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King Keith
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SOFM welcomes guest, Kieth "Yahoo" Johnson, discuss artist taken too soon with a twist, and Ren's dramatic reading of song lyrics returns!
And back at it one more time again, S1E8 of the Songs of FM podcast. How are you, gentlemen, doing?
SPEAKER_17Good.
SPEAKER_06All right. Good deal. We got a special guest coming up a little just in a uh just in a minute. Uh, we're gonna go through our our typical things we start the shows off with. Uh we want to thank you all for we've gotten some some uh good reaction from the uh first two uh episodes that we released. We recorded a lot of these uh beforehand, so you know we we finally got our release date out there, sent out episode one and two, and gotten some good traction. We want to thank you all for listening and and watching uh our little old podcast that uh that we five buddies have put together. Uh and you can you can find us on YouTube, you can find us on all the the uh podcast streaming platforms. There's a plethora of them, including the big ones, uh Apple and uh Spotify. So thank y'all for that. And also on YouTube. Well, we're gonna break right into it. Uh Ryan, do you have any wrongs for us? Uh writing Ryan's wrongs. I got a few.
SPEAKER_07We're gonna start with segment one. This wasn't really a wrong. This was one of those things that we just forgot to mention. Uh Russ told Marty that Pam Anderson was in lit video. Uh we failed to one warn Marty about Googling the danger. Danger, good lord, danger of Googling Pam Anderson in the future and watching Tommy Lee captain a boat. Oh yeah, I guess I should have thought about that.
SPEAKER_06Good looking.
SPEAKER_07Marty. So in segment three, Russ claimed John Claude Van Dam was cast to play the Predator in the movie The Predator, but because he was too short, they made a change. According to IMDB, he was actually fired due to creative differences, the impracticality of the original insect-like suit, and the desire to use martial arts as opposed to being a slow-moving insect. He was replaced by Kevin Peter Hall, which led to the redesign of the creature.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Well, that that's a win. I guess all the way around.
SPEAKER_07Well, sources say, I should have gone with your brother. Yeah, sources say he was either fired for destroying a piece of the costume out of frustration, or he left due to unsafe hot conditions and not being able to show his face. But how awesome would have been to see the predator do the sack attack on the alien.
SPEAKER_06Oh, that would have been cool. Well, I mean, he was the alien, he would have done it on Arnold.
unknownDamn it.
SPEAKER_07So there's let's write that one down.
SPEAKER_17Matter of fact, we're the world, man.
SPEAKER_07Speaking of sack attack and blood sport, when John-Claude Van Damme does the splits and punches up for his finishing move. Yeah, Ryan claimed it was called the sack attack, which is a great name that explains what he did. But the actual name is actually it's even better. It's called the full split into a shaft uppercut, which not only explains what he did, but gives step-by-step instructions.
SPEAKER_06Full split into the shaft uppercut. Yeah, that's like a play-by-play of that. I want to learn that. Exactly. Was that the script? Was that in the script? Is that what you said?
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_06I I don't know. Probably knowing him, it probably was because I think he done the full split uppercut into the shaft in about every movie that he he done.
SPEAKER_07So if I could do it, I would do it too.
SPEAKER_06Right. That's just impressive.
SPEAKER_07That's part of it. We're gonna back to segment one. This is probably the most controversial of rights uh writing Ryan's wrongs that we've ever had. Uh Ryan's hot take was the Super Bowl halftime show was never about the music. The guys all chimed in claiming it was lukewarm. Creating some songs of FM off-air tiffs and too hot for TV moments between Resident Asshole Ren and the genius behind the segment myself. Ren claims Ryan never writes any of his own wrongs and focuses on everyone else because Ryan is perfect, and you know you said it, not me. I went back and listened and found no wrongs, but since my dumb ass expanded this segment to missed opportunities, I did find a big one.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_07The only hint Ren gave was it's three words. He said to go back and listen, he would write his three words down, I would listen and write my three words down, and we would reveal tonight.
SPEAKER_06So we're revealing that now during writing Ryan's wrongs?
SPEAKER_07We are. Okay.
SPEAKER_17Because just let me reiterate, Ryan, your hot take was the worst in the history of hot takes. You got that? That title's taken from me. So I mean, do better, Ryan. Do better. Is that the three words? Do better, Ryan? Took a deep dive and just could not come to the same conclusion I did. And it wasn't even I wasn't, it's not even a topic I was gonna bring up, but you know, I at least did the courtesy of uh understanding what happened during the 1992 Super Bowl halftime show that gives us what we have today. So, Russ, if you could just count down from three, we'll finally see if we're finally on the same page. Okay. He's done his due diligence.
SPEAKER_06So I'm counting down backwards from three, and you're gonna give the three words simultaneously.
SPEAKER_07Are we doing it on one or are we doing it on like three, two, one now?
SPEAKER_17Three, two, one, reveal. So it'll be Okay, there we go.
SPEAKER_07That's good.
SPEAKER_15Are you saying reveal? I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_06Okay, such a rug. Just waiting for the countdown. Tense moment here on episode eight. Okay. I'm sure. And three, two, one.
SPEAKER_17Well, oh my god. We couldn't resist, but we but no, seriously, we we've not talked about this, and I did give him the assignment to that. Was just a joke.
SPEAKER_07Uh and Chris, you're gonna have to put a little block over that.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, scramble that one.
SPEAKER_06We can leave that to the listeners' viewers' uh imaginations. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_17Okay, all jokes aside. So this is the real reveal. This is we've we've done our homework, and we'll see if we're on the same page. I wrote down three words. Right. I'm pretty nervous about this.
SPEAKER_07I wrote down three words.
SPEAKER_17Okay, so I have no idea what he's writing down written down. Am I doing the three, two, one again?
SPEAKER_06Am I doing the countdown again? Do it again. Okay, here we go. Chris, music, please. And three, two, one, reveal.
SPEAKER_02You got it was gotta be.
SPEAKER_06That one's kind of uh for me right now.
SPEAKER_07All right, Ren, since you solved it, do you wanna do you wanna break it down? All right, break it down.
SPEAKER_17You you finally come to the same conclusion, or the correct conclusion. So, night uh during the 1992 Super Bowl on CBS, Fox opted to air an episode of In Living Color. Remember that. We knew you would remember that, or I did, and with the Super Bowl halftime show at CBS. This attempt at Super Bowl counterprogramming proved successful in attracting and keeping Super Bowl halftime viewers and drew 20 million viewers to In Living Color, causing viewership to drop by nearly 22% in some markets. So In Living Color is credited with the NFL making the decision to adapt the modern day usage of popular culture spectacles, which has been used since performance at the 1993 Super Bowl, which was who '93? Michael Jackson.
SPEAKER_06Michael Jackson. Oh, so they stepped up their game because of that.
SPEAKER_07And if you remember in my hot take, I referenced that it used to be uh marching band and kind of a little Broadway show, and I said the 1992 Winter Magic halftime show, which was the last one before Michael Jackson. So you know, I listened to it in preparation for this segment, and I'm here to say it wasn't even a lukewarm take, it was just a sorry piece of shit, and I'll try to do better moving forward.
SPEAKER_06No, you totally redeemed yourself. We're on the same page now. Oh, okay. Well, see that that's that is super interesting to me because not only does that mean that that is the reason that the uh you know, after the 92 Super Bowl, those halftime shows all were bigger spectacles and stuff like that, but that also led to the puppy bowl being an alternate uh entertainment. Counter programming. A counter programming, okay. All right, that's super interesting. Uh Ryan, you got any more wrongs?
SPEAKER_07That's it. We ended on a big note.
SPEAKER_06You ended on a huge note. That was great.
SPEAKER_07That was great.
SPEAKER_06Okay, well, it's time for uh time to find out who's sponsoring this episode, episode eight, Ren, who you got this time.
SPEAKER_17All right, let's talk about Soul Glow. Yes, the stuff used in coming to America. You remember that, right?
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SPEAKER_17Yeah, that magical hair product that promised to make your hair shine so bright it practically filed its own taxes. Well, soul glow, your hair doesn't just move, it commands attention. Church service, so glow, family reunion, so glow, court appearance, double so glow. And sure, your couch might get a permanent shine impression, but isn't that a small price to pay for a legendary jerry curl?
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SPEAKER_06That was a good one. I'm looking forward to to seeing what kind of uh residuals we'll get from that one. Well, those were that's a that's a definite way to kick off episode eight with uh the uh Ryan's revelations in his writing Ryan's wrongs and Soul Glow. Uh well, we're going to get to the portion now that we were looking forward to. We got a guest waiting in the wings, a long time friend of mine, lifelong friend of mine. We we've been friends since kindergarten and have been in several bands together. Ryan and I were in a band with him uh way back when. And you can currently hear him playing bass guitar in the metal band Gravis, uh local band here. Uh I guess they were gonna say they're out of uh Prestonsburg, Kentucky. I want y'all to say hello to Mr. Keith Johnson. I'll give it up for Keith. I say, Bub. How you doing?
SPEAKER_14Hey, how's everybody doing? Doing good, bud, doing good. Uh about y'all.
SPEAKER_06Doing good. Uh we want to, you know, pick your brain a little bit before we go on with the show and uh and see, you know, uh your uh uh background in in playing music because I I know most of it, but uh here recently with you being in the band Gravis, you know, that's that's uh something I'd like to pick your brain about. But first of all, I got two questions for you. Number one, why did you agree to do this? And number two, do you really know what you're getting into with this?
SPEAKER_17He's speechless.
SPEAKER_14Well, one, you're my friend, you asked me. So there we go. Number two, I have no idea.
SPEAKER_06Didn't know it uh uh you know normally the writing rhymes wrongs is a little more streamlined. It was a revelatory this time around, and uh, you never know what you're gonna get with our our ads. We never know until the episode. So, I mean, we all learned that at the same time. So uh we're gonna ask you the typical questions. We've had a couple guests on before. We had uh Shep on a couple episodes back and uh Ryan McCoy on too. Uh we'll ask you those questions we asked those cats. Uh and your guitar player, your bass player, uh when when did you pick it up? About about what age you think you were?
SPEAKER_14Uh 12, 12-ish, yeah, eighth grade or so.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_14Oh yeah, so 35-ish years or so.
SPEAKER_0635 years playing the guitar and bass. He was in the uh he played bass in our band 283.
SPEAKER_07Uh I think we all played bass in that band at some point. Uh-huh. Yeah.
SPEAKER_14Yeah, I think we all played at one time. We all played bass in 283.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, we just couldn't. Actually, we had three bass players at one time, Rena. It was a hell of a show. You should have been there.
SPEAKER_06It was interesting. Low end was definitely good.
SPEAKER_07It was on lead bass.
SPEAKER_06Uh, that'd been Chris Harper. That'd been Chris, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The uh Ryan and Ryan and Keith just kept the bottom end, and Chris added the flavor to it. Wasn't that in a movie? What's that?
SPEAKER_15A full band of bass players.
SPEAKER_06Spinal tap.
SPEAKER_15Spinal tap. Yeah. Okay. On lead bass!
SPEAKER_06So uh what what's going on in in your world right now as far as music goes with Gravis?
SPEAKER_14Uh we're uh recording an album right now. Should be done a month, month and a half. We should have all the everything tracked. We've got all the drums, bass, uh, most of the guitars tracked. She'll got some stuff to do. So we're looking to release that within a uh within the next couple months.
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_14Um got a show coming up in Lakington this weekend.
SPEAKER_09Awesome.
SPEAKER_14Uh Al's Bar.
SPEAKER_09Okay.
SPEAKER_14Um got one coming up in June at the Mag Bar in Louisville. I think we're gonna have a bridge show or two in Prestonsburg between now and then.
SPEAKER_06Okay, and that's located behind the Dairy Queen in Prestonburg. Okay. Uh the the uh the bridge show that's located right behind the the Dairy Queen in Prestonsburg, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_14Yeah, yeah, yeah, right across from Picanfolk.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Not to be confused with the dairy cheer in Prestonsburg where James was conceived.
SPEAKER_06Right, because behind there is the car was behind. All right. Well, we're looking forward to the Gravis stuff. You throw that information our way and we'll definitely put it out to everybody, and y'all check out Gravis on uh Facebook and all the socials, and you'll be able to keep up with them and fetch your fetch your thing. And the the it's what what it I mean, I know it's metal, but is there like a uh you know how metal is really branched off into several several sub, you know, genres? Is it just strictly metal, you call it, or what is it?
SPEAKER_14The the the funny thing with this band, you got say me and uh our guitarist and singer Cody. So we're similar aged.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_14So, you know, it's kind of heavy metal to us. But then you got our drummer and our other guitar player who are uh a bit younger than us, and they're like, Well, we're death doomed, we're this, that, we're this, that. I'm like, ah, we're just a metal band. So depends on who you ask.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Gotcha. I got you. All right. Well, that's getting to know Keith a little bit. He's gonna join us for the rest of the episode and uh the subsequent segments and games that we have coming your way. Uh so right now we're gonna jump to uh segment number two. I'm gonna throw over to Ryan, who is the segment two guy, uh, and he's gonna break that one down for us. We got Ryan.
SPEAKER_07All right, so everyone's intrigued with the child star that disappeared from the big screen at a young age and what they may be up to now. We were even guilty of asking the question during our one-hit wonder segment last episode. That question would be where are they now? So this next segment is heading in that direction, but in true songs of FM fashion, we'll flip it and focus on those that left us too soon, many at the peak of their career. We'll go around the room and each give our gone but not forgotten artist with two talking points in mind. The first, a recap of age when they passed, and the career at the moment. This will be the artist snapshot. The second, where we spend most of our time is speculating on what could have been the tours that were canceled, the albums never made, or the collaborations that never happened. Or as we call it, the ripple effect effect, and we'll call this segment where are they aren't they now?
SPEAKER_06Where aren't they?
SPEAKER_07Where aren't they now? Okay. And we'll start with Ren. He can give us his artist snapshot. Hopefully, I'm gonna go last. I debated on going first just to make sure mine didn't get stolen. I'm taking a big risk here.
SPEAKER_06That was the big event. That was the thing that I was wondering about too, because you know, yeah, we probably should have coordinated this better.
SPEAKER_17Anyone else to uh Kurt Cobain? All four of us. Oh man, it was gonna be mine.
SPEAKER_07That was gonna be mine. All right, sorry to interrupt, Ren. Your artist spotlight.
SPEAKER_17I'm the first. Um Kurt Cobain died in 1994 at the age of 27. He joined the 27 club. Nirvana was the biggest band in the world at the time. Grunge had officially taken over mainstream music. And and I guess my most intrigue point of this is I I've mentioned to you guys before, his potential collaboration with Michael Stipe, Barry M. Michael Stipe. It's Michael Stipe, Michael Stipe, yeah. Thanks, Rusty. Yeah, you mentioned that.
SPEAKER_07Are you just gonna keep messing up episode nine and all your rhymes wrongs yet?
SPEAKER_17That does not have to make writing Ryan's wrongs because Red Rust went on ahead and corrected me. So So they they had a collaboration in the works, is that what you're saying? Yes. And in this, I tried to revisit that and look into it, and apparently you guys probably know this. Michael Stipe of REM. He wrote a song and put it on his album that they released in 94 about Kurt Cobain.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_17And I would like to play this video because it really encapsulates uh my thought and what I would really like to present about this uh time period of shortly after he passed and what what effect that would have had. I mean, who knows what music? It seems like people were thinking he was softening up, especially after the MTV unplugged. There's a lot of articles out there about how Kurt Cobain kind of downplayed or thought it was ridiculous. And that comes from his you know, he was really what self-defeating, or he really didn't have a lot of confidence in himself or deprecating. Yeah, very negative. But there's also evidence that he kind of looked back on it and thought he could never top that. It was just so great because there was another opportunity for him to go acoustic and he declined it, deciding that the MTV unplugged would never be topped.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_17So that tells you there he he kind of felt really good about that performance. It landed a little second. Okay. A time had passed and had some time to reflect. So let me share the video that I would like to present today at school.
SPEAKER_06If I pay attention to the b uh the uh everyone, if you could yeah.
SPEAKER_15You have to do the legendary uh let me share my let me share.
SPEAKER_07James, you don't remember the the great part about the sharing at school when we were in school, they'd whole that cart with the TV on top of it.
SPEAKER_17Oh yeah. So I found this from a YouTuber called Rock TV, and it includes a snippet of of some interview with Michael Stopp talking about Kirk O'Bain.
SPEAKER_06Okay. And for those who are not Kurt was that's that's kind of overriding your it's kind of overriding your audio there, Rand.
SPEAKER_17Well, let me read this for you. For those who can't. This is um stop going on record about Cobain. Kurt was a great songwriter and he also he was also in a steady transition. As an artist, he had reached the end of one thing and was ready to explore the next phase, but he didn't make it sadly. So now I will divert to the video.
SPEAKER_00It was during the recording of REM's 1994 album, Monster, when Cobain died. That brought the recording of the album to a screeching halt. And this is where Michael Stipe wrote the song about Kurt Let Me In. REM's My Kurt Band's guitars. The guitar was given to the band by Courtney Love after Kurt's death.
SPEAKER_01I wrote the lyrics in five minutes and recorded it in as much time. And that was it. It was it was it was it was our my plea to Kurt. Too bad.
SPEAKER_17Wow. That's my thought. That's my presentation. That's all I got.
SPEAKER_06Well that's that that's you know, that's two that I would not have put together is uh Kurt Cobain and Michael's dying. So that Yeah, I know. That would have been super interesting.
SPEAKER_17That kind of leaves you on a big cliffhanger, you know. I'd found that many years ago about that fact of them potentially collaborating. And it just every now and then one of those things, you know, you see something about Kurt, I immediately start thinking about that, what he would have done afterwards.
SPEAKER_07So do we think he was gonna go more in the pop is just the stripped down acoustic thing and kind of a la the uh if you've ever seen the uh the movie Rockstar, Mark Wahlberg movie Rockstar, where he was just that movie, I can't even think about anything because of that movie when I hear stringlehold now. Yeah, anybody go back and watch it, and I get so excited when Joe plays it, and it's not because Joe's good.
SPEAKER_15But that was his Carol Dragon song was so good. Oh, it was.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I use that in their football games for third down.
SPEAKER_06Oh yeah. We all die young.
SPEAKER_07Nope. Stand up and shout.
SPEAKER_06Oh, stand up and shout, okay. But that was the same character. Yeah, uh, that's uh uh We All Die Young.
SPEAKER_07We all die young. That was a really good song. That's the base intro. Yep. Uh Stand Up and Shout had a vocal intro.
SPEAKER_06But that was that was his character's arc in that. You know, he was in the big rock band, real popular arena type deal, and and then he settled into being a coffee shop kind of singer-songwriter, acoustic kind of thing. So that's that's kind of cool. All right, Ryan, you want to move on?
SPEAKER_07Okay, let's move on to James. I'm gonna let uh Keith have a few minutes because should have gone with him to screw Rennie over, but actually the other way.
SPEAKER_15The month of June. The year 2009. It was on everybody's news channel uh that Michael Jackson had passed of a prescribed overdose at the age of 50 years old. Uh and while years before he was facing so much backlash of I mean, he was on the news for like just media propaganda possibly trying to attack him. Uh but no matter what, his music still uh was phenomenal. Uh at the time he was preparing for his farewell tour, which was called This Is It. So not only did he say that, you know, this is it, this is gonna be my final tour, but he also mentioned that he was gonna let all the cats out of the bag. Uh Hollywood secrets, music industry secrets were all gonna be uh exposed during this tour, which is why the theory uh that it was a prescribed overdose by his doctor, which he was arrested for, correct? Uh I think so. I think I remember that. I think so. Uh yeah, and that tour, if you've never seen the documentary of this is it, some of the arrangements of the songs are insane. Uh what else was going on in 2009? Uh I it's funny because I kind of forgot some of these moments when I was doing my research. Lady Gaga was on the rise.
SPEAKER_07Lady Gaga was around in 2009.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, really. Like she was Michael loved her. He I could see that Lady Gaga. I can definitely see that. Uh this was also the year that Tanya interrupted Taylor Swift's VMA speech to let us know that Beyonce has the best album of all time.
SPEAKER_16All time, all time, all time.
SPEAKER_15And there was also a huge rumor that went around the whole entire year of 2009 that Steven Tyler was leaving Aerosmith. And after months and months of this, you know, getting spread, he finally came out in the interview saying this is not true whatsoever. I don't know.
SPEAKER_06Screen time.
SPEAKER_15Uh, I think we could have had, if Michael was still around, we could have had some great collaborations. Uh, for instance, like I just said, he loved Lady Gocka. Loved Lady Gocka. Uh he also really liked Justin Bieber, shockingly. He loved Justin Bieber, but one that we've kind of talked about uh on this show that I I would have paid so much money to listen to this collab is Michael Jackson and Charlie Pooth. I think that would have been insane. Because they're both they're both perfectionists in their music. They're pop geniuses. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_17So I'm not sure it would have topped Mariah Carey and Boys to Men, though.
SPEAKER_06I knew it.
SPEAKER_15I knew he was gonna go there.
SPEAKER_06That's that's always gonna be in uh in Ren's back pocket. He's always gonna throw it in that one.
SPEAKER_15But there's my pick for where aren't they now? Michael Jackson. Okay.
SPEAKER_17Does everybody know where they were at when they heard the news? Can you remember where you were at the brother's house? That was one of those that did affect me. It's like you knew where you're at during 9-11. I knew where I was at. I knew I remember 9-11. Michael Jackson story. I was at Chipotle in Lexington with my wife Amanda, and she ordered a burrito. A burrito, okay? Was it a burrito or was it a bowl? Bowl, yeah. Makes sense. I'll tell you what that means off air. That was gross.
SPEAKER_06Burrito. I think I was in a hotel room, if memory serves. Woke up and heard the news. Wow.
SPEAKER_15I gotta give credit to my source. My wife gave me lots of great information.
SPEAKER_06She's the one who actually It was a Sunday. It was a Sunday? Fact check that. What was the date again, James?
SPEAKER_15Uh it was I think June 5th, but don't write me on Ryan's wrongs on that.
SPEAKER_07No, I'll I'll I'll do I'll start from the beginning. So while I'm doing that, Chris, can you give us your artist's spotlight?
SPEAKER_13Yeah. So we're going to go towards the band that should have been Nirvana.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_13Andrew uh Patrick Wood died March 19th, 1990, age 24. Found comatose by his fiancee, uh Xana uh La Fiante. Just say that again. Having overdosed on heroin.
SPEAKER_06Does anybody uh is everybody uh uh familiar with Andrew Wood? Nope.
SPEAKER_13He was the lead singer of Mother Love Bone. Mother Love Bone, yeah. They had one album released August 19 uh 19 of 1990 called Apple.
SPEAKER_06And that was posthumous for him, right?
SPEAKER_13Yeah. So the band consisted of Bruce uh Fairweather on guitar, Stone Gossard on guitar, Jeff uh Ahmed on bass, and Greg Gilmore on drums at that time.
SPEAKER_09Okay.
SPEAKER_13Um after his death, Chris Cornell reached out to um Stone Gossard, and they uh he had written two songs about Andrew Wood, uh Say Hello to Heaven, and Reach Down. And that was on the Temple of the Dog album, which Chris Cornell was lead vocals, rhythm guitar banjo, harmonica with uh Mike McCready on lead guitar, Stone Gossard on rhythm guitar, Jeff on bass, Matt Cameron on drums, and Eddie Vetter on vocals as well. Which end up with Pearl Jam. And if if he had not passed away with probably never heard of Nirvana.
SPEAKER_06That's that I've I've I've d uh I've dove into that and I believe that is very true. Uh Nirvana got Mother Lovebone's spot in musical history because they were they were like uh really supposed to be that first grunge band. And uh you know, after he passed, and that was the thing about that Seattle scene is that they were all friends. It was not a competition whatsoever. They all supported one another and they were at each other's gigs, and and you know, he was talking about how uh Chris Cornell was the one that spearheaded the whole Temple of the Dog thing because he and Andrew Wood were uh they were roommates.
SPEAKER_13Yep. Oh, and don't forget uh Alice and Chain's Wood.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, Alice and Chain's Wood was written about him, and so was uh Candle Boxes Far Behind were songs about Andrew Wood. So that's that's a that's a dive of any of you that that haven't really heard that name or not familiar with it to to dive into. I know Keith knows a lot about that stuff. Uh about uh that particular story of Andrew Wood and Mother Love Bone and how there would never have been a Pearl Jam for one. There there would have been a Nirvana because there was a Nirvana, but they wouldn't have you wouldn't have heard about them as much. Yeah, they wouldn't have spearheaded the whole movement.
SPEAKER_13They would not have been out of the movie.
SPEAKER_07And then would there not have been a Foo Fighters?
SPEAKER_13Uh well, I mean that's a very possibility as well.
SPEAKER_07I mean, this this guy could have really affected my musical.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yes, very much so because as much as I love Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters.
SPEAKER_06Uh-huh. That's right. So if you want that that is a interesting rabbit hole to go down, is the Andrew Wood W O D. Uh that rabbit hole is a is a very interesting one to go down. I've been down it. So that was a good pick, Chris.
SPEAKER_07All right, Russ, give us your artist snapshot.
SPEAKER_06Uh born October 27, 1967. He passed away on December 3rd, 2015, at the age of 48 years old. My Where Aren't They Now is Mr. Scott Wyland of the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver. He was with Stone Tempo Pilots from 1989 to 2000, and 1989 to 2003, and uh they're active now again with their what was the second replacement of a lead vocalist. Jeff Gutt is their frontman now, but before that they had uh Chester Bennington was their frontman there for a little while. So they reformed in 2008, STP did. Uh San Diego based band. Uh released uh four four major albums I'll throw out there because they had a couple that that were I think they might have been a got a graves tit or something like that from 92's core, 94's purple, 96 Tiny Music, and 99 number four, which features one of Ren's favorite songs, Sour Girl. And then he was in Velvet Revolver, the super group from 2002 to 2008, which features Slash, Duff, McKagan, Matt Sorm, and Dave Kushner, which Dave was he, I think he was in Stone Temple Pilots. Uh, but then you had the other guys that were basically uh uh who am I thinking of, Yahoo?
SPEAKER_14Uh Guns and Roses.
SPEAKER_06Guns and Roses, yeah. They were basically Guns and Roses. They released two albums, uh, one in 2004, Contraband, and 2007 Libertad. Uh he had four solo albums, including a Christmas album called The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. So that was that's pretty interesting. If you want to hear Scott Wyland sing some Christmas songs. Um but uh as far as what he might have been doing now, I mean, of that scene, and they're like I said, they were a San Diego-based band, so they weren't really in that uh Seattle scene, even though they were definitely West Coast, obviously. Um they were always kind of grouped in with that that grunge movement of bands, and they were they were my favorite. Stone Temple Pilots were my favorite of that of that era of music. Uh I just loved the the songs and I loved his voice and and how he could go from singing something with a lot of uh rasp and hardcore sound about it, and then turn right around and sing something like Sour Girl, whereas a real pretty vocal. Uh and even the stuff that he done in Velvet Revolver, uh great stuff. And I think now, you know, we would have gotten some it would maybe been the same thing as like what Ren was talking about with Kirk Cobain going that more laid-back kind of sound. Uh and and you know, he was obviously he was the songwriter or the uh the lyricist for Stone Temple Pilots. Now most of that music came from the DeLeo brothers, Robert and Dean, which that's that is a definite rabbit hole to go down. If you want to look into STP, Robert and Dean DeLeo were the brothers of that band. They were the brains of that band, they were the heart and soul of that band. But their lyricist was Scott Wyland, and uh I think we'd have gotten some very good, very good songs that kind of uh rode that line between pop and uh grunge music. And uh, you know, uh I I really think that uh he would have definitely been in our playlists now, you know, especially mine and Ren's, you know. Uh but of course, like I said, uh Chester Bennington was their singer there for a while until he died in 2017. So Scott Wyland was my where aren't they now?
SPEAKER_17I don't remember where I was, but I remember that was uh uh some news that hurt a little bit. Uh-huh. Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_07And I can I can tell you where you were not, Ren. You were not on a Chipotle on the Thursday that Michael Jackson passed away. I was way off.
SPEAKER_17Think what it was, I had no work or no school, so I just assumed I was I was gonna be really impressed if I pulled up and it was a Sunday, too. It felt like a Sunday.
SPEAKER_07All right, Keys, we'll go to our guest and get his artist spotlight.
SPEAKER_14Well, I kind of have two. Okay, okay. My first one, the first one is gonna be with Kirk Cobain, but what happens to everybody else if he lives? Like like Ryan said, where's the Foo Fighters? Yeah, you know, what what happens to other other members of Nirvana? You know, what happens to is Taylor Hawkins still alive? Is he playing for Atlantis Morissette still? Yeah, you know, you know a lot of things like what happens if he did live musically. Yeah, you know. I don't think Dave Grow would be in the Foo Fighters. Well, you know, there would even be a Foo Fighters, yeah.
SPEAKER_17I've had some thought experiments on that because I'm obviously a big Foo Fighters fan as well. But I think if Kurt lives, Dave Groh had so much talent and creativity, I just think it would have been delayed and he would eventually got to it, but maybe it wouldn't have been as big as it is now. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Chris, didn't we start having this conversation a little bit the other night? Were you the one I was talking to that was talking about how Kirk Cobain really uh encouraged Dave Grohl, though, to do some of the songwritings and owner recordings? Yeah, yeah. Because I thought it was Chris, and I was like, hey, let's not talk about this anymore and save it in case it comes up.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, because uh Dave was actually recording his own stuff. He had a tape that he would give to stations, whatever. Uh there's actually a song that was on the B side of the single release of Heartshake Box that he wrote on him. And um the Foo Fighters did it live uh years later. Uh I cannot remember the name of it right now. This song called Marigold. Yeah, Marigold. The covers of Marigold.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, yeah. So he had music that he was working on himself during that whole time. And he just saturated.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I wouldn't that's how I would like to think big girls so talented you couldn't have held that in for too long. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06What what was your segment?
SPEAKER_14Sublime. What if he would have lived? Because you know, their success was was posthumous. You know, he was already dead, you know, he'd already died, you know, a few weeks before the album was released.
SPEAKER_06It was 40 ounces of freedom was that album, right?
SPEAKER_14Um no, that was just Sublime. 40 Ounces of Freedom was the album before that I think they were getting some traction with. And then when the self-titled album was released, it had What I Got and uh Right on it, they just you know sent to read it, they just blew up. So you know, I it would have been nice for if he'd have been around to see that.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah, that would have been cool. But his his his son is playing in his place now, and sound just like doing quite well, and it's funny because they had to change the name right because of him.
SPEAKER_07Didn't they get sued because they were using Sublime and they had to they're still sublime? No, but if you look there, something something with Sublime or something like that, there's some variation of it.
SPEAKER_06Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_14Uh that was the old black singer sublime with whatever his name was, as I think how they were doing that.
SPEAKER_06So, but now you're right.
SPEAKER_07That wasn't his son, you're right. That was Rome, Sublime with Rome. Yeah, Rome, Rome, then his sons replaced him. Okay, so with his son, they're back to Sublime then, back to being sublime because I think it was his family that sued, right? To get them to that would make sense, not the two living guys that would be like, hey, we're using Sublime, I'm gonna sue, so we can't use it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_07Okay, all right.
SPEAKER_06Bradley Noel and uh Kirk Cobain's uh those are pretty good ones there, fellas.
SPEAKER_05Make sure that just leaves me.
SPEAKER_14And another one, uh, I won't really go into it a whole lot, but if anybody wants to look it up, the band from the uh we'll say early to mid-90s called Four Squirrels had one song, and you'll remember the song, but uh just a tragic story, a band on the you know, on the rise, horrible accident during one of their tours, the band destroyed, just a really good story if anybody wants to look it up. Four squirrels. Four squirrels.
SPEAKER_06Okay, well, just in the name alone, I'm gonna have to dive into that one. I feel like we're being troubled. No, no, no.
SPEAKER_14One of those bands that would have fit in perfectly in that time. Okay, it would have been would have been a great band.
SPEAKER_06That'll be definitely one to look into, four squirrels. All right.
SPEAKER_07All right, so my artist was born uh July 1st, 1954. Uh technically it was active from 1970 when he was 16 to 1989 when he passed. Are you doing Wayne Newt? Spoiler alert. His first top 20 single was in 1986, three years after he moved to Nashville. He was nominated for three Grammys, including Best Male Country Vocal Performance, but he's widely considered the best male voice in country music. And he's one of our own from Kentucky, from Sandy Hook, Kentucky, the late Keith Whitley.
SPEAKER_06That's a good one.
SPEAKER_07That is a good one. And and that, like I when we first got there on the show, I was trying to think, and all the ones were coming up. And I was driving to work one day, and a Keith Whitley song came on, it just popped in my head. Kind of a no-brainer for me. But he started at 16 with his childhood friend, Ricky Skaggs, and he played for uh Dr. Ralph Stanley. And the story goes, uh Whitley and Skaggs were both 16, discovered in Fort Gay, West Virginia by Ralph Stanley, who was 45 minutes late for a gig due to a flat tire. Stanley opened the door of the club and heard what he thought was a Stanley Brothers uh song playing on a jukebox. However, it was Whitley and Skaggs, and uh Stanley was quoted as saying they sounded just like me and Carter in the early days. So uh both soon joined his band. Whitley became the lead singer uh for Stanley in 1974, also played with JD Crow and the New South in the mid-1970s. So I would speculate that much like rookie Skaggs, you would see Keith Whitley in his later years return to the bluegrass circuit, maybe even for collaboration.
SPEAKER_06Exactly what he'd be doing, and I never thought about that.
SPEAKER_15100% that was good.
SPEAKER_06That almost that gave me some cold chills. Well, wait, there's more. This might make up for your really shitty uh hot take.
SPEAKER_07You'll probably remember Rhett Atkins and his uh best-known hit in the 90s, That Ain't My Truck. If you keep up with him, you'll know he's one of the biggest songwriters in Nashville, and he has been for a while. I mean, I think he was even writing before That Ain't My Truck. Yeah, and he spends a lot of his time on the road with his son Thomas Rhett. I don't know if you know that they're really yes, I did. I didn't know. Okay, and and he helps him out with writing in his career. I think uh Keith Whitley would have been doing the same with his son, Jesse Keith Whitley, even though he still hasn't given us his uh K-13 answer.
SPEAKER_06Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Maybe he would encouraged him to give that to us.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, Keith Whitley, that might have gone down with Keith Whitley answer to that. I think he died before that, though, didn't he?
SPEAKER_07Before K-13? Yeah, yeah, he did. He did. Okay. So he passed away in 1989. So this year and the past few years. 89.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, he died in 89.
SPEAKER_0789, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Wow. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07So that that gives me my little uh, you know, the past two years, Chris Stableton and George Strait have been selling out football stadiums touring together. I think it would be a Kentucky Suns bill with Whitley replacing Strait and not only on the tour, but I believe wholeheartedly we'd be calling him King Keith. I love George Strait, and not to take anything away from him, but everything we know and love about Keith Whitley occurred in four years.
SPEAKER_06Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, yeah. That is crazy. That that by far is the best one. That's that's the best one that we've all picked. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07All right, I'll see y'all next week. Just let me know. We'll go through that. Show's over after that.
SPEAKER_06That that was a good one. I'm glad you went last then, because that was that was the best one of all of them.
SPEAKER_07I was really worried that somebody was gonna swoop in and steal Keith Whitley and then you'd just see me cry.
SPEAKER_06That was well, you done a good job there, Ron.
SPEAKER_07Thanks, sir.
SPEAKER_06Are we ready to move on now? Everybody got their thoughts out on any of these? Anybody want to interject anything on Keith Whitley anyways?
SPEAKER_05I mean
SPEAKER_06Sensor block.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. He just was making Chris work harder and harder, anyway. I hope you're time stamping these.
SPEAKER_07I saw paper come up.
SPEAKER_06Okay, well, that that wraps up segment two and where aren't they now? And that one ended pretty well though, right? We're going to move on to what is generally the more the most popular part portion of our shows. It's time for some games, guys. Ren.
SPEAKER_17I'll let James. He's going first. So there you go.
SPEAKER_15James. Alright. Normally, normally we've been playing Guess the Synth. But with our special guest Keith, we decided to mix it up. So we are actually going to be playing Guess the Guitar Riff. Guess the Riff. So all we're going to guess the riff. I'll be playing some guitar riffs.
SPEAKER_06You playing this on an air guitar?
SPEAKER_15I wish. I wish. I got the real axe. Speaking of which, if you'll give me about 20 seconds, I'm not going to do like ready. I'm not going to go off camera, come back in an elaborate costume. Okay. I got to go get my guitar and I'm just not wearing tan. So I'll be right back.
SPEAKER_07Okay, so I'll take it from there. Russ, you may recall that I'm a pretty big ad advocate about how we get screwed by having to play these games with you.
SPEAKER_05Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_07So if you would look to your left, you may notice some drawers.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Do you see anything behind them?
SPEAKER_13Uh against the wall.
SPEAKER_06Totes over there.
SPEAKER_13Between it and the wall.
SPEAKER_06Between the totes and the wall?
SPEAKER_13No, the drawers and the wall.
SPEAKER_07The drawers and the wall.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, there are totes between the drawers and the wall.
SPEAKER_13The wall behind you and the drawers.
SPEAKER_06Oh, back here? Yeah. I thought you said to my left. You said look to my left. Well, that's what I thought, but I wasn't actually there. Okay. So what about it?
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_13In the floor. This is great. Right behind the drawers. Oh, okay. Against that wall.
SPEAKER_07Oh, okay. Against that wall.
unknownWell.
SPEAKER_07What you got there, buddy? Well, kiss me.
SPEAKER_06It's a whiteboard.
SPEAKER_07Oh, somebody mentioned that we should make Russ write his answers down and give us time to get it out of our mouth. So I may have arranged with your wonderful wife Megan to have ordered a dry erase board and had it delivered to your house.
SPEAKER_06I went to the bathroom a while ago before we fired this thing up. And it was setting in the floor, an Amazon box. And I I picked it up and I was like and I opened it up and I thought, I didn't order anything. And uh it was it was a whiteboard, and uh I I I asked Layla when I went downstairs. I said, Did your mom order a whiteboard? Or did you bring that up first? She said, Yeah. I said, Well, I didn't order that. She said, That must be mom's, it might be Chris's.
SPEAKER_07That's my girl.
SPEAKER_15Well, that's great.
SPEAKER_06That was sabotaged by my daughter.
SPEAKER_15So we're making him write down his guests while everyone else can just chime in freely, correct?
SPEAKER_07Absolutely. And we'll see if it goes too off. We'll we'll let him come back in. Well, now, okay, we're so glad I'm gonna start.
SPEAKER_06So no abbreviations. Well, now let me open the thing. Get all the coutrement out of the way.
SPEAKER_13That's fancy. It even has a mustache.
SPEAKER_06It has a mustache. What is the mustache for?
SPEAKER_13Is it magnetic?
SPEAKER_06I don't have any clue.
SPEAKER_15I'm so glad I chose songs with the longest song title. Did you realize that?
SPEAKER_07So I expect to see you write down another brick in the wall, part two.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, y'all gonna have to be able to read this because I'm gonna scribble these books.
SPEAKER_13What's that one uh a rush song? Dispelling count to the case.
SPEAKER_15What's that one dream theater song you mentioned in like episode one or two? La Villa Strangiato. Is that what you're talking about? Yeah. I don't know how to spell that.
SPEAKER_13I'm gonna say the spelling count to.
SPEAKER_15Alright, I'll go over the rules. Rules are just like S the Synth. I'm gonna play a riff. First one, you don't have to buzz in. First one to say where this riff is, what song it is. You don't have to say the artist. What song it's from gets the point. Except for Russ, because he has to write down the entire song name. Really? No abbreviations. And I expect too brutal. I expect perfect punctuation.
SPEAKER_13How about handwriting? Hold on. Hold on.
SPEAKER_07How many do we have, James, so I can keep up with this? So we can know when to let him back in to see if he can recover. Here's mine. There's mine. There's mine. Right there. So if we can get him down too, we'll let him come back in normally and see if he can catch up.
SPEAKER_06Let me erase it.
SPEAKER_15Marker has to be inside of your hand off before you get the car. Okay. All right. Are we ready? Before I start, I just want to thank you all so much for allowing me to play guitar. I've been I've been working really hard on these songs, so here we go.
SPEAKER_06Hey James, before you start, kiss my I don't know that one.
SPEAKER_15Anyway. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. And I was really worried. I was like, it's gonna be a long time.
SPEAKER_06I almost put put pen to whiteboard. I just want you to know because I heard a song there. All right, here we go.
SPEAKER_07Wondering how many edge it is. Oh geese comes in. Steals the first one. These might be a little bit more. What you got there, Russ?
SPEAKER_06Huh?
SPEAKER_07What you got there?
SPEAKER_06I'm not gonna put Christy any more work.
SPEAKER_07I'm not gonna make it harder on him.
SPEAKER_06Did you at least get the get to the V? I didn't even get to the first letter.
SPEAKER_07Sucks, doesn't it?
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_15Oh man. All right. Keys got the first point. Here we go. Next one. If you don't get the first part, I've got a second part that I plan to play.
SPEAKER_07Is that Aerosmith?
SPEAKER_14Yeah, Aerosmith, uh Mother and Elevator. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07That's what I was doing. I couldn't think of the name. All right, so Russ, you're back in, whiteboard can go. Look under your chair.
SPEAKER_15Let's start doing Ellen DeGeneres show.
SPEAKER_04Okay, that was a really good one with the whiteboard, by the way. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_15All right.
SPEAKER_04Song three.
SPEAKER_06Iron Maiden. Something beat trooper.
SPEAKER_07Run to the hills. Run for the hills. Run for the trooper.
SPEAKER_13It was the trooper.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, Chris got that one. It was the trooper.
SPEAKER_15Run to the hills.
SPEAKER_13You're almost playing at concert speed.
SPEAKER_15Yeah. Almost, yes. Yeah. That's hard on the hollow body. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah. So Russ got that one?
SPEAKER_06No. Chris got that.
SPEAKER_15No, Chris got that one. Did you say the trooper?
SPEAKER_06I said the trooper.
SPEAKER_17I said Iron Maiden. He said I can't remember saying he said trooper. I just hope you know. I just checked my email during this segment.
SPEAKER_13That's why I usually do two years, yeah. Don't worry.
SPEAKER_15All right. Number four. Are we ready? Yeah.
SPEAKER_09Is that Everlone? Oh, well, it's not Everlone.
SPEAKER_15I need to play another riff of that.
SPEAKER_09Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um I've heard it. Oh, here it is.
SPEAKER_15Ah. Okay, remember how it goes.
SPEAKER_06Okay, so I'm gonna request for the future of this segment that James learn how to play the songs before we Hold on. I've heard that. I have definitely heard that. Anything on that one, Keith?
SPEAKER_15Man, this was directed right for Keith, too.
SPEAKER_14Yeah, I know. I I know it.
SPEAKER_06I just you're probably gonna kick yourself really hard.
SPEAKER_14Yeah, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06I know that song.
SPEAKER_15Yeah. Alright, we give up. All right. What is it? Go in. Hangar 18 by Megat.
SPEAKER_14Hanger 18. Yes.
SPEAKER_06Man, how inspired are you from Guitar Hero?
SPEAKER_07A lot, apparently. That's the first thing I'm gonna do is check and see how many of these came from that.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_15I could play guitar hero tracks all day. All right. Last song, are we ready? All right. Keith at two.
SPEAKER_07Keith at two. Chris is at one. It's the last one. Chris is the only one that has a chance to win. To at least tie.
SPEAKER_06No, this last one's for three points, right?
SPEAKER_07Oh, is it three points? Three points. Three points. Three pointer. Oh.
SPEAKER_15Here we go.
SPEAKER_09Never go. And we all just got Rick Roll.
SPEAKER_15And everyone listening to this podcast, you're welcome.
SPEAKER_07Did I at least get those three points?
SPEAKER_15And if you didn't get Rick Roll and you're older like me, the game, you've lost that one too. And there's one of these. Here you go.
SPEAKER_06That was a good one. That was a good one.
SPEAKER_15So Ryan's got a point, but Keith takes it away. All right.
SPEAKER_06I thought I got three points. No, it didn't count.
SPEAKER_07It was only one point, and then I looked at it just around two points.
SPEAKER_06You suck. I'm going to check that next week. All right. That was the warm-up. Uh, Ren, you want to uh this this is gonna be good. We've done this previously, and this this is gonna be good. So Ren, take it away.
SPEAKER_17All right. Uh thank you, James, for that rendition of rock songs that I have no idea what you just done.
SPEAKER_15Uh how many emails did you get to delete?
SPEAKER_17All right. Now, a dramatic reading of song lyrics. Uh what? I'll let you on the last one.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_17The last one. Oh no. My cousin Randy's here. He's he loves the podcast. Hey Randy! Him begging me to let him on the podcast, but I see no reason to, but maybe. I don't know. Just give me a minute. I got seven of them. We can't afford these. Okay, ready to go. All right. I have a dramatic reading. I'll use a different voice each time to kind of confuse you. And it's pretty simple. I read the song lyrics, and one of you guess the right answer of the song. Okay. I don't have to write these down, do I?
SPEAKER_07We'll see how it goes. We'll let you start not.
SPEAKER_15We'll know after the second one.
SPEAKER_07We've got eight. If I determine the league gets too big, boards back in.
SPEAKER_17Okay. All right. Be the first to guess the song correctly. Number one. Breathing is the hardest thing to do. With all I've said and all that's dead for you. You lied. Goodbye.
SPEAKER_06That's Stone Temple Pilots Interstate Love Song.
SPEAKER_02Ding ding ding ding ding ding. Breathing is the hardest thing to do.
SPEAKER_17Number two.
SPEAKER_11And I don't even care the shake is zipper blues. And we don't know just where our bones will rest. To dust, I guess forgotten and absorbed to the earth below.
SPEAKER_05Do it again.
SPEAKER_15We got some helium.
SPEAKER_11And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues. And we don't know just where our bones will rest. To dust, I guess forgotten and absorbed to the earth below.
SPEAKER_16No.
SPEAKER_09No.
SPEAKER_15I just heard bones.
SPEAKER_06That first line is familiar.
SPEAKER_17Should be.
SPEAKER_06Dust in the wind.
SPEAKER_17Big song in the 90s. And when you know the the title, it's fairly obvious. But when he goes sings the verses, it's like you really gotta be paying attention to the song to really pick out these lyrics.
SPEAKER_11Uh and I don't even care to shake these zipper blues, and we don't know just where our bones will rest. To dust, I guess, forgotten and absorbed to the earth below.
SPEAKER_06It's the to dust, I guess. It's what's familiar with me, but where he's speaking it.
SPEAKER_11I guess forgotten and absorbed to the earth below.
SPEAKER_06I can't think I know the song, obviously, but what was it?
SPEAKER_07Well, hold on before he tells you, Kim Nell, because he's throwing a little different rhythm in there. Yeah, different cadence. Yeah, there's a different cadence. Can we do it with the voice with the the original song cadence?
SPEAKER_11I couldn't tell you how it goes. The title of the song is a year.
SPEAKER_06Oh, 1979.
SPEAKER_16Ding ding ding ding ding.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that's what it is. All right. Bring the board out.
SPEAKER_15Yep.
SPEAKER_06Number three.
SPEAKER_18Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes, not need. Just feed the wall, cannibal animal. I'll walk the corner to the rubble that's bulls on parade.
SPEAKER_15Yep. Rage against the machine. That's what I was thinking.
SPEAKER_06Rage against machine.
SPEAKER_07Bulls on parade.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Oh, Chris comes in with one.
SPEAKER_05Chris? No.
SPEAKER_07Chris didn't even speak. Chris wasn't saying no. I swear I was looking right at him.
SPEAKER_13You need your eyes checked then.
SPEAKER_05Uh did y'all work on a ventriloquist act again?
SPEAKER_07Okay, Keith got one. Yeah. I thought I thought Chris said uh Bulls on Parade. And then No, I said Bulls on Parade, but he beat me.
SPEAKER_06He said uh he said the name of the band.
SPEAKER_17Okay. Have we settled on a winner?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it's Keith.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I'll take that point since I can't decide.
SPEAKER_17Number four.
SPEAKER_12Don't you forget about me, Mr. Duplicity? I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner, but it was a slap. You don't even let me finish. How quickly I was and what are you thinking of me when you ought to know?
SPEAKER_15When did Elmo get on here? I don't know, and Elmo's a little pissed.
SPEAKER_09That was great. Okay.
SPEAKER_06Who got that point? I think it was Keith again. He said Alanis Morse at first.
SPEAKER_17Okay. Somebody tally up the boats later.
SPEAKER_07I've got it. We're tied. Russ and Keith. Two apiece.
SPEAKER_03Number five. I broke apart my insides. Help me. I've got no soul to sell. Help me. The only thing that works for me, help me get away from myself.
SPEAKER_14Nine snails closer.
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_16Good one.
SPEAKER_17Number six.
SPEAKER_16And you know it might sorry. Let me start over. And you know it might not be that bad. You were the best I ever had. If I hadn't blown the whole thing years ago.
SPEAKER_14GLC Gym Blossoms. Dang it.
SPEAKER_16Ding ding ding ding ding. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07And I know these.
SPEAKER_15It's so hard to get to do. Where's Kate's uh do you know these? I do know Russ has competition with Keith. I knew he would.
SPEAKER_17I knew it. Okay. Number seven. And when I cry for me, I cry for you with tears of holy joy. For all the days you've still come.
SPEAKER_16And did I ever say I'd never play or fly toward the sun?
SPEAKER_07I know those. I couldn't quit looking at his mouth. It goes this way and then it comes back this way.
SPEAKER_17I've got one more line, but I'm gonna hold off on it.
SPEAKER_06Alright, redo what you done then. Give me this one more time.
SPEAKER_17And when I cry for meh, I cry for you with tears of holy joy for all the days you've still to come.
SPEAKER_16And did I ever say I'd never play?
SPEAKER_06You know this, Chris. Oh man. This is right on the tip of the tongue.
SPEAKER_07You know, Grosh, you gotta you gotta come through with two more. You're down.
SPEAKER_06Hold on. That's uh in the meantime, spacehawk.
SPEAKER_17Yeah. Okay. I would have got it. Alright, uh okay. Three to three. You wanna do this one?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, no, it's four to three. Four to three. Okay.
SPEAKER_17I've gotta let my cousin on here, so Andy.
SPEAKER_03What? I'll let you do it. Oh shoot, I'm getting up. Way off of me.
SPEAKER_06Randy's Randy seems to be a little bit I think Randy is Randy's boy. Uh right there. I don't think by the sounds of it, I don't think Randy's gonna have to put on a voice for us.
SPEAKER_07What do we think Randy did today? He was probably definitely at Bull Creek this morning. Yeah, he definitely went at Bull Creek earlier today. Would have been at Marlowe's last night had it been open. I can't wait.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, Randy. Randy and I appreciate letting me do it. Oh boy. I don't know. You never know what to expect.
SPEAKER_09I knew it.
SPEAKER_02What's the damn funny?
SPEAKER_06Uh nothing, Randy. Nothing.
SPEAKER_02Randy. All right. I'll just read this. Okay. He just said I just gotta read it, that's all I gotta do. Yeah, you gotta put on a voice, Randy. There we go. Nealin looking through the paper through he doesn't know to read. Oh yeah. Oh, praying now to something that has never showed him anything. Oh feeling understands the weather of the winners on it sway.
SPEAKER_06Oh sealing even flow pearl jam.
SPEAKER_02That's correct, buddy.
SPEAKER_07So this is unprecedented. Usually Russ sweeps it. We don't have to worry about it. We're we're at a tie four to four. So can Randy throw us another one?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, Randy, you got another one in your back pocket.
SPEAKER_02You've got cheerful, you've got shane. Tie me tie tie up again.
SPEAKER_15Oh, I didn't know he was doing the song.
SPEAKER_06Uh yeah, that's Dave Matthews band. That's uh Crash Enemy.
SPEAKER_07That's right.
SPEAKER_02That's right, Bob.
SPEAKER_07Oh, it rests with the comeback to take the nine to four victory or I'm the four victory. You put me through my paces there, Keith.
SPEAKER_06And if it weren't for Randy, because I can speak Randy's language, you know what I mean? Thank you, Randy. I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_02You're wearing Bobby.
SPEAKER_06I believe I seen you at Bull Creek Saturday.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, bomb me some DVDs. I go there every Saturday.
SPEAKER_06I seen you.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_06I seen four of you, to be honest. Four of me. I didn't. Randy, I think you need to go get your eyes checked. You may need glasses.
SPEAKER_02Probably so.
SPEAKER_06Just have to be here, fellas. Well, thank you, Randy. We really appreciate you joining us.
SPEAKER_02Fan of the show. Let me tell you what I'm a fan, buddy.
SPEAKER_09Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02Good stuff, I think.
SPEAKER_06Well, okay. I think that was the last one. Well, yeah, we had to have the tiebreaker there. All right. Well, that that wraps up episode. Hey, that's right. Right, Randy.
SPEAKER_07Do we want to interview him? Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Okay, Ryan. Interview us.
SPEAKER_02I want to interview my boy.
SPEAKER_07All right, Randy. So uh we've heard that you're a frequenter of uh Bull Creek Flea Market. Uh everybody knows that the best thing down there is the pork rinds. Do you get them barbecued or not?
SPEAKER_02Oh, I don't even barbecue pork rinds.
SPEAKER_07Oh, that's yeah. I I like Randy. I think we need to bring him back.
SPEAKER_06Well that that that'll wrap up this episode. Wait, wait, I've got a question.
SPEAKER_07I've got a question for Keith. Yep, I've always got my one question, Rusty. Oh, yeah, for Keith. That's right.
SPEAKER_06That's right. Okay.
SPEAKER_07It is. Uh, and Keith, I'd like to know who who would you say is the best drummer that you've played with that you've shoved uh this way to Melbourne sign through the back of their dad's minivan.
SPEAKER_14There's so many. I think that would be you, sir. That would be you.
SPEAKER_07Oh man, thanks.
SPEAKER_14I didn't I didn't expect that.
SPEAKER_09I look forward to that every time.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, and my dad did not know about that until my wedding in Rusty's best man speech. Yeah, I didn't mention that. Because I remember the next morning he woke me up and he's like, Where did all this mug come from in the minivan? I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about. That's a while we were following.
SPEAKER_06Okay, that that'll wrap up this episode of the Songs of FM podcast. We want to thank you all for joining us this time. You can find us on YouTube in the visual form. Uh, you can check us out on all the streaming platforms for the podcast, including Spotify and Apple. James, what is it? Pod Podcast. Apple Podcasts. Apple Podcasts. And there are plethora more. You can visit us at sonsoffm.com. Songs songsoffm.com, sorry. Uh that and that'll lead you to our link tree, and you can find everything, Songs of FM. Uh, and again, we want to thank you for the support thus far, and uh we'll keep going as long as you keep listening. Uh Randy, appreciate you, buddy. Thank you for being on. Appreciate you, Bob. Keith, we really appreciate you hanging out with us, man. It's I'm glad to have gotten you on here. Could you enjoy yourself?
SPEAKER_14Uh absolutely, absolutely. Good deal.
SPEAKER_06Well, uh, until next time for uh Ren, for Ryan, for James, and for Chris. This has been Russ. This is the Songs of FM Podcast. See you next time.
