Speaker 1: Hi, this is Bobby Brown and welcome to another fucking podcast.
Speaker 2: Kids with your loud music and your Dan Fogelberg, your Zeema,
hula hoops and pac Man video games.
Speaker 1: Don't you see? People today have attention spans that can
only be measured in Namo seconds. He got old legends.
They just do great like a legend and an Adam
work problem with a lot of like Hello, by Yes,
good day, Hello Las Vegas, Hello world, Hello, my loyal minions.
It is good to see you, and it's always good
to be seen. And I am is he Presley? This
is another refering podcast. I'm the host of the program.
It is good to see you, it is always good
to be seen, and uh, I got some stuff to
talk about tonight. It is Monday, Happy Monday, everybody. Before
we move on, I must, I must do what is
he does and the words my close personal friends don't go.
Steve Austin, who is going to be in town this weekend,
doesn't mean I'm going to see him or he even
knows that I'm here, because we are so tight crack
going for the working man. Oh yeah, that is such
a beautiful song. It's such a beautiful taste as well,
make sure you guys check out the Loss of Vegas
Guitar Show dot com, Guitartrade Show dot com, Las Vegas
Guitar Trade Show dot com. You can find that link
down there. Click on that. Come to Vegas end of May,
May thirty, first June first June second. It is at
the Silver Tank Casino and it is a guitar trade show.
It is like NAM except you can actually buy stuff.
I know it's an interesting concept, so I highly suggest
you come down and buy stuff. I will be hosting
the event. I'll be m seeing the event. I'll be
em seeing the rock Gods Hall of Fame, just like
I did six months ago. Isy all suited up hosting
an award show. Kind of like it should be. You know,
it kind of fit. It kind of fit very very well.
So come on down. It is not expensive to get
tickets to. It's Vegas really hot. You want to be
in the air conditioning. You can be in the air
conditioning at the Las Vegas Guitar Trade Show. Hit up
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I know all you Patreon folks, you're like, no ads, Well,
it's an ad that you have to hear. I have
to read it because I don't have it canned. Kind
of need to read it just to tell you about
it because I'm hosting. But while I'm at that, I
would like to let you guys know where I am
going to be. I just have an updated schedule, folks,
So May tenth, May tenth, I will be in Saint Cloud, Minnesota.
Trying to think if I can say it or not. No,
I better not. I better not because if this leaks
out this privileged information, what the hell act is playing
at the Red Carpet Long as Slow Children And there's
a Passion reunion, a Passion Miniset. They haven't played together
in thirty years, so that should be pretty cool. And
slave reader jam, I mean all you Minnesota folks will
know what I'm talking about. There is a Press Bar
memorial show that we are going to be performing at,
and I am going to be hosting because I of
course worked at the Press Bar and Parlor. I was
a drunk there as well before that. And then then
five years ago that some bitch abought it, burned it down.
That motherfucker burnt down our house, burnt down the home
of rock and roll Saint Cloud's home of rock and
roll horseshit so dumb, so dumb, but uh yeah, hopefully
this information will be out there by Saturday when the
rest of the world hears this. Because yes, I know
that I'm going to give like special shows to my
Patreon folks, but this one, this one I want to
give to the world because everybody's just waiting for it,
just waiting for the next another fucking podcast to drop
because nobody cares it's podcast. You know, we give us
a fuck. So May tenth, I'm in Sant Cloud, Minnesota.
I'm driving and driving back. If you see the dates
on the Websitezzypresley dot com, it just says to be
details TBA May thirty first through June second. As I
just told you, Las Vegas Guitar Trade Show, I am
hosting that on the Blue Cruise. August twenty ninth is
the end date. It starts August twenty second. That's going
out of Boston, going up north up there in Canada.
A I'm hosting karaoke and I'm one of the general
hosts on that as well, Alan Parsons and Ambrosia. That
kind of stuff. Fucking rules. August thirtieth, there is possibly,
well not possibly, it's gonna happen, and I think think
it's gonna be the Easy Presley Band. The show has
not been announced yet, but it will be August thirtieth
here in Las Vegas, opening up for a band that
I'm very very good friends with. But I cannot tell
you who that band is yet because it is privileged
information that only I and the club owner know, and
people that I told because we're at the bar, you know,
told them. So there is that. And then November thirteenth, folks,
if you are coming for kiss Tard Fest, and I
say that laughingly because I am a full blown kiss Tard.
If anybody knows me, you guys know that I'm a
full blown kiss start I mean I have an ace
fairly tribute band. Of course, I'm a full blown fucking
kiss TRD. And no, I can't go to the thing
because it's out of my tax bracket. But that's fine.
Everybody else should go and have fun. But the thirteenth,
the unofficial Kiss Army Taker pre party is at Dive
Bar here in Las Vegas, is just a couple of
blocks from the venue and uh from the Virgin where
they're having the Kiss trdfest, I mean the Kiss Army
takeover the uh one last Kiss is playing. It's got
a couple of guys from my band, my Ace Freely
Tribute band, My Campion and Keith Robert woar Mery Birthday
Pali and what does he care? He's not on the
fucking Patreon. Only fourteen of you find folks are I
mean we should grow that. Tell your friends, tell your
friends Patreon dot com. Slash real Iszy Presley. It's worth
five dollars a month. It's just five dollars a month.
That's all. That's it. It's less than a cup of coffee.
It's less than a fucking beer depending on where you
are or what you drink. Five dollars a month, kids,
I uh, I think you should get on it. I
think you should get on it. And look, the rest
of the world is going to hear this this weekend anyways.
I mean, this would be like one of the shows
I just give two my Patreon folks only because there
are special shows like that. That's why you should be
on it. Seriously, get on it. And uh yeah, more
dates are going to be added as well that I
am working on as we speak. So there is that
that is what is going on? Of course hit up
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It's called a dramatic pause, ladies and gentlemen. But the
people watching on the YouTube, on the YouTube which you
should subscribe to as well, I think it's just the
is He Presley Network or something fucking like that. I
suppose I can find out, just have to click on it.
Oh yeah, the is He Presley Network at is He
Presley oneh one, which is a nod to rock and
one oh one in Saint claud Minnesota, where I got
my start in radio and what I grew up listening
to in the radio world speaking of rock and one
oh one, And this is actually very very important, and
this is what I want to start off with today.
It's a little immemorium section one of the jocks part
of me while I take a sip of delicious natty light.
One of the jocks that I grew up listening to
on Rock and one on one was also on KQ
in Minnesota, w DG Y KD w B Stereo one
on one before they went all pop or maybe they
were pop. I think KDWB had k C KSE on it.
Pretty sure they did, because I think Casey was also
on k COLD one of four point seven in Saint
Cloud in my hometown. But yeah, he was on KDWB
because I remember a I remember one of the long
distance dedications or one of the questions came from KDWB.
Comey listening, dude, kd WB Stereo one oh one, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Johnny would like to know. And then of course Hot
Rockin' one oh four KJJO, which was in Saint Louis Park,
if I believe, which is a suburb of the Twin
Cities metropolitan area. Hel Hoover is gone. Hel Hoover. It
doesn't say how old he was though he died on
April eighth, and is kind of just getting out there
now that he passed away, or today because I was
texting with my good friends over at Rock on one
one who I still keep in touch with. I mean,
they got me into radio and then I left him
for Rah for Hollywood. So their their morning show guy
did a tribute to him this morning, which I did
not hear, but I'm working on getting the getting the tape.
I'm old. We still say tape. But it's weird, man.
It's like we're getting to that age. And we've talked
about this before. We're getting to that age where people
are dying. People are dying. We're old. But of course
Hal was much older than I. I'm fifty two. I
look pretty good for fifty two, don't I. Yeah, I
do so by the time he was on he had
to have been at least God, he had to have
been in his thirties by the time he was on
Rocking one to one, and that was the mid eighties,
mid to late eighties, early nineties. Nah, he was old. Well,
I mean it wasn't like ancient. I don't know. I
mean I could google it. I could, I should google it.
I should just fucking google it. This is what we
call producing on the fly, folks. And if you're just
listening to this, you're not getting the visual of me
doing this and reading it and typing and all. Right.
Hell Hoover died. Hal Hoover died, Hal Thomas Hoover fifth No,
that's not him. Hal Hoover Bituary, twenty sixteen, Jesus Christ
hal Hoover. Does it say his fucking real name or
does he just have his radio gimmick name? Remembering hal Hoover? Okay,
now hal Hoover Radio KQRS. There's okay, wow, so it
was getting out five days ago? Where is okay? Radio tapes?
That's where I saw it. Let me click on this.
See what this says? Oh, Tom Bernard hal Hoover has died.
How was that ki qrs back in the day, back
in the underground music days? Wow? Okay, well there's that. Boy.
I'm really giving you a lot of fucking great stuff
on this. How is there no fucking news about hell
Hoover radio death? This is just gonna give me a
whole bunch of stories about oh seventy four okay, historic
here we go four days wow, four days short of
seven fourth birthday and Nate, Minneapolis, Helbigan's help began his
career at k d A n. From there he worked
at several stations K t OE and Mancano, ke STT
Quad blah blah blah, Atlanta Twins City stations w HMH
and k t c O uh HMH is not a
country station there, big boy? Oh wow, he was working
in the working in the auto industry for a time
before retiring about nine years ago, so he was enjoying
his retirement. I always used to hear stories from from
my old boss about how how would go to McDonald's
and stock up on Hamburger's and he would have them
on the heater in the studio to keep them warm,
and he would eat him while he was working. So
there's an old radio story for you.
Speaker 2: Who's in oz Ooh's and oz so rest in peace,
Hal Hoover cheers, Thank you for the inspiration, say hi
to run Striker for me.
Speaker 1: Two of the guys that I listened to back in
the day are gone sad. Like I said, we're getting
How was seventy three years old? You would have been
seventy four fifty two. I haven't done shit so dumb,
all right. So one thing that the main reason I
did want to do a show tonight is because I
wanted to talk about something I wanted to talk about.
I wanted to talk about a mentality, a mentality that
I used to have. I used to be one of
these people, and I don't like this mentality. I think
it's dumb. I'm not calling this person dumb, But there
was a post, and I'm not gonna say her name
because I don't want to call her out. She's probably
not gonna hear this anyways. It doesn't matter. Do you
have the guts to make money with your own songs?
I see cover bands with millions of followers, hype, et cetera. Congrats,
you achieve nothing in this life. Tribute can work morally
if someone is dead. I can accept this kind of approach,
but still, you don't leave an impact in this world.
You pay tribute to an artist you love because you
can't see him or her anymore. People can't write songs anymore.
Media promote shit. I don't know. I seldom hear a
good song well played by good musicians. No wonder why
gig sales are going down? High cost, mediocre music and performers.
Is this the era I was waiting for the era
of truth? I ponder, Let the real music play, all right?
I have a lot of things to talk about I have,
cause there's this. To be honest, this post pissed me off,
and I didn't want to comment on it and get
into it and YadA YadA YadA. But this post pissed
me off, do you have the guts to make money
with your own songs? Well, here's the deal, good fucking luck.
Nobody buys music anymore. Nobody buys music anymore. You want
to know why people aren't writing their own songs and
just cover shows and doing tribute bands, because that's where
the money is. That's where you can make a living
being in an original band, being an original songwriter. Good
fucking luck. I'm not saying don't do it. I'm saying
good fucking luck. Now, in the age of the Internet, now,
in the age of the YouTube, now, in the age
of the SoundCloud now, in the age of the Spotify now,
in the age of the Facebook, the Instagram, the Twitter,
there is so much material out there. Good fucking luck.
There are no gatekeepers anymore. Eddie Trunk has talked about
this many many times. Absolutely personal. Sorrybar I really like
how I that. By the way, I felt like I
was having ah And that's the rest of the story.
I thought I was having a Paul Harvey moment. I'm
not going to say you're not going to be successful
in life writing music, because you can be, but good
fucking luck. I am fifty two years old, I am
not going to be a rock star. I'm not going
to be a pop star. I'm not going to be
a country star. I have a better chance of hitting
the fucking power ball than having a top ten song
on the rock, country, or pop charts. It's not going
to happen. The music industry is a young guy's game,
a young man's game, a young gals game. Good fucking luck.
I see cover bands with millions of followers, hype, etc. Congrats.
You achieve nothing in life. I think that's a real
dick thing to say. Achieve nothing in life because you're
enjoying what you're doing. You achieve nothing in life because
you're up playing covers. You might have a job and
then you play covers on the weekends. You might have
that's all you do. Maybe you live in Las Vegas,
maybe you live in Nashville and all you do is
play music every day. Yeah, I'm sure you're playing songs
that you don't want to play, but that's called making money.
You're not going to get paid doing originals. That's a
whole different industry. And look, I know, as an original artist,
it is easy to sit there and look down your
no at somebody in a fucking wig pretending to be
Vince Neil. I know it's easy to sit there and
go I am holier than thou because I perform original
music and this guy in this cowboy hat has a
fucking looping station playing songs for money. Well, here's the deal,
Babo or whatever whatever name I'm using right now, here's
the deal. Some of these musicians are a hell of
a lot better than some people that you know of
because they do original music. That's just their lot in life.
That's just what they do, and there is nothing wrong
with that. Do I have a tribute band? You're goddamn
right I do. Why do I do it? Because I
get to play kiss songs with my friends and get
paid for it. I can go out and do the
Izy prison van, which I am going to do. I
am going to play original songs. Am I going to
make that money that I make doing act a tribute
to Ace? Freely? No? I am not. You know why,
because nobody gives a fuck about your original music. I'm
not talking you the person that wrote this. And this
is a general statement. Obviously, there are people out there
that you want to hear original music from, the people
want to make it in the music industry. Of course,
you gotta write original music. You have to have good songs.
I have song. Are they good to me? Yeah? Are
they good to somebody else? Probably not. That may be
good to a few. But to sit there, what have
you accomplished? That is a dick thing to say. I
hate that mentality. Okay, let's see what else do they
go on to say? I can accept this kind of approach.
You still don't leave an impact in the world. I
call bullshit on that too. You paid tribute to an
artist you love because you can't see them anymore. No,
I paid tribute to Ace freely because I love Kiss
and I can see him. But I want to play
songs that he doesn't play live, and I get to
play Kiss songs with my friends and get paid for it.
That's why I do it. Because it's fun. Music is
supposed to be fun. Let's forget about the business this
part of the industry. Why do we start playing fucking
music because it's fun? Because you love the response you
get from people, You love jamming with your friends, you
love learning songs, you love performing those songs. Why because
it's fun. It is fun, and once you lose the
mentality of music not being fun. Why the fuck are
you in it for the first place? For the money?
Good fucking luck, it's all about having fun. Yes, of course,
it is the music business. It is the music industry.
There is business involved. If you're all playing fucking cover
songs and you hate those cover songs and you're not
having fun playing those cover songs, okay, then you're just
doing it to make a buck, which is fine too.
There is nothing wrong with that. We'll step aside, let
somebody else do it. Why why why? Why? Why why
should they listen to you? Step aside and let somebody
else do it? No? Why why should somebody give up
their fucking gig just so you can go up and play.
I don't know, It's just I just don't like that
fucking mentality. All right, let's go on, let's go on.
People can't write good songs anymore. Well, I disagree. I disagree.
I hold on, hold on, hold on, Let me tell
you this, let me show you this, This record right here,
Mike Dawson and the Smoking Kills. Yes, I'm in the band.
Did I write any of these songs? No? I did not.
The record was done before I joined. This album is
packed with good songs. Did it do anything? No, it didn't.
Does that means there's not good songs on it? No
it doesn't. You can pump the shit out of anything.
If you do not have money behind it, you are
not going to have a fucking success. You have to
have money behind you. You could have the greatest fucking
record in the world. You could have fucking you could
have the next fucking Appetite for destruction, you could have
the next Van Halen one, you could have the next
Kiss destroyer. If you do not have something driving it
behind you that has money, good fucking luck, because the
chance of it organically getting found and getting heard not
gonna happen. It's not. It's the fucking truth. Yes, there
are going to be instances, but for the love of
fucking Christ, can't write good songs? Fuck off? So dumb?
All right, all right, let's move on, h or maybe
media propotes shit. Well, of course we know, because the
garbage that has the machine behind it is what you hear.
If the machine was behind good bands, good music, to me,
I would love it. But it's not. It's behind shit
that I don't like that I'm not a fan of
and it's usually garbage except for the country. The country's good,
even the bro country's good. At least hiss fucking songwriting,
at least his storytelling. Lisa's fucking musicians. I seldom hear
a good song well played by musicians. Get the fuck
out of here. I no wonder why gig sales are
high cost mediocre music and performance. Just stop, just stop.
This is I'm sorry, I'm friends with this person. Just stop.
Go tell that to Eli Guns, who keeps putting out
fucking albums. Go tell that to uh fucking Elle Guns?
Is putting out a record a year? You do that?
Can you do that? You're not doing that? I know
you're not doing that. Ellie Guns has put out a
record a fucking year. And that's a band. That's not
a solo artist. That is a band. Is their music.
Is there money in the music industry? Yeah? There is.
Is there money in record sales for La Guns? Probably not.
A couple of my best friends are in the band
La Guns. We know this not selling a ton of
fucking record We know it's not selling five hundred thousand records.
We know the world is in streaming. There are people
like me that still want vinyl. That still want CDs? Yes,
I still buy CDs. Hell I bought a fucking eight track. No,
I didn't buy an a track. I about a couple
of cassettes because I still have a fucking cassette player.
Todd Latorre was on this show my good friend. Well,
could my friend not my good friend? I wish I
could say he was my good friend. But we know
each other. I consider him a friend. His record came out,
I bought it on fucking a track or not E track?
Why do I keep saying eight track? Because you got
me all in a tizzy? How about the cassette is?
Why not do something different? And I bought it straight
from him, so I'm contributing to him. I seldom hear
a good song. What kind of music do you like?
You're a rocket. I know you're a rock fan. I
know you're a rock fan. Maybe it's just not good
enough for you. Now I I'm worked up. Well, high cost,
Well yeah, everything's fucking more expensive. Now you know why
it's more expensive because there's no fucking money in record sales,
That's why. And it has nothing to do with the
quality of the product. It has to do with the
fucking industry, and it's all streaming now. The only people
that make start money make money on streaming is that
is the record labels and the platforms are get shit.
So you want to know why nobody's making fucking music,
there you go plus plus. For the most part, ninety
eight percent of the people that go to a show
for a band that they love, when it's time for
he We're gonna do a song off our new record,
they go to the bathroom, they go to get a beer,
no matter how great that song might be. I don't
I like to listen to the new shit, but I
am a rarety. There's people out there that still love it.
There are. But that goes back to radio because what
nobody listens to fucking radio anymore hardly? And two radio's
not playing new songs by La guns. Radio is not
playing new songs by the bands that you like that
have been around for a while. They're playing newer bands,
but not a lot of them. For the most part,
rock radio is classic rock. And I hate to say it,
even the early two thousands is considered classic rock now.
It's true, It's damn true. And you know what they're
not playing on those classic rock stations, new music from
bands that you love. There's a lot of bands that
just gave up putting out new music because one nobody
buys it. Two nobody wants to hear it live. They
just want to hear the hits. You know, we can
thank for that fucking radio radio. But this has been
going on forever. When Physical Graffiti came out, it was
on the verge of coming out. Zeppelin played Kashmir. I
know what people did, new song. They didn't know it.
They went to the fucking pisser, they went to get
a beer. It's been going on forever, So why make
new music. Nobody's gonna buy it. Nobody wants to hear it,
except for the hardcores. I'm a hardcore. I want to
hear it. I'm excited to hear the new La Guns record.
I can't wait to hear the new La Guns record.
I haven't bought it yet, but I'm going to. Why
because I love La Guns has nothing to do with
the fact that I know the band, which is weird.
It's still weird for me to say that I can
text Phil Lewis that Tracy Gunns knows who I am.
That as Von Johnson and Johnny Martin are two of
my closest friends. It's weird. I don't take any of
that shit for granted. And I'm just using Elle Guns
as an example because they're a band that just put
out a fucking brand new record again this year when
they just put one out last year. Would it be
great if we could all put out fucking new music
and people would buy it and want to hear it. Yeah,
it would be fucking awesome. But no, for the most part,
nobody fucking cares. If people cared, you wouldn't have to
do gofundmes. You wouldn't have to do uh ba bab
what's that other pledge? One? You guys know what I'm
talking about. You wouldn't have to do that because there
would be an industry behind it. But there is not
unless you're twenty two years old. You have great knockers
can sing, but can't sing live. You have to lip
sync because that's how the fucking industry is. God I
love knockers. So there there's your fucking music music industry.
One oh one. You could say I'm wrong, you can
see all this kind of stuff, but you know deep
down in your heart that I'm right. You know deep
down inside that everything that I just told you is
one hundred percent spot on. And to sit there and
shit on somebody because they want to play in a
fucking cover band and make some money, fuck you so dumb.
It's a horrible mentality to have. Horrible. It's degrading to
the people that are out there doing it. Look like
I said, yeah, there's some people that make a living
off of another person's name. Is that right? No? I
don't make a living off of it. We played two
or three times a year. Why to celebrate the music
of my favorite band, and I get to play songs.
I get to play kiss songs with my friends and
get paid for it because you're performing. If you're playing
at a bar, the bar's making money, so you should
get paid. If you want to do it for free,
God bless you go for it. To sit there and
shit on somebody because they want to go out and
fucking play it, be a weekend warrior and play covers
because nobody gives a fuck about original music and they
want to have fun and play fucking music and get paid.
Not cool, all right. I could sit and I can
keep yelling, and I can keep yelling, but I'm just
running around in circles. If you like what they do,
support them. If you don't like it, don't support them,
that's fine, But don't there and shit on somebody because
they're not playing original music. Oh well, there's my cue.
It's like the hook at the Oscars. Is he shut up?
Is he stop yelling? Is he stopped talking? It is
time to go pushing? Forty minutes, which in these days
is kind of long for this podcast unless I have
a great guest in the studio or a great guest
on the fucking on the blower or the zoomish. Well,
thank you everybody for watching this, if you watch it,
thank you everybody for listening. And uh, I'll get you guys.
I'll get you guys on the Patreon on the video
later this week if you want it. If you don't care,
I don't give a fuck whatever, what do ever you
guys want working on the first meet up And we
see you in Saint Cloud May tenth for that great,
great show. And so yeah, there's that. It's been another
fucking podcast. I'm worked up. I'm gonna go have a
beer because I shouldn't be this fucking worked up with
that fucking post just got me fucking worked up. Anyways,
I'm Mizzy Presley. It's another fucking podcast. I'm the host,
Real Izzy Presley. Everywhere, Patreon, YadA, YadA, YadA where I
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