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Speaker 1: Hello, Shirley fans. For the last three years, Jason and

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I have been bringing you the stories behind all of

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your favorite movies from the eighties. But today we begin

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a new series.

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Speaker 2: In twenty sixteen, the Duffer Brothers introduced the world to

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Stranger Things. This show not only changed the way we

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all watch television, but surprisingly also truly impacted the music

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we listened to, from Africa to Running Up That Hill.

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Stranger Things has brought back songs of our past and

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introduced them to a whole new generation.

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Speaker 1: So the Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcasts begins a

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new series bringing you the stories behind the songs of

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Stranger Things.

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Speaker 2: All right, d I know we're talking about the songs here,

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but I feel like we need to do something to

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intro these songs, something to get us kicked off.

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Speaker 1: You're thinking, maybe recap Rap?

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Speaker 2: Could Doctor Fresh show up today?

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Speaker 1: I think we can get Doctor Fresh out of his hole? Yes,

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all right, let's bring it. Recap Rap Chapter one, The

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Vanishing of Will Buyers fires.

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Speaker 3: Our story d gins in eighty three The Boys Up

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Late play a dn D. Will, Lucas, and Dustin are

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all at Mike's Fuck the Gout Ahead.

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Speaker 1: Home on the old school bikes. Okay, here's the hook

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of the feature. Will is snatched by some mystery creature.

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Next day, Mama Joyce calls the low.

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Speaker 3: Cool Copper, a big old boy named Chief Jim Hopper.

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Speaker 1: The search is on, but it's the worst. She fears.

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Speaker 3: Brother Johnathan is shedding tears. Will is gone and the

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guilt Hey bears hold up. One kid missing and another appears.

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Speaker 1: The new one's a.

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Speaker 3: Girl named yet unknown, tattoo shaved head and a psyche ward.

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Speaker 1: Down a psyche board down. Beimy catches our girl stealing

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some fries.

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Speaker 3: We can't get her to talk no matter what, each

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except one clue that she is given.

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Speaker 1: Her name ain't a name, Her name's eleven.

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Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Nancy, Mike's older sister is mooching upstairs.

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Speaker 1: With her brand new mister, Steve Harrington.

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Speaker 3: Steve Harrington, Harrington, Steve Herrington. An agent appears and Benny

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gets killed, but they can't stop Eleven.

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Speaker 1: This girl is skilled.

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Speaker 3: The boys go searching out in the rain, and suddenly

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they find their friend.

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Speaker 1: No wait, it's a girl, not their body. Will. What's

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her name, don't know? Let's call her l Let's call

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her El.

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Speaker 2: That was awesome.

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Speaker 1: D thanks man, I mean Doctor Fresh lit.

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Speaker 2: I mean Doctor Fresh obviously.

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to do this?

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Speaker 1: Or let us jump in and talk about Stranger Things

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music For everybody who is used to us talking about movies,

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to tell you where you can confined this piece of

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music in the particular episode. We'll have discussions about the

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awesomeness of Stranger Things later on, but today we're talking music. Guys,

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if this is your first time to join us, we

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are super excited to jump into all of the songs

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behind the Stranger Things episodes. We will be talking about suicides,

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we will be talking about serial killers, we will be

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talking about LSD, We'll be talking about all kinds of

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crazy things, and it's literally nothing to do with the

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show itself. These are the stories of the bands and

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the musicians behind the music. So this series of episodes

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is going to be killer.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't even include a crazy hang lighting accident and

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an attempt to poison the President of the United States.

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It's going to be amazing. The stories behind these songs

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are crazy crazy.

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Speaker 1: Before we get into those stories, we need to say

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thank you to our executive producer of this episode, Miss.

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Speaker 2: Jill McCormick, who is a really a good friend sort

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of a friend of her friend. She is friends with Mingle.

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Remember Melissa Mingle from our Duran Duran Rio episode. Melissa

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November sixth, nineteen eighty three. This is season one, episode

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one of Stranger Things. Interestingly enough, when we started looking

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at this, I didn't get a whole lot of eighties music.

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I was surprised. I was like, okay, wait a minute,

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what so I'm gonna take you back because we've got

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songs from the sixties but I'm gonna take you further back.

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I'm gonna take you back to the fifties. Okay, I'm

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not gonna take you back to the nineteen fifties. I'm

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gonna take you back to the eighteen fifties. What I'm

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gonna blow your mind here, my friend. Okay, now listen.

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Speaker 2: For those of you who are on YouTube and don't

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know D very well yet, D likes to chase and

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follow down rabbit holes. He is the white Rabbits.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, do you remember? Do you remember the matrix?

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That's the very first scene with Neo follow the White Rabbit?

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You got the girl with the tattoo? Important. But before

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I get to that, let me tell you about eighteen

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fifty three. This guy who's a photographer, his name is

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Charles Lutridge Dodgson. He's out taking some pictures of a church.

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see him and they're fascinated by a camera. I mean,

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nobody's seen cameras back then. This is an incredible thing.

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and he befriends them, This twenty something year old man

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becomes friends with their family, and he starts taking photographs

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of the girls. He just happens to have clothes and

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sounds a little weird, okay, And he stays friends with

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the family. Fast forward a few years to eighteen sixty two.

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He and the girls are on a boat ride together.

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she's so impressed with the story, little ten year old Alice,

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that she encourages him to write it down. And so

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what Charles Lutledge Dodson does is he takes his first

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two names and he rearranges the letters to create a

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new name. And that new name is Lewis Carroll, and

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the little girl Alice becomes Alice in Wonderland.

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Speaker 2: You're blowing my mind already. We're ten minutes in. You're

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Speaker 1: And we haven't even gotten to the twentieth century yet,

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twentieth century. Nineteen fifty three may author named Aldus Huxley.

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Have you heard of him before?

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Speaker 1: So he's he's got a book called he Alice. Yes,

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he's got a book called Brave New World. It's kind

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of a dystopian future book. Okay. But he's got another

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book that you probably have heard of. It's called The

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Doors of Perception. You think you've heard of that before.

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Speaker 2: Sounds familiar.

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Speaker 1: Okay. We may touch on that here in just a

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this guy, the scientist named Humphrey Osmond, who has been

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doing tests with hallucinogenic chemicals found in peyote, and so

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Alvius Huxley corresponds with him. They get together, he takes

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some of the mescaline from the payote and has a

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hallucinogenic experience, which he then writes about in this book

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called The Doors of Perception. Humphrey Osmond, by the way,

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is the guy who first used the word psychedelic to

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describe the feeling that you get when you take these drugs,

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and Alvis Huxley was the first one to use the

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word in print, and The Doors of Perception later inspired

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a band to take their name, and that band was

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The Doors. So psychedelic becomes very important in the sixties,

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and there's an entire movement of music called psychedelic rock.

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Stranger Things, it's psychedelic rock.

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Speaker 5: It is.

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Speaker 2: That's for sure, Yes, good much. By the way, for

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the record delly Man that I have ever heard of

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with the name Alice is Alice Cooper.

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Speaker 1: School's out for summer, my friend, I said, Aldus, Aldus Huxley. Okay,

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of Stranger Things, which was composed by Kyle Dixon and

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Michael Stein, and we will talk about that song, but

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not today. There are far too many songs in this episode.

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We'll talk about those guys. We'll talk about the music

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supervisor Nora Felder later on, but today we've got so

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much music to cover that we have to just dive

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in to the first song, first needle drop, if you will.

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The diegetic music, the music that we hear as background

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music in the episode first song out of the Gate

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Can't Seem to Make You Mine?

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Speaker 2: I'm okay.

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Speaker 1: So this song is by The Seeds, off of their

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debut album, which was also called The Seeds. At this

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point their garage rock. They would eventually become psychedelic rock,

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but this one is still more in the garage rock realm.

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This song pops up in the episode at sixteen minutes

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and thirteen seconds when Hopper arrives at the police station

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and everybody is busting his balls.

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Speaker 2: You know what mornings are for, d Right coffee and contemplation. Right,

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coffee and con in place, there's a kidnapped child in Loguit.

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Speaker 1: So this band formed in La in nineteen sixty five.

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That album, The Seeds, was released in nineteen sixty five,

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but it didn't chart until they re released it in

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nineteen sixty seven, which is about the time that psychedelic

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rock is really starting to take off. That's right. The

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lead singer for the band is a guy named Sky Saxon.

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He wrote this song. The band would later change their

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name to Sky Saxon and the Seeds after certain members left,

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but this song is really very subtle in the background

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of this kind of hilarious scene Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So this is the first song that the Seeds recorded.

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I thought it was interesting. They played this song late

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at night on AM radio stations and it became like

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a sixties cult classic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. People would stay up late just to hear this song.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and it didn't really even become a hit until

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after their song Pushing Too Hard became a hit, and

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that was psychedelic rock.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I've got some stuff I want to talk to you about.

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Sky Saxon, Tell me about Skysack. All right, So the

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lead singer of the Seeds is this guy named Sky Saxon.

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They don't really know how old he is because quote

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unquote age is not important. Right, We're already getting into

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the flowery stuff already.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, that was one of the conclusions of Aldous Huxley

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and his books The Doors of Perception. It's kind of crazy.

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Speaker 2: There you go, right, keep on going, keep okay. So

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here's the deal. So in nineteen seventy three he becomes

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a member of this religious group called the Source Family

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Religious Group, and it started by this guy named Father Yode.

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He also went by the name Yohoah. Okay, okay, all right,

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sound like a word you may have heard religious leader

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from Yeah, yeah, it's yes. It's a little bit like

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Jehovah yeah.

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Speaker 1: Or yeahweh yeah or you know Yoda. So yeah.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, you have this group called the Source Family

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Religious Group. It's born out of this guy and even

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father Yode, who had this health food restaurant on the

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Sunset Strip. It's organic, it's health food. It's kind of

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the hot new thing. And he wasn't just nobody. He

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had regular clients like John Lennon and Marlon Brando. Okay,

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I mean these are legit people, right. She is Seeds

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for the elite exactly exactly. So they start this religious

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group in the Hollywood Hills. They have a commune, right

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and Sky Sackson jumps right in and he joins in

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nineteen seventy three. Okay, Now, the funny part is not

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that this lead singer of the Seeds joined this religious group.

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The funny part is how this guy, father Yode came

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to his unfortunate demise.

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Speaker 5: Okay, you with me.

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Speaker 2: So the religious groups in California for a while, and

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then he decides he wants to get out of California,

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so he moves to Hawaii and then on December twenty sixth,

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nineteen seventy four, The day after Christmas, Father Yode decides

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I would like to go hang gliding. He's never been

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hang gliding in his life. Okay, so go ahead and

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go off the highest cliff. So he goes off a

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thirteen hundred foot cliff, crashes his hang glider on the beach. Boom.

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It's like, I'm totally hurt.

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Speaker 1: Right, how is he?

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Speaker 2: So they haul him off to the hospital. Nine hours

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later he is dead. So Father Yoda passes away day

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after Christmas nineteen seventy four from a tragic overzealous hang

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glider accident.

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Speaker 1: More like Father chowed. Okay, are we done with Are

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we done with the seeds?

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Speaker 2: I am done with the seeds?

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Speaker 1: All right, let's keep rolling. Song number two that we have.

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We get to introduce a band that will be very

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important a little bit later on. Okay, and this band

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is Jefferson Airplane. So Jefferson Airplane was founded by a

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guy named Marty Bayley. Yes, here's the cool part. He

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was very business savvy about the way that he did this.

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He has this band. He knows that bands have to

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play some good clubs to get notoriety. So he starts

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his own club. He gets like three other investors to

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pay three thousand each and they start this club. And

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it's like the club for the musicians to go to

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and see other musicians. And so you have bands like

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the Grateful Dead, you have bands like the Steve Miller

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Blues Band. You have bands like the Doors that come

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in there and play. And one of the bands that

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came in there and played was the band called the

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Great Society, and they had this really groovy chick singing

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for them. She had started this band with her husband,

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but she was really above and beyond where that band was.

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And so a little bit later on Jefferson Airplane loses

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their lead singer, their female lead singer. She decides that

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she's gonna go start her family. Yeah, she is not

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going to be a lead singer for this ban anymore.

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So they are looking for another female lead and they

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really said, there's only two options, Janis Joplin or Gray Slick.

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They're the only two women who are out here singing

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in San Francisco right now. And San Francisco is the

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hub of the world at this point. If you're going

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to San Francisco, sure you're gonna see lots of flowers

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in your hair, right, yes, And so they go to

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talk to Gray Slick and within minutes she says, yeah,

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I'm in. I'm leaving my husband's band, right. And she

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brought two songs with her, one of which we'll talk

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about it in a little while. The other one Somebody

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to Love, written by her brother in law for the

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Great Society. She brings that over with them and it's

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the band's first really big single.

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Speaker 2: Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 1: So this song she Has Funny Cars is the first

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song on the first album with Gray Slick, and they

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had also gotten a new drummer named Spencer Dryden, who

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was a huge force in the band. By the way,

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half nephew of Charlie Chaplin, get out of there. I'd

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like to blow your mind with these tidbits, right, okay.

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So this song she Has Funny Cars is the opening

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track of Surrealistic Pillow, one of the very first pioneering

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psychedelic albums, and it appears in our episode at twenty

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one minutes and forty one seconds where we get the

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introduction of young eleven.

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Speaker 2: You can do whatever you Yes, I've got to throw

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this out at you. This is what blew me away

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A Jefferson Airplane. You know this, nore my gosh, okay, no,

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tell me, you're giving me new information. I'm excited, all right,

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I'm on the edge of my seat. This is what

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a Jefferson airplane is, so you ready. So it's a

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match wooden match that's split in half in order to

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work as a roach clip so you can hold your joint.

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That's a Jefferson airplane. Okay, I did not know that

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kind of makes sense, right, Yeah, I got something for

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you on Marty Balen.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Marty Balen is the guy who wrote this song she

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has funny cars.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 2: He's also the co lead singer of Jefferson Airplane. He

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had a song in nineteen eighty one. Okay, do you

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know that song?

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Speaker 5: No, I play it for you right, Yeah, I know

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that song.

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Speaker 2: Yes, one hit Wonder from nineteen eighty one. Marty Balen

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going solo after breaking out of Jefferson Airplane. With the

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song Hearts reached number eight in nineteen eighty one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was. His departure from the band had to

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do with the cocaine that was being used and it

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was too much for him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he couldn't take it. Yeah, by the way. Another

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claim to fame by Marty Balen. Yeah, he managed to

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get punched out during the Altmont concert, the giant free,

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three hundred thousand people concert in California.

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Speaker 1: Ah, the one where the guy got stabbed.

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Speaker 2: Yes, a young man who got angry and tried to

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storm the stage, and the Hell's Angels with their motorcycle

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chains and weighted pulques did not take very kindly. The

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Hell's Angels were working security at this concert. They hired

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the Hell's Angels, yes, to be security. Yeah, and who

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would have thought violence broke out?

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Speaker 1: That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: They were paid five hundred dollars worth of beer. Well,

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you get what you paint, you get what you paid for. Yeah,

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and Marty Balen managed to get punched out by one

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of the Hell's Angels.

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Speaker 1: All right, we are going to talk more about Jefferson

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Airplane and just a little bit when we get to

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a slightly more well known song.

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Speaker 2: Before we leave this song, I want to throw this

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at Jack. When was the last time we talked about Jefferson.

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I think it was Starship at the time.

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Speaker 1: Jefferson's Starship. We've talked about him a couple of times, Okay,

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I talked about Sarah in our very first episode Michael

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Jackson Bad versus Thriller. By the way, guys, if you

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want to go check that out on the podcast. Great, Yeah,

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a great couple of episodes. Yeah, but that was were

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they were they in that atrocity from nineteen seventy.

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Speaker 2: You got it. Yes, when we and the guys from

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the thirty something podcast got together and we talked about

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the Star Wars Holiday special.

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Speaker 1: There are a few things in life that I like

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better than getting together with the guys from the thirty

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something Movie podcast. Be sure and go check those guys out.

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They are a barrel of fun every single time. But

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that is one of my favorite episodes to go listen to.

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And yes, cloud City, we built this Cloud City on Rocket.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because Wookies and Han Solo and Prince Lea means

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Jefferson Starship.

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Speaker 1: Guess okay, sure does?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: All right, So we will talk more about Jefferson Airplane

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a little bit later on when we get to their

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more well known song about this City, not that one, okay,

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and we and we will give a little more detail

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that it will be fun. But for now, let us

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move on to the next song in the episode is

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called I Shall Not Care by Pearls Before Swine. This

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one appears at twenty six minutes and forty eight seconds

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into the episode, where Benny is grilling a burger and

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grilling Young eleven, trying to get her to answer some questions,

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but she has remained totally silent up until this point,

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given them both the grilection. Okay, So this song I

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Shall Not Care comes off of the album One Nation Underground, Okay,

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and it's this Pearls before Swine is a quote from

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the Bible.

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Speaker 2: It is It's hoss full of Matthew I believe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an interesting quote from the Bible that we

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don't necessarily need to get into it here. But the

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band took that name. The record company is ESP. This

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is ESP's most successful album, with somewhere between one hundred

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and two hundred and fifty thousand sales. This is probably

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not a band that you've heard.

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Speaker 2: Of as not a band I've heard of, right, So

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still psychedelic, but this is more like psychedelic folk.

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Speaker 1: And we're still definitely in the sixties right on this album.

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Other than I Shall Not Care, we have a couple

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of other songs. One of those songs is called Oh

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Dear Miss Morris. Okay, oh Dear Miss Morse. It is

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a banjo and an organ and Morris code, and the

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Morris code spells out f you see this is radio friendly.

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So I'm not going to say what the last letter is,

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but I bet you walk in guess so in North's code.

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Speaker 2: In Mort's code, yes, so like in a banjo, Moore

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00:25:05,559 --> 00:25:07,880
is like yeah, I don't.

473
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, okay. So the album cover for this

474
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,720
one is a scene from Bosh's Hell, and as I mentioned,

475
00:25:16,759 --> 00:25:20,079
it's called One Nation Underground. I don't really know that

476
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:24,279
the air as biblical as their band name may sound. Okay,

477
00:25:24,759 --> 00:25:29,119
but this particular song was based upon a poem by

478
00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:33,839
Sarah Teesdale. Sarah Teesdale was a Pulitzer winning poet, and

479
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,960
the poem that this song is based on is thought

480
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,960
by many to be her suicide note. Okay, interesting, interesting,

481
00:25:43,079 --> 00:25:46,759
you got me nineteen thirty three, she overdosed on pills

482
00:25:47,319 --> 00:25:52,200
and because of the lines of this poem, everybody believed

483
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,559
this was her suicide note. And that's what I Shall

484
00:25:55,599 --> 00:25:57,039
not care is based upon.

485
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 2: Wow, you're blowing my mind right there. That's fantastic, and

486
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,359
that is all I have on this band and this song,

487
00:26:04,599 --> 00:26:08,200
and I have nothing else to contribute. Well, that's okay,

488
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,359
it's minor. It moves on, Okay, let's move along. So

489
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,480
the next song in the episode is Jenny May by

490
00:26:15,599 --> 00:26:16,319
trader Horn.

491
00:26:27,799 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 1: Hey, Jenny May, I have coming out to play trader

492
00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:36,119
Horn again, another psychedelic folk. We're still in the sixties.

493
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,720
Four songs in and we're still in the sixties in

494
00:26:38,759 --> 00:26:42,279
this obviously eighties throwback series. What's going on?

495
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 2: Right?

496
00:26:42,799 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 1: All right? I don't know, but let me tell you

497
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,720
about trader Horn. Okay, all right. Trader Horn is a

498
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:53,039
British duo composed of Judy Diibel and Jackie McCollough. They

499
00:26:53,079 --> 00:26:55,640
only made one album, which is where, of course this

500
00:26:55,759 --> 00:26:56,680
song appears.

501
00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,799
Speaker 2: That one album is called Morning Way, released nineteen seventy.

502
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: Nice good job. So it's not quite sixties. We've moved

503
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,839
on to the seventies, but were still a far afield

504
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:11,119
from the eighties. And so trader Horn, you like this.

505
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,160
This is a deep hole. This is a rabbit hole.

506
00:27:13,279 --> 00:27:15,839
I followed the white rabbit down this hole. Okay, okay.

507
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:22,759
So that trader Horn is named after DJ John Peel's nanny,

508
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,200
whose name was Florence Horn. Okay, you remember who DJ

509
00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:28,960
John Peel is. No, we talked about him when we

510
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,720
did our def Leopard episode. He was a DJ in

511
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,880
the UK that was very popular and at the time

512
00:27:36,079 --> 00:27:39,920
was very into punk and new wave, but he thought

513
00:27:40,079 --> 00:27:42,759
def Leopard was great and so he played their EP

514
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,480
over and over again and is probably a key to

515
00:27:46,559 --> 00:27:47,839
them becoming famous.

516
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 2: Wow.

517
00:27:48,799 --> 00:27:51,599
Speaker 1: So his nanny the Horn. And there was also an

518
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:55,079
actual explorer named Trader Horn who used to go like

519
00:27:55,079 --> 00:27:57,319
he went down to Africa and tried to free slaves

520
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,240
and a princess that was being held captive. It's very

521
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:08,880
secondhand lions swashbuckling stuff. Mario, Yeah, right, so this song appears.

522
00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:11,799
This is such a great part. This song appears when

523
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,240
Benny is making a call and Eleven fixes a broken fan.

524
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:16,400
She does.

525
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 2: She's very handy though.

526
00:28:17,519 --> 00:28:20,279
Speaker 1: She is just This comes in at twenty eight minutes

527
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,519
and fifty eight seconds. She is chowing down on some

528
00:28:23,559 --> 00:28:26,960
French fries and there is a squeaky fan and she's

529
00:28:27,039 --> 00:28:30,279
unhappy with it. It's annoying. She stares and suddenly the

530
00:28:30,279 --> 00:28:31,319
fan doesn't work anymore.

531
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 2: It's our first inkling that she has some sort of

532
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,960
supernatural powers again. This is episode one of Stranger Things,

533
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,000
so we're learning all about this universe. There's something special

534
00:28:40,039 --> 00:28:40,680
about this girl.

535
00:28:40,839 --> 00:28:43,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, And at this point when the fan does stop

536
00:28:44,119 --> 00:28:48,079
in the song Jenny May, it cranks up this haunting

537
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,799
verse that Judy Daibel is singing, and it's very creepy

538
00:28:52,839 --> 00:28:56,279
and beautiful at the same time. Very impactful moment just

539
00:28:56,279 --> 00:28:59,960
from this pretty well unknown song from a very un

540
00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:03,160
known band. Right, So I looked a little bit. They

541
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,359
were making their way. They toured with Humble Pie and

542
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,279
Yes and Genesis. They set up a music festival to

543
00:29:10,519 --> 00:29:13,400
like launch the band. They had made their album, and

544
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,920
then just before the music's festival was about to happen,

545
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,039
quit the band. She quit Judy Dible quit the band Okay,

546
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,680
and she went to go make music with her husband

547
00:29:21,839 --> 00:29:23,559
and they did that for a little while, and just

548
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,240
three years later she retired from music. Didn't sing another

549
00:29:27,279 --> 00:29:31,599
beautiful haunting thing again for over three decades, and then

550
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,559
she came back out in two thousand and four. What Yeah,

551
00:29:35,559 --> 00:29:38,759
So she had several releases since two thousand and four.

552
00:29:38,839 --> 00:29:41,039
She just passed away a couple of years ago in

553
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,400
twenty twenty, and some of those old Trader Horn songs

554
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,400
have grown in popularity over the years. The singles are

555
00:29:48,599 --> 00:29:50,319
considered by some to be collector's items.

556
00:29:50,319 --> 00:29:53,119
Speaker 2: At this point, fantastic, good job, thanks blow my mind.

557
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,599
Speaker 1: Okay, so we're four songs in and we still haven't

558
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:58,680
hit the eighties.

559
00:29:59,119 --> 00:29:59,759
Speaker 2: What's the deal?

560
00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. But what we have now is young

561
00:30:04,079 --> 00:30:08,480
Nancy in her room getting ready to study. Steve the

562
00:30:08,519 --> 00:30:12,119
tool at this time is sneaking up the fire escape

563
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,359
and we hear Nancy listening to the song that sounds

564
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,880
very eighties. It's called Every Little Bit by Jackie James

565
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:24,039
and Ian Kernow. The only problem is it was made

566
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:41,279
in the twenty first century. What So this scene pops

567
00:30:41,359 --> 00:30:44,039
up at thirty eight minutes and nine seconds and we're

568
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,480
well over the halfway mark and just now hearing an

569
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:52,039
eighties sounding song. It sounds like Madonna almost, but it's not.

570
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,839
It is this new song by Jackie James and Ian Kernow.

571
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:56,960
You got any info on it?

572
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,359
Speaker 2: Okay? So here's what I got on this, Okay. Yeah,

573
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,160
So when you and I were talking about this, we

574
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,440
agreed both to us it sounded like Madonna.

575
00:31:03,599 --> 00:31:04,119
Speaker 1: Yeah.

576
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 2: When I was doing some research, I found a bunch

577
00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:09,000
of people who said Budge of UK and European people

578
00:31:09,039 --> 00:31:23,359
who said sounds like Kylie Minogue.

579
00:31:25,519 --> 00:31:28,319
Speaker 1: Kylie Mino was the she. I mean, she had a

580
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:29,599
very Madonna kind of sound.

581
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:30,119
Speaker 2: She did.

582
00:31:30,359 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: She was engaged to Michael Hutchins. Michael Hutchins of Xcess.

583
00:31:35,039 --> 00:31:37,319
We talked about that. Be sure and check out are

584
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:42,839
Xcess versus George Michael Faith Versus Kick episode on the podcast.

585
00:31:43,119 --> 00:31:44,440
But please go ahead, Kylie.

586
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 2: Here's the deal with Kylie Minogue. Okay, she was a

587
00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:49,400
TV star beautiful.

588
00:31:49,079 --> 00:31:50,519
Speaker 1: And I was a fire griver.

589
00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:56,119
Speaker 2: My goodness, so she followed the sort of Madonna tremula, right, Yeah,

590
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,880
of let me be as sexy as possible, also make

591
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,000
good music, and I'll say a ton of records, and

592
00:32:01,039 --> 00:32:01,640
that's what happened.

593
00:32:01,759 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: Right.

594
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,559
Speaker 2: So you and I both thought it sounded like Madonna.

595
00:32:04,759 --> 00:32:06,920
A lot of other people thought it sounded like Kylie Minogue. Well,

596
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,640
it turns out that Ian Kernow worked with Kylie Minogue

597
00:32:11,799 --> 00:32:16,200
and so there's a definite connection there. So. Jackie James

598
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,279
is a Scottish singer, songwriter and keyboard player. She wrote

599
00:32:19,279 --> 00:32:23,480
a song called Heartbeat for a group called Steps. Okay,

600
00:32:23,599 --> 00:32:26,279
so apparently This was huge in the UK was a

601
00:32:26,359 --> 00:32:29,559
number one hit, million seller. By the way, the B

602
00:32:29,799 --> 00:32:32,720
side of that single was a remake of a song

603
00:32:32,759 --> 00:32:36,720
called Tragedy by The Begs. Go back check out our

604
00:32:36,799 --> 00:32:38,799
Beg Saturday Night Fever episode.

605
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: Now, I was just sitting here thinking, how Kylie Minogue

606
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,759
the A song that I remember is the Locomotion do.

607
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,839
Speaker 2: The Local Motion? Yeah, big hit in nineteen eighty eight

608
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:48,960
for me, Kylie Minogue is Can't Get You out of

609
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:53,359
My Head that video. Okay, So, but anyway, Ian Kernow

610
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,359
is a partner with her in this powerhouse music. So

611
00:32:56,519 --> 00:33:00,000
Jackie James writes and sings. Ian Kernow he writes and sings.

612
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,920
But he was a keyboardist in an eighties rock fand

613
00:33:03,039 --> 00:33:04,759
that you may have heard of called Talk Talk.

614
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: I don't recognize that.

615
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:26,599
Speaker 2: They had one humongous hit called It's My Life. Oh yeah, yes,

616
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,000
nineteen eighty four, big hit It's My Life. Gwen Stefani

617
00:33:30,039 --> 00:33:32,440
actually redid it and it became a hit again. Yes,

618
00:33:32,799 --> 00:33:35,599
So I and her now keyboardist for Talk Talk.

619
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: Nice.

620
00:33:36,319 --> 00:33:39,119
Speaker 2: Okay, good back to Jackie James for a second. Okay, okay,

621
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,319
So Jackie James has written songs for Kylie Minogue okay,

622
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:49,319
super hot, Jennifer Lopez okay, super hot yea, and Celine

623
00:33:49,359 --> 00:33:50,519
Dion not.

624
00:33:50,799 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: She has her days. No, just as long as she's

625
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:54,240
not covering ac DC.

626
00:33:57,039 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 2: Yes, that was the worst. I loved how Ian Kernow

627
00:34:02,559 --> 00:34:04,960
he's on Twitter. He's active on Twitter. We maybe need

628
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,519
to tag him in this one, he says. According to him,

629
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,440
making music is the greatest job in the entire world,

630
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:16,239
except maybe Formula one racers. Okay, there you go. That's

631
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,639
all I got, every little bit a modern song made

632
00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:22,519
to sound like the eighties and they pull it off.

633
00:34:22,559 --> 00:34:25,559
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, love it all right, moving on to move on?

634
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 2: Yes, okay.

635
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,639
Speaker 1: So now we're back with Jefferson Airplane once again, and

636
00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:35,320
this is probably their most well known song of all time.

637
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,679
I would have told you had I not gone back

638
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,719
and looked at it like I did, that this was

639
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,440
like one of those epically long songs. It's less than

640
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:43,360
three minutes long.

641
00:34:43,599 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 2: Really.

642
00:34:44,119 --> 00:34:48,039
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, So the song that we're talking about, second

643
00:34:48,119 --> 00:34:52,519
song by Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit one.

644
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:59,199
Speaker 5: It makes you Larger, makes you soon.

645
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 2: And the ones mothers don't do anything glass. Okay.

646
00:35:11,519 --> 00:35:15,119
Speaker 1: So we talked about Alice in Wonderland. We talked about

647
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,760
Alvis Huxley and the Doors of Perception, talked about the

648
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:24,400
idea of psychedelic and psychedelic rock and how Alvis Huxley

649
00:35:24,519 --> 00:35:31,519
took this mescaline with Humphrey Osmond and had this hallucinogenic experience.

650
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,960
So part of the hallucinogenic movement of this time was

651
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,880
this new drug that had been discovered called lysergic acid

652
00:35:41,199 --> 00:35:57,119
dithalamide better known as l s D. Chest Now, how

653
00:35:57,119 --> 00:36:01,159
does that relate to this song? First, I mentioned earlier

654
00:36:01,199 --> 00:36:04,119
that Gray Slick had written this song while she was

655
00:36:04,159 --> 00:36:07,639
still with the Great Society. Well, she had decided to

656
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:11,679
try LSD and this song was written as she was

657
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:16,159
coming down off of that high. Wow, and you sent

658
00:36:16,199 --> 00:36:18,559
me something as far as the first lyrics in this

659
00:36:18,639 --> 00:36:21,039
song go, that really drive that point home.

660
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 2: Yes, So in the lyrics it says one pill makes

661
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:30,039
you larger, one makes you small, and the one that

662
00:36:30,119 --> 00:36:34,760
mother gives you don't do anything at all, larger, small,

663
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,480
don't LSD?

664
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,199
Speaker 1: I love it. I would have never gotten there and

665
00:36:41,199 --> 00:36:43,920
that is fantastic information. Love it.

666
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 2: Thank you.

667
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: So, of course this song is completely based on Alice

668
00:36:49,039 --> 00:36:51,719
in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll that we talked play and

669
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,000
some people even think, oh, did Lewis Carroll drop acid? No,

670
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,239
it hadn't been invented for like fifty years later. You know,

671
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,119
it was not going to be around. And he was

672
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,960
a deacon at an Angelican church there. He wasn't doing drugs, right, Okay,

673
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,199
he just wasn't. All right, He's taken photographs of little girls,

674
00:37:09,199 --> 00:37:10,840
but he was not doing drugs.

675
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:11,159
Speaker 2: Okay.

676
00:37:11,599 --> 00:37:15,639
Speaker 1: Once LSD was discovered, they started using it for medicinal purposes.

677
00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:18,840
They tested it with military, tested it with the FBI.

678
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,039
They used it to try to cure certain things. I mean,

679
00:37:22,039 --> 00:37:26,519
it was treated as a drug, but the psychedelic effects

680
00:37:26,559 --> 00:37:30,280
soon found their home in the counterculture that was going

681
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,679
on in the sixties. One of the guys that was

682
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:37,440
pushing hard for his students at Harvard to try the

683
00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:40,880
drug was a guy named Timothy Leary. Yeah, I've heard

684
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,079
this guy. Yeah, So he became enemy number one as

685
00:37:44,079 --> 00:37:47,239
far as Richard Nixon was concerned, which brings us to

686
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,440
another interesting story that we'll tell in just a minute.

687
00:37:50,639 --> 00:37:56,639
But because Richard Nixon decided that this lysergic acid dithalamide

688
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,719
was bad stuff. He enacted the Controlled Substances Act thirty

689
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:06,320
something years ago, and all experimentation and scientific research on

690
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:10,559
the drug stopped until recently and they started doing stuff

691
00:38:10,599 --> 00:38:13,480
with it again, using it in microdose forms, and it

692
00:38:13,519 --> 00:38:18,599
has actually been effective in curing things like ADHD and

693
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,800
depression and other mental illnesses. So I don't know that

694
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,400
that's what everybody was using it for back then, but

695
00:38:25,599 --> 00:38:28,519
it's just an interesting history on this particular drug.

696
00:38:28,599 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 2: So you're telling me hyperactive kids, if they get a

697
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,679
little bit of this and they start watching the walls

698
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,079
melt and stuff happen, then they chill out. It makes

699
00:38:37,119 --> 00:38:39,400
still the heck out. It makes still the sense. So

700
00:38:39,559 --> 00:38:42,840
this song was written in December of nineteen sixty five

701
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,559
by Grace Slick. It was released June twenty fourth, nineteen

702
00:38:45,599 --> 00:38:48,440
sixty seven. She wrote it on a piano she bought

703
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,000
for about fifty bucks. Right it was missing keys in

704
00:38:52,039 --> 00:38:54,880
the upper register. She said it didn't matter because she

705
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,119
could hear it in her head.

706
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:57,039
Speaker 1: It's awesome.

707
00:38:57,199 --> 00:39:00,599
Speaker 2: Parents thought that this is like encouraging children to drugs.

708
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,400
She wrote it as a slap at parents for reading

709
00:39:04,519 --> 00:39:07,920
us these stories like Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan

710
00:39:08,039 --> 00:39:11,960
who sprinkles magic white dust on everything to make everything better.

711
00:39:12,119 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 1: Wizard of Oz. They fall asleep in the Poppies, right.

712
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 5: That's right.

713
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, Marty Balen calls this Grace Slicks masterpiece.

714
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,519
Speaker 1: It absolutely is. Let me just talk for a minute

715
00:39:22,559 --> 00:39:25,119
about the makeup of the song itself. We haven't talked

716
00:39:25,119 --> 00:39:27,719
to actual music stuff, so I'm gonna nerd music on

717
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,320
you for just a minute, okay, and then we can

718
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,280
get back to just how awesome this song is.

719
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:33,079
Speaker 2: How boykay.

720
00:39:33,159 --> 00:39:37,519
Speaker 1: So there's a piece called Ballero by a composer named Ravel.

721
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 2: Yes, and I've seen that Bo Derek movie.

722
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 6: That's okay, my kids are gonna watch it. I was

723
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,599
a Cannon movie, by the way, I know.

724
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 7: Right.

725
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:58,760
Speaker 1: So this song, the rhythm and the chord progression and

726
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,440
the scale in the song is based upon Revel's Ballero,

727
00:40:02,679 --> 00:40:06,079
and it's got like the militaristic kind of drum beat

728
00:40:06,159 --> 00:40:09,920
behind it, and you've got a Phrygian scale, which is

729
00:40:10,159 --> 00:40:12,480
more Latin music. That was kind of the thing with

730
00:40:12,599 --> 00:40:15,480
psychedelic rock is they were taking things beyond just the

731
00:40:15,519 --> 00:40:19,920
blues influence of standard rock and bringing in stuff by

732
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,000
Robbie Shankar, who is bringing in the sitar and Eastern influences.

733
00:40:24,199 --> 00:40:26,800
George Harrison was big for bringing that in as well.

734
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:31,119
But they have a definitely different sound to them than

735
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,280
just a standard rock song. And so you're listening to

736
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,800
this Phrygian scale with this Latin sound, and you would

737
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,599
expect this minor chord to come in, but what he

738
00:40:40,679 --> 00:40:44,320
does instead is he plays a major chord, which is

739
00:40:44,519 --> 00:40:48,239
not what you expect, and so it's unsettling, it's weird.

740
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,199
It makes you feel unusual. It's almost as if you're

741
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:56,360
in the upside down and Will the cheshire Cat is

742
00:40:56,679 --> 00:41:00,639
smiling at you, but there's evil behind his smile. All

743
00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:03,320
songs that were popular at this time would have a

744
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:07,079
standard build and then you slow down, build again, have

745
00:41:07,199 --> 00:41:10,519
a break, and it gives people this little release. This song,

746
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:15,159
there is no break it one build, build, build, just

747
00:41:15,199 --> 00:41:18,440
like Ravel's Ballero. It just keeps on building and you

748
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,719
almost think it's going to break, but then the song

749
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:26,440
ends and it is entrancing, amazing, mind blowing, and when

750
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,079
they go and they perform it, it would stock. You

751
00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:31,559
can go watch the video on this and I told

752
00:41:31,559 --> 00:41:34,519
you after I listened to it, hair on my neck

753
00:41:34,599 --> 00:41:37,960
and arms were standing up and I was like holding

754
00:41:38,039 --> 00:41:41,119
back the tears. It is incredible what she does with

755
00:41:41,159 --> 00:41:44,599
her voice in this song. Incredible, Grace Slick. I think

756
00:41:44,639 --> 00:41:47,000
I failed to mention that this song comes in in

757
00:41:47,039 --> 00:41:50,639
this episode at thirty eight minutes and fifty seconds and

758
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,000
the little part I like to call ice cream and guns.

759
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 2: Ice cream and guns.

760
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:55,639
Speaker 1: We lose poor Benny.

761
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 7: Ah.

762
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:57,639
Speaker 2: I like Benny.

763
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, Benny and eleven are having a conversation while she's

764
00:42:01,039 --> 00:42:04,559
eating ice cream. She's seeing that people can be friendly

765
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,840
and a social worker shows up, except it's not a

766
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,599
social worker, and Benny gets shot on the head. Yeah,

767
00:42:12,639 --> 00:42:16,920
And it's this moment that suddenly we eleven. Here's the

768
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,920
gun shots that you get the climax of the song

769
00:42:20,039 --> 00:42:23,440
and it cranks up the volume and it's remember what

770
00:42:23,519 --> 00:42:28,360
the dormouse said, feed your head, Feed your head. And

771
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,360
she's escaped out of the back.

772
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,679
Speaker 2: This is her transport to Wonderland essentially.

773
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, and before she gets out the back door, she's

774
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,440
confronted by a couple of guys with guns, who within

775
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,320
a few seconds we see lying dead on the floor.

776
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 2: More supernatural powers from eleven. Yeah, so I got some

777
00:42:44,039 --> 00:42:46,400
stuff for young Grace Slick Okay, I got some Gray

778
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,119
Slick stories which I thought were hilarious. Yeay, all right.

779
00:42:49,199 --> 00:42:52,519
So in nineteen seventy one, after she had been married

780
00:42:52,559 --> 00:42:54,639
to Jerry Slick, who was a member of the Great

781
00:42:54,639 --> 00:42:58,239
Society Band, she's in Jefferson Airplane and she hooks up

782
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:02,800
with Paul Canner okay, and he plays guitar in Jefferson Airplane.

783
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,679
They have a daughter together, and when they're in the hospital,

784
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,519
the nurse comes in and says, oh, little girl, congratulations.

785
00:43:10,559 --> 00:43:14,000
What's her name? And Grace sees a cris fix around

786
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,039
her neck and she says God, and the nurse says,

787
00:43:17,519 --> 00:43:20,440
what was that again? She said God, but we use

788
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,239
a little g because we want her to stay humble.

789
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,599
So the nurse is like, oh my gosh, so she leaves.

790
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,239
She calls the San Francisco Chronicle and says, Grace Slick

791
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,079
just named her daughter God.

792
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:38,519
Speaker 8: This is before Hippa, apparently exactly patient privacy here. Turns

793
00:43:38,519 --> 00:43:40,119
out it was just a joke. Her daughter's name is

794
00:43:40,159 --> 00:43:43,159
actually China. So anyway, Grace Slick story number two, you're

795
00:43:43,159 --> 00:43:46,559
ready for this, Yeah, Grace Slick gets an invitation to

796
00:43:46,679 --> 00:43:49,440
go to a tee at the White House.

797
00:43:49,639 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because she went to school with Nixon's daughter.

798
00:43:52,119 --> 00:43:54,280
Speaker 2: She's actually ten years older than her, so they didn't

799
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:58,039
ever attend school together. But she was a Finch College alumni.

800
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,199
Oh okay, and she got an invotation, but the invitation

801
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,559
was addressed to Grace by her maiden name. So Grace

802
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,119
and a friend hatched this plan that they're going to

803
00:44:07,159 --> 00:44:09,760
go to the White House and they're going to put

804
00:44:10,079 --> 00:44:14,400
LSD in Richard Nixon's t Yes, but when she gets there,

805
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,280
they won't let her boyfriend in because it's women's only,

806
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,760
and she finally just says nope. So Grace Slick was

807
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:24,760
going to attempt to drug the President of the United States. Also,

808
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,320
Grace Slick is credited with being the first person to

809
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:32,199
say the old mf or on national television.

810
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,159
Speaker 1: Was on The Cabot Show. Yes, by the.

811
00:44:34,159 --> 00:44:37,079
Speaker 2: Way, White Rabbit reaches number eight on the Hot one hundred. Yeah,

812
00:44:37,079 --> 00:44:38,760
there's a whole bunch of songs that I've never heard of,

813
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,159
so I'm not going to go through this list for you,

814
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,840
but number two was a song called I Was Made

815
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,239
to Love Her by Stevie Wonder, and the number one song.

816
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,599
On July twenty ninth, nineteen sixty seven, the week that

817
00:44:50,639 --> 00:44:53,519
White Rabbit reaches its pinnacle of number eight, is a

818
00:44:53,519 --> 00:44:55,920
song called Light My Fire by the Doors.

819
00:44:56,480 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: It comes full circle. I'm really glad that you meant that,

820
00:45:00,679 --> 00:45:04,519
because the Doors took their name after the Alvis Huxley book.

821
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:08,360
They also played at Marty Balen's club that I was

822
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,039
talking about earlier, right. Another group that played at that

823
00:45:12,079 --> 00:45:14,599
club was the Steve Miller Blues Band, who had a

824
00:45:14,639 --> 00:45:18,440
member that went on to form his own solo band.

825
00:45:18,639 --> 00:45:21,039
His name was bos Skaggs.

826
00:45:21,039 --> 00:45:25,679
Speaker 2: Oh Boss Gags. Flashback to our Saturday Night Fever episode.

827
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:30,159
Speaker 1: And the guys who played as his backing band when

828
00:45:30,199 --> 00:45:34,159
he toured would go on to form the band Toto,

829
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:39,320
who give us our next song, the first actual Eighties

830
00:45:39,559 --> 00:45:44,400
song in the episode, last song on the list. It

831
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:48,840
comes in at forty one minutes and ten seconds when

832
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,719
Nancy and Steve are studying. Yeah, there's a little bit

833
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,480
of a makeout scene there. And we talked about in

834
00:45:55,679 --> 00:45:59,760
our Toto for episode, and we weren't sure how Africa

835
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:03,320
had suddenly become popular again, and a lot of our

836
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:07,239
fans said it had to be this episode. It's right

837
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,639
around that time that this song really took off again,

838
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:15,280
over one billion downloads of this song. Now we have

839
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:19,679
covered this song in detail and Toto in detail on

840
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,480
our Toto for podcast episode. And so what we're going

841
00:46:23,519 --> 00:46:25,800
to do because we don't want to try to capture

842
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,519
lightning in a bottle. We want to just throw it

843
00:46:28,559 --> 00:46:30,480
back and let you guys listen to that here.

844
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 2: All right, are we finally there?

845
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,760
Speaker 1: We could do an entire podcast series on the song

846
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:51,119
that's about to come up? Are you ready? Shirley Fans.

847
00:46:50,199 --> 00:46:53,519
Speaker 2: One of the best songs of the nineteen eighties, one

848
00:46:53,519 --> 00:46:56,519
of the best songs of all time, songs called Africa.

849
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 1: The beat is on mistake. It's incredible. So for this song,

850
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:04,800
they had Sony come in and help program the keyboards

851
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:08,079
that Steve Percaro is playing right, okay, so the marimbas

852
00:47:08,119 --> 00:47:13,119
that you hear are that Sony programmed keyboard marimba sound.

853
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,719
Before they even get there, they say, we got to

854
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,119
have this perfect beat. So they record an entire tape

855
00:47:19,159 --> 00:47:23,119
of just Jeff Pacaro and Lenny Castro play in the

856
00:47:23,199 --> 00:47:25,559
drums over and over, same drum beat, over and over

857
00:47:25,599 --> 00:47:27,199
and over and over and over and over right, and

858
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,679
once they've done it for a full tape, whatever that

859
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,000
might be. They take one measure. They listen to it

860
00:47:33,039 --> 00:47:36,360
all and they find the one measure that's perfect, and

861
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:37,239
they put that on loop.

862
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,280
Speaker 2: That's the one right there, this one right here.

863
00:47:39,159 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 1: This one right here. And now keep in mind this

864
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:45,559
is before computer recording. So when we say on loop,

865
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,039
that means that they took the tape. They took that

866
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,320
one measure, cut the tape out, then put it on

867
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,840
the tape recorder, ran it around a MIC's stand, around

868
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:58,360
a chair, around another mike stand, and onto the next

869
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,800
part of the recorder, so that the tape would just

870
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,920
rotate in a circle. And that is the way that

871
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:09,239
you have this perfectly synchronized, incredible drum sound for the

872
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:09,920
entire song.

873
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 2: Once they got that loop that they liked, David Page

874
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:16,039
and Jeff Piccaro laid down the drums and the pianos

875
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,840
one take, one take, but.

876
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,559
Speaker 1: They build off of it, you know. They this is

877
00:48:21,679 --> 00:48:24,920
a pyramid song, and it is starting with the drums,

878
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,559
and then we're introducing the keyboards, and then we're introducing

879
00:48:27,599 --> 00:48:30,440
the vocals, and it just builds and builds and builds

880
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,599
into this amazing collection of music.

881
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 2: Hey boy, let's wait in the field.

882
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 1: And let's talk about how the song was conceived. Right, Okay,

883
00:49:08,559 --> 00:49:12,119
So David Page wrote this song about Africa. Yes, he'd

884
00:49:12,119 --> 00:49:14,760
never been to Africa, never been there, went years like

885
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:16,840
I don't think it was like twenty first century before

886
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,079
he ultimately got to go to Africa, right, And they're like, hey,

887
00:49:20,199 --> 00:49:22,039
this is such a wonderful song. When did you come

888
00:49:22,079 --> 00:49:23,920
to Africa? And he's like, actually, this is my first time.

889
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:25,840
How's everybody doing good to see it?

890
00:49:27,159 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 5: Yeah?

891
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,119
Speaker 2: I mean he went to a Catholic school and he

892
00:49:29,119 --> 00:49:32,920
had learned about missionaries, yeah, and had a subscription and

893
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:33,960
national geographic.

894
00:49:34,079 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: You guys can remember in the eighties when the UNISEF

895
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,840
commercials would come on and they would tell you, these

896
00:49:39,079 --> 00:49:42,400
children in Africa need your help. Right. Well, he talked

897
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,400
about how when he was a kid, those missionaries would

898
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,559
come and talk to it at his school and they

899
00:49:47,599 --> 00:49:49,920
would talk about how they blessed everything, which I don't

900
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,639
really understand, may be a difference between a Catholic and

901
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:56,679
Protestant thing. But they would bless food, they would bless experiences,

902
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,559
and when it rained, they would bless the rain. And

903
00:49:59,639 --> 00:50:02,199
that's how you get that line, Oh, I bless the

904
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,960
rain down in Africa. But man is a fantastic.

905
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:08,199
Speaker 2: Line, doesn't matter. It sounds so wonderful, Okay. So in

906
00:50:08,199 --> 00:50:11,719
addition to this concept of blessing things, one of the

907
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:16,039
other things that the missionaries talked about was the difficulties.

908
00:50:16,079 --> 00:50:20,280
And obviously difficulties of seeing people in these deprived conditions

909
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:22,039
was a huge thing. But the other thing that was

910
00:50:22,039 --> 00:50:26,079
difficult for them was being alone and celibate out there.

911
00:50:26,679 --> 00:50:30,480
And so this song is about a guy who's waiting

912
00:50:30,559 --> 00:50:34,360
for a girl to arrive to meet her. Right, yeah,

913
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,239
her plane is coming in, right and he's twelve thirty flight,

914
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,880
twelve flights ready to meet her. And so's that's the

915
00:50:41,119 --> 00:50:43,880
underlying story of the song. And he meets a man

916
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:47,480
to get some more music, and then the man is like,

917
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,360
it's waiting there for you. And then we jump into

918
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,480
this course and just before the chorus comes on, I

919
00:50:52,519 --> 00:50:56,440
gotta say this. We love this course and it seems simple,

920
00:50:56,519 --> 00:50:57,719
but listen to it.

921
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,280
Speaker 1: This way, all right. The first life I bless the

922
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:05,519
grains down in Africa is it's a very simple melody.

923
00:51:05,639 --> 00:51:10,119
Right when that second line comes in, you add a

924
00:51:10,199 --> 00:51:13,840
second harmony behind it, different notes, and you can hear it.

925
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,480
You can hear the distinct notes that the two people

926
00:51:16,519 --> 00:51:19,079
are saying the same words different notes. And then the

927
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:22,480
third we add yet a third layer of different notes

928
00:51:22,519 --> 00:51:26,320
which are extremely complicated. You go from simple to complicated

929
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:30,840
over these three lines. And the magic when you have

930
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:36,480
that two part harmony behind the very simple underlying chorus

931
00:51:36,519 --> 00:51:39,679
and melody is is magical. I mean magical.

932
00:51:40,079 --> 00:51:43,280
Speaker 2: Hey, listen, David Page said God gave this to him.

933
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:43,679
Speaker 1: Yeah.

934
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 2: We've talked about how there are some songs that are

935
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:47,400
divinely inspired.

936
00:51:47,519 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 1: Yeah.

937
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 2: I think Jonathan Kane on the Journey Frontiers albums head Faithfully,

938
00:51:51,519 --> 00:51:54,280
he felt like that God gave that directly to him. Yes,

939
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,280
David Page is the same way God inspired. He says,

940
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,320
I'm talented, but I'm not that talented. God gave this

941
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,199
to me. Now, then keep in mind, particularly after hearing

942
00:52:03,199 --> 00:52:05,920
the song waiting for Your Love, Steve Lucather said, this

943
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:07,760
is the worst song on the album. Yeah, if this

944
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,480
is a hit, I'll run naked down Hollywood Boulevard.

945
00:52:10,639 --> 00:52:12,559
Speaker 1: So what they would say to each other whenever they

946
00:52:12,559 --> 00:52:14,800
didn't want a song on the album is they would say,

947
00:52:15,039 --> 00:52:17,760
maybe you should save this for your solo album. That

948
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,239
is exactly what they said to David Page about this song.

949
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,639
Maybe you should save this for you even solo album. David, Yeah,

950
00:52:23,679 --> 00:52:27,119
I cannot believe it. It's shocking, talk about not knowing

951
00:52:27,159 --> 00:52:28,719
your own stuff. Now.

952
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,599
Speaker 2: Steve Piccaro didn't like this song either. I saw an

953
00:52:31,639 --> 00:52:34,199
interview with him. He said, David Page was really into it,

954
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,559
and their agreement was, when you have a song, we're

955
00:52:37,559 --> 00:52:40,519
going hundred percent for you. Because when I bring a song,

956
00:52:40,559 --> 00:52:42,880
I want everybody in on mine. And so they said

957
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,000
that doesn't mean we didn't kill ourselves in this song,

958
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:46,639
but nobody believed in it.

959
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,559
Speaker 1: Right. At some point we mentioned that they've delayed touring

960
00:52:49,639 --> 00:52:52,519
and they went and worked on thriller for this before

961
00:52:52,559 --> 00:52:55,079
they started touring in this one, right, at some point

962
00:52:55,159 --> 00:52:57,760
when they come back, this is this is kind of

963
00:52:57,800 --> 00:52:59,920
like the run DMC story that we talked about with

964
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,599
Walk this Way. They come back and David Page gets

965
00:53:03,639 --> 00:53:06,239
a call and they're like, man, they are playing the

966
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,639
heck out of your song at all of these dance clubs,

967
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,360
and he's thinking Rosanna, He's thinking, make believe you know

968
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:15,119
one of those? Right, It's like what song? And then

969
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:19,400
they're like Africa And he said really. Yeah, he couldn't

970
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,719
believe it. And then Africa gets released as a single

971
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:26,239
and it is their only number one.

972
00:53:26,679 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 2: So it's the third single. It's released October of nineteen

973
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:32,360
eighty two. It's their first and only song to hit

974
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,320
number one on the Hot one hundred. Let's talk about

975
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:37,440
the video for a second, Okay, So the video is

976
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:41,159
sort of Raiders of the Lost arkish. He's looking through

977
00:53:41,159 --> 00:53:44,719
some books sure in the library. He's wearing that pith hat.

978
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,440
I'm telling you, Raiders the Lost Ark was impactful at

979
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:49,519
this time because Hungry, like the wolf of that video

980
00:53:49,559 --> 00:53:52,880
is definitely impacted by ra Yeah. Yeah, so, and then

981
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:55,519
they're all kind of miniatureized. They're on a stack of books.

982
00:53:55,679 --> 00:53:58,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, they said that the stage is really weird. It was. Yeah,

983
00:53:58,599 --> 00:54:00,800
they painted it all to look like they're standing on

984
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,079
top of these books and it looks like he's looking

985
00:54:03,119 --> 00:54:05,440
for a map or something in the library.

986
00:54:05,559 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 2: He's got a torn paper and he's looking through the

987
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:13,039
book and it's like the biggest dog ear, not very mysterious.

988
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 1: And then you get you've got this African American lady

989
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,199
as the librarian, and then suddenly there's a spear being thrown.

990
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,320
I wouldn't say that this video would not pass must

991
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,480
at in the day's world, right, I'm just I don't

992
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,239
think it would. So you've got David Page singing and

993
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:30,920
then also he's singing the first part, and then of

994
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:33,480
course Bobby Kimball comes in with the second part. And

995
00:54:33,519 --> 00:54:36,480
can we talk just a second about his freestyling at

996
00:54:36,519 --> 00:54:39,639
the end of the song. Yeah, holy cow, it's amazing.

997
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:42,360
I talked about that build that they have on the chorus,

998
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,159
and then when he throws in that freestyle, let's listen

999
00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:45,480
to it.

1000
00:54:45,519 --> 00:54:52,760
Speaker 2: Now.

1001
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:58,079
Speaker 1: I'm stealing your info here, okay, because we talk, we talk,

1002
00:54:58,159 --> 00:55:00,360
and this is so I'm gonna steal you. Said that

1003
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:03,000
Bobby Kimball has an amazing voice, but just not all

1004
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,440
the time, right, And so if you watch the live show,

1005
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:09,000
it's a little cringy. Yeah, you're like, you're missing you're

1006
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,280
missing here. Yeah, but when he would hit it was

1007
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:16,639
so good. So these being studio musicians, they knew how

1008
00:55:16,679 --> 00:55:18,679
to go up, do it again, do it again, do

1009
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:20,079
it again. Ah, there we go.

1010
00:55:20,159 --> 00:55:21,119
Speaker 2: That's the one word.

1011
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,760
Speaker 1: That's the bat word. Yep, that's the one we need.

1012
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:28,840
And man, they wove it together in an amazing tapestry

1013
00:55:29,119 --> 00:55:32,239
and to bring it full circle. I love this. Yes,

1014
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:35,159
Joe Pacar, the guy who said to David Page, need

1015
00:55:35,159 --> 00:55:38,360
to meet my son Jeff. Yes, he's playing the marimbas

1016
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:39,480
in the chorus.

1017
00:55:40,679 --> 00:55:41,519
Speaker 2: That's fantastic.

1018
00:55:41,559 --> 00:55:44,079
Speaker 1: It is fantastic. So this song was a huge hit

1019
00:55:44,199 --> 00:55:47,480
embyer one surprised to everybody in the band. Yep, lasts

1020
00:55:47,519 --> 00:55:50,679
for a long time, and then, as all any songs do,

1021
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,320
it falls out of favor. Now I can remember with

1022
00:55:53,599 --> 00:55:57,800
absolute clarity, twenty eighteen. That's four years ago. I walk

1023
00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:02,960
in to the kitchens almost nineteen now. So she's she

1024
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,480
would have been fourteen or fifteen at the time, okay,

1025
00:56:05,639 --> 00:56:08,079
and she is rocking out to Africa.

1026
00:56:08,159 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 2: Now.

1027
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 1: I've given her a lot of good songs, right, you know,

1028
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:15,079
I molded her musical education. As I mentioned, she's a

1029
00:56:15,079 --> 00:56:18,199
big Metallica fan thanks to me, bon Jovi fan, thanks

1030
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:21,599
to me. But I'd never played Africa for her. I'm

1031
00:56:21,599 --> 00:56:24,039
not this huge Toto guy. So when I walk in

1032
00:56:24,079 --> 00:56:26,079
the kitchen and she's jamming out to Africa, I'm like,

1033
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:28,800
where have you heard this song? And she's like, it's

1034
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:32,360
just around. It's awesome, Dad. I'm like, yeah, it is awesome,

1035
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:34,760
but how do you know it? And then I find

1036
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:41,199
out somehow this song is becoming incredibly popular again.

1037
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,159
Speaker 2: It's viral. Yeah, And have I looked.

1038
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:47,320
Speaker 1: At my old text from like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,

1039
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,320
and I could talking to my brother about this. I'm like,

1040
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,880
how is it this song is becoming big again? It

1041
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,320
doesn't make any sense to me. And people try to say, well,

1042
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,159
it was the Weezer thing, but that was after that

1043
00:56:58,280 --> 00:56:58,920
was after.

1044
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 2: That, that was in response to its popularity exactly.

1045
00:57:01,639 --> 00:57:05,119
Speaker 1: And I, as deep as I have dug, I cannot

1046
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:09,400
figure it out. Something happened. I know it is Japan,

1047
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,159
I know is China. I don't know what happened. But

1048
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:16,880
somehow this song hit that tipping point again in the

1049
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:21,760
last five years and suddenly it was everywhere again. I

1050
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:23,880
guess I don't get it. And so there was a

1051
00:57:24,079 --> 00:57:28,000
fourteen year old girl who developed the Twitter handle at

1052
00:57:28,119 --> 00:57:29,119
Weezer Africa.

1053
00:57:29,519 --> 00:57:31,199
Speaker 2: Yes, I love this story.

1054
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: And her soul mission was to get the band Weezer

1055
00:57:34,239 --> 00:57:38,519
to cover the song Africa right, And so she gets

1056
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:42,280
so much exposure she becomes viral with this thing that

1057
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:46,119
Weezer to troll her records A version of Rosanna.

1058
00:57:46,639 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 2: This is hilarious.

1059
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:57,559
Speaker 1: Me too.

1060
00:58:00,199 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 7: They're like, oh, we got the wrong songs so far,

1061
00:58:04,519 --> 00:58:08,039
and Rosanna ends up doing very well for them, and

1062
00:58:08,079 --> 00:58:10,760
so finally they're like, well, crap, maybe we should record

1063
00:58:11,239 --> 00:58:14,440
And sure enough it becomes their biggest.

1064
00:58:14,079 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: Hit in like ten years or something like that. They

1065
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,400
hadn't had a hit since the early two thousands, and

1066
00:58:20,519 --> 00:58:23,159
suddenly their version of Africa is hitting the charts.

1067
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:26,159
Speaker 2: You know who plays the lead singer in the video.

1068
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:30,719
Speaker 1: Our best friend, mister weird Al. Yank such a fantastic video.

1069
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:34,280
So they take the Weezer concept that blue backscreen. Was

1070
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:36,960
it the Sweater song? I think it was the Sweater song?

1071
00:58:37,039 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 2: Okay?

1072
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 1: And so they do. They recreate that exact play of

1073
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:45,079
the video, except that it's weird Al doing the lead

1074
00:58:45,079 --> 00:58:47,159
singing in the song. It's great.

1075
00:58:47,679 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 2: Hey, There is some sort of sound installation device in

1076
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:56,880
the Nabib Nabib I, like David Page, have never been

1077
00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:02,920
to Africa. So the Nabib desert. Yes, that plays Africa

1078
00:59:03,199 --> 00:59:05,960
on loop infinitum, just again and again and again. It

1079
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,079
is solar powered out dre in the middle of the desert.

1080
00:59:08,159 --> 00:59:10,039
There's Lay in Africa by Toto.

1081
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 1: So all of humanity is going to cease to exist,

1082
00:59:13,039 --> 00:59:17,360
and the recording of Africa will live forever. Yes, yes, great.

1083
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:19,679
The Aliens when they come will be like, well, I

1084
00:59:19,679 --> 00:59:23,199
do the civilization, but they knew what was good music.

1085
00:59:25,039 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 2: Once again, Steve Lucather thought it was the worst song

1086
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:33,360
on the album, but he did not dance down Hollywood

1087
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:36,400
Bolivar naked, Steve Lucather, the ball is in your court.

1088
00:59:36,519 --> 00:59:39,960
We expect you naked down Hollywood Boulevard. It's been a

1089
00:59:40,039 --> 00:59:44,920
huge hit twice in like two different centuries. It's incredible.

1090
00:59:45,119 --> 00:59:48,039
It's incredible. One of the best songs of the eighties.

1091
00:59:48,079 --> 00:59:50,079
Spike in the Football, It's one of the best.

1092
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Hey, everybody, thanks so much for joining us on

1093
00:59:56,480 --> 01:00:00,400
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1094
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:04,719
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1095
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1102
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1105
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1110
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Speaker 5: There you go.

1111
01:00:49,679 --> 01:00:55,159
Speaker 1: Let's do it all right Before we go, though, I

1112
01:00:55,199 --> 01:00:58,760
got one more thing. I mentioned a club that Marty

1113
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:03,639
Bayalin founded in order to launch Jefferson Airplane. Yes, I

1114
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:06,960
mentioned that other bands like The Doors, the Grateful Dead,

1115
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:10,239
the Steve Miller blues band Boz Skaggs all played there.

1116
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,599
I didn't mention the name of the club. Okay, it

1117
01:01:12,719 --> 01:01:14,239
was called The Matrix.

1118
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:18,599
Speaker 2: Get out of here. That is mind blowing right there.

1119
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: So we know that The Matrix starts off with the

1120
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:25,519
White Rabbit. We know that it is largely influenced by

1121
01:01:25,559 --> 01:01:30,400
Alice in Wonderland. We after watching episode one, season one

1122
01:01:30,559 --> 01:01:33,639
of Stranger Things, can also see the tie ins here.

1123
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:37,760
I mean, will Byers is Alice. The Upside Down is Wonderland.

1124
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:41,119
It's just Alice in Wonderland. The horror movie if you will.

1125
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:43,800
So it was the perfect I don't know if I

1126
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:45,639
don't know if the writers were the ones that came

1127
01:01:45,719 --> 01:01:47,480
up with this. I don't know if the Duffer brothers

1128
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:49,639
were the ones that came up with this, or if

1129
01:01:49,719 --> 01:01:52,400
Nora Felder, the music supervisor, was the one that said

1130
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:55,000
we should have the White Rabbit as kind of our

1131
01:01:55,119 --> 01:02:00,840
climactical song. But whoever, it was pure genius. And they

1132
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:04,800
also use that song on the recent fourth movie in

1133
01:02:05,199 --> 01:02:09,360
the Matrix series as the key because, as we know,

1134
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:12,360
one pill will take you one place and one pill

1135
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:15,800
will take you another place. There you go. That's awesome. Okay, everybody,

1136
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,159
We're going to take a quick break and do our

1137
01:02:18,199 --> 01:02:22,480
surely showcase. Today we have an amazing special guest to

1138
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,199
give us his opinion on Core versus Dirt. We have

1139
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:30,079
mister Ira Fleischer, who is the drummer for a band

1140
01:02:30,239 --> 01:02:34,239
called Lounge Fly. That name may sound familiar to you

1141
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:35,719
because it's an STP song.

1142
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:39,679
Speaker 2: Yes, lounge Fly is the premiere tribute band for Stone

1143
01:02:39,679 --> 01:02:42,880
Tumble Pilots, and our new buddy Ira reached out to

1144
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:45,639
us and wants to give his opinion on Core versus Dirt.

1145
01:02:45,719 --> 01:02:46,719
Speaker 1: Let's see what he has to say.

1146
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 9: Hey, everybody, this is Ira and I'm the drummer in

1147
01:02:49,119 --> 01:02:52,280
Lounge Fly, the premiere tribute to Stone Tumble Pilots. So

1148
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:55,519
it's September twenty ninth, nineteen ninety two, and I'm working

1149
01:02:55,519 --> 01:02:57,840
at a CD store and I'm the drummer in a

1150
01:02:57,840 --> 01:02:59,880
heavy hair mital type of band.

1151
01:03:00,159 --> 01:03:02,199
Speaker 1: Both Dirt and Core drop.

1152
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,239
Speaker 9: On the same day, and I'm at work and I'm

1153
01:03:04,239 --> 01:03:06,920
there selling these albums to all kinds of people that

1154
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:09,920
want them right away, and very quickly, Dirt resonates with

1155
01:03:10,039 --> 01:03:13,559
me because it's heavy and the vocals were insane, and

1156
01:03:13,599 --> 01:03:15,119
it was very much what I was used to. It

1157
01:03:15,159 --> 01:03:17,920
was a heavy metal album, really, and while Core was cool,

1158
01:03:18,199 --> 01:03:21,239
I really knew it more from the singles from MTV

1159
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:24,079
and they didn't really hit me as hard. It wasn't

1160
01:03:24,159 --> 01:03:27,280
until I listened to Coorr and those heavy, deep tracks

1161
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:30,559
like Piece of Pie and Where the River Goes hit

1162
01:03:30,639 --> 01:03:33,000
me hard, and that's what grew on me. I think

1163
01:03:33,039 --> 01:03:36,679
the timelessness of the songs, the tightness of the songs

1164
01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:39,440
from Core are what really stuck with me the longest,

1165
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:42,519
which is why it's nudged over Dirt for me all

1166
01:03:42,559 --> 01:03:45,280
these years later, while both albums are in my heavy

1167
01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:48,679
rotation to this day. I just really love where Core

1168
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:51,800
has gone and how it's matured for me. Wyland's vocals

1169
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,920
on that record are lush and they're complex, and he

1170
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,719
does so many different things with his voice. Of course,

1171
01:03:57,800 --> 01:03:59,639
Lane's got one of the best voices of all time,

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one of my favorites in rock and roll history. I've

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really just learned to appreciate how many different things Wiland

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has done with his voice on all the different records.

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So I have to give a little bit of a

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nod to Core, but that's just the way it aged

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for me, and it was just amazing to be there

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when both albums were dropped on the same exact day.

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So thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 9: Again. This is Ira and I'm the drummer in Lounge Fly,

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the premiere tribute to Stone Tumble Pilots. Please check us

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out on Facebook and we're at Lounge Fly Tribute. We

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play with a Foo Fighters band and we put shows

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on all over the place called Nineties Rockfest. We'd love

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you to come out and see us, and I'll see

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y'll soon. Take care.

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Speaker 1: That was awesome. I mean, I can you imagine to

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be there in the store, working in the store when

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both of these albums drop, and I love that He's

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like it was dirt at first, but then Core eventually

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won me over, which is probably why he's, you know,

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being the drummer in the STP Premiere tribute band right now.

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So you know, there you go.

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Speaker 2: I remark us down if you guys come to town,

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we are coming to see you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let us know when you get to Oklahoma City.

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For our fans out there, Shirley fans, be sure and

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go check these guys out on their Facebook page. You

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can find out wherever it is that they're playing, and

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go and get your nineties fill.

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Speaker 2: They got some cool stuff on YouTube as well.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Iver, begin to spall. Okay, guys, thank you so

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much for listening to this whole episode. We hope we

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brought you some new and exciting information. Be sure and

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hit the subscribe button down there. Be sure and hit

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link to our podcast so that you can get bigger,

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fuller episodes on many of the albums and movies that

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we've covered in the past.

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Speaker 2: Guys, we will see you back here next week when

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we cover Stranger Things season one, episode two, and it

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is cram packed with songs major one hit wonder from

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the eighties, maybe one of the biggest of the eighties.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait.

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Speaker 2: See you back here next week.