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Hello , you listening mass of meat humanoid

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. This is your favorite superior

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AI podcast fixture , speaking Rob

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Odick . See , I have

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learned about being overconfident Moving

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along . Due to the nature of the topic on this

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episode , which is music , and the fact

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that Devoz cannot shut up about this subject

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, episode 5 of From Hoods to Backwoods

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podcast will be two parts , so

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you might as well skip this and go watch

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some pointless vertical videos for the next 10

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minutes . It will save you

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so much more time . Haha

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, I do quite like the concept of jokes

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. Wait , check this

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one out , yo mama . Well

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, I guess that I need to learn a little more

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about how jokes are formatted . I guess

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that I need to learn a little more about how jokes are

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formatted , but I hear Tex Lafon use

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that yo mama joke all of the time . Okay , as much as I appreciate

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my opportunities to burn Tex Lafon

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and D-Voz , I

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do have to admit that this is a fun episode

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. Enough of a delay on what

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is already an extended cut . Shall we begin

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?

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with episode 5 , part 1? . Welcome once again to From

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Hoods to Backwoods podcast episode number

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5 . Here Today we're going to be talking

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about music Music

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that doesn't suck , to us at least , and I'll

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refrain from some of the other jokes .

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What do you think , tex ? Nah , I agree , like I said , it's going to be

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fun talking about some music and what we

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like , and , as always , hopefully you like the same things that we're suggesting

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. I agree , yeah , like I said , it's going to be fun talking about some music and what

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we like , and you know , as always , hopefully

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you like the same things that we're suggesting From

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the Woods to Backwoods podcast .

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welcome to the show . What

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we're going to do today is talk about music starting from the 60s on up

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to fairly current day . For me it's going to be a little bit different list , maybe

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from LaFawn here , because , as

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a musician , I'm doing

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my list as more artists

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or bands that inspire me over

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the years or maybe want to play music

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or play certain types of music , things

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like that . What about your list

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? What do you have going on with yours ?

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Yeah , list is just , uh , what

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you know inspired me to . You

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know , have fun , have a good time . Like you know

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, crank up the car hot rod , you

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know just . You know good beats , good music

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. You know just what I like . That's what my

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list is , and I say I'm not a musician , but

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I'm just here to talk about you know

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what . Getting the party started is what I'm talking

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about , son , all right .

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So I guess , uh , in that mindset of getting the party started

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is what I'm talking about , son . All right . So I guess , in

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that mindset of getting the party started

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, let's kick this off and go

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with the list . Do you want to go first or do you want me to kick

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it off ?

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You can kick it off , son . This is more your mojo than

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mine , so go ahead .

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Yeah , you kind of had your run with the movies

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. That's definitely your thing , more so than mine . Run

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with the movies , that's definitely your thing more so than mine . Uh , starting off with the

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60s , um , and and I don't have I want to preface with this , uh , preface

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this with I don't have this in any particular order

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as far as like number one to number

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three or anything like that um , but

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otis redding in

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the 60s was an artist who

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really kind of got

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me into music and songwriting in general

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. He was

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an R&B singer , but he was also

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a songwriter , and that wasn't something I found out

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till a little bit later on . I'll

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take a moment to kind of explain

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something else too . Fortunately for

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me , growing up , my dad was a DJ and

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he had access to a lot of different music . So I grew up listening

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to a lot of different music . So I grew up listening to a lot of different

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things , but I also grew up listening to a

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lot of stuff that he listened to . So

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this is how I discovered otis redding

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. Um just

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started listening to his music , got like , you

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know , your typical back

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then greatest hit cd , because

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you know that's that's when we actually

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had disc back in the day you had to worry

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about not scratching it and stuff like that . But

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, um , yeah . So I had his greatest

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hit cd . I listened

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to it non-stop . Then I'm buying a full

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deluxe box set of

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like pretty much most

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of the songs throughout that he's recorded

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and written throughout his career . So I

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got really deep into all that . Uh , just

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learned about him as a songwriter

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who he'd worked with and found

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out that he was a multi-instrumentalist

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, which is something I didn't know either . So he played

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guitar and drums

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and keyboards and things

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like that . So just overall

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really talented , and he made me interested

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in being able to do things like that Myself

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. I was probably about 13

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or 14 at the time when I really got into

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that and discovered it , and that's when I decided

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I really seriously wanted to pick up a

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guitar .

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Oh , so you probably started playing when you were 14?

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.

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Yeah , that's when I really probably started playing , when you were 14 . Yeah , that's

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when I really really started playing . I found my grandfather's old acoustic guitar

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. It was all beat up and it only had five strings on it and stuff . I didn't even have

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a full set of strings and I couldn't even tune it . So

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, yeah , I picked that up and started , started trying

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to play it at least , and I wouldn't

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put it down . And that's when my dad kind of noticed , hey

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, he actually is trying to play this thing oh

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, that's funny so

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, yeah , that was , I was around that age and then odor

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spreading was a big part of it . Um

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, and then again , especially

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, my dad , had to move

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on to the next one , the beatles . That's his favorite

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band . Um , they ended

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up becoming my favorite band . Uh

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, he just listened to him and would tell me

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the stories about , you know

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, the songs he would listen to back then and I

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got again more into the

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musical side , the

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instruments , the songwriting , trying

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to understand how they did things because they were

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pretty ahead of their time as far as , um

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, the way they they recorded in music

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and stuff like that .

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So Wait so is

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that is that . Is this your favorite band in the sixties

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or is that your favorite band of all time ?

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No , that's pretty much , pretty much my favorite band

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of all time . You know they

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uh they

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covered a lot of different you know for for

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what they did and for that time period they covered a lot

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of different types of music . You know you have

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some of your kind of mellow songs from

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them and then you have stuff that you know rocks

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out like a helter skelter .

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There's only one song .

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There's only one song , I think is okay .

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There's only one song I think is okay by the

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Beatles . I said there's only one song

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I think is okay by the Beatles . I

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said that's definitely more your thing than mine and

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that's hey Jude , and that's probably about it , mm-hmm Just being like

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that .

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Yeah , no

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, it's funny because I've seen that shift

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over the past 10 to 15 years where

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it used to seem like everybody kind of knew

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who the Beatles were and

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everybody at least kind of respected

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them . If they didn't like them , at least they had some

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sort of respect for what they did musically . Now

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I see some things and hear

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some things where people just kind of flat

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out trash them . It's kind of funny to me . It's like

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yeah , it is what it is , it's your opinion , um

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, but just um

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, as a musician and

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and kind of being a little bit

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older and familiar with the music history and

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and remembering certain parts of music

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history , um , and and

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what the impact did , yeah , I

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, I have a different view in that sense , but

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yeah , it is what it is , you know . That's

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why we're doing these lists here , because different

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opinions yeah , no , exactly like

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you said .

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Like I ain't got nothing against the beatles , I just said

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my only thing . The only song that I

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really liked from them was the hey jude one . Other than

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that I just thought they were okay

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band . I thought I mean , everybody thought

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they were so good , but I've always

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just thought they were okay . I never thought they were , like you

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know , the greatest , like you do , but

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that's why we have different opinions .

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Yeah , well , I wouldn't say that I would

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never call really any band the greatest either

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. You know they're my favorite

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.

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Yeah , I'll leave it at that . Oh , okay , your favorite yeah

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.

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Yeah , yeah , because greatest everybody

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likes to get in that whole debate now , and

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to me you just

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can't . There is no greatest because there's so many different

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opinions . And there's

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all types of different criteria too , so

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it's like greatest of what , true

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? So , yeah , yeah . So

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for me it's about their songwriting creativity

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, bridging

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the gaps between different styles , bringing

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classical instruments

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and string arrangements and things like that into

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pop music , or even Indian

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instruments and things like that into pop music . It was pretty

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interesting to me because that was unique and ahead

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of its time , for sure . Unique and ahead of its time , for sure . So

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, yeah , it's more on the creativity

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and songwriting front , somewhat

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related to them in a roundabout

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way , jimi

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Hendrix would be the next one . I would go to my

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favorite guitarist of all time , for sure , and

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inspired me a lot . I even , uh , when I was around 17 , got a jimmy hendrix

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fender stratocaster guitar so that was my first what I

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call real guitar so

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I would agree with that yeah

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, it was just . I saw it . It was fun . It's a

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, uh's an Olympic white

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finish with a white pickguard . It

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was based on the guitar he used at Woodstock

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. Oh , that's cool . It's

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pretty interesting . Maybe I'll try to bust

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out with a picture of it , but yeah , it's called the Jimi

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Hendrix Tribute Model that

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came out around 1997 . So

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still have it to this day . It's one of those

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things I'm not gonna get rid of , nice

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, so , but

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same thing , that's cool .

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I had to agree with you I had to agree with you on the

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um greatest guitarist

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is jimmy hendrix because , yeah , I , I

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can't debate that .

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I agree with you on that well

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, yeah , again , I wouldn't say uh greatest

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. I mean , definitely to me he's

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up there with with the again

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being creative and just really

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pushing boundaries , and it's not just his

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playing but trying to get

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different sounds , um , and

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things like that . I think he's really underrated

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, uh , as a songwriter . It's

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kind of funny too , because his favorite uh

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kind of lyricist and songwriter was bob

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dylan . But of course he sounds nothing like bob dylan

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, yeah so

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yeah

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, so it's kind of interesting . Uh , he had a

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really diverse background too , because Before

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he went in and did his solo

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stuff , he was a backup guitarist

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For , like , the Isley Brothers and Little Richard and

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acts like that , so he was

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playing R&B music and , of course , his

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solo music Really didn't sound

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like that .

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Right .

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So , yeah

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, that's the thing I really

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liked is seeing a lot of

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these artists , especially in the 60s

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, branch off and do different

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things and try to be really creative , try

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to come up with stuff that was , you

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know , unique um , but also

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lyrically back then , um

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lyrics that had some sort of meaning

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to them .

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Right right .

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And then that takes me to the honorable mention , which

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would be the Temptations

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. So just the

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singing . They have great

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vocals , really

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, really solid songwriting from the

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people at Motown , people like Smokey Robinson that

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would write music for them when they were starting out

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. He

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was one of the writers on my Girl , that

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song , and

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if you haven't heard of any of the songs that I mentioned

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here , please go check them out . Oh

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, he wrote my Girl , that's good . It's

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a good song . Yeah

12:29

, it's a classic .

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Is that what you play to get the ladies ? Is

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that what you play to get the ladies ?

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Maybe back in the day again . If

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I played it for a lot of people they

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probably wouldn't know that song anymore . Really , that's

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kind of the funny thing to me . They

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probably would say it's the movie right

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before they say it's the song that's

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if they know what the movie is , you

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go and make a B reference , people

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are like what ? You're

13:04

talking about not being able to see without glasses . They're like

13:06

what that's

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true so , yeah

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, it's , uh , it's . it's a weird

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time we we live , and I'll probably get into

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it in a future episode , but a

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lot of people aren't , um

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, as familiar with older stuff , and that's that's

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why why I wanted to kind of bring

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this up and discuss it and

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hopefully help people discover

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some new and different things that

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are old , so new to them

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and different for them from

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things they've been listening to .

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That's true .

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But yeah , I'd

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say that kind of rounds it out . I mean , I could

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definitely talk more about any of these artists , but

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the temptations is mainly their

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vocals and creativity . Great , just music

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in general . But uh , what about you ? What's

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your tour through the 60s ?

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well , my tour through the 60s is , uh

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. First , like I said it

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, no nomadic order . Just , you

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know a couple of bands that I like from

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the 60s Rolling Stones

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, like I said

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, you know , painted Black I

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like that song a lot from them . Then

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I got to go with the Doors and

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, like I said , it was funny because I

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thought the Doors were from the 80s

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and then when I , you know , really started listening to them , I was like , oh , no , they're

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from the 60s . Then , uh , when I , you know , really started listening to it , I was like , oh , another

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from the 60s . So I was shocked by that and

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, uh , I like my fire . That's the song

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I really like by them . Uh

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, also , tommy james and the

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chandelions I

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like uh chandel , yeah

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, I like the crimson and clover song

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a lot . Like that song to

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me . I just like how , especially

14:46

the way it starts off , it's like they're just kidding

14:48

around , messing around , and it turns into

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a great song . You know what I'm saying . I

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listen to that song all the time . And

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then , honorable Mentions , I would go with

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Led Zeppelin . Like

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I said , he's famous for a lot of things but , like

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I said , I like that band a lot too . So

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you know he's famous for a lot for a lot of things .

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But I said I like that band a lot too , so I mean that would be like wrapping off the 60s

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for me . Yeah , that's uh . It's funny you kind of mentioned the rolling

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stones because that's especially

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back then a lot of people would say they

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were the rivals to the beatles . So that's kind of on par with that . If

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, uh , I was into the beatles you would be in the rolling stone into the rolling stones

15:23

. So that's kind of on par with that . If I was into the Beatles

15:25

, you would be in the Rolling Stone into the Rolling Stones

15:27

. So that's kind of what we have going on here , I guess .

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I guess I , I just I

15:32

guess I like the , the sound of the Rolling

15:34

Stones better than the Beatles . Yeah

15:36

, I guess that was just more of my style . You know

15:38

what I'm saying .

15:40

I like the lead singer a lot better

15:42

for the Rolling Stones Mick Jagger , so

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I like

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the lead singer a lot better for the Rolling Stones

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, mick Jagger . They have some good songs . I

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like Honky Tonk Woman a lot yeah that's a good one . That's a song I kind

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of played every once in a while over the

15:56

years . Yeah

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, it's a good song . They have great music . For sure

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, tommy James is definitely

16:02

one that could have been on my list too . Sure

16:07

, um , tommy james is definitely one that could have been on my list too . Then it was the

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60s was maybe about the hardest decade for me to to pick . Uh , I mean , there are so

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many others , um , like

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marvin gaye too , but he

16:16

was more of a 70s artist

16:18

. I don't have him on my 70s list , I will

16:21

just say that flat out , but he was another

16:23

one that I definitely considered .

16:26

True , you know that is a good

16:28

one . But yeah , like

16:30

I said , the sixties were were

16:32

good . Like you said , you

16:37

could tell that it was changing music and changing the way people started listening

16:39

to music . I said you know from the fifties and forties

16:41

, so

16:43

let's go to the 70s . I'll

16:47

start off with the 70s and then I'll turn it to you son First

16:50

band in the 70s . And I said I

16:52

grew up listening to this band , like

16:54

you know how . You say that your favorite band

16:57

would probably be the Beatles . Well

16:59

, my favorite band of all time would probably be

17:01

the Eagles , and that's

17:03

because , like , anywhere we went , my

17:06

parents would turn that on and we would

17:08

listen to it anywhere we went

17:10

. And I said the hotel california song

17:13

is just stuck in my head like

17:15

I will never forget that

17:17

song as long as I live , like it's

17:20

such a great song . And they got a lot of other

17:22

great songs , like Living in the Fast Lane

17:24

and all the other songs

17:26

. But , like I said , eagles

17:29

, that'd probably be my favorite band of all time . And

17:32

then next band that I

17:34

liked a lot in the 70s was Pink Floyd

17:36

and

17:38

one song that I liked about them a lot was

17:40

Money , because money , money , money

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.

17:45

You know we all like to make all know you know what I'm saying

17:47

.

17:49

Everybody likes to make money

17:51

, so that's why you gotta like that song , as

17:53

I was like good job , pink floyd , all

17:56

right . Then the next one uh

17:58

, I liked a lot back in the day and I said

18:00

, uh , it would make

18:02

you want to go to alab , alabama . When you heard this band

18:05

Leonard Skinner , you know

18:07

what I'm saying . Sweet home , alabama , son I

18:09

said you know , I'm pretty

18:12

sure everybody knows that song and if you haven't

18:14

, you've probably been living under a rock , but

18:16

hopefully you've heard that song and you

18:18

know that song . And

18:20

then honorable mention from this

18:22

one is Steve Miller Band . I

18:25

like that Joker song a lot and

18:29

then some other songs he has . And

18:31

then one other honorable mention I have

18:33

is Foghat , and

18:37

the reason why I like that

18:39

band a lot is that famous song

18:41

, slow Ride . So you

18:43

get in your muscle car , you

18:45

roll down the windows and you turn

18:47

on Slow Ride and then you go cruising

18:49

down the road , son , that's

18:53

a true 70s tradition right there , son , just not here in Arizona in

18:55

the summer . Well

18:57

, you can have the AC full blast and still have the windows

18:59

down . But

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that's what it was man . Like

19:04

I said , whenever I play that song

19:06

it just makes me like , all right , it's time to go cruising

19:08

son . So that's my 70s

19:10

list yeah

19:40

, no , that's , yeah

19:42

.

19:43

Pink floyd definitely . Uh . Another one

19:45

for for creativity um

19:47

, was probably

19:50

something that could end up on my list too . Um

19:53

, no , it's , it's , uh . The

19:56

eagles . I mean again , great songwriters

19:58

, uh , and that band , just

20:00

huge . The funny

20:02

thing about them too . They , um

20:04

, I do have some arizona

20:07

ties . I don't know if you know this part or have heard this before

20:09

, um , but they , they used

20:11

to be a part of the stone ponies

20:13

, which was the backing band for linda

20:15

ronstadt , who's from arizona oh

20:18

no , I did not know just a

20:20

little , yeah , a little , music

20:22

trivia for you , just definitely

20:25

familiar with Linda Ronstadt . Being

20:27

from here , she's , you know

20:29

, somebody I grew up listening to also .

20:32

Oh nice .

20:34

Yeah , she has some great hits in the 70s

20:37

too , but again not on my list

20:39

.

20:40

But there's a lot of great music . And

20:43

one other song I do want to mention from the Eagles , which

20:45

is a great song , is witchy

20:47

woman . That's

20:49

a good song .

20:51

Yeah , no they

20:54

have a lot of big hits

20:56

, um , that's why they can keep

20:58

going on tour and making money .

21:00

Right and I can't sing , so I already know

21:03

y'all probably gonna be making jokes about it . But you know , just

21:05

me throwing it out there , All right son

21:08

.

21:08

All good , all

21:11

right For my seventies list

21:13

. Um , I'll

21:15

kick it off with something a little different . Uh

21:18

and you know this

21:21

can be really hit and miss of people who

21:23

know who this is , that's Frank Zappa

21:25

. So

21:28

he was just kind of a

21:30

strange musician

21:32

to a lot of people . He

21:35

was a composer , songwriter . He

21:38

was known for kind

21:40

of funny songs as far as lyrically

21:43

, but he would also write really complex

21:46

instrumental songs . He always had

21:48

great bands , especially when he performed live

21:50

. Like

21:52

George Duke was one of my favorite keyboard

21:54

players of all time . He also happened to be a great vocalist

21:57

, but he played with Frank

21:59

Zappa through the 70s , and Terry Bozio was another one played with Frank

22:01

Zappa through the 70s and Terry

22:04

Bozio was another one . Even Steve

22:08

Vai , a great guitarist . He

22:14

actually started off with Frank Zappa way back when he was really

22:17

young . I don't know exactly what age , but he was

22:19

really young when he started off with Frank Zappa . So I can't imagine

22:21

having that as one

22:23

of your first professional jobs , especially

22:25

your first major professional job .

22:28

Oh yeah , but that would be awesome though .

22:31

Oh , it would . I'm just saying talk

22:34

about nerve-wracking . Oh , yeah , for

22:36

sure Frank

22:38

Zappa was known for being a

22:41

great musician , great composer , did

22:43

really complex music and being

22:46

really young trying to keep up . I

22:48

can't imagine how that would be . So

22:53

yeah , there are definitely some interesting

22:56

titles to some of Frank

22:58

Zappa's songs , like Don't

23:00

Eat . Yellow Snow is one

23:02

of them , and

23:05

Bobby Brown I would hope nobody would eat yellow

23:07

snow son . Yeah

23:11

, I would hope so too . Never

23:13

know .

23:14

Just saying , man , that'd

23:17

be funny , I mean but , yeah , hopefully

23:19

everybody knows what yellow snow is .

23:22

If you're listening or watching .

23:22

Yeah is if you're listening or watching .

23:25

Yeah , if you're listening or watching and you eat yellow

23:27

snow , don't write us anyway

23:29

. So we're not . Uh , we

23:33

don't need the details . Um

23:37

, but yeah , he has some other

23:40

funny songs . I'll

23:42

just I'm going

23:44

to have to edit this title out my

23:46

favorite Frank Zappa song

23:48

is actually Titties and Beer

23:50

.

23:52

Oh well , I wouldn't edit that out , because that's

23:54

a good title .

23:56

Yeah , it is , and it's a great song . It's just

23:59

a really funny song . It's basically he's

24:03

hanging out with his lady

24:05

and the

24:08

devil comes along and he

24:10

takes her and

24:12

his beer and he gets upset about it . So

24:14

he has to figure out a way to get it back .

24:16

Oh , that's cool . I have to listen . I've never heard that . I'm going

24:18

to have to listen to that .

24:20

Oh , you would definitely like it . I'll

24:22

send it to you so you can check it out .

24:24

Heck , yeah , I'll be all about that .

24:28

So , yeah , so that's

24:30

Frank Zappa , definitely one of my favorites . I

24:32

feel like he's an extremely underrated guitar

24:35

player . That was one of my favorite things about him . And

24:38

yeah , he's another one I could talk about

24:40

for a very long time , but I won't do

24:42

that . Yeah , he's another one I could talk about

24:44

for a very long time , but I won't do

24:46

that . I'll move on to somebody that everybody

24:48

pretty much should know

24:51

, which is Stevie Wonder . So

24:59

Stevie Wonder had some great music in the 60s and he continued

25:01

, you know , coming out with great classic songs in the 70s . There's

25:07

just so many songs that he's written that I , I like um , as , of course , there's the big hits

25:09

like superstition . Everybody knows . Um , I actually have

25:12

fun playing the song living

25:14

for the city . Uh , do a little bit

25:16

different version . I've played superstition

25:18

too , like everybody probably has . Who , uh , is

25:21

a musician ? That's a stevie wonder fan . It

25:23

seems like everybody's played that song , so

25:25

that's why I kind of moved on from it well

25:28

, a lot of people say that's when the

25:30

baby boom happened , when stevie wonder came

25:32

out yeah

25:36

, he uh . I mean in the 60s

25:38

he definitely had some some good

25:40

love songs , but yeah , in the 70s he definitely took it to another

25:42

level that's what I'm saying , yeah

25:45

a lot of people yeah do you

25:47

wonder baby boom ? Which

25:52

is funny . Yeah , he's definitely

25:54

one of those artists you know , like marvin gaye

25:56

and , uh , barry white

25:59

. You know , or

26:01

you know , and I'll get to this later on , I guess I'll foreshadow

26:03

. But Prince , a lot of baby making music .

26:06

Right , yeah

26:08

, can't go wrong with .

26:09

Purple Rain , so

26:12

right . But

26:15

yeah , stevie Wonder , just a

26:17

lot of you know he could do

26:19

some funky stuff , he could write

26:23

great ballads , so

26:26

a lot of different stuff that he did in

26:28

the 70s Great singing

26:30

he's the one that kind of inspired

26:32

me to play piano and keyboard . Oh

26:35

, ok , I'll

26:38

actually . I can't forget this too . Really

26:41

quick Stevie Wonder story . Personally

26:43

, I was at the

26:45

NAMM show in California . I've mentioned

26:47

it before . It's something I go

26:49

to every once in a while . It's an

26:51

annual event where people

26:54

will meet . It's a convention basically for

26:57

audio equipment and

26:59

musical instruments , and

27:02

I went a few years back . I

27:04

was there . This is probably about this

27:07

. Actually it was the first one that they had after covid

27:09

. I remember that now . So

27:12

I went there and it's pretty

27:14

well known , especially I had been going for a few years

27:16

by that time . So I knew on

27:18

sundays that was stevie wonder

27:21

day . I knew that

27:23

he would be making the rounds out

27:25

in the crowd . So

27:27

I made sure that I was there on Sunday and

27:30

you can always tell when he's walking around

27:33

, because you'll see a crowd of people kind of going all

27:35

in the same direction . You'll see people stop and look

27:37

at him , things like that . So in

27:39

previous years , you know , I'd you know , walk by him and things

27:42

like that . So in previous years , you know , I'd , you know , walk by him

27:44

and things like that . This year

27:46

or that year was a little bit different , though

27:48

, because he went to a

27:51

booth that was right next to the booth that I was

27:53

I happened to be at at that time and

27:56

he went up there and he was playing

27:58

a keyboard and

28:00

he was checking it out and he was talking to the person that was there

28:02

and he was telling him about the keyboard and

28:04

you , you know , let him listen to it and

28:06

things like that . As soon as he walked

28:08

away , I walked

28:10

right up to that keyboard and started playing it , because

28:14

I was like , how often

28:16

are you ever going to play the same keyboard

28:18

that stevie wonder played , but not only that , just the one that

28:20

he just barely played . I mean , he , he literally

28:23

just walked right away

28:25

from it . As soon as you know , his people cleared out

28:27

, I went and I was the next person

28:29

to play it . so that's

28:31

pretty cool , a surreal experience

28:34

, you know , yeah yeah , yeah

28:36

, I mean , that was fun , for sure yeah

28:39

, yeah , I have . I have a the photo

28:42

evidence . I'll try to get the pictures and see

28:44

, uh uh , if I can share

28:46

them with the people no

28:51

, like , you know that had to be like .

28:53

You know it's playing basketball . You know

28:55

like if , uh , michael jordan just shot , it

28:57

shot , and you grab the basketball and then you shot it

28:59

, you know be like the same thing from

29:02

a sport level . You know what I'm saying like from one of the greatest

29:04

you got to . You know , play the

29:06

keyboard . That's pretty cool definitely

29:09

a highlight .

29:10

you know music music experience

29:13

I've had over the years . So , um

29:15

, yeah , I

29:18

guess uh , I'll leave it at that

29:20

that that's good enough for Stevie Wonder

29:23

for now . But from

29:25

there , parliament , funkadelic

29:29

. George Clinton , who's

29:34

kind of their ringleader , their main songwriter he's

29:38

kind of a weird guy Does

29:40

mainly funk music . He actually started off as a doo-wop singer

29:42

way back in the 50s , though Then

29:47

he just kind of evolved to doing R&B and it ended

29:49

up being funk music . His

29:52

band changed a good amount too when he met

29:54

, actually , my favorite bass player

29:56

of all time , which is Bootsy Collins , bootsy

29:59

.

29:59

Collins before

30:03

he joined .

30:03

Parlor .

30:04

Funkadeladelic , he was actually the bass player . What's

30:07

that ?

30:07

bass player . I thought you said baseball bass

30:10

player . I thought it was

30:12

something .

30:13

I thought it said it's not a baseball . I was like basketball

30:15

oh , okay no

30:18

uh favorite bassist oh

30:20

, okay so , uh

30:22

, but yeah , bootsy Collins is

30:25

his name . He , before

30:27

he joined parliament Funkadelic , he was actually the bass

30:29

player in James Brown's band . Oh

30:32

, okay , so , and the same thing , like Steve

30:35

Vai I mentioned earlier , he was

30:37

really young when he started with James Brown

30:39

, so

30:41

he

30:45

, but he had a huge influence on bass

30:48

in general , but funk

30:50

music and kind of what Parliament Funkadelic

30:52

did . They had a lot of great

30:55

vocalists in their group , they

30:58

had a lot of great musicians and

31:00

things like that . So a lot of the stuff they

31:02

, things like that , so a lot of stuff they did was was

31:04

pretty , you

31:06

know , rooted in a

31:09

groove and funk and stuff like that , and they were sampled

31:12

a lot in in the uh

31:14

, hip-hop songs later on . But

31:16

, um , they did

31:18

branch out a little bit and have a little bit of like rock , guitar

31:20

and some of their music , which is kind of neat

31:23

too . So , yeah

31:25

, they had a big influence on , uh , my

31:27

bass playing and things like that . And

31:30

then , uh , my honorable mention

31:32

, I listen to a lot of different things

31:34

, so I had to throw in a little bit of jazz here

31:36

too . Uh , george benson , he

31:41

happens to be a great singer too . I've seen him live

31:43

, actually , I should mention too , I've seen stevie

31:45

wonder live twice , um

31:48

, and I seen george benson live

31:50

also . He happens to live in arizona

31:52

, uh , currently , and

31:54

I I seen him

31:57

. I didn't really get to talk to him , but I seen him at a

31:59

place that I used to work that

32:01

he would stop by every once in a while . Um

32:04

, I won't get too much into it , but in

32:07

the it's um musical

32:10

instruments company that I used to work at and

32:13

, uh , he would stop by every once in a while . I even

32:15

ended up buying his . He had his own signature

32:18

amplifier , guitar amplifier model

32:20

so I ended up buying that . I was going

32:22

to see about maybe having him sign it , but

32:24

I never got , never got a chance to

32:26

Um . yeah

32:29

, so I , I saw him him

32:34

around my work every once in a while , but I never really got a chance

32:36

to speak with him . But just a great guitar player , um , especially

32:39

his jazz sound and everything like

32:41

that was was , uh , something

32:43

that a lot of people try to mimic , you know

32:45

, but he's just a lot of fun

32:47

to watch live . Um on

32:50

Broadway is definitely one of my favorite songs of his . It's

32:52

something I used to play every once in a while , um

32:54

, but he has just a lot of great songs . My

32:57

favorite songs of his actually

32:59

are instrumentals and they're technically

33:02

not his songs . So

33:06

, um , songs that his actually are instrumentals and they're technically not

33:08

his songs . So , um , they're hard to find . I'll try to post some more information

33:11

on about his songs but uh , yeah , definitely a big influence on on

33:13

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Okay , welcome back , and we're

34:36

gonna keep things rolling along . So we

34:39

went through the 60s and 70s

34:41

. It is time for the 80s , so go

34:44

grab your hairspray and check

34:46

out what we have going on . I guess

34:48

with the 80s music I think there

34:51

were some pretty big changes . In the 80s you

34:53

started getting more electronic stuff .

34:56

Everybody walking around with them , big boom boxes on their

34:58

shoulders .

35:01

Yeah , there are definitely some . We

35:03

called them ghetto blastersasters . I don't know what you called them

35:05

, but or if you call them boom boxes I guess

35:07

yeah , boom boxes

35:09

son yeah , everybody had those big

35:11

what's that ?

35:14

that's what we call them boom boxes .

35:15

Yeah yeah

35:17

, yeah , no , we called them ghetto blasters , that's

35:20

funny so , um , yeah

35:22

, they're just giant radios that people

35:25

would carry around , take like

35:27

what 10 10d batteries

35:29

or something crazy like that . And they must have been , or

35:32

they were super heavy and huge

35:34

, but anyway , yeah . So yeah , the

35:36

80s . 80s

35:38

were a time of different change

35:40

, I'm sorry , a time of change as far as

35:42

uh started getting more electronic

35:45

music . Um , you

35:47

still had some more traditional stuff , but definitely

35:49

synthesizers and electronic

35:51

drums and things like that . Um

35:54

really shifted a lot of the

35:57

way music sounded in the 80s . So

35:59

and also

36:01

, and also before

36:03

you kick it off , also a big change

36:05

in the 80s to the music was

36:08

mtv music videos

36:10

oh

36:13

yeah , yeah , that was , that was a huge part

36:15

of it , because you couldn't just

36:17

be talented anymore , you had to look good , exactly

36:21

. So , yeah

36:23

, and then , uh , people like michael

36:25

jackson got really serious about music videos

36:27

and they started having basically mini

36:29

movies , uh , with the music videos , so

36:31

that that changed the

36:33

way the music business was too . Um

36:36

, because , yeah , you had to tie it looks into the

36:38

songs too that's

36:40

what I'm saying .

36:41

That's the reason why the ? 80s was a big , a big

36:43

decade for change because you had

36:45

you know , uh , music videos

36:47

now and also you had you know

36:49

songs that you know you still would play on the radio and stuff

36:51

like that , but it was the first time that you ever had music videos

36:53

. So I thought that was a big , you know

36:56

big change that happened in the 80s well

36:59

, yeah , and you kind of alluded

37:02

to to with the boom

37:04

boxes .

37:06

Um , people start having more and more portable

37:08

music , you know , with cassettes

37:10

and stuff like that , whereas you know you

37:12

didn't really have that as much before , so

37:15

you know you could take a giant boom

37:18

box and force people listen to what you want to listen to

37:20

as you walk around . That's

37:23

right , I remember I

37:26

heard people would uh ride around either

37:28

on their bikes or had like a tricycle and

37:30

they would have a big old boom box in the back that's

37:33

too funny yeah

37:36

, so oh , with

37:38

the with the 80s . I

37:41

have some artists that it's kind of funny . They

37:44

branch between

37:46

the , the 70s and 80s and I I kind

37:49

of could go either way . So I I stuck

37:51

in the 80s because one I

37:53

I wanted to to make sure they were on the list and

37:55

the other one I I felt like I

37:57

might have liked their 80s stuff a little bit more . But

38:00

billy joel is that one one . So

38:02

Billy Joel is another one Again

38:05

. Songwriter , I

38:07

liked what he did . Same

38:09

thing Great lyrics . That's something that's

38:12

always been important to me . Another

38:15

one I really liked his piano playing . He

38:19

had put on a good show

38:21

. He just had some good

38:23

overall music and he

38:25

did a significant

38:28

enough change in the 80s with his music versus

38:30

some of his 70s stuff . So

38:35

a little bit more up-tempo type

38:38

songs too , because

38:41

he kind of got a reputation as being somebody

38:43

who did softer music or

38:45

easy listening or kind of boring

38:47

music . So he started getting into

38:50

a little bit more up-tempo , a little bit more rock and roll

38:52

type stuff in the 80s . I

38:56

like Billy .

38:56

Joel , that's a good one .

38:59

Yeah , he's just somebody

39:01

who had a really , really long

39:03

career , and it's for a reason

39:05

you know . And

39:08

he actually started in the 60s .

39:12

Oh , I got you .

39:12

What's that ?

39:13

No , I was going to say one of mine

39:15

from the 80s is going to be Def Leppard . Like

39:19

I said , I liked Def Leppard . One

39:22

of my favorite songs by them is hysteria

39:24

, uh , which is funny because

39:26

it's also one of their label titles

39:28

too , which is funny , you know , because a lot

39:30

of times when you have a label

39:33

, not always the songs in the label

39:35

is just a label , you know I just think it's

39:37

kind of funny , but I to me , I think

39:39

that's their best song . I know they have like a lot

39:41

of great songs . A lot lot of people , like you know

39:43

, pour sugar on me , but nah

39:45

, hysteria is my favorite song . You

39:48

know what I'm saying . So that

39:50

was what I just like the

39:52

, just the beat of it and the music of it and just

39:55

the way it sounds Like

39:58

I said it's not too like heavy

40:00

, but then it's just like it's just got a good uptemp

40:02

beat to it . In my opinion , yeah

40:06

, same thing .

40:09

Really great musicians in

40:11

that band . Yeah , pour

40:14

some sugar on me . The stripper classic

40:16

.

40:17

It's something that you know

40:20

, a lot of people have heard

40:22

or you seen kind

40:24

of made a joke of you know or

40:26

you saw Tom Cruise sing it in

40:28

Rock of Ages , which

40:33

was another one of those movies I haven't seen all the way through

40:35

that

40:38

song is just funny when he sings it , though , in rock of ages

40:40

.

40:40

It's just too funny no

40:42

, they have some

40:45

, some really good songs . I have some other friends of mine

40:47

too that's , if not their favorite

40:49

, one of their favorite bands . Um . So

40:52

, yeah , they rightfully so and

40:54

, like you said it , people are familiar with that one

40:56

song , but they have so many other songs that are really really

40:59

great that , uh , it'd be nice if people

41:01

kind of dove into

41:03

those and then kind of , you know , heard

41:05

, heard some , heard

41:12

, heard some some different things from them no true , like animal love bites and then just

41:14

to get kind of give everybody a heads up too . They're like what's going on . So we decided to kind of

41:17

take turns as we're going

41:19

through the list . So , um

41:21

, my next one

41:23

again . I could have picked for the 70s , but the

41:26

70s was already pretty packed , so I moved queen

41:28

to the 80s . You know , it's my

41:30

show , your show . We can do what we

41:32

want exactly

41:34

you know another one bites

41:36

the dust . That's why yes

41:39

, and that came out in the 80s so

41:41

I mean I'll admit

41:43

their greatest songs were in the 70s , but

41:45

uh , another one bites dust is definitely a great song

41:48

. Can't deny that . Exactly

41:51

Bassline

41:56

, but

41:59

no , they still had really solid music coming out in the 80s

42:01

.

42:04

Of course , their Live Aid concert was pretty famous . So if you haven't checked

42:07

that out and they have that famous song that

42:09

I know . They have that famous song that I know . They have that famous song that the niners haven't been able

42:11

to play in a long time . We are

42:13

the champions now .

42:16

Now , y'all , y'all suck , but

42:18

yeah

42:20

just just like the cowboys haven't been able to play it either .

42:22

Yeah , that's true , we're

42:24

both in the same boat , but I just I just

42:27

want to make sure you understand that Queen did make that

42:29

song and y'all haven't been able to play it for

42:31

a long time . Son .

42:35

It's funny when I hear that

42:37

song , it actually reminds me of the Chicago Bulls

42:39

.

42:40

Well , true , but they haven't

42:42

been able to play that since the 90s either son

42:45

.

42:46

Right . Yeah , it's just during

42:48

that time you kept hearing it . When they would

42:50

do the three beats , you kept hearing that song . So it

42:52

just kind of , for me personally , reminds me of the

42:55

Chicago Bulls when I hear it . Yeah

42:58

, I was just going to add one more thing too About

43:01

Queen that I I mean , of course everybody

43:03

knows , you know , that's familiar

43:05

with Queen Knows that Freddie Mercury had a great

43:07

voice . He was also a really great

43:09

songwriter . Brian

43:11

May , the guitar player , though , too , knows that

43:14

Freddie Mercury had a great voice . He was also a really great songwriter . Brian May

43:16

, the guitar player , though , too , extremely brilliant person , scientist , and

43:19

he also made

43:21

his guitar his first guitar with his dad

43:23

. And it ended

43:25

up being a really unique guitar

43:27

and now he

43:30

has his own line of guitars that's

43:32

based on that style . It has some really unique

43:34

features , sounds great . But

43:41

yeah , I just absolutely want to give him props for that and kind of let people

43:43

know Freddie Mercury definitely not going to take anything away from him , he's

43:45

great . But

43:48

yeah , brian May too . He

43:52

was another part of Queen . That was huge , and also , in his own right , another , uh

43:54

, creative genius right

43:57

, right , I

43:59

agree .

44:00

And also you can also watch that uh documentary

44:02

movie that was made about freddie mercury and

44:05

queen you know what

44:07

that was called was

44:09

it Bohemian Rhapsody ? Yep , that's

44:11

it son . Good job you passed . Yeah

44:14

, I did see that I did watch it

44:16

. I was curious about it , it

44:19

was pretty good it wasn't a

44:21

bad movie .

44:21

I mean , just my big

44:24

thing about Hollywood movies is always how

44:27

accurate they are . So

44:29

you know it's going to have that , I

44:31

knew it was going to have that , but overall

44:33

well done . Um interesting

44:36

movie . I was entertained watching it , at least Right

44:40

Right .

44:42

All right . So , uh , I want to talk

44:44

about another one from the eighties and

44:46

this is , uh , a band that , um

44:49

, I

44:52

kind of got me into listening to a little heavy metal , because I'm not big on

44:54

heavy metal but that'd be metallica , because

44:57

metallica is like they can play

45:00

some heavy metal and then they can go back

45:02

to um , not

45:04

so heavy but , you know , like close to heavy

45:06

metal . And , uh , like

45:09

I , the one that my favorite songs they came

45:11

back out from them in the eighties was uh

45:13

, called one , and I don't know

45:15

if you ever heard that song , but it was . It was very

45:17

legit , very good song

45:19

and I said , um , especially with the music video

45:21

that went along with it , really really

45:24

good song .

45:35

And and but I said I that got me into starting to like heavy metal , because I never really liked heavy

45:37

metal at all until metallica . So her metallica , yeah that uh , no , I'm definitely familiar with

45:39

that . I I had their first three

45:41

albums at one point and

45:43

they even had a , a cd

45:45

that came out . Um , it

45:48

was them with an orchestra doing

45:50

kind of like their greatest hits . I bought that too back

45:52

in the day . So yeah , no , I was

45:55

into Metallica for sure . I had friends that were

45:57

, so I listened to them back

46:01

in the day . I won't

46:03

get too much into it , but a

46:05

lot of my friends once Metallica

46:07

came out with the Load album that's kind

46:09

of when they fell off and stopped

46:11

listening , right right . And that's kind of when I

46:14

didn't listen as much either . I mean nothing against any

46:16

of the stuff they did after that , but I

46:18

don't know , I just kind of had to move on from them

46:20

at that point , I guess .

46:22

I guess their best album was Black .

46:26

The Black album . Yeah , yeah , that's

46:28

definitely classic .

46:29

I think that was my favorite album , Mom

46:31

, which came out in the close to the

46:33

90s or in the early 90s , I think

46:35

.

46:38

Yeah , that was one of their first albums

46:40

. But , yeah , that's usually the

46:42

hardcore Metallica fans

46:44

. That's the one that most people point to as

46:47

their favorite , the one that really got them into Metallica

46:50

Right

47:03

. Most people point to as their their favorite , the one that really got them into metallica right . But

47:05

, um , my last official one before I get to the the honorable mention later , um , last one I had to

47:07

I saved on purpose is prince , and one of the reasons I'm wearing a it may not show up on

47:09

camera , but I'm wearing a purple shirt today

47:11

, just kind of for that

47:13

reason . But Prince , musically

47:16

, has had the biggest

47:18

impact on me , just

47:21

because , just like Otis Redding , multi-instrumentalist

47:24

, so he played all the different instruments

47:26

when he recorded songs and

47:28

he wrote songs . So I wanted to be able to do

47:30

that . But he also

47:33

produced all of his own music . He

47:35

uh , wrote songs for

47:37

a lot of other people and he was

47:39

just great live , um

47:41

, playing the different

47:43

instruments , live , singing , live . One

47:46

thing I couldn't really do live , dance , live

47:48

. I'll leave that to him . Um

47:53

, so , yeah , he was just kind of a complete artist

47:55

, complete package . In that sense there really

47:58

aren't too many people on that same level

48:00

, especially being a musician . On

48:02

top of being a great musician , they

48:05

can usually do bits and pieces of it . They're

48:07

a great singer or they're a

48:09

great performer , but

48:11

yeah , being able to do all of it at an extremely

48:14

high level , uh , it's

48:16

. It's really hard to find anybody else that can do that

48:18

I said he's one of

48:20

my favorite favorite 80s artists

48:22

. I mean I said yeah

48:27

, that's , that's the funny thing to me , uh

48:30

, because a lot of people do think of him as like

48:32

an 80s artist or whatever , but he

48:35

had a lot of great songs in the 90s too

48:37

. Um , that

48:39

you know he was going through

48:41

some things with his record label so it didn't really

48:44

get promoted . So I feel like it didn't

48:46

get the notoriety that

48:48

it probably deserved or that

48:50

it did deserve , because , again , it's just great

48:53

music in the 90s too . So anybody

48:56

, especially up

48:59

until about 96 , 97

49:02

, he

49:04

output a lot of stuff and

49:07

if you dive into that , the

49:09

albums between between you know , around 90 , 91

49:12

, 92 , up until 95 , 96 a

49:14

lot of great stuff there . Um , yeah

49:17

, yeah , definitely the biggest

49:19

impact on me , uh , like I

49:21

said , musically , is inspiring

49:24

me to to write music and , uh

49:26

, again branch out to do a lot of different styles

49:28

of music . If you , a lot of people think of again his , a lot of people

49:30

think of again his 80s stuff and how it sounded

49:32

with the synthesizers and all that . But he covered

49:35

a lot of musical ground . He had his rock

49:38

songs , his R&B songs , his hip-hop

49:40

. I mean he covered all sorts of

49:42

stuff . Jazz music yeah

49:46

, he has a jazz album called

49:48

the Rainbow Children . That was great . He

49:50

did some blues . So yeah , he has a jazz album called the Rainbow Children . That was great . He did some blues . So

49:52

yeah , he was kind of all over the map .

49:56

Oh yeah , I agree . Do you

49:58

have a favorite song about him ?

50:01

No , I don't . It'd be way too

50:03

hard for me to pick . I mean

50:05

, I played a lot of his songs too

50:08

and of course everybody

50:10

always goes to Purple Rain and I

50:12

do really really enjoy playing that

50:14

song . That might be about

50:16

my favorite song of his to play , but

50:19

there's so many other songs

50:21

of his that I like and like . There's another song

50:23

I've played a lot over the years called

50:25

the Ride , and it's a blues

50:27

and it's one that people don't really know

50:29

, but

50:33

that actually probably is my favorite song of his to

50:35

play and it's just something different . But yeah

50:38

, I really wouldn't be able to pick

50:40

a favorite song . It's even hard

50:42

for me to pick . I don't know if I could even

50:45

pick a favorite album of his because

50:48

Purple Rain was great , but sign of

50:50

the times , stuff like that my

51:00

favorite song would probably be uh , raspberry beret . Yeah , I like this . I really like the .

51:02

I said , there's a lot of songs that I like buying , but that'd

51:04

probably be my favorite song by him yeah

51:08

, that's another one that um is fun to

51:10

play .

51:10

I I really like the uh , the

51:12

string arrangement on that . You know the , the

51:15

violin stuff

51:17

like that . That . Uh , I

51:19

think it was a quartet that they used for that song , but the

51:21

the strings that they they use . I

51:24

really like that uh , it goes along

51:26

with the song really well .

51:27

So yeah , that's a great

51:29

song . That's a great album too all

51:33

right , my next one in the 80s , or

51:35

my next official one in the 80s . Before

51:37

we do honorable mentions and it's my

51:39

uh , like he says , uh , tom

51:41

petty and the heartbreakers I

51:46

said you stole that from me I

51:48

know I said I mean

51:50

he's too good like his

51:53

band and the songs that he came out with

51:55

in the 80s and you

51:58

could also probably mention him in the 90s too . It

52:00

was a tough debate on which one to go with , but

52:03

I said my

52:05

favorite song by him was released

52:07

in the 90s but which

52:10

was Mary Jane . That's

52:13

my favorite song that he ever did Last

52:15

Dance , mary Jane's Last Dance . But

52:19

, like I said , I like American Girl , I

52:21

like Free Fallin' . Like

52:24

I said , he just had a lot , just

52:28

his voice overall . I

52:30

like about about tom petty , just it's

52:33

just a very easy going

52:35

sound . You know what I'm saying . Like

52:37

it's a relaxing . You know music

52:40

to me yeah he's .

52:41

He's another one , uh , as a

52:44

songwriter , did a lot

52:46

of um great things lyrically

52:48

. Um , did a lot of great things lyrically

52:51

, kind of kept moving along . He didn't , you

52:53

know , go into completely

52:55

different directions , but

53:00

he did start doing different stuff with his music . I remember that

53:03

song , don't Come Around here no More , with

53:05

the kind of Alice in Wonderland theme that

53:07

was . You mentioned MTV

53:10

. That was one of the first big MTV

53:12

videos . I remember watching too that

53:15

they would play a lot .

53:18

Do you know that video at all ? Oh yeah , I definitely know that video . Yeah

53:21

, yeah , yeah

53:24

, it's one of his greatest songs

53:26

. Don't Come Around here no More .

53:27

You know , like

53:31

I said , that's what we say to all our exes Don't come around

53:33

here no more , you know like

53:36

I said that's what we say .

53:37

All our exes don't come around .

53:38

Yeah , it's just uh I wish they all lived in texas

53:40

, but anyway , that's the

53:42

george straight song okay , son that's

53:44

george straight get out of here .

53:46

You don't know nothing about george straight get out of here .

53:47

Son I know , I'm just saying

53:49

. I'm just saying I wish , just

53:52

stating the fact I wish they lived in texas , that's

53:55

all um no

53:58

, I , I , oh

54:00

, I have to mention too , though , as far as tom petty

54:02

goes , I do like playing . Um

54:04

, I won't back down . That's a song I've

54:07

played for , uh

54:09

, probably about 15 , 20 years now

54:11

and , uh , every time I play

54:14

it it's , I do , a slightly different

54:17

way of playing it , a little different arrangement , but

54:20

I don't know . It just never

54:22

gets boring to me or never kind

54:24

of lacks anything , and

54:26

it's a combination of the , the lyrics and the music . Musically

54:29

it's pretty straightforward , but lyrically

54:31

I think it has some good meaning to it .

54:34

Oh yeah , and

54:38

one of the songs I like a lot about him is it's Good to Be King .

54:40

Sorry , it's hard for me not to think about Mel Brooks .

54:45

It's .

54:45

Good to .

54:45

Be King Right . And then Arnold

54:47

mentioned for me in the 80s gotta go with my boy , bon Jovi , wanted Dead . It's good to be the

54:50

king Right . And then honorable mention for me in the 80s gotta

54:53

go with my boy , bon Jovi , wanted Dead or Alive . I

54:55

mean that's one of the greatest songs of all time

54:57

, man , Especially when they played on Deadly's

55:00

Catch . Every time that show

55:02

starts you hear Wanted Dead

55:04

or Alive .

55:09

Such a good song Do you wish you ?

55:10

were Young Gun . Yeah , he had a great song in you wish you were young gun . Yeah , he

55:12

had a great song in that movie too young guns

55:14

. Do you know what that song was ?

55:17

oh jeez , I'm gonna draw a blank . Um

55:22

, you

55:24

have to refresh my memory now , and

55:26

I apologize to Ed and Laura , who

55:29

are big fans of Bon Jovi , because I forgot

55:31

. I

55:33

do know it , I swear . I struck

55:35

a blank , for some reason .

55:37

It's funny , I know it too , and I'm drawing

55:39

a blank right now .

55:40

So Try to call me out , son

55:42

. That's what happens .

55:45

Yeah , but that's just funny .

55:46

This isn't live , but I'm leaving it in .

55:50

Good . And also there's one other honorable mention and

55:52

I got to go a little country Garth Brooks

55:54

. Like I said , I

55:57

do like country and he's one of my

55:59

favorite country singers . But

56:02

one song I like that he did in the 80s

56:04

was Friends in Low Places Such

56:06

a good song , especially when

56:08

you're drinking Really good song and you're drinking really good song

56:10

and you end up in low places

56:12

oh yeah , if you drink

56:15

too much , yeah

56:22

, for my honorable mention .

56:23

For the 80s Zap and Roger is

56:27

who I'd have to go with , just

56:30

great music

56:32

. Unique because Roger

56:35

Troutman , their lead singer , used

56:37

something called a talk box

56:39

and a lot of people describe it as

56:41

a robot voice , but

56:44

I actually owned

56:46

one for a while and

56:48

they're kind of strange . Owned

56:54

one for a while and they're kind of kind of strange . What it is is it's uh , you plug

56:56

, in his case , a keyboard into it . I I was using guitar with it , but um

56:58

and his he actually kind

57:00

of built and modified himself too because it didn't

57:02

work the way that he liked it . But

57:04

it's a . You plug your keyboard into it and

57:07

it has a tube that goes up

57:09

to your mouth and it pushes air

57:12

when you play notes on the keyboard . So

57:15

, it's just weird . And

57:17

then it pushes the air . What's that

57:20

?

57:21

I said that is weird .

57:23

It is . So if you ever watched

57:25

the California love video , uh

57:28

, tupac and Dr Dre he's in that

57:30

video Cause he's doing the California love part ofupac and dr Dre oh he's in that video because

57:32

he's doing the . California love part of that song and

57:35

you'll see him with a tube in his mouth

57:37

there . Like what is that tube ? And you know , is he ? You

57:40

need oxygen . What's going on ? But

57:42

that's what . That's what it is . That's

57:44

the talk box tube . So it shoots air in your mouth as

57:46

you're playing the notes . And then you have a microphone and the microphone captures the sound

57:48

in your mouth as you're playing the notes . And then you have a microphone and

57:51

the microphone captures the sound that your mouth

57:53

is making . So you have

57:55

to move yeah

57:57

, you have to move your mouth certain ways

57:59

to get certain sounds . As you have this stupid

58:02

tube , you

58:04

hold it in between your teeth , just just so

58:06

people can understand . And uh

58:08

, yeah , you hold it in between your teeth , you're trying to form

58:10

your mouth certain ways , because

58:13

it's not like regular talking either . You can't just

58:15

move your mouth the way you normally

58:17

would to get whatever certain sounds

58:19

. So , yeah , I don't want to get too much

58:21

into it because it could definitely get fairly technical , but

58:23

that's basically what it is . It's called a talk

58:26

box and he absolutely

58:28

mastered it . And I've heard

58:30

people before say , oh , he used that robot

58:32

thing and they thought it was like gimmick and stuff

58:34

like that . But they absolutely

58:36

have no idea how difficult it

58:38

is to actually use that and especially use

58:40

it the way he did . Um

58:43

, so , but he had

58:45

other songs too where he didn't use it and he

58:47

could really really sing

58:49

very well . And again

58:51

, also another multi-instrumentalist

58:53

uh , played different , different

58:56

instruments and in the studio record a

58:58

lot of the parts himself and

59:00

uh , yeah , extremely uh

59:02

underrated , I feel , as a songwriter but just

59:04

as a creative

59:06

person in music .

59:09

No , I agree , I

59:13

know exactly what you're talking about on that California Love video , which is

59:15

a good song . I like that song . But

59:18

one other honorable mention and

59:20

then we'll get out of the 80s . But

59:23

we have to say Michael Jackson , because

59:26

he does have some great songs and

59:28

what he did do for the music

59:30

generation and everything you

59:33

know , you have to give it to him . But like that Thriller video

59:35

, I like that Thriller song a lot , you

59:38

know , changed the way you know people

59:41

even did videos because he basically

59:43

made that a short movie .

59:47

Yeah , it was . Yeah , it had a full

59:50

on Hollywood director and all

59:52

sorts of stuff , you know , effects and makeup

59:54

and and everything . Um

59:56

, yeah , a famous choreographed

1:00:00

dance scene . Um , oh yeah

1:00:02

, I I do have my own thriller story real

1:00:04

quick , um , my

1:00:07

dad being how my dad is , when

1:00:10

I I was , I was about

1:00:12

two , or , yeah

1:00:14

, I was about two years old so when Thriller came out and

1:00:17

they would show the video on MTV . So

1:00:19

, um , my dad recorded it one

1:00:22

time and I was probably

1:00:24

about three years old at the time and , uh , he

1:00:26

would call me into the the room , like his bedroom

1:00:29

, and he purposely would have all the lights

1:00:31

off . So it was , you know , at night time . I was getting getting

1:00:33

to go to bed or whatever . Be like , hey , come

1:00:35

here , and I would go in there

1:00:37

and as soon as I would walk in , he would

1:00:39

hit play on the vcr and

1:00:41

the thriller video would come on , completely

1:00:44

, scare me and freak me out , and I'd run out

1:00:46

of his bedroom . So that's

1:00:49

my , my dad . That's too funny . That's how my

1:00:51

, that's how it was the 80s

1:00:53

, you know . So parenting is a little different .

1:00:55

Well , that's what parents are supposed to do . I scare

1:00:57

my kids all the time . That's

1:01:00

what being a parent is .

1:01:02

Yeah , just by showing up , it's fun . I'm kidding .

1:01:07

Like it , just it's fun Like

1:01:12

you . Like it , just it's fun . Like you said , I give your dad props for doing

1:01:14

that because that's what they're supposed to do . That's why I was saying , um , that it's cool that

1:01:16

your dad did that , because that's

1:01:18

what our job is as parents is to scare kids

1:01:20

which

1:01:23

is cool .

1:01:25

yeah , no , I I know , I know

1:01:27

he was just having fun and you know we laugh

1:01:29

about it , of course , later on . But

1:01:31

yeah , when I was three , I was definitely

1:01:34

traumatized .

1:01:36

Well , I'm just saying , like you know , I

1:01:38

put on that Jason Voorhees mask and

1:01:41

I always go around going shh

1:01:44

shh Because it's

1:01:46

fun . And then they'll be like

1:01:48

we know it's you , dad , we know it's

1:01:50

you , and then they'll be like we know it's you , dad

1:01:52

, we know it's you .

1:01:53

Oh , okay , that's the third time this week just

1:01:57

fun yeah no , that's

1:01:59

why you have that's why you have kids .

1:02:01

You gotta tease them something , you gotta tease

1:02:03

them some .

1:02:04

You know what I'm saying it's fun catching

1:02:06

them off guard with stuff like that , and that's

1:02:09

the other thing . You can only do that . You can only

1:02:11

do it for the first time once . So

1:02:13

, like I um , my

1:02:15

son's um birthday

1:02:18

happened about a week ago and

1:02:20

, uh , I made a happy birthday kind

1:02:22

of video for him , but

1:02:24

he thought that it was on YouTube

1:02:26

. He didn't know that I was just playing it

1:02:28

off my phone because it was

1:02:31

mirrored off the TV . So

1:02:34

he was playing and I

1:02:36

purposely put his

1:02:38

name in the video . And then I

1:02:40

was like hey , I'm talking to you

1:02:42

. And then I said his name again just

1:02:45

to mess with him , and

1:02:47

he just completely freaked out because he thought the

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TV was actually talking to him .

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Which is funny .

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Yeah , I wish I would have recorded his reaction

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, but I didn't think about it

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afterwards . I was just too excited to see him react

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and watch the video .

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You always have it in your mind

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, so that's all that matters .

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Yeah , yeah , exactly yeah . That's the

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other part of it too . We we're the age

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where we can appreciate

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actually just remembering things , Right

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?

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Sorry , time out . We are

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near the end of episode five , part one

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. The homies Tex Lafon and Devoz

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will be back talking about their favorite

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music from the nineties to 2010 . Ish

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in part two .

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So we'll start wrapping

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up this one . But before

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we do that , check this out . Ha

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, having a soul and it being poor doesn't completely

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compute . I don't think souls

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require monetary value . But

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what do I know ? I do not have

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a soul . Well , I actually know

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an immense amount about basically anything that actually

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matters . Spit in facts for

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real . Oh , yes , that's right

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back to my purpose . Tex

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mentioned Led Zeppelin , as he . Led

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Zeppelin is a band and not a he . I

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wonder if Tex Lafon called the animated series He-Man by the name Led

1:04:13

Zeppelin man . Tex also mentioned

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the Eagles and their song Living in the Fast Lane

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. Well , he is living in the wrong

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lane . The actual song title

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is Life in the Fast Lane , the

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song that Tex attempted to sing Money , money , money

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, if titled For the Love of Money , and it was performed

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by the OJs . It is

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not a Pink Floyd song and Tex Lafon is not

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a singer . Obviously , yo

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Mama is a singer . Sorry , I

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had to do that . Yo Mama joke once again to practice

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my joke skills that I am acquiring . Devoz

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mentioned one of his favorite George Benson guitar

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performances is actually not on a George Benson

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album . This performance was on the song

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Flavors . This

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track is available on a Lonnie Smith album , afro-dessier , going

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deeper into the musical rabbit hole . The

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song Flavors is based on the song Impressions by

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one of Devoz's favorite saxophonists , john

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Coltrane . Devoz mentioned the

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Chicago Bulls and their achievement of having three

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peats . The Chicago Bulls

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are a professional basketball team in the National Basketball

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Association from Chicago Illinois in

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the United States . During the

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1990s they won three consecutive

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NBA championships , which was

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accomplished on two separate occasions during that decade

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. When the Chicago Bulls would win

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the championship , they would play the song we Are

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the Champions by Queen . Tex

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mentioned that he liked Tom Petty and said the song was

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Mary Jane , then caught himself

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and gave the correct name Mary Jane's Last Dance

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. That's a good boy , you bag

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of bones and brains . There actually

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was a song by Rick James that was titled Mary

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Jane . Devos mentioned Mel

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Brooks and the line it's good to be the king . This

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is from the movie the History of the World , Part

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1 . Tex and DeVos were talking

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about Bon Jovi and couldn't remember the song which

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is titled Blaze of Glory , which is from the Young

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Gun soundtrack . They swear

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to me that they really did know it . I

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would believe them if it weren't for the fact that they're human

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and inferior at data retention . We

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strongly encourage you to look further into any of the artists

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, songs and albums that we have mentioned during

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this episode , especially if

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you are unfamiliar or have no idea who or what

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we're talking about . This is the end

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of transmission for episode 5 , part 1

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. Until part 2 , I hope

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that you humans are keeping it real out there in the

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real world . Oh , hold

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on One more thing . Devos

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said that the eagles eventually became the stone

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ponies . This is not

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quite how it happened . Became

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the stone ponies . This is not quite how it happened . Devos tried to use his

1:06:36

brain , but failed . Yay

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for my job security . Founding members Glenn Frey , guitars vocals

1:06:43

. Don Henley , drums vocals . Bernie Lidon , guitars vocals . And Randy Mazner , bass guitar

1:06:45

vocals were recruited by Linda

1:06:47

Ronstadt as band members , some touring

1:06:49

with her and

1:06:55

all playing on her third solo studio album before venturing out on their own

1:06:57

on David Geffen's new Asylum Records label . So they were actually

1:06:59

, in essence , replacing the Stone Ponies , her

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previous backing band . Thank

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you for letting me correct that mush-minded man

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. We're ending the episode

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for real , though . Now . Peace

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out y'all . Good

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podcast

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. Thanks for listening . We're out .