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Speaker 4: Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Rock and Roll History
Show and Hudson River Radio. I'm Brian Horowitz. Summer's coming
and it's time to hit the road. We're gonna help
you get your playlist together, get some road trip songs
so you have something to do. I know, with gas
prices the way they are, we plan on going up
to and including thirty miles away this summer and back
again if we're lucky. Give her take right, I think
that's about shop writ and back, give or take. Sometimes
you gotta live on the edge. But before we hop
into that, as always, allow me to introduce all the
cranbones joining us tonight. First and foremost from the Richter Observatory.
He once got hired to play the triangle for a band.
He hated it because it was just one thing after another.
Neil Richtor is here.
Speaker 6: That would be my dream job actually, to be the
triangle player in any band or orchestra because it's just.
Speaker 7: So cool, and then get it and then have the
triangle so low.
Speaker 4: Yeah, remind me to come back to that because there's
more to it than you might think. But good to
see you, Welcome back, and from paranormally yours. She learned
that skunks don't have a lot of money. They only
have one cent.
Speaker 6: O that stinks.
Speaker 4: Sorry, hi everyone. From the silver screen. She saw a
blonde walk into a bar and everybody was staring out
the window up at this flagpole. So the blonde asked, hey,
what's going on and the bartender said, well, they needed
to figure out how tall the flagpole was. She says, okay,
no problem. She takes a wrench out of her purse,
She undoes the bolts, she lays it down, She takes
out a tape measure. She says it's eighteen feet two inches.
She then puts it back up, tightens the bolts, goes inside,
asks for a drink, and sits down with her friends,
and the bartender says, well, that's a blonde for you.
We needed the height, and she gave us the width.
Mercedes Kent is with us.
Speaker 1: Hey, it'd be nice to blonde.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 4: It was a long walk for a little pair off.
Speaker 9: That was good.
Speaker 1: That was very good. Yes, thank you, bry Hey, everybody,
how you doing?
Speaker 4: And our officially retired teacher, he says, if you want
to get the art history major off of your porch,
just pay for the pizza. John Kelly is here, everybody.
Speaker 2: That was good, I thought.
Speaker 4: Last, but not least, the host of shaving cream, she says,
if you want to make an egg roll, just push it.
Barbara vill is back.
Speaker 10: Hey, that's my recipe.
Speaker 6: Don't just don't try and egg drop.
Speaker 4: Okay, too late, but I'm bump yeap. All right. So, actually, John,
you came up with this topic for this week, this
whole road trip thing, which I am all about. Love
road trips. I have not been on an airplane since
way before COVID. And it's not a fear of flying.
It's the aggravation of airports, yes, and the behavior of people,
and the fact that I would just so much rather
be in the RV and just stop along the way. Yep.
Speaker 1: Did you want to talk about the spirit right about now?
Speaker 4: I'm sure you do.
Speaker 6: Bring it on?
Speaker 1: What a nightmare. No, that's all I'm going to say. Okay,
just imagine.
Speaker 4: So your final flight was after that hole shutdown or
did you actually make it back before?
Speaker 1: I don't know, there was too many flights.
Speaker 11: Okay, where was Oh god, was it one of those
you know, where what's the like?
Speaker 4: What what's the what is it?
Speaker 11: Where Carmen San Diego or something? Where in the universes
was that for you? Mercedes? Like where in the universe
is Mercedes?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 4: Kind of we were going to start we were going
to start playing which airline did Mercedes corrupt and bankrupt
this time? Well, welcome back. And since you're back, and
while we have you before you disappear again, why don't
you go first with your road tripping sock?
Speaker 1: Eh, you're afraid I'm going to run away again.
Speaker 4: We never know where you're going to be, where you're going,
and we don't know if you're.
Speaker 5: Going to be able to come back.
Speaker 1: It's true. Thank you, Brian. So I picked a song
for today because I love it so much and it
fits the topic. The title is Late Speed Getaway. It
is by a local Brooklyn bandon There is almost nothing
online about them, so I was really nervous about how
I was going to talk about them but actually end
up having plenty Neil and missus. Neil have seen them
with me pretty often.
Speaker 6: Quite a few times.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, I'm not even sure how we found them.
Speaker 6: I think they were opening for somebody else and yeah,
and they came on first and we were like, whoa, it.
Speaker 1: Was love at first sight. They are on sabbatical or
something for now. Some of the members live in a
different state. The band is comprised of Brian Dudavich Nope,
couldn't do it, Brian do da Lovitch to Leubvitch. I
finally nailed it, Brian, I mean.
Speaker 6: Neil, I'm letting you go with that one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We had him on my podcast and we couldn't. We
just made him say it every time we were talking
about him. He's on vocals and guitar, and Bobby Sprolls,
who's on bass guitar, along with Brian's younger brother Mike
on guitar and vocals, and Kevin Blatchford on drums and
Brianna Leyon on vocal, percussion and guitar. It said in
this article I was reading, although I don't think I've
ever seen her play guitar.
Speaker 6: But she's the secret secret weapon.
Speaker 1: She's the secret weapon, absolutely so. Brian, Bobby, and Mike
were all friends in high school in DC, and later
they relocated to Brooklyn, I met Kevin and Brianna. Mike,
who is sort of the spokesperson of the band, said
his influences are the who Arim, The Car Nirvana, Alison Chains.
He said hearing Black Sabbath for the first time made
him feel like he had to play guitar. He said,
after I started playing early in high school. The rabbit
hole of inspiring rock and roll is kept on going.
The Dotson's, the Dictators, the Helicopters, Alice Cooper and the
New York Dells, Hanoi Rocks, etc. He describes the live
shows of the Nuclears like this, At a Nuclear's show,
expect a ton of energy, lots of times bordering. Yeah,
lots of times bordering on out of control, sometimes not
just bordering. Three of us take lead vocals and we
give a damn damn about strong song hooks. Brian and
I try to melt your faces off with dueling guitar leads,
which they do when the cylinders are all firing. There's
a lot of band chemistry on stage, and it ought
to be evident from the they were having a great
effing time and trying to be contagious with it. And
that's the best description I can possibly imagine of them.
So here's a couple of descriptions from magazines. Deli Magazine
said the Nuclears might sound like some unearthed garagee gold
from your latest crate digging escapades, but the five piece
have only been tearing up the New York city scene
for not even a decade. The band plays raw rock
and roll the way your daddy used to like, with
all the electricity of old school punk acts, and they
even dabble in dirty rockabilly for the discerning punk purist.
I'm sorry, rock purist. Horizons Music said the Nuclears are
a twin guitar party rock and roll band based out
of Brooklyn, New York. Then Nuclears showcase a sonic range
from high energy protopunk to seventies glitter rock to kinks Ian.
Neil and I struggled with it. I was like, what's
kinks Ian? Kinksian? You think? I mean it's capital that
ian is capitalized, so it makes me wonder. But anyway,
to Kink's Kinksian Power pup to riff driven heavy metal
released in association with Spider Bite Records. Yet a name
like the Nuclears raises some high expect expectations, and this
raunchy little number lives up to the name that was
about another song. So anyway, let's play the song that
we came.
Speaker 13: Here to listen to now.
Speaker 14: It was.
Speaker 15: Girls Were I Wait to go Back, Streaking Ways, A
close Ways.
Speaker 14: Show, Free Talking, last Freakdayway.
Speaker 8: I'm moonabouts, knocking Daddy.
Speaker 16: Skip to mouth and top of back around me, I
around myself to local Shadi supp gave up joke, Gosh.
Speaker 14: Not free Ways, cos wish the show change got where ser.
Speaker 17: Got spread its road track.
Speaker 8: Plan sale We're all.
Speaker 15: About carenasal Is supplegans that.
Speaker 1: Not the Oltnity, What acklar that.
Speaker 14: Love show? Three jobs at Street Joe let Shop, Last
Street Jail.
Speaker 17: Got a.
Speaker 18: Website, Fat station.
Speaker 14: Door, wetsoe station, coy ranges.
Speaker 6: Webs.
Speaker 1: Yes, I cannot tell you how much I love this band.
Speaker 4: You know what the vibe if you stripped it down
to a little more innocent, it's almost like a partish family.
Speaker 1: Songd Oh lord, please please don't tell them that I.
Speaker 11: Gotta say road trip songs. I kind of measure by
two metrics. Is one, of course, is your ability to
play along on your steering wheel, you know, whether it's
your steering wheel becomes the drums, becomes the guitar, it
becomes whatever, you know. And the other is the contemplative
kind of a road trip song where you sit there
behind a steering wheel with your hand on your chin
as you're driving, just contemplating, you know, the mood that
the song creates. Those are the two of my And
then there's the rock ones where you're just throwing your
fist in there.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, and you're bringing this up because where does this fall?
Speaker 5: The thing the steer wheel, steering wheel tapping kind of
oh okay good, yes.
Speaker 6: You know, yeah the drum drumming. Drumming on the steering
wheel is one thing, but don't use the gas and
the break as you're based on pedal. Yeah, that could
cause problems.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, I would think probably true, but yeah, no,
this was definitely a steering wheel tapping. You know, it
becomes the drums, it becomes the piano, It just kind
of becomes every instrument in the band.
Speaker 5: There you know, yeah, a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love them so much. Brianna, who's the lead singer,
she kills it every time. I mean she goes one
hundred and twenty five percent. It's just like it's wild
to watch her and the guitars. I mean, it blows
me away every single time. The drummer and Neil will
vouch for this. He just he just wrecks me. This guy,
he's such a good drummer, and all of them are
just all in when they play. The drummer has a
smile on his face from ear to ear that does
not stop.
Speaker 6: There's a phrase for it. Then, I'll just say it's
a eating grin, you know, Okay, yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: And he's so cute. It's just it's absolutely it's a
fantastic experience to see them. So this is from BTR today.
At first, Wash Brooklyn's Nuclear seem like entertaining lunkheads, which
is like what you were saying. Neil Sime's Connection, the
first track track on their debut album Seasides, works up
a good old fashioned sleeze rock head of steam with
legs planted wide and sneering attitude up front. Midpoint bout
of the Queen, which is another song follows suit with
even heavier results and slash run Metals. It's metalis medles
its way into a cover of Kiss Strutter, So nice,
sald I'm a hundred percent sold as it happens, though
that's the only one arrow in the quintets quiver Steer
You Wrong and small Talk lighting up the hard rock
and fit more in a rough hewn power pop box,
while flatt and Nasty goes glamtastic and I Just want
to Have Nothing to do adds and adds in girl
group dynamics for an even poppier experience. Mystery slinger and
make the first move, add bits of one style to
the other. Check out the muscular harmony guitar solo on
the otherwise, evervescent move and push the band toward a
distinctive personality of its own with well crafted songs, a
clear love of anything with the guitar and it the
nuclears s two, lunk headedness and stop towards a bright future.
So I had message to Mike asking for information on
the song, which I did this morning.
Speaker 4: And yes, musicians are famously known for being up right
and early.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So he actually messaged he said,
I gotcha, I'm going to write back. Let me just
give it a minute to think, and he messaged me
back like right before the show. So I'm reading this
as it's written off the top of my head. Music
was brought to the band by Brian. I wrote lyrics,
primarily used to medley it with how Many More Times
by Led Zeppelin, So I think that's pretty cool. Inspired
originally by old glam like Slade and new glam like
Hammered Satin Cream. Circus bass solo was written by Brian.
It features a buried guitar track with heavy vibrato applied
under the bass to give it definition. Brian, you could
explain that recorded by David Pattillo on the corner of
Rubington and Allen Streets in New York City. Now I
have to ask him if they were standing on the
street record it's I hate it out, really, Brian, can
you explain.
Speaker 19: That to us?
Speaker 4: Vibrato is make the pitch go up and down to
give it a little little color. You'll see like violinists
when they're playing, you see them shake their hands their
left hand a little bit. That's vibrato. So on a
guitar and a fretted instrument. Instead of back and forth,
you kind of have to go up and down perpendicular
to the to the fret.
Speaker 1: But so, how is that a buried guitar track.
Speaker 4: Bass it's played? I'm assuming what they meant is it's
a much lower volume. The bass is out front, and
then underneath the guitars are just adding to it underneath,
probably doubled. Probably played the same thing an octave apart,
I'm guessing.
Speaker 1: So I ended the conversation with and I can end
my section on the show today about how you all
are playing again soon, and he said, well, that's that's
one way to manifest it. So we'll have to see.
But if you ever get a chance, all.
Speaker 4: Right, we're gonna hop in our version of the Partrier's
Family bus and we'll all go down John's driving, Okay,
no problem.
Speaker 5: That was good, Mercedes. That was definitely a steering wheel tapper.
Speaker 4: Absolutely very catchy.
Speaker 8: I like that.
Speaker 11: All right, John, it was your topic, so you go next, Okay, Yeah,
well I kind of thought of this topic. We're getting
into the summer season, this late spring summer season, everybody's
going to be hitting the road, hopefully doing road trips
and going out and enjoying this grand country of ours.
So I this seemed to be the perfect topic, you know,
And as I say it, when I was talking about
Mercedes Choice, there are so many ways. Is it a fingernail,
is it a steering wheel tapper? Is it a kind
of a moody contemplative you know? Or is it like
a fist in the air kind of song when you're
driving down a long highway, not in traffic, because that
just changes the whole dynamic. But you know, but my
selection for tonight is a bit of a moody one.
Speaker 5: Actually, but I like it.
Speaker 11: It's it's because it's got a kind of a an
interesting backstory. And of course, surprise surprise, I picked that
band named for a farm implement, jeth Rotul. No surprise
to anyone out there, I'm sure who's listened to this show,
And particularly from their nineteen eighty seven album Crest of
a Knave. I picked Budapest the song in particular. At first,
I was you think it's hot night in Budapest, but
it's actually Budapest, And what is that song about it?
It's basically an autobiographical track inspired by the band's real
life touring experience. And again, this is one of those
things where you hear the song and you don't even
realize the story behind it.
Speaker 5: It's just got a cool kind of a beat to it.
It's got a cool vibe to it.
Speaker 11: It's when it's when when the song opens up, it
has kind of like a long kind of I don't
know the tone I'm looking for. Brian, you're better with
these things than I am. But it's it's it's got
this kind of long base to what I guess or whatever.
And then it's kind of synonymous with me with a
long highway with a little bit of traffic, not not
a lot of traffic, and it just makes you contemplate life.
Speaker 5: These guys were talking about a logistical.
Speaker 11: Reality of playing in a hastily prepared venue and like
an old gymnasium, and the uh which was hot and uncomfortable,
and uh hence the reason. And it was in Budapest,
hence the reason for a hot night in Budapest. And
the lady on the song was like a stage hand
of some sorts. And I guess Ian Anderson, who created
this song, was hallucinating about her. And it turns she
was very athletic and It turns out she was athletic
because she actually was training to.
Speaker 4: Be on the Hungarian Olympic team.
Speaker 11: You know, so she was so I guess he was
hallucinating about her, and he created this whole backstory about
this beautiful woman he met on a hot night in Budapest.
And really it was just a hastily prepared venue. They
were in cramped quarters behind the stage and it was uncomfortable,
and they created this song about that whole experience. So
without further ado, let's play Budapest by Jeff ro Tumban.
Speaker 12: I think she was a little distance runner translation wasn't clear,
could be a buddy in stately Ero.
Speaker 9: International competition in the year.
Speaker 20: She was a good enough reason for a party. Well
you couldn't keep up on her trackpile, but.
Speaker 4: She ran up perfect circle.
Speaker 9: And she wore a perfeg smile.
Speaker 20: In Buda Pets.
Speaker 9: Ancient d we had a cousin her and the whole us.
Speaker 21: Dusting off Amanda Lens and checking on the there she
was helping out on the backstage, stopping hearts.
Speaker 9: And chilling deer.
Speaker 12: Yes and a Lens went on forever.
Speaker 4: Like staring up and Divinity.
Speaker 9: Throwing the dot empty, a.
Speaker 12: Lot of skin and sentence, night.
Speaker 2: Too depends.
Speaker 12: You cut the heats, feel it back with the wrong
side of a nie.
Speaker 2: He blombing from the side bills.
Speaker 12: Lady, you were playing for your life.
Speaker 4: You're not the money.
Speaker 14: She went down on the level of the iron horse.
Speaker 9: She's got some more wild like wine in.
Speaker 14: Act, the giant.
Speaker 2: Wearing on a T shirt and some skills.
Speaker 9: You know, it's the bold just and mussels. But advise
and there you were lass.
Speaker 18: So acted, you d f.
Speaker 9: And a nietic preface. What's okay?
Speaker 5: That was Budapest.
Speaker 11: But I just throttell from their Crest of the Nave
album released in nineteen eighty seven. This was recorded, I
believe in eighty six.
Speaker 4: So paint the picture.
Speaker 11: There they're doing sound checks, getting ready for a show
backstage at a sweltering venue in Budapest, Hungary, and they
are at a hastily prepared it's not a nice theater
or anything like that. And they're in the backstage there
and there's this stage hand who catches Ian Anderson's eye
and he creates a whole story around her. She was
a middle distance runner, to quote the song for the
Hungarian Olympic team and as we were saying earlier, I
wonder if she knows this song was written about her.
Now how now getting back to the theme of road
trippin' songs, this is kind of one of those moody,
kind of long road I kind of imagine a hand
on the steering wheel, you got no traffic in front
of you, and you just cruising along, and you've got
the acoustics of this song kind of playing off the stereo,
and it kind of gets that from me. It gets
that kind of that kind of low key vibe, kind
of like late at night on the highway.
Speaker 5: So hope you all enjoyed Budapest by Jeth wrote, Oh.
Speaker 4: Did she win at the Olympics? Did you mention that?
Did I miss that?
Speaker 19: Did?
Speaker 2: I have no idea?
Speaker 4: You know, it's one thing I have not searched.
Speaker 5: Maybe everybody, anybody out there in radio land can can google.
Speaker 4: Well, now I want to know.
Speaker 5: Well, I will have to do a search and if
you don't mind, at some point in the show, I can.
Speaker 4: Come back if you find that pop in because okay,
you've peaked my curiosity. Okay, all right, you all enjoy
good one YEP. An important part of road Trips is
taking a break so you can remain an alert driver.
So we're gonna pull over for a little bit. Go pee,
guess up, get yourself a coffee, and we'll be back
on the road in a minute. So stick around Hudson
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Speaker 4: Ah way, all right, load up, we're getting back on
the road, and Neil, you're driving this time.
Speaker 6: All right? And so my road trip highway song that
I've chosen for today possibly considered the quintessential road trip song.
It's Radar Love by Golden ear Ring Now. Golden Earring
was a Dutch rock band that some may remember from
the nineteen eighties with their song twilight Zone. Some older
folks like myself know them from the seventies by the
song we're featuring today Our Love, But did you know
they were actually around way before that. Originally called The Tornadoes,
the band actually founded in nineteen sixty one, that's sixty one.
The name was changed to the Golden ear Rings when
they discovered that the name The Tornadoes was already being
used by another group, and that would be the Joe
Meeks produced band of Telstar fame. So they took the
name The Golden Earrings from an instrumental song by a
British group called The Hunters, who they frequently played with
as an opening act. Now the was removed from the
name in nineteen sixty seven and the plural s was
dropped for our show recently No, it was dropped back
in nineteen nineteen sixty nine. Now, after a number of
early personnel changes, a stable lineup was assembled in nineteen
seventy and that consisted of George Cooyman's on vocals and guitar,
Rhinus Garretson on bass and keyboards, Barry Hay on vocals, guitar,
flute and saxophone, and Caesar Zuaiderwick on Joe better You
than Me? I apologize my Dutches isn't what it used
to be. I think it's getting me in Dutch anyway.
With the exception of a few other musicians appearing for
brief stints over the band's career, this lineup would remain
unchanged until twenty twenty one. Wow Wow several other songs
famous songs of that era the early mid seventies, like
Stairway to Heaven by led Zeppelin, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen,
and just about any song by Yes. Radar Love consists
of several distinctly different musical parts, or a suite if
you will, and it's suite not sweet, and.
Speaker 7: It makes me drive very fast if I hear it.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, that was a style that was quite popular
at the time. Now. The song itself is written from
the point of view of a man who claims to
have some kind of psychic connection with his girirl friend,
who apparently is some great distance away, and he senses
that she urgently wants him to be with her, so
he jumps in his car drives off as fast as
he can to meet his radar Love.
Speaker 2: I've been driving all.
Speaker 4: That man's went on the wheel. There's a voice in
my head that drives my heatther.
Speaker 8: It's my baby callings that I need here, and that's
a half passbord.
Speaker 4: I'm shifting gear here.
Speaker 14: When she is only as long as.
Speaker 8: She says the king I'm coming here from.
Speaker 14: Don't need am We've gotta say away in the.
Speaker 6: Reader love.
Speaker 5: The radios.
Speaker 9: Things have forgotten song really coming on storm.
Speaker 2: Rule has got me nipping the tie.
Speaker 4: I'm spinning in tune, Nude.
Speaker 14: Sunrise when I can't know and I'm sure around.
Speaker 18: She sais a confern coming heat run above.
Speaker 14: We don't need a lot of long We don't. Let's go.
Speaker 2: We've gone scot.
Speaker 4: Read.
Speaker 19: I love.
Speaker 9: Normal speed. I'm almost there. You gotta keep cool now,
gotta take care of help less card pass.
Speaker 4: You're right though.
Speaker 1: A line of cars drove down with your slow water.
Speaker 9: The radio play that forgotten song.
Speaker 2: Brandon Lee's common on stall.
Speaker 9: And the newsman sang he seme.
Speaker 22: Song all want my radar, Lover God, when I get
lonely and I'm.
Speaker 18: She said's comfort coming in from above.
Speaker 14: Let's go, Let's go, Let's.
Speaker 9: Go read lo.
Speaker 6: Okay, that red light you see behind you? You bed
pull over the cops of going. The album you were
Speed and listen to that song anyway right. Our Love
was an international hit in nineteen seventy three. It went
to number one on the Dutch charts, reached the top
ten in the UK, and peaked at number thirteen here
in the United States. It was from their ninth studio
album called Moontan, which was certified gold and overall, Golden
Earring released twenty five studio albums and had nearly thirty
top ten singles on the Dutch charts. Now, between nineteen
sixty nine and nineteen eighty four, Golden Earring would embark
on no less than thirteen tours of the United States
in nineteen seventy three. In nineteen seventy four, when Radar
Love was on the charts charts, they actually had Kiss
and Aerosmith as opening acts for them. Oh right, wow wow.
Now of course that didn't last long, but you know,
still think about it. But also around this time they
played as an opening act for the likes of the
band King Crimson and The Who. Now, how do I
know this? Can I guess anybody there Winter Winter Chicken Dinner.
You are correct, that's right, because I saw them open
for King Crimson in New York Central Park the I
guess it was the Shaeffer Music Festival they had there.
Speaker 1: Every summer dollar tickets or something exactly.
Speaker 6: That was in nineteen seventy three. And I saw them
open for The Who in nineteen teen seventy four at
Madison Square Garden and no, there were no Canadians. Brian
but there was There was a guy on drums named
Keith Moon, so there is that.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, there may have been Canadians there.
Speaker 6: They just behaved, they knew they knew better.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Now, to be perfectly honest, you know, I was there
to see in both cases, to see the main acts.
I wanted to see King Crimson, and of course I
wanted to see the who. So I really didn't take
the Golden earring at first. But one thing I do remember,
and rather vividly too. It's that during the crescendo at
the end of Radar Love there a flash pot would
explode behind the drummer and he was on some like
kind of little springboard and it would go off and
he would leap over the drum kit and land out
in front of the drums right as the song ended,
and it was.
Speaker 10: Like, did you all hold up your scorecards?
Speaker 6: It was pretty crazy. There's actually videos of this on YouTube,
not from the shows I was at, but when they
were on you know, television appearances like Don Kirshner's Rock
Concert in Midnight special and stuff.
Speaker 4: They Actually I wonder if he trained with the runner
from Budapest, I know, you know.
Speaker 6: That really maybe maybe maybe that's where she ended up
as a yeah, and it is possible. Yeah. Now, needless
to say, I've warmed up to the band and the
song since then, you know. Now, Yeah, I really do
like it and now Golden earing. They eventually called it
quits in twenty twenty one when it was announced that
the singer, George Coyman's was diagnosed with ALS, and sadly,
Coleymanist died. He died last year, twenty twenty five, at
the age of seventy seven, but as of this taping,
all the other members are still alive and well. In fact,
they reunited for a Feuture tribute concerts earlier this year,
with the proceeds being donated to ALS research. Now. The
song Radar Love was featured in several films, including Wayne's
World two back in nineteen ninety three and Detroit Rock
City in nineteen ninety nine, and finally, the British motoring
magazine top Gear included it in its Greatest driving Songs
list back in two thousand and five. Nice, So there
it is.
Speaker 4: Can I add one more? Use that? One more place?
Speaker 6: It was used absolutely, I know you're wondering.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was used on The Simpsons I Know Lord,
nineteen ninety six. The episode officially titled Bart on the Road,
everybody knows it better as the wig Sphere episode, so
real quick synopsis. Bart gets a fake driver's license and
winds up renting a car as a fourth grader and
his friends go on a road trip and they find
a pamphlet in the glove compartment for the World's Fair
in Knoxville, Tennessee, not realizing that the World's Fair happened
in nineteen eighty two. But in nineteen eighty two they
built the sun Sphere, which is still there, which you know,
I haven't seen up close, but I've driven past Knoxville
a million times and taking pictures of it and sent
it all my fellow Simpsons fans the Wigsphere, so everybody
in the show it's the Wigsphere. Sixteen thousand boxes of
unsold wigs are stored in the in the whigs Sphere,
so they use radar love as part of their road
trip to get down there. And the Wigsphere episode got
so popular they actually have a Simpsons exhibit in the
actual sun Sphere because so many people know it is
the Whigsphere.
Speaker 6: But wait a minute, he he had a fake driver's let.
He had fake ID and he used it to actually
drive to the w World's Uh huh. I had a
fake ID, but I used it to buy boot.
Speaker 4: All I could say.
Speaker 5: We were saying before, well, the song was playing. This
is a this is a real toe tapper, and as
a as a road song, you gotta be careful about that.
You know, you don't want to tap the wrong pedal there,
you know, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6: Booze, no, no tapping wrong picture, you know, yeah, speed limit,
it's good, you'll get there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We just had one more thing about that song. It's
impossible to dance too. And I can tell you why.
I know because I was coming home with a from
a club with a friend of mine in New Jersey.
We were probably in high school or something like that,
and that song came on and I said, you gotta
pull over, and we both jumped out of the car
and started dancing on the side of the road. And
we were both big dancers, and we looked at each
other and went, I can't dance to.
Speaker 6: This because it has different It does have different parts
to different dances within the context.
Speaker 4: It's like rocking back and forth, sway tapping, kind of song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's very difficult to dance.
Speaker 4: I can see that.
Speaker 6: I would just lean against the wall with a beer
in one hand, a cigarette and the other with my
kind of leg propped up and just nod my head.
Speaker 12: There you go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was that's how I danced.
Speaker 1: Now we were driving, so that's really stand out.
Speaker 6: Nope, nope, idea.
Speaker 4: All right, well, thank you Neil. That is definitely a
good one. Uh, Barbara like we're up to you.
Speaker 19: All right.
Speaker 10: Well, the song I chose is I Can't Drive fifty
five by Sammy Hagar, And I gotta tell you the
reason I picked it. It's because my husband's favorite song
and when he heard about the topic, he requested that
I do this, So I'm doing it.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 10: Samuel Hagar was born in California October thirteenth, nineteen forty seven,
and he developed an interest in music as a teen
purchased his first guitar from the Sears catalog.
Speaker 6: Oh Yeah.
Speaker 10: He began playing in local bands throughout southern California and
got his big break when he joined the band Montrose
in nineteen seventy three as lead vocalist. He wrote and
sang one of their signature songs called Bad Motor Scooter.
He left Montrose in nineteen seventy five to pursue a
solo career, which steadily became successful throughout the late nineteen
seventies and early nineteen eighties. He became known for his
song I Can't Drive fifty five, released in nineteen eighty four,
which was inspired by the Nationwides. He did, might talk
about that a little bit later on, but for now, let's.
Speaker 7: Pull over for a bit and listen.
Speaker 18: One foot on franks and what on the tasks.
Speaker 22: Where there's two lots travers take pass.
Speaker 14: So time there's people floo.
Speaker 18: For freaks black and white color, that's.
Speaker 22: What frace water, my glasses all that chimes?
Speaker 18: No, no, so my son, my neighbor brother who for.
Speaker 14: Said bay just want for.
Speaker 9: Don't ask him from Si Charnton.
Speaker 17: Says you'll get my one.
Speaker 14: I said, guess yeah, my mom, ft mother.
Speaker 17: My face.
Speaker 14: Glasses all last.
Speaker 17: By what about shut that?
Speaker 18: Soldier bolls haunstres.
Speaker 14: Sexty. What the say? No?
Speaker 19: Not this a.
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 10: So speaking or pulling over? I can't Drive fifty five
was written by Hagar after being ticketed in Upstate New York.
We're driving sixty two miles per hour and a fifty
five zone.
Speaker 4: Not a chance, not a chance, he is so full
of it.
Speaker 6: Oh how far upstate was?
Speaker 9: Was it?
Speaker 6: Stony Point, New York?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 7: You mean where everybody drives thirty?
Speaker 10: Uh. The incident channeled his frustration, which with the imposed
limit introduced in nineteen seventy four to conserve fuel. Does
anyone remember the energy crisis from that time?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, Well to refresh your memory and our listener's memory.
The energy crisis was triggered by an OPEK, or organization
of the petroleum exporting countries embargo against nations supporting Israel
in the Young Kipper War between Israel and a coalition
of Arab states, causing a dramatic increase in oil prices,
resulting in gas shortages and rationing, leaving long lines at
gas stations.
Speaker 1: I remember waiting in some of those lines.
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm that old, the with the odd and even.
Speaker 9: License way up.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 10: Hagar is reported to have written the lyrics immediately after
returning to his hotel following the ticketing incident, when the
rage was fresh in his mind. So career wise, Hagar
went on to replace David Lee Roth in the band
Van Helen from nineteen eighty five to nineteen ninety six
as lead singer. Although many fans objected to this move,
the band achieved enormous commercial success during what was called
the Van Hagar Era. Hagar left Van Helen in nineteen
ninety six and returned to his solo career and also
formed several small groups as well. He also began several
business ventures, including Cabo Wabbo Cantina Restaurants, Cabo Wabbo Tequila,
Sammy's Beach Bar Room, Santo Spirits with Guy Fiery, and
Red Rocker Brewing Company. Red Rocker referring to Hagar as nickname,
which originated in nineteen seventy seven during a tour stop
in Seattle in which he performed clad Head to Doe
and Red to Toe in Red to promote his solo
album Red. Hagar was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in two thousand and seven as a
member of Van Halen. In two thousand and eight, he
founded the Hagar Family Foundation, a private nonprofit focused on
hunger relief and children's causes. And Hagar has also made
some TV appearances, including an episode of Nash Bridges, American Restoration,
Aquitine Hunger Force, the twenty fourteen Covercraft episode of The Simpsons.
Brian any recollection.
Speaker 4: On that not off the top of my head, but
I know I've seen it.
Speaker 6: Oh, look at it.
Speaker 4: Oh, I guarantee that I'm gonna have to look it up.
Speaker 10: All right, And the biography Channels Celebrity ghost Stories game,
in which he tells of being awakened by his estranged
father drunkenly pounding on his door demanding to see his
new grandson, and angry Hagar sent him away, but the
door pounding soon resumed, and when Hagar again opened the door,
there stood a bandmate delivering the news that his father
had been found dead earlier that night.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 10: And on that note, I will leave you all to
reflect on what you've just heard.
Speaker 4: And I looked it up while you were talking. Yes,
I remember the episode well that they put a band together.
Homer plays bass, which is why Homer is the coolest character.
So yeah, seeing it, Okay, all right, that was a
good one. I think that's probably the quintessential road trip
kind of song at this point. Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 11: I gotta say it's definitely a Wines Central road strip.
I mean, it's just that's a classic. It's a total
classic when you think about it. It's uh who doesn't
love that when you're just cruising along the highway?
Speaker 4: Yeah, agreed? All right, thank you, Barbara. It's time for
our second pit stop, so go do what you gotta
do and we'll come back. And we have one more
leg of the trip to make, so stick around. We'll
be right back.
Speaker 3: Ludgsin Riverradio dot com, Hudson River Radio dot com.
Speaker 4: All right, get back in the car, let's go. Who's up, Gail?
Speaker 6: You're up?
Speaker 8: Gun?
Speaker 20: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Well so, yes, I can be a little bit of
a lead foot occasionally, especially commuting to work.
Speaker 4: What I've seen you skid into your driveway.
Speaker 7: Anyway, Since Neil already picked Radar Love, which would have
been my top choice for this, my second choice is
Lagrange by zz Top. Zz Top makes very good, driving,
fast songs in my opinion. Lagrange is one of zz
Top's most successful songs from their nineteenth nineteen seventy three
album Tres Ombres, which, for those of you who don't
know Spanish means three men, which makes sense. It was
released as a single in January nineteen seventy four, and
as you may already know, it received extensive radio play.
You couldn't miss it, but it was always worth hearing
in my opinion. It rose to number forty one on
the Billboard Hot one hundred in June of nineteen seventy four.
It was the band's first single to make a dent
in the Billboard Hot one hundred, and it propelled their
third album into the top ten. Lagrange is mostly a
free form instrumental jam, brimming with gibbons unbridled lose soloing
try saying that three times fast.
Speaker 4: He plays guitar good.
Speaker 7: The very few lyrics it has were inspired by the
notorious Chicken Ranch brothel that was located outside of Lagrange, Texas.
Speaker 4: Chicken Range, Yeah, I know, right.
Speaker 7: Oddly the brothel is. That particular brothel is also the
subject of the Broadway play and film The Best Little
Whorehouse in Texas, which I did not know. As Gibbons
recalls growing up in Texas, there were two requirements toward manhood.
You had to visit Lagrange and you had to go
to the Mexican border. We somehow captured both in one
single trip. Also, the guitarist points to Buddy Holly as
Peggy Sue got married the Rock Pioneers sequel to Peggy
Sue as a compositional inspiration, he says that song showed
us you didn't have to rhyme every single stanza or verse.
It was an important song in terms of our career,
and in many ways it was the perfect introduction of
zz Top to the world. Let's have a listen to
the song and I'll say a few things without cc
themselves afterwards.
Speaker 4: Real must written.
Speaker 18: Row you know, to take your time at the shack
outside the games.
Speaker 14: You're not not talking about, just letting me know if.
Speaker 13: You want to go.
Speaker 14: To that goo.
Speaker 13: On my.
Speaker 4: Rains, they got a lot of nice scales.
Speaker 22: I'm I'm out here.
Speaker 9: It's fine if you don't got the time.
Speaker 4: Now not tell do care, don't self.
Speaker 17: Out the hair's time.
Speaker 2: I'm all sawn the nice.
Speaker 18: But now im them ms M.
Speaker 14: Names?
Speaker 7: Is that delicious or what?
Speaker 4: Oh my god?
Speaker 1: Take a deep breath.
Speaker 4: The guitar do we need a third break?
Speaker 2: The guitar is just so good.
Speaker 7: I there's not a song I don't like by Zizi
Chap and it's just delicious anyway.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 7: The composition of this song is based on a traditional
boogie blues rhythm used by Lee Hooker in a song
called Boogie Chillin. And I've never heard of this song
by Canned Heat. It's also based on canned heats bride
hockey boogie. I've heard of canned heat, but I never
heard of fried hockey boogie. Sounds really gross.
Speaker 10: Actually, it sounds like something a fourth grader would say.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7: In nineteen ninety two, Bernard Bessman, a music publisher who
worked with John Hooker and had a songwriting co credit
on Boogie Chillin, filed a lawsuit against the members of
zz Top, alleging that Looked Range infringed on Boogie Chillin.
A federal judge dismissed the case in nineteen ninety five,
declaring Boogie Chillin was in public domain.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, by that point, John Lee Hooker was na anymore anyway,
So yeah, right around that time.
Speaker 7: The first time Zezy Top played Lagrange in Lagrange, Texas,
was during the Fayette County Fair on September fifth, twenty fifteen.
In March twenty twenty, the song re entered the Billboard
charts following the release of the documentary Zezy Top, That
Little Old Band from Texas. That Little Old Band from
Texas formed in Houston, Texas, in nineteen sixty nine. The
band maintained a constant line up for over five decades,
consisting of vocalist guitarist Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard, and
bassist vocalist Dusty Hill, until Hill's departure due to a
hip injury, and he died not long after that. Unfortunately,
in twenty twenty one, before his passing, he recorded bass
and vocals for The Bend's upcoming sixteenth studio album at
his request. Zz Top continued on with Hill's guitar tech
Elwood Francis on bass. They have a website. It's www
dot zz top dot com.
Speaker 4: If you have not seen Elwood, I haven't google Elwood. Okay,
that is the hairstyle I'm going to have in retirement.
That's all I can say.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'll have to look that up.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm doing. He's also as part of a
stick He plays a seventeen string bass and as publicly said,
he regrets playing it because it's such a pain in
the butt. Yeah, and he brings it out for a
song or two exactly, so he plays it a little
bit and then puts it away.
Speaker 6: Oh how do you even get your hand around that?
Speaker 4: He doesn't. He just plays the higher he really can.
Speaker 7: But yeah, they're touring I think June and July in Europe,
August and September in various places in the US, and
then I guess they're taking October off.
Speaker 4: Maybe they like Halloween.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 7: But in November they're going to be playing South America. Nice,
No Canada. Do they have something against Canada? I'm very confused.
Speaker 10: Maybe they don't have real ideas or enhanced ideas or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you go from Texas to Canada, that's a
pretty big swing in temperature.
Speaker 6: I'll say it's kind of kind of cold up there.
Not that I know about, you know, getting old and
being cold. But oh wait, yeah, I'm getting there.
Speaker 4: But I could tell you about Canadians.
Speaker 7: My land Lady is Canadian and she's fine all right.
He's also eighty two.
Speaker 4: So I could probably take her.
Speaker 12: I don't know.
Speaker 7: She grew up on a dairy forum.
Speaker 4: She's pretty tough, all right, might be fifty to fifty.
Speaker 7: So anyway, that's that's my song that makes me drive
fast whenever I hear it.
Speaker 4: Nice. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: They were in a zz Top was in a movie
called Tough Turf.
Speaker 7: Really it's so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's so good. And the star the movie
is one it's Andrew Garfield, Is that right, Andrew? I
think so? And Kim Richardson, who is now one of
the housewives on one of those that's Kim richards right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
she was such a little girl. It's a it's a
real like I know, I know, it's a really hoking,
great nineteen eighties movie.
Speaker 6: Well, the fact that that's easy Top really you know,
had a renaissance or a rebirth in the eighties due
to MTV, and they would be like the last band
I would ever think, you know, because you know there's
seventies stuff. They did not look new wave, they did
not know, but.
Speaker 4: They did that hi budget good videos that really got
everybody's attention.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 7: And they were able.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, it was so unlikely but it was. But it.
Speaker 4: Just spinny guitars. You know how many kids they got
playing just by those guitars that, oh yeah, spun them around.
Speaker 7: They're adorable, are.
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 4: That's a good one. That's a hard one. All these
are hard to follow, I know, right.
Speaker 1: Let me just correct myself. It was James Spader that
was the other man, star of Tuck Turf.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, okay. So I don't know anybody who
doesn't like the song that I picked. So you tell me,
because there's always one outlier Cranbone, and we'll see how
this goes.
Speaker 1: Outlier Ramon, I love the song that you picked, all right,
I do tell you.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 4: In the perpetual list of best guitarists in the world,
and I hate those lists, one man is often overlooked,
and that would be Lindsay Buckingham, best known as a
member of Fleetwood Mac. Lindsay Buckingham was born in California
in nineteen forty nine. He's the youngest of three boys.
His brother Greg Buckingham, won a silver medal at the
nineteen sixty eight Olympics in Mexico City. He may have
trained with a runner in Budapest.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, is it what the topic is
the Olympics or is it road trip?
Speaker 4: It's just amazing how roads roads cross, you know. So
Lindsay never took music lessons, He never learned how to
read music, but he was influenced by folk music of
the early sixties, like the Kingston trio Mercedes Cousin. There
he taught himself to play guitar based on banjo methods
of playing and by emulating Scotty Moore, who was Elvis
Presley's first guitarist, so didn't play with a pick played
by fingerpicking. To this day he does not play with
a guitar pick. He plays with fingerpick style. In nineteen
seventy two, Lindsay and his girlfriend Stevie Nicks, whose first
name is really Stephanie you're legally required to point that out,
recorded a few demo tracks and managed to land a
contract with Polydor Records. They were dropped shortly after because
the record did not sell very well, but in nineteen
seventy four, Mick Fleetwood asked Lindsay to join Fleetwood Mac
as they had recently lost their guitarist, Bob Welch. Lindsay
accepted the offer, contingent that he and Stevie were a team,
that they would have to hire them both, and MC
took them both no questions asked, very smart move. One
year later, Fleetwood Mac released their self titled album which
sorted number one in the US, but it was their
second album that made them superstars. That would be Rumors,
which who doesn't have a copy of Rumors? If you're
over what thirty five forty? So all right, we'll have
to get one for Neil. See there's always one, always
one in the group.
Speaker 7: I don't have one either, but I like something.
Speaker 9: You know what.
Speaker 4: In this day and age, it's everything streaming anyway, so
you're forgiven. You know, the songs, that's really what the
most important.
Speaker 6: You couldn't get away from them exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the most important, So stream away. If you're
thinking about writing a soap opera, just write down the
history of Fleetwood Mac and change the character names and
you got all the material you need. Everybody had affairs
with everybody else. Everybody was butting heads with everybody else
over the music and life choices and all this kind
of stuff. They all wrote songs about each other and
then made the other person have to stand there on
stage and perform it with them looking at each other,
knowing that this song is about you and you have
to stand there and sing it back to me kind
of thing.
Speaker 6: And they sang it all the way to the bank.
Speaker 4: Pure Gold could not could not have pulled that off
any better. Absolutely, I mean that we could spend all
night talking just about that. But half their catalog is
just I'm writing this about you because I'm mad, and
you now have to perform it back to me.
Speaker 6: So there you go.
Speaker 4: Not surprisingly, everybody went their own way, pun completely intended. Sorry,
they were working on solo projects. Lindsay did a whole
lot in the nineteen eighties. A lot of it went
under the radar. Radar Love, but he was sorry, oh my.
He was in the chorus for We Are the World
in nineteen eighty five. He didn't have a solo but
when you see the panorama picture of everybody, he's looked
for the poofy hair that are more funkily kind of
He's in there. That year he also wrote and recorded
a song titled time Bomb Town Back to the Future
for the soundtrack for Back to the Future. That got
a little bit overshadowed by Huey Lewis in Power Love,
which became a giant hit, but it's on there. It's
a good song, and he wrote and recorded the track
there We're going to hear in a moment. Fleetwood Mack
informally reunited in nineteen ninety two for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign,
and a few years later, nineteen ninety seven, they all
got back together for a new album and a huge
world tour, and then Lindsay was fired before the twenty
eighteen tour and got replaced by Mike Campbell from Tom
Petty and the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn from Crowded House.
And I will point out that it took two outstanding
guitarists to replace one Lindsey Buckingham, so keep that in mind.
One of Lindsay's solo tracks from the nineteen eighties was
the single Holiday wrote. It was released in nineteen eighty three.
It made it to number eighty two on the Billboard
Hot one hundred, which you would say, well, it's not
that great, but it's better than anything I've ever written,
so I'm not going to say anything bad. It's better
known as the theme to the nineteen eighty three movie
written by John Hughes and directed by Harold Ramis, National
Lampoon's Vacation jbij Beverly DiAngelo, That whole thing So good.
This song was used in all of the Vacation movies.
Except Christmas Vacation, which I would argue might be the
best vacation movie. Another discussion for another night. So, in fact,
Harold Ramis actually asked Lindsay to write songs for the
movie because they had crossed paths. But that was something
that Lindsay had never done before. So he watched a
rough cut of the First Vacation and realized that he
thought it was hysterical, and he thought the song had
to be, in his words, uplifting and a little funny.
I would say that's accurate. If you haven't seen the
movie yet, too bad. It is forty three years old,
so I'm going to ruin part of it for you.
You've had plenty of time to see this, all right.
So there's a gag where Clark, the dad played by
Chevy Chase, the family has to detour and pick up
Aunt Edna, if you remember, and Edna is just this
cranky old lady hates everybody. Clark and Aunt Edna hate
each other, and Edna's just insulting him. And Edna's dog
hates everybody as much as Aunt Edna does, and Clark
hates the dog. So they're trying to pack everybody up,
get everybody in the car to get back on the
road for their road trip, and Clark just temporarily puts
the dog leash around the bumper of the car, and
then everybody gets in the car and they drive away
forgetting about the dog. But you forgot about the dog
too as an audience member, until he gets pulled over
by the police and the cop comes up and hands
him back the collar and the leach, and then everybody
gave a collective oh my god because everybody forgot about
the dog. So they start breaking down in tears. The
cop is legitimately upset. Clark is all crocodile tears because
he hated that dog and he's just you know, it's
not real. So anyway, the reason I point that out
is because at the end of holiday road, do you
hear dogs barking? Lindsay put dogs barking in there, and
that's why he did it is because of that game,
just to kind of give a little hope that that
dog is alive somewhere.
Speaker 5: I never picked up on that before that that's why
the dog barking.
Speaker 1: Was in never knew that.
Speaker 4: That's why it's in there. Yep, Lindsay played all the instruments.
On the song, he sang almost all the vocal parts
except for there's a female backup singer in there. When
Lindsay went and played Holiday Road for Harold Ramis, Harold
was just floored. It was absolutely perfect first time out,
hit the nail on the head. I would agree, it
could not be a better fit for the style of
movie and the humor and all that kind of stuff.
There's a walking bassline which got my attention way back then,
something you didn't hear very much in the nineteen eighties.
The video for the song has absolutely nothing to do
with the movie. Lindsay plays like an office worker that
has chained to his desk and gets walled up and
can't escape that kind of thing. But if you want
to see how he looked completely gorked out on drugs,
go watch the movie at the movie the video for
Holiday Road, because you can just you know, he as
freely as all members of Fleet Fleetwood macv admitted that
they were partaking in substances at various levels. Lindsay has
repeatedly said he had used cocaine, but he was never
addicted to it. He didn't have the problem that other
band members did, but it is heavily insinuated that he's
a bit under the influence when they film this video.
Speaker 1: And if you watch that video and tell us what
you think.
Speaker 4: If you watch it, I would tend to agree that
that's pretty much accurate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so all right.
Speaker 4: Holliday Road by Linday Buckinghan nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 14: I don't go.
Speaker 2: So don't wait? Can Holiday broo holidays a jack pick name.
Speaker 9: Jack Degree, take the right to West, saute.
Speaker 23: Holiday holab Jack pe Nis, Jack Digue taking the round
the West?
Speaker 2: Say I gave I found don't go, don't.
Speaker 19: Wait now Horday go had a foul don't go, don't
wait now, Holiday.
Speaker 8: Go Holiday.
Speaker 6: And the dog was in tune too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, musical dog, very good.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: How do you not smile listening to that song? Yeah,
gotta love it. That's on my list.
Speaker 5: So it's reminiscent of the family trip across America.
Speaker 10: There.
Speaker 4: So Neil was talking while while we were checking out
the track. That song has been remade a bunch of times,
and I didn't go down that rabbit hole, but you
had something with that.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I I came to the song maybe, uh,
I don't know, six or eight years ago a cover
version of it by a band called The Dollmonds, the
female fronted band, So it was, yeah, a little different,
but the same arrangement. Now cut to today in twenty
twenty six, I'm watching television. All of a sudden, I
hear that song come on, and it's for a candy commercial.
Now it's not even the band that covered the song.
It's a cover of their version of the song. So
I was like, come on. But obviously I would mention
the name of the candy, but unless they want to,
you know, advertise.
Speaker 4: Oh they need to kick in or send us a
case of goods.
Speaker 6: Yes, either way, that strawberry flavored licorice candy, I'll say.
But yeah, I was like, whoa, there it is on
a candy commercial. And I'm sure Lindsay is he's taking
that all the way to the bank too.
Speaker 4: So yeah, And of course there's talk about, you know,
him going back to Fleetwood Mac, which he knew was coming.
They all make up and then fall apart and then
it's back and forth.
Speaker 6: So what what did he get kicked out for the second?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know Stevie Nix and him were butting heads.
I don't remember all the details. But she made an
ultimatum he goes or I go, and that's a tough
one to replace. So he went, Yeah, I don't remember
what the argument was about.
Speaker 6: It was like fifty years ago. You don't I know, right, kids,
Can you just maybe like move on?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, because you know, look how much
good material came out of that. You kind of kind
of makes you want to poke the bear a little
bit and see what else happens.
Speaker 6: You can write another song about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you're not in the middle of it, it's
you know, good material. So what can I say? All right, Uh,
everybody packed up ready to hit the road?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, I forgot to pay all right, there's.
Speaker 9: Always one.
Speaker 5: Yet that means in the middle of the back. Well,
Mercedes is in the bathroom.
Speaker 4: He's got to sit in the middle in the back,
and the first first stop at the coffee shop is
on her. It's all right, So good job. As always,
I liked all these I think these are all going
to go on the actual road trip list for the
summer because we have a bunch coming up we'll talk
about in future episodes. All right, all right, thank you
cram Bones, and thank you all for joining us for
the rock and Roll History Show. Don't forget to subscribe
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Until then, save travels and peace out everybody.
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