Episode Transcript
[00:00:21] Speaker A: Well, hello there, and welcome to episode 64 of the rock podcast. For those about pod, we salute you. In this episode, there's rock News, there's new rock on the Block book club of Rock, and we reached the letter Q. Oh, my goodness. The a to z of rock. We'll be fine. We'll be fine.
There's hidden gems, of course. And there's also Brian.
We couldn't do it without Brian.
[00:00:48] Speaker B: And here he is.
How you doing, my friend?
[00:00:50] Speaker C: I'm very well, Matthew.
[00:00:53] Speaker D: Good.
[00:00:54] Speaker E: No, Princess Diana.
[00:00:55] Speaker C: Picture this episode.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: No, no, I can see that. A completely different location. Um, yeah.
[00:01:02] Speaker D: Nice, though.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: Vast improvement on your usual mess.
[00:01:07] Speaker D: So, uh, you got.
[00:01:10] Speaker B: You gonna mention it was my birthday this week?
[00:01:12] Speaker C: It was, Matthew.
[00:01:13] Speaker E: Another.
[00:01:14] Speaker F: Another year round the sun, mate.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: That's.
[00:01:17] Speaker E: That's right. Another.
[00:01:18] Speaker A: Another trip around the sun, to be precise.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: As far as thinking about that expression.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: As we talked about it many times.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: I've really got no choice in that, you know, the slow movement of time and a trip around the sun.
[00:01:32] Speaker A: But, yes, thanks for everyone who sent.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: Birthday wishes, a text, etc, etc. Much appreciated and onwards and upwards. So how about you? You doing all right, Brian? I did ask you that. I think I did, didn't I?
[00:01:46] Speaker D: Yeah, do. Good. Okay, good, good.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: Nice to hear it. What have you. What have you got for us, news wise?
[00:01:53] Speaker C: Well, I'm pleased that I've. I had a great Friday night, Matthew. I binged the Bon Jovi documentary.
So, yeah, Bon Jovi have brought out their four part series, which is on.
[00:02:15] Speaker F: Hulu or Disney plus in the UK.
[00:02:19] Speaker C: About the 40 years of Bon Jovi. But really interesting, because as much as it tells the story of, you know, the band through all of their years, it follows John's throat problems and vocal problems. And we've talked about that in previous episodes.
[00:02:38] Speaker F: I think you're the only one that.
[00:02:40] Speaker C: Can pronounce the actual medical procedure that John actually had when he had the cut.
[00:02:47] Speaker E: The.
[00:02:47] Speaker B: Oh, that's right.
[00:02:48] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:02:48] Speaker C: So, um.
[00:02:49] Speaker F: Yeah, it's a really interesting.
[00:02:51] Speaker E: And.
[00:02:51] Speaker C: And they don't sugarcoat it in any way. You know, when John. When John was struggling after COVID and.
[00:02:58] Speaker F: They went out and did some shows.
[00:03:00] Speaker C: In 2022, his voice was. He was struggling on his challenge, and it was his wife who actually said, you're not sounding great. And for Jo, and when you watch the book, the documentary about John, if things are not great for John or they're less than great, it's not acceptable for him.
[00:03:24] Speaker F: He sets really high standards.
[00:03:26] Speaker C: So it was like when your wife says, you're not good.
That really knocked him to the core.
[00:03:33] Speaker D: But, yeah.
[00:03:34] Speaker F: So it's a really interesting documentary.
[00:03:37] Speaker C: I came away thinking, you know.
[00:03:41] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:03:42] Speaker C: How much I love Bon Jovi and how much they.
[00:03:45] Speaker F: Slippery. The slippery.
[00:03:46] Speaker C: When wet period, Matt, and the New Jersey period. You watch it and you watch all of the footage and you go, gosh, I can remember when you gave love.
[00:03:56] Speaker F: A bad name came out as a.
[00:03:57] Speaker C: Single and then how it just went stratospheric for us. So it was really good. All the band that are alive are in it. You know, David Bryant, Hugh MacDonald, Tico Torres. Richie's in it.
[00:04:10] Speaker E: Richie's in it.
[00:04:11] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:04:12] Speaker E: Richie's in it quite a lot.
[00:04:13] Speaker F: And they do deal with the departure.
[00:04:14] Speaker C: Of him and of the band. Let's just say there's two sides to the story.
[00:04:21] Speaker D: So it's called.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: It's called.
[00:04:22] Speaker B: Thank you, good night.
[00:04:24] Speaker F: Yes.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: The Bon Jovi story. Yeah. I remember that slippery era that you mentioned.
[00:04:31] Speaker A: I think it could be encapsulated. And I remember at the time people.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Saying women wanted to be with him and men wanted to be.
[00:04:38] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:04:39] Speaker A: John Bordjobe, that is. And to an extent, the rest of the band, because they were. They were massive, weren't they? And the songs were great and they looked and sounded fantastic and.
[00:04:48] Speaker E: And I'm not.
[00:04:49] Speaker A: I've not seen these, the series.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: I read plenty of stuff about the early days of John Bon Jovi and.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: The band, and it was an exercise.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: In essentially, you know, him sort of.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Really pushing himself, persevering, having a dream.
[00:05:02] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: And really, you know, getting there, essentially.
So, yeah, I'll try and watch it. I haven't got Disney plus or whatever. I'm not one of the many subscriptions I haven't got, but I'll try and watch it somewhere. Could you video it for me and send it down?
[00:05:18] Speaker D: Tape it?
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Remember used to do that back in the day?
[00:05:21] Speaker D: Tape.
[00:05:22] Speaker B: Can you tape it?
[00:05:23] Speaker A: I bought it.
Thanks for that.
[00:05:26] Speaker E: But you remember. Yeah.
[00:05:27] Speaker F: And do you remember as well, too, for the.
[00:05:29] Speaker E: Whenever.
[00:05:29] Speaker C: Whenever we used to buy, you would.
[00:05:32] Speaker F: Buy your lp's and you would take.
[00:05:35] Speaker C: Out the sleeve of the LP and on the white sleeve it had.
[00:05:42] Speaker F: Taping is killing music.
[00:05:44] Speaker C: And you had the tape with the skull and crossbones.
[00:05:48] Speaker D: It's like.
[00:05:50] Speaker C: If you tape this album for your friends, you're killing music.
[00:05:55] Speaker E: I know, I know.
[00:05:56] Speaker A: And little did they know, Spotify was a mere 30, 40 years away. That would absolutely obliterate music. At least the money side of music.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: Moving on, then. So, UFO. From Bon Jovi to UFO. UFO.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: One of my favorite bands, as we all know.
[00:06:16] Speaker B: We all know. I think the whole world knows that.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: Strangers in the night is the greatest.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: Live rock album ever.
[00:06:22] Speaker E: That's just clear.
[00:06:23] Speaker A: And I think there's no dispute there.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: I said that with a straight face. In my opinion, one of the greatest.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: If not the greatest live albums.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: Anyway, UFO have officially called it a day, which is. Which is very sad for obviously UFO.
[00:06:40] Speaker A: Fans been going since the late sixties and obviously made a huge number of albums over the years.
[00:06:48] Speaker B: A revolving door of members, certainly in the.
[00:06:51] Speaker A: In the eighties and nineties, and two thousands. A relatively stable lineup in the two thousands.
[00:06:57] Speaker E: Yeah, the Vinnie.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: The Vinnie.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: The Vinnie Moore era, as I call it. But Phil Mogg, who recently had his.
[00:07:03] Speaker B: 70, 76 birthday, had a heart attack a couple of years ago and has been told that he's got performing restrictions from his doctors. Basically they told him that, you know, you probably be your own health, don't. Don't do any more gigs.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: And therefore, UFO, as I say, officially.
[00:07:21] Speaker B: Called it a day.
This came to light in a statement.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: Relating to the reissue of the 1977.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: Album Lights out, which is an absolutely.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: Amazing album, as are all those seventies UFO albums, largely.
[00:07:35] Speaker D: So.
[00:07:35] Speaker A: Yes, sad news for UFO fans. Those that saw them in whatever era they were.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: Excellent live film. Mogg was a brilliant singer and, you.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: Know, obviously with great musicians.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: Michael Schenker and Pete Way, Paul Raymond.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: Andy Parker, you name it, with numerous.
[00:07:53] Speaker E: Paul Chapman, numerous members over the years.
[00:07:55] Speaker D: So sad, sad.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: Paul Chapman, of course.
[00:07:58] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: The Chapman era in the. In the eighties, so.
[00:08:00] Speaker E: And numerous other musicians.
[00:08:02] Speaker B: So we wish.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: We wish the members well. Maybe we'll see Vinnie Moore again. Neil Carter came back in the last.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: Era after Paul Raymond had died.
[00:08:11] Speaker A: So maybe we'll see Neil Carter and Vinny Moore again in some other guys. But for now, UFO is sadly called.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: A day, which is a shame, but not. Not surprising.
[00:08:20] Speaker E: Not at all. Not at all.
[00:08:22] Speaker C: And. But, but has Phil. Has Phil put an album out? Does he recorded a. Another solo album recently? Was it Moggs Motel?
[00:08:33] Speaker D: That's right.
[00:08:33] Speaker A: It kind of went under the radar, didn't it?
[00:08:35] Speaker B: Maybe we should cover it, uh, at some point. Yes, that's right. He did a. He did an album recently.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: I'm not sure when it was recorded, but, uh.
[00:08:42] Speaker B: Yeah, we should check that out.
[00:08:43] Speaker E: Yeah, that's right.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: Moggs Motel, I think was Moggs without an apostrophe.
[00:08:48] Speaker E: So I don't know.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: It was. It was.
[00:08:51] Speaker A: How many mogs were involved?
[00:08:52] Speaker E: But.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: So there you go. Um. Right, let's move on. Hall of Fame.
[00:08:57] Speaker C: Hall of Fame. Yeah.
[00:08:59] Speaker E: What.
[00:08:59] Speaker F: What a. Yeah.
[00:09:00] Speaker C: So the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, um, has. Yeah, it's announced the. The inductees for the. The 2024 Rock and Roll hall of Fame. And there's some behemoth.
[00:09:14] Speaker F: Behemoth rock legends that are in there. Matt.
[00:09:17] Speaker C: We've got Mary J. Blige, Cher. You know her. That must be her kiss era.
[00:09:25] Speaker F: Whenever she was with Gene Simmons.
[00:09:27] Speaker C: That was her rock and roll bit.
[00:09:29] Speaker F: No, joking aside, great to.
[00:09:32] Speaker C: Great to see foreigner.
[00:09:34] Speaker F: I think there's.
[00:09:35] Speaker E: I think there's.
[00:09:36] Speaker C: There's been.
[00:09:37] Speaker F: They've actually gained quite a lot of press footage, haven't they?
[00:09:42] Speaker C: You know, Paul McCartney coming out getting.
[00:09:45] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:09:45] Speaker C: Yeah. Swearing.
[00:09:47] Speaker D: Exactly.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: Paul McCartney.
[00:09:48] Speaker B: A beetle. Dropped an f bomb. Couldn't believe it.
[00:09:51] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:09:52] Speaker F: So foreigner and.
[00:09:53] Speaker D: But that's great.
[00:09:55] Speaker C: Lou Graham has been.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: Hmm.
[00:10:00] Speaker C: I thought that Lou and Mick Jones.
[00:10:02] Speaker F: Had buried the hatchet.
[00:10:05] Speaker C: I think Lou's still a little bit better about.
[00:10:08] Speaker F: I want to know what love is and his involvement in the writing of.
[00:10:12] Speaker C: It, but foreigner are worthy recipients and inductees. Prita Frampton, which I think is lovely Aussie's and on his own.
[00:10:23] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:10:24] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Yeah.
[00:10:27] Speaker A: And again, the master of creating publicity.
[00:10:30] Speaker B: Out of thin air, Ozzy, he accepted his induct induction, as it were, the.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: Nomination, or whatever you want to call.
[00:10:40] Speaker B: It, but also said, motorhead have to be in. I thought, well, it's got to pluck that from nowhere.
[00:10:50] Speaker D: Let me.
[00:10:50] Speaker A: Kim Wister should be in, etc, etcetera.
[00:10:52] Speaker B: And I love this quote.
[00:10:54] Speaker A: It's classic Ozzie and classic Lemmy in one sentence.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: He lived the blues. Meth and more beers, I guess. Life, the ultimate metal guy. So Ozzy's been nominated. He also took a swipe at Florida.
[00:11:08] Speaker A: Saying they're essentially a foreigner cover band.
[00:11:10] Speaker B: Because there's no original members in the band anymore.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: Which, again, is like a bit nasty, because we've covered that many times. You can be in the band 40 years, being longer than an original member.
[00:11:21] Speaker B: But, you know, still being known as a new boy or not quite an original. Not an original member sounds a bit odd, but, you know, in a way, classic Aussie.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: And also, for some reason this week, he's felt the need to tell everyone that he'd love to go and see.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: The bench in Birmingham, the Black Sabbath bench. I thought, okay, great.
[00:11:40] Speaker D: You know, fine.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: I thought you'd already seen it, to be honest with you.
[00:11:43] Speaker B: But.
[00:11:44] Speaker A: So, you know, I think he's always trying to keep. Well, obviously, Sharon's trying to keep him in the. In the public eye, as it were. But yeah, with the nomination for the.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: Rock and Roll hall of Fame, he should be fine.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: And we wish all those nominees well.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: Whenever the event takes place. Is it, when is it, Brian, you should know.
[00:12:03] Speaker A: You probably watch it, don't you?
[00:12:06] Speaker C: I think it's October.
Yeah, I do watch. It's Saturday, October 19. That's when they, the 2024 induction ceremony will happen.
You caught me off.
[00:12:21] Speaker A: You had inductees.
[00:12:23] Speaker D: That's fine.
[00:12:25] Speaker A: Other inductees, as you said.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: Share OJ Blyers cool. In the gang.
[00:12:30] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:31] Speaker B: Tribe called Quest. So no iron maiden or Mozart, but.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: A tribe called Quest. Okay.
[00:12:37] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:12:38] Speaker A: And Dave Matthews band.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: I think I'm worthy.
[00:12:40] Speaker F: Dave Matthews band are very wary.
[00:12:42] Speaker C: But, but obviously we, we, we feel.
[00:12:44] Speaker F: For some of the nominations who've missed.
[00:12:46] Speaker C: Out this year, like Mariah Carey.
[00:12:49] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:12:50] Speaker F: Let's just leave that there.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, indeed. But anyway, tribe called Quest.
Let's move on. Well, here's an interesting one. So last time we talked about.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: Lizzie.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: Hale joining Skid Row. Yes.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: Replacing Eric Rommel, which at the time.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: He said was a genius move. Well, in a similar vein, Amy Lee, who's the singer of evanescence, an amazing singer.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: Not bad. Everyone would know. So really part of that kind of.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: I don't know what you'd categorize those.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: Types of band like nightmares and evanescence.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: As sort of a female fronted kind.
[00:13:35] Speaker A: Of euro rock, I always feel.
[00:13:37] Speaker B: Um, but anyway, um, they are, um, she has been, there's a rumor, uh.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: Going around that she is the new.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: Singer of Linkin park, uh, to replace Chester Bennington, who sadly died back in 2017.
[00:13:54] Speaker A: Um, and since then, Linkin park have.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: Been on essentially, uh, indefinite hiatus. And, um, she saw, she shunned the.
[00:14:03] Speaker A: Rumors, but she did say, and this.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: Is again, very interesting, that she would.
[00:14:08] Speaker A: Be interested on a part time basis.
[00:14:10] Speaker B: Obviously her main interest being evanescence. So I thought that was interesting.
[00:14:14] Speaker A: And again, shows the, I guess the fact that bands are not just concerned about having a man replace a man.
[00:14:24] Speaker B: But obviously into the idea of a woman replacing a man.
[00:14:29] Speaker A: And that's great.
[00:14:31] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:14:31] Speaker A: We'll see how that plays out.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: But you've got a different angle to this.
[00:14:34] Speaker D: Yeah. Right.
[00:14:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:35] Speaker F: So I think it goes back as.
[00:14:37] Speaker C: Far as reading the reading festival in 19 and 19 and 2018, where some 41 were playing and Mike Shinoda, who's the guitarist and, and co singer in Lincoln park, came out and played feints with some 41. And when you listen to Derek singing Chester's parts, he sounds, it sounds really, really good. And, you know, from that date, onwards.
[00:15:10] Speaker F: And there's obviously been.
[00:15:11] Speaker E: There's been a couple of times when.
[00:15:13] Speaker C: The link and park guys have got together and Derek has been.
[00:15:20] Speaker F: There's been a few times when he's.
[00:15:21] Speaker C: Been interviewed and they've said, well, you know, would you fancy it? Could you be the next singer in Linkin park? And Derek has actually, you know, he's categorically said, no, it's not going to be me. But with some 41 announcing recently that they're. That they're calling it a day, it's.
[00:15:43] Speaker D: It.
[00:15:44] Speaker C: I wouldn't bet against Derek potentially being.
It could be one of the lead singers. Who knows?
[00:15:51] Speaker E: It could be like a little bit.
[00:15:53] Speaker C: Little revolving door, you know, Lincoln Parker, a big enough band that if they went out, they could actually have Amy.
[00:15:59] Speaker F: Come and sing some songs and they.
[00:16:01] Speaker C: Could get Derek to do some others. But, yeah, Derek might be a good option.
[00:16:07] Speaker E: But.
[00:16:07] Speaker C: But Amy's a phenomenal singer.
[00:16:09] Speaker E: I think I'd be great.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:16:12] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: The brilliantly named Derek Whibley, of course. Um, we love that name. Yeah.
I was quite sad to hear that.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: News when you mentioned, uh, 741 calling it a day.
[00:16:24] Speaker B: I've been a fan of theirs since.
[00:16:26] Speaker A: Probably 2001 with that kind of. I think it was 2001 or so.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: That fat lip all killer, no filler album.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: And obviously fat Lip was the main.
[00:16:36] Speaker B: Song from that album. Um, yeah.
[00:16:38] Speaker D: Shame.
[00:16:39] Speaker B: We wish them well, but.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: Yeah, be interesting to see how that.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: Plays out with the whole, um, Linkin park thing. Well, keep an eye on that.
[00:16:46] Speaker F: Yeah, but.
[00:16:46] Speaker E: But a band.
[00:16:47] Speaker F: A band that's.
That's resurrected from the Ashes.
[00:16:52] Speaker C: Even had an album called Phoenix is Asia.
Asia.
[00:16:59] Speaker F: Jeff Downs is putting together a, like.
[00:17:02] Speaker C: A new incarnation of Asia. And it comes out of the.
[00:17:07] Speaker E: You.
[00:17:08] Speaker C: I know you didn't do this, Matt, but last year they had a five hour John Wetton tribute concert.
[00:17:18] Speaker B: Couldn't make it.
[00:17:19] Speaker F: Yeah, but you could watch it online.
[00:17:22] Speaker C: And it was really, really good. And obviously, Jeff Downsen had collaborated with John Whitten and many guys over the years. So what Jeff did is he put together.
[00:17:35] Speaker F: He put together a version of Asia.
[00:17:37] Speaker C: To play the John Wetton tribute. And the guitarist was John Mitchell. And they brought a young guy called Harry Whitley, might be Whiteley, I'm not sure the pronunciation.
[00:17:50] Speaker F: And he carried off all of John's vocals.
[00:17:52] Speaker C: An amazing singer, like, really, really good singer. So Jeff has decided that he's going.
[00:17:58] Speaker F: To put Asia back on the road.
[00:18:00] Speaker C: In America and it's going to feature John Mitchell on guitars, Harry Whiteley on bass and vocals, and Virgil Donato as many people will know, Virgil's progressive rock powerhouse auditioned for dream theater.
So Jeff is going to go out and tour America. He's got bands like focus, Martin Turner's wishbone ash. Goes a bit of a prog fest, and they might do that extensive tour of the UK.
[00:18:36] Speaker E: You'll get to see them.
[00:18:37] Speaker F: That one show in London.
[00:18:38] Speaker C: Matt and I won't.
[00:18:39] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:18:40] Speaker B: Looking forward to.
[00:18:41] Speaker A: Looking forward to it already.
[00:18:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll be there.
[00:18:44] Speaker C: Loved Asia.
[00:18:45] Speaker E: Asia.
[00:18:45] Speaker B: Great band.
Yeah, I remember that every time I hear that song.
What is that song?
[00:18:53] Speaker E: Now?
[00:18:53] Speaker A: We find ourselves in 82.
[00:18:55] Speaker C: Heat of the moment.
[00:18:56] Speaker A: Heat of the moment. Great song.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: Because it dates itself every year.
[00:19:01] Speaker E: Goes on. Yeah.
[00:19:02] Speaker A: Maybe we should do an updated version.
[00:19:03] Speaker B: Here we now we find ourselves in, I don't know, 25 or so. Yeah, 22 at least. Anyway, we digress.
[00:19:11] Speaker A: Another band which has made the comeback.
[00:19:13] Speaker B: Because we mentioned it before, the mighty Creed. They're doing cruises, though, aren't they? Which is nice.
[00:19:22] Speaker C: Yeah, that means.
[00:19:23] Speaker F: That means that they're doing cruises.
[00:19:25] Speaker C: Matt playing Creed music, not.
[00:19:28] Speaker F: Not doing line music. Can't see Mark Trevanti sitting with the piano.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: Yeah, no, sorry. Yes. They're not the kind of, you know.
[00:19:36] Speaker B: In the ballroom doing everyone dinner and dance. Background music.
[00:19:41] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:19:41] Speaker B: Cree then these kind of rock cruises.
[00:19:44] Speaker A: I think we talked about doing one, didn't we?
[00:19:45] Speaker B: But they kind of depart from Orlando.
[00:19:48] Speaker E: And then they end up in New.
[00:19:49] Speaker D: York or somewhere by the.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: By the Bahamas.
[00:19:51] Speaker F: It must be attacked benefit in doing.
[00:19:53] Speaker C: This while they're all doing this.
[00:19:57] Speaker B: Well, captive audience, you know.
[00:19:59] Speaker A: You can't go home, can you?
[00:20:00] Speaker B: Unfortunately, they're no girl. You can't. Hang on. I might just give this a lot of miss. You can go back to cabin, I suppose. But I'm sure no one goes about their cabin with Creed, fronted by Scott Stapp and three quarters of water bridge. Of course, I loved Creed back in the day.
[00:20:15] Speaker A: We talked about it many times.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: They did some killer albums.
[00:20:17] Speaker A: And of course, they were humongous in America.
[00:20:19] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:20:20] Speaker B: Sold very little in the UK, apart from probably what I bought.
[00:20:23] Speaker F: And my friend Stephen.
[00:20:25] Speaker C: My friend Stephen, who follows our podcast.
[00:20:28] Speaker A: That's right. Stephen and I, that was it. Just the two of us bought the albums. That was it. Unless anyone else knows any other Creed fans. But it's pretty much us.
[00:20:35] Speaker D: Yeah, but we wish them well.
[00:20:38] Speaker A: I hope they make it to the UK one day. That would be good to see Creed.
[00:20:41] Speaker C: Do you know what?
[00:20:42] Speaker E: If you look.
[00:20:43] Speaker C: If you look at the. If you look at the support for the tour, they've called the tour the summer of 1999. And the bands that are playing on the bill three doors down, who I think are tremendous, tremendous band. But you've got daughtry, switch, foot tonic, who are a great band, and big Rec are all playing on select dates. So if they brought something like that to me, could be, you know, we could just. We could just get, you know, ring up Chris somebody and, you know, at stone dead and say, there you go, creed headline, three doors down.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: Yeah, well, they could do it. They could do a North Sea cruise, couldn't they?
[00:21:32] Speaker D: That'd be fun.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: You know, start Aberdeen end at Grimsby.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: That'd be great.
[00:21:37] Speaker D: I'd love that.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: That's where that creed live at Grimsby.
[00:21:41] Speaker D: That's right.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: Right.
[00:21:45] Speaker A: Any more news? Oh, there is one more sad item of news.
[00:21:49] Speaker B: The great Dickey Betts passed away recently. Dicky Betts passed away at 81 of.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: The original members of the Allman Brothers.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: Band and was responsible for writing a.
[00:22:01] Speaker A: Couple of their mega tunes, rambling man and Jessica.
[00:22:06] Speaker B: Good evenings, of course, but so sad news.
[00:22:09] Speaker D: The great Dicky bits.
[00:22:12] Speaker B: Any thoughts on Dicky Bry?
[00:22:14] Speaker C: Yeah, the Allman brothers were very, very, a lot more psychedelic.
The guitar interplay.
[00:22:27] Speaker F: When you look at the guitar players that have been in the Allman brothers.
[00:22:31] Speaker C: In terms of Dwayne Dickey and in latter years, Warren Haynes and Derek Trux, you know, it's complicated stuff. It's very immersive. And songs can last, you know, ten, 1112 minutes. And they're all jamming and stuff, but.
[00:22:48] Speaker F: Yeah, an institution in themselves in America. The Allman Brothers.
[00:22:52] Speaker D: Yeah, that's right.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: And hugely influential. Of course. I think we talked about it. You could trace the lineage from bands.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: Like Dirty Honey and Black Crows and Leonard Skynyrd back to the Ormond Brothers.
[00:23:05] Speaker B: Band back in the early seventies. And, of course, Ramn man, the song.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: Gave birth, or was the title given to the famous Ramnim man festival that.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: We used to go to every year.
[00:23:17] Speaker A: So there was even more influence. But, yeah, sad news.
[00:23:21] Speaker B: Great dicky bets.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: Okay, that was everything in the news.
[00:23:27] Speaker F: So, Matt, we come to new rock on the block.
[00:23:31] Speaker C: And we have some interesting albums to review.
[00:23:38] Speaker F: This episode, will we kick off with.
[00:23:40] Speaker C: The new album from the Chris Barris Band? I nearly call it Chris Barris, but it's a Chris Barris band. And it's Halo effect. It's Chris's and the band's fifth album. Chris is one of those artists who I can remember back when he opened up the rambling man, it was like a Sunday morning.
[00:24:03] Speaker E: And he did.
[00:24:04] Speaker C: He open up rambling man.
[00:24:08] Speaker F: Festival on a Sunday morning.
[00:24:09] Speaker C: He woke me up.
[00:24:12] Speaker E: Really.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: It was.
[00:24:13] Speaker B: That was about 03:00 in the afternoon. He was on.
[00:24:17] Speaker D: I do.
[00:24:18] Speaker A: But he's a festival staple.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: Festival stolt.
[00:24:22] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:24:22] Speaker B: Chris Barris. He's, as you say, been around for a few years. And I think, yeah, you probably would see him.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: I mean, he's made his way up the bill. We saw him.
[00:24:32] Speaker B: Where was it, steelhouse last year?
[00:24:35] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:24:36] Speaker B: Headlining one of the Friday night.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: So he. His stock has been rising rapidly over.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: The last few years.
[00:24:43] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: What do you think of the album, Brian?
[00:24:45] Speaker F: So Halo effect.
[00:24:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I've listened to this album a couple of times, and Chris's sound and.
[00:24:53] Speaker F: The band, it's evolved over the last few years.
[00:24:56] Speaker C: It kind of started out quite bluesy, quite rocky.
[00:24:59] Speaker F: And now he seems to have embraced. Now, I don't know if this is.
[00:25:02] Speaker C: His producers, but he's moved into this sort of Linkin park shine down american.
[00:25:18] Speaker F: I want to call it new metal, but it's like the new rock of.
[00:25:22] Speaker C: It's a twenties rock, even. Even touches of altar Bridge. And the songs are great.
[00:25:30] Speaker F: And if you listen to the halo.
[00:25:31] Speaker C: Effect, they've released two versions of it.
There's a version of the album where he plays some of the songs acoustically and piano tracks like Unbreakable sound.
[00:25:45] Speaker F: Really, really good acoustically.
[00:25:46] Speaker C: And it shows off Chris's voice really, really well.
I think the production.
[00:25:53] Speaker F: And he seems to have gone, as.
[00:25:55] Speaker C: I say, the altar bridge, shinedown way. And it doesn't. It's kind of like good songs, but produced in a.
By a different band.
[00:26:06] Speaker F: And it just didn't gel for me.
[00:26:08] Speaker C: Matt, which is a shame.
[00:26:11] Speaker F: You know, it's.
[00:26:12] Speaker C: You know, I. Yeah, I wanted to like it.
[00:26:15] Speaker F: Some of the songs are really, really.
[00:26:17] Speaker C: Good, to be fair. And I always do this.
[00:26:20] Speaker F: I listen to the first song on.
[00:26:21] Speaker C: An album and then I listen to the last song on the album. And probably the best track on the album is. And put it on the playlist is apocalypse. Apocalypse is an absolutely bangin tune. You know, fall to flies. Great. The unbreakable is a good song, but it just felt, production wise, it just sounded as if Chris was singing on a shine down record and it lost some of the.
[00:26:51] Speaker F: In the earlier albums, he sounded.
[00:26:54] Speaker C: It sounded like Chris Barris.
[00:26:55] Speaker F: This sounded a little bit too overproduced.
[00:26:58] Speaker C: For me, so it just missed the mark for me. Matt, unfortunately, because I like.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, he's a top man and a good singer and a great guitarist.
[00:27:08] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: But yeah, I absolutely would agree with you. It's got that real sort of 21st.
[00:27:13] Speaker B: Century, in a way. Overproduced. Yes, it's got.
[00:27:18] Speaker D: It's just huge.
[00:27:19] Speaker B: The drums are huge.
[00:27:20] Speaker A: The drums are front and center and almost drive the songs.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: The guitars are, you know, somewhat secondary.
[00:27:26] Speaker A: You've got some sampling in there, which.
[00:27:27] Speaker B: Is, as you say, kind of a la Linkin park.
[00:27:31] Speaker A: I think the. The auto bridge connection is. And shinedown is perfect, really.
[00:27:38] Speaker B: And there's a market for that, of course. I mean, those bands are huge.
And if that's the direction he wants.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: To go in, then so be it. I mean, that's the more sort of.
[00:27:47] Speaker B: Stadium rock side of things that, yeah.
[00:27:49] Speaker A: I guess, will suit the festival audiences and so on. As you say, breakpool's good. I thought savages was an excellent song.
[00:27:56] Speaker B: Hourglass is good.
There is an element of.
[00:28:00] Speaker A: They all have that sort of same style of production.
[00:28:03] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:28:04] Speaker A: So they all sound, in a way, you know, they're all very similar mid.
[00:28:08] Speaker B: Tempo, up tempo songs. So there's a kind of a sense of, you know, similarity between the songs, let's say. But, you know, it's worth a listen. And first, Chris Barris album.
[00:28:21] Speaker E: Chris Barris Band album.
[00:28:22] Speaker A: I've listened to it in its entirety and, you know, I thought was, okay.
[00:28:25] Speaker E: Like you, I'll probably listen to it.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: A few more times to really kind of get into it, we used to say. But, yeah, check it out, boys and girls. The new album by Chris Barris band called the Halo Effect. Great album cover, by the way.
[00:28:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I think we've lost the art.
[00:28:41] Speaker B: Of the album cover. And clearly this is designed for vinyl, which is, again, the way things are going now. And the album itself is that classic kind of new length, the old school, 40 odd minutes.
[00:28:56] Speaker A: So you can fit 20 minutes on each side.
[00:28:58] Speaker B: So, you know, ticks those boxes.
[00:29:00] Speaker A: As far as I'm concerned, the album covers.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: Great. So, yeah, check it out. The halo effect by Chris Barrispan. Which brings us to Brian, the new album by Gunn. The much heralded hombres by Glasgow's own gun.
[00:29:17] Speaker D: Thoughts on this one?
[00:29:19] Speaker C: I loved it.
[00:29:21] Speaker F: I really.
[00:29:24] Speaker C: I was a big, big gun fan when taking on the world came out.
[00:29:32] Speaker E: And I thought.
[00:29:33] Speaker F: And I went to see them, I thought they were great.
[00:29:37] Speaker C: And then, of course, and it's the first, you know, the first three albums, you know, finishing up with Swagger was really, really good.
[00:29:48] Speaker F: And then, of course, they lost their lead singer and, you know, Toby Jepsen.
[00:29:53] Speaker C: Sang with them for a while. And the reason why I'm.
[00:29:57] Speaker E: Is.
[00:29:58] Speaker C: And obviously, the two brothers, Dante and Gizzi are the two the stalwarts of the band. And when I stuck the album on, it's ten tracks. It's 35 minutes long, Matt, and it's.
[00:30:14] Speaker F: The first album we're talking.
[00:30:16] Speaker C: We're 35 years since the release of their debut album. And I hate to compare Mark Rankin's singing to Dante's singing, but it sounds like classic gun. It's a, it's an all out rock and roll album.
[00:30:39] Speaker F: The productions just. I think the production's brilliant.
[00:30:42] Speaker A: I thought.
[00:30:42] Speaker C: The drumming is immense on it and.
[00:30:46] Speaker F: I listened to it the whole way through and it's lovely when you listen.
[00:30:50] Speaker C: To an album and it's got a great flow to it, you know, all fired up is, you know, that's a classic, you know, rock title.
Take me back home my.
[00:31:03] Speaker F: You know, and even you've got the shift in time, which is, again, the.
[00:31:06] Speaker C: Last track in the album was quite acoustic. And when I listened to it the whole way through, the best analogy I could have of it, it was all of the best ingredients of seventies glam rock in an album.
[00:31:26] Speaker F: There was parts of it where I.
[00:31:27] Speaker C: Was hearing Argent's God give, you know.
[00:31:31] Speaker F: God gave rock and roll to it. There's anthemic stuff that's in through the.
[00:31:36] Speaker E: I think it might be in the.
[00:31:36] Speaker C: Track never enough and it's. Yeah, I was really, really surprised how much I enjoyed this album.
Yeah, I don't know what your. Yeah, what your view on it was, but I was. I really enjoyed it. Really loved it.
[00:31:55] Speaker A: Yeah, it is a good album, as you say. It is classic gun.
[00:31:58] Speaker B: I mean, they do, they do write.
[00:32:00] Speaker A: Some good songs and as you say, all fired ups.
[00:32:03] Speaker E: Great.
[00:32:03] Speaker A: Take me back home a great live.
[00:32:05] Speaker B: I've seen them play them, play those.
[00:32:06] Speaker A: Songs live and they are on tour.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: In the UK later this year. So, you know, go and check them out.
[00:32:12] Speaker A: Fake life's a good song, a kind of a swiper, uh, modern kind of.
[00:32:17] Speaker B: Fan worship and all that kind of stuff. Uh, with probably someone or one or two, you know, mega stars in, in particular in mind.
[00:32:25] Speaker A: Um, lots of kind of love songs.
[00:32:27] Speaker B: I guess you could say.
[00:32:28] Speaker A: You, you are. What I need is quite a nice.
[00:32:30] Speaker B: Kind of poignant song. Um, and never enough and, and don't.
[00:32:35] Speaker A: Hide your tears tonight and so on.
[00:32:37] Speaker B: Don't hide your fears tonight, I should say. Um, so, yeah, I think it's a.
[00:32:41] Speaker E: It'S a good album.
[00:32:42] Speaker A: I was quite disappointed. The length of it, 35 minutes.
[00:32:45] Speaker B: You know, it does seem a little bit on the short side.
[00:32:48] Speaker A: I know that you probably get like.
[00:32:49] Speaker B: A, you know, deluxe version with, you.
[00:32:51] Speaker A: Know, bonus tracks and so on.
[00:32:53] Speaker B: But I thought we could have found another, you know, three minute song just to kind of make it to the.
[00:32:57] Speaker A: Magic 40 minutes mark.
[00:32:59] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:32:59] Speaker F: Don't end at the back of the sofa.
[00:33:00] Speaker B: Down the side of the sofa. Exactly.
[00:33:02] Speaker A: Down the side of the sofa.
[00:33:03] Speaker B: You know, just like, you know, make one up.
[00:33:05] Speaker D: Some of the best songs that fillers.
[00:33:07] Speaker A: Were made up, weren't they?
[00:33:08] Speaker C: Or actually, when you think of. Of guns gone. I've done some brilliant covers, you know?
[00:33:14] Speaker B: Exactly, yeah.
Do another hot chocolate song or something be hit.
[00:33:20] Speaker A: So, yes, as you say, fronted by the Gizzi brothers, Dante and Jules.
[00:33:26] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:33:27] Speaker B: Thank you, Stell.
[00:33:29] Speaker A: Since they won, and long may they.
[00:33:32] Speaker B: Continue the mighty gun from Glasgow. And again, another good album cover, by the way.
[00:33:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:33:39] Speaker A: There's a theme running through this.
[00:33:41] Speaker E: I do like an album cover.
[00:33:42] Speaker D: You can't beat them, can you?
[00:33:44] Speaker B: Well, a good one, that is.
[00:33:46] Speaker F: Did you like the COVID of the.
[00:33:48] Speaker C: Last album, then, that we're reviewing by Projam?
[00:33:54] Speaker B: No, no, I did like it. Of course I liked it.
Dark matter by Pearl Jam. The 12th studio album. Doesn't seem that many, does it, in 30 odd years.
[00:34:07] Speaker A: But, you know, they're all pretty good. Every album that they've ever done, in my opinion. Right, back to ten we talked about.
[00:34:12] Speaker B: Last time to the new album, are always great quality, this album, by the way, if you're expecting another ten, you will be slightly disappointed, because this is classic 21st century Pearl jam.
[00:34:27] Speaker D: It's got. It's got.
[00:34:29] Speaker B: Well, it's got everything.
[00:34:30] Speaker E: I mean, don't.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: Don't, by the way, don't try and.
[00:34:32] Speaker A: Understand Eddie Vedder's lyrics, because they are.
[00:34:35] Speaker C: They are kind of.
[00:34:36] Speaker A: When I was. I was reading the lyrics as I was listening to the album, as you.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: Do, they do publish the lyrics on the CD cover.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: Thank you, by the way, for my.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: Birthday present, which was the album, the deadlux version.
I mean, I feel quite kind of intellectually sort of inferior when I read.
[00:34:52] Speaker A: These lyrics, thinking, should I. Should I really understand what he's trying to say here? I mean, there are metaphors within metaphors.
[00:34:59] Speaker B: Within the metaphors in Eddie's lyrics.
But that said, the songs are just immense. This is one of my. This will be in my top five.
[00:35:08] Speaker A: Albums of the year, for sure.
[00:35:10] Speaker B: The songs are absolutely brilliant. Setting sun is a classic pearl jam album.
[00:35:17] Speaker A: Classic pearl jam song, I should say.
[00:35:19] Speaker B: Upper hand is just a classic song.
[00:35:22] Speaker A: The title song, dark matter, is one of my songs of the year.
[00:35:25] Speaker B: They've been in my top five songs of the year waiting for Stevie.
[00:35:29] Speaker A: I'm not sure who Stevie is in this context. I thought it might be Stevie.
[00:35:33] Speaker B: Stevie Nix, actually, but I guess we.
[00:35:35] Speaker A: Might find out due course.
[00:35:36] Speaker B: But it's got everything. It's got variety, it's got rock, it's got kind of moody atmospheric sorts, keyboard sounds, it's got great songs, it's got depth.
[00:35:51] Speaker A: There's a kind of Beatles influence in there somewhere.
[00:35:55] Speaker B: Great musicianship, as you would expect from.
[00:35:58] Speaker A: The same band they've had since day one, with. With the exception of drummers that they've kind of moved. Moved through over the years.
[00:36:04] Speaker B: But, yeah, I loved it. I absolutely loved this album. And as I say, it's going to.
[00:36:08] Speaker A: Be one of my albums of the year. I'm going to set it right now, if not the album of the year.
[00:36:11] Speaker B: As far as I'm concerned. Dark matter by the mighty pole jam.
What did you think of it, Brian? Did you like it, by any chance?
[00:36:19] Speaker C: I liked it a lot.
[00:36:20] Speaker E: Now, would you like me to tell.
[00:36:22] Speaker C: You the story of who Stevie is?
[00:36:25] Speaker B: Yes, please.
[00:36:26] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:36:27] Speaker C: So, waiting for Stevie actually originates from when Eddie Vedder was recording his solo album, and Andrew Watts, who produced Eddie's.
[00:36:40] Speaker F: Solo album, and he produced.
[00:36:43] Speaker C: And he produced this album, they were waiting for Stevie Wonder to show up and record some.
[00:36:50] Speaker F: To record some parts for Eddie Vedder's last solo album. And Stevie Wonder.
[00:36:55] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:36:56] Speaker C: Stevie Wonder, famously, is somebody where time stands still. You know, he was famously supposed to be involved in the writing of we are the world and forgot to turn up.
So Stevie Wonder, yeah, Stevie.
[00:37:16] Speaker F: And the.
[00:37:17] Speaker C: Stevie in waiting for Stevie is Stevie Wonder. But getting back to the album, I.
[00:37:24] Speaker F: When I listen to the album, and I wouldn't. I'm not as big a Pearl jam.
[00:37:27] Speaker C: Fan as you are, and I don't.
[00:37:31] Speaker F: Have much of the recorded material.
[00:37:33] Speaker C: I go and see them whenever I can. I think, as a live band, they're hard to touch, just in terms of the connection between Eddie, between the band and their audience. But when I listened to the album, it was just.
[00:37:48] Speaker E: The production was.
[00:37:49] Speaker C: I thought Eddie's vocals, performance was phenomenal, and the standout track of the album.
[00:37:57] Speaker F: For me was actually waiting for Stevie.
[00:38:00] Speaker C: But when I go through some of the tracks, reach and respond, there was. There was the grunginess of Soundgarden in it. You had the actual title track itself, dark Matter.
[00:38:17] Speaker E: When I was listening to it and.
[00:38:18] Speaker C: Listened to it a couple of times, do you remember when Metallica, when they did their load album and Metallica wanted to go in a different sound? In a different direction. And for some people, it worked and some people it didn't. I actually, when I listened to. When I listened to dark matter, I just thought, right, that, to me, would have been Metallica load era, but it all gelling together really, really nicely.
Yeah. And even the track, I'm surprised.
[00:38:53] Speaker F: I know your wreckage was another track.
[00:38:55] Speaker C: Where I had the influences of the.
[00:38:59] Speaker F: Count and crows, little bit of Alanis.
[00:39:01] Speaker C: Morissette and got to give.
[00:39:05] Speaker F: Has got touches of the Beatles.
[00:39:06] Speaker C: So if you want an album.
[00:39:08] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:39:09] Speaker C: Which.
Which touches on. It's an album which sounds like Pearl Jam. I'm not saying that Pearl Jam are.
[00:39:16] Speaker F: Going out and stealing other people's influences.
[00:39:18] Speaker C: This album sounds like Pearl Jam, but it's just so many touch points and so many different styles and moods that they've created in this album.
[00:39:31] Speaker D: It's.
[00:39:32] Speaker E: It's a.
[00:39:33] Speaker C: It's a really, really broad piece of work. I'm always quite.
[00:39:38] Speaker E: I was.
[00:39:39] Speaker C: It just feels rich. It doesn't feel.
[00:39:42] Speaker F: You know, there is us talking about.
[00:39:43] Speaker C: The over produced Chris Barris Band album. This album feels very organic.
Yeah, yeah. It's up there, Matt, as one of the albums of the year so far, if not the album.
[00:40:02] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:40:03] Speaker C: Brilliant piece of work.
[00:40:04] Speaker B: Very good indeed.
[00:40:06] Speaker D: Very good.
[00:40:07] Speaker B: Dark Matter by Pearl Jam. All right, that was new rock on the block for this episode.
So, bright, we come to our occasional feature book club of rock, wherein we go to the library.
[00:40:23] Speaker A: I'm speaking a hushed, library type tone.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: Wherein we go to the library and we speak very quietly and we look on the shelves and in the library of rock, that is, of course.
[00:40:33] Speaker A: And we find a book.
[00:40:35] Speaker B: And this time you found one. And would you like to tell the.
[00:40:38] Speaker E: Audience all about it?
[00:40:40] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:40:41] Speaker E: Is this.
[00:40:42] Speaker C: Is this us trying to break out from Scotland Rocks radio and move to radio four, Matt, that'd be lovely, wouldn't it? Radio four reading. Reading with Matt and Brian.
[00:40:55] Speaker B: That's right, yes. Over to you, bright.
[00:40:58] Speaker C: So the book that I have for this episode. Great, great book. And a band that I absolutely love, and the co vocalist, or whatever you want to call him, Francis Rossi.
[00:41:13] Speaker F: So Francis has brought out his autobiography.
[00:41:15] Speaker C: Which is called I talk too much.
It is Francis Rossi from status quo. From status quo, exactly, yes.
[00:41:25] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:41:25] Speaker C: So Francis, Francis autobiography, it goes through.
It goes through his life.
It talks about his early life in London.
[00:41:36] Speaker F: It talks about the ice cream business.
[00:41:39] Speaker C: That we all know about with the Rossi family, the relationship that he had with Alan Lancaster, even as a, you know, they were, you know, lifelong friends, you know, starting bands, the live aids the relationship between.
It's what's really touching in the book as well, too, is the relationship that Francis had with Rick Parfitt early on in the book. And I thought, this is a. It's a great analogy, is when Francis talks about status quo, they were both opposites.
[00:42:18] Speaker F: And Francis, when you talk about show.
[00:42:20] Speaker C: Business, Rick was Mister show and Francis was mister business.
[00:42:25] Speaker E: And I just thought that that was.
[00:42:27] Speaker C: The strap line that I remember from the book.
It's a really, really good.
[00:42:32] Speaker E: If you're.
[00:42:33] Speaker C: If you're a status quo fan like me, me, and I love status quo. It really was. It was nice to hear the tales of.
[00:42:43] Speaker E: Of one of my favorite bands.
[00:42:45] Speaker F: 100 million record sales.
It goes.
[00:42:48] Speaker C: It goes back to, you know, you think about it, it goes back to.
[00:42:54] Speaker F: The end of the road.
[00:42:55] Speaker E: You'll remember.
[00:42:56] Speaker C: And I remember as well, too, when they. Was it 1984, when whenever they played four night. Played four nights at the Hammersmith Odeon, then they decided to do the Milton Keynes.
[00:43:10] Speaker B: That was there.
[00:43:11] Speaker C: Were you really? Wow.
[00:43:14] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:43:15] Speaker C: And France's recollection of it was very much.
They were poured off the stage at the end, they really didn't know.
They just fell off the tree. And at the end of that, they were kind of.
[00:43:29] Speaker D: That was.
[00:43:30] Speaker E: That was cool.
[00:43:31] Speaker C: Done.
[00:43:32] Speaker F: And he's a very good.
[00:43:35] Speaker C: Getting back to Francis, I could see so many similarities in the book. There's a.
He over analyzes everything, you know, to me, I always thought that Francis Rossi, when you saw them interviewed on telly, him and Rick, they were always joking with their presenters and stuff, and he was very quick with a line. Very, very funny. But he's a very, very shy. Humor is his way in which to deal with shyness and reacting to things. But really, really interesting book. Recommend it to straight school fans and anybody. We all know people in the UK of a certain age, you know, a.
[00:44:23] Speaker F: Lot of us started off our rock.
[00:44:24] Speaker C: And roll journey with status quo, and then you go on from there. An institution.
[00:44:29] Speaker B: Fabulous indeed.
[00:44:30] Speaker C: Book and.
[00:44:31] Speaker D: Yeah, very good.
[00:44:32] Speaker C: Pretty honest.
[00:44:33] Speaker A: Thank you. What's it called?
[00:44:34] Speaker B: Did you mention the title?
[00:44:35] Speaker C: Yeah, it's called I talk too much.
My order by Francis Rossi.
[00:44:41] Speaker A: There's nothing of him. He's tiny and he's got that nickname, Frame.
[00:44:46] Speaker B: Frame, which is due to his very slight. His very slight build.
Thanks, Brian.
[00:44:55] Speaker A: So bright.
[00:44:56] Speaker B: That brings us to the letter Q.
We thought that O was bad.
We got through it.
[00:45:05] Speaker A: P was a rich vein of material.
[00:45:07] Speaker B: Of course we enjoyed P, but we land now on Q. I think X.
[00:45:12] Speaker A: Might be a challenge, but we'll get to that in due course.
[00:45:15] Speaker B: So, Q, I think we can only.
[00:45:16] Speaker A: Start in one place.
[00:45:17] Speaker B: The mighty queen.
[00:45:19] Speaker D: Queen. What a band.
[00:45:21] Speaker A: Fronted by the great Freddie Mercury.
[00:45:23] Speaker B: When we did the letter M, I.
[00:45:25] Speaker A: Recall that we missed out talking about Freddie Mercury. And many people stopped me in the.
[00:45:30] Speaker B: Street, both where I live down in Surrey and also at Canary Wharf in.
[00:45:34] Speaker A: London, which is a very busy place.
[00:45:35] Speaker B: I can tell you. A lot of people stopped me saying, look, why don't you talk about Freddie Merrick? Hold on, hold your horses. We're going to talk about Freddy when we talk about Queen and. And the rest of the band, of course, still going with Adam Lambert up front. Paul Rogers was with them in the early two thousands, but, yeah. Recollections of Queen Bry.
[00:45:58] Speaker E: Queen.
[00:45:59] Speaker C: Recollections of queen.
[00:46:01] Speaker F: One of.
[00:46:02] Speaker C: One of the two bands, Matt, that I wish I'd seen.
[00:46:08] Speaker A: Really?
[00:46:09] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:46:09] Speaker E: Who's the.
[00:46:09] Speaker B: Who's the other one, then?
[00:46:10] Speaker F: Thin Lizzy, thin Lizzie with Phil in it.
[00:46:12] Speaker E: I never saw.
[00:46:13] Speaker A: Yeah, of course.
[00:46:14] Speaker C: But I can remember I passed my driving test, Matt, on the Friday.
[00:46:20] Speaker E: Passed my.
[00:46:21] Speaker F: It was the Friday and my driving.
[00:46:23] Speaker C: Instructor had a spare ticket to go.
[00:46:26] Speaker F: And see Queen at Slane Castle on the magic tour.
[00:46:30] Speaker C: And I went, no, no, I'm gonna go.
[00:46:32] Speaker E: I'm gonna go and hang with my.
[00:46:33] Speaker C: Mates and go and drive my mum and dad's car. So I chose not to go and see Queen.
[00:46:39] Speaker F: So that's my first.
[00:46:41] Speaker C: That's my first thoughts of queen. I wish I'd gone to see them.
[00:46:44] Speaker F: But live, you know, to me, they smashed live eared.
[00:46:48] Speaker E: That was probably the.
[00:46:50] Speaker F: The time I got the same.
[00:46:51] Speaker E: And.
[00:46:51] Speaker C: And, you know, classic tunes, you know, Bohemian Rhapsody, you know, every time it.
[00:46:57] Speaker F: Gets re released, it goes to number one.
[00:47:00] Speaker D: True.
[00:47:00] Speaker E: And.
[00:47:01] Speaker C: And, yeah, just the. The simplicity of their anthems, you know, there's not many. There's not many football stadiums and sports stadiums that aren't singing we will rock you or we are the champions. So queen are just.
[00:47:18] Speaker E: I think they were one of those.
[00:47:19] Speaker C: Bands, Matt, that just conquered the. Conquered the world apart from America. But I think America got them probably after Freddy passed. But Freddy wasn't prepared to.
[00:47:32] Speaker F: To get into a station wagon and do all of the hard miles in America.
[00:47:36] Speaker C: But, yeah.
[00:47:40] Speaker B: I had a similar experience, actually. In 1986, I missed it.
[00:47:44] Speaker A: I gave up my ticket to see Queen at Wembley Stadium because that was the time of 21st birthdays and stuff.
[00:47:51] Speaker B: So I actually.
[00:47:52] Speaker A: Instead of going to see Queen at.
[00:47:53] Speaker B: Wembley, I went to Plymouth, which is ironic.
[00:47:56] Speaker A: That's where my wife comes from.
[00:47:58] Speaker B: That's not really ironic, but anyway, coincidental.
[00:48:02] Speaker A: I know I missed out there, but.
[00:48:03] Speaker B: I thought, much like you probably thought.
[00:48:05] Speaker A: Oh, that's fine, I'll see them next time around.
[00:48:06] Speaker B: And sadly, because of the untimely passing.
[00:48:10] Speaker A: Of Freddie Mercury in 1991, there was no next time.
[00:48:14] Speaker B: No, unfortunately.
[00:48:16] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:48:16] Speaker A: The mighty Queen.
[00:48:18] Speaker B: One amazing fact about Queen, their greatest hits album, which by definition, a lot.
[00:48:25] Speaker A: Of people have got sold 25 million copies alone.
[00:48:29] Speaker B: Must be one of the. One of the best, I think probably.
[00:48:31] Speaker A: The second 2nd best selling, best op behind the Eagles.
[00:48:34] Speaker B: I think probably.
[00:48:35] Speaker E: I don't know that for a fact.
[00:48:37] Speaker B: I imagine it's kind of, you know, in there somewhere.
[00:48:39] Speaker E: It's actually.
[00:48:40] Speaker C: No, no, you're. In terms of best selling, it is the best selling album in the UK.
[00:48:47] Speaker B: Is that right?
[00:48:48] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:48:48] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:48:49] Speaker A: And then you mentioned. You mentioned we will rock you, which had seemed to record again, I think the songs about.
[00:48:54] Speaker B: It's actually just over literally two minutes and 2 seconds. But I think it's the most pound.
[00:49:00] Speaker A: For pound, or pounds per minute or something like that. The most successful song ever or something like that.
[00:49:05] Speaker B: Certainly. Probably the most successful song, financially, that Queen had.
[00:49:10] Speaker A: Because you say every time it's, you know, it's mentioned.
[00:49:12] Speaker B: It's played on, you know, football grounds.
[00:49:15] Speaker A: And so on and so forth. Anyway, the mighty Queen. I think that segues nicely to Queen's Reich. You like a bit of Queen's Reich?
[00:49:23] Speaker C: I do.
[00:49:24] Speaker A: First band you ever saw, by any chance?
[00:49:26] Speaker F: They were the first band I ever.
[00:49:28] Speaker C: Saw in the Antrim Forum, September 1984.
[00:49:32] Speaker D: Supporting.
[00:49:35] Speaker F: Supporting Dio.
[00:49:37] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:49:37] Speaker B: You almost forgot that, didn't you?
No, no.
[00:49:40] Speaker A: Don't tell me. You had a meatloaf jacket on.
[00:49:42] Speaker B: Meatloaf patch jacket down the front with your mates.
[00:49:45] Speaker C: I think I find pints. Yeah. No. 14 years of age.
[00:49:52] Speaker A: But your dad came and collected you, didn't you?
[00:49:53] Speaker B: I think you did.
[00:49:55] Speaker E: That's him, yeah.
[00:49:56] Speaker F: No, Queens Rake. Queen's rake.
[00:49:58] Speaker C: And one of. One of the. One of those bands, Matt, that has a umlut.
[00:50:04] Speaker B: Yes, that's right.
[00:50:06] Speaker C: Yes. Blue oyster cult, Queens Reich, Motorhead motley crew.
[00:50:12] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:50:12] Speaker A: Should we start putting an umlaut over one of our.
[00:50:15] Speaker B: Like one of the o's in our title?
[00:50:18] Speaker A: I think that's a nice touch. Very rock and roll, isn't it?
[00:50:20] Speaker C: It is, but, um.
[00:50:21] Speaker E: Yeah, great. Great band.
[00:50:23] Speaker D: Great.
[00:50:23] Speaker E: Queens Reich.
[00:50:25] Speaker C: Operation mine, crime, um, followed it up with Empire and.
Yeah, phenomenal.
[00:50:32] Speaker E: And.
[00:50:33] Speaker C: And Jeff Tate's vocals, um.
[00:50:36] Speaker F: You know, they remember there was a.
[00:50:37] Speaker C: Rumor, I think, maybe talked about, touched on it in other shows where there.
[00:50:41] Speaker F: Was like, they were going to do.
[00:50:42] Speaker C: The three tenors, a metal version, so.
[00:50:46] Speaker F: It was going to be Rob Halford.
[00:50:48] Speaker C: Jeff Tate and Bruce Dickinson.
[00:50:50] Speaker D: Hmm.
[00:50:51] Speaker B: Three tremors, wasn't it? As in earth tremors.
[00:50:55] Speaker A: Well, that brings us nicely to. There's a theme here, of course, as you might expect.
[00:51:00] Speaker B: Queens of the stone Age, fronted by.
[00:51:03] Speaker A: The great Josh homme. Of course.
I think you class them as stoner rock, at least.
[00:51:09] Speaker B: At least they were when they. I remember them coming around the early 21st century. Songs for the deaf.
[00:51:16] Speaker A: I think it's probably their high watermark album from 2002 with no one knows and go with the flow. Those amazing videos.
[00:51:23] Speaker B: Um, simple but amazing videos.
[00:51:26] Speaker A: And of course, Dave Grohl played the.
[00:51:27] Speaker B: Album, I think, from memory. He did, yeah.
[00:51:30] Speaker C: And turd, he did the tour as well, too.
[00:51:32] Speaker D: Yeah, that's right, yeah.
[00:51:33] Speaker B: Queens of the Stone age. Um, also queuing. Right, queuing. Now, queuing as in. Not in snooker or pool, of course.
[00:51:44] Speaker A: That would be c u in e I n G, I think.
[00:51:47] Speaker B: Now, queuing. Queuing for tickets and queuing to get into gigs. There's nothing worse than getting to a gig.
[00:51:53] Speaker E: I know.
[00:51:53] Speaker B: I know this from experience. I think you have to. If that many people do, you think, great, go to.
[00:51:58] Speaker A: Go to the pub beforehand, then we.
[00:52:00] Speaker D: Just join the queue.
[00:52:02] Speaker B: Firstly, the queue can be right round the block.
[00:52:05] Speaker A: I remember going to see guns and roses in Hammersmith and the queue is.
[00:52:07] Speaker B: Literally like, you know, 15 streets away.
[00:52:10] Speaker A: Secondly, you get to a gig and, like I did with Mister Big recently.
[00:52:13] Speaker B: There'S no queue because everyone's inside, so you get inside, it's absolutely rammed. So, you know, the art of queuing.
[00:52:19] Speaker E: We'Re very good at it.
[00:52:20] Speaker A: Good at it in Britain, but sometimes.
[00:52:23] Speaker B: It can be a challenge.
[00:52:25] Speaker F: And then different queues as well, too.
[00:52:27] Speaker C: If you're at the O two academies, you have the.
[00:52:32] Speaker F: Oh, if you've got. If you're with the o two network, you.
[00:52:36] Speaker C: You can go into the o two priority queue.
[00:52:39] Speaker B: Oh, that's right, yeah. The priority queues.
[00:52:41] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I don't bother with all that, but be nice. Be nice to be able to kind of jump there.
[00:52:46] Speaker B: Jump the queue, isn't it? Um, queuing.
[00:52:48] Speaker A: Um.
[00:52:49] Speaker D: Quiet riot.
Remember them, Brian?
[00:52:52] Speaker B: They're pretty good band, I think.
[00:52:54] Speaker A: Was it mental health, was there, I think, the first rock or metal album.
[00:52:58] Speaker B: Ever get to the top of the. The US Billboard charts back in about 84. Five six or something like that.
[00:53:04] Speaker F: Oh, yeah.
[00:53:05] Speaker E: It was about.
[00:53:06] Speaker F: It was about 84. It was metal.
[00:53:09] Speaker C: Metal, health metal.
[00:53:11] Speaker F: Buying your hats.
[00:53:12] Speaker B: That's right, yeah.
[00:53:14] Speaker A: All right, we'll do. Confronted by the late Kevin Dubrow, of.
[00:53:17] Speaker B: Course, or Dubrow, depending on your perspective. But I think that's where Randy Rhodes started in quite right, didn't he?
[00:53:25] Speaker E: He didn't.
[00:53:26] Speaker F: They were Randy.
[00:53:28] Speaker C: Randy co founded the band in 1973.
[00:53:33] Speaker E: Wow. And then of course.
[00:53:37] Speaker C: He got stolen from. From quiet riot and then ended up in Aussie span. But they got their real big break.
I can remember watching on television highlights of the US festival in 19. I think it was 1983, Steve Wozniacki basically funded.
[00:54:01] Speaker F: I'm just going to do a festival.
[00:54:03] Speaker C: I'm going to get all my.
[00:54:04] Speaker E: All my favorite.
[00:54:05] Speaker F: You know, all my favorite bands and.
[00:54:07] Speaker C: They had a heavy metal day and quiet riot were on the bill along along with Ozzy and.
[00:54:14] Speaker E: Yeah, quite right.
[00:54:16] Speaker C: Were brilliant. And they got their name and we were talking earlier in the show about Francis Rossian. Status quo is Rick Parfoot was quoted.
[00:54:29] Speaker F: As saying that he thought a great.
[00:54:30] Speaker C: Name for a band was quite right.
So Kevin de Broglie sort of changed quite right and made it into quiet riot.
[00:54:41] Speaker E: But.
[00:54:41] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:54:42] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:54:42] Speaker A: Is that right?
[00:54:43] Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:54:44] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:54:44] Speaker A: Your knowledge is amazing.
[00:54:46] Speaker B: I tell you what, one day, think.
[00:54:48] Speaker A: About this for a minute.
[00:54:49] Speaker B: You should do. You should think about doing a rock music podcast. He'd be pretty good.
[00:54:53] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:54:54] Speaker A: You need some like, lame partner to.
[00:54:55] Speaker B: Do it with, maybe who tries to.
[00:54:57] Speaker A: Crack the jokes and take some mickey out of you. But I think apart from that, I'll keep my eye out for someone like that. But yeah, there's good knowledge.
[00:55:03] Speaker D: Good knowledge.
[00:55:05] Speaker B: Do you remember a band called Quarter Flash?
[00:55:08] Speaker C: I do indeed. I even remember Matt.
I remember the compilation tape that I got. One of the first compilation tapes I ever had, which was american heartbeat, which had.
[00:55:25] Speaker E: Which had on the.
[00:55:26] Speaker F: On the a side, you know, it had.
[00:55:28] Speaker C: All of it had Asia with heat of the moment.
More than a feeling.
I'm sure there was.
[00:55:37] Speaker F: Oh, there was.
[00:55:38] Speaker C: Sticks was on it, sticks was doing it.
[00:55:41] Speaker F: And journeys.
[00:55:42] Speaker C: Who's crying now to all the banging.
[00:55:46] Speaker F: American was. And then on the second side you.
[00:55:49] Speaker C: Had things like Wang Chung and quarter Flash. And quarter Flash had harden my heart, which was a.
[00:55:56] Speaker E: Which is a.
[00:55:57] Speaker F: Which is a big single.
[00:55:58] Speaker C: I think it was the biggest single.
[00:56:00] Speaker F: That they ever had.
[00:56:01] Speaker E: Oh, definitely.
[00:56:02] Speaker C: Top five billboards, top 100 single.
[00:56:06] Speaker F: And they were big in France as well, too.
[00:56:08] Speaker C: I think they're still going, but. Yeah, yeah. I haven't listened to that track for 30 years.
[00:56:15] Speaker B: You probably should.
[00:56:16] Speaker A: Well, you're going to. In the.
Put the playlist together. I'm going to put that one on there.
[00:56:21] Speaker B: Of course, other albums. Speaking with Q we mentioned.
[00:56:25] Speaker A: We mentioned qo a couple of times.
[00:56:27] Speaker B: Qo live. The hallowed, hallowed halls of the Glasgow Apollo, recorded in, I think, 1976.
[00:56:35] Speaker E: Wow.
[00:56:36] Speaker C: Or thereabouts.
[00:56:37] Speaker B: Introduced by Jackie Linton. Anybody wanna rock?
[00:56:41] Speaker E: And so on.
[00:56:43] Speaker B: Anybody wanna roll?
[00:56:45] Speaker E: I won't do the rest.
[00:56:46] Speaker B: It goes on for about ten minutes, but, yeah.
[00:56:48] Speaker A: Magnificent live album. One of the best.
[00:56:50] Speaker B: I know I go on about stranger the night, but that's pro.
[00:56:53] Speaker A: Live album is absolutely magnificent.
[00:56:55] Speaker E: Check it out.
[00:56:55] Speaker A: Boys and girls.
[00:56:56] Speaker B: And quadrophenia, of course.
[00:56:58] Speaker D: The who.
[00:57:00] Speaker C: Their second rock opera.
[00:57:02] Speaker B: Indeed.
[00:57:03] Speaker D: After.
[00:57:04] Speaker B: After Tommy, of course.
[00:57:05] Speaker A: You're testing me there, aren't you?
[00:57:06] Speaker B: I think.
[00:57:09] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:57:10] Speaker B: And it was a film from about.
[00:57:11] Speaker A: 1979, I think, 80, with Sting and Phil Daniels and the lovely.
We all used to like her, didn't we?
[00:57:18] Speaker B: Leslie Ashe.
[00:57:19] Speaker C: Yes. Lovely Leslie Ashe indeed.
[00:57:22] Speaker B: Anyway, moving on. Um, songs, songs wise, uh, there's loads, of course. Um, I'll show out a few of my favorites, or our favorites. Um, last, beginning with Queen, of course.
[00:57:35] Speaker A: One by your man.
[00:57:36] Speaker B: Uh, your.
[00:57:37] Speaker A: Your favorite, John Mayer. Queen of, uh, queen of California. Queen bitch by David Bowie, of course.
[00:57:42] Speaker B: Great song. Queen of hearts, Dave Edmonds. That's a good song.
[00:57:45] Speaker E: I like that song.
[00:57:46] Speaker B: Queen of the highway by the Doors.
[00:57:49] Speaker D: That's a tune.
[00:57:51] Speaker B: Queen of the highway.
[00:57:52] Speaker A: Queen the Escobo.
[00:57:53] Speaker E: I like that one. Man from man.
[00:57:54] Speaker C: Cute little song with the tremendous Chris Thompson on vocals.
[00:58:01] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:58:03] Speaker E: Fabulous.
[00:58:04] Speaker A: I believe you.
[00:58:05] Speaker B: I didn't research that he wrote.
[00:58:07] Speaker F: No, maybe.
[00:58:09] Speaker C: Well, Chris. Chris was the lead singer and in the Manfred man band, and he.
[00:58:17] Speaker E: He.
[00:58:17] Speaker C: He wrote. Co wrote. You're the voice, which was covered by.
[00:58:22] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:58:23] Speaker B: Was he the same.
[00:58:24] Speaker A: It wasn't the same singer. He was on the later Manfred man Earth band, so.
[00:58:28] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:58:30] Speaker A: Davies on the road again.
[00:58:31] Speaker D: Absolutely.
[00:58:32] Speaker E: What a.
[00:58:33] Speaker A: What a magnificent singer he was.
[00:58:35] Speaker D: Yeah.
He's still going strong, bless him.
[00:58:39] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:58:39] Speaker A: I didn't realize he sang on Quinn the Eskimo, though.
[00:58:42] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I love that song. Davey's on the road again wearing different clothes again, etcetera.
[00:58:50] Speaker A: What do we get to question by the moody blues? I've got to mention quest for fire by the mighty Iron maiden, even though.
[00:58:56] Speaker B: The lyrics are combining Stone age man.
[00:58:58] Speaker A: With dinosaurs, which, of course, we know is historically inaccurate.
[00:59:03] Speaker B: And, of course, finally, strangeness and charm by Hawkwind. By Harkwind. By Hawkwind.
[00:59:10] Speaker D: That's a good song.
[00:59:12] Speaker C: Well, I like.
[00:59:12] Speaker A: I like it anyway.
[00:59:13] Speaker C: I take your word for it.
[00:59:14] Speaker B: It's quirky with the capital Qu. Right. I think that's Q done, Brian. Thankfully.
Which brings us next time. Oh, have we?
[00:59:23] Speaker A: You got one to add?
[00:59:24] Speaker C: No, no, no, no. I'm looking forward to R already.
[00:59:27] Speaker B: Oh, I think we all are. No pun intended.
[00:59:30] Speaker E: Rush.
[00:59:30] Speaker B: Rainbow riot. The name but a few. I can't think of any others, actually.
[00:59:35] Speaker D: Is that it?
[00:59:36] Speaker C: Rage against the machine.
[00:59:37] Speaker B: Rage against the machine.
[00:59:38] Speaker A: It's got to be more than that, surely.
[00:59:40] Speaker C: Radial haired yeah.
[00:59:42] Speaker A: Okay, let's save that for the next one.
I'm scribbling these down quickly.
[00:59:47] Speaker B: Right.
That was the letter Q.
So, Brian, that brings us to everyone's favorite part of the old podcast, hidden Gym Ties.
Thanks, Lola. Sounding good, as always.
So, Brian, what do you got for us this time?
[01:00:06] Speaker C: I have a little connection.
[01:00:09] Speaker A: Really?
[01:00:10] Speaker B: I'd heard. I'd heard that, actually.
[01:00:11] Speaker C: A little connection to quiet riot, who we've just mentioned.
[01:00:14] Speaker A: Really?
[01:00:15] Speaker F: Yes. So whenever.
[01:00:17] Speaker C: Whenever white Snake dissolved in 1994, Mister Rudy Sarzo, Tommy Aldridge and Adrian Vandenberg put together a project called Manic Eden. And they put it together and the singer of that project was a great american singer called Ron Young.
Now, he's not.
[01:00:39] Speaker F: He's not associated at all with any.
[01:00:40] Speaker C: Of the young brothers from Australia and AC DC, but Ron was the. Is the lead singer of a great.
[01:00:49] Speaker F: Band called Little Caesar and my hidden.
[01:00:52] Speaker C: Gem for this episode, little Caesar's debut album. They do a great cover version of the soul classic Chain of Fools. Stick on the playlist, mate. Really, really good.
Still going to this day, you know, Ron still front the band, so my. And Earl slick and David Bowie's band and John Weitz.
[01:01:15] Speaker F: Earl was in. He was in a little Caesar for a while.
[01:01:18] Speaker C: But my hidden gem for this episode is Little Caesar's self titled debut album.
[01:01:27] Speaker D: Very good.
[01:01:27] Speaker B: Good shout.
[01:01:28] Speaker A: In fact, they are still going there at their tour in the UK later this year with Tyketto and Dan Byrne.
[01:01:33] Speaker B: Actually, strangely mentioned Little Caesar.
[01:01:35] Speaker A: Very good.
[01:01:35] Speaker D: Thank you.
[01:01:36] Speaker B: So I have got an album by.
[01:01:40] Speaker A: Ban we mentioned earlier, actually, the great UFO.
[01:01:43] Speaker B: This is an album from 2006, a.
[01:01:47] Speaker A: Landmark album in a way, because it was the last album to feature the.
[01:01:50] Speaker B: Late Pete Way on bass.
And also the. The album where founding drummer Andy Parker returned.
[01:01:59] Speaker D: Okay. Which was good.
[01:02:02] Speaker B: And it was.
[01:02:04] Speaker A: It's got good songs in it.
[01:02:05] Speaker B: Hard bme, heavenly body, drink too much, which is probably the UFO anthem, a song called World Cruise. Not sure what that's about, but anyway.
[01:02:15] Speaker A: It'S a good song. I think it was. Sorry, good album.
[01:02:17] Speaker B: I think it was the first album.
[01:02:18] Speaker A: That I remember listening to, or last album, I should say I remember listening to on a portable CD player.
[01:02:23] Speaker B: Do you remember those?
[01:02:24] Speaker C: I used to plug it into your end to your car or plug it.
[01:02:28] Speaker E: That's right, yeah.
[01:02:29] Speaker A: On the dashboard. Velcroed.
[01:02:30] Speaker B: Now, of course, I've gone complete. I've embraced vinyl, and I've gone, as.
[01:02:35] Speaker A: You know, back to using a record player or portable record player on the train and everything.
[01:02:40] Speaker B: It's quite cumbersome, you know, get a.
[01:02:43] Speaker A: Few funny looks on the 740 up.
[01:02:45] Speaker B: To London Bridge, but, you know, like, to keep it real with vinyl and everything.
[01:02:49] Speaker A: The needle slips occasionally, which is annoying.
[01:02:52] Speaker E: But anyway.
[01:02:52] Speaker B: Anyway, where was I? Yes, my hidden gem for this episode.
[01:02:57] Speaker A: Is the Monkey Puzzle 2006 album by the mighty UFO.
[01:03:03] Speaker B: And that's it.
[01:03:04] Speaker A: We're done.
[01:03:04] Speaker D: We're done.
[01:03:05] Speaker E: Another episode.
[01:03:06] Speaker A: Thanks for listening, everyone.
[01:03:07] Speaker D: Appreciate it.
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[01:03:16] Speaker A: Thanks to Scotland rocks radio for having.
[01:03:18] Speaker B: Us every third Tuesday.
And, well, that's it.
[01:03:23] Speaker A: Anything else?
[01:03:24] Speaker B: Brian? Want to say hello to anyone?
[01:03:25] Speaker C: No, I think. I think we're all good. I think we're all good.
[01:03:28] Speaker F: All done and dusted.
[01:03:32] Speaker A: Girls. Matt Pod, we salute you. Is a maniac. Rogers production.
