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Speaker 2: Yeez, they just make it up as they go along.

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Speaker 1: I could do that. Maybe had a little lamp.

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Speaker 2: Okay, didn this dude?

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Speaker 3: Do do do?

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Speaker 8: Hey.

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Speaker 6: This is Jesse Carmichael from Room five.

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Speaker 4: Hi, this is Phil Margol of the Token.

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Speaker 1: It's Nicole Atkins on the Rock and Roll History Show.

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Speaker 3: Hello, everybody, Welcome back to the Rock and Roll History

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Show in Hudson River Radio. I'm Brian Horowitz. We've got

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an unusual interesting topic lined up for you tonight. But

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before we hop into that, as always, allow me to

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introduce the Crambones, who were joining us here first and

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foremost from the Richter Observatory. He figured out how many

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drummers it takes to change a light bulb one two, three, four, Neil.

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Speaker 9: You might want to throw in a fifth there.

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Speaker 3: Just someone's got to hold the ladder.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, they have a hard time with that anyway. How

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you doing, everybody, and.

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Speaker 3: The host of Paranormally yours she read that dog's bark

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about one hundred and twenty times per day, but it's

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a rough estimate. Pale nucle Is here.

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Speaker 5: Hi, Brian, Yes, I want to learn how to make

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your guitar sound better.

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Speaker 3: Okay, stay tuned. Oh but them nice well played?

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Speaker 10: Sorry, I just had to.

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Speaker 3: And the host of the Silver Screen she saw a

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perfectionist walk into a bar and immediately turn around and leave.

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Apparently the bar wasn't set high enough. Mercedes can't just here?

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Speaker 10: That was good?

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Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, our officially retired teacher he thinks they should

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make decaf coffee tables. John Kelly is with us, Hi, John,

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Oh hey, why not?

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Speaker 11: You know I in my retirement, I could just sick.

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Speaker 3: You can nap whenever you want, pretty much. H At last,

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ban least. The host of Shaving Cream she took a

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course in speed waiting. Now she can wait an hour

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in only ten minutes. Barbara Ville is here.

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Speaker 12: Oh timey whimy.

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Speaker 3: All right. So our topic tonight is courtesy of Mercedes,

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who is going to explain and then lead us off.

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So take it away.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well you surprise me on that one, all right?

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How to describe it? It's songs with a count off

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in the beginning or somewhere in the song, I suppose.

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Speaker 3: So math we have to do math tonight? Is that

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what you're Yes, we do.

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Speaker 1: We got numbers for you. It's like one to the four.

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Speaker 10: Right or something or something.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I hope I can get that right when it's

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Speaker 1: Bray, can you tell us why they do that?

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Speaker 3: It sets it well, Neil can explain too. It sets

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the tempo for the song, so everybody comes in at

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the same time and everybody's playing at the same tempo.

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It is what the conductor does in front of an

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orchestra too, but they use gestures instead of counting out.

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Speaker 9: Loud their hand movement in that case.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's the hand movement.

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Speaker 1: Explain why they often include it in the.

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Speaker 3: Record because it sounds cool.

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Speaker 1: That's what I was, That's what I figured. Thank you

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Speaker 3: That's my best answer. I guess if you want to

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sing along now you know when when.

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Speaker 1: To start which start singing right when you're singing.

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Speaker 3: In the shower, so you can't always, you know, see

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what's going on, so I count.

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Speaker 1: That's true. Yep, I get somebody to come in and

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count for me in the shower.

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Speaker 9: The trick is to get the band to be playing

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the same song.

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Speaker 3: Also true. That actually happened to me last week, actually

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early last week. I went to an orchestra rehearsal and

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there's a page turned and I had the wrong page too.

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Speaker 9: I'd be lying if I said it never happened to me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I was playing and then we stop and

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the conductor looks at me and goes, what are you playing?

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I said, apparently I have the wrong page too, But

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at least you know I was playing because you could hear.

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Speaker 1: It well, talking about let's go back to my shower.

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Speaker 3: What you asked for?

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Speaker 1: There are six of us, Yeah, talking about singing in

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the shower and have somebody on there to count off

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for you. That immediately reminded me of rock and.

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Speaker 9: Roll school, right, I know the scene, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Joey's singing to what's her name? On the In the movie.

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Speaker 9: Riff Randall played PJ Sols PJ Sos.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love her. Love that movie. And the Ramones

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are very famous for their count offs.

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Speaker 13: Count yeah well and those kinds of songs, you know,

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they they they're they're simple but not easy, which we've

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Speaker 3: You know, the chords are pretty straightforward, but a lot

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of them are so fast that if you don't all

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come in at the same time. Train Wreck and you're

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Speaker 9: And that's why they started doing it. They could not

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master the silent count.

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Speaker 12: So yeah, it's like some people have to read aloud.

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Speaker 9: So there they said, take it, take it D D

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one to three four and boom. They all started at

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the same time.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 9: Not always the same song either, but.

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Speaker 3: That's okay, all right, So yeah, you're up first, take

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Speaker 1: Oh god, So I picked my song today because it's

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a live version and I was actually at the show,

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and so I think that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: It was led Zeppelin in nineteen seventy three. Oh it

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was it Madison Square Garden, Brian Love It.

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Speaker 3: Were there any French Canadians there starting fights?

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Speaker 1: There was no Canadians where I was.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's good.

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Speaker 1: So the name of the song is the Ocean. It's

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a song by English rock band led Zeppelin from their

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nineteen seventy three Houses as a Holy. Led Zeppelin were

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an English rock band formed in London in nineteen sixty

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eight and continued till nineteen eighty. The band members were

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vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, Bassis, keyboard bassist keyboard

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John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham. They and you know,

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if you don't know the stuff, you really yeah, it

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just shouldn't.

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Speaker 10: Be here, right.

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Speaker 3: You have to go many many years back to episode one,

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twenty seventeen. Good luck with that, but I'm.

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Speaker 1: Going to go on and refresh your memory a little

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bit more. They were known for their heavy, guitar driven sound,

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and influences included blues and folk music. Led Zeppelin or

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cited as an originator of hard rock and heavy metal.

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They're among the best selling musical artists of all time.

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album oriented rock and stadium rock. We all know what

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album oriented rock.

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Speaker 10: Is, right.

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Speaker 3: Should by now.

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Speaker 1: Page. The guitar has composed most of led Zeppelin's music,

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and Plant wrote most of the lyrics. Jones occasionally contributed

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keyboard parts. According to Wikipedia, the half of their career

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so a series of record breaking tours that earned the

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group a reputation for excess and debauchery.

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Speaker 9: In other words, rock and roll.

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Speaker 1: Yes, led Zeppelin have sold and estimated two hundred to

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three hundred million records worldwide. That doesn't sound like enough,

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does it.

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Speaker 9: I was going to say that sounds a little, you know,

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on the shy side.

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Speaker 3: I mean, is that just final? Not like CDs and

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all the stuff that comes later?

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Speaker 9: Is that an older.

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Speaker 1: Possibly that it's just final? I don't know, question for

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another time. I guess some of their biggest hits were

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A Stairway to Heaven, Whole Out of Love, and Ramble

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from a previous band, the Yardbirds, and were originally named

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the New Yardbirds. This song is one of the few

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Zeppelin songs where all four members share the writing credit.

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with a repeated two measure phrase consisting of one bar

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of four four slash four four four.

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Speaker 3: Four beats per measure a quarter no gets a beat.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and one bar of seven eight.

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Speaker 6: Seats.

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Speaker 3: I think it's seven fours. It's seven eight now I'm

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gonna have to count.

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Speaker 9: It's kind of like walking or running up the stairs

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too fast, missing a step and kind of hitting your

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knee and then getting up and walking again.

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Speaker 1: Right, okay, But that doesn't sound as good as Zeppelin does.

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Speaker 3: It depends because it'll make you scream like Robert Plant

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Speaker 9: It's about as easy too, about as easy as playing

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Speaker 1: So of course listen for the count in in the beginning,

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but a couple of other things to listen for. It

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can be barely heard during due to all the guitar overdubs,

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and John Bonham sing for one of the only times

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on a Zeppelin album they are harmonizing the phrase do up,

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you can hear a phone ringing in the studio at

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one minute thirty seven seconds, and again a second rang

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around one minute forty one seconds. So that's your treasure hunt.

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Let's hear the ocean, d.

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Speaker 14: Messengers, the sunshine, laughing of the range, looking a.

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Speaker 4: Look, a hurt, a sound.

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Speaker 5: Fall.

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Speaker 8: She who is.

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Speaker 14: Singing, singing songs some of my times every day she

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needs to sing them.

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Speaker 15: A mountains abound your snuff the way.

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Speaker 2: Sit so howsomebon hard.

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Speaker 5: For you.

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Speaker 4: It's a real sol.

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Speaker 9: No no no no no no no no no no

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do the whole job can be on the old things.

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Speaker 4: I'm a Sunday say. I didn't think of the whole job.

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Speaker 2: I'm the old Jim Bass hello, miss.

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Speaker 5: No no.

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Speaker 1: To catch any of those those things, you were best

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to look for.

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Speaker 10: No time for it. Yeah, because I was just enjoying

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the song.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We counted out the measures. Yeah, I was seventy eight.

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Speaker 1: We did We did that in the beginning. You did

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So the countain or the introduction is we've done four

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already and now we're steady, is done by John Bonham.

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can assume that the one on the record is the

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fifth take of the session. The ocean is a metaphor

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for the sea of heads that Robert Plant faced in

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the auditoriums. According to group photographer or biographer Dave Lewis,

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I didn't know that, did.

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Speaker 5: You know that?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 9: No, that's that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Actually I thought that was really cool.

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Speaker 1: But a visual Yeah. In the last line, the girl

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who Won My Heart refers to Robert Plant's daughter Carmen,

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who was born in nineteen sixty eight, who was three

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years old at the time of recording, and apparently he

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did change that line for whatever whatever her age was

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at the time of the concert. So a few fun

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facts about the band. Zeppelin's partying is a thing of

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a legend. You may have heard the story about how

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they once rented six floors of the Andes West Hollywood

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Hotel in LA for their entourage and friends hosting a

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drug fueled orgy while drummer John Bonham wrote, a motorbike

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down the hotel corridors.

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Speaker 10: As one does.

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Speaker 3: How do you get that up there?

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Speaker 1: Elevator? Yeah, through the lobby, great elevator. I guess you

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pay off the guy at the freight area. I don't

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know anyway. By nineteen seventy three, Zeppelin had their own

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custom plane, the Starship. It had a bar with a

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keyboard organ, built in, a video library and shower room,

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and cost thirty thousand dollars to I don't know if

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that's per trip or per year.

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Speaker 3: There's no way that's per year.

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Speaker 10: Get out of it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't look it up. Jimmy Page's Gibson EDS twelve

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seventy five was named the coolest guitar and rock in

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a twenty twelve pole Love That and the name led

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Zeppelin came from a joke made by The Who's Keith Moon,

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who told Jimmy Page that a new supergroup would go

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down like a lead balloon. Page, according along with the

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rest of the band, decided to change the spelling of

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lead like the metal to lead led so it wouldn't

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be mispronounced lead, And they changed balloon to Zeppelin for

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a stronger, more dramatic image. And did you hear me

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singing in the in the recorder?

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Speaker 3: I did.

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Speaker 16: I was like that.

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Speaker 3: Ground was perfect.

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Speaker 1: And I knew all the words. So thanks for listening

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to my son.

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Speaker 3: That is pretty cool.

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Speaker 10: Good choice.

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Speaker 3: Now you just have to find a photograph of you somewhere.

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There has to be something of the crowds, and you

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gotta remember where you were sitting and see if we

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can find you as the dot.

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Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, yeah in the ocean.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 1: My head was part of the ocean.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 12: There you go?

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Speaker 18: Cool?

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Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Mercedes, Barbara, you're up.

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Speaker 12: Okay, Well, we're gonna do a complete turnaround from what

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Zeppelin with my choice song. The song I chose is

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called you Get what You Give, and It's by the

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New Radicals. The New Radicals were an American pop band

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centered around band members Greg Alexander on lead vocals, guitar,

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and songwriting, and Danielle Breesebois on keyboard, percussion and backing vocals.

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They used session and tour musicians in lieu of employing

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other permanent members, and they formed in Los Angeles in

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nineteen ninety seven and only released one album, and it

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was called Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too. Alexander received a

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six hundred thousand dollars advance from MCA Records and the

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album was released October of nineteen ninety eight. Their sound

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was heavily influenced by nineteen seventies soul and rock. The

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album received criticism for its themes of drug and sex references,

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as well as its denouncement of society. In spite of this,

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the song you Get What You Give reach number thirty

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six on the Billboard Hot one hundred top the charts

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in Canada and New Zealand, and reached number five in

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Ireland and Scotland. So why would pause here and listen

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to You Get What You Give?

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Speaker 10: By the New Radicals?

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Speaker 16: Wag Locast We got the dreamer's disease see edge or teams.

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Speaker 14: To got to counter the these songs. The business still

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safety loves, beware the challenge, fro the smash of mersades

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face lest.

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Speaker 15: That will not to cry.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I can be a dying head.

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Speaker 14: You got the music Indians Where you got the music?

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Indians on the dance, the swells.

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Speaker 6: Got the book through them.

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Speaker 4: Don't give up, you got reason to.

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Speaker 6: Guess. We only net with.

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Speaker 4: I'm coming home by your time shouts, get to me.

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Speaker 2: Now and we rather music come out?

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Speaker 14: Where what have you doing? And stuff bad? Let's dye

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by child, small.

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Speaker 15: Dad, You can't.

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Speaker 4: Changes bad?

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Speaker 14: Just you got the music in you. Don't last God,

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you got the music in you?

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Speaker 4: What dances the smallest god of fucking don't get up?

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You got a reason to it, can't.

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Speaker 2: We only got what packing last go heal the music

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in you?

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Speaker 3: You forget that?

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Speaker 4: Can I?

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Speaker 2: You're all the get what you give.

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Speaker 14: Your god get what's your kid?

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Speaker 6: Just stop being a better.

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Speaker 14: Heasan sansibout dying empty.

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Speaker 17: Big bankers, dying by compute, and crashes down and call

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him well then love and back and she went back

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in Hans and cordial man the Jill Young Color Yours.

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Speaker 12: So Craig Alexander disbanded the group in nineteen ninety nine,

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prior to the release of the band's second single, because

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he grew tired of touring and interviews. He began to

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focus on writing and producing songs for other artists. However,

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he continued to partner with Brezeois for songwriting, and they

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were non needed for an Academy Award for Best Original

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Song for their song Lost Stars from the film Begin Again.

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The New Radicals have received numerous offers to reha Nite,

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but Alexander repeatedly declines, but they did get together one

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time to perform at the twenty twenty one presidential inauguration.

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I wanted to talk a bit about the band member,

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Danielle Brisblaugh. Anyone recognized that, yes, okay, that's the only one.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank.

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Speaker 3: You, because I didn't know that. Okay, yes, I didn't

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know this.

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Speaker 12: I've always liked the song. I picked the song. Then

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all of a sudden, I'm doing the research and I'm

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reading who the main band members are, and I immediately

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recognize the name. Danielle Brisbaugh starred in later seasons of

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All in the family and in the spinoff Archie Bunker's

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Place playing the daughter of Edith's step cousin, the little girl.

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Speaker 3: The little girl it Stephanie was that her character? Yeah,

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the black hair girl. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did not know.

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Speaker 10: Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 12: That kind of blew me away too, Like all this time,

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all these years, I've liked the song and never knew that.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's good she has a job. You hear about

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the child star that kind of you know, yeah, it

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doesn't go well.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I'm glad it worked out for her.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: So I wanted to also talk about the lyrics at

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the end of the song, as they focused on social

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issues and celebrity bashing with lyrics like health insurance, rip off, lying,

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and you're all fakes run to your mansions. Alexander explained

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that these lyrics were purposely included to see if the

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media would focus on the real issues or the celebrity

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ridicule and personally tell me if you agree or you

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don't agree. The lyrics and the cadence at the end

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of the song to me are reminiscent of I Do

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the Rock by Tim Curry. I got silence, Oh maybe not,

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maybe not, I guess I'm the only one that thinks

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that that's you look pensive, Mercedes.

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Speaker 1: I'd have to hear it.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, no, it totally reminded me of that the whole,

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the whole cadence of the whole of that part of

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the song.

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Speaker 10: But that's it.

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Speaker 12: That's how I wanted to end it with that comparison.

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Speaker 3: Very cool, all right, Mercedes had something.

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Speaker 1: It reminds me a little of that song. I got

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the music in me. Yeah, was that that wasn't Kiki

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d was it?

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Speaker 12: I don't know that wasn't that covered by? Like they're

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all different artists.

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Speaker 10: I don't remember.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so.

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Speaker 12: But anyway, I feel like I saw a Share do

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it on the Sonny and Share show.

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Speaker 1: I feel well that that doesn't surprise me.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I feel like I feel like I saw a

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Tini's Herder maybe cover it once.

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Speaker 1: Really I could be wrong, hmm, geek it is Kiki

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d Oh shut yeah? Yeah, good cool?

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Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Barbara. Quick break and we'll be

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back with porn right after this. Hudson Riverradio dot Com.

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Your dad likes us.

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Speaker 1: This concludes the first part of this cassette.

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Speaker 3: Please turn the cassette over and begin again on side too.

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This is Hudson River Radio dot Com and counting one

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two third Crambone John. That's you, hey, everybody.

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Speaker 11: Well, you know the tonight's theme. It's an interesting one.

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And given the thought we're talking about countdowns or count

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ups as it were, what better theme to talk about

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than taxes. Let's all get out our calculators and our

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checkbooks and figure this out. My selection tonight was Taxman

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Uh from the Beatles I believe it was nineteen sixty six,

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written by George Harrison, that critiques the high levels of

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taxation imposed by the United Kingdom government of the nineteen

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sixties that were basically pissed off about the amount of

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money they had to pay the UK government, which at

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the time was about ninety five percent of their income.

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Speaker 3: Misleading, a little bit misleading because it was a marginal

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tax rate. Still, so it's ninety five percent over the

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millions they were making. It wasn't still they weren't losing

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ninety five percent of their income.

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Speaker 11: Well, they were going bankrupt for that, you know.

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Speaker 3: Well they were going bankrupt from mismanagement too, because that's

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a whole nother thing.

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Speaker 11: The bottom line is they were going bankrupt and they

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were paying huge amount of money in taxes. So George

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Harrison decided to write a song about it so we

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could make more money and pay more taxes. So without

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further ado, Brian, let's just go right into tax Man,

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and well before we go, I will say the opening

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for the song, sets the tempo, the one, two, three,

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four of the count up. Then he goes into the

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whole text thing. So, Brian, let's let's hear what they

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have to say.

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Speaker 2: One let me tell you how it will be. There's

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one for nineteen for me.

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Speaker 4: Goes, I'm the tax man.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the tax man.

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Speaker 19: Five percent of bit too small, be thankful, I don't

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take it.

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Speaker 2: Goes, I'm the tax man.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the tax man.

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Speaker 2: Give me a driver, John, tax the street. If you

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try to send to.

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Speaker 4: Tax yours, if you get to call.

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Speaker 2: The tax le me if you take a tax, your.

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Speaker 19: Tax the tax, Yeah, the tax don't ask me what

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I wanted. If you don't want to pay some.

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Speaker 6: Goes u the tax man. Yea on the tax man,

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My those who died many and tax tax taes.

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Speaker 20: Angel Okay.

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Speaker 11: Tax Man by the Beadle, nineteen sixty six, written by

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George Harrison, Essentially, he was upset with Harold Wilson, who

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had introduced the uh he was the Prime minister and

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leader of the Labor government at the time, had introduced

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a ninety five percent super tax, and they were frustrated

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with the amount of money that they were paying out

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given how successful they were. What's interesting about the song

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putting inside the whole.

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Speaker 3: Issue of because we all love paying our taxes, right, Yeah,

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not really, but uh.

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Speaker 11: It was one of the first times that the Beatles

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introduced the ability, their ability or their talent to combine

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their their music with the social topics of the day

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and to make it into a hit music, a hit

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you know, a hit song, hit music, and this particular

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song is iconic in that regard as well. So uh,

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he would they were also upset. Now a couple of

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interesting points about the song. You heard Harold Wilson, the

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Prime minister at the time leader of the Labor government.

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He was also upset with the leader of the Conservative Party,

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Edward Heath, for making them the first living people. So

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he made them the first living people to be mentioned

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in a Beatles song. So I always wonder what how

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did they feel about that? I mean, it's to be

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to be recognized by the Beatles at the prime of

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their career.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to guess they weren't fans, and probably they.

480
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 11: Were mocking they were being the song. Yeah, would have

481
00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:03,440
been love to have been a fly on the wall

482
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:03,680
in that.

483
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,079
Speaker 3: So that was tax mant off fill their tea.

484
00:33:08,079 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 11: Yes, started off with that one, two, three, four, setting

485
00:33:12,079 --> 00:33:14,680
the tone and then we go right into the numbers here.

486
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,759
So I hope you all enjoyed your you know, walk

487
00:33:17,839 --> 00:33:19,359
down memory lane with the Beatles.

488
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,519
Speaker 12: Tax Man George is my favorite.

489
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 10: Yes, spring goes my favorite.

490
00:33:26,279 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 3: George's recognition came a little bit too late, but he

491
00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:31,000
finally got it because for a long time, I don't

492
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,400
know if it still is, but Here Comes the Sun

493
00:33:33,599 --> 00:33:36,920
was the top streaming Beatles song for a long time.

494
00:33:37,519 --> 00:33:41,839
Speaker 11: Well, it's so yeah, the song actually created It would

495
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:46,119
be interesting if this song was if we had today's

496
00:33:46,279 --> 00:33:50,119
technology then in terms of how the kinds of discussions

497
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,960
that were going on with respect to tax policy, wealth distribution,

498
00:33:56,279 --> 00:34:00,920
government policy, and all of these hot controversial topics, which

499
00:34:01,079 --> 00:34:04,240
which was we're raging at the time. The Beatles were

500
00:34:04,319 --> 00:34:08,159
fortunate enough that they could speak out openly about it.

501
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,679
The average guy could not, So I think a lot

502
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,320
of people really enjoyed enjoyed it, and I think made

503
00:34:14,559 --> 00:34:15,960
probably made the song.

504
00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:17,039
Speaker 3: Even more popular.

505
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 11: It would have been interesting that with today's technology, the

506
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,800
debates which could have started with the release of this song.

507
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 3: Put him in jail. Lock him up?

508
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:31,159
Speaker 9: All right? Thanks job.

509
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 11: So that was tax Man.

510
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 3: Hope you all enjoyed it, yep, thank you? All right, Gail,

511
00:34:36,039 --> 00:34:36,920
what do you have for us?

512
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,599
Speaker 10: Okay? Well, I thought that no one else would know

513
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:42,719
this song but me.

514
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:49,599
Speaker 5: However, I found out that Barbara has already played this

515
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:56,039
song on her podcast called Shaving Cream, which I highly recommend.

516
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:57,079
Speaker 8: Thank you.

517
00:34:58,599 --> 00:35:02,519
Speaker 5: Many many years ago, I was driving down the road

518
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,159
on my way to work, listening to the radio in

519
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:09,519
the car, as I always do, and I heard this

520
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,280
song that was to me hilarious because it was this

521
00:35:14,639 --> 00:35:18,800
guy practically yelling that he can only count to four,

522
00:35:20,119 --> 00:35:22,719
and I thought, well, this was amusing. It was on

523
00:35:23,039 --> 00:35:28,920
like a heavy metal station, and I just thought it

524
00:35:29,039 --> 00:35:32,280
was brilliant because I have a twisted sense of humor.

525
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:38,719
So then we come up with this topic of countdown

526
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,480
or count up, and I'm like, I wonder if I

527
00:35:42,519 --> 00:35:45,079
can find that song. Had I only heard it once

528
00:35:45,199 --> 00:35:49,159
in my life, and I heard it a really really

529
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,760
really long time ago, so I did find it. And

530
00:35:54,639 --> 00:35:59,199
the band is called Psycho Stick and they are an

531
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:04,400
American comic metalcore band from Tempe, Arizona, and they're known

532
00:36:04,559 --> 00:36:07,760
for their comical image and use of humor in their

533
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:13,400
songs and lyrics. Their style is referred to by themselves

534
00:36:13,679 --> 00:36:19,559
and some online album review sites as humor core, which

535
00:36:19,679 --> 00:36:25,239
kind of like makes sense to date, Well, this was

536
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,800
an old reference, so they've probably done more albums since

537
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,360
what I read, but at that point they had released

538
00:36:33,519 --> 00:36:38,719
five albums nationally. Their first album was We Couldn't Think

539
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,079
Of a Title, that came out in two thousand and three.

540
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:46,480
Their second album, Sandwich, was released in two thousand and nine,

541
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,800
and the song I chose I Can Only Count to

542
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:54,360
four comes from their third album, which is titled Space

543
00:36:54,559 --> 00:36:58,760
Vampires Versus Zombie Dinosaurs in three D.

544
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,599
Speaker 10: He just doesn't get much better than.

545
00:37:02,559 --> 00:37:06,559
Speaker 5: That right off the tongue, Yeah, and I was released

546
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:16,320
August sixteenth, two thy eleven. The members of Psycho Stick

547
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:26,400
are Alex Schmellis, Alex Schmellis Dontre on drums, Robert rob

548
00:37:27,159 --> 00:37:34,119
Cerzy lead vocals, Joshua the jay k Key guitars and vocals,

549
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:40,280
and Maddy J. Pool Moose is his nickname. I don't understand,

550
00:37:40,679 --> 00:37:42,880
and I'm not even sure how to pronounce it's his

551
00:37:43,119 --> 00:37:46,800
last name because it's spelled r z E m y K,

552
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,960
and he's on bass and vocals. And I have a

553
00:37:52,039 --> 00:37:57,199
couple other little tidbits, but let's listen to this very amusing,

554
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:58,159
wonderful song.

555
00:37:58,679 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 6: I can only count four.

556
00:38:00,519 --> 00:38:02,039
Speaker 2: I can only counter four.

557
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 6: I can only counter four. I can only counter wa two.

558
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 4: It counts, so.

559
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:42,679
Speaker 6: You can't count?

560
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:43,599
Speaker 2: Can you count that one?

561
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,199
Speaker 7: I can't council one two, I can count two, three,

562
00:38:47,559 --> 00:38:50,639
I can counter three four, I can't got a one?

563
00:38:51,159 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 21: What comes after one?

564
00:38:52,519 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 13: Two?

565
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 2: What comes after two?

566
00:38:54,039 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 4: Dollar?

567
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:54,599
Speaker 8: Three?

568
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 2: What jumes after three?

569
00:38:58,599 --> 00:39:02,039
Speaker 7: I can only council, I can only council four.

570
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 6: I can only counsel for.

571
00:39:06,039 --> 00:39:07,599
Speaker 4: I can only counsel four.

572
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 2: I can only count the four. I can only count a.

573
00:39:11,079 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 6: For god.

574
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 21: One two nd county. I'm gonna gonna count, gonna count

575
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:35,360
there one.

576
00:39:35,679 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 2: I can counsel one or two. I can count two, three,

577
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:40,480
I can count a three.

578
00:39:41,159 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 22: I can't count a bar?

579
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 2: What comes after one?

580
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 9: Two?

581
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:50,679
Speaker 7: What comes after tree? What comes after frame, I can

582
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,400
only council four. I can only count four. I can

583
00:39:54,559 --> 00:39:59,960
only counsel four. I can only counsel for. I can't

584
00:40:00,119 --> 00:40:01,239
only count to four.

585
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:08,679
Speaker 6: I can only count four. Normal moll easing you never

586
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,920
made two is no.

587
00:40:11,079 --> 00:40:13,280
Speaker 2: School at macation.

588
00:40:14,119 --> 00:40:17,079
Speaker 6: There's your mind now the number in the least.

589
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 16: The brandy hid.

590
00:40:21,679 --> 00:40:23,280
Speaker 9: I can only count four.

591
00:40:23,559 --> 00:40:26,159
Speaker 2: I can only count a fort if. I can only

592
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:27,400
count the ball.

593
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:42,039
Speaker 8: One.

594
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 21: You can counsel one, two, you can count the two, three,

595
00:40:46,079 --> 00:40:47,199
you can counsel three.

596
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,079
Speaker 2: You can't count no more?

597
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 15: What comes after one?

598
00:40:51,119 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 6: Two?

599
00:40:51,599 --> 00:40:52,639
Speaker 21: What comes after two?

600
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:53,199
Speaker 9: Three?

601
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:54,599
Speaker 2: What comes after three?

602
00:40:57,199 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 6: They can only counter part?

603
00:40:59,039 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 2: We can only on the floor.

604
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 7: Count for counting, only.

605
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:10,079
Speaker 4: Count the burn.

606
00:41:18,159 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 5: I think that's one of the best songs I've ever

607
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:30,119
heard of my life. You cannot possibly be depressed while

608
00:41:30,159 --> 00:41:33,760
you're listening to that song, because it's hilarious.

609
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 10: Something I did not know is that it's actually.

610
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 5: A parody of let the Bodies Hit the Floor by

611
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:52,480
Drowning Pool. And I've never heard that song, but Bodies

612
00:41:52,639 --> 00:41:55,039
hit the Floor kind of makes it sound like something

613
00:41:55,079 --> 00:41:57,880
out of Walking Dead. But it's like I think it

614
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,000
was for one of the like Rambo movies or something

615
00:42:00,079 --> 00:42:00,440
thing next.

616
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, but.

617
00:42:04,639 --> 00:42:09,119
Speaker 5: It's been covered by, among other artists, the Muppets on

618
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,119
Sesame Street. Yes, for obvious reasons.

619
00:42:13,079 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 6: And and that.

620
00:42:15,599 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 3: Now I have to look at that's got to be

621
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:17,559
on YouTube.

622
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 23: You know.

623
00:42:18,639 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 10: You know I refer to that.

624
00:42:21,039 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 9: I refer to that type of singing as cookie monster singing.

625
00:42:24,079 --> 00:42:33,559
Speaker 18: That isn't that what they call scream something scream a yeah,

626
00:42:33,639 --> 00:42:34,280
something like that.

627
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,599
Speaker 9: I call it cookie monster. That's great, that's a good thing.

628
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, but Neil, you had you had a point while

629
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,760
we were talking while the song was on.

630
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:49,079
Speaker 9: Well, I I think it's funny because, in my, you know,

631
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,559
not so humble opinion, a lot of metal music, heavy

632
00:42:52,599 --> 00:42:58,599
metal music is so serious and so you know, there's

633
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:03,159
no sense of humor, you know, pretentious that that that

634
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,840
that's a good word to put in there, and yeah,

635
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,880
it's and to turn it around and make it funny

636
00:43:10,119 --> 00:43:14,000
is beautiful. It's like it turns the tables on that

637
00:43:14,159 --> 00:43:19,079
type of music. And you know, like I find a

638
00:43:19,119 --> 00:43:21,039
lot of the metal is a very humorless you know,

639
00:43:21,119 --> 00:43:25,000
it's very old, is so important and self important. And

640
00:43:25,199 --> 00:43:27,400
to turn it around and say, you know, I can't count,

641
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,760
I can only count the four it's it's brilliant. That's

642
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:31,360
so funny.

643
00:43:31,679 --> 00:43:33,559
Speaker 1: But that's why they came out with spinal Tap.

644
00:43:34,519 --> 00:43:38,679
Speaker 9: It could have been an outtake of spinal Tap. Yes, exactly,

645
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:39,079
thank you.

646
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:45,119
Speaker 10: Yes, So I hope you guys enjoyed that. I absolutely

647
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:49,559
absolutely adore it. That's one of my favorites.

648
00:43:49,599 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 12: Thank you so much.

649
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, I cannot. I can't wait to see the Street one.

650
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,119
Speaker 10: It's awesome. I will love it, trust me.

651
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 3: Right, all right, thank you, Gail. We're going to take

652
00:44:02,039 --> 00:44:04,440
another real quick break and we have two more to go,

653
00:44:04,559 --> 00:44:07,719
so stick around. Let'son Riverradio dot Com.

654
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Speaker 2: Hudson River Radio dot Com.

655
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 3: All right, Neil, we're up to you.

656
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,199
Speaker 9: Well, we started the show at the top they're talking

657
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:27,320
about the Ramones and how they are, you know, famous

658
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:32,159
for their countofs like that. I think that the count

659
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:36,199
Offs were just as iconic as their leather jackets and sunglasses.

660
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,199
I think, you know, when you think of the Ramones,

661
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,440
you think of a count Off. And they are, of

662
00:44:40,559 --> 00:44:43,920
course my favorite band in the world. I've featured them

663
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,559
here on the Rock and Roll History Show a number

664
00:44:46,639 --> 00:44:50,360
of times, so I decided maybe I wouldn't do that

665
00:44:51,639 --> 00:44:56,920
this time around. And because I would spare you, but yeah,

666
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:58,679
I was like as soon as as soon as the

667
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:04,559
topic was mentioned, I went ramones, I'll go somewhere different,

668
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:09,719
and yeah, my song today is not so much a

669
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:14,599
count off but like a countdown and with my own like,

670
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:21,199
how should I say difficulty with numbers. I'm terrible at math,

671
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,840
I guess is what I'm trying to say. And I

672
00:45:24,039 --> 00:45:27,960
even have probably a bit of dyscalculia, so doing it

673
00:45:28,119 --> 00:45:32,320
backwards would be right up my alley. The song I

674
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:37,199
picked is called five four three two one and it's

675
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:42,360
by the group Manfred Mann now Manfred Man was an

676
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,480
English based rock band who were prominent in the nineteen

677
00:45:45,559 --> 00:45:49,480
sixties in the swinging London scene and in the British Invasion,

678
00:45:50,199 --> 00:45:53,920
and they frequently had hits on the UK Singles Chart.

679
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:59,639
Now the band was named after their keyboard player, Manfred Man.

680
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,719
They formed in nineteen sixty two, and they went through

681
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:07,960
a few personnel changes at the beginning before settling on

682
00:46:08,039 --> 00:46:12,320
the line up of Manford Man drummer Mike Hugg singer

683
00:46:12,559 --> 00:46:18,039
Paul Jones, Mike Vickerson on guitar and Dave Richmond on bass.

684
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:23,199
Now interesting side note here. The band would later feature

685
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:27,639
two other famous names on bass. Two other famous bass players,

686
00:46:28,559 --> 00:46:31,400
one being the legendary Jack Bruce, best known, of course

687
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,360
for his time with Kream along with Eric Clapton and

688
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:39,840
Ginger Baker. The other being Klaus Vorman, who played in

689
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:44,159
John Lennon's Plastic Ono band, and he's probably even more

690
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:48,800
famous for creating the cover artwork for the Beatles groundbreaking

691
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,800
Revolver LP in nineteen sixty six. And John you knew

692
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:58,599
that because that's where Taxman came from. Right right, yes,

693
00:47:02,039 --> 00:47:06,599
Manfred Man's breakthrough hit came In nineteen sixty four, the

694
00:47:06,679 --> 00:47:08,920
group was asked to write a theme song for a

695
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:14,039
new weekly pop music show called Ready Steady Go, and

696
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:17,719
Man Mike hug and Paul Jones came up with five

697
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,800
four three two one. The show, Ready Steady Go was

698
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:25,320
along the lines of American bandstand here in the US,

699
00:47:26,599 --> 00:47:30,039
and it featured the audience dancing as well as interacting

700
00:47:30,159 --> 00:47:33,760
with the musical artists, and it was a little more

701
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:38,760
informal and youth oriented than its BBC rival or counterpart,

702
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:44,440
Top of the Pops. Ready Steady Go aired every Friday

703
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:48,079
evening from August nineteen sixty three until December of nineteen

704
00:47:48,159 --> 00:47:51,840
sixty six, and they would begin with the line the

705
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:56,280
weekend starts here, followed by the song five four three

706
00:47:56,360 --> 00:48:00,719
two one. Now. This weekly TV exposure helped the song

707
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:05,159
reach number five on the UK Singles charts, and in

708
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:09,679
an interview, Manfred Mann said that he imagined ready, Steady

709
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:13,880
Go as being like a rocket, so they wrote five

710
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,119
four three two one as a countdown to launch it.

711
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:54,199
Speaker 6: Thoma wrote the.

712
00:48:54,239 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 21: Six down the Valley on the horses under one, but

713
00:49:01,679 --> 00:49:04,320
wasn't Amalle Brandon ba three.

714
00:49:04,199 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 6: Two one h h. It was the Man Friends.

715
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 2: By both three two one, by three two one. The

716
00:49:20,639 --> 00:49:21,719
Georgians waited at the.

717
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,639
Speaker 6: Game for weeks by all three two one in.

718
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 2: A ward and lost to the Sea of this League

719
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:28,079
by three to one.

720
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:29,679
Speaker 6: Who let him know?

721
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 2: Who wasn't the bricks by three one h h.

722
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 10: It was a man Friend.

723
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:43,159
Speaker 6: By three two one.

724
00:49:46,079 --> 00:49:54,760
Speaker 8: Five both three two one, by three to one, five

725
00:49:55,039 --> 00:49:59,840
three to one, five three two one.

726
00:50:01,639 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 2: It was Mad Friends.

727
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 9: A jumping little number there. If I do say so myself,

728
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:16,880
I agree, I like it.

729
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:19,800
Speaker 3: And it had the harmonica for Gail.

730
00:50:21,039 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 9: I thought of that too.

731
00:50:22,199 --> 00:50:25,599
Speaker 10: The shrieky kinds that special favorite.

732
00:50:26,039 --> 00:50:28,159
Speaker 3: That's it when you're starting to drift off and you

733
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:29,000
need to pick me up.

734
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:31,320
Speaker 9: That's what you hit going.

735
00:50:32,079 --> 00:50:34,559
Speaker 10: I'd rather just have coffee, thank you very much.

736
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:39,760
Speaker 9: You can have both well. Later in that year, nineteen

737
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,559
sixty four, the band Man for Man would hit solid

738
00:50:43,599 --> 00:50:46,719
gold with a hit number one in the UK and

739
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,920
the US with their cover of the Exciers hit do

740
00:50:50,119 --> 00:50:53,199
Wah Diddy Diddy. There she goes just walking down the street.

741
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,960
You know what I'm talking. They had two more number

742
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:00,960
one UK singles, Pretty Flamingo in nineteen sixty six and

743
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:05,559
the Mighty Quinn in nineteen sixty eight and interest song.

744
00:51:06,079 --> 00:51:09,719
Interesting sorry, but interesting that both of these songs were

745
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:15,079
also covers, So you know, cover bands take note.

746
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 10: Didn't Rod Stewart covert Fretty?

747
00:51:19,199 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, he did see that song? I love not

748
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:23,960
the Quinn song?

749
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 3: Yuck.

750
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:27,119
Speaker 9: I kind of like that one myself.

751
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:28,840
Speaker 1: Yucks review.

752
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 9: Your opinion is duly noted John and rejected by nineteen

753
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:42,079
sixty nine. By nineteen sixty nine, frustrated with their image

754
00:51:42,079 --> 00:51:44,800
as a singles band and the failure of their last

755
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:49,159
two albums, the group decided to break up. Now Manfred

756
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:52,039
Man would go on to form Manfred Band's Earth Band

757
00:51:52,119 --> 00:51:55,719
in the early nineteen seventies and have several hits covering

758
00:51:55,800 --> 00:52:00,559
Bruce Springsteen songs as well, most notably Lin Died by

759
00:52:00,599 --> 00:52:02,559
the Light in nineteen seventy seven.

760
00:52:04,039 --> 00:52:05,639
Speaker 1: And deth Like a Deuce.

761
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 9: Yes, that's it, Yes, loose like a deuce.

762
00:52:09,599 --> 00:52:12,519
Speaker 1: Not not the other word.

763
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 9: No, I think that's what everyone not.

764
00:52:15,639 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 10: The German not the German word for shower.

765
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:23,320
Speaker 9: Deuce like two anyway. After going behind on a hiatus

766
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:26,119
in the late eighties and early nineties, the earth Band

767
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:31,239
continues as of last year twenty twenty four to perform

768
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,440
and tour. So there you have five four three two

769
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:39,079
one nice catchy. Yeah. I like that.

770
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,119
Speaker 3: I could see why it was a good theme, you know,

771
00:52:42,079 --> 00:52:43,840
because even if you it's one of those songs where

772
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:45,639
you could take a clip and you got you got it,

773
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:50,960
you got the idea. It was like TikTok before TikTok. Nice.

774
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,679
All right, one more to go now, Neil counts it down.

775
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:58,039
I'm going to count up, so stay with me here.

776
00:52:58,639 --> 00:53:03,639
Back in nineteen fifty seven. Gloria Maria Mili Gross Fajardo

777
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:08,960
Garcia was born in Havana, Cuba. Around nineteen fifty nine,

778
00:53:09,079 --> 00:53:12,599
her family fled the Cuban Revolution and settled in Miami.

779
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:15,960
Her mother had earned a PhD in Cuba, but her

780
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,800
records were destroyed when they left for the US, so

781
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:23,199
she earned her teaching degree credentials in the US again

782
00:53:23,599 --> 00:53:27,559
and taught in the Dade County public school system. In

783
00:53:27,679 --> 00:53:31,199
nineteen sixty one, her father participated in the failed Bay

784
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:35,119
of Pigs invasion of Cuba. He was captured and held

785
00:53:35,559 --> 00:53:37,880
in Cuba for two years before being sent back to

786
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:41,159
the US, where he promptly joined the army and was

787
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:44,760
sent to Vietnam. He came back from Vietnam with serious

788
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:48,760
health issues from being exposed to agent Orange, so his

789
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:51,119
wife and his daughter, Gloria, wound up having to take

790
00:53:51,159 --> 00:53:54,079
care of him for a couple of years. Now, Gloria

791
00:53:54,159 --> 00:53:57,960
became a naturalized citizen in nineteen seventy four. At seventeen,

792
00:53:58,679 --> 00:54:01,159
She was an honor student in high school and then

793
00:54:01,199 --> 00:54:05,079
attended the University of Miami, graduating in nineteen seventy nine

794
00:54:05,119 --> 00:54:08,559
with a degree in psychology and French. While she was

795
00:54:08,599 --> 00:54:11,679
in college, she also worked as a translator at Miami

796
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:16,119
International Airport because she was fluent in English, Spanish, and French.

797
00:54:17,679 --> 00:54:20,280
Now she was singing in church in nineteen seventy five.

798
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,000
How many times have we heard the church story when

799
00:54:23,079 --> 00:54:28,920
she met another Cuban exile named Emilio Estefan Gomez. Emilia

800
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:31,960
was and is a musician and had recently formed a

801
00:54:32,039 --> 00:54:36,280
professional band called the Miami Latin Boys. The band was

802
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:38,920
booked and was performing at a wedding where the guests

803
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:43,880
happened to include Gloria and Gloria's cousin, Mercedes, A different Mercedes,

804
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,760
not our Mercedes. Unless there's something else that we don't know. Okay,

805
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,519
you were busy at the Zeppelin concert? I was yep.

806
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,840
So Gloria and Mercedes got up and did a few

807
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:58,039
songs with the band, unplanned, impromptu, and the band was

808
00:54:58,119 --> 00:55:01,320
so impressed that they all for both of them a

809
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:05,000
gig with the band. So Gloria was in college, so

810
00:55:05,159 --> 00:55:07,400
she took the gig with the stipulation that she could

811
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,480
only work on the weekends so she could continue her education.

812
00:55:11,079 --> 00:55:14,000
The band agreed, and then they changed the band name

813
00:55:14,079 --> 00:55:18,159
to Miami Sound Machine, which may ring a bell. Gloria

814
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:22,159
started dating Emilio. They got married two years later, nineteen

815
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:26,159
seventy seven, and she was and is now known as

816
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:31,840
Gloria Estefant. The band continued to add musicians and changed personnel,

817
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:36,559
including the departure of cousin Mercedes, but they kept putting

818
00:55:36,599 --> 00:55:41,719
out new material almost constantly. Gloria was painfully shy, one

819
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:44,280
of those people that's at home on stage, but face

820
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,360
to face is like really uncomfortable. So she had to

821
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,920
double down. Now that she was the only one out front,

822
00:55:50,039 --> 00:55:53,719
she didn't have her cousin with her. Their popularity grew

823
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,719
in Latin America, and in nineteen eighty five they put

824
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,360
out the hit single Conga that cracked the top ten

825
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,239
here in the USA. I think everybody probably knows that one,

826
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,599
even though you may not know it's ror, but everybody

827
00:56:04,679 --> 00:56:07,880
knows that song. That year, they also appeared on The

828
00:56:08,079 --> 00:56:11,519
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. They appeared on American Bandstand

829
00:56:11,679 --> 00:56:14,960
other network talk shows. They were on MTV a lot

830
00:56:15,039 --> 00:56:18,639
doing interviews and having their videos played. And now they

831
00:56:18,679 --> 00:56:23,400
were mainstream and they made it big. By nineteen eighty seven,

832
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:27,440
the only original member was guitarist Kiki Garcia, and the

833
00:56:27,559 --> 00:56:32,039
band was renamed Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine. They

834
00:56:32,159 --> 00:56:34,480
released the album Let It Loose that year, and it

835
00:56:34,559 --> 00:56:38,079
wound up having five hit singles. Those of us of

836
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,960
a certain age we'll definitely remember. Neil will probably not

837
00:56:42,199 --> 00:56:47,599
because the eighties were kind of a blip, so uh huh, Thelip,

838
00:56:49,599 --> 00:56:55,039
I thought it blip, so I think most of us

839
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:57,639
would remember the songs. The Rhythm is Gonna get You

840
00:56:58,199 --> 00:57:01,199
anything for you bet you say that can't stay away

841
00:57:01,199 --> 00:57:05,760
from you? And the one We're Gonna hear one two three. Now,

842
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,840
if you pay attention, this song actually goes to eleven.

843
00:57:09,519 --> 00:57:14,880
Like another thing, another thing that in rock history that

844
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:16,079
you may or may not recall.

845
00:57:16,199 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 10: Start one five.

846
00:57:18,119 --> 00:57:20,679
Speaker 3: It starts one, two, three, four, and it goes up

847
00:57:20,719 --> 00:57:23,159
from there, but it ends on eleven, So pay attention

848
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:26,760
for that, all right. A year later, Kik had quit

849
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:30,599
the band, and he told Rolling Stone in an interview,

850
00:57:31,159 --> 00:57:33,920
there is no Miami sound machine. There is Gloria and

851
00:57:34,039 --> 00:57:36,760
Emilio telling a bunch of hired musicians what to do.

852
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:42,800
I kind of get that. Emelio defended the move, noting that, well,

853
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,760
she's the singer, she's out front, and people should know

854
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,599
her name, so I kind of get both sides of

855
00:57:48,639 --> 00:57:50,960
the story. You know, Kiki was an original member when

856
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,119
it was Miami Latin Boys and now it's something totally different.

857
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,960
But you're also a hired musician. That's your job to

858
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:00,559
get songs and making the money, So I get both.

859
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:03,360
I don't know, pick aside if you must, I guess.

860
00:58:04,519 --> 00:58:06,719
In nineteen ninety, her tour bus was hit by a

861
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:11,079
tractor trailer in Pennsylvania during a snowstorm. She suffered spinal

862
00:58:11,199 --> 00:58:16,880
fractures that required implanting titanium rods along her vertebrae, and

863
00:58:17,079 --> 00:58:19,199
she went through a long and painful recovery, but she

864
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:23,119
recovered and she has not stopped since. Amelia would go

865
00:58:23,199 --> 00:58:26,159
on to be a wildly successful producer. He had major

866
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,480
influence with the popularity of Latin music in the nineteen nineties,

867
00:58:29,719 --> 00:58:31,719
which I can definitely attest to because that's when I

868
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:36,199
was still DJing weddings and other events and all that,

869
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:40,039
and Latin music was very popular. This is when Shakira

870
00:58:40,159 --> 00:58:44,119
made it big. J Lo, John Scata, Mark Anthony Ricky Martin,

871
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:48,119
and Amelio Estefan had a lot to do with the

872
00:58:48,199 --> 00:58:51,639
success of that. They both continued to put out new material,

873
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:55,840
including a jukebox musical about their careers called On Your Feet,

874
00:58:56,119 --> 00:58:58,679
which came out in twenty fifteen. I have not seen it.

875
00:58:59,559 --> 00:59:03,039
They own owned several restaurants, they own two hotels because

876
00:59:03,079 --> 00:59:07,320
one is apparently not enough, and they bought a minor

877
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:10,639
steak in the Miami Dolphins. Their estimated net worth now

878
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,800
is between five hundred and seven hundred million dollars.

879
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 9: Wow, so.

880
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:17,920
Speaker 3: I don't know if you got any extra send it

881
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:19,159
this way? What else can I say?

882
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 1: That guy couldn't stick there with the band, and that

883
00:59:22,519 --> 00:59:23,800
guy said nope, I'm out.

884
00:59:24,159 --> 00:59:28,239
Speaker 9: Yeah, so something tells me there's some sour grapes going on.

885
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 3: Oh, there's sour grapes that if you leave it to

886
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,119
the estifants, they probably start a vineyard and make it

887
00:59:33,239 --> 00:59:37,800
wine from the way they seem to run businesses. So

888
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:41,519
good for them. Yeah, but yeah, I get it, man,

889
00:59:41,559 --> 00:59:44,519
I get being a little bitter and feeling like you're

890
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:47,159
cast aside. And you know, when you're one of the

891
00:59:47,239 --> 00:59:50,320
original guys, you want to have some ownership in the project,

892
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:52,480
and when it's kind of taken away from you.

893
00:59:53,679 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 9: I'm guessing there was a little more behind the scenes

894
00:59:55,960 --> 01:00:00,400
that nobody's talking. Yeah, no, no, just saying, you know, yeah,

895
01:00:01,079 --> 01:00:04,800
I'm sure he's doing all right, but yep, not that

896
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:05,360
many meals.

897
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 3: I would agree with you know what. We've heard it

898
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:09,719
a thousand times. There's always three sides to the story,

899
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:11,239
and the truth is in the middle, you know.

900
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 9: So who knows.

901
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 3: But as we listen to the song one, two three,

902
01:00:16,239 --> 01:00:20,360
think about it. It hit number three in nineteen eighty seven,

903
01:00:21,719 --> 01:00:24,400
and yeah it goes to eleven. So give a listening

904
01:00:24,519 --> 01:00:25,079
count alone.

905
01:00:32,199 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 22: They tell me you show it, but I won't.

906
01:00:35,079 --> 01:00:41,039
Speaker 6: You just say don't with me?

907
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 22: You know it's not just fun and day to so

908
01:00:51,519 --> 01:00:53,840
much passion side?

909
01:00:55,199 --> 01:01:04,639
Speaker 4: Did you need a bare.

910
01:01:02,159 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 2: To want to drink buck?

911
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:12,519
Speaker 24: Come on, be taken, not be back, sing Saint eleven.

912
01:01:12,639 --> 01:01:26,719
Speaker 25: I'm just gonna keep from counting to come out of

913
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:30,159
your shell. Boy, you know we all. I can be blood.

914
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:36,719
Speaker 23: You're afree of evening, but I am never giving not

915
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:43,480
on your love, no matter what is it.

916
01:01:45,119 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 6: I will see.

917
01:01:45,639 --> 01:01:52,440
Speaker 22: Your barn away she stands warm you bare me bread

918
01:01:52,639 --> 01:01:54,559
and ball my love.

919
01:01:55,039 --> 01:02:00,079
Speaker 24: Time wanted to drink bocme on me be say you

920
01:02:00,199 --> 01:02:07,239
love me? Buks slime like ten eleven counters going a

921
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,400
game on your do mine.

922
01:02:27,079 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 4: There's a mad boy.

923
01:02:31,239 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 22: I will see you your mon away.

924
01:02:35,239 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 2: The chance for ball you want me jack my p.

925
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:46,559
Speaker 20: To drink back on Me and say you love me,

926
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:53,800
Bank sixty seven, nine eleven Counts Gone and hime on

927
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:59,800
the Compaine, what you drinking for?

928
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:34,000
Speaker 3: I don't know if spinal Tap gets royalties for the

929
01:03:34,039 --> 01:03:38,360
eleven thing, the writing credit, I don't know how that works. Yeah,

930
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,360
or the count on Sesame Street. He may get a cut.

931
01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:46,800
I'm not sure, but I'm a fan.

932
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:47,119
Speaker 20: I'd go.

933
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:49,679
Speaker 3: I still go see her now. I haven't seen the musical.

934
01:03:49,679 --> 01:03:50,800
I don't know if i'd want to say. I'm not

935
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,840
a fan of like jukebox musicals where you like, you know,

936
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:56,760
you're cram and songs in to tell the story kind

937
01:03:56,800 --> 01:04:00,000
of thing, but i'd go see her. I'd go see

938
01:04:00,159 --> 01:04:00,440
the band.

939
01:04:00,599 --> 01:04:04,199
Speaker 5: I used to like musicals when I was young. Now

940
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:07,480
it's just like, okay, so things are happening, things are happening.

941
01:04:07,519 --> 01:04:09,280
All of a sudden, somebody bursts into song.

942
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:12,320
Speaker 3: It's like it depends, it depends on it on the

943
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:15,559
on theic. But you know, like years ago, I was

944
01:04:15,599 --> 01:04:18,239
in my twenties, I saw a Smokey Joe's Cafe and

945
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,559
I don't remember any of it other than hating it

946
01:04:20,559 --> 01:04:21,960
and thinking it was so stupid.

947
01:04:22,599 --> 01:04:26,280
Speaker 1: And I just I saw eight misbehave in Fats Waller musical.

948
01:04:26,639 --> 01:04:28,559
Speaker 10: Oh that was probably good.

949
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,159
Speaker 1: So good it was I ended up by in the final.

950
01:04:34,599 --> 01:04:37,039
Speaker 3: But then I have to admit we did see Neil Diamonds.

951
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:40,519
What's the name of it? A beautiful I forgot what

952
01:04:40,599 --> 01:04:42,840
the name of it is, and that was excellent. I

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have to admit that was excellent. So all right, I

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guess I'm breaking my own rules there. What can I

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say before we wrap up? Neil, you are participating in

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a charity event coming up, So why don't we give

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that a little mention?

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Speaker 9: Oh? Great, Yeah, if anybody happens to be in the

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Rockland County area, NIAC part pularly on December fourteenth, Sunday,

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the I think the twenty ninth annual Blankfest is taking place. Now,

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what that is Instead of a cash donation or you know,

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to pay to get in, like a cover charge, what

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they ask is that you bring a blanket, either you know,

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new or used, as long as it's clean any condition. Yeah, say,

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as long as it's you know, cleaned up. And after

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they collect all the blankets on beginning on Christmas Eve,

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they take them all down into New York City and

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distribute them to homeless people right on the street. It's

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TRUC directly, directly. Yeah, there's no no, no middleman, no nothing,

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just they put them all in vans and cars and

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fan out mostly Lower Manhattan and give them to anybody

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who seems to need one. And you know, I've been

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involved with many of them over the you know these

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twenty nine, not all of them. But I will be

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there this year. I can't tell you what time. The

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event runs from like noon to midnight, I believe when

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I'll be performing, if you want to call it that,

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probably later in the evening than earlier. But I'd say

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go there anytime because there every band, all the performers

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are top notch. So you know, it is great entertainment

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and it's for a great cause. So that's Blankfest December

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fourteenth at the Hudson House in Nayak, New York.

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Speaker 3: Excellent. Yeah, so we'll have more details and kind of

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a better idea when you're going to be playing next week.

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Speaker 9: So I should know more hopefully yes, coming up next week.

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Speaker 3: Awesome, Thank you? Cool? All right, Crambones, any final thoughts

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before we wrap it up? Pull the plug. I think

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this was a good one. That was interesting. It was

989
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a good fanth review. You know, next time we'll do algebra.

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We'll see if we can add an X into the equation.

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Speaker 2: Bongs with algebra.

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Speaker 5: Algebra, I don't think that's a thing, but believe it

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or not, I have used algebra in daily life at work.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it comes into play person that I've met.

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Speaker 8: That that.

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Speaker 9: All right?

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Speaker 3: Thank you Cranbones. Excellent selections all around, and thank you

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