Speaker 1: Hi, everybody.
Speaker 2: This is Chris Hancock from Newfoundland, Canada, and you hosers
are listening to the Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast. Sorry,
but I think it's about time that these guys have
put a spotlight on Canada's national treasure, Brian Adams. Now,
grab your Tim Hortons double double or your case of
Molson Canadian and get ready for a good time.
Speaker 3: D it's the summer of twenty twenty four. Do you
remember when you got your first sixth.
Speaker 1: Street Yeah, I got it at the five and dime,
played it til my fingers bled. It was a summer
of eighty nine.
Speaker 3: Yeo, Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Shirley Can't Be
Serious Podcast. Today we are going to be talking about
one of the biggest albums from nineteen eighty four, Bryan
Adams Reckless Guys.
Speaker 1: This album is so freaking baller. I love this album.
Speaker 3: How is it that so many great songs on this
album and it's kind of low key popular.
Speaker 1: Well, we we talked about that, you know, yesterday, when
we were talking when we when we pre recorded, right,
when we pre talked about stuff which we should never do,
but we I just I was like this is a
guy who just he never got into the glam makeup.
He never had the big hair, he never had the
sexcapades or the drug addictions. I mean he looks like
a guy that I could have gone to high school with, right,
I mean, just just every day American, albeit Canadian guy.
He's not a big, like iconic face. I mean, everybody
knows him, but it's not he's not a character. Right.
Speaker 3: You don't remember when he punched out the valet at
the hotel and was arrested for dui and all that.
Speaker 1: Stuff, right, yeah, not caught it a urine a'll doing
inappropriate things or exactly inappropriate people. You know.
Speaker 3: It's just I told you that, like five of the
videos from this album, he's wearing a white T shirt,
blue jeans, and tennis shoes. He's just happy to be
up there on stage. He doesn't care about looking like
a rock star.
Speaker 1: What you said was he he looks like the introductory
skin on ready players. But hey, I mean, if you
find a fifth it works, it works, right. I mean
he's dating a thirty something year old model right now.
Speaker 3: The dude's what is he sixty five?
Speaker 1: Now? He was he was born at historic date November fifth,
nineteen fifty nine.
Speaker 3: You know that this album was released on November fifth,
nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his twenty fifth birthday. Twenty fifth birthday, Yeah, red
letter day in history.
Speaker 3: It's a heck of a day for him, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This guy is from Canada. He is probably on
their Mount Rushmore of Canadian music artist tech. He might
be on the Mount Rushmore of all entertainers. You know
him and Michael J. Fox and John Candy all up
there together.
Speaker 3: That's right, like mister Canada.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: His parents are from England. His dad was in the military.
Speaker 1: He was in the British military and then when they
moved to Canada, he was in the Canadian military. And
if I'm remembering right, he ended up at like working
with the UN or something like that.
Speaker 3: I know. I told you that it would be funny
if he worked with Stuart Copland's dad. If you remember,
Stuart Copland's dad was.
Speaker 1: In the CIA, Yeah, overthrowing governments in the Middle East.
Speaker 3: Brian Adams's dad is James Bond to Stuart Copland's dad's
Felix Lader.
Speaker 1: That was awesome.
Speaker 3: I find it interesting. So he was raised in Canada,
first in Ottawa. Then he moved to Vancouver, him and
Jim Vallance and Bruce bear Barron, which we're going to
talk about here in a second. They kind of set
up this hub of musical influence in Vancouver. Shout out
to my buddy Cameron Eckert who lives in Vancouver right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we've talked about this space that they
recorded in several of the guys who are involved here,
including Brian Adams. When we talked about get Ready for
It Motley Crue, I find Jovie right. Yes, Brian Adams
is singing back up on some of Motley Crue's songs
Sticky Sweet, Isn't that nuts? Well, let's get into this album.
It is too good not to dive into immediately from
beginning to end, this is a stellar album. What's our
first song? Out of the Gate?
Speaker 3: First song out of the Gate is a song called
One Night Love Affair and You Come.
Speaker 1: So when he gets done recording this album, he takes
it to Bruce Allen, his manager, and he plays it
for him. He's like, what do you think? And Bruce
Allen listens to the whole thing and he goes, where's
the rock? Yeah, Well, they went back to the drawing board,
they hit a few songs, touched him up, wrote an
entirely new song. But you listen to this first track
out of the gate, and it is rock in your
freakin' face, pounding drums and a simple two chord power chord.
Donna Donna give me the arena rock right out of
the gate.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 3: You know, he toured with Journey on their Frontiers tour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're.
Speaker 3: Going to talk about a particular song here in just
a second that was influenced by that tour. When he
started playing for Journey, he was opening for them, and
he's like, I gotta have bigger songs. I'm playing for
all these people, and straight for the Heart's just not
going to cut it. I mean, I've got to be
like arena rock bangers. You know, this is something that
young twenty somethings can really identify with. You meet somebody,
you have a one night love affair, yes, yes, and
you fall in love for twenty four hours and it's great.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: This song, if you remember, has a prominent part in
the movie Real Genius. It's at the part where Chris
talks Mitch into skipping out on studying and they're going
to have a party. And they have a party in
like the school auditorium and they set up those water
slides and stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, where they do the laser that like paints
the signs on it. Oh yeah, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Valkimer goes up to the girls. He's like, don't eat that.
This will cause you to have enormous breasts. Oh my god,
I'm too late, crazy, think about it. Real genius came
out the summer of eighty five and had the vision
to have One Night Love Affair by Brian Adams and
Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears.
Speaker 1: Pretty stellar. Two runs stright there for sure. Okay, so
obviously we've got Brian singing on this one, playing rhythm
guitar for most of the songs on the album. The
drummer is Brian's standard drummer, Mickey Curry. Okay, right, But
on this first one, the guy's name playing the drums
is Pat Stewart. Now there's a story that goes along
with how he's discovered, and it relates to the summer
of sixty nine. But I can tell you that before
Pat Stewart recorded on reckless. He had never been in
a recording studio in his life, and now he is
a part of I would say at least one, and
we'll go through one by one and figure out how
many of these bangers he becomes immortalized by.
Speaker 3: Oh cool, Okay, I love it, so I've got a
great story. Keith Scott is Brian Adams guitarist, Yes, right,
And when he and Jim Valance wrote the song the
first time they played it for Keith. Guy's name is Keith.
There's a line in the song that says, if the
night was made for love, it ain't for keeps. But
when they played it for Keith for the first time,
they said, if the night were made for love, it
ain't for Keith, which they thought was a cute, little
funny thing to say. So they started doing it when
they're on tour and looking at him like.
Speaker 1: Hey, that's funny, because talk about a one night love affair.
The reason that Brian Adams and Keith Scott got together
for the first time was because Brian knew they're both
playing clubs for different bands in the same area of Vancouver.
But he sees Keith walking along the street at some
point and he thinks to himself, Man, every band that
Keith is in always draws the crowd, and what he
really meant was draws the ladies. Because Keith is a
really good looking guy, and so it was like, if
I can just maybe hit this guy up. He says.
All the bands were really competitive, but I just thought,
I'm just going to see if this guy can be friendly.
And he said, you want to go get a cup
of coffe. They hung out for a while, talk for
a while, and then just within a short amount of time,
he becomes Brian Adams go to guitarists.
Speaker 3: All right, d So this was the fifth single released
September of nineteen eighty five. I gotta think that real
genius may have given it a little bit of a
rocket boost. Sure it hits number thirteen on the charts. Okay,
all right, now, I just want to bring this up.
I know I'm getting into my top ten a little
bit early here, but this is a top thirteen that
we've already discussed twice.
Speaker 1: Now, Okay, okay, this is eighty five.
Speaker 3: This is eighty five. This is November ninth of nineteen
eighty five. This is when it peaks out. One night
Love Affair hits number thirteen.
Speaker 1: One year after the album is released. Basically, yes, this
is where we.
Speaker 3: Are, like almost exactly one year, right, Okay, so number
twelve is never by Heart, So I mean that's a favor. Yeah,
Broken Wings by Mister Mister, Yeah, lay your hands on
me Thompson Twins that one, remember we talked about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Man.
Speaker 3: Be Near Me by ABC Grade eighty, Grade.
Speaker 1: Eighty, I remember that one on me?
Speaker 3: Oh sure, Separate Lives by Phil Collins. Yeah, Saving All
My Love for You Whitney Houston her first top ten hit,
We Built This City by Starship, You Belong to the
City by Glenn Fry Head Over Heels by, Tears for Fears,
part Time Lover by Stevie Wonder, and the Miami Vice
theme at number one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we're swimming in this world right now.
Speaker 3: We are. We hit it with Beverly Hills Cops soundtrack,
Miami Vice soundtrack and Tears Are Fears.
Speaker 1: Yeah, guys, if you haven't heard those episodes, be sure
and go check those out. Also, if you want to
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Speaker 3: Our Patreon stuff is great. You gotta check it out.
If I do say so my darn self.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the family. The Patreon family is the top
Patreon family in all of the world.
Speaker 3: Thanks guys. Okay. Number two songs on the album We Go,
She's only happy when She's dancing.
Speaker 1: You gotta love a song that's got some good handclapping
in it.
Speaker 3: He doesn't stray very far from the formula. It's crunching guitars,
it's driving drums, it's singable chorus, it's big arena rock.
Speaker 6: It's great.
Speaker 1: What I love about this song is number one. It
kind of reminds me a little bit of a flash dance,
like she's got her nine to five job, but then
she goes out and really that's when she's happy. Beast
is when she's dancing.
Speaker 3: As kind of flash dancy and the other thing.
Speaker 1: I hope I can blow your mind with this little bit, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we talked about Brian Adams singing backup for Motley Crue.
Do you know who's singing back up in this song? No?
I don't, Okay, Well, we talked about him in one
of our Stranger Things episodes. It's a really great episode.
In fact, it makes me hot blooded. Lou Graham is
singing backup vocals in this song.
Speaker 3: That's interesting because we've got a song coming up that
was based a little bit on Jukebox Hero a little bit. Yeah, okay,
I'm gonna blow your mind with some history here.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So this whole album was written by Brian Adams
and his songwriting partner Jim Vallance. Jim Vallance doesn't get
enough credit.
Speaker 1: No, I mean he is. How did you put He's
like the Ernie topin to Bryan Adams. Yeah, he's the Eltins. Yes, yes, yes, whatever,
however you make that analogy, Yes.
Speaker 3: That's right. I mean he writes he helps Brian write
these great songs.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I heard Brian talk about how he's a good songwriter.
When he and Jim Valence hit their stride, they become
great songwriters.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I mean they worked together, not only writing
songs for Brian Adams, but they wrote songs together for
other people too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I mean Jim Valence you're gonna see on the
catalog of Bonnie Rait, Aerosmith, Carly Simon, Rod Stewart, Roger
Daltretina Turner, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Europe, Kiss Scorpions, and
Murray throw back to our nineteen seventy eight episode and
Joe Cocker.
Speaker 3: I mean, okay, hang on, I'm gonna blow your mind
with something, Okay. Yeah, So part of that success you
mentioned all those names that Jim Valance has helped write
songs for. Yeah, that's the reason why he and Brian
Adams broke up.
Speaker 1: It is the reason for the split. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Brian's like, dude, You're spending all your time writing songs
for all these other people, what about me?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, obviously they did this whole album together, and
then they do the next album together. But after that album,
Brian was like, I just feel like with this relationship
has run its course. Based on the fact that Jim
Valance is going everywhere except to Brian's studio. He's like,
I feel like this relationship has maybe run its course,
and the album after this album doesn't perform as well.
Speaker 3: Has one great song on that.
Speaker 1: Album, and so he says, you know what, I would
really love to record with Mutt Lang.
Speaker 3: Mutt Langa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, He's thinking, Mutt Lang is the busiest music producer
in the world right now, right, It's gonna take a
while before I can get a hold of him. But again,
he calls Bruce Allen, his manager. He tells him, he's like,
you know, I don't know if it's this album or
what we need to do, but I would love to
eventually try to get ahold of Mut Lang. And Bruce's like,
why don't you just call him. He's like, you mean,
just just right now and just call him. He's like, yeah,
call him right now, picks up the phone, calls him,
what says, I'm ready, let's go, and within a few
days Brian is flying from Canada over to the UK
to start recording Waking Up the Neighbors.
Speaker 3: That's fantastic, man.
Speaker 1: Okay, the only album that Brian Adams has that outsold
this one.
Speaker 3: That's kind of mind blowing in itself. But let's hold
that thought because I want to dive into that just
a little bit deeper.
Speaker 1: Here in a minute.
Speaker 3: Okay, I want to play just a couple of songs
for you to see if you recognize these.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay? That song yes, Ragged all by Rasmith.
Speaker 3: Jim Balance wrote that nice. Okay, here's one for.
Speaker 4: You, that's heart.
Speaker 3: That song is called what About Love?
Speaker 1: There you go? What about love? All right?
Speaker 3: Jim Valance wrote that song Okay, see if you know
this one?
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 1: I feel like the name of that song is something
like love Me when I'm Gone? Is that right?
Speaker 3: Songs called Don't Forget Me when I'm Gone?
Speaker 1: Ah, that's it?
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, Glass Tiger another Canadian rock band. Oh yeah, okay,
songs written by Jim Vallance. Now, I told you had
a seventh grade girlfriend who moved away, right right, so
we would still call each other. A Carian story, so
we would call each other. She moved to Florida. What's
her name, Victoria, Victoria. I haven't talked. It's nineteen eighty
eighty seven. So, but she moved away. But we still
call each other. And one of the things we talk
about is songs we liked on the radio. I remember saying, Hey,
I like this new song by George Michael and Brian
Adams call Don't Forget Me when I'm Gone, and she's like, you, dummy,
That songs by Glass Tiger, and so for thirty five
years I've been like, yeah, dummy, you didn't even look
that up. You didn't even know. You just guessed. Well
I was half right. Okay, that's part of the song
is not sung by George Michael. That's actually the singer
of Glass Tiger.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: But the duet part of it, the guy with a
raspy voice, Yeah, that is Brian Adams.
Speaker 1: Well there you go, in your face, Vicky, how do
you like me?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: That's right? I got one more for you to see
if you know this one?
Speaker 7: Okay, last one?
Speaker 1: Did you just Dan huff me again?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 1: I did, helmet.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, that's great. You had no idea, you just have.
Speaker 1: Never heard that song before. But yes, I know Dan
Huff's voice at this point in our relationship. Thanks to you, sir, Yes,
thank you.
Speaker 3: That song is called I'll Be There when It's Over
by the group Giant, sung by our man Dan Huff.
Jim Balance wrote that song guys.
Speaker 1: By the way back to the Patreon episodes. If you
want the I'll See You in My Dreams Patreon episode,
we Jason does a love affair with Dan Huff on
that one.
Speaker 3: It's such a great song. Dan Huff, lead singer Giant,
had that one magical moment where he sang the song
I'll see you in my dreams. All Right, I don't
want to brain dump on you here, but I'm gonna
throw one more thing at you.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Jim Balance was in a rock band called Sunshine that
morphed into a different band called Prism. Right, yeah, you
may be more familiar with Prism.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: The leader and trumpet player of Prism was Bruce Fairbairn.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, big producer. I mean he's involved in
all of those albums that we were talking about earlier
with bon Jovi, and.
Speaker 3: He produced Slippery One Way.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He produced New Jersey Pump by Aersmith, Permanent Vacation the
Razor's Edge by ACDC Get a Grip, which we've done
track by track on Yeah, they were in the same
band together.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. All right. We done with this one, Okay
now before we play track number three, Yes, I just
want you to think about the song Don't Fear the
Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult. Okay, you listen to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's play it.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's listen to it. Okay, that's enough of that.
I want to distract you with that, but just keep
that in mind. But also I just want you to
just listen on this opening guitar rift for the perfect
use of feedback as it screams out in the opening guitar.
Speaker 8: Riffs, if you ever found out about.
Speaker 1: You, I am spiking the freaking football. This is the
best song on the album, best song on all of
Brian adams discography. This is a killer, iconic song.
Speaker 3: I agree. This is a banger of bangers from this album.
This song, of course, is run to You. This was
the lead single released October eighteenth, nineteen eighty four. It
only reached number six.
Speaker 1: I want you to tell me before I start telling
the story. When I'm done, you better be ready with
your top ten or whatever it is that we've got
for this one. But before we do that, I said,
think about Blue Oyster Cult. Right, yeah, okay, So did
he steal this riff from Blue Oyster Cult. No, he didn't,
it's not the same riff. But what he did do
was write this song for Blue Oyster Cult and they
said no.
Speaker 5: They said no, thank goodness, right, thank goodness, And I
think thirty eight Special turned it down as well.
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, They had gotten a call I think it
was from Bruce Fairburn actually had gotten a call said hey,
Blue Oyster Cult is looking for some music. Do you
guys have anything? He and Jim wrote this song together
and basically they made a bad demo of it. They
didn't deliberately make a bad demo it, but he sent
it to him and they said, nah, we're good. You know,
we're done. So this is the last song that got
added to this album. They had a truckload of stuff.
But then the producer on this, Bob clear Mountain, same
guy who produced Cuts Like a Knife and his other
albums before this, right, says we need another song. Do
you have anything like leftover? And Brian's like, well, I
mean I got this song that I wrote for the
Blue Oyster Cult, but it just you know, they turned
it down.
Speaker 3: I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I don't really know if it's something for us. He's like, well, heck,
let's just give it a try. And so he, you know,
sits down with the band. They go over the music
and they just sit down and they just play it.
He gets done with his part, he looks in the
sound booth and Bob clear Mountain and the guy who's
running the tapes are both standing up. He's like, what's wrong,
and they're like, come in here. He's like, oh no,
and he walks in the sound booth and they push
play for him and he's like, wow, this sounded a
lot better than I remember it. Wow, just something happened.
They captured that lightning in a bottle. That spark happened,
and they just from a bad demo of a mediocre
song made something that is or shattering.
Speaker 3: Now, didn't you tell me that thirty eight special? Later
listened to it and like, well, that song's better than
we thought it was. Wow.
Speaker 1: I think everybody thought that. Yeah, that's yeah, everybody thought that.
Speaker 3: So this is a cheating classic.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I would.
Speaker 3: Call this the sequel to One Night Love Affair.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, but this, I mean,
it's a better sequel. You know, this is the Empire
strikes back if you're right, because I mean, just the
you can feel the lust and the passion and the
the taboo of the relationship it is. It's intense ration.
Oh my gosh. Yeah. I mean, he's got a girl.
She's decent, she's just cold.
Speaker 3: Right, but it's so damn easy making love to this
other girl.
Speaker 1: Won't hurt her if she doesn't know.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 3: Okay, listen to this top five that that outranked Run
to You.
Speaker 1: This better be freaking fantastic.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, four, A, five, four or five are pretty
pretty freaking good. Okay.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Number five Easy Lover by Philip Bailey and Phil.
Speaker 1: Collins not better than this song.
Speaker 3: Okay, still a really classic, solid song. Maybe Number four
I Want to Know What Love Is by Foreigner Ouche.
Speaker 1: Wow Oka sings back up and then and then keeps
him out of the out of the higher ranking. Okay,
keep going.
Speaker 3: I still think Run to You is better than both
of those songs.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: Number three You're the Inspiration by Chicago a makeout classic.
Speaker 1: For me, it is a makeout class and it is
really really good. I still don't think it's better than this.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right? Number two All I Need by Jack Wagner,
Oh my gosh, the song that inspired Nicky six to
write the Motley Cruz song You're All I Need?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh?
Speaker 3: Remember?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Yeah, he wanted to go break his legs,
that's right, and then he accidentally broke his legs on
his own and then the girlfriend was like, what did
you do?
Speaker 3: You don't know that story. Go listen to the Motley
Crue Girls Girls Girls track by track we.
Speaker 1: Did Jack Wagner soap opera extraordinaire.
Speaker 3: That's right, and apparently fuller around her with Nicky Six's girl. Yeah,
and number one like a version of my Madonna.
Speaker 1: Well, that's it. That's a little hard.
Speaker 3: I was a cultural shift. Absolutely, Run to You is
better than all these songs, although they're pretty pretty salty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic song.
Speaker 3: Okay, Now, then let's talk about the video for a second. Okay,
So I found it in interesting. Steve barn is a
guy that we talked about. He did Billy Jean, he
did a million other videos. Yeah, he called this video
one of his worst, maybe his worst.
Speaker 1: I agree with him, Okay, I mean, you've you've got
this relationship and passion and taboo stuff that's all in
play here and there's no girl, right it is.
Speaker 3: Well, she's there, but there's no no The I.
Speaker 1: Run to you is I'm running to my guitar. Really,
you're making love to her guitar? I don't think so, sir.
I mean, there was such an opportunity that was missed
with this video. I agree with the director bailed attempt.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. So they spent all the budget
of the video on this fake tree that they wanted
to get stressed snow reel. I don't know if the
snows I'm not, but the fake tree got struck by lightning.
They said it burned up in less than a minute,
and they were looking at the tree like, well, there
goes the budget for the video. I hope that that
turns out. Well, yeah, it turns out. Even though Steve
Barron didn't like it, Brian Adams thought the video was terrible.
This video was nominated by MTV in five categories, five
including Best Special Effects and Best Direction.
Speaker 1: Did it win?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Just nominating? Yeah, Brian Adams in the beginning. Mm hmm,
this is his quote. I didn't really think that music
videos mattered. I didn't care I should have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean Steve Baron we've talked about before, because,
like you said, he directed Billy Jean. He also directed
Take on Me by Aha, which we've covered in our
Patreon episodes. There's too many names to mention on videos
that he's made. He's just one of those guys. But
one of the biggest is Money for Nothing by Dire Straits.
I mean that's an icon.
Speaker 3: Well sure, yeah, Okay, like we said, this was the
lead single in this video. You have the English actress
Lyzette Anthony.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Anthony is in five videos from Reckless.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Now, she had some success as a sitcom actress, ended
up homeless. What her quote was that she had some
really expensive husbands. Okay, so I think she's got back
on her feet since then.
Speaker 1: But do you know what the movie she was a
part of that is an icon from the eighties? No,
what nineteen eighty three? My hint is that in Fall.
It's a fantasy movie that involves something like a throwing
star that appears in Ready player one.
Speaker 3: Was she and Kroll.
Speaker 1: She was Princess Lisa in the nineteen eighty three epic Kroll.
Speaker 3: My Mind is blown right way to go?
Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome, Okay, and then she's homeless. What Yeah, expensive
husbands will do that to you.
Speaker 3: I guess good things she had those BEAUTI for Blue
Eyes to fall back on. Yeah, run to you. Epic
banger of bangers from this album that's packed full of bangers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, biggest hit out of the ones we've heard so
far in my opinion, biggest one on the whole album.
Speaker 3: And Blue Oyster Colt was too good for it special.
Speaker 1: Guess Sorry guys. Okay, that takes us to track number four,
Another amazing song. Aeah right, all right, here we go.
This is heaven, all right. Couples move to the center
of the floor. That's my line.
Speaker 3: Yes, I agree with you. This song feels like sweaty
school dances and higgies.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, this song feels like Faithfully by Journey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so tell me about that.
Speaker 1: So Brian Adams opened like over one hundred shows I
think for Journey. He was on tour with them during
their Frontiers tour. And you know, guys, go check out
our episode on Frontiers. We compared it to Synchronicity, both
big hits from eighty three, right right, yeh, But I
mean they're on tour with them and they hear Faithfully.
I mean, you remember the story on Faithfully is like
Neil Showan was like, this is hippie you know, lovey
dovey natt. I don't And then they played it. You know,
this is Jonathan Kine and Steve Perry's like, baby.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Kate said he downloaded that song directly from God Almighty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so and then they play it and first night,
first playing the song, and the crowd goes nuts, and
Neil Show's like, Okay, I was wrong, yeah right. And
but in part of that process, Jim Valance and and
Brian Adams are inspired to write this song called Heaven.
Speaker 3: How could you not be impacted watching people sway with
the lighters out in Steve Perry's jestic voice and moving
the crowd. Yeah, absolutely, So they needed a song like this,
and Brian Adams said, yeah, let's do just like Faithfully.
Accept This song barely made the.
Speaker 1: Album, barely made it on Directless, barely made it on Direckless.
Well here we may blow your mind with this one listener.
This is the second album that this song appears on.
Speaker 3: I know, right. This was on the soundtrack for a
huge hit movie in nineteen eighty three. That movie is
called A Night in Heaven.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Knight, and.
Speaker 3: You didn't see that movie starring Christopher Adkins, the other
guy in the Blue Lagoon, whereas a male.
Speaker 1: Stripper, did not go see that movie. I can't tell
you though it was directed by John g Advilson. Though
same guy did Rocky, same guy who did Karate Kid.
You remember we just talked about karate Kid and I
told you I was like, I looked at his IMDb
and basically, he's like a hit, a home run or strikeout,
and A Night in Heaven is a strikeout.
Speaker 3: Luckily he had Karate Kid to follow it up for that.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: So Heaven was on the soundtrack to that movie. Yep,
that was a nineteen eighty three movie. This song hits
number one June twenty second, nineteen eighty five, almost a
year and a half after that movie comes out. Yeah,
all right, I've got something special for you. Okay, I'm
gonna give you a top five. This is the week
that Heaven Hits Number one June twenty second, nineteen eighty five. Okay,
this top five, you have four number one hits and
one number two hit.
Speaker 1: Like four songs that are tied for number one.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, four songs that eventually hold the number
one spot. Oh okay, this is an incredible top five.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So number five is a View to a Kill by
Duran Duran.
Speaker 1: Huge, right? Yeah.
Speaker 3: Number four is Raspberry Beret by Prince Iconic song is
that one on cherry Men? That one's on around the
World Noon of a Day? Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Number three is Everybody Wants to Rule the World by
Tears for Fears.
Speaker 1: Great song, just covered it. I know it hits number one.
Speaker 3: Right Sisudio by Phil Collins, huge massive song for eighty five.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know what that means, by the way, Sisudio
Susiu Studio. Yeah, I do you do? Yeah? Okay, Well
we'll talk about it when we do Phil Collins episode.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, So what song of those did not hold
the number one spot on the Hot one hundred?
Speaker 1: Uh jeez, I don't know, uh, Sisudio, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Raspberry Beret tops out at number two. Really yep.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay.
Speaker 3: In fact, Heaven knocked Everybody wants to Rule the World
out of the number one spot. Nice, there you go.
This video also stars the Croll princess lize In.
Speaker 1: So I think, if I'm remembering right, this is the
video that's kind of the follow up to the Summer
of sixty nine video, because she in that video plays
the girl that he meets in the drive in movie. Right,
that's right. And then it's it's very you know, like
glory days, like it's this is what happened in the past.
But the video ends with her like looking at his
band playing in a barn and as they drive by,
and she's with her new boyfriend, and the new boyfriend's like,
what is this? Who is that? Who are you looking at?
And it's just dumb, It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: That's Summer sixty nine, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so I think this video for Heaven starts off
like they're pulled over to the side of the road
and the boyfriend is getting a dui ticket.
Speaker 3: That's it, he's having to walk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is like part two of that story.
And she's just over there, you know, rolling her eyes,
and finally she looks across the street and she sees
on the on the Marquee tonight Brian Adams, and so
she goes and sneaks into the concert to see her
old flame.
Speaker 3: That's right, except there's two videos really okay, right, So
I watched them both in preparation for this. So the
one that I remembered was Brian Adams playing a concert
to a bunch of TVs. Okay, it's like he's in
a dream and there's nobody there and so there's just televisions.
It's really weird. Okay, I remember it, and I remember
liking the video. But then I saw the other video
where it's actually when you're talking about where she sneaks in,
he's playing at a concert. Their eyes meet and all
this stuff, right, and.
Speaker 1: Well he goes chasing after her, like he sees her
in the crowd, and he as soon as the set
is over, like he run. He grabs his iconic black
leather jacket, throws it on, and the doors are.
Speaker 3: Locked, right, and it's like snowing really bad.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that video I thought was a lot better.
Big Song Summer of nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we mentioned that this is inspired by Faithfully, Right, Yes, okay,
So there's another reason that this song sounds very much
like that song. So I mentioned that Pat Stewart was
a guy that they picked up, drummer that had never
been in a studio before, and he's on three of
the songs on this album. Right, And their standard guy
on this is Mickey Curry. But they're in the middle
of recording this song and he's like, guys, I gotta go,
and I'm like what what what? He's like, I'm sorry,
I got a date with Hall and Oates. So he
goes and goes to play with hallan Oates and they're like, well, crap,
who do we get to play the drums?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know who?
Speaker 3: They get Steve Smith.
Speaker 1: Steve Smith, the drummer for Journey.
Speaker 3: If you wanted to sound like Faithfully, who are you
gonna call?
Speaker 1: Call Steve Smith.
Speaker 7: It sounds like a dream.
Speaker 3: I told you. I sent you a Texas week I
said if def Leppard and Journey had a baby, it
would be Brian Adams.
Speaker 1: That's that's fair. That's a fair assessment. I am loving
this album so far. Let's get on. This is the
lab song on side one. This song is called Somebody man,
you want to end side one with another tent pole
banger after playing the slow dance song, This is the
Way to Go.
Speaker 3: It's a great song, great song.
Speaker 1: And it says something that everybody believes. I need somebody.
Everybody needs somebody looking between the fire and the flame.
Just give me that perfect person.
Speaker 3: I love the genesis of this song.
Speaker 1: Tell me.
Speaker 3: Okay. So Jim Balance, we said, was the drummer for
Prism right and he would play drums.
Speaker 1: He plays percussion on this, does he Yeah, this is
one of the few that he gets a personnel credit for.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nice, Okay, still got Mickey Curry. But on drums, Jim
Balance is doing percussion, which I'm tempted to think means
the tambourine.
Speaker 3: Hey, Jim grabbing tambourine real quick. But he said, you
know he would back in the early days when they
were playing clubs and he's hammering away and you get
a unique perspective from behind the drum kit. He said,
we saw the same people every night out there drinking
and dancing and just looking for somebody to go home with.
And he's like it was pathetic. Yeah, And he's like,
and the winners are losers. You see it every night.
How about that?
Speaker 1: It's awesome.
Speaker 3: I like this. I saw a review by a guy
named Stuart Mason basically said, reckless rock Anthem is run
to you, it's sensitive, power ballad as Heaven, and it's
straight ahead pop song.
Speaker 1: Is somebody fantastic Ladies and gentlemen listeners, you got to
know that when we have an episode coming up. Jason
and I are perpetually texting each other little video clips
and little interview articles and stuff like that. And earlier
this week, Jason texted me and it was a snapshot
of the YouTube video and he says to me, he goes,
do you know which of the songs on this album
talks about Madonna? And I'm thinking to myself, they wrote
this in eighty three. I mean was she I mean
she was just barely you know, hitting the radar at
that point. They put her in a song and then
I look at the picture. I said, it's the Madonna dude,
not Madonna like? And then you remember what your response was, No,
this song popped out at what number eleven? Is that right?
Speaker 3: Number eleven?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And do you know who two of the songs
were they kept? And I said, the mother of Jesus. Yes,
that's right, that's right, it's great, that's right.
Speaker 3: I gotta run through this top eleven with you real quick,
so somebody pops out at number eleven, like we texted, Madonna,
the Madonna.
Speaker 1: Not the Madonna Madonna, Okay.
Speaker 3: Not the Madonna. Madonna beats him out on two songs.
But my claim is that this may be one of
the biggest robberies that it did not get into the
top ten. This is a great song from nineteen eighty five.
I think it's better than all ten of these songs. Okay, yeah,
too late for Goodbyes by Julian Lennon, Rhythm of the
Night by El Dubarge which we like, but still come on, really,
I'm on Fire by Bruce Springsteen. It's a good song,
but no, this is night Shift by the Commodores.
Speaker 1: Well, that one was really big, that was really, really
very popular back then. That's a good song, but I
still don't think it keeps this one out. I mean,
these are good songs.
Speaker 3: Can't fight This Feeling by ospeed.
Speaker 1: Wagon that's huge. I mean, you Gotta You Gotta That
is a fair that is a fair. Beat on this one.
Speaker 3: Yes, Love a Girl by Tina Marie go back to
our Top Gun soundtrack episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it doesn't beat the song Crazy for You.
Speaker 3: By Madonna, Sure, Material Girl by Madonna.
Speaker 1: Yes We Are the World Well yeah.
Speaker 3: And One More Night by Phil Collins.
Speaker 1: Stupid Phil Collins.
Speaker 3: These are all great songs, but better than this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a hard thing. I don't think that it
falls that way nowadays.
Speaker 3: By the way, the line in the song goes, I
thought I saw the Madonna, Yeah, the material Girl.
Speaker 1: I think he would have just said I thought I
saw Madonna if he was actually talking about the virgin. Yes,
I mean like a virgin. Sorry, Okay, let me ask
you this. Did you ever like LimeWire or Napster or
anything like that?
Speaker 3: Yes? I did. I LimeWire the holy crap out of everything.
Speaker 1: You're lucky you didn't get caught, I know.
Speaker 3: Oh, tell me the story on this.
Speaker 1: Okay. So this song was one of twenty four songs,
just twenty four. Like, think of all of the files
that you've dear listener, think about all of the songs
that you ripped off a CD and shared with your friends. Right, Yeah,
they file a lawsuit on twenty four songs. This is
the very first file sharing copyright infringement lawsuit brought by
a major record label. They try it to a jury.
Jamie Thomas, she is a single mother of four children.
She gets found liable in the two thousand and seven
trial for downloading these twenty four songs from Kazah, and
she gets ordered to pay two hundred and twenty two
thousand dollars in damages. That comes out to about nine
two hundred and fifty dollars a song. They retry the case.
I don't know who appealed and why they had to
retry the case, but the case gets retried two years later.
This time the jury finds still that she's liable, but
this time awards one point nine two million dollars. That's
eighty thousand dollars per song in damages.
Speaker 6: What.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that Ms Thomas probably just declared bankruptcy
because I don't know how you're gonna get that much
money out of a single mother of four. But there
you go.
Speaker 3: That is ridiculous, crazy eighty thousand dollars a.
Speaker 1: Song a song.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those were different times. Absolutely, Okay, hit stop on
your tape player, kick it out, flip it over for
side two, and we start off with Summer of sixty nine.
Speaker 6: I kind of first resisting out the five and.
Speaker 8: Played it's in the fingus play was a Summer of sixteen.
Speaker 3: Of course, this is an amazing song. I love this.
Speaker 1: This is this song for me was Brian Adams in
the eighties, like this is I mean, I love all
of the songs on this one. But if you were asking,
you know, ten year old, the what Brian Adams song
first comes to your mind, It's gonna be somewhere sixty nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So he had the demo for this one, gets the
band together, they record, put it all down, and Brian's
words were, I felt like we didn't improve upon the demo.
It's like, I know this is a good song, but
if you can't make something better than the demo was,
you didn't do it right. And so they do it again,
they re record it, do it all over again, and
again he's like, yeah, there's just there's something missing, like
the drums are just not quite right. But at this point,
like session's over, guys have all gone home. He's in Vancouver,
it's nighttime and he's like, I guess I'm gonna go
just walk around and so he happens to walk into
this club where there is a ska band playing ska
band named Rubber Biscuit okay, and he's watching him play
and he's like, dang, this drummer is killing it. And
so in between sets he goes up to the drummer.
He's like, hey, my name's Brian. Guy's like, my name's Pat.
He said, what are you doing tomorrow? And Guy's like,
I don't know why. He says, You're gonna come to
the studio. Maybe just sit in see how it goes. Yeah.
Guy's like, okay, never been in a studio in his life.
Pat Stewart walks in. Whoa first song that he plays,
He's like, can will you just play this? I mean?
And they when they record, they record as the whole band, right,
so you hear that first whack yeah, and then there's
no drums for a while. But he said, Pat just
brought the energy. The band fed off the energy, and
that's how this song became what it is.
Speaker 3: Wow, Poor Mickey Curry. Can go make love to Hall
of Notes.
Speaker 1: Yes, go hang out with John Oates, buddy. Now, what's
crazy is? I mean? This is just a guy in
a ska band in the clubs of Vancouver, right, he's
just a kid.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: And of course this launches his career. He goes on
to play a bunch of different things. But the thing
that I thought was the most interesting is did you
ever want the Kids in the Hall on HBO?
Speaker 3: I'm familiar with it.
Speaker 1: Well, they would do things where they had band session
stuff and songs that they would do. He was the
drummer for all of the kids in the Hall stuff,
including like Brain Candy. Like there's a big band in
Brain Candy. And I was just like, ah, that's too cool.
And then I thought, crap, it's been a long time
since I've seen Brain Candy. I really need to go
watch that again.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a great story. Okay, I've got one for
you on the origin of this story.
Speaker 1: Okakay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've read some stuff that this was kind
of inspired by Bob seekers Night Moves.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I saw that it was inspired by the movie The
Summer of forty two.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, if you.
Speaker 3: Remember that kind of an older woman, kind of a spring,
you know, kind of a romance type of thing. Sure,
Jackson Brown's running on empty. Yeah, But basically it's a
song about your childhood memories, right and kind of as
you're growing into a man, you know.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: So it started off with a conversation between Brian Adams
and Jim Valence and they were both talking about their
childhood school days.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They discussed the fact that John Lennon wrote the song
Abberry Fields Forever about his childhood school days. Yeah, and
Paul McCartney wrote the song Penny Lane about his school.
Speaker 1: Days streets they grew up on. Yeah, and they were like.
Speaker 3: Man, those are both great songs. We need to do
this right, and this is the product of that conversation.
Speaker 1: Well, here's my concern. Okay. Well, we mentioned that Brian
Adams was born in November of fifty nine, Yes, which
means in the summer of sixty nine he was nine
years old.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, he might have been an early player,
but I really find it hard to believe that he
was having a moment on the front porch laston Forever
at Okay.
Speaker 3: So he did. I did see him in concert, okay.
I saw him open for def Leppard. Yeah, and he said, guys,
this song is not about the summer of nineteen sixty nine.
And everybody's like, ooh, He's like, yep, so this is
about sexual innuendo. It's about your first encounter, real encounter
with the opposite sex.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I think he's playing that up a
little bit now. Sure. The co writer Jim Balance, he
was born in fifty two.
Speaker 3: He was seventeen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that makes a little bit more sense for
some of the lyrics that we're getting. But to be
honest in researching, you know when Brian Adams how old
he was when he bought his first guitar from a
five and dime No. Ten summer of seventy just doesn't
rhyme as well.
Speaker 3: You know when you talk about songs about your first
sexual encounter. I've got a quote for you from the
wonderful Barbara Bush about a certain other sticky situation in
the nineties. She said, a man may forget where he
perks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Wow, all right, let's keep it PG. Thirteen. Buddy,
there you go.
Speaker 3: Okay, So in the song you have the lyrics Jimmy
quit and Jody got married. Jim Valence wanted to change
that too, would he quit and Gordy got married? Because
that actually happened when he was in Prism and playing well.
They kept it as Jimmy because he was an early
drummer for Brian Adams, and then Jody was a sound
manager that did get married during.
Speaker 1: The recording of Reckless Nice.
Speaker 3: By the way, this song pops out at number five
June seventeenth, nineteen eighty five. Quickly number four We Don't
Need Another Hero by Tina Turner, who we're going to
talk about here in.
Speaker 1: Just a minute, Yeah, in just a second.
Speaker 3: Number three, Freeway of Love by Aretha Franklin to Saint
Emil's Fire and one Power of Love. You mentioned it
the theme song two Back.
Speaker 1: To the Future. Man, I love the Summer of eighty five?
So what did to write a song about that?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: This is so good?
Speaker 1: Love it?
Speaker 3: Anything else on this one? When did you get your
first guitar?
Speaker 1: D Yeah? So, I mean there were guitars in my house.
My dad played, and so there were things just around.
But I was thirteen when I ended up picking it up.
It was and I'm not kidding, the Summer of eighty nine.
Love it, Yeah, love it?
Speaker 3: Okay, here you go. Some of the lyrics are derived
from Juwbox hero bought a beat up six string thunder
Road where Bruce Springsteen talks about his front porch and
I want to hold your hand When you hold my hand.
I knew it was now or Never. It's kind of
a collaboration of all these great songs.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic, great conversation.
Speaker 3: By the way, just a little tidbit, this song was
originally called Best Days of My Life.
Speaker 1: They went with the right title. I agree, yep, okay.
Brings us to our next song.
Speaker 3: Next song on the album's called Kids Want to Rock.
Speaker 1: Welcome Kids for so that This is the song that
after Bruce Allen said where's the rock? This is the
one they wrote.
Speaker 3: They went back and wrote this song.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you know where the title this song comes from?
So they went back the name. They knew they wanted
to write a rock song. They wanted to edge it
up a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So Brian Adams and Jim Balance had gone to a Thomas.
Speaker 1: Dolby concert okay, like science yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: And he was doing the keyboard thing and Jim Balance
turned to Brian Adams and is like, these kids are
not into this keyboard. These kids want to rock.
Speaker 1: Kids won a raw and.
Speaker 3: That stuck in Brian AIM's head, and that's where they
came with a title for this song. But you mentioned
they flew back. They added this one in late This
is the one of the last ones that they added
in August before the album was released. They re recorded
One Night Love Affair in summer of sixty nine to
make those rockier, and you get an album that Karg
Magazine praised. Krag Magazine is a metal magazine. Yeah, is
one of the best rock albums.
Speaker 1: Of eighty five. It's a banger. So early part of
this song, right, this is the first lyrics, right says
turned on the radio sounded like a disco must have
turned the dial for a couple of miles, but I
couldn't find no rock and roll. Okay, Yeah, So Bryan
Adams signed to A and M Records for a dollar
in nineteen seventy eight. I did read that they took
one of his demo songs called let Me Take You Dancing,
and they remixed it to be a disco song without
his permission, and and he heard that. He couldn't believe it.
He was like, this sucks. I am not letting this
happen again, which is why we get all of this
awesome rock and roll here. But I have to think
that those first lyrics turned on the radio sounded like
a disco must have turned the dial for a couple
of miles. That had to be the inspiration forties lines.
Speaker 3: Did you say he signed for one dollar?
Speaker 1: Signed for a dollar? It's the only way that you're
gonna make it as a rock and roll artist is
you got to have a label, buddy.
Speaker 3: All I see is Eddie Murphy pulling one dollar bill
out of his pocket. One dollar. Thank you, Billy Ray Crazy.
I love the song, I mean, it's just it flows
along with the rest of the album. If you put
Joe Elliott singing, this song sounds pretty deaf Leppard.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah for sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, next song on the album sixth single, this song
is called It's Only Love.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. When I told Kevin Davis that we
were going to cover this album, this song immediately came
up as his favorite.
Speaker 3: It's great man, such a banger.
Speaker 1: And the voices of Tina Turner and Brian Adams belong together.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now here's the thing. When he was a kid, like
when he was a teenager, he would go see her
live because this is you know, seventies. She's not hit
it big again like it was, you know, it was
Ike and Tina and then crickets for a while. And
so she's playing the club scenes and he gets to
go see her play in the clubs. Then of course
he makes it as a musical artist and he had
loved seeing her before, and so he has this inspiration
to have her sing a duet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he and Jim Valance write this song. They
send her the demo and she's like, I love it.
I want to meet you. And she was coming in town.
She had a concert in Vancouver. She reaches out to
Brian says let's meet and so he shows up. She's like,
I love the song. I want to record it with you.
He's like great, okay, you know, I mean, what sounds good.
She's like, how about tomorrow? Like okay, okay, you know, sure,
Tina Turner's gonna come in. So you know, everybody get ready,
Tina Turner's coming in. He said. She blew in like
a whirlwind. They pressed record, she slays it with her vocals,
blows out and then he's like they were all like okay,
whoa that was incredible and He's like, guys, I hope
you got that on tape because that was amazing in
and out and this is what you get.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his first two albums didn't have a lot going on,
that's right. Then we get Cuts like a Knife, which
is definitely like that opens up lots of doorswa.
Speaker 3: But this is the album that's huge for him, right,
twelve million copies.
Speaker 1: Now, we talked about how his dad was a member
of the British Army, member of the Canadian Army, became
one of the UN peacekeepers. When he was a kid.
He didn't just live in Canada exclusively. They traveled all
over the place. He lived in various places in Europe.
But the problem was is that he when this album
came out, when Reckless came out, it wasn't a big
hit in Europe until he started touring with Tina on
her Private Dancer tour.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: And so when she would get to this song in
her set, because this is part of her set now too, right,
she would bring him back out, you know, and she'd
talk him up. And that was when Europe fell in
love with Brian Apps.
Speaker 3: So this music video is great, right, she has this
big intro. It's her Private Dancer tour. The crowd is
totally at her feet, and she's like, I've got this
guy who sings a song with me, and he's really
cute and he's really great. Let's bring it back Brian Adams,
you know. Yeah, And he comes out, but she is
the queen. She's like in charge of the stage and
is just belting it out and he's having just a
great time with her. I love this video. It's so fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I never really appreciated how not tall he was
until I saw him standing next to you.
Speaker 3: To her, she says, where of those big heels?
Speaker 1: She where's the big heels? But she's like, she's a
four footer of bet, you know, And he's not. He's
about eye to eye with her. I think him and
Michael J. Fox probably all can hang out play basketball together.
Speaker 3: Yep. This was the sixth and final single from the album.
This reached number fifteen January of nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 1: Absolute banger. I love this song, Love it you too.
So I've mentioned the drummer several times. We've talked about
Keith Scott, the other guys that are standard in the band.
You've got Dave Taylor playing Bay he's playing bass on
this one. And you've got Tammy Mandel on keyboards.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: He also just found this out, played keyboards on Money
for Nothing. Oh well, which I mean talk about an
iconic keyboard part. That's I just thought, oh that's cool.
So anyway, there you go. Brian's standard band Keith Scott,
Mickey Curry, Dave Taylor, and Tommy Mandel.
Speaker 3: Next song on the album is a song called Long Gone.
It's a song about divorce. Divorce. Yeah, this has got
to be the sequel to Run to You then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, telephone's been ringing, ringing off the wall. It's your
Las Vegas lawyer, another long distance call. He says, you
get the house and the car, and I get the
clothes I got on. Now she's gone long, long, long long.
Speaker 3: I got a one night love affair, followed to him
running back to her, followed by lungne.
Speaker 1: Now. I don't know what the inspiration for this was,
but I can tell you Brian Adams has never been married. Okay,
has a couple of daughters. He's got a young, cute girlfriend.
They've been going out for a while and I think
one of the daughters was born in twenty eleven. One
was born in twenty thirteen. So this guy who's a
late bloomer, yeah, sixteen years older than me, has kids
that are all younger than my kids.
Speaker 3: Wow. That's great, man, I love it.
Speaker 1: So we didn't really talk about Brian's like beginnings. I
said he bought his first guitar when he was ten,
but he really was talk about a prodigy. He was
a really early bloomer as far as music goes, late
bloomer on one respect, but early bloomer in the other.
He started playing as just kind of a session musician,
singing as a session musician, and the group Sweeny Top
you heard of them, I have. They picked him up
after their singer Nick Glider left. Okay, you remember the
name Nick Glider. No, we're looking at nineteen seventy eight
hot child in the city.
Speaker 3: Yeah, whoa.
Speaker 1: So he left Sweeney Todd. They had some guy come
in named Clark. I remember he was there for half
a minute, and then they brought Brian Adams lead singer.
At sixteen years old. They put out an album called
If Wishes Were Horses, but unfortunately it doesn't really do anything.
But he's billed as Brian Guy Adams on vocals.
Speaker 3: Oh hearing that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they recorded Sweeney Todd had had a minor
hit with a song called Roxy Roller, which Nick Glider
had performed, and they re recorded that with Brian. But
I can't find a copy of it anywhere. But if
Wishes were Horses didn't do much and it's still at sixteen.
He leaves the band to go on to do bigger
and better things.
Speaker 3: And we talked about I mean he met Jim Vallance.
Tell me story about how he meant Jim Villain.
Speaker 1: Well, it's very similar to the Keith Scott story. I mean,
Jim Valence was another guy in Vancouver in competing bands
with Brian, but he just knew he had some songwriting chops.
And so he's got a friend that he sees in
a music store, guitar you know, like a guitar store,
and he sees Jim and he knows their friends, and
he's like, hey, introduce me to that guy. And he
goes just talks to him for a little while in
the guitar store. But he said as he walked out,
I mean as a teenager, he's eighteen years old, walks
out of that store and He's like, I feel like
I've just experienced the beginning of something amazing.
Speaker 3: And he was right. He was right, fantastic. I like
this song too. I I shake my booty.
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah. So talking about Jim Valance, you know,
Ryan had started as a songwriter. He had been playing
these session gigs and he's living with his brother and
he can't figure out. You know, he's just if I
can just make rent, like that's going to be to him.
Success is if I can just afford to play music
and make rent, I'm gonna be good. I made it, Yeah,
But playing the gigs was not doing it for him.
So he started writing songs and he's I mean he
was writing songs for TV commercials and sitcoms and other
bands and all this stuff. And he says, I can
still remember the day that I had a check come
in and he said it was five hundred dollars and
I thought they had made a mistake. I thought they
put this zero in the wrong place. And he says,
I can't even tell you what where that came from. Like,
I was doing so many things at that moment, but
at that point I really realized. I was like, oh
my gosh, I can make it as a songwriter. I
don't have to be a musician. I can make it
as a songwriter. And so that's how we get all
of these great songs.
Speaker 3: Love it, love it Okay. Last song on the album
is a song called Ain't Gonna Cry.
Speaker 1: Okay. It's a stellar song. It's not the best song
on the album. It's not a tent pole.
Speaker 3: Right for sure. But there's not a skipper on this
whole album. No, no, no, no skippers, no skippers. I agree
with you. It's probably maybe the lowest drinking song on
the album, but still not bad.
Speaker 1: No, it's great. I would think that you would probably
end the show with this song, anticipating an encore, and
then come back out with Run to You or Summer
sixty nine or something like that, or Cuts like a
Knife if you're on the Reckless Tooter, you know.
Speaker 3: Sure, I want to talk before we end this. I
want to talk briefly about the summer of ninety one
when Brian Adams ruled the airwaves, when a song called
Everything I Do. This song came off of the Robin
Hood soundtrack Huh was played at every single wedding, every
single graduation, every slow dance, every slow dance. This song
was written by Michael Kaman, the guy who did the
music for Diehard, and and a million others, others Mutt
Lang and Brian Adams. Is that an all star of
songwriters right there?
Speaker 1: Fricking awesome. It's no wonder that it ruled the airwaves.
Speaker 3: Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and Lisa Stansfield turned down that
song because it was meant to be sung by Maid,
Marian two, Robin Hood and so Brian said, well, I
guess I'll sing it then, and it became a Hue
LONGUS international hit. Yeah, it was number one for seven
weeks in the US and for a record sixteen weeks
number one in the UK.
Speaker 6: No, it's true everything du it for?
Speaker 1: I mean Mary Elizabeth Master Antonio turned it down to Yeah, yeah,
that's that's great. We will have to cover that one
next couple of years.
Speaker 3: Reckless is a banger of bangers.
Speaker 1: It is so good from beginning to end. There are
no skippers. I fear for Heartbeat City because that's what
we're comparing it to now. That being said, speaking of
Mutt Lang, Mutt Lang had his hands all over Heartbeat
City at the point that Mutt Lang was probably as
at his apex as a producer, so Heartbeat City may
have the gums.
Speaker 3: Let's check it out. Yeah, next week, come back in
the cars, Heartbeat City