Top 10 Favorite Artists and Bands of the 1970s

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Drawn 1999. Welcome to this special episode of

GeekCast Radio. This will continue the epic music

spotlight we have going here at GCR. I am one

of your host, Evgenio and Mike, and joining me

is Chuck Dogg, 1999. Hello, sir. Good evening,

Mike. Yes, how are you? I'm doing all right.

Yes. And tonight we're going to be continuing

the music spotlight, as I said, with the top

10 favorite artists or bands of the 1970s. So

what's been going on with you? Nothing much.

We had a couple of successful podcasts with What's

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from Action Figure Therapy was our fastest one

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about. And we've been building off of that. Other

than that, we've been planning up towards the

holidays and stuff like that. you know working

on some new youtube reviews and things of that

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as usual I think over the last week and a half

I've edited and recorded and edited a total of

maybe I don't know 10 shows in the last two weeks

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kind of give us the you know another you know

avenue of of people who might want to listen

to the podcast at least this one specifically

uh... now for this countdown i had an extremely

hard time making my list because most of the

bands and artists in the seventies a lot of them

got popular in the seventies, but a lot of them

started in the seventies and got popular in the

eighties. Like one of my favorite bands of all

time is Hall and Oates. They started in 1972,

but their popularity really started in 1981.

So, you know, some of these may overlap between

this countdown and the eighties countdown. I

hope a lot of them do not. I know at least, let

me look at my list here, probably Two will overlap.

I don't know exactly how they will overlap, but

but no this was extremely hard for me Making

this look like the 80s list I can go down and

I can you know? Spout off ten ten artists or

bands easy -peasy, and I already know what my

number one for the 80s would be but This one

was extremely hard for me. What about you for

the process of going through and making your

list? And before you say anything, again, as

I said in the 60s countdown with David Double

-D Dennis from This Week in Geek, Chuck and I

have made our lists independently of each other.

We have not seen each other's lists, so it's

going to be a complete and utter surprise for

each of us what is on our lists. So how did you

go about your process of making your list? Well,

well first of all Mike I just wanted to add that

if you're worried about music on YouTube the

best thing you can do Just sing the songs because

they can't they as long as it's like a you know,

you know No, that's not gonna work. I'm not gonna

work. Okay. No, not with me Well, I actually

because I am somewhat of a music scholar having

studied it in high school in college So I approached

this from like an educational point of view believe

it or not. I've had this list Since I would say

maybe a week after you sent the initial email

with the breakdowns of who's doing what, to give

you an idea of how long I've been sitting on

this. I went for a combination of influence,

success, and success can be broken down between

record sales, tour attendance, name recognition,

and overall popularity. their musicality just

how their music was infused into the decade and

I really think I came up with like a pretty good

list of You know and that each one, you know

people will agree with Where I put them, you

know, I'm sure that there will be some favorites

like your own favorites You would want to put

a little higher right but i mean uh... and and

and and see you see that's the thing with these

countdowns that we're doing here in the music

spot i'm sorry to cut you off of this thing with

the cat like we aren't saying that these are

the top ten bands of this decade we aren't saying

that all we're saying that these artists and

bands are are each ten favorites of what they

put out in the nineteen seventies of music so

I mean, you know, these probably will be biased.

All of the countdowns probably will be biased

in one form or another. But we're not sitting

here saying that these are the best bands in

the world. Actually, Mike, I am saying that my

list is the absolute definitive list and that

everything else... The Geekcast Radio Network

does not endorse Chuck Dogg's opinions. Oh, I

love that. I love it. You know, um... And that's

fine, but the way that it's being promoted for

the listeners and for the people that want to

listen to the show is top ten favorite artists

and bands. That way, it's not pigeonholing us

into, how dare you say these are the best ever?

You know, we want to spark some debate, you know?

Yes, exactly. So we are going to get into the

countdown after this. favorite artists or bands

in the nineteen seventies chuck what is your

number ten okay uh... as i mentioned before part

of my criteria for choice was influence although

this band would be better identified with the

sixties the fact that they broke up at the beginning

of the seventies influence the entire decade

in terms of music the individual successes and

styles of music from its members. My top ten

choice, the number ten choice, the Beatles. Okay,

all right. I've pretty much already said my piece

on the Beatles in the last countdown episode

when Double D and I talked about it, but I will

reiterate again just amazing things that they

did in the eight, the only, I mean, they released

as many albums in eight years as artists do in

20 years. Yeah, exactly and you know when they

broke up I mean that really opened up The field

to new artists to come forward with music in

the style that the Beatles had already started

with like that new Production centered progressive

Rockish style, you know with sergeant pepper

and stuff and then again you figure you had Paul

McCartney George Harrison and John Lennon all

launch successful solo careers that took them

to even greater heights than when they were with

the Beatles and you know George Harrison I mean

here was the guy you know who would you would

hear him once in a while do a quick you know

12 bar solo in a song and he's doing these mammoth

guitar orchestrations he was playing slide George

Harrison was one of the greatest living slide

guitar players, and no one heard him until he

started his solo career. I mean, his glissando,

which is the way the note shimmers when the slide

goes over it, was absolutely beautiful. And the

way he would layer acoustic guitars to make this

thick sound was you know unprecedented at the

time you know an example of there's a song all

things must pass that was on his set the same

titled album he had something like ten people

playing acoustic guitar with him in the studio

for that track yeah and also on my sweet lord

but I mean so really I mean they're in the Beatles

influence i mean it was different but it was

there throughout the seventies yeah i mean that

you know most people remember them from the sixties

but they did still do amazing amazing work for

a little time they were still together in the

seventies uh... you know and no one denies their

their popularity at all uh... and you know as

you said they do amazing things with you know,

the instruments and the notes and the music as

well. So, you know, the Beatles rock. I guess.

Yeah, basically. You know, I mean, and you also

heard it, you know, and other artists who were

influenced by the Beatles who were coming of

age in the 70s, like Cheap Trick and the Raspberries.

You know, it's, it's one of those things that,

you know, for that generation, for that time,

they're at that, at that peak, there was, you

know, most people just absolutely loved the Beatles

and deservedly so. All right. So my number 10,

uh, Is Sticks in silence lovely So I wasn't sure

I'd actually do some research some real like

hard -hitting research on on sticks because a

lot of their songs that Came out in the 70s.

I thought Originally came out in the 80s before

because you know you hear songs and you're like,

you know, okay when did those come out and then

you have to actually look it up, but between

Lady and Come sell away and renegade and babe

Those were all made between 72 and 79 and those

are all songs that I just absolutely like renegade

I can listen to that any day of the week. Oh

It is such a great riff, but it's like it's not

even really a riff It's like him playing along

with his vocal line, but it's just so great.

The gig is up, the move is out. Stop singing

Yes You know, it's just a great great band Great

music even to you know even through the eighties

uh... they still had really really awesome awesome

sounds and again the the guitar riffs on their

songs most of their seventies stuff doesn't s

doesn't typically sound like nineteen seventies

music to me it sounds like eighties music well

that's a tribute to the to the uh... production

but i tell you tommy shaw he is one of the most

underrated guitar players that i can think of

because i mean this guy he had the blues chops

that he could you know dirty it up a little i

mean he had those like really solid licks and

it's like when you when people do like top ten

guitars of all time they never mentioned tommy

shaw and they really should as well as james

young james j .y. young because i mean he was

right there with them and that was like a duo

i put up on the same pedestal as uh... joe walsh

and don felder Yeah, I pretty much remember the

Dennis the Young years the most. Those are the

only years that count. I mean, please, don't

get me started. I think it's disgusting that

the sticks now and Dennis the Young can't come

together like one last time. I mean, don't get

me started on that. So what is your number nine?

OK, one of the great things about 70s music is

you had record labels who would give an artist

a time to grow and find their sound. And my number

nine pick exemplifies that. Yes. Yes started

out with one lineup as trying to do this progressive

rock sound. And they basically started out with

a couple original songs, but they also had the

style of taking covers and doing it in their

sound. For example, on their first album they

did a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's America.

It took them four albums and a lineup change

that introduced their classic lineup before they

really got what Most people would consider it

the yes sound and that fourth album was fragile

which included the very popular single roundabout

You know, yes, you know you had bands in the

70s that were driven by guitar and you know yes

to some extent was driven by the guitar Steve

Howe who was like a phenomenal guitar player

but it really is an ensemble band because you

had Steve Howe who was a virtuoso you had Rick

Wakeman who was a virtuoso keyboard player when

considered one of the best in the world and then

you had Chris Squire who's again a virtuoso bass

player who really created a style of doing this

playing the bass as a lead instrument. And on

top of that, you had these beautiful vocal harmonies

between John Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe,

that they would pull off live. It was just phenomenal.

Yeah, I mean, they were a great, great band.

It's escaping me. What is that song that they...

Saying oh god the one that they're most known

for the one they're most known for is actually

in the 80s was off the album 902 1 up 902 1 5

or something like that and It was called owner

of a lonely heart. Yeah, that's where I remember

them from Well, it's actually very that album

is very important because the original founding

members Alan white and I forget the other gentleman's

name at the moment had come back to Yes, and

they never really got a chance at the start of

that Yes achieved in the 70s, so this was their

opportunity to have that taste of fame with people

chanting their name and making the money. Those

80s albums actually featured an Australian guitar

player and singer by the name of Trevor Rabin.

who was replacing Steve Howe because Steve Howe

was busy in Asia. And it was a very different

sound than what Yes had established in the 1970s.

It was more rock and less progressive rock. Yeah.

All right. So my number nine is Fleetwood Mac.

Again, a band I most remember from the 80s. But

a band nonetheless that really got their start

in the 70s and they just make amazing music This

is actually kind of funny because Fleetwood Mac

was my number eight choice Okay, well you can

talk about them when you get there. Yeah, so

yeah, you just go on about Fleetwood Mac. Yeah,

you know lot of those songs that came out in

in the 70s Because mainly where I know them like

okay, like I know going you go your own way You

know, but most of the stuff that that I know

them from is when they hit with Stevie Nicks

But you know go your own way is a classic song

again a testament to them that They're a band

that has lasted for a long time Because they

reconnected even though they broke up for a while

they reconnected between 97 and 2007 so Hey,

you know and they're most of their songs are

most of you know Like when VH1 does 100 greatest

artists or 40 greatest one -hit wonders, and

I'm not saying flew Mac is a one -hit wonder

They're not they had a lot of great albums and

a lot of great songs, but like when VH1 does

those lists Fleetwood Mac is Eventually on there

somewhere So they are very, very awesome in my

book. So, well, no surprise. What is your number

eight? Well, as I already mentioned, my number

eight is Fleetwood Mac. And they're a great example

of a band that you can really put, draw a line

between two sections of their career. From the

1960s up until the early 1970s, Fleetwood Mac

was a blues -based Rock band first that featured

really Peter Green and a few other Guitar players

none of whom unfortunately ever really got the

fame and notoriety that Peter Green did The band

was founded by Mick Fleetwood and John McPhee

Mac Fleetwood back And you know they they had

success I mean, they weren't household names,

but they were making money and had a following.

And then, you know, you had a situation in the

70s where their last guitar singer left. They

were in a state of flux. The producer introduced

them to this couple that he was recording some

albums with named Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham,

and they gelled. You know that first self -titled

album Fleetwood Mac that was like that new sound

they moved away from the blues and more to a

straight -ahead pop music Lindsay Buckingham

was a very different style of guitar player He

never used the pick the only time he used the

pick was on the song go your own way He was very

much in the style of Les Paul and Chet Ankins

with that thumb and finger picking style which

You know, it sounded like there was two or three

guitars going, but it was really just him. And

it was different styles of guitar, too. Dobro,

banjo. And they really brought this whole new

sound. And like you said, they took off. I really

identify the 70s as like their biggest hit period

because that's when their seminal works came

out, Rumors and Tusk. The 80s, yes they did have

more hits but the albums aren't as big or as

remembered. And interesting enough is that they

actually Fleetwood Mac did exist up until into

the 90s but it was just that by that point the

only members still around I think were Mick Fleetwood

and John McVee. or it was just Mick Fleetwood

and just a revolving door of other musicians.

Yeah. And nobody remembers the output from that

period of time, but just an incredible band.

You know, I will be honest, I like to see a reunion

of the Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac at least

once. But unfortunately, Peter Green is not exactly

well in the head. So that might be a little difficult.

I think that for those of us or for those people

out there that remember the Peter Green years

or that grew up with those would love to see

that. For those of us who mainly remember the,

you know, Mick Fleetwood and John McVee and,

you know, Yes, Stevie Nicks and all that, you

know, that's probably the reunion that people

would want to see And I think did that well they

got back together between 97 and 07 so and they're

still around It's just that Christine McVie has

retired So, I mean she's Right now they're in

a little state of flux because they did put out

an album they did tour but it was that without

Christine McPhee and First there was talk that

Cheryl Crowe would come in and replace her There

was talk of maybe like somebody else coming in

like another popular female singer But the issue

was do you want someone who's like has their

own individual fame? Which is actually something

we're going to talk about with another band that's

on my list Or do you want to have someone who's

a relatively unknown? Who you know you can really

work with and that's really where they are now

and keep in mind You know, Lindsay Buckingham

has put out a couple solo albums, you know, Mick

Fleetwood and you know, John McV are doing their

own stuff You know, it's kind of it's kind of

tough because you know this Fleetwood Mac is

really the kind of band that doesn't need to

work and that you know they really only make

music when they're inspired which is good because

that's really when the best music happens so

yeah i mean i don't think we've heard the last

of Fleetwood Mac oh no well not unless heaven

forbid something happens to all of them but yeah

no we probably haven't heard the last of them

well that's a great thought Debbie Downer well

this coming from the guy who usually creeps people

out on twitter uh so my number eight is uh...

the eagles seriously nothing but silence every

time i reveal a number only show up what will

know it's just that uh... i really can't talk

about the eagles right now because they might

may or may not be appearing later on in my list

uh... so when i you know for me the eagles hotel

california uh... Obviously they crossed over

into the 80s, but a great, great band. Great

musicians. They were one of the bands that says

70s rock to me. I don't know. I really do like

all the work that they've done. Can't wow can't

believe they're a Main wow I thought they transferred

over into the 80s, but apparently not they broke

up in 1980 and then they reunited in 94 Wow Yeah,

I mean Don Henley and Glenn Fry had rather successful

solo careers. Yes, but yeah I mean, you know

a lot of their great hits came out of the 70s

a lot of the songs that people know them for

came out of that decade and Just amazing. So

what about you for your number seven? My number

seven is the band Rainbow Rainbow was created

by Deep Purple guitarist Richie Blackmore They

were basically one of the earliest Hard rock

bands that borderline on the progressive rock

which would later spawn the genre of progressive

metal I'll talk more about them when we do our

heavy metal special But the reason they're on

this list is for one very very important reason

And that this was the group that introduced the

world to one Ronald James Padova better known

as Ronnie James Dio I have no idea who you're

talking about. I'm even looking at the Wikipedia

article and I still have. Outside of knowing

who Richie Blackmore is, I have no idea. Ronnie

James Dio, who unfortunately passed away a few

years ago from cancer, is considered the godfather

of heavy metal. He was the voice of Rainbow's

early 70s output, which... many people, myself

included, consider the best. The band also featured

the legendary and unfortunately late drummer

Cozy Powell. And I think after the Jeff Beck

group, this was like his big, the biggest band

he's known for. Just phenomenal music. I mean,

epic, hard songs. If you want to listen to one

song that like exemplifies what Rainbow was about,

listen to Stargazer. I mean, you're basically

going to have to listen to it twice because after

Cozy Pal's double kick drum intro, your jaw is

going to hit the floor because you can't believe

a human being can play something like that. You're

going to have to listen to it again to hear the

rest of the song, which includes an orchestra

and some of the best guitar playing by Richie

Blackmore. And he formed this band because...

You know, he got tired of having to deal with

compromise in Deep Purple. So he wanted a band

that he could just sit there and dictate the

orders and for better or worse, this is what

he got with Rainbow. Phenomenal band. Awesome.

My number seven is Pink Floyd. Again, I'm silent

because this is another band that may or may

not be appearing later on on my list. You know,

everybody knows them for Dark of the Moon. Oh

wait, I'm sorry, that's Transformers. Dark Side

of the Moon, the very much hit 1973 album. I

mainly know them for the song The Wall. Is it

The Wall Part 2? Another brick in the wall part

two. Yeah, that's what it is. I know people are

screaming at their iPods at me, but we're recording

this at midnight. Another brick in the wall is

really what I know them for. I know the song

Money. I know a lot of the stuff Off Dark Side

of the Moon, but talk about a band who has great

vocals and great instrumental stuff. Very very

awesome band and you know height of popularity

in the 70s Well, I mean this incarnation of the

band lasted until around 1980 81 and then they

broke up You know, they broke up after the final

cut and then three of the members reunited in

the mid to late 80s to do, you know and You know

and the division bell. Yeah, that was in 94.

Right. But, you know, again, really, really great

songs. You know, Another Brick in the Wall is

something that, you know, everybody knows. You

know, money is something everyone knows. And

partially why people know those songs is because

of them being used in pop culture. Well, I gotta

be honest with you. I don't remember hearing

money or another, well I don't remember hearing

money being used in like commercials or a period

popping up in television shows. I do remember

another brick in the wall part too, like the

chorus, we don't need no education. That hook,

that has popped up in other places and stuff

like that. But really what I remember from Pink

Floyd popping up in other parts of pop culture

is just their visual imagery, if you can believe

that. you know the drawings of art from the wall

you know showing up here and there being parity

various uh... you know styles and what have you

yeah uh... yeah i mean and you know uh... i know

money's been used in stuff i know it has i i

specifically remember it Actually, you know what

it was used in? It was used in the Mark Wahlberg

remake of The Italian Job. I know it's in that

movie because I love that movie. A little inside

line, David Gilmore, the guitarist and singer

for Pink Floyd during that time, he claims that

he's played Money no less than 215 times in his

career. Whether with Pink Floyd or by himself

If it works it works, I mean that's you know,

yeah I don't want to dip too far in the 80s,

but I mean, you know if you have to you know,

reach out and dare to touch somebody you know

to to play that though those songs then there

you go and Hopefully thought that those two references

went over everyone's heads So what is your number

six? My number six choice is a band that in my

opinion Didn't build the table, but they set

the table in terms of Establishing heavy metal

as a new genre of music and it's deep purple

This is actually the band that made Richie Blackmore

famous This is also the band that made David

Coverdale famous. Just fantastic music. And it's

hysterical. People hold Richie Blackmore up as

this riff guy. And he does. He wrote these incredible

riffs. But a lot of the riffs that are attributed

to Richie Blackmore are actually organ parts

being played by John Lord on a Hammond organ

going through a Marshall amplifier. And really

I think the best known riff created by Richie

Blackmore is Smoke on the Water. And to all you

aspiring guitar players who play this song, please,

please do not use a pick. Thumb. and your index

finger plucking the two strings, you'll notice

a difference in sound and timbre. That's the

way it's supposed to go. But I mean, you know,

you figure they took the jam band style of the

60s and just turned it up to 11. Unfortunately,

one of the big things with Deep Purple is they

were from this era of music where you put out

two albums a year. So a lot of their better known

songs, as you've mentioned, like artists you

know from the 80s, a lot of their better known

songs really didn't become rock and roll canon

until the 1980s because you figure you had Machine

Head which had Smoke on the Water released at

the beginning of one year and then the next album

Was burned and it was like, you know, you had

a different singer already a different bass player

And you know just from you know from that so

it was like oh no, I'm sorry It wasn't burn It

was who do we who do you think we are which featured

my woman from Tokyo? Which are like, you know

smoke on the water my woman from Tokyo are two

of their best -known songs and it took years

from my woman to Tokyo to take off and you figure

Ian Gillen left the band then the bass player

left they brought in Glenn Hughes and David Coverdale

you know a very young David Coverdale who you

wouldn't even recognize as the guy from Whitesnake

and they put out Burn which was like a phenomenal

record and it you know had like you know Glenn

Hughes is a singer as well so you had two vocalists

going but you know they put out storm bringer

then richie blackmore decided to leave they brought

in tommy bowling and you know fantastic guitar

player but you know him and glenn hughes were

so into the drug culture back then that the band

just fell apart that's kind of sad yeah you know

it is i mean because if you look at their career

i mean if you just look at how many straight

Albums they released because there was a ton

of compilation records Singles collections put

out during the 70s at the same time as they were

releasing albums their output wasn't that much

even if you go back to the mark one version with

the American singer they had when they had the

hit hush they actually put out quite a number

of albums with him, but uh You know it was from

the mark to line up with Ian Gillen on that where

they really made their household names I mean

it was great that they were able to get back

together in the eighties but even that didn't

last too long because eventually Ian Gillan got

tired of Blackmore again and you know they started

doing a rotating thing and then Blackmore came

back left so they replaced him and you know they

finally did one final reunion tour and then everybody

looked at each other and was like do you want

to stop? No. Do you want to stop? No. What's

the problem? Blackmore. So they got rid of Blackmore,

and that's the band that we've had going as Deep

Purple to this day. The original, the Mark II

lineup, which is a different guitar player. Yeah.

I mean, just fantastic music. I just can't say

enough about them. Is there a certain song that

people would recognize from them? Well... Obviously,

Smoke on the Water, which besides the riff, it's

a great story of how the record was recorded.

But along with Smoke on the Water, there's the

song Highway Star, which if you're a guitar player

and you can play that solo, please send me a

message because I want to know how you do it.

Because the guy is like picking 16th note, like

classical style arpeggios or runs. You know,

no hammer -on, no pull -offs, which are guitar

terms for making a note sound without picking

it. I mean, just amazing. I mean, Richie Blackmore

was really a... And I want to get... going a

little too far into Deep Purple I mean with the

Heavy Metal episode we will go into more but

he laid the template for what became known as

shredding guitar style as the shred guitar style

and I should stop there because I can go on for

hours about Deep Purple yeah um yeah just again

great great band so my number six choice is The

man the myth the legend himself Alice Cooper

Welcome to my nightmare Now wait, I have to ask

you Mike are you doing the Alice Cooper band

or the solo artist Alice Cooper originally it

was just The solo artist at the time because

that's I've just heard his name, but probably

most likely the band Simply because everybody

knows schools out I mean they both you know Between

the band and his solo career. He's had an excellent

amazing career. Oh, yes You know, I mean he is

one of the rock gods Rock and Roll Hall of Famer,

finally, thank God. Now, do you know the difference

between Alice Cooper's solo artist and Alice

Cooper Band? Um, not really, no. Alright, Alice

Cooper Band were the five guys, and in the band,

he was Vince Fournier. Eventually, you know people

would ask well, which one of you is Alice Cooper?

He would just say yes I am when he split to do

his solo career He worked out a contractual agreement

with the original members of the Alice Cooper

band to continue using that name which he has

paid every year Since I think like what was it

75 or something when he first released his first

solo album up until today So those guys have

actually been able to support their families

from the royalties being paid to them for the

alice cooper name and and once in a while they

do reunite as the original alice cooper band

well i i i don't know if this is a reunion and

i know simply i'm going to point this out to

peek on court michael because i i know he's he's

probably gonna berate me for not knowing the

history between the two uh... But he recently

saw them in concert. I believe this year or was

it last year? I don't know. I'm not sure if he

saw Alice Cooper his himself the soloist or if

he saw the band Well, the band didn't hasn't

reunited in a couple years. So it was probably

so it's probably just him himself Yeah, and keep

in mind it's a family affair now because his

wife used to be a dancer on tour Now his daughter

is a dancer on tour Cool. Yeah, I mean as he

said in an interview You know, we used to chop

my heads my wife's head off now. We're chopping

my daughter's head off on stage Now This is one

of the ones that he that they've been in tons

of soundtracks You know songs from them You know

Friday the 13th part 6 Halloween Wayne's world

uh... roadie sergeant peppers lonely hearts club

and how great was his appearance in wayne's world

oh god yeah he let me tell you something he really

dot what wayne's world was about and i mean he

played it up to a hilt i mean he was having it

up i mean it was great that's actually one of

my favorite scenes from the movie just not just

watching them go dot and he's like holding out

his hand for them to kiss the ring Yeah, and

then he's like get up you're worthy or no way

it was the it was no that was Joe Perry with

the Aerosmith stuff Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah But

yeah, no, I mean and again the guy is Whether

it's the band version or him he himself. He is

a rock god So Wayne and Garth bowing to him makes

sense And he's a fantastic golf player. That

cracks me up to no end. Yeah, that's a little

strange. I mean, you know you have a lot of celebrities,

musicians, movie stars, TV stars do these professional,

or not professional, but these celebrity golf

tournaments. But a lot of them just kind of play

it off. Like, eh. I'm not doing so hot or I'm

probably gonna play lousy or whatever else then

you know they you know that you know the the

least likely person on the tour or whatever or

on the Celebrity tournament will surprise you

and beat everybody Well, the thing is as you

know he has said in interviews When once he became

clean and sober from the alcohol and drugs He

traded one addiction for another and the other

addiction was golf His wife even jokes about

it like, I never see him, I don't know what's

going on. He really is a great example of the

fact that you can really clean up your life,

turn it around and still... You know be a successful

artist because you know you hear a lot of artists

moan that you know Getting clean and sober they

lose their magic. They lose their mojo I mean

he hasn't because I mean he's some of the albums

He's put out in the last 10 to 15 years or some

of the best albums of his career so You know,

it's he doesn't have to just hang his hat on

his 70s and 80s work Mm -hmm. Oh, no, not at

all Not at all. So what is your number five?

Well, Mike, to intro this band, I have to use

their signature phrase. You wanted the best.

You got the best. My number five pick is Kiss.

Interesting. Now, a lot has been said about Kiss.

I'm going to be very honest with you, I am not

their biggest fan. A lot of it has to do with

the behavior of one Gene Simmons within the last

10 years of how he's treated the other members

of the band, but not my pedestal to climb upon.

But Kiss are a prime example of a band that just

toured, worked hard at the music, got their sound

out. They realized that The albums just weren't

capturing their sound. It was the live album,

Kiss Alive, that was the hit for them, that broke

them through, that made them the household names

and the marketing. I think Kiss had to be the

first band in history to figure out the formula

to market themselves. Dolls, comic books. T -shirts,

clothing, wine, glasses, coffins, condoms, makeup.

Anything you can possibly think of, it's just

they've done it. Gene Simmons has made the four

original members and the various other members

of KISS throughout the years millionaires. I

have to be honest with you. I have to tip my

hat to Gene Simmons because You know, if he really

didn't do that, I hate to say that guys like

Peter Criss and Ace Freely, who once they were

out of Kiss, you know, really had a hard time

establishing themselves, probably would have

ended up homeless. Yeah. But I mean, the songs

are great. Don't get me wrong. The songs are

phenomenal. It's just, you know, and they're

all sound musicians, but I think it's the image

and the you know, and the merchandise of Kiss

that I think they'll be remembered for over the

music. Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, you see, you

know, episodes of Pawn Stars where some guy has

a Kiss pinball machine or something like that.

I mean, that's, you know, the merchandising for

Kiss is really where, where their popularity

is. I mean, sure, the songs were great, like

you said, but in popular culture, with them it's

it's all about the merchandising I think at one

point I mean it's not now but at one point in

time you could basically go through a day and

have everything you touch be kiss you could brush

your teeth with a kiss toothbrush with kiss signature

toothpaste rinse your mouth out with a glass

a signature kiss glass You would have a bowl

of kiss cereal that's being poured into a kiss

bowl. Drink orange juice out of another kiss

glass. You're wearing kiss underwear with a kiss

t -shirt with kiss socks and kiss Nike sneakers.

You slept in a bed with kiss sheets. You drive

a kiss Cadillac. Yeah, that's like like merchandising

is great, but that's almost over merchandising.

Well, you're not. people bought it i mean he

made him money but you know i gotta be honest

with you um are you familiar with the series

of dvd sets that kiss put out a couple years

ago I think it was called Kissology, Volume 1,

2, and 3. I've heard of them, but I've never

seen any of them. I have to say, I was thinking

about picking them up, because really, if you're

going to own anything by Kiss, it's got to be

live, because that's where they sound the best.

And VH1 Classic, God bless them, they will, late

at night, re -air all these old concerts from

them. And I watched it. and it was absolutely

horrible. I can't tell if it was because of the

tape deteriorating over the years. Ace Freely

was singing his signature song, Shock Me, which

I have heard him do many times and he sounds

great. He sounded off key. The guitar sounded

out of tune. You know, I'm just like thinking

to myself. Well, like that could just be ace

freely because back then, you know He didn't

know what planet he was on but um a couple of

the other tracks of god of thunder love gun Just

really did not sound good. And I'm just like

well, you know what if this is what's on this

DVD I ain't picking it up You know and keep in

mind you figure You have to figure if any of

these were ever released on vinyl the guitars

had to be touched up in studio because you had

Bob Kulick coming in and redoing all of Ace Freely's

parts because he was so whacked out of his mind

he didn't know what he was doing. Yeah, it's

a little inside tidbit for you guys listening

at home. From alive to all of Ace Freely's parts

had to be redone by Bob Kulick and basically

by the late 70s any of his studio recordings

was Bob Kulick whose brother Bruce eventually

joined Kiss in the late 80s and early 90s but

Ace was just so out of it by then that he could

barely play guitar. Now wasn't Simmons the drummer?

No, Gene Simmons was the bass player and singer.

Peter Chris was the drummer. See then this would

always confuse me about kiss like gene and I

don't know every time I don't know if it's I

I I didn't register with me watch it like you

know Again going back to VH one in there, you

know grit, you know the greatest countdown things

that they do every time I've seen anything with

kiss it almost was like Gene Simmons was a secondary

player kind of like Phil Collins was the drummer

in Genesis and then he went on to his own solo

career That's kind of what I thought kiss was

for the longest time and then I realized wait

No, no, no, no. He's the he's the lead vocals

Wow, that's hmm in the studio and in the office

Gene Simmons is the head of kiss live live It's

paul stanley's band paul stanley is the one who

reaches out to the audience who talks to the

audience He really paul stanley is the much better

front man, and he's the one who engages the audience

and stuff like that Peter chris and aches freely

were really just you know there Ah So my number

five is foreigner And again, the silence so I'm

sorry, dude I mean I was what I'm waiting for

you to like start going on about how great of

the band they are because they are They they

are an amazing amazing band You know songs that

again talk about a band who? Who started in the

70s and transitioned into the 80s and beyond

You know just you know everybody knows hot -blooded

cold as ice You know double vision Feels like

the first time You know I could listen this is

the type of music that I can list like these

are all songs even though most of them came out

the late 70s these are all songs that I feel

belong in an 80s playlist and just because to

me they have that 80s feel You do actually know

the history of the name, Foreigner. I think so,

but it's been a while since I've looked up on

it. Basically, Foreigner started out as somewhat

of a supergroup. You had Ian MacDonald, who is

best known for being in the band King Crimson,

he moved to America. And he met Mick Jones, who

had played in a number of British bands that's

mostly known for Spooky Tooth. And they decided

to form a band together with a bunch of Americans.

And they decided to name the band Foreigner because

Ian MacDonald and Mick Jones were foreigners

in America, and then the rest of the band...

Foreigners in Britain. Exactly. oh lord wow that's

that's funny you know and of course obviously

once you hit you know the 80s with you know 1981's

urgent and waiting for a girl like you and then

jukebox here in 1982 You know, those are pretty

much all the songs I mentioned before and all

the ones I just mentioned now are all along with

head games are all songs that I love listening

to from them and Those are the songs that I mainly

know from them, you know, you want to talk about

a band who? consistently put out hits It's these

guys and I'm not and I'm not taking away like

songs that I know You know, I've said before

where there might be some times in these countdowns

where I might know the band but I don't know

a song or I might know the song more than I know

the band. This is kind of the best of both worlds

because they... Wow, that was a horrible reference.

Because, you know, their name was out there and

the music was out there and they're just amazing.

Yeah, and it's interesting just... You know,

this was a great example of a band they never

really had one big huge like number one hit But

they have a huge collection of very popular songs

that you know sustain their albums that they

would have million selling albums and each album

had like several You know hit tracks off of it

You know, I mean they were really a Great band

and yawns really after their you know their album

for which was their fourth album Yeah, it was

like You know it really started to die off But

then again you had their fifth album agent provocateur

which had their number one hit I want to know

what love is yeah So yeah, I think that was the

only song I hadn't mentioned yet and yeah, I

mean again, you know over the years a great over

the years from the late 70s when they started

to you know the 80s and beyond just a great band

that had you know you could put a majority of

those songs that we mentioned on one album and

listen to it front to back all the time because

the song each one of those songs is so great

in its own way you know jukebox hero has you

know slightly harder riffs and melodies, same

thing with Hot -Blooded and Cold as Ice and then

you can switch over to stuff like Feels Like

the First Time and I Wanna Know What Love Is

and it's a more softer, you know, tone of song

and it just shows their diversity. You know,

my one big complaint with Foreigner is that lately

they've gone from being a band To be like like

a standalone band to being like something in

like the supergroup Ultimate cover band vein

because you figure for the past 15 years All

of the lineups of Foreigner have featured well

-known established artists who then, you know,

they'll play their songs. I mean, when Jason

Bonham was the drummer in Foreigner, they would

sample a little bit of Whole Lotta Love by Led

Zeppelin. And now they have Jeff Pilsen in the

band who was the bass player for the heavy metal

band Docken. So I'm sure they work in a lot of

the Docken stuff. And, you know, I'd like to

see Before they you know call it a day the original

six -piece band come back together And do a reunion

tour, but I don't know how people feel about

each other Things of that nature Then would they

be able to do that and be peaceable because you

figure a lot of their biggest hits were done

after Ian McDonald and Al Greenwood were fired.

So, you know, would they want to play songs that

they didn't have anything to do with? You know,

who knows? Who knows? So what is your number

four? My number four pick is a band that I think

we've already mentioned, Pink Floyd. When you

talk about spectacle, when you talk about large

arena shows. Pink Floyd defined that in the 70s.

Oh yeah. Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were

Here, Animals, The Wall, four of the greatest

albums of all time, four of the greatest live

concerts of all time. I mean they took the concept

of progressive rock having a central theme unifying

an entire album and made it an art form. You

know they're also a great example as I've mentioned

before with Fleetwood Mac of a band that started

out in the 60s with a different sound. When they

started out they were a psychedelic rock band

led by Sid Barrett and then you know eventually

Sid unfortunately had his breakdown and was replaced

by David Gilmore. you know david gilmore had

a completely different style and it's like he

says look i can't do this i listen to junior

walker and pink anderson a yellow blues man i

mean his guitar playing people often ask me like

who are some of my favorite guitars and you know

number one i always say brian may but number

two i always find me i used to see jimmy page

but really in all honesty i find myself saying

david gilmore I could sit and listen to David

Gilmore play guitar all day. You listen to a

track like Comfortably Numb. Now on the album,

it's about 7 minutes. Live, he takes it up to

12 because he does an extended solo. I listen

to every note. Something like Mistreated by Rainbow.

you know, when Richie Blackmore has his extended

break, I really find my mind wandering. Like

it just doesn't hold me in. I mean, that's just

a testament to how great of guitar player David

Gilmore is. And I mean, and then you have Roger

Waters, who is a phenomenal songwriter. Oh, yeah.

A lot of people don't realize. I mean, they think

when they think of Pink Floyd, you immediately

hear David Gilmore's voice and guitar. But he's

playing his own notes but the vocal the words

he's singing are Roger Waters you know that that's

why you know Roger Waters going out touring with

The Wall you know that's natural because it's

his songs I mean it was his personal struggles

which during the tour for the album Animals that

ultimately led to The Wall Although, I will also

add that I am a little pissed off at Pink Floyd.

Why? Well, let's see. I basically got to the

position where I have most of the Pink Floyd

albums I want. You don't need to have all their

albums. Basically, and I hate to diminish an

artist's career, but if you have Dark Side of

the Moon, wish you were here in Wall, you're

pretty good. My personal taste, I went back,

I got Metal and Atomic Heart Mother just because

I was interested in to see that shows the progression

starting from Atomic Heart Mother to Dark Side

of the Moon, where they got to that band. So

I'm fine, great, wonderful. They just went ahead

and remastered and re -released their entire

catalog. All their albums, including the ones

from the 60s, are being done in either two disc

or four disc editions. Stuff like Dark Side of

the Moon and The Wall are like these mammoth

box sets now that cost hundreds of dollars. And

it's not like useless junk that they're putting

out. It's actually stuff you would want, like...

I know on Dark Side of the Moon, and thank God

I think it's on the two disc version, there's

like an audio recording of the original band

doing Dark Side of the Moon live, which I've

never heard before. And I think on the wall we're

gonna finally get a DVD of the shows they did

at the Royal Albert Hall in 1980, which again

was the first, was the only recorded video recording

and audio recording. of the original band doing

the wall. Right. And of course, it's like, I

just spent the money. I mean, come on. Well,

I mean, you know, again, this goes to merchandising

and promotion. And the same thing, you know,

same thing can be said about the Beatles. Oh,

same thing can be said about Queen. Yeah, OK.

You're right. But what I'm saying is, though,

they're. You know, okay, back then when they

first were out, yes, they wanted to become famous,

yet anybody when they first started out obviously

has the goal of being famous in some way or another.

And, you know, they wrote the music, they played

it, they toured it, they promoted their albums.

Now in this day and age, with all of us, you

know, being nostalgia buffs at this point, of

course they're gonna sit there and release two

different versions. of stuff so they can rake

in the dough because now every artist from you

know oh so long ago counts on that nostalgia

for the most probably you don't see you know

Led Zeppelin or Journey or ZZ Top or you know

Pink Floyd you don't see them making music and

albums for this generation you see crap like

Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake and Lady

Bitch Gaga and all this and all that bullshit.

I'm your biggest fan. Shut up. I'll follow you

until you love me. Papa. Stop it. Papa Sean go.

You're kicked off the show. But you know it's

funny you mentioned that Mike because One thing

I've read and I every couple of years like the

guy they'll do like another article. It's the

same thing in this day and age It's the back

catalog of the record labels, which by the way,

there are now only three major record labels

in the country Universal Records just bought

EMI. So there's now only three major record labels

That the only thing that sells are back catalogs

That's what makes the money for the record labels

now. That's why you see the 20th century masters

double disc ultimate re remastered editions Black

Sabbath they put out a box set of all the Dio

years albums Well, then the next year they went

ahead and did these double disc, you know reissues

again of All all of their albums including the

80 Sabbath albums, but you know, we'll get into

that on another show but That's what sells. When

I say I'm mad at Pink Floyd, I'm doing it tongue

-in -cheek because they're going to get my money.

But then again, I'm not going to go out and buy

all their albums. I'm going to go out and buy

Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, I'll

probably get Animals now since I never got Animals,

and I'll get The Wall first, and then maybe I'll

go back and get Metal. and Adam Hart mother but

there's no way in hell I can afford to buy you

know the hundred dollar editions of those albums

I don't even know if stores are selling them

I think you can only get them online but you

know that's you know like it's it's my own fault

I mean if I would have bought a bought the box

set that they put out in the early 90s I wouldn't

be complaining as much but you know what am I

gonna do All right, my number four is ZZ Top.

Fantastic choice. Oh, yes. Absolutely fantastic

choice. Yeah, you want to talk about guys who

have been literally everywhere since 1970. These

guys have done it. Obviously, Dallas, Texas and

Hollywood. Yeah, obviously, La Grange from 1973

is one of their most popular songs. uh... and

again you know this kind of goes into the eighties

so you know stuff like uh... gimme all your loving

and legs and and all that stuff uh... you know

you want to talk about a band that does some

just amazing amazing stuff it's these guys three

-piece band they've always been a three -piece

band I mean, maybe they have a keyboard just

off stage. I don't know. Or maybe they just play

with a tape. But, you know, when you see them

live, that's it. You know, and they just go to

town. It's fantastic. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean,

you know, and really the ZZ Top is a band that

has really Always been in popular culture You

know even after you know, I believe they broke

up at one point because all brand all brands

all bands break up at one point I never heard

of them breaking up. I mean, I know basically

in the 70s. They were a cult band that sold albums

but it really wasn't until the eighties that

they broke into the mainstream and and let me

tell you they have become like a fixture of pop

culture you cannot do a show about the nineteen

eighties you cannot talk about bands from the

like just the images of nineteen eighties you

see sunglasses and a long beard yeah you know

it's easy time oh yeah i mean the power of mtv

In the first or second MTV Music Awards, they

had ZZ Top play. As they went to commercial,

they had people in the audience put on fake beards

and sunglasses. These were artists like Madonna.

big -time music executives they were like we

can put these on they loved it that I mean that

was just I mean the music was just fun back then

the 70s and 80s music was fun people had a good

time and ZZ Top that was like the soundtrack

and again more importantly These guys are educational.

You listen to ZZ Top, you're getting a music

education on the history of Texas blues. Because

I mean, the licks, the styles, it's all, you

know, coming from the artists they listen to.

Yeah. There is one piece in their entire career

that I have yet to find a fairly clean audio

version of. And a lot of people are going to

probably look at their iPods and like, what the

hell is TF -21 Mike smoking? Which I don't smoke,

but the one piece of music out of their entire

career that I want is a purely instrumental piece

of music. And that is the tune that they played

in Back to the Future Part 3 at the Town Festival.

Oh, man. You know, unfortunately, I've I don't

remember Back to the Future 3 all that well.

That's basically what it was. It's very possible

that it was just a traditional blues that they

were doing, or it was just something they improvised

on the spot. Probably was. But one thing, very

important thing we have to mention about ZZ Top,

Billy Gibbons, the guitar player, in the song,

beer drinkers and hell raisers. He was the first

artist of the modern era. We're still a little

iffy on the blues guys to two -hand tap his guitar,

which was a style of guitar playing that became

very popular in the 1980s with a lot of the heavy

metal guitar players like Eddie Van Halen. Brian

May from Queen actually saw Billy Gibbons in

a bar do that. liked the sound. He went ahead

and did a two -handed tapping solo on the Queen

album, News of the World, on the track, It's

Late. That track influenced Eddie Van Halen to

do his two -handed tapping style, which he perfected

and it became the style as we know it today.

Band that has such influence in 1970s rock as

well as rock and roll in general. Oh, yeah, absolutely

You know just amazing amazing stuff. So what

is your number three my number three pick is

a band that You know one of these nights will

put their differences aside and Come back together

as the classic five -man lineup at their hotel,

California. I think Henley's ego is too inflated.

They'll learn to take it easy. Yes. You just

gave it away. My number three pick is the Eagles.

Basically, they started out... Do you know how

they started out? How the original four members

got together? No. They were the backing band

for Linda Ronstadt. Oh, wow. Yeah, and they all

got together. They gelled as musicians playing

her stuff. They all started hanging out and they

realized they could really make some good music.

The Eagles started out as a four piece. They

eventually expanded adding a fantastic and ungrossly

underrated guitar player by the name of Don Felder.

You know from like 1972 1973 was their first

album 1972 and they just you know went off from

there take it easy Desperado tequila sunrise

one of these nights already gone 1976 Bernie

lead and decided to leave the band. He was replaced

by legendary guitar player even by that point

Joe Walsh You know who had a well -established

solo career both on his own, but and with his

other group The James gang and They released

probably one of the greatest albums of all time

Hotel, California Yep, I mean and that's really

where they went from country to more straight

ahead rock and roll and just I mean, Joe Walsh,

I said this earlier about George Harrison, if

George Harrison is one of the greatest living

rock slide players, Joe Walsh is the greatest

living rock slide guitar player. I mean, what

this guy can do with a round piece of metal on

his finger is phenomenal. But really, I mean,

I think Hotel California will be the album they'll

be remembered for. It's one of the most recognizable

songs in the history of rock. Oh, yeah. But you

figure after that tour, they brought in Timothy

B Schmidt and you're figuring it's like, well,

where do you go from here? Where do you go from

here is on the the long run, which was their

1979 album. And again, more hits, just more hits

kept coming. Yeah. Oh, but anything. Go ahead.

I think for me Besides a lot of all the great

hits that came out when they you know when they

were first starting out and stuff Let you know

like you said Hotel California all that Really

the one song that I gravitated to actually happened

much later in their career from the hell freezes

over album Which was love will keep us alive

That's actually a Timothy B Schmidt song. Yeah,

he wrote it with Nick Capri or Nick Capice who

was with traffic. Unfortunately, the gentleman

passed away It was it was actually rather sad.

He wrote the song with Timothy B Schmidt and

then he passed away Shortly after it was released

and it was like a big hit for the Eagles back

then. Oh, yeah But you know the let's also not

forget the very important thing about the Eagles

as of right now They have the biggest selling

album of all time Greatest Hits 1. For many years

it was number two behind Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Then unfortunately in the 90s when Michael started

having his issues the sales of Thriller dropped

off and because of Hell Freezes Over the sales

of Greatest Hits 1 picked up again and it's actually

become the biggest selling album. Yeah. Yeah,

it's weird. I mean, if you look at how albums

sell over time, you'd be surprised at albums

that you really didn't think were that popular

really have made a lot of money, but the Eagles

are up there and it's like that's their thing

and I doubt at this point in time anyone will

ever be able to overtake them. Not really not

not not not as a super group no Well, I mean

just you know sellism because you figured know

who buys albums now and Through you know and

then again who puts out greatest hits albums

now. It's like very best does I mean like the

Eagles they put out a box set and then a couple

years later They put out the very best of so

it's like they've kind of defeated the purpose

of having two greatest hits albums Yeah, and

that was the other thing too you figure they

were around from 1972 to 1980 and they had enough

hits to put out two greatest hits albums in that

span of time. Oh Yeah, I mean, you know and again,

you know They no matter what the personal reasons

are for not getting back together whether it's

you know too many inflated egos or or anything

like that They still had and they still are one

of the most amazing bands to come out of the

70s It's unfortunately its money is the big issue

Don Felder feels he's old old royalties off of

Hotel, California that he's never been paid and

You know, they're really at an impasse over it

You know, all right, so my number three is Somebody

light the TNT. ACDC. It's dynamite? Yes. Out

of sight? Oh, yeah. These guys... Are you gonna

win the fight? No, stop. Knock it off. You know,

this band, again, starting in 74, going all the

way up to today, they've done... Amazing stuff,

you know most of the songs people will know is

you know highway to hell Dirty deeds done dirt

cheap Stop I get off keep singing you won't be

on any more of these shows TNT You know back

in black Just a true testament to what what really

probably was then you may disagree or agree with

me This was probably the first band that I thought

was almost metal I mean, you know Really really

hard riffs AC DC is not a band that has like

they're a band like foreigner where you can have

those hard riffs and then change over to the

softer songs I don't know if I don't know of

any of the most popular AC DC songs are actually

soft songs No, I mean god bless AC DC they have

they found they were writing for to the floor

Riff rock songs and that's all they do their

style I mean The album they just put out a couple

years ago black ice sounds exactly the same as

the 1980 album Back in black which sounds exactly

the same as highway to hell. Yeah It's funny.

Most people, you know feel that AC DC straddles

that line between Hard rock and heavy metal.

I actually kind of put AC DC in the hard rock

category just because The virtuosity of the individual

musicians isn't really there and also they they're

not it's not fast songs They have that like,

you know brisk tempo, but it's not the you know,

do do do do do do do do do do You know driving

pulse that a heavy metal song would have also

The guitars are overdriven and not heavily distorted,

which I think is a big sonic difference between

hard rock and heavy metal, but it's a fantastic

band. I mean, the riffs, ugh. And they're all

relatively simple riffs, and it's the same chords.

Angus Young, he makes the same four chords sound

so different, but then it's like you sit down

to play, and you're thinking, oh, God, what is

this song going to be? And it's the same chords

as Highway to Hell. It's like, oh, wow, this

is great. But it's how he plays them and the

emotion he puts behind them. Oh, yeah, I mean

just I mean the emotion that's put me on him

and and again you won't talk about a band who

has had constant hits I Mean, you know all the

songs I mentioned plus back in black plus rock

and rolling noise pollution You know and all

the stuff they've done since then Well, I mean,

I'll be honest with you When you say the word

hit like I'll think of radio hits because I can

only think of one Single they had that actually

sold and that was you shook me all night long

That was a number one, you know hit for them.

I think everything else was just strictly, you

know radio hits Well when I say hits, I mean,

I don't mean like as far as numbers Mean as far

as songs that you know the band by like, you

know, like rock and TNT everybody knows Back

in black. Those are hits with their fans. Oh,

yeah. Okay, so it's like the stuff that's part

of rock cannon. Yes Hey, you know, what's great

too. It's like you figure AC DC has had two individual

unique vocalists But they've both been able to

hold up to that style of music. Yeah. Bond Scott

was the first one and now it's Brian Johnson

or Johnson? Brian Johnson, yeah. And you know,

I got to say, you know, Brian Johnson, I mean,

he had sizable shoes to fill because besides

being, you know, a great vocalist, Bon Scott

was a charismatic front man. I mean, when you

listen to a song like Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt

Cheap and he was going through the stuff he'll

do for you. I mean, you can see him as the guy

that will strap a bomb to the engine of somebody's

car that you don't like, but then also come by

and visit your then also come and take you out

for a night on the. town because your girlfriend

is cheating on you and then be the guy who your

girlfriend is cheating on you with. The thing

is, Brian Johnson came in and I really think

it was his voice. He fit right in. I hear him

singing Highway to Hell. For me, the definitive

version of Highway to Hell and the definitive

version of a lot of the early, and even say early

when it was really in 1990, It's already like

in the 20 years, but that early era of AC DC

is live at Donington, which I mean, I don't know

if it's on CD and DVD or maybe just DVD, but

fantastic show. You know, and again, you know,

that's, you know, AC DC is another band that.

You know is a live band. I mean, they're they're

a video band, but they're also very live Oh,

yeah, I mean they they constantly did live shows

all the time And you know and again the 70s really

for rock and roll The 70s into the 80s and obviously

the 90s and now the 70s is really where you have

You know double d and I were talking about this

last episode where the 60s you you know, you

had concerts but It's mainly the artists like,

you know, one example I can use is Marvin Gaye

or The Temptations or The Beatles. You have these

musicians that are doing concerts in the 60s

where it's just them and singing. They're just

singing you their songs live. 70s bands like,

you know, all the ones we've mentioned so far,

Foreigner, ACDC, Pink Floyd, You know the Eagles

these people really started the trend of Performing

a show like like Concerts aren't just so people

can hear the songs live. They are to put on an

actual show They turned a show into a spectacle.

Yeah a must -see event exactly So what is your

number two my number two choice? This is a band

that I'm sure once people hear that they're number

two are gonna who know me personally are gonna

be like Why are they not number one once in a

lifetime? You will have a group of musicians

come together and the magic that they create

will transcend generations race sex culture and

creed You will be and in that period of magic

you will have one person who will step forward

and be the focal point who will harness it all

and direct it out. In the lineage of the head

of countries, you have kings, you have queens.

Well, in this band, you have four queens. My

number two choice is queen. Let me get this out

of the way right now. Queen are the greatest

rock and roll band of all time, period, no discussion,

exclamation point. In England, they have the

only band to have sold more records than Queen

were the Beatles. They have been inducted into

every single country's Hall of Fame. The only

reason that they're not number one on my list

is because they started in 1973 and it wasn't

until really 1977 after the release of their

their seminal work, their greatest work, the

greatest album of all time, A Night at the Opera,

that they were able to have a solid foothold

in America. And it wasn't until the 1980s that

they really conquered the world. Freddie Mercury

is the greatest front man of all time. He not

only was a talented singer, a talented pianist,

but the way he presented the music to you, he

connected with you, he made you part of the show.

Let me give you an example. They did a show in

1980, and I know I'm jumping a decade, but this

is the best example I have. This was recorded

for the movie We Will Rock You. It has since

been re -released under the Queen banner as Queen

Rocks Montreal. The four members of the band

were asked to play up to the cameras since this

will be shown in theaters. You know, people would

like to see it. Three members of the band, Brian

May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon said no. We're

a live band. We're paying for the live audience

that's paid to see us. Freddie Mercury was the

only one who got what the director was saying.

And when you see him sitting at his piano, he'll

pick his head up, he'll be saying, and he'll

wink right to the camera, connecting with the

audience. There's only one other artist who I

have ever seen connect with an audience like

Freddie Mercury and that's Rob Halford of Judas

Priest But we'll talk about Judas Priest a little

bit later on the song the hits of Queen are Canon

They are rock and roll Canon. We talk about becoming

part of pop culture Yes, it took a little bit

longer for a lot of their songs to become part

pop culture and unfortunately a lot of it Didn't

take off didn't become that part of pop culture

until after Freddie Mercury passed away. But

they're there now. You can hear songs like I'm

in love with my car in a car commercial. Bicycle

Race will pop up every now and then in various

commercials and shows. Even like the people singing

the chorus to Another One Bites the Dust, you

have bands that are hard rock, you have bands

that are heavy metal, you have bands that are

country. Queen is the only band that has ever

performed music in every genre of rock that you

can think of, including rap. They even did a

rap. It's a fantastic song and just listening

to Freddie Mercury go at it is hysterical. It's

Dragon Attack. It's off of the 1980 album. the

game but I mean you better jump in here Mike

before I you know take over the show yeah I mainly

know them from pop culture as far as Alone Bites

the Dust used everywhere obviously Bohemian Rhapsody

from Wayne's World and you know a testament to

the band is Muppets, Bohemian Rhapsody. Scooter,

remind me never to do that ever again. Right,

Boss? Exactly. You know, talk about a band whose

songs are used in commercials in, you know, everything

in the media nowadays. This is that band. Sometimes

when commercial, like take car commercials specifically,

sometimes when they use songs like a Queen song

or any really famous song from this era or the

80s era, sometimes I'll look at the commercial

and be like, oh, you've got to be kidding me,

seriously. But I know in the back of my mind,

it's all about making the money and doing this

and doing that. but Queen just they were you

know like you said Mercury was an amazing amazing

frontman uh what really pisses me off nowadays

is let's have a competition to find a new lead

singer god pisses me off so badly and you know

Mike there is one thing I need to mention Queen

never really be They didn't ascend to the top,

that echelon, that status where they are at now

as the greatest rock and roll band of all time

until after Freddie Mercury died. I always tell

people it was through his sacrifice that Queen

was born to an eternal life. It was really through

his death that everyone began to appreciate what

they had. In England, yes, you did. But in the

rest of the world, you really didn't have people

who were looking at Queen on the same level as

Led Zeppelin, as the Beatles. And now, they do.

Especially also in America. It was after Freddie

Mercury died, Queen really regained their popularity

in America. Which is a shame, because the albums

they put out in the 80s were phenomenal. Right.

Well, you know, Freddie Mercury dying reminds

me, you know, you said it didn't, you know, their

popularity really didn't hit until his sacrifice

and he passed away. A complete reverse of that

with Nirvana. I mean, they hit big, Cobain hit

big, and then the travesty and devastation of

his death. And you'll remember, what did he say

in his suicide note? The stage never worked for

me like it did Freddie Mercury I mean he was

a die -in -the -wool Big -time Queen fan and

what's nice is in the years since his death where

his journals his writings have been published

You got to see more of that because he talked

a lot about Queen and how then what the music

meant to him I mean, you know, and I hope people

don't take this the wrong way when I first heard

Nirvana in the 90s, I thought, wow, they are

the next version of Queen. And I don't mean that

to be disrespectful to Cobain or Queen either.

I mean, that's a compliment. I mean, the 90s,

Cobain was the 90s version of Freddie Mercury.

Really? Well, I mean, with the lyrics and the

songs and what they were singing about, kinda.

Okay. i mean i don't start because i don't want

to let me rephrase it in the in the late you

know it in the seventies and eighties you had

queen you know it was that generation's version

of rock in the nineties the progression towards

grunge cobane was what queen was the eighties

as to what he and nirvana was the nineties You

know what, yeah, now that you put it that way,

I see what you mean. Now that you put it that

way. But let me ask you something, Mike. What

is your, like, do you have a favorite Queen song?

Queen is one of those that, it's like Foreigner

multiples. Probably the ones that I hear the

most are the ones that I like, obviously, Bohemian,

you know, Another One Bites the Dust, We Will

Rock You, and We Are the Champions probably would

be my four picks. But though one of the reasons

why I say those four songs is because really

outside of those that's really all I've heard

from them I've heard some of the other songs,

but you know I'm more into the make -me -famous

songs rather than you know say a b -side or You

know something like that. Yeah, I understand.

Yeah, it's unfortunate that you know classic

rock radio in this country really dilutes any

artist not just Queenie but any artist down to

like the hits. I mean it's to the point where

I was talking with my sister the other day and

I had mentioned that I had heard a song another

song by a band that I never hear on the radio

and when I heard it I immediately thought that

a member of the band had passed away so I that

that's how You know my mind works that you know

that hearing these songs are so rare But I mean

for me to really and this is twisting my arm

having to like hold the gun to my head My favorite

Queen song is a track off of the 1980 album the

game It's called save me. It was actually the

last track on the album. It was a very emotional

ballad It was the first video to use animation

mixed with live motion in a music video It's

just a very passionate song. On top of that,

it also features great guitar work by Brian May.

I mean, Brian May is one of the greatest guitarists

of all time. You hear people talk about it. He

built his own guitar with his father. The use

of the lay, the use of layering the guitar in

the studio to make it orchestrated and giving

you that multi -part harmony. Straight -up straight

ahead guitar player Brian May is real. It's solid

and his acoustic work. I mean the acoustic arrangement

of love of my life that He and Brian he and Freddie

Mercury would perform live Many people consider

not only the definitive version of that song

But probably the greatest Queen song ever because

that is where the audience and Freddie Mercury

become one and you know there are several versions

of that song but if you can find any version

in Latin America where that song became like

the biggest hit of Queen's career and you sit

there and you listen and the audience is singing

the song Freddie Mercury does absolutely nothing

except one or two lines I mean that is harmony

But yeah, so I think we should really move on

from Queen before. Yes, you're going to start,

you know, Gushfest. Yeah, Gushfest. My number

two is, and I originally had them at number one,

but I had to put something else at number one.

My number two is Journey. You know. Knock it

off. Really, you know, these guys got their start

in 1975, but they didn't really get Famous until

78 with wheel in the sky I Don't think I've ever

heard the song lights, but that was another famous

one in 78 and then of course By the time the

80s rolled around you had stuff like any way

you want it. Don't stop believing open arms separate

ways faithfully send her my love You know Great,

great band. What really surprised me about Journey

is after they kind of disbanded, they came back

in 1996 with When You Love a Woman, and I was

like, wow, new Journey, awesome. Fantastic track.

Yeah, it is. Are you familiar with their early

work before Steve Perry joined the band? No.

I'm only I'm only familiar with the Steve Perry

years. Well, I mean, are you familiar? Are you

aware that Neil Sean is actually a musical prodigy?

I mean, I know there I know their history, but

I didn't know, you know, I don't know a lot of

the early years, but I wouldn't doubt it that

he is. Well, is that he and Greg Rowley actually

met? in Carlos Santana's band. They actually,

all of Carlos Santana's hits from the 70s, that

was Greg Rowley singing. And Neil Sean was playing

backup guitar to Carlos Santana. He was in high

school. Greg Rowley was in a music shop and heard

him playing guitar one day and said, hey, you

know, you're pretty good. And he goes, He goes,

you know, thank you. He's like, you know, I'm

Greg Rowley. I play in Santana. Do you want to

come make some music with me? And Greg Rowley

basically said, you know, I would pick him up

at like eight, nine o 'clock in the morning when

he should be in school. And he was skipping school

to come make records with me. And that was his

start. And the original journey was a four piece

with Greg Rowley on vocals and keyboards, with

Neil Shawn, Tommy Aldridge on drums, and then

Ross Valerie on bass. Again, there's a line you

can draw in the history of the band between the

pre -Steve Perry and the post -Steve Perry. The

pre -Steve Perry was a more progressive rock

sounding group with a much harder edge than what

we would know from Journey. Wow. I still don't

know where... I'm looking at the timeline of

the band members and it says on here it says

on Wikipedia between 85 and 87 Randy Jackson

played with them. Yeah, basically what it happened.

I don't get it dog. Okay, what it happened was

very briefly There was much duress in the band

and I think it was Randy Jackson had replaced

Ross Valerie And I think the drummer was also

replaced as well with session musicians. And

Randy Jackson just happened to be one of the

session musicians and they did the album raised

on radio. And the rest of the band members realized

this isn't working. The audience is not happy.

We need to bring the other guys back. And they

did. But unfortunately, by that point, the band

was really falling apart and they needed to take

time off, which they did do. And then later they

replaced Steve Perry as... Oh, don't get me started

with that. I mean, Journey was the one... I mean,

yes, Iron Maiden was the first band, but at least

it was a soundalike. With Journey, they were

replacing Steve Perry with lookalike soundalikes.

They couldn't even get one guy to do it. First

it was the guy from Argentina who was a look

-alike, sound -alike. Well, he ended up not being

able to handle the band, so they replaced him

with, let me tell you, legendary guy from Talesman,

huge Queen fan also, Jeff Scott Soto. But Jeff

Scott Soto was only brought in as a temporary

replacement, and then they got the little Filipino

guy. or Taiwanese guy they got singing now that

they found on YouTube. I mean, Boston, too. Boston

did the same damn thing. But don't get me started.

I'm going to lose my temper. Like the Steve Perry

years is really what I remember. Steve Perry's

journey. Period. End of story. If you're buying

records that don't have Steve Perry on it, you're

not buying journey records. Yes, they're making

phenomenal music. But I mean, let's be honest.

What was the biggest thing that Journey has known

for in the last 10 years? In the last 10 years?

In the last 10 years. I'll make it easier, the

last five years. Nothing. Wrong. The fact that

Neal Sean, that that woman, the Desperate Housewives

or the Real Housewife of Washington DC left her

husband for Neal Sean. That's the most attention

they've got. Oh, wow. That's the most attention

they've gotten. And I guarantee you, if they

had Steve Perry in that band, which I hope to

God, and I hate to say this, but they are getting

old, before one of them passes away, a tour with

the original lineup and an album. Or it could

even be a live album. But you need Steve Perry,

Ross Valerie, Jonathan Cain, maybe Greg Rowley,

too. I honestly don't think it's going to happen.

One of the reasons why I'll say that I don't

think it was going to happen because it was such

a shock to me. I grew up on Steve Perry's Journey.

I grew up on Open Arms, Faithfully, Wheel in

the Sky, Any Way You Want. I grew up on all those

songs. My mom played those over and over and

over again. As the 80s progressed and as the

90s, you know, snuck up on us, all those bands

and artists from the 80s kind of just faded away.

Like, you know, it's not like now where the biggest

example I can use is Nickelback, who started

in 96, really got famous in 2001 and they've

been going on ever since then, you know, with

new album every few years. In the 80s, once you

faded, music changed so much in the 80s. When

You Love a Woman came on the radio in 1996, I

was like, what, Journey's still around? You know,

it was like one of those shockings. It wasn't

so much that they faded. I mean, Journey broke

up. But the other thing is, like you said, music

changed so much that a lot of these artists were

driven underground. Yeah. I didn't mean so much

that Journey specifically faded. I was making

a generalization of the artists and bands of

the 80s where they either broke up, they went,

you know, whether it was amicable or not, they

either broke up, went on to do solo stuff, or

they just kind of, you know, faded away without

a trace. Well, you know, that was the thing.

It was like, well, for a lot of the bands, they

had been going... for so long, for so hard. And

yes, they were poisoning their bodies that they

really needed the break. But there were other

bands who were still around but were just not

getting the attention from the music industry

but were putting out great works. I know Night

Ranger, a great band from the 80s, they put out

a Great couple great albums in the 90s that nobody

even myself. I haven't heard all of it I've only

heard a couple tracks but you can't find them

anywhere because it was like minor label stuff

that was like Most stores wouldn't order because

they weren't sure if it was gonna sell Right,

but and and you know, you know, you mentioned

Night Ranger and of course Night Ranger to me,

even though I'm sure they had multiple albums

They are one of those one -hit wonder bands with

Sister Christian. Um, actually they had multiple

hits in the 1980s. I'm sure they did, but that

is the one quote -unquote make -me -famous song

that everyone remembers them for. Okay, okay.

So, what's, you know, insert drum roll here.

No, Clark. We don't care about your 2500 twinkle

lights. No stairway denied. What is your number

one? My number one pick Top band of the 1970s

Consistently sold records sold tickets had songs

on the radio Set the standard for what a hard

rock band was Influence a generation of musicians

guitarist drummers bass player singers each member

of the band was a Virtua will also on their chosen

instrument the mighty the lords of rock led Zeppelin

I actually At first when I first made up my list

they were at number two and journey was at number

one So they are now at number one. Oh my god.

Do you both have the same number one? Yeah, what

am I thinking? What am I thinking? Have no fucking

clue. Just go on with your thoughts on the band.

Oh, okay. Sorry excited there Yeah, Led Zeppelin

is also my number one for the 70s God I mean

like I said that they have their first album

was 1968 1969 And they were they they hit and

they were going ever since Selling out arenas

selling out stadiums making money hand over fist.

They I mean how many kids in the 1970s picked

up a guitar to be like Jimmy Page. On top of

that, how many more picked up a guitar and put

it down because they knew they would never be

as good as Jimmy Page? Exactly. Jimmy Page made

the Les Paul a household instrument. He made

the Gibson 612 double necker a household instrument.

They wrote the greatest rock song of all time,

Stairway to Heaven. Right now. in new york there

is some radio station somewhere playing stairway

to heaven right now in tennessee where you are

some radio station somewhere is playing stairway

to heaven right now in kentucky dammit there's

a difference sorry huge difference between tennessee

and kentucky i'm sorry that was my mistake i

for some reason i thought you were from tennessee

but in kentucky right now some radio station

somewhere is playing um stairway to heaven somewhere

In Pappa Maomao's stand, some radio station is

playing Stairway to Heaven. But that's not, I

mean, yes, that's their best known song. That

will be the song they will be remembered for.

It just actually celebrated its 40th anniversary

of being released to radio. But that's not all

they're remembered for. They really were the

band when you talk about taking the blues and

turning it up to 11. That's what Led Zeppelin

did. Granted, you know and i have to mention

this a lot of it was jimmy face bald face stealing

licks riffs and song structure from blues songs

that he eventually had to pay back royalties

on but uh you know they brought it I mean the

work of Muddy Waters, Brian Jefferson, you know

people know these artists because of Led Zeppelin

and the fact that Led Zeppelin performed their

songs and made them their own. Now I will say

you know you mentioned earlier for you according

to you Queen is your number one band in the world

however there is a piece of uh... of article

history here on wikipedia that says that uh...

from nineteen seventy one in nineteen seventy

five zeppelin was the biggest band in the world

absolutely absolutely i'm surprised i'm surprised

to stop at nineteen seventy five because well

global wikipedia articles are you know segmented

as far as their history because the next segment

the next section is hiatus from touring and then

return seventy five to seventy seven so It's

by year that the article goes. But no, I mean,

everybody knows Stairway. You know, someone who

doesn't know Stairway, there's something wrong

with that person. They probably know the 15th

century lute piece that Jimmy Page based the

intro to Stairway to Heaven on. Yeah. I mean,

you know, just a band that defines 70s music.

Oh, let me ask you, what is your favorite Zeppelin

record? Because you can't just have a favorite

Zeppelin song. It has to be a favorite Zeppelin

record. See, that's, again with me, that's the

problem because I only know the songs. Zeppelin,

I know that's blasphemy, but, you know... We'll

stop it You'll be all right, you might as well

pluck my hair out and call me baldy Well, you

are getting up there in age. So so are you there

big guy? Not really I'm still 21 No, you're not

you're 31, dude Wait, aren't you like 33? Aren't

you like a year older than me? No, that's part

of this older than me. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you're

31. There you go Yeah, anyway, um, but uh, but

for me I mean, it's funny that you mentioned

that Wikipedia article that says 71 to 75. Although,

you know, I like just in terms of like number

of songs on the album that I like straight the

first listen. Physical Graffiti, the two disc

album. Mm hmm. Just a fantastic. I mean, you

have Cashmere, you have the acoustic solo piece,

Brawnier or Custard Pie. You like a little custard

pie there, eh, Mike? And let me tell you, they're

not talking about a dessert dish. Well, neither

was Warren, so... We'll get to that next time.

Oh, yes, we will. In my time of dying, I mean,

the slide work that Jimmy Page did. You know,

here's the funny thing about Jimmy... ...Page.

You talk to people. Yeah, you sit down with the

guitars and you talk about, you know, his style.

You talk about, you know, his electric work.

Oh, and, you know, we all say the same thing.

Brilliant guitar player. But a lot of this stuff

was very sloppy. You know, a little bit out of

time, but that was his electric, his acoustic

work. Forget about it. Phenomenal. I mean, you

would hear him strum a Gibson Hummingbird or

a Martin D28, and it was just, you know, he was

as heavy as a Gibson Les Paul. I think the thing

with artists like, you know, bands like Led Zeppelin,

artists like Jimmy Page, artists like Jimi Hendrix,

who revolutionized guitar playing as well in

the 60s, I think with artists like those guys,

You don't have to stick to the norm. It's kind

of like, I took a picture the other day of one

of my Puggles, and I don't really want to get

off onto that, but I took a very blurry picture

of one of my Puggles, and it's one of the best

photographs I've ever taken, simply because it

looks so freaking cool. Same thing can be said

about music. If you play... Accord a different

way than what the norm is and it gives it a different

resonance and a different sound People are gonna

like that people are gonna like that you're adapting

Music and and notes to your style. I mean they

incorporated so much Welsh folk music into their

stuff A lot of it people don't realize. What

about the Middle Eastern stuff? Zeppelin to me

was the first band that I can remember using

Middle Eastern instrumentation arrangements,

chords, scales, progressions and what have you.

And they but they made it their own. I mean,

I mean they you know, they brought it in they

said, okay We'll play it. We like that, but we're

gonna play it in our style and then you get a

song like cashmere or you know you you bring

in the folk open tunings where it's like, you

know, all you need is one or two fingers and

you have like 50 different chords and you get

a song like rain song, which is You know as a

guitarist probably Your favorite zeppelin song

to play is rain song just because it's like two

fingers and your and your guitar sounds like

an orchestra I mean, this is this is really what

I wish I had like a guitar in front of me So

I can give you an example But it would take me

three hours to tune my guitar because he just

used this open modular tuning But yeah, that

was the other thing. I mean, I think that Yes

in this you had artists in the 60s using these

tunings, but Jimmy Page Really to me was the

first rock guitar player to bring in these folk

and Modular alternate tunings and use them in

a rock setting. Yeah. Oh, yeah And just to explain

to the people listening when I say alternate

tunings, you have the guitar, a six string instrument.

Each string is tuned to a certain pitch, which

is the note that will play when you do absolutely

nothing, just hit the string. You can adjust

this pitch to a different note so that when you

begin using your fingers, you can get different

chords or different voicings of chords. Voicings

are the order in which the notes in a chord are

played. Yeah, I mean Jimmy Page was and still

is an amazing amazing musician Can I just put

my voice out there that I would basically give

my Left well, not my left arm. I would give my

sister's left arm for Led Zeppelin to reunite

and tour. Yeah, you know we've said that about

a lot of the bands on this countdown but the

problems with a lot of these bands first of all

if one of them if say one of the members has

passed away you know that's an issue or you know

if it's an ego issue or if it's money issues

you know sometimes bands will you know look at

um a few years ago when ario and and sticks teamed

up to do the Access and allies tour You know,

I believe Dennis the young came back and they

did you know that tour for a while but a lot

of reunion tours I on it a lot of the bands that

you you've requested reunion tours from I honestly

don't see it happening. Sadly Well, actually

I was under the impression Dennis the young has

been out of sticks since the mid 90s That he's

not come back. I could have sworn he did Let

me look it up. All right, but well the thing

with Led Zeppelin is you know You actually first

of all they have John Bonham's son Jason who

was an equally talented drummer like his father

Who you know has said he will drop whatever he

is doing whenever they call him which he has

done keep in mind Led Zeppelin has reunited since

they broke up in 1980 so you know, but Robert

plant for whatever reason just isn't interested

and I think it's a crying shame because you have

a whole generation of fans Right now who do not

know the magic of Led Zeppelin who are only going

to probably know Led Zeppelin from CDs from DVDs

and You know from You know those kind of recordings

and I think that's a shame and you know, I hate

to say this but sometimes the artists owe it

to the fans because you figure Zeppelin is another

one of those artists where they keep re -releasing

the same 10 songs over and over again and people

keep buying it. I mean, Queen, I mean, I mentioned

this with Queen, but Queen, I mean, there was

a 10 year period that every couple of years you

would get the greatest hits album with an alternate

track listing and be released as a new record

and people bought it, you know, because we wanted

the new stuff. And, you know, Queen rewarded

us, you know, we would buy, you know, Stone Cold

Classics and we get Queen, Life at the Bowl on

DVD and CD. And now, you know, we're getting

these 40th anniversary remasters. But really,

I mean, if Rob, I mean, Robert Plant, I mean,

somebody needs to sit down with Robert Plant.

He doesn't have to dance. He doesn't have to

shake his butt. He doesn't have to scream like

a woman. Just go up there, do like seven songs,

ten songs. You know, you don't have to play for

three hours like they used to do. Hour and a

half, two hours, whatever they feel like, you

know, and just do it. Right. I mean they were

even auditioning other lead singers They actually

the lead singer of the band altered bridge was

auditioned and it almost seemed like he was going

to be Performing with them not as Led Zeppelin

But as something, you know, the closest will

be would get to Led Zeppelin Yeah, miles Kennedy

and now miles Kennedy He's someone obviously

alter bridge is something we would talk about

much later in the 2000 stuff But Miles Kennedy,

just amazing, amazing vocalist for this generation

now. And he's the main vocalist for Slash. That's

awesome right there. Well, I mean, Slash and

all that stuff ain't something we'd have to hold

off till on the 80s, because I have strong opinions

about that. Right, right, but I'm just saying

Slash as a guitarist and having Miles Kennedy

as his vocalist for his songs, that's awesome.

Well, to be honest, I'm not that familiar with

Slash's solo work. I almost picked up his new

CD especially when he got re -released with like

extra tracks and a DVD But then it's like I heard

the like track one or track two features Fergie,

and I'm like no No I'm sorry slash, but you're

that desperate to sell a record no Okay, so back

to final thoughts on the number one for zeppelin

um You really would be hard -pressed to find

another band or artist to put in there I really

think zeppelin owned the 70s Every rock and roll

cliche that we hear about today that people make

fun of Zeppelin started. Yeah. Oh and they that

story about them with the salmon and the groupie

Yeah, it didn't happen. Nothing was shoved anywhere

on some poor girl. It was just a myth Carmen

app you say was there he you can trust him. It

didn't happen Alright, so there you have it ladies

and gentlemen our top ten favorite artists or

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parting thoughts really quickly, Chuck Dogg?

Just thanks for listening. And I had a great

time. It was quite interesting that we had a

lot of the same artists just in different positions.

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I'm still paying for it. I'll go. Yes, I understand.

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