
was a show for a radio station. A friend of
mine was the program director at the radio station invited
me up. So, uh, the adam ant wasn't singing with
a band or anything. He was singing two tracks and
uh had a reel of a reel of tape. And
so they get up on stage and they introduced him
and he comes running out on the stage to do
his thing, and they start the tape and the tape
is on backwards. Cool the music starts, you know, yeah man, yeah,
and uh he was. He threw the microphone down on
the stage and he ran off and went into the
dressing room and shut the door and wouldn't come back out.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, you don't drink, don't smoke? What yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go right on.
Speaker 2: But in uh, you know, in the radio language, we
would we would are recording language, you would say it
was it was tails out.
Speaker 1: Us the wrong way.
Speaker 2: And uh they started it and he's ready to sing
and it's backwards and oh he was was not talking
about a flash of the pan that guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's still throwing it turns on Bobara. Do
you you must have a real good one, right?
Speaker 12: I think I have the best one, go ahead. I
can't know if it was eighty four, eighty five.
Speaker 1: Prince oh yeah, time, yeah, really yeah, I've seen him.
Speaker 12: He ruined me for everybody else. Oh my god, Prince
and then the Time of course, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yep, his band Cheah, Yep, he was. Prince was such
an unbelievable guitar player. But he didn't play guitar a lot,
you know. I mean he was great, but a lot
of every played he was awesome.
Speaker 4: And it's funny he's never really talked about it like that.
What's the top five guitar players a top ten guitar
players show?
Speaker 1: Right? But he could play. Man. There's there's a tape
of him playing at the George Harrison tribute concert. He
comes out and he plays that and he's like, you
got to be kidding me, dude. I mean, he he's
just incredible. He's incredible, and the rest of the band
is like looking at him and oh man, this guy,
you know we can and his.
Speaker 12: Moves yeah yeah, I mean, oh my god, yeah yeah great.
And his famous halftime show in the rain oh.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, yeah, yeah, he was really good.
Speaker 4: There's another artist that succumbed to the medical situation that
he had.
Speaker 12: Right after jumping off speakers and big fat heels.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, he had his heels are too long.
Speaker 4: It's bad enough to have an injury, but to be
poorly treated well with with knock and over. Yeah, I
don't think it was of his doing.
Speaker 1: Though, Tom Petty, same thing, Tom Petty.
Speaker 3: Know I was about to talk about Tom. I mean
that just so awful. He just wasn't going to deal
with it until the tour was over, and by then he.
Speaker 1: Was He broke a hip. He broke his hip, and
then he had to head a go outen tool like
two weeks later. So he just got loaded with painkillers
and did the tour and then he died shortly afterwards.
You know, it was a mess afswards.
Speaker 5: And how many how many musicians died young by crashes
of airplanes?
Speaker 1: Cars?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, you know Harry Chapin, Yep, it was
a co crash. Yeah, I mean I saw him a
couple of probably a couple of weeks before he died.
Speaker 1: Big the Big Bopper and those guys.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: The day the music died. Stevie ray Vaughn died in
a helicopter crash. That's amazing. Those little those little airplanes
Linen Skinning hit that story, big crash. Okay, they crashed
and one of the survivors he can't walk, so he
crawls two miles, reaches the farm and the farmer shoots him.
Said he's breaking into the farm. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The drummer.
Speaker 1: Eat a peach. Yeah, both both the bass player and
Dwayne Almond died on motorcycles almost the same place. Almost
a year later. I saw them at Watkins Gone after
Greg Almond died. They were great once again, they were
very jazz. I heard it was one seven fifty killed
that he was on.
Speaker 5: You know, you know, you were think it would be Harley,
but yeah, he was driving hont of that kind. Yeah,
I believe. I don't know that for a fact, but
I would have to check it out. And then Greg
Golman he carries on with the band. The band was
great because they got instead of another guitar player, they
got Chuck Lovell. It was like one of the greatest
you know, rock guitar pianists ever. He plays with the
Stones like for fifty years, really really good. And Greg
Almond was a really good I mean yeah, Greg Gormond
was the guitar player who's the Greg was. He was
a great keyboard player and he's a great guitar player too.
It's weird that he could play both. And he has
that famous story real quick about how his brother Dwayne
got out of the draft and so they said to
now he was going to get drafted, Greg Gorman was.
So the brother said, listen.
Speaker 1: Shoot yourself in the foot, and you know, the day
before you go for your you know you'll never So
he goes, okay. So they have a party and he says,
but you have to shoot yourself in the foot at
just the right place through the bones. You know, you
don't want to go through the bones, just go through
the fleshy pop between the bones. So they put a
tagging on his marks. Right, so they get drawn sharp
something right exactly, they get draped a boom, he shoots
himself in the foot. They rushed him to the emergency
room and the doctors looking at him, he said, what happened?
He says, I shot my foot? What were you doing
in my gun? He says, how come there's a target
on your shoe? But he got out of it. Yeah,
wow wow, yeah, So who else? Who haven't I asked,
they've seen that it can't have views the best of
the worst. Yeah, sure, well I.
Speaker 8: Said my worst, but I mean the best. I think,
you know, there's so many good ones, but I mean, honestly,
when I go through it, honestly, like I kind of
roved back to Sunny Terry and Brownie McGee.
Speaker 6: A friend of.
Speaker 8: Mine took it to me there when I was in
high school. Yeah, I was in high school and it's
still in my head, Like, I mean, I can't shake
that concert. It was such an amazing thing to see
those guys play together. And I thank him to this
day that he took me to it, because he was like, wow,
some of the founders of blues A. Just listen to
Sid Viser too is cool.
Speaker 6: That was a good one too.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I don't know Jethro, but you know, I
was gonna say though, like somebody told me a long
time ago, and I bet you one one can go
with this one was that if you ever go to
a concert and you're on the floor, just get up
and walk over to the sound guys and just down
there stand there, because that that will be the best.
Speaker 4: If you're good, if you if you're a good guy,
they'll fight you up on that riser so you can
watch the show from there, which is a good vantage point.
They try and they try and keep people. You got
to know somebody on the Rise of though try and
keep people out of that area. But my daughter, my
daughter was watching me do a Counting Crows concert in Worcester.
She was she was the the artist is going to
draw the band and draw me working hard setting up
that show. And they had just gotten off the Stones
Voodoo Lounge tour, and the guys that were doing the
house sound invited Allison to be on the riser, but
she didn't. She didn't want to do it because they
were they were having a mash pit. I said, a
wash pit with counting crows. That doesn't there was a
mosh pit with counting crows real quick.
Speaker 5: I just looked it up and Dane Duane died on
a Harley, So yeah, okay, that's a good story. Anyway.
The weirdest, the weirdest show I went to was.
Speaker 1: This way. You lived up in upstate and you know,
like someone said, hey, you want to go see Eric
Burden the Burden of the Animals, And at the time
the animals were on the same level as the Stones
and the Beatles. They were just as famous. But this
is many years later. So I okay, you know, So
we go into this club that's not it's not bigger
than the room we're in right now, okay. And that's
Eric Burden and it's Brian Auga from Ryan Augusts, Oblivion
Express and the Trinity. And he was a jazz b
three hmmon player and the backup band was the band
that did Green Eyed Lady Sugar Lagow. So we go
in and we got we got comp tickets. This guy
knew was the record you go for the Albany newspaper.
There was probably twenty five people there. Maybe it was
called Fria Tux Pub. Okay, it's one of the best
conscience I've ever seen. I'm telling you it was a
first of all, Eric Burden was such an entertainer. Were
talking about entertainers tonight, how to engage you on. He
didn't care that there were ten people there, you know,
he was We went to go see him after the
show and the addressing was literally the Janetor's room with
the mop on the stack. Okay, on this guy knows
the Stones, he knows the Beatles, but he was still
he was still doing it. They were really really good,
and Kim says, a triudin conscious stick in your mind.
That kind it sticks in my mind, you know. We
went to laugh. But it was amazing. It was amazing because.
Speaker 4: Animals had a repertoire that was really different from everybody else.
I mean the Stones that they.
Speaker 1: Were real blues animals, Like, yeah, all the.
Speaker 4: Have the yardbirds doing, they're kind of more of a
pumped up bluesy stuff. But the animals, yeah, they were.
They were just almost as fab as the Beatles. Basically
they were big. They were big, yeah, and they had
as money. You know, they had a lot of hits
and they were the best best animal song. What is it,
top number one animal song.
Speaker 1: House of the Rising.
Speaker 3: I like, don't let me be misunderstood.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: You know. In the go Ahead Pete, I was gonna say,
and we get to get out of this place. Oh yeah,
yeah yeah yeah. So in the Beatles song I Am
the lawrus right in the chorus they say, I am
the egg Man, you were the egg Man. I am
the Wall. You know the Eggman is Eric Burden. You
know the story, so he took off, you know, at
the height of their fame. He was on vacation in
Jamaica and he ran into a lady of the night,
as they say, and before she could reach maximum ecstasy,
she had to break an egg on his hair, on
his head. Okay, it's a weird fetish, I know, but
she would have to break an egg and then she
would be her fetisher his I think both of them
at this point now know. So John Lennon found out.
Speaker 4: About it, That's what they expression egging me on.
Speaker 1: Yeah this that too. But he was the Wow I
never heard? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard. He's the egg
Man a fact. Google it right now, go ahead. I
knew a guy that they called butter boy because you
use butter but okay, well wasn't he? Should you really
bring them up? Now? Wow? Okay, one is read on
that now. So Barbara, listen, you've performed in front of
you know, audiences and so on. Do you ever get
stage fright? Because I'd be petrified to go out, and.
Speaker 12: You know, I think I had stage fright the very
first time I played. I was seventeen, doing an open stage,
and I was so scared and I was playing.
Speaker 11: You know, you play an upright piano, and it's.
Speaker 12: Perpendicular to the audience, yep. And so you kind of
just look at the piano. If you have a stage fright,
you're not like twisting your body around. And I played
this song and I got done and there was just silence,
and I thought, oh, okay, what am I you know,
Oh I must be horrible, And then you know, slowly
there was this yep, another place went crazy enough.
Speaker 11: So but yeah, not often.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I Matt Maley, who was the bass player for
Counting Crows, is a friend of the show, and he's
been on a number of times. And you will go
on YouTube and you see pictures of Counting Crows when
they were at the top of the game. They played
the fifty sixty thousand people. And I would say to him,
doesn't it bother you just to go? He says, you know,
and it's kind of really insight. He says, it's a show,
you know what I mean. We go out and play
our show, whether it's ten people fifty thousand people, we
play our show, you know. And that's that's another thing
he said. After fourteen years he was in the band
fourteen years. He goes, after a while, you don't know
if you're in Paris, you don't know. If you're in London,
you don't know where you are, and you're making money,
but you know you miss your kids, you're away from
the house you bought.
Speaker 4: I think Keith Richards said in his book that he
said second only to the Bible, as he would say,
a gig is a gig, didn't matter.
Speaker 12: I think though, that the bigger audiences, at least, I
felt like you're so disconnected from them. It's it's easy
just to it's a blanket of people, as opposed to
ten twenty five, you know, in a tight room and
you're looking right at him. That was that was more nervous,
nerve wracking for me.
Speaker 4: I'll have to admit right on the show that I
did watch the Taylor Swift documentary.
Speaker 1: Wow okay, wany hang on, purely out of curiosity.
Speaker 4: But I liked it. I liked her when she was
a country artist. I got a couple of one of
my customers burned two CDs of like her first two
country tinged albums, Go ahead, Yes, And we were talking
about Taylor Swift on that service call. It's like a
service call I did for you.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 2: We.
Speaker 4: Moved that's right, we moved away from the PC and
onto a music conversations.
Speaker 1: Okay, but well that's that's how I that's how I
met you. Right, he came down one is recommended to
me by my neighbor. He comes down to let's say,
sanitize my computer. And it takes you fifteen minutes maybe
of that half hour, No, it did. And then we
then we talked for Keith Richards for two hours. I
get his bills for two freaking hours.
Speaker 4: You got no respect.
Speaker 1: I gotta pay him to talk to him. So, yeah,
that's true. So I think of other bands I've seen.
I mean I've seen you know, I've seen yes a
bunch of times, seeing Jethro Tull a bunch of times.
Dia Straits really impressed me, you know when they were
kind of the head of the powers saw in Albany,
and they were they were moved jazz band. Incredible musicians,
just incredible. I'm talking about playing note for note, but
even kind of making the making the song sounded a
little different like the Police. I saw the police, like
I said, the go go's open for him. This is
Boston God. And they played all the songs one one beat,
you know, one measure faster. Okay, they played everything faster
and pete. Isn't it an old radio thing that you
would you put on the song, but you would turn
on a little bit faster than forty five r pm
to make the sound more a little more exciting. Yeah.
Speaker 2: A lot of uh, a lot of stations did that
just to yeah, make it sound more upbeat, like the
whole just to keep the momentum going.
Speaker 5: Now, when I was a kid, go you can figure
different bands. Remember seeing Bob Seger one time at time,
like the music hall or something small, small venue, yeah, place,
Harry Chapin, Harry chap stuff like that. Those were really small,
yeah right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: America remember America? Oh yeah, yeah, that place in Danvers.
Uh something on the green.
Speaker 1: What is that, Lenny's, Lenny's on the Green, Lenny's on
the Green. Yeah, really, horse with no name. That was
famous Dan's place too, Lenny's on the Turnpike, and it
was Tavern on the Green up at the top of
That's right.
Speaker 4: It was one of those on the somethings, Lenny's on
the something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, America, America, Well, now I just came up. I
just thought of another really bad concert I saw, and
he's gonna laugh at this. It was Pete Best playing
at the Topsfield Fair. Pete Best really yeah, really so
Lewis and I when we find out, I said Lois, well,
we got to get tickets. This place is gonna be mobbed, okay,
just to see Pete Best. Pete Best was the original
drummer for the Beatles, soil Ringo took his place. And
so we go and we are maybe one of a
hundred one hundred people there maybe, And it's a it's
a it's a venue for maybe was it a meet
and greet as well? No, no way, no, no. And
and from the first sign you can tell why the
Beatles got rid of him, because he's a terrible drummer.
He's just awful. And he had some Beatles, you know,
but he's Pete Best cover a bit. Well. Listen, we're
listening to him and the cow a moon right next
door and sells smells like Pashman or.
Speaker 4: I love the fair.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he used to. Now it's just a carnival.
But here's the horrible Yeah, top Field. I go there
for the food. Here's the people watching me. So here's
the thing. About Pete Best. So when they came out
with the anthology, which was now was it thirty years ago?
It was in the nineties, Okay, Yeah, they included six
songs that he played on and it was worth two
and a half million dollars to them. Okay, so he's
he's not wanting for money, that guy anymore. So is
the time we've gone around to everyone who's seen the
best and the worst?
Speaker 4: How about the best venues to see a concert.
Speaker 1: Music hall in Boston? For me?
Speaker 4: The now the Lang Center. Yeah, it's a great it's
an I saw yes at the Wang Center. There other incarnation.
If you ever go to that big tent in Boston
you hobicide. Yeah, it's not there anymore.
Speaker 1: I've seen a few and there. Yeah. I suck Kansas
there and play with Yes and yeah. It was all right,
you know, I was right down the water. But the
Boston Garden was the worst, the old Boston gotten.
Speaker 4: There was a lot of cool venues here back in
the sixties of the the uh the Boston Tea Party. Yeah,
I saw a lot of bands. The Commodore Ballroom, places
in Lowell, the rat.
Speaker 12: Scala, yeah, wow, First Avenue where First Avenue.
Speaker 11: Minneapolis, Minneapolis Avenue from famous venue. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: I love it when places are famous because so many
people play there. You know, you play open for power yep. Power.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, only so much on the ground. They were great.
They were band, another great band. Yeah yeah, yep, super
dupervan wowgot the old Boston Garden. Yep. I saw them
once too, Yep, still around, still around there, good, Yes,
we saw them recently.
Speaker 7: They play with some of the other jazz bands up
in the cab at Theater in Beverly.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they had a cool place yep.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah. You know, my taste for jazz have evolved
over the last thirty years, and I like a lot
of the smooth jazz of what they call what the
fusion jazz, you know, spiral gyra.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, club stepping out, oh.
Speaker 7: Spiral job. We just saw them with them the last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah really, yeah, they were terrific. I'll tell you, great
jazz usion band.
Speaker 5: What about those cruises, those like the oldest cruises of
the blues cruises and yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Go out for a week, you know, I don't know
on a cruise. I just want to know because I
knew someone we were doing work with someone who actually
pott in one of those things. And the first one
was was a heavy metal cruise and they sold twenty
five hundred tickets to heavy metal fans, and then the
other twenty five hundred takes. It's where people who had
no idea they run a heavy metal cruise. Oh wow,
that went well. So this thing goes and they they
missed that, you know, they lose three people in Jamaica
right off the back, okay, uh and then when they
came when and then the second one was called Cruise
Cruise to the Edge, which was the yes one okay
that we were kind of involved in, and it was yes,
it was camel it was there was like at least
fifteen bands on that, okay. And like one of the
members of the Moody Blues are going, where are they
paying these guys? They must be paying and they helicopter in.
They don't stay on the you know, but what do
you what do you pay? And they say, what if
you take a cruise, you know, a musical cruise, you're
paying double what you would pay normally if you were
just going to Jamaica or whatever.
Speaker 5: I just found out and I had no idea. They
actually have Star Trek themed ones where they have stars
from the show. Yeah, on the bruise and come to
sit down and hobnob with you. You have to hobnob.
That's another thing you do. You if you're not like
the Moody Blues, you have to stay in the ship
and hobnob with the fans. That's part of the experience.
Like Captain Kirk was walking around. I'm ninety something years old,
He's walking around. How much money they paying. They got
to be paying on a million bucks to be up
the cruise at least, right, So there's a lot adults.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of foreigners on a cruise. I'm sure
they Yeah, yeah, they all are, you know with with
lou Graham and the it's big money. It's big money.
There was a tour they did one recently. It was like, oh,
you know the old, the old they were together. Yeah,
I saw that up at Hampton.
Speaker 4: Them but half of the most of the happy together
now that not even with us.
Speaker 1: We saw them last year and it was like we
were all excited because the association was there. They were terrible.
The Turtles had had one guy, that guy mock Calling.
He died like three months later and the lead singer
for the Turtles was the lead singer for the Achies
when he announced that I the lowest. We're out of
here and we left.
Speaker 4: We want authenticity, I don't care if you're dead or whatever.
We want.
Speaker 1: And it was in and the guy from Bad Thing
was there. He was awful. He died about six months later.
You know who the best remember of suicides all over
the place. The Bad Thing has a bit problem. The
best dr band was the Councils. The Councils came out
and they did their hits and they were really good,
you know, and then the restauran was like kind of
down the drain, and the Turtles were very, very disappointed.
So it was the association because you always think that
they're going to be you know, harmedies and yeah, no.
Plus it was in the beautiful Cain I love, which
you can't be for.
Speaker 4: I saw the doors there. I saw the doors there
nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 1: And still that.
Speaker 2: Last season for them, right now, right drawing they turned
down the Hampton.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wait a minute, is this season the last season
or is it next season the last season?
Speaker 1: I think this this summer is the last summer, the last. Really,
it's massive what they're going to build there. Yeah yeah,
I mean you talk about how many hundreds of condos.
This is the beach, New Hampshire, which is a very just.
Speaker 5: Right next to the Seabrook Nuclear power plant. We don't
mention that which you can't get away from.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well we got the sound system, we got the
alert sound system, sirens everywhere islands.
Speaker 3: Those of us who live in New Hampshire, by the way,
we keep away from Hampton Beach because it's you know,
it's a huge tourist trap.
Speaker 11: I think I've been there.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, but I've been there at the hotel
beaches Ashworth, Yes, yeah, the Ashworth.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of French Canadians. It's it's it's, you know,
kind of vacation for them coming down from the Not
that we don't love the Canadians, we do, but they're
French Canadians, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: The guys wear these bathing suits that are yeah yes, wow, holy.
Speaker 1: Macro take that that large.
Speaker 5: You shouldn't be wearing something. Hampton used to be the
place just see and be seen. Oh yeah, we take
the yea right up barefoot, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Naked, naked, naked blinks fried dough and man, fried dough
You kidding with that apple stuff on it? Yeah? Whatever
that is?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well uh well.
Speaker 4: Barbara, did you have fried dough when you were at
the Ashworth as.
Speaker 12: You just walk down the street to I don't think
I was eating fried dough at the time.
Speaker 11: Wow, give up fried dough a while back.
Speaker 3: Links.
Speaker 4: You haven't eaten fried dough until they've had blinks fried
dough with fixing the coast with fix Yeah, but sugar
was it was part of it. But the apples sauce
kind of.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 5: That was some kind of I'm Hampton Beach used to
go from maybe four police officers in the winter to
about one hundred in the summer. And it's a dry town.
And they would throw you in jail if you looked
at them.
Speaker 1: And what they would do is they would cuff you
and walk you through the crowd the walk of shame,
Walk of shame.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: But wait a minute, the police station looks like the
rice dog that police that.
Speaker 4: Cruise must I cruised in my Mustang convertible Hampton Beach
day in and day out. Salisbury Beach, uh low hotspots,
but you get lost. Hampshire didn't have an open container
law for a while. You could be sitting there talking
to a cop with your can of bud on the windows.
Still hold it, officer, how's it going on? How you doing?
You guys doing okay? Yeah, he's okay.
Speaker 5: We'd be up at Hampton the bike there was no
helmet law and we'd be barefoot with a bathing suit on.
Go ahead on a motorcycle, riding up and down the
you know the strip did you have did you wear anywhere?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 5: No, I'm you know I had the George you know,
the cut off jeans short?
Speaker 1: Yeah, j.
Speaker 4: What are those things the girls are wearing now? They're
like they're like yoga pants, but they're like yoga shorts
or something.
Speaker 1: Shorts.
Speaker 4: You're so tight and unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's like, what is it not a different show?
Speaker 4: What is that?
Speaker 1: What is that.
Speaker 3: Different that I wear?
Speaker 12: No, listen, you get to be young in most situations
crime if you really look at the people wearing them.
Speaker 5: Really yeah, just go to Walmart. Look what they're wear
when they're on their pajamas.
Speaker 1: Is that a cat? Is that a cat on your
Oh that's a dog. I'm sorry, it looks like a cat. Well,
listen on that note where you have to bring the
ship into the station. Yeah, you know, we have so
much fun the ship into the dogs.
Speaker 15: Tell about music joke?
Speaker 1: Oh please do please?
Speaker 15: All right?
Speaker 6: Ready?
Speaker 15: What does the drummer name his twin daughters?
Speaker 1: What does a drummer name his twin daughters?
Speaker 15: Go and a one and a two?
Speaker 4: You had a Beatles trivia?
Speaker 1: I have a Beatles trivia question?
Speaker 4: Well, Beatles trivia question.
Speaker 1: Okay, ready, this.
Speaker 3: Is only we hold on. We've only waited two hours.
Speaker 1: This is a deep, deep dive and we it's it's
a question with no answer. I don't think we're going
to know the answer. Okay, ready, all right, shoe. How
many left handed beatles are there?
Speaker 4: They're all left handed?
Speaker 1: McCartney, isn't all of them have left hands? Very good?
Speaker 3: Was worth the price of admission.
Speaker 4: It's like how many people are dead in that cemetery?
Speaker 1: So two of them, two of them the left handed.
Ringo and Paul mccttney are left handed. Right. Do you
know the history of how Octopuses Gotten was written? I
think I might have told ring ring he left the band.
He was on Peter Cella's yacht and they were telling
him about the octopuses, and that's how he He says,
I brought my guitar with me, and he knows three
chords and he played there. Does he play a left
handed guitar? That's the question. How do you know?
Speaker 4: Because I've never seen him play a left handed Have
you have.
Speaker 5: Seen him play a guitar? How many left handed guitars
are floating around? If you don't, well, if you have
the beatles, you're gonna have a left handed He's not
a guitar player. So I would say it was they
could get their own jets. You know, they got a
six street the guitar. Everybody that I've ever known I
played guitar personally was right handed and they would hand
me a guitar and saya, yeah.
Speaker 1: Left handed Italian. And I'm like, I'm a left handed Italian.
This is gonna be a Whisney ordiate. I'm sorry, that's
my little brother. Okay, wow, okay, well that's what we
waited for. That's the that's the punchline. Wow, all right,
I don't go to thank everybody. Now, one more question, Dawson,
your league guitar player, what kind of guitar do you have?
Speaker 9: I got a few. I got a nineteen sixty nine
gold top less Paul Killed.
Speaker 10: Nineteen seventy six telecaster with the configuration of Jeff Beck's
one humbucker and one single goal I pick up.
Speaker 9: Those are my my go to electric guitars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'll bet so it your opinion. Who's the
best guitar player? I have five? Okay, Jeff Beck is
in the five.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I've got a bunch, but two I I feel
move me the most are probably Gary Moore, Jeff Beck
and Cardinals.
Speaker 9: Santana.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Santana.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've seen Santana live a couple bunch of times. Man,
They're always good. They're just crazy good movie.
Speaker 4: I saw Santana once.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There they open for led Zeppelin really yeah, huh.
Speaker 4: I saw at the Bust and Tea sixty nine in Chicago.
Speaker 1: At the Bust and Teapot was probably about the size
of this room too, a little bit bigger. And I
saw them there so with b B King of all people.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, Santana has just gotten off their woodstock claim
to fame. Yeah, yep, and led Zeppelin two was just
about to be released when I saw them.
Speaker 1: The drummer was twenty years old. What's his name Michael
Michael Shreve and the player Anthony Dunbar was also like
just a very young guy and all of a sudden
they're playing a woodstock. All right, we got it. It's
time to say goodbye. Okay, so we're gonna say goodnight
to Dawson. First, let's gimm a clapp. He's a Canadian
in Mexico. Okay, south of the border down Mexico. Way
next time, play the tough for us. Okay. Those those
that that less Paul must be just the best man.
That thing is, I mean, those are iconic.
Speaker 4: I've got a Mary Ford guilely you know, do you
really know Paul? And Mary Ford is does she know
you have it? Crushing it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Less fall and Mary four with the people first
people did double tracking. That was the thing that were
we able to High is the Moon?
Speaker 4: Great song? Let's play that. I think I got that
on forty five. Brought my forty five collection with me.
That would have take a while.
Speaker 1: He was in a tower accident where he was in
a ditch for a day and a half and when
they put his arm back together that he said, they
want to take it off, but he said, no, choose
it in the way that I can still hold the
pick and that's how he that's how he played in. Okay,
so Dawstin, thanks for joining us. Do we clap from this?
Clap from again? Yeah, thanks for having Canadian Mexican also. Okay, now, Barbara,
we're going to say goodbye to you. Thank you, Bob
for joining us in class. Thank you, thank you. Okay,
Camptain beach again soon and you're next time you write,
you got to do that sign that we love dancing
on them dancing on the beach. Yeah, really nice.
Speaker 6: Sign video video, Barbara. Oh, thank you, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Bobara. We really appreciate it. We'll talk to
you soon. Okay, bye Barbara. Okay, be careful of that weather.
Speaker 4: The weather.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's gonna have a heat waves. Everything's gonna melt. Barry,
Thank you, Barry. Thank you for joining us. Very okay,
you're welcome, very much.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Mag Okay, we'll just have to have that beatle trivia
thing again, the thing you've accused me and many times
of treating it.
Speaker 3: Sure you can lose again you had?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, thanks, I know it.
Speaker 4: Thanks a lot. I'll hold the money this time. Talk
to you real soon. Okay, keep in touch.
Speaker 11: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I want to hear some more taxi stories.
Speaker 11: Oh got good taxis.
Speaker 1: That's another show. Pete, thank you, Pete, Pistol. Pete was
gonna really clap for him, Pistol, because you got more
money than pleasure. Okay, come down and see us alive.
You're still getting your hair cut up at the place. Yeah,
right block away from water with a dog hump my
leg that time. You're down there, get your hair cut
in the dog freaking hump of my life for twenty minutes.
It was a female dog, so it wasn't weird. Female dog. Yeah, Okay,
thank you, Pete, thank you for joining us. We'll see
you real, thank you. Okay, Kim, thank you for joining us. Kim,
thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: It was awesome.
Speaker 9: We're gonna clap joined it immensely.
Speaker 1: Thanks. We'll see you soon. Okay, club, thank you, club,
Thank you club, and we'll see you see we'll see
you very soon as it turns out. Okay. Oh, Susan,
thank you for joining us and for not having too
many cats on tonight. It looks beautiful as usual. What
is that is that the dog that is thunderstruck? Is
that his thunder ConA. Yeah, okay, does he get along
with the cat?
Speaker 15: It's always a pleasure and it was a great show.
Speaker 1: Well what are you doing to him now? What's going
on there? Okay? Okay, good to know.
Speaker 4: So is it bad weather coming in there in North Carolina?
Speaker 15: I feel funny.
Speaker 1: We're trying to be Thank you well, thanks for joining us.
Glad to be here. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
We'll clap it for al you know, I don't know
any about one one. Thank you for joining us. One
rock okay, and so this is our music show and
to you here is the next time on the regular show.
This is Mac to the entire gang saying be safe,
be happy, and bye bye.